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Hey buddy . Bless

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you. Thank you. Thank you guys. Come on.

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Let's give Jesus a praise. Come on. We

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love you. We

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love you. Thank you. Thank

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you. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah,

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he really did what he did, right, man,

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you ought to stop just slow down sometime and really think

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about that. That God became

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a man. He

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must think a lot about the potential of

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who he can be inside of man . If

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he died for man , if he had to become a

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man to die, to restore man

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back, he must think a lot of that potential

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my whole life growing up, I was told

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that Jesus died on the cross cuz I was a

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sinner and it left me

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of forgiven sinner. Nobody

1:03

ever told me that he died on the cross to

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restore my purpose and potential in

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destiny that he actually died on the cross because

1:09

he saw great value in what I could

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be when he lived inside of me. Of

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course he had to die because I sinned,

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but he didn't die. Cuz I was a sinner. He died

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cuz I was a lost son. See

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the cross doesn't expose your sin. It removes

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your sin to expose your potential and your

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value For

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my whole life. I was taught a sin conscious

1:30

gospel that prayed

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on my depravity to try to get me to say,

1:35

I'm sorry. The goodness

1:37

of God leads men to change. You

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don't, you don't have to come at somebody's depravity.

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You teach what they're called to be and created to

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be. And the goodness of God gets into

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you and brings change to you. Yeah,

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I'd never seen one scripture in my Bible.

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Read my Bible and I've read my Bible. I've

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never seen a scripture that said the

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reprimand of God is what changes a man's

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life. People

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always say it . Ain't all about the love of God. It's

2:03

about the judgment of God too. I've never seen

2:06

the judgment of God transform a life. He

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did not come into the world to

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condemn the world. That's the same word as judge to

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, to give the world what it deserves. He

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did not. He came into

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the world that the world might be through him might

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be saved in

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John 12. He said, I did not come to judge you.

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I came that you might be saved, but

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you'll have my word that will judge you in that

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day. Remember

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when he comes, there'll be a sword in his

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mouth, a word of the Lord.

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He didn't come to judge you. He came to save

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you. The cross tells

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you who you're called and created to be never

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forget that the cross does not expose

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your sin. It removes

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your sin to

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expose and unlock your potential, your

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value and your purpose. There's

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no one out there that's ever went

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to a car lot and saw a

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used car for ten

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five and went

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to the dealer and said, you know what? I'll give you 15.

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Why it's not worth it.

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It's worth ten five. And you're gonna try to

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get him down to eight. Two . Who's

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ever went on a lot and said, I'll give you 15. If

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it's marked 10, five, why it's not worth it, but

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he shed his blood for you and me. And

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you think for a second, I'm gonna live condemned

3:37

and feel unworthy. He washed

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my pasted away. He put a new thing inside

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of me, a new heart, new spirit. He put

3:44

his kingdom in me. I

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didn't find a way to sin and get away with it. I found

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a way to be free. I

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found a way to wake up in him and

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enjoy him and him enjoy me and

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be excited in life. The joy of

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my salvation, not

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the joy of my circumstances, the joy of my

4:04

salvation. Good

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tidings of

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Great joy .

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Good tidings of that

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means the good tidings bring

4:19

the great joy. Good

4:21

tidings of so when you understand the good

4:23

tidings, great joy is the automatic

4:26

response. Yeah . So if you don't

4:28

have great joy, you don't need a

4:30

spirit of joy and you don't need an auto call where everybody's

4:33

laughing , praying for you, hoping you get it. It's

4:36

understand the good news because

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it's good. TIS of

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People

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Say, how can you always be? So the way you are,

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it's good. TIS

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<laugh>

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It's not gonna change that. Truth's not gonna

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change tomorrow.

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When I wake up, this gospel's gonna be the same. When I

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crack open my Bible, he's gonna love me.

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Oh my goodness. And

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I'm gonna be right in the sight of God. Will

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I go to bed

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Tonight? I have total access to him. That'll never change.

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Let me get a little strange and weird with you a

5:11

million years from now. He's not gonna call

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an loud speaker, Dan Muller to

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the front and say, you know, I've

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been thinking for a long time. I think I made a mistake

5:19

when I let you in here.

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<laugh>

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I'm in, it's already settled,

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like already won . So

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I might as well just become what he paid for. I

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might as well enjoy the ride, walk in a manner worthy

5:38

of him and love him with my life. Since

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he loved me with his, I

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oughta just give it back, huh? Yeah . And

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say , go ahead and take it. This is what you paid for. Not

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my worship, not my tithe

5:51

. Yeah . You paid for my life.

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So go ahead and take it. Amen . Yeah

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. Yeah , man. I feel good

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about that. You feel good about that? Yeah

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. So listen, guilt, condemnation

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and shame is alive from hell. It's

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never the gospel godly

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sorrow over repentance, feeling sorry

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for where you've been and what you've done and going whoa and

6:15

letting the holy spirit bring that where you realize

6:17

whoa, and you run to God, not run

6:19

from God. When you run from God, that's Adam

6:21

in the garden. That's naked. That's ashamed

6:24

. When you run to God,

6:26

that's clothed and robed in righteousness. You

6:28

run to God. You talk to God.

6:30

You tell him, wow, thank you for the conviction

6:33

of my life. The truth you're working in me. I realize that

6:35

is so not who you created me to be.

6:37

Lord God, I don't want that in my life.

6:39

You didn't create me for that. And I

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just thank you for loving me.

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Thank you for washing me. Thank

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you for forgiving me when

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you're asking for, for forgiveness. You're wondering if you're

6:50

for forgiven . When you thank him for forgiving, you, you can

6:53

move on. Yeah.

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Yeah . Come on. The blood of Jesus is speaking

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better things. This thing's not complicated. Like

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he didn't cur he didn't curse his son on

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the cross. He made his son to be sin. He

7:07

cursed sin in the flesh. Sin shall have no dominion

7:09

over you. You're not under the law. You're

7:11

under grace. Shall we keep on sin? And so we've received

7:14

grace since we're not under the law. Absolutely

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not. He said, how can you,

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who died to sin? Living in any longer?

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See the Christian life. Isn't praying a prayer to

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go to heaven. It's dying to your old life. And it's dying

7:25

to sin once. And for all. So you can live

7:27

to God. What that means is dying to its

7:29

its actions, its memories. It's

7:31

stain , it's sting. And

7:36

you wake up every day and you don't believe your

7:38

sin waiting to happen. That's

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not humble. That's deception. You're

7:43

a son in the making. You're a daughter being manifested.

7:47

You're growing up into him in all things.

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If you wake up in your sin waiting to happen, you're

7:52

constantly sin conscious and that's your tree and

7:54

that's your fruit. And you'll never repent

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cuz that's what we are. And it's a wonder he loves

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us. And then the gospel remains

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a mystery that never transforms your life. One

8:07

of the biggest mistakes we make, we think our ability to

8:10

sin makes us sinners.

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So we say that in a false humility

8:16

and continue to do the same because

8:18

it's what we believe we are. I

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didn't wake up to fail today and that's not arrogance.

8:25

I woke up to trust him and believe his grace.

8:27

And I woke up to follow him and be formed in

8:30

him and be more like him. I

8:32

didn't wake up to be loved by you. I woke up to love

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you. So now you can hurt me

8:36

or let me down, cuz my hope isn't in you.

8:39

My hope comes from him. My

8:41

expectations from the Lord. Yeah.

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So that empowers me to get in

8:47

a big setting like this in rub elbows

8:49

and not be in there for the wrong reasons. Not

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to try to find identity for

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what God's doing among us or

8:55

through me, but to find identity through

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him.

8:58

Amen .

8:59

Yeah. And then that brings

9:01

really healthy relationship. Yeah

9:04

. So all of a sudden I can have something

9:06

healthy with you. You

9:09

guys good? Yes . I'm not even

9:11

sure where we're heading. I guess I'm just feeling it

9:13

out. I don't even know. But the gospel's amazing. I'm

9:16

just thinking about God, putting himself

9:19

in the womb of a woman. It

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freaks me out to this day that

9:24

that God would let holy spirit, the

9:27

son of God, Jesus would say, okay,

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I'm ready to go put

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me in her .

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<laugh>

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It had to happen. Like he was

9:41

Jesus just a second ago. Son of God,

9:43

in the heavens probably racing Michael

9:45

and Gabriel around on the char . I don't

9:47

know, but he was the Lord. And

9:51

the next moment he's

9:53

a little embryo of fetus, whatever

9:55

he started out to be, he was in her

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womb and there was a little heart beating

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and he was a man freaks

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me out that

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God would become a man to rescue

10:06

men. Never

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change his mind about what he created us

10:12

to be never let where we weren't

10:14

decide who he is , but let who

10:16

he is. Decide where we can be. Come

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on. It's the goodness of God. It's

10:23

the gospel. It's good news. It's amazing

10:25

news. It's not well , you've been

10:27

wretched and sinners and you need to shape up. It's

10:30

your so much more. Would you open your eyes and

10:32

see that God sees a whole lot

10:34

more about us than we've ever considered.

10:36

And it's time to stop talking ourself

10:38

down in a false humility and

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come a Pither get your mind

10:43

off the earth and set your mind in heaven

10:45

where he's sitting, where you

10:47

are seated with him at the right hand of

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almighty. God, come on. That's all scripture.

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That's all scripture. I I've been bought

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with a price. I'm not my own. I'm not gonna sell

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cheap. I'm not for sale, man.

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I got this thing over my head. No vacancy

11:06

fully and completely occupied.

11:10

Yeah . Oh

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man . I'm sorry. But I'm just feel a little passionate

11:16

right now. <laugh> feel a

11:18

little aggressive. The

11:21

God of the universe, nothing

11:23

was made that wasn't made through

11:26

him. He was there from the beginning. He's

11:29

name above every name . He's the Lord

11:31

. He put himself in woman

11:35

to become a man. Well,

11:38

yeah, but brother, he was a hundred percent . God stop.

11:41

He came as a man . You're

11:43

not doing , when you say

11:45

that . He said he's the of

11:47

, he wants as

11:50

a man . Does

11:54

God ever slumber? No . Where

11:56

was Jesus in the boat?

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I wasn't

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Sleeping . He was what he

12:02

was sleeping, but God doesn't

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slumber. Oh

12:07

. So he came as a man. Can

12:11

you tempt God? How

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come Jesus was tempted? That'll point you

12:16

without sin. Cause if he didn't come

12:18

as a man and couldn't be tempted, it wouldn't be a real

12:20

test. How

12:31

God, how God anointed

12:33

Jesus of Nazareth.

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A man is

12:39

God already anointed. Then

12:42

why God have to anoint Jesus. If he came

12:44

, as God came

12:48

as a man and he laid

12:50

down his glory and he

12:52

made himself of no reputation,

12:56

guess what? We've sought our whole lives. Guess what a

12:58

big, dangerous trap is. Even in the church is

13:01

people trying to seek reputation and get to

13:03

be noticed. Sometimes it's

13:05

dangerous to have a microphone cuz you need one

13:08

and you wanna manifest. Be

13:12

very careful. Have this same mind in

13:14

you. Philippians do have the same mind

13:17

in you. That was in him

13:20

who, even though he was considered equal with

13:22

God, didn't consider it something to be acknowledged

13:24

for. But instead laid

13:27

down his glory and

13:29

made himself of no

13:32

reputation and became a

13:34

bond servant to men, even

13:37

a servant to the point of death.

13:40

Therefore God has

13:43

exalted him. You

13:46

humble your self under the

13:48

mighty hand of God. And

13:51

in due time he will

13:53

lift up that humility cuz

13:56

he can flow through humility.

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Yeah man

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, the gospel's exciting to me. You know,

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what's freaking me out. He came as

14:10

a man in

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the womb of a woman's hung out in her

14:15

birth in her womb and came through her birth

14:17

canal. Guys. The king of

14:19

the universe was sitting

14:21

in there for nine months, crockpot in

14:23

a woman. <laugh> it

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freaks out . It

14:30

freaks me out . He did not pop

14:33

into the wilderness at buffed and

14:35

ready to roll

14:36

<laugh>

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He didn't take a shortcut. He came as we

14:41

came, woman came

14:43

from man and every man since then

14:45

came from woman. So he had

14:47

to come through Mary. He had

14:49

to come as a man. When he

14:51

raised from the dead, he said, don't you be afraid. You

14:54

touch me for a spirit. Doesn't

14:56

have flesh and bone, his eye . What's

14:59

he's saying after he is raised from the dead,

15:02

He's

15:03

Still a man. You

15:06

better understand that. And why? Cause

15:09

he's at the right hand of God and his blood's

15:11

on the mercy seat and he's sitting on his

15:13

blood on the mercy seat at the right

15:15

hand representing man as

15:17

a man. Is

15:20

he Lord? Yes. Is he God? Yes.

15:23

Is he name above every name? Yes, but

15:26

he's a man. He has a body and

15:28

the blood of a man is in

15:30

the holy place. Crying

15:33

out on behalf of men. Mercy

15:36

speaking better things. You

15:40

better understand this stuff. It's powerful.

15:43

It's innocent. Holy blood speaking

15:46

out on behalf of guilty lives that would humble

15:48

themselves and say, oops, what

15:50

was I thinking? I've been living for

15:52

me. And I've been created for his image and his glory.

15:55

Oops. What was I thinking his

15:58

name now I'm making change. I'm

16:00

repenting. I'm turning around. Come

16:04

on . This thing is simple. It's

16:07

not just beneficial . You're not just getting blessings.

16:09

He's not just setting you up for the future. Making

16:11

sure IRA works and your 401k

16:14

is good. It's

16:18

not why you're on the planet. You're

16:21

on the planet to shine. You're

16:24

on the planet to shine. And

16:26

if we're his go-to people to be the light of the world

16:29

And this battery's dead or this light don't

16:31

work well then there's darkness.

16:34

Yeah .

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So a rise , shine church. Your

16:38

light has

16:39

Come

16:40

And the glory of the Lord has

16:43

risen and it's upon you. Oh,

16:46

darkness will cover the earth and deep darkness to people.

16:48

But the light it's on you.

16:52

Yeah.

16:53

So lets your light so shine

16:56

before men. It doesn't

16:59

say so . Get discouraged. Get disheartened call

17:01

for prayer and need ministry says

17:09

let your light. So shine. Get

17:12

a perspective that guards your heart and keeps your

17:14

heart cuz outta your heart flows. The issues of life.

17:17

Get a healthy reason for being and

17:19

wake up every day . In that reason, put

17:23

stickers and notes all over your house and on your mirror.

17:25

If you have to, but write out why you're

17:27

alive and why you woke up. So you never allow

17:29

the flesh to have a voice. Cause

17:31

if you live by the spirit, you will

17:34

not. You will not. You

17:36

will not fulfill the

17:38

lusts of the flesh. What's

17:41

religion do with a scripture like that. If

17:48

you live by the spirit, Roman's

17:52

eight it's there. You will not fulfill

17:55

the Lu. Well

18:01

nobody's perfect brother. Maybe you

18:03

aren't even humble enough to hear scripture, to even think

18:05

about what he's trying to say. Maybe

18:08

we're too fixed on just talking ourself

18:10

down, thinking it's humility. When in fact it's

18:12

deception. If

18:18

you live in the spirit, you

18:21

won't fulfill the less of flesh. He's not talking about never

18:23

making a mistake. He's not talking about just

18:25

all of a sudden reacting in something he's talking about.

18:28

The less desires and the things that pull men

18:30

from truth. Yeah , Yeah,

18:36

Yeah .

18:37

And then those people that do that,

18:39

get grayed out, get condemned, question

18:42

themselves, question their own heart, a

18:44

veil slips over their face. And now they don't have intimacy

18:47

with God. So they can't get pregnant and reproduce

18:49

a thing cuz

18:52

they can't be with him because they don't feel

18:54

close to him and they don't feel worthy

18:56

of him. And, and

18:58

yet here's the blood speaking better things

19:00

calling you in wants to wash you clean.

19:04

Are you with me? Yes . Guilt,

19:07

condemnation and shame. Three major tools of

19:09

the devil. Do

19:11

you have to be sorry for your sins? Is there a place

19:13

of repentance for the gospel? You better believe it. There's

19:16

some strange movements out there right now. Be very

19:18

careful. There's some that say repentances

19:20

works and you don't have to. It's already finished and

19:23

nobody needs to even get saved cuz the blood's

19:25

speaking and everybody's already saved and don't

19:27

know it. Stay away from the weird stuff. There's

20:13

a lot of weird stuff out there. There's

20:16

stuff out there that says, Hey, we're always gonna do what we're

20:18

gonna do. God knew that when he sent his son and he

20:20

knows it now that's why he shed his blood to just cover

20:22

us while we're out there living our way. His

20:26

grace is sufficient graces

20:29

his working power to transform. Yes

20:31

. When you preach grace apart from

20:34

trans you're preaching perversion.

20:36

Yes .

20:39

Grace doesn't allow you to live in

20:41

the flesh. Grace changes you. You

20:47

say, oh my goodness. I really blew up on my

20:49

wife today. Thank God for the grace of God. The

20:51

grace of God empowers you to not blow up

20:53

on her. Come on . The

21:00

grace of God is God's power. It's his power

21:02

on your behalf. It's

21:04

his working ability to help make you what

21:06

you could never be on your own. You're

21:09

saved by grace, by his working power,

21:11

through your faith. You believe

21:13

your life's worthy that you have potential in

21:15

destiny. And even though you've sinned and fallen

21:18

short of the glory of God, he hasn't lost sight of

21:20

your purpose and why you're here. And he loves you. And

21:24

you're saved by grace. Faith. You

21:27

don't release faith in your life. You won't walk in grace.

21:31

If you don't believe the gospel, your life

21:33

feels dry. You feel very empty. If

21:36

you don't believe that your life is worth the blood,

21:38

there's not a grace pouring over.

21:42

Are you with me? Grace

21:47

and faith. Go hand in hand. You're

21:49

saved by grace through faith. No

21:51

faith, no grace. It's

21:54

impossible to please God without faith.

21:56

Why? Cuz without faith, he can't release the

21:59

grace to make you what he paid for. So

22:01

he can't be fulfilled as a father watching

22:03

you grow into fruition. Are

22:09

you good? Yeah . You guys are just

22:11

kinda looking this

22:14

thing's for everybody. It's amazing. Guilt, condemnation,

22:16

shame. I gotta go back to it for some reason. It's it

22:18

needs hit hard here tonight. Guilt,

22:21

condemnation and shame. There's people that talk

22:23

themselves into one of the three or

22:25

all of the three and, and they

22:28

say, yeah, but brother, I should have known better.

22:30

Okay. I get that. So

22:32

at what point do you say wow,

22:35

should a known better run to

22:37

God. Be bold about that

22:39

and humble about that and receive his

22:41

love and mercy become wiser and sharper.

22:44

And now you know better. Why

22:48

do you have to lose something in

22:50

knowing better should have known

22:52

better? So now I have to lose something. I have to lose

22:55

three days of relationship. I have to lose

22:57

a month of identity. You

23:03

never step out of him. Come

23:06

on. It's what Adam and Eve did in the garden. They took

23:08

off and ran. They hid, they heard the sound

23:10

of the Lord coming and

23:14

ran from father God, because

23:17

that's what sin consciousness does to

23:19

people. They run and hide from

23:21

truth. They

23:26

start living quiet. They shut down.

23:30

God it's just , sin has a terrible effect.

23:32

When you live sin conscious you're

23:35

the , the , the cross takes it away.

23:37

Like it's unscripted for a

23:39

Christian to be fighting with sin,

23:41

trying not to sin, trying to do better.

23:43

You're supposed to wake up and believe.

23:45

Believe that he is believe he

23:47

loves you. Believe he forgave. You believe

23:49

he lives inside of you. You

23:52

start out your day in righteousness.

23:55

Roman six says that place produces

23:58

its fruit to holiness . All

24:01

of a sudden you're living holy without trying

24:03

to be holy cuz you believe what he did

24:05

is true. And it

24:07

fixes your heart on him and empowers

24:09

your ways. And all of a

24:11

sudden the trees made good and the fruit

24:13

follows. See

24:16

he's not telling you to do better and try harder

24:19

and clean up your act. He says a good tree.

24:21

Can't bear bad. So

24:23

we hear fruit and become tree

24:26

assessors and go, oh my goodness, I can't

24:28

be a good tree cuz there's a bad branch

24:30

and fruit right here. Or

24:33

there's a thing you've been ignoring or denying.

24:36

And you hear the words say a

24:38

good tree cannot bear bad

24:40

fruit and you hear fruit

24:42

and go, oh my goodness, I can't be

24:44

a good tree. And

24:47

then he says a bad tree. Can't

24:49

bear. And now you're

24:51

confused because you go wait a minute. There

24:53

is some valid changes in my life and not everything's

24:56

a throw away . I'm

24:58

troubled a good tree. Can't bear bad fruit.

25:00

But I see something on my limb that needs

25:02

clipped and a bad can't

25:04

bear good fruit. But there's some things in my life that

25:06

are good and should remain. All

25:10

of a sudden you realize he's not talking about fruit.

25:13

He's talking about your identity, the tree, knowing

25:15

who you are. He's not talking about your actions.

25:17

He's talking about your identity. He's

25:20

saying when you realize you've been made a

25:23

good tree, you can't bear

25:25

bad fruit. But

25:32

if you keep thinking you are a bad

25:34

tree, you can't bear good

25:37

fruit because all

25:39

your efforts to bear in good fruit becomes

25:42

striving to prove something that's already

25:44

settled through his blood. Are

25:49

you guys good? Cuz this is a good

25:51

gospel. It's

25:54

what's wrong with me for 23 years, I've

25:56

been this way. I just met somebody

25:58

at a church. I was at that. Hasn't seen me for years.

26:00

They knew me four years in and

26:03

there he laughed and they said, I think you're worse

26:05

than ever. <laugh> . I said,

26:07

I keep telling people I'll always be this way

26:09

or worse. Why? Because I'm gonna

26:11

keep getting to know him more. See,

26:14

he hasn't changed since I've been saved.

26:21

He hasn't changed since the foundation

26:23

of the world. He hasn't changed

26:26

since the beginning. So

26:28

why would I change? Unless I get my eyes

26:30

off of truth. When truth makes me free and

26:32

he that's free is free. So

26:34

if I keep my eyes on truth and let the truth, keep

26:37

my eyes single. I'm always full of light no matter

26:39

what. Cause I'm not a conditional

26:41

Christian. I'm not a Christian for things to go.

26:43

Well, I'm a Christian to be like him.

26:46

So I'm always receiving grace to

26:48

fulfill that desire and faith. So

26:51

come hell or high water . I'm positioned

26:53

for Christ in me. The hope of glory,

26:56

Whether

26:56

You do me, right? Or whether you do me wrong, we're

27:02

Sy bounds. Grace bounds much more that's on

27:04

God's end. Well , he made us in his image. Why

27:06

shouldn't that be our truth? We're

27:11

Sy bounds. We get hurt, broken, trusted, skeptical,

27:13

pull back and get tentative. I

27:16

don't think that's what scripture's talking about.

27:22

Yay .

27:24

Do you hear the freedom in what I'm saying? Yeah

27:27

, but you gotta want this people. We gotta

27:29

want this. We don't just want his blessings

27:31

and the in filling of his spirit and

27:33

all the terms we use. No, no, no. We want his

27:35

heart and his nature and his ways cuz

27:37

that's freedom. Yeah . Like living

27:40

for yourself is the biggest bummer on

27:42

the earth. Like self-conscious

27:44

always worrying about how it's gonna work out for

27:47

you. It's like you were on this little saga

27:49

journey with God and the whole , your whole life

27:52

is everything's all about you. And Hey, that's

27:54

a strategy from the devil and he just, and I gotta pray

27:56

and they pulled out in front of me. That's devil trying

27:58

to ruin my day and all this weird

28:01

stuff . Amen

28:04

.

28:05

Amen.

28:07

I got a mic . I can even do better. Matt

28:09

, come

28:11

on . And all of a sudden you're on this . Self-focused self-centered

28:14

jury calling a faith and thinking it's spiritual.

28:25

Cause

28:25

It's so self-conscious it's so

28:27

self focused . You think the devil is? So

28:29

that caught up with you? No,

28:32

he's already got you deceived. He probably don't

28:34

even have to look your way. You're already doing good

28:36

enough yourself. He's

28:39

got you hook, line and sinker. He

28:41

don't even have to hold the rod probably

28:45

just sticks it in the holder and goes get somebody

28:47

a little more challenging.

28:49

<laugh>

28:51

Cause you're hooked.

28:54

I'm just saying

28:57

My goodness . Don't make it so easy for him . Let

29:04

me try to get this done. Guilt condemnation

29:07

in shame. Third, fourth time. I'm

29:09

trying to go back there and then

29:11

I get excited and preach a couple other things. Let

29:15

me tell you what guilt condemnation in shame is. Guilt

29:19

is a subconscious confession that

29:21

you're not forgiven. They're

29:25

all three anti Christ finished anti-Christ

29:27

works . Guilt , condemnation, shame are all anti-Christ

29:30

things. Forget the

29:32

book of revelations. When I say anti-Christ what I'm

29:34

saying is it's anti finished work

29:37

expressions. They're never in the tool

29:39

belt of God. Guilt, condemnation, shame are

29:41

never subcontracted by the

29:43

Lord. On

29:45

your behalf. Guilt

29:51

is a subconscious confession that you're

29:53

not forgiven. Condemnation

29:55

is a subconscious confession. It's you receiving

29:58

the fact that you believe you're worthy to be judged.

30:01

Instead of redeemed shame

30:05

is a really, really nasty

30:08

one because it brings a lot of bad things on

30:10

people's lives because shame

30:14

is you believing you still are

30:17

what you're ashamed of or you wouldn't

30:19

be ashamed. It's

30:22

hard for me to preach that and not cry because

30:25

I see that when Rob so many

30:27

people whose hearts have changed, If

30:31

your heart wasn't okay, you would not cry.

30:37

If your heart wasn't okay, you wouldn't

30:40

care. So

30:43

being ashamed of what you did cannot

30:45

be the answer when you cry yourself

30:48

to sleep, but don't fall asleep. You're

30:53

already sorry. You must be alive inside.

30:56

You must have seen the error of your ways.

30:59

Why not run to him? Why are you hiding behind

31:01

some rocks, somewhere naked

31:03

when God paid the price to clothe

31:05

you?

31:07

Jesus , Jesus .

31:08

Do you understand that he rules his kingdom

31:10

with a CEP called righteousness, that

31:14

he Knights you and marks you not guilty

31:16

when you bow before him. And

31:19

he lets you stand before him without

31:21

any sense of guilt, condemnation

31:23

or shame. That's what the word righteousness

31:26

means to stand before the Lord, without

31:28

any shame, without any guilt, without

31:33

any condemnation to stand before the

31:35

Lord and be right in his sight. Watch

31:38

as if you've never sinned.

31:41

I'm not sure why people have a hard time

31:43

preaching that if you study the

31:45

Bible and look at the words, that's

31:48

what it means. You're acquitted. You're not

31:50

guilty. You're as if you never sin.

31:54

So how can we be before the Lord

31:56

through the blood as if we never sin and remain

31:59

sin conscious and think it's humility to

32:01

boast in our ability to commit it . Well,

32:04

brother, we're not perfect. We're always gonna sin. What are you trying to

32:06

say? You're freaking me out brother. That's a little hairy red

32:08

flag right there. What are you saying? You never sin brother.

32:11

See, I'm not even talking about the act of sin. I'm

32:13

talking about the identity of being

32:15

free from sin. I

32:17

can show you in the book of Romans three times, it says you're

32:19

free from sin free from

32:21

sin free from sin. It's in the book

32:24

of Romans. It's Roman six. It's not my notes. It's

32:26

the book of Romans. You're

32:29

free from sin. Yeah,

32:31

but brother, we're always gonna sin stop.

32:33

You can't even hear the word of the Lord

32:35

. That's religion. You're

32:43

letting human experience Trump,

32:45

the grace of God that brings change to

32:47

your life. So

32:51

who's yet to tell what's possible to become

32:54

what grace did he pay for. Have we

32:56

received the full measure of grace that he

32:58

paid for on our lives? Have

33:00

we believed to the place where every measure

33:02

of grace he paid for has come

33:04

upon us and made us what he paid for?

33:08

Why don't we go after that? Why

33:11

don't we see what living in the spirit is? Why

33:13

don't we , why don't we go after what's possible? Why

33:17

don't wake up every day and just believe we're righteous

33:19

in his sight and that we're sons. And we don't have nothing to

33:21

prove. His love has already proven to our

33:23

hearts through Christ, across through

33:26

a sun crucified. And why don't we just

33:28

live by the spirit, not fulfill the lust of the flesh

33:30

and present ourself as members under righteousness,

33:32

which produces its fruit to holiness. Why don't

33:34

we just live that way and come outta darkness into

33:37

the light? Why

33:39

don't we just reckon ourself dead indeed. Under

33:41

sin and alive under God in

33:44

Christ. Jesus. That's

33:47

all

33:47

Scripture.

33:49

Does that sound like you have a brother? We're always gonna

33:51

sin. I mean, what are you saying, man? You're freaking me out.

33:53

Are you perfect? Not

33:56

even talking perfection. I'm talking purity of heart

33:59

and the pure and heart shall. Yeah.

34:06

You're not waking up trying not to sin.

34:08

I promise you that is deception. You're

34:10

waking up enjoying being his that's the truth.

34:14

The blood speaks better things than

34:16

marking you for what you did wrong.

34:20

The blood marks you for what he did,

34:22

right? And if

34:24

you don't start where he finished,

34:27

you'll never run well

34:30

because you'll get tricked into trying to

34:32

accomplish something he all already

34:35

did. And in your own strength,

34:37

you'll fail and believe you're

34:40

a failure and never grow in the knowledge

34:42

of truth. And

34:46

you know what all these lies are for to

34:49

keep you from ever being with him. Because

34:53

the whole goal is you to reproduce

34:55

after your own kind. Your

34:58

whole goal is to bear fruit and multiply after

35:00

your own. So if the enemy

35:02

can lie to you and keep you from seeing what you've

35:04

become, you can never reproduce the fruit after

35:06

him. There's nothing on the earth.

35:09

That's multiplied without intimacy,

35:11

without two coming together. There's

35:14

nothing reproduced on the earth without two coming together.

35:20

So if the enemy can keep you from coming

35:22

together with him intimately, he can keep

35:24

your life from ever being multiplied and reproduced

35:27

from him. And

35:30

you can have a knowledge of him. You can have a confession

35:32

of him. You can have a Christian screensaver,

35:34

R tone , bumper sticker and music plan

35:36

and a t-shirt that says lifestyle and

35:41

maybe not know him or be with him and

35:45

let all the things you do in his name. Take the

35:47

place of knowing him and

35:51

have a form of something. Instead

35:53

of becoming that very thing . Don't

35:56

any of you let that happen to you. It's a lie. Every

35:59

one of you have a right to be in his presence. Adam

36:02

was so sin conscious . Adam was

36:04

so sin conscious . He ran from

36:06

the sound of the Lord coming and

36:09

God found him. Adam, where

36:12

are you? He knew where Adam

36:14

was. He doesn't have to ask questions.

36:18

He's giving Adam a chance to respond.

36:21

Where are you, Adam.

36:24

Adam. Where are you? Could

36:27

you imagine? Adam's like,

36:34

I'm

36:35

Over here, Lord. I

36:37

heard you coming. I was naked and ashamed . So

36:40

I hid Adam.

36:45

How did you know you were naked? Did

36:48

you eat the tree that I forbid you to eat? It

36:52

was the woman that you gave me

36:54

. She

36:57

gave me to eat, whatever

37:03

that was. That

37:08

was just a bam . Thank

37:11

you Lord. I know it's good. I huh

37:16

. It's the first sign of sin. It's

37:19

the first effect of sin in your Bible, right

37:22

on the heels of sin. The first sign of

37:24

sin is self-preservation

37:26

self defense . Self-awareness

37:31

self centeredness ashamed. It

37:33

was the woman you gave me . What's he saying

37:35

he did Adam eat the tree

37:38

was the question. Yes or no.

37:41

Could he say yes or no? No.

37:44

He couldn't take responsibility cuz

37:46

all of a sudden he's a defender of himself

37:48

instead of truth. Because

37:51

sin perverted, everything that he was created

37:53

to be and everything he was created to

37:55

be took a 180 bam

37:58

when he ate that tree. And

38:01

all of a sudden, what he's saying is look, if

38:04

you, when they gave me the woman probably

38:06

wouldn't ate the tree, dude like

38:08

work it out. The

38:14

Lord says, woman , what is this you've done?

38:17

She said it was the devil. He

38:20

made me do it. That's

38:22

really what she said. It was the serpent

38:25

for , he gave me to eat. A

38:38

lot of people teach, no Adam was standing right there

38:40

when it all happened and he didn't take authority and

38:42

step in and all that. I'm not sure I

38:44

buy that. I , I look at Genesis four

38:47

and in the end of three

38:49

and Genesis three, I mean the end. And he says to Adam,

38:51

because you heated the voice of your wife. Instead

38:53

of me, Here's

38:56

what I personally believe happened. Everything's

38:59

out to reproduce itself after its own kind, cuz

39:01

it's a law each seat after it's own kind . So

39:04

the devil sees man and woman made in God's

39:06

image to rule the earth and have dominion. He's

39:08

really ticked off cuz one day he said, I'll be

39:10

God, I'll be in the highest place. I'll rise above

39:12

God's throne. Al sit in the

39:14

highest place. Are you aware of that decree ? And

39:17

God says, you shouldn't have ought said that boom,

39:20

boom onto the earth and it's dark

39:23

and it's void and is no form.

39:25

And all of a sudden God sh sh sh

39:27

and now he breathes into dirt and a human

39:29

being stands up. That looks just

39:32

like his father. And

39:34

then he reaches into that fullness

39:36

and that amazing revelation and

39:39

brings out a woman. That's where you came from

39:41

ladies. The fullness of God in the man.

39:43

Wow. Yeah. Yeah.

39:46

Whew . So God didn't make you

39:48

cuz the man needed you

39:52

in a sexual way, in a lesser

39:54

way. He

39:57

didn't even make a woman until he saw

39:59

the fullness of God in the man.

40:01

So the man is fully equipped to love

40:04

her. Like he does. Amen. That's

40:08

where a woman came from in the Bible. So

40:10

I always say if there's a man in a woman's life, it oughta

40:12

be because of the fullness of God and the man not cuz she's hot.

40:15

Amen .

40:25

Yeah . Don't cheer me on too much, buddy. This topic is

40:27

intense. Is

40:30

there an area in our lives, more exploited

40:32

and more perverted or Larry , more focused

40:35

on than sexuality. There's

40:37

nothing even a close second people. Why

40:42

you don't counterfeit $1 bills. You go after

40:44

something that has great value and

40:48

this whole sexual arena is so driven by emotions

40:50

and sense you reality . And

40:53

it keeps men bound to feelings and

40:55

flesh and fantasies and

40:58

tries to keep spirit filled people

41:01

living there, come

41:08

out from among them and be separate. There's a

41:10

whole better thing on this side of the

41:12

180 cuz

41:14

when you look at the beginning, he says,

41:16

let us make man in our image. So in the likeness

41:18

of God, he made man both male and

41:21

female in his own likeness.

41:24

He made them both male. And so

41:27

what, so woman's created value to

41:29

serve the man or to be found in God's

41:31

likeness. You're

41:33

not here to serve the man. You're

41:36

here to be like him. And if we

41:38

all live to be like Kim we'll serve one another.

41:41

The reason she makes man complete

41:45

is because man has an avenue to

41:47

love and reproduce now and express

41:49

and multiply who God made him to be. He

41:52

doesn't, she doesn't make man complete cuz he had

41:54

a deficit without her. He

41:57

makes man complete because he can manifest

42:00

and reproduce with her and multiply

42:02

what he was created to be Till

42:04

the whole earth is filled

42:07

with his glory and

42:13

we've turned it into sexual relations.

42:16

Orgasms loneliness need to

42:18

be loved, need to be held, need to

42:20

feel special, need to be valued. We've

42:23

turned it into curves and bus size and

42:27

to just keep sensuality, just

42:30

thriving. Keep the flesh raging.

42:33

Maybe even in the midst of our worship.

42:38

Oh

42:39

It's sure

42:40

I'm

42:41

Feeling that the

42:45

first thing on every list of the flesh is

42:47

sexuality. I could turn

42:49

you to IANS . I could turn you to Corinthians

42:51

Galatians. Yeah.

42:55

Ephesians, Colossians

42:58

sexuality. First thing on the

43:00

list. And he doesn't

43:02

tell you to manage it. He doesn't tell you to

43:05

balance it and he doesn't tell you to control

43:07

it. He tells you to put it to death. Why?

43:10

Cause what you were trained in is alive from

43:12

hell. It was not from the

43:14

beginning. What

43:20

God gave us our sex drive . Stop

43:22

it. Adam gave you what you grew up with. God

43:25

gave you love not

43:28

sex drive. God

43:31

gave you love not

43:33

sex drive . And

43:37

just like we see his first love. We

43:39

love him. The wife sees a

43:41

love that she's sheltered in protected in

43:44

that she's nurtured in. And she opens

43:46

herself up to what is the safest place she's

43:49

ever been and been held in that place. She opens up

43:51

and responds in that. Love that two come together

43:53

and reproduce in that place

43:56

after their own kind. And the earth

43:58

is filled with his glory. It's

44:04

not about orgasms. It's about holiness and

44:06

his presence. It's about love. Why

44:11

would you sell out for an orgasm when his

44:14

presence wants to overtake you in

44:16

your covenant union with your spouse?

44:20

<laugh>

44:23

I'm done with all that. Listen,

44:28

let me go back and get safe. I'll

44:30

go . I'll go . Go in safe ground. Remember

44:34

go condemnation, shame. So

44:38

let's go back to the end of Genesis. Now we're in Genesis four

44:41

and or , or the end of Genesis three.

44:43

I mean, and he says, it

44:46

says that God took

44:49

off the fig leaves from

44:52

Adam and Eve and what

44:54

he do put on animal

44:56

skins that were made from his own

45:00

hand . So yeah, God's a hunter.

45:04

<laugh> you

45:06

know

45:09

They to skin 'em out.

45:11

<laugh>

45:14

I'm just saying. So

45:18

because of their sin, something

45:21

already had to lose its blood. Something

45:27

lost its life because sin costs life.

45:29

That's why sin. There's no remission to sin

45:31

without the shedding of blood cuz sin costs life. But

45:37

this isn't the redemption of man. This

45:39

is just a sign to us. This is God

45:41

prophe sign and speak. And it's you

45:43

it's righteousness. I know everybody preaches blood

45:46

covenant there cuz the animals had the shed, their blood to get

45:48

their skins. And it's true. It's blood covenant, but

45:51

why isn't it righteousness to us? He

45:55

took off their fig leaves and put animal skins

45:57

made with his own hands. So who clothed them? If

46:02

he let the fig leaves on Adam and

46:04

Eve in Genesis three every

46:07

day they wake up, what is their awareness? The

46:10

day they messed up and blew it big. I

46:13

mean, you know, we , we have jokes and

46:15

we blame it on the woman and the women

46:17

get mad and say , well he was in authority. He

46:20

shouldn't have followed her and there's fights all the time.

46:22

And I heard this one story, you know

46:24

that this guy said he had a revelation

46:26

that Adam and even, and the kids came

46:28

and Abel were walking through the mountains one day

46:31

and it's desolate and charred and there's not much

46:33

there. And they look down into this valley of

46:35

lush and green and life and,

46:38

and , and , and Kane says, or Abel

46:40

says, mom, dad,

46:42

Look at that

46:43

Place down there. We should go live

46:45

there. And Adam said, well, we

46:47

used to some, but your mother ate us outta house and

46:50

home.

46:54

But it's

46:56

But it's really not. That way. Eve

47:00

was deceived and Adam

47:02

followed her instead of

47:04

God. So he literally committed treason and

47:06

went against the word, the Lord and followed

47:09

his wife. So

47:11

it's really on Adam. I believe so.

47:16

I just told that joke just because

47:20

That's awesome .

47:27

I know honey, I'm

47:29

sorry. It was a bad joke. Oh

47:34

, was

47:36

it that bad? She's

47:40

my little friend. She sits right behind me. I tickle

47:42

her. Now I tell a joke. She's crying. If

47:49

God leaves their fig leaves on what's

47:51

their conscious awareness. Every day they live the

47:54

day they missed and that they're separate from God and they're naked and

47:56

they're shamed . Every time the fig leaves start to wear out and they have

47:59

to make new ones and cover themselves. What

48:01

are they aware of the day? They blew.

48:03

It messed up the best thing ever. So

48:06

what's wrapped around that regret, guilt

48:08

condemnation. And the Bible says

48:10

where there's regret it's death. It leads to

48:13

death. The worldly way, the

48:15

worldly way Corinthians seven, second Corinthians

48:17

seven. The worldly way of sorrow

48:19

is regret. And it leads to

48:22

death cuz there's no redemption

48:24

in regret, but

48:28

the godly way is godly sorrow

48:31

where you realize how you hurt the

48:33

plan of God, you affected the lives of others.

48:35

You lived outside of what was purposeful

48:38

and right. And you go, whoa, duh

48:40

, what was I thinking you? Whether you weep or

48:42

whether you just sincerely go man, and

48:44

take a step back and look and go, whoa and

48:46

run to him. That's godly sorrow.

48:49

It leads to repentance. There's of indication

48:52

in it . A clearing of yourself. There's

48:54

an increased zeal and indignation towards

48:56

the lie. And you prove to be

48:58

clear in the matter , by the way you live and respond.

49:00

That's what the scripture says in second IANS

49:02

seven. It's very powerful. So

49:05

guess what God does. God puts

49:07

animal skins on him . So when they wake up

49:09

and see the animal skins, what's their first awareness.

49:12

The day God loved them, forgave them and

49:15

promised that there was a seed coming through the woman

49:17

that would crush the head of the

49:19

enemy. So what did God do

49:21

by putting on the animal skins? He's

49:24

prophesying the coming of his son

49:26

and the day that men would live in righteousness

49:28

covered by the work of God. So

49:33

he rules his kingdom with a CEP

49:35

of righteousness and we've

49:37

gotta be skilled in righteousness. We've gotta

49:39

understand righteousness. And

49:41

we gotta wake up every day and present ourselves.

49:44

As members unto righteousness.

49:46

The Bible says you're a slave to

49:49

righteousness. The word slave means

49:51

chained and bound to, to serve

49:53

its testimony. I'm

49:59

I'm bound and chained to righteousness,

50:02

to live, not guilty for the rest

50:04

of my life because of his blood. Is

50:12

that amazing or what? So

50:15

why do countless well,

50:17

meaning Christians that are sincere, sell

50:19

out to guilt, condemnation and shame, identity

50:22

Christ insecurity and unworthiness,

50:24

and look in the mirror and not like who they are. Cause

50:28

we don't believe this gospel and we don't separate ourselves

50:31

from the thing we did wrong and run to him. We're

50:33

hiding in the fig leaves and

50:35

the just shall live by. Yeah,

50:38

but brother, you don't know what I've done. He knew what you did

50:40

before you did it. And he knew what you did before

50:43

he sent his son. He sees

50:45

all things. He's up mission . He knows

50:47

the beginning from the end, he , he knew you

50:49

were gonna miss it when he already was hanging there crucified.

50:51

But he's hoping and desiring and

50:54

believing that his life given

50:56

would draw you under him, that you would see his

50:58

goodness and you would be changed. Yeah.

51:03

And then all this religion and all this other

51:05

stuff, creeps in and works and

51:07

legalism and all this stuff. And

51:09

then there's pendulum swings like this and people get

51:11

real tight with it. And then the other camp goes,

51:14

ah , and they get real loose with it. And then they

51:16

get tighter and they get

51:17

Looser

51:19

And Jesus is standing here going, Hey

51:22

Guys , there's

51:25

a

51:25

Happy place right here. And

51:30

then instead of walking in love, these camps

51:32

fight and they write all this stuff. And

51:35

next thing you know, you're not even preaching the gospel.

51:37

You're just preaching what everybody's missing. You're

51:44

not even preaching the gospel after a while. You're just preaching who

51:46

not to listen to. Who's

51:48

wrong.

51:53

You preach the gospel.

51:57

If I preach a clear gospel, won't

51:59

it protect you from the lives out there

52:04

Come .

52:08

So when God put the fig leaves on him or

52:11

off of him and put the animal skins on him , what he's

52:13

doing is he's

52:15

teaching them that every day they wake up, they think

52:17

about the day that he came

52:19

and forgave them in the midst of what they did wrong,

52:21

how he loved them and made them a promise

52:24

of a future. It's

52:26

a sign of righteousness. When he put those skins

52:29

on 'em couple chapters

52:31

later, men are continually wicked

52:33

in their hearts continually. Do you know where

52:35

I'm at? Genesis six. And

52:38

it says the Lord looked and he was sorry that he

52:40

made man, cuz man was just P and people

52:42

get, they tear those scriptures up. They're like, oh, so

52:44

God was sorry. Then why do you make man in the first place? He's

52:46

not a man that he should repent. Why was he sorry? You

52:50

, we get so literal. Sometimes we miss

52:52

the God's look in knowing the purpose and

52:54

destiny of man. He knows why man's

52:57

on the earth and he's looking, it's so perverted. And,

52:59

and , and everybody's doing the opposite

53:01

extreme opposite of what they're here

53:03

for living for themself at

53:05

the cost and expense of one another. When

53:08

they're called to lay down their lives for each other. So

53:11

guess what God does. He sends

53:13

a flood. You know that right? And

53:16

Noah and his family built a big old arc, got

53:18

persecuted for it. But when the flood waters came, they

53:20

were in the arc. They were floating on the

53:22

water and everybody drowned sounds

53:25

pretty awful. Huh? Peter

53:28

explains it in one Peter three. This

53:30

is Genesis six, man. This is only a few chapters

53:32

past the beginning. Peter

53:36

says, you know, there was a day when eight righteous

53:38

souls were saved through water Noah

53:42

and his family, eight righteous souls were saved

53:45

through water. We

53:48

have this anti type , which now

53:50

saves

53:51

Us.

53:53

Well , father was the blood brother. It is the blood, but

53:57

it's also wood or baptism. What

53:59

do you mean? Listen, we have

54:01

this anti type , which now saves

54:04

us water. Baptism,

54:09

not the cleansing of your

54:11

flesh, but the answer

54:15

for a good conscience toward

54:17

God. What's

54:20

he talking about? What

54:23

happens in water ? Baptism? You

54:26

died. Everything you've ever been. When

54:28

you come outta the water, what are you righteous

54:30

in the sight of God? What happened in the

54:32

days of Noah? God

54:35

baptized the earth in water. And

54:43

when he brought the earth out of the water, there

54:45

was no unrighteousness on the earth. And

54:47

the only thing that remained through the water was eight

54:50

righteous souls. And then he spoke to Noah

54:52

almost verbatim. What he spoke to Adam

54:54

from the beginning, cause the plans

54:56

the same, But

55:01

he said this. He said, I'll never destroy

55:04

the earth this way. Again. It'll never be like this.

55:06

And he put a rainbow in the sky as

55:08

a sign of his promise. What was

55:10

he saying? There's a

55:12

baptism coming. That

55:15

is righteousness, not death. And

55:18

the only thing that'll die is what men were.

55:20

But they're coming out of it alive. Men

55:24

will not lose their life in

55:26

the baptism coming except

55:28

the life that they were. Peter

55:32

had a revelation and

55:34

said, there's an anti type , which now

55:37

saves us. Who

55:39

knows it would be good to have a good conscience towards

55:41

God who knows a good conscience towards

55:44

God would put you in intimacy with God and keep

55:46

a veil off your face. And you would stay one with

55:48

him with a good conscience towards God. Is

55:51

that true? Yes . So what's Jesus

55:53

say in the book of mark believe

55:56

and be he

55:59

didn't separate the two believe

56:01

and be, and

56:05

be baptized and you

56:08

shall be, he

56:10

didn't say, believe in you shall be saved. That's

56:14

what we say. He

56:17

said, believe in be baptized and you shall be saved.

56:19

Why he's going after the good conscience and the

56:21

righteousness in the dead to everything we were. Why

56:24

did water baptism almost slip out of the church

56:26

in most circles? And it's sometimes it's

56:28

an annual event at best. Cause

56:31

we don't preach transformation. We preach go

56:33

to heaven. So

56:35

we don't see the purpose of dying. We just say,

56:37

confess him. You

56:43

show me one place in the book of acts, where

56:46

they preach the gospel without water baptism and

56:48

where men got saved and they didn't baptize 'em

56:50

immediately. It was

56:52

all part of the message cuz

56:54

it was all about transformation and coming

56:56

out in righteousness believe

56:59

and be, and

57:02

you shall be Sozo healed,

57:04

delivered, protected, preserved, made hole

57:06

and kept safe . Now you

57:09

guys with me, come on. This stuff

57:11

is not difficult. You know, Jesus says , believe

57:13

in be baptized and you shall be saved and you know what we've

57:15

done. We've argued and split

57:18

up and divided. What's the name of Jesus

57:20

only. It's the name of the father? Son . Holy spirit.

57:22

No, no. That's old covenant. That's new Covenant's

57:24

name of Jesus, immersion sprinkling.

57:28

Ah , and then all of a sudden we fight and we disagree

57:32

and it's just so simple. Believe in be baptizing

57:34

shall be saved and we've made it complicated. He

57:37

said, these signs shall follow those. That belief they'll

57:39

cast out devils they'll speak in new tongues. We

57:42

don't even really sometimes believe there's devils

57:44

and we fight over tongues and

57:46

think it's of the devil. Isn't

57:50

it amazing what we've

57:52

done with the precious gospel. Believe

57:58

in be baptized. You shall

58:00

be saved. I've baptized people

58:02

that were 20. So sincere, ready. I've

58:04

had parents call me so offended and

58:06

so mad at me and say, what

58:08

are you doing? Baptizing? My daughter, I

58:11

had her sprinkled when she was born

58:14

and I'm like, well, good. Something took that's

58:16

awesome. You should

58:18

be excited. Mama nobody's

58:20

violating your efforts. You're we're

58:23

not Reba that wasn't a believer. Baptism. That

58:25

was a Christing. That was a dedication. That was you

58:27

presenting your daughter to the Lord in faith.

58:30

Trusting his hand would be upon her life.

58:32

She's 20. She wants him. She's laying down

58:34

her life. Now's her believer. Baptism. She didn't

58:36

believe a thing . She doesn't even remember that when she

58:38

was a newborn. Why

58:40

would you in a deny

58:43

her of her believer , baptism.

58:46

Maybe we do this stuff for ourself

58:48

to feel good. And

58:52

then we get violated and offended when our feel

58:55

good is threatened. And

58:57

now we're offended. Cuz well what's what wasn't good

59:00

enough about what I had done. Probably

59:03

time to die. Mother

59:05

<laugh>

59:06

Here. We have a water baptism. I'll help

59:08

you

59:09

<laugh>

59:14

You can't believe how much this stuff happens

59:16

when you're in ministry, the misunderstanding

59:18

and how flared up people get and how

59:20

heckled they get. Like, like

59:23

the feather . I

59:26

mean it's amazing. It

59:28

just shows that we don't understand we're supposed to

59:30

be dead feathers. Just.

59:33

I mean we ought to all, just get plucked.

59:37

People say, well they get on my nerves. I'm

59:39

thinking you ought to get new nerves. You're

59:42

praying for them to change so they don't get on your

59:44

nerves. And I think God's saying get new nerves.

59:48

It's like my pastor, he was at an order and this

59:50

lady come up and she tried. She flattered him a little bit.

59:52

She was trying to honor him to get him to pray a little bit.

59:54

She, she really, she said it was funny. She's

59:57

like, you are such a man of God. I know

59:59

when you pray, God answers your prayers and

1:00:01

you walk close with him. And I really need

1:00:04

you to agree with me and pray. And he's

1:00:06

like, okay honey, I'll just pray. You don't have to flatter

1:00:08

me anymore. And she said,

1:00:10

well, please just pray with me. For my

1:00:12

husband. He, he knows how to

1:00:14

get me going. He has learned what

1:00:16

to do and how to push my buttons in the

1:00:18

right way. And he does it on purpose and it just

1:00:21

gets me every time. And I want

1:00:23

you to agree with God with me that

1:00:25

God would cause him to stop pushing

1:00:27

my butt.

1:00:29

<laugh>

1:00:30

And my pastor's a very wise man and he smiled

1:00:32

and gently said, you know, I think I have a better line of

1:00:34

prayer. She said, wow , what do you

1:00:37

wanna pray, sir? Man ago ? Let's

1:00:40

pray that you go buttonless

1:00:42

<laugh>

1:00:47

If there ain't nothing to push what he's doing, won't

1:00:50

work. If

1:00:52

you got a button, it'll be pushed. And

1:00:57

she went, oh , cuz that's not what people

1:00:59

are looking for. That's

1:01:01

that microwave thing Todd's talking about. They just want the

1:01:03

spouse to change . But

1:01:05

if the spouse changes, that just benefits

1:01:08

you in that moment. But you're still the same person

1:01:10

and somebody else can push a button. Probably

1:01:13

be better to just get rid of the buttons. Yeah.

1:01:17

Or try to pray the rest of your life. That God orchestrates

1:01:19

everybody the way you need them . That

1:01:24

would not be cool. Are

1:01:26

you guys okay?

1:01:28

Yeah .

1:01:29

Okay. I , uh, I

1:01:32

don't even know what to do right now. I

1:01:34

was hoping in my Bible in faith, hoping

1:01:36

it landed somewhere. You

1:01:44

wanna go, Hey man , thanks. You

1:01:46

wanna go to John chapter 20 with me and we'll close.

1:01:48

We're gonna pray something tonight. We're gonna have fun.

1:01:50

Something, something good's gonna happen in here. And

1:01:53

it already has. But, but

1:01:55

what I mean is God's gonna manifest some things

1:01:57

in our lives. Our bodies it'll be fun.

1:02:01

He will. Yeah , I

1:02:03

know he will. It's just the

1:02:05

way he is. I

1:02:09

preach this all the time. If you've listened to YouTube, you've

1:02:11

heard me preach. I preach this all the time.

1:02:14

It's in my top 100 list. This

1:02:17

scripture it's

1:02:19

John 20. If you have a Bible,

1:02:21

you can go there. If you won , pull it up on your phone, cuz

1:02:23

your screen will be lighted and you can read it. That would be good.

1:02:25

I won't think you're texting. It

1:02:29

doesn't matter if I think you are or not. Anyway, you

1:02:33

know, if you are so <laugh> did

1:02:39

you ever hear somebody say, well, nobody will know. You'll

1:02:42

know and that's a problem

1:02:44

cuz your conscience won't do well with that knowledge. And

1:02:47

then it'll subvert intimacy and you'll never bear

1:02:50

fruit because you won't be with him. Boomer.

1:02:55

You know the story in John 20 Mary

1:02:58

went to the tomb and the tomb, the stone was rolled

1:03:00

away and Jesus wasn't in there, right? It's

1:03:03

one of the most phenomenal sections of scripture,

1:03:05

cuz it teaches us so much about this being free

1:03:08

from sin thing and how God sees

1:03:10

us and who knows the setting.

1:03:12

The setting is trauma. The

1:03:15

setting is all these disciples are gonna die

1:03:17

for him at the supper table. He gets struck.

1:03:19

They all scatter one disciple

1:03:22

runs out of his garments in

1:03:25

his attempt to get away and streaks through the trees with

1:03:27

nothing on. Now I don't

1:03:30

know about you, but if you run outta your clothes, you're

1:03:32

probably trying to get away. But

1:03:36

a minute ago they're gonna die for him.

1:03:38

Could you imagine Jesus, if he was

1:03:41

anything like us at the last supper

1:03:44

and he has four knowledge that they're all gonna scatter

1:03:46

and they're all sitting there saying, we'll die for you. We'll

1:03:48

die for him. And they're all whispering among themselves. I

1:03:50

don't know. I don't care what he says. You know? I mean he's

1:03:53

usually right, but, but

1:03:57

he , he thinks we're gonna desert him. I'll never desert

1:03:59

him. I'm ready to die for him. I ain't never denied him.

1:04:01

I'll give him my life. Yeah, me too. We're in dude.

1:04:03

Yeah. It's probably where fist bumps started

1:04:05

right there at that table. <laugh> could

1:04:07

you picture that conversation? They're all fist bumping

1:04:09

under the table. So Jesus can't see, But

1:04:16

yet Jesus knows. Jesus knows

1:04:18

they're gonna be betray him . Jesus knows. Peter's

1:04:20

denying him. Jesus knows. Judas has

1:04:22

already sold out. Jesus knows.

1:04:25

Could you imagine if he was anything

1:04:27

like us, he can't even break the bread. He can't

1:04:30

even pass the cup. He's a hurting vessel,

1:04:32

man. I can't even trust these guys. I

1:04:34

poured myself into these guys intimately and

1:04:36

now they're gonna bail on me. As soon as I'm

1:04:38

struck, they're gonna pick up their own lives that they said

1:04:40

they laid down and they're gonna run off

1:04:42

and run away as if they don't even know me. That

1:04:45

is painful. I'm hurt. And I need prayer.

1:04:48

<laugh>

1:04:51

Could you picture Jesus breaking the bread

1:04:53

and looking around the table going, I

1:05:00

know you guys, I

1:05:03

was gonna break this and say something, but I

1:05:05

just can't, you

1:05:08

know, I thought I could trust

1:05:09

You.

1:05:11

I mean, I'm even wondering if it was the Lord's voice when

1:05:13

I heard your names. Cause

1:05:19

if it was really God, I mean you guys would

1:05:21

be better.

1:05:23

<laugh>

1:05:26

Then he sits down at the table and John comes

1:05:28

over and snugs get off of me, John

1:05:31

<laugh>

1:05:33

I'm tired of you acting like you love me when you're not ready to

1:05:35

die for me, just stay off of me. Look,

1:05:38

it's a little tense right now. <laugh>

1:05:41

they're coming in a minute and I'm love

1:05:46

you . Don't love me . You love yourself.

1:05:55

You

1:05:56

Say , well, he couldn't do that. Cause all the scriptures

1:05:58

were written. It was all God he's Jesus. He

1:06:00

couldn't do that. Cause he's Jesus. He

1:06:03

couldn't do that. Cuz he's love. That's

1:06:10

why he couldn't do that. And

1:06:13

he called you to love like he loves. And

1:06:16

if he loved us this way, we not love one

1:06:19

another . So when I put that mentality in

1:06:21

his mouth, the reason we're laughing hysterically,

1:06:24

cuz we know that's the common mentality on

1:06:26

the earth, but it sounds hysterical putting

1:06:28

in the mouth of Jesus cuz we know the person of Jesus.

1:06:30

So why doesn't that mentality sound just

1:06:32

as hysterical in us because we're made

1:06:35

for his image and

1:06:37

as the father sent me, so I send

1:06:39

you and as he is, so are we

1:06:41

and the things I do you'll do. If

1:06:44

you believe in your predestined to be conformed

1:06:46

to the image of his son and he's first born

1:06:48

among many they're

1:06:51

all scriptures like

1:06:54

six of them , right in a row. Boom, boom , boom , boom , boom.

1:06:56

Do you need any more ? There's a couple more

1:06:58

<laugh>

1:07:01

You have exceedingly great and

1:07:03

precious promises by which you

1:07:06

partake of his divine

1:07:08

nature. Escaping

1:07:11

the corruption. That's in the world through

1:07:13

self-centered seeking second

1:07:15

Peter one. Oh, it's right

1:07:17

there. What's the

1:07:19

promises for, to assure that you have ample grace

1:07:21

to partake of who he is on the inside.

1:07:24

So you can be separate from living for yourself.

1:07:26

Like you used to and escape the snare that's in the

1:07:28

world. So

1:07:30

if any man come after me , let him first deny

1:07:32

himself. He didn't say first pray a prayer. In case he

1:07:34

dies tonight and hits a tree and doesn't make it

1:07:38

<laugh>

1:07:41

He didn't say that he didn't , he doesn't. If

1:07:44

anybody is gonna come after me, anybody

1:07:48

you're all invited. If

1:07:51

anybody's gonna come after me, let

1:07:53

him deny himself. Why? Cause

1:07:55

you were not made for you. You're

1:07:59

made for my image and I'm

1:08:01

here representing the image you

1:08:03

were made for. When you see me, you've

1:08:06

seen the father. Now don't just sing

1:08:08

to me and don't just pray to me when you're in need.

1:08:10

Follow me. So deny

1:08:13

yourself. Pick up your cross,

1:08:16

taxi through life and situations

1:08:18

with the perspective where you don't let

1:08:20

sin against you have the right to commit

1:08:22

sin in you or through you. You overcome

1:08:25

evil with good. You tone down a

1:08:27

harsh word with a kind word. You let mercy

1:08:29

triumph over judgment and

1:08:31

you let mercy cover and love.

1:08:33

Cover a multitude of sin.

1:08:36

Follow me. Don't

1:08:43

just come to me and try to get to heaven. Come

1:08:45

to me and let me put heaven back into

1:08:48

you. So the kingdom of God

1:08:50

is here and

1:08:53

don't look there and don't look there

1:08:56

cause it's in you. You

1:09:01

see what's wrong with me?

1:09:02

<laugh>

1:09:03

That's good news. And my

1:09:05

problem is I believe it. I

1:09:08

believe it I'm gonna sleep so good tonight.

1:09:10

It doesn't even make sense to people. <laugh>

1:09:13

like I sleep about five hours.

1:09:15

You'd have to hit me on the head with a

1:09:17

hammer to get me to sleep more

1:09:19

than five and a half. Why? How

1:09:22

just full of life. I'm

1:09:25

gonna go to bed tonight. It's gonna be like a battery charger. I'm

1:09:27

gonna lay down and it's just gonna be like, click.

1:09:30

I'll go to bed. I'll have to go to bed

1:09:32

by faith.

1:09:33

<laugh>

1:09:35

Well I'll lay in bed and I'll be like, father,

1:09:37

you just

1:09:39

<laugh> .

1:09:42

And in about five hours, that

1:09:45

little light will go. It's

1:09:55

not, I'm

1:10:10

sorry . I'm not trying to condemn anybody. I'm

1:10:13

just telling you full of life. Just I'm

1:10:17

like , I'm like a battery charger, man. He just , but

1:10:20

I go to bed that way. Wake up that way. That's

1:10:24

what Todd was explaining this morning. You don't go to bed

1:10:26

and make love with your pillow and be glad you made it

1:10:28

through the day. That's

1:10:32

why you can't get up in the morning cuz you can't face what

1:10:34

you barely made it through. I

1:10:38

mean, we call it depression. I call it wrong. Thinking,

1:10:43

not be mean to people that have clinical situations,

1:10:46

but a lot of it's perspective problems.

1:10:51

You can't face what almost destroyed

1:10:53

you. How

1:10:55

did Jesus wake up every day? When

1:10:58

they were constantly out to get him, he

1:11:02

would stand in the streets and

1:11:05

preach absolute total flawless

1:11:08

truth. And

1:11:10

all they would hear for and listen for is what

1:11:12

they didn't agree with and what they could criticize. And

1:11:15

he got up and faced that every day . He

1:11:19

heard their thoughts, words . Weren't cool

1:11:23

and stayed the same. I

1:11:27

love him. I'm

1:11:29

learning from him. I'm

1:11:31

gonna follow him. How

1:11:33

about following him with me? Yeah,

1:11:41

I gotta do this. It's gonna get late. I'm sorry.

1:11:44

They really give you the mic late here though. You know, we like really

1:11:46

are in love with Jesus and worship him. We do all them testimonies

1:11:49

. Is it phenomenal or what? Listen to all

1:11:51

them Testim . I sit there and love the testimonies, but

1:11:54

it's scary when you give me a mic at like eight 15

1:11:57

and I'm like just getting wound up

1:11:59

right now.

1:12:00

<laugh>

1:12:02

Like, I never, like I never

1:12:04

land. I just stopped cuz of time. Like

1:12:08

actually a week ago was the first

1:12:10

time in my Christian life that I

1:12:13

landed that, that I was done preaching.

1:12:15

I , I , it was , it was amazing to me. I was

1:12:17

like, huh? The pastor

1:12:19

looked at me like for real

1:12:22

<laugh>

1:12:23

They said, oh , we usually go to about 12

1:12:26

at 1127. I

1:12:29

was done and

1:12:32

I stopped, but

1:12:34

I landed. I was done. I knew I was done.

1:12:36

And the Lord was like, if you talk anymore , you'll talk

1:12:38

too much. You're done. I went, this

1:12:40

is the first time ever.

1:12:42

<laugh>

1:12:42

Like, I have never heard the control tower. Say

1:12:45

bring it in Dan ever like

1:12:48

I'm I'm going. I see the runway. I

1:12:51

see where we can land. We're right in line.

1:12:53

We go right back around. You

1:12:57

say, aren't you gonna run out of fuel? Not a

1:12:59

chance, buddy. We

1:13:02

will all night long people

1:13:05

falling outta windows , ski up, but

1:13:08

a never heard to control tower. Tell me to

1:13:10

bring it in. Ever people

1:13:13

teach how you gotta learn to wrap up and

1:13:15

cast the net and end a sermon. I don't

1:13:17

even know what they're talking about. I

1:13:20

stand up here in my heart, goes like

1:13:25

I don't even know what's coming out next. I

1:13:27

have nothing planned. My

1:13:30

preparation's being with him. You

1:13:33

know what? He told me a long, long, long time ago, like

1:13:35

23 years ago, three

1:13:39

days saved. God spoke to

1:13:41

me in English. He said,

1:13:43

I'm gonna put revelations of my love and righteousness

1:13:45

in you. And you're gonna speak to many of my people. He

1:13:48

said, however, I don't ever want you to read your

1:13:50

Bible to preach a sermon. He

1:13:53

said, I only ever want you to read your Bible to

1:13:55

know me and only

1:13:57

ever speak outta who I am in your life.

1:14:01

And that will carry weight and bring change.

1:14:10

Let's do John 20. So

1:14:14

the guys are scared. They're in the room. They're

1:14:16

scared. They're hiding somewhere. They're afraid.

1:14:19

We would've too. We're not dishing on them. They

1:14:21

weren't making fun of them. They were afraid of death. Like

1:14:24

some Christians in new covenant are afraid of death.

1:14:26

They were afraid that what happened to

1:14:28

Jesus was gonna

1:14:30

happen to them. So they were huddled

1:14:32

for fear of that and afraid

1:14:35

to leave the room. Miss Mary, she

1:14:37

just goes right out to the tomb cuz she

1:14:39

loves him. He's the best thing that ever happened

1:14:41

to her. And she don't care if he's dead,

1:14:43

it's the best way she can relate. She'll just lean against

1:14:46

the stone with her cheek on it if she has to. But

1:14:48

she's gonna be where he is. That's

1:14:51

Mary. I love it. Mary gets

1:14:53

there and the stones rolled away and he's not

1:14:55

there. That's a little Starling

1:14:58

to a woman like Mary, you gotta understand,

1:15:00

this is not a Bible story. This isn't a movie

1:15:02

scene. This is real. This

1:15:05

happened to a woman that knew him, a

1:15:09

woman that loved him, obviously

1:15:11

with her life. So

1:15:14

she gets there and Jesus says

1:15:17

to her in verse 15 woman, why are you weeping?

1:15:19

Whom are you seeking? She's

1:15:21

supposing him to be the gardener said, sir,

1:15:23

now I can't answer. I don't know. Haven't

1:15:26

even thought about it or really asked the Lord about it. It

1:15:29

didn't seem that important ever to me, but I'm

1:15:31

thinking about it right now. I don't know why she

1:15:33

didn't recognize him immediately Because

1:15:37

she thought he was the gardener. She

1:15:43

said, sir, if you have carried him away,

1:15:46

tell me where you've laid him. Look

1:15:48

how much she honors him. She just wants to get his

1:15:50

body. Tell

1:15:53

me where you've laid him. And I will take

1:15:55

him away. And Jesus said

1:15:57

to her , imagine this guys , this

1:16:00

happened to Mary. She loved him.

1:16:03

He said Mary. And

1:16:06

she goes,

1:16:09

Can you imagine?

1:16:11

But last time she sees him. He's

1:16:15

unrecognizable and dead.

1:16:18

And you can't tell it's him unless you were with

1:16:20

him from the beginning. Cuz he was marred more than any of

1:16:22

the sons of men . Jesus's

1:16:25

V was marred more than anybody

1:16:27

ever was by people. It's

1:16:32

in your Bible. The

1:16:34

worst thing they've ever done to a man,

1:16:37

Jesus looked worse than that. When

1:16:43

you light somebody on fire on

1:16:45

a stake and stack wood around

1:16:47

that stake and torture a person. When

1:16:50

the fire goes out, do you think you can

1:16:52

tell that they're even male or female.

1:16:58

He

1:16:58

Lost his appearance. He , he , he

1:17:00

lost his visit . You couldn't

1:17:03

recognize him. You didn't even know who it

1:17:05

was. Why

1:17:09

was it? So, so why, why

1:17:12

did it ha why couldn't it just be 39 lashes

1:17:14

and some spikes and some blood

1:17:18

Because

1:17:18

In the garden, God made man for

1:17:20

his image and he told

1:17:22

Adam to never eat the tree or the day you eat the

1:17:24

tree, you're surely gonna die. He was talking about the

1:17:26

image cuz Adam didn't fall over dead. So

1:17:31

when sin got done with Adam in the

1:17:33

garden, he didn't look

1:17:36

anything like he was created to be, he

1:17:39

lost his appearance. So

1:17:42

Jesus had to come and lose

1:17:44

his appearance as a

1:17:46

man to pay the, to

1:17:48

get man's appearance back in

1:17:51

the Lord, he

1:17:53

was separated from God. So you're

1:17:55

forever joined. He died. So you'll forever

1:17:57

live. He

1:18:00

was marred beyond description. So

1:18:02

you and I could get our identity back.

1:18:06

Wow .

1:18:09

It's very powerful. You

1:18:12

gotta see this stuff. It's

1:18:14

more than an Easter story. A suffering savior.

1:18:17

It's God becoming man and fulfilling

1:18:19

what man failed. So man could be restored

1:18:22

back to what he was created to be don't

1:18:25

minimize it. Don't follow the flesh. Let's go after

1:18:27

this thing, he says Mary and

1:18:30

she turned to him and said Rabo , which means teacher?

1:18:32

She recognized him. It's

1:18:35

you teach her now? You

1:18:37

know she's bolting for him. She's

1:18:39

going right at him. She's not like backing

1:18:41

up. Oh , she's running

1:18:44

straight at him. Cuz he said, don't clinging to me, Mary she's

1:18:46

coming hard. <laugh> she's

1:18:48

like Raponi She's

1:18:52

coming . And he says, don't clinging to me, Mary, why

1:18:55

is he unsocial ? He

1:18:58

tells you why don't clinging

1:19:00

to me, Mary. I haven't yet ascended to the father. What's

1:19:02

he saying? The reason I'm

1:19:04

here? The reason I came

1:19:07

has come. It

1:19:10

was finished on the cross. I didn't need to take any

1:19:12

more beaten. It was all complete. I

1:19:14

gave my spirit up. I died, but

1:19:17

now I'm raised from the dead. The best

1:19:19

part is coming right now. I'm

1:19:21

gonna take my blood, not the blood of bulls

1:19:23

and goats, but I'm gonna take my own blood

1:19:25

into the mercy seat, into heavenly

1:19:27

tabernacle. And I'm gonna be a priest

1:19:29

under God for man. And I'm gonna

1:19:31

sit down on that blood at the right hand

1:19:34

and make mediation on behalf of

1:19:36

men for all time. So

1:19:38

Mary don't clinging to me

1:19:40

yet, cuz that didn't wrap this thing

1:19:42

up yet. I gotta go to the father that's

1:19:46

what's happening and you'll see it's Hebrews

1:19:49

nine. It's right here. It's

1:19:51

unfolding. Hebrews nine is happening right here.

1:19:53

This is how you know it. Don't clinging to

1:19:55

me, Mary. I have not yet ascended to my

1:19:57

father, but go tell

1:19:59

my lowlife backs stabbing two

1:20:03

face , say one thing, do another non

1:20:08

disciples that

1:20:10

I have plenty of issues and concerns

1:20:12

about them. And I'm thinking of

1:20:15

enrolling them into some more discipleship

1:20:17

course . Don't

1:20:24

clinging to me, Mary. I haven't yet as sended to my father, but

1:20:26

we Google tell my brother in isn't

1:20:31

that amazing. They

1:20:33

didn't do one thing. Right? And

1:20:36

when he called him brother and he's saying, I haven't

1:20:38

changed my mind about you. I

1:20:40

know what you're here for. I know what I've invested

1:20:43

in you. And I know what's possible. You

1:20:45

go tell my brother and that I'm going to

1:20:47

my father and your father.

1:20:50

He's making us one. I'm going to

1:20:53

my God and your God.

1:21:00

What's he saying to them, boys, I'm

1:21:03

not mad and you are not disqualified.

1:21:07

You know what the word father means there come

1:21:10

forth from I'm

1:21:12

going to the one I came forth from and I'm

1:21:14

going to the one you came forth from, you

1:21:17

know what the word God means there source of life. I'm

1:21:20

going to the source of life. And he's your source

1:21:22

of life. You came forth

1:21:24

from the source of

1:21:26

Life.

1:21:31

Mary came and told the disciples

1:21:34

and that she had seen the Lord and

1:21:36

spoken these things to her. And then the same day in

1:21:38

the evening. Now we know he was on the road to a mass with

1:21:40

two other disciples in another gospel. And

1:21:43

right about evening time, he broke bread in their eyes

1:21:45

opened and they went, oh , that was the Lord.

1:21:47

We should have known didn't our hearts burn when

1:21:50

he spoke. Wow,

1:21:51

Cops the Lord .

1:21:53

So I'm not sure he had a busy schedule

1:21:55

that day, but

1:21:57

we know he said he was going to the father. So

1:22:00

did he go to the father? He

1:22:03

said, don't clinging to me. I haven't yet ascended. So

1:22:05

do you think he ascended Because

1:22:08

he came back same day. Here's how

1:22:10

you know he ascended it's Romans

1:22:12

five one. You now have

1:22:14

peace with God through

1:22:17

the Lord. Jesus Christ

1:22:19

by faith, through the Lord, Jesus Christ, meaning

1:22:21

his blood and have access into this

1:22:23

grace in which we now stand. So you have,

1:22:25

what did the blood do? Made

1:22:28

peace between God and man , what's

1:22:30

the first thing out of his mouth. When he walked into the room of

1:22:32

the guys that were assembled for fear

1:22:34

of the Jews, he

1:22:37

walked in and said peace to you. Why?

1:22:40

Cuz right now his blood is on the mercy

1:22:42

seat. Speaking better things. And

1:22:44

men are no longer seeing guilty in

1:22:46

the sight of God for their sins when they

1:22:48

believe

1:22:50

I'll let you go .

1:22:51

So watch what he does. He

1:22:53

, he , he helps make them believers, hands,

1:22:58

his side. They were so glad when

1:23:00

they saw it was the Lord. Do you see that in your Bible? So

1:23:03

glad when they saw it was

1:23:05

the Lord. As soon as they realized

1:23:07

It's

1:23:08

Really you, what's the first thing that

1:23:10

you think hit their souls. How

1:23:12

they betrayed him, how they denied him,

1:23:15

how they didn't do one thing. Right? Do

1:23:18

you think that's probably what happened? What's

1:23:20

the next thing out of his mouth. He says peace to

1:23:22

you. Shows him his hands aside

1:23:24

. They go, wow, it's really you. And then

1:23:27

they go, oh and the

1:23:29

second thing out of his mouth, peace to

1:23:31

you. It's a different piece. The

1:23:34

first piece is I've made peace between

1:23:36

you and God. You have peace with God. The

1:23:38

second piece is, Hey, I know how you're feeling right

1:23:40

now, but stop it. It's okay. I

1:23:42

love you.

1:23:44

Amen .

1:23:44

Don't you be condemned? I

1:23:47

haven't changed my mind about

1:23:49

you. How do you know? He's saying that Dan

1:23:51

you're reading into that. Nope . Watch peace

1:23:54

be to you watch as the father

1:23:58

sent me. So

1:24:01

I send you, he's

1:24:04

totally commissioning them to follow

1:24:06

him and they've done nothing right? To this

1:24:09

point, his blood

1:24:11

speaking, better things, qualifying them

1:24:13

and making them righteous in the sight of God.

1:24:15

So he's handing them the Baton of

1:24:17

the new covenant, new Testament church. And

1:24:19

we say, as he says, as the father send

1:24:22

me, so I send you and we usually bring

1:24:24

in the power of God there and miracles,

1:24:26

but for God. So, so

1:24:30

how did God send the son in

1:24:33

love as

1:24:37

the father sent me? So

1:24:40

I send you now watch what

1:24:42

he did. This is the part that gives the whole

1:24:44

chapter away. When

1:24:46

he said this, he breathed on them

1:24:49

and said receive the holy

1:24:51

spirit. So it sounds like Jesus is

1:24:53

a little charismatic. Maybe he's been going to

1:24:55

a spirit filled church for a while . I don't know,

1:24:59

but he's like receive

1:25:02

holy spirit. Whoa, just

1:25:07

having fun with you . He holds

1:25:09

all things together by the word of his power. Why doesn't

1:25:11

he just say receive holy spirit? Why'd he breathe

1:25:14

on him . Very important. You don't miss

1:25:16

this. He's the redemption

1:25:18

of man. He brings man

1:25:20

back to the beginning. So

1:25:23

what happened on the first day of man, God

1:25:27

saw man for what he wanted to make man

1:25:29

to be. And he breathed on

1:25:32

that vision. And

1:25:35

man became a

1:25:37

living, being, he goes,

1:25:39

puts his blood on the mercy seat. The

1:25:41

lamb of God who takes away

1:25:44

the sin of the world. So now he took the sin

1:25:47

away. He didn't just

1:25:49

forgive it. He took it away,

1:25:53

came back day

1:25:55

one where

1:26:00

God breathe in into man.

1:26:02

And man can live again. As

1:26:05

if sin never

1:26:09

happened. The

1:26:12

tree of the knowledge of good and evils still there. The

1:26:14

voice is still there. Follow

1:26:17

me.

1:26:18

Amen .

1:26:19

And the Josh I live by, are

1:26:23

you guys getting this? Yeah , it's

1:26:25

the only reason he would breathe. Why

1:26:29

wouldn't he just say , be filled with holy spirit. He

1:26:31

breathes. So we don't miss it. That

1:26:34

we're brought back to the beginning to original value

1:26:36

and our consciousness is no longer sin, but

1:26:38

Christ in us. So

1:26:41

we wake up every day and celebrate that truth.

1:26:43

Trees that become good and are fruits,

1:26:45

automatic trees of

1:26:47

righteousness, the planning of the Lord. Are

1:26:50

you with me? Yes . So

1:26:54

that's your life in him? Not

1:26:58

being mean, not being sarcastic. I can't

1:27:01

live that for you. And no one can live that for you.

1:27:04

You gotta say in your heart. That's amazing. And

1:27:06

I believe that God, and that's my purpose. That's

1:27:09

my potential. And that's how you

1:27:11

see me cuz you died

1:27:13

once for and I'm

1:27:16

not gonna be so self-centered and deceived

1:27:18

that I exclude myself from all.

1:27:21

Yeah ,

1:27:22

Yeah. I've had people

1:27:25

say yeah brother. I mean, Hey, it works for

1:27:27

you. That just doesn't work for me. Oh

1:27:29

my goodness. Stop, stop, stop, stop,

1:27:32

stop, stop. That's

1:27:34

deception. It's

1:27:36

not that the gospel works. It's

1:27:38

relational and it's God loves you. So

1:27:41

you be loved by God and your life be changed.

1:27:44

Do you know why we pray for the sick ? You know why Todd prayed

1:27:47

for the sick last night? You

1:27:49

say because they were sick. Well, that sounds right.

1:27:51

But the reason we pray for the sick and should have faith

1:27:53

to pray for the sick is the forgiveness

1:27:56

of sin. And by his

1:27:58

stripes were healed. He bore our sin and your sin

1:28:00

and my sin and his body on a tree that we having lived for

1:28:02

righteousness, not guilty were not guilty

1:28:06

by his stripes. We're

1:28:10

real . Do

1:28:12

you remember the serpents that came in the wilderness and they were

1:28:14

biting people and they were dying by the thousands because

1:28:16

they loathe the worthless bread. The manner that was

1:28:18

coming down from heaven, they said, and what is this

1:28:21

worthless stuff? Anyway, what was

1:28:23

a type in shadow of the bread that was coming? It was

1:28:25

a sign of the gospel in God's provision, in

1:28:27

sustaining power through Christ. He

1:28:30

said I was the I'm the bread. So

1:28:33

the bread was Christ. And

1:28:35

guess what they did, they complained and loathed

1:28:37

it and said, we don't want this stuff anymore. What is it?

1:28:39

Anyway, manna and thousands

1:28:42

of them died when these serpents came and Moses went

1:28:44

on behalf of the people cuz they said, look, Moses, we've sinned.

1:28:46

We've made a big mistake. Would you go tell God? We're sorry. So

1:28:49

Moses runs over to God and tears another robe

1:28:51

and throws some dirt on his head and says, God, would you forgive

1:28:53

the people? He says, you know what? I'll forgive him

1:28:55

. He said , here's what I need you to do. Moses, you

1:28:59

take bronze, meld

1:29:01

it down and make a replica of that

1:29:03

serpent in spite them. And you hold it up on a

1:29:05

pole and it'll be that every man that looks it's still

1:29:07

the medical symbol to this day, the

1:29:10

serpent on the pole it'll

1:29:13

be that any man that was bitten, looks at that

1:29:15

pole and sees that serpent on the pole. And

1:29:17

, and , and if he was bitten, he'll be healed. Well,

1:29:20

I was 5,

1:29:23

6, 7 months saved. And I'm sitting on my bed reading that. And I'm

1:29:25

like, this is really weird. You're

1:29:28

not supposed to make graven images. You're

1:29:31

not to make false idols. Why would you

1:29:33

make a bronze serpent and put it on a

1:29:35

pole? Why wouldn't you wave a flag that says ya

1:29:37

,

1:29:38

<laugh>

1:29:39

Why wouldn't you take Aaron's Rob that

1:29:41

butted and, and hold it up to represent

1:29:43

life. Why wouldn't you take the arc of the covenant and

1:29:46

elevate it so people could see, why

1:29:48

would you put the serpent

1:29:51

that was killing them , make a replica and put it on a

1:29:53

poll . And

1:29:55

the Lord said, it's very simple, Dan, they're my Hebrew people.

1:29:57

They understand the law that anything hanging

1:29:59

on a pole has been cursed by God. So

1:30:04

I put the thing that was killing them on a pole , faith

1:30:08

rose in their heart, cuz they knew I answered Moses'

1:30:10

prayer and cursed what was killing them . And they were instantly

1:30:12

healed and

1:30:16

he who knew no

1:30:19

sin was made to. So

1:30:23

did God curse his son on the cross or did he

1:30:25

curse sin in the flesh

1:30:26

Sin ?

1:30:27

You're not supposed to see a suffering savior.

1:30:29

You're supposed to see sin cursed by

1:30:31

God. And

1:30:33

it'll be that any man looks to him by his stripes.

1:30:36

We are, cause I'm

1:30:38

not guilty. I'm not condemned. He was made

1:30:40

to be sin. So I could become the righteousness of God

1:30:42

in Christ to be judged, not guilty. We

1:30:47

turning him into a, we turn him into a

1:30:49

suffering savior and a passport to eternal

1:30:51

life. And

1:30:53

we miss that. The law of the spirit of life

1:30:55

in Christ has made me free from

1:30:57

the law of sin and death. That sin

1:31:00

shall have no dominion over

1:31:02

me cuz God cursed sin

1:31:05

in the flesh. We're

1:31:10

supposed to get that. So

1:31:13

it's why we pray for the sick.

1:31:15

Yes .

1:31:17

Yeah. Can we, is there a way to get some

1:31:19

lights out here so we can see

1:31:21

each other or can't you do that? Will

1:31:23

that mess up something? Somebody help

1:31:25

me. Can we don't they turn them lights on

1:31:28

or they keep you guys in the dark or why

1:31:30

doesn't somebody like turn on the light? Like,

1:31:33

like I wanna be able to see you

1:31:35

guys. We need to see each other there, there we go.

1:31:38

Good. We're

1:31:41

gonna do something we're gonna close, but I wanna do something.

1:31:43

Okay. I usually have an auto call

1:31:45

for this. I'm not, I'm gonna let you guys pray for each other

1:31:47

and it's gonna be phenomenal. Yeah.

1:31:51

That's exactly what I feel like. It's

1:31:55

called redemption. It's brought back to original value.

1:31:58

I get testimonies from people cuz I preach

1:32:00

this stuff. Okay. The reason I get testimonies,

1:32:03

isn't like just cuz I'm anointed. I

1:32:06

have a gifting. I'm not making light of that stuff, but we focus

1:32:08

on it so much. Oh you're so anointed. Do you have a gifting

1:32:10

or please? You gotta pray for me. Stop, stop.

1:32:12

You believe the gospel that stop running to

1:32:15

one person all the time for prayer thinking they gotta

1:32:17

grip on something. The whole reason we're to teach is

1:32:19

to teach in crane and train and equip and multiply

1:32:21

for the work of the ministry. Yeah.

1:32:25

So, so the reason that I get these emails

1:32:27

and testimonies isn't because of the gifting

1:32:29

on my life. It's cuz of the message I preach. Don't

1:32:34

miss that. I can

1:32:36

tell when I say that there's always people that wanna fight

1:32:38

that and they don't believe that they

1:32:40

think the reason that there was healing last night is cuz

1:32:42

we're under the umbrella of Todd White's ministry.

1:32:45

That's what people believe. No

1:32:51

it's cuz we're making the gospel simple and saying he loves

1:32:53

us all this way and we can all be believers. You

1:32:56

show me one scripture that it says

1:32:58

these signs shall follow the gifted, The

1:33:03

sign follows, who believer.

1:33:06

And I think that's you and me?

1:33:08

Yes .

1:33:11

I saw the sick killed way before anybody

1:33:13

called me pastor. Why?

1:33:17

Because I'm a believer.

1:33:19

Yeah .

1:33:20

But here's the testimonies I get from people because

1:33:23

I preach this and we're gonna do it tonight and I'm

1:33:25

not gonna have an order call. I usually have

1:33:27

an order call and I , I have fun with it because I don't

1:33:29

usually pray for people much in services. Cuz then

1:33:31

the focus gets on the individual that's ministering

1:33:34

and the speaker. But when it

1:33:36

comes to redemption, I usually jump in and have fun

1:33:38

cuz I like it. And uh , I

1:33:40

like when Jesus takes something out

1:33:43

of your body, that's not supposed to ever

1:33:45

come out. I

1:33:47

really like it. Like

1:33:50

an STD like hepatitis,

1:33:53

like the email I just got after

1:33:55

several tests, HIV undetectable,

1:34:06

not cuz I'm anointed and gifted. Cuz

1:34:08

I preached this stuff. Cause

1:34:10

I stood on the beach on Florida. And she said,

1:34:13

are you trying to tell me that God would take aids

1:34:15

outta my body? All of said , I'm telling

1:34:17

you, he absolutely would take aids outta your body.

1:34:20

Amen . If he forgave you of all your sin and

1:34:22

will never see you as a drug addict or a prostitute,

1:34:24

then why would, if God will never

1:34:26

judge you honey, for where you've been. Why is where

1:34:28

you've been judging you. If

1:34:32

old things pass away and all things become new,

1:34:35

that ain't new, that's old.

1:34:37

That needs to go.

1:34:39

Amen .

1:34:40

So if you could go back and do over again

1:34:42

and change those days of a drug addiction would

1:34:45

you, of course you're not using anymore. You're

1:34:47

not selling your body anymore. You're not doing cheap

1:34:49

tricks to stay high sweetheart. You're

1:34:52

not the woman you're telling me about you've been changed.

1:34:55

So if God will never judge you for where you've

1:34:57

been, where you've been should never have the right to

1:34:59

judge you. Cause all things

1:35:01

are made new. Yeah. But brother, she made her bed. She

1:35:04

needs to sleep in and no, no, no. Jesus has a brand

1:35:06

new bed prepared for her. It's

1:35:11

called new life through Jesus

1:35:13

Christ, clean sheets,

1:35:15

amazing crawl

1:35:17

in and sleep tight baby.

1:35:22

Yeah, come

1:35:25

on .

1:35:26

If you're a new creation and old things

1:35:28

pass away and behold, all

1:35:31

things are new. Then why should

1:35:33

that thing be there? Yes . Here's

1:35:39

what qualifies you for redemption. If

1:35:42

you could go back and do something over now that

1:35:44

you know what you know you would, but

1:35:46

here's the dilemma you can't, but

1:35:49

you can change. And

1:35:51

when you change, you'll never be judged for what

1:35:53

you were. You'll be judged for what

1:35:56

you've become. God

1:35:58

will never see you for your past. He'll

1:36:01

see you for your present. And thanks to

1:36:03

come Too many good-hearted

1:36:05

people made bad mistakes, made one

1:36:08

vital sexual mistake and that

1:36:10

thing bit him and marked them for life

1:36:12

and put something in their blood like an STD

1:36:14

that's incurable. And

1:36:16

now they get married and have to jump that hurdle for

1:36:19

the rest of their life because they

1:36:21

made a mistake when they were 17 and were sure they

1:36:23

were in love and thought they were gonna get married anyway. And,

1:36:26

or they were just insecure and felt lonely

1:36:28

and just needed to be with someone. And

1:36:31

then they got born again. Or they got

1:36:33

repentant and said, man, that is not the

1:36:35

answer. Jesus. You're all I want. And

1:36:37

I wanna save myself for covenant. Why

1:36:39

should the STD from when you were 17 track

1:36:41

with you for the rest of your life and keep reminding

1:36:44

you of the day you were, I

1:36:48

think we ought to get aggressive and say that stuff needs

1:36:50

to come out. If

1:36:57

you were going through a dark season and you were cutting

1:36:59

yourself, cuz you just were numb

1:37:02

and you lost sight of your value and you were in this dark

1:37:04

season and you were just cutting yourself. Why

1:37:07

should those scars have to stay on your life? The rest

1:37:09

of your life . If

1:37:15

you see now and you see your value now, oh

1:37:18

I I'm sure you could turn it into a testimony,

1:37:21

but what would touch your life? Greater. Turning

1:37:23

that into a testimony. You're looking down and seeing

1:37:25

they're not there. I've

1:37:30

seen a whole lot of this stuff in

1:37:34

my life because

1:37:36

I preach it. Not

1:37:38

cuz I'm gifted.

1:37:40

Amen .

1:37:42

Cause I preach it . I've

1:37:45

seen young ladies stand in an order that were covered

1:37:47

with burns and scars and

1:37:50

would wear long sleeves cuz they didn't want

1:37:52

people to keep asking what happened to them . And

1:37:55

then they roll up their sleeves and scream and

1:37:57

shake and cry because

1:38:00

Jesus puts new skin on their body. Yeah.

1:38:05

So I'm either a sicko and I'm making that

1:38:07

up for some temporal applause. I'm

1:38:10

telling you the truth. It's

1:38:13

one or the other. So

1:38:18

maybe tonight we ought to go for some redemption, huh?

1:38:21

Maybe tonight we ought to be like really

1:38:23

seriously humble in front of one another

1:38:26

and acknowledge if we have a situation

1:38:28

like that and ask the people around us to believe that

1:38:30

God redeems it completely. Yes , because

1:38:36

here's the deal. We're all in the same boat. We've

1:38:38

all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Some

1:38:41

of us sinned and deserve a mark and never got

1:38:43

one. Some

1:38:46

of us messed up one time in an arena and

1:38:48

got bit for life. Some

1:38:53

of us send way more in an area

1:38:55

than others and got away with it. It

1:38:57

seems like in the long run now we're

1:38:59

forgiven and yay and we're on and we're smarter,

1:39:01

but we never came out with mark and other people got

1:39:03

hammered and marked in that place. It's

1:39:07

not fair. There's no mercy out there. I

1:39:11

was in a service like this one day, way back

1:39:13

when I first started preaching this, I tell the story all the time.

1:39:15

Cuz it's one that moves me so much. It's

1:39:18

very emotional. It

1:39:20

was a low fifties aged lady. She's

1:39:22

in the middle and we're praying. And I told everybody

1:39:24

it's none of my business. What's in you. What you got?

1:39:26

I don't need to know. I

1:39:28

just need to know you're free. So

1:39:31

we're praying. Boom, boom, boom. I even told him

1:39:33

that night. I said, I don't need no catchers. I

1:39:35

don't need nothing. It ain't, they ain't fallen that thing's

1:39:37

coming out. Just, just leave me alone

1:39:40

with Jesus. We'll be fine. I

1:39:43

get to this lady and she grabs my arm and cries

1:39:45

and looks at me in the eyes. And she says,

1:39:48

I'm not that kind of girl. I'm

1:39:50

not that kind of girl. That

1:39:53

kinda girl.

1:39:54

And it just ripped my heart. I'm

1:39:58

looking at this sweet lady crying, saying

1:40:00

this, you know what she's saying? And

1:40:03

I said, honey, stop sh I don't need to know. I'm

1:40:05

just gonna praise it . No , no , no . You're she leads

1:40:07

up and tells the whole story in my ear. She's

1:40:11

married for 30 years to the same man turns

1:40:14

out that it was the only man in her whole life.

1:40:16

She ever knew sexually her husband.

1:40:18

That's a rare testimony, never

1:40:22

committed a sexual sin in

1:40:24

her

1:40:24

Life.

1:40:27

But guess what? 30 years into the marriage,

1:40:30

it gets his eyes on a 35 year old.

1:40:33

For some reason she's attracted to

1:40:35

the 52 year old and

1:40:38

they take off together, him

1:40:41

and his new model. And

1:40:44

guess what? She does breaks

1:40:47

and fall apart and feels like she's not a woman

1:40:49

anymore. I lost my attractiveness.

1:40:52

I don't have it. I'm old,

1:40:56

abandoned, alone, 30

1:40:58

years. He's going this

1:41:01

guy short wave rolls into

1:41:03

her life and starts encouraging her and

1:41:05

telling her things she's so needs

1:41:07

to hear. And

1:41:10

in no time

1:41:12

She

1:41:13

Cross in bed with him while

1:41:17

she's in bed, it

1:41:19

hits her. She

1:41:23

said, I pushed him off and

1:41:26

said, no,

1:41:27

No, this is wrong.

1:41:29

She's crying. Telling me the whole, whole story

1:41:32

about , she

1:41:34

said, I grabbed my things and I

1:41:37

ran. Can

1:41:43

you imagine the torment of that night for her? Can

1:41:47

you imagine the torment in the

1:41:49

morning? Can you imagine

1:41:51

what's going through her for the next

1:41:53

weeks now

1:41:56

we got a problem. Symptoms start breaking out in

1:41:58

her body. She's like, what

1:42:00

is this? What is this? This is weird. She goes

1:42:02

to her family, doctor, lifelong

1:42:04

family doctor. He does these

1:42:06

tests. He sits her down and says, honey, we need

1:42:08

to talk. What's

1:42:11

going on with you? Like

1:42:13

what's happening in your life. She

1:42:17

tells him the whole story. He

1:42:20

said, you have an incurable S

1:42:23

T D that's in your nervous

1:42:25

system. It will deplete some

1:42:27

major organs. And it will cost you years

1:42:30

on your life. One

1:42:34

sexual sin in

1:42:36

her whole life in a moment of

1:42:39

deception and vulnerability. And

1:42:42

that thing bitter for keeps cuz

1:42:46

there's no mercy in that

1:42:48

arena. But guess

1:42:50

where there is mercy religion

1:42:55

says, well brother, she should know better. She needs to

1:42:58

get a grip on her emotions. You don't go compromising

1:43:00

the truth. Cuz your husband left you . You should never crawled

1:43:02

in bed with that, man. You reap what you sew brother,

1:43:06

but you don't even know God

1:43:08

Trying

1:43:09

To talk about him. Tragedy.

1:43:13

I looked at her with so much passion and

1:43:17

I said, I said, stop. You've told me plenty.

1:43:19

Just stop. She's looking down at

1:43:21

the carpet now cuz she's confessed. And

1:43:24

she feels ashamed cuz

1:43:26

she's relating to what she did. And

1:43:28

I said, no, no. You need to look at me. And she's

1:43:31

looking down. I tipped her chin and made her look me

1:43:33

right in the eyes. And she's struggling to hold that

1:43:35

look. I said, no, no. Look

1:43:37

at me. She took me right in eyes . I said,

1:43:39

that's coming outta you. Do you hear me? And

1:43:42

I said in there, ain't nothing. Nobody can

1:43:44

do about it. Well

1:43:49

that's sour again brother . That's

1:43:52

relationship. You call

1:43:54

it whatever you want. But you just don't understand.

1:43:56

You're just quick to speak.

1:43:58

We do

1:44:00

Understand . Amen. <laugh> I

1:44:03

know you do. So

1:44:06

I prayed and said something

1:44:08

simple, like come outta her and

1:44:10

don't you ever touch her again? No

1:44:12

fire, no lightning. She didn't

1:44:14

shake. She didn't tremble. No ushers

1:44:17

just went down then and just prayed for the

1:44:19

rest of the people. Six

1:44:22

weeks later, I went back to their church cause I was helping

1:44:24

out cuz they didn't have a pastor.

1:44:28

She came running to me. She's

1:44:31

lit up and bouncy she's

1:44:34

pastor, pastor. Guess what?

1:44:37

I said, what

1:44:38

<laugh>

1:44:41

She said, they've done several tests in

1:44:44

a row and there's no

1:44:46

trace of it in my blood . So

1:44:55

I'm a teacher, right? You figured

1:44:58

that out. I'm a teacher. So

1:45:00

I didn't celebrate. I didn't clap it wasn't cuz

1:45:02

I'm not honoring God. He knows he's leads me

1:45:04

to do stuff all the time. And most of the

1:45:06

time, I don't even know until it's over. And I go,

1:45:08

that was cool. But I

1:45:10

looked at her real calm and I said it wasn't

1:45:12

arrogance. I said, of course it's

1:45:15

gone . I said, do

1:45:17

you know why? She

1:45:19

said yes because he's so loving and

1:45:21

he's so merciful. God is so

1:45:23

kind. And I laughed and

1:45:25

said, yes, he's all those things. But

1:45:28

all those things, he is needs a place to

1:45:30

land in your life. So

1:45:32

let me tell you why that's

1:45:35

not in your blood. She looked

1:45:37

at me puzzled. Like I already told

1:45:39

you why I tipped her

1:45:41

chin. And I said, cuz you're not that kind of girl

1:45:49

fail .

1:45:54

<laugh> woo

1:45:57

.

1:45:59

Is that a good gospel or what

1:46:03

Was

1:46:03

She? That kind of girl. Absolutely

1:46:06

not. You think

1:46:08

just because you did something, that's

1:46:10

who you are. She is

1:46:12

tore up over it. She

1:46:15

needs a better plan called

1:46:17

redemption and restoration

1:46:20

and dication and

1:46:23

total healing. So

1:46:29

what do you say we believe for that kind of move in the

1:46:31

room tonight? What

1:46:34

do you say that

1:46:37

we believe that whether you've

1:46:40

hurt your memory through a binge long

1:46:43

term abuse, you don't concentrate. You don't

1:46:45

sleep well. You just don't have

1:46:48

the function. Like you used to emotionally

1:46:51

that God would make that completely

1:46:53

new tonight. What do you say

1:46:55

that if you've got something in

1:46:57

your blood, that's not from the

1:46:59

beginning, that's a product of where you've

1:47:01

been and what you've done, whether it be a hepatitis,

1:47:04

an HIV, an TD , something

1:47:07

in your blood that we believe God would just completely

1:47:09

cleanse your blood tonight through his blood. Would

1:47:12

you want to do that? Yes . What about if

1:47:14

you've cut yourself and marked yourself and

1:47:17

scarred yourself that you would be honest and humble and say,

1:47:19

I went through a dark season and I've done some

1:47:21

things to my body. I wanna believe God would take

1:47:23

that away. You wanna believe that? He'll do

1:47:25

that. What do you say? Do

1:47:28

you think he might?

1:47:29

Yeah . <laugh>

1:47:31

I know he will.

1:47:33

<laugh>

1:47:35

So what do you say we do that tonight? I've

1:47:37

never done it this way. So this is a , this

1:47:40

is new for me. So I'm gonna step out in faith

1:47:42

and do what I felt like I perceived when I was sitting

1:47:44

over there, I usually have an order

1:47:46

call and I pray over everybody cuz I like to

1:47:49

cuz I know I have faith for redemption cuz I've seen redemption

1:47:52

countless times. I

1:47:54

saw a lady, a young lady

1:47:56

who took a razor blade, 10

1:47:58

times down the fronts of her thighs and spaced

1:48:01

it. It looked like she used a ruler. She

1:48:03

had 10 down this one and 10 down.

1:48:05

This one right in the front three

1:48:08

inches long, raised up purple because

1:48:10

of cut over top of cut over

1:48:13

top of cut. Now she's

1:48:15

born again. And she looks

1:48:17

at her legs and wish she didn't mark her one

1:48:19

time God-given legs. And

1:48:22

she's weeping about what she did, but she

1:48:24

did it, but she's changed

1:48:26

. And as

1:48:28

we prayed for her, all

1:48:31

20 of those

1:48:33

raised elevated three inch scars,

1:48:35

completely vanished

1:48:39

as we pray. Well

1:48:43

, I don't believe that Dan. I understand UN

1:48:45

belief . So real problem in the body of Christ,

1:48:48

it really is. But

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it happened in

1:48:55

that same order call . There was a boy standing

1:48:57

who had a purple railroad track carved

1:49:00

into his forearm. Purple.

1:49:06

It looked like a tattoo, but it was

1:49:08

a scar. God

1:49:12

healed his mind. And as he was being prophesied

1:49:14

over the railroad

1:49:16

track disappeared in front of our eyes

1:49:19

as mom, hyperventilated,

1:49:21

screamed and almost passed out.

1:49:23

<laugh>

1:49:31

Where you say, we believe God for redemption. Yes

1:49:33

. If

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you marked your body, we're we're gonna

1:49:38

do this together. So stay with me and , and

1:49:40

stay in order. It's a lot of us, but I'm on a

1:49:42

mic so we can do this. I've never done it

1:49:44

this way. So be patient with me. I'm walking this

1:49:46

out in faith too. Not the redemption

1:49:49

part. The way it looks

1:49:51

part . If

1:49:53

you need redemption in your life and you've

1:49:55

marked your life in some way through

1:49:59

wrong living, mistakes, being somewhere,

1:50:01

you shouldn't or doing something you wish you didn't.

1:50:03

But in your heart, you're saying, man,

1:50:05

if I knew now , then what I know

1:50:07

now I wouldn't have been there.

1:50:09

Then I've changed. But

1:50:13

nonetheless, I'm still carrying the remembrance

1:50:15

of that in my body. Whether it's my

1:50:17

flesh, my blood are

1:50:20

you following me? I

1:50:23

need you to stand. And only you stand to your

1:50:25

feet. If you have something you're carrying

1:50:27

from your past, in your

1:50:29

present, stand to your feet and

1:50:31

be humble. It's not about what

1:50:33

you've done and where you've been. Everybody in this room has

1:50:35

sinned and fallen . Sure . Of the glory of God. I've

1:50:38

done things in my past that deserve a mark.

1:50:40

I just never got one. My son,

1:50:42

he says, dad, I should have

1:50:44

got a mark over again and

1:50:46

over again a hundred times and never

1:50:48

somehow got a mark. I

1:50:51

know some people that hardly did much at all and

1:50:53

got a mark. So

1:50:55

whether you did much or did a little, if you have a

1:50:57

mark from yesterday and you're saying, I

1:50:59

wish I didn't do what I did. I just wish I

1:51:02

didn't go where I went, but I can't change that. And regret

1:51:04

would eat me alive. So I'm gonna stand before

1:51:06

God and believe he loves me, redeems me and forgives

1:51:08

me. And I'm gonna believe that total

1:51:11

redemption comes to my spirit, soul

1:51:13

and body blameless till

1:51:15

he comes. Are you willing to do that

1:51:17

tonight? Come on. I need some more people

1:51:20

to stand. I know it in my heart. Stand to your

1:51:22

feet real quick. Don't be ashamed. Stand

1:51:24

to your feet. I need some people you're holding out.

1:51:26

You didn't stand yet. Come on. It's a bunch of you.

1:51:28

I saw it in my heart. Good. Thank

1:51:30

you. You're standing. I probably 25 people stood

1:51:33

since I said that. Just so you know, cuz

1:51:35

I can see everybody. Anybody

1:51:37

else need to stand? Come

1:51:39

on. I wouldn't wait if I didn't believe this was

1:51:42

real and I didn't believe you were still sitting and don't want you

1:51:44

involved. I got plenty of people to pray for. We got enough

1:51:46

standing, but I want everybody stand

1:51:49

to your feet. If that's you don't sit down and

1:51:51

don't think I wonder what people will say. I wonder

1:51:53

what the guy beside me , my family member

1:51:55

will say, come on. Why are you living in a closet in

1:51:58

the dark anyway, let's just get this thing out here. Let's

1:52:00

just get in the light and let's go through it and let Jesus redeem

1:52:03

it. Right? I'm

1:52:09

gonna have you stay standing here and

1:52:11

then I'm gonna have you raise your hand here in a second. And

1:52:13

the people that are around you, I

1:52:15

wanna make sure that everyone has

1:52:17

at least one person with them. Don't

1:52:21

gang pile up on somebody until

1:52:23

everybody's covered. Okay? Like don't

1:52:26

10 of you surround somebody just cuz they're

1:52:28

close. Make sure everybody gets covered before

1:52:30

we tag team. You get it. If

1:52:34

you want to, when

1:52:37

they get to you, if you want