WEBVTT 00:00:00.020 --> 00:00:05.833 Thank you, bibles on your way up, pick them up, wave them around, make Jesus glad, the devil mad. 00:00:05.833 --> 00:00:15.589 Let's say this together Say, heavenly Father, I'm at the right place at the right time, with the right folks listening to the Word of God. 00:00:15.589 --> 00:00:18.146 I'm hungry for more of the Word. 00:00:18.146 --> 00:00:23.731 In fact, I'm a Word person and I'm a spirit person. 00:00:23.731 --> 00:00:34.530 The Word and the Spirit together are working in my life and I will accomplish my purpose in Jesus' name. 00:00:34.530 --> 00:00:36.543 Amen. 00:00:36.543 --> 00:00:40.548 You can be seated and let's turn to Mark 11. 00:00:40.548 --> 00:00:43.665 And we'll read verse 24. 00:00:43.665 --> 00:00:46.523 And I want to pick up. 00:00:48.768 --> 00:00:52.600 Last week we preached a message entitled Adjusting your Receiver. 00:00:52.600 --> 00:00:57.624 So this is a second portion of that, mark 11, 24. 00:00:57.624 --> 00:01:07.429 Jesus is speaking and defining faith for His disciples In verse 23. 00:01:07.429 --> 00:01:19.530 And then verse 24, it said Therefore, I say unto you what things soever you desire when you pray, believe that you receive them and you shall have them. 00:01:19.530 --> 00:01:22.506 So when do you believe you receive them? 00:01:22.506 --> 00:01:24.585 When you have them or when you pray? 00:01:24.585 --> 00:01:28.706 When you pray, have they shown up when you pray? 00:01:28.706 --> 00:01:34.805 No, they have it brought, shown up, but you believe you receive them when you pray and then you shall have them. 00:01:34.805 --> 00:01:35.980 All right. 00:01:35.980 --> 00:01:49.269 And then, in second song of Solomon, chapter two in the second part of verse 15, you don't have to turn there, but I'll just say that verse says the little foxes spoil the vine. 00:01:49.269 --> 00:01:51.947 The little foxes spoil the vine. 00:01:51.947 --> 00:02:11.307 And so I wanted to continue with this message adjusting your receiver, and even small adjustments, can yield huge results if you could just make an adjustment. 00:02:11.360 --> 00:02:20.647 You know God, if you're having trouble receiving something that maybe you've been desiring or praying or confessing and it hadn't shown up yet, the problem is never with God. 00:02:20.647 --> 00:02:24.301 God's not the problem, he's not withholding, he's not. 00:02:24.301 --> 00:02:28.695 I mean, when you base your prayer or your desires on God's word. 00:02:28.695 --> 00:02:34.067 Now you know, when you've got pine, the sky desires things that are not necessarily in the word. 00:02:34.067 --> 00:02:36.265 Well then, that's different. 00:02:36.265 --> 00:02:36.901 Now you get. 00:02:36.901 --> 00:02:37.342 You know. 00:02:37.443 --> 00:02:40.824 I like what brother Copeland said one time years ago. 00:02:40.824 --> 00:02:44.088 He said most Christians, I know, pray too quick. 00:02:44.088 --> 00:02:49.067 You start asking God too quick before you really know what belongs to you. 00:02:49.067 --> 00:02:55.159 So if it's not listed right here in the Bible, then you have to spend some time and find out what belongs to you. 00:02:55.159 --> 00:03:06.885 And once you find that out, once you know that something belongs to you, that you have that, then you can, with confidence, you can either claim it or you can pray for it and ask for it. 00:03:06.885 --> 00:03:14.866 Either way, you know, faith works by praying and faith works by saying so. 00:03:14.906 --> 00:03:17.292 God's blessings don't just fall on us. 00:03:17.292 --> 00:03:22.884 Sometimes we have to make a little adjustment to get in position. 00:03:22.884 --> 00:03:27.168 Everybody say position, so you have to get in position to receive. 00:03:27.168 --> 00:03:36.203 Just think about I like even though I'm not watching football right now, if football is not on, but when it comes on I'm not gonna watch it, that's just. 00:03:36.203 --> 00:03:37.307 You can watch it if you want to. 00:03:37.307 --> 00:03:42.709 I'm not watching basketball, I'm not watching baseball, I'm not watching any of these spoiled brats right now. 00:03:42.709 --> 00:03:43.984 Let them just stay. 00:03:43.984 --> 00:03:47.668 You know I'm claiming all the stadiums for the kingdom of God. 00:03:47.668 --> 00:03:51.890 I think Energy Stadium, mont Blanc, glorious Way Church. 00:03:51.939 --> 00:03:52.963 We need a barn for the harvest. 00:03:52.963 --> 00:03:53.606 That's already built. 00:03:53.606 --> 00:03:54.924 It's got a sliding roof. 00:03:54.924 --> 00:03:59.402 Be perfect, we can open the roof on a real nice day in the spring. 00:03:59.402 --> 00:04:01.805 It's nice, wouldn't that be nice to meet in. 00:04:01.805 --> 00:04:03.203 You know, be plenty of room. 00:04:03.203 --> 00:04:07.467 You could not only socially distance, you could not even know who it was. 00:04:07.467 --> 00:04:15.468 It was sitting a couple of hundred yards away, but anyway. 00:04:15.468 --> 00:04:16.189 So you have to. 00:04:16.189 --> 00:04:18.163 You know a football player. 00:04:18.163 --> 00:04:20.324 You've got to get in position to receive the ball. 00:04:20.324 --> 00:04:27.904 I mean the receiver's got to be in the right place, the ball's got to arrive there and he's got to be in the right place to receive and complete the pass. 00:04:27.904 --> 00:04:30.507 And it's kind of the same way with our receiver. 00:04:30.507 --> 00:04:31.040 We need to. 00:04:31.040 --> 00:04:39.466 Sometimes, if we're having trouble receiving something, let's check and ask the Lord if there's an adjustment that we need to make. 00:04:39.466 --> 00:04:47.749 So in Hebrews 11, 6, the Bible says without faith it's impossible to please God. 00:04:47.749 --> 00:04:50.687 It's impossible to please God. 00:04:50.687 --> 00:05:04.625 So, and then 2 Corinthians 5, 7, we walk by faith, not by sight or not by the senses, not by the five senses or another word saying we walk by faith, not by what it seems like. 00:05:04.625 --> 00:05:11.062 So I like to emphasize that faith is not what we use in an emergency. 00:05:11.062 --> 00:05:12.627 Faith is a lifestyle. 00:05:12.627 --> 00:05:15.305 I said faith is a lifestyle. 00:05:15.305 --> 00:05:17.809 You have to be used to pleasing God all the time. 00:05:17.809 --> 00:05:25.826 If faith pleases Him, then you always are walking in a place of faith where something hasn't shown up and you're not bothered by it. 00:05:25.826 --> 00:05:26.401 Praise God. 00:05:26.401 --> 00:05:28.565 You're just shouting the victory the whole time. 00:05:28.565 --> 00:05:33.947 You're waiting on that thing to come because you're calling it forth, you're thanking God for it, amen. 00:05:33.947 --> 00:05:36.807 And you're not frustrated, you're not mad. 00:05:36.807 --> 00:05:37.240 Amen. 00:05:37.240 --> 00:05:39.927 That's faith and that's walking by faith. 00:05:39.927 --> 00:05:45.028 But again, when results are not forthcoming, it's never God's fault. 00:05:45.028 --> 00:05:47.177 You know, we've got. 00:05:47.177 --> 00:05:52.331 You know our faith is based on revelation, or knowledge of the word. 00:05:52.331 --> 00:05:55.646 Faith cometh Romans 10, 19,. 00:05:55.646 --> 00:05:59.146 Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. 00:05:59.146 --> 00:06:03.211 So we need to realize that our faith. 00:06:03.211 --> 00:06:09.750 You know you cannot have faith for something unless you know what the will of God is in that situation. 00:06:09.750 --> 00:06:12.220 So that implies what A prayer life. 00:06:12.220 --> 00:06:19.160 It implies you being on speaking terms with the Holy Ghost, because the Holy Spirit will show you what belongs to you. 00:06:19.160 --> 00:06:21.668 I remember years ago we were in Corpus Christi. 00:06:21.668 --> 00:06:24.418 We spent about a year and a half there. 00:06:24.418 --> 00:06:28.132 The depression hit my business in Houston in 1985. 00:06:28.132 --> 00:06:30.915 And we moved to Corpus in the summer of 85. 00:06:30.915 --> 00:06:45.307 And I was high in the and I was in the middle of the year, and I was in the middle of the year, and I was in the middle of the year and I was hired by a company there and I worked there for about a year until that company went broke. 00:06:45.307 --> 00:06:46.927 Everybody went broke in Houston. 00:06:46.927 --> 00:06:54.211 Then it spread to Corpus and so we spent another six months there without a job. 00:06:54.211 --> 00:07:02.630 I had a business, but my business was not producing very much of anything, and I learned how to be in the will of God. 00:07:02.630 --> 00:07:05.408 I was outside of the locational will of God at that time. 00:07:05.408 --> 00:07:08.288 God had in mind for me to be back in Houston. 00:07:08.288 --> 00:07:11.326 I hadn't heard that yet, so I was out of position to receive. 00:07:11.326 --> 00:07:12.043 Are you with me now? 00:07:12.043 --> 00:07:17.564 But, and I tell you, I love brother Osteen and Lakewood church. 00:07:17.564 --> 00:07:24.146 I wouldn't trust myself to ever watch him on television because I knew if I did I'd probably leave Corpus and come back. 00:07:24.146 --> 00:07:28.904 That ought to tell you something, if you're. 00:07:28.904 --> 00:07:29.807 What's the light bulb? 00:07:29.807 --> 00:07:32.168 You know the little cartoon where the light bulb goes off. 00:07:32.168 --> 00:07:36.125 I mean the light bulb is blinking, you know, and I'm dull, you know. 00:07:36.125 --> 00:07:45.925 But anyway, the women were having a convention and they started calling glad, oh Gladys, we need you back at this convention. 00:07:45.925 --> 00:07:54.567 We got to have you, we got to have you and I was like honey, we just there's no way, I don't, we don't have the money for a hotel and have to fly you there. 00:07:54.567 --> 00:07:57.968 I just don't, I don't, I don't have it. 00:07:57.968 --> 00:08:02.406 And so later that morning I mean I got a download from the Holy Ghost. 00:08:02.406 --> 00:08:07.865 I mean I didn't hear his voice, I just it was like you put a quarter in a in a coin operated. 00:08:07.865 --> 00:08:09.326 We don't have those anymore, but a coin. 00:08:09.326 --> 00:08:13.310 Anybody remember telephones with coin operated telephone? 00:08:13.310 --> 00:08:15.264 We don't have those, they all disappeared. 00:08:15.264 --> 00:08:19.310 But anyway, back then you just put a quarter in their clink. 00:08:19.310 --> 00:08:21.665 It was just like I had faith. 00:08:21.665 --> 00:08:22.007 For that. 00:08:22.007 --> 00:08:25.689 I said, honey, tell them, yes, tell them, you'll be there. 00:08:25.689 --> 00:08:43.086 I didn't know how, you know, I didn't know how there was no money for an airfare, there was no money for the hotel, and I mean by the time it got closer and closer, I mean the next thing, in the mail here came a ticket back when they used to have tickets that you'd show up for, and I mean the money came. 00:08:43.086 --> 00:08:44.263 I mean she went to that. 00:08:44.263 --> 00:08:45.366 She went to that. 00:08:45.366 --> 00:08:49.383 That that convention, it was a powerful. 00:08:49.383 --> 00:08:51.890 It was a powerful, powerful convention. 00:08:51.890 --> 00:08:54.322 It was such a blessing and so. 00:08:54.322 --> 00:08:55.787 But you know we didn't. 00:08:55.787 --> 00:08:56.990 That's not in the Bible. 00:08:56.990 --> 00:09:01.205 I mean I had no way to know that that was God until he let me know. 00:09:01.205 --> 00:09:02.124 So that's his plan. 00:09:02.124 --> 00:09:03.644 His plan was for her to be there. 00:09:03.644 --> 00:09:07.009 You know God will give you provision for his plan. 00:09:07.009 --> 00:09:09.846 See his plan. 00:09:09.846 --> 00:09:10.989 You know, work for his plan. 00:09:10.989 --> 00:09:12.326 His plan is already blessed. 00:09:12.326 --> 00:09:13.243 Your plan is not. 00:09:13.243 --> 00:09:17.086 Your plan is never blessed, but God's plan is always blessed, amen. 00:09:17.086 --> 00:09:22.712 So so our faith is based on knowledge or revelation. 00:09:22.712 --> 00:09:31.966 Our faith is based on who we are in Christ, what we have in Christ, what we can do in Christ, in other words, the blood of Jesus. 00:09:31.966 --> 00:09:42.706 You know, we need to know what the blood has done, is doing, will do Faith in that blood, just like this morning we were talking about the name of Jesus and faith in that name has made this man whole. 00:09:42.706 --> 00:09:48.789 Yeah, the faith which is by him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of y'all. 00:09:48.789 --> 00:09:51.003 The name of Jesus, man, I mean, you've got. 00:09:51.003 --> 00:09:54.787 We have so many things we can wrap our faith around. 00:09:54.787 --> 00:10:04.211 I said we have so many things we can wrap our faith around, and so so ours is a good fight of faith. 00:10:04.211 --> 00:10:12.527 You know, paul told Timothy fight the good fight of faith, our faith, it's a good fight, and a good fight is one that you win. 00:10:12.527 --> 00:10:18.229 You always win the good fight of faith as long as you fight in the arena of faith. 00:10:18.229 --> 00:10:25.908 But when you get off into the arena of the flesh, then that's where the devil is gonna beat up on you. 00:10:25.908 --> 00:10:29.926 Even though he's been defeated, you've moved out of position. 00:10:29.926 --> 00:10:30.643 Are y'all with me? 00:10:30.643 --> 00:10:30.864 Now? 00:10:30.864 --> 00:10:42.009 You move over here into the arena of the flesh, into the arena of what it seems like, feels like, looks like all of that kind of stuff, the five senses. 00:10:42.009 --> 00:10:49.788 When you end that arena, that is the arena where the enemy has superiority and you're gonna lose in that arena. 00:10:49.788 --> 00:10:53.485 But thank God we don't have to fight in that arena, we fight in the arena of faith. 00:10:53.485 --> 00:10:55.481 Amen. 00:10:55.481 --> 00:11:03.798 And so you know, thinking about what Jesus has done for you, he's already won the victory. 00:11:03.798 --> 00:11:08.171 And I have a little illustration of that. 00:11:08.171 --> 00:11:27.284 When I was just a kid I was probably four, and I was born in Houston we grew up here till the third grade and between December, between third grade and fourth grade, we moved to Refuria, a little South Texas town, and that's where I met Gladys. 00:11:27.284 --> 00:11:31.462 Oh man, I'm glad we moved there and so. 00:11:31.462 --> 00:11:40.847 But we lived in Galena Park, which is a little town that's right next to the ship channel and my cross. 00:11:40.847 --> 00:11:45.186 The street neighbor was, you know, he was a good buddy of mine, we were about the same age. 00:11:45.186 --> 00:11:48.909 His name was Glenn Hebert H-E-B-E-R-T. 00:11:48.909 --> 00:11:53.048 They were from Louisiana, so I suspect that they changed the pronunciation. 00:11:53.048 --> 00:11:55.828 I'm pretty sure it should have been A-Bear, right A-Bear. 00:11:55.828 --> 00:12:00.225 See, my grandmother's Cajun, so I know a little bit about Cajun people. 00:12:00.225 --> 00:12:02.707 But I don't know, they cleaned it up and made it Hebert. 00:12:02.707 --> 00:12:03.724 I don't know, maybe he was. 00:12:03.724 --> 00:12:06.688 Anyway, their dad was a World War II veteran. 00:12:06.688 --> 00:12:11.067 He'd lost a foot in the war and so he was always on crutches. 00:12:11.067 --> 00:12:12.485 I think he had a wooden leg. 00:12:12.485 --> 00:12:13.027 You know we were. 00:12:13.027 --> 00:12:13.802 You know kids. 00:12:13.802 --> 00:12:14.966 You know I wouldn't leg. 00:12:14.966 --> 00:12:18.225 Wow God, I hope I never see the stump. 00:12:18.225 --> 00:12:19.585 Please don't let me see the stump. 00:12:19.585 --> 00:12:23.610 And but anyway, he was always on crutches. 00:12:23.610 --> 00:12:25.326 I never saw him walk on that leg. 00:12:25.326 --> 00:12:27.506 They didn't have what we have now. 00:12:27.506 --> 00:12:30.226 But and the mother, you know. 00:12:30.226 --> 00:12:36.321 And so that he had another older brother about the age of my older brother, bob Bobby. 00:12:36.321 --> 00:12:42.350 In those years we called him Bobby, so he was my brother and Charles his older brother. 00:12:42.350 --> 00:12:43.966 They were about the same age, about 12. 00:12:43.966 --> 00:12:46.967 And Glenn and I were about four. 00:12:46.967 --> 00:12:52.020 Well, you know, I'm a baby when I'm, you know, I'm a baby when I meet Glenn. 00:12:52.020 --> 00:12:54.143 I couldn't say Glenn, I said Gigi. 00:12:54.143 --> 00:12:56.229 You know, gigi, that's the best I could do. 00:12:56.229 --> 00:12:58.244 So he was always Gigi. 00:12:58.244 --> 00:13:08.346 And across the street, so we would play, you know, and one time his parents had some dirt delivered. 00:13:08.346 --> 00:13:09.504 Oh man, that's like heaven. 00:13:09.504 --> 00:13:14.783 Here's a pile of dirt in the front yard that we're gonna get to play in man, are you kidding? 00:13:14.783 --> 00:13:16.424 And I headed over there. 00:13:16.424 --> 00:13:25.166 I had my big old truck, you know, with me and he brought his toys out and then we started, you know, playing in that dirt, you know making tunnels. 00:13:25.166 --> 00:13:30.725 And I was running up in there, you know, with my arm, all the way up in there, and daddy came out and kind of chewed us out. 00:13:30.725 --> 00:13:32.100 Oh, that's dangerous, don't be doing. 00:13:32.100 --> 00:13:35.504 Well, we weren't crawling into the tunnel, you know, just right there on the edge. 00:13:35.504 --> 00:13:37.946 And so we waited for him to go in the house. 00:13:37.946 --> 00:13:39.225 We kept doing what we were doing. 00:13:39.225 --> 00:13:43.346 And so then Charles comes out. 00:13:43.346 --> 00:13:45.285 Charles is a smart aleck, you know he. 00:13:45.285 --> 00:13:49.947 And my brother was a smart aleck too, you know, older brothers are a pain, you know. 00:13:49.947 --> 00:14:03.265 And so he just, and so he just, and so Charles comes out and he kicks the dirt and crushes my, my truck, under his foot and knocks all of the stuff out, you know. 00:14:03.265 --> 00:14:08.373 And and Gigi started griping at him and he didn't cry and I didn't cry. 00:14:08.373 --> 00:14:09.539 But I mean, you know we were. 00:14:09.539 --> 00:14:12.477 I didn't say anything because I was afraid of Charles. 00:14:12.477 --> 00:14:15.053 You know I knew better than say anything directly to him. 00:14:15.053 --> 00:14:17.467 So I just picked up my truck and headed back across the street. 00:14:17.467 --> 00:14:20.927 I mean, I'm done with this deal, we'll just have to do this some other time. 00:14:20.927 --> 00:14:25.129 So I get all the way on my side of the street and wham hits me back at the head. 00:14:25.129 --> 00:14:27.379 It felt like a rock, but it was a dirt cloud. 00:14:27.379 --> 00:14:30.378 He picked up a dirt cloud, threw it across the street, hit me in the back of the head. 00:14:30.378 --> 00:14:32.543 Man, I start screaming and crying. 00:14:32.543 --> 00:14:33.917 Man, I ran into the house. 00:14:33.917 --> 00:14:34.980 Mother meets me at the door. 00:14:34.980 --> 00:14:35.381 What happened? 00:14:35.381 --> 00:14:35.743 What happened? 00:14:35.743 --> 00:14:41.174 Charles hit me in the head with a walk and, and so that's all my brother needed. 00:14:41.174 --> 00:14:42.841 He came out of that front door. 00:14:42.841 --> 00:14:44.950 Son, son, don't go over there. 00:14:44.950 --> 00:14:46.134 No, jay was too late. 00:14:46.134 --> 00:14:50.432 Bobby was going across the street and Charles I don't know. 00:14:50.432 --> 00:14:54.249 He was a little slow, I guess because he sat on the front porch. 00:14:54.249 --> 00:15:00.580 I mean, they had the concrete steps going up to the front porch, into the front door and he's sitting there like a doofus. 00:15:00.580 --> 00:15:00.900 What do you? 00:15:00.900 --> 00:15:04.981 My brother's coming to see you, don't you see him walking across the street? 00:15:04.981 --> 00:15:18.519 He sat there until my brother got right in front of me my brother hauled off and hit him open-handed right across the face like that, and then he went screaming into the house and his mother came out and so we almost had the SWAT team come. 00:15:18.519 --> 00:15:21.966 They didn't have SWAT teams back then, but anyway. 00:15:21.966 --> 00:15:26.726 So you know how kids are. 00:15:26.726 --> 00:15:28.734 Two or three days later I forgot about that. 00:15:28.734 --> 00:15:29.917 Dirt is still there. 00:15:29.917 --> 00:15:33.336 It's saying it's got my name on it, come play. 00:15:33.336 --> 00:15:40.318 So me and Gigi went back out there and we were playing again, having the best time, and then Charles comes out. 00:15:40.318 --> 00:15:50.166 Charles comes out and he stands right there he's got his hands on his hips and he's glaring at me and he's glaring at Gigi, you know, looking back, and he just can't stand. 00:15:50.166 --> 00:15:55.793 He's wanting to do what he did the other day, you know, and I just looked up at him and I remember what my brother see. 00:15:55.793 --> 00:15:56.818 I'd forgotten all about it. 00:15:56.818 --> 00:15:58.952 But then suddenly I remember what my brother had done. 00:15:58.952 --> 00:16:08.150 I mean you could still see the kind of a handprint on the side of his face, and so I mean you know, he just stood there and I just I didn't leave this time. 00:16:08.150 --> 00:16:14.219 I just looked up at him like you, dummy, you better not do anything this time, because my brother's at home still. 00:16:14.219 --> 00:16:18.677 He's still at home today and I mean he turned around and walked back in the house. 00:16:18.677 --> 00:16:29.178 You know, and I'll tell you, I was there under the grace of what my older brother did to my enemy amen, we got somebody that's a whole lot stronger than Bobby was. 00:16:29.178 --> 00:16:34.581 I mean, he did a whole lot more damage to the enemy than what he did my brother did to Charles. 00:16:34.581 --> 00:16:36.556 He just kind of intimidated him a little bit. 00:16:36.556 --> 00:16:39.322 Nothing, nothing permanent happened. 00:16:39.322 --> 00:16:52.322 But we have to be constantly refreshed and I mean constantly refreshed in our redemption faith in what Christ has done, the finished work. 00:16:52.322 --> 00:16:54.049 Come on, let's just lift our hands. 00:16:54.049 --> 00:16:57.640 Thank God, it's not something he's gonna do, he's already done it. 00:16:57.640 --> 00:16:59.905 He's already done it. 00:16:59.905 --> 00:17:02.162 We need to speak what the blood has done. 00:17:02.162 --> 00:17:04.652 We need to speak what Jesus has already done. 00:17:04.652 --> 00:17:07.202 He's already defeated the enemy. 00:17:07.202 --> 00:17:09.231 We have nothing to be intimidated about. 00:17:09.231 --> 00:17:13.625 We have no, we're not intimidated by the devil and anything that he does. 00:17:13.625 --> 00:17:27.429 We need to adjust our receiver, and so the two things that I want to cover tonight about adjustments have to do, you know, with a lack of knowledge. 00:17:27.429 --> 00:17:30.022 You know that's gonna affect your faith. 00:17:30.022 --> 00:17:36.807 So the first thing is that your faith must be fed daily, need to feed your faith daily. 00:17:36.807 --> 00:17:42.855 If you don't feed your faith well, you know, I've read the Bible, I know what it says no, you need to read your Bible every day. 00:17:42.855 --> 00:17:44.320 Well, I hear that all the time. 00:17:44.320 --> 00:17:46.376 Well, just why don't you just make the adjustment? 00:17:46.376 --> 00:17:51.257 I mean make the adjustment, it's made well, I just don't have time, we'll make the time. 00:17:51.257 --> 00:17:52.560 You've got time. 00:17:52.560 --> 00:17:54.506 Same time I do 24 hours every day. 00:17:54.506 --> 00:17:57.585 You've got 24 hours, and I know we're busy people. 00:17:57.585 --> 00:18:07.060 We have, you know, a lot of complications, and that's why Paul said I leaside the sin and the weights, and the sin that does so easily beset me some things. 00:18:07.060 --> 00:18:16.778 It's not sin that we need to lay aside, it's weights, it's distractions, it's things that are not the best habits that we have, commitments that we've made. 00:18:16.778 --> 00:18:20.450 I never forget Brother Osteen saying this. 00:18:20.450 --> 00:18:30.549 You know, one Sunday morning I'm in big bass crowd and he'd been fighting some, some issues in his body and he went and fasted and prayed for several days. 00:18:30.549 --> 00:18:33.138 He wanted to find out why am I having these battles? 00:18:33.138 --> 00:18:37.117 Why can't my blood pressure get back under control? 00:18:37.117 --> 00:18:39.344 Why am I having these health issues? 00:18:39.344 --> 00:18:43.295 And this is what he said. 00:18:43.295 --> 00:18:49.617 See, I just thank God for people like Brother Osteen, brother Hagan and Oral Roberts. 00:18:49.617 --> 00:18:58.595 I mean, they would preach out of their mistakes, they would talk about the mistakes they made, and so this is what he, he, he, he's preached. 00:18:58.595 --> 00:19:06.227 What the Holy Ghost corrected him about he said well, the thing that's crushing the life out of you is not my call, but what you've added to it. 00:19:06.227 --> 00:19:15.415 The thing that's crushing the life out of you is not my call, but the things that you have added to it. 00:19:15.415 --> 00:19:29.464 Well, man, I mean for him to say that he's, he's owning something, he's letting you know he's not perfect, he's not a statue, he's not up there for anybody to think wow, you know, he's preaching out of his mistakes. 00:19:29.464 --> 00:19:31.137 So what did he have to do? 00:19:31.137 --> 00:19:42.044 He had to make an adjustment, he had to let some things go, he had to delegate some things, he had to get some things cleared off of his plate that he had taken personal responsibility for. 00:19:42.044 --> 00:19:44.739 That God didn't want him to mess with anymore. 00:19:44.739 --> 00:19:47.046 Are you with me now? 00:19:47.046 --> 00:19:53.426 So we have to constantly feed our faith and make the adjustments necessary. 00:19:53.426 --> 00:20:05.586 We, we, you know your faith comes by hearing and hearing, or understand the word hearing means hearing to understand, in other words, revelation, and that doesn't come just snapping your fingers. 00:20:05.586 --> 00:20:07.605 That's why I like to read my Bible. 00:20:07.605 --> 00:20:12.079 Maybe a particular day I don't get anything that I can identify, that God said, but I've. 00:20:12.079 --> 00:20:18.560 I've stored up the logos, and then when I need it, ramah comes out. 00:20:18.560 --> 00:20:21.016 The Holy Ghost can take what I just got through reading. 00:20:21.016 --> 00:20:34.219 I can't tell you how many times a decision I make on what to preach is usually based on what I've read in the Bible recently and God began to say something to me, and then I'll, I'll preach that to you because he preached it to me, he, he fed me with that. 00:20:34.219 --> 00:20:40.378 It might be just a verse or two, so so faith comes by hearing and hearing. 00:20:40.378 --> 00:20:40.740 See it. 00:20:40.740 --> 00:20:43.576 Not just heard one time, hearing and hearing constant. 00:20:43.576 --> 00:20:45.921 And then Romans 12 too. 00:20:45.921 --> 00:20:51.279 You do be be transformed by the renewing of your mind or the refreshing. 00:20:51.279 --> 00:20:54.815 See, your mind has to be refreshed with the Word of God it has. 00:20:54.815 --> 00:20:58.007 You're being assaulted daily with lies. 00:20:58.007 --> 00:21:03.951 You're the spirit of this world is leaking into your consciousness and you've got to refute it. 00:21:03.951 --> 00:21:05.336 You've got to turn it back. 00:21:05.336 --> 00:21:07.928 The only thing that can do that is the Word. 00:21:07.928 --> 00:21:10.298 Jesus said, the words that I speak to you. 00:21:10.298 --> 00:21:12.263 They are spirit and they are life. 00:21:12.263 --> 00:21:20.638 So it's so important to read the Bible and, like I say, sometimes it's not exciting, sometimes it's just reading the Bible. 00:21:20.638 --> 00:21:22.308 You feel like, well, I read the Bible today. 00:21:22.308 --> 00:21:26.041 You keep on doing it, though, and then and you're gonna get what you need. 00:21:26.041 --> 00:21:27.464 God is gonna feed you. 00:21:27.464 --> 00:21:36.426 I think about John 14, he was talking to the disciples all about the Holy Ghost, and he, jesus, told the disciples. 00:21:36.426 --> 00:21:43.479 Then, right before his crucifixion, he said you know, there's a whole lot of things I'd like to share with you about the Holy Ghost, but you cannot bear them now. 00:21:43.479 --> 00:21:45.403 You can't bear them. 00:21:45.403 --> 00:21:58.944 They weren't ready to hear it, and as we grow, god is gonna unfold and unveil things that you weren't ready to see a year ago, two years ago, five years ago. 00:21:58.944 --> 00:22:02.234 But if you never read your Bible, you're never gonna get to that intersection. 00:22:02.234 --> 00:22:05.655 You're never gonna get to that place because you never did progress. 00:22:05.655 --> 00:22:10.676 It'd be like you expecting to go to the 12th grade and you haven't even finished the sixth grade. 00:22:10.676 --> 00:22:12.673 It ain't gonna happen. 00:22:12.673 --> 00:22:14.625 Is it in the natural right? 00:22:14.625 --> 00:22:24.444 I mean, you've got to go all you got to be promoted, each grade, each grade, each grade, till you get to be a 12th grader, and then you get your graduation, then you're eligible to do whatever else you want to do. 00:22:24.444 --> 00:22:26.192 But but there's a grant. 00:22:26.192 --> 00:22:35.258 This is same with, with with the Word of God and In first Corinthians 4 I was just reading this the other day kind of prompted me in this direction. 00:22:35.258 --> 00:22:37.729 But he told the Corinthian church. 00:22:37.729 --> 00:22:45.250 He said, hey, he said, you know, I have fed you with milk and not with meat Because you're still carnal. 00:22:45.250 --> 00:22:47.316 The word carnal means body ruled. 00:22:47.316 --> 00:22:53.417 The fact that you're still carnal, I can't feed you with meat, you're not able to bear it. 00:22:53.417 --> 00:22:55.681 You haven't been and you're yet You're. 00:22:55.681 --> 00:22:57.895 You're not able to bear it even now. 00:22:57.895 --> 00:22:59.739 That's what he said first Corinthians, chapter 4. 00:22:59.739 --> 00:23:04.019 I mean he let them know that they were, they were body rule, their carnal. 00:23:04.019 --> 00:23:05.424 That was on them. 00:23:05.424 --> 00:23:08.070 They should have grown beyond that. 00:23:08.070 --> 00:23:08.270 Carnal. 00:23:08.270 --> 00:23:09.875 Everybody starts off carnal. 00:23:09.875 --> 00:23:12.421 A baby is self-centered. 00:23:12.421 --> 00:23:14.526 The baby has to have every need met, right. 00:23:14.526 --> 00:23:17.491 I mean that baby is going to cry when it's hungry. 00:23:17.491 --> 00:23:20.218 It's going to cry when it's diaper needs to be changed. 00:23:20.218 --> 00:23:20.726 It's going to be. 00:23:20.726 --> 00:23:26.061 It's going to cry when it's cold and when it's hot, when it's not right, when the bed is not just right, everything. 00:23:26.061 --> 00:23:29.996 I mean the baby is gonna let you know instantly that things are not right. 00:23:29.996 --> 00:23:36.285 But eventually the baby starts to grow and starts to grow and starts to be more so, and over a period of years. 00:23:36.285 --> 00:23:42.630 I mean, it's amazing these little children turn into adults at some point, don't they Praise God? 00:23:42.630 --> 00:23:47.424 So he said you couldn't bear the meat because your carnal or your body ruled. 00:23:47.424 --> 00:24:00.836 So body ruled is walking by scenes like that's body rule, when you're always walking by how it looks, you're always paying attention to how you feel. 00:24:00.836 --> 00:24:03.222 Well, I just feel so bad. 00:24:03.222 --> 00:24:03.785 It's like Michelle Obama. 00:24:03.785 --> 00:24:06.134 She's got a low-grade depression. 00:24:06.134 --> 00:24:06.957 That's what she said. 00:24:06.957 --> 00:24:11.775 I've heard a low-grade temperature, low-grade fever, but I've never heard a low-grade depression. 00:24:11.775 --> 00:24:13.461 I guess because she's so deprived. 00:24:13.461 --> 00:24:14.144 I'm sure it's, but what it is? 00:24:14.144 --> 00:24:19.895 I Don't know how they became billionaires, but they seem to have gotten there. 00:24:19.895 --> 00:24:22.854 But she's got a low-grade depression. 00:24:22.854 --> 00:24:25.548 So are you walking by? 00:24:25.548 --> 00:24:28.156 Seems like you you walking by how you feel? 00:24:28.156 --> 00:24:31.132 Are you walking like you're a victim? 00:24:31.132 --> 00:24:32.925 Are you walking Offended it? 00:24:32.925 --> 00:24:35.172 People, and they just don't appreciate me. 00:24:35.172 --> 00:24:38.921 See, you're the devil's working on you, you know? 00:24:38.921 --> 00:24:45.738 Let's, let's recognize, recognize that we're in, not in position to receive God's best. 00:24:45.738 --> 00:24:49.989 Let's look at this verse John, chapter 8. 00:24:49.989 --> 00:24:51.954 Are you getting anything out of this tonight? 00:24:51.954 --> 00:24:55.459 Some of you are, and a lot of you, ready to hit me. 00:24:55.459 --> 00:24:59.431 I know that I Sowed that seed a while ago about my brother. 00:24:59.431 --> 00:25:01.316 I'm sorry, children in the room. 00:25:01.316 --> 00:25:03.791 Children should never slap anybody like. 00:25:03.791 --> 00:25:04.453 That's not good. 00:25:04.453 --> 00:25:08.368 John 8, verse 31. 00:25:08.368 --> 00:25:32.565 Then Jesus said to those Jews which believed on him, if you continue in my word for two weeks, no, if you continue in my word, if you continue in my word, then are you my disciples indeed, and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. 00:25:32.565 --> 00:25:36.500 A Lot of people misquote that verse and say the truth will make you free. 00:25:36.500 --> 00:25:46.316 Well, no, it will not, but you have to continue in his word, and when you do continue, you're going to get revelation out of the word. 00:25:46.316 --> 00:25:49.207 That's going to unveil truth to you, and that's where. 00:25:49.207 --> 00:25:51.431 That's where faith is born. 00:25:51.431 --> 00:26:01.695 When you know what the truth is about any particular situation, that's when your faith is Planted in you and you believe it in your heart and you begin to agree with it with your mouth. 00:26:01.695 --> 00:26:02.458 Are you with me now? 00:26:02.458 --> 00:26:09.897 That's why the spirit of truth, the Holy Ghost, is the spirit of truth, and so faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. 00:26:09.897 --> 00:26:11.410 It doesn't come by having heard. 00:26:11.410 --> 00:26:20.230 So that's why, when people say, well, I've read the Bible through many times, I don't read it that much within your faith is suffering Because you're not hearing. 00:26:20.230 --> 00:26:22.136 And hearing, you're you heard, you heard. 00:26:22.136 --> 00:26:24.164 Well, heard is way back there. 00:26:24.164 --> 00:26:26.133 I mean, the devil already stole that out of there. 00:26:26.133 --> 00:26:27.707 Amen. 00:26:27.707 --> 00:26:33.915 So you know, for instance and you're God delivered me from the fear of repetition. 00:26:33.915 --> 00:26:36.875 I mean, I don't mind preaching the same thing over and over again. 00:26:36.875 --> 00:26:37.205 Why? 00:26:37.205 --> 00:26:39.674 Because we all need to hear it over and over again. 00:26:39.674 --> 00:26:47.852 And if you recognize the message that I'm preaching well, I've got the notes my kids will say, well, I've got the notes of that one right here in my phone. 00:26:47.852 --> 00:26:50.328 Well, that's great, you know I'm gonna preach. 00:26:50.328 --> 00:26:51.191 Did I preach it pretty? 00:26:51.191 --> 00:26:55.571 No, you didn't preach it anything like you did the first time, because it never comes out the same. 00:26:55.571 --> 00:26:57.250 But the core is. 00:26:57.250 --> 00:26:58.395 The core is the same. 00:26:58.395 --> 00:26:58.998 Why do we need? 00:26:58.998 --> 00:27:10.169 We need to hear it over and over and, like I say, we're not always ready to hear that unveiling, we're not ready for it when we're, when we're Jason's age. 00:27:10.169 --> 00:27:13.635 You know, jason, back wave at me, jason, Amen. 00:27:13.635 --> 00:27:14.798 See, he just got here. 00:27:14.798 --> 00:27:18.373 So there may be some things I'm here that I'm saying tonight. 00:27:18.373 --> 00:27:23.534 That may be going over his head a little bit, but you know, give him a few weeks, they're gonna start hitting him right in the heart. 00:27:23.534 --> 00:27:24.757 He's gonna receive it. 00:27:24.757 --> 00:27:27.666 Amen we have. 00:27:27.666 --> 00:27:35.671 All of us are in different places, we're growing in different ways and different speeds, but at some point what? 00:27:35.671 --> 00:27:36.332 No matter what? 00:27:36.332 --> 00:27:38.336 When you read your Bible, you're gonna see something. 00:27:38.336 --> 00:27:39.913 I still happens to me all the time. 00:27:39.913 --> 00:27:41.683 I never saw that before. 00:27:41.683 --> 00:27:43.877 I Never saw that before. 00:27:43.877 --> 00:27:52.950 I Mean, I was reading about Abraham and Isaac and it never occurred to me that Isaac was fully Onboard with his death. 00:27:52.950 --> 00:27:54.392 He didn't fight. 00:27:54.392 --> 00:27:55.555 I never saw that before. 00:27:55.555 --> 00:28:03.585 Just the last, just a few weeks ago, I was reading Genesis and and when he, he said dad, I see the wood and where's the sacrifice? 00:28:03.585 --> 00:28:05.931 Well, god will provide himself a lamb. 00:28:05.931 --> 00:28:10.790 And then he tied him up, tied him up and put him on the pile of wood. 00:28:10.790 --> 00:28:13.436 You don't think he knew he didn't fight. 00:28:13.436 --> 00:28:15.651 He was ready to die. 00:28:15.651 --> 00:28:17.498 He had the same faith his daddy did. 00:28:17.498 --> 00:28:19.244 He knew that he'd be raised from the dead. 00:28:19.244 --> 00:28:24.115 He was ready for that knife to be plunged into him and he didn't have to do that, thank God. 00:28:24.115 --> 00:28:25.659 God said, oh, don't harm the lad. 00:28:25.659 --> 00:28:28.070