WEBVTT 00:00:00.401 --> 00:00:01.625 Let's just get right in the word. 00:00:01.625 --> 00:00:06.839 Tonight we're just so excited, like I said, to be with you and Selina's got a message for you. 00:00:06.839 --> 00:00:08.324 But let's, let's pray first. 00:00:08.324 --> 00:00:09.769 I'm gonna let Selina pray over. 00:00:09.789 --> 00:00:12.480 We both got a yes, we do yeah we're preaching together. 00:00:13.121 --> 00:00:19.553 It's always an honor to Share the word with you guys on in person and on live stream. 00:00:19.553 --> 00:00:27.942 I know it's a little different on live stream we have a small little studio audience, but it's always an honor To bring the word. 00:00:27.942 --> 00:00:29.004 So let's start out in prayer. 00:00:29.004 --> 00:00:29.745 Amen, god. 00:00:29.745 --> 00:00:31.449 We just thank you, lord for tonight. 00:00:31.449 --> 00:00:35.402 I thank you, father, that you gave us your best. 00:00:35.402 --> 00:00:42.683 You gave us your one and only son, jesus Christ, so we don't have to live Down below. 00:00:42.683 --> 00:00:47.219 But we are overcomers, we're victorious through Jesus, and I just thank you. 00:00:47.219 --> 00:00:49.954 We pray a special blessing over everybody watching. 00:00:49.954 --> 00:00:52.482 I thank you that the word there. 00:00:52.643 --> 00:01:01.323 We're about to teach, father, that our, that their hearts are open to receive your word and our ears are open to hear what you have to say. 00:01:01.323 --> 00:01:02.926 Holy Spirit, we welcome you. 00:01:02.926 --> 00:01:11.769 It is not our words and our thoughts and our opinions, but it's your word, because we know that your word is what brings lasting change. 00:01:11.769 --> 00:01:18.063 We know that your word is powerful, it is sharp, and so we, we put your word first. 00:01:18.063 --> 00:01:27.337 We proclaim your word, father, and so we just thank you that we are kids that are full of faith that the words coming out of our mouth are faith filled words. 00:01:27.337 --> 00:01:33.799 They're not doubt, they're not worry, they're not fear for words, but they're full of faith, full of hope and promise. 00:01:33.799 --> 00:01:38.325 So we just thank you, we glorify your name, we thank you, father. 00:01:39.700 --> 00:01:44.152 Entrance of your word brings light and you're illuminating through our words. 00:01:44.152 --> 00:01:49.858 Supernatural utterance is in our lips and in our mouths tonight, coming out of our spirits. 00:01:49.858 --> 00:01:54.168 Lord, we yield ourselves as your mouthpieces and your representatives. 00:01:54.168 --> 00:01:59.843 And Lord, all of us receive what we need to receive tonight to go to the next level In you. 00:01:59.843 --> 00:02:00.825 We're believing God. 00:02:00.825 --> 00:02:03.893 We're believing you for great things in 2023. 00:02:03.893 --> 00:02:06.168 Jesus name, amen amen. 00:02:08.568 --> 00:02:11.384 So let's see I was reading this week. 00:02:11.384 --> 00:02:18.524 I've been meditating well all throughout the Bible, but especially in the book of Philippians and and 1st Timothy. 00:02:18.524 --> 00:02:24.514 You know Paul wrote most of the New Testament, that's right, and so yeah and so there's underlying. 00:02:25.320 --> 00:02:27.105 You know, if you read his letters. 00:02:27.105 --> 00:02:43.862 There's themes in his letters yes, the love for fellow believers, but also there's warnings in those letters and correction, and we have to take heed to those warnings and so In. 00:02:43.862 --> 00:02:47.292 So the title of our message tonight is anxious for nothing. 00:02:47.292 --> 00:02:50.658 Anxious for nothing, and so God doesn't. 00:02:50.658 --> 00:02:54.433 In Philippians it talks about be anxious for nothing, and so we'll go. 00:02:54.433 --> 00:02:55.879 We'll get to that scripture. 00:02:55.879 --> 00:02:57.086 But I wanted to start out. 00:02:57.086 --> 00:03:06.848 If you have your Bibles or if you have your phone, you can turn to 1st Timothy 4, 1 and 2 and I'm gonna read it out of the New King James and then Jay's gonna read it out of the passion translation. 00:03:06.848 --> 00:03:23.500 Now the spirit expressly says that in latter time some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies and hypocrisy, having their own conscience Seared with a hot iron. 00:03:23.500 --> 00:03:25.885 You're gonna read that in the passion. 00:03:25.906 --> 00:03:26.426 Translation. 00:03:26.426 --> 00:03:43.105 It says the Holy Spirit has explicitly revealed at the end of this age, many will depart from the true faith, one after another, devoting themselves to spirits of deception and following demon-inspired revelations and theories. 00:03:43.105 --> 00:03:48.740 Hippocritical liars will deceive many and their consciences won't even bother them at all. 00:03:48.740 --> 00:03:51.256 And I'm telling you so. 00:03:51.256 --> 00:03:54.329 So this is Paul warning Timothy. 00:03:54.329 --> 00:04:15.931 But I'm telling you, paul wasn't the only one that warned us of false teaching and in the in the last days and how many of you realize if Paul was, was Helping Timothy not fall pray to false teaching 2000 years ago and was calling those the last days that we're really living in the last days. 00:04:15.931 --> 00:04:25.913 And so I Was reading in I believe it was 2nd John We've read in Jude, we've read in in in 1st and 2nd Peter. 00:04:26.940 --> 00:04:36.130 Pretty much almost every book in the New Testament warns us of false teaching and false doctrine in the last days. 00:04:36.130 --> 00:04:50.584 And so Our message tonight being anxious for nothing, we need to set ourselves up to be bulletproof when we're listening to the Word and stay strong, standing firm on our foundation of the Word, amen. 00:04:50.584 --> 00:04:58.519 And we're grateful for our dad, pastor John Griner, who teaches us a strong foundation that we can stand on. 00:04:58.519 --> 00:05:08.519 But I'm telling you maybe you joined us, maybe you're a member of another church, or maybe you've just fallen away from the foundation that got you saved. 00:05:08.519 --> 00:05:14.098 I mean, the Word of faith is so powerful and we're sticking with it. 00:05:14.098 --> 00:05:20.826 We're sticking to it and we're not wavering, from the right and to the left, amen, that's right. 00:05:22.134 --> 00:05:25.545 You know two definitions that I wrote down conscience and seer. 00:05:25.545 --> 00:05:30.163 Conscious is our inward witness of right and wrong, and then the ability to choose correctly. 00:05:30.163 --> 00:05:37.283 And then seered, cauterized, you know, to burn the flesh to stop bleeding. 00:05:37.283 --> 00:05:43.425 And so when you put those two together, describe someone's inner witness as being calloused and hardened. 00:05:43.425 --> 00:05:57.721 And how many of you all know like, that doesn't just happen overnight, that happens by what you do on the daily, what you do every day, what your habits are, if you read the Word, if you go to God first. 00:05:57.721 --> 00:06:00.661 So it doesn't happen overnight. 00:06:00.661 --> 00:06:03.644 And so you might say, oh well, that can never happen to me. 00:06:04.396 --> 00:06:07.105 I've been a Christian my whole lot, 20, 30 years. 00:06:07.105 --> 00:06:08.821 No, that is who he is talking about. 00:06:08.821 --> 00:06:10.459 He's not talking about the new believer. 00:06:10.459 --> 00:06:16.084 He's like, oh, you can come to a place where, like, oh, I know the Word and I'm OK and you get comfortable. 00:06:16.084 --> 00:06:18.624 But no, we should always be on fire for God. 00:06:18.624 --> 00:06:28.081 And if Paul was telling Timothy hey, heed these things, like you have to make sure that you don't depart from the true faith. 00:06:28.081 --> 00:06:32.374 And so if there's a true faith, that then there must be a false faith. 00:06:32.415 --> 00:06:32.755 That's right. 00:06:32.755 --> 00:06:35.399 A counterfeit, a counterfeit, counterfeit faith. 00:06:35.759 --> 00:06:42.583 Right and so I wanted to read and that was good in the Passion Translation, this last day's survival guide by Rick Renner. 00:06:42.583 --> 00:06:49.521 He talks about well beforehand in First Timothy 3 about a rubber bait mine. 00:06:49.521 --> 00:06:55.584 But here I just want to read a couple of paragraphs Mines that have become corrupted over a period of time. 00:06:55.584 --> 00:07:02.425 But Paul said these individuals will have a rubber bait mine concerning the faith in Second Timothy 3.8. 00:07:02.425 --> 00:07:06.360 That means their minds will no longer think correctly when it comes to the faith. 00:07:06.360 --> 00:07:14.627 But wait, because the phrase the faith includes a definite article that is not talking about raw faith such as faith for miracles. 00:07:14.627 --> 00:07:26.738 The definite article in the Greek text tells us that the phrase the faith instead refers to the long held time, testing teaching of scripture or the non-negotiable doctrines and tenets of the Christian faith. 00:07:27.675 --> 00:07:33.442 First Timothy 4.1 is another important text where the Holy Spirit spoke of the future. 00:07:33.442 --> 00:07:44.346 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly that in the latter time some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils. 00:07:44.346 --> 00:07:55.843 In this verse the Holy Spirit categorically forecasts that in the conclusion of the last day, a breeding ground for error will fester not only in the secular world but also within the church. 00:07:55.843 --> 00:07:58.238 And, as we discussed earlier. 00:07:58.238 --> 00:08:01.187 We are seeing this even in this day. 00:08:01.187 --> 00:08:09.125 Already in the Christian world are many spiritual leaders who seek a dangerous truce with the world under the guise of inclusiveness and compromise. 00:08:09.125 --> 00:08:25.202 These leaders may have once held strong doctrinal positions, but over time they began to shape their beliefs to meld with the changing moral climate of society and in the process they produced a gospel message very different from the one presented in the Bible. 00:08:25.202 --> 00:08:34.966 Along the way, they embraced compromising positions and allowed their thoughts to be affected with the errant mindsets that promote such positions. 00:08:34.966 --> 00:08:43.522 Their mindsets become progressively more corrupted until they actually became to believe and embrace the nonsense they promoted. 00:08:44.174 --> 00:08:58.000 This is a destructive track that much of the church is on, as man's natural reasoning strives to reach a generation who is unfamiliar with the Bible and considers the dictates of the word restrictive and out of date. 00:08:58.000 --> 00:09:02.500 Regrettably, we must call this what it is a departure from Scripture. 00:09:02.500 --> 00:09:04.640 So I thought that was really good. 00:09:04.640 --> 00:09:08.639 I mean, it's basically what it is it's a departure from Scripture. 00:09:08.639 --> 00:09:16.719 Nothing good comes from anything when you depart from the Scripture, whatever area in life. 00:09:16.719 --> 00:09:22.120 The Scripture, the Word of God, is our foundation from the very beginning. 00:09:22.120 --> 00:09:23.083 Amen. 00:09:23.184 --> 00:09:23.465 Amen. 00:09:23.465 --> 00:09:44.785 So, being at this for 28 years, we've seen a thing or two, and so getting different pastors and different churches to hook up with what we're doing and to move forward collectively and in unity has been a really difficult thing. 00:09:44.785 --> 00:09:46.621 A lot of pastors are still asleep. 00:09:46.621 --> 00:10:08.153 A lot of other churches they're asleep to what God is doing in these last days, and it really is because they've allowed their hearts to become seared and also just They've adjusted their foundational beliefs to fit, to go along with the world's customs. 00:10:08.153 --> 00:10:10.325 And we can't be that way. 00:10:10.325 --> 00:10:11.227 Amen, amen. 00:10:11.227 --> 00:10:17.523 And so you know, romans 12, 1 tells us not to be, and so we're not going to be. 00:10:17.523 --> 00:10:20.211 We're not going to go along with the world's customs. 00:10:20.211 --> 00:10:24.369 We're going to hang on to the foundation that God's provided for us, amen. 00:10:24.610 --> 00:10:24.909 Amen. 00:10:26.120 --> 00:10:27.985 Did you want me to read those questions now or turn? 00:10:28.004 --> 00:10:28.144 it out. 00:10:28.144 --> 00:10:29.047 Yeah, I think we can read them. 00:10:29.047 --> 00:10:29.749 We can read them later. 00:10:29.749 --> 00:10:57.908 Okay, so Philippians 3, if you want to turn with us to Philippians 3, 18 and 19 in the New King James and then J O Reed in the Passion Translation for many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly and whose glory is in their shame who set their mind on earthly things. 00:10:57.908 --> 00:11:00.123 Can you read that in the Passion? 00:11:00.565 --> 00:11:00.806 Sure. 00:11:01.900 --> 00:11:03.085 Let's see, starting with verse 18. 00:11:03.700 --> 00:11:07.090 For there are many who live by different standards. 00:11:07.090 --> 00:11:16.828 As I've warned you many times and I weep as I write these words they are enemies of the cross, of the anointed one, and doom awaits them. 00:11:16.828 --> 00:11:20.669 Their God has possessed them and made them mute. 00:11:20.669 --> 00:11:25.990 Their boast is in their shameful lifestyles and their minds are in the dirt. 00:11:26.831 --> 00:11:27.373 That's good. 00:11:27.373 --> 00:11:31.409 So yeah, in the New King James their mind is on earthly things. 00:11:31.409 --> 00:11:35.591 So that's the starting point of all destruction and deception. 00:11:35.591 --> 00:11:47.548 When your mind is on earthly things, so when you read up in verse 18, that's how you become, that's how you become people of right. 00:11:47.548 --> 00:11:49.673 Here it says, is enemy of the cross. 00:11:49.673 --> 00:12:02.965 And so they may blatantly not say, oh, I'm going to become an enemy of the cross, but if you love the earthly things more than the spiritual things, by default you become an enemy of the cross. 00:12:02.965 --> 00:12:04.745 That's just, that's the word of God. 00:12:04.745 --> 00:12:06.947 That's not my opinion, but that's what he says. 00:12:08.451 --> 00:12:12.307 And so and so it's the starting point for all deception, like you said. 00:12:13.259 --> 00:12:27.148 And it goes into reasoning and the intellect and like or justification Well, if they didn't do this and I wouldn't be this, or I wouldn't be anxious, or I wouldn't be worried if they didn't put me in this situation. 00:12:27.148 --> 00:12:28.029 Well, no it's. 00:12:28.029 --> 00:12:34.111 You know, salvation is individual and the decisions we make are not because of somebody else. 00:12:34.111 --> 00:12:39.212 We get to choose what we do every day in life. 00:12:39.212 --> 00:12:59.508 You know life or death, you know blessing or curse, and so and so in Philippians 4, if you turn over the next chapter in Philippians 4-6, be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. 00:12:59.508 --> 00:13:05.650 And so that word anxious means to be troubled or to take thought. 00:13:05.650 --> 00:13:12.371 And so here Paul is telling Timothy hey, don't be anxious, don't do it. 00:13:13.340 --> 00:13:16.014 Don't be pulled in different directions or worried about a thing. 00:13:16.436 --> 00:13:18.806 Yeah, that's good, and the Passion Translation, that's what it? 00:13:18.826 --> 00:13:28.128 said it's saturated in prayer throughout each day, offering your faith filled requests before God with overflowing gratitude. 00:13:28.539 --> 00:13:30.749 Yeah, and so pulled in different directions. 00:13:30.749 --> 00:13:40.231 I mean us growing up as kids in the you know 80s, when we didn't have cell phones and we could just go out and play and we weren't, I wasn't pulled in different directions. 00:13:40.231 --> 00:13:48.225 I like went with my neighbor and we went and rode bikes and my mom was like, just be home for dinner, and that's when I'd be home for dinner. 00:13:48.225 --> 00:13:56.470 I didn't, she didn't reach me by cell because we had no cell and we played outside in the water hose and and we just, you know, we weren't pulled. 00:13:56.470 --> 00:14:08.452 So now, like raising a fan and I'm getting off topic but raising a family and being married, and like the home unit, like we, everybody is pulled in a different direction. 00:14:08.452 --> 00:14:10.767 And so that's what the enemy wants. 00:14:10.767 --> 00:14:19.928 Like, hey, don't be and here Paul's talented Don't be pulled in different directions, because that's when the enemy comes in and that's where he causes division and strife. 00:14:19.928 --> 00:14:27.572 And then you can be anxious, and that's where, anxious, and you know worry and fear and doubt. 00:14:30.787 --> 00:14:31.850 And so we can't right. 00:14:32.039 --> 00:14:33.004 That's where it all starts. 00:14:33.004 --> 00:14:45.923 And so if you keep on reading, so Philippians four, so actually if you go before that, I wanted to start with verse four rejoice in the Lord, always and again I say rejoice. 00:14:45.923 --> 00:14:49.191 Let your gentleness, gentleness be known to all men. 00:14:49.191 --> 00:14:50.623 The Lord is at hand. 00:14:50.623 --> 00:15:05.413 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God, and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your mind through Christ Jesus. 00:15:05.580 --> 00:15:15.227 So here he's saying, you know, in verse seven it's, it's conditional if you do these things, then the peace of God will guard your heart and mind. 00:15:15.227 --> 00:15:22.754 You know when you rejoice, if you rejoice, then the peace of God will guard your, your heart and mind. 00:15:22.754 --> 00:15:28.871 If you're anxious for nothing, then the peace of God will guard your heart and mind. 00:15:28.871 --> 00:15:33.659 And so we have to make sure to set our mind on the things above. 00:15:33.659 --> 00:15:45.568 How easily it is to just set our minds on what the financial report says, or I just got a doctor's report, or you know, this is whatever it may be. 00:15:45.568 --> 00:15:51.831 Our mind can go there, but we have to have it fixed on the spiritual things. 00:15:51.831 --> 00:15:55.870 We have to have it fixed on heavenly things on eternity. 00:15:55.870 --> 00:16:00.086 We have to be eternity minded, and so the enemy wants. 00:16:00.240 --> 00:16:01.182 We have our own thinking. 00:16:01.182 --> 00:16:05.611 You know, god's wonderful peace transcends human understanding. 00:16:05.611 --> 00:16:08.467 There's no way to understand it with your brain. 00:16:08.467 --> 00:16:13.485 You have to move into the supernatural, you have to move in to the spirit realm. 00:16:13.485 --> 00:16:14.047 Amen, yeah. 00:16:15.740 --> 00:16:19.445 Well, that's where you know reasoning, that's where that's the natural reasoning, or that doesn't make sense. 00:16:19.445 --> 00:16:24.903 What they did to me, that doesn't have how and why, and no, I can't. 00:16:24.903 --> 00:16:27.604 No, that's the reason it won't make sense. 00:16:27.604 --> 00:16:34.092 You have to shift over to the supernatural and to the word of God. 00:16:34.092 --> 00:16:40.260 And right here I wrote peace is the result of meditating on God and His way of doing things, and so peace. 00:16:40.260 --> 00:16:46.592 You will get the result of peace, of God's peace, when you're doing it His way, amen. 00:16:46.592 --> 00:16:49.519 You will not have peace if you are in sin. 00:16:49.519 --> 00:16:52.870 You will not have peace if you're always in turmoil. 00:16:52.870 --> 00:17:00.421 You will not have peace if you're trying to do it your way and trying to fix it and do it. 00:17:00.421 --> 00:17:03.188 You know the way, you think that it should be done. 00:17:03.188 --> 00:17:05.926 Only the word of God is what brings peace. 00:17:05.926 --> 00:17:07.940 You know, and I've done it, jay's done it. 00:17:07.940 --> 00:17:12.422 I mean, you know we're not, we've lived through it, and so Amen. 00:17:13.349 --> 00:17:16.108 I want to work in Psalm 3414. 00:17:16.108 --> 00:17:25.239 Yeah, and the Passion Translation says to keep turning your back on every sin and make peace your life motto. 00:17:25.239 --> 00:17:28.078 Practice being at peace with everyone. 00:17:28.471 --> 00:17:30.865 That's good Amen Practice. 00:17:31.167 --> 00:17:31.490 Practice. 00:17:31.529 --> 00:17:33.356 Practice being at peace. 00:17:33.650 --> 00:17:34.192 Then the Lord. 00:17:34.192 --> 00:17:35.155 Sorry, verse 15,. 00:17:35.155 --> 00:17:37.537 The Lord sees all we do. 00:17:37.537 --> 00:17:39.917 He watches over his friends day and night. 00:17:39.917 --> 00:17:44.756 His godly ones receive the answers they seek whenever they cry out to him. 00:17:44.756 --> 00:17:48.739 So that just goes straight on with Philippians 4. 00:17:48.739 --> 00:17:49.160 Amen. 00:17:49.460 --> 00:17:50.041 That's good. 00:17:50.041 --> 00:17:53.313 God watches what we do that's right, you know and we do. 00:17:53.313 --> 00:17:59.875 We have to practice it and we'll have opportunities every day where we have to practice. 00:18:00.090 --> 00:18:02.459 We're making peace our life motto, amen. 00:18:02.569 --> 00:18:03.252 That's good. 00:18:03.252 --> 00:18:08.869 So if you keep on reading, so, philippians 4, how do we get this peace? 00:18:08.869 --> 00:18:10.556 So here he's telling us to rejoice. 00:18:10.556 --> 00:18:13.739 Let your gentleness be known to all men. 00:18:13.739 --> 00:18:16.589 Don't just, hey, I'm gentle, yeah, I'm gentle. 00:18:16.589 --> 00:18:17.894 No, do people around you? 00:18:17.894 --> 00:18:19.724 Or do they know that you're a peacemaker? 00:18:19.724 --> 00:18:21.556 Yeah, do they know that you're gentle? 00:18:21.556 --> 00:18:23.795 Be anxious for nothing. 00:18:23.795 --> 00:18:25.914 That's what we're talking about being anxious for nothing. 00:18:25.914 --> 00:18:30.869 And then the peace of God, which surpasses all in shape, regard your heart and mind. 00:18:30.869 --> 00:18:32.476 So how do we get this peace? 00:18:32.476 --> 00:18:36.277 And then it tells you, in verse 8, a, what to meditate on. 00:18:36.277 --> 00:18:41.097 And so what you think about, you know, the battlefield is in the mind. 00:18:41.097 --> 00:18:41.951 It is not. 00:18:41.951 --> 00:18:43.397 It is not, it is in the mind. 00:18:43.397 --> 00:18:44.394 It starts with the mind. 00:18:44.394 --> 00:19:06.037 And so in verse 8, it says, and the new King James says finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of a good report, if there's any virtue and if there's anything praiseworthy, meditate on these things. 00:19:06.210 --> 00:19:06.551 Amen. 00:19:06.551 --> 00:19:16.354 I like it in the passion translation Whatever is authentic and real for you said true. 00:19:16.354 --> 00:19:20.920 You know I love authentic and real. 00:19:20.920 --> 00:19:39.076 So there's so much fake going on, there's so much counterfeit like we were talking about earlier out in our culture, and here we're to fix our thoughts on the authentic and the real, honorable and admirable, beautiful and respectful, pure and holy, merciful and kind. 00:19:39.076 --> 00:19:46.695 Fasten your thoughts on every glorious work of God, praising him always, amen. 00:19:46.916 --> 00:19:47.519 That's good. 00:19:47.759 --> 00:19:47.960 Yeah. 00:19:48.490 --> 00:19:57.318 You know, going back to true, you know there is only one truth and it's God, the word of God, that is the truth. 00:19:57.318 --> 00:20:01.858 Yeah, what the God is equals truth. 00:20:01.858 --> 00:20:04.578 The devil equals what lies, that's right. 00:20:04.849 --> 00:20:05.973 And so I mean. 00:20:05.973 --> 00:20:07.819 The truth is that God loves you. 00:20:07.819 --> 00:20:10.740 The truth is that he has a plan for your life. 00:20:10.740 --> 00:20:14.836 The truth is, no matter what you've done, you can start fresh in you today. 00:20:14.836 --> 00:20:16.938 His mercies are in you every morning. 00:20:16.938 --> 00:20:19.878 The truth is that he wants you to succeed. 00:20:19.878 --> 00:20:21.415 The devil wants you to mess up. 00:20:21.415 --> 00:20:23.678 The devil wants you to go back and to sin. 00:20:23.678 --> 00:20:26.372 The devil wants you to keep on doing what you're doing and no, it'll. 00:20:26.372 --> 00:20:28.960 You know, he brings these lies to you. 00:20:28.960 --> 00:20:31.759 Oh, it's never gonna, you're never gonna succeed. 00:20:31.759 --> 00:20:33.737 No, that's the lies. 00:20:34.130 --> 00:20:37.279 So we have to meditate on the truth of God's word. 00:20:37.279 --> 00:20:40.339 And it all goes back to scripture, amen. 00:20:40.339 --> 00:20:43.155 And his word one. 00:20:43.155 --> 00:20:51.281 So know, whatever things are noble, that's so noble is derived from a higher, higher citizenship. 00:20:51.281 --> 00:20:55.036 No, but that's where we get the word nobility, possession of all believers. 00:20:55.036 --> 00:20:56.955 So it's royalty, royalty. 00:20:56.955 --> 00:20:59.095 So this isn't describing, oh, another person. 00:20:59.095 --> 00:21:02.214 No, it's talking about you, it's talking about us, amen. 00:21:02.849 --> 00:21:05.038 And so we have to meditate. 00:21:05.038 --> 00:21:09.057 You know, it's easy to meditate on somebody's other, what they did, on their actions. 00:21:09.057 --> 00:21:10.895 No, we meditate on our actions. 00:21:10.895 --> 00:21:11.679 What are we doing? 00:21:11.679 --> 00:21:12.574 What are we saying? 00:21:12.574 --> 00:21:14.756 What are we meditating on? 00:21:14.756 --> 00:21:19.792 Am I meditating on what's noble, just that's. 00:21:19.792 --> 00:21:21.451 You know, righteous I am. 00:21:21.451 --> 00:21:24.459 The righteousness of God in Christ, through Christ Jesus, amen. 00:21:24.459 --> 00:21:40.538 Yeah, pure means blameless, free from defilement, no contaminants, you know we're all about drinking pure water, and and Allison came home Our fridge has a filtered water. 00:21:40.538 --> 00:21:57.837 But then we also Allison, came home from Ramah, from a Brita filter, like one you stick in the fridge and like it even filters your water more, and that's great, and we don't want any contaminants, and so our thought life should be pure like that no contaminants, contaminants whatsoever. 00:21:57.837 --> 00:21:58.519 Amen. 00:21:58.890 --> 00:22:01.377 We're not drinking out of the water hose outside. 00:22:01.829 --> 00:22:05.538 No, even though we did that with kids, we survived. 00:22:05.538 --> 00:22:15.836 So God's working on our behalf and he doesn't want us to be anxious, he doesn't want us to be stressed out, he doesn't want us to be worried. 00:22:15.836 --> 00:22:16.873 Amen. 00:22:17.739 --> 00:22:18.060 Amen. 00:22:18.410 --> 00:22:18.770 Amen. 00:22:18.770 --> 00:22:25.380 So let's see, Philippians, and we'll go over these questions at that. 00:22:25.380 --> 00:22:31.001 So I don't have, we don't have points, but we have these good questions out of this book, right here that are. 00:22:31.001 --> 00:23:07.559 You know, it's the, it's the end of the year and so it's good to reflect hey, what, what needs to change in my life, what, you know, maybe there's been some, some great things and great milestones this year, but going into the new, next year, it's good to ask it's going to have goals, good, good, godly goals for you, your family, your loved ones, to sit down together, not to be pulled in different directions but to have family time and to write down some goals, you know, set the vision before your eyes and keep that vision there. 00:23:08.690 --> 00:23:20.359 So, before Jay reads it Philippians 312, chapter before now that I have already attained or have already perfected, but I press on that. 00:23:20.359 --> 00:23:24.380 I may lay hold that for which Christ Jesus is also laid hold of me. 00:23:24.380 --> 00:23:37.442 Brethren, I do not count myself to have a apprehended, but one thing I do for getting those things or which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead I press towards the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. 00:23:37.442 --> 00:23:43.983 And so we can't press towards the goal anxiously or stressed out or worried. 00:23:43.983 --> 00:23:45.452 We have to leave that behind. 00:23:45.452 --> 00:24:02.881 Paul here is saying, hey, you know what I've already attained, or I've already like I have some good stuff and I have some bassa, but hey, listen, I leave that behind and I press towards the goal, like Jesus has some things for me in 2023 and I will you get there. 00:24:02.881 --> 00:24:04.352 Yes, you can, you will. 00:24:04.352 --> 00:24:05.934 Paul did. 00:24:05.934 --> 00:24:11.784 You know he had baggage, but he left that all behind and he pressed towards the goal. 00:24:11.784 --> 00:24:12.750 Amen. 00:24:13.553 --> 00:24:24.261 You know real quick, before we go on, we were just talking about what to think about and adjusting your thought life to what is pure and holy and true. 00:24:24.261 --> 00:24:27.798 And remember I read that out of the Passion translation. 00:24:27.798 --> 00:24:31.898 I said fasten your thoughts on every glorious work of God. 00:24:31.898 --> 00:24:33.942 You know, so you're fastening your hearts. 00:24:33.942 --> 00:24:45.280 And then it uses that same language in the previous chapter about I forget all of the past and I fastened my heart to the future instead. 00:24:46.069 --> 00:25:10.115 You know, a few Sunday nights ago, I was preaching a message here and, and I don't know, I just kind of got a little bit transparent maybe maybe a two transparent, I don't know and I just began to talk about some of the adjustments that Selina and I were making at the time and have made and continue to make, and I thought that I would share some of those. 00:25:10.115 --> 00:25:14.636 We would share a little bit of just our story. 00:25:14.636 --> 00:25:44.316 But, like last October or, yeah, october, november we just began to look at our own lives and examine our own hearts and realized that we didn't like the trajectory that we were on, and so we didn't like it as a couple, we didn't like it individually, and so we came together and we prayed and we began to make some changes and when I shared that, several people came up to me at church and just encouraged me and encouraged us. 00:25:44.316 --> 00:25:47.253 How much it encouraged them that I shared that. 00:25:47.253 --> 00:26:08.574 And so here, it wasn't even time to make New Year's resolutions that don't necessarily work, but this is a great time the end of this year 2022, to examine your heart and examine all of the wonderful, awesome things that God did for you this year and what is he leading you into next year. 00:26:08.664 --> 00:26:24.373 And so, as we were preparing today, we, you know, as Selena was deciding to read earlier in this book what she read, you know there were some questions in the back of that chapter, and so I thought that I would read them. 00:26:24.373 --> 00:26:41.387 And we've asked ourselves not only these questions but other questions that have led us and the deep conversations about where we're going as a couple, where we're going as a family, where are we going individually, spiritually, whereas God taking us? 00:26:41.387 --> 00:26:49.491 How are we achieving specific steps to achieving what God has for us, so that we don't leave anything on the table? 00:26:49.491 --> 00:27:03.330 You know, I don't wanna get to heaven and realize that I missed it, that we missed it as a couple, that we should have been over here doing this and that and the other, and God had all these other things in store for us and we just left it on the table. 00:27:03.330 --> 00:27:06.094 No, we wanna obtain all God has for us. 00:27:06.204 --> 00:27:16.595 So did I allow the power of God and the gifts of the Spirit to operate through me more in the past than I do in my present walk with the Lord? 00:27:16.595 --> 00:27:22.171 You know, pastors just preached two messages, all about spiritual gifts. 00:27:22.171 --> 00:27:40.174 And so, and desiring spiritual gifts, we made it a point we're desiring spiritual gifts, we're desiring to prophesy, we're mouthpieces for the Lord and we're stepping in with all that we have into our future, knowing that it's God that's leading us. 00:27:40.174 --> 00:27:48.413 Have I in some way become a spiritual mannequin that verbally and outwardly looks right but no longer operates in the power of God? 00:27:48.413 --> 00:28:00.374 Have I personally fallen prey to the trend to update or modify my faith so I can better fit into society that is changing its foundational moral code? 00:28:00.964 --> 00:28:04.911 No, that's not us, that's not this church, and we talk about that a lot. 00:28:04.911 --> 00:28:27.114 But, as we see, other ministers and other man, like I said, we've been doing this for years and so many people that were around us when we started are no longer with us or no longer around us, and I'm not talking about people just necessarily leaving our church, but other people that have started churches that just boom, completely fell away. 00:28:27.114 --> 00:28:55.433 They believed some lie, they got involved in some heresy or started sitting under some teaching, and one pastor in particular just was miraculously healed under the word of faith ministry that preaches nothing about the word of faith now, and it's completely, totally different and completely off, and it's just sad to see that one. 00:28:55.433 --> 00:28:58.073 That's humbling for us. 00:28:58.325 --> 00:29:07.213 Going back to your second sorry, the second question have I in some way become a spiritual mannequin? 00:29:07.213 --> 00:29:10.232 I actually thought of, like you know, a mannequin. 00:29:10.634 --> 00:29:11.476 Yeah, and writing. 00:29:11.744 --> 00:29:13.531 Maybe working with the teens. 00:29:13.531 --> 00:29:16.694 I'm always like my brain goes there like object lessons. 00:29:16.694 --> 00:29:21.231 And when I read this question I literally thought of a mannequin. 00:29:21.231 --> 00:29:23.172 And like, a mannequin doesn't move. 00:29:23.172 --> 00:29:30.635 A mannequin only moves to where the person you know controlling it and it doesn't have a mind of its own. 00:29:30.635 --> 00:29:41.032 So have I in some way become a spiritual mannequin that verbally and outwardly looks right, like you can look the part, but no longer operates in the power of God? 00:29:41.032 --> 00:29:51.353 Like you can, you know, come to church and every Sunday morning at 10 am and we say the right things and you know, at 10 am and the praise and worship and we lift. 00:29:51.353 --> 00:29:53.913 But what are you doing Monday through Saturday? 00:29:53.913 --> 00:29:56.067 That's right, we have to make sure. 00:29:56.067 --> 00:29:57.173 That's a great question. 00:29:57.173 --> 00:30:01.369 Like, am I a spiritual mannequin that, just you know, goes with emotions? 00:30:01.369 --> 00:30:03.132 Like, no, what's really in my heart? 00:30:03.132 --> 00:30:06.234 Why do I respond that way? 00:30:06.234 --> 00:30:08.152 Why do I have those feelings? 00:30:08.152 --> 00:30:10.373 Why do I, you know, have those emotions? 00:30:10.373 --> 00:30:11.650 What's going on? 00:30:11.650 --> 00:30:14.792 And so God's so good? 00:30:14.792 --> 00:30:17.670 You know, the answer is always in the word. 00:30:17.891 --> 00:30:18.192 Amen. 00:30:18.192 --> 00:30:44.529 It really is all about the power of God and operating in the power of God and operating in the gifts of the spirit and being prayed up and praying in tongues, having a prayer life, both individually and, if you're married, praying together with your spouse, and being the spiritual head of your household and leading your household in the direction that God has for you. 00:30:44.529 --> 00:30:48.926 Do you just look the part or do you have the goods and praise God? 00:30:48.926 --> 00:30:51.054 You have the goods, we have the goods. 00:30:51.054 --> 00:30:54.575 We're well equipped to do what God's called us to do. 00:30:54.575 --> 00:31:00.094 And I'm telling you tonight that you're well equipped to do what God's called you to do. 00:31:00.094 --> 00:31:01.329 Just pay attention to it. 00:31:01.424 --> 00:31:05.471 And if you say man, jay and Selina, you know I'm listening to what you're talking about. 00:31:05.471 --> 00:31:18.272 But man, I've let the cares of life come in, I've let all these distractions happen and I've fallen away from the foundation that got me to this place. 00:31:18.272 --> 00:31:21.953 And I'm telling you it's never too late to do the right thing. 00:31:21.953 --> 00:31:32.036 And it you know Hebrews chapter 12, it says to lay aside those sins that so easily beset us. 00:31:32.036 --> 00:31:37.413 In other words, it's common to man, it's common with the temptations. 00:31:37.413 --> 00:31:41.134 The way that you've fallen into those things is very common. 00:31:41.134 --> 00:31:44.192 But who cares about the commonality of it? 00:31:44.192 --> 00:31:50.413 Just cast it away and look unto Jesus, the author and the finisher of your faith. 00:31:50.413 --> 00:31:55.028 He started something in you and he's not done yet, and so it's just. 00:31:55.028 --> 00:32:03.888 It's all about allowing your heart to be molded and malleable to the word of God and to what he's doing, and so turn to him. 00:32:04.105 --> 00:32:11.067 You know, if you've asked yourself these simple questions and you're coming up with answers that no man I'm. 00:32:11.067 --> 00:32:14.847 I look the part, but I've stepped away from my foundation. 00:32:14.847 --> 00:32:15.952 You know, it's never too late. 00:32:16.224 --> 00:32:23.308 That's right, you know, and, as you were saying that I thought of you know protecting your peace like being anxious. 00:32:23.308 --> 00:32:26.737 You may say, well, you know, I myself. 00:32:26.737 --> 00:32:41.494 But maybe you're around somebody or family members or that are always just saying whatever and just throwing trash your way, and then at the end of the conversation, at the end of the day, you feel like, oh man, that was just. 00:32:41.494 --> 00:32:44.374 Hey, listen, god wants you to protect your peace. 00:32:44.374 --> 00:32:45.145 You can't. 00:32:45.145 --> 00:32:59.734 Just, your ears are not trash cans, you can't just listen to whatever you want to listen to and whomever you want to listen to and watch what you want, and just, and then at the end of the day, wonder why you're so stressed and worry and-. 00:32:59.984 --> 00:33:00.990 Fill with so much doubt. 00:33:01.184 --> 00:33:12.633 Filled with doubt like no you have to protect your family, and you have to, first of all, you have to protect yourself and protect that peace that God had, the peace that passes all understanding. 00:33:12.633 --> 00:33:20.479 You have to make sure to protect it so it doesn't cause you to be full of anxiety. 00:33:20.479 --> 00:33:22.669 You wanna read the next one? 00:33:22.984 --> 00:33:28.913 Do I have ears to hear what the Holy Spirit wants to say to me about my own spiritual condition? 00:33:28.913 --> 00:33:36.334 Am I willing to allow the Holy Spirit to examine my heart and my life regarding these important questions? 00:33:36.334 --> 00:33:41.266 You know, allowing the Holy Spirit to guide you and to examine you. 00:33:41.266 --> 00:33:55.840 And so I'm telling you, when you allow God to search your heart, when you ask Him, he's going to reveal to you things that you need to change, things that are deep inside, things that you haven't thought about in years. 00:33:55.840 --> 00:34:15.340 It may, sometimes He'll take you back to childhood memories, things that happen to you where you grab the hold of someone else's mindset and you can be delivered from that right then, but it takes the process of asking questions, asking yourself questions, looking in the mirror, amen. 00:34:15.340 --> 00:34:32.447 And so here's a really important one that we've asked If I keep myself and my family in the spiritual environment that we're in at this present time, what kind of harvest will it produce in us and in the future? 00:34:32.447 --> 00:34:42.697 You know there's a harvest right now, but there's a right, there's a harvest in the future, and where you're at spiritually is a big difference. 00:34:42.697 --> 00:34:49.739 And so I'm so grateful and thankful for my dad and you say, well, that's, that's self-serving, that's your, your dad. 00:34:49.739 --> 00:35:00.626 But no, we have a loving pastor that tells us like it, like it truly is, and he gets up here every service and gives us his best. 00:35:00.626 --> 00:35:08.289 He's away right now, praying and receiving from the Lord new director of fresh vision for 2023. 00:35:08.289 --> 00:35:13.123 And I can't wait to hear all the awesome things that God's doing in his life. 00:35:13.123 --> 00:35:22.615 And we know he's blessed, we know that he receives from the Lord and I'm going to be right here with my whole family receiving this Sunday morning. 00:35:22.615 --> 00:35:26.012 I'm not going to miss a new, new year's day Sunday morning. 00:35:26.012 --> 00:35:27.242 I'm going to be right here. 00:35:27.242 --> 00:35:50.663 That's going to be a very pivotal service for not just this church corporately but us individually as a family, as we sit under the anointing in here, and I'm going to allow the Holy Spirit and Selena's allowing the Holy Spirit to to to examine our hearts and we're asking ourselves questions and we're making changes in 2023. 00:35:50.663 --> 00:35:52.887 This is just the beginning of change. 00:35:52.887 --> 00:35:57.606 What we the, the awesome things that we've seen over the last month and a half or two months. 00:35:57.606 --> 00:35:59.398 This is only the beginning. 00:35:59.398 --> 00:36:05.882 We're going forward, we're forgetting the things of of the past and we're grabbing a hold. 00:36:05.882 --> 00:36:07.570 We're fastening ourselves. 00:36:08.173 --> 00:36:18.268 You know, sometimes, you know, have Mark 11, 22, have the God kind of faith, have faith in God. 00:36:18.268 --> 00:36:24.969 And sometimes there's one translation that says grab a hold of God's faithfulness. 00:36:24.969 --> 00:36:45.311 And sometimes I think it's that easy that if you'll just grab, grasp a hold of with both hands the faithfulness of God, he's going to yank you right out of that mess that you're in, that, that that filthy mindset, the perversion and the and all the things that have happened to you. 00:36:45.311 --> 00:36:48.380 You're the baggage that you've carried for years and years. 00:36:48.380 --> 00:36:55.563 All you have to do is grab a hold of God's faithfulness and allow him to yank you right out of that. 00:36:55.563 --> 00:37:08.898 And I'm telling you, in an instance of time you're going to feel so free and so relieved of all of that mess and all of that burden and all of the weight that you've been carried around. 00:37:10.382 --> 00:37:13.753 Psalm 40 talks about, waited patiently for the Lord. 00:37:13.753 --> 00:37:22.619 He's inclined and heard my cry and he's lifted you up out of that mud, out of that muck and out of the mire, and he's set your feet upon a rock. 00:37:22.619 --> 00:37:39.083 And I'm telling you, in 2023, it's, it's time for you to stand firmly on the foundation of God's word that he's allowed and given us, and operating fully in the power that we've been talking about tonight, and without fear, without anxiety. 00:37:39.625 --> 00:37:42.556 Amen, without doubt that's good. 00:37:42.556 --> 00:37:43.942 Amen, that's really good. 00:37:43.942 --> 00:37:47.152 I think that was at the last. 00:37:47.291 --> 00:37:51.206 I think I had a few more, but I got them way more marked way back here. 00:37:51.206 --> 00:37:51.969 Hold on a second. 00:37:51.969 --> 00:37:56.585 If I take a minute, I gotta find them Right here. 00:37:56.585 --> 00:38:03.206 Yeah, am I staying on track and continuing in the things I learned earlier in life? 00:38:03.206 --> 00:38:06.240 You know the foundation that you've been taught. 00:38:06.240 --> 00:38:07.766 That's what I was talking about earlier. 00:38:07.766 --> 00:38:21.025 Are you still standing on it, are you, or are you let's see or am I starting to drift from those foundational principles and truths that made me who I am today? 00:38:21.025 --> 00:38:27.324 I'm telling you the foundational truths around here, man, we believe in speaking in tongues. 00:38:27.324 --> 00:38:31.498 We believe we embrace standing on the word of God. 00:38:31.498 --> 00:38:32.300 Amen, amen. 00:38:32.440 --> 00:38:35.556 That's the definition of just asking yourself am I faithful? 00:38:35.556 --> 00:38:35.657 What? 00:38:35.657 --> 00:38:36.659 Does it mean to be faithful. 00:38:36.659 --> 00:38:41.556 To be devoted, to be devoted to God, to be devoted to His word. 00:38:41.556 --> 00:38:46.306 Every day, not just once a week, but every day we're spending time in His word. 00:38:46.306 --> 00:38:48.498 Yeah Right, Amen. 00:38:49.902 --> 00:38:50.224 Amen. 00:38:50.224 --> 00:39:03.161 Have I stuck with the basics over the years since I was first born again, consistently practicing the basic principles that I know God has commanded me to do, or have I allowed myself to get off track along the way? 00:39:03.161 --> 00:39:05.427 No, we're sticking with it. 00:39:05.427 --> 00:39:07.418 Amen, yeah, we're sticking with it. 00:39:07.458 --> 00:39:07.639 Yeah. 00:39:07.639 --> 00:39:14.239 So I just want to encourage you stay on track, stay connected to the source, and God is our source. 00:39:14.239 --> 00:39:20.929