048-ict-tw-spaces-2023-09-17-Into-His-Marvelous-Light...
Last modified by Drunk Monkey on 2023-09-26 13:08
Outline
00:23 - Personal faith and religion.
- ICT discusses his personal faith and beliefs, which are unrelated to trading or religion.
- ICT believes that organized religion is the problem in the world today, and he explains why.
03:08 - Faith, childhood trauma, and spirituality.
- The speaker grew up fearful of going to church due to negative associations, but has fond memories of a Baptist church they attended as a child.
- The speaker recalls a church lady named Miss Row who was impactful and took the time to talk to them about Jesus, making them feel valued and important.
- Childhood trauma and abuse are recounted in a raw and emotional monologue.
- ICT shares how he overcame a fear of death as a child through his belief in a creator, no longer fearing death as a 51-year-old man.
10:00 - God's nature and Trinity.
- The speaker recounts their personal history with religion, including their relationship with their friend Sean, who was part of a Trinitarian church.
- The speaker expresses their disillusionment with organized religion, citing examples of violence and prejudice throughout history, including those committed in the name of Christianity.
- ICT explains that God is not a triune deity, but rather one God manifest in three distinct roles: God the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit.
- ICT argues that the concept of a triune God causes confusion and is not supported by the Bible, and that God the Father created everything and wanted to reconcile men back to Himself due to sin and separation between God and man.
16:12 - Jesus Christ as the only means of reconciliation between God and man.
- ICT emphasizes the importance of God's authority and the idea of reconciliation through Jesus Christ, rejecting the notion of multiple deities or a goddess.
- ICT believes that the Old Testament writings, including the books of Moses, the prophets, Psalms, and Proverbs, all point to Jesus Christ as the Lord, and not anyone else.
- God created a body for Jesus, a virgin birth, no human intervention.
21:46 - The hidden meanings of the Bible.
- The speaker discusses the significance of Jesus' birth and the revelation of God's face, as well as the hidden messages and metaphors in the Old Testament Scriptures.
24:12 - Faith, healing, and Jesus.
- ICT expresses frustration with religion, feeling that it should not affect one's personal life (30 words)
- ICT shares personal struggles and imperfections, inviting God into the conversation (29 words)
- ICT: God healed my son from a life-threatening condition after I prayed for his healing, demonstrating His power and goodness.
- ICT: Teaching and sharing my faith with others brings me joy, but my ultimate source of joy is Jesus, who has healed me and answered my prayers.
30:04 - Biblical interpretation and the importance of understanding the original language.
- The speaker criticizes some pastors for teaching that giving 10% of income is necessary for blessings from God.
- Pastor argues that churches should not prioritize money, but rather serve those in need.
- ICT emphasizes the importance of studying the Bible in its original languages, Hebrew and Greek, to gain a deeper understanding of its meaning and overcome translation errors.
- ICT shares examples of how the Bible's supernatural power and instruction manual for life can be experienced when read through the lens of Jesus Christ.
37:35 - Faith, suffering, and tithing.
- ICT emphasizes the importance of viewing life through the lens of Jesus, as He is the only way to truly understand and glean meaning from the scriptures.
- ICT shares a personal story of a person who resisted God's guidance but eventually came to trust Him through baptism and a newfound understanding of God's interest in their life.
- ICT: Suffering is necessary for learning, but believers won't go through Great Tribulation (10 words)
- ICT argues that organized religion fleeces people through ignorance, citing lack of knowledge of God's instructions.
44:19 - Faith and healing for a child with a birth defect.
- The speaker's son was born with a birth defect that required multiple surgeries, leading the speaker to question the existence of God.
- ICT: Promised healing for son's condition, despite doctors' predictions of lifelong health issues.
- ICT: Spoke up against medical professionals' lies, affirming son's healing and clean lungs.
49:43 - Miscarriage, grief, and faith.
- The speaker recounts a personal experience of feeling emotional and resistant to God during a church service after a miscarriage, despite hearing a pastor's heartfelt message.
- The speaker's wife becomes pregnant the following Sunday, despite their previous loss, leading the speaker to question God's existence.
52:42 - Faith, miracles, and God's presence.
- ICT believes in a real, active God who performs miracles and answers prayers when they are selfless and for the benefit of others.
- ICT shares personal experiences of God's intervention in their life, including healing and protection, to encourage others to have faith and help others.
- The speaker recounts a personal experience of doubting their faith and seeking clarity from God, emphasizing the importance of sincerity and a willing heart in hearing from Him.
- The speaker shares a story of Gideon's encounter with God, highlighting the difference between God's instructions and human interpretations, and encouraging listeners to seek God's voice with an open heart.
59:01 - Miracles and the nature of God.
- The speaker sees a shooting star and a heart monitor on a soap opera-style monitor.
- ICT challenges listeners to think about God's miracles and gifts still operable today, despite what others may say.
01:03:22 - Faith, God's manifestation, and biblical teachings.
- Witness describes experiencing an "Old Testament" event, where a bright light lit up the area and changed the atmosphere.
- The speaker reflects on a personal experience of God's presence and answers their prayer, finding comfort in the knowledge that God hears their requests even if they are not answered.
- ICT argues that God is one and the Trinity is not taught in the Bible.
01:09:28 - Jesus' divinity and humanity.
- The speaker emphasizes Jesus' divinity and humanity, citing biblical passages to support their claims.
- Jesus claims to be God, citing John 14:9 ("He who has seen me has seen the Father").
- Jesus' humanity was fully divine, with all the limitations and vulnerabilities of flesh.
01:16:02 - Faith, trust, and obedience in God.
- ICT warns of devil's snares and traps, leading to doubt and untruths, but God wants to give a fruitful life with trust and faith.
- ICT emphasizes the importance of humility and self-reflection in prayer, acknowledging personal sinfulness and the need to prioritize God's glory.
01:19:29 - Misinterpretation of scripture and the dangers of materialism.
- ICT emphasizes that God doesn't need money and that anything plus Jesus' sacrifice means nothing, citing Malachi 3:10.
- ICT encourages his friend to trust in the scriptures and not give into the pressure to give money to churches, as it goes against Biblical teachings.
- Pastor ICT argues that many religious institutions prey on people's vulnerabilities, promising salvation in exchange for money or other forms of sacrifice, rather than truly helping them.
- He emphasizes that true liberation comes from Christ, not from following religious rules or giving money to churches.
01:25:36 - Christianity and sin.
- The speaker argues that tithing is a lie and causes people to focus on money rather than God.
- The speaker references the Bible to support the idea that God loves a cheerful giver, not a tither.
- Rick emphasizes the importance of forgiveness in Christianity, citing Jesus' teaching that speaking ill of a brother is equivalent to killing them.
- Rick argues that no other religion addresses sin and eternity like Christianity, with Jesus destroying religion and providing a way for salvation through forgiveness.
01:32:08 - Charitable giving and trusting God for rewards.
- The speaker believes that tithing and giving to the poor are important aspects of Christianity, and that doing so in secret can bring a greater reward from God.
- The speaker encourages others to follow their example and share their charitable acts, but warns against bragging about them.
- ICT shares a personal story of providing financial assistance to a stranger in need, emphasizing the importance of showing love and care for others.
- The speaker encourages listeners to be mindful of their actions towards strangers, as they may be entertaining angels unaware and fulfilling God's will.
01:38:07 - Biblical interpretation and afterlife beliefs.
- The speaker believes God can heal and deliver from various issues, including anxiety, agoraphobia, eating disorders, homelessness, broken relationships, and diseases.
- Integrating Bible interpretation with understanding of God's presence outside of time.
- ICT argues that the idea of sleeping through death is not supported by the Bible, and that there are multiple biblical teachings on the afterlife, including a rapture event that could happen at any time.
- ICT believes that the Bible teaches that Jesus is God in the flesh and that there will be a judgment and an afterlife, but some pastors have misinterpreted these teachings and led their congregations astray.
01:44:46 - Jesus' identity and salvation from a Hebrew perspective.
- Jesus taught salvation to Jews, but they didn't recognize him due to spiritual blindness.
- Jesus is God manifested in flesh, born of water and spirit, and crucified for salvation.
01:47:55 - Faith, baptism, and the Bible.
- Peter stepped out of the boat and walked on water, but took his eyes off Jesus and sank when he doubted (Matthew 14:29)
- Jesus rebuked those who prayed to saints instead of Him, emphasizing His role as the only mediator between God and humanity (Matthew 14:30)
- Peter and the apostles were at a loss for how to proceed after Jesus' crucifixion.
- Peter tells the crowd to repent and be baptized in Jesus' name for the remission of sins, and they gladly receive his word and are baptized (Acts 2:38).
- The apostles continue to baptize in Jesus' name, following the doctrine of the apostles, and they baptize about 3000 souls (Acts 2:41-47).
01:54:53 - The importance of forgiveness and relationship with God.
- Jesus is the only Savior, and many will come before Him.
- Jesus warns of consequences of not forgiving others, emphasizing the importance of loving and forgiving as a Christian.
- The speaker encourages listeners to approach the Bible as a supernatural book, not just a dusty old book with stories, and prays for at least one person to be inspired or rejuvenated by the message.
02:01:13 - Genesis chapter 5 genealogy and its significance in understanding the Messiah.
- The speaker discusses the importance of understanding the Hebrew language and culture when interpreting the Bible.
- The speaker highlights the significance of Genesis chapter 5, which lists the genealogy from Adam to Noah, and how it can be interpreted differently depending on one's perspective.
- Adam's name means "man" (Genesis 2:20), while his son Seth's name means "appointed" (Genesis 4:25)
- The lineage of Adam includes Cain, Abel, Kenan, Enoch, and Noah, but Cain is not mentioned in the lineage due to his sin (Genesis 4:1-16)
02:07:14 - Biblical genealogy and its connection to Jesus.
- Enoch became a believer in God at age 65, as his son Methuselah was born.
- ICT argues that the names of Methuselah and Noah in Genesis 5 contain hidden references to Jesus Christ.
02:12:11 - Biblical prophecy and end times.
- The speaker believes that Israel is a key sign of the End Times, and that the generation that sees Israel's rebirth will witness the fulfillment of biblical prophecies.
- The speaker references various biblical passages, including Daniel chapter 4, to describe the rise of a powerful and terrifying beast that will trample all nations before it.
02:14:41 - Sin, God, and the end times.
- The Antichrist will be revealed when hindrances to the Church are removed, and believers must diligently seek God's counsel to understand the end times.
- Pastor warns congregation of impending judgment due to sin and lies.
- Jesus claimed to be the only God, ignoring claims he's not God.
02:20:53 - Christianity, Jesus, and the Rapture.
- God manifested himself in flesh, sacrificed for humanity's sins.
- The speaker teaches on the Parable of the 10 Virgins, comparing it to a betrothal ceremony where the bride waits for her groom.
- Jesus teaches on the importance of being ready for His return, with oil symbolizing the Holy Spirit and garments representing a personal relationship with Him.
02:27:43 - Biblical eschatology and the rapture.
- ICT argues that the rapture is not an escape from earthly troubles, but rather a call to believers to be ready for Jesus' return.
- Enoch walked with God and was taken to heaven, a mystery revealed.
- ICT emphasizes the importance of personal relationship with God through baptism and prayer.
02:33:53 - Faith, baptism, and drawing closer to God.
- ICT emphasizes the importance of God in his life and encourages the listener to draw closer to Him.
- The speaker emphasizes the importance of obeying the gospel and being baptized in Jesus' name for remission of sins (2:38:49).
- The speaker encourages listeners to seek God's guidance through prayer and the Scriptures, rather than relying on church leaders or tradition (2:40:49).
Transcription
| 1 | 00:00:23 --> 00:00:36 | ICT: Good morning, folks. hope everybody's doing well. So admittedly, I'm a little I'm a little uncomfortable today, I'm gonna be doing something that I do |
| 2 | 00:00:36 --> 00:00:45 | personally, with friends and family. And this is the first time I've really made an attempt to do this, in the presence of people on the internet, especially |
| 3 | 00:00:45 --> 00:00:59 | from folks are just familiar with me as a trader, mentor. So I'm going to try to keep this one rather brief. And I now usually say that and it's always an inside |
| 4 | 00:00:59 --> 00:01:14 | joke that when I'm doing anything related to the markets, or teaching or jawboning about something, I tend to go on and on and on. But I don't believe |
| 5 | 00:01:14 --> 00:01:25 | that this is one of those discussions that needs to go on for a long time. But I'm gonna touch on a couple topics, because I get a lot of questions about what |
| 6 | 00:01:25 --> 00:01:35 | I believe in right away, if, if you're clicking on this, thinking, I'm gonna be on here, talking about trading and how to pump you up and get you mentally |
| 7 | 00:01:35 --> 00:01:46 | prepared to conquer the marketplace and make all kinds of money and how not to lose so much money and hear me carry on like a drunken sailor. That's not gonna |
| 8 | 00:01:46 --> 00:01:57 | happen today. Okay. But I will be touching on some things, that I'll encourage you if you're willing to sit through something like this. And it's a discussion |
| 9 | 00:01:57 --> 00:02:05 | about my personal faith, you may not be interested in that has nothing to do with trading, has nothing to do with inner circle trader has nothing to do with |
| 10 | 00:02:05 --> 00:02:14 | my YouTube channel. It's just a personal conversation, because I get many requests for it. By email, I get folks sending me things through TradingView |
| 11 | 00:02:15 --> 00:02:26 | direct messages. Folks on Twitter, have commented and asked me to like, touch on what it is, I believe what I don't believe why I believe it. And obviously, this |
| 12 | 00:02:26 --> 00:02:39 | one single discussion can't really do it justice. Because it's a it's a lifestyle, it's a faith walk. I'm not a religious person. I think the problem in |
| 13 | 00:02:39 --> 00:02:54 | the world today is religion. And many times Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and I'm going to refer to those three, because they are the top three, because |
| 14 | 00:02:54 --> 00:03:02 | they're monotheistic, that means they have a belief in one God. And I'm going to try to dispel some of the things that Christianity gets a bad rap for. And I'm |
| 15 | 00:03:02 --> 00:03:11 | going to talk about the distinctions between what I believe and why I don't subscribe to organized religion. Like I don't go to a church, like I don't go to |
| 16 | 00:03:12 --> 00:03:23 | a pastor, I don't have a pastor over me. And I'm not trying to suggest that any of you should leave your church, or that you should go to a church, because you |
| 17 | 00:03:23 --> 00:03:40 | don't need to have that to walk with God. Okay, God's a willing, able, loving, creator that wants to have a relationship with you. Many times, when I was |
| 18 | 00:03:40 --> 00:03:51 | growing up, I was fearful of going to churches, because you always think about a church. Well, usually it's a funeral. It's a reason for people to come together |
| 19 | 00:03:51 --> 00:04:03 | for like, a week or a funeral procession, something to that effect, you know, always kind of like was put off to me. And growing up as a kid. I was born in |
| 20 | 00:04:03 --> 00:04:16 | 1972. And we had a Baptist church or up the street. It was Middle River Baptist Church. And I have some fond memories about it. As a child was we, we did a |
| 21 | 00:04:16 --> 00:04:26 | little ceramic praying hands and the little doves and we'd be paying them. And that was like, one of the cool things about remembering that church, I couldn't |
| 22 | 00:04:26 --> 00:04:38 | tell you what it was like to be in, like the pews listen to any kind of preaching because, you know, as a kid, I thought like a kid. And I don't really, |
| 23 | 00:04:38 --> 00:04:50 | I don't recall anyone sitting down with me and telling me, you know, this is who God is. This is what you should believe about God. I remember people coming up |
| 24 | 00:04:50 --> 00:05:06 | as a child, Miss row. She was my friend's mother. And she was one of those One of those church ladies, okay, she lived she, you know, she walked the talk. And |
| 25 | 00:05:06 --> 00:05:19 | she, she really believed what she was doing was impactful. And one of the one of the Saturdays, I came over there looking. They all said this, is Dale here. And |
| 26 | 00:05:19 --> 00:05:26 | she's like, No, but would you like to come in here I want to talk to you. It's like, you're short. And I was little, I'm probably like seven years old. And she |
| 27 | 00:05:26 --> 00:05:35 | said, sit down on the couch, I want to tell you about Jesus. And of course, I'm thinking, I'm not dying. Whenever that guy comes up in the conversation usually |
| 28 | 00:05:35 --> 00:05:44 | means someone's getting some wings, right? So I wasn't nervous. And I was a little uncomfortable, because it was just her and I, and she said, all you have |
| 29 | 00:05:44 --> 00:05:53 | to do to get to heaven, is ask Jesus to come into your heart and forgive you for your sins, and make you my Lord and Savior. And if you say those words, you're |
| 30 | 00:05:53 --> 00:06:04 | gonna go to heaven. And for the longest time, you know, as a younger child, I believe that that's all that was required. And that's not biblical. And if |
| 31 | 00:06:04 --> 00:06:12 | anyone tells you, that's what you have to do, you gotta go into the scriptures and see if that's there, because it's not. And one of the things that I found |
| 32 | 00:06:12 --> 00:06:24 | out later on in life, through pain, through scary moments, being a child left in homes with a mother that was in relationships with men that she shouldn't have |
| 33 | 00:06:24 --> 00:06:36 | been in with. And it was violence all the time, and very, very scary as a child to live in a situation like that. And I would every night pray that my mother |
| 34 | 00:06:36 --> 00:06:51 | wouldn't be harmed. And that he would protect her. And I many times thought that the guys that she was with, were going to hurt me. And I would spend a lot of |
| 35 | 00:06:51 --> 00:07:01 | time with my room, measuring door locked, not that these people couldn't kick the door in and do whatever they wanted to do to me. Man, as a child, most of my |
| 36 | 00:07:01 --> 00:07:02 | childhood was. |
| 37 | 00:07:14 --> 00:07:19 | And every night, I would go sleep thinking that I might not wake up because of something happening to me. |
| 38 | 00:07:25 --> 00:07:39 | I've had her boyfriends threaten me to do things to me that I would never speak of, because they're heinous. And she would be so fearful, she would leave me |
| 39 | 00:07:39 --> 00:07:43 | there. And I don't blame her because they wanted to hurt her many times. |
| 40 | 00:07:49 --> 00:07:58 | And when you probably hear that you're thinking, what kind of mothers who could leave their child in a situation like that? When you're scared for your life, |
| 41 | 00:07:58 --> 00:08:18 | you don't think rationally. You just want to escape it. So I had a dependency on praying to God every night as a child, hoping that he would protect my mom, and |
| 42 | 00:08:18 --> 00:08:32 | allow me to wake up. And I said, a silly prayer. You'd be like, you know, I'm going to sleep now, Lord, don't let me die. If I die MDB. That was that was |
| 43 | 00:08:32 --> 00:08:46 | pretty much it. Like, I didn't know how to pray. I didn't know what to do. I just knew that that was my concern my mom, and then me dying. I had an abnormal |
| 44 | 00:08:46 --> 00:09:03 | fear of dying. As a 51 year old man with who knows how many years left in my life, I don't have that fear anymore. I generally do not fear death. If it was a |
| 45 | 00:09:03 --> 00:09:18 | choice of not going through a painful death, I would obviously try to avoid that. But whatever that suffering may be. It's minuscule in terms of eternity |
| 46 | 00:09:18 --> 00:09:36 | with Christ. But I can't really pin down when I was a young man. When I knew in my heart, that there was a real God, obviously. And when you're a child, you |
| 47 | 00:09:36 --> 00:09:50 | think of God like Santa Claus. And I'm sure for the atheists that may be sitting in here. Many times it's referred to as the old man in the sky or the Invisible |
| 48 | 00:09:50 --> 00:10:01 | Man in the sky. I don't believe in that. I don't believe in an invisible guy in the sky. I believe in a creator to put everything in perfect harmony. And we |
| 49 | 00:10:01 --> 00:10:14 | mess it up. We're a cancer on this planet where we're a plague on this planet. And the way we deal with one another, the way we talk to one another, the way we |
| 50 | 00:10:14 --> 00:10:29 | war with other people. That's the problem. And many times, it's under the banner of religion. And Christianity is not innocent in that regard. And there's a lot |
| 51 | 00:10:29 --> 00:10:42 | of things that religion can be blamed on, through wars, terrorist acts, acts of violence, prejudice, all these things, and that's why I'm not a religious |
| 52 | 00:10:42 --> 00:10:56 | person. I have a relationship with Christ. I believe that that's exactly what the book of Acts teaches us to have. Not to have these mega churches. Okay, I, I |
| 53 | 00:10:56 --> 00:11:09 | did used to go to a church. I was an active member of a church. I went on the Wednesdays, I went on the Sundays, both services, the morning and evening |
| 54 | 00:11:09 --> 00:11:28 | session. I gave 10% of gross income and 5% offer. And I did that because at that time, Astor the person that was in charge of the laity of that church that was a |
| 55 | 00:11:28 --> 00:11:36 | member of, and I went to that church, because it was my best friend, Sean's church, he was going there, he was a, he was part of the leadership of that |
| 56 | 00:11:36 --> 00:11:49 | church. And he was in the audio box where he was in control of like, doing the recordings and controlling the sound, or the mics and such. And he was there |
| 57 | 00:11:49 --> 00:12:03 | longer than I was. But prior to going to that church, he was going to another church, where it was a Trinitarian church. And I love this man, like a brother. |
| 58 | 00:12:03 --> 00:12:14 | And we've known each other since pre K, okay, before kindergarten, we've known each other. And he's watched me come up from nobody. His mom and dad were like |
| 59 | 00:12:14 --> 00:12:26 | my second family. And because my mom and dad didn't really technically raise me, they want nothing to do with me. The element of family that his household |
| 60 | 00:12:26 --> 00:12:40 | provided, was comforting to me. And he was with his now wife. And her uncle was doing a church running a church rather. And it was a Trinitarian. Church. And |
| 61 | 00:12:40 --> 00:12:52 | when he would talk to me about it, I'd be like, well, there isn't three people in heaven. There's only one God. He goes, Yeah, I'm wrestling. That doesn't make |
| 62 | 00:12:52 --> 00:13:05 | any sense. Like, how can there be a God. And he talks about God the Father, God, the Son, and God, the Holy Spirit. I said, well, there is God the Father, that's |
| 63 | 00:13:05 --> 00:13:16 | Jesus Christ, before he was manifest in the flesh. That became the sonship, there is no God the Son, it's the Son of God. That part of him his, his |
| 64 | 00:13:16 --> 00:13:29 | humanity, and his spirit is holy. So it's not a Triune God, much in the same way you're not at triune person with your body. So in spirit, your physical body is |
| 65 | 00:13:29 --> 00:13:40 | what we see, we, we encounter that if we look upon you as the person, you look in the mirror, you see your physical body. The people outside of your body don't |
| 66 | 00:13:40 --> 00:13:48 | don't know what you're thinking, your thoughts, and your personality is only expressed through what you do outwardly. But you have a soul and you have a |
| 67 | 00:13:48 --> 00:14:02 | spirit and that physical body, you're not a triune person, you're one person manifest in three distinct roles. These these portions that make up who you are. |
| 68 | 00:14:02 --> 00:14:16 | They're not, they're not something that can be divided. And you exist. And for years, you know, we would never argue it was never an argument. And I understood |
| 69 | 00:14:16 --> 00:14:28 | what he was trying to do. And I don't think it's something that some churches will teach Jesus only, okay, like a United Pentecostal church. And they'll say, |
| 70 | 00:14:28 --> 00:14:36 | it's Jesus only, and unless you believe this, you're gonna go to hell. And I think there's verses in the Bible that kind of like, make allowances for people |
| 71 | 00:14:36 --> 00:14:46 | that have a limited understanding, I believe it has to come by revelation. Because the Bible says that there's one God, Islam says, there's one God, |
| 72 | 00:14:47 --> 00:14:58 | Judaism says there's one God, but then Christian Christianity comes in there. couple centuries after Christ's death, and a bunch of men sit around I think, |
| 73 | 00:14:58 --> 00:15:11 | well, you know, Let's just start this, we'll start this, this is what you should be understanding about God, this is, he's a triune deity, he's three persons in |
| 74 | 00:15:11 --> 00:15:28 | one. To me. That's chaos. that's causing confusion. And I don't believe that God, the Father, sent a son when there's no God, the mother. It's God, the |
| 75 | 00:15:28 --> 00:15:40 | Father who created everything. He wanted to reconcile men back unto himself, because of sin, and it's separation. between God and man, sin entered the world. |
| 76 | 00:15:42 --> 00:15:53 | All of us are sinners, every single one of us, if you heard my Twitter spaces, you know, I'm a sinner. Everybody has fallen short, the glory of God. And we're |
| 77 | 00:15:53 --> 00:16:03 | all sinners. For the Christians that like to tell me you need to work on your vocabulary. The fact that you even brought that up, you just send, there's |
| 78 | 00:16:03 --> 00:16:10 | something that you're doing, every one of us is doing something, that if God was in the room having a conversation with you, he would clearly say, this is where |
| 79 | 00:16:10 --> 00:16:29 | you fallen short. I don't hide it. And every time I talk, and I do something that is less than worthy to even mention him in a sentence. Because I have a |
| 80 | 00:16:29 --> 00:16:39 | tendency to speak with foul language, when I'm losing control myself. I've prayed before I got on here today, that the Lord binds my tongue. So I don't |
| 81 | 00:16:39 --> 00:16:47 | speak anything profane. Usually, he does a very good job of it. But I know there's some people in here that are gonna be listening to this. And they're |
| 82 | 00:16:47 --> 00:16:55 | taking notes and they want to be able to do some rebuttals later on and try to send me tweets and try to correct me understand this, we're not going to debate |
| 83 | 00:16:55 --> 00:17:04 | about this, because the the actual idea of debating this means that you're going to probably somehow bring me to submission, where I'm going to believe what I'm |
| 84 | 00:17:04 --> 00:17:13 | believing is incorrect. That's never going to happen. And I would never try to go out there and try to do what I was doing as a young man, which is tried to |
| 85 | 00:17:13 --> 00:17:26 | convince people, I'll do that with my trading stuff. But when it comes to God, he's he's the author and finisher of our faith. But there is no God the mother, |
| 86 | 00:17:28 --> 00:17:42 | there is nobody else up there with God. It's just him. He alone, He's God. And because mankind had sin, in it separates him from God. God wants you to |
| 87 | 00:17:42 --> 00:17:47 | reconcile mankind back onto himself. So how does he do that? |
| 88 | 00:17:48 --> 00:18:01 | He Institute's the idea of, without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin. So he started the idea through the Jews to do animal sacrifice. And |
| 89 | 00:18:01 --> 00:18:09 | every year they would do these things, and they would push their sins back for one year. But it didn't do away with sin. It just pushed it ahead one full year. |
| 90 | 00:18:10 --> 00:18:23 | And then the following year, they had to do all over again. And eventually, God said, I'm no longer interested in a lot of books and all these things. In the |
| 91 | 00:18:23 --> 00:18:32 | Scriptures in the Old Testament, whenever we read the words, the according to the Scriptures in the New Testament, what is it referring to the Old Testament? |
| 92 | 00:18:34 --> 00:18:45 | They were living the New Testament, we had the benefit of having those records now. But what Scripture is really referring to the fence to Jack, all all these |
| 93 | 00:18:45 --> 00:18:57 | Old Testament writings in books, the books of Noah, I mean, I'm sorry, book of Moses, and all the prophets, Psalms, and Proverbs. All of those books, all of |
| 94 | 00:18:57 --> 00:19:12 | those verses, point to Jesus Christ as the Lord. Every single one of those things are pointing to Jesus Christ, not anyone else. And nobody else can make a |
| 95 | 00:19:12 --> 00:19:25 | reconciliation between God and man, but Christ. Why? Because it was God the Father, who created a body just read Hebrews chapter 10. Read it. He's not |
| 96 | 00:19:25 --> 00:19:42 | interested in all that sacrifice anymore. And a body has thou prepared me. the humanity of Jesus was a created portion. The humanity didn't exist in the |
| 97 | 00:19:42 --> 00:19:55 | beginning, where it says In the beginning, God created in the first verse of John, the Gospel, John. humanity of Christ didn't exist there. But the idea, the |
| 98 | 00:19:55 --> 00:20:14 | Logos, the word, it became flesh. It didn't exist before time. existed when it was put in marry, by no father, but the Father Himself. No egg of Mary. What? |
| 99 | 00:20:14 --> 00:20:27 | Yeah, she's a sinner. He made a body just like He taught he did with Adam. When He created Adam, what'd he do? He went down into the dirt, formed it into a |
| 100 | 00:20:27 --> 00:20:45 | shape of a man. And then he did what he breathed into his nostrils and gave him his spirit. And he came, he became a man, Adam. God, the Father made a body much |
| 101 | 00:20:45 --> 00:20:54 | like an astronaut does. When we go to outer space, we're going to a place that we can't exist in God, if he came here in his truest form, not veiled in the |
| 102 | 00:20:54 --> 00:21:04 | flesh, which is a great mystery. There's a verse that says that without mystery, without controversy, rather great is the mystery of godliness that God was |
| 103 | 00:21:04 --> 00:21:22 | manifest in the flesh. No other religion says that. No other faith based IDEA says that. God could only reconcile unto Himself, when He wants, nobody else can |
| 104 | 00:21:22 --> 00:21:38 | do it for him, the angels couldn't do it. So he prepared a body that he himself placed in Mary who was a virgin, he was never touched by any man. So he was born |
| 105 | 00:21:39 --> 00:21:52 | through a virgin, he placed his body that he formed in her womb. She gave birth. And then the angels rejoiced, because they finally saw the face, read the |
| 106 | 00:21:52 --> 00:22:00 | gospels. Why do you think there's angels out there? Singing in praise? In the shepherds are like, what it was, what is this, what they're singing and all |
| 107 | 00:22:00 --> 00:22:10 | this? Yeah, because the angels finally saw the face of God. They never could see God, he inhabited the light that they had the shot that they had to hide their |
| 108 | 00:22:10 --> 00:22:25 | their face and cover their wings, or their feet. They finally saw the face of God when Jesus was born. That was the revelation of now we see, we see the face |
| 109 | 00:22:25 --> 00:22:35 | of God. And they were happy, they were so joyful match and singing here in angels sing. Here, here song. And this in the chorus line just brings a tear to |
| 110 | 00:22:35 --> 00:22:47 | your eye. He's can't put on in words, what it is you heard, that brings you to joy, so much that you just want to weep. Imagine hearing that that would have |
| 111 | 00:22:47 --> 00:22:48 | been amazing. |
| 112 | 00:22:54 --> 00:23:09 | So God's an invisible spirit, and He's holy. He needed to bring man back in reconciliation to himself, and man couldn't do it. Not with the blood of books |
| 113 | 00:23:09 --> 00:23:24 | and bowls and lambs and everything else. So all the Old Testament Scriptures are hidden messages. They're metaphors. They're little secret teachings, if you |
| 114 | 00:23:24 --> 00:23:33 | will. And I'll cover a couple of them today. And you will hopefully be able to look at the Bible a little bit differently, because I don't look at it as a book |
| 115 | 00:23:33 --> 00:23:43 | of myths. I don't think that it is. in a position where many will say no, the Bible has been changed. It's been written by man. Yeah, it was written by me. |
| 116 | 00:23:43 --> 00:23:58 | And yeah. It was inspired by the Holy Spirit, All scripture. All scripture was inspired by God through His Holy Spirit. And for anyone that says, you know, |
| 117 | 00:23:58 --> 00:24:08 | there's errors in the Bible. You know, I've watched people that are either atheistic, or Islamic Muslims, though. They'll have their video channels, and |
| 118 | 00:24:08 --> 00:24:18 | they will go in there and they'll pick out Scriptures where they'll say, So you believe this, this is an error. Do you see this? That's not really accurate. And |
| 119 | 00:24:18 --> 00:24:28 | that's the problem with religion. That is the problem with religion. If I live my life like this, okay, if I live my life, if you choose to live your life like |
| 120 | 00:24:28 --> 00:24:39 | this, or choose not to have a good life pattern after this. It should have no bearing on you as a person. If I'm not trying to cram it down your throat and |
| 121 | 00:24:39 --> 00:24:49 | I've been very respectful in the way I did this, I did as best I could just put it that way. I made a thread. I felt inspired to talk about it. I've been |
| 122 | 00:24:49 --> 00:25:01 | wanting to do it. I've been putting off a lot of people for over a year and a half that have been asking these questions. And you too. To be told, I |
| 123 | 00:25:01 --> 00:25:14 | understand how it might be hard to receive it now, because I'm using the same medium when I get revved up. And everything that I tried to hide in all the pre |
| 124 | 00:25:14 --> 00:25:26 | recorded videos, finds its way to the surface. And he's imbalances in my life that I have to wrestle with. You see that? You hear that. And you're just |
| 125 | 00:25:26 --> 00:25:40 | waiting for the F bomb to drop in something like this. And it's unfortunate, because I may have missed an opportunity to be an ambassador for Christ. And you |
| 126 | 00:25:40 --> 00:25:57 | can't see past that now. But I'm not perfect. Moses wasn't perfect. He was a murderer. God uses all of these fallen people. As vessels and instruments, like |
| 127 | 00:25:57 --> 00:26:12 | pens, like Moses, the first five books of your Old Testament, there are from him, the stuttering man that God spoke through to Pharaoh, who was like the |
| 128 | 00:26:12 --> 00:26:17 | ruler of the world, and he stood before him and told boldly, you're going to let them go. |
| 129 | 00:26:22 --> 00:26:31 | So I'm aware of how awkward this might be for some of you. Some of you don't want to hear these types of things. And that's fine. I don't, I'm not trying to |
| 130 | 00:26:31 --> 00:26:45 | twist your arm, I'm not going to be putting it in your trading videos. But I do believe that if I don't at least invite God into this medium in one way or the |
| 131 | 00:26:45 --> 00:26:59 | other. I've not allowed him to have his way. And that was the original agreement that if he opened my eyes to this and show me what it is that I should see, I |
| 132 | 00:26:59 --> 00:27:11 | would spend the rest of my life teaching it. But only bringing him up a few times here and there doesn't really find the level deserving he deserved, |
| 133 | 00:27:11 --> 00:27:25 | really, because he's a main focus point to my life. I love teaching all of you trading, I love teaching the markets, I love encouraging you. That is not the |
| 134 | 00:27:25 --> 00:27:39 | source of my joy. My joy comes from Jesus. Everything that is in my life that is good comes from him. Everything that I look forward to has him in the center of |
| 135 | 00:27:39 --> 00:27:56 | it. And everything that I have found an escape from anxiety, eating disorder, homelessness, poverty, an inability to be able to talk in front of other people. |
| 136 | 00:27:58 --> 00:28:10 | All that he's gifted me when I was younger, I prayed for the gift of teaching. There's a lot of people, they'll say, I want to pray for the gift of healing. I |
| 137 | 00:28:10 --> 00:28:17 | didn't ask for that I didn't want I don't want that. I can see how that can easily if God were to place that gift in me or anyone else. It can be very |
| 138 | 00:28:17 --> 00:28:34 | easily abused, or you can think highly of yourself. And I hear how I teach. I hear and I see the videos, how I teach. And I am awestruck because I know who I |
| 139 | 00:28:34 --> 00:28:49 | was. And to see how I teach. I'm not a perfect teacher. I'm not claiming to be the best mentor. But I can tell you that I have seen God's work in my life. He |
| 140 | 00:28:49 --> 00:29:05 | has answered so many prayers, all of you were witnessed to him healing my son. My son was a quarter of an inch away from death. He was five minutes away from |
| 141 | 00:29:05 --> 00:29:16 | emergency brain surgery. That if they would have opened his head up, his brain could have started swelling. And then it's really low probability. I mean, not |
| 142 | 00:29:16 --> 00:29:30 | that you can't heal from that. But they don't like to do that. And I was believing by placing that request for all of you that would have faith by all of |
| 143 | 00:29:30 --> 00:29:44 | us coming together praying and petitioning the Lord to lift my son's name up for him. I believed he would be healed. I believed it. And in my heart if he would |
| 144 | 00:29:44 --> 00:30:02 | have taken him. I was content with that too. Two years ago, I would be scared if he would have been taking him because he wasn't ready If he hadn't heard the |
| 145 | 00:30:02 --> 00:30:12 | gospel, he hadn't obeyed the gospel. And I'll talk about what that is today. In case you wonder what it is because it ain't asking Jesus into your heart. But |
| 146 | 00:30:14 --> 00:30:29 | this idea of a god and the Godhead. In Christianity, there's there's a lot of different factions where they, they they break off from what the Bible actually |
| 147 | 00:30:29 --> 00:30:43 | teaches about God, and how it is that we are to get to heaven, and how we are to live our lives. What are we supposed to abstain from? What's the pattern? What's |
| 148 | 00:30:43 --> 00:30:55 | the model, we're supposed to be like Christ. But we can't be like Christ in this flesh. Even the apostles themselves sinned, even after they receive the Holy |
| 149 | 00:30:55 --> 00:31:11 | Spirit, even after receiving gifts that were well, supernatural, bringing people back from the dead, healing them. Paul said he does the things he knows he |
| 150 | 00:31:11 --> 00:31:26 | shouldn't do. And still does it. That sin. You don't see preachers in churches teaching that they guilt you. They guilt you. If you don't pay 10% of your gross |
| 151 | 00:31:26 --> 00:31:38 | income, you're going to hell, the Bible does not teach that. I believed what they said from the pulpit, I believed these men, I believed these people on TV, |
| 152 | 00:31:38 --> 00:31:47 | they said, You should give 10% of your income because God gave you the increase, and you gotta give it back to him. Or he's gonna stop blessing you. That is a |
| 153 | 00:31:47 --> 00:32:03 | lie. That's a lie. God loves a cheerful giver. Yes. Jesus never said anything about you better pay your 10%. In all these pastors out there, this is this is |
| 154 | 00:32:03 --> 00:32:11 | the number one reason why I don't go to a church, okay? I want you to understand this. So there's some of you may be pastors, maybe you pastor a church, maybe |
| 155 | 00:32:11 --> 00:32:23 | you're part of a church that you love, and you're edified by going there, keep going, keep going, if you need that, and it helps you in fellowship, I have |
| 156 | 00:32:23 --> 00:32:35 | fellowship with my friends and family. I don't need to go to a building full of people that are going there may be listening to a message that is not helping |
| 157 | 00:32:35 --> 00:32:46 | them get any closer to Heaven than it did if they just would have stayed home and watched a football game. God is not interested in your money. He doesn't |
| 158 | 00:32:46 --> 00:33:02 | care about it. Well, that's not entirely true. Now, Michael, was it? He actually has an issue with it. Jesus said you can't serve but one master money are God. |
| 159 | 00:33:02 --> 00:33:12 | Which one are you going to serve? And you think he needs 10% or something he's telling you not to serve? You'll never hear Pastor teach that way. They'll |
| 160 | 00:33:12 --> 00:33:28 | always skip around. The verse says, We are not like those who peddle the Word of God for profit. What? Yes. Come to our church, pay 10% of your gross income. If |
| 161 | 00:33:28 --> 00:33:38 | you don't, you're stealing, you're robbing God. Because Malikai says, God says, shall a man rob God. But you're, you're robbing me, in tithes and offerings. |
| 162 | 00:33:42 --> 00:33:56 | Bring therefore all the ties into my, in my house. So that way, they'll be what? provisions, provisions for people that are in need. Most churches today don't |
| 163 | 00:33:56 --> 00:34:06 | operate like that. And what is the type? It ain't money. It ain't money. If you've never looked at it, I did. Because I wanted to defend the idea of what we |
| 164 | 00:34:06 --> 00:34:18 | were doing. My friend Sean and I, he was never being able to make his ends meet. And he was trying his best to do it. He couldn't do it. He felt guilty. And they |
| 165 | 00:34:18 --> 00:34:26 | took him out of leadership and the church because he couldn't do it. And he wanted to serve the body of Christ. He wanted to be in there and and, and be a |
| 166 | 00:34:26 --> 00:34:37 | part of that. Not just sit in the pew like I did. So I tried to encourage him I went in I went through the scriptures. I broke it down to the Hebrew, the Greek |
| 167 | 00:34:37 --> 00:34:46 | I don't go just to the terms that we see like the in the King James Bible. I use the King James. I like to read devotionally from the New Living Translation, I |
| 168 | 00:34:46 --> 00:34:59 | like that. But if I want to go into deep dive study, I'm going back to the original Hebrew and the Greek language. I'm using lexicons. I'm not just reading |
| 169 | 00:34:59 --> 00:35:06 | the superficial text where anybody can come in here and have their own interpretation. And twist it out, make it sound like something that you really |
| 170 | 00:35:06 --> 00:35:16 | didn't say. And I'll share some examples of that today. So when you hear people say, The Bible has been changed, No, it hasn't. It's been translated. And |
| 171 | 00:35:16 --> 00:35:24 | sometimes there's some errors that were made in translation that are easily overcome with the proper resources. I didn't stop it, just what the King James |
| 172 | 00:35:24 --> 00:35:35 | said, there's well documented over 400, transit translation issues, and they're very, very well documented. But they're easily overcome if you go to the Hebrew |
| 173 | 00:35:35 --> 00:35:48 | and Greek lexicons. And you'll see exactly what the original language we're saying there. But the Bible, you can't go into the Old Testament and say, show |
| 174 | 00:35:48 --> 00:35:59 | me the chapter of redemption. It's the whole thing. You can take pages and books out of the Old Testament, and it's still going to point to Jesus Christ. |
| 175 | 00:36:01 --> 00:36:08 | That's the beauty of having the Word of God. When you put Jesus as the lens that you look through, if you don't understand our scripture, or a passage or a |
| 176 | 00:36:08 --> 00:36:17 | verse, put Jesus right in the middle of it, and everything becomes crystal clear. I'll give you some examples of that legislate to that book is alive. |
| 177 | 00:36:18 --> 00:36:32 | Those 66 books penned by 40 Different authors. They are supernatural. They're not just a book of myths and stories. It's a living, breathing, force. It it's |
| 178 | 00:36:32 --> 00:36:46 | power. It's an instruction manual for your life. You won't see it that way, until God puts His Holy Spirit in you. I tried to read the Bible, I tried very, |
| 179 | 00:36:46 --> 00:36:53 | very hard. I couldn't get past Genesis, it was like me, what am I reading here. And when I got to Genesis chapter five, which we'll talk about in details I |
| 180 | 00:36:53 --> 00:37:04 | mentioned a couple times before, but I didn't do a good enough treaty. So I didn't do enough to really make it impactful. It sounded whimsical, I want you |
| 181 | 00:37:04 --> 00:37:17 | to understand exactly what that chapter says. Because I would love the opportunity to minister to a Jew. But I don't have the courage to walk up to him |
| 182 | 00:37:17 --> 00:37:24 | and say, Hey, can I talk to you? Can you show me where this is in your Hebrew Bible? And then walk them through what I'm going to walk you through today? And |
| 183 | 00:37:24 --> 00:37:34 | I want to see their face, and let them walk away contemplating, how on earth could that possibly be there? Trust me, if you haven't heard it yet. It's |
| 184 | 00:37:34 --> 00:37:44 | fascinating. It's extremely fascinating. But Jesus is the lens that we're supposed to look through. We have to have that perspective, when we look at the |
| 185 | 00:37:44 --> 00:37:57 | scriptures, otherwise, we will not glean what it is that He has for us. That bread of life, that fountain of living water. I am the light of the world. I am |
| 186 | 00:37:57 --> 00:38:08 | the door. No one goes to the Father, but by me, anyone else does. It is a thief. He's teaching you use him as the lens in everything. When you go through |
| 187 | 00:38:08 --> 00:38:22 | hardships and troubles, I knew I knew that the likelihood of God allowing Cody to have that happen to him. He was going to use that very thing. And it |
| 188 | 00:38:22 --> 00:38:30 | happened. There was a time when Cody was completely resisting me, didn't wanna have conversations with me because I was always talking to him about how he got. |
| 189 | 00:38:33 --> 00:38:40 | I wasn't being overbearing about it. But I'd say looking and the reason why you're not getting this out of life is because of this. You want dad to hand you |
| 190 | 00:38:40 --> 00:38:47 | the money. I'm asking you to do some work in this and do this and change your perspective and change your lifestyle. Stop doing some of the things you're |
| 191 | 00:38:47 --> 00:38:58 | doing. You're making poor choices in your life. And I don't want to reward that. God has more for you. And he's he started living a life that was argumentative |
| 192 | 00:38:58 --> 00:39:15 | towards God and me. And I prayed. You deal with him, God, I'm done. And years later, He's baptized. In Jesus, I baptized him in Jesus name for remission of |
| 193 | 00:39:15 --> 00:39:34 | sins. He's born again. And he still wrestled with some things. And and now he knows that God is interested in him, he preserved him. And he wept. In his |
| 194 | 00:39:34 --> 00:39:42 | testimony to me about how he knows he can trust God now. He has no fear of what a man thinks about how he feels towards God. And that's what I've always wanted. |
| 195 | 00:39:44 --> 00:39:55 | I've had such a blessed year this year, and I've had hardships in it. scary moments, that as a parent. Nobody wants to go through that. But I know who I'm |
| 196 | 00:39:55 --> 00:40:06 | walking with. I know who's in control. of everything. And I have a very limited perspective on what I see in in encountering this world. So I have to put the |
| 197 | 00:40:06 --> 00:40:17 | lens of Jesus and everything. Suffering is there for our learning, and it's uncomfortable. And you can't say that I couldn't serve a God or love of God that |
| 198 | 00:40:17 --> 00:40:31 | would allow suffering, suffering is required. We don't learn without it. Pain is the greatest instructor. Many people think that going into religion, into |
| 199 | 00:40:31 --> 00:40:39 | Christianity into a church, a synagogue, or a mosque, that that's somehow going to alleviate the pains of this world, when Jesus promised that we're going to |
| 200 | 00:40:39 --> 00:40:45 | have trials and tribulations in this world. But guess what he didn't promise, he didn't promise that the believers that have trust in Him would go through the |
| 201 | 00:40:45 --> 00:40:55 | Great Tribulation. And there's people in churches that are out there preaching that they're going to go through that. I'm not going through it. I'm not going |
| 202 | 00:40:55 --> 00:41:07 | through that. Because the Bible says nothing about how I am going to go through that. Jesus made very plain words and instructions, pray always that you're |
| 203 | 00:41:07 --> 00:41:19 | counted worthy to escape these things coming upon the earth. He would have never said to pray for an escape. If there was not one possible. For the people out |
| 204 | 00:41:19 --> 00:41:25 | there to talk about there is no Rapture. And yes, I absolutely believe in the rapture. Yes, I absolutely do. |
| 205 | 00:41:30 --> 00:41:40 | There's no beginning by this guy named Garvey that started the rapture. That was not true. It's not true. The rapture is in the scriptures. They're in the Old |
| 206 | 00:41:40 --> 00:41:55 | Testament. And they're revealed by Paul plainly in the New Testament. Every thing in the Old Testament is a metaphor that's revealed later in the New |
| 207 | 00:41:55 --> 00:42:13 | Testament. The New Testament is hidden in the Old Testament, and the Old Testament is revealed in a new but tithing. That was the number one reason why I |
| 208 | 00:42:13 --> 00:42:28 | had to get away from organized religion, because they're fleecing people through ignorance. God says, My People die and perish for lack of knowledge. Of what his |
| 209 | 00:42:28 --> 00:42:43 | instructions is word is scripture. The Old Testament does not say, give 10% of your money. The tithe was always, always from the land. The word that was always |
| 210 | 00:42:43 --> 00:42:52 | referred to for the word tithe, had absolutely nothing to do with money. And there's a verse that you'll never hear a preacher teach on when he's talking |
| 211 | 00:42:52 --> 00:43:07 | about tithing. Where if the tithe is too much for you to carry, in your travels, sell it, get money. And then when you arrive, by everything that your heart |
| 212 | 00:43:07 --> 00:43:19 | desires, and eat it before the Lord, what how's the pastor gonna pay for his mega church? His mansion, his Bentley's? If you're gonna do that, exactly. |
| 213 | 00:43:20 --> 00:43:30 | Pastors are not supposed to be egomaniacs. They're living up there with security detail around them. Living a celebrity lifestyle, flying around in $52 million |
| 214 | 00:43:30 --> 00:43:39 | jets that they say the Lord said, I believe I asked you, you give me the money. I'm gonna fly around and preach the gospel the world. You know, it's real easy |
| 215 | 00:43:39 --> 00:43:46 | and cheap. Get on Twitter space and preach the gospel. Get on YouTube, make YouTube videos that's free. You're making you're reaching a whole lot of people. |
| 216 | 00:43:46 --> 00:43:59 | You're not leaving a carbon footprint. You ain't gotta pay nobody to the request people to pay for your Learjet. These mega churches, people, I'm telling you, |
| 217 | 00:44:00 --> 00:44:10 | they are wolves. And even down to the smaller little churches. They're just happy with getting what they can get from the lady. They're, they're living a |
| 218 | 00:44:10 --> 00:44:23 | lifestyle off of people that are going in there with real needs real hurt. They have a need. They can't do something. They can't reach a milestone. It's they |
| 219 | 00:44:23 --> 00:44:34 | have an impasse. They can't get across it like me. I had a son that was going to die. When he was young. He we didn't understand why he couldn't cry. Normally. |
| 220 | 00:44:34 --> 00:44:47 | He's like a cat, meow. And Cody I'm talking about and I went to my friend's church one day and I said Listen, can you pray for my son? Now my friend and his |
| 221 | 00:44:47 --> 00:44:58 | girlfriend at the time they had been going for years. And I wasn't trying to go there. I wasn't trying to be a part of that. But I had an affair with a woman |
| 222 | 00:44:59 --> 00:45:12 | that was married And the byproduct was my eldest son, Cody. And he was born with a birth defect that his throat would close up. And every three months or so he |
| 223 | 00:45:12 --> 00:45:27 | had to have surgery didn't remove the growth, so allow him to be able to breathe. And he's had over 50 surgeries, not 15 over 55, zero some of them need |
| 224 | 00:45:27 --> 00:45:33 | to be done sooner. Some of them had to be multiple surgeries. |
| 225 | 00:45:40 --> 00:45:54 | And one day if we would have never taken into his mother's girlfriends who happened to be the doctor Kashima he was the top surgeon and John Hopkins at the |
| 226 | 00:45:54 --> 00:46:08 | time. He said as he always sounded that way. And she's Yeah. And we thought we were blessed with a quiet baby like I'm, and I didn't know any better. You know, |
| 227 | 00:46:08 --> 00:46:19 | it was the first time I ever became a dad, right? No, no, no. He said, Come in my office tomorrow. And I want to take a look down his throat. So she did, she |
| 228 | 00:46:20 --> 00:46:30 | took him there. And he's scoped him, look down in there. He said, You gotta go immediately. Like, he if he goes to sleep tonight, he may not wake up. You could |
| 229 | 00:46:30 --> 00:46:36 | dine asleep. That's God. That is the Lord. |
| 230 | 00:46:41 --> 00:46:57 | So when you think, Oh, this guy in the sky is invisible, oh, man, that lets children suffer. let's rate this room, the world. Lets people die of cancer. I |
| 231 | 00:46:57 --> 00:47:06 | would never serve a God like that. Well, that's one perspective. But he promised that we would have those trials and tribulations here. He didn't promise that |
| 232 | 00:47:06 --> 00:47:21 | you'd have a good, healthy life all your days, he didn't promise that. But he presents opportunities for us to lean on our own understanding, or his. And at |
| 233 | 00:47:21 --> 00:47:30 | that time, I didn't have anything else to lean on. So I went to that church. And I said, Can you pray for my son. So he's healed from this, because they're |
| 234 | 00:47:30 --> 00:47:35 | talking about how he's gonna have to do this the rest of his life. And he may end up having to get a trach, where he has a hole in his throat, and he has to |
| 235 | 00:47:35 --> 00:47:42 | talk. But when there's little, you know that I don't know what they're called, you put it against the hole in the trach. And you talk, it sounds like robotic |
| 236 | 00:47:42 --> 00:47:48 | sounding. That's what they promised that that was going to happen. Eventually, his little his lungs would close up to they could put stents down there. But |
| 237 | 00:47:48 --> 00:48:01 | eventually, they will be overtaken, and the only other real promising solution would have been a heart and lung transplant. They all get guaranteed, and |
| 238 | 00:48:01 --> 00:48:08 | promised that he will eventually lose his ability to speak. And he would have those issues where he'd have to have his heart and lungs taken out, or he will |
| 239 | 00:48:08 --> 00:48:21 | perish eventually, from doing it. Well, guess what? The devil is a liar. Because he has a voice. He never was tricked. And his lungs are absolutely clean. His |
| 240 | 00:48:21 --> 00:48:28 | airway is clean. And that's only because Jesus said that's the way it's going to be. |
| 241 | 00:48:33 --> 00:48:43 | When they were saying that that was going to happen. I spoke up. I said, that's a lie. Devil you are not having this. You're not having this. Just like when my |
| 242 | 00:48:43 --> 00:48:54 | youngest son was born before he was born, rather. We were in there having our first sonogram done. And the nurses in there saying, Oh, well, you know, this is |
| 243 | 00:48:54 --> 00:49:03 | this is where the baby is above a BA and where's the problem? I said, No, they're anxious. Well, here's the placenta. It's laying on top of the cervix. So |
| 244 | 00:49:03 --> 00:49:13 | she's going to have to have a C section. I said, that's a lie. That right there is a lie. The devil is a liar. You're not going to fab this today. This child |
| 245 | 00:49:13 --> 00:49:24 | was promised to me. Missy, you will not be having a C section. Do not listen to this woman. She's speaking live. But I'm just telling you, I can see so I'm just |
| 246 | 00:49:24 --> 00:49:33 | telling you right now, when it's time that baby's coming out. Naturally, that placenta is going to find rollerskates it's going to roll around the other side |
| 247 | 00:49:33 --> 00:49:52 | and he's coming out natural. Well, guess what? He came out natural. How about that? The judges 13 five baby when we just had a miscarriage. And my wife just |
| 248 | 00:49:52 --> 00:50:04 | lost her aunt to cancer and she was mad. We had a loss and she had a loss in her face. Only who she loved. She didn't hear nothing about God, nothing. She didn't |
| 249 | 00:50:04 --> 00:50:11 | hear nothing about him. I don't ever hear about him anymore. And we're not having any more kids. Because I wouldn't have, I wouldn't have a daughter, like |
| 250 | 00:50:11 --> 00:50:30 | I was aiming for a girl. And I went to a church. I was trying to listen to this pastor preach. I couldn't tell you what he was talking about. I was hurt. And I |
| 251 | 00:50:30 --> 00:50:36 | was like, Lord, why did you let this happen to me? You know, I love you. I live my life for you |
| 252 | 00:50:47 --> 00:50:48 | Why don't you take the baby? |
| 253 | 00:50:57 --> 00:51:05 | So how am I going to be able to witness to my wife, she's angry at you. Like, I don't know what I don't know how to talk to her now. |
| 254 | 00:51:13 --> 00:51:22 | And some of you've already heard this before. But for those that haven't heard it before. I heard his voice. I've heard his voice many times in my life. And |
| 255 | 00:51:22 --> 00:51:32 | I've shared other instances of this by her judges, 13, five, Michael, judges 13 Five. And I thought to myself, you know, I'm, I'm emotional right now, I'm going |
| 256 | 00:51:32 --> 00:51:40 | to grab my Bible, I'm going to open it up. And it's going to have nothing to do with anything. And it's going to make me feel even worse. And I've resisted it. |
| 257 | 00:51:40 --> 00:51:49 | So I'm not looking at. I'm not looking at it. I didn't hear anything more. But I started getting uncomfortable the whole time that pastors up here preaching his |
| 258 | 00:51:49 --> 00:52:05 | heart out. And you could offer me $20 billion right now to say one short, little phrase of whatever he was talking, and it would be my money. I couldn't do it. I |
| 259 | 00:52:05 --> 00:52:22 | was in that pew weeping. praying that God would comfort. It did. And in my pain, I was resisting it. If I'm that guy, my Bible turned to God chapter 13. Scroll |
| 260 | 00:52:22 --> 00:52:30 | down the verse five, it says, Behold, you shall conceive a son. And that whole chapter is about a woman who can't get pregnant and you tell me God doesn't |
| 261 | 00:52:30 --> 00:52:43 | exist. One home, I told my wife, this is what happened. She's like I'm hearing it. The following Sunday. She takes a pregnancy test and she's pregnant. And |
| 262 | 00:52:43 --> 00:52:44 | that's my son Caden. |
| 263 | 00:52:49 --> 00:53:09 | I have been dealt with by God that I don't deserve that any relationship to have done things in my life that are absolutely miraculous. Because my faith is way |
| 264 | 00:53:09 --> 00:53:23 | beyond what they teach you to tap. I believe in the God of the Old Testament, the miracle worker, the signs and wonders God. I don't believe in a dead god. I |
| 265 | 00:53:23 --> 00:53:31 | don't believe in a mythology. I don't believe in something that doesn't exist and some pie in the sky idea. I believe in a real Redeemer who has an active |
| 266 | 00:53:31 --> 00:53:42 | interest in all of us. Where do you think I get the passion to teach you this stuff? He gives it to me |
| 267 | 00:53:48 --> 00:54:07 | when I'm encouraging you, that's him onto an instrument I'm flawed, I have problems. I wrestle with them. And for some of you, you might have shown up here |
| 268 | 00:54:07 --> 00:54:16 | today to listen to this hoping that I'll be talking about trading and maybe this is the bigger thing that you have to deal with. Maybe you don't feel like you're |
| 269 | 00:54:16 --> 00:54:31 | worth anything. I had every box checked. But that growing up look what God's doing in my life. What he's what he's done in my life is nothing short of |
| 270 | 00:54:31 --> 00:54:36 | miraculous. undeserving Lee |
| 271 | 00:54:52 --> 00:55:02 | you have to have big faith. But you don't start with big faith. You start with small things. And over time you see him do The things and it's like, I asked for |
| 272 | 00:55:02 --> 00:55:13 | this, I asked for this, to be shielded from me, I asked for these things to help me help someone else. They use our prayers that he loves answering. When it's |
| 273 | 00:55:13 --> 00:55:22 | not about you, I'm not saying he can't meet your needs, if you need something that you're in the last minute thing and you need a miracle. You can do that. |
| 274 | 00:55:22 --> 00:55:31 | Absolutely. But he loves answering the prayers that you want to do something for someone else, and you want to be empowered. You want the resources given to you |
| 275 | 00:55:31 --> 00:55:45 | help me help them. He shows up and shows out for that. You see all these people out there? I believe God, when He comes out and shows me himself, he's done it |
| 276 | 00:55:45 --> 00:55:55 | already in creation. Look around. This morning, I'm going out there. Three o'clock in the morning, I'm looking at this guy. And it just made me think about |
| 277 | 00:55:55 --> 00:56:06 | the time when I started to doubt was I just being joyful and living for God. Because like, people today will be watching a football game and they're gonna be |
| 278 | 00:56:06 --> 00:56:21 | happy and screaming for their team and drinking alcohol and have a good time with their friends. Getting a knee braided was I getting fanatical? In religion? |
| 279 | 00:56:22 --> 00:56:30 | That was the question I had forgotten. And I asked him I said one night, I'm standing right in front of my porch. I said, Lord, I need to know something. |
| 280 | 00:56:31 --> 00:56:42 | Like I need to know this. Because if I don't get this today, I'm afraid I'm going to fall away. And your word says you don't want anyone to perish. And I'm |
| 281 | 00:56:42 --> 00:56:45 | at a crossroads right now. I need to know. |
| 282 | 00:56:51 --> 00:56:52 | I need to know that you hear me. |
| 283 | 00:56:57 --> 00:57:09 | That doesn't mean I ask for everything and you give it to me. That's not what I'm asking for. But I need to know that you hear me. When Gideon is a testimony |
| 284 | 00:57:09 --> 00:57:19 | to times when you go to a church and a pastor will tell you Don't tempt the Lord Don't touch the Lord. That's not what it says. That's not what he's implying. |
| 285 | 00:57:19 --> 00:57:29 | When they when he has that in the Scripture. He's saying something entirely different. Because Gideon, he heard a voice. He want to make sure he didn't have |
| 286 | 00:57:29 --> 00:57:41 | some macaroni the night before. That I hear what I thought I just said, what I heard someone say, Lord said, Do this. Do that. What? What do you say? Who am I? |
| 287 | 00:57:41 --> 00:57:53 | Who's talking to me? So you had made some stipulations? Yes. Okay, let's make sure I'm not losing my mind here. I'm going to Pete place this skin outside my |
| 288 | 00:57:53 --> 00:58:05 | tent here and you make it wet on this and not wet on that. The No, no, that this isn't my imagination. And when he woke up on outside check, that was exactly |
| 289 | 00:58:05 --> 00:58:15 | what the simulation was asking for. So it's okay, just to make sure that this wasn't coincidence. Reverse it do the other way. Next morning, when outside so |
| 290 | 00:58:15 --> 00:58:25 | it goes now whatever you tell me to do, I'm going to believe it. So you absolutely. When you're at your wit's end, and you need to know let me tell you |
| 291 | 00:58:25 --> 00:58:33 | something, anybody that wants to know if God exists, if your heart is sincere, and you're ready for it, and you really want to put down and you really don't |
| 292 | 00:58:33 --> 00:58:51 | want to be of this world, you don't want to be conformed of this world. You'll hear from him. That's the only time I did when it needs to happen when it needs |
| 293 | 00:58:51 --> 00:59:07 | to happen, not a want. Not a fleshly desire. Not an egotistical you owe to me, I'm gonna believe in if I see you. If he showed himself you wouldn't exist. Sin |
| 294 | 00:59:07 --> 00:59:19 | can't reside, where he is. That's why he stayed distant. He veiled himself which is a mystery. He veiled himself, every part of what God is and who he is, was |
| 295 | 00:59:19 --> 00:59:31 | inside that human body, Jesus. The fullness of the Godhead was in him bodily. Everything that makes him God was placed in that flesh. And he allowed that |
| 296 | 00:59:31 --> 00:59:55 | flesh to walk seamlessly. And then he made that body sin to be judged. When it didn't sin then he raised it three days later, and he took it to Heaven |
| 297 | 00:59:55 --> 01:00:04 | glorified it now, everybody that ever sees God, they see Jesus And the only thing in heaven that's manmade is the scars on his body. |
| 298 | 01:00:11 --> 01:00:19 | But that night, I stood up there in front of my house, I said, I need to know you hear me. And I'm going to ask for something that's so trivial. You could |
| 299 | 01:00:19 --> 01:00:25 | have, I'm sure you're probably, I mean, you already know, you know, the infant again, you know, I'm gonna say, and I already know that, you know, I'm going to |
| 300 | 01:00:25 --> 01:00:38 | ask this. So it's nothing. So it's, it's crazy that I know what I'm about to ask for, you're already going to do it. But I have to do this, I need to see. As |
| 301 | 01:00:38 --> 01:00:43 | silly as it sounds, I need to see a shooting star right where I'm looking at right now, I'm not going to blink, I'm not moving, because I already know what's |
| 302 | 01:00:43 --> 01:00:53 | coming. And I saw this old soap opera looking heart monitor a long time ago, I grew up as a 70s. kid, my mom used to watch soap operas, and my babysitter, as a |
| 303 | 01:00:53 --> 01:01:03 | kid used to watch, you know, general hospital days of our lives and, you know, young and restless, like type of stuff. And whenever anybody was in the |
| 304 | 01:01:03 --> 01:01:11 | hospital, and he had a heart monitor, and it would look like these little pinpoint lights that would bounce off each other, going horizontally. And I saw |
| 305 | 01:01:11 --> 01:01:20 | that, right where I was looking moving from right to left. And where I saw that started about five or six times maybe. And then last time it touched together, |
| 306 | 01:01:20 --> 01:01:27 | the smallest, little tiny little shooting star started right where it stopped going the other direction. And then before I could open my mouth out and say, |
| 307 | 01:01:27 --> 01:01:36 | That's enough for me. I don't care. What I'm about to say is believed by anybody because I was there. Okay, I'm just telling you, this is an experience that I |
| 308 | 01:01:36 --> 01:01:42 | had. It's been ridiculed. It's been trolled by other people, they've taken this because I've shared this testimony in my private mentorship in front of my |
| 309 | 01:01:42 --> 01:01:52 | students. And it's been passed around, and I don't care. Because if you're making fun of it, I'm going to receive the crown for that. I don't care. I don't |
| 310 | 01:01:52 --> 01:02:03 | care. Okay. But I want to challenge you. I want to challenge you to think about God like this because he didn't stop doing miracles. He didn't stop doing the |
| 311 | 01:02:03 --> 01:02:13 | things he did in Old Testament. The fruits of the Spirit, speaking in tongues, gift of healing, all those things. They're still operable today, God didn't |
| 312 | 01:02:13 --> 01:02:24 | stop, he didn't retire being God. There's a verse says, when that which is perfect is come, then all these things will cease these, these, these signs and |
| 313 | 01:02:24 --> 01:02:33 | wonders and evidences of the spirit, like speaking in tongues and things like that. What's perfect, they say, that's the Bible, the Bible is not perfect. |
| 314 | 01:02:34 --> 01:02:43 | That's just the recorded Word of God. If it was perfect, it could not be manipulated and taken out of context. When it's referring to the one that which |
| 315 | 01:02:43 --> 01:02:54 | is perfect has come, that's Christ returning. That's the only thing perfect. So all of those things are still in operation. All the gifts of the Spirit are |
| 316 | 01:02:54 --> 01:03:00 | still in operation in any body that tells you that's not true. You need to get away from that, because that's a person that is either in ignorance are a |
| 317 | 01:03:00 --> 01:03:14 | straight liar. But before I can utter the words, thank you. From the left side, exactly where that little shooting star started. The whole arc of the sky where |
| 318 | 01:03:14 --> 01:03:29 | I was looking at this fireball, I mean, it's the only thing I could think of. It was literally if you held a grapefruit or a softball in your hand. Arm's length |
| 319 | 01:03:29 --> 01:03:39 | in front of you, like hold your right hand out in front of you, right in front of your face. Imagine a grapefruit in your hand. That is the diameter of this |
| 320 | 01:03:39 --> 01:03:50 | thing that lit the whole area up like it was daytime. I heard it as it crackled slow, it was moving really, really slow, so slow. And I couldn't believe what I |
| 321 | 01:03:50 --> 01:04:00 | was looking at, like I heard it. And I saw it in the whole area lit up. A man let me tell you something right now. I was jumping up and down laughing and |
| 322 | 01:04:00 --> 01:04:12 | crying at the same time. And I'm looking around Did anybody else see that? I'm by myself. And I'm leaping around jumping. Thank him praising God, like, Oh my |
| 323 | 01:04:12 --> 01:04:19 | goodness. Oh, my goodness. I just had an Old Testament experience. Like I literally just had something that comes right out of the page of the Old |
| 324 | 01:04:19 --> 01:04:29 | Testament. Like this is amazing. This is amazing. I asked him something he sent three things. And there was no denying it like there was no way I could have |
| 325 | 01:04:29 --> 01:04:42 | ever misunderstood what I was looking for. I asked for it. And he made it like undeniable. It wasn't something I saw. I heard it. It lit the whole area. So it |
| 326 | 01:04:42 --> 01:04:50 | wasn't like I saw something at the corner of my eye. It changed the whole atmosphere. The whole thing lit up. And I know some of you are thinking there's |
| 327 | 01:04:50 --> 01:04:58 | no way this is this is not true. I swear to God Almighty Oh my family, everything you could ever place on it. I am telling you. This happened |
| 328 | 01:05:00 --> 01:05:09 | immediately hit me. Am I supposed to tell anybody this? And I asked, I was like, am I supposed to tell anybody this like this? This is just for me. I didn't hear |
| 329 | 01:05:09 --> 01:05:29 | anything. And for the longest time, I was afraid to even mention it. But I can't contain it. I can't hold it in. That prayer request was just like Gideon. I |
| 330 | 01:05:29 --> 01:05:44 | didn't need to ask for the second one. Who would? That night, solidified everything for me? It literally changed the whole dynamic of my belief |
| 331 | 01:05:44 --> 01:05:55 | structure. That if he did that, what he was signifying to me was he hears my prayer, not that he's going to answer or my obligation or his obligation to |
| 332 | 01:05:55 --> 01:06:04 | answer. It just means that he can hear me. So if you can hear me, I said, I trust the outcome. If you answer the prayer, that was your will, if you don't |
| 333 | 01:06:04 --> 01:06:14 | answer it, that's your will. And I'm accepting that. That was a sincere request. It was a sincere request. And I was at the crossroads where if I didn't have |
| 334 | 01:06:14 --> 01:06:27 | that, I probably would have went a duck another direction. And who knows where my life would have been? Folks, that's real. That's a real thing. And I, I hold |
| 335 | 01:06:27 --> 01:06:33 | on to that. And I was thinking about this more when I was looking up at the stars. And I started smiling myself. And I'm thinking, like, Lord, You know what |
| 336 | 01:06:33 --> 01:06:41 | I'm thinking right? Now, you remember that night when I was there? And I was, you know, at that crossroads of, do I continue on my faith with you? Or was it |
| 337 | 01:06:41 --> 01:06:57 | just me, you getting whipped up into a frenzy, getting caught up in the emotions of being part of a church it was such an amazing milestone in my personal life, |
| 338 | 01:06:58 --> 01:07:06 | and I shared it with my kids. And I've had some really other really cool things too. And I don't want to, you know, try to throw everything in this one here. |
| 339 | 01:07:06 --> 01:07:18 | But I'm already deviating for what I want to talk about, because it's it's just a wonderful, wonderful relationship with a living God, that is not imagination. |
| 340 | 01:07:18 --> 01:07:31 | It's a wonderful blessing to know that we have a redeemer in Christ, who has made himself manifest. He's revealed who he is, he's revealed His nature as God |
| 341 | 01:07:32 --> 01:07:41 | in the ministry of Jesus Christ, His whole ministry, His death, burial and resurrection. And the apostles doctrine that he left for them. Everything that |
| 342 | 01:07:41 --> 01:07:50 | the apostles teach, and indeed, in the book of Acts, that's how we're supposed to live our life. That's what we're supposed to be doing. You don't see a mega |
| 343 | 01:07:50 --> 01:08:01 | church and the book of Acts. You see home based Bible study type groups. You see small little collections of people that are coming together. They're not trying |
| 344 | 01:08:01 --> 01:08:10 | to make these huge buildings that are worth millions of dollars that these pastors create, that you pay for. And when they want to retire, they sell the |
| 345 | 01:08:10 --> 01:08:24 | building the church and they live off the proceeds. We are not like those who peddle the Word of God, for profit. You don't need to be tied. Period. If you're |
| 346 | 01:08:24 --> 01:08:32 | a fisherman, you didn't pay tide. If you're a merchant, you didn't pay tide, because it didn't come from the land and you didn't raise the cattle. That's |
| 347 | 01:08:32 --> 01:08:39 | what was tied. That's Biblical. That's why Jesus didn't say you better tie. |
| 348 | 01:08:48 --> 01:08:57 | I believe there's one God and Deuteronomy six four says here, O Israel, the Lord, our God, the Lord is one. That means there's no Trinity. If you're a |
| 349 | 01:08:57 --> 01:09:09 | Trinitarian, and you believe that that isn't three separate person, like some Trinitarians like to take, I have had wonderful conversations. And I believe I |
| 350 | 01:09:09 --> 01:09:21 | understand that they believe that God is one. And they have to use these terms. Otherwise they're alienated by the church community. They might get |
| 351 | 01:09:21 --> 01:09:30 | excommunicated because they don't believe in a trinity. When the Bible doesn't teach Trinity, it doesn't teach it folks. It does not exist in the Bible. There |
| 352 | 01:09:30 --> 01:09:40 | is not this God the Son, it's the Son of God. You cannot find God the son in the bible. It's not there. There is the Son of God, which is the humanity, the part |
| 353 | 01:09:40 --> 01:09:54 | that had to be put in the position of being tempted like us because the Bible says Jesus was tempted in all men are like us in sin that Hebrew says the body |
| 354 | 01:09:54 --> 01:10:09 | was prepared for him. Hebrews chapter 10. Read it. It's there. Are there is no three triune persons in heaven, how many thrones are in heaven, one who sits on |
| 355 | 01:10:09 --> 01:10:21 | it, Jesus. The God of the Old Testament is Jesus before He manifests Himself in flesh. Jesus himself said he was the voice speaking from the burning bush that |
| 356 | 01:10:21 --> 01:10:33 | spoke to Moses. For people say, Jesus never claimed to be God, absolutely false. Read the whole Gospel of John. That's the whole John's message is that very |
| 357 | 01:10:33 --> 01:10:42 | thing right there. He's his deity. Why is there four gospels? Matthew is teaching. He's a Jew, He's the Messiah. Here's the lineage. Here's his bloodline |
| 358 | 01:10:42 --> 01:10:58 | going through it. He shows you he has the right to claim he is the Messiah. Mark, his perspective is one of the servant of suffering servant. Nobody, |
| 359 | 01:10:58 --> 01:11:06 | there's no genealogy in that because there's nobody nobody cares about the pedigree of a servant. Why is there the Gospel of Luke because he's speaking of |
| 360 | 01:11:06 --> 01:11:17 | his humanity, everything that Luke talks about his miracles, all of his talking in speech, hinges on the humanity aspect, his humanity is the only part that |
| 361 | 01:11:17 --> 01:11:28 | could die. God can't die, he had to create a body of flesh that he allowed to die after he lived in it for 30 some years, let it die, and then resurrected it. |
| 362 | 01:11:28 --> 01:11:37 | And now he glorified it, and he will always be in that glorified state. We see him in that form forevermore. You don't believe in them, you're gonna believe |
| 363 | 01:11:37 --> 01:11:46 | him when you stand in front of them. When your knees bowed, when your tongues professing the he's the Lord. You're all going to say it. But you want to do it |
| 364 | 01:11:46 --> 01:11:49 | right now or admit it's going to happen. It's all going to happen. |
| 365 | 01:11:55 --> 01:12:17 | In John, the Gospel of John which is my favorite, focuses on who he was. His deity, The everlasting Father. Inside that flesh, was the very God Almighty. |
| 366 | 01:12:22 --> 01:12:32 | The apostles spent time with him. He kept talking about the Father, the Father, the Father, the Father. Man, Jesus, listen, listen, listen, listen. You keep |
| 367 | 01:12:32 --> 01:12:48 | talking about the Father? Show us the Father. And we're going to understand you then. Jesus turns around says, Have I been with you so long? That you don't know |
| 368 | 01:12:48 --> 01:13:01 | who I am? If you see me, you see the Father. So how is it you asked me to show you the father when it's the father who is speaking to you? Where's the Trinity |
| 369 | 01:13:01 --> 01:13:16 | there? Where's the people that say Jesus never claim to be God? Because he's saying it right there plain and simple. But why is there a distinction where |
| 370 | 01:13:16 --> 01:13:24 | Jesus says, you know, don't believe me for what I say, believe me for the work sake because it's the father and me who does the works, I can do nothing. Why? |
| 371 | 01:13:24 --> 01:13:39 | Because his flesh was still being in the process of being tempted. The flesh prophets nothing. Even his own. They came with the purpose to die on that cross. |
| 372 | 01:13:46 --> 01:13:53 | The princes of this world, and even Satan and his angels, if they understood what was really going on, they never would have allowed him to be hung on that |
| 373 | 01:13:53 --> 01:14:03 | cross. And once they realized that he was up there, and he was still quoting scriptures and Psalms. They understood then, and then they went into those |
| 374 | 01:14:03 --> 01:14:14 | people and said, Come down, come down. If you're the Son of God, come down from there. Save yourself. They knew the gig was up the sacrifice that he was making |
| 375 | 01:14:14 --> 01:14:25 | up there. That was not a sacrifice of tragedy. That was an accomplishment in victory of death hell in the grave, and they were all swallowed up. Oh, death |
| 376 | 01:14:25 --> 01:14:44 | Where's nice thing? Can you imagine that look on Lucifers face when he realized he was duped. Oh, Louie. Oh, Louie. You got Playboy at each and says, there's |
| 377 | 01:14:44 --> 01:14:56 | one body, one spirit, even as you are called, in one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all and |
| 378 | 01:14:56 --> 01:15:08 | through all and in you all. There's one god one faith, one baptism Colossians two verses nine says, For in Him speaking of Jesus in Him dwells all the |
| 379 | 01:15:08 --> 01:15:21 | fullness of the Godhead bodily. That means everything that makes God God was inside that humanity that we see in the personhood of Christ Jesus. His flesh, |
| 380 | 01:15:21 --> 01:15:30 | hungered. He grew tired, he grew weary. When he was around everyone, he would get overwhelmed. He said, Let us it's good for us. Let's depart for a little |
| 381 | 01:15:30 --> 01:15:41 | while. He had enough of them. God himself didn't have them. It's the flesh that felt that he had to separate himself. His body, His human body had to sleep. God |
| 382 | 01:15:41 --> 01:15:54 | doesn't sleep. God doesn't get hungry. God doesn't get tired. His humanity did. Well, if he's God. Why was he praying to God? Well, the Bible says, all flesh |
| 383 | 01:15:54 --> 01:16:06 | shall come before me. In prayer in Jesus came in what manifest in the flesh. You don't know your scriptures, folks, you don't know how to rightly divide the word |
| 384 | 01:16:06 --> 01:16:18 | and you sure ain't ready to debate somebody that does. See, the devil shows up with snares and traps. And he wants you to doubt a little bit of doubt goes a |
| 385 | 01:16:18 --> 01:16:33 | long, long way. goes a long way. Let it sit there for a little while, let that seed germinate, grow roots, lets them start showing itself in your life. I will |
| 386 | 01:16:33 --> 01:16:43 | suddenly find yourself believing lies and things that aren't true, that you aren't destined for great things. You're not an overcomer when you really are in |
| 387 | 01:16:43 --> 01:16:54 | Jesus. God wants to do these things in your life. He wants you to live a fruitful life. He's not promising you getting rich. He's promising you a |
| 388 | 01:16:54 --> 01:17:04 | perspective where you can trust him and fear nothing that comes in your way. You're gonna have hardships. Look at me. I believe in God, you're you're |
| 389 | 01:17:04 --> 01:17:17 | probably thinking, you know, before I even talked about this today, oh, my god. Iced Tea talks about God all the time. Look what happened to his son. I'm |
| 390 | 01:17:17 --> 01:17:26 | thankful that it happened. Because now on the other side of it, my son has greater faith. That's why he allows suffering. Paul says that we are going |
| 391 | 01:17:26 --> 01:17:34 | through trials and tribulations and suffering for the purposes of our own testimony, when we can still adhere to and trust and love and adore the Creator. |
| 392 | 01:17:34 --> 01:17:43 | Even though we go through these things. We still trust and love God and if God takes from us, so what like Jobe said, The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away. |
| 393 | 01:17:44 --> 01:17:47 | Even if he slays me yet, I will serve him. |
| 394 | 01:17:53 --> 01:18:08 | Some of you, some of you may have asked God, use ICT to help me make money. And I believe in you God, if you did that, don't do that. I'm not claiming that |
| 395 | 01:18:08 --> 01:18:17 | things like God, but I think that's the inappropriate way of doing it. I think I'm not promising this is going to be the way but I think that if you ask God |
| 396 | 01:18:17 --> 01:18:28 | prayerfully to bless an increase you so you can bless an increase someone else in need. And you really mean it, not to say it in Word. When you mean it in |
| 397 | 01:18:28 --> 01:18:38 | every fiber of your being you believe in your heart. I believe those are the types of prayers that he answers and he gladly does it. Because he's going to |
| 398 | 01:18:38 --> 01:18:49 | get the glory for it. That's why I don't like when you guys call me the greatest of all time, because I know it's him in me that's doing these things. He gives |
| 399 | 01:18:49 --> 01:19:00 | me this wisdom. He tells you what I'm supposed to do and what to say sometimes when I mess it up with my flesh. He's taken a step back, and then I have to |
| 400 | 01:19:00 --> 01:19:12 | repent for that. Which is about every single time I go on a live stream of any capacity because I blow it I am a sinner, I have flesh and until I leave this |
| 401 | 01:19:12 --> 01:19:23 | flesh, I will sin just like all of you will too. How many sins did you commit before you sat down started listening to me today? Oh, valuable righteousness. |
| 402 | 01:19:24 --> 01:19:37 | You better check yourself ICT before we talk about God. You worry about your own house. Okay. First Timothy 316 says, and without controversy, great is the |
| 403 | 01:19:37 --> 01:19:47 | mystery of godliness. God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the spirit scene of angels preached unto the Gentiles believed on in the world and received |
| 404 | 01:19:47 --> 01:19:55 | up in the Glory Who other person in history ever had that happen are called Born and referred to as the person that was manifest in flesh, none other than Jesus |
| 405 | 01:19:55 --> 01:20:11 | Christ. He is the Lord. He is the King. I am not a king. I love trading. I am not the God of trading. I abhor those terms. And I know who that is when it's |
| 406 | 01:20:11 --> 01:20:20 | doing it. The enemy wants me to like those posts, the enemy wants me to retweet that the enemy wants me to encourage you to do those things towards me. And |
| 407 | 01:20:20 --> 01:20:30 | guess what if I did that, God would strike me down. I wouldn't do anything, right. Because what I what I would be doing was do what I would be robbing God, |
| 408 | 01:20:30 --> 01:20:39 | which is what Malikai three talks about, it's not robbing God through ties, it's not giving him money. You're robbing him of the glory that He has established |
| 409 | 01:20:39 --> 01:20:54 | the welfare system, for the widower for the vagabond. The person who was within lack, when they needed something to eat, hungry. And when he made provisions, |
| 410 | 01:20:55 --> 01:21:04 | they were able to eat and he would receive the glory, it has absolutely nothing to do with money. And these preachers and pastors are liars, they're wolves in |
| 411 | 01:21:04 --> 01:21:14 | sheep's clothing, preying on people that don't know the Scripture. And when I saw this, going into the scriptures to try to encourage my best friend, my |
| 412 | 01:21:14 --> 01:21:22 | brother, basically, from another mother, I was doing my best to go into the scriptures and say, Look, brothers, this is this is what the Word says you can |
| 413 | 01:21:22 --> 01:21:38 | trust. I know, it's hard, but just trust it. I was broke, then I was broke. And I'm encouraging him to do something that at the time I wanted to do too. And |
| 414 | 01:21:38 --> 01:21:55 | when I saw the scriptures for what they really say, I was shook. I had to sit there for a minute and think to myself, am I being deceived? Here? Am I being |
| 415 | 01:21:55 --> 01:22:09 | lied to? And I was in everybody that goes to a church and here's a pastor preach on how you give 10% of your money. God doesn't need your money. And you can't |
| 416 | 01:22:09 --> 01:22:17 | pay for anything. Because the Bible talks about how anything plus what Jesus has done means nothing. It cancels out everything that he's done on the cross. |
| 417 | 01:22:17 --> 01:22:28 | That's scriptural. That's Biblical. You can't earn your way into heaven, you can't be good enough to get into heaven. When Jesus was on the cross, He said to |
| 418 | 01:22:28 --> 01:22:41 | tell us that it means it's finished, paid in full, it's done. The debt is paid. You bring nothing to it. Nobody, nobody can claim, partly, they earned their |
| 419 | 01:22:41 --> 01:22:56 | salvation. You can't happen. It cannot happen. And how many times have people gone to these institutions, and claiming to be the house of God? Going in with a |
| 420 | 01:22:56 --> 01:23:07 | real need. My children have an addiction. I'm about to lose everything. I'm in financial destitution, I'm at my wit's end, I want to end myself. And they go in |
| 421 | 01:23:07 --> 01:23:14 | there and they hear these people say, well, brothers, so what you got to do, you got to start living for God 10% of your gross wages, and you God's gonna make a |
| 422 | 01:23:14 --> 01:23:25 | miraculous move in your life. You just got to sow a seed, sow a seed, and it's gonna happen, you know what you're doing. You're destroying that person. On the |
| 423 | 01:23:25 --> 01:23:37 | pretense that you're a savior, as a pasture, you're trying to tend to a flock, no, you're eating them. You are devouring them like a wolf. And that's why so |
| 424 | 01:23:37 --> 01:23:45 | many people go into churches, and they leave unchanged. They don't leave victorious. They don't leave empowered. They go in their broker than they were |
| 425 | 01:23:45 --> 01:23:59 | when they went out. And they start questioning God, when God never ever told us to have that around our necks. Where there's Christ, there is liberty. Jesus |
| 426 | 01:23:59 --> 01:24:08 | didn't say you have to give him 10% of yours. He doesn't want your money. He has an issue with money. That's the divisive thing in this world. It's either you |
| 427 | 01:24:08 --> 01:24:20 | love God, or you love money. Everything in this world revolves around what? Money 99.9% of time, you are only interested when I'm talking about because you |
| 428 | 01:24:20 --> 01:24:32 | want to do what with it. You want to make money with it. And this discussion today is far more profitable than anything I've ever taught. This is the answer |
| 429 | 01:24:32 --> 01:24:41 | you're looking for. Because you think money will give you peace of mind and it doesn't. It just gives you another tool at all. You think I needed something God |
| 430 | 01:24:41 --> 01:24:48 | wanted to give it to me like I have to have the money to do it. Now. I've had people come to me and give me things that I needed and I didn't need to know or |
| 431 | 01:24:48 --> 01:24:57 | I didn't know I needed it yet. And all of a sudden, the the issue came up where I had to have that very thing. And it was given to me at a time from somebody I |
| 432 | 01:24:57 --> 01:25:12 | didn't expect Bible talks about, be careful how you entertain strangers, because many times you're entertaining angels unaware. You're complaining about, I can't |
| 433 | 01:25:12 --> 01:25:19 | get to where I'm trying to drive to right now, these people are driving too slow, they would stop and think about how the Lord might be sending that very |
| 434 | 01:25:19 --> 01:25:26 | person right there in front of you, to slow you down. So that way you're not in the intersection when that tractor trailer driver goes through with very little |
| 435 | 01:25:26 --> 01:25:37 | sleep, and he's texting his girlfriend. His perspective, folks, but you're cursing that person in front of you. Up and down. Right, right, right, right. |
| 436 | 01:25:40 --> 01:25:49 | When you live a life with God, and you walk with God, He orders your steps. He's like a lamp unto your feet, you can, you can trust them. And everything that you |
| 437 | 01:25:49 --> 01:26:00 | would otherwise see in this world as something holding you back. Is this card holding you for the right time. That's all that's all it is. If you really trust |
| 438 | 01:26:00 --> 01:26:13 | him, you just got to simply wait on him waiting on the Lord. That's what real Christianity is. It's not the thing you see on TV. It's not the thing in these |
| 439 | 01:26:13 --> 01:26:26 | Sunday workshops that these people have, where you come in, support me make me rich. And you leave with less and I give you a pep talk. And then you go out |
| 440 | 01:26:26 --> 01:26:34 | there and you have reminders of the bills that you still have the jobs that you have to work hard for and your children are still in bondage to abuse of |
| 441 | 01:26:34 --> 01:26:47 | chemicals and stimulants. Living a deviant lifestyle, causing you and themselves harm. Living a life of lack living a life that feels like you're just one step |
| 442 | 01:26:47 --> 01:26:58 | closer to ending yourself, or your children or a friend or your spouse wants to leave you because you're unhappy. You place Jesus in the middle of that every |
| 443 | 01:26:58 --> 01:27:11 | marriage can be fixed. Every relationship can be solidify your finances, you can take care of that real quick, your health, just like that take care of that. But |
| 444 | 01:27:11 --> 01:27:19 | what are you doing for him? It's not the 10% of money you got to give, he doesn't need your money. He says he has all the riches. He literally created |
| 445 | 01:27:19 --> 01:27:33 | everything. He's spoken into existence. You think he needs the money? That ain't worth anything. Tithing is a lie. It's bondage in it causes the perfect excuse |
| 446 | 01:27:33 --> 01:27:45 | why people can go immediately into God seeking Him. And then when the needs are not met in the processes that these pastors say it should happen. How does that |
| 447 | 01:27:45 --> 01:27:50 | encourage their faith? Why am I in debt? |
| 448 | 01:27:50 --> 01:28:00 | Why am I losing everything? If I am paying tithes, where's the blessing in this that they said I would receive from God. That's not what the Bible says. That's |
| 449 | 01:28:00 --> 01:28:23 | why God loves a cheerful giver. He loves a cheerful giver. When the Pharisees were dumping in their tie Jesus saw and he saw a old woman walk up there and |
| 450 | 01:28:23 --> 01:28:38 | give everything she had, like pennies. Basically. He turned to the pastor and said she's given more. He's told them to their face. The Pharisees. Yeah, yeah, |
| 451 | 01:28:38 --> 01:28:47 | yeah. You tie it on the mint. The things that grow the plant of the plant that land you tied on all that stuff. Yeah, you do all that, but you don't do the |
| 452 | 01:28:47 --> 01:29:04 | more weightier things. Was that mean 10% of his money. No, Love thy neighbor. There's only really two commandments. But God first love him. And then every |
| 453 | 01:29:04 --> 01:29:17 | other commandment today is how we are to relate to our neighbor, who's your neighbor, anyone you run into? Because they are your brother, or sister. Look |
| 454 | 01:29:17 --> 01:29:32 | what goes on in this trading industry, how people backed by each other. And some of these people claim to be Christians doesn't fit does it? The fruit of the |
| 455 | 01:29:32 --> 01:29:46 | Spirit is you love one another. Everyone has a shortcoming. Everybody's capable of making mistakes, making poor judgments, all those things. Forgiveness is a |
| 456 | 01:29:46 --> 01:30:00 | high milestone in having the fruit of spirit in you. Blinding and trying to hurt someone and kill your brother. Kill your sister with your words. Jesus went |
| 457 | 01:30:00 --> 01:30:11 | beyond what he gave when he gave the 10 commandments. He said literally, if you speak ill of your brother, I say unto you, you have killed him. What do you |
| 458 | 01:30:11 --> 01:30:22 | mean? You said, if the 10 commandments was given to Moses, by God, Who are you to say, but I say, it's the same person. Yeah, I gave the Moses these 10 |
| 459 | 01:30:22 --> 01:30:31 | commandments, but I say to you, right now I'm amplifying it. If you speak ill of your brother, you've killed him. When you look upon a woman with lust, you have |
| 460 | 01:30:31 --> 01:30:40 | already committed adultery in your heart, you don't need to take your pants off mailman, you've already done it. You need a savior. That was what that sermon |
| 461 | 01:30:40 --> 01:30:47 | was showing you. For people walking around thinking, I don't need it. I got time, as long as I got time to ask Jesus, forgive me, Rick, for on my deathbed. |
| 462 | 01:30:47 --> 01:30:54 | So I'm gonna live my life. Well, guess what, that's how you're gonna be rewarded. You might just make it into heaven. Maybe, maybe? And we'll talk about |
| 463 | 01:30:54 --> 01:31:09 | that in a second. But why would you want to risk your eternity? On something so worrisome? What do you want to know? What do you want to know if this very God |
| 464 | 01:31:10 --> 01:31:19 | laid down instructions that way you can know without a doubt that your eternity is secured. And he already knows that you are still going to make mistakes while |
| 465 | 01:31:19 --> 01:31:26 | you're here. Because Christianity and going to church and reading the Bible and believing in Jesus believing in God and praying, and all these other things, |
| 466 | 01:31:26 --> 01:31:42 | doesn't remove your capability or capacity to sin. No other religion has an answer for sin. It's the way it is. And that's the truth. No other school of |
| 467 | 01:31:42 --> 01:31:52 | thought, theology, religion, whatever you want to call it, and I hate using that word, because I'm not religious. Jesus literally came and destroyed religion. |
| 468 | 01:31:57 --> 01:32:08 | When he was teaching, in the temple, the Pharisees and the Sadducees, there's there's two high, high end the holiest of people, the Pharisees. They were the |
| 469 | 01:32:08 --> 01:32:16 | ones that were real pious. And when the show what they were doing, they were good. They're tied in front of everybody, because they wanted to be looked upon. |
| 470 | 01:32:16 --> 01:32:26 | That's what God said, you know, when you when you pay your arms do it in, in secret. Because if other people see you do it, there's your reward. That's why |
| 471 | 01:32:26 --> 01:32:39 | when I tell you, when I go to a grocery store, and I want to bless someone, guess what I'm doing? I'm tithing biblically, and giving them something to eat. |
| 472 | 01:32:41 --> 01:32:49 | They can't pay for the groceries, or they can, but they're not going to have the money to do what they would rather do with it. If they had less of a bill for |
| 473 | 01:32:49 --> 01:33:03 | groceries. And people, I'm telling you, listen, look around tomorrow. When you're at work, look at read everybody's face, really read their face. People |
| 474 | 01:33:03 --> 01:33:14 | are hurting right now. When you go to the grocery store, you can really see it now. People are scared. They're scared that things are getting too expensive, |
| 475 | 01:33:14 --> 01:33:32 | and they can't make their ends meet. Now take that back to Malikai. He says, shall a man rob God. But you have, You've robbed me in tithes and offerings, not |
| 476 | 01:33:32 --> 01:33:34 | because you didn't give me 10% of your money. |
| 477 | 01:33:39 --> 01:33:49 | Because you robbed me of the glory I would receive because I'm providing for those that are in lack. They're going to go to my storehouse. The very function |
| 478 | 01:33:49 --> 01:33:58 | that was set up at that time was the welfare system. That's what he was. He instituted it. God instituted that welfare system. He did not Institute free |
| 479 | 01:33:58 --> 01:33:59 | cell phones. |
| 480 | 01:34:04 --> 01:34:15 | Food we need to eat. Every time Jesus healed somebody. First thing he said, Give him something to eat. That's his heart. He doesn't want anybody to be hungry. |
| 481 | 01:34:17 --> 01:34:31 | And when I share these things that I like to do, I wanted to inspire you to do the same thing. And I felt if I told you what I do, it would steal my reward. |
| 482 | 01:34:31 --> 01:34:37 | And I always pray that God understands what I'm saying. I'm not trying to brag to you. I'm not trying to be like a Pharisee and do things in front of |
| 483 | 01:34:37 --> 01:34:46 | everybody. Here's my charitable things here. I want you to anybody that says what they've done with their charity, that's their reward. But I'm giving you an |
| 484 | 01:34:46 --> 01:34:54 | instruction to try to do this in your own life and see what God does because in America, he says, See if I will not pour out a blessing that you can't even |
| 485 | 01:34:54 --> 01:35:11 | contain. And buddy, I got proof of that someone goes in there, and they have 100 our grocery cart, and you pay that. It's just 100 bucks to you. But God sees |
| 486 | 01:35:11 --> 01:35:29 | that as, Wow. You cared for your brother. You love your brother, your sister, that stranger, you've cared for them. That's the second commandment. It's nine |
| 487 | 01:35:29 --> 01:35:45 | broken up. But Love thy neighbor as thyself. You love them. And you provide something for them that they didn't see coming. Sure, they like turn to you like |
| 488 | 01:35:45 --> 01:35:57 | I've had many times they turn, they hug. Sometimes cry. Thank you so much. You have no idea. Thank you, Jesus. Who just got to glory? who just got the glory? |
| 489 | 01:35:57 --> 01:36:12 | Yes, I was the vehicle delivering that blessing. But God got that. Glory. It's his. shall a man rob God not with me? Not with me. No, sir. Not through me. Not |
| 490 | 01:36:12 --> 01:36:22 | through me. Father. It's all you. You're the goat ICT? No, I'm not. The Lord is. You're the king. No, I'm not the Lord is. |
| 491 | 01:36:28 --> 01:36:40 | I'm a sinner. That's all I am a blessed, blessed sinner. And when you do for other people like this, and you live your life like that, with that principle |
| 492 | 01:36:40 --> 01:36:54 | oriented lifestyle, you will feel fulfilled, you will feel joy, you will feel like you have a purpose. In a person that does that. And they feel the joy and |
| 493 | 01:36:56 --> 01:37:09 | appreciation. When someone looks in your eyes and says, You have no idea what you just did for me. They're not talking to you. They're talking to God. They |
| 494 | 01:37:09 --> 01:37:22 | just can't see him. In their mind. They're touching an angel. You showed up at the right time, when nobody knew in their heart, what they were fearing when |
| 495 | 01:37:22 --> 01:37:32 | they were rolling up to that register. I have to pay this because I have to eat. But I don't know how I'm going to make ends meet after this. And you just showed |
| 496 | 01:37:32 --> 01:37:47 | up. Be careful how you talk to strangers. Because you entertain angels unaware. You're somebody's Angel. You don't even know it yet. And God will get that |
| 497 | 01:37:47 --> 01:38:04 | glory. God loves a cheerful giver. He does not need you're tied in 10% of your wages. That's bondage. These people instituted that stuff. So that way they can |
| 498 | 01:38:04 --> 01:38:13 | tax you. And what's the worst tax? If you don't do it, you're gonna go to hell. If you believe in God, and you believe that there's eternal damnation, apart |
| 499 | 01:38:13 --> 01:38:22 | from him, that's what the Bible teaches. I believe that. And there's nobody in hell right now. That That devil is not in hell because if he did, if he existed |
| 500 | 01:38:22 --> 01:38:33 | the chains too long. The leashes too long, he can do too much from down there. The devil is in this world, roaming through this world like a lion seeking whom |
| 501 | 01:38:33 --> 01:38:45 | he may devour. Look at the world right now a lot of things are happening and ain't good. It's gonna get worse. And for some of you, you might be fearful and |
| 502 | 01:38:45 --> 01:39:00 | you might be anxious. Guess what God did for me. Anxiety, gone. Agoraphobia, gone, eating disorder, gone, homelessness gone. broken relationship with my |
| 503 | 01:39:00 --> 01:39:22 | child, children, gone. potential disease, gone. His glory from his hand. The Bible itself is the infallible word of God in the original language, Hebrew and |
| 504 | 01:39:22 --> 01:39:35 | Greek. If you really want to know what God was saying, and how he moved on them, then the inspiration that he placed on the writers of those books, you have to |
| 505 | 01:39:35 --> 01:39:53 | go back to the original languages and you can trust them. But when you are seeking understanding from God, or understanding the Bible, the greatest lesson |
| 506 | 01:39:53 --> 01:40:05 | I learned was to place Jesus right in the middle of that and whilst I may say the Bible is not the word of God, it's written, changed. And Jesus isn't God, |
| 507 | 01:40:05 --> 01:40:15 | he's not the Son of God and this that Nilla thing. Or they'll call it circular reasoning or whatever. Even secular history teaches that there was a figure by |
| 508 | 01:40:15 --> 01:40:24 | the name of Jesus Christ, just like the secular history teaches that there was a global flood. Oh, the Noah's Flood. It's a myth. No, it's not. There's literally |
| 509 | 01:40:24 --> 01:40:35 | fossil records in mountains. Where fish and aquatic animal skeletons are all over the place, not just once in a while with somebody, a bear took it up there |
| 510 | 01:40:35 --> 01:40:50 | to have lunch? No, there's so many things that has been proven in every culture has a record of what a global flood that's known as Noah's Flood. But when we |
| 511 | 01:40:50 --> 01:40:59 | read the Bible, when I read the Bible, I look at it as a integrated measurement system. Okay, this is a way that we can look at scripture because it's a |
| 512 | 01:40:59 --> 01:41:13 | perspective from someone outside of time. See, God is outside of this physical property, which is time it's a physical property. We are in a simulation, this |
| 513 | 01:41:13 --> 01:41:29 | entire existence that we reside in, is a simulation. This is not the real existence. The real existence is with God. We all have a measure of sensitivity |
| 514 | 01:41:29 --> 01:41:45 | to God, whether you want to believe there's a God or not, you are you're experiencing him. Hell is the cutting off of God's presence. That's eternal |
| 515 | 01:41:45 --> 01:41:55 | damnation. where there'll be gnashing of teeth, eternal darkness. There's no, there's no way to actually describe it. It's not like, you go to sleep, and it's |
| 516 | 01:41:55 --> 01:42:02 | like a dream without asleep. That's what some of you atheists like to think, Oh, it's just, you know, it's just gonna be I don't, I'm gonna exist. Who's who's |
| 517 | 01:42:02 --> 01:42:14 | worried about that? Paul talks about something like that, where some of the preachers I've heard, say that, when you die, say you're a believer in Christ, |
| 518 | 01:42:14 --> 01:42:27 | okay. When you die, you go down in the grave, you're laying in that body that rots and you're like in a coma. And then when Jesus comes back, the graves will |
| 519 | 01:42:27 --> 01:42:37 | open up, and then you'll come back to life. And then you'll be what the Geez, you know, you'll be able to work. Or you'll be judged at the Bema Seat and then |
| 520 | 01:42:37 --> 01:42:50 | eventually thrown into like a fire with Satan and his angels and those who do not obey the gospel. But Paul literally talks about how it's better for him to |
| 521 | 01:42:50 --> 01:43:00 | stay with them who he was teaching. Even though he wants to be with Jesus, right now he gets, it would be better for me to basically just die. I want to I want |
| 522 | 01:43:00 --> 01:43:10 | to be out of here. Does that sound like someone that wants that literally go into a coma. So sleep is not biblical. But I've literally walked out of churches |
| 523 | 01:43:10 --> 01:43:19 | where pastors would teach that. They don't know their scriptures. I'm sorry. But my eternity in my relationship with the Creator means a whole lot more than |
| 524 | 01:43:19 --> 01:43:30 | somebody's Weekend Edition study. But what they think the Bible says it's of no private interpretation. You have to stick to what the Bible teaches. It's |
| 525 | 01:43:30 --> 01:43:38 | plainly teaching that Jesus is God in the flesh. It plainly teaches there's an afterlife, there's a judgment, it's appointed for man wants to die, then the |
| 526 | 01:43:38 --> 01:43:48 | judgment. Okay, it's appointed for that. But then Paul comes along and reveals revelation about the rapture, which also the Old Testament talks about to |
| 527 | 01:43:48 --> 01:43:56 | there's going to be an event and I think that right now, we're fastly approaching, where it could happen anytime. What is the rapture? The Bible |
| 528 | 01:43:56 --> 01:44:03 | doesn't have the word rapture in it, just like it doesn't have the word, Trinity. Now, you're gonna say, Oh, that's perfect. He set himself up, because |
| 529 | 01:44:03 --> 01:44:11 | it doesn't say Trinity in there. But there is a trinity. Well, there is no rapture, but he's going to talk about here's a rapture. No, there is a word |
| 530 | 01:44:12 --> 01:44:22 | that's translated from the Greek word harpaz, which is a forceful seething up, like out of dangerous way meet the forcefully grabbing and tearing you out of |
| 531 | 01:44:22 --> 01:44:36 | the way of danger. And when Paul talks about this, we shall not all die. Behold, I show you a mystery. What remez when we read, when we read scripture, and we |
| 532 | 01:44:36 --> 01:44:45 | study scripture, there is a facade there's a way of like, when you go to a church, they will read it from the perspective of shot, it's the literal text, |
| 533 | 01:44:45 --> 01:44:53 | what is it saying? textually? That's all most people do. When they read the book, or books or they when they read the Bible, they look at it from the from |
| 534 | 01:44:53 --> 01:45:02 | the face value from a Hebrew standpoint, and that's what people don't understand because we're Western And when we're reading scripture, especially Old |
| 535 | 01:45:02 --> 01:45:09 | Testament, you have to look at things from a heartbreak perspective, if you don't have a heartbreak perspective, you're gonna miss a lot of resolution |
| 536 | 01:45:09 --> 01:45:23 | that's otherwise hiding from you. If you don't think, from a Hebrew stance, you won't see how Jesus was teaching them because Jesus was born of the Jews |
| 537 | 01:45:23 --> 01:45:35 | teaching salvation to the Jews. But the Jew didn't recognize his visitation. And he blinded them. He says it when he's riding in on that donkey into Jerusalem, |
| 538 | 01:45:35 --> 01:45:47 | because, oh, Jerusalem, oh, Jerusalem, how many times have I wanted to save you, and do what it is I want to do for you. But because you have not recognized the |
| 539 | 01:45:47 --> 01:45:57 | time of your visitation, it shall now be hid from you. That's why Jews can't see Jesus Christ as their Messiah. And when they find their Messiah and Jesus, it's |
| 540 | 01:45:57 --> 01:46:07 | a miracle. He blinded them spiritually because they didn't know their scripture. Why? Because they listened to people preach it from a different perspective. |
| 541 | 01:46:08 --> 01:46:15 | That's why Paul said that there that if there's any other gospel being preached, let it be accursed. And again, I say unto you, if there's any other gospel being |
| 542 | 01:46:15 --> 01:46:32 | preached, let it be accursed. What's the gospel? What is the gospel? Jesus is God manifested in the flesh. |
| 543 | 01:46:34 --> 01:46:47 | He was born a virgin was crucified. And rose again on the third day in like in John chapter three. Gospel of John, where Nicodemus sneaks over there one night |
| 544 | 01:46:47 --> 01:46:56 | says, Hey, Jesus, I want to talk to you, man, let's have a campfire discussion, come to Jesus meeting, because I'm a little worried here. Tell me what's really |
| 545 | 01:46:56 --> 01:47:11 | going on. He says, Listen, Nick, look, you have to relax, man. You have to be born again. And again, this is like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, let me |
| 546 | 01:47:11 --> 01:47:21 | let me What are you saying here? Jesus, you said I have to be born again. How can a man be born? How can a man return unto his mother's womb? He's another |
| 547 | 01:47:21 --> 01:47:32 | man. Don't Don't Don't think of it like that. You must be born again of water, and spirit. What does that mean? Well, let's go back to the book of Acts. |
| 548 | 01:47:33 --> 01:47:45 | Patrick, chapter two, verse 38. For the men, we're hearing all these things. Therefore, let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God has made the |
| 549 | 01:47:45 --> 01:47:53 | same Jesus whom you have crucified, both Lord and Christ. Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their hearts. And they said unto Peter, who's Peter, |
| 550 | 01:47:54 --> 01:48:01 | he's an apostle. He's the one that walked on water. Jesus is not the only person that walked on water. Peter said, Lord, if that's you out there on a water, call |
| 551 | 01:48:01 --> 01:48:09 | to me, so I come out to you. He says, All right, come. And Peter stepped out the boat and walked on water. And then when he took his eyes off of Jesus and looked |
| 552 | 01:48:09 --> 01:48:16 | down and saw he was doing some he should not have been allowed to do what happened. He was going down in the water, and immediately Jesus was there and |
| 553 | 01:48:16 --> 01:48:31 | caught him. Oh, ye of little faith. Why did you doubt? Can you imagine the smirk on Jesus face? Like you were doing it? You were doing it, man, you were really |
| 554 | 01:48:31 --> 01:48:39 | doing it. You're walking on water and yours witnesses, the other apostles in the boat saw you doing it. But you took your eyes off me in the storm, you took your |
| 555 | 01:48:39 --> 01:48:50 | eyes off of Jesus. And guess what? You magnify the problem. And then you sink. But when you have a relationship with God, through Jesus, because there's only |
| 556 | 01:48:50 --> 01:49:02 | one mediator between God and me, and that's Jesus, that's Christ Jesus. When you pray to God, you pray through Jesus, you do not pray through Mary. Catholics not |
| 557 | 01:49:02 --> 01:49:12 | to offend you. But there was a moment in the Bible where they were like, oh, plus another, and blessing the fruit of your womb. And this that and Jesus |
| 558 | 01:49:12 --> 01:49:26 | immediately came up rebuked them, yeah, yeah, she's blessed. But bless this, he who places their faith in me. You'll never hear a Catholic teaching on that. We |
| 559 | 01:49:26 --> 01:49:39 | are not to pray to saints, we pray to one person, Jesus Christ, his role as mediator. There is no other way to God, but through Jesus Christ, that is |
| 560 | 01:49:39 --> 01:49:48 | biblical. If you have another faith, I'm not trying to debate you. You're not going to convince me otherwise I don't want you to hate me and say, Oh, my |
| 561 | 01:49:48 --> 01:49:55 | terrible mentor and trading because I believe Jesus is this. If that's how you feel about it. I wish you luck. Take care, all that business, but we're talking |
| 562 | 01:49:55 --> 01:50:06 | about your eternity. We're talking about my eternity and what my faith is And what the Bible actually says. And truth be told, if you understood the |
| 563 | 01:50:06 --> 01:50:15 | catechisms, that the Catholic Church Institute's on the people, and the way they teach their bishops and cardinals and priests, they tell them teach very little |
| 564 | 01:50:15 --> 01:50:25 | scripture, because if you do, the laity will discover that we very much do not subscribe or teach or follow what they say, don't take my word for it, it's |
| 565 | 01:50:25 --> 01:50:38 | proven. But you just take everything at face value, when it becomes a religion. Oh, let's not really do any research, if they're wearing white robes, and |
| 566 | 01:50:38 --> 01:50:45 | they're up there doing their things, or they have the crosses in their church, and they're stained glass, or they're saying, the Bible's convincing me that I |
| 567 | 01:50:45 --> 01:50:52 | have to give 10% of my money, or I'm gonna go to hell. There's no verse in the Bible says that. Have you ever really researched it? Or you just took it at face |
| 568 | 01:50:52 --> 01:51:00 | value? That's why I teach the way I teach. Don't believe anything I say about the markets. Go in there and see if it's there. Because if it's there, you'll |
| 569 | 01:51:00 --> 01:51:14 | see it. If it's not, I'm a liar, then right? You have to work out your own salvation. with fear and trembling. That means you have to have respect of it. |
| 570 | 01:51:14 --> 01:51:22 | You can't just let someone else tell you Oh, yeah, your eternity is hinging on this decision, or this is the way you should do it. And it cost you 10%, Heaven |
| 571 | 01:51:22 --> 01:51:40 | cost, baby, it's inflation. Everything goes up in inflation. 10%. That's a lie. But they turned to Peter, he said to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, |
| 572 | 01:51:41 --> 01:51:50 | what shall we do? So everybody that heard this? When they were preaching on Jesus, that He was the Messiah, he was the the God Himself manifest in flesh |
| 573 | 01:51:50 --> 01:51:59 | that they crucified. They were at their wit's end. What did we do? Peter, what do we do we turn to the rest of the apostles, what have we done? What do we do |
| 574 | 01:51:59 --> 01:52:09 | to fix this? Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the |
| 575 | 01:52:09 --> 01:52:18 | gift of the Holy Spirit, for the promises unto you and to your children, and to all there are far off even as many as the Lord our God shall call, and with many |
| 576 | 01:52:18 --> 01:52:33 | other words, did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this unto our generation. Then they that gladly received his word, were baptized, in the |
| 577 | 01:52:33 --> 01:52:44 | same day were added unto them about 3000 souls. And they continued steadfastly, that means they never broke away from it. They never really refer to something |
| 578 | 01:52:44 --> 01:52:53 | other than this. This is the way it was done. This was the apostles doctrine. They continued steadfastly in the apostles doctrine and fellowship, and in |
| 579 | 01:52:53 --> 01:53:03 | breaking of bread and in prayers. That means that's the way it's done, folks. That's the way it is, that's church. Is that mega church get money get rich. |
| 580 | 01:53:05 --> 01:53:18 | It's not image Christianity. It's fellowship, following what doctrine they adopt the doctrine of the apostles, the people that Jesus Himself, spent time with, |
| 581 | 01:53:18 --> 01:53:25 | lived with, came back from the dead with and literally told them what to do. Matthew 2819 Go, therefore, in all nations, baptizing them in the name of the |
| 582 | 01:53:25 --> 01:53:34 | Father and Son, the Holy Spirit. Oh, there's a Trinity there. No, what's the name? What's that name? Acts chapter four, verse 12, no other name given among |
| 583 | 01:53:34 --> 01:53:47 | men whereby we must be saved, whose name Jesus. So who's the father Jesus? He told Philip, you see me you see Him the Father. So what's the father's name? |
| 584 | 01:53:47 --> 01:53:57 | Jesus. What's the Holy Spirit's name Jesus. When they baptize everyone in the book of Acts, when they baptized they said, We baptize you now in the name of |
| 585 | 01:53:57 --> 01:54:06 | Jesus Christ for the remission of sins. Does it matter if you're baptized? Paul thought itself. Were you baptized? I was baptized. How would you baptize John's |
| 586 | 01:54:06 --> 01:54:15 | baptism? Oh, well, let's go down the river because you gotta get things sorted out right here. And he baptized in Jesus name. Oh, Holy Ghost stepped on in here |
| 587 | 01:54:15 --> 01:54:29 | and have your way. You must be born of what Jesus said to Nicodemus, you must be born of water and spirit and people are gonna say it's the washing of the word |
| 588 | 01:54:29 --> 01:54:39 | knowing because the Bible says in Acts, they were being baptized in the river. They were getting wet, folks. They were going down in the river. Though we got |
| 589 | 01:54:39 --> 01:54:47 | to stop rolling down the road here. I'll say, oh, no, stop this right here. We got to go down there right now and we got to sort this out today right now. You |
| 590 | 01:54:47 --> 01:54:59 | got to get it fixed right now. Oh, but the thief on the cross didn't get baptized. That's because Jesus hadn't died yet. He hadn't died yet. He still |
| 591 | 01:55:00 --> 01:55:12 | going through the process of doing the work of the Gospel, the death, burial resurrection. So when that thief says, Lord, remember me when you enter into thy |
| 592 | 01:55:12 --> 01:55:32 | kingdom, he says, Today, you shall be with me in paradise. He was talking to him, God. He called him what, Lord. Anybody that can't say Jesus is not the |
| 593 | 01:55:32 --> 01:55:41 | Lord, if he says, He is the Lord, or she says that he is the Lord. That comes from the Spirit. But anybody who says Jesus Christ is not the Lord. That's the |
| 594 | 01:55:41 --> 01:55:56 | spirit of antichrist. That man was on his last leg is dying minutes. He turned to Christ knew exactly who he was, he felt the weight of it. Because the other |
| 595 | 01:55:56 --> 01:56:11 | one said, oh, you know, look at you. He almost had shut up. We deserve this. What does that recognition of sin, and the only way he could repent is when he |
| 596 | 01:56:11 --> 01:56:21 | was doing he was saying it not acknowledging that he was a sinner. We deserved this, but he didn't do anything. Lord, remember me when you enter into the |
| 597 | 01:56:22 --> 01:56:24 | kingdom, and you go into wherever you're going? |
| 598 | 01:56:26 --> 01:56:37 | Remember me? That's interesting. That's interesting, because there's gonna be a lot of people that think they're going to go to heaven. Because they gave 10% of |
| 599 | 01:56:37 --> 01:56:46 | your money, because they did this or did that. They thought they were a good person. You can't be good enough. Nobody's good enough. That's the whole point |
| 600 | 01:56:46 --> 01:57:00 | of the Sermon on the Mount. You all are short, for the glory of God, every one of us me too. You need a savior. There is no other Savior but Jesus. That's it. |
| 601 | 01:57:03 --> 01:57:12 | But Jesus said, there's gonna be many come before me. I'm gonna say, Lord, Lord, I did all these things in your name I gave to the sick. You know, I gave you a |
| 602 | 01:57:12 --> 01:57:26 | bunch of this and I did that your name? You guys depart from each other iniquity for I never knew you. That's terrifying. That's terrifying. You You're not |
| 603 | 01:57:26 --> 01:57:36 | walking with God. Ya know about Jesus, I got time. I'll get there. As long as I got time to ask for kick it out of the norm. I'm no longer in this body. I'm |
| 604 | 01:57:36 --> 01:57:46 | dead. Just give me time to ask for Jesus to forgive me. That's your that's your plan B. What happens if you don't get that opportunity? What happens if you |
| 605 | 01:57:46 --> 01:57:55 | cheat yourself? And Rob god of the glory of being your savior, that does miraculous things in your life that you can give him the glory for and that |
| 606 | 01:57:55 --> 01:58:08 | testimony you share with other people? shall a man rob God? Some of you are doing that by not having a relationship with them. Not a Religion. Not a |
| 607 | 01:58:08 --> 01:58:30 | membership to a church. A fellowship of loving one another. Through Jesus. Love yourself as you love your neighbor, your brother, your sister. And understand if |
| 608 | 01:58:30 --> 01:58:41 | they offend you. They're a sinner, just like you are. They've made a mistake, forgive them. Forgive them, because the Bible says if you don't forgive them, |
| 609 | 01:58:42 --> 01:58:43 | he's not going to forgive you. |
| 610 | 01:58:49 --> 01:59:03 | Do you have the fruit of the Spirit? Are you a Christian that walks with God? Do you forgive? Have you forgiven? Are you holding animosity against somebody? If |
| 611 | 01:59:03 --> 01:59:12 | you have, you're not in a good position right now. You may have done all the things you think that leads to you being eternally saved. But Jesus made it very |
| 612 | 01:59:12 --> 01:59:24 | plain. If you have a fence toward a brother, don't even come talking to me yet. Go restore that first |
| 613 | 01:59:31 --> 01:59:44 | when I look at the Bible, I look at it in a way where it's supernatural. It's not a boring dusty old book with stories. I've I've taught this a few times in |
| 614 | 01:59:44 --> 01:59:52 | the past, but I've never been really satisfied with how I presented because it was just going by memory. And I have some notes here. I'm going to work off of |
| 615 | 01:59:52 --> 02:00:04 | here and I'll say this and I'm going to end it but if you'd like these the discussions like this, you know whether you are a person of the same faith or |
| 616 | 02:00:04 --> 02:00:17 | you just like hearing about it. Maybe like hearing me not cuss. It's funny how that works isn't the I would love I feel I feel good having done this much of it |
| 617 | 02:00:17 --> 02:00:32 | so far. But I was a little unsure of my delivery today. And how we received and I just prayed before I started doing it, that if I got one person that got |
| 618 | 02:00:32 --> 02:00:46 | something from it today that wasn't inspired or encouraged or rejuvenated, felt, you know, closer to God or felt the invitation to draw near to Him. Because the |
| 619 | 02:00:46 --> 02:00:54 | Bible says draw on your on the God, He will draw near unto you the steps that you had to take first, then he'll reciprocate, because he's already done all the |
| 620 | 02:00:54 --> 02:01:03 | work. If you don't want to reach towards him, he's been polite to you, he can be the God that you think he should be showing up busting them. They're like the |
| 621 | 02:01:03 --> 02:01:14 | Kool Aid man, hey, here I am fixing everything you'd like whether you like it or not. That's not how God works. He's very polite. Because we're in an Age of |
| 622 | 02:01:14 --> 02:01:25 | Grace right now. But there's coming a time real quick, real short. The Jesus that's coming back, not people aren't gonna recognize that guy. He's coming back |
| 623 | 02:01:25 --> 02:01:41 | for blood. But if I have an opportunity to sit down with a Jew and have a conversation civilly about why they can't see Jesus as the Messiah. Towards the |
| 624 | 02:01:41 --> 02:01:49 | end of the conversation where I would have been satisfied here and their perspective and their side of it, I would take them to the portion of Genesis, |
| 625 | 02:01:50 --> 02:02:02 | the book of beginnings. And what would be the equivalent of chapter five in our, I guess, English western view of the Bible, chapter, separations in numbers, all |
| 626 | 02:02:02 --> 02:02:14 | stuff that was not something that was done by Hebrews are the Greek they just had the text and that was it. But in Genesis chapter five, this is one of the |
| 627 | 02:02:14 --> 02:02:29 | things that when I learned this, this was absolutely fascinating to me. Like it was literally jaw dropping to me. Because the the idea I want you to remember is |
| 628 | 02:02:29 --> 02:02:40 | that a Jew, and you may be a Jew listening to this, okay? I would love if you are a Jew, and you are practicing Judaism and you don't see Jesus as the |
| 629 | 02:02:40 --> 02:02:49 | Messiah, respectfully. Think about what I'm going to show you here and talk about and research it on your own on your own, okay, you're going to have a |
| 630 | 02:02:49 --> 02:03:01 | better command of the Hebrew than I do. But I would love to hear or read the interpretation of what you see in this after I talk about it, okay. But in |
| 631 | 02:03:01 --> 02:03:12 | Genesis, chapter five, it is the genealogy from Adam to know. Okay, so there's 10 men's names listed there. And that is the exact chapter I got to every time I |
| 632 | 02:03:12 --> 02:03:23 | tried to read the Bible. When I got to that. I was like, why is it? Why is it doing this, like, Adam B got this, and this person lived this many years. And |
| 633 | 02:03:23 --> 02:03:31 | this one, B got this one, and they lived this many years. So it was a genealogy between Adam to Noah. So every time I read, I was like, Man, this is boring. |
| 634 | 02:03:31 --> 02:03:40 | Lord, forgive me. I'm being honest. But that's just the way it was before. Before I was actually born again had Holy Spirit and was baptized in Jesus name, |
| 635 | 02:03:40 --> 02:03:50 | all that stuff, then they became an insatiable desire to read it, and not just read it, but dig into it, really chew on what the words were saying. And there |
| 636 | 02:03:50 --> 02:03:58 | are different ways to study the Bible. There's ways where like I said, What's the shot is, that's the approach to just reading what the Bible says on its |
| 637 | 02:03:58 --> 02:04:09 | textual value only when there's nothing to really try to decipher or read beyond. But if we read it from just a preset level, where it's just what the |
| 638 | 02:04:09 --> 02:04:16 | text say, you pull out those 10 names of Genesis chapter five, and I'm going to encourage you to read because I'm going to, for brevity sake, I'm not going to |
| 639 | 02:04:16 --> 02:04:33 | do that, but the order of the names that are listed there, it's Adam, Seth Enosh Kenan Mahalo urid, Enoch, Methuselah, lambic and Noah. Now, if you go through |
| 640 | 02:04:33 --> 02:04:49 | and you think about when these individuals you see their names, obviously God gave Adam his name a DOM, okay, mean meaning man, okay. Adam had relationships |
| 641 | 02:04:50 --> 02:05:04 | or relations with ease, and he bore Abel and Eve gave birth to who? Cain? Cain was not A Adamson, you are not going to hear that in 99% of the churches out |
| 642 | 02:05:04 --> 02:05:13 | there. The real sin is something other than eating an apple because the Bible doesn't talk about an apple being eaten. Okay, it's metaphoric. There's things |
| 643 | 02:05:13 --> 02:05:20 | that you have to study that are also in the Bible in other places to understand what that is. And I'm not going to do that here. But I would love an opportunity |
| 644 | 02:05:20 --> 02:05:34 | to have that teaching to show you what the original sin was. Why we have a real issue of blood basically. But Cain killed Abel. So Abel is not mentioned in this |
| 645 | 02:05:34 --> 02:05:51 | lineage. So why isn't Cain because he's not of the bloodline of Adam. Adam, gave birth through Eve to Seth, in Genesis, chapter four, verse 25. Eve says, that |
| 646 | 02:05:51 --> 02:06:05 | God has appointed a replacement for April. So she named himself so what is his name? Sef mean, appointed. So you have Adam whose man his name is man. Seth |
| 647 | 02:06:05 --> 02:06:19 | means appointed in ash, who was born of Ceph. It comes from a root worth, root word, an ash, which is basically like incurable, mortal, frail, miserable, lowly |
| 648 | 02:06:19 --> 02:06:28 | sick leave that type of thing. So apparently, when he was born, there was something probably wrong with him. And that name was given to him under this |
| 649 | 02:06:28 --> 02:06:41 | pretense, so you have Adam Seth in ash. So, in ash gave birth to Kenan, which means sorrow, dirge, or something to that effect. The next one was born of |
| 650 | 02:06:41 --> 02:06:53 | Canaan, which was mahalo. Now, the blessing God is what that means it's broken up of mahalo meaning blessing and l meaning the name of God. So together, mahalo |
| 651 | 02:06:53 --> 02:07:09 | is blessed God, He gave birth to urid. Now urid means shall come down, or the equivalent to something that effect and he gave birth to Enoch. Enoch means |
| 652 | 02:07:09 --> 02:07:19 | teacher teaching or commencement. Okay, or in short teaching. Methuselah was Enoch, son. Now, interestingly enough, if you go back to Genesis chapter four, |
| 653 | 02:07:21 --> 02:07:32 | it talks about how in those days, there's a transliteration issue. And it's one of those things that are well documented. Where it says, In those days, men |
| 654 | 02:07:32 --> 02:07:44 | began to call upon the name of the Lord, that's not accurate, it actually means that in those days that men began to profane the name of the Lord. And Enoch |
| 655 | 02:07:44 --> 02:08:01 | walked with God. And God took him Hmm. Go read it for yourself. Enoch, after, okay, after the world itself, started doing what we're seeing all around the |
| 656 | 02:08:01 --> 02:08:16 | world right now. profaning, God, deviant lifestyles, corruption everywhere. The love of one another's waxing code, the love of yourself. selfies, you know, |
| 657 | 02:08:16 --> 02:08:23 | taking pictures, look at me, look at me. All those things that Christ said was going to be like that before he comes back. That's what the state of the world |
| 658 | 02:08:23 --> 02:08:39 | is in right now. That's what was being described there. But it says that Enoch gave birth to Methuselah. And you understand by reading these couple chapters |
| 659 | 02:08:39 --> 02:08:54 | here, it says that, that 65 years of age, Enoch started walking with God that happens to be the very year that his son Methuselah was born. And then also it |
| 660 | 02:08:54 --> 02:09:10 | says he worked with God. Then God took him. So he became a believer in God, at the age of 65. What took place at the age of 65, that made him a believer in God |
| 661 | 02:09:10 --> 02:09:21 | that he started walking with God. 300 years ago, people didn't live that long. Don't even go there. The world was different before the flood. There was oxygen |
| 662 | 02:09:21 --> 02:09:28 | rich, the atmosphere was totally different. There was more water in the atmosphere at the time than there was on the surface of the planet at the time. |
| 663 | 02:09:29 --> 02:09:32 | Prove it. We're not going to argue all that stuff. |
| 664 | 02:09:36 --> 02:09:54 | But Tuzla is broken up between are a result of two words, Muth which is the root meaning death, and chalok, meaning bring or send forth. So together Muth and |
| 665 | 02:09:54 --> 02:10:09 | chalok. Gives you Methuselah meaning, death shall bring or his death shall bring. Methuselah gave birth Atlantic, his name means despairing, basically, |
| 666 | 02:10:09 --> 02:10:20 | where we get the word lamentation from or to limit something. And then Noah means dove, or comfort or rest. It's interesting, isn't it? Now, you're probably |
| 667 | 02:10:20 --> 02:10:32 | thinking yourself, okay, well, where are you going with this ICT? Like, what's the point of all this? But when you take those same names, and you read it in |
| 668 | 02:10:32 --> 02:10:42 | the order, they were born. And you read it as a sentence, it says, This man is appointed mortal sorrow. But the blessing God shall come down teaching his death |
| 669 | 02:10:42 --> 02:10:51 | shall bring the despairing rest, or comfort, folks, that's the gospel of Jesus Christ, right hidden inside of Genesis chapter five. And if you don't feel that |
| 670 | 02:10:51 --> 02:11:04 | in your spirit, right now, you're dead. He tucked it away, right there inside of a genealogy. Everything, everything in that Old Testament points to Jesus |
| 671 | 02:11:04 --> 02:11:16 | Christ. Jesus says, You search the Scriptures. for in them you think you have salvation. But they are they that testify of me. Everything in an Old Testament |
| 672 | 02:11:17 --> 02:11:24 | if you don't understand it, but Jesus right in there, look through the lens of Jesus Christ. How does this apply to Jesus earthly ministry, what he's going to |
| 673 | 02:11:24 --> 02:11:33 | do in the future? Prophetically What is he? What does this have to do with Jesus? And when you do that, right here, guess what you see, you see your Jewish |
| 674 | 02:11:33 --> 02:11:43 | Messiah. Because this, you can't you can't convince me. You can't convince me that this this happens the end up in the most one venerated books of the Bible, |
| 675 | 02:11:45 --> 02:12:02 | or Torah, to a Jew. I would love to hear an Orthodox Jew, explain to me how that's possible. And why they can't see Jesus in that. Folks, this was not |
| 676 | 02:12:02 --> 02:12:16 | written by men. Coming up with a mythological excuse for something, this is not real. This is not taking mythology and repackaging it. Like some people say. The |
| 677 | 02:12:16 --> 02:12:30 | Creator has placed so many signatures in the word in the testimonial, it's behind the word itself. This is like a remand for Assad, where it's a deeper |
| 678 | 02:12:30 --> 02:12:43 | meaning than just looking at the text. That's how I studied the Bible. Because this is such a rich, lifelong journey and treasure map. Just to go exploring, |
| 679 | 02:12:43 --> 02:12:53 | because God's word is deep. Its deep. You think when you listen to an icy video? Last time I heard that I didn't hear that now learning more. No, no, no, that's |
| 680 | 02:12:53 --> 02:13:03 | nothing. The Word of God literally is just like that. It goes way beyond way beyond. And if do you think this is all that this chapter can do? Forget about? |
| 681 | 02:13:04 --> 02:13:12 | Take this one plus Genesis chapter 11. And add up all those years and take the year out for before Christ and after Christ. And you get the same year by number |
| 682 | 02:13:13 --> 02:13:25 | that Israel became a nation again. Ooh, ah, you're gonna tell me they just happen to work that out too. Right? Come on, man. Israel is Jesus timepiece for |
| 683 | 02:13:25 --> 02:13:35 | the End Times. That's just the way it is. That's the fig tree. Do you said when you see the victory sheet fourth, its branch, you know that summers near? When |
| 684 | 02:13:35 --> 02:13:44 | all these things that are happening, that generation, what generation the Generation that sees Israel, become a nation again, we gathered, you will see |
| 685 | 02:13:44 --> 02:13:52 | the Bible come to life. And that's what I told my friend Sean, when we were 15 years old, laying on his father's picnic table looking at the stars that night |
| 686 | 02:13:52 --> 02:14:00 | there too. I said, Shawn, think about I mean, worst case scenario. 70 years is a generation because you can look at different structures, or the Bible talks |
| 687 | 02:14:00 --> 02:14:10 | about a generation being this length of time this many years, but the longest one in years, seven years. So do 70 years, from when Israel became a nation and |
| 688 | 02:14:10 --> 02:14:20 | Jerusalem has to be its capital. That's a seven day works area. I'm just laying the breadcrumbs you do the rest of the workbooks. It's not hard, and where we |
| 689 | 02:14:20 --> 02:14:30 | are on that timeline and what's going on all over the world. Daniel chapter four says there's four beasts. The fourth one's terrible and dreadful unlike any |
| 690 | 02:14:30 --> 02:14:46 | other before, and it tramples down all the nations before it. We're watching that rise up right now. There's a ruler that's coming. Things have to be put in |
| 691 | 02:14:46 --> 02:14:55 | place before he steps out on the scene and there has to be that which hinder us is removed then shall that man of sin that son of perdition be revealed. That's |
| 692 | 02:14:55 --> 02:15:06 | the Antichrist. What's the thing that's hindering The Church, the bodies of believers because a bridegroom that allows his bride to be beaten through |
| 693 | 02:15:06 --> 02:15:17 | tribulation is no bridegroom worth being. Some of the church believers out there, some of you Christians, and I believe that it's because they had it |
| 694 | 02:15:17 --> 02:15:25 | beaten in their head from false teachings never did the work of looking at the Scriptures themselves. What does the Bible really say? Oh, we're gonna go |
| 695 | 02:15:25 --> 02:15:32 | through tribulation. Yeah, we're gonna have Trimble's tribe, tongue twister, we're gonna have tribulations and trials and problems. And that was promised to |
| 696 | 02:15:32 --> 02:15:48 | us. But the great tribulation is the time of Jacob's trouble. It's the reason for them to turn to their Messiah. He beats them into submission. The gentile |
| 697 | 02:15:48 --> 02:15:59 | bride, which is the church of Christ, that is not appointed to God's wrath is not appointed to Satan's wrath. If you believe that you don't know your |
| 698 | 02:15:59 --> 02:16:10 | scriptures, you don't know what the Bible says. You're taking things that a man told you, and believed it through fear. And lazily this accepted that the Bible |
| 699 | 02:16:10 --> 02:16:23 | is for you, you have to be a workman that is not ashamed that going in there, and you rightly divide the Word. You have to go in there seeking Him. If you |
| 700 | 02:16:23 --> 02:16:33 | diligently seek Him, He will be found and ask him to counsel with you, give you understanding. Let him who had the ear, hear what the Spirit says on the |
| 701 | 02:16:33 --> 02:16:47 | churches. But then to have an eye see, and pray for the mind of Christ to understand these things. We are in a time that the Bible talks more about than |
| 702 | 02:16:48 --> 02:17:00 | any other and you're gonna watch it come to pass in your life. All these countries come together doing what they're doing, pulling the shenanigans that |
| 703 | 02:17:00 --> 02:17:12 | they've done in the last three years. That's this dry run. Because the market a beast is coming. It's all coming pass, it's going to happen. And we're at that |
| 704 | 02:17:12 --> 02:17:21 | time where it's going to start accelerating quicker. That's the reason why I've been telling you to get your house ready. That's why I've been telling you to |
| 705 | 02:17:21 --> 02:17:36 | get your house ready, folks. You have no idea how bad it's going to be. And you can work that out today. Simply this come to grips with the fact that you are |
| 706 | 02:17:36 --> 02:17:43 | what all of us are. You're a sinner. You messed up every day, you're gonna mess up. As long as you're in that flesh, you're gonna make a mistake, you're going |
| 707 | 02:17:43 --> 02:17:53 | to lie. You're going to say things that aren't true. You're not going to tell the full truth. You're as you're asked to say a is someone so songs I just |
| 708 | 02:17:53 --> 02:18:04 | literally did. Yesterday, my wife said. Did you drink the last bit of the tea? Because Kayden wants to have it right? And I was like, of course not. Silly |
| 709 | 02:18:04 --> 02:18:17 | little playful. Not truth, though. But it was That's a lie. Remember, if you look upon a woman in lustfully, think about her, undress her with your eyes and |
| 710 | 02:18:17 --> 02:18:24 | think about me. And she would look like if I didn't have her with these clothes in front of me. You already committed adultery. If you speak ill of your |
| 711 | 02:18:24 --> 02:18:32 | brother, you've murdered him, in God's eyes. The same God that was talking from the burning bush that was instructing most of the go down to Egypt to speak to |
| 712 | 02:18:32 --> 02:18:45 | Pharaoh telling him how he's going to run his own show. That saying God is in Christ. And that's why he said, Yeah, they thanked me and say this, but I say |
| 713 | 02:18:45 --> 02:18:56 | unto you. Jesus said, yeah, you believe in God, but believe in me also. That's blasphemy if he's not God, for the folks that say he's never claimed to be God, |
| 714 | 02:18:56 --> 02:19:04 | you don't know what you're talking about. You're ignoring the obvious he claimed absolutely to be the only very God that exists. There is no other God read |
| 715 | 02:19:04 --> 02:19:14 | Isaiah. There is no god up here. I looked around for another guy who swear by there's no another up here with me. So I swear by my own name. Him made a |
| 716 | 02:19:14 --> 02:19:25 | mockery in Egypt. Raw the sun god, where was he at when he turned the sun off? Dagon the fish God, Where was he when he turned the river to blood and all the |
| 717 | 02:19:25 --> 02:19:35 | fish were dead? Think about that. He's the only one. |
| 718 | 02:19:37 --> 02:19:53 | The only one worthy of praise. He's the only one that we should be praying to. He's the only God that can restore, heal and give you eternal life. He willfully |
| 719 | 02:19:53 --> 02:19:59 | put himself through something that is unimaginable. |
| 720 | 02:20:06 --> 02:20:24 | He went into flesh, walked among men seamlessly allowed, allowed sinful men. To Paul him up, spit on him, stripping down to nakedness, beat him so he was not |
| 721 | 02:20:24 --> 02:20:35 | even human looking anymore. Isaiah says his vision was so much he no longer looked human. They plucked his beard, he says it very kindly to you. But the |
| 722 | 02:20:35 --> 02:20:50 | real Hebrew says they tore his beard off. That's why Mary didn't recognize him when he was resurrected. Only by his voice, when he said Mary. She knew who he |
| 723 | 02:20:50 --> 02:21:03 | was. He said, Don't touch me. I'm not gonna send it to my father. Oh, there's a Trinity there. Nope. He's not ascended, yet to what glorified? Were all in all, |
| 724 | 02:21:03 --> 02:21:13 | that humanity is now part of the vintage and physical manifestation that will always be the fullness of the Godhead bodily in Christ's resurrected body. You |
| 725 | 02:21:13 --> 02:21:21 | don't know your scriptures. You're looking for something that ain't there. And you wonder why Jews and Muslims have an issue with Christianity, because there |
| 726 | 02:21:21 --> 02:21:33 | is no Trinity. Folks. There is none. There is a God that has manifest themselves just like you manifest yourself as a husband. You are a son to your parents, and |
| 727 | 02:21:33 --> 02:21:45 | you're a mentee to me, I'm your mentor. How many people does it take to do that? Just you their roles. That's how you deal with other people. That's how you |
| 728 | 02:21:45 --> 02:21:56 | engage this existence. God pressed himself in the flesh, because he had to come here in a capacity to do what restore us on the himself. There had to be an |
| 729 | 02:21:56 --> 02:22:16 | acceptable sacrifice. What acceptable sacrifice is there? A sinless man shedding the blood. And that's what he brought. You see me you see the Father. So how's |
| 730 | 02:22:16 --> 02:22:28 | it you asked me show you the father when It's he who was speaking to you? That's all mighty. That's the Everlasting Father. That's the Prince of Peace. That is |
| 731 | 02:22:28 --> 02:22:43 | the great I AM. And how Blessed are we that he chose to go through that to be beaten, tortured, spat upon? laughed at? |
| 732 | 02:23:10 --> 02:23:17 | None of us are worthy. And that gift freely gave to us |
| 733 | 02:23:24 --> 02:23:41 | it's my intention for you to simply do an inventory. are you worth more than what you feel? Absolutely. He's placed a part of him in you. All of us. have His |
| 734 | 02:23:41 --> 02:23:52 | Spirit in his the gift of life has been given to us that's comes from him. But when you are filled with his Holy Spirit, that's something entirely different. |
| 735 | 02:23:56 --> 02:24:08 | That's how you walk through this world in this existence with power. That's the fuel you need. That's the oil that's in your lantern. The Parable of the 10 |
| 736 | 02:24:08 --> 02:24:25 | Virgins that is a rapture teaching. You don't understand it because you don't think about things he Brackley see a Hebrew they will have a betrothal where |
| 737 | 02:24:25 --> 02:24:37 | there'll be Patro to a a woman, that you will say okay, I am going to take you as my bride. Okay, and they do this ceremony where they basically promised |
| 738 | 02:24:37 --> 02:24:49 | themselves to one another, and everybody knows it, but they can't come together physically. And it's kind of like a engagement type thing. And the way it's done |
| 739 | 02:24:49 --> 02:25:04 | is the Father will let the son build an addition on his house, whose house the Father's house while their son is doing In this, the bride is waiting. And she's |
| 740 | 02:25:04 --> 02:25:12 | given instructions, we will come for you. But we're not going to tell you man, it's just just be ready when we when we come for you. So she's always in this |
| 741 | 02:25:12 --> 02:25:20 | spirit of expectation. She's excited. Ladies that's listening. You know how it was when you were getting married, right? You're excited, this is your day, |
| 742 | 02:25:21 --> 02:25:36 | you're going to be with your, your bride and groom together in a setting where everybody celebrates it. So you're waiting on your groom, the husband, but he's, |
| 743 | 02:25:36 --> 02:25:51 | he's tied up right now. So once the addition is done, then the son waits for the Father, to tell the son go get your bride. When does it always happen? At night. |
| 744 | 02:25:52 --> 02:26:07 | And at midnight, in that parable that Jesus says, well, they came calling at midnight, there was a shout. And the bride gathered herself up. And five of the |
| 745 | 02:26:07 --> 02:26:21 | bridesmaids. Were not ready. So they tried to get in and they said, no, no, no, I'm sorry, you can't come in. Your garments are not ready and you have no oil on |
| 746 | 02:26:21 --> 02:26:36 | your lantern. What was the difference between the five that got in the five that didn't? See the symbols you have to understand is their garments have not been |
| 747 | 02:26:36 --> 02:26:46 | washed in the blood of the Lamb? They know Jesus, they know that that guy did something on a cross, okay, and you know, whatever. But they make him His did |
| 748 | 02:26:46 --> 02:26:57 | they make him rather their personal Savior, and they have a relationship with them. They live their life with a spirit of expectation that at any time the |
| 749 | 02:26:57 --> 02:27:09 | groom is going to show up, and there's gonna be a shout. And you better be ready, or you're not getting in. Oil has always been referred to as a type of |
| 750 | 02:27:09 --> 02:27:17 | the Holy Spirit. Are you prayed up? Do you really want Jesus to come back? My friend Sean I've been talking about doesn't want Jesus to come back yet. He's |
| 751 | 02:27:17 --> 02:27:37 | not ready. And I tell him all the time. When the rapture happens he will be here they tell the five bridesmaids, the five foolish virgins. He can't come in to |
| 752 | 02:27:37 --> 02:27:49 | the golden look for they try to buy oil, they try to get their garments washed and he can't. Why? Because now they're in the tribulation. They gotta go through |
| 753 | 02:27:49 --> 02:27:58 | it. They didn't have the spirit of expectation, joyfully, the blessed hope of looking for His coming through. There's two events, folks, there is the rapture |
| 754 | 02:27:58 --> 02:28:05 | where God comes down just so much that he's in the clouds. Jesus is in the clouds and he stopped short of that doesn't put his foot on the planet again. |
| 755 | 02:28:06 --> 02:28:11 | When he puts his foot on the plant the first time after he comes back, so we're just where it's at. It's on the Mount of Olives and there's a fault line that |
| 756 | 02:28:11 --> 02:28:20 | goes right through that mountain. And it's just the right amount of seismic activity. It's going to split open just like the Bible says it's going to happen |
| 757 | 02:28:27 --> 02:28:36 | the rapture is where God calls us up as believers that want to see him come back who lived their life passionately wanting to see that great escape that bless it |
| 758 | 02:28:36 --> 02:28:47 | hope pray that you're kind of worthy to escape these things coming from the earth. If there is no escape no fly away. Scenario like they make fun of it all. |
| 759 | 02:28:47 --> 02:29:01 | Tiniest Christian says do this. Oh, yeah. You believe in escape theology, this fly away? Myth. Really? Really? What is the whole thing about the Hebrews |
| 760 | 02:29:01 --> 02:29:12 | escaping Egypt? escapism? How about going through the Red Sea when Moses was told to raise your hands up with the staff and as long as your hands are up like |
| 761 | 02:29:12 --> 02:29:24 | that the waste will be kept at bay and you'll go walk on dry land. That's escapism folks. Never looked at it like that. Did you? What, what happened with |
| 762 | 02:29:25 --> 02:29:36 | Noah? See there's there's three groups there? No, obviously he was preserved and his family was preserved on the ark. And it's, that's wonderful. That's the |
| 763 | 02:29:36 --> 02:29:49 | remnant. Like people foolishly say, oh, that's you going into Ark? Because Jesus is the ark. I could see that. I don't subscribe to that. Here's how I see it. |
| 764 | 02:29:49 --> 02:30:04 | There are those that are preserved the 144,000 there are those that perish that beat them themselves against the door and the ark as the waters overtake them in |
| 765 | 02:30:04 --> 02:30:14 | the drowned the flood of Satan, the dragon that's talked about in Revelation. That's all those models coming together. But there's another, there's another |
| 766 | 02:30:15 --> 02:30:26 | person, just like the body of Christ is referred to as a person, the bride, that Enoch who gets raptured he walked with God, when when the world was beginning to |
| 767 | 02:30:26 --> 02:30:36 | profane the name of God. You don't even know what a boy is a girl anymore. You don't know what the institution of marriage is anymore. God is not allowed in |
| 768 | 02:30:36 --> 02:30:44 | your family. It's not allowed in schools anymore. Children are not allowed to be taught how to think of themselves of more than just whatever social media calls |
| 769 | 02:30:44 --> 02:30:47 | me that's the best I can be wrong. That's a lie. |
| 770 | 02:30:53 --> 02:31:05 | In inox de when he was 65 years old. He began to walk with God, God showed up. We don't get the full testimony. We don't know all the full details there. But |
| 771 | 02:31:05 --> 02:31:13 | it says at 65 years old, Enoch started walking with God. And he gave birth to Methuselah. He gave him that name, his death shall bring, it's interesting, |
| 772 | 02:31:13 --> 02:31:25 | because the day he died, that's when the floods started. So God gave him a revelation, your son, he's going to be the longest living person in history. And |
| 773 | 02:31:25 --> 02:31:44 | he is. But when he dies, his death shall bring my judgment. But Enoch walked with God, and God took them where it's not for you to know. It's heaven. Behold, |
| 774 | 02:31:44 --> 02:31:52 | I show you a mystery. We shall not all sleep in a moment and twinkle in your eye. Instantly, were transformed and translated into clouds, we will meet him. |
| 775 | 02:31:53 --> 02:32:03 | That's the rapture. That's not the second coming, folks. You don't know your scripture. Second Coming something later on, we'll be come back with Christ. Two |
| 776 | 02:32:03 --> 02:32:04 | events, two separate things. |
| 777 | 02:32:11 --> 02:32:27 | The blessed hope is that you are counted worthy to escape these things that are coming upon the earth. Do you do that? Will you start doing that? It's my prayer |
| 778 | 02:32:27 --> 02:32:38 | that you will. To how do you sort this business that way you got to worry about your eternal destination. You got to find somebody that has been born again, |
| 779 | 02:32:38 --> 02:32:47 | that means baptized in Jesus name for remission of sins. And they know what the gospel is. As long as they have gone through it themselves. You don't need to be |
| 780 | 02:32:47 --> 02:32:57 | an ordained minister. Anybody that has been born again can baptize you and do the same thing and you're part of the family of Christ. And then what you do is |
| 781 | 02:32:57 --> 02:33:06 | you pray for really live your life, looking towards growing closer to God, trusting Him in everything you do, asking him for everything. And if you don't |
| 782 | 02:33:06 --> 02:33:15 | get it, it's okay, wait and accept the fact that it might be a no and there's no shame in that. There's no discouragement that should be rising up in you when |
| 783 | 02:33:15 --> 02:33:23 | you have that happen. Don't look at him as like a genie in the bottle. You rub him? And oh, the Bible says the genies lamp, and I'm gonna read the three times |
| 784 | 02:33:23 --> 02:33:31 | and ask God to do this. And he's gonna answer all my wishes, because that's the way he operates. And that's not how it works, folks. He's the Almighty, He is |
| 785 | 02:33:31 --> 02:33:46 | God. He doesn't owe you anything. He literally put himself through all kinds of humiliation. Needlessly, he could have just said, That's it. I'm done. Eight |
| 786 | 02:33:46 --> 02:33:54 | people, he scrubbed the whole planet and left eight people. Do you think he means business? I think he does. |
| 787 | 02:34:01 --> 02:34:15 | You better get your house in order. If you ain't right with God, the only God the only I am the only Elohim the only Savior the only mediator between God and |
| 788 | 02:34:15 --> 02:34:32 | man, the only one that can be prayed to and be received by Jesus Christ. That's who's in me when I'm talking to you. That's where it comes from. The desire to |
| 789 | 02:34:32 --> 02:34:41 | help you that's where it comes from. Because the God's honest truth if I didn't have him in me, I would not do these things for you. I would be that selfish 20 |
| 790 | 02:34:41 --> 02:34:54 | year old boy trying to be a big shot man. Wanting to be worshipped and having all the cloud of everything I was seeking it on America Online. And I can look |
| 791 | 02:34:54 --> 02:35:04 | back and see how God used everything to equip me as I am today and I'm not perfect. You know, I'm not perfect. But have you heard me say anything profane |
| 792 | 02:35:04 --> 02:35:22 | in this? Because he's here where there's two or three, Gavin, my name, they're in the midst, I will be not one time, not one time that I reached for a word |
| 793 | 02:35:22 --> 02:35:40 | that would be prepaid. Have you noticed that? Yeah. That's him. That's him holding it together for me. And I need to live my life like this more. Social |
| 794 | 02:35:40 --> 02:36:01 | media doesn't make it too easy for me to go off the rails. So it's something I need. And you should want it for me. So hopefully, I gave you something to think |
| 795 | 02:36:01 --> 02:36:14 | about that would be impactful. Give me some, some meat to chew on. And It's my prayer that you have been inspired to a degree that you'll want to do something |
| 796 | 02:36:15 --> 02:36:28 | that draws you closer to God. prayerfully this, go into a quiet place at your house. Turn all your troubles, all your fears, all your needs. Turn him over to |
| 797 | 02:36:28 --> 02:36:43 | him. Say Father, listen, I am a mess. I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know how to get from where I am right now. And I want to be drawn closer to you. I am |
| 798 | 02:36:43 --> 02:36:56 | a sinner. I know I'm a sinner. Please forgive me. Forgive me for my sin. lead my life in a way that would be pleasing to You. Help me find someone that can |
| 799 | 02:36:56 --> 02:37:06 | baptize me in Jesus name for remission of sins so I can obey the gospel because His Word says, You do not obey the gospel. You don't go to Heaven, you will be |
| 800 | 02:37:06 --> 02:37:14 | judged. How do you obey it? You must be born of water and spirit. What does that mean? You must be baptized in Jesus name for their mission of sins not on |
| 801 | 02:37:14 --> 02:37:21 | baptize you now in the name of the Father, Son, Holy Spirit. If you got baptized like that you didn't get baptized, you got wet. If you had water sprinkled on |
| 802 | 02:37:21 --> 02:37:30 | you you did not get baptized because we are BAPTIZED IN JESUS burial in baptism. That's what the Scriptures say. Don't take my word for it. Look at it. Let the |
| 803 | 02:37:30 --> 02:37:42 | Scriptures tell you what you should be doing. Not what Mike or ICT or anybody else in the church says. If the Scriptures say this, you do that. Do not, do not |
| 804 | 02:37:43 --> 02:37:58 | let laziness or foolish trust for your eternal salvation. Don't let that rest in the hands of somebody that doesn't know what they're talking about. Go into the |
| 805 | 02:37:58 --> 02:38:08 | scriptures. Listen to this again. I'm not making any money off of it. Listen to what the Scriptures I'm telling you and see if your Bible says that. And |
| 806 | 02:38:08 --> 02:38:18 | prayerfully ask God, speak to me. Talk to me, talk to my spirit. Tell me what it is I should do that would be pleasing to you where I can work out my fear or |
| 807 | 02:38:18 --> 02:38:26 | work over my fear and work over my anxiety, work out the problems in my life. Let me live a wholesome life that is pleasing to you. And you don't have to go |
| 808 | 02:38:26 --> 02:38:36 | to church to do that. Did he not have it recorded that he went to church? Nope. He walked with God. That means he turned everything in his life over to God. He |
| 809 | 02:38:36 --> 02:38:55 | trusted God. He accepted the fact that if he has not is because God said no. That's okay. He cares for even the sparrows. How much more would he take care of |
| 810 | 02:38:55 --> 02:39:00 | you? When he know when you know that he loves you? If you don't know that he doesn't love you. You should know today |
| 811 | 02:39:06 --> 02:39:20 | the fact that you even listened to it this long. He's talking gently. He's always polite. He doesn't want to be overbearing, but you have to be receptive |
| 812 | 02:39:20 --> 02:39:26 | to that and draw near to Him. And he'll draw near on to you |
| 813 | 02:39:32 --> 02:39:39 | think that's going to be enough for today. Hope you guys have a good weekend. And I'm sure I'll be talking to you tomorrow, Lord willing |