Latest / The BLAZE (Bible Study) / Authentic Imitationology #75 [Morning Devo]
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- 0:04I want a family. Good morning, God bless you. Welcome back to
- 0:07the morning Devo. It's Friday, so you already know what we get into
- 0:10authentic imitationology. It's this episode. I believe number seventy five, Wow,
- 0:16seventy five episodes of us getting together trying to imitate the most successful person who
- 0:22has ever lived on this whole entire planet, the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth,
- 0:26the King of Kings and the Lord of lords, the one who lived
- 0:29a perfect life, the one who gave us an example of a righteous,
- 0:32holy, loving, righteous man. Amen, the Lord Jesus. As he
- 0:36walked through this earth doing good, even though people were doing him dirty.
- 0:41He was in situations where he could have lashed back and could have been angry.
- 0:46He could have been had murderous thoughts. He could could have had sexual
- 0:50thoughts. He could have had slander in his mouth, he could have had
- 0:53gossip in his mouth. But he didn't do that. I promise you,
- 0:56if you look at his life, he didn't do any of that. Amen.
- 1:00He was a man of the God man Amen. And his situation was
- 1:04much worse than my situation. What's worse than your situation when it comes to
- 1:07people going after him, Amen, because they call them a blasphemer, they
- 1:11call him the ruler of demons, they call them a liar, they call
- 1:15them all kinds of nims. Meanwhile, he was going about doing good.
- 1:19Man. He was the only one who could do good, because he is
- 1:23God in the flesh right, he was the God Man. So I'm looking
- 1:27at the screen here, and for some reason, I don't see how my
- 1:34stream going through my socials. It's going good on the website, but not
- 1:41through the socials. I don't know why. Amen. I had some issues
- 1:45yesterday as well. So let's see what's going on. Amen. Maybe it'll
- 1:49pop up, maybe it won't. But if you're with me on soul Winners
- 1:53with a zita Org listening, thank you so much for coming through. Love
- 1:56that so won is with a zita Org. Thank you so much for coming
- 1:59through as well. Let me just take this off the WiFi. Maybe my
- 2:02WiFi is the issue here. Three men liked the other day, so we'll
- 2:08keep on going. So today I'm talking about body control. Body control.
- 2:17We have a perfect example of a God right who came in the form of
- 2:24a man, the Lord Jesus Christ, who had the ability and man and
- 2:29showed us how and brought us a manual of how to have this body control
- 2:35that I'm talking about. And the question is, how can we learn to
- 2:38control our own bodies a man. That's a process because remember we were all
- 2:44born right as babies, we didn't have any control over. We had to
- 2:49learn everything. We had to learn how to crawl, we had to learn
- 2:52how to walk, talk, We had to learn so many things as a
- 2:55baby, as an infant, we had to rely on somebody else to nurture
- 3:00us, to teach us, to show us. And then something incredible happens.
- 3:07We inherited this send nature for no reason. Well there's a reason.
- 3:10Genesis chapter three was the reason we inherited that right. And then amazing thing
- 3:17happens when we're kids. When we're babies, we learn how to say no,
- 3:21we learn how to disobey, and no one taught us. It's already
- 3:24in our sind nature. You might be thinking, well, that's not fair.
- 3:29Well it's it's man. It's not that it's fair or not, it's
- 3:34just the way it is. Morning Broke, God bless you. Got in
- 3:38the Saint is with us for the reech Johnson, Good morning, God bless
- 3:43you bro, Welcome back to the morning devo. Listen. YouTube is popping.
- 3:46I don't know what's going on with my socials. It's not showing anywhere
- 3:53here, but it says it's streaming. I just have to rely on the
- 3:57system for a couple of minutes, right and see set of sending data.
- 4:01So that means if it's sending data and off, turn it back on all
- 4:08turn it back on and streaming everywhere except for meta. So I don't know
- 4:15if I'm banned again. Celebrated on network says the streaming there. Amen,
- 4:21So we're gonna work it out. We're gonna work it out. It's sending
- 4:25data to my my Facebook group, it's sending data to my part profile page,
- 4:35it's sending data all the way to my the YouTube channel, and it's
- 4:40sending data to my page celebraty on network, but not to mothers. Don't
- 4:47know what's going on, amen, but we're gonna go move forward. So
- 4:51let's go for it. Do you have any questions, comments, concerns,
- 4:55prayer requests, don't hesitate to leave it on a live chat. That's what
- 4:58we're here for, man, that's what we get together on these one of
- 5:00DeVos it's the time to communicate, time to talk, ask questions. You
- 5:04know, there's not gonna be no debates here. If you're a person that
- 5:09wants to debate and argue and all the other stuff. I know some people
- 5:12that I could send you to, Amen, But for now, these money
- 5:15DeVos are not the platform for that. That's why it's really quiet here because
- 5:19we don't do that here, amen, And don't get a Twisted's not that
- 5:24I don't know enough to contend or to defend my belief or to give you
- 5:28a reason why I believe. It's just that it's not time for that,
- 5:31Amen. Sister Joane, God bless you. Good morning from the Facebook over
- 5:36there. So I don't know. Maybe it's just me because Johanne is on
- 5:39Facebook. Amen. And yeah, so let's just keep moving. It might
- 5:44be just a distraction, right, I wouldn't be surprised if if it's a
- 5:48distraction, Amen. So let's go for it. We're gonna be in the
- 5:53scriptures, First Desalonians, chapter number four, versus three and five. First
- 5:58Thessalonians, chapter number four, Versus three and five. Ay Man, how
- 6:03can we learn to control our own bodies? Let's not you know, part
- 6:09of me by saying this, But I'm not worrying about somebody else's body and
- 6:11worrying about my own body. Try to work out my salvation with fear and
- 6:15trembling. Amen. But together, we could go to the scriptures and learn
- 6:18how to do this together. Amen. So we're gonna do it. We're
- 6:24gonna do it this morning. Amen. We're gonna learn and we're gonna go
- 6:27for it. No, there is something a matter because I had to go
- 6:31in and I didn't get no notification. Yeah, yeah, probably I'm probably
- 6:36banned again. It won't be the first time, definitely won't be the last
- 6:41time. And ultimately they don't want these type of things out of their system.
- 6:46But for now, Amen, we're gonna be here as long as we
- 6:48can. That's why it's so important to have my website. And if everything
- 6:55fails on the other ends of these platforms. Amen, we could always go
- 6:59to my website until they hack that. Amen. But God protect the website,
- 7:02God protect my socihoes in Jesus name, and we move forward, just
- 7:08you know, going for it. Amen. Yeah, there's no notification.
- 7:11I can't even get it on my own my own phone, so I don't
- 7:15know how I'm not seeing the stream that I'm not getting no notifications or anything
- 7:19either. So thank you Sister Juanne for letting me know. Maybe I'm gonna
- 7:21go through here. It's not here either. I'll go through one more page.
- 7:27So let's pray first. After we pray, we'll share this out for
- 7:30like sixty seconds, and then on the other side of those sixty seconds we'll
- 7:32come right back. Authentic imtentionology. Wow. Yeah, it's glitchen all over.
- 7:39It's glitchen, glitchen, glitchen. Wow. I see it. And
- 7:45the question is how can we learn to control our own bodies today? It's
- 7:47called body control. Authentic imitationlogy. Wow, I see it. Glitchen is
- 7:53I don't know if you can see that, see that. It's glitchen.
- 7:56Man. Oh man, let's see wow where it is man from these social
- 8:01media streets. Father, I thank you so much for today. Thank you
- 8:03that you are sovereign, you aret of control. Thank you that we could
- 8:07go to you and know that we are going to the safest place we could
- 8:13ever be in the presence of the Almighty. Thank you, Lord God for
- 8:16helping us overcome any kind of sexual temptation, any kind of things that's trying
- 8:22to control our body outside of the purpose of Holy Spirit. Thank you so
- 8:26much that's trying for saving us and rescuing us from things that are trying to
- 8:31distract us, trying to keep us from the purpose that you have and the
- 8:33plan that you have. Thank you, Lord God, that we could live
- 8:35a life that is holy. It is possible for us to be holy because
- 8:39you said you're holy, so we are holy if we're children of God.
- 8:43Thank you for blessing us. Thank you for keeping us engaged through your loving
- 8:48boundaries. And thank you, Lord God, that we could keep things holy
- 8:54and sanctified. If we're in a marriage, we could keep that holy insanctified.
- 8:56If we're in a relationship, we could keep that holy insanctified. And
- 9:00ultimately, Lord God, we will give you the glory, honor, worship,
- 9:03and praise because we know we have the power to overcome, because you
- 9:05have overcame this world's system, and you know our bodies, you know our
- 9:09frailty, You know that we are distracted often, but you still love us,
- 9:15You still grow in us by way of your Holy Spirit, you still
- 9:18develop us, you still amplify your word according to your scriptures. Over our
- 9:24lives, and you change our hearts and you transform our minds. And Jesus
- 9:26Name, my prayer a hedgepa section over me, myself, my family,
- 9:31my marriage, our children, our household, our finances. And I pray
- 9:35that over every single person that's listening and watching right now and who will watch
- 9:39later and at the replay or listen later on the replay. I pray the
- 9:41power of God's peace, the power of God's love, grace, mercy,
- 9:46and they would know and we will all know your forgiveness and your rule,
- 9:50your reign, that you are loving, that you are holy, and that
- 9:54you continue to teach us how to have this body control that we're talking about
- 9:56today. Thank you for your word. I pray, Love God, that
- 10:00you will continue to teach us and show us more and more of who you
- 10:03are and what you're doing in our hearts and our minds and in our lives.
- 10:05In Jesus Name, we pray this by faith, and all those who
- 10:09believe, we say amen and Amen. I'm gonna take a minute to share
- 10:11this out. When we come back, we'll dive right into the scripture that
- 10:15we have today. First, Thessalonians, chapter number four, Verses three and
- 10:18five, I'll be right back. Hey man, Man, We're back to
- 11:39SKO for it, Andy Man. And I'm still glitching over here. Could
- 11:43be my phone, could be the device. I don't know what's going on.
- 11:46I'm sharing. I'm trying my best. I don't see the live,
- 11:50but it's says it's live. It's one of those things, man, just
- 11:54gotta go and roll with the punches sometimes on these Internet streets. Right.
- 11:58So first, that's the Londons out the four verses three and five. Today
- 12:01we're calling this one body control on authentic Immentationology. So let's go for it.
- 12:05Let me get this on the screen. For those of who are doing
- 12:07on the podcast correctly, no worries, you know, I read it word
- 12:11for word or even though you don't see the images, and it's good.
- 12:15You might be a busy person like I am. You might be driving,
- 12:16you might be working out on a treadmill, you might be at school,
- 12:20you might be doing whatever you do, and you could put in your your
- 12:24headphones and you could listen. And I believe that God has a way of
- 12:28when you read his word, he'll paint these pictures in your mind so you
- 12:31can see vividly what the Lord is trying to talk to us about Amen.
- 12:35And that's the power of God's word. God's word is a living word.
- 12:39A man is not a dead word. It's a living word. Amen.
- 12:41So we have what we need, man, authentic imentationology. Let's go for
- 12:46it. Body control. I'm calling this one. And the scripture is right
- 12:50here. First Thessalonians, chapter number four, verses three and five. For
- 12:54this is the will of God. And I know a lot of people ask
- 12:56this question, saying, what's the will of God for my life? A
- 13:00man, it's a good question. Well, this is the one of the
- 13:01wills of God for your life. For this is the will of God.
- 13:05This is the will of God, your sanctification that you abstain from sexual immorality.
- 13:15And I didn't look for the scripture. I didn't look for this God
- 13:18gainment. It's literally when I was looking to see what was next for authentic
- 13:24immitationology, he literally gets to me. He's a God who knows. He's
- 13:28a God who sees. He's a God who's always on time. He's a
- 13:31God who prepares us for the battle. He's a God who saves us.
- 13:35He's a God who changes us, a God who rescues us, a God
- 13:37who loves us, a God who knows who to connect us with when we're
- 13:41going through situations in life. Amen. So thank God right now for this
- 13:46word right that you abstain from sexual immorality, that each one of you know
- 13:52how to control his own body and holiness and honor. Now I know people
- 13:58are going to say, well, it says his. That means the girls
- 14:00are out of it. That doesn't say her, It says his. Listen,
- 14:03mankind, Let's not think that this is only for men, even though
- 14:09it's in a masculine But we know when God speaks, it's a word for
- 14:13men and a word for women. All creation bows to the world of God.
- 14:20The all creation. Humans are more in detail. God creates more details
- 14:28than anything else on the planet. Think about it. A brain, our
- 14:31hearts, the way our blood pumps through our veins, our thought process.
- 14:37We have the wills, free will. We have the ability to choose.
- 14:43We have an intellect to choose what's right, what's wrong to do this,
- 14:46to do that, we have body control, that each one of you know
- 14:52how to control his or her own body and holiness and honor. Not in
- 14:58the passion of love like the gentiles who do not know God, not like
- 15:03the people who don't know God, who don't follow God. We're not supposed
- 15:07to be put in those positions. We're not supposed to be moving like that.
- 15:11Amen. Scripture is right here. I know it's a little heavy for
- 15:16morning Devo. But God gave it to me, and I said, Wow,
- 15:18Okay, let's go, Amen, because I know enough now in my
- 15:24walk to not say no to the Lord who wants to say something through me
- 15:28or for me, or to me or to you. Am I gonna just
- 15:31say it, Try to say in love, try to say it with kindness.
- 15:35Amen. But sometimes when you read the scriptures, you're like wow.
- 15:39Sometimes it's like a slap in the face. You'll be like, man,
- 15:43you got to talk to me like that. And God is loving, he's
- 15:45kind, he's just, he's holy a man, he's forgiving, he's merciful,
- 15:50it's full of grace. So yeah, when we read his words,
- 15:52sometimes it's directed directly to us. Sometimes it's something that's coming up. But
- 15:58I know for sure that either you're going through something like this, or you've
- 16:03been through something like this, or your about to go through something like this,
- 16:07and then on the other side you'd be like, ma'am, thank you
- 16:10Jesus for getting me out of this situation. Thank you God for giving me
- 16:12this word. Thank you Lord for saving me and rescuing me. Thank you
- 16:17lordle God that I didn't fall into any kind of these things. For this
- 16:21is the will of God. Right. You ever noticed that when people ask
- 16:25you that question, what's the will of God for my life? Well,
- 16:26there's wills of God for our lives. Amen, It's all throughout the scriptures
- 16:32from Genesis all the way to Revelation. Pay attention. Everyone has an individual
- 16:37situation going on, but God has it all covered individually corporately. Amen.
- 16:45He's not directly into the whole number game that we play right as believers.
- 16:52But God is definitely concerned and interested in everybody's situation for sure. So that's
- 16:57the body control I'm talking about, or that the Lord is talking about.
- 17:02So my question still stands, how can we learn to control our own bodies?
- 17:07If it was that easy, God would not have gave us his word.
- 17:11If it was that easy, or something that was irrelevant, God would
- 17:14not have never have mentioned this. But he wants us. You know what.
- 17:18This rap song always comes up in my mind when I look at these
- 17:22type of scriptures. Amen. Back in the day, there was a group
- 17:26called Black Wound. They were from Brooklyn, New York, one of my
- 17:29favorite underground rap groups of all time. Right, and there was a rapper
- 17:34named Buckshot Shorty. He goes by the name Buckshot. Now he's not Buckshot
- 17:37Shorty anymore. We're all you know, older now, so you know he
- 17:41dropped the shorty. And he had a verse that says, the mind controls
- 17:48the body. The body thinks the mind is crazy. There's a lot to
- 17:52say from there, Man, there's a lot there, Amen, because when
- 17:55you when you're moving in holy spirit, God, now we have a new
- 17:59mine. Our new mind is telling our body what to do, and the
- 18:02body is trying to reject that and trying to say, now you're crazy.
- 18:04It's not possible. The mind controls the body. The body thinks the mind
- 18:08is crazy. But how many people know we're not crazy. We have a
- 18:11sane mind, a sound mind, and a power and authority. We have
- 18:15a God who doesn't lie to us, a guy who loves us, a
- 18:18God who's not double minded, a God who's not insane, a God who
- 18:22is real, a God who is trustworthy, a God that we could go
- 18:25to at any single moment. We could go to him with anything that's on
- 18:29our heart, a man, anything we're facing, we could go to him.
- 18:33Yeah. So, but the mind controls the body. If you have
- 18:36the mind of Christ, let your mind control your body. If you don't
- 18:38have the body of Christ, be careful the mind of Christ. Be careful,
- 18:42because then your old, sinful mind will try to control your body,
- 18:47and your flesh should be all about it, and you will feel like it's
- 18:49so the right thing to do, because now you're matching an uninspired mind,
- 18:53an unchanged mind, a carnal mind, with an unsaved right soul, and
- 18:59then your less is all up in there and saying, yeah, let's go
- 19:02for it. That's the battle right there. That's for everybody, including me.
- 19:07We all have this battle of the flesh and the spirit. But we
- 19:10do what the Word says. Amen, will be in a good place.
- 19:15I'm not saying in an easy place, but in a good place, in
- 19:17a situation where you could grow from, learn from, and keep it moving.
- 19:21Roman chapter twelve, verse two. You already know how I feel about
- 19:22that scripture. Amen. It's one of my ministry scriptures, one of my
- 19:26favorite scriptures. Amen, and this is where I live a lot. Roman
- 19:32chapter twelve two is clear that as Christians we are not meant to conform to
- 19:37the patterns of this world, very clear in the scriptures. But sadly it
- 19:41is becoming more and more difficult to tell a Christian apart from the rest of
- 19:45the world, even when considering our own bodies and sexuality. Right, there's
- 19:51a differences now going on with definitions between what a man is and what a
- 19:55woman is, differences going on with the younger generation and saying I'm not getting
- 20:00married, but I'm just gonna live with my partner, right, whether it's
- 20:03a same sex partner or head of a sexual partner. So we have all
- 20:07these things going on because the world is doing a good job, unfortunately,
- 20:11at trying to convince us that, oh, this is normal. You don't
- 20:15have to follow the word of God, just follow the trends on the patterns
- 20:17of the world. Because the word is irrelevant and the world is relevant.
- 20:22That's what people are trying to pass on to our children, pass on to
- 20:26the younger generation. But the word still remains the same. When did gender
- 20:30change? When did marriage change? When did sexuality change? Who created all
- 20:37of that? By the way God created all of that, and people don't
- 20:41want to don't want to hear that. What do you mean we can't talk
- 20:44about that? It's in God's word. God created sex, he created marriage,
- 20:48He created these loving boundaries, these living within the boundarying situation. When
- 20:53we live within the boundaries, it's not that God is prohibiting us or taking
- 20:57fun away from us. Loved us so much that he's creating boundaries so that
- 21:02way we don't pass through those boundaries and hurt ourselves. He wants us to
- 21:04have body control. So these days, a lot of churches have abandoned God's
- 21:11teachings. I'm gonna say that again, a lot of churches have abandoned God's
- 21:15teachings on sexual relationships and have begun. I've begun to accept and even embrace
- 21:22sexual and morality. You don't believe me, well, I'm not gonna suggest
- 21:26anything for you to watch. But if you don't believe me, you'll hear
- 21:30about it. I was gonna say where to go to scratch that? Amen,
- 21:36find out for yourself if you think I'm lying. Now they feel free
- 21:41to say that anything goes when it comes to this body control. And like
- 21:45you could do whatever your body wants to do. And a lot of people
- 21:48are hearing those things being preached from the Pulpits thank God is not in my
- 21:52church. Hopefully it's not in your church, but there's megachurches out there.
- 21:55There's churches of preachers will influenced that are telling you don't worry about it.
- 22:00God is a gracious God of forgiving God be careful with that. Now that
- 22:03they feel free to say all of that, but we have to know what
- 22:07the God say. They're saying, all you're free to do this, that,
- 22:11and Third, but what did God say? Very important? We see
- 22:14God's design for body control and sex back in the very beginning Genesis chapter one,
- 22:19verses twenty seven and twenty eight. We see God created two genders,
- 22:25two a man. This is not a mathematical equation that it's trying to confuse
- 22:30it. There's only two genders that God showed us right, male and female.
- 22:34He gave them sex not only as an expression of love. Listen to
- 22:37this, but also for the purpose of reproduction, creating people little people like
- 22:45us in our own image. God created us and his image. God created
- 22:49them Adam and Eve in his image, and now he gave us the ability
- 22:53to create people in our image, Amen, and giving them the opportunity to
- 22:59be born again because we're born in a sinful nature a man because of what
- 23:03happened in Genesis chapter three. But then Jesus shows up as redeemer a man
- 23:07because the fall of man created a need for a redeemer, and that redeemer
- 23:11is the Lord Jesus, and it gives us the opportunity to be born again
- 23:15when a new mind and new heart. Our desires that got placed in us
- 23:18a man are there for a reason, but he wants it to be the
- 23:22desires of his heart, not the desires of our old, old, deceitful
- 23:26heart. When we have a new heart, when you're born again, you
- 23:30no longer have that deceitful heart. If you hear somebody preaching our heart is
- 23:33wicked full of all deceit, asks them, are you're talking about before I
- 23:37was saved, because you definitely ain't talking about after I'm saved. There's a
- 23:40new heart and new mind going on, and that's an all in process,
- 23:44right, So as Christians, we can't claim to be ignorant about this whole
- 23:48body control issue. We can't play it off like, oh, I've never
- 23:52heard that before. It's in the world. A lot of people don't want
- 23:55to go to the Word because they know that the truth is there. They
- 23:56don't want to go to the Word because they know there's gonna be some confidence.
- 24:00I'm not confrontational, but I have to learn how to confront things.
- 24:03Amen. A lot of people are like me. I'm not the only one
- 24:06that's not non confrontational, Amen. But we have to confront things. Amen.
- 24:11A brother of mine was telling me that last night. You know,
- 24:14you have to confront some things if you want to get past some things and
- 24:17through some things. And that's wise wisdom right there. So as Christians,
- 24:21we can't claim to be ignorant about God's will when it comes to mind control
- 24:26body control, as today's verse says, we should abstain from sexual morality.
- 24:32That's a body control issue. We're controlling on what needs to be controlled,
- 24:37and we're not out there running wild. Right. There's temptation. Absolutely,
- 24:41no one is immune to temptation. I don't care if you're a pope.
- 24:44I don't care if you're a bishop, a pastor, teach, you're a
- 24:45prophet, evangelist, I don't care what position you have. You're going to
- 24:51be tempted in this world that's broken, You will be tempted and as first
- 24:55Commitings chapter ten, verse thirteen, to prove it. Amen. And we
- 25:00also have His Holy Spirit, so we're not left alone. We're not like
- 25:03caught off guard all the time. Oh, I didn't know this was an
- 25:07attack. Yeah, we're going to be attacked daily a men. But we
- 25:10have Holy Spirit God that as far as I know, has no losses in
- 25:14his record. Holy Spirit always wins. Amen. God always wins conforming us
- 25:19into His likeness of Christ. That means the Holy Spirit is at work in
- 25:23us, at work in us, not a sleep in us, but at
- 25:26work in us and making us holy as He is holy, and pure as
- 25:32He is pure. I'ma leave it right there. We are in First Essalonians
- 25:36chapter four, verses three and five. Amen. Ponder on that. Read
- 25:38the whole chapter for yourself. First Thessalonians, chapter four. God will speak
- 25:42more into your life. Amen. So thank you so much for considering me
- 25:47for coming through these morning DeVos. Thank you so much for praying for me.
- 25:49I'll continue to pray for you and your family, continuing to pray for
- 25:52me and my family, and we could do this. Man, we could
- 25:56be in control of our bodies. We could be in control a man of
- 26:00what God wants us to be in control of by way of His Holy Spirit.
- 26:03So God bless you all, God keep you all. Remember always,
- 26:07always remember this, that God is good. Peace,