hello and welcome to the most unique grace and faith conference that we have ever held praise the Lord man we're so excited that you're joining us from all over the world of course this is the time that we typically are in the UK and we hold our Grace and faith convention there and we've had in the past a number of years at least 3,000 up to 3,500 people it's our largest conference that we hold annually but because of the virus this year we've been unable to do that and so anyway we decided to do this virtual conference I've got pastor Dwayne sheriff with me we've got the praise and worship group just like we would have had and we have about 50 or 60 people here that are in this huge auditorium so it may sound like we have a lot of people but they're just a little excited what it is this is the first time we've even meant together like this and so we are excited about it I know we've got people from all over the world watching let me real quickly just tell you that what we're going to do today is that after I get through with the introductions here we'll have praise and worship for 30 40 minutes or whatever I'll come back up and I've got a book giveaway I've got some videos specifically about the UK and about our ministry they're encouraging those of you who are in the UK to participate and then Dwayne sheriff and I are just going to sit and we're gonna let Dwayne take the lead for 50 minutes and minister and I may say Amen or interject once or twice and then we'll take a break Billy April hearts going to come up and give everybody an opportunity to participate in an offering you know praise God I was talking to Dwayne before we started this broadcast today and Dwayne and every single person that I know who has been teaching the Word of God specifically telling the truth about finances their ministry has prospered during this entire time matter of fact we have actually our biggest month is always December and so our December's got the largest months but outside of December we set the largest income that we've ever had for April and it and it's just amazing during this time God is blessing us and every person that I know ministry in churches that are teaching the word the word works and Dwayne was telling me they they took up a huge offering and gave to the first responders and so anyway great things are happening but my point is that the word teaches us that we need to give and be a part of what God is doing and so you know we're gonna be receiving and offering and giving you an opportunity to be a part of this and I believe it'll be a blessing one other thing I want to say is that if you are watching right now we were going to be in England then we were going to Poland and then Germany and so what we're going to do is tomorrow we're going to have a Poland grace and faith conference and we will have an interpreter for that into polish and then Sunday we're gonna do the German grace and faith conference a very similar format is what we have right here and so I'm gonna be teaching in a series I don't know exactly what Duane's gonna be doing but it'll be good if you want to tune in all three days if you want to watch and listen to what it's like to go through an interpreter it's quite an experience and then after all of this on Sunday afternoon our creative arts department led by the Mirren's the ones that do all of our theatrical performances they've got a special presentation on Pentecost and so at 3:30 Colorado time on Sunday we are gonna have a special Pentecost service where we will play their new video I think it's about 20 minutes if I'm not mistaken 18 to 20 minutes I'm going to be delivering a message specifically on Pentecost and it's going to be a great time so that will be in addition to our Grace and faith German conference on Sunday that will end somewhere around 2:00 or 2:30 Colorado time 3:30 we will start this second deal so that's what we're doing for the next two or three days it's going to be a great time thank you for joining us let me just pray you real quickly and then we're gonna get into praise and worship but father I thank you for this thank you for the technology that we have that we are able to do this and reach people all over the world father we just thinking for all of our staff that makes this happen father we are just so thankful for this opportunity and we ask you that you some supernaturally just connect every single person that father they won't be detached that they won't be distracted by other things that are going on we ask that father this be just like we're all gathered together we believe that the Holy Spirit is gonna move and touch people's hearts and if father this is gonna be a life-changing time for every single person watching father I thank you we agree and we expect that receive it in the name of Jesus amen so this is Charlie and Jill LeBlanc I'll let him introduce everybody but they're the ones that normally go with us to England you've been doing this for decades and and man we are excited so we want you to enter in and worship right wherever you are and those of you that are here the 50 or 60 men let's make it sound like there's a lot more a man I'll be back yeah well it's great to be here and so glad we could come and be with you we so missed being in England at this time but last year Jill was unable to be with us so it's great to have Jill back and then Lamont and Sharon rich came with us last year and they were a great blessing so we have them with us and of course Jamie was not with us last year either at grace and faith but it's great to have her with us tonight I said tonight it's morning here but it's night there right so I did it right and so we have Brian cosmos right on guitar and then on drums Matthew I'm gonna try to say your last name Matthew and then Gil I'm not gonna trust you less time either and then last but not least we have Raquel Hudson over here what a blessing they're all here to be with us together to worship the Lord that's what we're here to do as we always do at the grace of faith as we pour our heart out to God and we just worship Him in spirit and truth so let's do that I keep going back and forth between saying let's do that today and tonight but I'll say it tonight okay god bless you praise the Lord hallelujah [Music] the singers together you never leave me you never save me I wanna thank you Jesus into my world turns upside down your peas can still be found then you live inside me your prayers to guide me yeah yeah no matter what I'm going through I'm gonna keep eyes on you give somebody shout amen to that come on give the Lord a big shout hallelujah [Music] and even though [Music] I do because you are with me yes he is you prepare for me they survey [Music] junetta Lee me you dude [Music] yes you will Jesus [Music] me too [Music] [Music] restore [Music] my world turns upside down [Applause] [Music] [Music] sure mercy will follow me of my sing it out your goodness and mercy will follow Oh my yeah [Music] me [Music] [Music] [Music] save me you it'll be [Music] your president god [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] no matter what I'm going through I'm gonna keep my eyes on you come on you can say amen to that can't you no matter what I'm going through I'm gonna keep my come on one more time no matter Oh I'm gonna keep my [Music] come on let's give the Lord a big shadow pray [Music] Lori's k-mer come on shout hallelujah so thank you lord this is the day that the Lord has made and we will rejoice [Music] [Music] breathe [Music] come on singing with me was yeah [Music] why [Music] here we go that was three than everybody come on [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] do my spec was that the way [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] big shot for Jesus [Music] they presented us free Lord Jesus we give you praise hallelujah and we give it all to You Lord Jesus there is no one who compared we give it all to You Lord Jesus on you we will cast all of our cares and we will leave them somebody shot a man [Music] you Jesus [Music] before the mercy scene Lord we magnify [Music] above all earthly gain worn as we lived of your friend try we see Jesus lifted high [Music] didn't [Music] there is no [Music] you [Music] we [Music] come on sing with me [Music] we met [Music] thank God and we've seen dang [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] yeah we do [Music] there are faithful Savior your greater and stronger oh come on sing it out by [Music] [Music] ah [Music] forever [Music] we give it - there is no [Music] fortune [Music] [Applause] [Music] we worship You Jesus [Music] one more time we give it all to you Lord you [Music] there is no one compare we give it all to you Lord Jesus we cast arcane and we [Music] thank you Lord Jesus come on everybody shout Jesus hallelujah hallelujah what a beautiful name we love you Jesus with all of our heart with all of our self with all of our mind Lord Jesus [Music] what a beautiful name it is what a beautiful name you need me Mom cheap [Music] what a beautiful name it is nothing compares to this one beautifully [Music] you one [Music] through hidden in creation [Music] right what a beautiful [Music] yeah nothing [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] nothing [Music] [Music] gee [Music] Minister make that me now speak that name [Music] all of the all the that isn't a name [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Raquelle to sing that chorus more time what a [Music] the name of Jesus Christ my king what a beautiful and nothing can stir what a beautiful [Music] Jesus what of you [Music] jeez you [Music] jeez [Music] thank you Jesus we love your name we love your name [Music] I love you [Music] Oh yes I love you how I love you our chef you four [Music] let's sing that together [Music] sorry [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Oh [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] beautiful [Music] there is no one like you so beautiful we love you we love you [Music] [Applause] we thank you Jesus for your love thank you for your power thank you for your peace and passes all understanding thank you that you're with us always even into the ends of the earth Lord you never leave us or forsake us we thank you that you're big inside of us greater are you and us then he lives in the world and father we thank you for your grace your mercy and your peace today in Jesus name we give you praise come on give him a big shot of Thanksgiving come on a big shout [Applause] and amen well god bless you give somebody a hug hallelujah amen if you're at home give yourself a hug Amen or hug your dog he's coming man I've enjoyed that that was awesome you know we probably have 75 people in here now I don't know but I don't know if it's because we've been isolated so long but man I thought that was awesome praise God you know we've been going to the UK matter of fact it was in 1989 that I had a special prophecy delivered to me the night that Hurricane Hugo hit the North Carolina and a man spoke to me and he said you've got some nation of this heart on some nation of this world on your heart and you know exactly what nation I'm talking about and Megin it was the UK and he said within a month you're gonna meet a man who'll be a porter a door opener to that entire nation and did you know that two weeks later we had our ministers conference in Buena Vista Colorado and I looked and saw that will Graham was on from rudely England and I said man this must be the guy but I just I was waiting to see if this was the right person and how God would connect the dots and the very first night of our conference Dave 2l got up and called will Graham up to the front and he says we'll God has made you a porter a door opener to the entire nation it was the exact words that God had spoken to me and he says God is gonna use you to open the whole nation up to the gospel so I went up the will after that and I said will you must be the guy and he said I am the guy and it turned out that his church had taken up an offering and sent him to my ministers conference to specifically invite me and Dave to I'll come back to England so that was in 1989 we've been going back we've had an office there since 1990 I think it was and we started these grace and faith conventions and will Graham is the one that put a moan at first and then because of finances he literally had to mortgage his house to make that work he quit for a little while and we restarted them and so I forget the exact time but probably at least 15 years or 20 years we've been doing this grace and faith conference and and it's grown and we've seen some awesome awesome things happen as a matter of fact you know I'd like to play just a little short video and this is only a portion of a video that we've made about a woman named Ruth Levi and it was through the ministry in the UK that God totally totally changed her life so what's this little video about Ruth Levi's she's probably there in the UK watching this you can go to our website and get her entire testimony about this it is absolutely miraculous but watch this welcome to a WM now your source for everything that's happening here at Andrew Wommack ministries and Karis Bible College Ruth Levi grew up in the Sikh Hindu religion a belief system based on idol worship and weekly sacrifices as a freshman at Liverpool Hope University in England she would take her belief system with her shortly after setting up idols in her room Ruth began to hear voices and was tormented to the point of wanting to take her own life that is until one voice reached out to her in love she just met me in my room he met me right in the middle of everything he's like to speak to me knowledgeable voice telling me to come to him he'd tell me that I'm his daughter and he's my dad and my father and he'll set me free he asked me plight Lee probably the eighth time to let him help me and he'll take all the feelings away of suicide he'll take all the feelings of anxiety away he'll take all the problems away so we've probably the smallest amount of faith I said yes okay I'll let you help me set free from demonic oppression Ruth decided she wanted to learn more about this Jesus who saved her and God supernaturally led her to Karis Bible College in Walsall where her freedom in Christ would grow as she sat under the Word of God the whole ministry everyone involved in the ministry to people that work that the partners everyone on there by divine appointment since graduating Karras Ruth has started to make plans to plant churches across India bringing the same Jesus who set her free to her home country Thank You partners for helping us train up students in the Word of God enabling them to take this message of freedom to others to watch the full grace encounter of Ruth Levi click on the link below and I really would encourage you to go watch that entire testimony because did you know that it just said she was supernaturally led to Kharis the way this really happened was she was at a job her very first day on the job and the Lord told her to leave and to go somewhere and she says but this is the first day anyway long story but she obeyed she just walked wound up at a McDonald's and a woman came in and sat down across from her and talked to her and started telling her things that there was no way that she could have known about Ruth and she told her everything about her and started ministering to her she even went and got a hamburger and ate the hamburger and as she was eating the hamburger talking to Ruth she says you need to go to this school told her which bus to catch which stop to get off road it on a piece of paper we've got a picture of the piece of paper and as soon as she said that she just vanished it was an angel God sent Ruth to Kharis and so man that's impressive that even God likes carrots [Laughter] you know I had Matt Owen come up to me during one of our last things and he says he came over and he says God enjoys coming here and I really believe that so amen awesome things are happening I've got another video I want you to watch this is about our leadership team they're in the UK for those of you that don't know we have a tremendous ministry like I said that's been there since 1990 and we have a Bible School there we have a Bible School in Walsall which is in the Midlands we got one in Exeter down in the southwest of England we got one in Belfast we have one in Dumfries Scotland I'm sure that John and Susan Donnelly are watching they usually MC our Grace and faith convention over there in the UK and I tell you John and Susan are just awesome he's been ministered to me this last week something really significant happened and so anyway in his area right there we have a Bible School and just awesome things are happening so watch this little video about the UK ministry and I'll be right back the Word of God that he gave us is real you can base your life apart and I promise you if you just do that the word would just change you good evening a welcome to the UK a ministry thank you so much Andriy do we end on Charlie and Jill oblong for taking time out of your busy schedules to minister to us here in the UK via this livestream platform we are so so grateful but we're looking forward to an exciting event tonight over the next few TAS this weekend is especially important as the last of our five Bible colleges in the UK cars Bible College wall saw has their graduation tomorrow and literally over the last number of weeks we have that hundreds of students finish the first year course finished their second year course and finish the third year course and we welcome you to celebrate this faithfulness with them tonight after the teaching if you would like prayer ministry we invite you to ring o 192 to 473 300 we have prayer ministers available to minister to you specifically if you're interested in any product or indeed if you wish to partner with the UK on ministry please go to you w WAW minute if you're interested in our Bible colleges please go to www.hawaii.edu and you know I saw that little video I forgot to mention where was it Jews Barry I only mentioned four I think of those and there was another one in Jewsbury but anyway Karis Bible College is also absolutely a man saluted for anybody who doesn't know this is do pastored Wayne Sheriff I tell you what Dewayne is just awesome amen I tell people that it's like we were twins separated at Birth I've never met a person that had as close to the same type of revelation as Dewayne and I have in and we're it's not only in the gospel we went golfing one time and Dewayne was embarrassed because he likes to use yellow golf balls and he thought Andrews gonna make fun of me will you make fun of everything else I just did I just knew I was toast and what happened when we got there I couldn't believe it you play with yellow golf balls too so he became the toast so we it's amazing how much alike we are but we've been coming over to the UK with me for how many years now oh my goodness eight eight years and men I just want to take a minute if I can interject here at this point how grateful sue and I are to you for doing this because this was a tremendous disappointment for us we were we were looking so forward to coming to the UK and sharing it's it's the highlight of our year being with you and jamie is so awesome and then the people over there they're just incredible oh man they are excited when we go there like I said we usually have around 3000 at least and they are fired up yeah man the praise and worship is really great you know I wanted to say this that Charlie and Jill we usually send people to their table so that they can get their CDs and stuff but of course we don't have that but you can go to Charlie and Jill I don't know if I have that information in front of me what their website is but it's chart if you you what is it Charlie and Jill dot-com and I would really encourage you to get their music and get on their website too because during this quarantine thing they've sent out what three or four times that they just sit at home and worship Thor and it's powerful I mean God really ministered to me through it so if you don't have some of their music you need to get it and let me also say that we've got a book that we're giving away for anybody watching this I'm gonna be giving away my believers Authority book as a gift and so if you're in the UK you can go to a WM e dotnet and this is a free gift you can get it right there we do have people at the phones over in the UK but there's a very limited number of people we would encourage you to go to the website and you can get that book as our gift to you just to try and encourage people to you know be a part of these distanced meetings and if you're watching from anyplace else in the world you can call seven one nine six three five eleven eleven and we have hundreds of people standing by right now on our phones that will take your order and they'll get this to you and it'll be a blessing amen amen so anyway they're just awesome things happening what we're gonna do I'm gonna let Dwayne take the lead here and instead of us just standing behind a pulpit and preaching he's gonna just be sharing with you I may interject something if he wants me to if he doesn't I probably will anyway yes I was going to say what what difference will it make whatever I say but I appreciate you so much and and I enjoy even doing this together because I know whatever and wherever you jump in is gonna be a blessing you know you didn't know what I was going to share I haven't talked to you about what you're going to share we always go into this trusting God and you still haven't told me but I'm I'm gonna be sharing over the next three days and those of you that are joining and joining us now I would encourage you to join us the next two days because I'm gonna be sharing on God's kind of love and God's love and how that God's love will cast out fear in our lives man and we have been going through so many things here in America and I know where you live this pandemic has been a worldwide panic and the fear that I have witnessed has just broken my heart the overwhelming lack of understanding of how much God loves us how much God is with us never to leave or forsake us and how that you can you develop your love relationship with the Lord and that it's not just a one-time revelation I'm going to be sharing some things that could be a little deep a little heavy in regards to God's love but I believe God's love is who he is and so the revelation of love is inexhaustible and so I want to encourage you to continue growing in your knowing of God's love for you and the things I'll be sharing I promise will contribute to that so in this session I want to cover three major fears that as you as you come to know Jesus as you as you develop your relationship truly with him that love relationship that love covenant love connection then there is no room for fear in your heart and how that the love of God that is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit literally drives all these different kinds of fears that paralyze people that literally can create health issues in people's lives and on and on I could go so let me give you the the first scripture and I'll be looking at this probably all three days first John chapter 4 I'll start in verse 15 go through 19 resist the temptation to comment on every part of it because it's so rich and I'll come back in other sessions and and bring other points out but I want to want to bring just a couple of points out in first John 4:15 whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God God dwells in him and he in God and we have known and believed the love that God has to us god is love and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God and God in him before go any further I couldn't resist you didn't John affect him I didn't make it I'm craving Lord yame and I believe I received now John is celebrating God's love and the impact of God's love in our everyday lives and he's saying as a disciple as an apostle he's saying we have known and believed the love that God has for us you know a lot of people if you ask them do you believe God loves you they'll say yeah but they don't know the depth the length the width and the height and the amazing greatness of God's love for us and how it practically works out in our everyday life and so John says that we've got to get past just believing God loves us that's good that's a good start but he says we have known it and believed it and I just can't resist the temptation he said god is love I've got to get to the messenger I know I won't make what kind of minister are you you're supposed to be helping people and you've given in to temptation twice already I'm teaching them how to overcome temptation is an illustration of great this is huge even when I'm interrupted don't have it lost my thought this is so huge the Scriptures teach here and in verse eight of this chapter that God is love God is love God doesn't have love for you if God had love for us it could be measured it could be contained he could have for instance more love for me that he would have drew no doubt in my mind about it if he had loved that's the third see just a few minutes man I grew up believing that God did love certain people and kinds of people more than he loved me and it was hard for me to believe God could love me because I knew me other people that even acted like they loved me I believe they love me because they didn't know me because as soon as they get to know you they don't love you anymore so I felt like God was that way that how could God love me with the thoughts I have and I know you've never had any bad thoughts and you've never lied either amen that's your fourth sin right Marcy and I can't wait for you to speak today we're gonna talk like I said I struggled believing and then knowing God's love for me and it had negative effects in my walk with the Lord and it has had the opposite effect once I come to believe God loves me and and and know it man the peace of God the the relationship with the Lord again God doesn't have love for you and I or he could have more or less for each of us but he is it so whatever he is to you he is to me and it's like water if if you have water you can measure it you can contain it you can you can have more water over here and less water over here if you have it but if you are h2o you just are God's love for me I'm gonna share if I can get out of this introduction that is the same love God's love for you dear ones it's the same exact love that he has for Jesus man that God's love for Jesus isn't greater than his love for you or his love for you less than his love for Jesus and if you could ever know and believe God loves you even as the Sun and Jesus prayed that and made that profession of faith in John chapter 17 and we'll look at that later but once I begin to see that this is what it means that God's love is unconditional that it's an occasion that you don't merit it you don't deserve it you don't earn it there is nothing you can do to get him to love you anymore and there's nothing you can do to get him to love you any less because he is love to you we just need to believe it now and come to know it by the Spirit amen and so God is love verse verse 17 herein is our love made perfect that we may have boldness in the day of judgment because as he is so are we in this world my goodness hallelujah we are not as Jesus after our flesh and bone were not as Jesus after our carnal minds but in our spirit men we are as the Lord we have been totally forgiven we've been totally accepted we've been made the very righteousness of God with the very righteousness of Jesus himself and this is a manifestation of God's love for us and he says herein is our love made perfect wherein does the herein refer back to when you see a here in you got to go back and see where in does here in refer to don't say this is number five that's deep there's that deep that's the here in is here in is our love made perfect where is our love made perfect I bet I'm not the only Christian that's asked why do you see so little love even among God's people why do you see so little love among our churches why do you see some so little love between other ministry gifts and what God's doing in each other's lives I believe with all my heart you cannot love God or you cannot love each other with God's kind of love till you receive God's hand for you a man you can not love with God's love because love is of God it's not of this world it's not of your flesh it's not of your human reasoning it's not of your ability love is of God and every one that loves has to be born of God and no God and he that knoweth not God or he that loveth not knoweth not God man I don't need to get hung up there either but two things quickly I'm gonna make this simple for Andrew so please listen he says in order to love you cannot love God even till you get born again and no God you can't love your spouse you can't love your kids with God's kind of love we can't love each other he says that we have to be born of God number one and no God number two then he says when we don't love each other we don't know God he didn't say when we don't love were not born of God mm-hmm he says when we don't love we don't know God that's why you see so many people born of God that aren't walking in the God kind of love don't understand it aren't able to communicate it their marriages collapse their relationships with their children and and peers begin to collapse because they don't know God's love and that's how our love is perfected one for another and it's verse 19 that he goes on to say I'm going to get there that we love God because he first loved us we couldn't love God till he loved us first we had to receive it to love him back with his kind of love verse 18 says there is no fear in love but perfect love casteth out fear because fear hath torment he that feareth is not made perfect in love we love him because he first loved us that's what I want to hone in on is that there is no fear in love but God's love for you God's love for me cast out all fear not some fear not a little fear all fear all kinds of fear is cast out as you come to believe and come to know God's love for you that's why this is so important it's so important that your you're tuned in right now it's so important that you're focused and that you continue to seek God in this area of his love for you because fear is a part of the human condition and if you don't believe it look at our world today fear is what Satan uses to enslave the masses fear is what Satan uses to bring into bondage and he'll use any kind of fear that you'll subject yourself to that you'll submit yourself to God's church God's people the kingdom is a is a a free from fear zone not because we're not tempted with fear not because we don't have opportunities to be afraid but because we know and believe the love that God has for us so let me cover three major fears that I've had to overcome in my life and I believe everyone eventually has to face these and the only way to overcome them is knowing and believing God's love the world's got all these kind of answers even on how to deal with worry anxiety stress all of these kind of things that are just the outworking of fear and fears of the devil in second Timothy chapter 1 verse 7 God hadn't given us a spirit of fear but of power of love and a sound man now listen at this 2nd Corinthians chapter 4 verse 13 is the counterpart to that Paul says that we've all been given the same spirit of faith as the scriptures according as the Scriptures have said leave and therefore I've spoken we believe and therefore we speak how many of you know when you believe you speak a man and what you believe you speak a man well I believe God loves me and I believe in knowing and believing his love for me all fear is cast out of my heart and out of my life and so fear is a spirit and the world's operating in it and Satan's using it to literally destroy nations today as we speak well faith is a spirit God works in the spirit of faith and we have a spirit of faith among us and faith works Galatians 5:6 says that faith works by love that you don't even have to really struggle with your faith when you're abiding in the love of God faith is just a byproduct ma'am it's like a spirit that works in our heart like fears a spirit that can begin to work in your heart and in your life and enslave you faith is a spirit that works in our lives as we're focused on God's love for us that absolutely liberates you in a powerful way so let's let's look at the three quickly and both of us could spend literally hours on these and and we won't and cain't but I hope to say something that will trigger a hunger a desire to seek God a desire to probe deeper into the very heart of God the nature of God which is is love number one is religious fear religious fear the devil will use religious fear to ensnare the masses to condemn people to shame people to embarrass people to push people into into silence and even the world today is using a form of religious fear to condemn people into silence to condemn people and shame people I don't know what's going on in your country but in our country in many pockets of our country people are using shame and guilt and condemnation to control the masses that's demonic at its heart and God is not like that God doesn't operate that way God doesn't do those kind of kind of things and so religious fear the second one is a fear of man a fear of may this ensnares so many good people this was a huge issue in my life early in my relationship with the Lord early in my ministry and I had to get victory over that and then the third one is a fear of death a fear of death there are people so afraid of death they're no longer living their lives today think about that for a minute let this sink in people are so afraid that you're gonna catch some virus that you're gonna get sick and you're gonna die oh my god stay at home oh my god say closed-in oh my god stay six foot of people oh my god get a mask you know again gloves and and sue and I just haven't been into this social distancing man we're just not we're not going there Ellen you know I called my brother and asked how he was doing and and I didn't get you I got his answering machine so I he called me back and I said where were you you're supposed to be home he says oh I was over at my neighbors we were playing cards and I said you aren't social distancing and he said I'm 75 I've lived a good life I know where I'm going I'm not afraid I have a big time and yet the media and the false prophets Jesus said in the last day there'll be many false prophets deceiving many everybody keeps thinking that's people in a pulpit prophets are people that prophesy the future yeah and these false prophets even on our our national and international news stations are prophesying death and gloom and you're gonna die and they're trying to scare people and control the masses and manipulate people and again that that is demonic and I'm I'm not saying we shouldn't take precautions I'm not saying and there's a thousand things you almost have to say that you're not saying because people don't know how to listen yeah and so I don't have time to qualify everything I'm simply saying that there's a fear of death that people have that's an unhealthy fear it's not of God and it'll it'll it'll keep you from living your life from you living your life our media again in America every day you can turn on the any news cable and we're gonna die you're gonna catch this and die you're gonna catch this and die well first of all ninety-eight percent of everybody that's caught it lives amen you don't hear that second of all I'm not trying to be more gloom and doom than the media but I got some really bad news for all of you you're all gonna die the good news is there's a vaccination it's called the cross Jesus you can get a Jesus shot and overcome death now but you're gonna die of something sometime there's an expiration date on every one of us and you have to learn not to fear death so that you can live your life to its full potential and that's what the devil's after he's not just trying to kill you he's trying to keep you from living an abundant life well I could just about preach I got a calm down I think you just look at the first one religious fear I'm not gonna spend long on this because of my introduction but this is something andrew has ministered his entire life that I admire and this has been a focus of my ministry before I ever really knew him that God took us down this similar trail of of this religious fear that was being used on God's people that had condemnation in it and guilt in it and shaming people and embarrassing people and and threatening people with some type of wrath from God some type of punishment from God some type of curse from God and I'll tell you one of the greatest revelations personally I don't know if if it's a hallmark of my ministry or that big to everybody else but personally one of the greatest revelations I ever got from God was the purpose of the law that confused me more than anything in my Christian experience and I had questions I couldn't get answers to and I saw places in the Bible where God's wrath was revealed and even on God's people and so I'd go to church and I'd hear all these things about God's gonna get you God's gonna punish you God makes us sick if we if we are disobedient God will make you poor well you better tie-dye remember oh man these are bad memories but I was sitting on the front row as a teenager and the pastor said you better tie there God God they used to God back then nobody says it like that now God gaawd gold that you better tie they're gone and I'm not I am making fun that's number five apologize but they would say God if you don't tithe is gonna take it out in doctor bills that's exactly what it for work what they said in my church so we went to the same church maybe that's why we it was in a different state but that's the same but I guarantee you even a lost person will give you 10% and by God off because who wants to go to the hospital people are more afraid of needles than the devil and so that is ungodly in my opinion that is daddy's mean and it misrepresents the goodness of God and the kindness of God but yet what happened was people would look at the Old Covenant law and how that administration of condemnation and death second Corinthians chapter 3 says operated and they tried to bring that over into New Testament grace not realizing that this is one of the primary purposes of the Cross and why Jesus went to crawl to the cross and and bore the curse of that Old Covenant law again I dug it out I had to dig it out on my own what was the purpose of it how long did it last why did God give it why did God wait so long to give it if the law was everything religion makes it out to be why didn't God give it to Adam why didn't God give it to any how did he get so close to the Lord that the guy just disappeared and he didn't have the law of Moses and so I had all these questions until I had to dig all of that out because under the law God's wrath was manifest from heaven and it's Romans chapter chapter 4 verse 15 that says it was the law that worked God's wrath you can literally see in the Bible before the Old Testament law you can see the love of God you can see the mercy of God you can see the patience of God you can see the long-suffering of God coming right up to the flood and other illustrations with sodom and gomorrah just constant long-suffering and a nature that was the nature of god and his love and then all the sudden when the law comes you pick up sticks on the Sabbath and you're fried to the toenails hey I mean Anna it confused me and as I came into my adult life and then ministry I discovered a lot of pastor's were confused and a lot of God's people are confused so when they get sick they think God's doing it to them or if they lose their job or they're downsized or their business went out of business because of of the abuses of authority that's going on right now somehow another they think maybe God is punishing them maybe God is against them God is not the author of coronavirus and God is not the one that made anybody sick he's not making anybody sick God yet and taking your jobs away from you God's not making you poor to Humble you and again I'm saying a lot fast but that is religious fear Luke chapter 1 verse 74 and 75 Zacharias is filled with the Holy Spirit he starts to prophesy he's he's excited first of all that he can talk again McMinn an angel made him dumb yeah when he misspoke and I think there's a lot of people at least bodies made dumb well it was an angel that made him done what's your Excuse I don't know but anyway he has struck dumb and all of a sudden now that that that is lifted and so he starts prophesy and he's filled with the Holy Spirit he starts prophesying and one of his prophecies within that was that God has come to save us who Jesus is the Messiah of the of the lineage of David and that he'll he'll destroy our enemies and that we can now serve God verse 74 we can serve God without fear in holiness and righteousness all the days of our lives God doesn't want us serving him out of fear now I'm time out of a demonic fear a tormenting fear the reasons this is hard to do this fast is because people right now I guarantee you many of your listening with what about the fear of the Lord the fear of the Lord is not a demonic fear it's not being afraid of God it's not being scared of God it is not if I mess up he's going to punish me if I don't do what's right he's gonna kill one of my kids that's not the fear of the Lord the fear of the Lord is this respect for God this reverence of God this ah of God that he is awesome and worthy of our praise worthy of our worship to fear God is to obey Him out of a heart of Thanksgiving and a heart of love the fear of the Lord is healthy Jesus in Isaiah chapter 11 he walked in the fear of the Lord he wasn't scared of God man he wasn't afraid of God he loved his father so much and respected his father so much he didn't say anything till he heard him say it he didn't he didn't what'd I say say anything till he heard him say it he didn't there were too many things he didn't do anything till he saw him do it so you need me to help you yeah I guess I do there's great grace coming up on me as I humble myself pride who just absolutely it'll just stop the grace of God and it's bad y'all y'all work all that out bottom line is God's not killing our kids getting it God's not putting cancer on us God's not causing heart attacks thank you Jesus thank me God's not making you port that's religious fear and the gospel and the heart of the gospel is how that Jesus bore the curse of the law Galatians 3:13 is the sum total of what I'm saying how that Christ hath redeemed us we're redeemed some people say well I'm redeemed redeemed from what I'm redeemed from the curse of the law Christ being made a curse for me for it's written cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles now and man through through faith Romans 8:1 there is no condemnation for those that are in Christ Jesus who walked after the flesh but after the spirit for the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death for what the law could not do God sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin condemned sin in the flesh that's the flesh of Jesus that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh Jesus did what I couldn't do keep the law he went to the cross and paid for what I did do break the law and then he who was raised from the dead on the third day to do what the law couldn't do make me righteous through simple faith in the presence and the God praise God that's God's love for us Saints and we need to celebrate that and believe it and come to know it in greater dimensions number two is the fear of man the fear of man this is an unhealthy need for acceptance and love God didn't create us for anything to be beat but to be containers and expresses of his love God didn't create any of us to be rejected God didn't create any of us to be mocked God didn't create any of us to be hated by other people or groups we weren't created for that we were created to be loved by God and to love each other that's the human design that's why I hate poisons the heart and destroys people's lives the human heart wasn't created by God to contain hate it was created by God to contain his love and so we have this deep need to be loved and accepted but what's happened is sin coming into the world caused man to go horizontal for his acceptance for his honor for his value for his worth to look horizontal instead of vertical Adam had a vertical relationship with God before sinning in the world and and he didn't have a care he was he was complete he he knew he was loved he knew he had he knew he had worth he had no insecurities he had no fears he had no worries I mean we could go on and go on with the condition he was created in in a vertical relationship well his choice to sin against God broke that between him and God and instead of going to God he he went and man continues to go horizontal tell me I'm okay tell me I'm special tell me I have value tell me I have work don't I have work worth look at the car I Drive don't I don't I have value look at the whole money don't I have worth look at the job I have I'm an essential worker boy I don't know what's going on in the UK but I'm here to tell you if you have a job and you're putting food on the table you're an essential or man-made man and no government has right to tell anybody that's working which is a commandment of God by the way a right from God to work no authority on this earth has that authority to call us essential or non-essential workers God has called you an essential worker and he's called you to work that's celebrating God's image were created in the image of God and in the likeness of God God works so you work a lot of people get confused on the Sabbath and they talk about the Sabbath the Sabbath the seven and that commandment is on the seventh day wrist no the commandment is work six days that didn't fly and on the seventh wrist they were commanded to work six days and then so okay let's move on God still loves you bottom line is proverbs 29:25 says that the the the fear of man is a snare but they that trust the Lord will be safe and then he says everybody seeks the ruler or the Kings favour so he gives you a clue there about what kind of fear of man he's really talking about that is a snare and that is when you look to people to define you when you look to people to determine and what they had to say are you good or bad are you essential or non-essential are you valuable or not valuable if you go horizontal you're not biting in the love of God once you go vertical then you see your great value that's the love of God you know there's a scripture I need to slow down for just a second here I do want to turn to and that is John chapter chapter five let's turn there John chapter five I grew up in what is commonly called the error of the faith message the word and faith message and and that was valuable to me it was huge in my life and in my beginning and so I tended a lot of a lot of circles where faith was the emphasis because I knew that's what pleases God I figured it out that I'm not pleasing God and he's not asking me to please him with my holiness but with faith in the holiness of Jesus and so I knew why faith pleased God Hebrews 11:6 so I needed to grow in my faith and so I go to all these conferences and to this day and I'm sure you've said it I haven't heard everything you've you've said so I'm not I'm not saying this about you especially right here right now I don't need number six but how can I go to all these conferences and not hear the scripture I'm about to read because the scripture I'm about to read was Jesus's commentary on the number one killer of your faith because when you look for the favor of man when you seek for the favor of man when you go horizontal for all your value and all of your your worth that kills faith obedience in them it will kill your faith obedience I've asked myself and tried to improve in my faith obedience again why are so many pastors even afraid to preach the Word of God why are they afraid to make certain stands well I'm not being critical I'm trying to speak the truth here and as much love as I have in my heart most of them are afraid of the rejection of their peers they're afraid and have the fear of man's right I tell you I know we had to do things decent and in order and the first time I came your your livestream broadcast I'd shared controversial passage out of first Corinthians eight first Corinthians 14 on people of weak faith and how that we we can't impose our faith and we do need to be loving and kind and and understanding of what people are going through during this Cove vid 19 season on the on the other hand there's a point where we're not operating in the love of God if we don't teach people the truth about how to overcome their fears and ma'am we can't cuddle and coddle fear we we don't need to be mean to people or imposing or act like our faith is better or greater but we can't we can't impose it either on people and then secondly there are a lot of churches that aren't opening and I know this we're all having to walk this out so please hear my heart and and be compliant within conscience and Scripture but they are afraid of what people would have to say about them opening they're afraid of the media people go to Washington DC and aliens suck their brains out of their head here in America and we vote for people with a moral compass we vote for people to go up there we want loving opposition we don't want all this death and darkness and culture of death we want somebody to go up there and speak the truth in love and make some stands and these people cave and when you talk to them they're scared they're afraid of what man will do to them Psalms chapter 56 verse four and eleven David said I will not fear what flesh can do to me yet today even pastors are afraid of what the media thinks of them what they'll say about them and again I'm not being mean amen intentionally intentionally but there's a point where we got to obey God hey man you got to follow God many of you are disobeying God and you love God with all of your heart but you're afraid of what your parents might say you're afraid of what your spouse might think you're afraid of what your kids might say you're afraid of the people that go to your church and what they might think of you or say about you if you start to believe certain things that is a fear of man and you have to overcome that and the only way you can overcome it is how much God loves you amen amen you know the the you're one of your us senator our representatives I'm not sure if it's a senator of Representatives but Bobby and Ian mutual friend of ours he helped him get elected and hero ran on this moral code that he was going to stand up and the very first thing he voted on in there he flip-flopped and voted for abortion and Bobby Union called him and asked and he says you don't know the pressure and it's exactly what he needed hear what he's saying I mean we could give you testimony of testimony of people that don't know God's love and believe God's love for man because they aren't receiving God's love that deep need for love that deep need to be accepted and valued and appreciated and respected goes horizontal and every time it'll kill your faith and it'll cause disobedience in your life and Jesus said it here in verse 43 of John chapter 5 I am come in my father's name and you received me not if another shall come in his own name him you will receive think about that I came in the name of the Father and you've rejected me but if people have come in their own name you'll receive them then look at this how can you believe which receive honor one of another and seek not the honour that cometh from God only a man jesus said the number one killer of your faith is seeking honor of man how can you believe how you gonna operate and faith in let me tell you something I love you but if you're not operating in faith in time you will operate in fear that's right you can't straddle the fence on this you're either going to act in faith you're gonna act in here now you can waver and you can go back and forth at times but you can't walk the middle of the road you're gonna have to believe God if you're going to believe God you're gonna have to believe what God says above what man says and yet I pastor I believe one of the greatest churches in our country here in America and I love our church but I'm telling you they'll listen to an anchor on the 6 o'clock news and just because an anchor said it it's gospel truth I come along say the opposite and they question me I come along and show you what God's Word says and they doubt and question God's Word instead of doubting the 6 o'clock news anchor and I don't know what time your anchor comes on but you need to believe God above any anchor you need to believe God above any Amen any model my goodness don't help me Jesus what does it take for us to wake up we're getting to live and see well this model says and it's proven wrong the next day another model and it's proven wrong the next day another month when does it come to the point that we all go we're not gonna believe in those models we're gonna look at the model of Jesus and then we're gonna follow his model that's to say yesterday today and forever amen praise the Lord amen so a fear a fear of man one more John 12 because this is huge John chapter 12 I want you to see it those of you that are watching I don't want you to be too lazy now you still need to have your Bible or whatever you have a Bible on John chapter 12 look at verse 41 now and this is so maybe not to you but to me it's big these things Jesus is speaking here John chapter 12 and we don't have time the reason we give you the references is so that you can make sure you check the context and you check what was said before and after because we just can't read all of it he said these things said Isaiah when he saw his glory and spake of him nevertheless he's talking about Jesus now and the miracles and signs and wonders and how that that people couldn't see and people's hearts were hard and they couldn't hear and and then he he talks about Isaiah prophesied of this then it says though never less among the chief rulers also many believed on him but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him lest they should be put out of the synagogue for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God think about that for a minute we've all been there I'm not condemning you I'm not trying to put you down or myself down but man I've been there and I praise God that it's his love that brought me out of that that if you don't watch it you you crave the praise of men more than the praise of God and here's what's really sad Andrew I guarantee you I guarantee you this is so sad and yet I know I'm right about this 90% I bet 90% of everybody watching thousands of people are watching right now all over the world and they didn't even catch when I read it that these people disobeyed God they believed and they confess that Jesus was Lord they were oblique but they were afraid that the Pharisees would kick him out of the synagogue they would be rejected they would be marked they would be persecuted they would be afflicted so then it says they loved the praises of men more than of God you know what the real kicker there is that people don't know is that God praises them most people have no idea God's attitude toward them most people have no idea God can't be praising me man I didn't tie it last week God can't be praising me man I had bad thoughts and I was lusting last week and they go right back into the flesh right back into the carnal right back into doubt and unbelief not realizing God's unconditional unmeasurable unmerited love for you that it changes not and that he praises you not because of you but because of your faith in Jesus that God sings over you self and I said Zephaniah 3:17 we don't have time but he talked about a day coming that God would save us and that God would rejoice over us listen at this and would rest in his love I mean you know my God rejoices over us not because we've all been good troopers not because we haven't done anything wrong and because we've done everything right God rejoices over us because we put our faith in His Son Jesus Christ we accepted his love God is at rest in his love for us maybe we need to learn to rest in his love for a man God is at peace with us through the blood of his cross and made peace with us and is no longer angry with us maybe we need to rest in his peace amen maybe we need to make peace with God now because he's already made peace with us maybe we need to love God back because we see how much he's loved us man all right the last one and I got just enough time to to highlight this and this is huge go to Hebrews 2 Hebrews chapter 2 and that's the fear of death the fear of death and these were some of the most difficult scriptures for me early in the ministry because as a pastor I have to deal with death I have to deal with life and and life in the womb and I have to deal with life all the way to the tomb to the tomb I'm a pastor and so I'm having to deal with all these things I'm seeing miracles I'm seeing signs and wonders I've seen six people raised from the dead one one being my own grandson that was dead for 30 minutes and came back and his by the way those of you that have kept up with you rious and all his reports he is above normal and all activity in his brain is perfect and just totally miraculously healed and so you see these things you experienced these things and so you're you're you're all excited about this power and then so-and-so does and then you pray they don't come back amen and then you have services I remember we had a service one time we how did you believe it was the beginning of our made we have this thing called Jubilee it's our major week of Thanksgiving in and it was kicking off and a lady died in the service died in the praising died what we're trying to have church how rude she got during the worship and the truth of the matter is we were all trying to press in and she made it hallelujah she entered on into glory well I prayed for her and I fully expected her to come back and she didn't come back and so you you grapple with these things you're trying to to work them all out I mean even look at Lazarus you see that miracle and you say God I want to walk in that and and I have to a measure but I know there's more and I'm going to but even Lazarus died again physically I mean and when Jesus raises you from the day I think it's a perfect no Direction half of the people operates from the dead died in amen so Jesus raises people from the dead he didn't raise everybody from the dead but he raises Lazarus but then Lazarus goes on to die so you're you're having to deal with all this so then you come to Hebrews 2 and it's like this is a huge and I get all excited and especially when you're young in ministry I know that might be hard for you to remember but when you go back early in your my time is coming when you go back early in ministry there were things that excited you even after the flesh now I mean I'm not saying I don't get excited but the last miracle I saw it's like and it feel nothing I expected it I'd have felt something - had I not seen this right not felt something because I've seen it so you do grow in these things but you just have these greater expectations and again I remember reading this and then having to minister it the excitement of it but then the of it then what does this really mean look at Hebrews 2:9 but we see Jesus who was made a little lower than the Angels for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor that he by the grace of God remember this should taste death for every man oh my goodness that lights my fire he should taste death for every man see a lot of people have come to believe that he bore their sins and that's a huge leap for a lot of people that he truly bore your sin 2,000 years over 2,000 years into the future it was your very sins he born but they still haven't really embraced the understanding that he didn't have any death of his own he tasted your death he entered our death he took our debt he well he took my sins I believe that he took your death see it's not the Gospels not in theory the gospel is not just theology the gospel is the reality of God entering into humanity becoming a man and literally bearing in his body in his own flesh the sins of the world and the man stay calm the man had no sin of his own he didn't sin to take your sin and listen he had no death of his own he tasted death thank you Jesus whew that's alive at me right now hallelujah for it became him from whom all things from whom are all things and by whom are all things in bringing any means many sons unto glory to make the captain of their salvation perfect through suffering for both he that sanctifies and they who are sanctified are all one for which cause he's not ashamed to call them brethren more aren't you glad God's not a Shaykh Jesus is not ashamed to call you his brother thank you we're brother and he loves us he hugs us he doesn't believe I'm not being mean but he doesn't believe in social distancing I know there's a place maybe for it don't miss me but I'm telling you Jesus is hugging on you Jesus's ma'am do you know affection isn't love I'm going to get into this in one of my sessions affection isn't the source of love but it affects your affection and one of the things the devil is trying to do is to cause our love for one another the wax cold not shake hands not hug not greet one another with a holy kiss that's a part of of a culture of love and the devil hates it he literally hates it and I'm not giving it up now I'm gonna walk in wisdom but I'm not giving up and I'm gonna kiss you and I'm not gonna French kiss any of you but I will kiss you thank you Jesus thank you Jesus that's a word picture I got to get back to this verse 12 saying I will declare thy name unto my brethren in the midst of the church will I sing praising Jesus is in the midst of the church singing praises to the Father that's how one he is with us that's how accepted we are in the beloved Ephesians 1 3 through 6 that's how if God spared not his own son but freely getting him up for us all how shall he not with him freely give us all things this is his life for us for as much then verse 14 for as much then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood he also himself likewise took part of the same that through death he might destroy him then at the power of death that is the devil and that just said that Jesus through taking my death tasting death for me destroyed the devil they man now I used to read that as a young pastor and don't be Jesus evidently destroyed that being annihilate like there is no devil and he doesn't exist and the Greek it means to render Idol or inoperative the devil's head has been crushed him and that's the first promise God made to humanity not just Adam and Eve he made it to us he made it to Abraham Isaac and Jacob he made it to the church in Genesis chapter 3 there will be the seed of the woman women don't have seen women have egg men have seed that is a prophetic word of a virgin birth of Mary through the seed of the woman he will have his heel bruised but he will crush your head Jesus through the resurrection in entering your death and tasting death for us has rendered the devil inoperative in our lives we don't have to put up with half of the three corners of the stuff we put up with we can fight back you need to get the book the authority of the believer I could have wrote that book I'm not boasting but I'm saying that's a revelation and everybody's got to understand him God's power in the earth but man's Authority it's it's him entering our death that gave us that a thorn out watch this first Corinthians I got to quit first Corinthians 15 56 says the sting of death is sin the strength of sin is the law Jesus dealt with both of them at the cross America oh listen to me this is good there's a sting with death that humanity experiences without faith in God and there's a strength of the law of strengthening sin empowering sin if you don't understand grace and love for you Jesus at the cross fulfilled the law he fulfilled the demands of the law the law said the soul that sins must die that's the law in just one one verse that I finally pulled it all down the soul that sins must die well that's everybody all have sinned and come short of the glory of God so what did Jesus mean at least in part when he said I come to fulfill it was to enter your death he didn't just bear your sin he bore your death he entered your death now watch this he took the sting out of death Psalms 23 David is celebrating and he says yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil for thou art with me thy rod and thy staff they comfort me you've prepared a table before me in the presence of my enemies we've been delivered from the powers of darkness and translated in the kingdom of God's dear son but not the presence of Darkness and Jesus has prepared a table and through our authority now and his great love for us we can live and walk by faith now and he says death for a believer is a shadow listen shadows have no substance shadows have no substance they're real they cast a shadow of something that is real Jesus took the sting and reality of death and as a believer we just go through the shadow of death into the very presence of God when we say goodbye to this world and hello Jesus one quick story I went hunting years ago in West Texas and people loved to to get a preacher back they just if they get an opportunity they'll dig you they'll do anything they can to get kind of like you do me know like you do me now I'm gonna finish this story so we're hunting deer and I'm at that I told them you take whatever part of this ranch you want I'll take the worst part of this ranch because I knew God would send me the deer and so I go off by myself on the worst part of the ranch hunting well their guns start going off sounded like World War three I'm not exaggerating I am and I have a plan and I mean here come here come a jeep dust just boiling up pasture a tree you got to come see what was shot and this guy is all excited he's jumping up and down he's all excited and he wouldn't tell me what you shoot I didn't know if they shot a herd of hogs if they all shot a deer all eight of them or something like that so he's all excited he said now just follow me pastor and we come up on this ledge and there's these tiers of rocks on this ledge and and he said just follow me there down at the bottom and you you're gonna be so excited and so I'm running and so he starts running so I'm running right behind and I jump off this cliff and we get into these rocks and I jump off into another and I'm in the middle of nine rattlesnakes they had found a den and one of the rattlesnakes had come out too son it got hot that day and they put gasoline in the den and nine rattlesnakes half of them were over six foot some of them were seven foot long and they'd shot their heads off but they were still moving and they were still rattling and I jumped right in the middle of that and them guys started laughing and falling on the ground and I mean fear now don't misunderstand me I am I'm not a friend afraid of man nor beast but I have an awesome respect for snakes and women you can really get bit it's so obvious paralyzed then they're all laughing at my expense and I thought I've got to overcome this and I reach down and I grab one of those rattlesnakes in this end I grabbed one in this end and they wrapped around my arm and was going to and I just turned around and just gave out a shout of victory as I held them up you know what those rattlesnakes could not hurt me they had their heads crushed I said they had their heads crushed I said they had their heads crunch that they could hurt me they were making noise like they could hurt me listening the only thing they could've heard it was fear fear could have caused me to have a heart attack think of Jesus for delivered us from those a mess here it could have caused me to follow him down the cliff and die man I mean no Amen didn't mean it man bottom line is there is no fear in love but perfect love casteth out here hey great worried father I just thank you for my brothers and sisters all over the world I thank you that greater is He that's in them than he that is in the world and I thank you Oh God Jesus you have tasted death for all of us you took the sting out there is no fear even at the Grail grave where is your victory oh man thanks be unto God that gives us the victory even over the grave and while if you tarry Jesus will leave these bodies and enter into your presence but we shall never ever die a man thank you that we are alive forevermore with eternal life through faith in you and there is no fear in our hearts in Jesus name Amen and amen and man that's a great word that's great were you headed to verse 15 well I ran out of time I just did a Bible study on that that well why don't you finish no you it's your sermon but yeah but you've preached out of it i restrained myself and delivered them she really did I'm sorry and I'm not sorry I'm blessed and highly favored but I apologize see there's another way first fifteen and delivered them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage so he's right I didn't in that well that screw you did great but that puts it puts it all out that that's what fear will do to you any kind of fear will bring you into bondage and Jesus came and is for freedom Galatians 5:1 it is for freedom that Christ has made us free amen well I just got you for helping me with that well you're welcome you need it I was just I just got that we had thirty eight hundred and eighty six people watching right now from 20 different countries yeah man that's awesome and you know these are people that are watching right now some people count all of the people who like and everything and it goes up into the hundreds of thousands but these are people that are on right now I'd like to ask Billy Everhart if he would to come up here for those of you that don't know Billy is the CEO of our ministry Paul Milligan has traveled with me to the UK for many years and he's ministered and taken up received offerings but this is Billy Eberhardt matter of fact I met Billy through Paul Milligan they are best friends and Paul is still working for us running our business school still a great blessing but man he he needed to retire he needed a break I just about wore the boy out I'm trying to pace Billy so I don't wear him out but this is Billy Eberhardt and I wanted to ask him if he would to receive an offering and like I said at the very beginning even though you know we aren't there and let me and let me give a real quick testimony before Billy does this but you know Telford which you've been there in Telford with us I forget the exact expense but we had already paid them fifty thousand pounds that was the down payment on that facility and when all of this came up they weren't going to give us any money back we were gonna lose fifty thousand pounds and that same day I had to pay sixty eight thousand pounds to the AVL people and I had to put another deposit of 20 something thousand pounds down on housing our accommodations for people in so anyway Dominic burns which praise God he's one who runs our office over there he went back and talked to them and did you know just out of the goodness of their heart I mean their contract they had us but they gave us twenty five thousand pounds back and they applied the other twenty five thousand pounds to next year raised us raised god and then I cancelled the AVL and the reservation so praise God we weren't out any money for that it normally takes about two hundred thousand yet hounds for that's a huge answer to prayer that was those were things we were praying about we just hated to see that well I did too that's that's money out of the kingdom so anyway praise God for that but you need to so because man you need to be a part of what God's doing God is doing some awesome awesome things no you take I'm good well greetings everyone wasn't that awesome at wise and that was powerful Dewayne no kid nah I got the shouting over there thinking about some things because we just my you know there's no sting and death a man and Jesus mean meaning for the believer well today I want to just share a couple of verses with you here on giving and for those of you that are in the UK you would go to the UK website I think you'll see that and then those of you here in America can give at the awm I dotnet so wherever you're watching even if you're in another country somewhere you can give that way as well and so this this afternoon and over there this evening let me just share a verse a couple of verses some that you already know really well a couple of them you may not but one of the things that I want to share with you I believe is a revelation on understanding giving is most of us have know the scripture Luke 6:38 we quoted we talked about it even there have been you know sermons and series of messages even preached on it so it's been dissected just about every way you can but it just simply says you know the first part of it give and it shall be given to you and then the promise goes on good measure pressed down shaken together and running over the Bible says in men will give into your bosom and so one of the things that I think as a believer we need to really understand is when we give how does the return from God really come back to us and one of the things I want to talk about really is where it comes back to us because most of the time people believers have a mindset and I know we have how many countries did you say we hit 20 we have 20 different countries watching right now with this is so believers all over the world they have a mindset that when I give so for example if I bring my tithe or if I give over and above my tithe you know some 20 percent 30 percent whatever that that the way it comes back to me is just somebody's gonna walk up and just give me money in other words that that's how it comes back and and believe me I thank God when that happened it's praise God I call that the blessings of the Lord I remember the first time when Becky and I were just a young couple and I was that we were in a Lamaze class which I don't encourage you to go to and that's for you know yes babies enough and I remember a lady walked up to us who didn't know us from anywhere I mean she didn't know it wasn't anyway we were in Dallas Texas and there was there's millions of people in Dallas Fort Worth she just walked up to us and and handed us a hundred dollar bill and said the Lord told me to give this to you well I didn't know her she didn't know me and and I've rejoiced praise God for that kind of receiving or that kind of given coming back can you say Amen but I think I think one of the greatest revelations we can have on giving and so I just want to give you a quick encouraging word and this had to come it's come in my life I'm only 39 years old I'm only 39 but in a short period of time I've lived but I feel like Jesus crucified between you just get them to tell the truth I'm just glad to be next to you you were saying the tomb is 39 yes and I weigh 110 pounds but oh here we go but we think that the giving somebody's just going to give money to us but one of the things I want to encourage in is the verse I want to read and I'm doing this from the New King James Psalms 85 and verse 12 says let yes the Lord will give what is good so remember Luke 6:38 giving it shall be given right said yes the Lord will give what is good in the same verse right here not the next verse same verse it says and and our land will yield its increase and our land will yield its increase Joshua chapter 5 this would be the last verse and verse 14 says let me find it here and then no more manna the manna stopped as soon as they started eating food grown in the land there was no more manner for the people of Israel that year they ate from the crops of Canaan and I read that from the message not the New King James but what I want to just encourage you quickly with all over the world as you're watching this is when we give that God can cause somebody to walk up in a hospital and hand you a check or money and it could be not a hundred dollars it could be ten thousand dollars so thank God for that kind of blessing that comes but the primary way that God brings his blessing back to us is in the land that he gives us right and I want you to hear me now and so so when we believe and when we receive our faith or when we excuse me when we release our faith as we give some of you right now you may say well I don't have any land your land is in your dream let God give you a dream of something that God wants you to believe far or something that you're expecting but for many of you that are that are listening right now your land may be your place of employment or your job for others it may be a business you own for others it may be investments that you have for some of you it may be all three and for others you may not have any of that you may not even have a job right now where you're watching you don't have investments you don't have anything else I want to encourage you for a minute when you give the the way I believe the seed of that giving comes back is God gives you a dream he gives you something specific to believe pharkas Hebrews 11:1 says faith is the substance of things hoped for so hope is the vision or the dream that you have on the inside of you and for many of you when you give the seed of where you start to prosper I never owned any real estate when I first started on every day even on my own house my own personal home back when I started and I was young in my 20s and as God began to put the seed as I gave as I began to sow as I begin to believe God began to give me a dream of my own land and as I began to walk in that dream then that land began to expand and grow and God bless me out of the increase of that land so I want you to hear me when you give God will give back to you but it's not just somebody walking up in a hospital giving you a hundred dollar bill the greatest return listen I was excited about that hundred dollar bill number one I didn't have a hundred dollars number two I needed a hundred dollars but the real power is not when somebody just walks up and gives you a hundred dollars we're thankful for the real powers when in your land for example you have a piece of property and you sell it and you put two hundred thousand dollars free and clear in your pocket amen now all of a sudden we had a different level than a hundred dollars amen are you invest in something else turns into a million dollars so what I want to encourage you with in the body of Christ is that some of you have nothing right now meaning heavily materially in your life but as you give God will give back to you the dream the seed of a dream of where he wants you to do it go where at what land he's calling you into the place that he wants you to set your land and so when you begin to do that then out of that God will then bring divine connections and God opportune moments people you have never met experiences you have never had God will bring those things into your life to cause great increase to come to you and he'll cause that increase to come and out of your land on that a on that day the manna ceased in the eighth of the produce of their land so today I want can I pray yes sir you know can I can pray okay this pray I want to pray and I want you today wherever you are is that if you have absolutely nothing the seed that God gives to you of nothing is the dream the faith faith is the substance of things so far some of you are just now coming into a land some of you are going are now there's other things happening and so as we pray and you give I want you to believe in see on the land that God has for you so father right now we come before you we thank you for the promise of your word we declare today that on that day the manna ceased and they ate of the produce of their land and Lord we thank you today as we declare that we know there are some right now even in this auditorium around the world 20 different countries we know there are people that they don't have anything naturally or materially father but they have a dream and so father we pray today that you bless them in the work of their hands around that dream those that have investments those today that have businesses those today that have jobs we pray in the name of Jesus and we speak blessing an increase today as they give over their land and then father we give you the praise and we thank you for it in Jesus name everybody said amen amen thanks Billy that's a great word and I could get off and talk about that because that is true a lot of people are just expecting it to fall out of heaven that's not how it happens so anyway that's great if you are here in this service we have buckets as you leave that you could put your offering in and of course those of you are watching can always go to a WMI dotnet or if you're in the UK it's a WM e dot net I believe net and we would love to have you sow into this ministry you know I'm excited about what the Lord spoke to me God doesn't usually tell me what to minister in advance if he does it's because there's gonna be some reason that I might not have followed his leading you know if I if I if he hadn't already told me most of the time when I get up God just inspires me on the spur of the moment and it's not like I'm not prepared I've been preparing for 52 years but you know I've got all of these things inside of me and God just tells me that this is what you're supposed to administer but Dewayne started ministering on the love of the Lord and started talking about fear perfect love cast out fear and God put it on my heart to minister on the fear of the Lord amen which I might have thought you know maybe this wouldn't complement what Dwayne is saying but really it is a perfect fit and he spent probably 15 minutes trying to talk about you know that the fear of the Lord the positive fear of the Lord isn't rejection they fear dread all these kind of things so actually I'm excited about this because I think it's a perfect fit absolutely this is like a right hand and left hand some people might say they're opposites but no they complement and it's like the flip side of a coin so I'm going to be talking about for the next two days today in the next two days going through the fear of the Lord and I got 17 pages which is unusual for me to have all these notes but I got 17 pages of nothing but scriptures there's nothing in between them and we had a lot to go through but this really complements what Dwayne is saying perfectly you know the actually not only compliments perfectly the fear of the Lord comes out of our love back to God amen it is a manifestation of our life that fear is just so thankful so respectful so just loving of God so I'm excited about it so first of all let me define fear here this is a American Heritage Dictionary and the first definition is a feeling of alarm or disquiet caused by awareness or expectation of danger that's what Duane was talking against you know having the fear of men and all of this and that's not what we're talking about with the fear of the Lord second one is a state of dread that's not what we're talking about the third definition is concerned solitude which means care but it's the fourth definition which is what the scripture is talking about and it's all and reverence and even the American Heritage Dictionary defines this is all reference and then they used the fear of God so when we're talking about the fear of the Lord we aren't talking about being afraid of him man perfect love first John 4:18 has cast out fear God did not give us a spirit of fear and everything that Wayne is saying this isn't contradicting it at all it fits and actually I'm excited about this doing because sometimes people will hear we emphasize the love of God and talk against you know being afraid like the law put fear in us and stuff like this and people go out and they it's like you were saying they don't listen very well they also don't think very well and they can't put together the fear what the scripture says about the fear of the Lord and perfect love casting out fear and so I'm really excited I think that this is going to give you a well-rounded opinion of some things that will really be a blessing and so let me just point out right here this verse Dwayne mentioned this I thought you were gonna get off and preach on the fear of God because you mentioned this very verse but let me read this to you out of Isaiah chapter 11 verse 1 and if I had time I could prove to you this is talking about Jesus this is prophetic scripture and it says in verse 1 and there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse and a branch shall grow out of his roots and the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him the spirit of wisdom and understanding the spirit of counsel and might the spirit of knowledge the fear of the Lord this is talking about Jesus that the fear of the Lord rested upon him the third verse says and shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes neither reprove after the hearing of his ears so Jesus had a fear of the Lord and as Dwayne said he certainly wasn't afraid of his father this is talking about that he had a respect a love a reverence a fear not in the sense of being punished but a fear of doing something that would ever hurt the person that you loved so much amen it's that kind of a fear aw and reverence and let me just establish that this is not just an Old Testament thing here's New Testament Scriptures in Acts chapter 9 and verse 31 then had the churches rest throughout all of the all Judea in Galilee this is talking about after Paul had been converted and he quit persecuting the church then had the churches rest throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria and were edified and walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit were multiplied so this is the New Testament church after the death and resurrection after the day of Pentecost and the New Testament church was walking in the fear of the Lord second Corinthians chapter 7 verse 1 says having therefore these promises dearly beloved let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit perfecting holiness in the fear of God and this is something I'm gonna come back to if I could get through this I just did four hours of teaching for Creflo on this and and I got through page 8 of 17 in 4 hours so I'm not sure how far I'm gonna go but in my notes I'm gonna talk about how the fear of the Lord actually causes you to live a holy life and again this isn't fear of being punished or rejected by God it's not that kind of a fear but man when you receive the love that duane is talking about understand that God loves us and rejoices over us you know that verse you used in Zephaniah 3:17 I just taught on that in a Bible study I think it was yesterday morning and and I was reminded that the words there when it says he he rejoices over us with joy the word literally means to twirl and dance as in the day of the festival yeah the day of the festival and I remember when Jamie and I were just getting started and we were in civil Texas and we only had about seven or eight people there and we didn't have enough money to pay the electric bill so we had no lights and no heat in the winter and we were sitting around electrical spools is what we use for tables and we had wine bottles and candles in them and that's what we were that's our church service and we were just worshiping the Lord and Jamie actually saw angels in that place dancing and twirling this is before we knew what the Hebrew word said and she literally saw these angels dancing over us and with joy and so anyway when you get a fear of God and you understand how much he loves you you love him back so much you don't want to do anything to disappoint him it's that kind of a fear like you know Dana and I have a great relationship despite what it may look like at times and how we kind of jab at each other but you know insults kind of the highest form of flattery around I'm highly favored but anyway we got a good relationship and I loved Wayne and it would really I mean I I have a fear a holy fear of not doing anything to offend Duane and it's not a fear that Duane would reject me or anything like that it's just that I love doing and I don't want to lose this relationship and so you know what I I have a fear that's what this is talking about it will cause you to live a holy life also Ephesians chapter 5 verse 21 says that husbands and wives are supposed to submit themselves one to another the fear of God this is New Testament right and did you know really I we could spend the whole time right now talking about marriage and how the fear of God plays into marriage but it's not just about relating only to your mate you aren't just relayed this is what you were talking about earlier about you know man when they lost their vertical relationship with God they became totally dependent on this horizontal thing and a lot of people only have a relationship with their mate on a horizontal plane they look at it as just physical and natural but it says what God has joined together let not man put asunder a three-fold cord is not quickly broken Ecclesiastes chapter 4 God is actually involved in marriage and when you have a fear of God one of the reasons that I'm faithful to Jamie is because yes I love Jamie and I don't want to offend Jamie but I also love God and I do not want to break my covenant with God in this marriage relationship amen so this is saying that you need to submit yourselves one to another in the fear of God and then Ephesians 5:33 it doesn't use the word fear but it's the exact same word matter of fact it's the Greek word phobophobia however you say that in Ephesians 5:33 it says nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself in the wife see that she reverence her husband that is the exact same word that was translated 400 well let me rephrase that this is including old and new testaments so this would also be using a Hebrew word but there are 400 times in 385 verses that the word fear or some form of the word fear was used there 432 verses where excuse me 193 verses where the word afraid was used and that's a total of 625 times that the word is fear fear is used but there are 63 times that it's not talking about a dread of punishment or something like that it's talking about reverence and this is what it's talking about in Ephesians 5:33 where it says the wife see that she reverence her husband so we're supposed to be reverence in God and this does not contradict anything that Dwayne was saying it actually as you were saying when you understand how much God loves you then you have a fear an awe a reverence for God it increases it it doesn't this doesn't undermine or undercut the love of God at all it actually increases it amen amen you got something yeah tomorrow I believe it's tomorrow I hope that those that are with us now can come back because I know you're gonna have to really dig deeper too I'm gonna talk about the dimensions the dimensions of God's love out of Ephesians 3 where it talks about the leek the depth the height and the width the fear of the Lord is this deeper dimension of God's love God's love that even a part of his righteous anger comes out of the fear of God and our righteous anger against certain thing there's a protective form of God of his love God is angry at sin not people because he loves people so even the things that we're confusing for me again about the law and wrath and all of that the love of God began to balance that out but the fear of God that this what you're talking about now would have been that counterbalance of I understand now he doesn't want me serving him out of a tormenting fear I'm scared to death who wants a wife that loves your kids that are loving yet out of some tormenting fear that's I'm afraid I'm going to be punished but that reverence and respect that honor that aw oh my gosh that is a beautiful thing within his love so I'm gonna show too that I know you're going to get to even anger righteous anger and the fear of the Lord happened to have that just has to be there because that's in five and so it would actually help me if you get that far because a lot of people don't understand God's love you can take these and fix them and preach no no this is heard him say that before that is taking some of my messages yeah I've got to fix a lot of stuff you preach but this isn't one of them this is good you're a blessing no I just think this issues I think people are as confused over this the fear of God as they are again the Old Testament law and it's like they want to come out of that finally they get the Grace and the freedom and the love not realizing there is a fear of God that puts a constraint on sin that I'm not afraid of God at all but I just am in all of him you know I think that I understand the love of God as much as anybody I know you said it's you you have God loves you more than me but I don't think so and anyway I understand the love of God but man I have a fear of God not a fear of punishment but I there are things that the Lord corrects me over that I don't even tell other people because there's so minor things that if I was to tell it people that think that's the worst thing that you get or something like that and they would think you got a really sensitive cause and it's intimate to it is I hear people talk about their relationship with the Lord and I admire them for being able to talk about that but just like in a marriage relationship there's just that intimacy within love I believe a lot of what you're saying and going to be saying I'm excited about it has to do with intimacy with God where's those things he says to you and you're saying to him that are between you and him yeah it would help people probably just share it but I'm uncomfortable with certain things because of a fear just that fear of God he just told me something on Tuesday that I hadn't even Jamie and I've been so busy I hadn't shared it with her yet but man the Lord spoke some things to me Tuesday that were awesome but God corrects me over little things by most people's standards but I have such a love for God such a desire to please him that I honestly have a fear of disappointing him not I know that he loves me in spite of what I've been run the less I want to please him I don't want to disappoint him at all so anyway here's a couple of more New Testament Scriptures first Peter chapter 3 verse 15 it says but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear again this is using fear in a positive way there is no doubt that there is a negative fear that has torment and that's not what Dwayne and I are at well Duane's talking against that type of fear I this is not the fear that I'm talking about but this is a godly type of fear that when we minister to other people we ought to have a godly type of fear and meekness you know I've actually shared with our students in school before that when you stand up to Minister some people say but I have a fear on the inside of me well you don't need a dread you don't need to be fearful of people rejecting you you need to be bold and man that verse that you use John 5:45 I 44 I've preached on that many times that that is the number one thing that kills faith is a fear of man how can you believe which receive honor one of another so I agree with that a hundred percent but anyway if you have a fear of people that's wrong but I've told our students I say it's actually good to have a fear when you stand in front of people a fear in the sense that this is serious and dwyane I know that you know you've been in the ministry for 150 years or something he's seen this the same as I have but you mentioned that there was somebody who died while you was preaching I've had that same thing happen in my services we had somebody a little baby that died and they brought him up on this stage right here just last August praise God we got to see that person raised from the dead and then but what I'm trying to say is that you should have a godly type of fear that this is serious that people are going to die if they don't understand this and you know right now the last thing that I've seen we're only two people away from having 4,000 people we need you to call and let get at least two more people to sign up but we've got thousands of people watching this right now and I can guarantee you that if the Lord doesn't return in the next year that the out of these four thousand people there will be somebody that you have a serious health problem are somebody around you there's going to be people that will die there will be marriages it'll fall apart there will be businesses that will fail it's serious what we're doing and there should be you should be able to give an answer with meekness and fear it you should take it seriously and won't again I don't know how to say this any differently but you you need to have a fear that you aren't just wasting time or saying things that are unimportant we need to there is a godly type of fears what I'm trying to say it you absolutely express that mark chapter 4 verse 41 after Jesus had ministered it says they feared exceedingly and said one to another what manner of man is this that even the wind and the sea obey Him and again I think you might be able to say that this could have been some kind of a dread or something but at the same time I believe it was more reverence it was all alike ever just in awe look who look at this is this man right that he speaks in the wind and the sea obey him so those are all New Testament Scriptures talking about a positive fear of God and so fearing God there is a positive way to fear God they're a person that doesn't know the Lord should fear God in the sense that the Lord even said you know don't fear the person that can kill your body but can't do anything to your soul but you need to fear the person who can destroy not only body but soul also in Hell a person that doesn't know the Lord should have a dread and a fear of God now that's not good if they live their whole life that way but it makes them recognize their need for God but once you come to God you should lose your dread and your being afraid of God in that sense but you should have a greater reverence and awe and respect for God then you ever had before you got born again so let me share some scriptures with you that shows you that fearing God is just trusting God psalm 115 verse 13 it says ye that fear the Lord trust in the Lord I believe that there using these verdes words interchangeably in other words fearing the Lord as it's talking about is trusting in the Lord so ye that fear the Lord trust in the Lord he is their help in their Shield the LORD hath been mindful of us he will bless us he will bless the house of Israel he will bless the house of Aaron he will bless them that fear the Lord both small and great I believe every person here would love to see the blessing of God manifest in an even greater way and I guarantee you there is a direct relationship between fearing the Lord in this sense of all love reverence trusting God and having the blessings of God proverbs chapter 3 verse 5 says trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding in all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths be not wise in thine own eyes fear the Lord and depart from evil you know I'm trying I'm trying to get through 17 pages and so I'm rushing through this but let me just say that you could take every phrase in these verses right here and I believe that this is giving you characteristics are expounding on what it means to fear the Lord but specifically in this seventh verse be not wise in thine own eyes fear the Lord and depart from evil I believe that you could say it this way that a person who does things their own way and they only go to God when they have crashed and burned and they've made all of these mistakes and nothing's working and then they run to the Lord no God help me bail me out of this situation you don't fear God fearing God is being not wise in your own eyes part of fearing God is saying God I'm not smart enough to do this on my own god I need you a person who is so self-confident that they can do things on their own and they only run to the Lord after they've messed everything up you may be born again and you may love the Lord but you don't fear God you don't have a reverence for him you actually exalt your own opinion and again you could go back trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding if you are leaning to your own understanding I don't believe you are trusting in the Lord you aren't fearing the Lord you are too self-confident you know a scripture that is really ministered to me is Jeremiah chapter 10 verse 23 and this is right in the midst of the Lord telling the Israelites that because you've forsaken me I'm going to forsake you the people are going to come and destroy your land take you captive they will take your women that are pregnant and rip them up and it was just these terrible things and in the midst of it Jeremiah just starts saying God how could the people who were the apple of your eye the joy of the whole earth how could they come under this kind of a judgment see these terrible things happen and in right in the midst of it verse 23 he answers his own question and he says o Lord I know that the way of man is not in himself it is not in man that walks to direct his own steps and this is how they came to this is because they got to where they didn't need God they were doing it their own way and you know I've made this application a number of times but I think that this is one of the positive things that could come out of all of this virus situation that we've had that there's a lot of people that haven't been seeking God they've been to doing things in their own way leaning onto their own understanding they've been wise in their own eyes and then they come up against something that they can't control and that the doctors don't have control or something to control it with and all of a sudden it shows them that they haven't been depending upon the Lord but you know for me and I was I was watching Raquel the lady that was up here singing in our praise and worship group for those of you who don't know and I was watching her and thinking about Raquel that she had heart failure kidney failure Luke I forget all of the things she was a mess and they actually came to Bible School and within just a week or so they had to leave Bible School because she was literally mine she could not eat anything just a spoonful of something but would just send her into terrible things and herrmann her husband said on the video that we had on our website about this that he was watching her die and she was she was facing death and yet she got hold of the word now she's totally healed and here she is singing and praising God man did you know once you've been delivered from death and once you've come through something like that a virus that only affects one or two percent of people and then it just is nothing you lose that fear in dread but what's happened is a lot of people who are operating in fear not the fear of the Lord but just fear and dread of death this is revealed to them that they weren't trusting in God and when something comes along all of a sudden a painting and I can guarantee you the moment that they come up with a vaccination or a treatment for this cove in 19 then all of a sudden people are gonna be at peace again and that is that is wrong you shouldn't have any less peace now before man has a physical solution for it than you do after they come up with something believers shouldn't be bothered by this at all and if you are I'm saying this in love I'm not condemning you but your trust isn't in the Lord you fear Kovan 19 more than you fear God you reverence what the world is saying about this more than you reverence what God has already said that you should not be afraid for the pestilence that walks in darkness no plague will come nigh your dwelling Psalms chapter 91 and yet there's a lot of people that they put more stock in what the doctors have to say and as you pointed out they have made these predictions and they've missed it every time and they just come right back and make another prediction and then they miss it and no repentance and nothing just you know if preachers missed it as much as these doctors had we would be run town on a rail people are still honoring all of these doctor men in proverbs chapter 29 and I'm going to deal with this more and you dealt with this quite a bit already but the fear of man bringeth the snare but whosoever putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe so again I believe that it's using fear of the Lord and trusting in God interchangeably here so the fear of man this is the negative use of it when you reverence men when you're wanting their acceptance and approval more than you want god that's a snare and this word snare here it literally means a noose and it goes on and just expounds on it in other words this is how satan comes against us all hebrews chapter 2 verse 15 and Jesus came to deliver those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage this is how Satan snares us but if you fear the Lord you don't have any of this amen and you know I can say by the grace of God that we have I've done three zoom meetings in one day in Indonesia Australia and I think is in Bob way all in one day and I've done meetings with South Africa and I don't know all of our places all around the world and did you know by the grace of God there is not one of our offices or Bible schools that people have gotten the virus amen and it's because we have talked the word and they're believing God they're trusting in God and there may be somebody but I haven't heard about it and every one of these meetings that we've had I've asked him so how are you doing if you had anything and it was just South Africa this week that they said they don't even know anybody who's got heard no excuse me is Australia they said they don't even know anybody who's got me amen so man if you trust in God you don't have to fear men that is awesome so here's another scripture about how love fearing God is loving God in Exodus chapter 20 verse 6 it says and he shows mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my Commandments and put that together with Luke 1:15 his mercy is on them that fear him so Luke 1 says that his mercy is on them that fear him Exodus 20 says he shows mercy to those who love him so I believe that you could say that loving God is fearing God and that's what you were saying earlier that if you truly love a person man you just you don't want to do anything that would disappoint them not not that they have to reject you or punish you but you just love them so much you you want that person to take pleasure in you and not be disappointed in you well here's a big one and we could spend a lot of time on this I'm trying to hurry through but did you know that if you don't honor your parents and if you don't honor people you don't fear God look at some verses on this in leviticus 19:3 ye shall fear every man his mother and his father and keep my Sabbath's I am the Lord your God man that's a strong statement and we live in a culture that does not show respect fear reverence and dwyane I know you you're bound to have dealt with this in your churches but you see people who get born again and I mean they're gloriously saved but they have lived a rotten life they rebelled at their parents they rebelled at all authority and even though they're born again you don't just instantly turn that rebellion off right and they've got an attitude that stinks yeah and they don't reverence their parents and I tell you that doesn't mean that the parent has done everything right we don't have any perfect parents I mean Adam and Eve if you want to save somebody they had perfect parents they had they had perfect parents and yet they rebelled at him there there aren't any perfect parents and so I you don't have to wait until you find the perfect family before you reverence them but we ought to go back and thank our parents and honor our parents despite all of the mistakes that they've made at the very least they've given us life I mean and we shouldn't be rebelling and see it you see it at every level when you when you don't fear God it has a ripple effect now you don't you don't fear your parents which cost you dearly things won't go well with you long life is attached to that you don't you don't fear civil authorities you don't fear teachers with a godly fear there's a there's a ripple effect of the negative and a positive ripple effect when people fear God and honor God they fear and honor parents like fear and honor the police they fear and honor the teacher it affects every thread of society that's why this is so important and there's not been enough ministry on the fear of the Lord this is so important yeah these are these verses I'm trying to get to that exact point I noticed this when you were teaching that I thought boy this is exactly and I thought Dwayne's probably going to cover this and I just bit my lip because sure enough you got to it but look at this and the next verse in Leviticus 1932 it says thou shall rise up before the hoary head this stuff at the gray hair and we know a little bit more than you are what I wanted have respect here but go ahead yes and it says thou shalt rise up before the hoary or the gray head and honour the face of the old man and fear thy God I am the Lord and you're supposed to honor people that are older with Newark people in the nursing homes we're seeing things being uncovered today of the abuses in our nursing homes the elderly that lack of respect there directly connects to a lack of respect for God if you don't honor people that are older and again this is not to say that you just rubber-stamp that everything they say or believe is right but if you don't honor them and show some respect you don't fear God well the honor the honor and the respect doesn't come out of their conduct the honor and respect comes out of obedience to God amen just like honoring your parents there are no perfect ones but God put that on you and you're honoring them is honoring God just like dis honoring them then is a dishonouring of God and one of the 10 commandments you know honor your father and mother that your days may be the first commandment with promise it's a one of the Ten Commandments and yet people get born again and they now love God but they still just trash their parents they trash Authority here's some verses about just Authority colossians 3:22 says servants be obedient in all things oh excuse me obey in all things your masters according to the flesh not with eyeservice this means not just when they're looking and you're gonna be inspected or somebody can tell that your things but not with eyeservice as men pleasers but in singleness of heart fearing God you need to obey authority over you because if you don't you aren't fearing God and for doing this you know we're right now today we're dealing with these riots that they're having because of the black men that was killed by a white policeman and Jamie and I were talking about this this morning that there it's unless there's something that I don't know there is no excuse for a policeman just you know killing a person who was on the ground begging for mercy and so man I think that you know if it's the way that it appears that they ought to be held accountable and charged with murder so right there but that does not give anybody an opportunity to just disrespect Authority and they're going into the very neighborhoods the poor black neighborhoods where they say that they are trying to defend those people and they're burning their shops and destroying and looting and I can guarantee you the people that are doing that do not fear God absolutely and I could mention a name of a person I'm not going to do it but a very famous person who's been outspoken on all of this stuff says that when you're in this kind of a situation and they treat you this way you are left there is nothing left you accept rebellion and right and that is wrong that person I can guarantee you does not fear God they they think everything's relative it's all about them and if somebody pushes their hot buttons then they are justified to go and destroy people and it's just terrible the way people are disrespecting Authority and you could talk about again all kinds of Authority teachers business owners your boss on and on and on but the specifically the authority the police and stuff like this this is not to say that all policemen are godly any more than to say all preachers are godly Amen man there's a lot of ungodly preachers and we speak out and criticize that but we respect people that have devoted themselves to the ministry that God has placed an anointing on and we respect authority I'm not going to criticize the authority just for times sake I've got all of these verses listed here Romans chapter 13 talking about that there is no authority or power over you except those that are placed there by God again not saying that God is one that controls their behavior but the authority is there these people that advocate anarchy that is demonic it is absolutely wrong it is not the fear of God and it says he is the minister of God to thee for good but if they'll do that which is evil be afraid and I believe in this instance it's talking about dread yea I think it's talking about his bare lord he bears not a sword in vain here's a here's some other verses did you know that pain ties is a indication that you fear God Deuteronomy chapter 14 verse 22 says thou shalt surely are truly tithe all the increase of thy seed that the field bringeth forth year by year and thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose to place is named there the time of that corn and of thy wine and of thine oil and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks thou may'st that thou mayst learn to fear the LORD thy God well there's a lot in these verses right here you have to learn to fear God it's taught it has to be taught like we none of us came out of the womb speaking English or learning how to read and write you have to learn those things there's effort involved in time and this says that you may learn to fear the Lord fearing the Lord isn't natural I think it's really against our fallen human nature and you have to go out of your way and one of the things that causes you to learn to fear God is to take a portion of what you've got and to give it to him to respect his word more than your need you fear God you fear displeasing God not in the sense of rejection and punishment but you love him so much that if this is what he tells you god I will follow your word and I'll give even if it looks like that I'm gonna have less because of it every time you give and you do it with the right heart you are learning to fear God you are training yourself to put God ahead of your own wisdom you aren't leaning under your own understanding proverbs chapter 3 verse 7 says be not wise in thine own eyes I already read this verse but it applies here fear the Lord and depart from evil again if you don't depart from evil you don't fear God and one of my favorite scriptures I'm going to get to this again in probably another session but in Psalms chapter 36 verse 1 it says the transgression of the wicked says within my heart that there is no fear of God before his eyes and I don't think that there's a single person in the UK or any of these other 20 countries that are watching this I don't think there's a single person watching that wouldn't admit that man our societies are getting more and more ungodliness and there's more killing there's more of all of this stuff why is it happening I believe you can tie it down to some 36/1 that there is no fear of God before their eyes so the antidote is we've got to start instilling a fear of God not a dread not a fear of being punished that reverence for God people need to start reverencing an exulting God's Word above the word of all of these other voices that we are hearing today so that is really important giving a pain your ties giving will help you to fear the Lord I'm just about to wine this down but in Leviticus 1914 it says thou shalt not curse the death nor put a stumbling block before the blind but shalt fear that God I am the Lord what this is saying is of course a deaf person can hear you curse them and so it's saying don't say things about people just because they can't hear you and I believe that you could expand this and still keep the heart of what's being said but just because a person isn't physically present and you're talking about them and gossiping about them behind their back a person who does that you don't fear God Jesus told us that if somebody offends you you go to them and you talk to them before you don't say anything about a person that you haven't said to that person if they won't respond to you individually well then you can go get a couple of others and eventually bring it before the church but if you are a person that talks about other people behind their back you don't fear God and you may think but they don't they hadn't heard what I've said it doesn't matter what whether they hear it or not God has heard it and this is displeasing to God again he's not gonna reject you over this he's not gonna punish you but man if you really feared God if you loved in reverence God you would not talk about people behind their back and in check and it goes on to say don't put a stumbling block before the blind and of course is obvious that if a person is blind and you put a chair or something in front of them they're gonna fall over this and hurt themselves in other words this is talking about taking advantage of another person and you don't do things like that not only because of the person some people say but this person did me wrong it doesn't matter it's not about you in that other person it's about you in God and if you truly love God and want to please God you aren't going to do things that would hurt other people amen and Jesus himself said you know that this is the fulfilling of the law is if you love God first and love your fellow man if people would just do these things and fear God you wouldn't take advantage of people you wouldn't cheat people you wouldn't lie to them you know I'm having to make a decision right on some major decisions on things that a person could take advantage of me and it would just be wonderful if we lived in a world where I didn't even have to think about it because everybody loved God and feared God you wouldn't have to worry about it but we don't live in a perfect world and I'm having to pray and say God which one of these do I use they mean because they could if the Lord is the beginning of wisdom I'm getting to those oh sorry no but those are all in here those are all good in Leviticus 25 17 you shall there not therefore oppress one another but thou shalt fear thy God for I am the Lord your God and put that together with first John 4:20 if a man say I love God and hateth his brother he is a liar for he that loveth not his brother whom he had seen how can he love God whom he hath not seen again this is what you were talking about Duane that we lost this vertical relationship with God and so people just trying to relate on this physical realm and they just think about well you know this person did me wrong it's okay for me to treat them this way are to not be friends with them anymore or to Barrett chip on my shoulder or to never forgive them and what they're missing is it's not even about that person really it's about your relationship with God and when you have done it to the least of these his brother and you have done it unto him I just gave a tour yesterday to a pastor in Colorado Springs and and we were we were having really a good relationship and he says man I'm just amazed at the way you reach out to people who don't necessarily believe in the baptism of the holy spirit and don't agree with you and stuff and yet you still you still treat them right and I told them I said it's not all about them it's about the Lord this is one of my brothers or sisters in the Lord this is God's kid and for me to not honor them and treat them right is dishonouring God it all comes back to a fear of God amen I tell you the fear of God would solve society's problems it would solve interpersonal problems between us and so many people it is something that we are hopefully missing today and so I feel like God laid that on my heart to talk about it and I really think that this is gonna be a great balance absolutely to what you're saying you know Titus 2:4 says that the agent women were to teach the younger women to love their husbands and to love their children you can see right there how that there's a fear respect that husband and wife Ephesians 5 dwell together and you know in harmony they're in the fear of the Lord respect one another that's a part of love and teaching love if you have to teach people to love then you have to teach them the fear of the Lord right because you cannot love with God's kind of love with disrespect dishonor and yet this is one of the things see that's happened in our society we watched so many movies and read so many of these romance novels that they they think that love is this feeling that you have but this is you teach people to love and yet our society says no you just fall in love right and you fall out of love what fall into an ignorant flesh is what you call I say you fall into lust well as ignorant flash but see people because of this they're saying well I've just lost the love for my mate you never did love him you lost it after huh and it was because they were so beautiful and you were thinking man for me to be walking down the street with this beautiful woman on my arm everybody's gonna think about me and think about a man you are so also and so it wasn't love for that person he was actually love for yourself love's not a virus it love is taught not caught a man if you if you think love is caught and you lose it for her then you'll see somebody else and catch something else and that's called the ignorant flash and alimony child support it's bad bad bad you need to learn to fear the Lord Amen and once they begin to get older and look a little different all of a sudden you come back and I just fell out of love with you you never love them you loved yourself amen and that woman loves the guy because he was the captain of the football team and had a long way the air and then he loses his hair and gets the Chester drawers disease where his chest is done dropped down into his drawers and the dunlop disease where you barely done locked over your belt buckle and all of a sudden you just i've lost my love it wasn't God's kind of love you know Jamie just read grant Ulysses s Grant's memoirs and we watched the miniseries this Memorial Day weekend on Grant and anyway there was a lot of good things in it but one of the things that really blessed me was that his wife was cross-eyed and once he began to be influential somebody came to him and says I came to her and said that we could fix those eyes we could do surgery and we could fix your eyes so that you could see and so she asked Ulysses about what he wanted done and he said I fell in love with you with cross eyes I would love a cross eyes he says I love you just the way you are and I thought how many people today loved somebody just the way they are they're they're always getting married thinking I'll straighten this person out once we get married which is very very seldom ever works but anyway we it's if you fear God if you love God you will love other people with all of their warts with all of their problems it just changes everything so I'm excited about sharing about the fear of God and how it's relating to the love of God casting out this fear of man and things like that I'm just glad in my session not knowing what you were sharing that I qualified but I'm not talking about the fear of the Lord the fear of the Lord is hell right so that worked out really good for both of us I think so and you know I've actually Duane and I have a conference coming up in September I forget the exact dates but it's called an identity conference yes and we are both going to teach the exact same because and I asked him to do this because just the way he looks at things the way I look at things they don't cut a contradict they complement and I think that this is very healthy to be looking at things that on the surface may look like they contradict each other they don't they complement each other it balance it out so I think this is gonna be good well I really enjoyed it again that's what that's what people need because even as I was teaching and I looked at the camera and said now I'm not talking about some of you were thinking right now what about the fear of the Lord so by the spirit I countered that to set to set that up even for you because people are confused they they they don't see the difference and that's what we're going to be doing this jump in we're going to show you the difference in how that they compliment not contradict so you know we're through today but we don't we don't have you physically here to be able to lay hands on you but we have our phone center open we're now open 24 hours a day five days a week and within the next few weeks or maybe month we're gonna be open 24/7 even on holidays but my point is we don't you you may not be right there so that we can pray with you but we've got people standing by our phone center seven one nine six three five eleven eleven and of course you can go to our website at any time and get materials but Duane I want both of us just to pray I know that God there's thousands of people we've actually reached more people through this live cast than we did when we physically were there in Tilford and I know that there's people that God is touched and we want to spend just a few moments here praying for you and believing that what God has spoken through Duane in me today will hit its mark and set you free in whatever area it is that you need so father Duane and I just agree with all these people right now and father I remember so many other grace and faith conferences where people came and is born again delivered set free heal great miracles have happened and even though we aren't physically present I know that in the spirit round you are right there with them that you have taken these words and that you are speaking to people I believe that there's people that have heard directly from you today that have gotten a word from you that is gonna make a difference in their life and so doing and I just agree right now and release our faith towards these people we command physical healings you come into body and Father the scripture says that you shall know the truth and the truth is free and I believe that healings are taking people taking place in people's lives right now that bodies are being healed that father people are receiving the love of God right now people who when Duane was talking about that he dances over us and he's pleased with us that he loves us as much as the Father loves Jesus father I pray that right now the Holy Spirit wherever these people are that you make that real to them and that they go to experiencing this they father they get a revelation of it and that truth sets them free thank you Jesus although we believe that people who have not feared you and they've only been dealing in the natural physical realm and they don't recognize that you're involved in their marriage and in their relationship with other people father I pray that right now people humble themselves and receive this word and get set free right now thank you Jesus so father we pray and right now in the name of Jesus I just command the supernatural healing power of God right where these people are to set them free hiss Lord I believe that hearts are being healed right now some of you don't even realize that you need your a heart to be healed but there's something wrong on the inside God is dealing with you right now and healing this heart you're gonna experience increased strength and energy and wonder what happened God will remind you that right now God is touching your heart God is healing you right now of that healing your arteries and all of these kind of things father from head to toe you know right now God is just touching a lot of things Alleluia man we qids I feel like I could spend a lot of time right here I'm not going to take time to do it but God is touching you and I encourage you to call call it number in the United States we've got people and they will pray with you and whatever it is just believe that God is touching your body right now and setting you free and also during this time that we've had these dis quarantine I know many of you have suffered financially and stuff but as you've heard me testifying Dwayne has testified that his ministry hasn't lost a beat they are continuing to prosper God can prosper you you do not have to wait on the economy of the nation that you live in God will supply your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus and so right now I just speak blessing over you financial blessing prosperity coming unto you in supernatural ways yes regardless of what has happened with your job of your business I just speak that God's blessing is coming over you right now and we also speak against the fear an ungodly fear that has paralyzed a lot of people and made you subject to bondage through a fear of death father I believe that what Lena and I've shared today that you are setting people free from this fear of this virus and not only this Cobin 19 but all the other things fear of cancer fear of heart problems fear of diabetes all of these things we just rebuked this fear in the name of Jesus and believe that people are being set free right this moment in Jesus name Amen hallelujah I just want to quickly say something to you as you're watching many of you like Sue and I when I said we were disappointed that we couldn't go that it had to had to be insult the Lord spoke to my heart and I believe the word that he gave me is just like during the Old Testament festivals there was that anointing for that appointment and that appointed time and andrew has kept the appointment and the appointed time and that the prayers that were praying now are as effective and powerful and is anointed as if we were there because God has met with us in an appointed sanctified time in another dimension and he's teaching us through all the technology how that the anointing of God can be transmitted and can flow in different ways than then maybe we've considered and so I want to encourage you don't sit there and think wow I wish they were here I wish hands could be laid on me and things of that nature those are different ways that God does heal and he will continue but this was an appointed time this I'm not here by accident that's for sure and Andrews not here by accident and you're not here by accident God healing you God touching you God opening doors for your finances that is his love being manifest through your simple faith Amen so just receive father in the name of Jesus I thank you that the anointing that we've experienced at Grace and faith that gathering together that corporate anointing father you're teaching us how to do this more effectively and we agree together that your will is being done your kingdom is coming and manifesting and your will being done in the earth as it is in heaven man we bless the people in Jesus name Amen and amen and you know right before I let you go let me say that we have hundreds of people that are graduating tomorrow in the UK I've got the numbers here 105 first year that are being promoted eighty-five second year this is the hybrid classes that's so anyway you have to add to that one hundred and twenty two first-year promotions that are at our Walsall campus a hundred second-year graduates 66 third year anyway there's hundreds and hundreds of people and I just like to encourage you that wherever you're watching this we have 27 carries Bible colleges outside of the US and I think around 27 or 30 that are in the US and we've got Bible colleges scattered all around we've got eat carries now which has the entire first-year curriculum loaded on an iPad like this you don't even have to have an internet connection it's loaded there you can go through this and when you get time you can send it in get your tests graded and things we have correspondence we have a hybrid program where you just go to Saturday's out of a month and meet with your fellow students and the rest of it you do online but we've taken away all excuses man you need to be in the Word of God amen and carries Bible College is just the best method the best tool that we have of going deep with people and if God is touching you through these programs I encourage you to please check it out and it's it's awesome all around the world people's lives are being changed so we have so many things I've got we just found out through this virus time when we were we were going to promote what people could go on our website and get I've got two hundred thousand hours of free teaching on my website if you were to listen 24 hours a day and it take you 22.8 years to go through everything and if you only listen to eight hours a day it'll take you sixty eight years to go through it you can get through my stuff in about a year hallelujah I'm kidding I'm kidding you take longer but I don't have that but anyway we love you and then we're excited I believe that this really blessed people today it was good and if you're able remember that tomorrow we're going to do this again but we started at 12 o'clock Colorado time today tomorrow we're starting at 11 o'clock a.m. because we're gonna be in Poland which it will be seven their time and then on Sunday it'll be 11 o'clock again because it'll be Germany's time and then on Sunday afternoon 3:30 we're gonna have our Pentecost service are you gonna be able to stay around or you have I'm not headed home we'll have to talk yeah all right buddy he may not want to go to church on Sunday well I might would like to be here and lay hands on you and get you filled with the Holy Spirit okay i receiver I'm sorry to announce this but Duane's not going to be able to be with us the next couple of days it's just gonna be me anyway we love you God bless you and we'll see you tomorrow [Applause] you
