Thursday Night Bible Study 12-17-20

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name of jesus you gave a sweet rest on last night low god and god for that we just want to tell you thank you lord god god when we look back over our lives lord god we can see how far you have brought us lord god god you have brought us through dangerous scene and unseen lord god god we thank you right now in the name of jesus for the anthropomorphism of god how you have been working behind the scenes on our behalf lord god god you've been setting things in order low god and for that we just want to tell you thank you right now low god god we even thank you right now father god for keeping us low god keeping us low god even while we're driving up and down the dangerous highways and by ways lord god for that we tell you thank you lord god god we realize that you have been so good lord we realize that you have been so merciful oh god we realize that without you that we are nothing low god without jesus we would fail oh god and god we just thank you on tonight lord god while we're in this christmas season and lord we realize that jesus is the reason for the season lord god and for that we celebrate you on tonight and for that we honor jesus right now in the name of jesus we thank you right now for down on the cross for our sins while we were yet in our midst lord god yet in our mess lord god you sent your son you demonstrated your love towards us while we were yet in our sins christ died for us lord god and for that we want to tell you thank you lord god god we don't even want to ask you for anything but this is a thanksgiving prayer lord god we thank you right now for how you kept us low god we thank you right now for your provisions lord god god we thank you for every way that you have made in the name of jesus lord god god we even thank you right now father god because some were laid off lord god and my god you have provided lo god and for that we want to tell you thank you lord god god we thank you right now in the name of jesus lord god because you said in your word lord god god you told us to seek ye first the kingdom of god and his righteousness and you said that all these other things shall be added unto us lord god and for that we want to tell you thank you lord god and then you said in your word lord god that many are afflictions of the righteous but the lord delivereth him out of them all and for that we tell you thank you lord god god we have reasons to thank you on tonight and we will run out of reasons oh god we can still pick up some more reasons oh god because we realize that you gave us hands that we can raise low god god right now you gave us life health and strength and for that we can tell you thank you right now in the name of jesus oh god god i'm happy off of the thanksgiving lord god i'm happy right now lord god because of how good you are oh god and for that we tell you thank you on tonight lo god hallelujah jesus we celebrate jesus christ on tonight we celebrate the true and risen savior lord god god because we were on our way to hell oh god with gasoline draws on low god but god for that we just tell you thank you lord god we thank you for sending that sending someone to witness to us oh god somebody cared enough about us to tell us about jesus christ and for that we tell you thank you on tonight lo god somebody lord god somebody even realized that we were born in sin and shaping in iniquity low god and then sin did our mother conceive us oh god but father god we thank you that somebody loved us enough to share the good news of the gospel with us and for that we tell you thank you on tonight lord god god this is a thanksgiving prayer lord in the name of jesus oh god and god then we thank you right now for the holy ghost father we thank you for the holy ghost lord we thank you for the holy ghost father because you said in your word after which the holy ghost has come upon us we shall receive power lord god we shall receive power lord and god we thank you for the power right now father god the power of lord god to be a witness lord god the power right now lord god to even share your word lord god this thing is not about us but it is all about jesus jesus gets the glory jesus gets the honor jesus gets to praise right now it's all about jesus lord god and god we just ask you right now to have your way in this place oh god we ask you to move by your spirit right now low god we ask you to touch right now low god somebody needs another touch from you right now somebody's going through lo got a hard time low god god we just asked right now in the name of jesus that you touched your situation though god somebody may be dealing with a rough situation on the job oh god but god we thank you right now that you are jehovah jairo lord you are our provider lo god and then we thank you right now because you are our waymaker lord we thank you right now in the name of jesus lord god and then lord god you not only you you rule over our jobs oh god but you take care of our families oh god god you can take care of us better than we can take care of ourselves and for that we tell you thank you right now we honor you right now on tonight we celebrate y'all tonight we lift up our voice right now on tonight father god because you are worthy to be praised lord you are worthy to be praised father and so we honor you right now in the name of jesus lord god and god then we thank you right now for giving us the mind of christ lord god let this mind be in us which was also in christ jesus oh god who humbled himself and became obedient even unto the death of the cross wherefore god has highly exalted him and given him a name which is above every name lo god that at the name of jesus lord god every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that jesus is lord and so we thank you right now we serve the only true and wise savior on tonight father god we thank you right now we're not serving allah we're not serving buddha but lord god we're serving the way the truth and the life and besides him there is none other lord so we thank you for jesus we thank you for jesus right now we thank you for jesus right now in the name of jesus oh god and god we ask you to have your way in this place oh god we ask you to move right now lord move right now father god move right now in the name of jesus oh god move on our behalf in the name of jesus move right now lord god and we think in advance of what you're going to do based off what you've already done low god god we go back to some of those past things that you brought us out of lord god you brought us out of out of some rough seasons though god somebody has been in a rough season lo god but lord god we thank you for your word because you said in your word say ye to the righteous that it shall be well lord it shall be well in the name of jesus lord god it shall be well on our jobs oh god it shall be well at home lord god it shall be well in our marriages will god it shall be well in our families oh god it shall be well over our lives oh god it shall be well in the name of jesus lord god it shall be well right now in the name of jesus father god and god we pray for peace on tonight lord god let the peace move upon the people right now lord god god for somebody that somebody has something going on in their mind oh god god i just ask you to give them peace right now in the name of jesus lord god god i ask you to move away the fear right now remove the doubt right now remove it right now in the name of jesus oh god and give them a sound mind lord god because lord god we realize that you said in your word that you have not given us no god a spirit of fear oh god but you've given us power love and a sound mind oh god god i even ask you to touch their minds right now on tonight lord god touch our minds right now in the name of jesus lord give us the mind of christ right now lord god let us have the mind of christ christ in in the way that he deal he deal with his situations oh god he deal lord god even with lord god with a man with it with the woman with the issue of blood lord god in the name of jesus oh god god i ask you right now father god lord god give us the mind of christ so god i pray through every circumstance and situation though god give us the mind of christ right now oh god teach us oh god how to pray lord teach us what to pray for in the name of jesus oh god in the name of jesus god i even pray for our lost loved ones oh god somebody's even praying right now low god save on tonight lord god save on tonight father god save right now lord god save that lost brother lord god save that lost mother lord god save that lost father in the name of jesus oh god save right now lord to the utmost jesus saves to the utmost jesus saves to the utmost jesus saves o god and we thank you right now in the name of jesus oh god because we need your salvation like never before lo god we need you to move right now little god move on our behalf one more time lord god we just ask you to do it again father god do it again in the name of jesus oh god move one more time father god somebody's sending these in the need of prayer right now lord we pray for them right now that you even move on their behalf low god touch them right now in the name of jesus oh god touch right now father god you know every circumstance you know every situation touch right now in the name of jesus and we count it done right now father god god i pray for that young person lord god maybe there's a young person or god that's dealing with some suicidal thoughts oh god god even pray for their mind right now in the name of jesus oh god god even we even asked you to remove up move away that that suicide thought lord god remove it right now in the name of jesus oh god and god then i pray that you give the parents discernment lord let us have a discerning spirit lord god to see what our young people are going through oh god give us a discerning spirit like never before lo god touch us right now in the name of jesus oh god god let us see what's going on father god while the world oh god is preaching so much others other than christ oh god god give us forget the discernment that we need right now oh god to even talk to our young people oh god god because the young people in the name of jesus oh god some of them are going astray lord but god we just thank you right now oh god that we have a chosen generation in the upper room lord god our young people are not going astray lord god but lord god we have a you pastor god who is leading them in the name of jesus oh god so god we pray for our leaders right now lord god touch bishop wooden right now have your way in our leader lord god move on him like never before lord god touch him right now oh god give him a right now word lord and we thank you right now for the man of god standing on the word we thank you for the word on tonight lo god we thank you for the word right now lord and god i just asked you to touch him a fresh lord another right now afresh in the name of jesus oh god god i just thank you for standing on the wall on our behalf lord god continuing to use them right now lo god and i pray that you would bless him and keep him low god cause your face to shine upon him lord god be gracious to him and give him peace in the name of jesus oh god we even pray for first lady right now touch her right now lord have your way in first lady lord god move on her behalf lord god in the name of jesus oh god and god we even thank you right now for the first family lord god what you're doing in them lord god touch him a fresh lord touch them afresh in the name of jesus lord god touch the whole body right now touch everybody that's here on tonight little god you see and you know low god you know the circumstances you know the situations oh god we thank you right now that we serve the god of all comfort lord we serve the god of all comfort lord god you're able to comfort us lord god even during the times that we're living in little god and god we just thank you right now father god you're able to comfort us so that we can comfort somebody else oh god with the same comfort that we have received from you lord god and so father we just thank you right now lord and god i just asked you to move on this service tonight lord god we ask you to have your way and we celebrate you right now we celebrate you right now lo god we celebrate you right now in the name of jesus lord god we thank you right now father we thank you right now lord hallelujah jesus glory to your name father god we thank you right now in this christmas season lord and as we already said jesus is the reason for the season lord god and we thank you right now for sending your son to down the cross on our behalf lord we thank you right now in the name of jesus we honor you we adore you we love you and we bless you in jesus name we pray let everybody say amen amen let's give god a handclap of praise on tonight hallelujah jesus we thank you right now tonight father god our scripture reading on tonight thank you jesus we'll be coming from isaiah chapter 9 verses 6 and 7 and it reads for unto us a child is born unto us a son is given and the government shall be upon his shoulder and his name shall be called wonderful counselor the mighty god the everlasting father the prince of peace in verse 7 of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end upon the throne of david and upon his kingdom to order it and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even forever the zeal of the lord of hosts will perform this the word of the lord is blessed tonight god bless you i was glad when they said unto me let us go into the house of the lord are you glad to be in the house tonight hallelujah won't you stand to your feet let's give god some praise i want you to know that i'm saved and sanctified and filled with the holy ghost i want you to know also that it is well with my soul amen amen [Music] my way [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Applause] is [Music] see is is [Music] [Music] is [Music] what's going on and he'll give us peace that passes all [Music] [Music] understandings [Music] come on [Music] [Music] is see what the lord has done see what the lord has [Music] see what the lord has done see what the lord see what the lord has done where [Music] [Music] is [Music] let me see what the lord see what the lord has done [Music] [Music] oh you [Music] see what the lord has the done has done you want to count your many [Music] blessings together count your many blessings and name them one by one hallelujah anybody in the house tonight have god been good to you let me see you wearing your hands he's an awesome guy even though trying in difficult times come on [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] how i see what the lord has oh bless his mighty name we honor the god of the bible on tonight as we count our many blessings we count the weeks we're on our way to week 32 of being in the sanctuary in the house of the lord come on let's give the god of the bible some praise glory and honor for that we welcome you facebook live youtube live to the upper room church of god in christ you are here at the right time now there's a word from the lord bishop wooden has something to share with us that will encourage us and will lift us up in this time of despair hear what the lord has to say on tonight so while we're resting on our feet all over the sanctuary i ask you to put your hands together and receive the set man of this house bishop patrick hill wouldn't see you praise the lord let us pray father god in jesus name dear lord we thank you thank you lord for another day thank you heavenly father for life for health and for strength god thank you for watching over us thank you for your arms of mercy and your protection and your care thank you for your grace and your favor oh god we thank you for being so good and for being so kind for keeping us in a day like today for keeping covert 19 away and not only that for lord we know that over 7 000 almost almost 8 000 people were dying per day in this country and 150 000 per day around the world before we ever heard of covet 19 and yet lord you stayed the hand of death and you watched over us so we thank you for being god and we thank you for being our keeper and we know lord that there will come a day when you will take us all home for none of us are going to get out of this alive unless the rapture takes place first so we thank you thank you for being saved thank you for having a mind to serve you and live for you in a day like today open the ears open our hearts open our minds open our understandings touch us oh god that we might know the things of god lord we want to see what you're doing and we want to follow you in the name of jesus lord give us discernment in this time of misdirections this time of confusion in this time of slight of hand in this day of shenanigans and trickery in this day o god what satan is doing throwing rocks and hiding his hand oh god give us eyes to see and ears to hear enlighten our understanding in the name of jesus forgive us of our sin strengthen us while we're weak and builders where we're torn down in jesus name amen would you give the god of the bible praises tonight hallelujah for the lord is good and worthy to be praised you might be seated in the presence of the lord it is good for us to be in the house of the lord once more for bible study and i am excited about being in the house of the lord we're thankful to you who are in the sanctuary we're thankful for to you who are joining us on facebook live and youtube live thank you for being a part of this service i praise the lord we have friends from all over and from the east coast to the west coast and my friends on the west coast let me know that it's a bishop we watch and on sundays we watch all three hours of the service god is good in me and worthy to be praised and you know uh something's going on when a woman of god said to me says you know after the first lady got up and and and talked about how the the choir had sang and then how my wife got up and and threw fuel on the fire amen so uh there are people who appreciate the word of the lord and appreciate uh our being in the house of god and i'm thankful to the lord for his mercy and his grace and as elder wilson said in the in the introduction this is our 32nd week and i thank the lord we give the god of the bible all the praises for watching over us and for keeping us and causing his face to shine upon us i do honor tonight the first assistant ella manchuku and second assistant elder wilson god bless pastor parker amen my dear friend and brother and to all of the elders and ministers tonight to my lovely wife our first lady we thank god for her the district missionary and to all of the saints god bless you mother so good to see you tonight a strong woman of god amen in another room i praise the lord for every one of you we have a lot of ground to cover tonight so let's jump into the scripture let's go to daniel chapter number 11. we've been studying that and i was watching today while you're getting it on spectrum news and they were doing a cover a feature on churches that have made adjustments during the covet 19 period and they showed a church that has been closed ever since um i think march and uh i i hope that in their interest in their wanting to be fair in their reporting i hope that they would at least consider interviewing a church that is open amen and safe see the narrative that they put out there is that if you're worshiping in person that you're somehow being unsafe or irresponsible that that's the narrative of the world that's the devil that's not true because if it's unsafe to worship it's unsafe to go to the grocery store it's unsafe to go to all mines it's unsafe to do any of these things and god has watched over us all we have to do is be wise and be responsible and i want to ask you to continue to be responsible amen to continue to respect one another enough to keep the proper distance and doing the things that we're doing if we do that i believe that god's going to continue to keep us and and bless us and i thank him uh for those things amen daniel chapter 11 i want to call to your attention to verse 25 through 27 and i want to read in your hearing john's gospel chapter 14 [Music] and verse 1. daniel 11 25-27 and john saint john chapter 14 and verse 1. daniel 11 and 25 says and he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army and the king of the south told them a king of the south shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army but he shall not stand for they shall forecast devices against him yea they that feed of the portion of his meat shall destroy him and his army shall be overflown and many shall fall down slain verse 27 says and both these kings hearts shall be to do mischief and they shall speak lies at one table but it shall not prosper for yet the end shall be for a time appointed john's gospel chapter number 14 in verse 1 these are the words of our lord he said let not your heart be troubled you believe in god believe also in me all right you got that look on your face like how did that's how does that go together jesus jesus said let not your heart be troubled you believe in god the context serious you believe in god and you don't see him believe also in me even when you won't see me that's the context of it because the context of the statement is he had just told them that he was going to leave them that he was going to die and peter had already said lord i'm i'm not going to deny you he told him oh you're going to deny me and it is written they're going to smite the sheep the shepherd and the sheep will scatter peter says not me jesus said you're going to deny me three times before the cockroach and he says now let not your heart be troubled you believe in god the father don't you and yet you've never seen god the father well believe also to me even when you don't see me because i'll be gone for at least three days i'll rise again and and then i'll stay with you for a little while then i'm leaving and i'm going to prepare a place for you and if i go and prepare a place for you i'll come again and receive you unto myself so while i'm going and you don't see me you got to believe me all right so you see um you see god the father you believe in god believe also in me our lord says all right let's look at the other two uh in daniel chapter 11 and verse 12 which is where i'm gonna teach from it says and both these kings hearts shall be to do mischief for they shall speak lies one lies at one table all right they're gonna speak lies to one another but it shall not prosper for yet the end shall be for the time appointed this is the tenth teaching in this series the amazing god of the bible who strengthens us and we get the term amazing from the amazing accuracy of the prophecies that went forth by the interpreting angel some say that it was gabriel in daniel chapter 2 11 and also daniel chapter 10. uh what a powerful uh these prophecies were so precise that there are those who argue that daniel chapter 11 was written after the fact and and that makes no sense at all uh you just have to believe and know that the bible is right so he's the amazing god of the bible who strengthens us this is the tenth uh message in this series and i want to leave you with this thought tonight from uh verse 27 both these king's hearts shall be to do mischief this won't this won't make sense but it will in the end i won't teach you tonight to believe in jesus believe in jesus or believe jesus okay believe in jesus believe jesus believe in the god of the bible believe christianity believe the words of christ believe jesus jesus we call on you right now we ask you to anoint us to teach tonight lord regardless of how we feel what we see what we hear what the news uh reports are what's going on in the world what people are saying in pulpits what we hear online you name it god regardless if it conflicts with what you have said we have decided that we're just going to trust and believe you in jesus name amen as we study tonight we will see that um you just simply cannot and i want this to sink in you you can uh upper room and saints who are watching you cannot trust the world uh journalism is dead in america um there was a time when a journalist reported a story you had no idea what that journalist's personal opinion was of the story that he or she reported in fact journalism 101 today in the journalism schools they're supposed to teach the journalists to report without personal bias you have no idea how they may feel well when was the last time you heard a journalist report something and you not know uh their take on it they're slant on it so what we what we call news isn't news at all most most of these people now are commentators disguising themselves as journalists reporting things to you in such a manner to get you to come to uh a conclusion or a position that agrees with them so you got to know how to hear the slants that are on stories my wife and i we we enjoy as we sit and have dinner and and we listen to the news and uh even the local news and you you hear the the biases of the reporters if you have a trained ear and it doesn't take much training to to hear just how biased they are and even with the story that i heard this morning as the lady closed out she said the pastor said that he's not going to let his members come back to church in person again until it is safe they won't come back until it is safe that is to send the message to you that it is not safe to attend church right now if you want to be halfway fair come talk to a church that's been in church for 31 weeks we can tell you something about safety whether or not it's safe if you want the general public at least to hear both sides cnn before ted turner uh sold the network um cnn of days gone by is not the cnn of today the cnn of today in my opinion is hardly worth watching but they used to have a show called crossfire and they would let put two pin pundits up and let those guys go at it arguing from uh two separate uh uh contrasting positions you seldom see that now you see and people yet uh people trust what is being told to them and i'm telling you today you can't trust the world you just can't um the believer has to possess and i've been talking to you about this and i hope you don't get tired of it but you have to possess the power and the ability to discern everybody is trying to sell you something amen everyone wants to affect your behavior how you think hold you in a state of fear and anxiety so that they can control you they want to be able to read your body and and determine what your likes and dislikes are uh and all of a sudden you know we live in a day now where you can mention to your friends one time too many that that you have a taste for ice cream and on your phone uh a ad will show up and you say oh my lord look at god you know ain't necessarily god it's necessarily in many ways uh people are listening and um um and and that these things are of what they are they're real so the believer has to have some discernment and here's what we need to be able to discern before you try to discern what the devil is doing you need to discern what god is doing amen uh i my heart goes out to anyone who tries to figure out satan or trust or chaste the devil and you're not filled with the holy ghost because we're not called to chase the devil we're called to chase the lord we're called to cast out devils but in order to you got to know what god is doing so that you can can defend yourself against the enemy you really can't properly know what satan is doing without discerning what god is doing uh in first corinthians chapter number two i want to show you something and then we're going to work our way back to daniel and try to cover this ground you know i'm running out of i'm running out of days i'm running out of days 2021 is swiftly approaching first corinthians chapter number 2 verse 6 says how be it we speak wisdom among them that are mature perfect mature that's not sinless perfection that's the the mature christian paul says we speak wisdom among them that are mature yet not the wisdom of this world nor of the princes of this world that come to know the wisdom of the world has a chef life it comes to know but we speak the wisdom of god in a mystery even the hidden wisdom that is the hidden wisdom the wisdom of god in a in a mystery simply put our god's revealed secrets things that god even hear from the old testament writers and things that god certainly hid from the world paul says i'm speaking to things that god has revealed unto us that is a revealed wisdom that god gives to the believer he says even the hidden wisdom which god look at this ordained before the world and this wisdom this knowledge that god ordained before the world that we should know is for king james says it is unto our glory so the hidden wisdom of god is something that you want to know it makes life better for us it is not it is not to be a wet blanket in our lives it's not to shame us it's not to make us sad the text says it's for our glory it's for our quality of life it makes our sojourn here so much better and it really makes our sojourn wonderful when we leave here there is a wisdom there's things that god shows the believer that i'm going to show you in a moment that the world cannot see cannot understand cannot fully grasp this is why every believer ought to want to stay as close to the lord as you possibly can because one of the benefits of serving god is how the lord reveals things to his people he says verse 8 which none of the princes of this world knew there is a a revealed secret that the leaders of the world all of all of them all of the princes of the world you name them kings uh uh uh dictators world leaders global leaders you name them none of the princes of this world knew for had they known it they would not have crucified the lord of glory there is no way herod pilate nor anyone else would have put jesus to death on the cross had they understood the wisdom of god he said but as it is written i have not seen nor ear have heard neither have it entered into the hearts of man the things that god have prepared for them that love him now that is a direct quote from isaiah chapter number 60 64. isaiah 64 and 4. isaiah says in 64 and in verse 1 he says oh that thou would just rend the heavens he's asking god to just rip open the sky oh that thou would rend the heavens that thou would has come down that the mountains might flow down at thy presence as when the melting fire burneth the fire calls it the waters to boil what he's saying is oh that god would give us a divine intervention and said god do it whether whether the melting fires burneth and the fires called the cause the water to boil to make thy name known uh to thine adversaries you know god came down on mount sinai and the mountains shook my god it was a sight to see and just it was just the power and the glory of god he says lord if you would just come and do an uh intervention that you that the adversaries might see that the nations may tremble and there's an exclamation point there at thy presence he says and when thou didst terrible things which we looked not for god you gave an intervention and you did things lord that we didn't even expect thou came us down and the mountains look at this flowed at thy presence for since the beginning of the world men have not heard nor perceived by the ear neither have i seen o god besides thee what he hath prepared for him that wait for him that's where paul was quoting from when he says i have not seen nor ear have heard see you haven't seen what god can do and and paul says that what god have prepared for them that love him isaiah said what god had prepared for them that wait for him that's the same thing you can't if you love him you're going to wait on him to wait on him is to serve him to wait on god in the old testament it is not to be static waiting on god is not a static posture it is a dynamic posture but the posture is that of we get busy obeying him while we're waiting for him to do what we need him to do it's not that you stand like a mannequin or sit there uh like a dead person and you lose your joy you lose your faith you lose everything and you just you you you're emotionless you're joyless you you barely come to church or whatever until god does what you want him to do no the the way the way we wait on the lord it is a dynamic waiting we serve him like a waiter serves a table hoping for a good tip we'll we serve the lord so paul says i have not seen nor ear have heard the the nor has it entered into the hearts of man the things that god have prepared for them that love him but god but some translate translation surrenders this now god have revealed them unto us by his spirit you see that now i'm getting to my point and notice where spirit there is capitalized he's talking about the holy spirit god hath revealed the things that eyes have not seen nor is have not heard that divine intervention and he did intervene you know how he intervened night the angels start singing but before they say gabriel visited mary and said blessed art thou among women says something's getting ready to happen to you and he put he put uh jesus in the womb of mary nobody expected that i have not seen ear had not heard it it didn't even enter into the hearts of men the way god was going to do this amen when somebody wrote a wrote a song about the birth of christ it's a beautiful song and the gentleman says what a strange way to save the world what a strange way to save the world a baby and a pregnant ordinary little girl who who she wasn't famous she wasn't rich and powerful and god chooses her and puts christ in her and he's born in a in a manger born in a stable what a strange way to save save the world i have not seen see you never know how god's going to deliver you how how the lord's going to work things out how god moves you you have to let the lord be god and and you just wait on him and serve him see he knows what he's doing so he says but god have revealed them unto us by his spirit here's what i want to get to for the spirit searcheth all things yay the deep things of god look at the godhead being somewhat divided here and we see god the holy spirit here's the picture searching the deep things of god the father to reveal the deep things things truths the deep things of god the father the deep teachings of god the father to us so the holy spirit searcheth the deep things of god then he gives an analogy verse 11 he says for what man know if the things of a man what human understands the things of a human save the spirit of the human that is in him even so the things of god knoweth no man but the spirit of god just as humans can understand humans on a human level that makes sense to you no one can understand god except god's spirit it takes the spirit of god to reveal the nature the mind the thoughts the teachings the doctrine of god to us you can't even read your bible without god the holy spirit and fully understand it amen i just helped somebody out there because some of you you haven't been born again yet but you read the bible all the time you say preach i read it but i just can't understand it you need the holy spirit you need you need to be born again allow the holy spirit of god come to live in you and the spirit of god will begin to reveal god's word to you as you pray and seek the lord are you with me he says now look at verse 12 says now we have received not upper room youtube live facebook not the spirit of the world see there's another spirit there it talks about the spirit of god well we have not as believers we have not or we shouldn't it's not wise it's not smart it's forbidden we have not received the spirit of the world which is part of the problem it's part of the problem because the spirit of the world is in the church now that's why 65 of them are closed we we have not received the spirit of the world oh we've received the spirit of the world matter of fact we've said to the spirit of the world of the world welcome you see it you hear it in our music you see it and even many times even in our praise you hear it reflected in in areas where it should not be you hear you see it often even in the look of the church it's not even popular anymore for a church to look like a church it's popular for a church to look like a barn or a rock and roll stage or something like that and have all of the lights and all of the the the show that all that garbage behind you that's the spirit of the world you don't need all that to be a preacher i don't need i don't need an if i got to have a big sign behind me to hold your attention that means i can't preach preachers have one soul jesus preached on a ship standing there on the bow of a ship and he didn't even have a pa system he preached in fields rawhide preachers have preached under trees declaring the word of lord preachers billy graham stood in stadiums and declared the word of the lord now we need multicolored lights and all this other stuff to in order to get people to praise the lord now you know there's something wrong with that that's the spirit of the world you are not saying amen you may as well because there's zero chance that we're gonna put that up in here all i wanted behind me you see it the cross and uh i said i want the cross no matter who's preaching the only preacher we have here on a regular basis who preached and you can't see the cross is my son-in-law elder almanchuku because he's so big he's so vast he's got to step away for you to see that the cross is still there i want the cross in the picture the cross because the three because the cross over there's cross the cross and in many churches today they've taken the cross out and put the lights in that's the spirit of the world you don't like that do you you know i'm telling the truth the spirit of the world so he says here we have not received the the spirit of the world but the spirit which is of god that we might know the things or things that the truth the things that are freely given to us of god that's what the holy spirit will teach you praise god which things or which truth also we speak not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth but which the holy ghost teacheth look at this comparing spiritual things with spiritual things look at god's holy spirit spiritual truths with spiritual truths but the natural man natural man that's the first time you saw see that word the natural man natural right here literally means the unsaved man the unsaved man received not the things of the spirit of god the man who is not born again cannot receive the teachings of god the holy ghost you see that receive not the things of the spirit of god for they are silliness it's silly to the world to the unsaved man that you would attend church as often as you do but i tell you what's not silly to him for you to go to a game as often as you go to church if you go to a game as often as you go to church the unsaved man respects you and calls you a loyal fan sitting up there it's uh 33 degrees uh outside you sit there freeze cheering on the team and and leave there and get pneumonia and die and you you they applaud you for sitting out there in the cold it's snowing everything is rich you get frostbite pulling for your team what are your team doing playing a game the world respects you for that and will criticize you for attending church philip rivers i think he's the quarterback of the the colts phillip rivers was quarterback for years for the san diego chargers for the rivers played for nc state phillip rivers is married philip rivers have um several children how many he has fathered i think about seven children and i i i i listen you know i pay attention a lot of things and maybe i just i'm just weird but i notice how a lot of the sports commentators uh they have at from time to time little slights and things that they uh the jokes they make about philip and all of his children and and many of those who are making those jokes aren't married and they got just as many children as phillip the difference is all the phillips by his wife at home so you're gonna make fun of the man for doing it right but you're gallivanting all over the country praise the lord doing whatever you see what i'm saying that's that's just see the world sees righteousness as silliness don't you let the world make you criticize righteousness amen don't you do that don't let the world make you feel that somehow you're supposed to laugh it's funny to you when they when they make fun of someone who is doing a thing the right way amen so now let me finish this i got to get back to daniel we have a lot of ground to cover tonight he says but the natural man receive not the things of the spirit of god for they are foolishness unto him neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned that is they are spiritually recognized but he that is spiritual the born-again man look at this judgeth all things he look at this he discerns the teachings of god he discerns what's going on in life the spiritual man judgeth all things the the born-again believer is always discerning you discern whether or not a thing is benign if it's harmless you enjoy it if it's not and you discern that it's not it can look they can be a toy it can be a commercial it can be an article of clothing it can be a song the believer has to always be discerning so when you really figure out what it's like to be a true believer you don't have to have time for anything else see you got to be discerning is this good or is this bad will this help me spiritually or will this work against me notice what it says that the the spiritual uh he that is spiritual judgeth all things yet he himself is not judged he is that is he is not judged by no man who do not have the spirit of the lord because the unsaved person can think what they want but they can't see properly because they don't know when they see that christian going about his christian ways i'm not talking about seeing a christian who is behaving in an unchristian like manner but when they see the christian behaving in a christian manner they they they many times resent you for behaving properly but you can't let that bother you because they don't have the authority the insight nor the proper ability to even judge you they say you drive by and you're clean you don't smoke you don't drink you're living your life and they'll look at you and say you think you're better than everyone else you haven't even said anything to them you wave at them and smile who do you think you are smiling like that you you're just putting on get that s off your chest start playing a game you're not playing the game you have the joy of the lord you got the joy of the lord and and and but because they are carnal and they don't have it they don't understand how you can have that joy and the worst thing that you can do is to begin to play the game and then pretend that you don't have joy or bring your joy down so as to be like them i can't stand that i don't stay around people i've been saying for you i don't stay around people for long i don't engage in conversation for long that's too negative you got a certain amount of time and then we're going to end this praise the lord because life is too short and and and god's doing too many things and you can't just get locked into that the devil will unlock you in a funk and have you negative all the time it's something wrong all the time you better count your blessings and see what the lord have done you have to break out of that you have to break out of it that will aid you before your time you'll sit there 40 looking 50 and 50 looking 60 or to eat you'll kill your dad and the next thing you know you're out of here praise the lord no no god wants you to god wants you to live verse 16 says for who hath known the mind of the lord that he may instruct him and that and you know it's a rhetorical question right no one can can instruct god uh uh no sinner uh can can can thank god's faults who have known the mind of the lord that he may instruct him he says but contrary to the sinners he says but we the believers have the mind of christ that is we can think thoughts like god christ thinks thoughts like god if we have the mind of christ we can think not equal to god we don't become god now but it elevates our mind we go from being carnal to being spiritual and seeing things from a god-like perspective uh from the god of the bible that is and uh viewing it differently so it's very important that you understand this and that you seek the lord and and you remain filled with the spirit because the world wants to confuse you our text will show that the spirit of antichrist among other things and this is why what i just read to you so important among other things the spirit of antichrist is a spirit of misdirection it's designed to keep you off out of kilter off kilter to keep you confused keep you looking wondering what happened what's going on in a state of bewilderment it's misdirection it's a it's a spirit of confusion we see a lot of confusion in society that's and you're going to see this all played out in antiochus epiphanes he was a master at confusion and at misdirection one of the best all right the only one who's gonna be better at it than his is satan um he was a master at confusion and a master where up is down and down is up we're living in a day now you see it you see it you see it yourself where where right is wrong and everything is turned upside down uh president-elect joe biden was talking about his new man over the transportation uh pete buddha judge and how he's standing praising pete and pete's husband already pete and his husband and he's you told me misdirection and everything being confused and pete and his husband and pete uh saying that he's he's qualified for the uh transportation position because he likes cars and he he proposed to his husband at an airport now that's that's up is down down is up that's evil is is good and good is evil bible says warn to them to put light for darkness forbid beautiful sweet and and sweet for bitter and good for evil and evil for good isaiah said that and this this is what that's this is the spirit of antichrist right now is wrong wrong is right immorality is the new morality and morality is now considered immoral or if you are moral morality the moral person now is considered the judge i you know i don't want anybody to judge me and and believers i've said this before and you know i talk about things for a while i move away from them and then the holy spirit leads me back you know believers are shying away from god's truth because believers don't want to be accused of judging anybody and so uh one of the easy analogies i give is uh that if a person just robbed a bank and and and they actually robbed the bank and they got the loot in their hand they robbed the bank here's the money they got the bag right here first southern savings how did you get it i robbed it well you're a bank robber don't you judge me how dare you judge me by calling me a bank robber didn't you tell me then you just robbed the bank well yeah what that makes you a bank robber no you're judging me you're calling me something no no no that's the truth and that is what's being that's what the world want to do to you the world wants you to lose the ability to just look with your eyes and see clear wrong and if you call it wrong first of all before you call it wrong you got to spend 15 minutes uh fixing it i don't mean to judge i don't want to be hard on anybody i don't want no one to think that i'm holier than thou i mean it's a whole list you go down by the time you finish people that fall asleep they don't even hear what you're going to say because it took too long to get to it then you finally say well uh this this behavior is wrong it's wrong and and people say don't don't judge me folk don't want you to say anything about anything that is wrong if you if you hold to uh traditional moral views now you are accused of being judgmental or being all having a phobia it's homophobic and so you don't want to be called homophobic so you know what you do you sit there and you'll be quiet and and and if you if you're quiet as you're quiet and you keep to yourself and you say nothing i often say this satan knows how the human mind works at first you'll be quiet to keep from keep from being persecuted but as time goes on and you're quiet you sit there quietly and you change you quiet you're quiet and you become you're beginning to accept it you're beginning to rationalize in your mind before too long you'll be an advocate of that very thing you will build again what you once destroyed therefore by making yourself a transgressor that's the way it works that's why satan wants us to be quiet that's why satan want to close the churches that's why satan wants to lure all the churches online then once we all get out there then the people who own those platforms began to censor us and cancel your account get your account counsel once or twice that sends a strong message uh to the strongest person well you better not say that because you go you're going to be down for another six weeks and and don't and don't others won't fight for you they won't they won't join in and say wait a minute we won't put up with this are you following me this is the spirit of the age now let's let's look at this let's look at this i'm going too slow but i want you to get it are you with me verse 25 says and he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south that his antiochus epiphanes is going to stir up his syrian the solicited army against the the egyptian the ptolemaic kingdom against the south and uh and and shall be stirred up and look at this against the king of the south well let me read the second clause and the king of the south shall be stirred up to battle with look at this a very great army and mighty and mighty army the king of the south will have a great army he will have a mighty army but look at this with his mighty great uh should i say very great army but he shall not stand what's going to happen for they shall forecast devices against him yea they that feed of the portion of his meat shall destroy him what he don't know is antiochus epiphany epiphanies has infiltrated his camp to the point that those who are eating at his own table applauding against him that's just like the the devil's to infiltrate the church and he has satan got people in the pulpit praise the lord doing a great job convincing us that the uh talking people into not believing the bible margaret singer sanga the devil she's in hell now she got she matter of fact her organization is back in warnock the brother that's running for the senate see you ever heard of a preacher backed by a preacher supported by planned parenthood you're talking about antiochus appear for me a preacher supported by planned parenthood so where he pastors uh dr king's church where he used to it's a historic i don't care what church it is that's all i got to say about that that has no bearing on truth well do you know who pastored that church who i know who's pastoring it now the devil are you going to be a preacher a preacher but y'all don't like what i'm saying a preacher backed by planned parenthood margaret sanger to get black women to go along with planned parenthood's diabolical plan to cut our reproduction got black preachers to preach from their pulpits in new york am i right dr foster to preach in the pulpits it was the black preacher who convinced the black woman that what margaret sanger was offering was good because when she first came out with her pill uh black women wouldn't take it black women still had their 13 and 14 children white women fell for it and they said oh my god you talking about something backfired and she met with negroes and talked with them and that woman with the spirit of antiochus epiphanes who knew how to make you think he was working for you when all the time he's working against you she convinced them men to stand up and convince their our people to fall into their diabolical trap and since 1973 46 of african americans who should be here are missing due to uh abortion alone and now he's got a man down there running and he's backed by that same organization and the saints are applauding it oh i got so much to share with you it amazes me how the bible is it's more current than tomorrow morning's newspaper in part through the alliance with jason the immediate reference in verse 23 remember verse 23 says and after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully uh for he shall come up and shall become strong with the small people antiochus made an alliance with with jason antiochus forged ties with the rich and powerful tobiah family in the province of judah the king lavished them with gifts in unprecedented fashion he he lavished gifts of unprecedented fashion upon all of his excuse me his allies but no doubt it was to buy their affection and their loyalty he cared nothing for them indeed his liberality his liberality is well attested in ancient sources josephus talks about it corroborated the fact that he was more generous in his giving than the preceding kings even to the point of fiscal irresponsibility remember the bible teaches that he's going to do what his father's father verse 24 what do that which his fathers have not done nor his father's father he shall scatter among them we talked about this sunday the prey and spoil and riches yea he shall forecast his devices against them uh antiochus was he is the spirit of antichrist is big government big government doctor uh uh handing out dr pete handing out goodies anthony could go out and fight his enemies win the battle and come back and he was known for his uh generosity a hellenistic uh historian attest to the extreme generosity of individual his extreme generosity to individuals even to strangers polybus talked about how generous uh antiochus was while another writer commenting on his generosity to various cities and people conclude he surpassed all preceding kings in this regard as alluded to in the observation that antiochus would do what none of his predecessors have done big brother government handing out stuff everybody now see we're we're prime we're right for the spirit of antichrist because everybody wants free stuff we want free college we want free food we want free cars we want free everything free we want someone else to pay for we're sitting here waiting for reparations everybody who's been a slave in here raise your hand praise him all right that's the end of that see all this stuff the devil wants you to think that somebody owes you something somebody hold yourself part of it is giving you the victim mentality so you got to fight against that you can't let nobody just make you a perpetual a professional victim a professional victim whoa is me see that spirit sets you up for the antichrist because what happens is angelico says i got you and he began to just pass out goodies so on on one hand antiochus could be extremely generous with his allies as he apparently was with the pro-seleucid hellenizers like jason and uh and the tobaids of of judah giving them lavishly plundering and giving them the spoil and giving them the wealth but verse 24 tells us something else about him and that is the other extreme part of his personality verse 24 says uh in the last two clauses the last clause says and he shall forecast his devices against the strongholds even for time see on the other hand as various sources corroborate historical sources uh antiochus epiphanes epiphanies could be ruthless he was a ruthless and tyrannical leader he had to his his nature had both extremes could give you all you want but if you don't go along with the program cancel culture like we see today if you dare have a a a differing thought the next thing you know somebody's suggesting that you be fired somebody's suggesting that you be put out of the restaurant someone suggests that that your house be burned or you'll be harassed online or or that you're not authentic you ain't black if you dare think a certain way or dare vote a certain way see do you see the spirit on one hand we're gonna give you everything you want but that's as long as you dance to our music but if you are different we're coming at you we're coming after you we're gonna we're gonna shame you that's the new thing now we're going to shame you yo you ought to rebuke the devil tell the devil you can't shame me praise the lord i can care less what you think i care less what you post i tell that's what you say god knows see so so look at his extremes uh one may see the end of this verse anticipating the establishment of the accra he let me tell you what he did he built a fortress in jerusalem close to the temple that was designed in 167 bc that was designed to keep the jewish population of the city in subjection so right near the temple there was this this fortress that that he built to control those jews who dared not to hear him now speaking of jason in reference to the prince of the covenant i got i got to move fast you know uh in verse 22 it says and with with the arms of a flood they shall be overflown from before him and be broken yea also the prince of the covenant jason i want to talk to you about jason uh uh because you'll really see the spirit of the antichrist being manifested uh in antiochus epiphanes and how he dealt with jason see jason messed up uh the the legitimate priests at the time and we're spending some time on this and i want to because you need to see it because the church the the the world of religion has done this we we we did it and and and and i'm preaching i'm preaching something sunday that that's that that that's going to open our eyes i hope i don't drift into it but jason approached antiochus epiphanes antiochus did not approach him jason was the younger brother of the legitimate godly high priest named anayas anais was not for the program of antiochus nairs had pro ptolemic sympathies he leaned more toward uh egypt he he wasn't antiochus was not his cup of tea his own brother went to antiochus and put in place a dangerous precedence just like we've just seen a dangerous precedence had was put in place in the last election sending out ballots now i know that was that was that was bad you know what i got three and i didn't ask for one mother i come home i i didn't even touch the envelope i was scared there was something in it that could read my you know i didn't know my wife said honey these are ballast and they were thick too i said look at this ain't that the devil's no i'm i'm voting i'm i'm going in person give him my name and uh and my address and i don't know why we don't require id cause somebody could have went right to my precinct uh they would have to get up early because i was the 24th person there but they could have beaten me there and all they had to know was my address so i'm not going to tell you why i voted because i know i'm streaming uh it know my ad address and my name that's all they don't have to know anything else and just put that down there and they could cast the vote and then i show up and they say you already voted now it's going to take me i got to figure i got to figure out how i can prove that i'm me and i don't know how that process would play out i got i got my license but they don't require id are you following me see this is this is not good so they sent these things out now once things like that are done they set a dangerous precedence see it may work for you this time but you're going to cry when it works against you see that's that's that's the thing about fooling around with the devil so you know you don't want to win so bad that you slip down to the root workers house to employ witchcraft to get that woman's husband you don't want him that big because whatever witchcraft gives you it's going to take witchcraft for it to keep it now you've set a dangerous precedence because you ain't gonna get anything from witchcraft then come on the church we're gonna serve the lord and i live happily ever no no you got demons you've made you made a deal with the devil and them demons going to be in your house matter of fact you've become a doorway for demons i just told you something now just help you out see somebody's been thinking about doing the wrong thing look you don't want him that bad you don't sell your soul that's a dangerous precedent when jason went to antiochus he said to him he was the president he says if you make me the high priest i will give you more money i will be a bigger blessing to you than my brother anaya's ears who is the legitimate high priest see power y'all not let power oh god this man is undermining his own brother the precedence was the imperial interference in the priesthood before then it had not crossed antiochus's mind to interfere in the priesthood until jason came to him and said oh there's a way to get rid of this guy make me the high priest you're the king take him down and i'll me i i i'll uh make it worth your while andreakers being a man who had no scruples who was for himself said hey it's going to be good for me he takes the high priest anayas the third and the and and move him he didn't kill him but he was no longer a high priest and antiochus makes jason the high priest jason now he's high priest he's the man his brother is out standing over there on the side don't even know how he got out out you're no longer a high priest jason is the high priest everybody is celebrating jesus but jason forgot that he has a brother he's his brother menelaus goes to antiochus and he says to antiochus i'll pay you more than jason page if you give it to me now you know what those men have just proven to answer antiochus what they did to the devil they proved to the devil that they are just scandals and rascals see you all didn't like you didn't quite understand me some of you i saw your comments you didn't understand me when i warned about how the saints go after the world see the american idol and the voice didn't go to any sanctified person's house the saints went to them well when you go to the world and you vie for their approval you may get their approval but you also gain their disrespect see some so many folk got snoopify see they got his approval but they also got his disrespect as look at how many preachers have sold their souls for political expediency and to be a part of political parties the preacher goes in and the party will respect you rev until you dare stand up and try to correct them and then they will let you know antiochus would clear his throat and say sit down we made you you came to us you sow your soul to be a part of us we paid you the job you're riding on we're renting it praise the lord suit your wearing we bought it you dance to our music you say what we tell you to say because you've already proven that you're a rascal you've already sold your soul you've already been out there marching in favor of lgbtq rights with a collar on your neck now you know you're a rascal you know you're not real you can't be real because real let me tell you the devil the devil don't don't like real but satan knows real when satan sees real did i say something then did i say he don't like real he don't go along with real but he knows real when he sees real antiochus says all these guys are rascals one brother will buy the priesthood from another but hey if they're gonna give me more money i don't care i'm not i'm not i'm syrian i'm not a jew i have no covenant with the god of the jews i don't know moses the ten commandments means nothing to me they're the ones who say that this is their sacred book they're the ones who say that they have a covenant with an invisible god and these people who claim to have a covenant with the invisible god they are coming to me saying to me if i give them certain positions they will pay me so why should i respect their order when they disrespect their own order see that that's that's the problem see we're we're going to the world you hear these you hear you hear save folk now preaching so-called you got to trust the science trust the science oh trust the science trust the science trust found you trust this one trust that whatever happened to trust god i'm i'm not i'm not i'm not this i'm not dissing science i'm not dissing fountain but the preacher is not called to preach voucher he's not called to preach science he's not called to preach these things he's called to preach the scripture and anything that conflicts with the scripture the preacher is supposed to take sides with the scripture but when you fail to do it the world will receive you which is my point but they will no longer respect you because they now know you don't believe it either i ain't gonna lie about it i don't believe it so what think about snoop dogg snoop don't pretend to be nobody but stew praise the lord see he ain't pretending to be no one but who he is the world don't pretend to be anybody but who they are but ever every now and again the gospel singer needs to get the worldly person to sing on their record we need to get them to endorse what we do that's that's that's the spirit that's the spirit had jason not bothered antiochus it may well have been that he wouldn't have bothered them because they were battling all the time the seleucid kingdom and the ptolemic dynasties they were battling all the time in the middle was the holy land and phoenicia that they were battling for control of this land and none of the previous kings set out to to stamp out judaism but a power hungry priest went to the devil and said uh sell this to me and and he did and and and let me tell you men and lakers this guy he took jason's place and you know what he did to pay the to pay the look look at this to pay uh antiochus he began to sail the votive uh offerings and and and and things in the temple the the votive offerings and the golden utensils voted the things in the temp in the temple that was sacred to pay the world they began to sell off the sacred things spirit of antichrist is that is that not what's going on in the church today the great the largest congregation in america all the preacher talks about you talking about selling i just come to encourage you i just want to encourage you god called me to encourage you i don't want to talk about anything that divides us i just want i just want to encourage you like all the saints needs encouragement the bible teaches that the god the word of god is good for encouragement but they ain't all the bible also says it's good for correction for instructions am i right what about that what about correction what about which instructions what about the other things that's selling out selling out so that the world will like us we want the world to like us we want the world i want the world to like me i want the politicians to like me so there's certain things i can't bother i want the naacp to like me so there's certain things i can't say i really want the lbgtq people to like me because i understand some of them make a lot of money so i need for them to like me so i can't say certain things because i don't want them to think this or that about me i'm not going to preach about abortion i mean that's that educated people who won't want to come to our church if i get up and start talking about stuff like that and i want them to come because i want them to like me so i begin to just mother i just begin to sell out sell out sell out sell out sellers that's why the mothers are sitting there wondering say he looks like patrick wooden his voice sounds the same way he he moves the same way but what's coming out of his mouth is nothing like what we heard just five years ago selling out why am i selling i got to pay that doubt sold out to the devil it comes at a price i'm included now and you see you little people you don't get invited to the places i get invited to oh yes i'm i'm invited to some of the big places and once they they bring you in and they introduce you you don't want to be on the outs anymore ain't no fun on the outs once they brought you in so you know what you do you sell your soul to stay in but i gotta i got i got news for you all of you going to hell oh oh you don't get right all of you if you don't repent all of you are going to be lost ain't that something they're going to be folk who are down and out lost and they're going to be fold up and in lost say amen see the devil the devil knows how oh once you get accepted and and the right people pat you on the back see this is why you can't be a name dropper some of y'all all you want to drop names and this one knows me do you know this you know what i get my memory goes bad quick when people talk to me like that they won't know who do i know but do you know this we did no you know no no i don't know what do you want what do you want what do you want you're talking to me see i i'm not worried about who i know i'm not asking you who do you know what do you want with me because i got to go say amen yet all day because what they're doing they're judging you they're trying to size you up to see if you're worthy of their uh attention and have a conversation with well you know what i'll cut this shot no i'm not worth it let me go on and do what i got to do say amen i'm not worthy no no you go home watch that stuff you get caught up in that stuff it will mess you up i'm running long tonight but just give me just a sec pray just a church of god in christ a second uh so now let me let me let me make let me tell you what uh my text is uh alluding to filometer the ptolemic egyptian king this was cleopatra's boy when he came to power he wanted to get back the land that uh antiochus the great the father of epiphanies had taken his father had taken the holy land from egypt from the toilet kingdom and he wanted it back so once he became king see by now by now epiphanies is king are you following me so now the ptolemaic leader comes against epiphanies i told you about this sunday and he was beating him for a while but he ended up losing and he became antiochus's prisoner so he is the prisoner now of antiochus epiphanes the egyptians was hoping that antiochus would set their king free but when they saw that he was not going to be freed then they took his brother fiskin and made him king in his place so filometer told mcfilometer is the royal prisoner of antiochus egypt makes his brother fiskin the new king misdirection the antichrist when antiochus learns that fiskin is the new king he then goes to filometer his prisoner and says uh i'm going to back you and i'm going to set you free and i'm going to give you some of my soldiers and i want you to go back down to egypt and fight fiskin and put him out and you get your kingdom back with my help so they pull it off they go down there and and and uh and and philamitor battles and he expels his brother fisking and so filometer now is the king of egypt the same one who came up against epiphanies who became epiphanies uh prisoner epiphany's thinking is if i put filometer back in then this is going to give me power to control egypt through him because he's going to owe me all right so brother fights brother fiskin is destroyed taken down filometer is in and so now the text says but these verse 27 and both these king's hearts shall be to do mischief after filometer has been restored he and antiochus sit down at a table and they have a conference and the conference is designed for them to form an alliance where they will work together both men sit cordially both men talk like they are for one another both men behave as though they want to make a treaty yet the bible teaches and this was said over for uh 300 years over 361 years before it happened that both men as they're sitting there saying we're going to work together we're going to do this and that bible said both being sitting there lying to each other they're lying because uh philometer is saying i got to figure out i got to figure out how to get rid of antiochus i have not forgiven him for capturing me and i still want that holy land and the arc is sitting there saying i'm going to talk like i'm on your side but i am going to own egypt but i'll talk like we're going to get along just fine but my goal is to take over egypt and caught up in the middle of these two warring fractions is the church the globalists and the left are fighting against the nationalists and the right and caught up in all this stuff of the saints with 65 of the church is closed see there's something going on there's something going on so you got to trust god now now come look at these two liars neither man is telling the truth antiochus actually insulted uh told me because he made a he made a call him and put on his poem antiochus god and will circulate that money where and he wrote on the coin in the place where normally it would be uh a total made the king he put in the legendary antiochus god manifest so it was it was these two titus had no intention of working together that's the world everybody's at everyone's throat that's the world verses as i close versus way over here the church jesus christ he's talking he says to his men they're going to kill me in jerusalem my time is drawing near my time is about up you won't see me their heads begin to drop i'm going away praise the lord you won't see me he's happy he's having his alliance he's talking but he says simple let not your heart be troubled you believe in god the father the answer is yes he said you don't see him do you no we don't see him but you believe him don't you yes we believe him he said well if you believe in god the father and you don't see him he says believe also in me even though for a while for a minute for a set period of time you won't see me but you can trust me because the treaties that i make the agreement that i make with you i'm going to keep mine what's the agreement i go to prepare a place for you now now not only am i going to prepare a place and and and i'm going to come come again but guess what while i'm gone i'm going to pray the father and he is going to send you somebody equal to me but the difference between him he and me is that unlike me he will abide with you forever i will send you another comforter who will abide with you forever i got to go for a while but you know what you can trust what i'm telling you and if i go while i'm going and you don't see me i'm preparing a place for you while i'm gone whatsoever you ask the father in my name i will do it that the father may be glorified in the son i want to give you promises because see you can i'm not antiochus and i'm not philameter what i tell you you can take to the bank you can you can trust my alarm my my league the alliance that you make with me the agreement that you make with me god told me to tell the saints tonight tell them that they to trust in jesus praise the lord trust in the lord whatever happened with these elections whatever happens with this virus whatever happens with this vaccine whatever happens with all this stuff all of this stuff that's going on that's so much stuff that's the spirit of antichrist what do you do you see through it we lit i'm not talking about abandonment theology we we vote we participate we pray we're good citizens and all of that but you've got to be able to rise above that stuff rise above sickness rise above disease rise above heartbreak rise above heartache rise above depression rise above these things and see what god is saying see what god is jesus says i'm coming back i'm coming back and you know what i'm going to do i'm going to receive you to myself that where i am while i'm going where i am there and not anywhere else but there he may be also good god well how did we get there and the way you know we heard him say the lord show us the ways he says have i not been so long with you phillip you you won't know the way you won't want me to show you the father if you he that have seen me have seen the father he said but let me tell you this i am the way the truth and the life no man cometh to the father but by me now you can take that and put it in your pipe and smoke it you can take it to the bank you can stand on it you let that be the heel that you're willing to down you can depend on the god of the bible even in the age of antichrist the age of misdirection the age of intrigue the age of lies the age of being tricked the age of uh everything being turned topsy-turvy right is wrong and wrong is right this is that and that is this life for darkness darkness for life the devil is a liar god's truth remains the same everybody's standing i trust jesus i trust you tonight father we just thank you tonight for your word and guard me the word of the lord sink deep into the hearts of the people may we discern the word of the lord may we understand the word of the lord may we see o god even as we dream lord lord when i sleep i dream about these things i i you carry me and i'm in the courts of antiochus and i see the things going on and oh god let them just sink deep into the hearts and the minds of the saints that they will recognize the spirit of antichrist when they see it and avoid that spirit cast that spirit out rise above that spirit walk on that spirit but don't participate in the name of jesus now lord we praise you we thank you and we believe you saints of god be made whole right now god touch you and heal you from the crown of your head to the soles of your feet the lord intervene in your family life the lord touch you and mend your broken heart somebody's hurting tonight god heal your broken heart somebody feels a little lonely tonight but after the word you're grabbing hold to it you're saying to yourself i can make it now the devil was trying to fool me he had me having a pity party but i just dismissed that party and i have joy because i'm not alone i'm not alone the god of the bible is with me i'm not alone i i see the spirit of the age the spirit of antichrist lose his spirit of antichrist get out of my face get out of my face in the name of jesus in the name of jesus in the name of jesus in the name of jesus in the name of jesus [Music] and the lord god god bless you the i heard the holy ghost i got a clothes i heard the holy ghost say pray for prosperity pray right now that the saints prosper god says speak a word of prosperity hallelujah hallelujah i speak a word of prosperity in the name of jesus and your prosperity glory will come from the lord hallelujah he knows how to release he knows how to release he knows how to open the floodgates he knows how to make a way he knows how he knows how god go in that hospital room god go in that bedroom god go in that living room god go in that church god god in that heart that man that sound wow that bereaved family that bereft family that bereft family forever bereft bereft bereft the loved one is gone they've passed the stillness of their absence you're dealing with it god be with you and the fires of the lord fire of the holy spirit warm you right now god comfort you right now in the name of jesus thank god amen [Music] come on can we clap our hands just one more time and thank the lord for this word that we have heard tonight preach with power and authority were your hearts blessed tonight from this message entitled believe in jesus daniel chapter 11 verse 25 to and then john 14-1 bishop wooden gave us many wooden nuggets tonight but i'll just read a few he said you can't know what satan is satan is doing without fully knowing what god is doing then he said waiting waiting on god is not a static posture it's a dynamic posture and then he said you don't know how god is going to move wait on him and watch how he brings you out and then i had put my pen away at this time but in the prayer he said god says speak prosperity upon the people come on can we celebrate the word of the lord just one more time we bless the name of the lord and we hold on to every word that god has given to our teaching preach tonight and we carry that with us we're in the fourth quarter we're getting ready to come to the close of this year but there's still enough time on the clock for god to prosper you there's still enough time left for god to do what he said he is going to do do we have any believer in here tonight that believes that that by faith god can do it and there's still enough time for god to turn it around and work it in your favor if you believe that shouts up into the lord right now amen i know that he's able i know that he's able i know that he is able philippians are you ready to be a blessing to a man of god tonight he has so sown unto us spiritual things so it's only right right that he reaps our carnal i'm giving uh 100 tonight pastor parker is giving 300 dollars chairman morgan is giving 100 elder on people's 100 elder wilson 65 elder rayford 55 and evangelist lester uh 50 dollars for those of you who are watching via facebook live and youtube there are there are instructions on the screen at this time for you to view be a blessing to our man of god tonight he is a general on the wall and he's leading us from earth to glory and god has anointed him for such a time as this would you lift up his arms tonight and bless him for those of you who are in person tonight we know the commitments that we made at the beginning of the year whatever that amount is right now prepare it and the ushers are going to come and receive that offering from you you do not have to pass your offerings down they're going to collect it from you we thank you those of you who made that commitment of 100 or 50 or whatever that amount was that's between you and god we ask that you just give it tonight amen i'm rejoicing i'm stirred up i don't know about you god is going to do it we're gonna keep trusting in jesus keep keep believing in jesus okay sounds good amen amen i tell you what the lord must be in the neighborhood it looks like we're going to have snow on christmas there's about a 30 or 40 percent chance right now i tell you if that can happen god can send prosperity man somebody we've been dreaming for a white christmas for a long time i don't know about you god is able let it let it snow it's on a friday too let it snow on a friday and let it melt by sunday morning wouldn't that be good if you want that just wave your hand just let it snow just a little bit hey man hey man somebody said let it snow on on the 24th so i can get that day off so already off on christmas hey man has everyone had a chance to give all right let us pray the heavenly father god we thank you tonight for both the gift and the giver in jesus name we pray amen and this time evangelist lester is coming with our announcements good evening upper room church family the upper room food pantry will be held on saturday december 19 from 10 a.m to 12 p.m first time visitors should bring their photo id all 8 am congregants please remember to park in the back parking lot unless you have a signed parking or need handicapped parking in the front parking lot everyone is invited to the last third sunday night service of the year hosted by the men's department on this sunday at 6 pm the speakers will be elder edwin outlaw elder vaughn grieves and elder sherwad mccoy amen the upper room church and business office will be closed for the christmas holiday on monday december 21st through saturday december 26th everyone is encouraged to handle any urgent business prior to the closure the church will reopen for the 8 a.m and the 11 11am services on sunday december 27th upper room church family and friends mark your calendars and join bishop patrick l wooden senior first lady pamela wooden and members of the first family for the christmas with the woodens to be aired live on wednesday december 23rd at 7 30 pm to 8 30 pm on our facebook and youtube streaming outlets enjoy candid conversation with bishop wooden and the first family music and more this concludes this evening's announcements thank you for your attention may we all stand thank you so much for your generosity thank you thank you so much for your giving and we ran a little long tonight but we had some i'm running out of time and so we had to kind of squeeze it in i hope that the word of the lord blessed you go home and study these things and you will see it drive careful and may the blessings of god be upon you saying let's remember let's remain vigilant covert 19 is still very real we're not in denial we're just going to stay smart and that kind of a thing and the lord will bless after we dismiss we'll allow those who have our senior citizens these mighty heroes and heroines to leave first and those with pre-existing conditions that will make you vulnerable to leave first and then the rest of us will exit the sanctuary let everybody say god first god bless you tonight thank you so much thank you so much we'll let our citizens leave praise the lord praise god amen praise the lord praise the lord amen love you man love you appreciate your doctor all right god bless you all keep us in your prayers you

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