Street Preachers
Street Preachers is a raw, unfiltered podcast from Philip Anthony Mitchell and Tim Timberlake—two bold voices committed to making sure everyone hears the Gospel of Jesus. From street corners to stages, they bring truth with conviction, passion, and power—because revival doesn’t wait for a microphone. It starts wherever the Word is spoken.
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Undefiled and Unfading
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The world is constantly trying to define you by your past, your pain, your success, or the opinions of others. But Peter reminds us that our identity is not built on temporary things. We have been born again into a living hope and given an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading.
In this episode, we continue our journey through 1 Peter and talk about what it means to live with an identity that cannot be altered by culture and a hope that cannot be diminished by circumstances.
If you’ve ever felt misunderstood, overlooked, or tempted to find your worth in things that fade, this conversation is for you.
Our culture offers labels that change. Jesus gives an identity that remains.
“To obtain an inheritance which is imperishable and undefiled and will not fade away, reserved in heaven for you.” — 1 Peter 1:4 (NASB95)
What's going on, Street Team? We're back again for another episode. Listen, do me a favor in the chat, put where you are either listening or viewing this from me and Phil. We always enjoy seeing how far God has taken the Street Preachers podcast. But more importantly, we always want to know how we can be praying and where we can be praying. Yeah. And just give support in the spirit where we can. And as we continue to march through First Peter, I'm expectant about this episode. Last episode, man, it was rich and uh it was powerful. And so I pray that you are able to lean into it. If not, go back and listen to it. Go back and listen to uh both uh first, second, and third episode because all of them, they work together in where we're going and where the Holy Spirit is taking us. And so, Phil, how you feeling today, baby?
SPEAKER_03I'm feeling good, man. I I just love um what God is doing right now as we're kind of walking through First Peter together. I think it's important for the times that we're living in. Um I think it's important also too for just believers who are going through just difficult seasons right now, and and uh even for those who are in a good place in a good season, it just gives us um a sense of awareness um of what's happening right now in the times, and and I think Peter, uh through his first testament, his New Testament letters kind of speaking to um us right now, you know, and so um man, I I just feel like the Spirit of God is really moving uh throughout our journey through First Peter. I don't know how far we're gonna make it. You know what I mean?
SPEAKER_01But um man, I'm excited about the journey, man. What about you, bro? Yeah, I'm excited. Yeah, you know, I think as you mentioned, it accurately speaks to what we are experiencing from the persecution to what we see unfolding uh in society and culture today, yeah. And to be able to have uh a blueprint and really boundaries to steward our lives between, uh, it helps us to understand uh that there is hope in Jesus. Yeah. Even in the midst of pain, even in the midst of trials, yeah, even in the midst of uh tribulation and for some of our street teen trauma that they are currently going through right now, uh, to be able to have the word of God to hold on to uh is the most important thing. The scripture says faith comes by hearing and hearing the word of God. So if faith comes by hearing, the lack of hearing breeds doubt, fear, worry, anxiety. Yeah. And so the word is not a luxury, it's a necessity. Yeah, even the word hearing is important right now.
SPEAKER_03You know, on our in our last episode, I was really challenging our street team. Um, who are you listening to right now? Right. And I think what we're listening to right now is very important. You know, is it feeding the soul? Is it shrinking the soul? Right? Is it pointing you towards Christ or pointing you towards chaos? Right? Is it building your faith or building your fear? Right? Are you listening to a true voice or you're listening to a false voice? And so I think what we're hearing right now is very important, right? And I think in the proliferation of social media and uh the vast ecosystem of voices and noise, you know, I think we gotta filter out the noise and what what kind of voices we should be listening to in this hour. Especially, you know, we keep saying, I've actually said, and I'm gonna remind people, I just think that time is running out. I think we're living at the end of the church age, and I think more, more and more important is where are we lending our soul? You know, who are we listening to? What are we being prepared for? Our hearts being burned, is our eyes being open, uh is there an awakening happening? So I think that's very important, you know. And uh shout out to the old street team, uh, you know, listening to this podcast, you know, I I say it frequently, but you know, Tim and I are not doing this just to hear ourselves talk. Um not we we're really doing this because uh we want to bring the scriptures to the intersection of the times and culture. Uh we're trying to sound an alarm, we're trying to push out the gospel as far as we can through every available platform God has given us. We do believe this is a ministry that God has given Tim and I. Uh we do believe that God inspired this ministry and um right, uh, and the play for us is is is spread the gospel, right? The play is is is is use this medium to get the truth to as many people as possible. And so I'm just excited about that, man. Yeah, and um I'm just excited about that.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Let's get to this bread with the oil on it, man. Bread with the oil on it, brother. You know what I mean? Um We left off last week.
SPEAKER_03Verse three, four, five, six. You know, we were trying to work through that area right there. Really, verse three through five. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Let's pick up at verse four.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Let's let's go back to verse three, man, and set it up, man. You know, you know, Peter's writing to a church that's feeling pressure in the culture. So technically he's writing to a church now that's feeling pressure in the culture. Yeah. They're being persecuted, and and his exhortation to them comes in verse three, right? Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ according to his great mercy. We talked about that. Great mercy, you know, God's kindness towards us, granting us what we don't deserve, um, uh, and granting to us what we don't deserve and protecting us from what we do deserve, right? Which is separation from God forever. And uh and he has caused us to be born again, right? To be brought into the kingdom of light to a living hope. We talked about that. Um that is alive and active through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, without which there is no Christianity. And an inheritance that is imperishable. That was that word where we camped out on last week. Imperishable. Will not be taken, not gonna fade, not gonna rot. But then we get to the next words, and here we go in the text. Undefiled. Let's stop right there, Tim. No, let's let's let's let's let's do it's two it's two words here undefiled and unfading. Let let's let's let's unpack that for a second. You know, he he said we have a whole we have a hope that is undefiled and unfading and unfading. When you when you when you hear those two words and we can separate them, undefiled, unfading, what's coming up in your spirit.
SPEAKER_01My inheritance is not kept in a fragile place. Yeah. You know, we think, oh man, I have to do this, I gotta hurry up and do this, and we have a tendency to rush what God wants to take his time developing in us. Yeah. When we think about that, undefiled, unfading, we defile so much. Right? We defile our bodies, yeah, we defile our schedules, yeah, we defile our thoughts, putting garbage into our mind through our ear gates and our eye gates. But here he is saying this inheritance it is kept in a place that is undefiled and unfading. Everything in this world will fade away. Yeah. And so this inheritance that he speaks of is pure, it's pure, is not corrupted, not corrupted, not fading, yeah, not perishable. Uh-huh. It is protected by the power of God through faith. Now, if it is protected, that means no one or nothing can defile or fade what God has set aside for me. Yeah. Yeah. What he's what he's placed up for me. And I'm reminded of the old testament passage that says uh that he has an inheritance laid up for the just. Yeah. You know, think about that. It's placed up. And when I I think about that passage, at some point Max is gonna grow up. They don't know how old Max is. He's nine, right? He's he's nine right now, and uh he has no idea what he will walk into when he uh comes into the age of understanding good stewardship. My prayer is that one day me and Jen can leave him an inheritance. But that inheritance is laid up, yeah, it's placed up. He can't touch it now. It has his name on it, yeah, but it belongs to him. But he's not tall enough to touch what's been laid up for him. It's not until he grows up, matures, I was going there, spiritually get taller, yeah, that he'll understand the significance of what has been laid up for him. It's the same thing with us.
SPEAKER_03And have the steward, have the character to be able to stewardship.
SPEAKER_01That's right. And so for for us, we are asking God to give us instead of asking God to make us.
SPEAKER_02Make us, come on.
SPEAKER_01And that inheritance that is unfading, that inheritance that is incorruptible, will not be placed in the hands of someone that is not in a place to steward at will.
SPEAKER_03And you know it's powerful too because you know, I keep in these episodes, I keep going back to the context in which Peter's writing.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Because I want people to see that these are not just empty platitudes, right? He's he's he's writing to he's writing to a people that's that's going through immense persecution and trial. Yeah. And and just peep the text. Like Street Team, I want y'all to peep the text, right? Peter, Peter, Peter's writing to a people going through immense persecution and trial, right? And look at what he's not doing, right, to him. Peep the text. He's not talking to them about material blessing.
SPEAKER_01Yep.
SPEAKER_03He's not promising them houses and cars, but they didn't have cars, houses and horses.
SPEAKER_02Yep.
SPEAKER_03Right. He's not talking to them about anything tangible that they can touch, right? He's building their hope in the midst of trial in the intangible things that you can't touch, but that can be felt in the soul. Come on. And can give us hope for the future. Right. This is almost counterintuitive to what we see right now when a lot of the Western theology, Western preaching, Western proclamation is trying to build up hope in things that are tangible, things that you can touch, materialism, things that move with time, things that shift, right? And if they shift, you shift.
SPEAKER_01That's right.
SPEAKER_03Right? If they collapse, you collapse, right? But but but this kind of preaching will be boring today. Yeah. Right? It would, it would be, it would be, the, the saints wouldn't want this, right? It wouldn't be sexy enough for somebody to invite Peter to the conference to preach this. Like, Peter, we don't want no parts of that. We are going through. We got mothers and single mothers suffering. We got men losing their jobs. We got families who can't pay the bills. And you're talking to us about hope that is undefiled and in faith. Now we don't want to hear that. Prophesy to us, Peter. Prophesy that if we sow this one dollar, like, prophesy that the Lord's gonna make everybody millionaires tomorrow. Prophesy, Peter, that we like, but he's not doing that. The point I'm trying to make is that I think we have drifted from this level of exhortation and encouragement that is not rooted in things that are tangible, things that shift. But but here is an exhortation from Peter that's rooted in something that we would think is not important. Something that is rooted in in something that is eternal, and it's like, can the heart today latch hold of that? Like, here my question is, would this be enough? If Peter was preaching this today, would this be enough for us? Would this be enough for the American believer going through a difficult season? When you think about everybody right now who's just going through a difficult season, if you text the, this is the text. I'm gonna send you this. Yeah, like I know you're going through hell right now, right? I know somebody going through hell, and man, I text you this. Would this be enough to encourage you?
SPEAKER_01Well, we know it wouldn't be enough because you preach this and it's not enough. And it's not enough. You're a false prophet. Right. You've been used by the the by the devil. Right, right. And you're telling people, read the word for yourself.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. No, go figure that.
SPEAKER_01You know what I'm saying? Read the word for yourself. So we know that this is not enough because people don't want truth.
SPEAKER_03What do they want?
SPEAKER_01They want their truth.
SPEAKER_03They want their truth, yeah.
SPEAKER_01And if what you say doesn't align with their truth, the first thing that they'll try to do is they'll try to poke holes in the character they've given you. Right, right. That's good. Not in action, not in who you actually are, right? But in who you are in their minds. Because you and the word of God is not good enough to tell them that they need to change, that they need to return to the heart of the Father, that they are sinful and will bust hell wide open if they don't return to Father. That's not good enough. Come on, man. That's not good enough. Come on, man. So instead of them being wrong, or instead of them having things that they need Jesus to desperately work out of them, they'll cover it, they'll hide it, and like Peter, yeah, they'll protect it.
SPEAKER_03And and I like I like this word protect because he tells us where that inheritance he said is kept in heaven. Kept in heaven, right? And uh, I know I'm gonna sound like a broken record when I say this, but there is something very profound in what Peter's saying that I just hope uh our street team is not glossing over, but I just hope more American believers get this. Um that is he is trying to shift their hope and where they will find strength outside of the narrative of all of the things that are horizontal. He's trying to shift that towards the thing that is vertical. And if we could just get more believers to shift their hope to things that are you know how tough a believer comes, you know how tough a believer becomes if they're if their hope is anchored in things that is vertical, things that are above, you know how gangster they become, how strong they become is like what is the devil gonna do right to a man or woman who has chosen to shift their hope from the things in this life to the things above? What is he really gonna do? Not even death is gonna stop that person from having like what are you really gonna do? You know, like like job, yeah, um, doctor report, like what do you what are you really gonna do to a believer that is so sold out on what is coming? What is the enemy really gonna do to that particular believer? There is a there is a uh a powerful, powerful, uh, powerful strength that comes to the believer who whose hope goes beyond right now, like what Peter's saying, they know they have something that's kept for them in heaven, it's eternal in nature, man, that person may almost become unstoppable. It's like what is the enemy gonna do with that kind of person? Yeah, right. But because so much of our preaching and our culture just anchors all of our hope in these things. Absolutely, you know, tangible, tangible things, tangible things. And you know, the only thing the enemy has to do is put his finger on that. You know, it's like it's like we think he's attacking those things. He's just attacking the things our faith is attached to. So I'm I'm gonna touch that and I'm gonna rock you and I'm gonna touch this and I'm gonna rock you and I'm gonna touch this and you rock you and touch that and you rock you, and like he don't need your car. Nah. Right? Like, he doesn't need your house, he doesn't want to marry your wife, right? He he he doesn't need these things. He just atta he attacks the things that the heart is attached to because we're too tethered to all of these things, right? And so when they shift, we shift. But that's not what Peter's doing. No, you know, it will almost be boring what Peter's doing. Like a sermon like this, is somebody gonna say, Amen? Are they gonna throw a towel? Right? Like, are they gonna is the is the is the is the is the church gonna go up in an uproar when he says things like an inheritance for you that is imperishable, undefiled, unfitting, and is kept for you in heaven? Is that gonna make us excited? Right? Who by God's power are being guarded through the faith for salvation, you know, ready to be revealed in the last time. Like, is that gonna make anybody excited when we hear that? No, it doesn't get Americans excited, but yet if we would just lean into this, it would make us more spiritually strong. Absolutely. Um, it would anchor our soul, it would give us more tenacity to go through problems and challenges, and it's just sad that this is not enough.
SPEAKER_01And and it's a promise. That's the thing that I I can't quite understand why we as a society and a culture don't lean into this. Now think about this for a second. The promises of God are not vulnerable to earthly conditions, they're not. We think the promises of God all revolve around earthly conditions. And so when we talk about the promises of God, we think possession. No, there's an inheritance that has been laid up for us that is not vulnerable to earthly conditions, it will not fade when earth fades, it will not go when the earth goes. This is something that God has given us as an inheritance, not because of how great we are, but because of how great he is.
SPEAKER_03And and you know what too? Uh you know, if you told your son, if you told your son, Max is nine, right? If you told your son, yo, Max, you know, we put away $10 million for you in an inheritance, you'll get it when you're 21. By the time he gets like 17, 18, he's he's looking forward to that. He's itching like, yo, like in a few years, I'm I'm about to come up on this bag. Yeah. Right? Like he's looking forward to that. Right? Like there is a watch this word, anticipation to get that $10 million balloon, right? You know why this don't get us excited? We don't have no anticipation to be with Christ. There's no longing to be with him. Like if we would just take an honest survey, like I'm not trying to beat nobody up, but if we just take an honest survey of the Western church, honest survey. How many of us can honestly say we're longing to be with Christ? We're longing to be in glory, we're longing to see his face. A lot of us are not there. Yeah, right. I was talking to somebody about this the other day. I was like, when I was first saved, I I wasn't there. It took years. I was I was sharing this with a with a brother, I think it was a brother or sister the other day. I'm in a place now where I'm looking forward to the day I'm gonna see him. I've been walking with the Lord for 20 something years. But I long to see him. When I go into my prayer room, Tim, I I can imagine him sitting in that room and me. I could I can close my eyes and visually see him sitting across on the other side of my prayer room. And I look forward to the day. If I just see his feet, that would be good enough for me. Right? If I could just stretch out on the floor and just touch his feet and not see anything from knee up, like that'll be that'll be good enough for me. But uh there is a desire in my heart to see him. That wasn't always there. But I think the more we grow in intimacy and the more we behold his beauty, the more there's a desire in us to be with him. Yeah. Right? And I think more believers need to grow in such an intimacy with Christ that there is a like Lord, we actually want to see you, you know, like like like the new street preacher's merch that says Maranatha. Right. And the truth is there's not a longing there. So without that longing, nobody's not excited about this inheritance. Like excited about heaven, excited about something that's undefiled, and it's not corrupt, and it's unfading, and it's imperishable. We're not excited about that because we're not longing to be with him. We're not longing. But you know what helps us to long though? Tell you what. This is why, this is why God, his brilliance is unmatched. Let me tell you something that helps the heart to long for God. Suffering.
SPEAKER_01Yep.
SPEAKER_03Right? You hear people say all the time, if if if God is loving, he's good, then why does he allow mankind to suffer? Talk about it. Yeah. Yeah. Why does he allow mankind to suffer? It's God's kindness that he does not allow utopia here. And God will never create a world for you that makes him unnecessary. Repeat. God will never create a life for you or a world for you that makes him unnecessary. He will always leave a little bit of suffering in your life because what men are searching for down here in the flesh is utopia. We're searching for a life free and void from pain, troubles, hardships, trials, and tribulations. That he will not give that to you. Um, and it is the suffering in this life that's supposed to also point humanity to the fact that the Lord is going to prepare something for us that is better. If he eradicated suffering now, then what are we looking forward to? Yeah. If he says in Revelation, a day is coming to be no more tears, no more sorrow. If all of that is in Revelation and He did that now, there's nothing to look forward to. So it's almost his kindness that he allows humanity to deal with suffering, just so that he can remind you, no, this is not the end all. There's actually something that's better than this. Absolutely. And so through suffering, it kind of reminds us like, dang it, Lord. Maybe some people, I've been here, Tim. Some people have not felt enough pain to say, man, I felt the type of pain. I felt the type of pain that you almost like, Lord, it's better to go be with you.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_03But me staying here is like, I know I still got work to do, and some people have not felt, and I pray you don't have to, right? But I know the kind of pain that that reminds me of, yeah, you have went to prepare a place. And I and I think we don't have that expectation of him. Yeah. Because we're not desiring this. We're not thinking about that. This is kept for us in heaven. And this is who Peter's talking to people who are suffering. Absolutely. This is his encouragement to the person who's suffering. How about that? 100%. You think am I going to put this on a t-shirt? No. But this is his encouragement to people who are suffering.
SPEAKER_01And it is encouraging when you understand what he's actually communicating because he's telling you by using the language that he utilizes, this is military language. He's saying that this is protected. Like a region that is surrounded by an impenetrable gate. It is protected. Yeah. It is guarded by God.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Like a city surrounded by soldiers. So the reality of this text is today you may feel weak emotionally. You may even feel weak spiritually.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, come on.
SPEAKER_01But heaven has not removed its guard from your life.
SPEAKER_03Come on, man.
SPEAKER_01According to this text, heaven has your inheritance protected and it is secured by God. And nobody's going there to steal it. Nobody can't take it away. Nobody can steal what God has protected. And so even though now for a little while you feel like you are unprotected, and you may even feel alone. Read the text. What God has for you, it is protected.
SPEAKER_03But you know, but the strength comes from our desire for the inheritance. The thing is, do we really want the inheritance, Tim? I want mine. You want yours? Do we really want that? I'm camped out here because I I really would want our street team. Even the people in the studio, the people in the studio, people in the street team, like, do you really want that? You know? Like, just pause for a second. Do you really want that inheritance? Do you really are you longing for that? Do we really, really in our hearts of hearts want that? I mean, if we if we really just polled us, just in the last six months, year, when has anything crept up in our heart to say, man, Lord, I'm really looking forward to the day where I see you, I'll be with you, and I will take, I will take full possession of everything you have died to provide for me in glory. We are not talking to him like that. We're not longing for that. We don't have that desire. We are too tethered to this life. This is not the Christianity that was handed down for us once and for all, according to Jude. The Christianity we have right now has been corrupted by the gods of this life and all of the idolatry of this life that makes the modern believers so attached to right now, we have no desire for the inheritance. And is that desire will make us strong, wise, thugged out, tough man? We will go through things in this life and come out on the other side. We will live well and suffer well and come out of the other side and keep looking the devil in the face. Said, that's not gonna be enough. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh-uh. That's not gonna be enough. That's not gonna that's not gonna keep me from praise, keep me from lifting my hands, keep me from worship, keep me from my word, keep me from my knees. That's not gonna be enough because you can't you can touch the house, you can touch the car, talk, Phil. You can touch the marriage, you can touch the child, you can touch the body, right? You can inflict me with sickness, but this right here you can't take. Can't get up there, can't take it out the hands of the Lord, can't touch this right here. Encrypted, sealed, protected, can't touch this, right? There is something the Lord has provided for me that the enemy cannot touch. And if my heart has no desire for that, then we just keep getting rocked right now. Yeah. Right? And if that makes me weird, I would rather be weird and strong. Come on. Right? I would I would rather be weird and have that hope. Um, then fit in with the culture, right? And then be tossed by every wind of culture. And that's what's happening. We've just seen brothers and sisters tossed by every wind. Yes. Tossed by every wind, tossed by everyone, tossed by everywhere. I'm telling you right now, we would see revival in the church if Cat just say, you know what, man, forget this, right? If we start living for eternity, I think you talked about this. I don't know if it was the last episode or episode before that. But I just feel this in my spirit, Tim, we gotta work this for a second, right? If if we actually, as uh, as the bride started living for eternity, living with eternity in view. Watch, a lot of things right now that we we be worried about becomes minuscule. A lot of the time we're wasting right now, we would invest more wisely. A lot of our resources, we'd invest more wisely. A lot of our relationships we'll steward better. If if we if we was living for eternity, we would we would see everything right now as uh tests, temporary money, temporary commodity. We wouldn't hoard. Yeah, we would see some of the things we're going through as just a test from God. Like it almost it almost puts life in the right perspective. And I I just man, I feel, I feel my heart is heavy right now because I just wonder from the people watching how many of us are really living life with the right perspective? You know, it's it's a terrible thing to go through life like this. Yeah, man. Like people getting married like this. Like, think about how many believers getting married like this, raising kids like this, starting ministries like this, right? Worship leaders like this, yeah. You got pastors like this, leading whole congregations like this.
SPEAKER_01How tragic. You know what I just started about. You don't look for an inheritance when you believe you've already received it. Why would you? Right? Two weeks ago I got this letter in the office from the church, uh, excuse me, the Bank of China. This person wrote it out, and I'm reading it, and I'm reading it to Jen, and it says, We've been looking for you. You're in trouble, bro? No. You said we've been we've been looking for you. A family member has died with your last name. And I you about to get a bag. You're about to get a bag?
SPEAKER_03Yo, remember your boy Remember your boy, bro. Remember your remember your boy.
SPEAKER_01You about to get a bag?
SPEAKER_03Come on, you're about to get a bag, bro?
SPEAKER_01I'm I'm kind of perking up a little bit. I'm reading this letter. It's official, letterhead, everything.
SPEAKER_03No, let me five dollars and fifty one cents from a lost policy.
SPEAKER_01Family members died, they have left for you an inheritance. So I start looking at this. Did you have an expectation? Expectation, man. I started to think about what you're gonna get, what I'm gonna receive. Come on, the inheritance. Come on. So I look at Jen, I'm smiling. She looked at me and said, You think it's real? I said, I don't know. I get to the bottom of it and it says, please give us your bank account information so that we can look at the body. No, dog, nah, nah, nah. Nah, nah. This is a Nigerian scam. Nah, nigga trying to get your boy. Nah, son. But for that brief second, you had you had expectation. I had expectation. I had a hope. My mind started to take me to a place where my body had not yet physically traveled. That's what Peter's talking about. Come on, man. That's what he's talking about.
SPEAKER_03So let me ask you a question then. How could more believers experience in real time with these words what you experience when you open that envelope? What is the shift that has to happen in society? Because when you were telling me I was on the edge of my seat, I was like, okay. Because you know you gotta unfold the last part. You know that part that's stapled on the paper, and you gotta rip that, you gotta rip that last part, unfold and see what's in there. And you was you was like, okay, here's how much they was about to give me the letdown. They let down. Now, now, if we remove the letdown and just keep the expectation of the inheritance, how does how does the street team, how does more believers build that for what Peter's talking about right here? That which is imperishable, undefiled, unfading, and kept in heaven. I was how did they build that expectation?
SPEAKER_01I was expected because I had a need. So when there was a need, there was a great expectation, right? So I was thinking about man, I could use this for A B and C. So my expectation was here because my need was here. Okay. If in our minds we don't have a need, there's no expectation. There's no expectation. That's where we are today. Yeah. We live in a society and a culture that is not aware of the needs of their soul and their spirit man, so they don't have an expectation for this eternal inheritance that can only be found in the kingdom of God. Yeah. And so I just want to encourage our street team, my brothers and my sisters, dig deep enough in your soul to tap into the need of what your spirit man needs, not what you want. Because that's the difference. Everybody's out here chasing what they want. But scripture teaches us, David says, The Lord is my shepherd. I have no wants. In Philippians, it says, He will supply all of my needs according to his riches and glory through Christ Jesus. And so where there is no expectation, it's because we and our minds already have everything that we need. And the reality is we do not. Yeah, we do not. Our soul, our spirit, man, it needs what only God can give.
SPEAKER_03And what's so powerful about what you're saying, he will go on in the same verse to talk about faith and salvation that's given to us in the last time. And what's so powerful about that is that where's that gonna come from? You know, salvation. You know, is that coming from church attendance? You know, is that coming from morality? Is that coming from a conference going like no? This inheritance is coming from from Christ, something that only the Lord has done through the power of the cross by faith in Christ alone. That's salvation that's kept for the last time. He said, for the last times, he says, that's kept in heaven for you and his guarded faith, salvation, ready, ready to be revealed. Listen to us, ready to be revealed. In the last time. In the last time, he says, um, in the last time, Tim. The fact that Peter will mention the last time, that means there is an end time.
SPEAKER_01Yes.
SPEAKER_03Right. And so even like people hear me say a billion times time is running out. Right. And I'm I will be that broken record in America to say that a hundred billion times. Because um there is a clock on humanity that's counting backwards, right? It's coming towards this last time, it's coming towards an end. And uh, I just think a lot of our focus is on things that don't matter. Like even right now, as we're kind of coming down on the end of this episode, I just think there are too many believers right now. Our minds and our hearts is just caught up in a lot of stuff that's just not gonna matter.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, it's not gonna have any eternal value, you know. And um, and you know, like right now, it's it's like the the last, it's the finals. Uh we're going into the finals of the basketball season, and you know, people's watching basketball and all the things, you know, and it's like you you watch how men play in the fourth quarter, you know, and um I just wonder how we're playing right now. What is important to us right now? Um I I think in these days the the final commands of Christ needs to be our top priority. You know, make disciples, be his witnesses, um, spread the gospel. And um I just wonder how many of us are paying attention to this, um, what Peter's saying. Um that inheritance, that excitement for what's coming, and and just knowing that we we're coming down to the end. And um, what would you say to the street team that's watching right now about their inheritance? What would you say to them about uh where their mind and heart should be? What would you say to them about where they should be anchoring um their soul right now in these times?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I want to stay exactly with that basketball analogy, right?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, we can stay right there, bro.
SPEAKER_01If I'm a coach and it's the fourth quarter, yeah, I want my best players in the game.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Shout out to my man Josh Hart since we're in New York. Can I just shout out my man? Yeah, that's one of my one of my good friends who plays for the New York Knicks. Shout out to Josh Hart. We're in the Knicks. Uh we're in Knicks land right now. We're in New York. Yeah, we're not that far from the garden, right? As a matter of fact, but go ahead, bro.
SPEAKER_01Absolutely. Yeah. Love you, Josh.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, shout out to my man Josh Hart.
SPEAKER_01Bumpy Road to Better Baby. Yeah, I love that dude, man. But but you're in the fourth quarter, you want your best players in the game, right? You're not subbing out your starters for the bench in the fourth quarter. Unless there's a blowout.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Right, then you do that.
SPEAKER_03But this game when it's intense, when it's close.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. There's a back and forth happening. We know who will win. Yeah. But it's still a battle. Yeah, right. There's a fight of faith, the good fight of faith. And so I would tell my brothers and sisters that are listening, stay hungry, stay ready. Yeah. Stay open and available to how God desires to use you in this season because this is the end. And if you are not ready, it's the next man up. That's what we're seeing happen right now. We're seeing God wanting to use people that are not ready, and so it's the next man up. Stay hungry. Stay in your word, stay in the presence of God, stay with your eyes fixed on Jesus, not on what's happening around you. Don't get distracted. The enemy does not have to defeat you. If he can just distract it, it's the next man up. Just stay focused on what God is asking you to do in the season because as Peter said, this is the end. And one thing, you know, people often say, you know, you guys always saying time is running out and it's it's uh it's redundant. You keep saying the same thing over and over again. The only time we say something is redundant is something we don't actually want to apply. No one says, Oh, we're having pizza again or Michael Jackson's song Beat It is on the radio again. No, we want to hear those things because they take us back down memory lane and remind us of a point in time when we first heard it. You need to remember this because there's going to come a point in time in your life where you're going to need to recall moments like this where there is no more time. So with the time that you have left to steward, steward it well, steward it hungry and stay desperate for the presence and the power of God.
SPEAKER_03And to that end, to that end, we stand on Colossians 1 28, Him we proclaim.
SPEAKER_01That's right.
SPEAKER_03Watch the next word warning everyone. Watch the next word, teaching everyone that we may present everyone, watch this next word, mature before Christ. And if if we if we're gonna take Paul seriously, then we will not only teach, um, but we will also warn. That's right. And so when we say things like time is running out, or we're living in the last days, or you know what we're doing? We are warning is which we've been taught to do, right? And so that Christians would not be sleep. Let me go deeper. That we make sure we're trying to put oil in your lamp, that you're not caught off guard uh when the Lord cracked that sky and you realize, man, you weren't ready to meet him when he cracked that sky. So no, we will honor what Paul wrote and we will warn. We teach, but we're gonna warn too. That's right. We're not gonna be silent about that. Um, so eternal God and ever wise father. God, Tim and I just agree right now for the street team, but beyond that, we agree right now for the global church. Yes, Lord, in these final hours of the church age, that there would be a mass awakening in the body of Christ. I pray there would also be a mass untethering in the body of Christ from material things that's gonna fade away. I pray you will cause us to see all these material things as temporary commodities to be used in this life and to be stewarded to the glory of your name. But somehow, somehow, in this moment, I'm asking God, you will pour out a spirit on the body of Christ of a desire, a longing, a burning for the inheritance that has been laid up for us in glory, that we will look beyond the clouds to the hope that has been established for us and what Christ has gone to prepare. I pray, God, in the name of Jesus, you will deliver us from being so attached to right now that the slightest wind that blows, God, shifts us, God, from the mission, shifts us from the Great Commission, shifts us from what is important. I pray you deliver us from doing Christianity blind, yes, God. And doing church blind, yes, God, and doing ministry blind and singing songs blind and preaching blind. I pray, Lord, like this planet just fell over on my side. The nonsense in the church would fall over. Come on, like this planet just fell over, God, our idols would fall over, they will they will be toppled over and fall onto the floor, and that the only thing that would remain is the truth of your word, the truth of scripture, the truth of what you have given us, God. I pray something would break right now, God, in the lives of the sons and daughters under the sound of my voice. I pray it would travel beyond the camera, it will spread across America and around the world, that in these last days, God, that the sons and daughters of the Most High will be awaken everywhere.
SPEAKER_01Yes, God.
SPEAKER_03And we will have a desire for Christ where He is, and for the inheritance He has given us where He is, and for what He has gone to prepare for us, where He is, and it will give us a new strength in this life and a right perspective in this life, and it will keep our hearts focused on what really matters. I pray for a global shift in the body of Christ and for the rise of preaching that prepares the heart of the believer for what is coming, yes, Lord, and anchors our heart in the things that matter the most, those intangible things you have promised us in your word, like Peter, those things that are undefiled, unfading, imperishable, those things that are kept for us in glory. Uh I pray that there would be a shift in the hearts right now, right now, right now. Somebody would just shed tears and weep in repentance for all of the idolatry and the the grip that they have on these things that's gonna fade. Let that grip just loosen. We sick and tired of just doing church and just living blind. Gosh Lord, is that an awakening, please, upon the body? Uh it's a carrying spirit that we would be discerned the times and know what to do about it.
SPEAKER_02Jesus, help your brother. Amen. Amen.
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