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Faith and Failure's podcast

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.

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That's ridiculous , so let's do this dude right here .

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I'm really confused as to how you can

0:09

think .

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Now I don't know if that's his real voice or not . Would

0:12

that dude probably hit puberty at like three years old , but

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let this sink in .

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If Christianity was all witchcraft , christianity

0:20

wouldn't even be around right now . The Bible

0:22

wouldn't be around right now . Jesus

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wouldn't be around right now . Jesus

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wasn't a witch . Jesus didn't die

0:28

as a witch . Jesus certainly didn't

0:30

die as a man , because he was more than a man

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.

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Jesus didn't do dark spells , he

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didn't do sorcery , he didn't

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do dark magic practices with the devil

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, because as a matter of fact , in the Old Testament there

0:42

are prophets that went up against

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the sorcerers , went up like it would

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be ignorant of the devil to

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go up against himself , to divide himself . It

0:51

wouldn't make a whole lot of sense , just like when they tried to say

0:53

that Jesus was demonic and he had

0:55

the devil , and that's how he was casting out demons . A

0:57

house divided by itself the house will crumble

0:59

. It's the same exact scenario . Like you would

1:01

not have all these witchcraft

1:03

, junk , and Christianity too , they

1:06

would still be aligned in the same , even if they were branches

1:08

off of each other , they would be very

1:11

similar .

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But remember that's one of the main definitions

1:14

of witchcraft Christian , witch

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, witch , Christian

1:18

doesn't go together . It

1:21

doesn't , it never has . You're

1:24

either a Christian that believes that Jesus was

1:26

the Son of God , that died on the cross

1:28

for his sins , rose from the dead , or

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you're a witch .

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So let's… . Now , some of you may or

1:35

if you don't know this , you may be like well , where's it say

1:37

in New Testament ? We've been doing a lot of Old Testament today

1:39

, so

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I want you to read this right here . Mark this in your Bible , Screenshot it . If you're watching online

1:44

or if you're just listening on… . By the way , go

1:46

to any place you listen to podcasts

1:49

, and faith and failures is there . You can download the episodes

1:51

, Save them for later . We try

1:53

to put them out every week , so sometimes

1:55

fall behind on that because YouTube

1:57

and Facebook take so much time to edit . But

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anyways , when you follow the desires of

2:02

your sinful nature , the results are

2:04

very clear . Sexual immorality

2:06

. Now , this is New Testament

2:09

. Okay , it does not say

2:11

homosexuality because it doesn't

2:13

have to . Sexual

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immorality is an umbrella

2:18

of all sexual acts outside

2:20

of the way God designed marriage in

2:23

the very beginning man and woman . Sexual

2:25

immorality , impurity . So

2:27

if you are living a life right now and

2:29

you are not married , you're not in a relationship , but you're

2:31

just going out banging whatever you can at the club

2:34

, that's impurity . Your thoughts , you

2:36

may be watching porn . You're living

2:38

an impure life with your

2:40

mind , body and soul . This

2:42

also piles up . You see , all these are categorized right

2:45

here with each other Sexual immorality , impurity

2:47

, lustful pleasures , idolatry

2:50

, sorcery , hostility . Now

2:52

, these are some that , like everyday life , we

2:55

act like they're okay , but the

2:57

Bible calls them and groups them in with

2:59

all these other things Idolatry

3:02

, sorcery , almost that . Hospitality

3:04

, hostility , quarreling , jealousy

3:07

, outburst of anger and this is listen

3:09

. If I'm being honest with you , this is one

3:11

that in this new year I've asked God

3:13

, Lord , please help me , because I have a teenage

3:16

boy . Okay , he

3:18

gets malvy , he gets , he has

3:20

ADHD severely , and

3:22

sometimes , if his medicine is not kicked in

3:24

or he , sometimes it doesn't have anything to do with medicine

3:26

at all , he's just completely disrespectful

3:29

. He talks to my wife in a certain way . That outburst

3:31

of anger comes very quickly and it sometimes

3:33

is hard for me to harness it and stop

3:36

it before I smack him upside his head , or sometimes

3:38

I do it just to scare him , like act

3:41

like I'm going to do something and I really don't do anything , but

3:44

like I want that , I want that fear

3:46

to be in him a little bit , to not speak to my wife that way . But

3:48

I've asked God , I've said and

3:51

the reason I you know what , and it wasn't even because I felt

3:53

convicted about this right here , because

3:55

I don't know about you , but

3:57

any of these things . It's very easy

4:00

to justify . It's very easy

4:02

to say well , I'm just thinking

4:04

, I'm not doing . And

4:06

Jesus said if you look upon one with lust , you

4:08

have already committed adultery and you

4:11

can fade away all the

4:13

other Bible you want . But

4:15

. And then just stick to Jesus . And

4:17

he said that you know what I mean . Or

4:19

if you hate , you've already murdered , and

4:21

that's , I think that's some of that stuff right . There is

4:24

why we healings that don't take place for miracles and

4:26

don't take place in our lives , because we're unwilling

4:28

to allow ourselves , allow our

4:30

spirits to be healed from damage

4:32

that has happened in our lives . It's very easy

4:35

to do , it's not . I can

4:37

live an entire life of unforgiveness

4:39

and never even realize it's there

4:41

. So what got me to

4:43

thinking about Albers to Venger in my personal

4:46

life is my ex-wife

4:48

. I'm divorced and my son was

4:50

with them for a little

4:52

Christmas holiday break and she

4:54

sent me a text or I guess

4:56

her husband did with a picture

4:58

of him . He had done something to a

5:01

piece of their furniture and

5:03

he jacked it up pretty good . They had destroyed it . It

5:05

still was functional , but it the only

5:07

thing I believe with a hundred percent certainty

5:10

. It was the spirit of God . The only thing I could think of in

5:13

that moment when I got that , when I had to go pick him up

5:15

because they were done with them , they're like you know what , this , this ruined everything

5:17

. Come on , come get him . So I wouldn't got him . The

5:20

only thing I could think of the entire time was he

5:23

got that from somewhere and I

5:25

know it was me like that that broke

5:27

me . And when I picked

5:29

him up he was , you know , quiet because he knew he'd done

5:31

something wrong and instead of me

5:33

, cause he knew it was wrong

5:35

, there was no lecture that I could give him to make him

5:37

realize more that he had done wrong

5:39

. There was no spanking I could give him . I mean , it

5:41

was bad enough that he , he was pretty much pushed

5:44

out of his mom's house . And so what I did was

5:46

I asked him . I said I know , anger

5:48

is hard to harness and sometimes you

5:50

hold it in so much that all of a sudden you just burst

5:52

out and it just happens . And so the

5:54

only thing that I could think to do was

5:56

, while I was driving down I 20 , to go back home I

5:59

said , Tristan , will you , will you pray for me that

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my anger will go away ? And as he held my

6:03

hand as I was driving down the road , I know

6:05

he was the one that messed up , but I realized

6:08

very quickly that so was I , and then I

6:10

had taught him this behavior . Now I know there's other

6:12

people in his life that's not innocent and they yell and

6:14

scream and stuff like that too . But but

6:16

it doesn't matter . I can't pass blame on

6:18

things that are actually my fault . And so this outburst

6:21

of anger I had , I had felt , and

6:23

it really was like rage that

6:25

would build up inside of me from his mouth

6:27

and disrespect and and you know

6:30

, whatever he would do . But I submitted

6:32

myself to my son and

6:34

told him and explained to him

6:36

that it could be me . That

6:38

was the problem of how he was acting . And

6:41

I can't , I cannot explain to you

6:43

the peace that came over the vehicle

6:45

when we were driving down the road , when he was praying for me

6:47

, and I felt , I felt

6:49

release and I felt delivered . There's

6:51

been a couple of times that's been a couple of months ago . Well

6:54

, it's the January . It was in December , beginning

6:57

of December , the end of December and

6:59

I have not had but a couple of times that

7:02

try to build up inside of

7:04

me and I would immediately feel it and

7:06

I would pray and I'll say God , please

7:08

take this away from me , because I don't

7:10

want to be that man . And how many of us

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? We have several

7:15

things on this list and at the

7:17

end of all of this list you can look it up yourself

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Matthew chapter I think I mean sorry , Galatians

7:21

, chapter five , verse 19 . Through

7:24

20 , 21 , even envy

7:26

, drunkenness , wild parties with other sins

7:29

like these . It says there's even more

7:31

, but I'm not gonna list them all because a lot of

7:33

these have brothers and sisters to hang out with them all

7:35

the time . And he said let me tell you again , as

7:38

I have done before , that anyone living

7:40

that sort of life will not inherit the kingdom

7:42

of God . And so he

7:44

sets it up to where he lists these things

7:46

right here to say all of these things

7:49

. Now I want you to understand struggling

7:51

with these things and living the lifestyle

7:53

of these things are two separate things . I wanna be very

7:55

clear on that . You can struggle with

7:57

something and not be living in

7:59

that lifestyle and want God to

8:01

actually do something and strive towards

8:04

that . But I believe he set this whole thing

8:06

up right here . Look at the

8:08

whole title living by

8:10

the Spirit's power . If we're allowing the Holy

8:12

Spirit , if the Spirit of God is living

8:14

inside of us , if the Holy Spirit is directing

8:16

, leading and guiding everything that we do , we

8:19

should be first in line to say

8:21

Lord , is it me , Is there something

8:24

that I can do to

8:26

change whatever is going

8:28

on ? Is there something that can come from

8:30

here to change everything out here ? And

8:32

I am a walking testimony

8:34

that when I just would

8:37

look for a second and recognize

8:40

that I did have outburst of

8:42

anger , no matter what my justification

8:44

was , that I actually did have

8:46

a problem , that I actually

8:48

needed to correct something in my life , that I

8:50

needed the Spirit of God to correct something in my

8:52

life , it made me now

8:54

open and more available to what came after

8:57

. But the Holy Spirit

8:59

produces this kind of fruit

9:01

in our lives love , joy , peace , patience , kindness

9:04

, goodness , faithfulness , gentleness and self-control

9:06

. All of these other things right here I'm

9:08

pretty good at . But I know from me

9:11

, living my life , I have a problem right here and

9:13

sometimes it affects and manipulates and

9:15

ends up in some of these . God hasn't designed

9:17

us . He created us in flesh

9:19

but in his image , and so , if

9:21

God is Spirit , he designed

9:24

us and he desires for us to

9:26

not just live a life of flesh but

9:28

a life full of the Spirit , so

9:31

that we can nail our

9:33

passions and desires

9:35

of our sinful nature to

9:38

the cross and crucify them there

9:40

. That's the whole purpose

9:42

of Jesus coming was for our salvation

9:45

, so that all of these things that

9:47

try to trap us , that try to bind us , that try

9:49

to keep us sinful , but

9:51

God wants us to live here . God wants us

9:53

to be led by the Spirit , to have these things

9:55

, these fruit , to be flourishing

9:58

in our lives , and so that we can nail our sinful

10:00

nature to the cross , so that we are living by the Spirit

10:02

. Let us follow by the Spirit's leading in every

10:05

part of our lives . Let us not

10:07

become conceited or provoke

10:09

one another or be jealous of one another . One

10:11

more scripture Now . If you're going through a hard time , if

10:13

you're going through a tough season in your life and maybe

10:16

you've experienced depression , anxiety or

10:18

whatever , you wanna fill in the gap with whatever

10:20

you wanna put inside of that blank . I hope

10:22

this encourages you . In 2 Timothy , chapter 3

10:25

, 1 through 5 , it says you should know this , Timothy

10:27

, that in the last days there

10:30

will be difficult times . Okay

10:32

, and I believe with all my heart the

10:34

last days that Jesus talked about , the last days

10:36

the prophets talked about that we are

10:38

in those last days . Jesus

10:40

is coming back soon

10:42

. He is coming to get His bride spotless

10:45

and blameless . Then , in the last

10:47

days will be difficult times , for people will

10:50

love only themselves and their money

10:52

and they will be boastful and proud , scoffing

10:54

at God , disobedient to their parents

10:57

and ungrateful . They will consider nothing

10:59

sacred . Y'all does that not sound

11:01

like today ? They will be unloving and

11:03

unforgiving . So this

11:06

is right here , these two things right here

11:08

. This is where God wants

11:10

to change the church , to be

11:12

a loving people again , to be

11:14

a forgiving people again . Because I

11:16

believe in miracle signs and wonders

11:18

, that when we start to love

11:21

and we start to forgive and we start to see

11:23

people as people that need God , that

11:25

need miracles , that need salvation

11:27

, that need compassion , miracle

11:29

signs and wonders will follow those that believe they

11:31

will be unloving and unforgiving . So

11:33

when we are these things , think about what the text is

11:35

saying here . It's saying people will

11:38

be lovers of themselves . It doesn't say in this text , God's

11:40

people . So , With

11:43

context clues , that's saying that when we

11:45

are acting in this way , we

11:47

are acting like the world , we

11:50

are not acting like the Father or

11:52

like Jesus . We are being unloving and unforgiving

11:54

. They will be unloving

11:56

and unforgiving , they will slander others

11:58

and have no self-control . They

12:00

will be cruel and hate what is good and

12:03

they will betray their friends , be reckless , be

12:05

puffed up with pride , man , pride

12:08

month , and that is the root of all this

12:10

nonsense . They will act religious

12:12

. Oh , Pope Francis

12:14

, what are you doing , bro ? The Bible

12:16

knew you would do it , but they will reject the power

12:18

that can make them godly , which

12:20

is the power of the Father , the power of Jesus

12:22

, the forgiveness of Jesus . Now

12:25

, what does it say ? Some people cannot handle

12:27

being around , people who used to do what they do . For

12:30

instance , not that I couldn't handle

12:32

it , but a pastor asked me one

12:34

time like , would you ever be interested in coming to

12:36

this church over here and taking over ? I'm going to retire

12:38

, and it was in the place

12:40

, the city , that I did a lot of drugs and

12:43

I was running around every , around

12:45

that whole entire place , a small town . I could

12:47

see places that I buried drugs and

12:49

I buried a pipe , that I went and hid from the cops

12:51

over here , that I went , and you know all these

12:53

and I'm like I did not want to have that in my

12:56

face the whole time . So

12:58

God didn't take me there , God didn't move me there . I never

13:00

felt that Sometimes you

13:02

have to kick the dust off your feet and you have to stay

13:04

away from people like that for the

13:06

betterment of your spirit

13:08

. At the end of the day , when you lay your head on your pillow , your

13:11

mom , your dad , your aunt , your uncle , your grandma , your grandma , grandpa

13:13

, your , your sisters you know all the people

13:15

that related to you , your kids , it doesn't matter . You

13:18

are responsible for you . When you stand before

13:20

an Almighty God , you have to answer for you , and

13:23

so if it is poison to your soul

13:25

, if there's a certain type of person that

13:27

makes you not want to have self-control , stay

13:29

away from them . Like Jacob Potiphar's

13:32

wife , he ran . He did not stay there and

13:34

wrestle . He ran

13:37

from what would make

13:39

him fall . He knew himself well enough

13:41

. Stay away from people like that . Guard

13:43

yourself so that you

13:45

can be the man and woman of God

13:47

that God desires for you to be . Be

13:50

humble enough , Be mature

13:52

enough that you can stop for a second

13:55

and say is it possible , God ? What

13:57

do I need to change in my life ? What

13:59

do I need to give completely over to you

14:02

? What do I need to let go of ? What

14:04

do I need to pick up ? What do I need to lay down ? What

14:06

is it in my life so

14:08

that I can live a life pleasing to the

14:10

Lord ? Because if you're a Christian , that should

14:12

be . All People does not matter

14:15

in this area . You are not called

14:17

to allow people to dictate your spirituality

14:19

or your relationship with God . A

14:22

lot of times , it's the hard choices that make

14:24

us have to walk away from people that are not

14:26

bringing value to our life

14:28

. I'm a people person and that is one of the

14:30

hardest things that I've ever done

14:32

is to walk

14:34

away from people , because I love people

14:36

, I like being around people , I get fed

14:39

by being around people . One of the hardest

14:41

things for me to do was to begin

14:43

to really choose and allow

14:45

the spirit to choose who is around me , because

14:48

there's going to be people that'll love with themselves and

14:50

if they're lovers of themselves , if they

14:52

are unforgiving

14:54

, if they are unloving , and you are

14:56

around them , you will eventually

14:58

be who they are because

15:01

we gravitate towards the negativity , we gravitate

15:03

towards being bitter , we gravitate towards

15:05

misery loves company , but we're

15:08

not called to stay miserable and we

15:10

do not have to invite that company

15:12

into our lives . So thank y'all

15:14

so much for joining me today . If you haven't

15:16

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15:20

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15:22

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15:24

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15:26

have questions about the Bible , if you have questions

15:29

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15:31

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15:34

posted today and it was long

15:36

and exhaustive and she was like I do not understand

15:38

this . It's going to be a great episode . I may

15:41

include that on tomorrow because it is awesome

15:43

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15:45

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15:47

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15:49

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15:56

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15:58

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16:01

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