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- 0:00Speaker 1: For unto us was the gospel preach as well as
- 0:03Speaker 1: one to them, or the world preached did not profit
- 0:06Speaker 1: them because their fit did not feed on the ward
- 0:09Speaker 1: the water God, the life support of our feet, relieve
- 0:14Speaker 1: by the world of God, God compet Blessed be God forevermore.
- 0:22Speaker 2: Psalm twenty three, reading verse four.
- 0:25Speaker 1: Yeah, though I walk through the valley of the shadow
- 0:30Speaker 1: of debt, I will fear no evil, for.
- 0:34Speaker 2: Thou art with me.
- 0:36Speaker 1: The rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thy word
- 0:41Speaker 1: and thy staff they work, They comfort me. Welcome to
- 0:45Speaker 1: fate feed Episode one hundred and seventy seven. Comfort of
- 0:50Speaker 1: the rod and the staff, Comfort of the rod and
- 0:56Speaker 1: the stuff.
- 0:58Speaker 2: It is interesting that Dave.
- 1:00Speaker 1: Did not say I will fear no evil because of
- 1:03Speaker 1: the valley. He says I would fear no evil because
- 1:07Speaker 1: the Lord.
- 1:08Speaker 2: Is with me.
- 1:10Speaker 1: Now this brings us back to this one saying the
- 1:12Speaker 1: Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want He maketh
- 1:15Speaker 1: me lie down in green pastures.
- 1:16Speaker 2: He leadered me.
- 1:18Speaker 1: Besides, so you see a scenario of green pasture, greener pastures.
- 1:23Speaker 1: We see a scenario of steel waters. We see a
- 1:27Speaker 1: scenario of the shepherdhood of God. So him saying that
- 1:32Speaker 1: he would fear no evil is because of the understanding
- 1:35Speaker 1: and reality of this shepherthood of God. Now he goes
- 1:40Speaker 1: on to explain what this dove act with me as
- 1:43Speaker 1: the presence of God means. He says, die road, because
- 1:47Speaker 1: in order for one to get to a shepherd to
- 1:50Speaker 1: lead the ship to greener pastory, he needs the staff
- 1:52Speaker 1: and the road. The staff and word arebout one, yes,
- 1:55Speaker 1: but it's trying to describe the peposes what that item accomplishes.
- 2:01Speaker 1: They have two expressions. Number one the rod of correction.
- 2:06Speaker 1: The second one is the staff of authority. But before
- 2:10Speaker 1: the road and the staff is the presence of the shepherd.
- 2:14Speaker 1: Everything you do in life, you hope to accomplish in life,
- 2:17Speaker 1: must be backed by a shepherd. Of yes, it must
- 2:20Speaker 1: be backed by the lordship of Christ.
- 2:24Speaker 2: A shepherd.
- 2:25Speaker 1: What uses the staff and the road to ensure that
- 2:29Speaker 1: the sheep is properly guided and doesn't fall into harm
- 2:35Speaker 1: in the world of correction, Like we talked about, the
- 2:37Speaker 1: Bible says in Hebrews chapter twelve the six that for
- 2:41Speaker 1: whom the Lord love it, he chasing it. That is
- 2:45Speaker 1: where that expression comes into play. So if God does
- 2:48Speaker 1: not love us, you will not see the world. And
- 2:50Speaker 1: if there is no road, then you cannot walk through
- 2:53Speaker 1: the valley of the shadow of death with confidence.
- 2:58Speaker 2: The road keeps you from danger. It corrects.
- 3:01Speaker 1: The road keeps you from falling off, yes, falling off
- 3:04Speaker 1: the edge. It keeps you from the mistakes that can
- 3:07Speaker 1: marry your life. This stuff is different. I call it
- 3:10Speaker 1: the staff of authority. It represents divine governance. Is designed
- 3:14Speaker 1: to pull one pull men out of danger. Carrism leads
- 3:18Speaker 1: men out of the pits. Remember the scripture that says
- 3:21Speaker 1: you would deliver my soul from going to the pits,
- 3:24Speaker 1: so that my light.
- 3:25Speaker 2: It is by this.
- 3:26Speaker 1: Staff of authority. That's how Joseph came out of the pitto.
- 3:30Speaker 1: That is brother's true in him is by the staff
- 3:34Speaker 1: of authority.
- 3:35Speaker 2: Remember the road and the staff. They work hand in handle.
- 3:38Speaker 1: It is one entity, but have two expressions, so it's
- 3:41Speaker 1: not just to be unique. Corrections too in the guidance
- 3:45Speaker 1: in the leadings. That's why he says, I shall not
- 3:48Speaker 1: want he makes me lie down. What does he mean
- 3:52Speaker 1: to lie down? It means to be comfortable. That is
- 3:55Speaker 1: your founder and aboard you founder a resting place. It says,
- 3:59Speaker 1: it makes me lie down in green pasture. Green pasture
- 4:02Speaker 1: means the blessings, you know, prosperity. Now, if you notice,
- 4:05Speaker 1: the next verst will come to licimate. Now, he says afterwards,
- 4:08Speaker 1: he livedets me besides still waters still means there's no chaos,
- 4:13Speaker 1: not chaotic waters.
- 4:15Speaker 2: And he explains what this means in the next verse.
- 4:18Speaker 1: He says that what he restores my soul, that means
- 4:22Speaker 1: the greener pasture. That God, what is making you to
- 4:25Speaker 1: lie down is a form of restoring restoration of your
- 4:28Speaker 1: solo beloved that weish are both autis Meyer's prosper and
- 4:32Speaker 1: being here even as that soul prospects. So it's is
- 4:34Speaker 1: seen BYO. It's a thing that works simultaneously. You prosper
- 4:39Speaker 1: as your soul prospers. It's not supposed to be one side.
- 4:43Speaker 1: Day hear me, and here you were. This is what
- 4:45Speaker 1: the road and the staff helps us a country show.
- 4:47Speaker 1: They did not stop. There is next way, he says,
- 4:49Speaker 1: He lead gets me. Remember, he says, he leaves me
- 4:51Speaker 1: besides the waters in the previousone.
- 4:52Speaker 2: Now, the meaning of that is that he live gets
- 4:55Speaker 2: me in the part of righteousness. Of righteousness, that's how
- 5:00Speaker 2: you gain peace.
- 5:00Speaker 1: That's why you're not being chaos is because you're in
- 5:03Speaker 1: the part of righteousness. That's why you were not That's
- 5:06Speaker 1: where Jesus explained it. Now, peace be still. During the storm,
- 5:09Speaker 1: when he was asleep while the boat was in chaos,
- 5:13Speaker 1: that is an example of he laded me. Besides still,
- 5:16Speaker 1: Jesus was conscious of the part of righteousness. It is
- 5:20Speaker 1: that part of right. This is where we're talking about
- 5:22Speaker 1: the stuff of authority. This is where the staff of
- 5:24Speaker 1: authority makes this a bode, this part of righteousness. That's
- 5:27Speaker 1: the reason why the storm will come down. That is
- 5:30Speaker 1: why that's why peace be still, Jesus on that's to
- 5:33Speaker 1: this authority the road of correction. Hey, that is where
- 5:37Speaker 1: that is for your soul. You're so needsy. You're exactly
- 5:41Speaker 1: at different seasons, at different points that you.
- 5:44Speaker 2: Need both the road. You need both the road and
- 5:48Speaker 2: what the staff.
- 5:49Speaker 1: Many people talk about prospecting hinge on the the staff
- 5:53Speaker 1: part expression, but they forget about they forget about the chastisement.
- 5:58Speaker 1: Do not forget the chess of the Lord. It is written,
- 6:02Speaker 1: do not forget it. That means there is a tendency
- 6:05Speaker 1: for the believer to forget the chasing of the Lord.
- 6:09Speaker 1: Proverabs three, verse eleven to twelve says, despise not.
- 6:13Speaker 2: The chasinging of the Lord. For whom the Lord love it,
- 6:19Speaker 2: he chasing it.
- 6:19Speaker 1: Hebrews now ephasized, just like we said, there is a
- 6:22Speaker 1: tendency to take the staff of authority and threw away
- 6:25Speaker 1: the road of correction. Remember when God took Moses, he
- 6:29Speaker 1: said to em, what is in the hand the road
- 6:32Speaker 1: of correction and the staff of authority? So the question is,
- 6:37Speaker 1: how do you identify the chasing of the because you
- 6:41Speaker 1: will know the reason for the rod of correction. Many
- 6:46Speaker 1: people are not able to tell the reason. That's why
- 6:49Speaker 1: they neglected despise the chasing of the Lord. Hebrews Chapter twelve,
- 6:55Speaker 1: verse seven. It says, if he end your chating, God
- 6:58Speaker 1: dealt with you as we sons.
- 7:01Speaker 2: Sons. For what son is he whom the father chasing it?
- 7:05Speaker 2: Not that who is? Who is that child that the
- 7:07Speaker 2: father doesn't correct?
- 7:09Speaker 1: He says, But if you be without chastisement, wherefore all
- 7:13Speaker 1: our particulars, then ye are bastards, are not songs, he says,
- 7:16Speaker 1: For the more we have had, if fact, we have
- 7:19Speaker 1: heard for us of our flesh who corrected us, and
- 7:21Speaker 1: we all of them, we revenge them. How much more
- 7:24Speaker 1: shall we not be shouting? So then, onto the father
- 7:26Speaker 1: of spirits, say, I say to you that the cheatin us,
- 7:29Speaker 1: our fathers of the chess, after their own pleasure, but
- 7:33Speaker 1: God chasing us for our own profit. That we will
- 7:35Speaker 1: be particlars. Now, not this world, not it that will
- 7:38Speaker 1: be particuars of holiness. Remember if it didn't mention that
- 7:42Speaker 1: staff and th road they comfort me.
- 7:44Speaker 2: No, it says, thy road and thy staff.
- 7:46Speaker 1: That means the road comes first, before authority, before the
- 7:49Speaker 1: part way of right.
- 7:50Speaker 2: Before you get my points.
- 7:52Speaker 1: Now, so the expression by which you can manifest what
- 7:56Speaker 1: righteousness is by the revelation of the chastening of the
- 8:01Speaker 1: Lord in each season of your life, it says, Now
- 8:05Speaker 1: no chasing for the what presence seemed to be joyous,
- 8:09Speaker 1: but grievous, he says, never the less after word.
- 8:12Speaker 2: Now see where you understand this is? This is the result,
- 8:14Speaker 2: he says.
- 8:15Speaker 1: It yield eds the peaceable, it says, peaceable fruit of right.
- 8:19Speaker 1: You see now, that's that is where the part of
- 8:22Speaker 1: righteousness not comes.
- 8:23Speaker 2: You see it?
- 8:23Speaker 1: Now, the road and thy staff die road, and thy
- 8:27Speaker 1: staff die road, and thy staff they comfort me he says,
- 8:32Speaker 1: after the road, it's you that the peaceable fruit work
- 8:36Speaker 1: of righteousness onto them which are exercised. So the problem
- 8:40Speaker 1: is the exercising, and the exercising is very simple. He says,
- 8:43Speaker 1: what partakers of his holiness. That means every road of
- 8:46Speaker 1: correction that God brings to the believer brings to us,
- 8:49Speaker 1: is that it is pointing towards a direction of holiness.
- 8:53Speaker 1: It may not be pleased, but that is it, and
- 8:55Speaker 1: it is that. Let's ensure that we deal with this
- 8:59Speaker 1: because every body understands the what the strength of righteousness,
- 9:03Speaker 1: which is of the blood of Jesus, but they don't
- 9:05Speaker 1: understand what the road is all about. The Bible says
- 9:08Speaker 1: what in the next verse that wherefore lift up your
- 9:11Speaker 1: hands which hang down and the feeble knees, and makes
- 9:17Speaker 1: straight Now this is action, makes straight paths for your feet.
- 9:22Speaker 1: This is how you respond to the chastney of the Lord.
- 9:25Speaker 1: That action is what making straight paths, making rearranging, It says,
- 9:29Speaker 1: what makes straight for your fixy list that which is lame,
- 9:33Speaker 1: betond out of the way. God, let it rather be,
- 9:35Speaker 1: because when when you do not recognize this this chastney,
- 9:40Speaker 1: you will not have the boldness to do some certain
- 9:43Speaker 1: things in the Kingdom of God, it says, follow peace
- 9:47Speaker 1: with all men.
- 9:48Speaker 2: This is how you work.
- 9:49Speaker 1: This is how you follow the world of constrsave make
- 9:51Speaker 1: it of all men and holiness, without which no man
- 9:54Speaker 1: can see the Lord.
- 9:55Speaker 2: Fifteen. Look diligently, list any man fall of the grace?
- 10:00Speaker 1: Can you see this any man form of the that
- 10:03Speaker 1: means is possible? Of course, said a fallen shot of
- 10:06Speaker 1: degrees of God. It is possible. Does your fabulness make
- 10:10Speaker 1: straight to your part. It's not about crying for forgive. See,
- 10:13Speaker 1: it's not about That's why I say to get to
- 10:16Speaker 1: ask for forgive. That boldness is the fact that you
- 10:19Speaker 1: have made streat your part. You know exact action, You
- 10:22Speaker 1: know what to do. As regarding this matter of correction,
- 10:26Speaker 1: the word of correction that God is bringing towards the believer.
- 10:31Speaker 1: Everything now rests on the realization that you are worth
- 10:37Speaker 1: a son of God, and by virtue of that, working
- 10:42Speaker 1: in the part of righteousness is not a problem. Exercising
- 10:45Speaker 1: the staff of authority is no longer an issue.
- 10:48Speaker 2: Having the evidence of the.
- 10:50Speaker 1: Staff of authority, making declarations, understanding that God will come
- 10:56Speaker 1: to for you even in the storm is a result
- 11:00Speaker 1: lot of the fact that obedience has taken root in
- 11:04Speaker 1: the season of the rod of correction. So there are
- 11:08Speaker 1: seasons of the rod of correction, and they are seasons
- 11:12Speaker 1: of the staff of authority. But in order for the
- 11:16Speaker 1: seasons of the staff of authority to be validated, there
- 11:20Speaker 1: has to be the Word of God. Is the word
- 11:23Speaker 1: of correction that brings out the virtue of obedience. That's
- 11:27Speaker 1: why Jesus said in the Day of the Wilderness, hadding
- 11:29Speaker 1: not your heart as in the prop you should what
- 11:32Speaker 1: position yourself to obey, and obedience tends towards the holiness
- 11:40Speaker 1: of God. This is what brings This is the real
- 11:43Speaker 1: reason that what it comforts, the road and the staff
- 11:47Speaker 1: of God comforts a man.
- 11:49Speaker 2: Not just the road, not just the staff.
- 11:52Speaker 1: The rod and the staff can bring comfort to the
- 11:55Speaker 1: life of an individual. I remain the campaign of Christ. Remember,
- 11:59Speaker 1: be God, fidend, be God fident. Do Lord commands the
- 12:02Speaker 1: angels of your word. Has to be said, Do Lord
- 12:04Speaker 1: lift up the light of his countinents upon you. Blessed
- 12:06Speaker 1: be God for etality keene brought to you by the
- 12:47Speaker 1: fake campaign and the Christ. Keeping the faith of Christ
- 12:50Speaker 1: in the community of believers, global global