WEBVTT 00:00:00.119 --> 00:00:00.642 Hallelujah. 00:00:00.642 --> 00:00:02.488 Let's lift our bibles up and wave them around. 00:00:02.488 --> 00:00:04.227 Make Jesus glad, the devil mad. 00:00:04.227 --> 00:00:08.647 Let's say this together say heavenly Father, I am glad to be here today. 00:00:08.647 --> 00:00:12.167 Everybody's all excited about the Super Bowl. 00:00:12.167 --> 00:00:15.346 The Lord, I'm looking forward to that day. 00:00:15.346 --> 00:00:17.285 That day is coming. 00:00:17.285 --> 00:00:24.291 We don't know the day or the hour, but we're in the season and I aim to be fully prepared. 00:00:24.291 --> 00:00:35.350 I aim to do what I can do to fulfill my destiny and I'm using that mighty name, the mighty name of Jesus. 00:00:35.350 --> 00:00:37.726 Amen, amen, you can be seated. 00:00:37.840 --> 00:00:40.487 Let's turn in our bibles to 1 Corinthians, chapter 10. 00:00:40.487 --> 00:00:43.466 1 Corinthians, chapter 10. 00:00:43.466 --> 00:00:49.366 And we're gonna read verse 13. 00:00:49.366 --> 00:01:01.524 Paul writing to the Corinthian church, and he says there hath no temptation taken you, but such is common to man. 00:01:01.524 --> 00:01:05.655 But God is faithful. 00:01:05.655 --> 00:01:18.307 God is faithful who will not allow you or not suffer you, the King James says. 00:01:18.307 --> 00:01:42.445 In other words, he won't allow you to be tempted above what you are able, in other words, above your ability, above your ability, but will, with the temptation, also make a way of escape that you may be able to bear it. 00:01:42.445 --> 00:01:45.647 That amplifies to bear up under it. 00:01:45.647 --> 00:01:49.911 You know because you're going through temptation. 00:01:49.911 --> 00:01:50.141 Now. 00:01:50.161 --> 00:01:53.548 The word temptation there means temptation, tests or trials. 00:01:53.548 --> 00:01:56.388 It's not just temptation to sin, it includes that. 00:01:56.388 --> 00:02:07.926 I mean, you know, if you've ever been delivered from alcohol and then the tempter will come, try to tempt you to take another drink, oh, it won't matter, you've been delivered. 00:02:07.926 --> 00:02:13.189 Well, you're gonna have to fight that, don't you take it? 00:02:13.189 --> 00:02:16.389 Or if you've ever been delivered from drugs. 00:02:16.389 --> 00:02:21.146 Some people have never been delivered. 00:02:21.146 --> 00:02:28.384 They might be on the wagon, they might have quit taking it, but they're not delivered because every day they look at them and say I'm an addict. 00:02:28.384 --> 00:02:31.907 The 12 step program will keep you bound. 00:02:31.907 --> 00:02:38.264 You might be, you might be dry for a while, but let me tell you, every day you're confessing the wrong thing. 00:02:38.264 --> 00:02:40.998 That's why I don't believe in it. 00:02:40.998 --> 00:02:44.649 I mean, thank God for what little help it gives you, but it's not permanent solution. 00:02:44.649 --> 00:02:49.819 Jesus will give you the permanent solution. 00:02:49.819 --> 00:02:57.840 He'll give you a way to escape that you may be able to bear up under it. 00:02:57.860 --> 00:02:59.520 Now I like the passion translation. 00:02:59.520 --> 00:03:04.256 It says he'll make a way to escape so that you can get. 00:03:04.256 --> 00:03:07.329 You can be victorious, you can get, be victorious. 00:03:07.329 --> 00:03:10.627 Everybody say victorious. 00:03:10.627 --> 00:03:14.931 So I've got a message entitled victory highway. 00:03:14.931 --> 00:03:37.539 God has built you a highway, not a little path, not a little donkey trail, going through the mountains, with a thousand foot cliff on one side, with a steep 60 degree grade where you could slip and fall, fall all the way back down the mountain. 00:03:37.539 --> 00:03:48.963 No, he's got a super highway, a victory highway, to get you out and let you be not just in the temptation, test or trial but to have what Victory over. 00:03:48.963 --> 00:03:54.312 That's why I call this victory highway, hallelujah. 00:03:54.312 --> 00:03:58.070 Faithfulness of God is. 00:03:58.070 --> 00:03:59.830 We just need to know that. 00:04:00.091 --> 00:04:04.402 I know people are going through temptations, tests or trials. 00:04:04.402 --> 00:04:11.486 You're tempted, you're tested, you're tried Contrary circumstances. 00:04:11.486 --> 00:04:16.966 Jesus said in John 16, 33, in the world you shall have. 00:04:16.966 --> 00:04:19.220 Tribulation means just about the same thing. 00:04:19.220 --> 00:04:22.569 The word tribulation means I anguish, trouble. 00:04:22.569 --> 00:04:27.879 I mean you know that there's not a nickel's difference between temptations and tribulation. 00:04:27.879 --> 00:04:29.125 Jesus said you're gonna have them. 00:04:29.125 --> 00:04:36.524 But he said be of good courage, I have overcome the world. 00:04:36.524 --> 00:04:37.692 Why would he say that? 00:04:37.692 --> 00:04:39.906 Cause I'm giving you my name to overcome too. 00:04:39.906 --> 00:04:43.889 You can overcome and should overcome. 00:04:43.889 --> 00:04:53.677 You should have victory, hallelujah. 00:04:53.980 --> 00:04:57.944 But when you're going through something, it's kind of heavy Been there all of us have. 00:04:57.944 --> 00:05:07.245 And I'm going to say to you you're going through temptation that you face, it's unique to you, it's unique to the human condition. 00:05:07.245 --> 00:05:08.757 That's what the Bible says. 00:05:08.757 --> 00:05:14.240 In other words I like to put it this way the devil is limited to things common to man, one of the five senses. 00:05:14.240 --> 00:05:19.173 That's what's common to men, the five senses. 00:05:19.173 --> 00:05:25.850 But our answer to that, our highway of escape, is supernatural. 00:05:25.850 --> 00:05:35.750 I tell you, when you use the name of Jesus against your circumstances, I'm telling you it's not just a magic word. 00:05:35.750 --> 00:05:40.315 All of the power of the word of God is contained in the name. 00:05:40.315 --> 00:05:50.497 You might not even be able to quote a scripture when you get hit in the face with some kind of temptation, some kind of news that robs you of your peace temporarily. 00:05:50.497 --> 00:05:55.773 You might not be able to think of the word to answer it, but you can always use the name of Jesus. 00:05:55.773 --> 00:05:57.451 Thank you, jesus. 00:05:57.451 --> 00:06:06.309 Nothing can stand against Hallelujah. 00:06:06.309 --> 00:06:14.144 So God's ability is available to us in the trial. 00:06:14.144 --> 00:06:23.153 We're not limited to our own ingenuity, our own wisdom or the wisdom of somebody else. 00:06:23.153 --> 00:06:26.574 We've got supernatural ability available to us. 00:06:26.574 --> 00:06:27.627 If we just remember. 00:06:27.627 --> 00:06:32.975 He's faithful, he's already provided it before we ever knew it was coming. 00:06:32.975 --> 00:06:34.029 He already built it. 00:06:34.547 --> 00:06:36.824 I lived in Houston before the 610 Loop. 00:06:36.824 --> 00:06:43.814 I'm really old Now. 00:06:43.814 --> 00:06:45.964 I remember driving across, I mean back roads and stuff. 00:06:45.964 --> 00:06:51.444 We didn't have 610 Loop and as soon as they built it, it was too crowded to get on. 00:06:51.444 --> 00:06:53.473 I mean, just forget it. 00:06:53.473 --> 00:06:58.225 I know y'all are just really wanting to know when it was built. 00:06:58.225 --> 00:07:00.303 Well, it was finished in 1959. 00:07:00.303 --> 00:07:01.329 1959. 00:07:01.329 --> 00:07:11.110 But God see, he's not waiting to build the 610 Loop for you, he's not waiting to build I-4. 00:07:11.110 --> 00:07:13.012 I remember when there was no I-45. 00:07:13.012 --> 00:07:15.269 No North Freeway. 00:07:15.269 --> 00:07:23.194 But I'm telling you, god is not having to build your road. 00:07:23.194 --> 00:07:28.831 When you finally wake up to the fact you've got some kind of test and trial, he's already built it for you. 00:07:28.831 --> 00:07:30.812 It's a victory highway. 00:07:30.812 --> 00:07:33.553 It's ready for you to take and get up on that thing. 00:07:33.553 --> 00:07:38.567 And once you're on it, don't take an exit, just keep traveling. 00:07:38.567 --> 00:07:39.391 Victory highway. 00:07:39.391 --> 00:07:40.233 Glory to God. 00:07:43.504 --> 00:07:46.735 Now some people misquote this verse. 00:07:46.735 --> 00:07:49.730 I've heard it many times. 00:07:49.730 --> 00:07:53.591 They just think they know the Bible, they just know they know the scripture. 00:07:53.591 --> 00:07:56.569 If they don't know any other scripture, they misquote this one. 00:07:56.569 --> 00:08:03.072 They might not know another verse in the whole Bible, but they know how to misquote this one. 00:08:03.072 --> 00:08:09.516 And they will say this you know God ain't gonna put on me anymore than I can bear. 00:08:09.516 --> 00:08:14.569 That's not what it said. 00:08:14.569 --> 00:08:19.273 That is not what it said. 00:08:19.273 --> 00:08:22.208 Now, you know this. 00:08:22.267 --> 00:08:27.211 But there's a lot of people that haven't been coming that long and they've been taught all their life since Baptist Sunday school. 00:08:27.211 --> 00:08:30.673 You know how they divide you up in our little classes. 00:08:30.673 --> 00:08:36.114 This class is for little redheaded pigtail girls and this class is they got a class for every class. 00:08:36.114 --> 00:08:39.890 Gladys was in some class. 00:08:39.890 --> 00:08:40.346 What was it? 00:08:40.346 --> 00:08:41.171 Rainbow girls? 00:08:41.171 --> 00:08:43.128 No, that wasn't Baptist, that was something else. 00:08:43.128 --> 00:08:48.130 She never was active in that thing. 00:08:48.130 --> 00:08:50.731 God, that would have been another familiar spirit we'd have to bind. 00:08:50.731 --> 00:08:59.813 I don't know, when we were dating in high school they would send a pack of people over to her house. 00:08:59.813 --> 00:09:02.231 We missed you in Sunday school Sunday night. 00:09:02.231 --> 00:09:03.730 I don't know why you have Sunday school. 00:09:03.730 --> 00:09:05.009 You have Sunday school Sunday night. 00:09:05.009 --> 00:09:06.931 No, what was it? 00:09:06.931 --> 00:09:07.586 Gas? 00:09:07.586 --> 00:09:08.227 That's what it was. 00:09:08.227 --> 00:09:09.791 No, wasn't GI? 00:09:09.791 --> 00:09:10.734 I'm missing it again. 00:09:10.734 --> 00:09:17.817 See, I was Catholic, so I, her Sunday nights were tied up. 00:09:25.066 --> 00:09:26.312 Now here's what it really says. 00:09:26.312 --> 00:09:31.910 It says that God won't allow any test or trial or temptation. 00:09:31.910 --> 00:09:34.586 Come in your way, he won't allow it. 00:09:34.586 --> 00:09:44.149 If you're unable to bear it, I want you to let that. 00:09:44.149 --> 00:09:45.990 Does that mean he had to approve it? 00:09:45.990 --> 00:09:47.009 No, he doesn't approve it. 00:09:47.009 --> 00:09:48.870 No, he didn't send it. 00:09:48.870 --> 00:09:50.429 Number one, we know he didn't send it. 00:09:50.429 --> 00:09:50.892 Who sent it. 00:09:51.345 --> 00:09:52.369 Well, the devil sends all trouble. 00:09:52.369 --> 00:09:54.349 He's the author of trouble. 00:09:54.349 --> 00:09:56.270 God's not the author of trouble. 00:09:56.270 --> 00:09:58.312 God is the author of the Victory Highway. 00:09:58.312 --> 00:10:07.513 He's the builder of the Victory Highway for you to get out of the trouble and he will give you his ability to bear up under it while you're getting out of it to victory. 00:10:07.513 --> 00:10:09.172 He's wanting you out in victory. 00:10:09.172 --> 00:10:21.311 He doesn't want you to live the rest of your life under some sort of sentence of death or sentence of some kind of incurable disease or syndrome or trouble or problem. 00:10:22.092 --> 00:10:22.815 Are you with me now? 00:10:22.815 --> 00:10:31.130 The way I like to look at things is if I'm going through something, that means that I can get through it. 00:10:31.130 --> 00:10:37.307 It means that there is a highway of victory available for me. 00:10:37.307 --> 00:10:38.552 That God is so faithful. 00:10:38.552 --> 00:10:39.889 He said it, I believe it. 00:10:39.889 --> 00:10:41.370 I don't believe anything else. 00:10:41.370 --> 00:10:45.370 Let's keep it straight. 00:10:45.370 --> 00:10:48.650 I mean, god is a great big God and the devil's a little bitty devil. 00:10:48.865 --> 00:10:56.789 We need to keep that in mind, because otherwise the devil's always trying to buffalo you and get you to agree with him and get you to brag on him and get you to brag on your trouble. 00:10:56.789 --> 00:10:58.730 What do you mean brag? 00:10:58.730 --> 00:11:00.029 We'll just talk about it all the time. 00:11:00.029 --> 00:11:01.850 When you talk about something, you're magnifying it. 00:11:01.850 --> 00:11:09.870 Biggest thing we need to do is watch our mouth and quit talking about all the trouble. 00:11:09.870 --> 00:11:12.893 Quit talking disease and lack and poverty. 00:11:12.893 --> 00:11:13.889 Quit talking trouble. 00:11:13.889 --> 00:11:18.392 Quit talking about it, because the bigger it is, bigger you talk about it, the bigger it gets. 00:11:18.392 --> 00:11:19.970 It gets huge. 00:11:19.970 --> 00:11:30.253 Your mind hears it and your spirit can't say anything, can't get in a word, in edge. 00:11:30.253 --> 00:11:31.749 Why he's got a word for you? 00:11:31.749 --> 00:11:33.274 Are you with me now? 00:11:33.274 --> 00:11:35.926 You know? 00:11:35.926 --> 00:11:41.668 So the fact that you're going through something is proof that God's ability is available to see you through it. 00:11:43.784 --> 00:11:49.472 So hold fast to your confession of faith without wavering Hebrews 10, 13. 00:11:49.472 --> 00:11:51.505 Without wavering, see? 00:11:51.505 --> 00:11:55.712 I mean, I see people sometimes they'll say things right in church. 00:11:55.712 --> 00:12:04.751 They have a good confession around church people, but then on Monday it's a different story when they're talking at the water cooler. 00:12:04.751 --> 00:12:10.291 Well, your angels hear that and they think I don't know which word to obey. 00:12:10.291 --> 00:12:12.513 They don't know which way to escort you. 00:12:12.513 --> 00:12:19.231 Do you want to go on the pig trail down or do you want to get on the victory highway going up? 00:12:19.231 --> 00:12:22.133 Which way do you want to go? 00:12:22.133 --> 00:12:24.811 Well, one day it's this thing, one day it's the next thing. 00:12:24.811 --> 00:12:26.009 I mean, you know, amen. 00:12:26.764 --> 00:12:28.793 Inconsistency lies the power. 00:12:28.793 --> 00:12:35.412 Your faith won't help you avoid trouble because trouble comes with the territory. 00:12:35.412 --> 00:12:43.629 That's why it's kind of useless, when you have trouble hit you, to sit around and try to wonder why. 00:12:43.629 --> 00:12:47.366 Well, why did this happen, god? 00:12:47.366 --> 00:12:48.610 Why did you allow this? 00:12:48.610 --> 00:12:50.910 Let's get this straight God doesn't allow it. 00:12:50.910 --> 00:12:53.952 Get allow out of your vocabulary. 00:12:53.952 --> 00:12:57.211 He didn't allow it, he didn't approve it. 00:12:57.211 --> 00:13:01.798 He didn't say approve devil, go ahead, get him with everything you got. 00:13:03.105 --> 00:13:04.028 That's what people think. 00:13:04.028 --> 00:13:06.652 The devil doesn't need God's permission. 00:13:06.652 --> 00:13:11.205 We live on the planet earth where the devil's lease has not run out. 00:13:11.205 --> 00:13:14.631 A lot of trouble is here because of the territory we live on. 00:13:14.631 --> 00:13:20.465 Can you do things that will cause trouble? 00:13:20.465 --> 00:13:23.144 Of course you can miss the Holy Ghost. 00:13:23.144 --> 00:13:24.924 You can disobey God. 00:13:24.924 --> 00:13:26.008 You can sin. 00:13:26.008 --> 00:13:30.190 You can do and don't confess it Unconfess sins. 00:13:30.190 --> 00:13:34.644 There's a big, wide, open door for the devil to steal, kill and destroy in your life. 00:13:34.644 --> 00:13:38.270 That's why I teach people to keep short accounts with God. 00:13:38.270 --> 00:13:49.239 When you're wrong Right now, don't wait and then receive your forgiveness and go on as if it never happened, because as far as God's concerned, it's gone, it's under the blood. 00:13:50.273 --> 00:13:52.602 See, that's how you act when you're living by faith. 00:13:52.602 --> 00:13:54.085 You know it makes God. 00:13:54.085 --> 00:13:56.312 You know I was thinking about the joy of the Lord the other day. 00:13:56.312 --> 00:13:59.696 You know, the joy of the Lord is your strength, amen. 00:13:59.696 --> 00:14:08.552 So when you think of the joy of the Lord, notice we didn't say joy from the Lord. 00:14:08.552 --> 00:14:11.331 I think that's how we think about it. 00:14:11.331 --> 00:14:14.791 We think about it like when we have joy it's the joy of the Lord. 00:14:14.791 --> 00:14:21.677 But Jesus has joy when we walk by faith. 00:14:21.677 --> 00:14:27.177 He takes pleasure in our walking by faith. 00:14:27.177 --> 00:14:28.650 And what does walking by faith mean? 00:14:28.650 --> 00:14:30.951 It means calling them things that be not as though they were. 00:14:30.951 --> 00:14:33.732 It means acting like the Bible is true. 00:14:33.732 --> 00:14:39.392 When everything is coming unhinged around you, then Jesus is smiling. 00:14:39.392 --> 00:14:42.809 He's saying look at my son down there, look at my daughter. 00:14:42.809 --> 00:14:45.933 They're walking by faith, just like they're supposed to. 00:14:45.933 --> 00:14:47.629 Oh Father, look at them. 00:14:47.629 --> 00:14:48.672 Glory to God. 00:14:48.672 --> 00:14:49.575 Isn't that wonderful. 00:14:49.575 --> 00:14:50.758 That's what we went to do. 00:14:50.758 --> 00:14:53.951 That's where that's the example, right there. 00:14:53.951 --> 00:14:55.395 Look at Karen. 00:14:55.395 --> 00:14:56.690 She's just smiling. 00:14:56.690 --> 00:14:58.571 She's radiating joy. 00:14:58.571 --> 00:15:01.212 I'm so happy, I'm happier than she is. 00:15:01.212 --> 00:15:07.049 Come on, lift your hands right now. 00:15:07.049 --> 00:15:15.970 Glory to God, I'm telling you, when he gets happy, that's strong for you. 00:15:15.970 --> 00:15:19.086 That means you're strong Now. 00:15:19.086 --> 00:15:19.889 The joy of the Lord. 00:15:19.889 --> 00:15:23.270 I understand we can be happy, but we make him happy. 00:15:23.270 --> 00:15:28.871 I said we make him happy, all right. 00:15:28.892 --> 00:15:34.825 So when you go through trouble, don't be thinking about you know why. 00:15:34.825 --> 00:15:37.999 You can always find out later if it's necessary. 00:15:37.999 --> 00:15:48.245 I've had to ask why when something didn't move and a trial was long and I wasn't getting any results, and sometimes I will go back and see if there's something that I need to change. 00:15:48.245 --> 00:15:53.216 Is there something I've left, some key that I lost in the grass or something? 00:15:53.216 --> 00:15:53.902 I have that testimony. 00:15:53.902 --> 00:16:03.865 The one time I lost a key in the grass and I mean this grass is tall and I found the key at night, I mean there's no way I could do it. 00:16:03.865 --> 00:16:06.216 Holy ghost, help me. 00:16:06.216 --> 00:16:11.418 The holy ghost to help you find what the missing key is, if you need one. 00:16:11.418 --> 00:16:12.504 But don't be concerned about that at first. 00:16:12.504 --> 00:16:15.355 At first, just think about who. 00:16:15.355 --> 00:16:19.368 Amen, amen, amen. 00:16:19.368 --> 00:16:21.269 God's your deliverer. 00:16:21.269 --> 00:16:24.009 He's made the way of escape. 00:16:24.009 --> 00:16:29.874 Think about what God's word, god's word, is the key to use the name of Jesus. 00:16:29.874 --> 00:16:37.270 Until you've got a chance to look into the Bible and see what the Bible says about your trouble, let's answer the trouble. 00:16:37.345 --> 00:16:44.433 Jesus answered the fig tree, came up to the fig tree and said how come there's no figs? 00:16:44.433 --> 00:16:45.235 I'm hungry. 00:16:45.235 --> 00:16:45.917 I didn't say that. 00:16:45.917 --> 00:16:48.371 He said nobody's going to eat fruit of thee forever. 00:16:48.371 --> 00:16:50.089 He answered the fig tree. 00:16:50.089 --> 00:16:50.630 The fig tree. 00:16:50.630 --> 00:16:51.827 Of what's the fig tree? 00:16:51.827 --> 00:16:57.066 The fig tree is saying I ain't feeding you, poor fig tree, it's not even. 00:16:57.066 --> 00:16:59.971 It's not even time for the fig tree to have figs. 00:16:59.971 --> 00:17:03.051 Well, why would he curse the fig tree? 00:17:03.051 --> 00:17:03.927 It's not its fault. 00:17:03.927 --> 00:17:09.469 Is there some kind of organization for the abusive plants? 00:17:09.469 --> 00:17:13.694 They probably be protesting, jesus today. 00:17:13.694 --> 00:17:15.406 You're so cruel. 00:17:15.406 --> 00:17:17.493 You killed a fig tree for no good reason. 00:17:17.493 --> 00:17:19.750 You well, it was a. 00:17:19.750 --> 00:17:24.943 It was a symbol of Israel not bearing fruit. 00:17:24.943 --> 00:17:27.810 They did not bear fruit when Jesus was looking for the fruit, they didn't bear fruit. 00:17:27.810 --> 00:17:32.771 Joel 1 7 says Israel's a fig tree. 00:17:32.771 --> 00:17:34.409 So you know it was a symbolic. 00:17:34.409 --> 00:17:36.335 But what did he do? 00:17:36.335 --> 00:17:38.776 He answered the fig tree. 00:17:38.776 --> 00:17:42.469 I said he answered the fig tree. 00:17:42.960 --> 00:17:45.449 You have to learn to answer your trouble with faith. 00:17:45.449 --> 00:17:47.929 You have to answer the answer with the word of God. 00:17:47.929 --> 00:17:55.164 Always consult the word about your trouble and see what God's word has to say about the trouble and then answer it. 00:17:55.164 --> 00:17:58.182 So what? 00:17:58.182 --> 00:18:00.710 See who, god, what God's word, when? 00:18:00.710 --> 00:18:04.144 Now, Don't put it off now. 00:18:04.144 --> 00:18:09.545 Now, faith is, faith is now, faith is a now thing. 00:18:09.545 --> 00:18:11.645 You put it under your feet now. 00:18:11.645 --> 00:18:15.048 Not, no, well, I'm gonna get victory one day. 00:18:15.048 --> 00:18:16.826 I know God's got the victory for me. 00:18:16.826 --> 00:18:17.942 No, no victory. 00:18:17.942 --> 00:18:19.047 Faith is the victory. 00:18:19.047 --> 00:18:21.727 This is the victory that overcomeeth the world. 00:18:21.727 --> 00:18:23.567 Even our faith in faith is always now. 00:18:23.567 --> 00:18:25.105 Faith is not next week. 00:18:25.105 --> 00:18:27.708 Faith is not when all the circumstances change. 00:18:27.708 --> 00:18:33.442 Faith is when you speak the word of faith and believe it in your heart and that's the victory. 00:18:33.442 --> 00:18:34.929 Right then, that's your victory. 00:18:34.929 --> 00:18:36.364 That's when you start celebrating. 00:18:36.364 --> 00:18:40.263 You're getting anything out of this. 00:18:40.806 --> 00:18:42.964 Many of you have heard it, but we need to hear it over and over. 00:18:42.964 --> 00:18:49.688 So if you start blaming God for your trouble, you can't be blessed and offended at the same time. 00:18:49.688 --> 00:18:51.826 I mean, it's basically you're offended at God. 00:18:51.826 --> 00:18:56.726 Then You're basically saying, well, god sent this for some high and holy purpose. 00:18:56.726 --> 00:18:57.644 They taught that to you. 00:18:57.644 --> 00:19:01.505 Some man taught it to you, I think, about Norval Hayes. 00:19:01.980 --> 00:19:12.343 I spent a lot of time around Brother Norval and I was blessed to get to know him very well and drive him all over the city and spend hours with him and talk to him and watching preach. 00:19:12.343 --> 00:19:13.847 I learned a lot watching him. 00:19:13.847 --> 00:19:17.627 And how many of you ever heard of Norval Hayes? 00:19:17.627 --> 00:19:18.102 Anybody? 00:19:18.102 --> 00:19:22.144 About half of you, half of you, have yet to discover. 00:19:22.144 --> 00:19:24.709 Is he in heaven? 00:19:24.729 --> 00:19:51.347 Yes, huh, yeah, he just it hadn't been long, at long, but he was like 30, in his 30s, when he got to say I want to say, yeah, in his 30s he's a businessman doing well, but his mother died of cancer at age 39, when he was a little boy, and she's Baptist lady, and you know it was terrible because his father was absent. 00:19:51.347 --> 00:19:59.931 I don't remember the circumstances, just his mother and she died, and so the church ladies were just so wanting to comfort him. 00:19:59.931 --> 00:20:01.925 Oh, little Norval, we're so sorry. 00:20:01.925 --> 00:20:05.087 You know, jesus was just lonesome for mommy. 00:20:05.087 --> 00:20:09.890 You know your mother was just a flower in God's garden. 00:20:09.890 --> 00:20:12.327 He just reached down and picked your mama. 00:20:13.599 --> 00:20:14.904 Well, you know he hated God. 00:20:14.904 --> 00:20:18.147 What is a little child supposed to think of that? 00:20:18.147 --> 00:20:22.945 That he wants his mother and now God wanted her more than he did and God took his mother. 00:20:22.945 --> 00:20:24.611 What are you gonna do? 00:20:24.611 --> 00:20:26.085 Are you gonna love God then? 00:20:26.085 --> 00:20:27.765 Are you gonna serve God? 00:20:27.765 --> 00:20:32.805 Oh, he hated God, didn't want to hear about God for a long, long time, ran from God, and yet God had called him. 00:20:33.701 --> 00:20:39.586 Oh, I tell you that religious spirit it means well, but it brings destruction. 00:20:39.586 --> 00:20:42.981 You can't. 00:20:42.981 --> 00:20:47.086 You know you can't be blessed and offended at the same time. 00:20:47.086 --> 00:20:49.646 Let's get what the truth of the word of God says amen. 00:20:49.646 --> 00:21:03.086 So, whatever it is you're facing, let's get this idea that God should blame out of it, and don't even blame yourself. 00:21:03.086 --> 00:21:04.500 It just comes with the territory. 00:21:04.559 --> 00:21:09.866 You know, paul said one time you know there's a great door and a fact shall open unto me, and there are many adversaries. 00:21:09.866 --> 00:21:11.867 I mean, think about Paul and Silas. 00:21:11.867 --> 00:21:18.487 They passed up two opportunities to go preach we are saved to go into Bathenian. 00:21:18.487 --> 00:21:23.144 The spirit suffered us not and we were forbidden by the Holy Ghost to preach in Asia Minor. 00:21:23.144 --> 00:21:24.223 So they had two places. 00:21:24.223 --> 00:21:27.666 They had thought about going and the Holy Ghost said no, no, no. 00:21:27.666 --> 00:21:32.586 And then he had the dream about Macedonian man saying come over here and help us. 00:21:32.586 --> 00:21:33.865 And they went on that journey. 00:21:33.865 --> 00:21:36.307 This is Paul's second missionary journey. 00:21:37.160 --> 00:21:38.484 Well, they were in the will of God. 00:21:38.484 --> 00:21:39.922 They got the. 00:21:39.922 --> 00:21:43.540 You know the woman, the seller of purple, you know. 00:21:43.540 --> 00:21:48.028 They got her saved and she put him up in their house and they started preaching. 00:21:48.028 --> 00:21:48.883 And of course they were just. 00:21:48.883 --> 00:21:57.829 A big old furor broke out and people rioted and they started beating them with many stripes and threw them into the inner prison. 00:22:00.285 --> 00:22:04.425 Well, you know, they didn't spend any time wondering about whether they were in the will of God. 00:22:04.425 --> 00:22:05.905 They knew they were in the will of God. 00:22:05.905 --> 00:22:07.646 They knew that there wasn't their fault. 00:22:07.646 --> 00:22:09.867 They just it came with the territory. 00:22:09.867 --> 00:22:13.290 Things you're gonna go through in this life come with the. 00:22:13.290 --> 00:22:16.167 There's things that come with my territory that I'm in. 00:22:16.167 --> 00:22:24.583 Not everybody's gonna love me, not everybody's gonna agree with me, not everybody's gonna just want the best for me and my family. 00:22:24.583 --> 00:22:30.426 In fact, it's opposite a lot of times, and so you just have to understand that. 00:22:30.426 --> 00:22:35.047 I mean, it's not, you know, it's not that I've got to go out here and change everything I'm doing. 00:22:35.047 --> 00:22:36.045 No, I've got to have way. 00:22:36.045 --> 00:22:40.086 God, that's what I've got to do, whether somebody likes it or not. 00:22:40.086 --> 00:22:56.403 So and it says at midnight, here they were locked up in stocks, their feet and ankles all locked up in those stocks, and that with their backs bleeding from all the stripes that were laid on them. 00:22:56.403 --> 00:23:02.145 And at midnight, paul and Silas prayed and sang praises, and all the prisoners heard them. 00:23:02.145 --> 00:23:07.030 They weren't quiet about it, they weren't whispering. 00:23:07.030 --> 00:23:11.728 I wonder what they were singing. 00:23:11.728 --> 00:23:14.967 Oh God, send us some more trials. 00:23:14.967 --> 00:23:20.372 Oh God, thank you, fellow stripes. 00:23:20.372 --> 00:23:21.945 We just really wear them proudly. 00:23:21.945 --> 00:23:28.590 No, they started praising God for the way of escape and pretty soon it came. 00:23:28.590 --> 00:23:31.402 Just who would ever thought an earthquake was a way of escape? 00:23:31.402 --> 00:23:32.284 But that's what it was. 00:23:32.284 --> 00:23:35.874 Hallelujah, amen. 00:23:38.700 --> 00:23:42.109 A couple of years ago I had to go to the hospital. 00:23:42.109 --> 00:23:46.390 I had irregular heartbeat. 00:23:46.390 --> 00:23:48.484 It was racing boy. 00:23:48.484 --> 00:23:53.243 It checked my blood pressure one morning three o'clock in the morning. 00:23:53.243 --> 00:23:57.404 I woke up and I didn't feel right and I took my blood pressure. 00:23:57.404 --> 00:23:58.890 It was 180 over something. 00:23:58.890 --> 00:24:02.287 My pulse was 160. 00:24:02.287 --> 00:24:04.653 160. 00:24:04.653 --> 00:24:07.686 I don't think it's ever been 160. 00:24:07.686 --> 00:24:13.248 I don't think I could run hard enough, long enough, fast enough for my pulse to get that high. 00:24:13.248 --> 00:24:22.646 But anyway, I was breathing pretty heavy and got short of breath where I couldn't breathe, and I had not been sleeping. 00:24:22.646 --> 00:24:25.269 So these symptoms had kind of gradually snuck up on me. 00:24:25.269 --> 00:24:31.669 So I wound up at the hospital and I'm laying there pretty miserable, I don't mind telling you. 00:24:31.669 --> 00:24:46.371 I mean, I felt terrible and I remembered how that for at least the previous 16 years I had said every day with my confession that I held fast. 00:24:46.371 --> 00:24:49.965 In other words, I emailed my body. 00:24:49.965 --> 00:24:54.170 My first experience with atrial fibrillation was 2005. 00:24:54.170 --> 00:25:06.190 And ever since that I had that and I had my heart cardioverted and then, over a period of years in between, it's been an attack like that ever so often. 00:25:11.599 --> 00:25:16.763 So I just govern my body like I do everything I'm supposed to rule and reign. 00:25:16.763 --> 00:25:20.385 One of the main things is rule and reign over your own body. 00:25:20.385 --> 00:25:22.102 Paul said. 00:25:22.102 --> 00:25:23.226 I keep under my body. 00:25:23.226 --> 00:25:26.009 I keep my body under subjection to my spirit. 00:25:26.009 --> 00:25:30.266 Less while having preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. 00:25:31.059 --> 00:25:33.545 Now that's talking about lust, but it's also talking about health. 00:25:33.545 --> 00:25:45.346 So I mean every day, I confess, you know, my heart beats with a sinus rhythm through open blood vessels, free of plaque, obstructions, clots, all electrical pathways, my heart or normal. 00:25:45.346 --> 00:25:52.328 I mean it's a lot longer confession because there's a whole lot of things that I address when I'm on that place. 00:25:52.328 --> 00:25:59.948 But I just start across my body and I just start speaking to it and I lay in there in the hospital. 00:25:59.948 --> 00:26:02.085 I just began to pray. 00:26:02.085 --> 00:26:06.306 I said God, I tell you, I just know I'm on the way of escape. 00:26:06.306 --> 00:26:13.723 This is a temptation and it's not my first rodeo here and I know you've got a way out. 00:26:13.723 --> 00:26:14.487 They're working on me. 00:26:14.487 --> 00:26:15.450 So they were working on me. 00:26:15.450 --> 00:26:17.005 They were trying this and trying that. 00:26:17.920 --> 00:26:33.232 So far it hadn't been doing much, it wasn't helping me, that I could tell as far as making me feel better the numbers were I've hooked up to all the monitors, you know and they weren't moving very much, but I just kept talking to the Lord. 00:26:33.232 --> 00:26:39.648 I said Lord, isaiah 55 says that your word in my mouth will accomplish what your word does in your mouth. 00:26:39.648 --> 00:26:41.046 It will not return to me void. 00:26:41.046 --> 00:26:42.565 It will accomplish what I please. 00:26:42.565 --> 00:26:45.688 It'll prosper in the thing where, too, I sent it. 00:26:45.688 --> 00:26:47.285 I sent the word to this heart. 00:26:47.285 --> 00:26:52.446 I've been sending the word to this heart for 16 years and it has to obey me. 00:26:53.490 --> 00:26:54.259 Now I'm just talking to the Lord. 00:26:54.259 --> 00:26:55.578 I'm not even asking Him anything. 00:26:55.578 --> 00:26:56.980 I'm just stating to Him. 00:26:56.980 --> 00:26:58.884 I'm talking to Him. 00:26:58.884 --> 00:27:03.017 I'm not asking him for anything. 00:27:03.017 --> 00:27:06.858 I didn't say Lord, heal me, heal me. 00:27:06.858 --> 00:27:07.953 Lord, he'd already healed me. 00:27:07.953 --> 00:27:10.974 I'm not gonna ask him to heal me. 00:27:10.974 --> 00:27:11.897 I'm healed. 00:27:11.897 --> 00:27:19.403 This is a tribulation, a trouble, an anguish, a temptation. 00:27:19.403 --> 00:27:20.273 Are you with me now? 00:27:20.273 --> 00:27:27.193 But I laid there and I just I thank you, lord, my heart's gonna respond. 00:27:27.193 --> 00:27:27.675 It has to. 00:27:27.675 --> 00:27:29.028 There's no, it doesn't have a choice. 00:27:29.028 --> 00:27:30.013 It has to respond. 00:27:31.789 --> 00:27:35.740 And I I not demand all these efforts that they're taking. 00:27:35.740 --> 00:27:39.414