Summer Family Bible Conference: Day 5, Morning Session

what's up everybody [Music] sing all things all things are possible [Music] we [Music] you keep your promises [Music] [Music] cause you're a man [Music] all things are possible you keep your promises [Music] [Music] we [Music] [Music] we believe [Music] with me with me [Music] [Music] cuz [Music] we believe [Music] god [Music] you have never with me [Music] we believe [Music] we believe cause you're a man [Music] your faith [Music] is [Music] we believe [Music] we believe it if [Music] i am [Music] [Music] lord god we're so grateful for your word this morning we bless you we thank you that you are the same yesterday today and forever thank you for this morning thank you for this day psalm 118 118 says this is the day that you have made for us to rejoice and be glad and that's exactly what we're going to do thank you that you've made us glad your life in us your grace working in our hearts and in our lives lord we give you all thanks and praise man thank you for worshiping with us this morning we're so grateful for this conference and just for being able to come together those of you joining us on the internet we wanted to say welcome to you this morning and those of you here in the auditorium if again you want to come down front like we did last night wasn't that fun and just have a little more space to be able to worship god this morning please feel uh welcome to do so amen as we continue in our worship this morning [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] i won't forget the wonder of how you brought deliverance the exodus in my heart cause you found me and you freed me held back the waters [Music] lord of every victory hallelujah hallelujah cause you have torn apart the sea you have led me through the deep hallelujah [Music] hallelujah [Music] [Music] held back the waters for my release [Music] hallelujah [Applause] [Music] hallelujah [Music] hallelujah [Music] [Music] [Applause] come on if you have not let loose yet during this conference now's your chance just give the lord a shout of praise this morning [Music] [Applause] [Music] and you march me out in freedom into the promised land and i will not forget you god i'll think of all you've [Music] up done by the fury of your love cause you stepped into my egypt and you took me by the hand and you marched me out in freedom into the promised land and i will not forget death is swallowed up forever [Music] [Music] hallelujah [Music] you have led oh you're the guy who fights for me lord of every victory hallelujah hallelujah you have torn apart the sea you have led me through the deep [Music] hallelujah we thank you jesus you're the god who fights for us thank you god who fights for us [Music] no i don't don't usually do this but um these past few weeks i've been remembering about a year from next week i was hospitalized and uh thank you jesus obviously i'm okay because i'm here but the devil tried to take me out um i had this freak thing happen to me where basically um one day i woke up i started having numbness in my feet and as the days went on it went through my legs into my arms and my hands and uh i could barely walk or lift up my my arms and uh they told me i had this very rare thing called gbs and it's where your immune system starts attacking your own nerves and i'm sitting there in the hospital bed and they're telling me that i could be paralyzed for the rest of my life and at that moment um obviously there's a million thoughts going through your head but praise god i went through three years of charis bible college and i knew what to do with what they were telling me so i wasn't receiving anything that they were saying and i remember laying in my bed my body is just i'm i'm basically paralyzed useless on my bed i'm like lord i feel like i should be doing more to receive my healing or whatever he said no i want you to rest and i want you to let me fight for you and i remember listening to this very song that we're singing right now as i'm on the hospital bed and the doctor said i have never seen anyone recover more quickly than you have within two weeks of getting out of the hospital he said if you were to recover if you are to recover fully it would take six to twelve months within two weeks i was back at the gym totally restored not a single side effect and it's all because of his faithfulness it's all because we have a god that fights for us when we can't fight for ourselves because in our weakness he's made strong amen he's made strong father we thank you right now that whatever we are facing lord you fight for us you're our defender you're our warrior and jesus we just take this moment to remember all that you've brought us through you stepped into our egypt you took us by the hand and i thank you that we're never the same we're never the same so we just give you a shout of praise this morning hallelujah hallelujah thank you jesus [Music] you're the god who fights you're the god who fights for me [Music] hallelujah [Music] [Music] you march me out in freedom into the promised land i will not forget you god i'll sing of all you've done death is swallowed [Music] you marched me out in freedom [Music] is [Music] come on just give him another shot of praise in this place thank you god lord we bless you with hearts of thanksgiving this morning oh you're so good god you've always been good you've always been faithful your words always been true whether we believed it or not god we're so we're so grateful thank you jesus [Music] [Applause] [Music] i love you lord [Music] oh your mercy never fails me [Music] until i lay my hands [Music] of the goodness of [Music] have been god [Music] all my life you have been so so good with every breath that i am able i will see of the goodness of god i love your voice you have led me through the fire in darkness [Music] of [Music] oh my god [Music] of the goodness of god [Music] i [Music] come on let's declare this this morning your goodness is [Music] i give [Music] your goodness is [Music] is now i'll give you everything your goodness is [Music] [Music] i will [Music] of god [Music] come on all over this place let's lift up our praise live to by worship to the one who's always been faithful and always will be faithful lord we love you we bless you lord hallelujah thank you jesus thank you lord god for your faithfulness god we see your faithfulness even in this conference this week your word and how there's just been a theme from the very beginning and i know it'll continue all through this morning of what you are speaking to your church god we're so grateful to be called out of darkness into your marvelous light thank you for the victory that you have given us in jesus lord we worship and bless you this morning hallelujah thank you god do we have time to do never lost how much time do we have we have a minute and 50 seconds that would be that would be the fastest song we've ever done wow all right so let's do this everybody would you just take a minute and lay your hands on someone next to you this morning and bless them and pray for them for god's will to be done in in their lives today yeah and and let's just release the kingdom of god that's in you into somebody else and bless them with life and encouragement and strength healing whatever it is that god leads you to pray over them [Music] never lost lord we love you bless you thank you for the body of christ this morning thank you jesus our god is not the great i was he's the great i am who's right here this morning for you to do and your hair is moving right now you are still showing up is [Music] you can do no you've never lost a battle and i know i know everything's possible is [Music] i know [Applause] [Music] [Applause] you can do all things you can do all things [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] no you've never lost you can do all things you can do we lost say [Music] [Music] this morning over the world man take somebody's hand next to you this morning father we just thank you so much for being in christ for being part of the body of christ thank you that we're not coming from a position of trying to win trying to get a victory god we're starting from this place of your triumph and your triumph is our triumph it's in you that we live and move and have our being father we're so grateful that you've connected us like you have we're so grateful god for all that you have put in us lord thank you that you are building us and you said the gates of hell will not prevail we bless you this morning lord is the name above every name we bless you as the great i am the one who is present the one who is here we give you thanks lord god in jesus name well give about 25 people a big hug before you're seated this morning maybe one or two and we're gonna break away to a video and we'll be right back [Music] [Applause] [Music] about a little over a year ago i had thrown my hips out and you know i've been believing god for recovery for that it just had been you know in pain and stiff you know when i got up i was stiff for a little bit took a little bit before i could walk without feeling uncomfortable and i just kind of gotten used to it while brother andrew was you know just encouraging people just receive their healing you know i felt like the lord just encouraged me don't put up with that you know just just receive healing for the full thing you know that stiffness and that comfortableness that's not from god i don't have to put up with that so i just received it went back we went back to where we were staying and i i realized when i got up that there was no you know stiffness or anything slept all night on my side which normally i it's uncomfortable to do that and i've been able to stand up walk you know without any any stiffness any anything uncomfortable i've shown my husband several times like i get down on the floor and jump back up before when i'd be like this and i would stand up you know it was hard to get up and now i can just jump right up you know i don't have to go slowly what's up friends i am clay caldwell i'm the student life activities manager here at karis bible college this is my friend my bro mark bait and doc tonight we will be down here at the pavilion we're gonna serve burgers and hot dogs it starts at five o'clock mark is probably gonna have an awesome prophetic word for you you don't want to miss this this is something we do throughout the whole year at keras so join us down here at the pavilion tonight five o'clock worship's gonna start at 6 15. you don't want to miss it come on see you tonight we need to be fighting the good fight of faith everything that satan is trying to do in your life or in this nation comes down to here's the truth god's word is truth and here's the lie satan is the author of all lies and we're fighting a battle between light and dark truth and lies and we've just got to get into the word of god and renew ourselves and get to where i will not think act believe do anything contrary to this word [Music] i am really excited about this brand new product entitled biblical worldview sexuality our culture has gotten so far away from what god intended sexuality to be satan has a vested interest in the destruction of the family many people feel stronger to the bond of their children than they do their own spouse that comes from a lack of understanding what a marriage is the whole goal of the enemy is to kind of redefine what love is what is love what is identity myself and five other ministers we are sharing what the word of god has to say on sexuality in this new series that i have out entitled biblical world view sexuality [Music] good morning welcome to day five of the summer family bible conference man hasn't this been a good week i like what andrew says the best is yet to come we have a fully packed day today so please pay attention i'm gonna give you the rundown of what's happening today firstly this event is recorded guys please take advantage of it you can't go get out get it out in the break or anything like that wait until the end of the conference we still have laws past the laws in purdue we still have bully coming up we still have andrew coming up so it's not finished yet i hope you guys are still expecting something to happen whether you've got your receipt or received your healing if you haven't got it yet or anything like that it's still gonna get better okay so be expectant for those guys are joining us online thank you very much for joining us we we love having you guys if you guys need any prayer or anything like that please reach out to our call center or prayer line and that number is nine six three five eleven eleven and guys as you know at the end of the the service there will be people yeah pray all the pray ministers will be up here for you guys so please take advantage of that um kids guys after today grab your kids run down to the patio um of the of the barn run down to the lower level because we are having a water baptism so grab the kids run down there and let's support the guys that are getting water baptized today okay um open house tomorrow if if you are interested in coming to keras and you want to see what it is in the life of a student we have a we have a saturday hybrid class going on tomorrow and you can come and sit in and see what it's all about if you have any questions or anything like that this is the time where we can just help you answer all those questions as well so please take advantage of that that starts at 9 30 tomorrow morning so please guys come up and show take advantage of that um keras now is tonight so like i said this is a fully packed day today we've got stores three speakers we've got the water baptism and then tonight we have the uh now event which is a night of worship we're going to have worship there's going to be food and there's going to be games all kinds of things so please guys come and take advantage it's really fun you'll see it i actually said it to clay we need atvs we've got a big piece of property out here i was like man that would be really cool so i was like man we need to propose something to andrew andrew if i can get the atvs can we have it you know so any investors atvs oh i've got hands so andrew this might happen um let's pay the groucho first okay and then we'll get the atvs um book signing lawson are you signing the book after the service or after the session today okay so pastor lawson will be signing his book so please guys come out to the table and he'll be there and sign it for you guys now i want to welcome kerry kerry has a special offer for you guys for today for the conference so please pay attention guys all right good morning everyone all right so really quickly because i know we have some amazing things planned but i just want to share about a relationship university uh this is an awesome product i'm going to encourage you you know we had we had worked this whole last probably 13 14 months that this conference would be the launch date for this because it's over 52 hours of recorded teaching plus it's got a workbook and audios for everything so you can plug it in your car you can watch it on tv you can open up the book you can read it it is absolutely amazing so we do it in three sections expect experience and empower what can you expect for godly relationships within your life this is one thing that the world they just are messed up and what does healthy look like everyone's like i just everything's dysfunctional so we just that's how it is and families are always dysfunctional friendships are dysfunctional marriage can be dysfunctional our kids are going to go crazy so it's just something we expect no that is not what you can expect being a child of god hallelujah you can expect god's health and blessing in every relationship in your life and the word talks about how to have those relationships and so there's powerful principles we have over seven of our main teachers here in bible school pastor dwayne sheriff also joined us it is absolutely amazing curriculum of people who have been married for decades and decades and decades and decades and i learned so much from them it's all together it wasn't just andrew and so um so uh this is powerful so expect what can you expect from being a child of god and what does the word say and then we teach you how to experience what are practical steps of how do you experience and you apply the word of god to those relationships so that you can experience them on a daily basis and then empower how can now you begin to share with the people around you because maybe things are good for you but you're watching everybody else and saying oh my gosh i don't even know how to help them everything's falling apart lord what do i say to them well this is going to train you how to minister that health to people so we talk about how to be successfully single how to be successfully married how to have successful sexuality and how to be a successful parent or grandparent and so it is relationship in a package amen and so i encourage you to get this and parents i would say this i'm gonna make a challenge 499 dollars you may say oh my gosh that's a lot of money it is a lot less expensive than marriage counseling it's a lot less expensive than taking your kids to a therapist you can learn the word of god make this investment into your family i would encourage you this would be an amazing series to sit down and go through your kids with because the best way you can train your kids to be successful singles to walk in purity is show them what godly marriage actually looks like and then watch you and then have them watch you apply these things at a whole other level so what i'm going to do for a free giveaway today is during this conference we have something special we're giving 220 dollars worth of free product away if you buy it during this conference so i'm going to quickly give it away we have this cd it's andrew's cd on self-centeredness the source of all grief so matt give this to someone who looks really self-centered okay she raised her hand in honesty all right i'll give you the book ma'am i don't have just an audio i have it in written form too amen okay and this is rick mcsfarland where is my mate so who is single here and says i've been praying god where is my mate okay give it to someone and then if someone else wants to give your number to that someone you can okay all right this is relationship university this is some contents that we did of live sessions this is where um we have audio excuse me video recordings of relationship university live lessons live session so we put some of these on here as a teaser also the relationship excuse me the self-centeredness source of all grief audio is on here as well as the audio recording of andrew's series on god's kind of marriage absolutely phenomenal so you've got to give her something she needs something all right also here's from the from the archives by popular demand god's kind of marriage in in this by andrea talks about the purpose of marriage how to strife in marriage god's love and marriage marriage relationships love and respect and marriage responsibility of the husband wife submission and sex and marriage amen powerful series so and then lastly i have a series in here it's my series called surviving people how to live out healthy conflict resolution so this needs to go to someone uh that looks like they're about to kill someone all right so all right so i'm gonna encourage you guys all of that everything we just gave away comes all in one package so when you buy this today you also get all of that that goes with it which is phenomenal so i'm going to encourage you make an investment into your family make an investment into your marriage into your kids uh singleness their sexuality and their future marriages and so it is a privilege i want to thank all the teams these are massive projects that we have worked on over the last year and a half the university series for healing university and relationship university guys if you can have health in your body that's awesome but you also need to have health in your relationships so praise god well it's my privilege to have andrew womack our president and founder here with the ministry how many of you love and have been blessed by andrew amen hallelujah all right i'm supposed to introduce lawson purdue and i thought what better introduction than i could i give than to show you the fruit of his ministry kerry grew up in his church and man he instilled the word in her and a desire to go to the nations and because of that she came to school she spent 16 years in russia and now they are just impacting people all over the world and this is fruit from lawson and barbara's ministry so what a blessing that is so this is pastor lawson perdue and um lawson first came to my meetings when he was 14 years old and he had no desire to come but his mother promised she'd buy him some fish bait if he came amen so he came and received the baptism of the holy ghost and was called to minister that and i went to lester summerall's school pastored and kit carson and i you can correct me if i get the details from but i think there was only like 300 and something people 310 and yet they had a hundred coming to their church he built a church that was debt-free they put lots of money into missions from a very small place and then he came here how many years ago 20 years ago and i remember he started with just one couple his family and one couple mike and mary peter and anyway he started with virtually nothing and god has blessed him and now they have about two thousand people that call charis christian center home and yeah he's a blessing so this is pastor lawson purdue his wife barbara down here he's the lord so i'm gonna i don't want to take too much time but i got several things to give away we got them on the table so if you'd like this free just raise your hand this is jesus plus nothing that's the equation of the gospel that's the book of galatians this is the cross as a cure my son andrew said that's the best message ever preached hallelujah this is the jesus generation it's a great teaching people so they never heard this is entangled this is by aaron this is on grace this is my son this is fantastic teaching this is present to heal this is by barbara one of her best series this is power and life of the word amen that's mine this is hebrews the better covenant i wrote this because one of the cbc directors told me you need to write a book on that that's my favorite book and i've never heard it taught any better so that was their opinion this is uncommon favor this is my life story and i'm gonna have to it's my life so good i'm gonna have to write another one called uncommon favor two praise god amen jesus has been good to me and this is a class i teach five five classes at karis bible college and i want to say a very big thank you to andrea and jamie wommack for allowing me to do this to teach here at the bible school and be a part of what you're doing we love you and appreciate you i'm a fruit of their ministry and i appreciate them deeply but this is romans the revelation of righteousness so this is my favorite book and i teach that here in the bible school so awesome barbara's going to come and she's going to share for two minutes and then i'll go and i'll keep mine tight praise the lord we love you jesus is good well good morning world changers and overcomers so nice to be here with all of you i do want to just take the time i believe god gave me a couple things specifically to share but i would also like to take this time to thank all of andrew womack partners those who are here on campus praise god and those who are online your giving for over the years changed our life because you supported andrew and jamie they were faithful and went to rural america where my husband's life was changed when he was 14 years old thank you andrew and jamie thank you to all the partners because of because of that and you getting changed you know i love your testimony that the word gave you a different picture that you didn't have to be sick you didn't have to be poor you didn't have to be defeated i'm here to testify we don't just have a good marriage we have a great marriage and i just want to again thank you to all the partners who have supported this amazing ministry and sent andrew and jamie literally around the world and because of that because of them you know you were changed and called to preach that we started that church where you just met and saw carrie she was about 10 years old in it interesting to think who knows if god didn't send us to that small town to start that church just because of kerry and you're all a part of that right now what we're experiencing at carriage christian center in colorado springs is people are getting saved delivered spirit filled and healed on a regular weekly basis again thank you partners because of you sowing into andrew and jamie it enabled them to sow into us and you are all part of what is happening around the world and these are exciting times to live in hallelujah we get to participate in and so i better just i know my husband's ready to preach so [Laughter] let me get here to isaiah i just felt like there's a couple of things as we were up early and spending time with god um i felt like there's a couple of things specifically and this is for someone maybe more but the lord want me to remind you of isaiah chapter 30 verse 21 where it says your ear shall hear a word behind you saying this is the way walk in it i believe god is really the one who's orchestrating and strategically placing all of us where we need to be for his glory to be witnesses to this life-giving message and it's exciting times to participate in and again as i was just praying and spending time with god this morning he really impressed on my heart there's someone here whether you're here i believe it could be someone here on campus and even participating online but there's someone here you have been so mad and so angry and resentful and you've been carrying this with you and what you're mad you're not mad at god you're mad at someone that you love very deeply that died and you're mad at them and you've been resenting them for dying and god just gave me a word for you to receive that healing in your heart and in your soul and get a picture of not what you saw here here on in this life but get a picture of where they are in the presence of god almighty amen that's what i felt like he told me to share amen praise the lord so i'm going to be sharing a little bit about our hope uh before i before i start my teaching i will tell you i forgot to tell you this when i was doing my advertisement i was going so fast my special deal out there at the book table is you get what you want and you give what you want so take anything you want give anything you want we love you we just want to bless you amen praise god and so god is so good uh account a tremendous honor again to be here i want to share a little bit from colossians today and i'm going to share from colossians chapter one and i recently taught a series on that we are complete in christ in colossians 2 verse 9 and verse 10 it says for in him dwelleth the fullness of the godhead bodily and you are complete in him who is the head of all principality and authority now when it says you are complete in him the greek word for complete is play o and it means this it means that you are full that you are filled that you lack nothing that you abound that you want nothing that you are perfect praise god so we are complete in christ amen we are full i often say this i have everything i need to do everything god called me to do i have no lack in any area of my life i'm blessed and highly favored of the lord and we see that come to pass on a regular basis praise god and so we have a hundred and twenty thousand square foot building uh in colorado springs it's completely paid for it would probably cost 60 million to build it today you know it's supernatural how god gave it to us and you know what we're getting ready andrew came and dedicated he walked in the back room you know before dedicated so we just spent all this time getting it getting it ready spending all this money getting in there i mean i was paid off the day we walked in but andrew came in the back room to dedicate it and so he uh he asked barbara he said how long you gonna be here she said we're gonna be here four years he asked me i said we're gonna be here five years so that was in the beginning of 2018. so then he went out and announced to the whole congregation don't get comfortable here you're not going to be here very long praise god and you know what we're getting ready for the next great thing that god's going to do and i tell you god's going to do something for charis christian center it's going to amaze the minds of people in the world what god does for our church is supernatural praise god so andrew prayed and he prayed now i'm praying that your next thing will be cash and you walk in cash so we've been getting ready and praise god god's helping us and blessing us and things are happening i was just thinking this morning just thanking god you know about all the difficulties and problems we've been through and you know different people have got on the internet tried to destroy our ministry i mean we've had we've had people that work for us attack us and try to split the church we've we've went through two people try to split the church in the last two years all these different difficulties all these different problems all these different people that have attacked us for doing what god called us to do and loving who god called us to love and you know god keeps blessing us keeps helping us we keep increasing we keep going forward it's supernatural amen i was thinking about how paul talked in second corinthians chapter 12 about all the problems that he went through but he said thank god the grace of god is with us amen and i take pleasure in infirmities and reproaches and necessities for christ's sake that the power of christ may rest upon me for because when i'm weak then he's strong amen now i mean he talked about all these difficulties and all these challenges and and you know sometimes people think if we're if we're doing what god called us to do and and we're going where god wants us to go and we're being what god wants us to be that there's not going to be difficulty and there's not going to be challenge but you just need to wake up because you know when you're in life you know we're in a world that's that you know there's a devil and he's a real enemy and he uses people and and uh some of them even well intentioned but you just keep going forward and keep believing god amen keep your eyes on the on jesus amen hallelujah so let's begin here in colossians chapter one we are complete in him who is the head of all principality and authority we are full we are filled we abound we are liberally supplied we want nothing we are perfect in christ jesus isn't that good news praise god if you begin to understand that it'll change your life you see because when god was working in christ he was working on us and god did in christ what he wanted to do in every man now when you begin to look into colossians there's a number of things that he says in chapter one he's talking about our hope in christ in chapter two he talks about our authority in christ in chapter three he talks about our future in christ and in chapter four he talks about our ministry in christ so we're just gonna look a little bit in chapter one about our hope in christ he says in verse 5 he says for the hope which is laid up for you in heaven which you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel i thank god that in 1978 andrew wommack and jamie womack came to lamar colorado and they shared the word of god and i went to that meeting to get fish bait but what happened i heard the word in a brand new way and it created hope on the inside of me and i thought thank god i don't have to be sick i don't have to be poor i don't have to be defeated by the devil i've got a bible full of promises that i can believe and i started believing god i got so excited that night the first night that i went when i heard andrew teach that you know what i forgot all about fishing i forgot all about fish bait and you couldn't keep me away hallelujah and the word of god literally transformed my life but if the you see i found out in the scripture that god is no respecter of persons but he's only a respecter of faith and if he'll do us for somebody else he'll do it for you so you can believe god there is a hope that is laid up for us in the gospel the gospel is the good news of what jesus has already done what jesus has already made available to us in his death burial and resurrection praise god you can be saved you can be healed you can be filled with the holy ghost you can be free because of what jesus has already done for you thank god for the gospel now paul goes on and makes another statement if we look at verse 23 and he says if you continue in the faith grounded and settled and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel the challenge is a lot of people somewhere along the line move away from the hope of the gospel but you don't want to lose faith you don't want to lose hope praise god you want to hold on to your hope because hope will produce things in your life amen so don't don't he says don't be moved away from the gospel continue in the faith and hold on to your hope praise god why because hope actually is a foundation right for faith faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen that's what it says in hebrews chapter 11 verse 1. then he makes this statement in verse 27 he says in verse 26 he's preaching the mystery which has been hidden from ages and generations he says but now is made known and revealed to his saints to whom god would make known to you what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the gentiles which is christ in you the hope of glory thank god jesus christ the resurrected lord of eternity the lord of heaven the lord of earth and the lord of the grave has taken up residence on the inside of you and when you begin to understand that it will absolutely change your life for the good amen now let's go back and see some things that paul's talking about first of all in the first 14 verses he begins to talk about this when you begin to understand your hope in christ i want you to grow in your relationship with god and guess what if you're not growing in your relationship with god you're going backwards amen so we want to grow everybody say grow in your relationship with god we want to keep growing want to keep matured we want to keep moving forward in our relationship with jesus christ and so he we'll just read the first 14 verses really quickly and we'll come comment on a couple things he says paul an apostle of jesus by the will of god in timothy our brother to the saints and faithful brethren in christ which which are at colosse grace be to you in peace from god the father and our lord jesus we give thanks to god and the father of our lord jesus praying always for you since we heard of your faith in christ and the love which you have to all the saints for the hope which is laid up for you in the in heaven which you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel which has come to you as it is in all the world and brings forth fruit when the hope of the gospel comes to you the hope of the gospel will bring forth fruit thank god 43 years ago i heard andrew woman teaching in a bible study amen and hope came into my heart and that hope began to bring forth fruit and that hope is still bringing forth fruit in fact my life isn't anything like it was then my life is so much better it keeps getting better and better and better thank god the best is always yet to come in jesus praise the lord so he says since the day you heard of it and and knew the grace of god and truth as you also learned of epaphras our dear fellow servant who is for you a faithful minister of christ who also declared unto us your love in the spirit for this cause since with the day we heard of it do not cease to pray for you the and to desire that you might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom in spirit and spiritual understanding but you might want worthy of the lord unto all pleasing being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of god strengthened with all might according to his glorious power unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness now when you look at paul's prayers i i don't believe there is any greater example of how we ought to pray than paul's prayers and you find them in ephesians chapter 1 ephesians chapter 3 colossians chapter 1 and philippians chapter 1. and when you when you see paul pray paul never talks about lack he never talks about weakness he never talks about sickness he never talks about need what he talks about is who christ is who you are what he's called you to do and what he's invested in you so you can get the job done so if you'll focus your prayer on who christ is who you are what he's called you to do and what christ has invested in you so you can get the job done it will change the way that you pray hallelujah because we pray from a position of victory amen we start in victory praise god jesus already won the victory in his death burial and resurrection and the moment that you got born again you were born into victory isn't that good amen first john chapter 5 verse 4 says this is the victory that overcomes the world even our faith who is he that overcomes the world but he that believes that jesus is the son of god so the moment that you were born again the moment that you believed on christ you were born into victory and then when you begin to understand what the word of god says and renew your mind that faith will lead you into the victory that christ already won you know a lot of people think the goal of christianity is overcoming sin and satan but the fact is if you understand the gospel specifically first john you could not overcome sin and you could not overcome satan and that's why jesus came and did it all for you so jesus overcame sin and jesus overcame satan and the moment that you were born again you were born into victory and you were made a world overcomer praise god and so the ultimate goal of the gospel is not overcoming sin and it's not overcoming satan the ultimate goal of the gospel is knowing jesus christ and there's different aspects of the of knowing christ notice what he says paul when he's praying here in verse 10 he makes this statement he said i want you to walk worthy of the lord unto all pleasing being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of god so the first aspect of knowledge is this the bible says this in second peter chapter 3 verse 18. it says grow in the grace and the knowledge of jesus christ and the word for knowledge there is gnosis and it's just just says grow in what you know about jesus i want you to grow in what you know about jesus i want you to grow in your knowledge of god in your in your knowledge of christ just knowing about him and then the second aspect he talks about here he's talking about epignosis so he said not just knowledge not just having an understanding but it's perfect knowledge right and exact knowledge so this is talking about revelation knowledge so you get to know about him but then you get to know very specifically so i want you to get some revelation knowledge about jesus i want you to have a revelation knowledge so we'd only only know about him but we we get to know very perfect and exact things you know about him that changes us but then there's this word in philippians chapter 3 verse 10 paul uses and he says that i may know him and the power of his resurrection being made conformable to his death because when i identify with his death then i can identify with his resurrection and that's the ultimate goal of the gospel and when he says that i may know him and the power of his resurrection he's talking about the the greek word is giannosco and it means something like this it's talking about full and intimate knowledge of jesus it's talking about a relational knowledge of jesus like you know bar i know barbara better than i know any other woman on the face of their any other person on the face of the earth barbara knows me better than than she knows any other person on the face of the earth because we have a relationship with one another and we're growing in our relationship isn't that awesome we've been married for 37 years and and our relationship keeps getting better and i still got a lot to work on praise god i just got in trouble the other day i took it well amen i'm learning good amen hallelujah but but we're growing in our we're growing in our relationship with each other praise god you know and i have experienced barbara and barbara has experienced me and it's talking about that time when paul says that i may know him and the power of his resurrection being made conformal to his death he's talking about a personal revelation a personal experience of jesus i didn't have i didn't look at this verse you know in in the greek this morning but in second peter chapter 1 verse 3 i think peter's talking about the same thing in second peter chapter one verse three when he says according as his divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness through the knowledge of him through the experience of jesus through our relationship with jesus who called us to glory and virtue again his divine power i like to say his divine grace has given to us all things everything pertaining to life and godliness again i have everything i need say it with me i have everything i need to do everything god called me to do i have no lack in any area of my life i'm blessed and highly favored of the lord his divine power see that his divine power his divine grace has given to me all things pertaining to life and godliness through my relationship with jesus who called me to glory and virtue the outflowing of that glory aren't you glad you're called to glory and virtue his goodness and his power you know his goodness flows out of his pa or his power flows out of his goodness when great grace is preached amen great power is released amen his divine power has given to us all things so i've made this decision i never confess lack i never confess like i never speak the only time i talk about lack is when i'm teaching people in the body of christ don't focus on lack don't you know what because i have everything i need to do everything god called me to do i have no lack in any air of my life i'm blessed and highly favored the lord we moved to colorado springs you know what 20 years ago we had almost no people and almost no money hallelujah i i had 50 down and i bought a fixer-upper house and i had to go to six banks before i found a banker that would loan me the money with 50 down because they didn't believe much in church plants hallelujah but you know what i have everything i need to do everything god called me to do i have no lack in any air in my life i'm blessed and i'm highly favored of the lord praise god and since that time you know what we're on television all over the nation amen we have you know multiple stations we have all different uh five days a week all kinds of different things that we're doing preaching the gospel and you know what we do everything cash amen we have everything we need to do everything god called us to do amen i've increased not only the churches increased my you know what my family's increased my business has increased hallelujah you know the first banker i went to because we we came up after god spoke to us to come call red springs start a church kerus christian center we came up you know we met with a leading pastor in the community then we went to look at houses january 11th god spoke to me january 4th 2001. i called andrew on january 7th he said that's god you need to get with me [Laughter] hallelujah so january 11th just one week after god spoke to me on thursday we we began to look at houses and different things so after we'd looked at houses a couple times this realty said i want you to go talk to my banker so we sat across the desk from the banker and the banker looked across the desk it's a woman banker and she said she got my 1040s you know and she looked at him she said why you can't even afford to buy a lot in this school district and let us let alone the house and i kind of stood up barbara said i looked deep red and i said if i couldn't do it i wouldn't be here now i wasn't trying to be rude i wasn't trying to embarrass my wife but the fact is jesus christ spoke to me amen and then not only that after jesus spoke to me we had a meeting with cecil and lisa paxton they didn't know anything what jesus had told me and they said listen what the lord's put in your heart it's good for you it's good for the kingdom of god it's good for your family it's good for the church and you need to do it so you know what that's before we went into this little banker that sat across the bus and said you can't do it hallelujah and i did own three houses now i have two amen i sold one hallelujah the first one i bought i sold it for double then people bought it for me they made a whole pile of money on us we're all blessed amen praise god so now i have two one of them's paid off the one i live on i took a loan on it because 1.75 fixed rate for 15 years and i have an office building and monument so i just took a bunch of money out of it and paid down on that i made two interest moves in the pandemic to save 18 or 19 000 interest a year i'll take 18 or 19 000 as a bonus one two hallelujah thank god he blesses all we set our hand to he blesses the work of our hands he blesses the thoughts of our mind praise god my oldest son aaron works for me he's got his doctorate degree from rice university if he's not a millionaire he's close to being a millionaire my middle son andrew praise god he goes to pastor billy's son's church he's a multi-millionaire amen praise god you know people andrew was talking how they got mad and since they couldn't criticize criticize him personally about prosperity they criticized kenneth copeland and creflo dollar i watched this video a couple of years ago about all these the richest preachers in the world kenneth copeland supposed to be the richest preacher in the world net worth of 800 million people uh well i could why should a printer have money like that why should a preacher you know my son andrew's boss is worth 800 million dollars that's not even a big deal it's nothing in the world he has his own personal jet he has a vineyard in california he declares residency in in wyoming you know has a little place up there has a place in colorado has a place in houston texas you know he's probably worth you know probably worth you know double that you know that was a few years ago and my son you know my son peter i don't know if he's a millionaire yet but he's doing really really well he's he's in singapore he's been he's been promoted twice in the pandemic he's he's getting ready to come back to the u.s amen but uh peter works for burger king he runs all of asia burger king and you know super super blessed his wife called barbara and i like three weeks ago on monday and she bar she's just talking she didn't complain she didn't mind she didn't say anything they've been they're nuts in singapore i mean you talk about they are locked down they are just it's crazy and so we had a granddaughter you know born over there june 1st last year we haven't so we see her on facebook every week but that's all we've seen her but anyway when when his wife got off the phone his wife didn't complain didn't win didn't say anything negative whatsoever barbara said she's done she needs to come home we joined hands and prayed he said lord we want you to open the door for peter within his circle of companies here in the united states of america amen he keeps all of his benefits if he stays within the 3g circle right within two days his old boss called him who's now the ceo for papa i said peter how's it going he said we need to come home he said i'll open the door for you and it's going to happen before the end of the year see we have authority i love what the brother said yesterday we have authority you know who has authority in colorado spring i have authority in colorado spring pastor mark has authority in colorado spring i've been poking mark said hey let's take the city let's take the city let's take the city take the city take the city hallelujah we're taking lots of cities hallelujah hallelujah i'm invested in a lot of places i invest in a lot of places in the gospel hallelujah glory to god are you investing in the gospel i love to invest why do i give to andrew wymack ministries i give to andrew wommack ministries because of all they're doing it's one of the greatest places i make a lot of investments here hallelujah because i love what they're doing in the world how that's one way that i give praise god i give as an investment praise god i give in all kinds of ways but i'm so i listen i was just thinking about it last night and andrew told me billy's going to receive the offering today so so praise god i was just thinking i've been here in the morning they need to receive some offerings in the morning praise god i brought a nighttime offer the other night when i came but i want to give in the morning hallelujah so uh you know i was just thinking i read this book by oral roberts on giving i give you a free message just talking about seed faith but he said you need to remember these things three things number one god is your source number two you've got to sow a seed to get a harvest and number three you have to expect you have to expect hallelujah so i'm sowing i sow seed amen i invest in the gospel hallelujah and i invest in all kind of places and all kinds of things amen and i've got supernatural increase that comes to me i have one investment account i i i give it a report you know we get a report every quarter so i asked my guy said how have we done he said well last the last three years we've made over 25 percent net i said that's not bad hallelujah that's on church money and it's completely legal hallelujah you know i just gave him some money said do whatever you want to do with it hallelujah hallelujah i'm terrible at doing something so some things i'm good at some things i'm not i know what i'm not i just give it somebody else tell them to take care of that part amen hallelujah but think about making investment they're going to receive an offering sometime this morning amen think about making an investment amen in the gospel here at andrew wyman ministries and kerris bible college it's good ground i'm here to prove it i've sold lots of seed amen it's coming back to me good measure press down shaken together and running over it keeps coming back to me it keeps coming you know what we make some mistakes we have some things go wrong but you know what we keep sowing and we keep believing and it just keeps coming hallelujah hallelujah so keep growing in your relationship with god now he says he says this in verse 12 giving thanks unto the father who made us sufficient to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light amen i love one translation of this says that that god qualified us for his best blessing say that with me i'm qualified for god's best blessings hallelujah who has delivered us from the authority he has delivered us from the dominion of darkness right up and translated us into the kingdom of the sons of his love so i've been i've been picked up out of the kingdom of darkness and i've been carried over and i've been translated i've been set down in the kingdom of the sons of his love i've been delivered the devil can't make me do one thing isn't that the good news you know the only power the devil has over you as a believer is deception so if you can break the deception you break his power so i've been delivered i've been translated from the kingdom of darkness and i've been translated into the kingdom of the sons of his love he loves me isn't that good news so i'm qualified for his best blessing i'm trans i'm delivered i've been set free from the dominion of darkness darkness has no dominion over me sin has no dominion over me hallelujah glory to god sickness does not have dominion over me poverty does not have dominion over me hallelujah he says in whom we have redemption in whom we have total pardon for our sins in whom we have redemption through his blood even the forgiveness of sins the complete pardon of our sins according to the ultimate wealth of his grace according to the riches of his grace how amazing is his grace amen so our hope in christ number one we need to grow in our relationship with god we need to increase in our knowledge of god number two paul talks about this here in colossians chapter one we need to know who jesus is so he says this in verse 15 who is the image of the invisible god the firstborn of every creature for by him were all things created that are in heaven and earth visible and invisible whether they be thrones or dominions or principalities or powers all things were created by him and for him and he is before all things and by him all things consist what's he saying here jesus is the lord of heaven jesus is the creator of the universe i love verse 15 where he says he's the image of the invisible god he hallelujah he's the visible representation of an invisible god not only is he the lord of heaven creating all things you see philippians 2 says god highly exalted him and gave him a name that's above every name that at the name of jesus every knee should bow of things in heaven of things in the earth and of things under the earth and every tongue should confess that jesus christ is lord to the glory of the father so jesus was the lord of heaven he created all things but not only is jesus the lord of heaven he's the lord of earth and he goes on to talk about that right here he says in verse 18. he's the head of the body right he he says who's the beginning the first born from the dead that in all things he might have the preeminence for it please the father that in him all the fullness would dwell and having made peace through the blood of his cross by him to reconcile all things to himself whether they be in heaven or in earth things in earth are things in heaven so not only is jesus the lord of heaven jesus is the lord of earth now if we go back to verse 15 i didn't forget where i was at in verse 15 he made this statement he's he's the visible representation of the invisible god right we and part of this growing in our relationship with god is we need to know who jesus is right we want to increase in the knowledge of god grow in the grace and the knowledge your basic understanding of who christ is and who god is so if you want to know who god is right you look at jesus i love john chapter one it fits right in with right what what he's talking about right here in john chapter one he says in the beginning was the word and the word was with god and word was god the same was in the beginning with god all things were created by him without him was not anything made that was made in him was life and the life was the light of men and the light shined in the darkness and the darkness did not comprehend it amen jesus the word in the beginning with god the creator of the universe but then he says in verse 14 he says in the word was made flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory the glory as of the only begotten of the father full of grace and truth for says the law came by moses but grace came by jesus and of his fullness we've all received grace upon grace see truth what minus grace equals law which produces death truth plus grace equals jesus which produces life some of you got the truth but you're approaching it from a perspective of law and is producing truth minus grace equals law and some grace people that i know are the most legalistic people that i've ever met and just be honest with you i got a lot of friends a lot of folks here don't like don't like mark hankin don't like jesse duplantis truth minus grace equals law that produces death truth plus grace equals jesus makes life hallelujah hallelujah you know what we we need to preach approach the truth with grace how why should we be so legalistic we need to be seeing jesus we need to get our eyes off of all these differences and see jesus in each other you know one thing i loved about lester sumrall andrew wommack's the same way they're not looking for what's wrong with everybody they're looking for what's right and they build relationships with people based on their strengths you got a relationship university this is pastor lawson's part i don't teach in it but i'll tell you my part when you focus on the strengths of someone you're going to bring strength to that relationship when you focus on weaknesses you're going to destroy that relationship any relationship that you have if it's in work if it's in the ministry if it's in your home just your new church you know churches have problems i got a big church i got a lot of problems because people have problems the only churches that don't have problems are churches with no people hallelujah so we're helping people that's the goal right hallelujah i better preach my message here amen but jesus he goes on and says in john chapter 1 verse 18 he says no man has seen god at any time but the only begotten son who is in the bosom who's from the bosom of the father he has revealed him he has declared him he has openly made him known if you want to know the will of god concerning healing look at the life of jesus he healed them all 14 times they brought him to all kinds of sickness all kinds of disease he healed every kind of sickness every kind of disease they brought him every sick person and he healed every one of them jesus reveals the will of god concerning healing you know jesus hung out with people that religious folks didn't like they were his best friends he built this ministry with people that a lot of religious people didn't like we need to get over our religion we need to get get in love with jesus we need to get in love with people and we might need to start winning the world to jesus get back to what it's about hallelujah praise god but build relationships with people on their strengths andrea has people from totally different backgrounds but man they bring strength and if you just focus on their strength i preached this message before you know that we are citizens from heaven on loan to the earth from god some of you have heard me say that where'd i get i got that from jerry savant jerry falwell jerry i heard him preaching that nearly 30 years ago i thought man that is the gospel truth i've been preaching it ever since so what he looks at something different than i do he's went home to be to be with jesus i'm going to see him in heaven amen so what he he looks at something man when i heard him say we are citizens of heaven on loan to the earth from god i said amen we're citizens of heaven on loan to the earth from god amen i better hurry up amen jesus is the lord of heaven jesus is the lord of earth let's read through this really quickly you who are sometimes alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works has he now restored the right relationship in the body of his flesh through death to present you holy unblameable and unreprovable you know when you begin to see jesus and and then you begin to understand who he is then you begin to understand who you are in him and how jesus sees you jesus sees you as holy unreprovable and unblameable amen knowing him helps you understand who you are if you continue in the faith grounded and settled don't be moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven where i paula made a minister who now rejoiced in my sufferings for you and fill up that which is behind the afflictions of christ in my flesh for his body's sake which is the church in other words paul said i faced a few challenges doing what god's called me to do but i'm willing to do it because you know what the goal is worth the challenge amen so so so what it what's paul talking about number one i want you to i want you to grow in your relationship with jesus number two i want you to know who he is and he says in chapter one he's the lord of heaven and he's the lord of earth in chapter two he says he's the lord of the grave he spoiled principalities and powers made a show of them openly trying to go over them but number three he says this in verse 25 through 29 let's read this who now he says in verse 25 where have i made a minister according to the dispensation of god which is given to me for you to fulfill the word of god even the mystery which has been hidden from ages and generations and now is revealed to his saints to whom god would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the gentiles which is christ in you the hope of glory a good friend of mine wrote a song years ago christ in you the hope of glory i've never heard a sweeter story your hands are jesus hands your feet are jesus feet what a revelation jesus lives in you and he lives in me think about that guys jesus christ the resurrected lord of heaven and the earth and the grave has taken up residence on the inside of you and when you begin to understand that life just can't be so bad hallelujah so he goes on and says whom we preach warning every man teaching every man in all wisdom that we may present every man perfect complete whole abounding full filled wanting nothing liberally supplied in christ jesus where to i labor striving according to his working which works in me amen see jesus has taken up residence in me and now he's living his life through me the third thing point number three number one we want you to know who to grow in your relationship with god number two know who he is number three we want you to reflect christ in you to the world around you i can do all things through christ who strengthens me it's god who works in me in my spirit both the will in my soul and to do in my body his good pleasure thank god jesus christ the lord of heaven the lord of earth and the lord of the grave has taken up residence in me and that has completely changed my life amen we love you thank you god bless you [Applause] thank you man that was a good word wasn't it so guys we're going to take a quick break please come back by 10 10. we have billy epperhart next thank you i wanted to give a jamie suggested this and we'd like to give a quick report on what's happening with the youth and the children so uh who's gonna do this all right so amy is going to give us a report she was a little shy coming up here but she will do good don't you all appreciate amy and all the people working with the youth all right so tell us what's happened with the youth for one thing it's been really awesome and it's just been a pleasure seeing so many kids come in there and i can tell you one thing this is definitely more than a vacation bible school i've just been amazed about how the kids are receiving learning about god but also giving to others through prayer circles and just actually ministering to you up to each other so that's been pretty amazing for me so we also have some really great results that have been happening so far we've had 30 healings praise the lord right that's awesome we've had seven salvations praise god and we've also had 86 children that um prayed and were filled with the spirit with um speaking in tongues praise the lord what age is this um so this is actually age five through twelve man that's awesome don't you that'll that'll change their life that'll make a huge difference and i can say one more thing there was one kid that actually the parent was saying how they had a chance to go to disney world or another vacation and they said they wanted to come back to vacation bible school because this is where they felt the unconditional love of god and they wanted to come back and experience it again so it's been pretty amazing that's awesome amen you did great she was worried about doing this but she did great awesome praise the lord well we next up is billy epperhart billy and becky came to us uh i'm guessing but i think it's 12 years ago do you know billy what what year was 11 2011. so that's been 10 years ago and uh actually i'd heard about billy uh through a number of people i i think lawson knew billy and i'd heard about him but i hadn't met him but paul milligan who was our previous ceo of the ministry and billy were good friends and so when i asked paul to start our business school in karius bible college he used billy he called billy and asked billy to come and help him so billy's been working in the business school for 10 years and he came here and they used to drive from denver and would stay in the lodge and just left their clothes and stuff there they were here so often and i remember one day maybe a year or so after he had been associated with us and he had known about me we had known about each other but didn't know each other but after he had been here a year or so he just told me one time he says i'm a hundred percent in with what you're doing and god just knit our hearts together and he's been on our board now for what three years something like that and when our previous administrator uh ceo paul milligan had some physical problems billy basically he was kind of like a uh assistant ceo and when paul had some physical problems billy stepped in and took over the ministry and helped us tremendously and then paul retired i think it's been two years ago something like that and billy stepped in and i tell you billy has been a godsend paul was supernatural because he put some systems in place he took us from 350 employees to 600 employees or so and he did some things but boy the things that we've been through uh the last few years with the government and lawsuits and stuff billy's just super qualified for that he's dealt with all of those things and it's just amazing to see the way that god adds to you the people that you need when you need them even before billy became the ceo he took mike and carrie under his wings and he was just discipling them in business things and so billy is pastored but he's also been in business and he's been a real estate i don't know if mogul is the right word but he's been very successful in real estate and he teaches on business and runs all of those things so anyway this is billy upriarty's the ceo of our ministry let's welcome him as he comes to share love you brother thank you awesome amen raise the lord well how many you'd rather be here than in jail today [Applause] well that's at least two of you so i can keep going praise god uh man this has been great hasn't it all the ministers that have come and the different uh it's amazing how the lord kind of creates the tapestry of who shares what and the place lawson that was awesome man and you know just the just the way things have come together and i like to see it from my position now i have a little different view than i see sitting right down there on the front row and kind of watch it and so i i've i've seen the uniqueness of the holy spirit in all the different conferences that we have and how god puts those things together it's really supernatural but you know none of us would be here without our founders uh andrew womack and jamie womack and um i think we should always give honor where honors do and so let's give them a big hand for the great impact they've had in our life for all of us they've had a they've had a i better join in that i just want to run you off with my microphone but uh and so i appreciate them you know andrew said something the other night he said you know i just don't get mad and i can testify ladies and gentlemen that there have been times when i want to choke somebody or literally kill somebody and andrew's saying the lord's going to take care of it and so i a couple of i'm not able to tell specifics here just maybe a hint at specifics but there there have been times when uh i've gotten riled up so i want to confess my sin in front of all of you i repent that i've i've gotten riled up and uh wanted to at times hurt people but anyway uh i apologize for that but i i genuinely appreciate our leaders and i can tell you if they weren't that way i promise you i wouldn't be here and the truth is now that doesn't mean if sometimes the lord decides there's a transition for all of us doesn't mean we don't like each other we don't we definitely love each other but that this is the most in my opinion that i'm more of financially sound fiscally sound ministry large ministry that i know of anywhere in america and i can tell you every penny every dime you give goes with the work of the kingdom period in the story and so anybody who says anything else is lying that's just a fact and so i don't care what the newspaper says or magazines say or other preachers say or even in some cases that we've dealt with lately other politicians say right it's just not true so it's an honor and a privilege and so i really am enjoying my role here there are days when i question it occasionally i have to deal with miss donna down there and on those days it's very difficult lawson when i have to do that faster counter no i'm kidding i love her she's awesome i'm giving her a hard time but i want to introduce after andrea and jamie i want to introduce my wife this is becky we call her miss becky and i call miss jamie miss jamie but this is miss becky we've been married for 48 years so i want her to stand so and now for those of you who've heard me say this like 17 times just chill out okay but i'll just say it again all right um i married the prettiest girl in town that's the truth and i also married a girl with the most money her she came from the rich's family and so if you marry up right and looks and then you you marry money right then you get to do what i do which is absolutely nothing i had i really this really happened i had a young guy here at karis i don't remember it's been a couple years and i was doing one of the conferences and i introduced becky and i say those stories you know this has happened before but here karis i had this young guy he's probably about 21 right he's looking at me i'm an old guy up here talking and i introduce her and he sees her and he comes up to me and he goes how in the world did you get her true that really happened to me and i said what do you think about ma me what do you think about me look at this i'm like i'm like uh praise the lord so uh hallelujah hurt my feelings if you want to know what i mean uh this morning andrew's always been very gracious to me to allow me to share a couple things and so today i want to play a video i played it at the business summit and it's a video of a student that we had graduate here from the business school at karis and his name is samuel this is a video from farm uganda before we play the video hang on here uh we we are in we do investment we put investment capital i'm going to not teach on this today but i'll refer to it when i'm on the whiteboard more than likely but one of the things that the lord led us to do was take what we learned transactionally which you'll hear me refer to that term later today but we what we learned transactionally because when i started going to foreign countries i saw a lot of mission missionaries and mission work over there and there was a lot of good work being done people preaching the gospel but i didn't see any i didn't see people as many people as i'd like to really empowering people how to come out of poverty i mean literally how to do it and you can't just teach people devotionally to get them to break out of poverty you have to teach them transactions you have to teach them how to handle money how to think about business and and and most people around the world are willing to bring themselves out of poverty if they just have a little bit of help and tools to be able to do it so let me say this to you you give somebody money and so if we give somebody money which we do a lot i do it all the time constantly we give but if you're only giving somebody money then if you if that's your only dollar ten dollars and you got to come back to america and raise it again the lord gave us a strategy to be able to take investment capital that's the largest pocket of money in the world is those discretionary investment funds and lend that money overseas yes we loan and we loan to other banks and other what we call uh you we would call them over here savings and credit institutions and they pay us approximately 12 some pay us 15. that sounds absurd to you for that kind of interest rate on an apr but the truth is there's a couple of truths to that first of all the central banks in those countries that we're helping charge the banks i'm talking about like wells fargo here or one of the big banks they charge those banks their central bank lending rate to those banks from the central bank to the bank is anywhere from 13 to 17 apr now sometimes when you google it it'll come out it'll come up eight percent or nine percent it's not true you go ask the banks what they're borrowing money for and even though it's not published and it's in that 13 to 14 percent in many of those impoverished countries so they loaning to you if you're the best credit customer in the world they're loaning to you are you ready for this at about 30 percent that's a fact now i'm not making that up it's true so we do it at 12 which is less than the central bank that allows us to be able to pay four to eight percent here on investments investments are uh if it's cash the minimum investment is 20 000 if it's an ira it's twenty five thousand we pay four to eight percent depending on what term that you choose so if you qualify and are in that then uh there this packet will show you what's in there and uh so i appreciate andrew allowing me to share this but here's a video uh and by the way we have it back at the table but here's a video from samuel in farm uganda if we can play that and this is one of our graduates from business school here at karas in colorado when we do evangelism it's about preaching the gospel of jesus christ but it's also includes the gospel of the kingdom where we begin to penetrate the other pillars and influencers of society and one of the primary ones is the business mountain or the finance mountain [Music] what they're doing is they're giving interest-free loans right to the muslims to just simply come and buy off the churches that are still struggling so that they can come and occupy the land there is no bank that is giving christians all churches loans it's only the growth rates and the concept of the glory bank and growing credit [Music] my vision for glory back is to be an instrument that is going to equip the blood of christ is to create opportunity to have money so that they can put their ideas and business plan in in in in motion when bishop came with this idea he came with two ideas promoting businesses educating uh all sensitizing christians to do business in a christian way secondly he said we should secure churches we should rescue them from the struggle maybe of land and also educating pastors to generate money that's why god has led us even in tri-core global uh to actually begin to support and partner with these banks who need new capital when you invest your dollars literally investments that you're making you not only get some kind of return on on the money you've invested but the bigger return is the impact that it's having for the kingdom of god [Music] [Applause] you know you you can invest money in all kinds of places in america but is it really having an impact where you're investing is it really having a direct impact for the kingdom of god and hearing glow trends and what you invest in tractor global is having a direct impact for the kingdom of god and this nation and other parts of africa man so i i thought sorry that's a different video so they selected a different one and so that just shows you some other things another side of it but the one samuel who graduated from the business school here he applied for an additional loan above what we did we we did it alone so you understand for a hundred thousand u.s dollars in addition to the loan for 100 000 u.s dollars we also bought him the tractors which were in the other video we paid for those in cash we gave those to him not men but we bought the ground the land which is about 110 acres over there in the middle of uganda and it's been very successful now we do i think right now we currently have between five and seven thousand clients that are being helped and we're talking millions of dollars that have been invested over there and so the good news is you can make a decent return on your investment but we're also changing people's lives with i'll refer to it a little later not tricord but to the concept of transactional money so this morning y'all ready to go i only got a couple of minutes left so lawson and i are going to hurry but i got a funny for greg moore and for pastor greg and so i got a little when it says this a man was walking along a california beach and was deep in prayer to the lord he said lord you have promised to give me the desires of my heart that's what i'm asking for you right now please give me a confirmation that you will grant me my wish and suddenly the sky clouded up over his head and the lord in a booming voice spoke to him i have searched your heart and determined it to be pure the last time i issued a blank wish request it was to solomon and he didn't disappoint me with his request for wisdom i think i can trust you trust that you won't disappoint me either because you have been faithful to me in all ways and i want to grant you one wish you asked for the man sat and thought about it for a while and he said well i've always wanted to go to hawaii but i'm deadly afraid of flying and i get seasick on boats could you build a bridge to hawaii so i can drive over there to visit whenever i want the lord laughed and said that's impossible think of the logistics of that how would the supports ever reach the bottom of the pacific ocean think of how much concrete how much steel your request is very materialistic a little disappointing i could do that but it's hard for me to justify your craving for worldly things take a little more time and think of another wish a wish you think would honor and glorify me as well so the man thought about it for a long while and he tried to think of a really good wish and finally he said here's the deal lord i've been married and divorced four times my wives always said i don't care and that i'm insensitive so i wish that i could understand women i want to know how they feel inside what they're thinking when they give me the silent treatment i want to know why they're crying i want to know what they really mean when they say nothing i want to know how to make them truly happy that's the wish that i want lord a few minutes passed and god said you want two lanes or four on that [Applause] bridge i don't do something greg and i always giving each other a thumb or two thumbs i got two thumbs on that one that's pretty good [Laughter] i want to talk for just a second on on what i call some of the paradigm shifts that i see that are necessary in the church the body of christ that i see actually emerging today and i'll just give you a quick definition most of us know but a paradigm is an important change that happens when the usual way of thinking about or doing something is replaced by a new and different way and so today as we talk about this it's actually a different mindset when jesus said you know you can't pour right can't pour new wine into old wineskins you have to give to god a new paradigm and what i see happening in the church today and what we've heard if we go back and and look at bob mcewen who came on monday and tuesday and then we had pastor cowart came up and talked about the government things and of course lance was here and and i'm i'm going to draw on the board like he does not because he did but because of things i want to show you and i want to harsh i want you and your family to stand these are would y'all stand harshly you and your family this is lance's friends that he brought with him and they are from they are from dubai from dubai and and and harsha is a very successful international banker so when you're talking talk to him he's very kind mild and meek but i can tell you genuinely he's a heavy hitter lance wall now doesn't run around with anybody who's not believe me and so i've i've got a chance to to really connect with them and i appreciate them being here but i brought them up for the reason of this that i believe that when we're talking about what the lord is doing today lance drew something the other night that i had never seen him do and just so you you guys know i brought lance in 2015 i invited him to come and i think it was 2000 i think 2015 is right and it was at the business summit and i'm sitting in the barn we're in the barn i'm sitting on the front row with bit i call him big andrew with andrew andrew womack and i was sitting on the front row with him and lance comes out now you got to remember andrew's never heard lance and you know lance can be a crazy man so there was two things i was concerned about first is how crazy lance can be and the second thing i was concerned about was just the doctrine i wasn't sure where how lance and andrew were going to see eye to eye on some of the things that lance was teaching and so i remember sitting on the front row and i mean the whole time lance is up there as he comes up i'm nervous i mean i'm shaking my heart's beating i don't i have no seriously i have no idea what andrew's thinking and then lance pulls a mega lance which is which is mind-blowing that i mean i could tell by the look in his eye now here when he was doing it this time he was he was good and he was doing classic lands but that night he was on that day he was on steroids i'm telling you he no he was on steroids i'm telling you flat out and i go brother this is it this is over right i mean there is no way right because he was at one of my conferences and he got up and said trump was going to be the next president you know paul milligan sitting back there with me and of course we were i think all of us at that time were kind of leaning toward ted cruz there was still 13 people in the race and lance said trump will be the next president and he started telling how why right in front of god and everybody but when there's still 13 people running in the race and so he got on a roll he didn't say that he didn't talk about that but he started talking another thing so i started sliding down in my chair no joke i did i'm serious i'm sliding down and i thought now i hate to admit this this is this is totally fleshly there's no holy ghost on this i'm thinking how can i leave this property i'm serious i thought now if i go out the back door i did if i go out the back can't go through the other door green room i had a key but i couldn't go through there because you know donna or somebody to be in there so i had to how can i get out so i figured out an escape route no for real i had one i had it worked out i had it all worked out and man the the way lance ended his session i couldn't sneak out because he kind of brought me up front where am i going to go right so i'm standing up here so i saw andrew and andrew go straight to the back goes and this is in the barn to there's a little green room in the barn back there and so i'm looking around and i'm waiting for everybody to get done and man i head to the green room because i'm like this is it folks i may never be at andrew walmart ministries in kerry's bible college again in my life i mean this is it my head's on the chopping block it's all over for i'm telling us how i felt and so i walk in and andrew's in there by myself nobody's there carrie and he's sitting at the end of the table we're going to eat you know they put that little table to the side of the green room and he's sitting there i go okay andrew i mean i'm shaking i go okay andrew what what what uh uh uh what'd you think and andrew you know andrew goes i liked him [Laughter] so this is true now i'm telling you so i pull up a chair and i sit and i say now are you sure he said no i'd like to have him back and i went oh my god it was like i got born again right there so i want to draw this because lance said something i've never heard him say and uh i know him pretty well i'm gonna draw his this of course seven mountains he's the one that's made these popular but i want to show you two things here for a second so how many i have up here four five six seven and so when we start looking i didn't mean to make this one smaller it wasn't on purpose let's see they're supposed to be all the same look at that one right there boy i still don't have it right look at that okay now don't be making fun of my mountains so i'm going to draw something and i'm just going to show you a couple things that he didn't show you that i i want to focus on quickly here this morning and i'm going to draw the line he did but he made a statement that was really powerful and he and he drew the cross that's up here and we're i'm just going to pick this mountain here in the middle and i'm going to say this is family and i'm putting these in this order totally intentionally it's the way i'm doing it's totally intentional and so we have the family mountain and we have i'm going to put the education mountain here now i'm going to take the media mountain and i'm going to take the art mountain and i'm going to draw another red line right here now which which two of the mountains are missing so we have government that's missing and what so what lance said which was so powerful was that real genuine what the church has tried to do is come through and i'm just going to pick the media it's trying to come through i'm not picking the media because i'm selecting it it's just in the kind of in the middle in it and so we try to come through but what we don't realize is here right in here these are where when jesus said that the church i mean that the gates of hell will not prevail against the church the gates are really at the bottom of these mountains because these seven mountains represent the primary spheres of culture they represent in fact the the first time i ever saw this and never really saw it for the first time i was with lance he was doing it i was speaking for him in mexico at one of his dream trips the first time i really saw it and he and i went back up to the hotel room talked about it but one of the things that that i realized was the church has tried to come through the gates now the bible promises us that the gates of hell will not prevail so the church can come in and what he was showing us and i'm going to show you why i'm showing this to you is that he talked about revival how many of you remember that down here on the bottom that the church has tried to get revival to go through but real reformation starts here at the top that what we need to be able to reach the nations and what we need to see the church not just hide out in the church mountain is that we need revival and reformation and when they both come together in the middle what you have is you have a great awakening when they both come together but what we're dealing with right now and i'm going to read you a couple of scriptures to show you what we're dealing with right now and let me get a different color sorry about all this but what we're dealing is the church is here so i'm not going to i'm not going to identify it but right here these four middle mountains are what satan is using to influence and direct where our nation is going they're attacking the family they're attacking masculinity they're i mean i don't have to talk about the transgender whether you're a man or woman stuff the bible says male and female right that's how god created them and so the devil is using these middle spheres of family education all you have to do is go to any secular university today you'll see it he's using education obviously media now the church can trickle over i mean charis is an educational deal andrew's on television but what what what those that are in the minority are using they're using these as an influence to keep the church out of these so as long as the devil can control the governments and the money he's in control so barry said something yesterday that was awesome barry and barry said something yesterday that was so powerful and what he said was and he was talking about dreams if you didn't hear that you need to get it it was i mean it was tremendous and he talked about the faith that comes out of you and what's on the inside of you and those dreams that are in there and how you follow those and and uh and and i remember barry saying this i don't and i agree with him i agree with the statement he said you know here we are we've got we've got facebook microsoft and and apple and we've got he said and his question was why aren't the christians running those things why haven't the christians had the dreams to come up and have that kind of influence well let me tell you what's happening right now and i want to say this clearly to you i'm that what i see happening in the body of christ that it's important that we know who we are in christ it's important that we know the word of god and that we have the word of god in us because then we will if we do not then we're not able to stand against the wiles of the devil but it's also important in us that we also develop what i like to call a kingdom mindset so that we begin to see ladies and gentlemen this happened to me what i'm telling you right now happened to me i understood at least to some degree faith and i understood some things about believing god generally speaking and i read every e.w kenyon book that was ever written 10 times now i know that 75 percent of you don't even know who i'm talking about when i say ew kenya but ew kenyan was a great influence in the body of christ and when brother copeland brother hagin came out and then brother copeland in the 60s 50s 60s and brother copeland in the 70s into 60s into the 70s 80s et cetera when they came out they were teaching a lot of those things and they were powerful truths that you never heard in the denominational church and today andrew womack's sitting here on the front row in my opinion today and i'm going to tell you why it's my opinion today andrew womack is the greatest teacher in the body of christ today now i want to tell you why i want to tell you why i say that because he has the ability to convey what he did last night about how you do it how you stand how you go to the word how you look at that and at the same time he can stand up here and teach more powerfully than anybody on those truths and at the same time he can get on truth and liberty on monday night and talk about what's happening in the seven mountains now how many other teachers at his level do you hear doing that now i'm making a point here that it's not either or it's got to be both in we have to have a revelation in order to make an impact in what god wants us to do and i i want to challenge you today and andrew's already done it i know because of my role and position here i know because i got to watch stuff legally financially you know you got to have your glasses on to know what's going on well the truth of the matter is ladies and gentlemen the truth of the matter is if we're ever going to get over we're working on retaking colorado right and literally for with kingdom principles kingdom values right we're working on turning colorado red well to do that you have to have the revelations of the things that he talked about last night but you also have to have the purposes of god if you're if we're powerful like the word says we are right and we have the mind of christ like the word says we are then the qu do then the question is what are you going to do about it and so what i find is when it comes to actual action sometimes we're still hiding out over in the church mountain instead of rising up and we're letting everybody else influence in these mountains in order to keep the money and the government or the politics away from the church [Applause] if we are and we are in the third great awakening there has to be both components of revival and reformation meeting in the middle that literally causes the great awakening to happen and let me tell you this when a great awakening as the great awakening is happening let me tell you if you go back to the great reformation you have to remember that banking systems were reformed calvin calvinism calvin came in and if you study your history in the great reformation he created new financial systems for people to be able to have banks and borrow money and do things that would were not in existence at the time that he introduced them they did not have access to find only the ultra rich basically kings and princes and those kind of things and a few people scattered out had access to that kind of money nobody else had any access so calvin with the in the light of the great reformation brought in baking martin luther who nailed the 95 theses or however many was on the wall and said the just shall live by faith he was critical in a new education system being introduced into the world so that children and so that higher education could come and we came out of the dark ages of where the church tried to keep us and all of a sudden today we are living in the fruit of what those guys brought to us in the great reformation so watch this when god moves it's not just about the pensacola revival now thank god for the pensacola revival or what's happening here at karis thank god for that so you have to have revival but you also have to have reformation and we have to equip people to be able to go to the tops of those mountains and have influence so that we live in a nation and candidly other nations around the world that can become those sheep nations that was lance was talking about i think on wednesday to see those things happen so we're going to have to change our mindset now here's what i was going to say i still hadn't read my scripture when when i first began to really build wealth and when i actually got to a place where i had a financial statement that most banks would appreciate when i walked in and verified and all that where that really happened and i became to a place where i was financially independent i want to tell you something ladies and gentlemen i did it for all the wrong reasons i did it totally for selfishness i did it for myself and can't i'll be honest with you i didn't want to get up and speak anymore i didn't want to teach preach i didn't want to do anything i don't want to come here back in those days i didn't want to come here but i wasn't some secret person looking for a place to speak i didn't want to do it and when my wife looked at me and said if you don't get off the couch i'm going to kill you when she looked at me and told me that true story paul milligan called me first and i'm at that place you've heard about on the goodwill and and i just got an iphone two i think was a two two or three back then and it said paul milligan and i was going to hit decline and my wife slapped me as hard as she could sitting in my my king ranch f-150 she hit me as hard as she could should you answer that phone so i answered it and paul started telling me about the business school and she knew i was going to tell him no i don't i can't do that and she hit me i never told that she hit me again i said so paul what do you want to do [Laughter] and then lance called me about within maybe 20 days of paul's phone call and wanted me to start doing some stuff with him back in those days now i'm telling you for this reason i did it for totally selfish reasons and as i began to understand that it's not about me not about what i can have right it's not what about i can possess how secure or free i can be it's about the impact that we can make for the kingdom of god not just immediately around me but in the entire seven mountains of culture we have to begin to have a bigger vision that's why i call it making sense of making money for making a difference in other words the truth of it is we have to see something bigger than what we're seeing we have to understand something that's bigger than what we're understanding but the greatest challenge that i see happening in the church today is people have checked out once they get healed once they get a little money once something starts happening all of a sudden they check out on the purposes of god and the truth of the matter is what god has called us to do is to have an impact for the kingdom and what god has called us to do is make a difference to see the seven mountains so that be changed and be transformed so that the reformation of the church can actually happen and meet with the revival of the church and the great awakening begins to happen and institutions within nations begin to be transformed and [Applause] changed so ezekiel said it this way the hand of the lord came upon me and brought me out of the spirit brought me out in the spirit of the lord and he set me down in the midst of the valley and it was full of bones and then he caused me to pass by them all around and behold there were very many in an open valley and indeed they were very dry and he said to me son of man can these bones live so i answered oh lord god you know and he said to me prophesy to these bones and say to them o dry bones hear the word of the lord thus says the lord god to these bones surely i will cause breath to enter into you and you shall live and i will put sinews on you and bring flesh upon you and cover you with skin and put breath in you and you shall live then you shall know that i am the lord now i want you to watch this so here's ezekiel right we call him zeke he's standing on the valley he sees the dry bones and he sees what's going on the lord tells him you prophesy to the bones and here's what you say so he prophesied the next verse says i prophesied as i was commanded and as i prophesied there was a noise everybody just say that with me out loud noise there was a noise and then a suddenly a rattling and the bones came together bone to bone indeed as i looked the sinews and the flesh came upon them and the skin covered them over but there was no breath in them also he said to me prophesy to the breath process prophesy son of man and say to the breath thus says the lord come from the four winds o breath and breathe on these slain that they may live so i prophesied as he commanded me and breath came into them and they lived and they stood upon their feet an exceeding great army and he said to me son of man these bones are the whole house of israel say this with me out loud whole house so what we have is we have remember israel as daniel said daniel was talking about types and shadows in his message israel is a type and shadow of the church and what we found in israel is israel got divided into the northern and the southern kingdoms we have the church divided today we have one group that wants to do nothing but focus on spiritual things we have another group that wants to do nothing but focus over here maybe on practical things and other things that are like that you know what can we do for example to influence society the truth of the matter is we have to have both of those it has to be the whole house of israel and when the bones come together god is bringing people that are able to influence and impact what's this now to be the whole church what the church is supposed to be in order to have the impact and the influence that we need right now i'll give you an example it's a wonderful thing to get people born again and saved when i went to uganda right in fact i gave an altar call preaching in pastor herbert's church that morning i don't know how many came up i don't want to embellish it but there was i got 50 people maybe i guess they came up for salvation that day that's powerful hallelujah but the flip side of that helping in helping 7 000 people come out of poverty and teaching them what the word of god says about not only who you are in christ but how to do business and how to function that's going to do more to cause salt and light to come in that nation because finance and government are what controls a nation listen if you don't think money controls your house just look at your wife's credit card my wife has a big card now i know this is going to sound pretentious lost and i don't sound pretentious but she does not have to live by budget at least within means now if she goes to buy something like crazy out there like four houses i don't know about or something then we talk about it but she doesn't ask me if she can anyway it's a big card so y'all don't want me to say that is that okay you like it don't you yeah you want mike to get you one okay i'll sign for it just come see me what was i talking about i got on that card i forgot what i was talking about many influence in the kingdom so what what happens is is when the bones came together there was a noise and a rattling right now in the body of christ there is a noise and a rattling that is happening and right now there's a shaking that's going on in the church and i am telling you that god is raising up people right now in the body of christ with a kingdom mindset all you have to do is come to karis bible college and andrew womack who can get up and teach on who you are in christ and you've already got it better than anybody in the body of christ period in the story has also started a third year whole track with political government government school with business with we have education because of keras we have ministry come on now we have well we call it dtp but it's a leadership training program and we're representing those seven mountains what i'm saying to you what i'm challenging you with is what god has for your life is bigger than just you and yours there's a noise and a rattling going on and god is moving today in the body of christ and i don't know about you but i'm going to catch on you know when i was younger and a little stronger than i am now just don't forget i'm 39. but i used to slalom ski now i will admit that i water ski i will admit i wait a little less than i do now but i i got to the point where if a boat i had a good boat in front of me i could pop up with one hand and then you could i mean i mean the way you can learn and what you can do and i remember you know back in those days when that was i thought i was hot stuff i thought manny can anybody ski like i did three or four years went by and i hadn't skied at all i'd gained a little bit of weight and i had the biggest boat engine i ever had in front of me ever big nice big ski boat big end board a lot of horsepower and i went to do the one hand the rope pull right out of it i grabbed the second hand the rope pull right out of both of them i'm still in the water in four years time i lost all that strength and agility to where it took me that day probably ten times to get up on the single ski just to go and then when i went back the next time i went ahead and got off on two skis and kicked the other one off because i couldn't get i had lost that agility and that muscle to do that i'm telling you now the body of christ is in that same place and right now with the shaking and the rattling and the noise that's going on listen now what's happening is is god is preparing the church so we can get back up on that silent slalom key with one hand we can pop right up and we can start making a difference in our cities listen what god wants to see right now is city and nation transformation around the world and i need some young guns to start thinking that way and even some old guns to start thinking that way so we can start thinking about that's just not what's me and mine and what i can have of the strength i can have but what can we do to make an impact for the kingdom around the world now we got a couple minutes so i want to i want to i want to a la semi land the plane here with this it's kind of a pet peeve of billy's the the control is right here this is where the control is the influence is here and i got a line with the church over here the church has got to come out and get in the mountains and the truth is for this to really work like it's supposed to the church needs to be up here and it's in all of the mountains now let me share i told i told becky i wasn't going to share this message today and she got up this morning like she does sometimes and told me you don't have a choice that's true now she's to say it wasn't but it's true and i said well what if it doesn't come out good she said i don't care if it comes out good or not you're going to get up there and share it so the greatest challenge and andrew's heard me say look talk about this a little bit the greatest challenge i see colin is people in the body that call him understands this so i can talk to him that people in the body of christ don't understand the difference between devotional money and transactional money i'm talking about the business mountain devotional money has two characteristics to it first of all it's the money in your life that is set aside and set apart for god and the purpose of the kingdom regardless of what your opinion is and the minute you touch that money you come under a financial ban now i'm not preaching law or legalism here i'm telling you if you read the word i got all kind of scripture for it and what happens to it stops the flow of finance in your life now stay with me how many how many today how many ministers missionaries i guess directors whatever how many ministers in all of those categories traveling ministers how many ministers do i have in the in the audience today just let me see y'all on the front row how many let me count 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 okay 15. okay how many of the rest of you do something else oh it's everybody so what happens to us as ministers bury sometimes we i'm not saying you do this i'm just talking to you what we do greg is we get up here and teach on giving and as ministers we know how money comes back to us money comes back to us devotionally there's nothing wrong with that god set it up that way god wants us to be blessed god wants this ministry best what you give to andrew womack ministries and you should be you should be a partner is what i call devotional money it's money that is set aside that god's already said you're going to give that away and if you're like lawson pastoring the church the money that comes back is going to be given now i know i'm going to use an awesome because i know him because i'm going to use the illustration here as a good illustration lawsuit not as a bad one because lawson's primarily income did come back devotionally with what he makes from the ministry but the rest of you only counted 15 hands and went up the rest of you the money that comes back to you god is going to bless you transactionally when you give devotionally. and what i see with the body of christ is people are going around with a handout i got to hurry can i want to finish this park they come around with a handout and they're looking for god to bring them money when the place that god is going to bless you is in the land that he has you tilling and working in now god set that up for the nation of israel they went from slavery in egypt to 40 years in the wilderness until they could get slavery out of them and in the wilderness they developed that mana mentality and then all of a sudden the day they got to the land the manna ceased joshua chapter 5 and the bible said they started eating from the produce of the land if we're going to have influence in that seven mountain the other 98.9 of you or more than that 99.9 of you that's sitting in here today the money is going to come back to you in your land so you have to start think the purpose of me telling you that is you have to think that way now lawson is one of the only people i know and there's others but lawson's one of the only one i know because he called me now listen he's up here talking about the blessings of god on his life right i know for a fact it is but he always calls me for the advice on how to do it that's supposed to be a joke you didn't laugh but anyway and and uh supposed to be a joke and so i told him here a while back lawson don't do it that way he's going to make an investment on the office building and i said you tell your accountant so he calls me back how long ago did you call me it took you two three months maybe six months you called me back you said that's not working for me i said because you didn't do it the way i told you to do it you did it the way you won't do it anyway he changed but the point is lawson is willing to do transactional work now not every minister needs to do that are supposed to do that but the point is the rest of you that raised your hand god's going to bless you transaction now why is billy telling you that if we're going to start having an impact and we're going to see a great awakening and we're going to see the reformation happen come from the top some of you have to start understanding how money how god is going to get money to you the greatest money i ever gave didn't come from my income and it didn't come from somebody coming up and giving me a 100 bill the greatest money that i ever was able to give and continue to give comes from the transactional side of my life and it's called giving out of your wealth not out of your income and most people get limited because they're giving out of only their income and they're not touching their wealth real giving high level giving the kind of stuff you hear warren buffett and you hear bill gates talk about they're not given out of their income they can't they're giving out of their wealth and so we got to have people and i need some young men and young women in here today that'll start thinking right about this for the future because this great awakening is going to come and it's going to shake america and it's going to shake the world for the next 100 years that the lord tarries now i say that to you because you have to start thinking back right you're not going to drift your way to the top of the mountain you have to be intentional about what god wants to do in your life well and so i want to challenge you i'm going to pray for you and i'm going to ask the ushers you want to do that i'm going to oh you're going to say something come on there's a microphone all i'm going to say is i got to make a pit stop so while he's taking the offering i'll be right back the rest of you the rest of you can't the rest of you can't take a pit stop uh so today when we receive the offering i want you to think in terms of this transactional side of things for a minute 99 of you didn't raise your hand i only counted 15. so you have to start thinking in terms you give devotionally but god blesses you back in the work of your hands he blesses you back in the in the land or the field that you function in if you're a minister then he blesses you back in that ministry field but if you're out there doing other things and so i just want to encourage you with that so the ushers come do we have ushers or do we need to take a break are ushers ready huh okay have you passed out the offering envelope so are we good there okay they're passing out offering envelopes and today i want to ask you to sow to what your next step or your next half step is uh of what god is leading you to do in your life one of the greatest stories that happened to me in the very beginning before i really got my mind sanctified properly one of the greatest stories that happened to me was i had a i began to invest in real estate i've been investing in real estate for a long time and back in the day i invested i bought a property and this has been years ago i bought a property there's only one property and i bought a property and i remember in two years i sold that property for a hundred and sixty thousand dollars profit now this is years ago this is not right now when you can get two hundred thousand more and you're asking for a five hundred thousand dollar house this is years ago and i sold that property for a hundred and sixty thousand dollar profit and um in the process of that um remember i wasn't sanctified in my head but the lord showed me the lord showed me and began to talk to me my greatest giving i was able to give my greatest giving from that than i had ever given this was years ago and it was in that context that i started understanding the difference between just tithing and giving out of my income and learning how to give out of my well so some of you today as i take up this offering you're a long way from that you're a long way in your mind from what that looks like or feels but if as you sow if you'll start expecting god not just for somebody to walk up on the street and give you a hundred dollars nothing wrong with somebody walking up on the street giving you a hundred dollars but the truth is believe god that great increase and great blessing will come to you in the land that he sent you he blessed israel in the land he didn't bless him in the wilderness he gave them manna in egypt they had to eat out of the soup pots of egypt but when they got over into their land the great blessing came and as we sow this today i want you to believe i don't care how old you are young or old you believe god is bringing you into your land so let's take your offering right now you're ready and see i i'm gonna help andrew because i'm gonna be on time i took the offering and i preached and right on schedule how's that is that good i do good okay hold on now brother roger let's hang on hey i preached and took the offering up in my limited time look at that are you through no i'm getting ready to pray you want to come up here and pray with me i'm getting ready to pray all right take take your offering envelope in your hand and let's pray right now and i want you to believe god father in the name of jesus in fact you can hold it up if you want to father in jesus name right now we bring this offering in jesus name to you we thank you lord today for in the in our lives understanding devotional money transactional money understanding influence in the mountains and the great awakening we thank you lord today you're leading us in guiding us financially in business in all truth and we speak your blessing over people today in jesus name amen praise the lord god bless you awesome billy got just a little excited hallelujah hallelujah you know let me just mention a couple of things uh billy was um talking about a great awakening and revival uh i had david and tim barton come on my program i don't know how many of you saw that i think it aired in april but uh i i called them immediately when the lord spoke this to me about having a great awakening been in the third great awakening that happened march the 5th and i called david and tim barton and they've been saying that for a year and so they were just hundred percent on board and i asked them to come on my program and discuss the first and the second great awakening oh everybody's looking at that [Applause] the book on harnessing your emotions and self-centeredness the source of all grief you get it for your husbands not for yourselves but anyway when i had them come on my program i asked them a question i said so what's the difference in an awakening and a revival like we had the charismatic revival we had the healing revivals and things and this was their explanation and i thought it was really good and i i believe that this is accurate that god moved powerfully in the charismatic movement how many of you were a part of the charismatic movement you know not too many of you it's amazing most people here it's been since then but boy back during the charismatic movement it was exciting it was exciting there was a passion there was a zeal that you don't see in most people today it was it was really good but the difference they said was the charismatic move and all of this was about individuals and individuals got turned onto the lord and individuals led other individuals into a relationship with the lord but it didn't affect the culture it didn't get into the culture exactly what billy was talking about and i think that this is what's different about what god is doing now people individually are being revived but then there is this emphasis on you taking this and going into education and going into government and going into business and that's the difference between an awakening and a revival and we've had moves of god or revivals but we haven't had an awakening in since the middle 1800s and that's the reason that we're in the mess that we're in and this was another observation by the bartons and i honestly had never thought of this but he said that the reason that that we haven't had an awakening since then is because during the civil war uh the southern states were using the bible the christians in the southern states were using the bible to preach that slavery was in the bible and therefore that they had the right to have slaves and stuff and when the civil war took place and slavery was ended it put the church in the south in a really bad position because they had been using scripture to try and promote uh slavery which i don't believe that the scripture supports that anyway we could get in and talk about all that but when that happened they came out and they started calling themselves fundamentalist and evangelicals those are terms that we're familiar with today but did you know what they meant by that they said we aren't going to preach anything anymore that will affect culture such as slavery such as these kind of things we're only going to preach the fundamentals about getting saved we're only going to be evangelical we're going to go out and tell people how to get born again and this was a reaction of the church to their not being able to promote slavery and things like this they just decided they were going to be silent on on cultural issues and today we talk about fundamentalists and evangelicals in a positive way it was actually a very negative thing that they adopted they just decided i'm not going to speak on culture and that's kind of where we got to and so praise god i believe that what god is doing today is affecting not only individuals of course that's where it starts but it's we're going to get into these uh seven mountains and we are gonna be affecting our culture and again that's one of the reasons that karis bible college has those eight different we have eight different uh areas that we deal with and we go into all of these areas and those of you that were here on sunday and saw in god we trust man we are going into the arts and entertainment realm and we're just reaching into all of these different areas so praise god i believe we are in a third great awakening it's already started you may not see it on the news but praise god i'm telling you from the lord that it's happening and it's going to affect this culture and we aren't going to lose america i think the best days are in front of us amen hallelujah well it's been a great week i've really really really enjoyed it and i hope that you've enjoyed it and next year uh come back and make plans to be with us for our in god we trust musical you don't want to miss it so i've been talking about stop it amen and i and then um the last time when was the last time i ministered was that last night well it seemed like everything's run together last night i got up and i ministered on fighting the good fight of faith and what lawson was sharing today just was another way of saying the exact same thing that we we aren't trying to overcome anything sin sickness poverty or anything jesus has already overcome everything we aren't trying to obtain a victory we aren't headed towards victory we're coming from a victory and this is the point that i've been trying to get across is that you're already complete in christ you've already got everything and instead of trying to fight to get healed to get prospered to get joy to get peace to get all of these things it's more of just recognizing that jesus has already provided it i'm living in him and i i don't fight to get healed i fight because i am healed so you fight the good fight of faith you aren't really fighting cancer you aren't fighting poverty what you're fighting is unbelief and lawson said this that satan's only power is deception he he can't force you to do anything satan can't make you sick all he can do there's natural things that go on and things can hit you but you've got the supernatural healing power of god living on the inside of you it's not out there someplace it's just a matter of releasing it you release it by faith and the only thing that satan can do is just try and deceive you that is not going to work for you he'll get you to where you listen to what the doctor has to say what the banker has to say the lawyer has to say more than what god's word says and if you waver in your faith james chapter 1 says you have to ask in faith nothing wavering he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the lord a double-minded man is unstable in all of his ways you can't just believe for a second you've got to learn how to stand in faith you've got to learn how to live by faith i said this last night that the just live by faith they don't vacation there it's it has to become a way of living and so all satan can do is just hinder you to believe it's it's unbelief that you're dealing with that's what the battle is all about and if you understand that it changes everything i'm not trying to get god to do anything i'm standing in what he's already done and if he tells me to do something the scripture says he'll supply all of my need according to his riches in glory by christ jesus if i need money to build buildings or in your situation whatever it is that god leads you to do he's already supplied all of your needs it's already done he's already blessed you and given you power to get wealth now are you going to believe that or are you going to look at your checkbook are you going to listen to the economy and things like that it's unbelief that you're fighting not really the devil the devil is the source of the unbelief but it's unbelief that you're fighting and faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of god so i just want to share some things with you over in matthew chapter 17. i've used this in a number of different teachings in my teaching on a better way to pray hardness of heart a lot of things but it's just a great example that if you've accepted the things that i've said that barry was teaching on the same thing lawson taught on this same thing if you've accepted this and say all right i believe that jesus has already provided healing he's already provided blessing he's already got these things but man here's what i'm seeing here's what i feel here's what the word says how do you harmonize how do you how do you get what the word says to where it's actually working to where it actually produces in your life let me say one other thing right before i get into this scripture that i was thinking of this this morning that i mentioned that thing that i had on my ear whatever it was and for six years i fought this thing and it was open and bleeding and you know i got to where i had to sleep when i slept on my right side i got to where i cupped my hand and slept on my hand because i would bleed all over everything and i i remember jamie and i went with james and betty robinson stayed at their house one night and i bled all over their pillows felt terrible about it and i had to do that and i remember that just things would happen and you know what i was fighting was unbelief here i was standing and believing for my healing and yet there were these things that were happening that ward against my faith and i had to sit there and say no in the name of jesus i'm healed people would see me and they say so what's wrong with your ear and those of you that knew me during this time you'd hear me say i'm healed in the name of jesus and i'd say it about that way and that would stop most people from asking anything else and they just let me go but every time somebody come up what's wrong with your ear i had to sit there and fight unbelief i wasn't fighting the devil i wasn't fighting whatever was wrong with my ear i was fighting unbelief i remember being in charlotte north carolina and in in one week i had two people come up who had the exact same thing they told me they had been out in the sun and they got a thing on their ear and one it had his entire ear amputated and the doctor says you're probably gonna die and they came up and asked me for prayer so i prayed for them with my ear bleeding and then the next day a guy came up he had the exact same thing and they just cut a portion of his ear off and i prayed for both of them and as i was praying for them i was sitting there thinking man here i am praying for them and i'm fighting the same thing myself and i had to sit here and fight unbelief and i don't know all of the reasons why some people want to know why all of this i don't understand everything yet but i know that by the stripes of jesus i was healed and i just kept fighting unbelief when i had when i saw it in other people when people asked me what was going on when anything haven't i just stood and said in the name of jesus i know i'm healed and that's why we're doing it we're we've already won in christ and you need to get to where you see yourself in christ you identify and if you have a thought if you have an emotion if you have a feeling that's contrary to the word of god it's wrong and it's not the born-again you it's the carnal you many of you are hearing things this week and you agree and you say i see that word i know it's true but here's what i feel the problem is you don't see you as the new you you still identify you still see yourself as this natural human being i'm a brand new person and the real me is who i am in the spirit now i live in a physical body and i don't deny that my physical body has things happen i don't sit there and say you know that i don't have anything wrong i'm not denying natural reality but i am denying that what i feel and see is all there is to me there is a spiritual me that's the real me and that's who i am and i refuse to sit here and let my emotions dictate and take over i have feelings just like everybody else we were talking to my kids one time and i forgot how we got on it but they said something i i said something about you know i've i felt uh fear or i can't remember what it was but we were talking about something and i said i felt those things and my kids were just shocked like you felt that well i said well sure i feel the same way that anybody else does and they were shocked because i don't act on what i feel i have feelings like other people but i don't empower them i don't speak them out and that is not the real me the real me is who i am in christ and if i have a thought or a feeling or an emotion that's contrary to the word of god i'll reject it and say that's not me that's not who i am amen some of you think i'm weird but i think you're weird you're a brand new person in christ and you're living like an old person what's wrong with you stop it amen so over here in matthew chapter 17 jesus had been up on the mountain with three of his disciples and he was transfigured and he began to radiate light and after this experience they came down off of the mountain and when they came back to the other nine disciples there was a crowd there and a man came running up to him and he says i brought my son who was demon-possessed he had a spirit and the king james calls it lunatic it was some kind of a spirit that took him and threw him on the floor similar to epilepsy or something like that this is also recorded in mark chapter nine and to get the full thing you have to actually put these two uh recordings of this same instance together but i'm gonna read it out of matthew 17. and so they brought him to jesus and this man said i brought my son to your disciples and they couldn't cast him out and how did jesus respond to that look in verse 17 jesus answered and said oh faithless and perverse generation how long shall i be with you how long shall i suffer you bring him hither to me jesus didn't sit there when that when the disciples were unable to meet a need jesus didn't say guys it's okay you know i'm the superstar and i understand don't feel bad you know that's the way that people would respond today if you go into the typical church i can guarantee if the if they brought a sick person to the average pastor and said pray for them the first thing that pastor do is well have you been to the doctor have you tried this medication i've read about this maybe you could go somewhere else and get healed if a person came with emotional things and they were schizophrenic well man have you been to the doctor have you tried this medication if they have a financial need well have you applied for welfare have you taken the extra 300 a month credit have you done this we send them to the government how did jesus respond he said you faithless and perverse generation jesus was not pleased with his people's inability to meet the needs of people and i got a lot of things i'd love to say about that but one of the reasons that america is in the mess that it's in is because you know lance made this point or maybe it was bob mcewen this week but they said that the church and families individuals are given commands about taking care of the poor but there is not one single command of the government taking care of the poor government administering welfare is the worst thing you can do for it because they just throw money at the situation they're inefficient they don't do it as well as individuals could and they've enabled people they've made second and third generation welfare recipients everything in the bible it says in second thessalonians chapter 3 i believe it's verse 10 or 12 it says if you don't work don't eat all welfare all help and there are people that are poor and we need to help them and man we've had the jollies here that did ambassadors to the nations and we've got you know the lucas's that are going back to win river indian reservation but here we are as the body of christ and as individuals reaching out this is the way that god ordained that it should be done but the church has advocated their responsibility and government is stepping in and they're doing it inefficiently and they're doing it wrong and they're actually rewarding people they give money to single moms which may have had some kind of a good desire when it started but we've developed people and they'll go out now and get pregnant and have children out of wedlock and the government pays them to do it there's people that this is how they live if the church was administering this that wouldn't happen we shouldn't have ever turned responsibility over did you know that the church is the one that started education in the united states back when education started there was no such thing as public education there were some people who could get educated privately and go pay for it but there was no public education the church is the one that started educating their people and teaching them how to read because they wanted them to be able to read the bible and they started having groups of people together because they were mostly christian and they started educating people well people started saying that the ones who knew how to read and write and learn all of these things they were prospering more than the uneducated so then the government steps in and at first it looked like it was okay because the government was so influenced by christianity that if you read the what's that reader that we give out when you become a truth and liberty member yeah the primer what was that what was the name new england primer that's what it is and that was what they used to teach people how to read it's all scripture and so when it started the government was consistent with the church and the church just passed that responsibility off to the government but over time the government's become corrupted so that now they're teaching woke uh doctrines critical race theory all this kind of stuff i just read yesterday that the national education association the largest teacher thing in the nation just embraced critical race theory and 1619 project and they are now pushing it into every school in the united states this shouldn't have ever happened the church was given the responsibility people were given responsibility to train up our children did you know that prisons were started by the presbyterians right here in in creek just 30 miles from here i've you know our paper in the you know in uh colorado springs prints a hundred years ago and this has been 20 years ago or so i read in that little section and they talked about a person in creek who had stole and had been caught stealing for the third time and they just put him in the stocks in creek and whipped him and beat him this was back in the early or maybe 1880s or something like this this is what they used to do with people they didn't lock them up they didn't have a prison system they used to beat people especially back in the 1600s and stuff and if you stole and did it two or three times they'd kill you there was no such thing the presbyterians decided that no there's bound to be something better and so they started locking people up the church they would take people and instead of killing them they would lock them up and feed them take care of them and preach the gospel to them and people's lives were being changed and because of it the government saw that hey we don't have to kill them we can rehabilitate them and so they started prisons and the church passed that responsibility off to the government and today if a person gets arrested and put in prison if they aren't a hardened criminal when they go in they will be by the time they come out recidivism rates are just astronomical 90 or more because the government is trying to do it in a carnal way without the gospel and without all of things we shouldn't have ever given the prison systems to the government we shouldn't have given education to the government we shouldn't have given healing to the doctors and i'm not against doctors barry's life was saved and the doctors were were used i'm not against doctors but i'm saying that ought to be a way of receiving from god but for 99.9 of all christians if a doctor can't deal with it you can't believe it thank you for those two or three head nods many people think you go to a doctor first and you ex you expend everything the doctor can do and only if it's totally humanly impossible do you trust god that's the reason you have so many problems i'm telling you jesus wasn't pleased he said you faith listen for first generations how long am i going to be with you i'm trying to train you i'm trying to get you to where you can do these things and so he says bring him to me so they brought the boy to jesus jesus cast the spirit out if you read over in mark's account the boy fell on the ground and wallet and foamed at the mouth and the dad began to waver and he says if you can do anything and jesus said if you can believe he didn't sit there and just let all of this responsibility be put on him that person had to believe he says if you can believe all things are possible and the father said lord i believe help my unbelief and so he cast the demon out but here's what i was wanting to get to is in the 17th chapter and in verse 18 it says jesus rebuked the devil and he departed out of him and the child was cured from that very hour then came the disciples to jesus apart and said why could not we cast him out now if all of these things that i've been saying are true and if god's already done it and we aren't trying to overcome anything we aren't trying to make god do anything he's already anticipated everything you could ever need before you had the need the supply was already created if all of this is true well then why can't we see it manifest why don't we see this power of god manifest in our life this is a great question and it was asked by people who if you were to back up into the 10th chapter of the book of matthew jesus in verse 1 gave them power against all sickness all diseases all evil spirits to cast them out he gave them 100 authority in this area and they came back after being sent out by the lord and they were rejoicing saying lord even the devils are subject unto us through your name and he said don't rejoice in the fact that the demons are subject rather rejoice that your name's written in heaven these people had already experienced this and they had cast demons out of people so these weren't novices these were people who had seen it work but in this instance it didn't work so this is what always happens when when you say you believe it's god's will for you to be well and you don't see it happen well then it's always why what's happening and you it's not wrong to ask why but there's a right and a wrong way to ask why you know when the angel told gabriel i mean when gabriel excuse me told mary that you are going to have a child you will be with child she says how can this be seen i know not a man that's a good question if she hadn't asked that question she might have thought well maybe i just need to speed it up and go ahead and get married to joseph and that's the way that jesus is going to be born that would have fouled up the whole thing her question was asked just for information god what do i need to know how do i cooperate i believe you i receive it but how is it going to happen that's okay but did you know in that same period of time six months before this that same angel appeared unto zacharias and told him your wife is going to get pregnant and have a child and she was past child bearing age and when zacharias heard it he says how can this be nearly word for word what mary said but but the angel got mad at him and he he said i'm gonna shut your mouth so that you won't mess this whole thing up by speaking your unbelief and he was struck dumb so both of them asked a question but one of them was how can it be it was unbelief the other one was total acceptance but how can it be so it's not wrong for you to ask why something happened if you aren't asking out of unbelief if you're asking god i need to learn what am i not doing is there something i need to learn i believe you 100 but is there something that i'm not doing so asking why isn't wrong but the way it's asked most of the time is wrong because it's people asking it unbelief how can i be healed of cancer when the doctors say that it's incurable how can these things be so they ask this question and look at jesus answer in verse 20 it says and jesus said unto them because of your unbelief why couldn't we cast this demon out it's because of your unbelief remember what i was teaching last night about we're fighting a good fight of faith you aren't fighting cancer you aren't fighting poverty you aren't fighting depression you aren't fighting suicidal thoughts you're fighting unbelief it's your unbelief that's the problem let me just add this footnote i'm not against the niv totally but the niv says it's because of your little faith that is totally totally missing the point because he goes on to say in this same verse he says i say unto you if you have faith is a grain of mustard seed you shall say unto this mountain remove hints to yonder place and it shall remove and nothing shall be impossible unto you a mustard seed is about the tiniest matter of fact in the 13th uh let's see where is that mark chapter 4 it talks about that the mustard seed is the smallest of all herbs but when it is sown then it becomes this great and mighty tree so a mustard seed is tiny and the point he's making is you don't need a huge faith you don't need this super faith if your faith is as small as a grain of mustard seed you should say unto this mountain remove hence yonder place and it'll obey you it'll do it so to say that it's your little faith that's the problem is missing the point because the rest of the verse talks about all you need is a little faith and did you know that in the niv it totally omits the 21st verse it's not even in the niv they just chose not to put that verse in the bible and i have no idea why they would do that likewise acts chapter 2 it says in the niv they were all gathered together in one place and they left off the fact that they were all in one accord in one place which is one of the greatest parts of why they had the outpouring of the holy spirit is unity they just chose to leave that out and anyway again i'm not totally against it i used the niv but they missed it in this place so he says that the problem is it's your unbelief that hinders you from casting this demon out now they had cast demons out before but in this instance something happened that caused them to have unbelief let me turn over to mark's account i believe it's chapter 9 where mark talks about this same thing and in mark chapter 9 uh he said in verse 19 he answered and said oh faithless and o faithless generation how long shall i be with you how long shall i suffer you bring him unto me and they brought him unto him and when he saw him straightway the spirit tear him and he fell on the ground and wallowed foaming i don't know if any of you have ever seen somebody have an epileptic fit but man it's scary i remember the first time i ever really was exposed to it i was in the choir in our high school we had 2 000 people in our high school and there was probably 200 of us on these risers and we were doing a performance and there was a girl right in front of me on these risers and we went to church together and i i guess that's why she turned around to me but she started having an epileptic seizure and was shaken and foaming and spitting blood out of her mouth and turned around and fell in my arms scared the fire out of me it was scary and when you see somebody that has a seizure this boy fell on the ground and wallowed and foamed at the mouth i believe what happened was these disciples saw something that contradicted what they were believing now prior to this time they had cast out devils and they came back saying lord even the devils are subject but apparently they had just rebuked and boom it had happened well man if if every time you prayed for somebody and by the time they fell down and hit the floor they were totally well none obviously they have any problem with that but if they hit the floor and get up and they still have the same problem then's when you have to start fighting that good fight of faith and standing against the unbelief and saying i don't care what i see i believe i laid hands on them they recover so apparently they had seen demons cast out but there wasn't this kind of resistance in this instance this boy manifested exactly opposite what they were praying for and did you know the same thing happened to jesus but jesus didn't respond in unbelief apparently the disciples responded in unbelief when they saw something contrary and brothers and sisters this is where most of us are missing it most of us spend so much time in the natural thinking with your carnal mind living out of your carnal mind and emotions filling yourself with the doubt and the unbelief of this world most of us that's where we live and we visit faith occasionally and because of it when something happens in the natural that looks contrary to what we're believing for most of us are controlled by our senses what we see what we feel and this is where we're losing the battle it's because of our unbelief because we see something contrary jesus wasn't moved by that unbelief and so he went ahead and cast the demon out of this boy but look let's go back to matthew chapter 17 after he said it was your unbelief because if your faith is as small as a grain of mustard seed you could say to a mountain remove hence to yonder place and it would remove and obey you then he said in the next verse how be it this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting and most people interpret this as this kind of demon only goes out through prayer and fasting some demons are stronger than others and some demons faith in the name of jesus isn't enough you've also got to pray and fast that's wrong prayer and fasting is not stronger than the name of jesus if you ever meet a demon that jesus and faith in the name of jesus isn't enough to overcome your problem i can guarantee you your prayer and fasting is not going to help prayer and fasting doesn't have anything to do with casting a demon out as far as your authority over the devil it doesn't give you more authority the subject of the verse was in verse 20. the problem was unbelief and this kind of unbelief only goes out through prayer and fasting so apparently there's different kinds of unbelief and this is just ideology i don't have a verse that says this but in my study of the word and dealing with people and stuff this is what i've learned that there's like i call three types of unbelief one of them is just a unbelief that comes through ignorance faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of god romans 10 17 and if you don't know what the word says you're automatically not going to have faith you're going to have unbelief because you don't know the truth so there is a unbelief that is linked to ignorance the antidote for that is tell a person the truth you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free the truth overcomes ignorant unbelief but then there's a second type of unbelief and that's what i call wrong teaching or disbelief to where you aren't ignorant you've been taught but you've been taught the wrong thing there's people that have been taught that miracles passed away with the apostles and god doesn't do miracles today there's people that are taught the baptism of the holy spirit is of the devil and then if you speak in tongues you're of the devil and there's people that are taught that faith healers and you know just all kinds of weird things and stuff you know it's like when billy had this white board up here if there's nothing on the whiteboard it's really simple to just start writing but if the whole whiteboard is taken up and something's already written on it then you got to erase the whole thing before you can start writing so the answer for ignorant unbelief and wrong teaching unbelief is the same it's the truth but it's harder to get a person who's been taught the wrong thing because you've got to go in and start countering the wrong belief first and erase that stuff before you can put the truth in but the answer for both of those types of unbelief is the same thing you tell a person the truth and as they renew their mind you can overcome ignorance and wrong teaching by just telling a person the truth but then there's a third type of unbelief that i call natural unbelief it's not because you're taught wrong it's not because you're ignorant it's just because we are human and we have five senses and we use these five senses and we base our life on what we see taste dear smell and feel you know if you were gonna give me a ride to the airport i don't want you to drive me by faith man i want you to open your eyes and and and use your senses i don't want you to close your eyes and say we're going to do this by faith i'd get out and go with somebody else there's nothing wrong with our senses as long as it's just feeding us information but if they go to controlling us and say this is where we've missed it is we have lived and been dominated so much by what we see taste tear smell and feel that faith is an abnormal thing to most people what the bible says isn't as real as what we see what we feel what we hear that is totally wrong man i wish i had time to teach on this i'll just say this quickly and move along but i believe god created us with six senses not five i believe that faith was a sense that adam and eve operated in for instance when they ate of the tree it says their eyes were open and that they knew they were naked were they naked only after they ate or were they naked before they ate well a good friend of mine creflo dollar he i don't know exactly we never talked about this but i've heard him say a dozen times they were clothed in the glory of god and they had a robe of righteousness on man galatians chapter 2 i believe it's verse 25 or i mean not galatians genesis chapter 2 verse 25 or something says they were both naked the man and his wife and were not ashamed they were naked they didn't have a robe of righteousness they weren't clothed in the glory of god they were both butt naked and but they didn't know they were naked until they ate of the tree and all of a sudden their eyes were open and they saw they were naked what's that all about i believe adam and eve were created by a god and our we're a spiritual being and even though they had five senses they were so dominated by what they believed they were living by faith when it says that they heard the voice of god in the cool of the evening i don't know if that was physical it could have been i'm not saying it wasn't but it could have been that they were just so in tune with god that they were listening to god i hear the voice of god it could be that they were just walking by faith their faith was so dominant in their life that they hadn't even noticed that they were naked they didn't have their eyes closed before they ate of the tree their eyes were open but they were walking so much by faith that they weren't even what they saw wasn't dominant in their life but when they sinned against god their spiritual eyes closed and their physical eyes became dominant and you and i were born into that fallen world to where our physical eyes senses have been dominant and to most of us our spiritual eyes are closed but paul said in second corinthians chapter 5 and verse 7 we walk by faith and not by sight we're born again and now our spiritual eyesight has been restored and you can get to where you walk by faith and not by sight you know i had a situation where my board this has been many years i don't know how many years ago but probably over 10 years ago and my board made me go get a physical to get an insurance policy and take out in case something happened to me so they sent me to this doctor and anyway this doctor put me on this machine you know and they wanted to shave the hair on my chest and i told them i said this is virgin hair it's never been touched i said don't shave my hair so they put these six electrodes on but they didn't shave my hair so anyway i got to going and i went the full 15 minutes on the thing and everything was fine but because they didn't shave my hair on my chest these things started falling off and so i was holding two and the doctor was holding two and a nurse was holding two and i was still running at the same time and anyway after the thing was over it i'd been witnessing to him the whole time and i told him my son had just been raised from the dead after being dead for nearly five hours and i was witnessing and they were just listening to all of this and so after it was over they had this long print out and this doctor went to the 12 minute and 30 second mark or something and all of a sudden he look he started grunting and making these noises and then he took out a piece of paper and he wrote down a guy's name and phone number and he says you go straight over there don't you go home don't go back to the office you go straight there we're going to give you more tests and we're going to put you in the hospital and probably do open-heart surgery on you before the day's over you've got something seriously wrong with your heart it never occurred to him that these things fallen off might have made a difference in that test but anyway it took me just a few seconds to process what he was saying and i said that's a lie and i guess he wasn't used to people telling him that and it really offended he said what are you saying and i said you look at that piece of paper and tell me that i've got a serious heart problem he says well you had right here at the 12 minutes something you had a little something different everybody's heart's a little bit different there may be nothing wrong with you but i just think we ought to do more tests i said that's not what you told me you told me i had a serious heart and you were probably going to do open heart surgery on me i said you lied to me how dare you tell me that i got a serious heart problem and i got on this guy's case and he took that piece of paper and just tore it up and said leave [Music] and i left and did you know on my way back to the office somebody on a hill their car died and i got out by myself pushed their car up the hill and around the corner off the road there wasn't anything wrong and one of my board members is a doctor and he says come down here to louisiana so i did and he he put this dye in me and then did a stress test and they shaved my chest that time and put the things on and anyway he said i got the heart of a 17 year old there wasn't anything that was wrong with me but and he told me he said did you know that those stress tests that they give you are wrong 50 of the time he says never let anybody tell you something based on one of those uh treadmill stress tests those songs are wrong as often as they're right i bet you there's some of you that have had those and if somebody told you something you'd just fall apart like a two dollar suitcase but see i saw myself in christ and i knew that man this is not what the bible says about me this is not what i see about myself and so i just refused it and most people wouldn't counter a doctor i'm not against doctors like i said i got a doctor on my board i've got friends that are doctors if it wasn't for all the doctors the christians would be dead because they hadn't known how to believe god i'm not against doctors they're fighting the same battle i'm fine but i'm saying they aren't god and they aren't perfect and if somebody tells me something that's contrary to the word of god i'll tell them that it's wrong i'm fighting a good fight of faith [Applause] amen and so there's just a natural type of unbelief that if you pray for a person and say be healed and they fall over dead you're naturally going to think it didn't work that's not demonic that's not ignorance that's not wrong teaching that's just what you see doesn't match what you're believing how do you deal with that natural type of unbelief prayer and fasting and here's why prayer and fasting affects natural type of unbelief matter of fact if you were to read over there i should have kept my finger over there in mark chapter 5 but when he asked it over there i believe he says this only comes out through much prayer and fasting this one says it goes not out but by but over there it says it only comes out by much prayer and fasting what prayer does when you pray if you are communicating with god if it's not religious if you aren't just going through the rosary or repeating something that you've been taught if you were praying from your heart you're talking to someone that you can't see and you're hearing him talk back to you with words that you can't hear and what you're doing you're walking in the spirit you are tuning your senses to obey the spirit over in hebrews chapter 5 verse 14 it says strong meat belongs to those who by reason of use have their senses that's talking about what you can see taste hear smell and feel your five senses you have your senses exercised to discern both good and evil the word exercise means it's not something you do just one time it's something you do repetitively and you gain strength and stability and and endurance so you exercise your senses to discern both good and evil so when you spend lots of time praying the scripture says we're supposed to pray without ceasing there's multiple ways i think that you can interpret that but one of the ways is that you ought to be in communion with god all the time if you go watch an x-rated movie to where you just have to tell god uh i'll see you in a couple of hours but i'm not going to keep my mind stayed upon you i'm going to lust i'm going to see things that you told me not to see you said i'll set no wicked thing before my eyes and yet you just stay out there i'll be through in an hour and we'll come back you aren't praying without ceasing there's certain things i just can't do because i'm in communion with god and the holy spirit says are you going to expose me to this no i'm not going to do that i'm not going to listen to people lie and steal and use profanity and take his name in vain and just man if you're praying without ceasing you can't do that you ought to be in communion with god all the time you know i held a meeting one time with a guy who was famous for teaching that he spent four hours before every single time he ministered praying and building himself up and getting ready to minister and i'm just the opposite we were back here in the green room this week telling jokes and laughing and uh i forgot if it was lance or bob mcewen but one of these speakers they aren't used to the way we do things and they were just looking at us like this is this how you prepare yeah that's how i prepare you could wake me up out of a dead sleep and i can minister and preach the word i don't have to psych myself up because i just live with god i pray without ceasing but this other guy held a meeting with him and i was interested to see his routine and so we we went to two different places and he ministered at norvel hayes i was over at another church in cleveland tennessee and when we came back to the house we were staying at at 11 o'clock he had the lady that we were staying with fix him a meal and he ate until midnight and then he watched horror movies from midnight until seven in the morning and then he went to bed at seven got up at noon had her fix him some food and then at two he went in and man he was going through his confessions and praying and and if i lived carnal like that the majority of the day i'd have to spend four or five hours psyching myself up too sad to say there's a lot of people that this is they just visit the lord every once in a while but if you pray without ceasing if you're constantly in communion with the lord he's speaking to you you're talking to him and you know what you train these senses that there's things beyond what you can see taste here smell and feel god speaks to me god tells me things and i've had it proven thousands of times that it was god speaking to me these buildings aren't evidence that god speaks to me and told me to do things that couldn't be done and you know what i just have trained my senses so that now when i say we're going to do this my flesh may want to say it'll never work but i've been disciplining it and my flesh has learned that hey there's things that work that there is no physical explanation for and i've gone to where i can walk by faith and when you fast it's the exact same thing see your your appetite is one of your strongest uh senses that you have people kill other people for food people i actually the donner party back in the 1800s they actually cannibalized each other when they got caught in a snow storm on a wagon train headed to california and children ate their mothers appetite's a strong strong thing and when you fast and say man i'm not going to live by bread only the spirit realm is more real and i'm going to live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of god if you do it fast the correct way it's not just going without eating but it's focusing on the lord instead of food you are denying your physical senses and your body will scream and yell at you there are some people that i've talked to who tried to fast and by noon the first day they are absolutely convinced they're dying i'm gonna be dead by sunset did you know fasting one day a week is healthy for you it doesn't hurt you all you're affecting is your appetite if you get a headache by noon and man your stomach is hurting and you're feeling we it's nothing but your appetite you can skip a meal many others should skip a meal you don't physically start dying your body doesn't cannibalize itself until after 40 days that's the reason that when jesus fasted for 40 days and 40 nights and he was hungry it was a physical temptation it wasn't just appetite he was in critical shape and it was a real temptation when satan came to him and tempted him but you aren't dying by noon the first day when you fast that's just your appetite and if you deny that appetite your body is going to say feed me or i'm going to die and you say oh no we're going all day long with nothing but focusing upon jesus and your body will say i'll be dead by supper and then you say all right we'll go two days and your body will say i'll never make it two days three days and you know what your flesh will shut up stop it your flesh will shut down and say if i'm gonna live through this thing i'm gonna have to get in line and you can train your body that there is a spiritual world and things that are more important than just tangible things and through prayer and fasting you can push into a spiritual realm and just discipline your senses so that they discern good and evil and then when you pray for somebody and they fall over dead instead of you falling apart and being more controlled by what you see you'll be more controlled by what you believe and your senses will say oh this must be like prayer and fasting there's something going on that i can't perceive with just my five senses and they won't stop you it won't minister unbelief that's that natural type of unbelief can only be overcome by just focusing upon the spirit man the spirit realm you do that through the word of god and you get to where what you see and believe in the spirit is more real to you than what you believe in the flesh to where you can tell a doctor that's a lie i refuse to be moved by what a piece of paper says i know what the word of god says and you can get to where that dominates your life but brothers and sisters we've already got everything we aren't fighting the devil directly we're fighting doubt and unbelief that he may originate but you've already got it you're already healed and why haven't you seen it well there could be multiple things sometimes other people are involved in it they're just a lot of different things but the bottom line is you're fighting some form of unbelief and you've got to get to a place to where you you stand and fight that good fight of faith and i'm telling you you just aren't going to win if you only visit faith every once while until if you wait until you're already in the midst of the storm trying to build your house your house is never going to get built that's when you need to run into your neighbor's house and hide with them and then when it clears up go out and put your foundation down when everything's going good don't wait until you're in the midst of a battle trying to get your house built but you can get to where you live by faith and you can get to where faith is more real to you than what you see taste ear smell and feel it's where it just literally controls you and dominates you amen i know what i'm saying may seem strange because again very few people live this way but this is what all of these verses that we're talking about uh are ministering and this is why they couldn't cast that demon out it wasn't because that healing passed away the night before and that god wasn't doing miracles it wasn't because they had been living in sin it wasn't because of it it's because they saw something that looked contrary to what they were believing and it caused them to doubt you don't have to live that way you can get to where what you believe is more real than what you see that's absolutely true man i've just brought you to a place i'd love to teach on imagination very taught on that son but this is where your imagination comes in that's how you see things with your heart that you can't see with your eyes and you need to have a sanctified imagination and if you can see it nothing that you imagine will be impossible unto you man that's awesome hallelujah hallelujah thank you jesus [Applause] so father we receive this word thank you father for jesus teaching us these things and just like this father of this child said lord help our unbelief help us to fight this good fight of faith help us to resist and renounce this father i pray that you take the things that were said today and that you help people to just get to where they are so focused on you they don't know how to disbelieve that they shut off all of the avenues of unbelief into their life and get to where they are literally dominated and controlled by faith that comes through the word of god father i pray you speak that to people and i believe that this is changing people's lives thank you father praise god there are people in here that you need healing but what you really need is just to fight that good fight of faith you know what god says he's given to you stand against anything any person any feeling anything that's contrary to what god's word says you don't need to get god to do something new just dwell in it i want to ask our prayer ministers to come forward and stand up here and if you've been fighting sickness and disease in your body refocus your attention away from the disease and just focus it on the fact that god you've already provided i've got it i've got the same power on the inside of me that raised jesus christ from the dead healing's not out there i've already got it i've got it and i refuse to doubt and disbelieve and it's not just making that declaration and it's not just resisting you have to renew your mind you have to replace those thoughts of doubt with thoughts of faith and that's the reason the bible is so important you can't just sit there and say i rebuke unbelief you've got to replace unbelief with faith your mind only has so much capacity if you are focused on faith all the time all you'll know how to do is is believe god i honestly i'm not perfect in this i still have to fight the good fight of faith and deal with things but there are certain areas in my life that honestly i don't even know how to doubt i just don't think that way money has been an area that i just don't doubt if god tells me to do something i don't even sit we we had the drawings for all of these buildings we went through a nearly two-year process and i'd already committed to a million and a half dollars worth of drawings for all of these buildings just architectural fees before i ever asked him how much is this going to cost i never asked him we never made a decision based on what's the cheapest way to do it could we save some money here i never thought about i just did what i felt like god wanted me to do and it was the day that we decide are we going to do it or not and i said how much is it going to cost that's the first time i'd ever told they'd ever told me you can get to a place where you don't let doubt and things dominate you you just do what god tells you to do you may not be there yet don't get condemned or intimidated but don't get complacent don't accept just living a life of unbelief as normal praise god we we are made for more than that you know if this is quickened your faith and you want to believe and agree with somebody this is one of the things you do is get somebody to agree with you and the bible says when two or three are gathered together there he is in our midst in a special way and when we agree on anything it shall be done for us so we are here to agree with you and help you you know i know i've gone along i'm quitting with this maybe but you know that thing i was talking about on my ear i don't know why i think took six years and i don't know why i understand but you know i think what might have happened it caused that thing to finally leave was i was at kenneth copeland's ministers conference and he called me out and had me come up front and i was standing like this kenneth was here and i was here and so it was my right ear that was problem and that thing everybody could see this huge thing on my ear and that's what i was thinking about when kenneth called me out and he prophesied over me and separated me under the ministry of a prophet and he laid hands on me like that and got blood all over his hand from my ear and when he laid hands on me from that night everything began to improve and in three weeks time that thing was totally gone i don't know if i just wasn't there maybe i needed an anointed person to lay hands on me and that may have been i don't know what happened i just know i'm healed it's like that blind man i don't know if he's a prophet or not i just know that once i was blind now i can see i know i had a problem and now i don't but it may be that it was somebody agreeing with me and laying hands on me that caused that to be healed so that we're here to pray with you and help you so if you need prayer for anything please come forward and take advantage of that amen it's been awesome this week i thank you all for coming and i believe that god's going to bring these things back to your remembrance amen join us next year it's going to be awesome if you need prayer come forward let someone agree with you remember that they've got a baptism going here in just a short period of time i'll let mark come up and give you all of the details hey guys just so that you know the conference is ready you can go pick it up make sure you get to the resource tables and everything like that if you want anything of the speakers books and everything please take advantage of that too guys and remember the baptism the water baptism now downstairs in the barn patio lower bond patio and see you there

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