WEBVTT 00:00:20.163 --> 00:00:22.469 Father, the word that you've given me for your people. 00:00:22.469 --> 00:00:27.304 Help me to deliver it and decrease in me and increase you in me. 00:00:27.304 --> 00:00:32.045 Father, help me to word it to where everyone can understand it. 00:00:32.045 --> 00:00:36.823 The length of the message, the delivery, every portion of it. 00:00:36.823 --> 00:00:39.501 Father, please have your way, use me. 00:00:39.501 --> 00:00:41.427 I am a submitted vessel to you. 00:00:41.427 --> 00:00:44.347 Father, forgive me for anything I may have said or done. 00:00:44.347 --> 00:00:45.424 It's just pleasing to you. 00:00:45.424 --> 00:00:50.264 Help me for your name, glory and praise in Jesus' name. 00:00:50.264 --> 00:00:52.310 I do pray, amen, amen. 00:00:52.310 --> 00:00:59.344 I give honor to my bishop and my pastor and my first lady. 00:00:59.344 --> 00:01:03.070 I y'all give a round of applause to them. 00:01:03.070 --> 00:01:10.170 These men of God and women of God have done a phenomenal job of building the temple of the Lord. 00:01:10.170 --> 00:01:10.721 Look at this. 00:01:10.721 --> 00:01:12.146 Isn't it nice in here. 00:01:12.146 --> 00:01:13.984 It looks real good. 00:01:13.984 --> 00:01:16.266 They've been doing a phenomenal job of that. 00:01:17.079 --> 00:01:24.251 I wanna give a special shout out to my boothane, my young thing of 10 years of marriage. 00:01:24.251 --> 00:01:34.344 My wife, my other half with the Lord, took out of me. 00:01:34.344 --> 00:01:37.687 He didn't put back in me, he put it all back in my wife. 00:01:37.687 --> 00:01:42.026 So everything I'm not she is, everything she not I am. 00:01:42.026 --> 00:01:46.569 For in chapter five of Genesis he looked down and he called their name Adam. 00:01:46.569 --> 00:01:48.764 That means we're one. 00:01:48.764 --> 00:01:56.364 When you see her, you see me, we look alike, cause she is me and I am her and I appreciate you. 00:01:56.364 --> 00:01:57.643 I really do. 00:01:57.643 --> 00:02:02.203 That's it blessing from the hand of God, don't y'all know? 00:02:02.384 --> 00:02:09.407 I just celebrated my 34th birthday, yeah, my 34th birthday, and I had the privilege to go to New York. 00:02:09.407 --> 00:02:11.866 Never been to New York before in my life. 00:02:11.866 --> 00:02:13.141 New York City. 00:02:13.141 --> 00:02:17.108 We went to Manhattan and my family know I'm a country boy. 00:02:17.108 --> 00:02:27.468 We was raised down there at Robin's Court and then we, me and my brother was raised also in Chatham, and we only the city we knew, was tight, squeezed. 00:02:27.468 --> 00:02:38.067 You go up there, you hit that hardies had them biscuits ready them, biscuits with butter, just right, and that was our idea of the city life. 00:02:38.067 --> 00:02:45.024 Then, when I became a man, we moved to Blair's and it got real. 00:02:45.024 --> 00:02:47.868 Then we came to Danville. 00:02:47.868 --> 00:02:50.885 Danville was too much. 00:02:50.885 --> 00:02:59.546 And then I got married and moved to Greensboro and that was too much city. 00:02:59.546 --> 00:03:09.530 Then I said I want to be a police officer in the city and that was a whole lot of city, but New York it's a lot of city. 00:03:12.867 --> 00:03:16.965 I told my wife one thing, and then you know how we you know it's me and we try to be romantic. 00:03:16.965 --> 00:03:19.385 I said, baby girl, I can't. 00:03:19.385 --> 00:03:20.528 You said try, yeah, we do. 00:03:20.528 --> 00:03:26.424 I said, baby girl, when we go down here I'm gonna cut my phone off. 00:03:26.424 --> 00:03:27.763 It's just me and you. 00:03:27.763 --> 00:03:32.685 I wouldn't be law, I wouldn't rather be lost in the city with anybody else. 00:03:32.685 --> 00:03:37.364 But you, you know, trying to be cool, Don't you know? 00:03:37.364 --> 00:03:38.668 Your wives will check you. 00:03:38.668 --> 00:03:40.436 You know, you know that. 00:03:40.436 --> 00:03:41.823 Check you, Don't you know? 00:03:41.864 --> 00:03:42.867 We got lost in Brooklyn. 00:03:42.867 --> 00:03:48.127 I said first of all. 00:03:48.127 --> 00:03:49.731 She said she wanna ride the subway. 00:03:49.731 --> 00:03:51.567 I was gonna Uber everything. 00:03:51.567 --> 00:03:53.759 She wanna ride the subway. 00:03:53.759 --> 00:03:56.347 We get on the subway using GPS. 00:03:56.347 --> 00:03:57.939 We get down there. 00:03:57.939 --> 00:03:59.426 Gps don't work. 00:03:59.426 --> 00:04:08.075 It don't work down there, she told me later when we got off, she said I looked at my phone and it stopped working. 00:04:08.075 --> 00:04:10.365 I didn't wanna tell you because I knew you was gonna kill me. 00:04:10.365 --> 00:04:12.960 We got lost in Brooklyn. 00:04:13.504 --> 00:04:14.939 But I tell you, god made a way. 00:04:14.939 --> 00:04:17.668 It's a chicken spot called BBQ's. 00:04:17.668 --> 00:04:24.211 My goodness, that tastes like some first fruit chicken down there. 00:04:24.211 --> 00:04:29.768 It's like some first fruit or the harvest type of chicken down there. 00:04:29.768 --> 00:04:32.067 Well, they put that seasoning on it. 00:04:32.067 --> 00:04:33.324 But we had a great time. 00:04:33.500 --> 00:04:44.844 And if I encourage you to institutional marriage, I know the world has a negative outlook on marriage, but I'm here to tell you, as a man of God, that God is faithful. 00:04:44.844 --> 00:04:52.211 He still means if a man finds a wife, he finds a good day and obtains favor from the Lord. 00:04:52.211 --> 00:04:53.530 That is still true. 00:04:53.530 --> 00:04:56.764 That is still true and I'm grateful for that. 00:04:56.764 --> 00:05:05.026 But as I begin my message today, I want to give a plug. 00:05:05.206 --> 00:05:15.511 First, our Heights here has what we call a podcast and our pastors have been giving us knowledge. 00:05:15.511 --> 00:05:26.850 No more surface level revelations where we get an emotional fix and we go home and we go back on Monday, and it's the same that we used to. 00:05:26.850 --> 00:05:35.228 They've been giving us real revelation of the Bible, revelations that can change your life, revelations that you need to help you live. 00:05:35.228 --> 00:05:42.228 I encourage you to take out your phone and, if you have a Apple, give me some homework. 00:05:42.228 --> 00:05:48.706 If you take your Apple out and you go to your home screen and it's gonna have a purple icon. 00:05:48.706 --> 00:05:51.667 On that purple icon it's gonna have podcasts. 00:05:51.667 --> 00:06:01.028 I encourage you to go on there, search Higher Heights Ministry Center and I want you to subscribe to our podcast. 00:06:01.028 --> 00:06:03.586 Why should you subscribe to it? 00:06:03.586 --> 00:06:06.948 Because it's easy to cut on one or two jams. 00:06:06.948 --> 00:06:09.207 It's easy to cut on 97. 00:06:09.207 --> 00:06:16.465 It's easy to cut on the quiet storm, but you need to understand that it's just that easy to listen to the word of God. 00:06:16.465 --> 00:06:26.270 It's not hard, it's not only on Sunday mornings, it's just that easy to also listen to the word of God. 00:06:27.240 --> 00:06:36.709 I'm gonna paraphrase a little bit that we've been talking about and our pastor has been talking about the principle of the seed. 00:06:36.709 --> 00:06:43.026 What that is is a principle that God created at the foundations of the earth. 00:06:43.026 --> 00:06:53.550 The seed is a principle that he implemented, so things will continuously be reproduced throughout the earth. 00:06:53.550 --> 00:07:08.530 If you look in Genesis and I'm going to turn there if we go to Genesis just to kind of give you a backstory of what we're talking about, I had someone on this week they, me and this individual. 00:07:08.530 --> 00:07:25.874 We enjoy having different conversations about spirituality and their perspective on how creation came to be, is the universe brought everything into existence and you know I looked at them. 00:07:25.874 --> 00:07:26.860 Who's having this conversation? 00:07:26.860 --> 00:07:33.292 I was like you're partly right, and they looked at me and they said they weren't ready for that. 00:07:34.103 --> 00:07:36.298 But if you really study your word, you look in the Bible. 00:07:36.298 --> 00:07:53.475 In Genesis the Bible says that the earth brought forth grass and herb, yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whom seed was in itself after his kind, and God saw that it was good. 00:07:53.475 --> 00:08:14.420 I'm going to go on down to the 20th verse of Genesis, chapter one, and that says and God said let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that have life and foul, that may fly upon the earth in the open fernament of heaven. 00:08:14.420 --> 00:08:34.889 And God created great whales and every living creature that move, which the waters brought forth abundantly after their kind, and every wing foul after his kind, and God saw it was good. 00:08:34.889 --> 00:08:50.620 See, when we have different opinions or views on what happened, we really need to know the creation story because God put a seed in everything and our pastor preached on that last week. 00:08:50.620 --> 00:08:57.162 I encourage you to go and listen to that message and also the creation story on, which is on the podcast. 00:08:57.162 --> 00:09:04.380 There's five creation story examples that they taught on and including his message from last week. 00:09:04.380 --> 00:09:12.144 We need to understand and know that that God put a seed in everything and allow it to bring forth of itself. 00:09:12.144 --> 00:09:15.952 So when someone argued, you said the universe, the big bang, did all this. 00:09:15.952 --> 00:09:23.766 Certain elements of that may be true that waters brought forth the whales and stuff because God told it to, with the seed. 00:09:23.766 --> 00:09:25.652 That's in itself. 00:09:25.652 --> 00:09:32.385 Now look at your neighbor and say I have a seed in me. 00:09:32.385 --> 00:09:49.057 What I'm here to tell you today is that not only do you have a seed in you, you also have the choice to yield godly fruit or demonic or devilish fruit. 00:09:49.057 --> 00:09:50.920 Did you know that? 00:09:50.920 --> 00:10:00.134 Did you know that that God created us all with a seed and the enemies attack? 00:10:00.134 --> 00:10:07.460 The first attack is for him to get the seed of man, for the seed of man will crush his head. 00:10:07.460 --> 00:10:15.090 He knows that he's after the seed and we're going to talk about that. 00:10:15.090 --> 00:10:17.572 Amen, amen. 00:10:18.594 --> 00:10:27.192 I am going to turn to my scripture passage and you know, bear with me, oh God, my Bible this morning. 00:10:27.192 --> 00:10:29.947 So I'm going to be doing a little turning, a little reading. 00:10:29.947 --> 00:10:50.120 We're going to be coming from first John and in first John I am going to be coming from the ninth verse, first John, chapter three, excuse me. 00:10:50.120 --> 00:11:13.370 And the ninth verse and the Bible says whosoever is born of God does not commit sin, for his seed remain in him and he cannot sin because he is born of God. 00:11:13.370 --> 00:11:24.264 In this the children of God are manifest and the children of the devil. 00:11:24.264 --> 00:11:46.122 I'm going to work it, I'm going to read it again Whosoever is born of God does not commit sin, for his seed remain in him and he cannot sin because he is born of God. 00:11:46.122 --> 00:11:55.076 In this the children of God are manifest and the children of the devil. 00:11:55.076 --> 00:12:04.641 So, as we look at this and we remember in Genesis, the creation in the beginning was God and he created the heavens and the earth. 00:12:04.641 --> 00:12:16.772 And we look at the principle that God placed the living seed in every one of us, in everything the grass, the water, the whales, everything on earth has a seed in it. 00:12:16.772 --> 00:12:32.292 And we look at 1st John, chapter 3, verse 9, and we see that not only do you have the opportunity to manifest godly principles in this earth, it says also this is how you manifest the devil. 00:12:32.292 --> 00:12:37.223 You got to understand the principle of your seed. 00:12:37.223 --> 00:12:39.729 So we have to break this down. 00:12:39.729 --> 00:12:44.662 And the bible says, if we look in this, whosoever is born of god. 00:12:44.662 --> 00:12:48.473 Let's talk about that a little bit, let's take a little time. 00:12:48.832 --> 00:12:59.883 If we look back at our lord and savior, jesus Christ, and we look at his story as he was walking and he was teaching, there was Jewish leaders over Israel at that time. 00:12:59.883 --> 00:13:01.673 They were called the Pharisees. 00:13:01.673 --> 00:13:07.610 These religious men were the highest of authoritative figures in the land. 00:13:07.610 --> 00:13:17.273 The land of Israel at that time was under captivity of the Roman Empire, so these men represented the Jews and Israel. 00:13:17.273 --> 00:13:26.634 The one way to keep them under control, instead of using brute force, was to control their beliefs, religion. 00:13:26.634 --> 00:13:37.423 So with the Pharisees, what they would do is the Roman leaders would pretty much manipulate the Pharisees to teaching the Jews certain laws and regulations. 00:13:37.423 --> 00:13:40.696 There was one Pharisee by the name of Nicodemus. 00:13:40.696 --> 00:13:45.585 Now, nicodemus was a great leader of Israel. 00:13:45.585 --> 00:13:49.235 But Nicodemus recognized something in Jesus. 00:13:49.235 --> 00:13:57.942 He recognized him to be a powerful man, different, these works and these mighty things that Jesus was doing. 00:13:57.942 --> 00:14:05.926 He recognized that and he asked Jesus a very important question, and I'm going to be coming from chapter three of John. 00:14:06.548 --> 00:14:12.662 And the bible says there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 00:14:12.662 --> 00:14:27.317 The same came to Jesus by night and said unto him Rabbi, we know that our teacher come from God, for no man can do these miracles that thou do us accept. 00:14:27.317 --> 00:14:28.779 God be with him. 00:14:28.779 --> 00:14:36.838 Jesus answered and said unto him verily, verily, I say unto thee, accept the man be born again. 00:14:36.838 --> 00:14:40.567 He cannot see the kingdom of God. 00:14:40.567 --> 00:14:42.451 I'm gonna do some teaching. 00:14:42.451 --> 00:14:45.120 We just seen the manifestation of your sin. 00:14:45.120 --> 00:14:46.403 You must be born again. 00:14:47.127 --> 00:14:52.460 Now, when we go to the teaching of Jesus Christ and talking to Nicodemus, he tells him the same thing. 00:14:52.460 --> 00:14:55.052 Where is the revelation in this? 00:14:55.052 --> 00:14:59.500 Nicodemus being like any one of us would be like born again. 00:14:59.500 --> 00:15:00.543 What do you mean? 00:15:00.543 --> 00:15:04.878 I'm 55, I'm, whatever age I am, how can I be born again? 00:15:04.878 --> 00:15:11.115 First force, says Nicodemus, said unto him how can a man be born when he is old? 00:15:11.115 --> 00:15:17.132 How can he enter the second time into his mother's womb and be born? 00:15:17.132 --> 00:15:20.937 Jesus answered verily, verily. 00:15:20.937 --> 00:15:27.432 I say unto thee accept a man, be born of water and of the spirit. 00:15:27.432 --> 00:15:31.380 He cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 00:15:31.380 --> 00:15:45.404 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that is born of the spirit is spirit. 00:15:45.404 --> 00:15:48.168 We got to talk about this. 00:15:48.189 --> 00:15:52.699 You ever wonder why you've been baptized and everybody says that you need to get baptized. 00:15:52.699 --> 00:16:01.282 That's just our outward expression that we have accepted the rule of Jesus Christ and God in our lives. 00:16:01.282 --> 00:16:08.139 And that is an expression for us and to others to say that we are being born again. 00:16:08.139 --> 00:16:23.439 So when you do that is not necessarily a a way to say that you're securely in heaven and in the kingdom of God, but it is a way to say that I am willfully being born unto God again. 00:16:23.439 --> 00:16:26.605 I want everybody to recite this with me. 00:16:26.605 --> 00:16:36.321 We're going to recite the Lord's prayer and I want you to have it on the top of your mind as I begin to continue to teach our father who are in heaven hallowed be thy name. 00:16:36.321 --> 00:16:38.064 Thy kingdom, come. 00:16:38.064 --> 00:16:47.466 Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven and give us this day our daily bread. 00:16:47.466 --> 00:17:01.931 Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors, and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil for dying. 00:17:01.931 --> 00:17:08.059 It's the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. 00:17:08.059 --> 00:17:09.300 Amen. 00:17:10.383 --> 00:17:16.809 When Jesus disciples asked him, hey, teach us how to pray like the religious leaders of the time, that's what he told them to do. 00:17:16.809 --> 00:17:21.339 But it's some very key points that we find in that prayer. 00:17:21.339 --> 00:17:39.917 That has all the implications for us to do as Christians in manifesting God's will or authority over our lives and in the earth, and that is this God will be done on earth as it is in heaven, don't you know? 00:17:39.917 --> 00:17:40.838 It's really that simple. 00:17:40.838 --> 00:17:47.314 To manifest the seed that God has in you is do his will. 00:17:47.314 --> 00:17:49.904 That's that simple. 00:17:49.904 --> 00:17:57.197 That will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 00:17:58.599 --> 00:18:09.247 Now, when we come and we talk about being born again and we look at it and we see that we have to manifest God's authority in our life. 00:18:09.247 --> 00:18:19.088 And this is how the children of God are manifest, and then also the children of the devil are manifest, because if you are born of flesh, you will be flesh. 00:18:19.088 --> 00:18:22.086 If you're born of spirit, you will be spirit. 00:18:22.086 --> 00:18:28.448 Now I want you to think about this in a term that's not so much of oh, flesh. 00:18:28.448 --> 00:18:29.664 I was born for my mother. 00:18:29.664 --> 00:18:32.164 She's flesh, and I was born for my father. 00:18:32.164 --> 00:18:33.144 We're all flesh. 00:18:33.144 --> 00:18:35.607 No, we're talking about the spiritual realm here. 00:18:35.607 --> 00:18:40.288 When it says being born again, it's who you allow to have rule over your life. 00:18:40.288 --> 00:18:47.697 That is how you manifest the fruit of whatever master you serve. 00:18:47.697 --> 00:18:52.506 If you serve in Satan, you're going to manifest things of the flesh. 00:18:52.506 --> 00:18:59.451 If you are serving God, you will manifest things of God and of the spirit. 00:19:00.219 --> 00:19:05.969 There's one thing that the world has twisted, and I want everybody today I'm going to destroy this myth. 00:19:05.969 --> 00:19:07.826 We're going to destroy this myth. 00:19:07.826 --> 00:19:20.669 The biggest twist that the world has, even when they don't agree with what we agree with when it comes to spirituality, is they recognize that there is a higher power. 00:19:20.669 --> 00:19:25.407 I'm here to tell you today there's two difference between recognition and belief. 00:19:25.407 --> 00:19:36.149 And I'm going to break this down because they will say I recognize that there is something bigger that happened and caused all of this to come together. 00:19:36.149 --> 00:19:43.286 I recognize that Jesus came and, yeah, he died, but I don't know if he's the Messiah. 00:19:43.286 --> 00:19:45.226 Yeah, we can't find this body. 00:19:45.226 --> 00:19:47.225 I recognize that. 00:19:48.039 --> 00:19:53.959 But the difference between recognition and belief is the simple act of doing so. 00:19:53.959 --> 00:19:57.583 When you recognize something is true, you kind of consider it. 00:19:57.583 --> 00:20:02.266 I recognize it's true, but when I believe it, I do it. 00:20:02.266 --> 00:20:04.203 It's that simple. 00:20:04.203 --> 00:20:05.367 It's that simple. 00:20:05.367 --> 00:20:09.285 I don't have to go on and throughout this theology and do all of that. 00:20:09.285 --> 00:20:10.193 It's that simple. 00:20:11.400 --> 00:20:13.525 Recognition and belief are two different things. 00:20:13.525 --> 00:20:17.244 I recognize that one day, man, I want to be a police officer. 00:20:17.244 --> 00:20:19.593 You know what I recognize. 00:20:19.593 --> 00:20:21.038 That day I could talk to people. 00:20:21.038 --> 00:20:23.746 I like sports, you know. 00:20:23.746 --> 00:20:28.224 I like you know being a police officer, like things about. 00:20:28.224 --> 00:20:31.712 I recognize that I could do it, but I had to believe it. 00:20:31.712 --> 00:20:34.793 So I had to go to the Academy first. 00:20:34.793 --> 00:20:37.361 I had to apply to do it First. 00:20:37.361 --> 00:20:42.411 I had to train first, I had to study, because I believed I can do it. 00:20:42.852 --> 00:20:47.770 The difference between Recognition and belief is the simple act of doing it. 00:20:47.770 --> 00:20:57.812 So us, as children of God, the thing that we have to do is Could ask yourself the question do I recognize that there is a God or do I believe it? 00:20:57.812 --> 00:21:03.099 Do I recognize it or do I believe it? 00:21:03.099 --> 00:21:07.871 Believe has nothing to do with our emotional attachments. 00:21:07.871 --> 00:21:10.084 It has nothing to do with it. 00:21:10.084 --> 00:21:12.230 Believe has nothing to do with it. 00:21:12.230 --> 00:21:15.899 Belief only has something to do with your actions. 00:21:16.844 --> 00:21:26.701 If you believe, god said with your first fruit and if you would give your 10% to my house that there may be meat in my house that I will pour you out a Blessing. 00:21:26.701 --> 00:21:28.204 You won't have room enough to receive it. 00:21:28.204 --> 00:21:30.991 If you recognize it as a person, because we all have heard it. 00:21:30.991 --> 00:21:32.987 But if you do it, you believe it. 00:21:32.987 --> 00:21:35.743 That's it. 00:21:35.743 --> 00:21:36.783 That's it. 00:21:36.783 --> 00:21:38.403 That's your first fruit. 00:21:38.403 --> 00:21:43.232 If you recognize it, if you recognize that he is Lord of all, that, if God be for me. 00:21:43.232 --> 00:21:44.703 Who can be against me? 00:21:44.703 --> 00:21:47.451 That he is greater than the whole world against me? 00:21:47.451 --> 00:21:53.403 I recognize it because grandma told me about the scriptures, mama told me about the scriptures, auntie told me about the scriptures. 00:21:53.403 --> 00:21:55.890 The moment you do it, that's the moment you believe it. 00:21:56.240 --> 00:22:04.702 Come on, two differences the world recognizes there is something greater than us. 00:22:04.702 --> 00:22:08.228 We, as Christians, believe it. 00:22:08.228 --> 00:22:10.263 We act on it. 00:22:10.263 --> 00:22:11.869 We do it. 00:22:11.869 --> 00:22:17.679 So if you have to ask yourself right now why am I not seeing the fullness of God in my life? 00:22:17.679 --> 00:22:20.980 Are you recognizing the word or are you believing? 00:22:20.980 --> 00:22:25.189 I wish I had a church that understood it. 00:22:25.189 --> 00:22:30.028 Are you recognizing it or are you believing him to be what you called him to be? 00:22:30.028 --> 00:22:38.272 The Bible says before Megan even come to me, he first has to believe that I am him and I am him that will keep them that diligently seek me. 00:22:38.272 --> 00:22:47.059 Recognition and belief it's two different things, two different things you got to believe. 00:22:47.059 --> 00:22:52.992 The only way that you can believe is if you do. 00:22:52.992 --> 00:22:55.020 Now. 00:22:55.481 --> 00:23:02.763 God recognizes and he understands that we are in a battle Against the spiritual world. 00:23:02.763 --> 00:23:10.819 That's why he says when he told Nicodemus that For a man to enter into the kingdom of God, he must be born again. 00:23:10.819 --> 00:23:28.788 Okay, he understood that you had to be born again in the spirit, because I can get a pen preach as much as I want, but the realization is that when you go on Monday morning, whatever that was on your back this whole week, whatever that you have been battling with, it will still be there. 00:23:28.788 --> 00:23:41.352 And that looks sometimes Riller than the spiritual revelations we have in our life from God, because Monday I'm going to work with X, y, z that I don't can't stand. 00:23:41.352 --> 00:23:42.360 You know. 00:23:42.360 --> 00:23:48.033 I'm saying I am going to have to find out how I'm gonna pay this bill, that I don't know what the money's coming from. 00:23:48.033 --> 00:23:49.884 That is a reality. 00:23:50.880 --> 00:23:53.709 But God tells you that he's more than enough, that spirit. 00:23:53.709 --> 00:23:56.505 So God understood that. 00:23:56.505 --> 00:24:03.505 That's why he says that you have to be born again by the renewing of your mind. 00:24:03.505 --> 00:24:17.933 That's why he said that if we look and we look at scriptures and E Cleassie's the Bible says that he who Regards the wind will not so and he who observes the clouds will not reap. 00:24:17.933 --> 00:24:28.819 I'll say that again he who regards the wind Will not so and he who observes the clouds will not reap. 00:24:29.580 --> 00:24:40.230 What that is saying is someone who's always looking at the fleshly things has put in front of you the natural that you will never so, you will never reap. 00:24:40.230 --> 00:24:46.913 That is the enemy's attack to get you to be what you are and never want more. 00:24:46.913 --> 00:25:00.011 Because God came and he put season us that we would be more than enough, that we would have more than enough, but the moment that we look at the flesh, we will not so and we will not reap. 00:25:00.011 --> 00:25:06.727 And you Manifest the seed of the devil Because his attack is on the seed. 00:25:06.727 --> 00:25:15.445 Because the moment that you step out and you do something, you step out, you achieve whatever that dream, whatever that goal is, in the name of God. 00:25:15.445 --> 00:25:19.053 The moment you do it, it'll be just like Joshua when he had the stones. 00:25:19.053 --> 00:25:20.563 How do you get that? 00:25:20.563 --> 00:25:22.404 How'd y'all do that? 00:25:22.404 --> 00:25:23.869 It was God. 00:25:23.869 --> 00:25:25.501 It was God. 00:25:25.862 --> 00:25:32.694 He understands that the only way to bring forth that type of fruit is that you have to be in the spirit. 00:25:32.694 --> 00:25:46.804 It goes on in ecliases and it says that sold out in the morning, so that seed and an evening will hold, not that hand, because you do not know which one will prosper, either this or that. 00:25:46.804 --> 00:26:03.351 See, the word of God is always about getting rid of and out of your seed back into the earth, because he understands that the more you want, the more you desire, the more you want to be, greater it's, the closer and the more you gonna be to him. 00:26:03.351 --> 00:26:12.129 Because standing your own message you are right now is where the enemy wants to keep you, because if you observe the clouds, you will not. 00:26:12.129 --> 00:26:15.019 So you'll serve the wind you will not reap. 00:26:15.019 --> 00:26:16.222 Amen. 00:26:16.222 --> 00:26:18.106 It's just good to someone today. 00:26:18.106 --> 00:26:19.831 Amen, amen. 00:26:21.980 --> 00:26:41.733 So my last point and I Hope this wraps it up is that the biggest thing about this seed is God desires for us to do the will of God in our lives. 00:26:41.733 --> 00:26:56.813 That is the number one Principle of why he wants you to sow godly seeds in the earth is that his will may be done on earth as it is in heaven. 00:26:56.813 --> 00:26:58.605 It's that simple. 00:26:58.605 --> 00:27:07.934 That's why the Bible says seek ye first the kingdom of heaven and his righteousness, and all of these things will be added unto you. 00:27:07.934 --> 00:27:13.572 His first goal of your seed is to bring him glory. 00:27:13.572 --> 00:27:28.224 His first goal of your seed is that you get something through faith, and Through faith you get it believing in him, and then that seed grows fruit, and when they ask you how you got it, it was God. 00:27:28.224 --> 00:27:35.293 His first goal is to develop godly seed in you. 00:27:35.293 --> 00:27:41.573 This is the trick and this is the principle that has not changed. 00:27:42.360 --> 00:28:08.567 My wife asked me a really, really great question one day, and we were studying Adam and Eve and she said why didn't God just stop Eve from eating the fruit If Adam walked with God through the cool of the day and eating the garden Was God's force and he had planted all the trees and man just had to, you know, keep the garden. 00:28:08.567 --> 00:28:16.567 Why did he let the serpent in the garden and why did he let Eve eat the fruit? 00:28:16.567 --> 00:28:19.613 And then Adam was right there with him? 00:28:19.613 --> 00:28:29.288 The Bible says that when he take of the fruit she ate and then gave to her husband who was with her, why didn't God just stop them? 00:28:30.780 --> 00:28:41.982 The principle about a seed and our pastor spoke on this as well is that God's ordeal from the beginning Was for us to come into submission unto him. 00:28:41.982 --> 00:28:45.579 So we have open, open, free will. 00:28:45.579 --> 00:28:54.766 Free will will always be the thing that you have that will keep us from doing or producing Godly seed in our life. 00:28:54.766 --> 00:29:14.283 The option to say I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna believe it, I'm gonna recognize it, or I'm gonna do it that is the thing that has plagued us from Years, and the reason why God didn't do that is because we're True love exists. 00:29:14.283 --> 00:29:20.054 Those that love him was love him in spirit, and in truth you talk about the spirit again. 00:29:20.054 --> 00:29:22.407 There has to be free will. 00:29:22.407 --> 00:29:28.147 There has to be the ability, ability to not listen. 00:29:28.147 --> 00:29:31.597 That's the only way you could come into submission. 00:29:32.369 --> 00:29:56.640 But I'm here to tell you today that I dare you that if you stop recognizing that there is a higher power and that if you start believing that God is more than enough, that God is greater than anything that you can ever face in life, anything you've ever been through, I'm here to tell you that if you believe it and if you do it in your life, you will see the manifestation of God in your life. 00:29:56.640 --> 00:29:59.296 I'm here to tell you that it works. 00:29:59.296 --> 00:30:00.994 It works. 00:30:00.994 --> 00:30:08.139 I'm here to tell you that the atonement of our sins through Jesus Christ gave us the ability to come into God. 00:30:08.139 --> 00:30:14.860 We have to always consider the spirit above all. 00:30:15.949 --> 00:30:34.940 See, the spirit is so important that even if we look at the Genesis story, it says in the beginning that God created the heavens and the earth, and the earth was without form and void and the spirit of God hovered over the waters, the face of the waters. 00:30:34.940 --> 00:30:42.881 Even in Genesis it tells us that water and spirit have a great connection. 00:30:42.881 --> 00:30:55.698 And Jesus came down and he told the Pharisee Nicodemus that in order for you to come into the kingdom of God, you must be born again of water and spirit. 00:30:55.698 --> 00:31:15.680 The revelation is here, that's, whosoever is born of God does not commit sin, for His seed remain in Him and he cannot sin because he is born of God. 00:31:15.680 --> 00:31:22.177 Jesus tells us the only way to be born again is a man must be born with water and spirit. 00:31:22.177 --> 00:31:28.680 In this the children of God are manifested. 00:31:28.680 --> 00:31:37.577 That will be done on earth, as it is in heaven, first in me, then in the earth. 00:31:38.789 --> 00:31:40.235 I dare you today to stand on your feet. 00:31:40.235 --> 00:31:44.798 I dare you today to recognize the seed that's in your life. 00:31:44.798 --> 00:31:58.177 I dare you today to recognize the principles of God through the seed, the seed of giving, the seed of sowing love, the seed of God's principles that he has taught us. 00:31:58.177 --> 00:32:08.080 No longer will we recognize that there is a higher power, but we will believe by doing, by doing. 00:32:08.080 --> 00:32:14.334 Dear Heavenly Father, I thank you, god, for this opportunity, the message that you've given your people. 00:32:14.334 --> 00:32:24.280 I pray that every listening ear be impacted, inspired, father, to go, and that we may manifest the seed that you've placed in all of us. 00:32:24.280 --> 00:32:28.559 Father, where we have failed short, I ask God that you would forgive us. 00:32:28.559 --> 00:32:31.877 Help us, father, to do your will. 00:32:31.877 --> 00:32:35.718 Help us to get rid of the things that distract us. 00:32:35.718 --> 00:32:45.342 Help us to manifest your seed in our lives and as in your precious name, we do pray, amen, amen.