You Have to Learn How to Honor Your First(Husband) In your Life

What does it truly mean to honor and respect your husband?

In today’s world, it’s easy to let frustration, societal trends, or daily stresses lead to dishonor and belittling in a marriage. But a strong, thriving marriage is built on a foundation of mutual respect and biblical honor.

In this video, we dive deep into why honoring your husband is a powerful catalyst for change in your relationship, how to guard your lips against belittling words, and practical ways to lift him up as the leader of your home. Whether you are looking to heal a hurting marriage or take a great relationship to the next level, this message is for you.

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Is gonna live 500 years. If we sent a plane or a rocket to to to to that star, it's gonna take 500 years before it gets there. And 500 years before it comes back home. And guess what? God was there and is there. And that's where God is. Do you see how magnificent God is? That's the nearest star that we have. That's light years. That's not car years. That's light years. That's traveling at the speed of light. It's gonna take us that long. So that means if you and I started off, we would have four or five generations before we get there. So I'm not gonna make a week there on the way. Not the literally. So we'd have to get some young kids to start off. And hopefully they have children, and they'll die, and their children will die, and their children will die, and those children will die, and by the time they get there, they will be five or four to six generations later by the time they show up. God is there before they get there. You only understand the God in the little space that you have because you don't know who he is. You think God is hanging around your neighborhood, in your house, in your problems, but he is so magnificent, he's so marvelous, he's everywhere at the same time because he's not bound by place or time. He's not bound by the laws that he created. The laws that he created does not confine him. The laws that he created confines me. He's greater than all of the laws that he's created. But you don't understand the magnificence of what he created because you don't know how powerful he is. The sun is a small dot in the heavens, and the further away you get from the sun into the universe, you will not be able to see that dot. It's like a grain of sand, smaller than a grain of sand. But yet it's 93 million miles away from us, and it's a big old sun, but it's just a small dot in the universe, and God created it all, and he gets to enjoy all that he created. He needs nothing from us. The heavens declare his glory, it declares his glory with its magnificence and his marvelousness. That might be a word I made. He decrees, it decrees and declares every single day how magnificent, how marvelous God is. Now he's in, he's with the church people, Minister Lee. And he is in the book of Matthew, chapter 7, he says, y'all gonna end up in a place that's burning. Hello, somebody. I am convinced that there are going to be more church people in the lake of fire than heathens. Well, I ain't gonna say than heathens, but a bunch of them. Because there's a lot of heathens going to hell. What did I say? I said it wrong in hell. There are gonna be more Christians in hell than you can imagine. Forget about paradise. I'm talking about where they're gonna ultimately end up, and these will be people who went to church every time the doors open. Never ever got rid of. Oh, I'm on my own here. I'm on my own. I'm I'm I'm gonna be alright. Don't worry about me. You just go ahead. I want you to know that God is a good God. Look at Malachi chapter 3. Let's look at this. I wanna, I wanna, I'm in Malachi. Let's let's let's let's let's do something here. Let's look at verse 16. Let's start with verse 16. Then these who fear the Lord spoke with one accord. The Lord paid attention and heard them. And a book of remembrance was written before him of those who fear the Lord and esteem his name. They shall be mine, said the Lord of hosts, in the day when I make up my treasure possession, and I will spare them as a man spare his son who serves him. Y'all see that? Verse 18. Then once you shall see the distinction between the righteous and the what? Between one who serves God and one who does not serve him. Here's what God is saying. And here's where we are today, Minister Lee. The church people are saying it doesn't pay to serve God. The wicked are blessed, they have houses, they have land, they married, the marriage worked, they got money, but I'm serving God and it ain't working for me. And God says, I need you to report this, write it down, because I want my people to understand this about me. I got a day coming that I am going to reward them, and they're going to be happy over the fact that they did not give up. Once more, you'll see the difference it makes between being a person who does the right thing and the one who doesn't, between serving God and not serving him. May I say this to you? If Jesus Christ came into your life, if you are what you call born again, if you are spirit-filled, if God has called you, it may be difficult in the beginning, you may not understand what he's saying and doing, but I want you to understand this that God is better than anything you'll come up with. That God will treat you better. And if by chance you don't receive nothing in this world, I want you to know that God's got a book of remembrance, and he's going to remember every single thing that you did, and he's going to reward you, and you're going to live with him throughout eternity. You need to recognize and realize and stop murmuring and complaining, stop judging yourself against the world. The world may be rich. We have a man who's almost a trillion-dollar man. If he don't know Jesus, he's going to hell and he's going to leave every single thing on this planet because the earth belonged to God. He wants to go to the moon, he wants to go to Mars. He may be able to do that. But may I say to you, before he gets to Mars, God will already be there. Somebody hear what I'm saying. You need to understand. I can't tell you how long it's going to be before Jesus comes back. But I do know that mankind's technology, as I've seen in my short period of time, is going to advance greater than it has ever before. But may I say this to you: if we go beyond Mars, the Uranus, Neptune, and Saturn, God's already there. The God that I serve is a true and living God, and he created it all for his good pleasure. Please do not think that God does not see what you are doing. Please don't give up on God. Please don't get so smart that you think you can go sneak out in the dark and God don't know. Scripture tells me that God sees as well at night as it does in the day. What you say, Minister Lee? Tucker and Mike, grab a mic.

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Everything is naked before him.

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Everything?

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Everything.

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So the way he created us in the beginning, we were naked because we had nothing to hide. How? Why would we hide something from God who gave us everything that we have? Anybody listening? You have to stop murmuring and complaining as if God's treating you bad. You got to stop murmuring and complaining as if God's treating you bad. Let's go back to Genesis chapter 1. Not Genesis, Malachi, I'm sorry. Malachi chapter 1, verse 2 says, I have loved you, said the Lord. Can I help you today? God loves you. The God that I serve is a God of love. Here's what we've done. We've turned his love to hatred. And now we're acting as if God is not justified in the way he's treating us. When in reality he's responding and he's judging you based on what you've done towards him. Do you not realize that he is a righteous judge? Stop acting like you don't know why these things are happening. They are happening simply because there were decisions that you made in a moment that you have to pay for the rest of your life. And you're going to have to suffer through that for the rest of your existence. And stop acting like you don't know why you're going through what you're going through simply because you didn't understand that there's some sins that became iniquities, and iniquities are generational. Which means what you did as a young person will be transferred to your children's children for generations to come. And it might ultimately end up where God will have to erase your whole name out of existence. Because you refuse to deal with your iniquitous nature. Your sins can be forgiven. But the problem is you did it and now you act like you didn't do it, and you continue to operate in it, and you act like because you were having a good time, it was okay to do it. And it would appear, Minister Lee, that in the beginning you had good time and fun and you didn't feel the repercussions. Now the judgment has come. Everybody said the judgment has come. And now you want me to pray the judgment off of you. I will not do that. Because I am not going to go against God who's judging you righteously, for you to come to me as a preacher and say, Man, get this off of me. No, you got to deal with God on your own. Say, man, that's rough. No, it's not rough. What was rough is what you did. It's like your children who do wrong and don't want to be disciplined. Many of us as Christians do stupid stuff and act like God don't see it, and we're in a moment. What did God say to the man who introduced uh our debt to us? Say, son, something is at your door. And if you don't do right, you're gonna open the door up for it. And look what he allowed to take place in his seed line, probably even till this day. And for some of us, we've opened up the door for sin to take place. And now we don't understand what's going on. Because now God ministerly is mad, and nothing is working. Instead of us stopping and asking God to forgive us and working on the inside of us, not the outside, because we put on makeup to make us look better, but we have to go on the inside, and only the word of God can fix you from within, because you can't put makeup on your heart. So now you have to ask God to deal with you from internally. And now what He's going to reveal to you is just how no good. God knows my. But you hadn't read scriptures and find out what's in your heart? You've not read scriptures that say how wicked your heart is. Find that scripture and tell me. Give me two scriptures on how no good your heart is. When you get them, raise your hand. Let's let them know that's watching all over the world. God's not playing with us. Don't let your culture be greater than the word and the will of God. We travel around the world and we see a lot of culture. But let me say something to you. I may not be in agreement with the culture because the culture goes against the word. But the enemy wants to make sure that you are culturally blessed, but not spiritually blessed. Anybody got you got it, Lee? What it says. Jeremiah chapter 17, verse 9. Read.

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The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately sick.

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You said the heart is? The heart is deceitful. So you're telling me my heart could be deceitfully what? Above all things. Some things? All things. So how come you keep telling me God knows my heart? What do you got a scripture difference? Genesis 6 and 5, what it says? So every thought in man's heart was what you looking for? A microphone?

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Hold up, let me get it on the microphone so people can hear it. Yeah, read it again.

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Genesis 6, 5 and 6. Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that he made man.

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Man, God was sorry that he made man. Why? Because man's heart was evil. Go on. That's it.

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Um, that he was and he was grieved in his heart.

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And who was grieved in his heart? You have scripture fail. Okay, so your heart is messed up. God loves my heart. He sure does. Is he already told you what about your heart? It's evil. God didn't save your flesh, he saved your heart. He he your flesh going back to dirt. Jesus didn't come to save your flesh. Jesus came to change your heart, your soul. The inward man inside of you. That thing that causes you to hate, causes you to have relationships with all kinds of people that you're not married to. Cause you to be jealous, selfish.

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Want in your way.

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Read that again. Genesis chapter what, six?

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Genesis six, chapter five, and verse six.

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Uh huh.

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It says, Then the Lord saw that the wickedness. The Lord saw the wickedness of man was great in the earth.

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Uh huh.

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And that every intent of the thought of.

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No, wait, hold up. Everybody say every. Every say it again. Every intent. Everything he was intending. You think that's happening today? One man has, let's say, one trillion dollars. He has enough money to make everybody on the planet a billionaire. You think he's gonna do that with his money? You think he cares about poor people? He can buy land enough to feed everybody in the world. He can build everybody a house. He can give everybody uh a billion dollars and still have more money than the rest of us. But you see, inside of us is this ego that's out of control. It's so selfish. Preachers are preaching not because they want to preach the gospel of Jesus, they're preaching so they could buy Gucci belts, have red bottom shoes, they could put uh things on their fingers and on there, just show off and build nice houses and drive nice cars. They're not preaching the gospel, they're preaching selfishness, they're preaching uh motivational classes, get rich schemes while everybody in the church is poor. The preacher and his family is rich. Preaching up north, driving a rose rush across the street from the projects, and wondering why the people come to take it from him. Ultimately ends up in jail. What's going on, America? We're out of control because our hearts are desperate. Prophets prophesy just for money. That's what witches do.

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Send me five dollars and you come see Cleo. That's what witches do. America prophets are witches.

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Let me say as scriptures would say it, they're false. Tell them I said it, they're false. I'm not judging them. I'm saying when you read scripture, one of the first things God said not to do is the first thing that they are doing. Let's say you don't know scripture. Then they want to put fear in you. Scripture says if what they say don't come to pass, you got nothing to be afraid of. God loves us, and the love of God is so powerful. Watch this. Why are we turning our backs on the people that love us? And why are we turning our backs on the God who loves us? Why are we saying he's not treating us right? Why are we caught up in our emotions and our feelings and our anxieties and our wants? Why are we trying to just manipulate God to do stuff for us, not realizing that God will only do for you when He uh when you fulfill what He requires of you? I would ask, can I get a witness? But I know I can't get one. You see, you want a sugar daddy for a God, but He's not. He's the Lord God. Can I get you to raise up your hand and tell God thank you? Can I get you to tell God thank you? The fact that He loves us so magnificently and so marvelously. You want to know how much God loves us? God loved us so powerfully that He had to send Jesus into the world to forgive us of our sins so he could have a relationship with heathens. There was absolutely no way we could have access to God. And what we were doing culturally and what we were doing as a people was so far into the pits that God could not use the blood of a bull or a goat, but he had to use the blood of a lamb. And the lamb could not be physical. He had to be spiritual and he had to be the son of God. Go to Hebrews chapter 10, I'll be verse 4. Read that somebody right fast. Hebrews chapter 10, verse 4. God is looking for people that understand that He's a true and loving God. Read that verse.

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For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

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It's impossible, Minister Lee. Hear what I'm saying. Now watch this. In the Old Testament, sins could not be taken away, they could only be covered. But God needed sins to be taken away. But yet he didn't have an instrument in order to take away sins. So he had to find a perfect lamb whose blood. Remember when Abel died? What did God say about Abel? To let you know that he was dead. His blood was speaking. The blood of Jesus was perfect. It spoke to God and said that I am going to offer myself up as a sacrifice, a perfect sacrifice, so that I could get rid of the sins of the Gentiles so that when they turn their lives over to you, that they will not have to live that way any longer. Do you not realize? Do you not know that we were on our way to hell and could not get any help? But God made sure that He created a perfect lamb of God to take away the sins of the world. Man, that's powerful. He had to take four plus thousand years to prepare a lamb worthy to take away my sins. Because I was too no good, I was so no good, and I was all no good. And he knew that a bull and a goat could not separate me from my sins. So he sent his perfect lamb, his name is Jesus. He came as Savior and He saved me from my destructive force that was sending me to hell. Somebody need to be rejoicing. Oh, understand that Jesus was the perfect Lamb. And because you were so messed up, don't forget how no good you were. Don't forget. Don't forget how no good you were. Quit acting like, oh now you say you are like, no. Every single day you wake up, you ought to tell God thank you. Every single day you ought to tell Jesus thank you. Every single day you ought to tell the Holy Ghost, lead you and guide you into truth, because you already know that without them working on the inside of you, you will go back to what you came from. And that is what we're seeing today in the lives of church people. They're going backwards and they're worse than they were before they got saved. They're screwing everything. They want it in their air, they want it everywhere they can get it. They are so caught up in their culture and in their flesh, you don't know how messed up you are until you decide to go back into what God called you out of. No. We spent years in a mess. Years in a mess. Years in a mess. Fear. Hopelessness, despair. Until salvation came. And I want you to know that it took years after salvation came for my family to turn. But thank God it was salvation, Theophilus, and not religion, because if it was religion, they would still be caught up in what they were in. Somebody help me here. You need to recognize and realize God called you out of tradition, out of foolishness, so that you can be an example to let them know that if you serve the true and living God, he will reward you. May I say the reward is not only what you get in the natural, it is what's going to take place when he comes back with his reward in his hands. Scripture says at the gate, Jesus will have keys to hell and to paradise. He will say to this group, go here. And he'll say to that group, go there. I pray for you that you don't allow anything from this day forward to deter you from moving forward. Don't let bitterness and resentment and foolishness and hurt and pain why you don't go to church because somebody in church hurts you. How in the hell somebody in church hurt you when you live in a world every single day and you do stupid stuff and your boss hurts you, you still stay on the job, and all your friends hurt you, you still hung, run behind them. And then you want to talk about the church people hurting you. You don't understand why they're there because you were to exhibit the love of God that's supposed to be in your heart, not the hatred that your mom and daddy gave you. Y'all got me stirred up. This is supposed to be teaching. Y'all getting this? Oh my God. Quit blaming people for the foolishness that's inside of you. Deal with the hatred. Why do you think Jesus said what he said? Why do you think Jesus, man, come on? They asked Jesus, Minister Lee, about can they get a divorce? Jesus said, you know what they said in the beginning. Then it got real slick to say, Well, Moses came up with this bill. Jesus said, that was because of the hardness of your heart. But Jesus said, let me tell you something. If you're married and you divorce your wife and you remarried, you commit adultery. Now let's move on. You think Jesus was plain? Jesus was cutthroat. We ain't gonna discuss this. You know you ain't right. You're supposed to be the leaders. How you gonna be the leaders and you telling me that what God hates is okay? You know the last thing God said in the book of Malachi, he says, I hate divorce. Matter of fact, God says, Y'all ain't got so comfortable divorcing your wives. Y'all you married her at a young age, and now she don't have no hips and no lips, and now you want to move on to a younger thing. God says, I hate it. And I'm judging you for the way you treat her. You don't understand what you mean I don't understand. Y'all think God's stupid? Think God don't understand or know what's going on? God came out in Malachi, one of the things he wanted them to know. He says, I'm judging y'all for what you did with your wife.

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What they do in the book of Matthew.

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Come to Jesus, dealing with the same thing Moses dealt with, doing the same thing that Nehemiah dealt with, same thing that uh Malachi is dealing with, same thing Jesus had to deal with, same thing Paul had to deal with. May I say this to you? It ain't never gonna change. Go back to the beginning. One man, one woman. That's only one person to have rights to go inside of a woman. Only one. The only reason why a second person can go inside of a woman is when the first person dies. Your private part, vagina, want me to get streaked? It's only design, it's only designed for one person. And once that one person goes into you, no other person should go into you.

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Get mad. Get mad.

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And God put a seal to prove to you that only one person has the lock. I mean the key to your lock. And you should allow only, hear what I'm about to tell y'all. You should allow only the person that fits you go in you. You ought not be trying to find a fit. You should only let the person that fit you. Not after you married and realize this don't fit too late. I wish I was talking to somebody with some sense. Oh my God, from glory. You'd have already fell up in that hole. So now, oh well, huh? Who I'm married to the first person? Don't come asking me no questions. Read the word and don't answer it for you. Don't come here trying to be slick and smart and try to try to twist me. Y'all acting like them Philistine, not the Philistine Pharisees trying to get with you. Well, Moses told us for fornication. Well, fornication is when you when a woman supposed to be a virgin, and and I gave her daddy a virgin package, and I wind up after I slept with her, wasn't no blood on that on that on that sheet. She wasn't no virgin, she was a whole. I don't want no whole, I want a virgin. Well, God said you went into the whole, you got to keep her. Well, how am I supposed to know she a hoe? Well, you're supposed to go to the daddy who's supposed to be keeping her, making sure she is she a virgin, but you ain't got no daddies in your life, so you can sleep around anybody you want to sleep with. Hello? You 18 years old, 16 years old, 17 years old, talking about you want to control your own life. You ain't got sense enough to walk across the street. How are you gonna control your own life? This is this a teaching of what? Am I preaching or teaching? What am I doing here? I try to help y'all. It's not raw, it's reality. It's what we're facing. We we're caught up in a foolishness. It we're we're right where Israel was. They had walked away from God, thinking what they were doing was right because it was religious and traditional. And they're coming to the Pharisees and the Sadducees coming to Jesus with their stupidity and thinking Jesus was gonna fall for it. Jesus said, I'm gonna give you straight up the law. But I'm gonna give it to you in the grace of God. They caught the woman in the very act of adultery. Yes, a law said she's supposed to get caught. If she got caught, she's supposed to be stoned. But Jesus says, Well, how wait a minute. Let me bow down and see what I got to do with this situation. How come when Jesus got up, wasn't nobody there? I want to know what he wrote in that dirt to run them all off. And the Bible says they had young men and old men. Them buzzards just like throwing rocks. What you doing in somebody else's house and business anyway? How do you know who's sleeping with who? Buzzard. I don't know what they was doing. I can't say that. Y'all can say what y'all want. Scripture don't tell us, so I can't can't try to control it. But Jesus was teaching us about love and forgiveness. The woman who Jesus met at the well had five husbands, and the one she was with wasn't hers. And y'all say she was a whore. Well, maybe she wasn't a whore. Maybe she got herself caught up like uh Jacob's daughter-in-law. Husband kept dying, and Jacob promised the last son, and last son grows up, he wouldn't give the last boy to her. So she went and put some clothes on and act like a whore and suckered him. And said, You should have gave me that last boy. Maybe all of the husbands before died, the brothers died. You don't know because you don't know scripture.

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Because she was saying she loved God.

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She was not discredited, ministerly, in the community. Because when she went back and told the people, she says, I found the man that told me all about myself. The whole community of men went and found Jesus. And they said, We came, we heard what she said, but we came to witness for ourselves. And they were convinced that she wasn't a whore, she was a woman who was honoring the laws of her great-great-grandfather Jacob. And you know he was a slickster. She said, Is this the one, the mountain we should worship? Why did she ask that question? Because when uh Solomon died, he had a son that did not do right and did not honor the wishes of the people. And as a result, the kingdom was split. Ten went to Israel, two went to Judah, and now Israel says, We don't want y'all to go to Jerusalem because y'all are gonna start liking that and staying. Y'all know how church people get. If you go visit somebody church, you're gonna like it and not come back home. He said, Look, I'm gonna build a God over here and a God over there, and y'all can go into that, go there, but don't y'all go down south. And now for 800 plus years, they're trying to figure out no, it was more than that. Well, yeah, about David Thomson. They're trying to figure out which whose mouth and where we should worship. We should worship in spirit and truth. You should lift your hands when you pray. You should lift your hands when you uh praise. You should be able to go to church and clap your hands. You should be able to go to church and dance. But when I went to church, you couldn't clap and you couldn't dance. And you certainly couldn't sing like black people. Because everything we did was wrong and everything they did was right. And about listening. But in my heart, I don't dance anyway, so it wasn't no big issue with me. But then there were those of us who knows how to dance, and those of us who know how to clap our hands and do what we do. We make music with our hands, but they said you can't use your hands when you worship God here. We've been deceived and lied to, and we believe it, and now you're trying to act like another culture, it don't fit us. He gave us the revelation. We're supposed to be teaching everybody how to do it. They may not like you, but do it anyway. Clap your hands. Clap your hands, how'd that go? How Psalm 47 turn to it. Clap your hands, who? How many people? So does that include me, you, white, black, green, yellow, red? All means all. So while we can't clap, when he said, clap your hands, all you people, then he said something else. Shout under who? Shout under God. How come we got to be quiet? How come we can't shout? We allow so much to take place. That's why we have to teach the word of God till people get it in their hearts. You're not worshiping God in spirit and in truth. God don't come visit what you're saying and doing because you don't even know how to worship God in spirit and truth. Because everything that you've been taught is to erase what God said to do.

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Anybody listening?

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Jesus was rough. He said to those church people, y'all gonna go to the lake of fire. Y'all gonna go down there where there's gnashing the teeth. Y'all go into darkness. There are different compartments of hell. Hell is a temporary place. If you die now and you don't know Jesus, you go to hell. When God comes to judge it all, you're gonna end up in the lake of fire. There are angelical creatures in a place called prison or in darkness. There's Gehenna, places that you don't know anything about because they didn't teach it to you in Sunday school. And you don't study. If you study all of the components of compartments of hell, you would straighten up. Mama says, straighten up. Oh, y'all must have had the same mama then. Straighten up and fly right. You would have the reverence of God, that's the honor and the respect, and the fear of God. Because you don't want to go. In the book of Luke, chapter 16, the rich man and Lazarus. I don't know what you think about that. But Lazarus was called Abraham father. I believe Abraham called him son.

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Read it.

SPEAKER_03 46:38

So that meant this rich man. If I said Lazarus, I'm not the rich man. The rich man knew a relationship, but he walked away. He knew that God says, what do he called Abraham? They called him Father Abraham. See what Abraham responded to him as you're going to see the word son, I believe. He called him Father Abraham. So he knew that as a rich person, he was supposed to feed the poor. Because that's what God says. You go around, you don't want to do nothing to help nobody but yourself. You can't make it in. God bless you. You can't even help nobody. I seek opportunities to be a blessing. But go to breakfast in the morning. There's a little young lady selling cookies. I give her money out of my pocket. I don't want the cookies. I just want to say, keep on keeping on. I go places of voice to say, give this one to this one, give this one to that one. I don't know these people. I don't even want to know them. I just want to do what God said and keep on going. I don't even want to hear thanks. Because it's not me, it's God. Wouldn't it be a tragedy for you to have been blessed and privileged and didn't feed nobody? Didn't help nobody? And God says there's a responsibility that you have towards the poor and you refuse to honor God and you want a place in heaven. Anybody listening? I want you to understand we're living in a time today where we're in trouble with God. We're turning our backs on God. We're doing what pleases us and not what pleases him. We're not studying what God hates, and we're not doing what uh uh what the word of God says. We're doing what we think we should do. Too many of us are operating from our iniquitous culture. Notice I said culture this time. Because it was what your parents put on you, the lie they told you. Mama told me there were some words that was bad, and I read the words in the word. I'm like, if that was bad, how come it's in the book, in the book? Anybody listening? You need to teach the truth. There's a there's somewhere in in Matthew 7. I'm trying to find it. He look at verse 15. I mean, yeah, Matthew 7, 15. Matthew 7, 15. He says, beware of what? What kind of prophets? Let me say that again. What kind of prophets? Jesus says, I want y'all to do something. I want you to beware of prophets. What kind he says? False prophets. How they coming? How they coming? They're coming with church clothes on. Michael chapter 3, verse 5. Michael chapter 3, verse 5, he says, So thus said the Lord concerning the prophets that make my people error. That bite with their teeth and cry. Peace, and he that put it not into their mouth. They even prepare war against them. In other words, there's some prophets that make people err. They go around calling themselves prophets, but they're false. But inwardly they are where is inwardly, that's where your heart is, huh? Ye shall know them by their fruit. You read the rest of that, you'll find how powerful that is. Many will say to who? Many will say to me in that day. What will they say? Have we not what? Have we not what? Cast out devils? And in thy name did what? How can you do all of these things in the name of God? You want to know why these people are so twisted? Jesus says, You did it in my name. Then what I what? I never approve of you. I never knew you. Never had an intimate. You mean to tell me there are people that could do all these things that Jesus don't approve? Here's my here's where I am today, standing before you. And I've done so many things. So many, so much, I can't even begin to tell you.

SPEAKER_00 52:24

It would for God to tell me I never frightened me. I spent all my life doing this. Touched and went all over and suffered. And for God to tell me I never approved of what you did. It frightens me. Don't take this lightly.

SPEAKER_03 53:14

Don't play with this. Because it's not about what I've accomplished in the natural, it's about me making it in. Jesus told them in Matthew chapter 10, they came running back saying we did this, that, and the other. Jesus says, Y'all excited over the wrong thing. He says, All I want to know is that your name is written in the book. You could tell me all the stuff you did, but was your name written in the book? He says, Depart, depart, depart. The foolish shall not stand in thy sight. Thou hatest all workers of iniquity. You can do that foolish stop thinking God don't see it. Depart from me all ye workers of iniquity, for the Lord has heard the voice of my weeping.

SPEAKER_00 54:31

I don't want God to say to me, depart from me because in my nature I refuse to deal with my evil.

SPEAKER_03 55:01

Depart from me. You worked lawlessness. You didn't follow none of the rules. Did what was right in your own eyes, and you said I was giving you permission to do it. Therefore, whosoever heareth these saints of mine and do it them, I will liken him unto what? What kind of man? A wise man. That's the kind of man God knows I want to be. A wise man. You read the rest of that. It's a powerful statement. Jesus says, Depart. I wonder where they went if they departed from Jesus. I wonder where you go when you die. Don't tell me your title. Don't tell me what you did. I'm not your judge. But if you don't deal with, how can you be a homosexual preacher? How can you be a hoised preacher with all that iniquitous nature inside of you, and you won't deal with you, and you want to tell me how to deal with me? Stand on your feet. Koloban de Setebraka. Those of you that's watching, I trust and pray that we said something today that touched you, that convicted you. I trust and pray that you recognize and realize that God is coming, Jesus is coming back. And I want to prepare you. I would hate for you to have to be all your life in church doing what you wanted to do, and God never approved of you. Because you had something in your heart you would not, the hatred in your heart, the unforgiveness in your heart. You died of cancer because you wouldn't have to deal with the unforgiveness. Oh, somebody help me up in here. You had physical conditions that was a result of physical sins that you would never deal with, and now you're about to leave this earth. And not why you think God makes sure you call the people before you die, the people you've been holding on to in your life. He allows you to get that right so you can go up to be with him. You need to get that stuff right before the sickness comes. You need to get that stuff right before the cancer comes. You need to get yourself right before the diseases come. You need to get yourself right, deal with your own iniquitous nature, all the foolishness that your parents put on you. Get rid of it. You need to deal with yourself today. I'm begging you to deal with your heart. If you don't know Jesus, right now I'm saying, Jesus, come into my life, cleanse me from all of my sins and make me a child of God. I surrender my ways, my heart, my life to you today. Don't just confess with your mouth, but I want you to believe it in your heart because you can say something with your mouth, but your heart be so far from it. Do it, repent, turn from it so that God can help you get through. You cannot preach when you won't straighten up. You cannot preach when you're living an iniquitous nature. Sleeping with children. You can't preach. Can't preach when you're sleeping with everybody's wife. You can't preach. Deal with yourself. Let the Lord help you. God will forgive you of all your sins. He'll forgive us all of all of our sins. You can't be a hypocritical preacher. If you can't live it, don't preach it. Sit down until you get it right. Don't play with it because God sees everything. And if you're not following the laws, it's not Old Testament. It's the law of God that was there before the Old Testament. God gave the rules and the regulations. We must follow them. Paul speaks in the book of Romans about the laws of God that's in our heart. Jeremiah prophesied that God was going to give us the laws in our hearts. The laws belong in your heart, not on a piece of wood. Therefore, before you ever do anything, there'd be a witness in you. A still small voice that will guide you until you don't do it. Quit ignoring the voice of God. My sheep hear my voice. You won't hear God's voice. How do you expect to go to heaven? Father, in the name of Jesus. There is no other name greater than the name of Jesus. There's no name that can cleanse me but Jesus. There's no name that can wash me but Jesus. There's no name that can grant me permission to stand before the Father but the name of Jesus. And Father, I pray today in the mighty name of Jesus. And I thank Jesus for saving my soul. I thank Jesus for cleansing me. I thank Jesus for giving me access to the will of God. And Father, I desire to do your will and your will only. It's written of me, I came to do your will, Father. And I thank you. Lead me, Holy Spirit, and guide me into truth. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen. Amen. Come on, give the Lord a hand. Those of you that's watching all around the world. Those of you that's in this room, tell God thank you. Amen. Those of you that want to sow right now, go right now to my Cash App. Chief Lucas, all around the world. I want you to sow. The words that you heard today are powerful words. I want you to sow. Amen. Go to my Cash App right now. That is.