WEBVTT 00:00:03.040 --> 00:00:04.639 We've actually been talking about it all month. 00:00:08.400 --> 00:00:14.800 Sometimes we forget that the book that we carry is our secret weapon. 00:00:16.879 --> 00:00:20.879 And we've also been covering aspects of the church. 00:00:24.480 --> 00:00:26.399 How the church works, how it functions. 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:32.000 And the Apostle Paul gives us a lot to work with. 00:00:36.240 --> 00:00:38.479 But when we think of the church, thank you, Benny. 00:00:59.039 --> 00:01:01.520 And the gates of hell cannot prevail against her. 00:01:04.719 --> 00:01:08.879 And so we want to bring you a little bit of information about how a church functions today. 00:01:13.200 --> 00:01:17.280 But we never want to leave out the revelation of God's word. 00:01:20.799 --> 00:01:22.480 That's the rhema word of God. 00:01:37.599 --> 00:01:39.599 You can call this the logos of God. 00:01:57.760 --> 00:01:59.439 The general sayings of God. 00:02:10.159 --> 00:02:11.759 And it gets inside of you. 00:02:13.520 --> 00:02:17.120 And it revolutionizes the way you think and the way you see things in life. 00:02:40.240 --> 00:02:43.280 But there's a difference between knowledge or information. 00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:50.080 That knowledge has got to become revelation knowledge in us. 00:02:54.159 --> 00:02:56.159 That's when it makes a difference in our life. 00:02:59.120 --> 00:03:01.439 Otherwise, we're just Christians. 00:03:07.759 --> 00:03:09.439 But it doesn't change the way we live. 00:03:18.960 --> 00:03:23.599 And for it to impact us and not have a difference in our life. 00:03:26.080 --> 00:03:28.560 I'm not the same person I was 20 years ago. 00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:32.159 Or 10 years ago. 00:03:33.120 --> 00:03:34.000 Or five years ago. 00:03:35.360 --> 00:03:36.319 Or a year ago. 00:03:38.560 --> 00:03:41.840 This word changes and transforms your life. 00:03:44.319 --> 00:03:45.680 It begins with the way you think. 00:03:47.360 --> 00:03:48.479 You begin to think different. 00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:55.120 We shouldn't be praying the same prayers we were praying 20 years ago. 00:03:59.199 --> 00:04:02.080 Because the word of God elevates our praying. 00:04:13.199 --> 00:04:15.520 A lot of times we pray from our emotions. 00:04:17.920 --> 00:04:19.120 And not according to his will. 00:04:20.879 --> 00:04:23.279 And we think we really, really prayed because we cried. 00:04:39.120 --> 00:04:40.720 It's gonna happen, it's gotta happen. 00:04:42.560 --> 00:04:44.160 That's when we receive revelation. 00:04:46.319 --> 00:04:49.360 But we said in the in the church there's certain things that are just normal. 00:04:52.480 --> 00:04:58.879 Baptism, communion, the flow of the Holy Spirit should be normal. 00:05:01.360 --> 00:05:02.160 It should be normal. 00:05:03.759 --> 00:05:07.680 There should be the gifts of the Holy Spirit operating in our services. 00:05:12.160 --> 00:05:15.120 We see it more often on Wednesday nights in our prayer meetings. 00:05:19.120 --> 00:05:22.399 But it can and should happen in every gathering that we have. 00:05:25.360 --> 00:05:30.000 Because the Holy Spirit shows up on Sunday like he does on Wednesday. 00:05:34.160 --> 00:05:36.079 And we had a great Wednesday night prayer meeting. 00:06:44.480 --> 00:06:48.639 The Bible, we ought to base everything we do on the Bible. 00:06:52.000 --> 00:06:53.600 That ought to be normal for any church. 00:06:56.079 --> 00:07:03.120 And the last one which we haven't covered yet, we will probably next week is prayer. 00:07:45.199 --> 00:07:47.120 But you'll always land on your feet. 00:08:08.399 --> 00:08:09.839 And say I was here last year. 00:08:12.560 --> 00:08:15.360 But I sense growth, I feel like I'm here now. 00:08:18.079 --> 00:08:18.800 And you'll know it. 00:08:20.079 --> 00:08:24.639 You can just like in the natural natural when our kids are growing up. 00:08:26.639 --> 00:08:28.399 I don't know if you did that, but we did that. 00:08:31.439 --> 00:08:36.000 Every year we line them up and then put a mark on the garage, on the wall. 00:08:41.759 --> 00:08:43.600 And we were able to see that they were growing. 00:08:49.759 --> 00:08:50.799 We know just inside. 00:08:50.960 --> 00:08:51.919 I know I'm different. 00:08:55.679 --> 00:09:00.399 Maybe in six months, you don't get mad as often as you do. 00:09:03.279 --> 00:09:05.440 How many people have problem with anger? 00:09:05.600 --> 00:09:06.240 Raise your hand. 00:09:12.480 --> 00:09:17.200 In six months, you surprised me. 00:09:19.360 --> 00:09:26.879 In six months, if you fill up with the word of God, that anger will begin to diminish. 00:09:51.120 --> 00:09:52.159 Maybe it's anxiety. 00:09:53.600 --> 00:09:58.399 When six months you ought to experience more of the peace of God in your life. 00:10:01.519 --> 00:10:02.879 If you fill up with the word of God. 00:13:26.159 --> 00:13:28.320 So the women would have a question. 00:13:30.559 --> 00:13:32.960 And they'd scream to their husband on the other side. 00:13:35.279 --> 00:13:36.559 And it was becoming a problem. 00:13:38.559 --> 00:13:41.039 And so Paul said, Women should be silent in the church. 00:13:44.399 --> 00:13:48.799 And when they get home, ask their husband the question. 00:13:51.840 --> 00:13:55.039 Now, there was another aspect of history there. 00:13:58.159 --> 00:14:04.639 At that particular time, the women were not exposed to formal training. 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:13.600 So it was primarily the men that were learning and being taught. 00:14:18.000 --> 00:14:26.399 But after Jesus came, and he established the church, he also brought freedom to the women. 00:14:30.240 --> 00:14:34.320 So here the women in the early century of the church. 00:14:42.559 --> 00:14:44.720 And they're like, we can know as much as the men can know. 00:14:48.399 --> 00:14:50.799 Except that they were screaming across the aisles. 00:15:25.279 --> 00:15:30.000 And we're going to run into another controversy here, but we'll look at that next week. 00:15:34.799 --> 00:15:47.919 He says, But every woman that prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, for that is even all one as if she were completely shaven. 00:15:57.679 --> 00:16:00.399 So if he's saying women ought to keep silent. 00:16:08.240 --> 00:16:12.559 Because it says here that women were praying and prophesying. 00:16:19.039 --> 00:16:23.039 And then he talks about putting something on their head when they pray or prophesy. 00:16:23.120 --> 00:16:24.399 So we'll talk about that next week. 00:16:28.080 --> 00:16:29.440 And I'll tell you why he said that. 00:16:31.440 --> 00:16:33.679 And so that's one controversy. 00:16:35.759 --> 00:16:38.480 Another one that we touched on a little bit last week. 00:16:50.240 --> 00:16:57.279 He says if everyone is speaking in tongues, an unbeliever is going to come in. 00:16:59.279 --> 00:17:01.200 And he's going to think you're mad, you're crazy. 00:17:04.559 --> 00:17:09.759 But he was this was not, he wasn't trying to ban speaking in tongues, he was bringing order. 00:17:16.559 --> 00:17:24.880 Instead of looking at it as rigid teaching, he was just bringing order. 00:17:27.359 --> 00:17:31.440 Women don't yell across the aisle to your husband, wait till you get home. 00:17:37.039 --> 00:17:47.920 And when it comes to tongues, this was equivalent to him saying when he says you can all speak in tongues at once. 00:17:51.039 --> 00:17:53.359 In other words, there's not time for everyone. 00:17:55.920 --> 00:17:58.000 It would be equivalent for us today. 00:18:00.640 --> 00:18:03.519 If everyone who could sing wanted to sing. 00:19:44.559 --> 00:19:45.200 There's a difference. 00:19:46.559 --> 00:19:52.079 That's why Jesus said those who believe will speak with new tongues. 00:19:54.559 --> 00:19:55.440 That's for all believers. 00:19:56.960 --> 00:19:58.240 It's not a gift of tongues. 00:19:59.440 --> 00:20:00.000 That's a gift. 00:20:03.519 --> 00:20:12.000 And the reason we know it's a gift is if you look at the book of it's in 1 Corinthians 12 29. 00:20:14.640 --> 00:20:16.880 This is the context in which he says. 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:00.880 For everyone. 00:22:03.039 --> 00:22:04.319 He didn't know who these guys were. 00:22:06.319 --> 00:22:10.720 But he knew they were believers that should have received the Holy Spirit. 00:22:14.799 --> 00:22:18.079 So the gift of tongues is a unique gift that Paul is addressing. 00:22:24.000 --> 00:22:27.359 And so those are some of the controversies in the church today. 00:22:30.240 --> 00:22:32.319 There's a few more, we'll address some next week. 00:22:49.920 --> 00:22:52.880 But they don't compare it with other things that were said previously. 00:23:00.880 --> 00:23:03.839 That the Bible is an advantage in our life. 00:23:06.079 --> 00:23:08.799 But we have to know how to activate this advantage of the Word. 00:23:17.200 --> 00:23:19.519 The Word of God, the Bible says it is alive. 00:23:22.240 --> 00:23:25.279 And powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword. 00:23:43.200 --> 00:23:48.720 No, the Bible says every scripture is inspired by God. 00:23:50.319 --> 00:23:52.960 In 2 Timothy 3.16, you can see that. 00:24:16.960 --> 00:24:18.799 It causes us to grow up spiritually. 00:25:15.119 --> 00:25:19.839 When we speak the word, it's like the shield of faith coming up. 00:25:22.319 --> 00:25:23.440 And so the word of God. 00:26:24.880 --> 00:26:26.079 Because it produces fruit. 00:26:27.599 --> 00:26:29.599 And so the word of God like a seed. 00:26:32.000 --> 00:26:32.960 It's a spiritual seed. 00:26:34.720 --> 00:26:38.400 But it produces the fruit of the spirit. 00:26:40.880 --> 00:26:42.160 Galatians 5 22. 00:26:44.079 --> 00:26:49.599 But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith. 00:26:54.400 --> 00:26:55.599 It's the character of Jesus. 00:26:57.039 --> 00:27:05.279 So if you want to grow in your character, in your personality, you have to take the seed of God's word and plant it in your heart. 00:27:19.119 --> 00:27:20.559 So in your spirit, you're brand new. 00:27:23.279 --> 00:27:27.680 But now the area of your mind and the area of your physical body and your soul. 00:27:36.720 --> 00:27:41.440 Before Christ, we built our lives around sin. 00:27:44.240 --> 00:27:46.400 Things that were not right, things that were not holy. 00:27:48.799 --> 00:27:52.640 And our minds and our bodies had been trained and educated in that area. 00:27:57.440 --> 00:27:58.720 But now we have to re-educate. 00:28:03.039 --> 00:28:03.839 To this new life. 00:28:05.119 --> 00:28:13.359 One of the ways to do that is to download the teaching of righteousness into your soul. 00:28:16.880 --> 00:28:18.319 Righteousness is our new nature. 00:28:26.319 --> 00:28:28.960 So we take scriptures that talk about who we are. 00:28:32.000 --> 00:28:35.440 And we consciously download them into our consciousness. 00:28:39.119 --> 00:28:40.000 We plant them. 00:28:41.039 --> 00:28:41.759 It's the word of God. 00:28:41.839 --> 00:28:51.119 You're planting the word of God until it becomes just a normal reaction and reflection. 00:28:54.559 --> 00:28:57.200 Your response will always be the fruit of the spirit. 00:29:02.240 --> 00:29:03.200 Now you'll have a choice. 00:29:07.359 --> 00:29:10.079 You can lash out. 00:29:17.359 --> 00:29:21.440 Your first response will always be love because you have righteousness in you. 00:29:26.319 --> 00:29:29.039 But then your mind will get in there. 00:29:31.440 --> 00:29:34.480 And try and find another scripture that allows you to hit that person. 00:29:39.119 --> 00:29:49.119 But you can get to a place where your first response is love and patience toward the person. 00:29:52.400 --> 00:29:56.799 So you download righteousness inside of you, or that you'll always be the same. 00:30:01.759 --> 00:30:10.720 If you were a fighter before you came to the Lord, and you never renew your mind to who you are, a new person. 00:30:13.759 --> 00:30:19.279 With a nature of love, then your first reaction is going to be to fight. 00:30:23.440 --> 00:30:26.160 That's what your body and your mind were accustomed to. 00:30:28.960 --> 00:30:31.920 But you begin to say, no, no, no, I am the righteousness of God. 00:30:35.839 --> 00:30:37.359 I have the fruit of the Spirit. 00:30:56.960 --> 00:30:58.960 And what grows is the fruit of the Spirit. 00:31:01.359 --> 00:31:04.640 So you're not walking around saying, I'm not gonna sin, I'm not gonna sin, I'm not gonna sin. 00:31:21.519 --> 00:31:23.440 The goodness of God begins to flow. 00:31:25.440 --> 00:31:29.440 The fruit of the Spirit begins to automatically take place in your life. 00:31:33.279 --> 00:31:35.920 Let me give you some scriptures on righteousness really quick. 00:31:55.200 --> 00:31:56.000 But watch this. 00:31:57.119 --> 00:32:01.200 This is a prophecy, this is something that God was gonna do in the future. 00:32:03.680 --> 00:32:05.680 And it happened in our day when Jesus came. 00:32:08.480 --> 00:32:11.519 Look at a new heart also will I give you. 00:32:27.599 --> 00:32:34.160 And I will take away the hard, stony or the hard, stony heart out of your flesh. 00:32:39.359 --> 00:32:41.200 And I will give you a heart of flesh. 00:32:43.119 --> 00:32:46.079 In other words, he removes our hard heart when we come to Jesus. 00:32:50.160 --> 00:32:52.079 And he gives us a soft heart. 00:32:55.920 --> 00:32:57.279 That wants to do right. 00:32:58.799 --> 00:33:00.240 That looks to God first. 00:33:01.680 --> 00:33:04.240 See, that was what the prophet was saying, that's coming. 00:33:06.640 --> 00:33:08.000 It hasn't happened, but it's coming. 00:33:09.839 --> 00:33:12.640 And then we see it in 2 Corinthians 5 17. 00:33:22.000 --> 00:33:25.599 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new person. 00:33:28.640 --> 00:33:29.279 New creature. 00:33:33.119 --> 00:33:35.359 And behold, all things are become new. 00:33:37.359 --> 00:33:38.000 What is he talking about? 00:33:38.160 --> 00:33:39.200 A new heart, a new spirit. 00:33:41.839 --> 00:33:50.160 And he says, When I put my new spirit within you, go to back to Ezekiel and verse 27 at the top there. 00:33:52.880 --> 00:34:00.079 And I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my judgments and do them. 00:34:06.400 --> 00:34:06.559 Why? 00:34:06.720 --> 00:34:09.199 Because of a new heart and a new spirit that I'm putting in you. 00:34:12.639 --> 00:34:23.360 So our job today is to take those things of the Word of God and put them in our consciences. 00:34:26.880 --> 00:34:36.480 Read them, hear them, meditate, leerla, escucharla, meditarla, speak them, because we are new people when we come to Christ. 00:34:39.199 --> 00:34:46.559 The reason we struggle in certain areas of our life areas of our accepted Jesus as Savior. 00:34:49.119 --> 00:34:51.760 But we never begin to meditate his word. 00:34:55.039 --> 00:34:56.800 We read it, but we didn't meditate it. 00:34:58.719 --> 00:35:06.480 But the Bible says, When you meditate my word day and night, then you will do the things that are in my word. 00:35:08.960 --> 00:35:10.480 Look at Ephesians 4.22. 00:35:12.559 --> 00:35:15.440 Another scripture about our identity, who we are in Christ. 00:35:18.639 --> 00:35:22.639 He says, Put off concerning the former lifestyle the old man. 00:35:34.880 --> 00:35:37.199 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind. 00:35:39.760 --> 00:35:44.559 And put on the new man which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. 00:35:54.639 --> 00:35:56.400 We have a new man on the inside. 00:35:58.559 --> 00:36:01.199 So we have to re-educate our mind and our soul. 00:36:04.559 --> 00:36:06.800 Paul calls after renewing of our mind. 00:36:09.119 --> 00:36:11.360 He says, Be renewed in the spirit of your mind. 00:36:13.679 --> 00:36:15.039 That's how you put on the new man. 00:36:16.960 --> 00:36:18.639 It doesn't come just because you hope for it. 00:36:21.199 --> 00:36:22.719 It doesn't come because you pray for it. 00:36:24.480 --> 00:36:26.719 You've got to be renewed by the word of God. 00:36:32.400 --> 00:36:34.480 I am righteous because of Jesus' blood. 00:36:36.559 --> 00:36:38.559 I'm not righteous because I do the right thing. 00:36:40.880 --> 00:36:41.280 Watch this. 00:36:42.239 --> 00:36:46.079 I do the right things because I am righteous. 00:36:47.440 --> 00:36:52.239 When that gets inside of us, it's just fruit. 00:36:54.000 --> 00:36:55.840 It's the fruit of holiness. 00:36:58.079 --> 00:36:59.760 It's not our hard work. 00:37:02.559 --> 00:37:04.480 We didn't work hard to be righteous. 00:37:06.159 --> 00:37:06.960 We did not. 00:37:09.119 --> 00:37:10.320 We didn't work hard, no. 00:37:12.960 --> 00:37:15.599 We just put his word in our souls. 00:37:23.519 --> 00:37:25.199 And the fruit of love came out. 00:37:27.280 --> 00:37:28.320 The fruit of love it came out. 00:37:30.480 --> 00:37:34.480 And they say, What you are so loving, you she is such a loving person. 00:37:38.880 --> 00:37:45.840 That's when when it comes to a believer, it's not just the personality of the person. 00:37:48.159 --> 00:37:49.119 It's the new nature. 00:37:51.360 --> 00:37:52.880 Because God is what? 00:37:54.639 --> 00:37:55.440 God is love. 00:37:56.880 --> 00:37:59.519 So the first thing that comes out is a fruit is love. 00:38:02.800 --> 00:38:05.280 And you begin to walk in his joy and his peace. 00:38:08.400 --> 00:38:11.280 No matter what happens, you're at peace. 00:38:12.880 --> 00:38:14.480 No matter what happens, you're in joy. 00:38:18.880 --> 00:38:22.960 The fruit of the Spirit is not anything you did, it just happened. 00:38:27.039 --> 00:38:29.519 Because you put righteousness in your heart. 00:38:32.960 --> 00:38:33.679 That's who you are. 00:38:33.760 --> 00:38:34.400 I'm righteous. 00:38:36.639 --> 00:38:39.519 So you say, Lord, thank you for your righteousness. 00:38:43.920 --> 00:38:45.519 I am righteous because of you. 00:38:48.000 --> 00:38:49.599 Righteous means I'm good with God. 00:38:49.760 --> 00:38:50.400 That's what it means. 00:38:52.880 --> 00:38:56.239 You're good with God whether you do right or wrong. 00:38:58.880 --> 00:39:02.400 You see, we also have to change and shift in that area of thinking. 00:39:05.519 --> 00:39:09.360 So that we're not giving ourselves credit for what we do. 00:39:13.039 --> 00:39:15.199 No, it's all because of what he has done for us. 00:39:22.480 --> 00:39:23.840 Now he uses us. 00:39:30.719 --> 00:39:32.480 At least 98% of the time. 00:39:34.800 --> 00:39:35.519 He needs us. 00:39:37.039 --> 00:39:41.840 Sometimes I hear people say, Lord, I'm just gonna get out of the way and let you do it. 00:39:46.320 --> 00:39:49.360 And the Lord says, No, no, no, stay in the way and I'll help you do it. 00:39:54.400 --> 00:39:55.599 That's what Jesus said. 00:39:55.760 --> 00:39:58.400 Jesus said, I'm gonna send you the Holy Spirit. 00:40:01.280 --> 00:40:02.800 And he's gonna be your helper. 00:40:04.800 --> 00:40:07.280 He's not gonna do it for you, he's gonna help you do it. 00:40:10.159 --> 00:40:12.320 And the help comes better and stronger. 00:40:14.719 --> 00:40:16.480 When we have his word inside of us. 00:40:18.480 --> 00:40:20.320 Because he uses that word that is in us. 00:40:22.880 --> 00:40:24.400 That word comes up like rehema. 00:40:26.880 --> 00:40:28.960 And that's a power word that gets things done. 00:40:31.599 --> 00:40:35.199 That word rehma remah is a power word. 00:40:37.519 --> 00:40:40.639 The word is also visionary. 00:40:42.559 --> 00:40:45.280 What I mean by that is that it changes our vision. 00:40:48.800 --> 00:40:51.360 Not only our physical vision, our spiritual vision. 00:40:54.880 --> 00:40:57.119 In other words, the way we see things changes. 00:41:00.079 --> 00:41:02.800 Look at this passage in Matthew 13, 16. 00:41:05.519 --> 00:41:07.360 This is Jesus speaking to the disciples. 00:41:09.199 --> 00:41:10.960 And he's telling them, This is what's coming to you. 00:41:14.239 --> 00:41:17.760 They were able to partake of what Jesus hadn't done yet. 00:41:21.199 --> 00:41:24.079 Because they had him in real life before him. 00:41:26.559 --> 00:41:29.119 They had the word of life in front of them, walking with him. 00:41:32.159 --> 00:41:35.280 But he told them Blessed are your eyes. 00:41:37.199 --> 00:41:38.239 Blessed are your eyes. 00:41:41.360 --> 00:41:43.119 Blessed are your ears for they hear. 00:41:45.360 --> 00:41:52.559 You see, he was saying the word of God changes your perspective, the way you see and the way you hear. 00:42:13.039 --> 00:42:14.559 Like when you come in a dark room. 00:42:16.719 --> 00:42:18.079 And you hit the switch. 00:42:19.840 --> 00:42:21.280 And all of a sudden you can see. 00:42:23.119 --> 00:42:24.559 That's how the word of God works. 00:42:26.079 --> 00:42:33.039 When we meditate in his word and get it on the inside of us, the Holy Spirit hits that switch. 00:42:35.840 --> 00:42:37.920 And we're able to see things like God sees them. 00:42:40.639 --> 00:42:42.719 We begin to see things through faith. 00:42:44.960 --> 00:42:46.639 And not just through these physical eyes. 00:42:56.719 --> 00:42:57.519 I am sick. 00:42:59.760 --> 00:43:01.440 But let that light kick in. 00:43:06.239 --> 00:43:08.719 So that the Holy Spirit can switch that light. 00:43:16.159 --> 00:43:19.760 Now you go beyond the physical realm. 00:43:22.480 --> 00:43:24.800 And you say, Oh, by his stripes I am healed. 00:43:28.079 --> 00:43:29.360 The light switch went on. 00:43:33.119 --> 00:43:34.559 Some of you have tried that. 00:43:36.719 --> 00:43:38.159 Without meditating the word of God. 00:43:40.400 --> 00:43:41.760 Just like a little parrot. 00:43:44.239 --> 00:43:46.320 Oh, that's what they said to do, so I'm gonna say it. 00:43:50.000 --> 00:43:54.480 But you gotta get the word of God inside you for yourself. 00:43:58.159 --> 00:43:59.760 So the Holy Spirit can turn your switch. 00:44:02.880 --> 00:44:03.519 Your switch. 00:44:04.880 --> 00:44:08.239 Not just your brother or sister's switch, your switch has to go on. 00:44:12.719 --> 00:44:17.360 I don't know about you, but I'd rather depend on me and the Holy Spirit. 00:44:21.199 --> 00:44:22.559 Than to depend on somebody else. 00:44:28.159 --> 00:44:32.800 So we're talking about the word that changes our sight, our vision. 00:44:37.280 --> 00:44:39.599 That it's just not knowledge from the Bible. 00:44:41.760 --> 00:44:43.119 You're like, oh wow, this is interesting. 00:44:45.039 --> 00:44:46.079 Oh, what a great story. 00:44:48.159 --> 00:44:49.840 Oh, wow, David killed the giant. 00:44:51.599 --> 00:44:52.960 No, we gotta go beyond that. 00:44:54.800 --> 00:45:02.559 We gotta allow the Holy Spirit to say you can destroy and kill giants in your life. 00:45:07.280 --> 00:45:08.079 Lions, too. 00:45:11.199 --> 00:45:13.599 Giants, lions, bears, remember David. 00:45:16.960 --> 00:45:18.719 You see, that's gotta get on the inside of you. 00:45:23.280 --> 00:45:27.280 Otherwise, it's just a good, great story in the Bible that we tell our children. 00:45:31.679 --> 00:45:35.519 But the word of God will shoot us up, it'll catapult us. 00:45:39.599 --> 00:45:47.199 When we receive spiritual understanding, how does it come through meditating God's word? 00:45:50.719 --> 00:45:53.840 It takes us, it takes away all the limitations in our life. 00:45:56.079 --> 00:45:58.079 It takes us to another dimension of living. 00:46:01.039 --> 00:46:01.760 Can we do that? 00:46:03.199 --> 00:46:04.000 Jesus did it. 00:46:05.280 --> 00:46:06.400 We see Peter did it. 00:46:08.559 --> 00:46:09.679 He went to another dimension. 00:46:11.679 --> 00:46:15.440 You don't just walk on water without going to another dimension of faith. 00:46:19.760 --> 00:46:24.800 You don't raise the dead without going into another dimension. 00:46:29.679 --> 00:46:31.920 He saw that with God nothing was impossible. 00:46:34.320 --> 00:46:35.760 That he was the prince of life. 00:46:38.159 --> 00:46:46.079 And when that got on the inside of him, then death was nothing. 00:46:48.000 --> 00:46:50.320 Life was restoring life was easy. 00:46:52.400 --> 00:46:55.599 And so these examples in Scripture, these men and women. 00:47:05.599 --> 00:47:07.679 This is how we access the wisdom of God. 00:47:15.199 --> 00:47:20.719 But the vehicle is meditation. 00:47:22.320 --> 00:47:27.840 Now, the level of spiritual knowledge doesn't come from just a quick glance. 00:47:33.519 --> 00:47:37.119 It comes through reading the scripture over and over and over again. 00:47:41.280 --> 00:47:43.360 Intentionally meditating the word of God. 00:47:49.360 --> 00:47:52.480 Well, there's a difference between revelation and just plain knowledge. 00:47:56.079 --> 00:47:57.440 But revelation begins. 00:48:11.599 --> 00:48:12.880 Meditation makes it real. 00:48:14.639 --> 00:48:15.840 It makes it a conviction. 00:48:17.599 --> 00:48:19.840 I think Marty used this scripture this morning. 00:48:20.000 --> 00:48:21.119 Was it Joshua 1.8? 00:48:21.440 --> 00:48:22.559 1.8, yes. 00:48:23.360 --> 00:48:25.199 Where he tells Joshua. 00:48:30.639 --> 00:48:37.199 If you'll meditate my word day and night, you'll make your way prosperous. 00:48:39.920 --> 00:48:41.440 You'll have good success. 00:48:44.559 --> 00:48:46.239 Somebody just takes the last part. 00:48:48.239 --> 00:48:50.880 God promised me prosperity and good success. 00:48:53.760 --> 00:48:54.000 No. 00:48:54.239 --> 00:48:54.559 No. 00:48:54.800 --> 00:48:55.599 Excito. 00:48:55.840 --> 00:48:56.880 Exito, gracias. 00:48:58.639 --> 00:48:58.960 No. 00:48:59.199 --> 00:49:01.280 He said if you meditate my word day and night. 00:49:04.719 --> 00:49:06.719 So you can say I'm gonna be successful. 00:49:09.599 --> 00:49:15.440 But if you don't meditate the word of God, it's not the good success that the Lord gives. 00:49:17.920 --> 00:49:19.840 You may have produced success in your life. 00:49:22.239 --> 00:49:24.719 But there's a difference between success and good success. 00:49:27.679 --> 00:49:28.880 Success wears you out. 00:49:32.079 --> 00:49:34.000 You have to work as hard as the world. 00:49:36.559 --> 00:49:40.400 You have to work 60, 70, 80 hours to be successful. 00:49:44.079 --> 00:49:49.039 But when you meditate the word of God, it's good success. 00:49:49.199 --> 00:49:50.320 He makes you successful. 00:49:53.599 --> 00:49:55.280 Doors open that shouldn't have opened. 00:49:58.079 --> 00:50:00.079 Doors will close that you shouldn't go through. 00:50:03.119 --> 00:50:04.960 As we spend quality time in his word. 00:50:18.079 --> 00:50:20.639 And all of a sudden we'll begin to see things differently. 00:50:28.559 --> 00:50:30.480 We'll do things that we never dared to do before. 00:50:34.800 --> 00:50:42.960 But this word of God is our key to walking a supernatural life. 00:50:46.800 --> 00:50:48.639 That's why Paul prayed for the churches. 00:50:55.920 --> 00:50:58.159 The spirit of wisdom and revelation. 00:51:04.159 --> 00:51:12.480 Because when we receive the spirit of wisdom and revelation, verse 18. 00:51:28.639 --> 00:51:30.639 The keys are found in meditating his word. 00:51:34.079 --> 00:51:47.760 There's keys in the word of God for our health, for wisdom, for prosperity, everything that we need for doors to open, for doors to close. 00:51:50.320 --> 00:51:55.199 Remember, Jesus said what you bind will be bound, what you loose will be loose. 00:51:59.039 --> 00:52:04.320 So as we meditate this word, our thinking will be elevated. 00:52:06.639 --> 00:52:08.000 Our speaking will change. 00:53:25.519 --> 00:53:26.639 From all the other nations. 00:54:11.679 --> 00:54:20.000 Paul says in him are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. 00:54:23.519 --> 00:54:25.360 Can you give the Lord praise today? 00:54:32.880 --> 00:54:34.480 The word of God is so rich.