Threats From The Inside - Pastor Dr. Joel Tudman

foreign [Music] books to your Bibles to Jude to Jude it's only one chapter one chapter Jude would you find to say I got it I'm going to read verses one through four 16-21 24-25 Jude the servant of Jesus Christ and the brother of James to them that are Sanctified by God the father and preserved in Jesus Christ and called Mercy unto you peace and love be multiplied beloved when I gave out diligence to write unto you of the common salvation it was needful for me to write unto you and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the Saints there are certain men crept in unawares who were before of old ordained to this condemnation ungodly men turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness and denying the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ 16. these are murmurers complainers walking after their own lust and their mouths speaketh great swelling words having men's persons in admirations because of advantage but beloved remember either Words which were spoken before the Apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ how that they told you there should be mockers in the last time who should walk after their own ungodly lust these be they who separate themselves sensual having not the spirit but ye beloved building up yourselves on your Most Holy Faith pray in the Holy Ghost 21. keep yourselves in the love of God looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life 24 now unto him who was able to keep you from falling and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding Joy to the only wise God our savior be glory and Majesty dominion and power both now and forever amen come on give God a shout of Praise right there [Applause] you may be seated father thank you for your word in Jesus name for there are certain men crept in unawares who were before of old ordained to this condemnation ungodly man turning the grace of God into lasciviousness and denying the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ that's verse 4. I want to use for teaching tonight threats from the inside threats from the inside somebody shout that out threats from the inside this particular book is one of my favorite books of course it's very short so you can learn it when you're in grade school however Jude opens up talking to us clearly stating what the book is about who he is and what he's trying to accomplish but I love some things that he doesn't say Jude does say that he's the brother of James but he doesn't tell us that he's also the brother of Jesus he's the half-brother of Jesus they share the same mother but they don't share the same father but he does tell us that he is the brother of James James we know goes on to be the central figurehead in Jerusalem at the church James is not one of the twelve this James is not James is one of Jesus's brothers Jude is James's brother but Jude is also Jesus's half brother but Jude leaves out in the writing that he is the half-brother of Jesus it would seem to me that if I'm Jesus's brother I'm going to let the world know Jesus is my brother and I'm not going to put half I'm going to let the world know yo Jesus the Christ my brother but he doesn't do that he leaves it out I asked the question why why would he leave out that he is the half-brother of Jesus a couple of oral Traditions a couple of rabbinical teachings say that Jude wanted to make sure that we have the spiritual essence of their relationship first that it's primary to know that he calls himself a slave of his own brother he is a slave of Jesus Christ which means that he has a spiritual relationship and he he he wants to not advertise but make it more prominent that I worship him he's in charge I'm not I'm showing up as his representative that's one second John chapter 7 I believe in this verse 5 tells us that none of brother none of Jesus's brothers believed him so it would be pretty harsh for me to say that I'm the brother of Jesus when the truth of the fact is I never believed him when he was in Ministry he doesn't come to Christ until Resurrection James Nord you is both of them still end up in the book that is help for some of us who have denied who he is in our life he was denied by his own Brothers there's other scriptures that talk about him even Mark I think Mark chapter 3 talks about how they thought he was out of his mind so even Jesus's life demonstrates to us how to handle threats from the inside every threat is not always a threat of murder but that particular threat to have people in your house that don't believe you is traumatic to grow up one way and to discover who you are in God to grow in wisdom to grow in stature with favored God and man and your own family not believe not only does Jesus's brothers not believe who he is his community doesn't so Jesus is a prime picture of what it looks like to have threats within the home and within the community that he's brought up in so Jesus teaches us how to be resilient when your own support doesn't believe in you he shows us in scripture he says he could not do many miracles where he was because they did not believe not just the community his own house threats from the inside I thought about Adam and Eve God creates this beautiful place for them to live in called Eden and they have dominion and power over everything in it but yet one of the preachers that he actually names is a threat from with inside because Eve does not necessarily know the scriptures she's heard them but she does not know them for herself she hears what sounds like the word and so she hears what sounds like the word and then she believes that what she heard is the word so she doesn't have the ability to to to to to defend or even know if it is the worst or she believes what's not the word and that word gets her evicted from what she had dominion over the threat from the inside Jesus talks to us about the sheep in the fold and and that uh his sheep knows his voice and the stranger they would not they wouldn't listen to and that people that come in they would have to come in another way because he's at the door so if another Shepherd ends up inside of the pen it was a threat inside we can't look down on any of our Biblical characters because all of us have had to deal with internal threats that have dealt with us inside if it stays in front of me I'm okay with it I can prepare for it but the minute the threat enters my safeties on it enters my comfort zone things now change because something had to be said something had to be done in order for me to let my guards down in order for me to allow you to sit with me and kill me eat with me and kill me me pay your bills and you kill me me take you out and you kill me me save you from bankruptcy and you kill me something had to happen for me to let my guards down for the threat to come inside and the purpose of our teaching tonight is to get you to understand why the threat came inside how the thread came inside and what to do when the threat has come inside so Jude tells us I am the brother he doesn't tell us I'm the brother he says I'm the servant of Jesus Christ he leaves it out but he does tell us that he is connected to James and he continues to read but he says something to us he says beloved when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation here's where I want to park for a second I want to kind of do this line by line precept by precept he says I was doing something and what's happening is so important that I gotta stop and I gotta talk to you because you are listening to something that is changing first thing he says is I gotta write to you because of this common salvation well let's deal with that common salvation he starts talking about the common salvation and he starts connecting to them telling them that whatever these people are that have crept inside they're not bringing a new salvation they are not bringing a new Faith so whatever it is that they're telling you you've got to remember what you've been told from times past this is what he's talking to them about he's giving them history so when we start talking about come and salvation then immediately it's not connecting to what Bishop has been teaching us because the process of Faith starts at Salvation now when God designed us to believe or designed us to come into the Earth he made us with a space to desire him a space to desire and to lean on something greater than us so in Romans chapter 10 9 and 10 we hear it all the time we got to confess with our mouth believe with our father Jesus Christ was raised from the dead we can't be saved it tells us that with the heart man does what so what the heart man's belief but with the mouth what confession is made known what unto salvation he says this come in Salvation so he says with the heart man believes now this is critical for your understanding as Bishop continues to go on with this teaching because the process of faith is established at Salvation how do we know that because he tells us with the heart man believes well what is he believing he that God put himself in flesh dropped himself in a virgin and then was pregnant got nine months pregnant came into the world never sinned and he dies for us you didn't see it it happened over 2 000 years ago you grew up hearing that 2000 years ago 2000 years ago two thousand years ago two thousand years ago you did not see it but something convinced you to do what to believe it you didn't see it but you believe it you didn't see it but you believed it you didn't see it but you believe it not only did you believe it you did what you couldn't sit out of your mouth that means you had the nerve to walk up in front of thousands of people or hundreds of people or five people and actually confess something that you did not see if you can believe that a god would step in flesh imp the Holy Spirit would impregnate a woman have a baby still be a virgin and then live 33 years and then die for your sins and then go back to Heaven why can't you believe God for a headache to be healed why can't you believe God to turn around your finances why can't you believe God can fix your emotions why don't you believe God can't fix your marriage or fix your children all you're doing is activating the process of Salvation this common salvation so he's showing us so when you look at this process of coming salvation I am believing in my heart your heart is not the pump your heart is your spirit I'm believing in my heart I'm confessing with my mouth and then I have to behave in a way that matches what I confessed this is the process of faith so the process of faith says basically that I have to believe got to believe it in my heart and then I have to do a confess I have to confess it so part of our problem is number one we'll say we believe it and then we'll confess on the other side of the confession what do I mean by the other side when you confess a thing and you're saying I believe the thing you have to confess it as if you are believing it all right you don't confess it like you're not believing it or you're speaking against what you just confessed so if I'm going to confess it I confess it and then I do what then I correspond with my actions so I got this believing in the heart I've got this next component which means I'm confessing with my mouth and then after I've confessed it with my mouth then I act on it all right so when you're confessing it you're saying I believe it with you confessing it you're saying it is already done and then when you get up you're saying I'm doing what I confessed and what am I confessing I'm confessing what he said I'm not confessing what I said I'm confessing what the word of God said so in this process of faith if I'm going to walk by faith then all Jude is saying the process has already been established and whoever is coming in here trying to bring a new Faith there is no new faith he says this faith has already been established and the people that have come in they have crept in unawares now how does the ungodly come in unnoticed how does the ungodly creep in underwear so then the text says that certain men so when the text says certain men that means it was a certain group the group has already been identified it doesn't give us the name but it does tell us that a certain group has already been identified so in order for somebody to creep in on you unaware that would simply mean that your focus is somewhere else if your focus is somewhere else that leaves a gap open for the enemy to come in and sift you like wheat because he sees you focus in another area so it's just like the government the government will tell you stuff on the news to get you occupied while they're working on something else right in front of your face that's what the enemy does and so our job is number one is to learn how to discern what the enemy is doing while things are going on around us in chaos yes you may have a matter of problem yes you may have dropped job issues but something else is behind the storm stirring trying to get your attention to keep you from seeing who's creepy ew why is it creeping in why is it coming in why does it want to come in because it's job is to distract you so that you cannot discern what he or she or it is trying to do in your life so what happens if I don't discern it faith comes by fear does too faith comes by hearing right everything comes by hearing and that's what the enemy wants to do so the enemy will come in and he starts sifting your life by speaking into your life and he'll use those that crept in that kind of way you trusted who came in so he uses who you trust to give you a word of knowledge or to give you a new revelation or to give you something that in your uh in your pain or in your hurt you think you need to hear now the scriptures tell us I Believe In Timothy that a lot of us have itching ears and we're ready for seducing Spirits so when we're in when we're in chaos we're looking forward and the first person that shows up are those that crept in so the Bible says that they crept in unawaringly they Crypt in unawaringly they crept in unawaringly they creep in so that they can speak in to your life somebody shouted out they creep in so they can speak in so he says look they've come in and I'm here to tell you I've got to write to you for you to understand they're trying to break you he says now here's the problem they don't believe God or the Lord to be Sovereign that's number one that's what it says in the text then he says number two they are trying to give you cheap Grace perverted Grace the Bible talks about Grace and Truth so yes there is Grace but there's truth attached to the grace that we don't continue in sins that God forbid but they are telling you in this new teaching that you can do whatever you want to do and so this is what they were teaching they was coming in and they was coming into the church and coming into the church slide it in like they really needed God and they got into a place where they were just really surrendering to God and getting up next to you and talking about how good Bishop preached and how he just answered their prayer and you let them in and once you got in they started giving you a new revelation that God is Not demanding all that from you God is not speaking that's old school God is not saying that you don't need to do that that's the time of the past they start speaking all this stuff into them and it started pulling them from the common salvation and so because the times are new people outside of the people in the world are trying to get you to be new and you got to tell them I'm already new I made a new creature and I don't have to be what you call me to be I'm going to be what the word calls me somebody said Hallelujah [Applause] so they start speaking speaking speaking don't believe God to be sovereign and they've got this perverted Grace there's two things I just gave you right there that can help you determine who has crept into your life those that are encouraging you to continue to break the Covenant and then trying to use scripture to tell you that it's okay and if you don't know the word then you'll be like Eid and you'll bite and when you bite you pull yourself away from what God's trying to do so let's keep going so what you does is you comes in and how does Jude teach them how to deal with this he says I'm going to show you how to disconnect from that and the way you disconnect from it is by giving historical truth see that's what the enemy don't want to hear that the word of God see as long as you're talking about your feelings your friends gonna ride with you but soon as you whip up one of them verses and see what happens they don't want to hear that because why you fight the flesh with the flesh but you fight the spirit with the spirit and so when you're dealing with an evil spirit you don't rise up to fight an evil spirit with your fish you pull out the word of God you pull out your prayer language and that's how you dominate the enemy are you here with me tonight all right so he starts talking to him and then he immediately says this do you remember what happened to Cora when they tried to Rebel he opened up the ground swallowed him she said Do You Remember when the people went across to look at the land and they decided that we can't take it what happened none of them lived to see the Promised Land look at what he's talking to him about talking about all the different things God to look for another way to believe God to do something he starts telling them trace the word but what is our world telling us now you don't need the word and you don't need the tradition so people are trying to pull you away from tradition and I get it I'm not talking about denominationalism when I say tradition I'm talking about the word of God tracing what the word says about your life we've got away from that we don't want to do it for ourselves we wait for our Bishop to do it for us you gotta trace it for yourself you've got to look into the word of God and see how has God Made A Way Down Through the Ages how has God pulled us out of stuff how has God Made A Way Down Through the Ages and you can trace God and how God has done things and then you can understand he may not do it this way but he'll do it that way he may not do it that way he'll do it that way he may not use her but he'll use him he may use it he may use that you have to trace the word so we start showing him the word of God now this this is what got me he says when Moses died gone didn't tell nobody where the body was all right and I love this part so I got to look into that and I started tracing it trying to look at what the rabbi said oral Traditions they and some of them said that they did not God did not tell anybody what Moses's body was because Israel there was no proof that Israel worshiped other people but they did have a problem with idolatry had he left Moses's body where they could find it because of their mindset they might have climbed up to where it was and started worshiping Moses so he didn't tell them where he was then one other rabbinical teacher uh wrote down his thoughts about it and he said that because the devil is the prince of this world and and Moses didn't go to the underworld and so he waited for Michael to show up because they wanted to tussle over the body we're going to take him to the underworld or we're going to take him back to heaven and so when the two of them meet we see threats from the inside because Michael and Lucifer used to be on the exam team and now the two of them are fighting over a body that has been so influential in pulling people from bondage into Freedom so they're fighting and warring but the way Michael handles the fight teaches us how you deal with a threat inside you don't hear about Michael pulling out some Angelic weapons and then slicing up Lucifer all Michael did was saying the Lord rebuked you [Applause] look at somebody tell them that's how you deal with a threat inside you don't have to use your own weapon you use the one God gave you he gave you a mouth he said life and death is in the power of your tongue I wish I had a witness it here and you can use your tongue to put the enemy on the run and he said Satan the Lord rebuke you I'm not going to waste my time swinging at you I'm not going to waste my time cussing at you I'm gonna use the word of God on you somebody shout hallelujah [Applause] he uses the Lord look at somebody say use the Lord he uses the Lord threats inside so even the angels had to deal with threats inside so why wouldn't you have to deal with threats inside and the enemy knows the only way that he can really get your attention is to get somebody that's on the inside you're not going to get mad at John you're not going to get mad at Paul but you sure will get mad at your wife and you sure will get mad at your son and you sure will get mad at your daughter so he uses those that are on the inside to bring a threat against your faith to bring a threat against your happiness to bring a threat against your joy so he can keep you unstable and he can keep you with your mind focused on something else and while you're focusing on something else he's coming in on the backside trying to rob you of everything that you've spent all your life praying and fasting for he gets you all over in this corner worried about your bills while he's coming in on the backside touching your daughter [Applause] it's a threat from the inside he talks to us about it and all he's trying to do is Rick your faith because Faith come by hearing and hearing by the word of God so he'll get in your circle and use people of influence and in this particular text he was using false teachers the greatest way to confuse people who won't study for themselves are those who just only pay attention to the stage your entire life about wanting to learn about the word of God is only predicated off of one day out of the week Sunday morning so he'll take that one Sunday and let you have all joy unspeakable joy full of Glory but he knows you're going to touch your Bible all week until the Bishops say open it up and let's look at it again so he'll use the word that you haven't read and twist it and give it back to you and make you put Faith in something that don't even work threats from the inside so here we are well if if it's a common salvation then it's common faith so if I told you that your faith should be coming don't get upset common salvation should be coming vain what does that mean that what he's preaching what that Bible is saying should be coming to you are y'all not listening to me tonight I know you don't want to hear it I know you don't want to hear it because healing came with salvation it should be coming but what keeps it from being common is what keeps into our lives so because things creep into our lives it becomes difficult to believe God for something that you've never seen before but the only way to get you to believe it is that you got to keep listening to it you got to keep listening to it you got to keep listening to it but if you don't move Beyond listening the Bible says you sabotage yourself because you become only a what hearer of the word and if we're going to see miracles in our life the scripture says that once we hear it if we don't do it we're like a man look it in a mirror and when he turns away from the mirror he forgets everything that he just saw the only way he can have memory is for him to put it in his life and to do it then his body has memory and you become the mirror of faith for everybody that's around you people see you get up from cancer they see you walk cup when you had a situation that took your breath away they watched you rise they watch you bounce back they watch you get up they watch you walk again they watch you get happy again when you're in a position where you felt like you could never come back and you came back your life becomes the mirror look at somebody and tell them you want to see some Faith look at me look at me look at me you don't know what I came from you don't know what I had to go through to get back here tonight I came through some stuff that tried to rob me of who I am the very essence of my power the very absence of who I I came back from it because I got faith somebody shot I got it I got it I got it I got it you got it you got it I got it good common salvation here's his what gets me let me backtrack so Moses I got to go back to Moses when we hear about Moses again he's coming down Mount Transfiguration with Elijah what about it an immortal about it so we know we know Satan lost in Jesus won and it was such a miraculous moment that even Peter was like yo let's just build three temples right here because this is incredible because the one that nobody saw buried is in his body coming down his Mountain up this mountain now wait a minute wait a minute Joe wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute let's talk about it if that's the case let's look at Elijah for one second so we can grasp the kind of faith you can have because they were together we know the kind of power that Moses had and the kind of power that Elijah had oh my God calling down fire he's knocking out 400 prophets by himself he's got gun but what's miraculous to me about this situation is that in the Bible the way it describes Elijah all of that stuff is powerful that he did this and he did that and he did this and he did that but the scripture says this he was a human being just like you that's what the Bible says he was a human being just like you and that human being was able to call down fire that human being had the kind of Faith to call down fire watch it that human being just like you had the faith to call down what does that mean that you got the same measure that Elijah had that Moses had that Abraham had that every Noah had you it all starts with the same measure you got the same measure Bishop Jake's got but the problem the problem saying if you don't work it it ain't gonna work for you you can't put Faith in the refrigerator you can't put it in the storage Bank you gotta use it touch somebody say you got to use it now some of y'all look at me like what you mean no you can't store it you have to use it you have to work it it's just like a muscle if you don't work the muscle the muscle atrophies you've got to work your faith and it starts with the small things starts with the small things and then what does Jesus say about faith when the disciples said increase our faith what's he telling you just need Faith the size of them you've got way more power than what you think you have if you would only work what you have you would be surprised what you could do in this season of your life and part of your problem is you're waiting on somebody else to say what you need to say to yourself I wish I had a witness in here your own ears need to hear your mouth confess the word of God quit waiting on somebody to stand across the stage quit waiting on watching it on YouTube what happens if the internet goes down you need to hear your own self say I'm fearfully and wonderfully made you need to hear your own self say I am the first and not the last I am the lender and not the borrower you gotta tell yourself I Am The Offspring of God I don't need nobody to pronounce it over my life I'll pronounce it over my own life Faith come by hearing [Applause] am I hear it now he says this for we walk by faith and not by he ain't talking about natural eyes talking about the manifestation of things so if I'm to walk by faith you're doing it right now with salvation you believe you're saved so you're walking like somebody who's what saved that is the process that you use that is the common salvation the common faith that you use to walk as somebody who is a saint and if you can do it for that that is the same process you use for everything else in your life all right so if we take that process and we make that process applicable to our lives that doesn't mean everything in your life is going to automatically happen you created a lifestyle that no matter what happens you learn how to live by confessing the word of God over whatever comes up against you and no matter what creeps into your life no matter what creep attaches himself to your life or her that attaches herself to your life that will not stop you from speaking the word of God as soon as you catch that Rhythm it doesn't matter what you inherit it doesn't matter what comes into your life your word ain't gonna change that was ahead of witness here the word's not going to change because you've caught a revelation that regardless of what I go through I got a word for because I had a witness in here look at somebody tell them I got a word for it I got a word for it [Applause] every threat that comes into your life you got a word for it may not be comfortable may not feel good you may have a headache but use that word anyway you've got to whip that word out and learn how to use it it becomes your trigger to pull in the wall you don't need the sword you already got one it's called the word of God somebody said Hallelujah look at one more person tell them I got a word tonight I got a word tonight [Applause] you walk out of here you use that word you use it on your children you use it at your job you use it on your car you use it on your house use it on your mind use it on your body no matter what you go through you got to learn how to use that word that's how you walk by faith once I get the thing naturally I don't need faith for it anymore because I've already done what received it so I need Faith to get it once I got it I don't need faith for that anymore I took that same process and I use that process to move into the next season of my life or to deal with whatever has crept into my life does that make sense so he starts talking about that and then he tells us this is how you deal with it build yourself you could just stop it right there quit waiting for other people to build you some of you the reason why you don't have people in your life because they're your construction workers every time you come on their life they got to build you back up they got to build you up from depression they got to build you up because you lost your man got to be your job because you lost your job gotta build you up because you lost your mind gonna build you up because you lost it gotta build your your constant project and you never become a pillar in nobody else's life you ought to be a pillar of faith that when people call you it's because when they see you it makes them want to get better because you have survived the times and you thrived through the times you have a you're a complete testimony of how to go in and come out instead of always having to be rebuilt over and over and over he puts it on you he says if you are going to deal with this type of situation you're going to have to learn how to build your self look at something I say build yourself got to quit waiting on people to build you build yourself [Applause] build yourself up on your most okay go back build yourself up on who who's who's Holy Faith you can't build on his faith can't build on their faith can't wait on the teacher can't wait on Bible study can't wait on Sunday morning build yourself you should be so fired up when you walk in here it don't matter who preach it don't matter who's saying it don't matter who Usher it don't matter what music is played you came in built up wish I had a witness in here look at somebody to tell them I came in here built up I am a miracle I am a principal I Am What God made I am the Fulfillment of the word I am the holy spirit of God I am a replica of what God says you should look like I have built myself on my most [Applause] I wish I had a witness in there yeah I want you to look at somebody and tell them to build yourself right now quit telling yourself you ain't gonna make it stop telling yourself you don't have enough quit telling yourself that you ain't gonna make it you can't do it you can't graduate you don't have enough money build yourself up [Applause] if you don't like the way you look get to working out I wish I had a witness build yourself up you don't like the money you make get another job build yourself up get another job have two jobs build yourself up you can't live off of other people you've got to build your self up [Music] I wish I had a witness in here oh can I get at least 100 of y'all that's building something to just start giving God glory because you're building something what's your building I'm building myself up I'm building myself up building myself up building myself up building myself up I'm building I ain't building you I'm building me I'm building myself up you got to tell yourself I'm beautiful you got to tell yourself I'm wonderful you got to tell yourself you're sexy you got to tell yourself you're a millionaire you got to tell yourself you own all the houses you got to tell yourself I own the whole complex build yourself up foreign what's interesting to me be seated what's interesting to me is this nobody has to teach you how to build yourself down nobody has to tell you how to deconstruct your life if you don't get what you want you immediately you'll run away from God you run away from church first you run away from the relationship first and you start stripping yourself for what it takes to be what God called you to be the moments that thing starts crumbling in your life those are the times that you gotta start picking up the pieces wish I had a witness here you gotta pick the pieces up I don't care if you're crying pick them up I don't care snots coming out their nose pick them up I don't care if you feel like you're gonna lose it pick them up you gotta get tough the Bible says you gotta fight the good fight of faith glory to God I wish I had a witness in here that's how you disarm the enemy you start building yourself up when he's trying to break you start building and then take the stuff that he stripped off of you and figure out how to use it wish I had a witness in here use the enemy as your footstool and use him to stick up to the next level build yourself build yourself build yourself foreign God are those in the building the rest of y'all keep your mouth closed but those of us that's building come on and praise him come on and give him glory come on and work it out come on give God a building praise come on come on come on come on build yourself build your attitude build yourself build yourself [Applause] be seated [Applause] [Music] let me tell you something when you stop building yourself we can tell when you start building yourself you will tell [Applause] people will ask you you know they ask me all the time how come you walk like you're big I am and I'm not talking about frame I'm talking about my faith I wish I had a witness here it takes Faith to make bold moves it takes faith it takes Faith to make risky moves and you will never be what you want to be if you don't take a risk you got to learn how to step out there stick your chest out and be who God calls you to be let them talk about you let them scandalize you let them guess because in the end I'm gonna win I wish I had a witness here when in the end tell somebody I'm a winner oh you ain't saying it like they got faith I want the faith people to shout I'm a winner I'm a winner I'm a winner I'm a winner I'm a winner I'm a winner I'm a winner I'm a winner I'm a winner [Applause] doesn't matter what the score is it matters what it is in the end I wish I had a witness here [Applause] [Music] [Applause] the church the institutional Church the forefathers of the church put strategy together scripture and Dogma to fight off heresy not necessary to control there was some control then if you go back and research it enough yes but things were put in place to fight off heresy because people were coming in teaching all kinds of stuff simply just to pull the people of God away from what God's trying to do in your life and if he will go through that extreme to sneak into your life to befriend you and stab you while you're saying he love you then God must really have something in store for you because he even the enemy knows I can't come in at the door come on I wish I had it with that's how much the enemy actually respects you he know I can't come in at the door so I got to get him confused I got to get him overwhelmed I got to get him stuck in some drama so I can sneak in the back door and try to work his future over but Touch Somebody and tell him behold the eyes of the Lord are in all places behold good and evil in other words I'm trying to tell you God's got your back I wish I had a witness here he got your back he gots it back he gots it back he gots it back he got the bag got your bag build yourself up on your Most Holy Faith watch what he says praying in the Holy Ghost and for years churches have split got whole denominations over the weapon that'll help you crush the threat that's how that's how the enemy works so I'll get the church messed up that's a threat on the inside so now we can't even depend on each other because you believe the spirit is this and you believe the spirit is dead and you believe the spirit is this and you believe the spirit is dead and we can't even come together with one Accord and rebuke the enemy so what he says is watch it he said pray in the Holy Ghost use your heavenly language and start talking to God oh I wish I had a witness in here now that's praying in tongues I'm not I'm not the pastor of Church I'm an associate so my job is to just tell you what that book says Bishop would do all the rest at the end of the day praying in tongues is not praying in English praying in English is understanding praying in tongues is Heavenly language that's between you and God me and God is working this thing out in other words you're doing the same thing Michael was doing wish I had a witness it here you're using the language that Michael used what did Michael use Holy Ghost which I had a witness it here we know Michael wasn't speaking English he had to have been speaking God which I had a witness here when you learn how to speak God the devil will flee from you tell somebody to speak God speak God use the language of God use the language of God use the language of God [Applause] that's how you drive the devil out you use God's language I want you to take some time if you've got a heavily tongue take a minute and speak right now broadcast if you can't speak in tongues speak in English [Applause] foreign foreign [Applause] [Applause] you speak in God's language come on come on come on come on [Applause] come on come on in here speak God's language speak God's language [Applause] come on speak that language give me some Sage speak that language come on speak that language [Applause] that's how you handle [Applause] glory to God look at him I didn't tell him neighbor I don't know you got to talk to him in English now tell them neighbor that's how you build yourself up use the language of God use God's language terrify the enemy let hell know I'm not done yet let hell know you can't happy let hell know it ain't over yet let hell know I'm still ticking let hell know I'm still in charge tell the hell I'm feeling what you're giving me but I still got the power of the Holy Ghost and it doesn't matter what you send my way I got enough power to deal with it have I got a witness in here you use your power holy ghost power let hell no if he was gonna kill me you should have already done it cause I messed around and got to church tonight and got in the company of Believers that's not afraid of the Holy Ghost and we're going to speak God's language have I kind of witness here grab somebody by the hand and tell them labor I am going to use what the word says have I got a witness here I don't care what hell says tell hell I got a word for every dilemma for every trial for every situation for every pain for every headache have I got a witness here you just said man does not live buy bread alone but by every but by every word that proceeded out of the Mountain of God put that organ in the house so I can hear it have I gotta witness head grab your neighbor one more time and tell them labor before we get out of here we go let the devil know her we too anoint it to die like this we too anointed to be broke like this we too anointed to suffer like this we too anointed to go down like this but since we came here tonight we are living testimonies should have been dead [Applause] grab one more person and tell them what we're doing right now we're building ourselves and I'm stepping into my future building myself into another level building myself into another dimension pay here [Applause] [Music] stay up there Justin don't come down [Applause] when you build yourself up you're letting the Devils know that you still got a praise on the inside you're letting hell know that it's been tough for me but it doesn't matter how tough It's been greater is he that's within me then he that's within the world so when you see me you see the great one inside of me telling me to lift my head telling me to run on and see what the end's gonna be I felt like throwing into town but some kind of way my hands lifted my legs lifted my heart beating up and out of my mouth the rivers of Living Water started coming out look at somebody tell them I got something for every threat tell them I got a word hey I got away who's this [Applause] connect use the truth use the ancient truth because when you disconnect you're disconnecting their influence and the only reason you're listening to them is because some kind of way they've got an influence in your life so you use the truth to disconnect that influence once you do that you automatically disarm them disarming is de-weaponizing them you take the power from them because all you've done is basically told them I'm turning a deaf ear to what I've been using as fuel for my life there's been a season where I needed what you said but that season is over I wish I had a witness here I don't need to hear you because I'm going to start listening to me I wish I had a witness here I'm gonna use the word that my Holy Ghost fingers start springing through it and I'm going to speak the word over my own life [Applause] and the last thing I'm going to leave it right there after you disarm them try to save them try to save them because you're different from them our Bishop preached about it how God stuck his head in the fire while we were on fire same thing is in that text save them from the fire you still has you still have a responsibility because the text is to the called not the not the unsaved when he said he was writing unto them he was writing to the called so there was a higher expectation for the call versus the unsaved the unsave will abandon the unsave will use trickery but the call will look past what you did and try to save you anyway that's what separates you from unrighteousness [Music]

Channel: T.D. Jakes

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Length: 61min 45sec (3705 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 11 2023