WEBVTT 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:06.959 When the Lord delivered this message to me, I say, wait a minute, Lord, this is not for me. 00:00:07.839 --> 00:00:11.839 Why are you giving me this message to deliver? 00:00:13.919 --> 00:00:21.359 Two weeks went by, pastor started preaching on transformation, and I say, uh-huh. 00:00:22.320 --> 00:00:24.000 Now I know why. 00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:27.920 Now I know why you're giving me this message. 00:00:28.320 --> 00:00:32.000 You know, and it started to make sense, you know. 00:00:32.560 --> 00:00:34.240 And let me tell you something, man. 00:00:34.880 --> 00:00:37.520 It's been 27 parts of this message. 00:00:37.759 --> 00:00:39.439 27 parts. 00:00:39.679 --> 00:00:46.560 And I've been receiving on each and every one of these parts, for part number one all the way to part number 27. 00:00:46.880 --> 00:00:49.920 But I'm gonna tell you something, brothers and sisters. 00:00:50.320 --> 00:00:51.840 I don't know why. 00:00:52.320 --> 00:00:56.479 But part 23, part 24, they got to me. 00:00:57.679 --> 00:01:01.840 They got to me, and they got to me at the right moment, at the right time. 00:01:05.280 --> 00:01:26.319 I've been dealing with something that for the last six months, and the Lord finally delivered that message on part 23 and part 24, and sometimes we don't like it when the Lord starts to pull your ears, and we don't like it. 00:01:26.480 --> 00:01:31.599 I don't like it, but I have to accept it. 00:01:31.680 --> 00:01:37.439 It's from Him, it's from the Lord, it's coming straight from heaven, and I'm gonna tell you something, brothers and sisters. 00:01:37.599 --> 00:01:43.840 This message, get ready, get ready to rumble, like they used to say on boxing. 00:01:44.079 --> 00:01:47.040 Let's get ready to rumble, amen. 00:01:47.280 --> 00:01:51.840 I remember the old days, the old 15-round boxing fires. 00:01:52.319 --> 00:01:56.560 Jimmy Lennon, let's get ready to rumble, amen. 00:01:57.280 --> 00:02:02.719 And uh, I'm gonna do something. 00:02:02.959 --> 00:02:07.040 I don't preach cotton candy gospel. 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:08.560 Amen. 00:02:08.719 --> 00:02:09.439 So get ready. 00:02:09.599 --> 00:02:11.599 I hope you're wearing your helmets. 00:02:12.639 --> 00:02:12.960 Okay? 00:02:13.439 --> 00:02:19.759 Because God has a lot of things to say about you and to you, amen, sister. 00:02:20.400 --> 00:02:21.599 I mean, let's let's pray. 00:02:21.759 --> 00:02:22.879 Let's pray. 00:02:23.919 --> 00:02:34.000 Heavenly Father, I give you all the honor and all the glory, and I give you thanks for the privilege of delivering this message. 00:02:35.120 --> 00:02:39.439 You know, I thank you from the bottom of my heart. 00:02:39.840 --> 00:02:47.919 Because before it's applied to any of my brothers and sisters, it needs to be applied to me. 00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:56.719 You hit me with this message, and you humble me once again. 00:02:58.319 --> 00:02:59.599 I thank you for that. 00:02:59.759 --> 00:03:05.520 I ask you that your Holy Spirit will take control of this preaching, Father God. 00:03:05.840 --> 00:03:12.000 Let your work fall in good ground and be fruitful and multiply, and multiply for your honor and glory. 00:03:12.240 --> 00:03:22.960 Open the hearts, open the minds, open the spirits, and let your work penetrate, because the Bible says that you work sharpened and a two-edged sword, Father God. 00:03:23.120 --> 00:03:30.800 And it always accomplished what you send it for, and it never returns boy, never returns boy. 00:03:31.520 --> 00:03:34.080 It always accomplished what you send it for. 00:03:34.800 --> 00:03:43.520 And I pray in the sweet name of Jesus, Jesus, that is sitting at your right hand with our power, with all honor, and with all majesty. 00:03:43.919 --> 00:03:45.680 In Jesus' name I pray. 00:03:45.919 --> 00:03:47.520 Amen and amen. 00:03:48.719 --> 00:03:51.840 Okay, sister, are you ready? 00:03:52.800 --> 00:03:55.759 Okay, let's go to the scripture. 00:03:57.039 --> 00:04:00.240 Let's go to the book of Acts, chapter 17. 00:04:03.360 --> 00:04:05.120 Acts chapter 17. 00:04:05.360 --> 00:04:07.280 Put it on the screen, sister. 00:04:10.159 --> 00:04:10.800 Amen. 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:15.280 If you have it, if you're taking notes, pay attention. 00:04:15.759 --> 00:04:18.879 I'm gonna tell you something before I read the scripture. 00:04:19.199 --> 00:04:19.759 Amen. 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:21.759 Acts chapter 17. 00:04:23.759 --> 00:04:37.279 We're gonna start with verse one, and just like I tell the my disciple, or not my disciple, Jesus discipleship class that I used I was teaching on Thursday. 00:04:38.800 --> 00:04:46.160 Lend me your ears, use you hyper hearing. 00:04:47.839 --> 00:04:49.839 Some of you are like, What? 00:04:51.360 --> 00:04:54.079 You didn't know that we have hyperhearing? 00:04:54.399 --> 00:04:56.160 I'm gonna explain it to you. 00:04:56.480 --> 00:05:02.639 When the Bible says, barely, barely, truly, truly, oh, behold, listen. 00:05:03.120 --> 00:05:05.279 There's parts in the Bible where it says that. 00:05:05.439 --> 00:05:07.199 That's hyperhearing. 00:05:07.519 --> 00:05:10.560 Jesus is trying to grab your attention. 00:05:10.800 --> 00:05:15.680 He's trying, he's getting ready to tell you something that you need to hear. 00:05:16.319 --> 00:05:27.279 Hyperhearing is when he comes in one ear or the other, and instead of going out the other ear, he goes down into your heart first. 00:05:28.480 --> 00:05:35.519 And your heart receives it and starts to digest it, even though it's not a stomach. 00:05:36.560 --> 00:05:46.480 But it starts to digest that information and then diagnose the information and then he sends it to your brain. 00:05:47.040 --> 00:05:56.079 And then you start to meditate on it, and then you start saying, Now I understand why Jesus is trying to speak to me. 00:05:56.319 --> 00:05:59.439 That is hyperhearing. 00:06:00.319 --> 00:06:02.240 Pay attention to the Lord. 00:06:02.560 --> 00:06:07.920 How many times you're reading and reading the Bible and it doesn't make sense? 00:06:08.480 --> 00:06:16.879 And then all of a sudden, one night or during the day, I don't know what time you guys read the Bible and it jumps at you. 00:06:17.040 --> 00:06:19.839 The scripture just, you know why? 00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:23.519 Because you were using your hyperhearing. 00:06:23.759 --> 00:06:28.800 You were really, really paying attention to the word of God. 00:06:29.360 --> 00:06:34.079 You need to pay attention to our Lord Jesus Christ all the time. 00:06:34.560 --> 00:06:35.680 Pay attention. 00:06:35.920 --> 00:06:43.680 He's trying to speak to your heart the same way he speaks to my heart, same way to speak to Pastor, same way to speak to my brother David. 00:06:45.360 --> 00:06:46.879 We are not special. 00:06:47.439 --> 00:06:48.079 You are. 00:06:48.639 --> 00:06:49.839 You are the house of God. 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:50.879 You are God's people. 00:06:51.120 --> 00:06:51.759 Amen. 00:06:52.639 --> 00:06:56.720 Let's go to the book of Acts, chapter 17, starting with verse 1. 00:06:59.439 --> 00:07:06.160 The book of Acts is right after the last gospel, which is Luke. 00:07:06.800 --> 00:07:09.439 Man, this wind is just bothering me. 00:07:15.439 --> 00:07:17.920 Now, this is the apostle Paul, amen. 00:07:18.800 --> 00:07:19.839 Let's start reading. 00:07:19.920 --> 00:07:21.920 The word of God read as follows. 00:07:22.319 --> 00:07:32.879 Now, when they had passed through Amyopolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. 00:07:33.600 --> 00:08:01.519 Then Paulus, then Paul, as his custom was, went into them and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the scriptures, explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, This Jesus whom I preach to you is the Christ, is the anointed one. 00:08:02.079 --> 00:08:12.560 And some of them were persuaded, and a great multitude of the devout Greeks, and not a few of the leading women, joined Paul and Silas. 00:08:13.040 --> 00:08:14.319 But now listen to this. 00:08:14.480 --> 00:08:15.040 Here we go. 00:08:15.120 --> 00:08:17.680 There's always some a fly on the milk. 00:08:18.319 --> 00:08:39.600 But the Jews were not persuaded, becoming envious, took some of the evil men from the marketplace and gathering them off, set all the city in an uproar, and attacked the house of Jason and sought to bring them out to the people. 00:08:40.240 --> 00:08:46.799 But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some brethren to the rulers of the city. 00:08:47.279 --> 00:08:58.240 Crying out, these who have turned the world, listen to this, upside down have come here too. 00:08:58.879 --> 00:09:11.919 Jason has harbored them, and these are all acting contrary to the degrees of Caesar, saying there is another king, Jesus. 00:09:12.639 --> 00:09:13.200 Amen. 00:09:13.360 --> 00:09:17.519 Let's go back to verse 6 at the very end. 00:09:18.159 --> 00:09:25.039 These who have turned the world upside down have come here too. 00:09:26.799 --> 00:09:31.840 The world upside down, the world is already as always been upside down. 00:09:32.960 --> 00:09:34.559 There's no news for me. 00:09:35.519 --> 00:09:39.360 You were upside down at one time or another one. 00:09:39.600 --> 00:09:41.279 I was upside down. 00:09:43.360 --> 00:09:51.519 Everybody in this room, I mean, you were not came from the womb being a born-again Christian. 00:09:52.879 --> 00:09:56.799 Only one did that, and that's our Lord Jesus Christ. 00:09:57.440 --> 00:09:59.600 We are one point or another one. 00:09:59.759 --> 00:10:01.840 What we are been upside down. 00:10:04.240 --> 00:10:08.240 But aren't you glad that now we are put it on the board, sister? 00:10:08.399 --> 00:10:10.639 This is the title for this preaching. 00:10:12.000 --> 00:10:15.519 We are the rise up. 00:10:16.960 --> 00:10:18.240 Rise side up. 00:10:18.480 --> 00:10:20.480 Be thankful to the Lord Jesus Christ. 00:10:20.639 --> 00:10:22.159 Now we are rise out. 00:10:23.919 --> 00:10:26.399 We are rise up. 00:10:27.440 --> 00:10:28.879 We are born again. 00:10:29.039 --> 00:10:32.960 I hope that everybody in this sanctuary is a born-again Christian. 00:10:33.519 --> 00:10:38.159 I hope everybody here has accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. 00:10:38.320 --> 00:10:43.759 If you have not, you have a chance at the end of the service to accept Jesus into your heart. 00:10:44.320 --> 00:10:48.000 But be thankful to the Lord that we are right side up. 00:10:48.320 --> 00:10:48.960 Amen. 00:10:49.759 --> 00:10:53.600 Now, what does it take to be right side up? 00:10:53.840 --> 00:10:56.960 I'm gonna be preaching to you kind of questions. 00:10:57.440 --> 00:10:58.080 Amen. 00:10:58.480 --> 00:11:04.240 Pastor has been preaching about transformation for the last 27 weeks. 00:11:05.120 --> 00:11:08.159 You know, and some of you guys don't like it. 00:11:09.120 --> 00:11:11.279 He is taking too long. 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:12.960 No, he's not. 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:17.360 He's doing what the good Lord Jesus Christ is telling him to do. 00:11:18.960 --> 00:11:19.759 You know why? 00:11:19.919 --> 00:11:23.360 Because Jesus knows your heart and Jesus knows my heart. 00:11:23.440 --> 00:11:24.720 Just like I was saying earlier. 00:11:24.879 --> 00:11:27.679 Finally, part 23 and part 24 got me. 00:11:28.879 --> 00:11:37.279 And even though I've been at right side up for the last 37 years this December, sometimes I need to be refreshed. 00:11:37.919 --> 00:11:49.120 Sometimes I need to be told what to do by my Lord Jesus Christ, and He uses Pastor and everybody that preaches from this pulpit. 00:11:49.279 --> 00:11:51.039 I'm gonna tell you something. 00:11:51.360 --> 00:11:53.279 Thank you, Holy Spirit. 00:11:55.279 --> 00:11:59.120 You are always gonna hear the truth from this pulpit. 00:11:59.440 --> 00:12:05.440 It doesn't matter if it's Pastor Emmanuel, most of the time, Pastor Manuel or Brother David or myself. 00:12:05.919 --> 00:12:09.600 You know, you're always gonna hear the truth from us. 00:12:09.840 --> 00:12:12.159 We're not gonna sugarcoat it for you. 00:12:12.480 --> 00:12:16.720 This is a story that you probably heard, but I'm gonna tell it to you, like my friend. 00:12:16.879 --> 00:12:18.000 Tell it to me. 00:12:18.320 --> 00:12:20.639 Used to say, I'm gonna tell it to you. 00:12:21.360 --> 00:12:21.919 Amen. 00:12:22.159 --> 00:12:31.279 This is story, man, it's getting quiet already, and I'm not even halfway through the through the preaching. 00:12:31.679 --> 00:12:39.360 This is story that the truth and the lie encountered each other on the road. 00:12:39.759 --> 00:12:42.000 And they started walking together, brother. 00:12:42.240 --> 00:12:44.799 Started what the truth and the lie started to walk together. 00:12:44.879 --> 00:12:45.360 Is that right? 00:12:45.519 --> 00:12:46.320 Doesn't make sense, right? 00:12:46.399 --> 00:12:48.159 How can truth and the lie walk together? 00:12:48.320 --> 00:12:51.519 But they were walking together for the sake of the preaching. 00:12:51.759 --> 00:12:55.519 They were walking together, and the lie tells the truth. 00:12:55.840 --> 00:12:59.279 Hey man, it's a beautiful day, right? 00:13:00.399 --> 00:13:05.679 And the truth, man, the birds are singing. 00:13:06.159 --> 00:13:09.919 It's not a hundred and something degrees, it's about eighty something. 00:13:10.240 --> 00:13:13.200 You know, they they were not walking in Texas, okay? 00:13:13.279 --> 00:13:15.600 They were probably somewhere, somewhere else, amen. 00:13:15.840 --> 00:13:17.360 Hawaii or whatever. 00:13:17.679 --> 00:13:21.039 And the truth says, you know what? 00:13:21.360 --> 00:13:23.200 The light is correct. 00:13:23.919 --> 00:13:24.320 Right? 00:13:24.559 --> 00:13:25.440 Man, yeah, look. 00:13:25.759 --> 00:13:28.480 The light says, it's a beautiful day. 00:13:28.559 --> 00:13:29.679 Look what's going on, everything. 00:13:29.759 --> 00:13:31.200 And the truth goes, Yeah, you're right. 00:13:31.279 --> 00:13:32.399 And they started walking. 00:13:32.639 --> 00:13:39.440 They got to this little lake, and the lie touched the water. 00:13:39.679 --> 00:13:42.799 And he says, Oh man, water feels good. 00:13:44.080 --> 00:13:47.759 Man, yeah, fresh, cool. 00:13:48.480 --> 00:13:54.000 And the lie takes off the clothes, jumps into the water, right? 00:13:54.240 --> 00:13:56.559 And starts jump, you know, swimming on the water. 00:13:56.799 --> 00:13:58.799 Turns around, backs through, you know. 00:14:00.080 --> 00:14:03.200 Hey, truth, come on, join me. 00:14:03.519 --> 00:14:11.200 The water is awesome, and the truth is at the shore, and the truth goes, you know what? 00:14:16.879 --> 00:14:18.159 Yeah, the water is good. 00:14:18.320 --> 00:14:19.440 This beautiful day. 00:14:19.600 --> 00:14:22.399 So the truth got undressed. 00:14:22.559 --> 00:14:24.159 You heard the story already, brother? 00:14:24.320 --> 00:14:24.639 Okay. 00:14:25.600 --> 00:14:31.120 And the the truth got undressed and everything, and jumps in the water and starts swimming too, you know. 00:14:32.559 --> 00:14:36.399 Catches up to the lie, and the lie goes, okay, I got you. 00:14:36.559 --> 00:14:40.000 And the lie starts, the lie starts to swim back to the shore. 00:14:42.000 --> 00:14:43.679 Gets up the water. 00:14:44.639 --> 00:14:52.879 He looks at the clothes of truth, grab the clothes, and starts getting dressed with the truth. 00:14:53.200 --> 00:14:54.960 And he walks away. 00:14:56.240 --> 00:15:00.159 And the truth is like, hey, wait a minute. 00:15:00.399 --> 00:15:01.360 What's going on? 00:15:01.519 --> 00:15:03.120 You're leaving me here. 00:15:03.440 --> 00:15:07.519 So finally, the truth makes it back to the shore. 00:15:08.639 --> 00:15:10.639 She gets out of the water. 00:15:12.399 --> 00:15:15.519 I say, ma'am, the lie took my clothes. 00:15:16.879 --> 00:15:18.960 And the truth says, you know what? 00:15:21.200 --> 00:15:22.720 I just walk naked. 00:15:24.480 --> 00:15:26.080 What's the point of the story? 00:15:26.480 --> 00:15:37.679 It's always you're always better out by telling a naked truth than to tell a lies that is clothed with the truth. 00:15:38.639 --> 00:15:40.000 Always the naked truth. 00:15:40.080 --> 00:15:42.399 And you're always gonna hear that from this pulpit. 00:15:42.480 --> 00:15:42.879 Amen. 00:15:44.159 --> 00:15:50.320 My next question to you for those that are taking notes, write it down, sister. 00:15:53.440 --> 00:15:59.519 And then my next question to you is how transformation happens. 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:03.679 Pastor, you've been preaching for 27 weeks about transformation. 00:16:03.919 --> 00:16:05.919 How does transformation happen? 00:16:06.159 --> 00:16:08.720 What happens to you before you were saved? 00:16:09.120 --> 00:16:11.279 Somebody told you about Jesus, right? 00:16:11.519 --> 00:16:13.039 You have to preach it. 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:15.440 You have to preach it. 00:16:15.679 --> 00:16:16.639 Preach it. 00:16:18.480 --> 00:16:20.639 Tell people about Jesus. 00:16:20.879 --> 00:16:22.000 There's you know what? 00:16:22.159 --> 00:16:24.000 There's a dying world out there. 00:16:25.120 --> 00:16:27.200 The world out there is dying. 00:16:27.440 --> 00:16:30.480 And it's dying because the world has a disease. 00:16:30.799 --> 00:16:33.279 And that disease is called sin. 00:16:35.840 --> 00:16:40.960 And we, the Christians, we are supposed to have the cure. 00:16:42.320 --> 00:16:45.440 But we are ashamed of the gospel sometimes. 00:16:45.679 --> 00:16:46.879 I'm not ashamed. 00:16:47.120 --> 00:16:48.480 Ask my wife. 00:16:50.799 --> 00:16:52.399 We have the cure. 00:16:52.799 --> 00:16:54.480 And his name is Jesus. 00:16:55.360 --> 00:17:01.919 If you want people to start to transform, to transform from darkness to light, you have to preach it. 00:17:02.399 --> 00:17:04.480 Tell them about Jesus. 00:17:05.440 --> 00:17:07.119 I'm always preaching the gospel. 00:17:07.279 --> 00:17:11.759 Doesn't matter if I'm H E V Walmart, Costco, everywhere on the streets. 00:17:11.839 --> 00:17:14.240 I'm I hit people with the Lord. 00:17:16.079 --> 00:17:16.720 You know? 00:17:16.960 --> 00:17:17.519 Preach it. 00:17:17.599 --> 00:17:19.440 Don't be ashamed of the gospel. 00:17:19.759 --> 00:17:21.920 Oh no, what are they gonna say about me? 00:17:22.079 --> 00:17:23.279 Don't worry. 00:17:24.640 --> 00:17:29.119 Man, start a service at Walmart. 00:17:30.240 --> 00:17:32.240 It happens to me one time. 00:17:32.720 --> 00:17:35.279 And here comes what it looks like a manager. 00:17:35.440 --> 00:17:37.279 And I go, Oh, here we go. 00:17:38.079 --> 00:17:39.519 I was I don't care. 00:17:39.680 --> 00:17:41.119 I make him join. 00:17:41.359 --> 00:17:46.319 He comes out, he gets next to me, and he goes, Brother, keep on doing it. 00:17:46.559 --> 00:17:47.920 Thank you, Jesus. 00:17:48.559 --> 00:17:50.799 I had like I started with one guy. 00:17:50.960 --> 00:17:53.359 Actually, it was a friend of mine that I haven't seen in years. 00:17:53.599 --> 00:17:54.720 Name is Roland. 00:17:54.880 --> 00:17:59.440 We started talking and he's just as loud as I am, even maybe even louder. 00:18:00.559 --> 00:18:05.440 And we started talking about Jesus, and all of a sudden another brother joined in, and yeah, yeah, and all them. 00:18:05.519 --> 00:18:12.240 And there's some people just were there listening to what we were saying about the Lord, and all of a sudden we had like five or six people around us. 00:18:12.480 --> 00:18:14.000 Don't be ashamed of the gospel. 00:18:14.079 --> 00:18:17.359 Those people needed to be transformed, those people need to hear the gospel. 00:18:17.519 --> 00:18:22.880 The world is dying from sin, and we have the cure for it. 00:18:23.119 --> 00:18:23.759 Amen. 00:18:24.640 --> 00:18:29.359 What else do you need to do for transformation to happen? 00:18:31.039 --> 00:18:37.759 What is the first thing that we need to do in order for transformation to take place? 00:18:39.279 --> 00:18:45.680 It's called, and I know you don't want to hear it, it's called repentance. 00:18:46.480 --> 00:18:58.640 And I know what you're saying, but I've been saved for five years, but myself, I'm gonna turn 37 years this December 13th. 00:18:58.880 --> 00:19:01.680 37 years, but you know what? 00:19:01.839 --> 00:19:04.000 There's times that I need to repent. 00:19:04.640 --> 00:19:06.319 I'm not without sin. 00:19:08.400 --> 00:19:13.039 You know, things happen in my life, things happen in your life. 00:19:13.119 --> 00:19:14.319 You need to repent. 00:19:14.559 --> 00:19:17.599 Some of us need to repent every every day. 00:19:17.920 --> 00:19:18.400 Amen. 00:19:18.640 --> 00:19:19.279 Repentance. 00:19:19.440 --> 00:19:22.079 Now, we've got to Matthew chapter 4. 00:19:22.240 --> 00:19:27.519 I know you don't have it in your on the notes, sister, but I have it in my Bible. 00:19:28.559 --> 00:19:29.200 Amen. 00:19:29.920 --> 00:19:32.559 Matthew chapter 4, and some of you are familiar. 00:19:32.960 --> 00:19:37.200 You're already thinking, you're saying, oh, I know where he's going to. 00:19:37.920 --> 00:19:44.480 Chapter 4 of Matthew talks about Jesus being in the desert for 40 days and 40 nights, right? 00:19:46.000 --> 00:19:48.240 Tempted by Satan. 00:19:49.680 --> 00:19:50.319 Right? 00:19:50.559 --> 00:19:53.039 But I'm not gonna have focus on that. 00:19:53.359 --> 00:19:55.759 Listen to what Jesus says. 00:19:56.640 --> 00:20:04.160 But after being in the wilderness for 40 days and 40 nights, gets out of the wilderness, and let's see what the Bible says. 00:20:04.400 --> 00:20:08.240 I'm gonna start reading for verse 13. 00:20:09.440 --> 00:20:26.160 And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the regions of Sebalum and Ethtali, that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying. 00:20:26.880 --> 00:20:31.519 Verse 15, the land of Sebalon, oh, here we go that way. 00:20:33.839 --> 00:20:46.880 The land of Sebalon and the nine of Neptali, by the way, see beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles, Galilee of the Gentiles, just like you and I, Gentiles. 00:20:48.319 --> 00:20:53.599 The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light. 00:20:54.240 --> 00:21:00.799 And upon those who sat in the region and shadow of death, life has down. 00:21:03.519 --> 00:21:07.839 From that time, Jesus began to what? 00:21:08.640 --> 00:21:09.839 To preach. 00:21:10.240 --> 00:21:11.599 You have it in your Bible. 00:21:11.759 --> 00:21:14.400 I'm using the New King James Version. 00:21:14.720 --> 00:21:18.160 From that time, Jesus began to preach and to say. 00:21:54.000 --> 00:21:55.759 Matthew chapter 4. 00:21:56.079 --> 00:21:58.640 Repent were the first words of Jesus. 00:21:58.880 --> 00:21:59.440 Repent. 00:22:00.960 --> 00:22:03.039 He didn't say something else. 00:22:03.279 --> 00:22:06.319 He didn't say take it easy, son. 00:22:06.720 --> 00:22:07.039 No. 00:22:07.279 --> 00:22:10.960 He said repent because that's the first thing that you need to do. 00:22:11.599 --> 00:22:15.119 In order for transformation to happen, you have to repent. 00:22:16.079 --> 00:22:18.480 And you're probably saying repent from what? 00:22:18.640 --> 00:22:19.359 From sin. 00:22:20.319 --> 00:22:21.519 But I am saved. 00:22:21.680 --> 00:22:27.119 I know you're saved, but some of you guys, some of us, sometimes become carnal Christians. 00:22:29.519 --> 00:22:33.039 We want to hear what we want to hear. 00:22:33.359 --> 00:22:37.119 We don't want nobody to tell us what we're doing wrong. 00:22:37.440 --> 00:22:37.759 No. 00:22:38.960 --> 00:22:45.119 I don't go to church every Sunday for Brother Camilo to tell me what I'm doing wrong. 00:22:45.200 --> 00:22:47.359 I'm not telling you that you're doing wrong. 00:22:47.599 --> 00:22:48.240 He is. 00:22:49.200 --> 00:22:51.839 You know exactly what's in your heart. 00:22:52.400 --> 00:22:55.759 I do not live with you 24 hours a day. 00:22:56.079 --> 00:22:58.720 I'm not with you every second of your life. 00:22:58.960 --> 00:23:01.680 But your wife is, your husband is. 00:23:02.720 --> 00:23:04.559 My wife lives with me. 00:23:05.359 --> 00:23:06.559 She knows. 00:23:08.000 --> 00:23:09.680 But Jesus knows. 00:23:10.079 --> 00:23:13.039 There's a lot of things that we sometimes take it for granted. 00:23:13.200 --> 00:23:15.279 We do repent, we don't repent from. 00:23:16.559 --> 00:23:20.240 When I got saved, first thing that I repent from drinking. 00:23:21.759 --> 00:23:23.119 That was the first thing. 00:23:23.279 --> 00:23:23.920 No problem. 00:23:24.640 --> 00:23:26.240 Smoking, I never smoked. 00:23:26.319 --> 00:23:29.279 Well, I did try to smoke when I was 10 years old. 00:23:31.359 --> 00:23:32.640 Why are you laughing? 00:23:32.880 --> 00:23:35.279 You didn't try to smoke when you were 10 years old? 00:23:35.759 --> 00:23:36.640 No, sister? 00:23:37.440 --> 00:23:38.000 Are you sure? 00:23:38.160 --> 00:23:39.680 Brother, is that true? 00:23:42.559 --> 00:23:44.960 Oh, maybe she hasn't confessed to you that. 00:23:45.759 --> 00:23:48.880 Yeah, I tried to smoke when I was 10 years old. 00:23:49.039 --> 00:23:51.039 Don't be surprised, granddaughter. 00:23:51.920 --> 00:23:53.759 I tried to smoke. 00:23:54.079 --> 00:24:01.519 And I was so dumb at that time that I went to my mom and I told my mom, my friends gave me a cigarette and I tried to smoke. 00:24:02.319 --> 00:24:03.680 My mom goes, What? 00:24:03.839 --> 00:24:05.680 I'm taking you to the doctor. 00:24:06.559 --> 00:24:14.960 And the reason I went to my mom because I got scared, because I started coughing and you know, all that, and you know, like, what's going on, man? 00:24:15.039 --> 00:24:17.759 I just take a couple of puffs from that cigarette. 00:24:19.039 --> 00:24:19.680 You know? 00:24:20.559 --> 00:24:25.680 And I went to my mom, took me to the doctor, we found out that I was allergic to smoke. 00:24:28.160 --> 00:24:30.640 So for the rest of my life, I cannot smoke. 00:24:30.799 --> 00:24:32.319 I cannot even be around people. 00:24:32.559 --> 00:24:49.279 Do you remember the times when the restaurant used to be, you were able to smoke at the restaurants and at the weddings, and man, I just remember being 10 years old, or I mean 12 years old, and my mom and my dad would go to weddings, and I would have to step out because you could see that ballroom, Joseph. 00:24:50.559 --> 00:24:52.079 All the smoke. 00:24:52.960 --> 00:24:54.400 And I had to step out. 00:24:54.480 --> 00:24:56.079 I couldn't smoke. 00:24:57.119 --> 00:24:59.839 You know, I don't have no problem with that. 00:25:01.839 --> 00:25:03.519 Chewing tobacco. 00:25:04.160 --> 00:25:07.359 I had a problem with that because it's related to smoking. 00:25:07.759 --> 00:25:21.200 I remember when I came to the United States in 1979, I went to high school to Eagle Pass High School, and I saw these guys that had a big old pouch and this and the on the back pockets and the little round things called skull, I believe. 00:25:21.359 --> 00:25:22.720 And they say, You want to try it? 00:25:22.799 --> 00:25:24.400 I say, Yeah, let me try it. 00:25:24.640 --> 00:25:26.480 And they gave me some red men. 00:25:29.440 --> 00:25:31.599 He knows what I'm talking about, brother, right? 00:25:33.279 --> 00:25:40.160 And I took a big chunk of red man, put it on my lips, and I oh my god. 00:25:40.880 --> 00:25:41.519 You know what? 00:25:41.599 --> 00:25:43.440 It's hard to repent from that. 00:25:44.799 --> 00:25:49.599 I I mean to me it was related to smoking, so that didn't call my attention. 00:25:49.759 --> 00:25:52.319 Drugs, marijuana never called my attention. 00:25:52.480 --> 00:25:57.599 Drugs didn't call my attention, but tell me about tequila, beer, booze. 00:25:57.920 --> 00:26:01.200 Doesn't matter if you want me walkie best, I will drink it. 00:26:01.759 --> 00:26:12.640 You know, and there's a lot of things that we repent from, and there's a lot of other things that we don't repent from that is hard, like chewing tobacco. 00:26:13.599 --> 00:26:21.759 You know that there's uh doctrine going around in some churches where they tell you that it's okay for you to drink three beers. 00:26:22.240 --> 00:26:24.160 Drink three beers, nothing's gonna happen. 00:26:24.240 --> 00:26:26.799 Yes, it's gonna happen to me if I do that. 00:26:27.279 --> 00:26:29.359 Because that was my weakness. 00:26:30.400 --> 00:26:32.319 Guess what's gonna happen after three? 00:26:32.400 --> 00:26:39.839 Here comes the fourth one, and the fifth one, husband, uh-huh, you know, Buddhism music, honey. 00:26:41.599 --> 00:26:44.160 You got the money, I got the time. 00:26:44.880 --> 00:26:45.519 You know? 00:26:45.920 --> 00:26:48.319 No, no, I'm speaking to you with the truth. 00:26:49.359 --> 00:26:54.880 There's a that you know, that doctrine, I don't know where it's coming from, but I already heard that some churches are preaching that. 00:26:55.039 --> 00:26:56.240 I'm gonna tell something. 00:26:56.319 --> 00:26:58.240 You know where that doctrine comes from? 00:26:58.799 --> 00:27:00.319 From the pits of hell. 00:27:01.279 --> 00:27:03.119 From the pits of hell. 00:27:03.440 --> 00:27:08.559 Okay, so we need to give a little sin, amen, in order for transformation to happen. 00:27:08.799 --> 00:27:11.839 Sister, you have this scripture, Revelation 320. 00:27:12.720 --> 00:27:14.319 Put it on the board. 00:27:16.799 --> 00:27:18.480 Brother, you ready. 00:27:42.640 --> 00:27:44.880 Look what the scripture says. 00:27:45.519 --> 00:27:49.039 Jesus is standing at the door, he just knocked. 00:27:49.519 --> 00:27:51.039 I just answered. 00:27:51.359 --> 00:28:01.279 And he says right there, if anyone hears my voice and open their doors, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with me. 00:28:02.319 --> 00:28:04.640 That's the first step of repentance. 00:28:04.960 --> 00:28:10.480 If Jesus is knocking at the heart of you, at the door of your heart, open it. 00:28:11.279 --> 00:28:19.119 Tell somebody about Jesus, so he in turn can open the door and accept Jesus into his heart. 00:28:19.440 --> 00:28:26.880 This first step that you take that I took, and a lot of us in this room have taken, is called justification. 00:28:27.519 --> 00:28:36.319 We're justified because of his blood that he shed on the cross, not because you are so good looking or you go to the gym every day. 00:28:36.640 --> 00:28:39.200 No, you're justified by the blood of Jesus. 00:28:39.359 --> 00:28:41.200 Now, this is the first step you take. 00:28:41.359 --> 00:28:45.200 You're here at the very, you just cross the door. 00:28:45.440 --> 00:28:50.960 That's for you guys that have been saved for three weeks, six months, one year. 00:28:51.279 --> 00:28:52.960 I'm almost at the end. 00:28:53.920 --> 00:28:54.240 Okay? 00:28:54.799 --> 00:28:56.640 But this is the first step. 00:28:57.039 --> 00:28:57.680 Amen. 00:28:58.160 --> 00:29:05.759 And then this life or this journey that we are we're taking is called Christianity. 00:29:06.319 --> 00:29:17.200 And I compare Christianity like a long corridor, a long hallway, and then you start walking in it, little by little, step by step. 00:29:17.920 --> 00:29:21.839 Back in um 89, I started taking my first steps. 00:29:23.119 --> 00:29:29.920 You know, and I started walking with the Lord, starting a relationship with Jesus. 00:29:30.079 --> 00:29:33.599 That's when we need to start on the hallway of Christianity. 00:29:33.839 --> 00:29:37.680 Start taking, taking steps, taking steps, taking steps. 00:29:37.920 --> 00:29:46.000 All of a sudden you find yourself halfway through, and in between here and there, you're gonna fall. 00:29:46.240 --> 00:29:48.880 Don't get me wrong, you are gonna fall. 00:29:49.119 --> 00:29:50.400 I have fallen. 00:29:51.920 --> 00:29:58.160 But the Bible says that if a righteous man falls seven times, he gets up seven times. 00:29:59.039 --> 00:30:01.599 You keep on getting up, brothers and sisters. 00:30:01.839 --> 00:30:08.000