Authority

What Authority does a Christian have, and how can we walk in it 

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SPEAKER_02 0:00

That's victorious. But to think like Jesus, the Bible says we have the mind of Christ. Think like somebody that already has the victory. Because He came down to lift us up. Amen. He can come down and stay down. God doesn't stay down. He came down for a season and then went back. To take us back. One day your extra, you know, physical body will go back up there. Praise God. Go back into a place of glory. Are you thankful for that day? This body, this corruptible, will put on incorruptible. Won't have to shave anymore, Steve. Won't have to get the eyelash, new eyelashes sent through the mail every month or whatever. All that's carry on. Nips and tucks and silicon implants, not with a new body. You will look amazingly, gloriously beautiful for all eternity. Praise God. Oh, yes. That's why Paul said in Thessaloniki, he said, encourage people. You're talking about the escatari, you're talking about the end times, the coming of the Lord. We need regular encouragement in Christ. Because the world is a dis it's a devil. The Bible says Satan is the God of this world, not Jesus. Religious people think that Jesus is the God of this world. He's doing a really poor job if he is. Isn't he? I mean, even if you have half a brain, come on now. Even if you have half a brain and you think God's in charge of everything. Seriously? All the murders that happened last night? Do you think he he signed off on it all and he endorsed it? That's what you're saying. With that foolishness coming out of your mouth. No, God's not in charge of that. Is he? Who's in charge of all that? Well the enemy. Manipulating and deceiving and influencing people's minds through all kinds of forms of witchcraft and rebellion and stubbornness and indoctrination at universities, indoctrinating the young people so that 70% of Christians that go in there, Christians that go in there, 70% come out after three or four years saying, no, we don't believe in God anymore. What happened? They got indoctrinated with what? A humanistic spirit. Huh? Yes? That's the data. It's not me making stuff up. That's the data. And probably more in the US, but it's about the same. Got brainwashed. Went in with a realm of Christianity, came out. No, I don't really believe in God. Why? Because of all those atheistic uh lecturers in there. Indoctrinated spirits are transferred. Come on now, spirits are transferred. The anointing is transferred. Absolutely, it is. What do you think was on the twelve? Why did the twelve turn the world upside down? What, just because they went to Bible college and got a bunch of head information? The Pharisees already had that. The Pharisees already had the, they were schooled with the best. They could quote the Torah. Who can quote the Torah here standing up? Anybody? First five books of the Bible. Without looking at the Bible. Can you do that? That's where you had to be to be a Pharisee. You had to do so much head knowledge up here. But Jesus called them snakes. So it didn't do them, a lot of them didn't do them much good. Imagine Jesus calling you a snake. Oh, we could quote scripture, but you because their actions didn't line up with with uh God's nature. Did it right? Come on now, say amen. Are we we in church today? Alright, you're in church. Hallelujah. Okay, thank you, Lord. Have you got a testimony? Want to share anything before I want to do that? Or is there anything if there's something there? I just want to, those that want to give today, no obligation to give. I forgot to take up tithes and offerings last week, so did you want me to or not? Have you got something on your heart? You might have. This is my wife, by the way, if you don't know. Thank God for her. I just I was so thankful for her this morning. Hallelujah.

SPEAKER_03 4:36

Because of the new shirt I've bought you to.

SPEAKER_02 4:38

Yes. If you want it, there you go.

SPEAKER_00 4:42

You're gonna take out the tithes and offerings right now. Let's open our Bibles to 2 Peter chapter 1. The Lord is good, amen. Hallelujah. I have to force my husband to put on a new shirt.

SPEAKER_02 4:52

New shirt, yes.

SPEAKER_00 4:54

No, no, no, I don't know anybody else who you have to force to put on new clothes. I like my old ones. Oh my goodness. Really? Come on. He looks good, right? Yeah, it does feel good. Might as well like continue recording since I already pressed record. I was just in this the other day and it really blessed me. And as we take up the tithes and offerings, I hope this blesses you two before Danny uh takes us into probably another place. But um anyway, I'll just I'll just hold it. Oh, can you can you open the Bible to 2 Peter 1 for me, please?

SPEAKER_02 5:34

Sure, baby. Maybe we'll just have a marriage retreat whilst we're at it. Anybody wants a marriage therapy while we're what do you want?

SPEAKER_00 5:43

It's alright, I've got it. It's okay. I can't even remember what I said now. You're just throwing me out. 2 Peter 1. Did I say 2 Peter 1? All right, let's go. Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ. To those who have obtained like precious faith, say like precious faith with us by righteousness, by the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ. That's good news. Not by own works, but by his righteousness, we have obtained precious faith. Amen. So grace and peace be multiplied to you who would like the grace to be multiplied today. Come on, let's believe the word of God this morning and his divine power. So grace be multiplied to you, power be multiplied to you. How has given to us all things? All things, say all things, not just some things, not just a little trickle, not just barely enough to get by, or it's come too late. Amen. But God has given all grace and power to us and everything that pertains to life and godliness through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue. You see, God has provided for each and every one of us. We are in the right place right now, today, at the right time, to receive the very thing that you need. I'm sorry for those that missed it this morning, didn't make it to church, but I'm telling you, there's a transfer from heaven to you today by the power of the Holy Spirit to get to you the thing that you very much need this week. You don't know that you might need it, but he does. He sees the end from the beginning and he's made a way possible for you to overcome any situation that you face. And one of these things is through finances and giving. So let's take up the tithes and offerings this morning, short and sweet. I hope you like that. In Jesus' name. Amen.

SPEAKER_02 7:47

I just want to pray. Hallelujah. Thank you. Father, we just close your eyes for a minute. I'm going to release my faith over the over the giving. Oh, Father, we thank you for your word. Everything, we're like bags of seed, Lord, and we thank you. Our lives are like seed. Um, finances are like seed, our thoughts are seeds, our words are seeds, and we thank you for the seed that you've given us. Lord, there's a lot of teaching about stewardship, and um we thank you, Father, that you said, Jesus, you said, He who's faithful with unrighteous mammon shall be faithful in the true riches. So I pray for everybody today, Lord, that you'll you'll teach us your wisdom. Teach us um principles of the kingdom. We don't want to end up like Judas Iscariot or or Ananias and Safari or anybody else like that in Scripture. Lord, Father, we just thank you for your wisdom. That you are number one, that you are our provider, regardless of what the economy's doing in Australia or whatever. Father, you are our provider. And we thank you for that, that you're our Father, and that you supply all our need, Jesus, according to your riches in glory. Father, I pray for every person today. Holy Spirit, in the Old Testament, you said, Lord, that you delight in the prosperity of your servant. The blessings of Abraham, Lord, you saw David said, My cup overflows. Lord, we thank you for the principle that when we are blessed, we can then take some of what we have and give it to others. It's a part of the kingdom culture. Lord, I thank you for that. I thank you, Father, that you teach us your ways, that we're always thinking about how to be a blessing. Uh, because you did say, Lord, it is great in the kingdom, it is more blessed to give than it is to get, than it is to receive. So we give you all the praise and all the glory in Jesus' mighty name. Everybody said amen. Hallelujah. If you have natural cash on you, uh it's a it's a bucket under it's I think Steve. Sorry, let's see. Cool. I'm going to uh somebody was telling me lately that it's getting harder to get cash from the bank. So I'm gonna go maybe just sometimes I buy and sell things, so I'm gonna deliberately just work that into our local bank. Take maybe 10-15 grand in there, then try and ask for it out, just see what happens. So thanks, Steve. Keep the cash in the system. One day it will go, the cash will go, okay. We know that from Revelations, but you know what? We can do our part to keep it here as long as possible. Yes or no? Yeah, why not? Hallelujah. Bless everybody, Lord, that gave. Bless them in Jesus' name. Amen. What about me? I didn't give. What about you? I pray, go pray, ask the Lord what you can do. Amen. God's not a communist, doesn't treat everybody the same. According to your faith, let it be unto you. Hallelujah. That's how it is. It's just how the kingdom is. So believe big. So, Lord, what do you want to do today? Who's hungry for the Lord? Really? Draw near unto God, and He will draw near to you. Draw near to you. One step to the Lord, and then what? Steps to you. Draw near to God. So we're here to draw near, Lord. I pray that you'll use me. Anoint my words, anoint my whatever, everything in me. Help me, Lord. Draw out all things that you need today. Um I forgot what I was going to preach on, actually. There you go. I endeavor to be led by the Spirit, and sometimes, I mean it can be turned to foolishness as well, but I endeavor to be led by the Spirit. My journey of uh just quickly, but you know, sometimes maybe somebody called in here to preach the gospel. So I was terrified to even get in front of anybody as a kid, bound with fear. Basically, you know, uh knew I was called, had a vision at the age of 12, taken out of the bed out of my bed, and um no one was praying for me. Just the Holy Spirit lifted me out, 12 years of age, and I had a dream, a vision of a two of a 45-year-old approximately. First, the the I was pulled said, I don't know if it's in my body or out of my body. That was that kind of thing, a vision, a dream, whatever. I was it felt like 15, maybe a hundred kilometers up in the sky, and I had this clip. The first clip lasted two or three minutes, and I saw this very wealthy, successful businessman in a white suit. He was kind of, I think he had a white suit, yeah, a white suit. And I knew in the dream uh this man was very wealthy. I'm 12 years old. So uh, and then the dream stops, just like a video clip, and then I look at this next clip, next clip playing so different. I see this preacher yelling and screaming, just like an evangelist would, you know, fire, uh black faces everywhere. There's I don't know how just to me, it looked like a crowd of hundreds of people, two or three hundred people there, just as you know, like in an evangelistic crusade. And this guy's going for it. Preaching by the blood of Jesus, Jesus is the only way to the Father, etc. Evangelistic message, and then the voice behind me, I hear, what do you choose? Choice. God, isn't God amazing? Gives us choice. Come on now, isn't he amazing? What does the devil do? The devil doesn't like to give people choice. That's what communism is. And uh in my heart, I felt really good and warm, even though my flesh was drawn to the successful businessman. I said, I choose this guy, this person. And then I heard their voice say, good choice. Well done. Then I come back down into my body, and that was it. I never told anybody about that dream. It rattled me for a little while, shake me. You know, a lot of kids, this is why I love kids' ministry, because kids, it's around 70% of children will have an encounter with the Lord, and many come to Jesus later in their life, sometimes in their 30s, sometimes in their 40s, but a seed, a significant seed was sown in their life, usually from the age of seven to fourteen. Very critical years for kids. And the devil knows that too, so that's why he's trying to indoctrinate them with rubbish, correct? Um, that's why we have, I was telling somebody yesterday, we have, you know, we two schools that we've helped get up and running in a full capacity now in Timor, that's or just in Vietnam recently, because they're they're good, they're doing well. Time for them now, another pro help us, another next project, Lord.

unknown 15:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 15:16

Those kids get the word of God. I mean, they're brilliant in in Indonesia, they're just amazing. They know all the they can quote young kids, they can quote scriptures because they taught every day. Before school starts, they taught about 20 minutes devotions, half an hour worship. It's a Christian school. They probably know more scriptures than a lot of Christians do in Australia. Anyway, won't go there. Um praise the Lord. God is good. What am I talking about? So, yeah, we thank God for the opportunity. Jesus Christ is coming. I believe we're an extension of time right now. You don't need to be a super AI specialized specialist to know that the technology for the mark of the beast is already here. Do you? It's already here. So all your information data can go. Microsoft recently said they can put it on a tattoo, which would fit in with our culture very well. Wouldn't it? Little tattoo there, all your data on there. And the Bible says in that season there'll be no buying or selling unless you have that thing, that system. It's in the great tribulation period. So we that technology is here right now, isn't it? You don't believe it? Yeah, it's here, it's here. So God is pushing back. God is in his wisdom because there's the fullness, the Bible tells us the fullness of the Gentiles has to come in. Before the end of this age, this age is called the church age in Ephesians. Paul calls it the mystery, it was hidden from Israel, right? That's why they're trying to make Jesus king. They're trying to make, oh he is, he is the Messiah, quick, put a crown on his head, he's here. Uh no, no, no, he is here, but he's only here for a little short period of time, and he's going away. And then he's coming back. So that's called the mystery. This uh they couldn't see that in the old testament, it's hidden from them. We're coming to the end of the church, probably more than likely coming to the end of the church age, the fullness of the Gentiles, the Mary Shepherd of the Lamb, there's still room available, obviously. Hallelujah. You're happy? Jesus is coming? You should be happy. Jesus said when you see all these things happening. How many earthquakes have happened in the last six weeks? One of the things that the Lord says, there will be an increase in these things. They will start to get more and more, like woman with birth pants, increase. Not just one every six months. Bum, bum. You know what I mean? Who's had a baby here? Raise your hand. Who's had a baby? Meh, baby. No, they actually shouldn't do that if you have a baby. You know, shouldn't go, meh. They should not who's had a baby? What happens when you first start? You have pain every what? What is the pain? Kicks in every 10 minutes, and then it starts to a little bit shorter. And then what happens just before the babe? What it's just like one long line. You know it's time. So Jesus said, It's so it shall be like this. So there's uh uh, you know, earthquakes and things. The earth, you say, why is God cursing? God's not cursing anything. The Bible tells us in Romans the earth itself is crying out. It is actually crying out for the redemption, for this thing to be wrapped up. All the innocent blood of the abortions, the innocent babies that have been murdered and killed, all that blood has a voice. And so the earth itself is like it's shaking under this thing, you know, this the curse of sin. It wants to be, it's it's ready for the next season. Hallelujah! Praise the Lord. So that's why we thank you for helping us recognize the seasons, Lord, that we're not like the Pharisees. Jesus, God rebuked them severely for not discerning the time. See, we need to be people of discernment so that we don't miss out. Jesus wept over Jerusalem. Because why? There'll be a lot of people like that. There'll be a lot of people in the church, the foot, the five foolish virgins that weren't ready. They, you know, we're discussing this the other day. What did they do? Hey Lord, remember the five, the 50% of the church? 50%, not ready for his return. What happened? Hey Lord, what did they say? Open to us. What does he say? I didn't have any intimacy with you guys. Sorry. You just became dry, religious, worldly. You lost your fire. Oil speaks, always speaks of Holy Spirit. So it's your responsibility. And it's interesting how Christians will become, I think it's going to be like a little bit like every man from, it's hard to say because it's the opposite of Christianity, but every man for himself in these last days, as we get closer to the return of the Lord, because the why the foolish said to the wise, what did they say? And Karen's made a song on this, one of my favorite songs she's done. She's did it with an Irish uh setting, get your own oil. I love that song, get your own oil. They were quite rude. The wise were quite rude to the foolish, weren't they? They said, Oh, you know, because typically as Christians, it's like, oh, we'll just share. Okay, here I have a little bit of mine. No, they didn't. What did they say? Go get your own. In other words, you can't get what I have been, I've been coming to prayer meetings, I've been fasting, I've been giving as a lifestyle for years and years and years. You can't just whip that up in a day. I'm sorry. It doesn't work that way. This is my relationship with God. You can't just whip that, you can't just like, oh, here you go. No. Getting up in the middle of the night, praying, studying the Bible, going, you know, whatever, sacrificing to the Lord. You can't just whip that up. That's why they said, go get your own. You lazy, they didn't say you lazy thing, you, but Jesus is coming. The question is. Anyway, the cry was heard. So what is that? I think that's a John. The Baptist anointing. What is a John the Baptist anointing before God comes, the end of the season, the end of the church? Prepare ye the way. What is so we've had so much teaching on hypergrace, and it's just done a lot of damage to the church as a whole. People living unholy lives, calling themselves Christians, basically just come to church every now and again and then behave like the devil. So now you'll see, before the Lord returns, you'll see a John the Baptist anointing more and more in the church. God is just uh putting a fire through the church, a purifying fire. And what does the fire do? What does the fire do? Exposes. For those that are real, for those people that are real and really do love the Lord, not love the world, but really do love the world, it will empower them with a martyrdom kind of attitude. They don't care. It's like, okay, if we die, we die. Because they love the Lord more than they love themselves. So the fire will do a number of things. The fire will expose the hypocrites in the church. It'll expose those that are not really saved, the tares. The fire will do all that. In itself, the fire in itself will do that. You know what I'm saying? Yes, that's what the fire will do. You don't have to tell the fire to do it. Hey, fire. Hey, fire. Cause those worms and those bugs to come out of that wood I just put on. Do you have to tell the fire to do that? When you put wood on the fire, I did that yesterday, put wood on the fire, there were some ants in there. They didn't like they're coming out of the wood. Hey, ants come out of the wood. No, they're coming out. Because the fire will expose that. That's what fire does. That's why the Pharisees manifested at Jesus. Before that, it was like, cool, man, we're just cool. Everything's cool. In religious environments, it's cool. But the when the fire comes, they began to get really jealous and angry at Jesus, correct? Yes. Hallelujah. So those are the calls to ministry. You think about Jesus' first ministry session there in Luke, Luke chapter 4, he's doing really well. And they're like, wow, this guy's amazing. He speaks with such authority, not like the Pharisees. We feel cut to the heart when he speaks. It's not just like we can't just sit here and think about what we're gonna have for dinner and we're gonna have tomato sauce, maybe a couple of sausages, thinking about what's in the fridge. When he speaks, man, I'm captivated. Something's going on. Where's he come from? That's what they these he that's what they said. They said he speaks with such authority. Authority exusha means cutting. Something different. Right? And so it went really well that meeting. They were very happy initially. They were clap giving him clap offerings, Curry. But how did it end up? You remember how it ended up at Nazareth? How? All in one meeting. Imagine being in a meeting with Jesus, you just don't know what's gonna happen. Like they took him to the brow of the cliff. There was a murderous spirit in them. So this happy, clappy, hi, how are you, just went sour, went belly up. And the demons in them started to manifest because of the fire. That's what the fire will do. And so they mobbed him, and a mob came around him and escorted him to the brow of the cliff and were going to throw him over. But God, obviously, the Father is like, nah, nothing happening. So what did the Lord do? He said an angel blinded them. Or just not an angel. And he just walked through the midst of them. That was the first, that's just the start of Jesus' ministry. Amazing. And everybody thinks, you know, well, you know, if Jesus is just so loving and and everybody will love him. No. A lot of people hate him. I don't like truth because he's truth. He's not just, he's not a facet of your kind of love. His God's the God factor of love is different than your love or my love. It's different. It's pure. Come on, I say love is pure. It speaks the truth. Not when it's convenient. All the time. Every time. This is the love of God. He cannot lie. This is love. Wow. It's different than this other stuff, isn't it? That sometimes you hear about. So thank you, Jesus. We better get on to the message. How don't we? Lord, what was it you wanted us to talk about today? Faith. Oh, we'll talk about faith. Amen. Let's talk about faith. Hey? Luke 10, 18, 20. Some people, uh, when they're in church, they like you to go, even though the preacher might be speaking scripture, they like you to actually read out because they're a bit religious, and we've all, you know, they they want you to open to the Bible, and that's fine, that's good. Luke chapter 10, verse 18 to 20. Oh, yes, Lord, burn out the religion in me. Anyone here like that? Only me, Lord? Come on, now anybody else here want to? I was brought up an Anglican, so I had I just by being in that system and having a priest, you know, baptizes a baby, impartation of certain things comes into you. You don't realize it because you're just innocent. You don't know. You've got to be the fire's gotta burn that out of you. Burn it out, Lord. Burn it out, Jesus! Amen. Get rid of it. Anything that hinders, because the Bible says where the spirit of the Lord is, there's freedom. Amen. Liberty, freedom. What? To worship him, to be yourself. Freedom. Wherever the demon religious spirits are controlling people, the staleness, you can smell it in the atmosphere. Staleness, stagnation. You know what's going to happen every Sunday. This is a when I was in Newcastle, this I said, I thought I said a lot of things to them there a few weeks ago, and they really I enjoyed myself. I said I told them uh it's my first time preaching in the UK. I was born here. God's, you know, I have a message. God is a God of circles, and he also likes the flat lines. He likes flat lines for Steve, because Steve like you know Steve likes to speed. But he also is a god of circles, and he'll take you around in circles. So I said, I'm actually coming now. This is a con I'm telling you, a full circle. I see, I I feel so privileged to be at an on-fire church in Newcastle. Very privileged. But one of the things that went off on them, they sort of they wanted to talk about it after the meeting. Uh, what was it? Because it's revelation, so it's like it went off in them. And I used the example when years ago, when we were when we were serving in our mother church, I remember after about six weeks, I said, Lord, what's why is the atmosphere stale in this place? What's happening? I want to learn. Who wants to learn? And if it's okay with you, I'm just gonna ask, I'm just one of those persons that asks lots of questions. Some things he doesn't answer, because it's like, this is above your grade, your pay grade right now, son, you don't need to know it. And other things he does, he does answer. And I felt the Holy Spirit say, whenever a church does things three or four times repetitiously, like you know, ten minutes for the offering, five minutes, uh, you know, three praise worship, three praise songs, three worship songs. A religious spirit, it's like it's like uh mold. Religious spirit starts to come upon that congregation and close it down. So religion is like a wet blanket. Who's ever had a wet blanket thrown over them? Who would like a wet blanket thrown over them right now? So it starts to smother. And some people actually like that, they're very into their religion because they're in control. It's all about control. So, but for those that want God and Jesus that want more, we're like, no. So that was my word. I uh that's what went off in this church in Newcastle because in England, man, they're pushing against that thing, man. Traditions of men. Jesus said that your traditions have made the word of God of no effect. You've neutered it, paralyzed it, castrated it. Because of what? Because of your traditions. You love your traditions instead of loving me. Yes. So they're like, you know what do you call a male bull walking around without the goods? No, that's what they're like. There's no they've got the form of godliness, but no power to reproduce. Anything but dead work, you know, dead religion. That's all the thing they reproduce. Oh Lord, is this uh too deep for you guys? Or I know it's a bit different for a Sunday message. It's okay. So uh what was I talking about, honey? Help me, stay on tracking. So so that was the word for that guy, that uh precious family in Newcastle, that pastor, and pushback. And it was like, oh wow, that went off in there. So I said in our church, here often we'll break up things. Sometimes we'll do tithes and offerings first. Sometimes we'll do tithes and offerings. Sometimes like sweet, totally forget to do tithes and offerings. Sometimes we'll do communion at the end. We'll deliberately on purpose, shake things up, shake it up. Don't you never say, shake it up? Because the flesh, you've got to understand your flesh because he's your enemy. The Bible says those that are in the flesh cannot please God. He's your enemy that's in you that you got from Adam. You've got to bring that thing down, you've got to discipline it. I have been crucified with Christ. Right? But what is your flesh like? He just wants it like repetition, it likes to know what's happening, it wants to be in control. That's why religion is so important. That's why religion is in control of so many churches and they're okay with it. But they won't be okay when they stand before Jesus and give an account for their life. Because they realize they've been in a coma. A spiritual coma. And they needed a defibrillation. Where's uh Murray? We gotta buy one and put it into on the wall here. I keep thinking about that. We gotta find a defibrillar. If you see one down at the tip shop, we'll take the goods out of it so no one gets killed, but we're gonna put it here. No, we'll because I know they do. A lot of Christians need defibrillating. They don't realize they're in a coma, but when you've been defibrillated, you know it. Well, how many thousands, how many hundreds of volts go through you? Ooh. Okay, Lord. Let's get back to the scriptures here. Luke chapter 10. Now remember, you have to be defibrillated yourself before you can go around throwing that defibrillator at others. You've got to be authorized to use it. Okay? If you start casting out demons in your life, it's not right. Guess what's happening? They're coming back to check you out. Okay, Luke chapter 10, verse 18. Yes, he told them, I saw Satan. Oh, praise God. You know, I love I preach this around the place. They love uh hearing this in different countries. Um, I think it's just because a lot of preachers are not teaching Christians about their authority and how the enemy has been cast down. There's many Christians and preachers that make it look like it's like Jesus and Satan are still in this, you know, the American wrestling where Satan's throwing Jesus up and he's got his hand, he's got his foot, you know, on his neck, and then Jesus somehow flicks the devil over, and then now he's it's like there's an equal, equal match going on. No, it's not like that. Satan is a created entity, he's not omniscient. Do you understand? Do you want to understand that? Okay. Yes, he told them, I saw Satan fall. Praise God. Now we're just here to the Bible says in Ephesians that we the church are called to make known to the what? Principalities and powers, which are demons, the manifold wisdom of God. How about we just say that out loud together? Because you are doing it now. We're going to be a doer of the word. Behold, I saw Satan fall from heaven like lightning.

unknown 35:54

From heaven like lightning.

SPEAKER_02 35:55

Jesus said he saw it. He saw him. He didn't get casually put on probation and then retraining. He how fast is lightning? I've seen this revelation go off in young people, they love it. How fun they start, oh yeah, how fast is lightning? How fast is lightning? Who's got Chat GPT on them? Quickly. It's very fast. He had no time to go get his belongings, his passport, spare pair of jocks, anything like that, spare pair of socks. Boom! He fell. Okay. How fast, Jimmy?

SPEAKER_03 36:47

300,000 kilometers a second.

SPEAKER_02 36:52

Behold, I saw Satan fall three hundred thousand. Alright. Whoa! So do you think like if you're coming up against the enemy and the devil's harassing you a little bit, he's after your kids, and there's strife in the family, and it's like your money's is struggling. You can start to put the enemy back in his place. You know what, devil, you're defeated for Jesus. You fell out of glory so quickly. And soon you're gonna be cast into the lake of fire. And it's all over. Praise the Lord. Fight back. Instead of coming under a cloud of depression and then, you know, going, oh, I think I'm gonna think the Lord's tell me to go and get some Prozac, and you know, depression upon depression. I'm tolerating. Jesus said, Why have you tolerated that spirit, that woman Jezebel? What's wrong with you guys? I've given you my authority, I've given you my name. Get rid of that spirit out of the church. Get it out. Jezebel will always produce. What did it produce in Elijah? I mean, this great man of God, the day before. One day earlier, it's calling down fire. I mean, he's the man, you know what I mean? Wow, everybody wants Elijah's ministry. You know what I mean? Don't they? He's on YouTube, man. He's got five million likes. He's calling down fire. All these young people are going, wow, poor Elijah. Lord, look at me his mantle, Father. What do I have to do? And then they even start selling Elijah's mantle online. Thousand dollars a pop. But the very next day, he's running for his life from a few words of a woman. Running in fear. Interesting, isn't it? Have you thought about that? One minute, within a 24-hour period, for 30 hours, one minute is a great man of God. Calling down fire on Mount Carmel. Fire comes down, licks up the water. Let's kill all of these false prophets now. Take them out. The next day, his guard's down. His guard is down. And he's maybe maybe he's lifted up in pride. I don't know. Bible doesn't tell us. But what we do know is the fruits. The words on a woman that had an antichrist spirit on them caused him to run. From the call of God. Unfortunately, he got decommissioned at that time. Very sad. A lot of people don't realize that. God then had to raise up another person to take his mantle. What are you doing here, Elijah? What's wrong with you? Jezebel. That's why God wants to anoint you with fire. So you can deal with that. You can give it some kung fu. Holy Ghost. We have a lady in Indonesia. She used to be into kung fu. Powerful Chinese lady. So we laugh because she loves to cast out demons. Kung Fu lady. We call her kung fu lady. Holy Ghost lady. Kung Fu. Operating under the anointing now. Not demons. Fire of God casting. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. So in this end-time church, and that's why this Newcastle, there must have been a revelation to them. Oh, yeah, that's what we we got to push back. We don't just suck up this thing week by week. We have the authority to push back against it. We have the authority to push back against religion, religious demons. We don't have to accept this. We're not going to accept it. In the name of Jesus. Lord, you paid a big price for our freedom. Hallelujah. I owe you my life. I owe you duty, my duty to pursue that freedom. Wouldn't you agree? If he's purchased it legally, okay. Yes, he told them, I saw Satan fall like heaven from lightning. Sorry, I saw Satan fall from heaven like lightning. Look, I have given you authority. Exusia over all the power. All the power. Even your mother-in-law. How she's if she's been influenced by a demon. Even that. Seriously? Because some people, some mother-in-laws may they just control the whole show. Huh? It's gone quiet in here. Maybe it's for somebody. I'm a prophetic teacher. The Bible says when you get married, you leave and you cleave. You don't leave and stay. There's some cultures, man, they leave and they stay, and mother-in-law controls the whole show. It's unhealthy. They do that in India a lot. No. Go back to the Bible. Go back to what the Bible says. Follow that, not your cultures. Follow his culture, and you'll be blessed. Leave and cleave. Amen. Who wants Bible culture? Oh yeah. And you can walk among snakes and scorpions and crush them. What a nice. So praise God when the Lord gives, you know, the Lord gives us a victory. There's rain. There's a sound of rain. For some people in here, there's been a dry season. It's been difficult. But today that that season breaks in the name of Jesus. The wilderness time is over for you. I decree it. I declare it. We thank you for fresh rain. Fresh rain, Lord. Thank you that we've learned everything we needed to learn. We are good students. You've taught us. So we're something to learn in everything. Thank you, Jesus. So spiritual author. This is my my message today was exusia that we're called spiritual authorities. The first one is spiritual authority. The second level of authority is church authority. Hebrews 13, verse 17. The devil hates this one. Close down the church. Not the state church. I've just come from Vietnam. Happy with the state church? Say happy with the state church. Very happy. The devil's very happy with the government ordained state church, whether it's China or Vietnam. But not the on fire church. Not the spirit filled believers. No way. Huh? Put those ones in jail. Thank you very much. Hebrews 13. So the local authority, the church authority. Now, Jesus said to some Christians, or many, he said to many Christians, I will have to say to them, Depart from me, you who, Matthew 7, you who practice lawlessness. They thought they were Christians because they say, Lord, Lord, you know. And you even prophesied in your use your name to see healings and miracles, Lord. He says, He will say to many Christians, we don't know how many that many is. Could be 10 million, could be a hundred million. Let's say there's a billion Christians on the earth right now, so many would mean a hundred million, let's say, fifty million, a lot. Correct? Jesus says many, what does that mean? Many. If he said a few, he wouldn't have even a few. So why is he rejecting people that call him Lord, Lord? What's the reason? Is there a mystery? No, it's right there in Scripture. He tells us why. Doesn't he? Why does he have to cleanse his church? What does it say? Depart from me, you who practice. What does practice mean? It's not just a warn, you know, it's not like this person that's trying to learn and grow and get over things. These people have now have a lifestyle of rebellion. And they don't care. They don't care what the word says. They have their own image of God, they've built their own image, usually a false God of love and a false God of grace. They've built their own image and they're happy with that. These are the kind of people that Jesus is going to say to them, depart from me, you who practice lawlessness. So, in other words, I you've listened to my word, you didn't care, you still did your own thing, there was no repentance, so unfortunately, you're not welcome to be a part of my eternal family. Do you believe that Bible? Who believes that part? Who wants to rip that part out? Who's got that scripture on their fridge? Interesting, isn't it? That verse is not. Is it on your fridge, Tracy, at home? That verse. Depart from me, you practice lawlessness. It's not on Christians' fridges, is it, that one? Have you noticed that? Sister, I don't know where you're from. No, my wife always wants to be happy. I said, honey, you don't always have to be happy. That's why you married me. Not everything's happy. Doesn't have to be happy. But praise God, I need some of her happiness sometimes. Yeah. No, I don't I don't mind reading the fine print because I have, you know, insurance, when the insurance doesn't pay out, you're like, eh. Should have read the fine print. I'm okay with that. I'm actually really thankful that God reveals that to me. Because to me, one lady was saying this morning, Oh, I'm so thankful for wisdom. Because I was preaching on great! This is wisdom right here, the scriptures you don't like. Take it, digest it, eat it. The Bible says in Revelations, when John ate the book, initially it was like, oh, bitter, bittersweet. Come on now, say bittersweet. Say vegemite honey. Who likes vegemite? Vegemite honey with salt on it. Vegemite with salt on it and honey. Some parts of what Jesus taught. Oh, Lord. If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. Come on, Lord. No, serious. Oh. Really? Yes. Part of the kingdom. Who wants to be one of the many that's had their name removed from the book of life? Anyone? Those hands are not going up. Lord, who wants to be blessed with a million dollars this week by the Lord? Who wants to win Lotto? Yeah, we're awake. Praise God, we're awake. Who wants to be? The sad thing is, you know what with these people curse, you know what? They didn't know that their names had been removed. I'm not saying you, I'm just saying, I didn't know. They thought everything was fine because they were going to church every now and again when they could, after they, you know, they put their family first, their holidays first. It's all flesh, whatever they wanted to do. They thought it was good. They only found out at the end. That's why they said, Lord, they're trying to justify themselves. Come on now, it's self-justification. Lord, Lord. Come on, now say Lord, Lord. Hey, pagans don't do that. Pagans go Buddha, Buddha. Allah, Allah. They don't go, Lord, Lord. Okay, so lawlessness. So when we talk about, now there's a lot of Christians who say, Why are you preaching like this, Pastor? Because there's a lot of Christians that are not in fellowship, they're not serving in a local church. So that means they have chosen there's about dozens of verses, probably hundreds of verses in the New Testament that have to do with loving one another, serving one another, praying for one another, carrying each other's burdens. All these instructions, these particular Christians think that doesn't apply to them. They can do church online at home. That's their Christianity. So they are practicing rebellion and lawlessness to how many verses? How many? Dozens and dozens and dozens. Yes or no? Am I a false teacher? Yes or no? Are there many instructions in the New Testament? In the book of Acts, the Bible says, do not, Hebrews chapter 10, do not forsake the assembling together as some do. Correct? So if you don't do that, what are you? Oh man, Lord, it's I don't maybe I'm in Vietnam. Maybe I should go to Vietnam. Back to Vietnam. Do we all speak English here? If you do not do an instruction that the Bible clearly tells you to do, what are you doing? Say it. Rebellion! Say rebellion. Rebellion! And what does the Bible say in the Old Testament about rebellion? It is that Jesus sees it, or the Father sees it, just as a sin of practicing witchcraft. Correct? Yes or no? Yeah, with soul. Oh, it's hard, man. It's like trying to get blood out of stones here, Curry. So what is rebellion? Hey, sister. Would you mind just going out there for five minutes and praying in the spirit? I'm just using your exam. No, no, I'm just using your example. And she looks at me and says, No. And I'm saying, hey, I'm your pastor. I'm asking you to go if you wouldn't mind. And she says, no. Is that compliance and submission to authority? She wouldn't do that, by the way. She's a beautiful heart. What is it? She says, she says, she's not, she wouldn't do that, but if she did, she says no. What is that? She says, hey, Lord, we've got a problem here. I don't know if they speak English. I think we'll have to go back to Vietnam. What do you call it, honey, when somebody's not when somebody like at the office or in the workplace, they will not do what you've been instructed to do. What do you call it? It's not interesting. Rebellion. Say rebellion. Rebellion. It's okay. It's a rebellion. Okay. So church authority, so God at the according to Ephesians chapter 4, the Lord Jesus Christ has set five-fold ministry gifts into the church. Where? Who did it?

unknown 52:13

Jesus.

SPEAKER_02 52:14

Was it a good idea?

unknown 52:15

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 52:16

Yeah, it's his idea. So it's got to be good. Brilliant. But I don't like it. I just don't like it, Lord. Well, it's part of the kingdom. It's not a democracy. What you thought you came into a democracy? This is not a democracy. Who cares what you think? Seriously. Who cares? Who cares? Did God ask for what? Who cares what you think? Right? It's a shock, I know, because people isolate their own opinions and agendas on social media. Come on now, this is interesting how the response I'm getting today. Turn to your neighbor say, who cares? If you go to hell forever and ever, spend eternity in the lake of fire, burning, tormented with demons, you're one of the many. Who cares? Does it matter?

SPEAKER_03 53:11

Yes, it does.

SPEAKER_02 53:12

It does matter. It really matters. So every time you see a scripture and you're not doing it, you need to allow the Holy Spirit to help you say, Lord, first response should be first responder. Help me put it into practice. Not quickly flick over the page and go and cut out another one and put that on the fridge. You know, the one that says he will give us uh I'm a joint heir with Christ. That's a nice one, that one. Let's cut that one out. Paste and that, put that on. Cut and paste. Unless, of course, you don't care. I'm believing that I'm with believers today that do care. I'm believing that. So, church authority, so therefore, separating yourself from the local church is a dangerous. I'm not saying everybody will go to hell, it's not a part of a local church, but just non-compliance to so much New Testament instruction, you're setting yourself up for it not to be happy and clappy at the judgment seat of Christ. Okay? Not going to be happy and clappy. You won't be able to hide around some scriptures. With God, God is truth. Do you know what I mean? But Lord, I was just loving them from home on my on my recliner couch. I was I was serving the body of Christ, you know. No, there's no serving in that. There's no sacrifice in that. Okay. Let's move on. It's quiet in here. Now Jesus did say at the end, he said, one of the characteristics, so we just, I mentioned earlier, you know, like earthquakes is increasing and these sort of things. But he also said, what's another characteristic? Many believers will get offended. Right now, somebody could get it's tempted to be offended at me. Here. We have a sister here. She's not trained in Kung Fu, but she's trained. I think it was the last time somebody ran out of here. It's a while ago, isn't it? We're getting Jew, but so she is trained to duck out the back and gently trip them up on the way out. No, she just steps in them, steps in front of them and bless them as they leave. We bless them. Hallelujah. Praise God. Thank you, Jesus. Human authority. So number three. So number first one is spiritual authority, number two is church authority. How do you respond to church authority? God's looking, He takes books. The Bible says in Malachi there's a multitude of books. There's one book called the Book of Life in Revelation, and then there's many books recording. Guess what are they recording? Like this sister here. Your works. How you respond? What you do on Sundays, what you don't do. Correct? Lord, are we in Vietnam again? I don't know if they're understanding me. What are angels recording about your life? Everything. The good? That's why it's good. Any bad things you need to ask for forgiveness. Get it, you know, just say, Lord, just put that under the blood of the Lamb. Hallelujah. Okay. So number three is human authority. So we're called to Genesis 1, 28. Let's have a look at human authority. This is difficult. Difficult sometimes to pray for our leaders that are antichrist. Genesis chapter 1, verse 28. It tells us here. Then God blessed them and said, Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and govern it. Reign over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and all the animals that scurry along the ground. Then God said, Look, I have given you every seed-bearing plant throughout the earth and all the fruit trees for your food. And I've given every green plant as fruit for all the wild animals, the birds in the sky, and the small animals that scurry along the ground. Everything that has life, and this that is what has happened. You know, there's a realm that God gives us that we are called to govern like Adam and Eve. So God created the garden. Think of the garden. What were the boundaries? Can anybody remember the rivers? Garden of Eden? Euphrates? What was the other ones? Gion. And the other tigress. Cheap Tigris, was it? Anyway. There's a special area of authority that God has given to you, to me, to govern. What is that? Your finances? Yes? Your time? Your job. Your job. Your job is your missionary assignment. The Bible says you have to work. He that doesn't work is worse than an unbeliever. You have to put your hand to something. Right? So these are realms of authority that God looks at because he wants to bless to see how we can how we're stewarding it. Our job. Our time. Family is a big one. Abraham brought up his children, you know, and God, that was measured against. He brought them up in the fear of the Lord, and taught them righteousness, which blessed the generation was blessed because of that. If you've got younger children, making sure you have devotion every day. As a father of the home, you've been given special authority to set the atmosphere in your home. You will be held accountable for it, whether you like it or not, what you've done with what you've been given. To cover the wife, to pray for the wife, to raise up the children in righteousness, to speak them the word. This was all established in Deuteronomy. Amen. So we're called, and we're also called to bless our leaders, to pray for our leaders. Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord. Pray for them. Don't complain about them. And we can complain as long as long as you do more, a lot more praying than complaining. You know what I mean? Thank you for this nation, Lord. Every Friday night here, we've done it, I don't know for how many years, quite a while. We start to see some shift in the nation. I remember doing this in Denmark years ago. I was coming back, it was just two or three of us one Friday night. And I was so discouraged. Like just uh the devil's discouraged me. He said, Lord, really? Why is this Friday night thing important to you? And I pulled over on the side of the road because I was like, my flesh had had a gut, I just had enough. And he said, That's the very reason I'm asking you to do it, son. I said, What, Lord? The sacrifice of it. It's a sweet smelling aroma to me. Giving up Friday night to pray for this country. Because it's costing you your flesh. I like what you're doing.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:04

But I don't. I'm just with a handful of people, God. I don't feel like anything's changing.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:11

I like it, son. I like it, daughter. It's interesting how God's different than us sometimes. Yes or no?

unknown 1:01:19

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:22

Told me something about sacrifice. Hallelujah. Alright, we better move on, haven't we? So the last one as past, we'll just have a look at Ephesians chapter 5. Family authority. Are you controlled? Are you called as a Christian to try and manipulate and control other people? Yes or no?

unknown 1:01:54

No.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:54

Does God do that? No. God, this is how the Lord works, pretty much. I've set before you life, death, blessing, cursing, Deuteronomy 30. Therefore, choose life. This is how God works. The gospel message. Jesus Christ is the only way back to the Father. If you reject him, you reject me. I live in a place called heaven. You're not going to be there. Because you've rejected the Son. The only way back to the Father. It's just that simple. Your choice. You call the shots, you live with your decisions. Can't blame anybody? Because you you made choices to do things or not to do things. You chose not to serve me. So you live with those choices. Yes? That's how it works. There's no manipulation in it. It's freeing, isn't it? Hallelujah. So Ephesians chapter 5, thank you, Father, for your word today. Gee, we're all over the place today, aren't we? Further submit, so here we go. This is the context of relationships. Those that want to please God will submit under it. Those that don't, we'll just let it flow through their ears and go on and have a nice lunch. Okay, Ephesians chapter 5, verse 21. And further submit to one another out of fear of God, fear of Christ, fear, reverence for the Lord. For wives, this means submission to your husbands as unto the Lord. My wife. I realized, no, you can't do that. Do you know why you can't force submission on people? Why? I'm talking about biblical submission. Why can't you force it? Where does it come from? Yeah. And I like the acknowledgement if you've ever had teenagers and you go tell them it's your turn on the roster to go wash up. Well, I don't want to, I'm tired tonight, dad. You're on the roster, it's your good put the rubbish out, whatever. And so, alright. So they go, but they, you know, as they're doing it, and it's like bang, bang, smash, door. What are they doing? They're obeying without biblical submission. So they're doing it in the external, but the heart's not in there. That's why you can't force submission on, because it's it's an attitude of the heart. You want to do it. It's different. Say I want to. Now you try and force submission on people, you end up with laws and rules and more laws and more rules and more government officials. You know what I mean? Because it's forced from the head down. But Jesus, he gives instruction from the inside out. And then he wants you to choose life. He wants you to choose your out of your own decision, to choose his ways, to forgive, to serve, to love when you don't feel like loving. You want to give that person some fivefold ministry, but it's not his fivefold ministry, it's you know give my peace of my mind, Lord. The Lord is your vindicator. Some of you laughing, you know, I told the story of our neighbor, one of our neighbors just being very difficult for a few years there. You remember you're a guy, I remember you guys laughing. I found out yesterday, you know what? He's now separated from his his partner, his wife. I think I don't know if they're married, separated. Now he's living in the garage with his mother. And his his ex-wife or whatever she was has now got a new partner. That's a curse. Part of me feels sorry for him, even though he's just being so in the natural, he's just uh whatever, you know. You feel sorry for people. You can't touch the Lord's anointed and keep coming against the Spirit of God and not be. That's why some people are cursed. They speak against the anointing. And they wonder why they're sick, always sick. They speak against the uh ministers of the gospel, and then no wonder why they're confused. Where's God? I don't know what He's calling this for my life. You curse the Holy Spirit, you curse the way God works. You need to repent. You must honor. They're imperfect. All of these vessels are imperfect, but God has chosen that way to work. So suck it up. Just suck it up. Get rid of your self-righteousness. You get into the fire, you get down there and you start to fight some demons yourself. Amen. You'll find out, boy. I've had people try to correct me, you know, about ministry. I say, okay, yes, brother, that's fine. And I would do it this way. How many churches have you birthed? I remember one guy coming here, so man, it was sounding so good. I said, How how many actual churches have you birthed? You none. None? But you sound like an expert. I told him about that. I said, you sound like an expert. You've done nothing. You're just all the information in your head, because you read some books. You've got to be crazy. You're trying to give me advice, and I'm not perfect. You're trying to give me advice, brother, and you've done nothing yourself. Who are you? You're crazy. Come on, you say you've got to be crazy. Turn to your neighbor and say, you've got to be crazy.

unknown 1:08:12

No.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:14

No, you haven't got to be crazy, but that guy was. This is the problem with knowledge, because people get, you know, they get getting all this information, but they're not doing it anything with it. Alright. It's getting close to twelve. Tummies, whose tummies are rumbling? Time to fast, eh? Wives just means submit your husbands, as to the Lord. So, as my wife would say, honey, what do you what's your philosophy on this one? If I'm loving you like Jesus loves the church.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:46

I've got no issues with what you said.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:48

No issues.

unknown 1:08:49

No issues.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:50

Is that true? Are you guys married?

SPEAKER_00 1:08:52

As long as you submit it.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:53

If he's loving you like Jesus loves the church, you got any problems with submission? Well, if my wife says that, so my wife says, How about you guys? If he's loving, I mean, think about how Jesus loves the church. So forgiving, so gracious. Died for the church. Thanks, honey. There you go. There you go. She's Steve, there you go. She's getting it. This is how she talks to me.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:18

He died for the church.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:21

So she just tried to get make this one submit the first few years I met. It's still very difficult. Chasing around the house, you know. No, no, she's not submitting. Her flesh was dying in the process. God, why have you given me this woman? Come on, I was praying for a beautiful God. And then she would say, Well, you just wanted an Asian wife that when you said boo, she would do whatever you said or whatever. Yeah, my wife, man. She's small in stature, but boy, she got some. She she can really give you a punch. I don't know what she does. She prays through the night. Lord, how can I punch my hustle really? But you know, stick it my. No, I mean, you know, with words of truth. Just words of truth. But obviously, God says you need that because you're you've been a stubborn mule. It's gone quiet in here again.

unknown 1:10:25

Stubborn.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:27

Stubborn mule. That's it, let it out, Jimmy. Come on. Let's everybody do a cough. Say stubbornness. They're gonna go just do a cough, but cover it. Just pretend you're coughing. Just pretend you're coughing. Coughering. You're laughing, but I remember the Lord deliver me. I'm sat on the front row of all places and I started burping. And it was a big conference. Uh Holy Spirit, this is not funny. What's happening? Oh, I'm delivering you, son, from that religious spirit that you was imparted to you by being an Anglican. Right now? Right here? Isn't there a better place? No, I just want to do it right here.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:12

It's public.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:14

I was like. And the guy next to me is looking at me, like, you okay? No, I was and if you run off to the bathroom, everybody else is gonna look at you. It's like, hey, Lord, you gotta I don't have a problem in killing your flesh, son. I just just letting you I don't have a problem with that. Okay. Interesting, isn't it? How God works. Should we wrap it up here? So the last, so so we better just finish the fees. You can't leave the women hanging and the men. Hold on. Let's just we better give the bloke something to think about. Verse 23 for a husband is the head of his wife. Oh, what does that mean? Responsibility. As Christ is the head of the church, he is the savior. And what's the primary way of responsibility? Prayer. Praying, praying for your wife. I love my wife as Christ loves the church. Many times I've said that. And my feelings have been in the other direction. But I override my feelings. In the shower, Father, I thank you. I love my wife as Christ loves the church. I choose to not think about all those little irritations that are coming to my mind at that particular time. I've been telling the Lord for 10 years how to cook my meat, and it still comes out raw on the inside. I've been telling her to cook my vegetables. I like them soggy on the inside, and she likes her as crunchy. Why can't she get it?

SPEAKER_01 1:12:46

It's been going on for 15 years, guys.

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I know it sounds funny. I don't like crunchy broccoli. I really don't. I don't like it. I like mine cooked. She's fine. She'll eat it all day long, week after week, crunchy broccoli. Okay. These little things. We're laughing because it's not the big thing sometimes. It's the little things. It's little things. Leaves his socks around. Why can't this guy, Lord, you can't, this why is he always leaving his socks and jogs here in the bathroom? Why can't he just pick them up? What's wrong with his head, Lord? I used to um I don't have a problem. I think because I was again a lot of this stuff comes back because you're your child. And on the farm, we just had four wheel drives, and it didn't really matter if they're a quarter full or even on the red line, because there was always a diesel tank at the farm we just fill up. This one does not like it. The cars, you've left it again, a quarter tank full of petrol or whatever. Doesn't like it. To me, it's no big deal. I mean, I pray in the spirit. There's been times when coming back from maybe an overseas mission, I've had to pray, Lord, you know, 12 o'clock at night, Karabo Suturo, give me to Albany, Lord. Like the red light's been on for 20, 30 kilometers. But I've learned that's part of she doesn't like it. Anyway, so getting along with each other. Um husbands, this means love your wives. Are you saying, Pastor, you know how to do this? No, I feel like throwing myself on the ground and saying, hey guys, come and lay hands on me and tell me how to do it. Love your wives just as Christ loved the church. Who actually knows spiritually? No one. No one knows how much Jesus loves his church, his beloved. Really, do they? I mean, we might get glimpses, obviously. We get sometimes God may reveal to us the compassion that he has for his bride, his beloved, but who actually knows that informed us? Anyone? No. So it's a journey. It's a journey to love your wife as Christ loves the church. And it's a responsibility and it's not an option. If you call yourself a Christian, you're married, this is what you gotta work on. How about we all stand? Thank the Lord for today. I don't know how to wrap this up, honey. Do you want to wrap it up? Lord, we just thank you for one another. We believe that you're coming back, that we need to live ready. And even if it's a hundred years, we still plan as if you're not coming back, but we live in our hearts ready, Lord, and we just pray a blessing, especially the married couples. Isn't that beautiful? Oh. Married couples, just put your hand, whatever you want to do. No kissing, but just hand around, just hands around each other. Uh come on. Everybody got your hands around. We're gonna pray blessing. Thank you, Jesus. Marriages, I mean, it's the core of society, isn't it? It's really important. Lord, we just thank you for the marriages that are represented here, the wives. I know Prince he's working, but Lord, we just pray. We I declare, Father, great grace over every couple. Father, in Jesus' name. Lord, you said, man, you know, um, the two shall become one flesh. And it's not good for man to be alone. So, Father, we thank you that marriage was your idea. And I just thank you for great favor, great grace, wisdom upon the husband, upon the wife today. Favor this week. Lord, let there be a blessed, a supernatural release of joy. Come on, single people, this is your time to pray for the married couples. Let there be a single, let there be a supernatural release of joy in the husbands and in the wives. Cause them to laugh at the little problems, the niggly little problems that the devil has been trying to magnify. Let it become a stepping stone to each one of us. We thank you, Lord, that this is a covenant. Marriages were a covenant before you. It's not, we don't treat it lightly, God. We thank you for your favor upon every person in Jesus' name. And everybody said.