DIVINE INSTRUCTIONS (6)

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Praise the Lord, everybody, on today. Minister Anthony Bonner here of Truth Turned Up Ministries, another episode of the Gospel, the Game, and the Glory. Divine Instructions. Episode number six. Hallelujah. In the name of Jesus. We continue to come forth proclaiming the unfiltered, uh, uncomparable, all-powerful, all-needed, all misunderstood gospel of Jesus Christ, proclaiming the path, which he clearly lays out in John 14 and 6 when he says, I am the way, the truth, and the life, giving divine instructions of how we are to live our lives and submit and surrender our lives, that his purpose for our lives can be accomplished. We started out all of these podcasts with Generation Z in mind, particularly speaking to them while they're in their youth as they navigate this new world that they have inhabited of social media, of advanced technology, of all kinds of influencers and people, leading people in all types of directions, many of those directions away from the divine instructions of God and the kingdom of God. Everybody trying to create their own culture and live their best lives in this natural world that we live in, not obeying the divine mandates of God to seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and believing that all of the other things as spoken shall be added unto you, but seeking to build our own kingdoms, doing our own thing, not counting the cost or recognizing the consequences for going astray and being outside of the will of God and leaning toward our own understanding. Hallelujah. We want to talk about divine instructions, part six. In part five, we talked about hearing God's voice, how important it is. We came out of Deuteronomy 4 and 36, where Moses, who's the author, said, Out of the heavens, I made thee or created thee to hear my voice that I might instruct thee. We were not created to not hear God's voice and to not receive his instructions. We were created to hear his voice and to not only hear his instructions, but to take heed to those instructions and obey them. We see that in the book of Psalms 119 and 9, it asks a question to the youth of today. It says, Wherewithal can a young man cleanse his way thereunto by taking heed according to thy word? Cleanse his way. How can a young person cleanse their way in a darkened, dirty, evil, deceitful world that's looking to steal your vitality, your purpose, uh, your joy, your peace, your health, your resources, your relationships. It doesn't matter. He's a father of lies. He steals, kills, and destroys. And he wants it all. He wants you around here, a shell of yourself looking bad, misrepresenting the God who sent his only begotten son to reconcile you, to redeem you, to restore you to who you were originally created to be, which is a shining bright light, which is a king priest of the most high God, operating in power and authority. How else can a young man cleanse his way except by taking heed thereunto thy word? Listening to, obeying, seeking, hungering, thirsting, striving after, obediently walking in the word of God. So today, we want to give an example of someone who's rarely talked about throughout the scriptures of his obedience to that word and the fruit that he yielded. Divine instructions part six. That person we're talking about is Joseph. Joseph, the divine assigned servant to steward the safety and protection of the holy family, God's holy family. Joseph, who is in the lineage of David, King David, hallelujah. Joseph was in that lineage. Joseph was the husband of Mary. We know who Mary is and was in the scriptures. She was God's chosen vessel who was a virgin, but yet was chosen to bring forth Jesus Christ through immaculate conception, conceived a child with the Holy Ghost who had never been with a man. Hallelujah. God didn't give her just any husband. Hallelujah. He was a just man, meaning that he was a uh he was an obedient man. He was a man who was diligent and serious about his relationship with God. He walked in righteousness according to his understanding and the generation he lived in. And that obedience, that righteousness afforded him the opportunity to be chosen by God before the foundations of the world to operate in such an amazing assignment, to be the earthly father and protector of Jesus. Joseph was also a Nazarene. We know that Jesus was a Nazarene. That's why his name was Jesus of Nazareth. To be a Nazarene just simply mean you came from the region, the city of the town of Nazarene. Joseph was from the same region as Jesus. Hallelujah. Way before Jesus was interjected into the earth and came forth from Mary's womb, Joseph had already been identified as a Nazarene. As said earlier, he was a just and obedient man. And his love of the Messiah, of the God of Israel, is pretty evident by the way he lived his life. He had a quiet and silent elegance, which was displayed through his obedience. Early on in Matthew chapter 1, after he had been espoused or engaged to Mary, he finds out that she is pregnant with a child, and he knows that it is not his child, because he knows that they are obedient to the laws of their culture of not having premarital sex. Only laying with your wife after the marriage has taken place and been officially recognized in the culture, because marriage during those days was a big deal. Weddings went on for days, for weeks, for months, that those celebrations occurred. But we know that Joseph was just an obedient because even after Mary was identified as being with a child, it says that he was not willing to make her a public example and was minded to put her away privately. This man had empathy, he had sympathy on her, he had uh a real deep concern for her well-being. Joseph did not want to embarrass her, he did not want any harm to come to Mary, even though he himself was hurt, he himself was uh misunderstood or felt betrayed, but nonetheless, Joseph did something that many men in our generation won't do. He didn't react out of emotions immediately. He separated himself, he sat down, and allowed the Holy Spirit to minister to him. He could hear God's voice because he served God, he worshiped God, he lived for God, he walked upright in the purposes of God. That is a word right there for everybody in every generation because it's in that position that we are equipped to receive divine revelation from God. Unknown instructions to the human ears of people that the revelation is not intended for. You see, you have the logos, which is the written word, which everybody in every generation has access to. That's just the written word of God. This word can be manipulated, it can be interpreted, uh, it can be uh added to as well as taken away from. It's the Bible. It happens every day, uh, every Sunday, every generation, in churches through pastors, through through priests, through prophets, to apostles, to evangelists. It happens all the time. It says it in the Word of God that in the last days that many false prophets and false teachers were going to emerge. That is just the way it is. But when you're in Christ Jesus and you're obediently longing and thirsting and following after him, then you qualify to hear the voice of the Holy Spirit who was sent back to lead and guide us into all truth. And then you receive divine revelation. My personal experience with divine revelation is yes, I've heard God speak things to my spirit. Hallelujah. Big, small, and medium. Some that shook me to my core, like going into a homeless shelter. Yes, I heard him say it, and thank God he allowed me to obediently do it. And was I blessed as a result of it? But I've also had God speak through other people to give me a rhema word. People will call me on the phone even this day and go, the Lord gave me a word for you. And there's no greater honor or privilege to know that God has you on his mind and he's speaking to someone else about you, and they pick up the phone and call you and tell you the Lord told me to tell you. Now that will freak some people out because it's never happened to them. And they'll think it's a phony or it's not real. But I'll tell you something, young brothers and sisters. With God, nothing is impossible. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. God can use anybody at any time to do what it is he has ordained or planned to do in your life to you and for you. They don't even have to know you, they don't even have to like you, they don't even have to live in your city, they can live on the other side of the world. God can get them to do whatever it is that needs to be done for you because that's why he's sovereign. That's why he's in complete control. That's why he doesn't need to ask for help or worry about anybody doing anything that he has not commanded. It says it's in the book of Lamentations 3 and 37. It says, Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, and the Lord commanded it not? If God hadn't commanded it, it's not gonna happen. We can take silence in that. We can build a house on that. Your enemies can roar, they can rise up, they can threaten. But nothing just happens without God ordaining it to happen. John 9 and 39 says a man can receive nothing except it's given to him from above. It has to be given to that man from above in order for him to receive it. That can be a promotion on a job, that can be a relationship, that can be a blessing. Hallelujah. It can be a consequence, it can be anything, an open door, a closed door. They don't just happen. It happens because God has ordained it to happen and it's supposed to happen. That's a good place to put a pen in it right there and shout, my brothers and sisters. Because if I know I'm on a winning team like Joseph was, and I'm gonna walk upright and be a just man in the eyes of heaven, in the eyes of the creator of the universe, then I know that I am now pre-qualified to hear his voice and receive divine instructions. Instructions that are gonna allow me to really be who I was created to be, to operate at a divine level as a king and a priest to be able to intercede on behalf of this generation as well as the entire world. Glory to God, that my prayers will pierce the third heavens, that the enemy and all of his imps and all of his cohorts cannot stop my prayers from reaching the throne of God because I am aligned with God. Many of us think our prayers just automatically get through, and the Bible tells us that our prayers can be hindered when we're not aligned with God. We have to be in alignment with God. The Bible says in James 5 and 16, the effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Joseph was a righteous man. Just and righteousness can be alternated or interchanged because they're the same thing. A just man is a righteous man, and a righteous man is a just man. They are one in the same, and they both have access to the voice of God, who's the bridegroom in the name of Jesus. He's the groom, and we are his groomsman, and as his groomsmen, glory to God. In the wedding, we are able to hear his voice. The Bible actually calls us his bride. I just substituted groomsman because the groom will have uh men standing in that he normally spends time with prior to the wedding to relax, to calm down, to make sure he's organized and everything is in place and he can just enjoy the ceremony and go on. But within the word of God, when we come into the body of Christ, into this relationship with Jesus Christ, we are seen as his bride. Hallelujah. How ironic is that? Nonetheless, we're talking about being a just and an upright man. We're talking about this man named Joseph. Joseph didn't put Mary away. He went off to himself, and the first time he hears the voice of God giving him instructions is in Matthew chapter 1, verse 20. But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary, thy wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins. How amazing, how phenomenal. When you read the account of Luke in the first chapter, you'll see the angel talking to Mary directly. But in Matthew, he's talking to Luke, and he's given, um, excuse me, in Matthew, he's talking to Joseph, and he's giving Joseph divine instructions of what to do. She's pregnant, but she has not cheated on you, she has not been with another man, she has not disobeyed the vows, she has not. She's doing exactly what it is I have chosen her to do. And because our natural understanding is so finite and so limited, God bypassed his natural mind and had a divine representative, an angel of the Lord, come and speak to him in his spirit. Hallelujah. He reached him in his deepest parts, and it was then that it was able to renew his mind to receive what was being said. And he gave him the reason why in the next verse. Now, all of this was done that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Behold, a virgin shall be with child and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted as God with us. Hallelujah. Glory to God. God spoke to this man directly. He didn't use a priest, he didn't use a Sadducee or a Pharisee or a scribe or any other religious vessel during that time. God went directly to his man, which he's capable of doing, if you do your part in abiding in him, walking upright, allowing the Holy Spirit to keep you in the position of being just, not perfect, just to simply being in alignment. The Bible tells us that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. We all sin. Hallelujah. Sinners saved by grace. But yet we should be born again, born of the spirit and of water, so that we can see and experience the kingdom of God while here on earth, not waiting to die or transition to heaven to experience heaven when Jesus came that we might experience heaven in the earth, here and now, for his glory, to hear his voice, to do exactly what Jesus came to do in 1 John 3 and 8. It says, He that committed sin is of the devil. For the devil sinned from the beginning. For this purpose of this cause was the Son of Man made manifest that he might destroy the works of the devil. You and I are saved, my brothers and sisters. You and I are allowed to be just, to be righteous, to abide in the presence of God, that we might destroy the works of the devil. Not just to go to church, not to be religious, not to create followers, but to destroy the works of the devil. That's power and authority in Jesus' name because you're in position. As we move on, Joseph not only heard the words of this angel of the Lord, this representative, he had to do something with it. Like, what are you going to do when you hear the voice? What are you going to do when the Holy Spirit comes upon you and give you an instruction that makes absolutely no sense to your finite, limited, moral, cornal, corrupt mind, to your religious mind, that doesn't encourage you to seek to hear the voice of God on your own, that only wants you to hear the voice of the pastor and the vision of the church. Because after all, they're just trying to build bigger buildings to get more bodies in. They're not really trying to equip you to be this new creature that's in Christ Jesus, this spiritual creature. Hallelujah, that can transcend or uh us sin above what is known in the carnal realm. To return back to your original state that Adam was in before the fall, where he could walk through the garden in the cool of the day, naked but yet clothed. Hallelujah. Clothed with the spirit of the everlasting God. Able to do things then that we can't do now. God gave him the awesome responsibility of naming all of the animals. Hallelujah. Adam had no education, no GED, no high school diploma, no bachelor's degree, no associate's degree, no PhD, no MD, nothing. Only the fact that he was created in the image and likeness of his God from the dirt, from the dust. But he had the ruha, he had the Rhema, he had the Zoe life in him, the breath of life. Because God himself breathed it into him, and from that, he had the mind of God. He was able to think like God, to perform like God, because he was a God. And all of those in this dispensation, in this generation, in this age that we live in, because of the blood of Jesus, if you have been born again and you allow him to be your Lord, because you deny yourself, you pick up your cross and you follow after him and you incline your ear to seek him and you hunger and thirst after righteousness, he said, You shall be filled. You too can operate as a little G in this world, serving the big G and defeating the God of this world, who's Lucifer, Satan, the adversary, the enemy. Hallelujah. Joseph got the instructions not to put Mary away. For the child that was conceived in her was of the Holy Ghost. Verse 1 and 24 says, then Joseph, being raised from sleep, did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him and took unto him his wife. Obedience. There's no need in hearing the word of God if you're not going to obey it. Hallelujah. There's no need of hearing the word of God if you're not going to obey it. I went to a church service early this morning just because I was led to go. I'm not a member of the church. I won't be a member of that church. I will continue to try and be a church, a church that's on the move throughout the world, fulfilling the great commission that God ordains as He has the last 18 years to walk through doors, whether they're on Wall Street, in a foreign nation, in a drug or alcohol rehabilitation center, in a collegiate or high school locker room, in the gym, in the cleaners, in the grocery store, in my home, or even ministering in a church. I'm going to do as the Lord directs me, and I'm able to hear his voice and allow him to order my steps. This lady or this man did the same thing. How hard do you think that was, my brothers and sisters? It's like right now you have a girlfriend, which we shouldn't have a girlfriend because Mary, after all, is his fiance. She's not his girlfriend. She's not his boo thing. She's not his baby Namama. She's none of that. She is his fiance. They are a spouse, okay? They're engaged to be married. They're doing everything the way the law, the culture, and the customs of abiding in the kingdom dictate at that time and even at this time now, that we are not to engage in certain behaviors. If we are indeed children of the Most High God and we want a visitation from God, like Joseph and Mary, to be chosen to do amazing things, uncommon things, supernatural things. Hallelujah, that glorify God and advances his agenda, his kingdom in the earth. Imagine you and Joseph's shoes. Your fiance. You've been engaged to her. The wedding is set. Everybody in your city or your town knows that you are engaged. They know that you're just because you serve the Lord. And you're not shy about it. You're open about it all over social media. They know the way you live your life. They know your conversation, what you share when they interact with you. They see you as one of God's vessels. Then all of a sudden, your fiance pops up pregnant. Can you imagine the shame? Can you imagine the slander? Can you imagine the accusations? Especially in the day and age we live in right now, the internet would be blowing up. It would be on fire. How could you handle it? How could you go to school again, young person? How could you show your face in your athletic team? How could you walk the streets? You couldn't, because the shame and the slander and the accusations and the attacks would be so great. It would go viral over and over again. Because that's the viciousness of being unsaved. That's the viciousness of evil that exists in the time we're now living in. That's why we have to be diligent, diligent, and about our Father's business, allowing the Holy Spirit to shape, make, and mold us into divine beings, that we may be able to walk upright. The Bible says in the book of Ecclesiastes, the seventh chapter, the 29th verse, it says, Lo, this only have I found or beheld, that God has made man upright. But lo, they have sought out many inventions. Inventions meaning ways to do it opposite or an alternative way than God ordained. Marriage being one of those ways. We've tried to reinvent marriage between a man and a woman, or even sex before marriage, children before marriage, and many other things culturally accepted, culturally correct, normal, no fire, no foul, none of that. It's the sign of the time. So we roll with it, we're numb to it. There was a time in previous generations, my father and mother generation, that when a man and a young woman got ahead of the process and they had children, that young man was expected to marry that woman and get her out of her father's house. Now his future would be forever changed simply because he was now a husband and a father, and he would be required and expected to put food on the table, forever altering the course of his life, operating outside of the will of God, doing it his way, creating his own inventions and own devices. That was not Joseph. So because Joseph was obedient, he's qualified to hear the Lord's voice. We talked about the first time he heard it. Let's talk about the second time he heard it. In chapter 2, in verse 13, Joseph had gone on, he's married her, he's taken her down to Bethlehem. And in verse 13, it says, and when they were departed, they're talking about the wise men who had come and bestowed gifts upon Jesus. They came from the east, they saw the star. The star led them all the way to Bethlehem over the manger that Jesus was born in. And they came in, and the Bible says that they gave treasures. They opened their treasures and they presented him with gifts: gifts of gold, uh, gifts of frankincense, and gifts of myrrh. And it talks about the wise men that they were warned of God in a dream. Hallelujah. These wise men who were not necessarily followers of the way, they didn't necessarily worship the God of Israel. But God spoke to them because he can speak to whoever he wants. We see that God spoke to a donkey once. Hallelujah. That God can speak to whomever he chooses, whenever he chooses, without their permission or without other people even knowing. So verse 13 says, And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise and take the young child and his mother and flee from Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word. For Herod will seek the young child to destroy him. Now imagine if Joseph was not in position. And just say any president, any president of any nation was trying to kill your child, because they believed your child would be the next president of that nation. And they knew where you were, and they had access to an army or many other people, spies, soldiers, who could wipe you out in an instant. That was the case of Joseph. But because he was divinely positioned, but because he was a just man, because he was an obedient man, because he loved God, because he loved the laws of God, because he saw it not wrong to be in alignment with God. It blessed the Holy Family. It allowed him to be chosen by God, to do something amazing for God. That encourages me, my young brothers and sisters. And I hope it encourages you. Because we're not talking about religion, we're talking about relationship and we're talking about something real that happens. We're talking about something that will bless you, your seed, and your seed seed. Because the blessing that falls on your life goes down to the next generation, and you break all generational curses and you establish generational blessings, all because of your willingness to come out from among them, to have ears that hear, to be doers of the word, and not only hearers of the word, to walk with the Lord, to allow the Lord to walk with you, to abide with you, to clothe you and come upon you, to redeem you out of the hand of the enemy, out of the darkness of this world. Joseph could hear him. Joseph obeyed him. When you go down a little further, in that Matthew 2nd chapter 19, it says, But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appears in a dream to Joseph in Egypt. So the same God used an angel to send him into Egypt. That same God sent another angel to talk to him while he's in Egypt. He tells them that your enemy is dead. And he gives them another instruction in 20, saying, Arise and take the young child and his mother and go into the land of Israel, for they are dead with salt, the young child's life. How much peace would you have? How amazing would your life be if you could hear the voice of God all because you chose to, all because you lived an intentional life too, all because you dared to be different than what the world says you should be and what you can do. That you would do what Acts 17 and 28 says, in him we live, move, and have our bend. Well, I can't be in him unless I'm a spiritual creature, because God is a spirit, the Bible says, and those that worship him must worship him in spirit and truth. I cannot worship him being a carnal, nasty, filthy, lustful, sexually uh uh uh aggressive, drunken, drug-infested, lying creature. Now I can come to him in that matter, most certainly, because he says, Come as you are. He says, Come unto me, all ye who labor and are heavy laden, and I'm gonna give you rest. The rest he's gonna give you is gonna be because you're resting in him. And if you're resting in him, you're gonna rest in him only because you've been conformed, you've been transformed, your mind has been renewed, you've made up your mind to follow him. It's like living in someone else's house. You gotta live by their rules. You can't come up in my house smoking cigarettes or cigars. You can't come up in here drinking gin and juice. You can't come up in here and just take your shoes off and throw them all over the living room and put your feet up on the cocktail table. You can't come in here eating, not wash your dishes behind yourself. You can't go to the bathroom and not blush the toilet or let the top down or the seat down. You can't just leave your dirty tiles on the floor. You got to be considerate of the rules and the structure and the culture of the house. We're talking about the kingdom of God. You can't rearrange his kingdom. You have no power and no authority over he who is, who was, and who is to come. He's an almighty God. He's an all-powerful God. He's ordained your beginning and your end. Only he is the Alpha and the Omega. Imagine how great life would be if you could just hear his voice to avoid a lot of the traps, a lot of the troubles, a lot of the tribulations, a lot of the tactics of your enemy who comes to kill, steal, and destroy, who's always staring people up to come against you, to attack you, to provoke you to jealousy and envy, to get you into anger. If we could just be like Joseph and God could talk to us, and we know the moves of our enemy. Psalm 46 and 10. Be still and know that I am God, for I will be exalted among the heathen. I will be exalted in the earth. That's God telling you, just be still, stand up, stand in me with me. Psalms 1. Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. That's God. You're blessed. If you walk not in the counsel of the ungodly, that's the way of the world. That's the ways of the world, that's the culture. And he says, Bless if you not only not walk with them, if you don't stand with them. Hallelujah. Don't stand in the way with them. You shouldn't even be traveling in the direction they traveling in. Joseph was not traveling in that direction, which is why God could choose him and speak to him. Like many other men before Joseph. Noah, Moses, hallelujah, Abraham, yes, many other common vessels and women. Mary, Abigail, yes, Elizabeth. Thank you, Lord. We have to make a choice. We have to have a strong desire to be men and women who have ears to hear. Jesus tells us that in the book of Matthew, in the 11th chapter, the 13th chapter, and in the book of Marks, in the fourth chapter twice. He who has ears to hear, let him hear what the Spirit saith. Unto him. Who has ears to hear? So if you have ears to hear, that means you have a desire on a deeper level to hear what God is saying. So to have ears to hear is a deeper level of listening. And it's not only a deeper level of listening, it's a deeper level of listening with a willingness to obey, to discern, and to understand the mysteries of the kingdom of God. Because we want to be chosen by God. We want to be favored by God. We want long life. We don't want to be attacked by disease and sickness. We don't want lack and poverty to be a part of our household. We don't want our marriages and our relationships with our children to be upside down and troubled on one day, off the next day. We put 20 years into raising our kids. They go out to college or are grown now, but yet they don't want to come back around. Oh, because we were bad parents or they don't feel like we don't understand them or we've not imparted the love of God in them. Come on now. We not only want to hear his voice, young brothers and sisters, all my brothers and sisters, we want to obey his voice in the name of Jesus. He that has ears to hear the word of God says. How simple is that? He that had his ears to hear, let him hear. And he's not talking about just your two ears that are attached to your head. The ear of your heart. If you allow God to have complete control over your transformation and walk with him through the confusing times, through the dark times, through the lonely times, through the lean times, through the times of confusion, through the times of isolation, through the times of tribulation. It's in this place that you're chosen. It's in this place that you're prepared to be still, so that all of the noise, all of the cares of this world, all of the attacks of this world, all of the attachments of this world are now destroyed. And you're allowed to stand upright, to not walk in the counsel of the ungodly, to not stand in the way of sinners, to not sit in the seat of the scornful, and to really mean it when it says, But his delight is in the law of the Lord. And isn't his law doet he meditate day and night? That is Joseph. That is Mary. That's why she could be trusted to carry He who would take away the sins of the world. That's why he could be chosen to be the divine protector and guider and leader of the Holy Family. We thank God, my brothers and sisters. I challenge you in this hour to develop a hunger and a thirst for obedience to God's word. To not just go to church, but to become a church. To dare not to remain the same. The Bible says the wicked flee when no man pursue it, but the righteous are bold as a lion. We can be bold. We can stand against conformity and comfortability and remaining lukewarm and casual to the things of God. We have a casual church where everybody just gets along and acts like everything is okay and all is fine and all is well because we gather and we wear the same shirts and we're building bigger buildings and there's thousands of us. Hallelujah. That doesn't mean that everybody that attends are in the family of God. And we're not attacking anybody. We're simply calling a spade a spade and truth, true. The Bible said many are called, but few are chosen. If you want to be chosen, Then you better read about those who are chosen. You better be aware of the price that they pay to be chosen. And if you're going to a church or you're around church people who are telling you that price is lesser than, then I suggest you run as fast as you can and get away from them. Because the Bible says in Hebrews 13 and 8, and these are Jesus Christ's words. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forevermore. His righteousness, his goodness, his love, his mercy, his grace never goes on sale. It's free, yet it's costly. You have to abide in him. He says, Be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. You should be a new creature in Christ Jesus. You should live, move, and have your being in him. You should no longer desire the carnal things of the world, but you should be setting your affections on things above. Yes, you should want to have a fiance, not a girlfriend or a boyfriend. Yes, you should do as 1 Corinthians 6 and 19 tells you to present your, I'm sorry, that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost. Yes, your body is a temple of the Holy Ghost. That you were bought with a price, that you can't do what you want with it anymore. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. We gotta get bold, we gotta get righteous. We gotta get like straight up aggressive against the devil and evil. The evil in the world and the evil that abides within me. That's why it's a spiritual fight, and the apostle Paul tells us that we are to fight the good fight of faith coming against yourself. I speak it right now in the name of Jesus. God bless this generation, bless everybody who hears this word. Empower them, O Heavenly Father, with a divine impartation from on high. Lord Jesus, renew their minds, give them their right mind, their spiritual minds, O Heavenly Father, that they may no longer walk in darkness but in light. Remind them that they are creatures of the day. And as creatures of the day, they can walk upright. But as creatures of the night, they trip and they fall in the darkness of the night. I thank you that all is well. I thank you that your plan for all of mankind will come to pass. And we thank you in advance for the kingdom of God being advanced as you have assigned or have assigned to be a blessing to all that would dare enter into his gates and operate according to the kingdom mandates and according to the rights and privileges that are afforded kingdom citizens in Jesus' name. My brothers and sisters, this is Minister Anthony Bonner. I have nothing else for you but the gospel, the game of the enemy, and the glory that follows as you walk uprightly and abide in God through Christ Jesus. Seek him while he may be found. Let him bestow his love upon you, let him clothe you with his righteousness and see how you can have that life and have it more abundantly. In Jesus' name. Amen.