The Spirit Of Discouragement

In the spiritual realm there abides a lot of spirits, there are both godly spirits and spirits of evil, which come to attack our lives and hinder us from living the life the Lord desires for us to live.  One of the worst of those evil spirits is the spirit of discouragement.  

This evil foul spirit can lay upon us the heaviness of life and discourage us about our futures.  Our hope lies in the word of God and knowing that through him, we can be free of this wicked spirit.  Many of us have been discouraged for far too long.  Let this message help you.

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Pastor Rickey D. Dixon 0:03

I've got to deal with a spirit this morning that tends to constantly attack and be on the attack towards God's people. I am a lot of times under the attack of this particular spirit. But it's the word of God that we must use as a weapon. The knowledge of God must be used as a weapon against this particular spirit that I want to talk about this morning. I talked about it at times before, but I want to go back into it again because it's a very, very adamant spirit about coming against the minds, the hearts of God's people. This spirit I'm talking about is the spirit of discouragement. The spirit of discouragement. Whatever knowledge we may have of God, this spirit wants to destroy that. If we're not careful, a lot of people will tend to allow this spirit, this spirit of discouragement, to even turn them against God. And that's bad. And we got to be very careful when we're going through such times that we're under attack by discouragement, don't never blame God for that particular spirit. Now, what God's spirit, let me leave you what God's spirit, the spirit that will combat discouragement. What I want to really put emphasis on this morning, and this just might turn into a two-part series. What I want to put emphasis on this morning is that the spirit of God, hallelujah, is the spirit of comfort. I ain't talking about the way a man can comfort a woman, a woman can comfort a man, or where a friend can comfort another friend. This comfort I want to talk about this morning that will combat the spirit of this discouragement is a spiritual comfort, a holy comfort that comes from God. And if we allow Him to, this spirit will comfort us in the very times that we are under attack by the spirit of discouragement, the spirit of troubles, hard times, in times of fear and confusion, in times of misunderstandings and turmoil, in times of grief, sorrow. I also I'm probably gonna get to it, but I also want to show you even how, in times of loss, I'm gonna read you something about David. In times of loss, when he lost something, when he lost somebody. He was heavily distressed. And some of us, we are heavy at times, in distress, in despair. But all these things are characteristics of the spirit of discouragement, and I've got to come against that spirit this morning. I've got to come against this spirit in our lives as sons and daughters of God. We can't let this spirit in our hearts, we can't let this spirit in our minds, we can't let this spirit in our homes. When we see it on our families, we should be ready to rebuke it and come against it with the word of God and the spirit of God so that it won't take a root or a foothold in our lives that will hinder us from being all that we can be and should be for the kingdom of God. I'm gonna come against it this morning, against the spirit of discouragement, but I'm gonna show you where to find your hope, your help, and it's gonna be in a spirit of comfort that only comes from God. And I'm not gonna rush it, like I said, it's probably gonna turn into two part because I want us to understand this, because in this day generation we live in, too many of us are being discouraged. And I and I know we can't stop the discouragement, but my point is this too many of us are being discouraged, not knowing that we don't have to be discouraged, that we don't have to let discouragement linger. Because our lack of the knowledge of the word of God and our lack of relationship with God, we allow it to stay longer than it needs to be. In our minds and in our hearts, and in our homes, we need to get it, rebuke it, and cast it far from us, and don't let it thrive, don't let it fester, don't let it take up residence in who we are in belonging to God. I want to show you a lot of things this morning in the course of this series, and I want us to understand that our focus should be on the will of God, and our focus should be on what he has made available to us, and what he has given us the power over if we but use it. Let me lay a foundation. For some reason, when the Lord give me this, a lot of the text that was given to my spirit is gonna come from those a lot of the old books. The old books like Samuel and Deuteronomy, probably one y'all probably read, Ecclesiastes. It's included in this particular series. And I say I'm gonna get to all that today, but it's gonna be before I get done, between today and part two of next Sunday, Lord say the same. But let me lay a foundation, and this particular series, we're gonna call it the God of all comfort, the God of all comfort, whatever area you need comfort in, you're gonna find it in this series because the word of God is gonna be given to you. And before I turn you loose after part two, I'm hoping all of you will understand that no matter what may arise in your life from this day forward, there is a remedy in the word of God for it, no matter what it is or where it comes from, and you're gonna know how to not let yourself be discouraged by the simplest of things or by the greatest of things that your life has experienced thus far. In the book of Deuteronomy, the word of God, God is speaking to the children of Israel through his servant Moses, and this is some of what he spoke unto them, and ye murmured in your tents. They had tents back then, we got houses. Some of us, so we can say today a lot of us are murmuring and complaining in our homes, just like they was in their tents. And ye murmured in your tents and said, This is what you were saying in your house, in your tent. Because the Lord hated us. Come on now, come on. We'll be surprised how we can let discouragement and despair cause us to gravitate to a place that we started talking just as foolish as we think. But wouldn't that foolish talk cause us to even put our lips against God to say some of the worst things and the ugliest things we could ever say? And if we haven't said it yet, we allow those things already, the thoughts to come into our mind. We ain't said it yet, but we done thought it. But in the case of the children of Israel, not only had they thought it, they had already spoken, saying the Lord, because the Lord hates us, He has brought us forth out of the land of Egypt. God brought me out of this trouble, He brought me out of my Egypt because He hates me. He brought me out of this trouble or caused this trouble to come upon my life because He hates me. My marriage ain't worth for Quala because He hates me. I ain't got the job I want because He hates me. My life ain't never gone right. Nothing go right for me. That's because God hate me. See how foolish that is. And you murmured in your tents and said, Because the Lord hateth us, he has brought us forth out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the land of the Amorites to destroy us. God didn't let the devil do this to me because he wanted the devil to destroy me. So he delivered me, delivered us into the hands of the Amorites, them pagan nations. Folks of my job don't like me. God done delivered me into these roots. Unsaved folks because he wants to destroy me, because he hates me. That's so foolish. Even if you don't say it, that's foolish to even think that. But see, discouragement will cause us to think foolish and talk foolish. If our minds are not stayed on the Lord, if we don't keep our minds on the Lord, if we have no knowledge of his word, because I'm here to tell you, if you follow the word of God in times of distress, in times of discouragement, the Holy Ghost, which ain't got to yet, he is another comfort that the Lord does sit back in the comfort of us. If we but had the Holy Ghost and the Word of God in our lives, automatically, when discouragement comes, the Holy Ghost will give you something to comfort you. So you won't think foolish and won't talk stupid against the Lord your God, who is the God of all comfort. Moses wasn't through with them. The Lord still talked to him. He said, Where the shall we go? This is what we were saying in their tents, in their houses. Know how stuff we say, we ain't saying it at the church, we ain't saying it around other folk, but in our home. I bet the one you married to hear you complaining all the time, talking negative all the time, talking doubt all the time, talking fear all the time. Oh, you better not do that because you know what's gonna happen. You know, if you do that, you're gonna get sick. Instead of talking faith and talking trusting in the law, sitting up and saying, Well, what we gonna do? What we gonna tell? Our brethren. Then on top of that, instead of listening to God, we listen more to the people than we listen to God. We listen more to the people more than we we listen to what the word of God is saying. Not only top of that, God hate us. We don't have nowhere to go. He brought us out of Egypt and he put this on us because he don't like us no more, God don't love us no more. And then on top of that, Moses said, This is what many sending in your tent. You said, our brethren have discouraged us, have discouraged our hearts, saying, The people is great, the trouble that you're facing. It's great, it's too big, it's bigger than you. You know what the people don't tell you? You can't go down there and win. You can't come against, you can't stop them for doing what they're doing. Moses says, The people, you were standing in your tent, the land that I told you that belonged to you. The blessing that I told you was yours. Instead of looking at the blessing and listening to what I told you was gonna come to pass in your life, you listen to what people said and let them talk you out your blessing. You looked at the situation and let the situation make you think you can't have what I told you I was gonna bless you with. And you done let it, you see, you messed up because you don't let it come out your mouth. You done spoke it. And I told you not to speak those things. Because when you speak things that are not according to my word, you release those things into your life. Because you just spoke it on your life. Instead of speaking what my word says was for your life, you spoke something totally different. And you can now, the Bible, like my word say, you're gonna have what you say. But this is what you said about what you saw in the land. The people is greater and taller than we are. Who cares? The cities are great and the wall up high to heaven. We're a tall wall, them big cities. People taller than us. I don't care who taller than you, who you think greater than you. None of that stuff God told you to compare against yourself. It was supposed to be comparative against God, and ain't nobody taller than God. Ain't nothing greater than God. Whatever you're looking at, is it greater than God? Whatever you're going through, isn't greater than God. Whoever you're looking at, are they greater than God? But most had to tell the children, it's just what you're going around saying in your tape and your eye. You ain't talking faith at home, you ain't talking that book. The people is greater and taller than we are. They ain't taller than God. Your salvation ain't compared to you, it's compared to what God said you. Then they were saying the cities are great, big cities, and the walled up too high. They got big walls around their cities. Then they see you how you talk fear when you get discouraged. They went through, he said something else to them. He said, and moreover, and even more you talking this, we have seen the sons of the anakims there. I wish I had time to go. I'm gonna do a series on the anekim. But these were the people that that a generation of giants. See, a lot of us, we even though we don't have uh the anecdot physically with us today, supposedly, the spirit of thinking that stuff is giant in your life is our problem. Because we look at our situation and we already have looked at it and thought that it's bigger than we can handle. It's greater than we can handle. And we see it as a giant as something that cannot be overcome. But I'm still saying I don't care how big these giants in the land was in that day, not none of them was more of a giant than God. And we should not see discouragement as a giant over what God is and who He is in our lives. Thinking and talking when the spirit of discouragement come and came and upon them to attack them in their minds and their hearts. And we, as a people in our day, in our generation, must not let the spirit of discouragement come upon our lives and cause us to talk and think outside of the truth of God's word. But see, when you don't know God, come on now, come on. When you don't know God, we see when you don't know God if you don't know his word, and when you don't know the word, you have no defense against what will come upon you in the form of discouragement, in the forms of trouble, in the forms of despair. You don't know that you have a defense in the word of God, and you will never know and cannot know this until you know the word of God. Moreover, the Anakin's is dying now. Them giants is dying now. That bill is five hundred dollars. What are we gonna do? God don't put all this on because he hates me. God must don't love me no more. Lord have mercy. Well, I'm gonna tell you, don't talk that foolish around me. Because I'm gonna rebuke you. I'm gonna rebuke you out of love. Then I'm gonna take you to the word of God and pray that you let it in. See, because if we're so quick to believe what the spirit of discouragement is telling us, why we can't use that same energy and just believe what God is telling us? See, it's a fact that we can believe, but it's what we believe and who we believe in. It's what we put in our belief. That's the problem. Or we have a problem with wavering. It's it's it's easy to believe God on Sunday. Oh, but Monday morning. Monday morning. Wednesday afternoon. Friday night. She just keep believing God no matter what the time is. No matter what the day is. Our faith in God should be consistent and never wavering. Never moved away from where our hearts are in Him. Well, my brothers, my sisters, even in that, if we have ever had moments of discouragement, if we have had moments of weakness talking, weakness in our thinking, I'm here to tell you this that the God of all comfort, hallelujah, listen to me. He's still merciful. He's still long son.

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Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. He's hallelujah.

Pastor Rickey D. Dixon 23:21

He's still faithful. Because even when Moses, when the Lord spoke to Moses, and he told them about they self. And showed them they self and what they was doing. Exposed to them what they were saying. Because they were saying in their tent, God heard you. Where you at? He hid you in your house when you're talking. Merciful. And see in his mercy. God has a tendency a lot of times when he's trying to show us ourselves, he'll also bring us back around and make us remember when he showed himself to us. Remember when I did this for you? When I did that for you, you ought to show enough know that I'm able. After I had to rebuke you, the Lord spoke to Moses, then I said unto you, dread not, don't worry. Neither be afraid of them, them troubles, them anekims, them giants. I'm telling you, don't be afraid of. Since you think I hate you, let me show you that I love you. The Lord, listen what he said. The Lord your God. Hallelujah. Which goeth before you. See, God is always in the front of us. God ain't gonna be behind. He's gonna lead the way. The Lord, your God, which goeth before you, He shall fight for you. It don't matter if it's an anchor down there or the Anne ain't he. It don't matter what's giant or big in your mind. God, you ain't gotta worry about it because God's gonna be in the front of you. And not only He ain't in the front just to be walking in front of you. He's in the front because he's the one gonna fight for you. You know, the only thing God wants us to do is you just have faith in me and sit back and watch me fight this fight for you because your faith is in me. I do the fighting if you do the faith in. The Lord your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you. And put strong emphasis on that share. When you read that word share, it's gonna be done. He shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you. God doesn't even mean he already done stuff for you. Yeah, he already done did some things. He's gonna still be the same God. According to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes. Wait a minute, Lord. Wait a minute, Jesus. You trying to tell me that even while I was still in Egypt, there were some things you've done for me. See, we're trying to focus on what God done done since he brought us out of Egypt. But don't forget the stuff he did for you while you were still in Egypt. He said I did it before your eyes. What I did, you saw what I did. I wasn't scared to be down in Egypt. I was in Egypt with you. And showed you my great and powerful hand before your eyes. You saw what I did. You don't think I can be the same God now that I done brought you out? Not that this, not that even though this comes me to still following you, I'm still in front of you to fight for you. According to all that I did for you in Egypt before your eyes. We ain't even said that what God really done did for us. We tend to forget because it's been three or four years, because it's been five or six years. We'll forgot when we needed God the most, God was there for us. Why we can't, why our faith cannot stay consistent and keep believing God once he has shown himself before our own eyes what he can do, that he was able. Five years later, something come up on us, and now we want to get discouraged. Have we forgotten that God does not change? Have we forgotten that this is the same God that stood before us five years ago? He's the same God that's standing before us five years later. And he is still willing to show himself before our eyes that we will see it for ourselves. Not only that, Moses, he told him that what God did for you while you were still in Egypt. Then he goes on to tell him in verse 31, and even in the wilderness, when you got in the wilderness out of Egypt, where thou hast seen how that the Lord thy God bear thee. I carry, I'm the one carrying you when you left Egypt and went in the wilderness. I'm the one carried you in the wilderness. You didn't care yourself. Listen what God is telling the children of Israel, but he's saying to us today, too, as well. He said, and in the wilderness. That means he was carrying. The word bear means he was carrying you. And I might as well tell you right now, God is still carrying us. We ain't never carried ourselves. Tell me, one day wouldn't you carry it yourself. Ma'am. Not one day have we carried ourselves. Each and every day, the Lord, our God, hallelujah, bears us up and carries us through each and every day that he allows us to live. See, the Lord, thy God bear thee. As a man, this is what he describes, and he gave this analogy. Moses gave this analogy to him. As a man does bear his son, in other words, he said, like a man pick up his own son and carry. Or like a woman when she's carrying a baby on her hip. That baby ain't worried about that. He just carried. His mama got him, daddy got him. That's why I carry you. Because you were my hip baby. You're my hip children. I carry you because I'm your father, I'm your God. As a man doeth bare his son, in all the way that ye went, everywhere you went, them all them 40 years that you was in the wilderness, I, the Lord your God, carried you. And what God is trying to tell us today, even in the midst of this carriage, even in the midst of a corrupt, wicked world, even in the midst of trouble and chaos and things going on in our lives and around us and other people's lives, I am still the one that is carrying you. Wherever you go, I'm gonna carry you if you put your faith in me. And if you know that I'm the God of all comfort, I got everything you need, and I want to be everything to you if you let me. As a man does bear his son in all the way that he went, until you came into this place. Even I've been carrying you up until where you are now in your own life. Whatever place you are in your life now, today, if you want to look back over your life, the last 30, the last 40, the last 50 years, each and every day I have carried you up until the place you are now. And you still don't believe me. And you've got the nerve to sit around and let discouragement take a root in your life. I'm not saying you can stop discouragement. I'm saying you can still trust me. And the strength of your faith and trust in me should be stronger than the hope that any discouragement should have over your heart and over your mind. Because I've been caring you. And I've been loving you up until where you are in your life, wherever you are in your life right now. I'm the reason for that. You would never have gotten here had it not been meant for me. Wherever you are in your life, you would have never gotten to that place had I not carried you, had I not buried you as a father, carry his son, as a mother, carry her daughter. And just like you attempt to carry your children, know that you are my children, and I have carried you, because I am your father and your God. Even after Moses shared that with them, he had to go home and tell them. He said, Yet, in this thing, whatever you're going through, this thing you're going through, yet in this thing you did not believe the Lord your God. Lord have mercy. Yet in this, you still, this thing you're dealing with, this thing you're going through, you still didn't believe in me. Because your focus was too strong on the situation, your focus was too strong on the discouragement. Your focus was all too strong on what you wanted to do in pitying yourself. Nobody understands because I can't take no more. I'm tired. I ain't got no more strength. Well, stop trusting in your strength and trusting the strength of God. Because you should have given to God a long time ago and left it there. The spirit of discouragement will try and turn us against God, y'all, and we can't let that happen. Not even a speck, not even an eye odor. Our complete trust, our complete hearts and mind, our whole mind, our whole self must always trust in God, no matter what happens. Even if it caused our lives, even if we never, according to the world standards, have what we think we ought to have. His will be done. Yet, in this thing, this is what he told, you did not believe the Lord your God. I'm talking about he said, the very God that went, who went in the way before you to search you out a place to pitch your tent. See, God, hallelujah, hallelujah. What they failed to realize was God had already searched out a place, especially just for them. A special place in him that will be a symbolic to the special place that he was leading them to, the promised land. You think I hate you just and I'm doing all this for you because I hate you? You don't realize because you can't see that I'm allowing all this you to go through all this. I'm allowing all this to happen because when you get to the place and you find out why I did all I did or allowed all that I allowed in your life, it was to get you to this place that I had secretly searched out for you to abide, to pitch your tent. Because see, Moses goes on to tell them, before they got to this place, God led them. And I hope God give me a message on this particular text. I'm gonna show you right here. Before they got to where he was had searched out for them, Moses told him, he said, in the he led you in a fire by night to show you by what way you should go. And in a cloud by day. I want a message on that, Lord, to explain to us what that pillar of fire meant when he was leading them at nighttime. And in the daytime, when they didn't need the light of the fire, he led them by a cloud. There's a message in that I wanted, Lord, whatever the Holy Ghost gave to them. I'm gonna preach to y'all. Moses wanted the people to realize and to see just how good they had it when God went before them. Come on, my brother and sister. We got to understand and see how good we got it, knowing that God goes before us. The God who cannot fail, the God who changes not goes before you. He's before your trouble, he's before your dilemma, he's before discouragement, he's before your sadness, he's before your unhappiness, he's before your heartache, he's before your burdens because he is the God of all comfort. There is a reason why so many people who are called by God fail in times of trouble. Cause as soon as some troubles come into our lives, losses come into our lives, immediately Jesus said this: we are offended. We become offended in Jesus, we become offended in God, we become offended in his word, we become even offended by the very life we thought we was living. Because of trouble, knock us for a loop, because trouble brings something we weren't prepared for, because trouble and this and and discouragement brings something that we didn't think we could handle, and a lot of this is because we know not our comforter. I said, we know not our comforter, we know not who he is. So we walk around oblivious to his presence, and we walk around consumed with oppression, and our lives are overtaken by this cursement, Solomon, the son of David, in his writings, being a wise man, very wise man, in some of his writings in Ecclesiastes, you will find him writing this, and I read it to you. Solomon says this, he says, So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun. Solomon researched a lot of things. That's a whole nother case study of what he actually studied, but a lot of things he researched and he found, he would also use the term under the sun, which means everything. Everywhere that he could ever research and realize everything under heaven, which is under the sun on earth. He says, So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the earth, all the oppressions under the world that can come upon mankind, that mankind can be susceptible to. He says this, and behold, this is what he saw. The tears of such as were oppressed, all the tears I saw in the eyes of mankind, the weariness, the troubled hearts that was made noticeable by the many tears that they shed. He says, Behold, the tears of such as were oppressed. This is what he discovered. And they had no comforter. Listen at that. Listen at that. And they had no comforter. No one to comfort them. No one to console them. In their time of grief, in their weariness, in their discouragement. They had no comforter. And on the side of their oppressors, there was power. See, when you don't know you got a comforter, that gives those or whatever's oppressing you, that gives them more power because they know you feel you don't have no way out and that you can't get out. So that gives them the power to keep on doing what they're doing. And on the side of the oppressors, there was power, but they had no comforter. That's just one verse. See, when we don't feel we have a comforter, or when we feel there's no way out, nowhere to turn, nobody to turn to, that gives that thing that has a host of our hearts and minds the power to continue to have a host on our hearts and minds without releasing itself from us. And I'm here to tell y'all, let me tell y'all this here. If we save allow things to have a continuous hope on our hearts and minds, it will destroy us. You might as well get real with this thing. If we keep letting the sum of the stuff that has taken a hold on us for years and decades, and we don't hurry up and find some hope through God for that thing to be released, it will destroy us. And like Solomon discovered in his research, because they was oppressed because they had or felt like they had no comfort. If they knew God. So many people don't know, they don't have to walk around here depressed and oppressed and sad and unhappy each and every day of their life. You don't have to walk around like that, but the spirit of discouragement and the spirit of the devil will have you to continue to live your life in such misery and such deep depression that you will all have to truly dig your way out from the depths of where it has taken you in order to reach God. Because the longer depression and discouragement stay on you, it continues to sink you continuously in the depths of it, in the darkness of it. And by doing that, it creates over time a great distance between you and God. And to get back to God, you're gonna really have to apply yourself and work to dig yourself out of that depression to reach God and finally come back to a place where your burdens have been lifted, your heart has been re-energized, your mind has been regulated, and your situations have changed. Your fears have come back, and you have come back to faith and release the fears. You have released the wavering, and you have come back to a place of trusting in him. What is gonna have to you go is gonna require fighting? You have to fight for your life, you have to fight for your relationship with God, you have to fight for the truth, you're gonna have to fight to make them things take their hands off of you, and trust that God will fight for you if you have faith in him. Because the last thing he wants you to believe and think is that you are here on the earth. The last thing God wants you to think is for you to think that you don't have a comfort. The last thing God wants you to think is that you don't have nobody, that you don't have him on your side. If you just trust, God does not want us to not believe that he's not able, he wants us to know that he is able. And equipped us with the power to overcome this spirit, this demon, these attacks. I'm gonna show you in the word of God. Paul is gonna tell the church in Corinth, what are we going through times of affliction? He's gonna say this to him. What are you going through times of affliction or what are you going through times of comfort? It's all gonna produce the same thing toward your salvation. He's gonna tell you this. I'm what I ain't gonna get to Corinth today, don't look like, but I'm telling you, it's in the word. But it's gonna be something he wants us to realize. That whatever we're going through, other words he's saying, whether you're going through bad times or good times, it's all God gonna use all of it, all of it for your salvation. So I returned, Solomon says, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun, and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comfort. You gonna cry when you ain't got no comfort. It's gonna be a lot of tears when you don't think you got no comfort, and on the side of their oppressors there was power. Because, see, when you when you don't know you got a comfort, that's gonna give your oppressors power. Because they know you ain't got they don't think you believe you got nothing against them. Because they had no comfort. Looking around at the world that is rejecting God's ways and statutes. Solomon saw oppression everywhere, and the press, those that were oppressed, had no confidence because they weren't trusting in God. It is still true that there is much rejection of God. See, when you reject God, you reject your confidence. That's why it's still true in the world that we live in today, there is still much rejection of God by the world and its inhabitants, and oppression and discouragement follow along with it. You reject God, oppression and discouragement are gonna come right along with that. But we must be aware and know that our comfort and our encouragement is available in God through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Because when you know this, you will know, and if you didn't know it, you will begin to know that our God is the God of all comfort. Do not miss part two of this particular series, the God of all comfort. Lord say the same on next Sunday. I want to get into how Paul addressed the church in Corinth. I want to get into the experience that David had with discouragement, and I want to bring us to where Christ and God has fixed it. Well, we are never to feel like or be or feel like we are without a comforter. And I want to show you how when he spoke this to the disciples before he left here. See, Jesus is the ultimate comforter. While he was on earth, the twelve disciples, he told them that he was their comforter. But he said he got to go back to the father, is which is why he said that he's gonna pray to the father that he send you another comforter. The Holy Ghost is not the original comforter. Jesus is the original comforter. The Holy Ghost is a comforter, but he is another comforter in the absence of Jesus. Since Jesus went away, he was not gonna leave us without help. He was not gonna leave us without a comforter. I don't want to deal with that in part two. Lord, say the same thing on next Sunday, which will be our first Sunday, which will be the part two will be my pastoral message for next Sunday, which is first Sunday. Lord, say the same thing. Allow us to live to see it. And I hope and pray that I've said something to stir us up in this area. And before I'm done, we will know how to combat, fight, and withstand discouragement and all those other imps that fall along with him. In the name of Jesus.