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- 0:01First Corinthians chapter 2. Let us pray.
- 0:08Heavenly Father. Here we are again, Lord, we're
- 0:11laying at your feet, Father. Lord, we desire a touch.
- 0:15God, give us your eternal words. Give a zeal for your house.
- 0:19Father, I pray in the name of Jesus for you to fill us
- 0:23overflowing God Almighty. I pray in the name of Jesus for
- 0:28the mind of Christ. Father, I pray in the name of
- 0:30Jesus you'll guide us today. Lord, I pray that I'll get out
- 0:36of the way and that you will take center stage.
- 0:40You fill the room. Father, it is only you that we
- 0:44are after. God.
- 0:46I pray that we will learn your eternal paths.
- 0:49Learn obedience unto you. Father, I pray in the name of
- 0:54Jesus that you'll be glorified in the highest God by the
- 0:57reading of your scripture aloud. Lord, let this go out to the
- 1:01ends of the earth. Father, I pray that this word
- 1:05will fall on all continents everywhere.
- 1:09Lord God Almighty, I pray that it'll go into the darkest
- 1:13places, Lord, and that it will uncover and unearth the truth,
- 1:19Lord, where it has been hidden. I pray God for church to rise up
- 1:25in this hour, God, and be the church.
- 1:28I pray that we are not asleep, God, but I pray that you are
- 1:31awakening the church to their bridal identity.
- 1:37Father, let us fill our lamps. God, give us the oil.
- 1:42God, let the oil anoint our heads.
- 1:45Father, I pray that you will be well pleased, Lord, by how we in
- 1:51this life spend our time. God, let us water and let us
- 1:55plant. Let us go out into the harvest.
- 1:57Let us grab the fruit off of the vine.
- 2:01Father, I pray that we'll produce much fruit.
- 2:04God Almighty, I pray in the name of Jesus for many to be saved
- 2:09today. Thank you God, that your mercies
- 2:11are new. God, keep us from the tempter.
- 2:15God, silence the accusation of the adversary.
- 2:19God, bind the enemy in the name of Jesus Christ and cast him
- 2:24into the judgment that you have awaiting for him.
- 2:27Father, I pray in the name of Jesus that we will be able to
- 2:33operate in grace. Father, I pray that we'll have a
- 2:37hedge of protection formed around us.
- 2:39God, send the angelic host. God to protect us.
- 2:44Lord, those that will inherit eternal life.
- 2:47God, I thank you for all of the many blessings.
- 2:50I thank you God for the promises we enter in with praise and
- 2:55Thanksgiving. You are the Most high God, El
- 2:58Elyon, You are the banner Lord God Almighty you are.
- 3:01I deny you are the Lord and the Master.
- 3:04You are our everything. You are the one who sees us and
- 3:09you see everything and you know everything.
- 3:12God. So Lord God Almighty, I pray
- 3:15you'll make us more like Christ. Today.
- 3:18Let us consecrate this temple. God, I pray that you'll give us
- 3:21the strength to get rid of any idol worship that we have let
- 3:26into this temple. Father, I pray in the name of
- 3:29Jesus that you'll help us. Holy Spirit, put your finger on
- 3:33the things that our lives that do not belong.
- 3:36God, I pray against temptation in the name of Jesus Christ,
- 3:40temptation that drags us and draws us away from the reality
- 3:46of who you are and that you are for us and not against us.
- 3:49God, I pray that we can be the peacemakers.
- 3:52I pray that we can be meek. God, I pray that we are the poor
- 3:56in spirit. God, I pray that we will inherit
- 4:01our inheritance with you. God, I pray, Lord, that we will
- 4:05not squander our inheritance for a mess of pottage.
- 4:10God, I pray that we'll stay in that birthright.
- 4:13We'll stay in that identity, God, that we are marked by your
- 4:18goodness and grace and mercy and covered in the blood of Jesus
- 4:22Christ. Lord, I thank you for all of
- 4:24your many blessings and everything that you've done for
- 4:27us. Thank you for sustaining us up
- 4:29until this point. Thank you for another day to
- 4:31come and worship you in spirit and truth.
- 4:34We love you, King Jesus. It's in your holy and precious
- 4:38and powerful awesome name that we pray Jesus, Amen.
- 4:50Let's start in verse one. And I, brothers, when I came to
- 4:59you, came not with Excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring
- 5:06unto you the testimony of God. So you can see here that Paul
- 5:13made a conscience decision before he even arrived in
- 5:18Corinth, that he was not going to try to use all of his
- 5:24education and all of his pharisaical background and
- 5:28knowledge to try to usurp over them any amount of charisma, any
- 5:37amount of cleverness, any amount of a wordsmith, someone who
- 5:44could bend their emotions. He went with the simplicity of
- 5:49the gospel, and that is what we need to do.
- 5:52Friends, the gospel is simple, but we complicate it because we
- 5:56do not accept how simple it is. And he's going to tell us that
- 6:01he only wanted to preach Christ and Christ crucified.
- 6:05Not all of the little nuances along the way, but those two
- 6:10facts of the matter. And if we would desire
- 6:13salvation, friends, we must place our faith in the Lord
- 6:18Jesus Christ, and we must realize that God raised him from
- 6:22the dead. We confess with our mouth.
- 6:24We believe in our heart, friends, and that is the
- 6:27simplicity of the gospel. And that is what saves us.
- 6:32That is the salvation. It is the name that is above all
- 6:35names, the name of Jesus Christ, the Messiah.
- 6:39And here Paul comes in to Corinth and he did not even try
- 6:46to win them over as a salesman. He did not try to win them over
- 6:50with any kind of charisma. It was just the simplicity of
- 6:54the gospel, so much so that it was leading him to this fear and
- 6:59trembling that God tells us to work our salvation out of.
- 7:04Friends, if we will fear God, everything else bows.
- 7:08We need not fear the one that can kill the body to.
- 7:13For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus
- 7:20Christ and Him crucified. You have to understand that he
- 7:23was entering into a place that was a playground for all kinds
- 7:30of spiritual matters. This was a place where they were
- 7:35loose in their morals. This was a place where they just
- 7:38wanted to be entertained and amused.
- 7:40And it's no different in our day and our hour.
- 7:43There are many seeker friendly churches who only want to give
- 7:49the flash in the show. They entertain people and there
- 7:53is coming a time in a day where people will not put up with
- 7:56sound doctrine, but they only want that that will tickle their
- 8:00ears. Friends, we have entered into
- 8:02this apostasy that you're going to find out that those churches
- 8:08are only able to bring people in, but they are not able to
- 8:14keep them there. There is no salvation in the
- 8:18worldly systems that we try to implement.
- 8:21Friends, it is the simple gospel that saves men and women and you
- 8:27need to understand that the Word of God is all that we need for
- 8:33people to be saved. Nothing added and nothing
- 8:37subtracted. We do not need to try to make an
- 8:40apology for the things that God said in His Word.
- 8:44We just stand on the Word of God and people who are called will
- 8:50respond. And it's not because of our
- 8:54human efforts, it's not because of our cleverness, and it's not
- 8:58because we have saturated the church with worldliness,
- 9:04Friends. It is the Word of God that is
- 9:07alive and active. It is the Word of God that goes
- 9:10out friends, and it falls on fertile soil and men and women
- 9:15will give their life to the Lord Jesus Christ by the simplicity
- 9:19of preaching the Word of God, not watered down, but the
- 9:23complete Word of God. Even all the topics that this
- 9:27world tells us that we don't need to talk about, all the
- 9:32topics in this culture that are not popular, we preach the
- 9:36entirety of God's Word and it falls on fertile soil and most
- 9:41of what gets scattered, most of the seed falls on shallow soil.
- 9:48There is no substance to it. There's no root taken.
- 9:54There is no deepness to the soil, and as soon as persecution
- 10:00comes, it falls away. Soon as ridicule comes, it falls
- 10:04away. You can talk somebody into
- 10:06something, somebody else can talk them out of it.
- 10:08And that is the shallow soil. And then there's some soil that
- 10:12you scatter the seed on in the moment that it tries to take
- 10:17root. Satan comes and whispers lies to
- 10:21that person and tells them even while you were saying the things
- 10:25that you're saying, tells them not to listen, gets them
- 10:28distracted onto worldly, carnal, fleshly things.
- 10:32And then there are some who tried to take root, but the
- 10:38fruit of God's Word was growing up amongst the same time as the
- 10:43cares of this world. You've got bills to pay.
- 10:47You've got your retirement to think about.
- 10:50You've got education you have to send your kids to.
- 10:53You got all these cars and houses and all the cares of this
- 10:58world, and your body's breaking down and you need to fix it.
- 11:02And all the things that plague us, friends.
- 11:05And we lose the entire point of the whole matter, friends.
- 11:09And there is the tears that grow up and choke out any of the
- 11:13fruit. But sometimes you will preach
- 11:17the word and will fall on fertile soil, and you're going
- 11:20to see much fruit, friends, from those people.
- 11:23And it is only a percentage of the seed that gets sown that
- 11:28actually takes root. And that is why it's a narrow
- 11:31path and only a few find it. Most choose the highway to
- 11:36destruction. Friends, we only need to preach
- 11:42the simple gospel of Christ and Christ crucified. 3 And I was
- 11:49with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
- 11:52That's what God tells us, to work out our salvation with fear
- 11:55and trembling. And I believe that Paul here
- 12:00understood the gravity of the work that he was involved in,
- 12:03friends. And if you have not ever felt
- 12:05that, then you need to go back to the drawing board.
- 12:12You need to understand that this is a battleground.
- 12:15This is not a playground, friends.
- 12:18You need to understand that heaven and hell weigh in the
- 12:22balance for every single person that you're going to meet today.
- 12:26There are only two destinations for every single person.
- 12:29And there are some who think they're on the path to heaven,
- 12:34but they won't make it there. And that is a very sobering
- 12:42thought when you come to the reality that most people that
- 12:46you meet in a crowd are, have to, are going to have to spend
- 12:50eternity apart from God Almighty based upon his scriptures that
- 12:59only a few find this path. And that is what you have to
- 13:04realize. It is not a blanket statement
- 13:07across the board that everybody who grew up in a Christian home
- 13:12or every single person who was born in a church filled area is
- 13:18going to make it there. It does not work that way
- 13:21friends. And when you have the reality
- 13:26that God and his word will never return void and God will not be
- 13:33mocked. What you need to understand,
- 13:36friends, is that we don't need to doubt our salvation.
- 13:41We don't need to doubt the assurance of faith.
- 13:44We need to have a know so kind of faith.
- 13:47But by and large, those who think that they are going to
- 13:52make it there will not because they have not accurately placed
- 13:58their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
- 14:00They have not come to the saving knowledge.
- 14:02They are trying to play both sides.
- 14:04They are just attending church or just trying to make it there
- 14:11by works. And they are not covered in the
- 14:16blood of Christ. And once we are covered in His
- 14:21blood, He will give you a new mind and a new heart.
- 14:25You won't see the world all around you the way that you used
- 14:28to. You will have conviction for the
- 14:31sins that you commit. You will not try to explain them
- 14:35away. You will develop a hunger for
- 14:39His word and His presence. Friends.
- 14:42And you can always tell who belongs to Him by the love that
- 14:46they have for their brothers and sisters.
- 14:50And that is a mark that He has given us so that we can tell who
- 14:55belongs to Him and who does not. If you show me somebody who is
- 15:01critical about every single person all around them all the
- 15:05time, that is a sure sign of a black, of a backslidden
- 15:09Christian. If you show me somebody who has
- 15:12no conviction for the sins that they are committing is a sure
- 15:16sign that the Holy Spirit is not present in that person's life.
- 15:20And that is what you need to know.
- 15:24Paul understood this reality and he was working out his salvation
- 15:30with fear and trembling. Verse 4.
- 15:33My speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's
- 15:37wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power.
- 15:42So there it is again. He did not try to come with any
- 15:45eloquence. He wasn't trying to win them
- 15:50over with fair speech. And here in Corinth, all of the
- 15:56inhabitants of that city, they were entertained by speeches.
- 16:02And Paul determined before he ever went that he was not going
- 16:05to try to win them over with a well articulated speech.
- 16:09He was going to give them the raw, real power of God Almighty
- 16:15with the simplicity of preaching the gospel, the good news, news
- 16:20of the Lord Jesus Christ, and what he did on the cross for
- 16:24them, friends. And that is what Paul had
- 16:26determined to do before he ever went.
- 16:29And we can see that they accepted it.
- 16:34Five, that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but
- 16:39in the power of God. That's the whole point of the
- 16:42whole matter of the whole thing, friends, as if somebody can talk
- 16:46you into following after God, then somebody else can come
- 16:50alongside later and talk you out of it.
- 16:52If you're not rooted and grounded in the Word of God, if
- 16:56you're not rooted and grounded in the power of God, you're
- 17:00going to fall away. You're going to allow the little
- 17:03tickling of the ear to draw you and entice you into carnal,
- 17:08fleshly desires, friends. And the world is going to wrap
- 17:13the chains around you and drag you off into prison.
- 17:18And that is what you need to know.
- 17:19And there have been many men and women along the way who were not
- 17:24rooted and grounded in God's Word.
- 17:26And as soon as something else better that they liked better
- 17:32came along, they went off into despair and discouragement and
- 17:39into prison, friends. And if you have breath in your
- 17:44lungs today, there's hope for you.
- 17:46No matter where you find yourself, no matter how many
- 17:49chains are around you, no matter how shallow the soil is, no
- 17:55matter how many times Satan has snatched the word from you,
- 17:58there's hope for you. Friends.
- 18:00You can have the fertile soil, but you must break up the fallow
- 18:05ground. Friends, you must allow the Holy
- 18:07Spirit and the power of God in your life to push that seed deep
- 18:13down into the soil and let it spring forth in a miraculous way
- 18:18that only God gets the credit for it.
- 18:20No man ever gets the credit for the things of God.
- 18:25All we are are repeaters of the truth.
- 18:28Friends, if you've been listening along for any amount
- 18:32of time, it's the same message 1187 times, Friends, Chapter
- 18:41after chapter, after chapter, after chapter, after chapter
- 18:44after chapter after chapter, Friends, it's the same message
- 18:47of Christ and Christ crucified. And if you come back here
- 18:51tomorrow, it'll be the exact same message of Christ and
- 18:55Christ crucified. And we need to be rooted and
- 18:58grounded in that reality, so that when persecution comes,
- 19:03when the temptation comes, when the enticing comes, we will not
- 19:08be LED astray, Friends, we will be rooted and grounded in the
- 19:12truth. 6 How be it we speak wisdom among them that are
- 19:22perfect, yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the Princess
- 19:31of this world that come to nothing?
- 19:36So he's saying that only the spiritual man can understand the
- 19:39spiritual principles and deep calls to deep.
- 19:45But if we are still operating within the flesh and the carnal
- 19:49mind, it is not able to understand the spiritual matters
- 19:56that God desires for us to know and some things that the Lord
- 20:04speaks to us. Whenever that He reveals things
- 20:08and quickens things inside of us, don't be surprised when you
- 20:12run out to go tell the world and you're not even able to
- 20:17articulate those things in human language because they're so deep
- 20:24and profound. And when you try to share them,
- 20:28words fail, friends, do not be surprised. 7 But we speak the
- 20:36wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom which God
- 20:43ordained before the world unto our glory.
- 20:49So we're about to understand how when the Holy Spirit was
- 20:53speaking the inspired words to the writers of the Bible,
- 20:59friends, you're going to see the process of how the Holy Spirit
- 21:05inspired men to be able to pin down the words that God
- 21:11breathed. How amazing is that?
- 21:14Lock in, pay attention, and you're going to find out how you
- 21:17can trust the Word of God as God's spoken word that never
- 21:24returns void friends. And He's going to give you a
- 21:28sneak peek into the process of going from God's mouth unto
- 21:36paper for you and I to be able to pick up and to hold and to
- 21:40treasure friends, and to love. And the Word became flesh. 8
- 21:47which none of the Princess of this world knew, for had they
- 21:52known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
- 21:57Think about it, if the rulers of the day from Pilate to Pontius,
- 22:04from Pontius Pilate all the way to the chief ruler, from all of
- 22:16the Jewish chief priests to the Pharisees and the Sanhedrin to
- 22:24Caesar and all the above, if anybody would have known what
- 22:29was about to happen, they would not have crucified the Lord
- 22:33Jesus Christ. But it pleased God to crush him.
- 22:39And so that is what you need to know, that even the spiritual
- 22:43wickedness and darkness and principalities and all the
- 22:46demonic hosts and Satan himself did not understand how killing
- 22:54this man who claimed to be the Son of God was going to disarm
- 22:59them and snatch the keys to death and hell.
- 23:02And we need not fear death any longer.
- 23:06We do not need to try to figure out where we stand with God any
- 23:10longer. We can have the surety of our
- 23:14salvation because of the work of the cross.
- 23:17And if the powers of hell and all the wicked tyrannical powers
- 23:23on earth understood what was about to happen at Calvary, they
- 23:28would not have done it. But it was for your sake and for
- 23:32my sake. And Jesus went willingly and
- 23:36gave up the ghost, and he knew the plan before the foundation
- 23:41of the earth. 9 But as it is written, I has not seen, nor ear
- 23:49heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things
- 23:53which God has prepared for them that love him.
- 23:57This is how Scripture was written.
- 24:00Friends. As Paul was emptied of himself,
- 24:05God filled him with the mind of Christ. 10 But God has revealed
- 24:11them unto us by his Spirit, For the Spirit searches all things,
- 24:18yes, the deep things of God. We need to understand that the
- 24:23Holy Spirit is God. And so he's searching himself.
- 24:27He's searching what He wants us to know, how to pin it down on
- 24:31paper, how to write it on the papyrus scroll for us to
- 24:36understand all of the eternal truths that God wants us to
- 24:41understand, all the complete, infallible, inerrant word of God
- 24:46pinned through human authorship. How amazing is our God?
- 24:53The deep things of God, Yes, the spirit for the Spirit searches
- 24:5811 For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of
- 25:04man, which is in him. Even so, the things of God knows
- 25:08no man but the Spirit of God. So no one can get inside of your
- 25:14mind, friends, and so only you know all of your emotions and
- 25:20thoughts. And he's saying that it is the
- 25:23same whenever God is thinking about the things that He desires
- 25:29for us to know about. There's no way that we could
- 25:32ever know it unless He reveals it to us.
- 25:36Friends. 12 Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but
- 25:42the Spirit which is of God, that we might know the things that
- 25:47are freely given to us of God. So he told us exactly what we
- 25:52needed to know to be saved and to be made right with him, to be
- 25:56at one with him, to be justified in him, through him to put on
- 26:02the righteousness of Jesus Christ.
- 26:04All the plans from Genesis, chapter one, verse 1, all the
- 26:09way to Revelation at the end of the Bible, Friends, it is the
- 26:13complete work of God. And He knew all the things that
- 26:16we needed to be saved. And the longer you go on with
- 26:19God, you're going to see that the Scripture interprets the
- 26:22Scripture and it all supports itself and it's all congruent,
- 26:25this wonderful tapestry of God's Word.
- 26:30And he knew exactly what he wanted to reveal to us.
- 26:33And there is nothing that is left out of this book that needs
- 26:37to be in there. And there is nothing in the
- 26:41Bible that we need to try to take out or make an apology for.
- 26:44Friends, we stand on the Word of God.
- 26:47It is something that we can build our life upon, the chief
- 26:51cornerstone of Christ and Christ crucified. 13 which things also
- 27:02we speak not in the words which man's wisdom teaches, but which
- 27:09the Holy Ghost teaches, comparing spiritual things with
- 27:13spiritual. So the Holy Ghost is the one who
- 27:16inspired Paul to write these words.
- 27:19The Holy Ghost is the one who inspired Moses to write the
- 27:24words. The Holy Ghost is the one who
- 27:28inspired all of the authors of the Bible.
- 27:32Friends, it is only the Holy Ghost that is teaching these
- 27:37words. And what you're going to find is
- 27:39this word is alive and active and sharper than any 2 edged
- 27:44sword. It is an Organism.
- 27:47It is breathing. Friends, you hold a book that
- 27:52has the track record to be able to predict itself with accuracy.
- 27:57Pinpoint accuracy, friends. It is the only piece of
- 28:01literature known to mankind that has the ability to predict
- 28:05itself with such accuracy. And because of all of the
- 28:10prophecies that have already been fulfilled to the most
- 28:15minute letter, we can trust that the prophecies that are not yet
- 28:20fulfilled are going to be fulfilled to the exact degree
- 28:24that the Bible tells us that they will.
- 28:28And that is what you need to know.
- 28:29It is a literal translation, friends.
- 28:31It is an interpretation that is literal.
- 28:33Friends, this is not Mystic. It is not figurative.
- 28:37It's not allegorical. Friends, you need to understand
- 28:41that what God says He means. 14 But the natural man receives not
- 28:50the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto
- 28:54him. Neither can he know them because
- 28:57they are spiritually discerned. Deep calls to deep.
- 29:01Either you understand it or you don't.
- 29:04Either. When you read these words,
- 29:06they're quickened in the inner man and they call out to you and
- 29:10you leap for joy. When you read these words, or
- 29:14you have approached this from a studious point of view, you just
- 29:17want to know enough about God to not have to go to hell.
- 29:22You want to know enough about God to Lord over people.
- 29:26You want to know enough about God so that you can be engaged
- 29:30in a conversation with other believers.
- 29:34But when you come to the Lord Jesus Christ, he downloads the
- 29:3866 books into your heart and mind.
- 29:41If anyone is in Christ, they're a new creation.
- 29:44And when I was a child, I used to reason as a child and think
- 29:47as a child, but when I became a man, I did away with childish
- 29:51things. And that is what you need to
- 29:53know. If you were still stuck in the
- 29:55worldly pleasures, then you are not yet filled with the Holy
- 30:00Ghost. When the Holy Ghost has filled
- 30:03you, you will say yes and Amen to all the promises of the Word
- 30:07of God, and you will not call any of it into question.
- 30:11Friends, you will not try to explain away what this one
- 30:14writer meant when he actually said this or that.
- 30:17That is how we err grievously is whenever we are trying to make
- 30:23an apology for God's Word. That is how we err grievously
- 30:27whenever we try to hyper spiritualize the Word of God.
- 30:37When you do not take it at His Word, When you're trying to make
- 30:40it into some kind of fairy tale book, Friends, When we do not
- 30:46realize that God says what He means, and He means what He
- 30:50says, and we do not need to call one single jot or title into
- 30:56question. Who are you to try to come to
- 30:59God and tell Him how to behave? There's foolishness unto them
- 31:09that are not filled with the Holy Ghost. 15 But he that is
- 31:13spiritual judges all things, yet He Himself is judged of no man
- 31:20will end on. 16 For who has known the mind of the Lord, that
- 31:26he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
- 31:33Praise God. Hallelujah, you can start to
- 31:36understand these things. He gives you the mind of Christ.
- 31:39You are a regenerated man. You were born again.
- 31:43You can peek and peer into the spiritual realm and it is far
- 31:48more superior than any of the physical things that you and I
- 31:51are in. And what happens is here comes
- 31:54the enemy and he wants us to squander our inheritance.
- 31:57And he cannot snatch you out of God's hand, but he sure can't
- 32:01get you to make a mess out of your life and ruin your
- 32:03testimony, friends. And that is what you need to
- 32:06understand is this is what we're up against.
- 32:10If you do not have the Lord God Almighty living inside of you,
- 32:15or if you do have the Holy Ghost living inside of you, you need
- 32:20to cultivate that. You need to actually quit
- 32:24searing your conscience. You need to quit grieving the
- 32:29Spirit and you need to cultivate that relationship.
- 32:34Return to your first love. If you are indwelled with the
- 32:38Holy Ghost, return back to your first love.
- 32:42Do the things that you were doing whenever you first fell in
- 32:45love with Him, when you felt God the most in your life.
- 32:49Go back and do those things, friends.
- 32:52But if you have not yet received the Holy Ghost, then all of the
- 32:57words on the pages are just muddled and they mean nothing,
- 33:01and it's just a bunch of bibble Babble.
- 33:04And that is all that we will find if we are not indwelled
- 33:07with the Holy Ghost, if we're not full of the Holy Ghost.
- 33:11Friends, I pray that you understand these spiritual
- 33:16principles, that they are not missed upon you.
- 33:20I pray that you have cultivated that relationship and deep calls
- 33:24to deep and you're not calling any of God's word into the
- 33:28courtroom to try to put God on the stand, to tell God that all
- 33:33the ways that he is operating in the world even today are beneath
- 33:38your moral standards. We just get out of the way and
- 33:45we say yes and Amen to all of God's ways, even if they don't
- 33:49line up with how we think God should operate.
- 33:55We get in the Word of God. We believe every single word.
- 34:04We stiff arm the things of this world, all the carnal physical
- 34:09temptations that are coming our way.
- 34:12The lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of
- 34:16life are not from God. But we walk in the Spirit,
- 34:21friends. We allow the Holy Spirit to
- 34:25guide us all of our thoughts and all of our paths.
- 34:29We do not need to manufacture our destiny.
- 34:32We do not need to try to manufacture the life that we
- 34:35want. We yield to God and we allow God
- 34:43to be the one to have the last say on every moment of every day
- 34:47of every second. Friends.
- 34:58I hope you've been blessed by this chapter.
- 35:01I know I sure have. I love you, praying for you.
- 35:16Reach out. Grab the hem of His garment
- 35:18today. Know that you know that you know
- 35:23that you know where you're going to spend eternity.
- 35:27Make it right today. He's giving you one more
- 35:31opportunity. His mercies are new every day.
- 35:38Love you. We'll see you back here
- 35:41tomorrow. God bless you.