WEBVTT 00:00:00.140 --> 00:00:06.652 And if you'll open up your Bible with me, to Ephesians, chapter six and starting in verse 18. 00:00:06.652 --> 00:00:12.228 And I typed five, but I think I meant six. 00:00:12.228 --> 00:00:19.932 I know that I meant six and you know it matters to to, uh, to study the context of something. 00:00:19.932 --> 00:00:24.871 So here is my favorite book of the Bible in Ephesians. 00:00:24.871 --> 00:00:28.591 I mean, who really loves and enjoys the book of Ephesians? 00:00:28.591 --> 00:00:32.331 I mean, it's just, I have to say that it's my favorite book of the Bible. 00:00:32.820 --> 00:00:40.908 And, uh, the apostle Paul, I know Peter is my favorite disciple and uh, and you say well, j, that doesn't make any sense. 00:00:40.908 --> 00:00:43.408 Why doesn't first and second Peter your favorite books in the Bible? 00:00:43.408 --> 00:00:48.713 But really I just like to see the power of the Holy ghost in operation and Peter's life. 00:00:48.713 --> 00:00:55.783 Peter to completely and totally changes personality, changes daily habits, changes preaching styles. 00:00:55.783 --> 00:01:02.192 Everything in Peter's life changed the day he became face to face with who the Holy spirit is. 00:01:02.192 --> 00:01:05.350 And Paul had the same transformation, didn't he? 00:01:05.350 --> 00:01:08.760 A similar one anyways, and so, um, and we all have. 00:01:09.262 --> 00:01:14.920 And so that's kind of what I'm preaching tonight is not just the power of the Holy spirit, but what did you say? 00:01:14.920 --> 00:01:16.316 That's the title of my message. 00:01:16.316 --> 00:01:16.680 What did you say? 00:01:16.680 --> 00:01:22.599 It's just talking about utterance, so let's read about utterance here in Ephesians six, verse 18. 00:01:22.599 --> 00:01:28.899 And it says uh, praying always, with all prayer, at all times. 00:01:28.899 --> 00:01:36.579 I'm going to read it out of the amplified classic pray at all times, on every occasion, in every season, in the spirit, what does that mean? 00:01:36.579 --> 00:01:58.879 Show him, but I'll have a cashita tobacco with all manner of prayer and in uh in treaty to that end, to keep alert and watch, with strong purpose and perseverance, interceding in behalf of all saints, god's consecrated people, not that guy over there, he's really flaky, I don't really want to pray for him. 00:01:58.879 --> 00:02:02.043 It says for all saints, doesn't it Not? 00:02:02.043 --> 00:02:03.480 That flaky church down the street? 00:02:03.480 --> 00:02:05.120 They don't believe anything that we believe. 00:02:05.120 --> 00:02:07.712 No, for all saints. 00:02:07.712 --> 00:02:21.579 And pray also for me that freedom of utterance may be given me, that I may open my mouth to proclaim boldly the mystery of the good news, the gospel for which I am an ambassador. 00:02:21.579 --> 00:02:24.192 We are ambassadors, amen. 00:02:24.192 --> 00:02:36.599 Let's just look at that, though, for we, for which I am an ambassador ambassador in a coupling chain in prison pray that I may declare it boldly and courageously, as I ought to do. 00:02:37.159 --> 00:02:39.229 And so here we see. 00:02:39.229 --> 00:02:42.799 I don't want to be rude, I just need to spit my gum out. 00:02:42.799 --> 00:02:46.400 We see that's really unprofessional, isn't it? 00:02:46.400 --> 00:02:49.277 Who said we are professional around here? 00:02:49.277 --> 00:02:52.000 The Holy Spirit did, anyways. 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:56.057 And so here we see that he's an ambassador. 00:02:56.057 --> 00:03:01.960 He's in chains here, he is at the end of Ephesians and he could be asking for a bunch of things. 00:03:01.960 --> 00:03:09.520 He's already taught us how to pray and how to speak over ourselves in Ephesians 1 and Ephesians 3, and a little bit in Ephesians 2 as well. 00:03:09.520 --> 00:03:12.812 Every single chapter. 00:03:12.812 --> 00:03:17.794 I went to Christian school for half a semester, or, I'm sorry, for one semester, in the first grade I had to memorize Ephesians 4. 00:03:17.794 --> 00:03:23.800 So every time I read Ephesians 4, I have that memory right there, anyways. 00:03:23.800 --> 00:03:27.740 And so in Ephesians 5, it's also a wonderful chapter. 00:03:27.840 --> 00:03:28.626 So we are an ambassador. 00:03:28.626 --> 00:03:32.311 That means that we don't just represent Jesus. 00:03:32.311 --> 00:03:43.139 We represent Jesus to the most important people in the world, just like our ambassadors who represent the United States that we have all over the world. 00:03:43.139 --> 00:03:47.576 They represent the United States, but they don't just. 00:03:47.576 --> 00:03:53.599 It's not just to little people, it's to the most highest in government in those countries. 00:03:53.599 --> 00:03:53.719 Right? 00:03:53.719 --> 00:03:55.656 And that's what that word means when you look it up in the Greek. 00:03:55.656 --> 00:04:02.935 It means to the important, and you say, well, everybody's important and we all are, but we're on a different level. 00:04:02.935 --> 00:04:05.652 Every single one of us is on a different level, amen. 00:04:05.879 --> 00:04:11.599 And so here the apostle Paul is saying that he's an ambassador, but you're an ambassador for Christ. 00:04:11.599 --> 00:04:13.229 But we do that with utterance. 00:04:13.229 --> 00:04:28.399 We don't do that with just our natural thinking and our own natural, on our own, and our own way of thinking and our own no, we're, we're, we're, we're don't just operate on the natural, ordinary, we're not ordinary people. 00:04:28.399 --> 00:04:37.560 We don't operate in an ordinary way of thinking, and so we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're not ordinary people. 00:04:37.560 --> 00:04:44.326 And so we really do have Jesus's mission in mind, and I want to encourage you to go back and listen to Claire's message last Wednesday night. 00:04:44.326 --> 00:05:05.827 She preached about the mission of Jesus, how his mission is our mission, and it should be our mission every day to wake up and do what he's called us to do, and we should wear that and wake up with that importance and not just oh, no, it's just another day, and I'll always, I'll get to that tomorrow, for you and for me, today, amen. 00:05:05.827 --> 00:05:08.687 And that we must follow that and walk in that. 00:05:08.687 --> 00:05:27.593 And so and we do that, though, when we speak, when anything comes out of our mouth, when we're encouraging others at our job, or maybe it's parenting our kids, everything that we do and everything that we say needs to have utterance behind it, amen inside of it. 00:05:27.593 --> 00:05:40.108 And so again it says pray also for me that freedom of utterance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth to proclaim boldly the mystery of the good news or the gospel. 00:05:40.108 --> 00:05:44.985 And so when we share the gospel with people, we must have utterance. 00:05:45.060 --> 00:05:46.504 So what is utterance exactly? 00:05:46.504 --> 00:05:56.447 When you look at up in the Greek, it means that we're able to pierce in the people's mental faculties. 00:05:56.447 --> 00:06:02.327 We're able to pierce into their motives, and it's an extension that reaches. 00:06:02.327 --> 00:06:04.843 Where's that other word? 00:06:04.843 --> 00:06:06.624 The one other word I wanted to say? 00:06:06.624 --> 00:06:13.074 We're communicating, we're piercing their motives into the way they're thinking. 00:06:13.074 --> 00:06:14.279 That's what we're doing. 00:06:14.279 --> 00:06:15.423 We're changing. 00:06:15.463 --> 00:06:16.504 I can't find the one word. 00:06:16.504 --> 00:06:18.769 Where's that one? 00:06:18.769 --> 00:06:21.266 I should have circled it, that would have been a good idea. 00:06:21.266 --> 00:06:26.286 But basically, we're changing the way they think and we're piercing into their motives. 00:06:26.286 --> 00:06:32.148 You know, in order to do that, we must examine our own motives and have pure motives. 00:06:32.148 --> 00:06:43.108 You know, we can't be run by pride and run by arrogance and run by our own building ourselves up. 00:06:43.108 --> 00:06:45.084 No, it's all about kingdom business. 00:06:45.163 --> 00:06:46.872 Amen, that's what utterance means, though. 00:06:46.872 --> 00:06:58.218 We're able to change someone's mind, we're able to change their thinking, we're able to win them over through our patience, through the fruits of the Spirit, but through utterance. 00:06:58.218 --> 00:06:59.744 And so how do we have utterance? 00:06:59.744 --> 00:07:05.401 Let's just look at speaking what's inspired by the Spirit. 00:07:05.401 --> 00:07:10.639 I just wanted to flip to an example of Paul in the middle. 00:07:10.639 --> 00:07:12.617 He's in Acts 26. 00:07:12.720 --> 00:07:29.399 We're only going to read one verse, but if you were to go back and study this entire chapter, he's standing in front of King Agrippa and he's laying out his testimony and without reading it, because we don't really have time to go through the entire chapter you have a testimony that's also powerful. 00:07:29.399 --> 00:07:31.127 God has done something for you. 00:07:31.127 --> 00:07:35.040 He's transformed you, he's brought you out of a big, huge mess. 00:07:35.040 --> 00:07:53.086 And you know, I got saved when I was five and I still have an amazing testimony, and I might not have drunk at every bar there is in town and smoked weed and done drugs and all these crazy things, but, man, I have just as powerful of a testimony as you if you did all those things. 00:07:53.086 --> 00:07:57.144 And so, like Pastor Mark was saying, you know he has that rapper, pastor Mike. 00:07:57.144 --> 00:08:05.644 His rap name is Minister and he goes around with him and he has a really powerful testimony of growing up on the streets. 00:08:05.644 --> 00:08:09.879 And you know, pastor Mark told that story when he was here and just that's okay. 00:08:09.879 --> 00:08:16.413 Pastor Mike, I grew up in church and they, you know, stabbed me in the back and said God told him to do it right. 00:08:16.413 --> 00:08:19.983 And so, you know, we have grown up in church. 00:08:19.983 --> 00:08:22.956 I've seen, I know of a few things, because I've seen a few things. 00:08:23.057 --> 00:08:30.302 Here we are in our 27th year of ministry and man, it just it keeps adding up, it keeps adding and keeps going. 00:08:30.302 --> 00:08:40.298 But anyways, in Acts 26, here Paul is before a really important person and he's able to testify of what God's done. 00:08:40.298 --> 00:09:04.187 And it says in verse 18, he's explaining the gospel to him and it says to open their eyes that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may thus receive forgiveness and release from their sins and a place and a portion among those who are consecrated and purified by faith in me. 00:09:04.187 --> 00:09:06.032 So how are we purified? 00:09:06.032 --> 00:09:06.835 How are we saved? 00:09:06.835 --> 00:09:10.802 How it's all by faith in Jesus, amen. 00:09:10.802 --> 00:09:17.243 And so here the apostle Paul is connecting our faith with the gospel. 00:09:17.243 --> 00:09:22.602 So in order to have utterance, we must have our utterance connected to our faith. 00:09:22.602 --> 00:09:30.990 So we need to pray and believe God, that God gives us and grants to us that utterance and is done by faith. 00:09:30.990 --> 00:09:39.163 And so I just I think about all the things that are happening in this church are being multiplied, greater and greater. 00:09:39.163 --> 00:09:46.490 So the influence of God through this church is growing and I see it in every area. 00:09:46.529 --> 00:09:47.514 I really do, and it doesn't. 00:09:47.514 --> 00:09:49.725 I'm not patting myself on the back, I'm not patting. 00:09:49.725 --> 00:09:53.000 I'm not trying to build up my dad, I'm not trying to build up. 00:09:53.000 --> 00:10:23.861 But you see that, like even this morning, you see that the people that prayed on the stage that I just got through talking about, you know the work that James and Claire are doing in the political realm, and others in our church, tara and Miss Gwynne and Bobby Fuller and others, and so, man, there's too many a name, but you know, claire just went to a little Republican meeting the other day and she kind of got there late and she walked in and what were you not late? 00:10:23.861 --> 00:10:26.047 Oh, it was a big meeting. 00:10:26.047 --> 00:10:27.758 I'm sorry, I thought it was a smaller meeting. 00:10:27.758 --> 00:10:36.033 Okay, packed out a big restaurant, and here she's, like somebody was praying and she listened a little closer and it was Miss Gwynne. 00:10:36.033 --> 00:10:44.039 She had no idea that Miss Gwynne was the chaplain of this, this meeting, and so here she was opening up in prayer. 00:10:44.581 --> 00:10:52.735 And so it's good that Republican Party believes God, that God's gonna change things in the Republican Party, and here Miss Gwynne is a part of that. 00:10:52.735 --> 00:11:05.636 And so, just on a larger scale though, god's using each and every one of us for the gospel and to really reach our community and this whole world. 00:11:05.636 --> 00:11:46.081 And so you know, and Tara as well, I mean, she'll go to these meetings, she's trying to gather different people up and for different Republican assignments and they so she's got an agenda to fulfill and she'll get to the meeting, and they want to talk all about Jesus and all about your church, tell us about your church, and she, like, she'll do that for 30 minutes, and then, you know, it's hard to get to the actual agenda of the meeting, but anyways, and so really, the Holy Spirit should be spurring us, and our faith as well, and our day-to-day lives, in order to be a better witness. 00:11:46.081 --> 00:12:12.291 And so here I'm gonna tell us stories I didn't really plan on telling, kind of out of order, and it may not exactly fit right here, but I just you know, selina and I we've no-transcript gotten the opportunity, because of Pastor Mark and Trina, to get to know a lot of different pastors all over the United States and it's just so much fun and I didn't think it was gonna be fun. 00:12:12.291 --> 00:12:34.336 I'm sorry but like I hate to admit that about myself, but God is helping my personality the more that I am filled with and controlled by the Holy Spirit, he's changing my attitude towards people to be more of a people person, and so it really is exciting. 00:12:34.336 --> 00:12:38.850 So, like, the older you get, the more you realize how short you have with people. 00:12:38.850 --> 00:12:55.188 Like, if you're gonna take somebody to lunch and it's an hour of lunch by the time you chew the fat in order to the food, I mean you really only have about 15 or 20 minutes of good conversation before that person has to go back to work or whatever, and so, like you better get to what you meant to talk about, right, and so I started. 00:12:55.328 --> 00:13:07.254 You know, selina and I at the last minute we decided to go to Mark Hankins' camp meeting this last July, last month, and we kind of went at the last minute, got the last hotel room, that whole thing, you know. 00:13:07.254 --> 00:13:09.091 So just barely scraped by. 00:13:09.091 --> 00:13:11.432 And I just made it a point. 00:13:11.432 --> 00:13:15.335 You know, when I'm talking to people I'm gonna talk about stuff that matters. 00:13:15.335 --> 00:13:25.453 Anybody can talk about cars and boats and motorcycles and whatever else, how hot it is, how humid it is, whatever, but no, I'm gonna talk about something that really matters. 00:13:25.585 --> 00:13:42.716 And so in the afternoon time got to talk to Pastor Mark and he pulls me into his table and then this table fills up with all these other pastors and I, pastor Perfetto and I were sitting at the table but I didn't really know all the pastors at this table. 00:13:42.716 --> 00:13:46.428 And but I just made it a point that, hey, I'm gonna go out of my way. 00:13:46.428 --> 00:13:50.274 And I knew on Facebook I'm friends with one of the pastors. 00:13:50.274 --> 00:13:55.986 His name is Pastor Ray Godine and he just started a church on Easter Sunday morning this year. 00:13:55.986 --> 00:14:01.594 And so here it is, three months later, and I was like Pastor Ray, I heard you just. 00:14:01.594 --> 00:14:04.548 I saw on Facebook you just started your church, tell us about it. 00:14:05.044 --> 00:14:21.470 So I'm running the whole conversation and he starts talking about what God's done in that shorter period of time and he's like I won't sell all of this business, but the bottom line is, in three months, four months of operation, they're already looking at buying property. 00:14:21.470 --> 00:14:34.164 And so he starts talking about well, I'm looking at this wedding venue and you wouldn't think a wedding venue would make a great church and I just man, the Holy Spirit leaped on the inside. 00:14:34.164 --> 00:14:35.537 Man, that's a great idea. 00:14:35.537 --> 00:14:36.384 Look what God's doing. 00:14:36.384 --> 00:14:47.144 And Pastor Perfetto helped him and we began to like implant a vision of how to turn a wedding venue into the best church and how you do like one or two weddings a month. 00:14:47.144 --> 00:14:52.375 And you got the mortgage paid and it's got this VRBO house on the backside of it. 00:14:52.375 --> 00:14:58.335 And anyway, this morning was their first service in that church in Jackson Tennessee. 00:14:58.335 --> 00:15:08.134 So if you have any relatives in Jackson Tennessee, we know of a good church to send them to, but little things so like, and then Pastor Mark's able to give his input into all that. 00:15:08.134 --> 00:15:13.168 And so you're not just a fly on the wall in any conversation. 00:15:13.168 --> 00:15:19.269 That God's puts you at the table right, and so it's up to you to be influential and to have utterance. 00:15:19.269 --> 00:15:27.312 You run the conversation, you ask the Holy Spirit to help, you, help others right, and so that's really what it's all about. 00:15:27.985 --> 00:15:30.351 I got one more story real quick before we go on. 00:15:30.351 --> 00:15:46.592 And so a little bit before that, back in June, pastor Perfetto and I were trying to plan a motorcycle trip to the Texas twisted sisters that's out in Vanderpool, utopia, where my dad's older brother, my uncle Bob, used to live. 00:15:46.592 --> 00:15:55.932 And so I've been out there many times in cars and trucks and whatever, learned how to drive on those roads, but not on the motorcycle, and so a really long story. 00:15:55.932 --> 00:16:01.989 It was all God, you think it's just about motorcycles, you think it's just about food, and the food was good. 00:16:01.989 --> 00:16:07.590 But I ended up meeting a guy back in March and taking him with me. 00:16:07.590 --> 00:16:08.950 I didn't even know he was saved. 00:16:08.950 --> 00:16:12.173 Come to find out he runs the lighting console at his church. 00:16:12.173 --> 00:16:43.030 So he lives way on the south side of town but I keep trying to get him over here Because we need a lighting guy, right, anyways, so him and I traveled out to the Hill Country and met Pastor Perfetto, and Pastor Perfetto brought Pastor Larry and I'm not a name dropper, but Pastor Larry's Benny Hinn's right hand man had some men for like 20-some odd years, and so we really hit it off and told lots of good stories, but that's what really? 00:16:43.030 --> 00:16:44.995 Sitting around the table at night. 00:16:44.995 --> 00:16:47.225 We went to the same restaurant two nights in a row. 00:16:47.225 --> 00:16:47.947 It was that good. 00:16:48.785 --> 00:16:53.091 And I'm just on the edge of my seat listening to these Benny Hinn stories. 00:16:53.091 --> 00:17:04.628 I mean, I got good Benny Hinn stories myself because we've gotten to meet him and my parents have and had some really influential things that have happened in our church. 00:17:04.628 --> 00:17:25.990 Back in 2002, via the Holy Spirit, my dad tells a story we gave $50,000 all at one time in one offering to Benny Hinn and that opened up the door to be sitting in this building Because right after that the land miracle happened, boom, and that's what opened the door. 00:17:25.990 --> 00:17:37.627 And then, on a personal level, my parents personally gave I don't remember, was it $15,000, I think and that opened they were believing God for Claire, a husband, and within a year she was married, praise the Lord. 00:17:37.627 --> 00:17:40.732 So, anyway, I had good Benny Hinn stories. 00:17:40.845 --> 00:17:48.656 But he had really good Benny Hinn stories and the more he told what was your favorite miracle that you witnessed? 00:17:48.656 --> 00:17:54.829 And he had lots of Oral Roberts stories, because Benny Hinn and Oral Roberts were best friends, or really good friends anyways. 00:17:54.829 --> 00:18:00.506 And so, man, I was on the edge of my seat and it just, man, my whole body would tingle. 00:18:00.506 --> 00:18:09.029 All the hair on the back of my head and my neck was raised just excited about what the Holy Ghost did and continues to do. 00:18:09.029 --> 00:18:10.608 And it made me hungry. 00:18:11.592 --> 00:18:31.050 For we just talked about how Benny Hinn would use worship and the power of worship and while we were worshiping, god began to move and I began it was Pastor Larry's job to go out and find the miracles and pull those people, convince them to come up on the stage and share what God had done. 00:18:31.050 --> 00:18:33.251 And I was kind of building them up. 00:18:33.251 --> 00:18:44.415 I wasn't trying to win a friend or anything, but I was like man, that really is a ministry, that's really difficult to do, and he's like no Jay Ray Charles could have found him. 00:18:44.415 --> 00:18:54.251 You know, they're completely obvious, the people that God touched and all you're doing is convincing them to come down and tell their story. 00:18:54.251 --> 00:19:07.372 And, man, it really did move me about being more hungry for the Holy Ghost, because at that moment I might have been a little too hungry for the motorcycle side of things and having a good time and all. 00:19:08.404 --> 00:19:26.511 But really in my daily life and in our daily services, how to plug into the Holy Ghost on an even stronger level and never just mail it in, never to just settle for whatever level that, no, that God always has more and it's up to us to walk through it. 00:19:26.511 --> 00:19:26.833 Amen. 00:19:26.833 --> 00:19:34.711 But I'm really preaching about utterance, but it really does relate no-transcript at church. 00:19:34.711 --> 00:19:36.337 You think, man? 00:19:36.337 --> 00:19:38.664 Pastor Mark was just here in January. 00:19:38.664 --> 00:19:40.309 I ran around the church in January. 00:19:40.309 --> 00:19:42.015 I don't want to run around the church again. 00:19:42.015 --> 00:19:47.299 My feet, my toe, the sore, whatever, you know, I've got an ingrown toenail on that and whatever. 00:19:47.339 --> 00:19:59.903 It is no like when you honor the Holy Ghost, when you go ahead and yield yourself to whatever move he's got going on here corporately, you know he invades your whole life, he invades your personal life. 00:19:59.903 --> 00:20:27.098 Man, that Monday morning you're able to have the energy to sustain you and to move you into what, into all that God has for you, you know, and so but if you, just if you believe in God for great things, but then you show up to church you're like, oh, that lady yells too loud and this is happening and I don't think that's the Lord and you're all judgmental and critical man, the Holy Spirit's going to stop speaking to you and you're going to. 00:20:27.098 --> 00:20:34.182 You're sitting there begging him for this and begging him for that and he ain't going to do nothing, because when it was time to honor him, where was your honor? 00:20:34.182 --> 00:20:37.135 And so that's really how utterance works as well. 00:20:37.135 --> 00:20:38.239 You're praying for utterance. 00:20:38.239 --> 00:20:43.781 You have to have understand it, you have to have revelation, knowledge to share with people. 00:20:43.781 --> 00:20:47.992 One more quick story and then we'll go on. 00:20:47.992 --> 00:20:50.037 I promise I need to look at the clock. 00:20:50.417 --> 00:20:58.659 Anyways, you know, out at youth, at youth camp, you know I got there. 00:20:58.659 --> 00:21:10.576 You know, the first beach day I'm leading all the kids into the, into the water, and Justin's back on the shore setting up and he's just really busy and I've got all the little ones. 00:21:10.576 --> 00:21:19.673 So I got to be a little bit more careful and I probably shouldn't tell you, to tell Tara this, because you know William was one of them, but the waves were like four feet over my head. 00:21:19.673 --> 00:21:27.642 They were like really intense and probably more intense than they should have experienced at that size and that age. 00:21:27.642 --> 00:21:32.776 And it was my job to, number one, that they didn't die, but number two, that they just didn't keep on going. 00:21:32.955 --> 00:21:37.953 But what's first is this big corn fed boy from Alabama. 00:21:37.953 --> 00:21:42.791 I didn't even know there were other people staying at the hotel, but he was just. 00:21:42.791 --> 00:21:44.720 He was not part of any of the camps going on. 00:21:44.720 --> 00:21:49.071 There was another camp at that same hotel that wasn't a part of us but still were to faith. 00:21:49.071 --> 00:21:52.444 He wasn't a part of that camp either and he just starts asking me. 00:21:52.444 --> 00:21:54.968 He's really confused about religions. 00:21:54.968 --> 00:22:00.430 He was some sort of Baptist but he didn't know what he believed and he had heard enough of the gospel. 00:22:00.430 --> 00:22:09.856 Walking by the building the night before and he was curious and I start dodging waves and keeping up with the kids and start preaching the gospel to him. 00:22:09.856 --> 00:22:11.643 But I needed utterance right then. 00:22:11.643 --> 00:22:14.333 Right, because I got wiped out by a wave. 00:22:14.333 --> 00:22:15.718 But just that's what it's all about. 00:22:15.778 --> 00:22:20.979 In every area, everywhere you go, you have the ability to share what's on the inside of you. 00:22:20.979 --> 00:22:26.336 And if you don't have something fresh, yeah, I can stand on the foundation of the gospel, for sure. 00:22:26.336 --> 00:22:29.563 But it always helps to share what God's sharing with me. 00:22:29.563 --> 00:22:32.175 It's fresh manna, it's fresh every day. 00:22:32.175 --> 00:22:41.290 And if you didn't spend time in the Holy Ghost, changing the way you think, renewing your mind one more day, what is it really that you have to share? 00:22:41.290 --> 00:22:44.258 You know you're sharing old, stale bread. 00:22:44.258 --> 00:22:55.013 I know it's never old, like I'm saying, but just you got to have fresh manna every day from heaven and to be able to be led, for the Holy Spirit to lead you and to guide you, anyways. 00:22:55.213 --> 00:22:59.986 So let's go ahead and read Psalm 45-1. 00:22:59.986 --> 00:23:06.019 It says my heart overflows with a goodly theme. 00:23:06.019 --> 00:23:08.727 I address my Psalm to a king. 00:23:08.727 --> 00:23:12.256 My tongue is like the pin of a ready rider. 00:23:12.256 --> 00:23:15.444 You know, I've read that Psalm almost. 00:23:15.444 --> 00:23:22.146 You know pretty much my whole life, even in Children's Church, and I've had a few people explain to me what that means. 00:23:22.146 --> 00:23:25.498 But I just it does mean what it obviously means. 00:23:25.498 --> 00:23:27.904 I looked it up in the Hebrew today. 00:23:27.904 --> 00:23:29.509 It means skillfully the word. 00:23:29.509 --> 00:23:33.443 My tongue is like the pin of a ready rider. 00:23:33.443 --> 00:23:40.501 The ready rider just means you're ready, you're diligent, you're hasty, you're ready, you're right on time. 00:23:40.501 --> 00:23:47.644 With that right on time word and your tongue is telling your story. 00:23:47.724 --> 00:23:52.696 And I don't know if you really realize that your testimony is like a movie. 00:23:52.696 --> 00:23:55.624 That is nowhere in my notes. 00:23:55.624 --> 00:23:59.654 But a movie is three to four, is three different. 00:23:59.654 --> 00:24:03.471 You have three different movies but you really only have one is the finished product. 00:24:03.471 --> 00:24:18.885 But you have the movie that was written on paper and the movie that was shot on scenes and then you have the movie that was edited in the editing room on the editing room floor is all the bad takes and we're stuck with watching what's left over. 00:24:18.885 --> 00:24:23.303 And if you ever watched a movie that just didn't make any sense, you're like that. 00:24:23.483 --> 00:24:25.611 That scene doesn't connect with the other scene. 00:24:25.611 --> 00:24:29.679 And God is an amazing editor. 00:24:29.679 --> 00:24:44.490 That doesn't happen with our lives and really the blood of Jesus comes in and just washes all of those mistakes away and you don't have to dwell on talking about in your testimony all of the level of crud that you've lived through and been through. 00:24:44.490 --> 00:24:46.037 It's all under the blood, amen. 00:24:46.037 --> 00:24:48.125 And so the blood of Jesus comes in. 00:24:48.125 --> 00:25:07.770 And he's an amazing editor and you really have an amazing story that makes perfect sense and when you share it, the power of the Holy Spirit is in those words, because you have utterance again, like the Apostle Paul back in the book of Acts, and you're able to share and man, it changes people's minds right away, right. 00:25:07.770 --> 00:25:12.083 And so, romans, let's connect this real quick. 00:25:12.083 --> 00:25:13.468 Romans 8, 11,. 00:25:13.667 --> 00:25:38.266 I was reading this and not too long ago in a Smith Wigglesworth devotional and he used this scripture and he connected it to speaking, and it says and if the spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ from the from the dead, will also restore life to your mortal, short-lived, perishable bodies through his spirit who dwells in you. 00:25:38.266 --> 00:26:09.444 And so Smith Wigglesworth was making a point that your tongue is your flesh, your tongue is your body, and so, when you yield yourself, the same power that raised Jesus from the dead is equipping your mortal flesh, but also your tongue, by the power of the Holy Spirit, it says, and so your tongue is involved in that process, and I thought that was really cool, that that he connected your tongue with your body, with being your flesh anyways, and it really blessed me to see man. 00:26:09.444 --> 00:26:21.433 That's the same power, the same power that's causing my flesh to be restored every day, day by day, and that allows me to live the life that I'm living. 00:26:21.433 --> 00:26:25.722 It also allows my tongue to speak what it should speak amen. 00:26:25.722 --> 00:26:41.308 And so, again, these are ways to remain having utterance in our lives, and number one was to speak what's inspired by the Spirit, and number two is to remain salty, remain salty. 00:26:41.308 --> 00:27:03.573 We can find that in Colossians 4, verses 6, but leading up to that again, we'll read the context of that and at the same verse 3, and at the same time pray for us also that God may open a door to us for the Word to be proclaimed, proclaiming the mystery concerning Christ, the Messiah, on account of which I am in prison. 00:27:03.573 --> 00:27:08.065 That I may proclaim it fully and may make it clear. 00:27:08.065 --> 00:27:13.277 Speak boldly and unfold that mystery, as it is my duty. 00:27:13.277 --> 00:27:20.345 You've ever been like reading a letter and it's all folded up and you have to unfold all of it to really understand, to get to it. 00:27:20.345 --> 00:27:21.588 That's what our job is. 00:27:21.588 --> 00:27:23.634 I love the way that Amplified points that out. 00:27:23.634 --> 00:27:26.661 We need to unfold the mystery of the gospel. 00:27:26.661 --> 00:27:33.708 In other words, with utterance brings clarity quickly of what this whole picture is. 00:27:33.708 --> 00:27:42.112 You can explain the gospel to somebody so simply and so freely that, boom, it affects them. 00:27:42.112 --> 00:27:43.436 Right there they understand it. 00:27:43.436 --> 00:27:45.444 Right there they begin to understand. 00:27:45.444 --> 00:27:47.171 Right, you ever had that happen. 00:27:47.171 --> 00:27:48.012 We all have right. 00:27:49.257 --> 00:28:04.713 Verse 5, behave yourselves wisely, living prudently in your relations with those of the outside world, the non-Christians, making the very most of the time and seizing, buying up the opportunity. 00:28:04.713 --> 00:28:10.009 We should be buying up every opportunity to speak with utterance. 00:28:10.009 --> 00:28:13.256 When you have an opportunity to speak, don't let it pass by. 00:28:13.256 --> 00:28:14.586 It may not ever come back. 00:28:14.586 --> 00:28:20.128 Man, you're standing there in front of those four people at work around the water cooler or whatever is going on. 00:28:20.128 --> 00:28:33.192 Maybe it's before a conference meeting and you have, maybe it hadn't started yet and you're sitting at the table, the conference table, and, man, you have an opportunity to speak truth into the situation. 00:28:33.192 --> 00:28:38.991 Maybe it's just somebody just mentioned something that you saw in the news that you know is fake news. 00:28:38.991 --> 00:28:42.241 Maybe it's not just exactly Jesus related. 00:28:42.241 --> 00:28:46.491 Man don't, you may not ever have an opportunity to bring that up again. 00:28:46.491 --> 00:28:58.974 Just go ahead and lay the truth out, boom, and just watch what happens, because I'm telling you, when it's done in love, which, when it's done by the power of the Holy Spirit, your words have life, they bring life. 00:28:58.974 --> 00:29:01.219 Amen, and we'll get to that. 00:29:01.265 --> 00:29:17.965 Verse 6, let your speech at all times be gracious, pleasant and winsome, seasoned, as it were, with salt, so that you may never be at a loss to know how you ought to answer anyone who puts a question to you. 00:29:17.965 --> 00:29:20.594 In other words, you're never going to not know what to say. 00:29:20.594 --> 00:29:22.807 You're never going to be stumbling for words. 00:29:22.807 --> 00:29:24.672 What was that scripture again? 00:29:24.672 --> 00:29:29.138 No, the Holy Spirit's on the inside, bringing to your remembrance. 00:29:29.138 --> 00:29:42.567 You really are His mouthpiece, and so you know, we hear a lot of songs on KSBJ or whatever, about being the hands and the feet of Jesus, but most importantly, we are His mouthpiece. 00:29:42.567 --> 00:29:44.692 We speak. 00:29:44.692 --> 00:29:50.807 You know God's word in our mouth is just as powerful as God's word coming out of His mouth. 00:29:50.807 --> 00:29:52.070 It really is true. 00:29:52.070 --> 00:29:53.212 We say that all the time. 00:29:53.212 --> 00:29:55.526 My dad says it, pastor Mark says it. 00:29:55.526 --> 00:30:03.098 But I'm telling you when you live like this is true, and it is, that's what happens. 00:30:03.098 --> 00:30:05.573 I'm telling you that's what happens when you. 00:30:05.573 --> 00:30:08.164 That's the kind of influence that you have over others. 00:30:08.164 --> 00:30:10.772 Amen, and so we are to be salt. 00:30:10.873 --> 00:30:11.535 What is salt? 00:30:11.535 --> 00:30:12.939 It's many things. 00:30:12.939 --> 00:30:13.441 It. 00:30:13.441 --> 00:30:14.001 What is it? 00:30:14.001 --> 00:30:14.765 It stings. 00:30:14.765 --> 00:30:18.913 And it stings really because it heals. 00:30:18.913 --> 00:30:25.826 You know my dad talks about football growing up and how they would take a trip. 00:30:25.826 --> 00:30:33.240 You know, after two days they would be all banged up and they'd take a trip to the beach and they'd get in that salt water and all those wounds would heal. 00:30:33.240 --> 00:30:34.988 I had that happen to me at camp. 00:30:34.988 --> 00:30:35.409 You know. 00:30:35.409 --> 00:30:41.851 I, hitching up the trailer, I went all the way down to the bone on my finger and it was really bothering me. 00:30:41.851 --> 00:30:44.301 I hadn't cut myself that bad in a while, man. 00:30:44.301 --> 00:30:47.057 As soon as I got in the salt water, boom, I didn't even feel it. 00:30:47.057 --> 00:30:47.672 After that. 00:30:47.672 --> 00:30:53.317 I just couldn't get over like just an hour in the salt water and it wound healed and in the whole nine yards. 00:30:53.317 --> 00:30:55.124 That's what salt does it heals. 00:30:55.124 --> 00:30:59.305 I know that there's flesh eating bacteria in the water as well, so there's a balance to what I'm saying. 00:30:59.305 --> 00:31:05.756 Nowadays, if you experience swelling, contact your doctor immediately. 00:31:05.756 --> 00:31:16.505 Anyways, it preserves right, it preserves Salt, is a preservative and it's also a meat, like a meat tenderizer. 00:31:16.525 --> 00:31:22.438 So you take somebody, you know you put it on meat and it can make it tender. 00:31:22.438 --> 00:31:41.612 And so you can take somebody with a heart, and heart and your words, if they contain salt, if you're salty in your delivery of these words, man, it can take somebody with a stony heart and it can soften their heart and they make them listen to you, amen. 00:31:41.612 --> 00:31:48.009 And so your spirit-filled words are filled with God's grace, with God's ability, amen. 00:31:48.009 --> 00:31:52.416 And it cuts to the heart and it brings preservation. 00:31:52.416 --> 00:32:05.821 So, whatever somebody's going through, they're afraid of dying, they're afraid of losing everything, and the word of God, through your lips, with utterance, brings preservation to their soul. 00:32:05.821 --> 00:32:08.607 It brings a confidence that they've never known before. 00:32:08.607 --> 00:32:14.789 And you know, like we already said, god's word will not return, void, amen. 00:32:14.789 --> 00:32:19.685 Because it's just as powerful coming out of our mouths as it is coming out of God's mouths. 00:32:19.685 --> 00:32:22.089 But our mouths again. 00:32:23.353 --> 00:32:28.991 It's a good time If you really want utterance, if you really want to influence the ones around you. 00:32:28.991 --> 00:32:36.053 It's a good time to make sure that your heart is clean, your hands are clean and your heart is pure, that your motives are pure. 00:32:36.053 --> 00:32:38.906 You're not trying to do it to gain influence. 00:32:38.906 --> 00:32:42.095 You're not trying to do it to get a raise on your job. 00:32:42.095 --> 00:32:47.211 You're not trying to be the Mr Know-it-all around the office. 00:32:47.211 --> 00:32:48.654 No, you're trying to do it. 00:32:48.654 --> 00:32:53.895 I mean, you are doing it to lift up the name and lift up the fame of Jesus. 00:32:53.895 --> 00:32:54.336 Amen. 00:32:55.140 --> 00:33:11.996 And so, and you think about the way Jesus handled people in Colossians 4-6, at the end it says that youexcuse me, seasoned with salt, to know how you ought to answer someone. 00:33:11.996 --> 00:33:17.738 So there are different ways that you answer different people. 00:33:17.738 --> 00:33:20.374 There are different techniques. 00:33:20.374 --> 00:33:22.586 I don't wanna really call them techniques, but there are. 00:33:22.586 --> 00:33:31.371 You talk to different people differently, right, you know, if you've got two kids in the house, and one's five years old and one's 12 years old, you're gonna speak to them differently. 00:33:31.371 --> 00:33:34.127 You're gonna parent them a little bit differently at the time. 00:33:34.127 --> 00:33:41.273 Right, you're gonna, they're gonna have different discipline and so on and so forth, and so you speak to people differently. 00:33:41.273 --> 00:33:53.134 And so if you look at how Jesus handled people, it was differently sometimes, but it was always with salt, it was always with wisdom. 00:33:53.134 --> 00:33:54.707 But you would go one. 00:33:55.008 --> 00:33:59.111 You know he's praising Peter one second and the next second you know Satan. 00:33:59.111 --> 00:33:59.712 Get behind me. 00:33:59.712 --> 00:34:00.488 He's calling. 00:34:00.488 --> 00:34:01.731 Did he really call him Satan? 00:34:01.731 --> 00:34:04.268 Did he call him a name Everybody's worried about? 00:34:04.268 --> 00:34:06.275 When my dad calls people names. 00:34:06.424 --> 00:34:13.469 I was laughing this morning because I know he wanted to use a doofus or a stupid or whatever, and we had all the kids in here and it was really funny to me. 00:34:13.469 --> 00:34:16.253 I was elbow and ether and we were laughing. 00:34:16.253 --> 00:34:19.655 Anyways, it's just hard to do sometimes. 00:34:19.655 --> 00:34:22.092 But you know Jesus called people names. 00:34:22.092 --> 00:34:26.432 You know he would call the Pharisees vipers remember that. 00:34:27.105 --> 00:34:29.112 And so there was a time and a place. 00:34:29.112 --> 00:34:30.871 He always had a reason for that. 00:34:30.871 --> 00:34:32.409 And so there are times. 00:34:32.409 --> 00:34:48.233 Being salty makes means that there's gonna be times like that which you when that you have to get out of your flesh and you might have to get a little bit rough with somebody, but I'm telling you that allows them to wake up. 00:34:48.233 --> 00:34:49.786 Amen. 00:34:49.786 --> 00:34:55.251 That can really help turn their heart when you tell them like it is amen. 00:34:55.251 --> 00:35:07.811 And so we're always to speak the truth, but we're always to speak it in love, and so, again, that is how we have utterance in our lives, and so I really do. 00:35:07.811 --> 00:35:10.498 I know all of us have stories of. 00:35:10.498 --> 00:35:15.231 I think I have time for one story. 00:35:15.231 --> 00:35:17.072 I think I can fit one more story in. 00:35:18.525 --> 00:35:26.088 On that motorcycle trip we got caught in a storm and so we had pulled over at a restaurant to eat at. 00:35:26.088 --> 00:35:31.635 The place we wanted to go to was closed, so this was more of a biker bar type of a thing. 00:35:31.635 --> 00:35:39.326 It's called the Hogpen in Lake Lakey, texas, and so it's getting to know the owner it was. 00:35:39.326 --> 00:35:46.150 The owner was an exotic animal mover, so he had this huge trailer, so he was out on a ranch. 00:35:46.150 --> 00:36:04.041 We I started talking to his dad and his wife and they were really they'd let us put all the motorcycles into a shed, and so the bikes didn't even get wet, and so we had shown up and this couple was on a motorcycle. 00:36:04.041 --> 00:36:16.429 They just went right back out into the storm, right in the middle, and it was really one of those hairy looking storms with those clouds that hang down that look like they're gonna turn into a tornado, and I didn't wanna ride through a canyon into one of those storms. 00:36:16.525 --> 00:36:30.896 And so we ended up sitting around this place for like two hours and so, like I started with money I think I tipped the lady like 20 bucks and she just couldn't believe it and I was like that's okay, ma'am. 00:36:30.896 --> 00:36:33.815 You look what you did for us all your hospitality. 00:36:33.815 --> 00:36:43.289 We were her only customers, and so later on I missed my opportunity to pray over the father, but the father leaves. 00:36:43.289 --> 00:36:46.027 I thought he had had a stroke just from his. 00:36:46.027 --> 00:36:49.351 So the sun shows up and I start conversation with the sun. 00:36:49.351 --> 00:36:56.989 It's all about how, what a good barbecue restaurant this is and how he really needs to be on, you know, any of the Texas shows. 00:36:56.989 --> 00:37:05.730 He'd be great at being on any of the Texas shows because he'd begin to talk about how he started the business and all of that. 00:37:07.007 --> 00:37:09.867 And so I said I have to bring up your dad, what you know. 00:37:09.867 --> 00:37:12.588 I'm not trying to be nosy, I'm just really concerned. 00:37:12.588 --> 00:37:23.126 Basically, his dad had just gotten Parkinson's disease and so he'd begin to deteriorate, and so I just began to talk about what a joy it is to get. 00:37:23.126 --> 00:37:43.210 I get to work with my dad every day too, and I began to kind of compare what I do to, you know, working at a church, with what he does running a restaurant and all the parallels, and it took me a little bit to grab a hold of what was happening, but every time I would glorify God, he would glorify the devil. 00:37:43.210 --> 00:37:44.007 Yeah, I'm just. 00:37:44.007 --> 00:37:45.612 We're getting ready to go to Las Vegas. 00:37:45.612 --> 00:37:47.807 We'll go gambling next, and so I didn't. 00:37:47.807 --> 00:37:50.349 You know, I was a little slow, so like. 00:37:52.016 --> 00:37:53.963 So I bragged on another thing. 00:37:53.963 --> 00:38:01.914 You know, we get to minister all these people, da, da, da, da, da, and you know weddings and funerals and this, that and the other and whatever else. 00:38:01.914 --> 00:38:08.675 He, you know, yeah, he really likes to drink, you know, da, da, da, so, but I ended up praying over him. 00:38:08.675 --> 00:38:22.974 Pastor Larry came over and it really, man, he lit up and he changed what was coming out of his mouth, and then gratefulness, you know, and then it really moved him. 00:38:23.505 --> 00:38:34.353 And so I'm telling you, when we have utterance and when we add in the love and the joy of the Holy Spirit into our conversations, that's what it's all about. 00:38:34.353 --> 00:39:00.838 It's about changing people, and it would have been real easy to just thank those people and ride off into the sunset literally, but no, like like, I really did have a burden in my heart for his dad and I got to brag on all the testimonies about our, about my dad and all the heart things that he's been through and you know, it really was a testimony to this young man. 00:39:00.838 --> 00:39:05.269 And so, anyways, we all have that opportunity, but it takes utterance. 00:39:05.269 --> 00:39:11.014 So we need to believe God and walk in these things in order to have utterance in every area of our lives. 00:39:11.014 --> 00:39:13.349 Amen, amen, was that all right tonight? 00:39:13.349 --> 00:39:17.288 Hallelujah, thank you, jesus.