WEBVTT 00:00:00.479 --> 00:00:03.839 What's going on, my beloved brothers and sisters in Christ? 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:06.240 This is Evangelist Toby Doubt it. 00:00:06.639 --> 00:00:08.640 I am back again with another teaching. 00:00:08.720 --> 00:00:11.679 We are currently in the book of Philippians right now. 00:00:11.839 --> 00:00:16.559 I had took a detour and went into the book of Romans, chapter 8. 00:00:16.960 --> 00:00:28.320 Spoke on that, spoke about how to have effective prayer, spoke about what it means to truly be the adopted children of God, and who brings us into that adoption. 00:00:28.719 --> 00:00:46.560 We looked at the first example of physical adoption into the 12 tribes as we saw Israel, formerly named of Jacob, who took Joseph's two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, and put them over into the promises of the 12 tribes. 00:00:46.719 --> 00:01:23.760 Now, what's these promises of having the promised land and the covenant with God, whom was birthed through Abraham first, and then his son Isaac, who carried on that promise, and then now we get to Israel, formerly known as Jacob, who actually has the 12 sons, whom are going to be and play a very important role, and who did in the 12 tribes of Israel, which all of Israel eventually became birthed out of and became those 12 tribes, and Joseph's two sons were adopted into those promises. 00:01:24.079 --> 00:01:50.480 Alright, and so now we see how that went from a physical now into a spiritual situation with us as children, as adopted children of God the Father through the Holy Spirit, uh mainly because of Jesus Christ, who is our head, and whom our righteousness comes from, whom our faith comes from, whom our justification comes from, whom our no condemnation also comes from. 00:01:50.719 --> 00:01:54.000 Okay, so we're gonna continue in the book of Philippians. 00:01:54.079 --> 00:01:56.640 We left off at Philippians chapter 2. 00:01:56.719 --> 00:02:02.560 We finally got into there, and we are uh looking at verses 3 and 4. 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:09.360 Um, we saw the apostle Paul use some of the same wording language that we're gonna see eventually when we get to chapter 4. 00:02:09.599 --> 00:02:21.840 Um, and chapter 4 is very powerful, and it also talks about how to pray and how to have a pure mindset when we enter into the prayer room. 00:02:22.159 --> 00:02:44.400 A lot of people miss that when they're looking at chapter 4 in Philippians, and they don't see that the apostle Paul is giving us some keys and how to look at and perceive life that allows us a pure uh mindset when we go before God, making our specific requests known boldly to the Father. 00:02:44.560 --> 00:02:50.000 Okay, so now let's get on in verses 3 and 4. 00:02:50.159 --> 00:02:54.560 Because I told you I want to stop right there because this is very important, okay. 00:02:54.719 --> 00:03:19.840 Before we get to who Jesus was, once again, the apostle Paul is going to reveal to us in very key details of whom Jesus really was, and there's a reason for that, because the main thing that he's trying to get us to see is even though Jesus Christ is exactly who he said he was, he did not use that as an advantage over the people. 00:03:19.919 --> 00:03:40.560 He showed us what it meant to be humble and walk in humility, which are two hard things to do when because of what Adam did, he made us made that seem unnatural to us because of the sin natures that he birthed within us to be able to live a life of humbleness and humility, such as Jesus did. 00:03:40.639 --> 00:04:06.719 And buddy, I can tell you right now, I know it had to take a lot for Jesus to walk in this humbleness and humility, knowing who he was and what he could have easily done, and mentioned to Peter that he could have done if he wanted to, but he had to obey and be submissive to the word and the prophecy of God in order to bring forth what needed to be brought forth for all mankind. 00:04:06.800 --> 00:04:09.199 So let's go ahead and jump on into this thing right now. 00:04:09.280 --> 00:04:13.599 Let's get into Philippians chapter 2, verses 3 and 4. 00:04:13.759 --> 00:04:17.680 And I want to do make it known that I am reading from an amplified Bible. 00:04:17.759 --> 00:04:28.720 So my Bible may not read the same things that y'all do if you're comfortable with the Bible you've been using uh for however many long years you've been using it, or months, or whatever the case may be. 00:04:28.879 --> 00:04:32.800 The Amplified Bible has served well for me over these two years or so. 00:04:32.959 --> 00:04:34.800 I used to have one back in the day. 00:04:34.959 --> 00:04:47.040 Uh, I didn't realize how valuable it was for me as far as my perception of the word of God and how I'm able to teach it right now today in these last two years of going through it. 00:04:47.199 --> 00:04:47.519 Okay. 00:04:47.920 --> 00:04:54.319 Um, but if you want to rock with me, you don't have an amplified Bible physically within your possession. 00:04:54.399 --> 00:04:57.600 You can go to Bible Gateway, they have many versions on there. 00:04:57.839 --> 00:05:01.279 You can use the AMP edition, which is what I currently use right now. 00:05:01.439 --> 00:05:05.199 Okay, uh the AMP, not the AMP C classic edition. 00:05:05.360 --> 00:05:08.399 I do believe this is the better edition of the two. 00:05:08.639 --> 00:05:22.000 So without further ado, let's jump on into this because this is very important that we understand this because, like I said, because of the sin natures in us, it made it unnatural for us to live this way. 00:05:22.240 --> 00:05:34.639 Okay, but this is the way that if we live like this, we will have clearer understanding from the Holy Spirit and how to live lives according to the way that Christ lived his. 00:05:34.959 --> 00:05:36.560 So let's go ahead and jump on into it. 00:05:36.720 --> 00:05:48.000 Verse 3 it says, Do nothing from selflessness or empty conceit through factional motives or strife, making it all about yourself. 00:05:48.800 --> 00:05:56.720 I'm not gonna do unless I see what I'm going to be offering out of life in order to motivate me to do it. 00:05:57.040 --> 00:06:08.399 But with an attitude, look at this, of humility, being neither arrogant nor self-righteous, regard others as more important than yourselves. 00:06:08.560 --> 00:06:16.720 Once again, that's not a natural thing for us to do because sin natures have muddied the waters in this way of thinking. 00:06:17.360 --> 00:06:25.839 But now Jesus has come to help bring us back to this way of thinking because it's the way we should have been thinking before the fall. 00:06:26.079 --> 00:06:31.839 Okay, and so now we have to be retaught or relearned to live a life of selflessness. 00:06:32.000 --> 00:06:32.560 All right. 00:06:32.800 --> 00:06:41.360 Verse 4 do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others. 00:06:41.680 --> 00:06:46.800 Now, this makes it very hard because there are so many things that we desire we want to do. 00:06:46.959 --> 00:06:55.920 So to be told that we have to put our desires aside for the sake and seeking the good of others, that's not easy. 00:06:56.240 --> 00:07:00.879 But, ladies and gentlemen, there's a reason why we have to live our lives this way. 00:07:01.040 --> 00:07:05.759 In order to find that out, we need to go to Ezekiel chapter 28. 00:07:06.800 --> 00:07:09.519 Ezekiel chapter 28. 00:07:10.000 --> 00:07:14.800 And I want to start in the verses 11, and we're going to end in 19. 00:07:14.959 --> 00:07:19.439 Now, I will warn you, we read a lot of scriptures over here. 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:20.800 A lot of scriptures. 00:07:20.959 --> 00:07:31.120 I try to do my best to not lean so much on speaking out of my own mind, but allowing the word to do more of the speaking for me. 00:07:31.279 --> 00:07:33.040 Okay, as much as possible. 00:07:33.120 --> 00:07:36.240 That's why I try to focus on. 00:07:36.399 --> 00:07:41.120 So there's a lot of scriptural reading here, and a lot of people can't endure that, and that's okay. 00:07:41.279 --> 00:07:48.800 But for you that are hungry for this word, you will see why I do this when you guys study with me in this word. 00:07:49.040 --> 00:07:49.759 Alright, now. 00:07:49.920 --> 00:08:04.240 So, in order to understand why we have to live a life of selflessness and walk in a love that is not as natural to us as it would have been before Adam did what he did. 00:08:04.399 --> 00:08:09.839 It's because of this one person right here that distorted all of that. 00:08:10.000 --> 00:08:18.160 And you're gonna understand who I'm talking about, hopefully, that the Holy Spirit will bring it to you as I'm reading these scriptures, starting in verse 11. 00:08:18.399 --> 00:08:28.240 Now, the first part of this chapter, he starts off talking about this king who is in represent representation of the same mindset as this individual. 00:08:29.600 --> 00:08:46.240 Okay, then even though he's talking about this king, he's really talking about someone else, the main person who is the uh sole proprietor of thinking this way, now has birthed this way of thinking in all of mankind. 00:08:46.399 --> 00:08:49.519 Okay, so let's let's get on into it and let's look at it right here. 00:08:49.600 --> 00:09:06.000 And it says in verse 11 Again the word of the Lord came to me saying, He's talking to Ezekiel now, whom he has chosen as a man of God to preach forth the word of God that he hears from the Lord to the children of Israel. 00:09:06.240 --> 00:09:26.159 All right, he says, Son of man, take up a dirge funeral poem to be sung for the king of Tyree and say to him, Thus says the Lord God, You had watch this, the full measure of perfection and the finishing touch of completeness. 00:09:26.320 --> 00:09:33.759 Now, no man in this world anymore, because Adam fall had this type of ability. 00:09:34.399 --> 00:09:40.480 And this individual, now let's go ahead and call him Satan, made sure that that would be so. 00:09:42.080 --> 00:09:48.720 Because he wanted man to be like himself, foolish, arrogant, prideful. 00:09:48.879 --> 00:09:57.360 But watch what God, how he created him, says that you had the full measure of perfection and the finishing touch of completeness. 00:09:57.440 --> 00:10:07.200 This is the reason why don't fool yourself in thinking that you have the ability alone without Jesus to fight against Satan. 00:10:08.559 --> 00:10:20.240 Because look at these qualities that he was given when he was created, he had the full measure of perfection and the finishing touch of completeness, completeness. 00:10:20.480 --> 00:10:21.360 How did he have this? 00:10:21.440 --> 00:10:25.840 Watch this full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:35.039 See, because he was given all this full wisdom, it's why you can't deceive yourself in thinking you can fight him without this word right here. 00:10:36.960 --> 00:10:47.840 This is why Satan is a master strategist, and he showed his master strategy by birthing sin into the world. 00:10:49.360 --> 00:10:53.200 I like to call that the sin plantation. 00:10:54.000 --> 00:10:59.039 Now, y'all keep holding on and hanging out with me, you'll see what I mean by the sin plantation. 00:10:59.200 --> 00:11:05.679 I know those are strong words because we've had plantation and our people have been in slavery. 00:11:06.000 --> 00:11:06.320 Okay? 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:20.480 But there is a such thing as a spiritual plantation that we don't even realize because we've normalized so many things within it that we are currently, most of us are still walking in today. 00:11:21.120 --> 00:11:29.440 That God has broken, but we haven't yet come to the realization that that stronghold of sin has been broken yet. 00:11:30.080 --> 00:11:40.879 That's why most of our walk is still walking crooked paths, just like the woman who walked crooked and bent over for 18 years, and Jesus finally healed her so that she can walk upright. 00:11:41.200 --> 00:11:43.679 Some of us are still walking like that woman right now. 00:11:43.759 --> 00:11:45.519 But let's get us keep on going. 00:11:45.679 --> 00:11:50.480 So here's the description: he was full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. 00:11:50.639 --> 00:11:53.360 Now, watch what this beauty has has done to Satan. 00:11:53.440 --> 00:11:54.080 Watch this. 00:11:54.399 --> 00:11:57.200 You were in Eden, the garden of God. 00:11:57.360 --> 00:11:58.720 Yes, he sure was. 00:11:59.759 --> 00:12:05.279 Matter of fact, he was that serpent, that slick, slash serpent that spoke to the woman. 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:07.679 She didn't even have a name yet prior to this. 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:08.639 Alright, now. 00:12:09.440 --> 00:12:14.799 Every precious stone, here goes more description of who he was, was your covering. 00:12:14.960 --> 00:12:16.879 This man was beautiful in every way. 00:12:17.840 --> 00:12:22.320 One of the most expensive, valuable created beings you can ever see. 00:12:22.879 --> 00:12:25.519 For the ruby, the topaz, and the diamond. 00:12:25.600 --> 00:12:26.320 Look at this, y'all. 00:12:26.399 --> 00:12:34.240 All that he was created to be the barrel, the onyx, and this jasp, and the jasper, the leopards, loosenly. 00:12:34.480 --> 00:12:37.200 Now don't don't don't hold me to these words. 00:12:37.279 --> 00:12:38.639 Sometimes I'm gonna tear them up. 00:12:38.720 --> 00:12:40.399 I'm I'm not even gonna lie to you. 00:12:40.480 --> 00:12:41.679 So just just know. 00:12:41.840 --> 00:12:42.879 Bear with me. 00:12:43.440 --> 00:12:52.799 The turquoise and the emerald and the gold, the workmanship of your settings and your sockets, y'all, was in you. 00:12:53.039 --> 00:12:57.919 They were prepared on the day that you were what created. 00:12:59.360 --> 00:13:19.279 So this man had this this this this angel, the cherubim angel, Satan had all the beauty marks of expensive, valuable, valuable assets created on him. 00:13:21.279 --> 00:13:25.759 Not only did he have all of that, he had full wisdom. 00:13:26.159 --> 00:13:35.759 Meaning, you remember when King Solomon prayed that God would give him wisdom so that he can help better serve his people? 00:13:36.639 --> 00:13:44.159 God gave him wisdom to the point people were traveling to see if that wisdom was actually true from what they were hearing. 00:13:44.240 --> 00:13:48.320 And Queen Sheba came there and said, Wow, you have blown my mind. 00:13:48.399 --> 00:13:50.639 I've heard these great things about you. 00:13:50.799 --> 00:13:56.879 But it wasn't until I was able to see for myself that you were exactly what everybody was describing you to be. 00:13:57.120 --> 00:14:01.840 He had infinite wisdom, ladies and gentlemen, infinite wisdom. 00:14:02.159 --> 00:14:14.720 All the way down to God opened his mind up to where he understood uh the intricacies of animals, he understood the intricacies of this whole earth, creation, heaven, everything. 00:14:15.279 --> 00:14:16.960 He was able to explain all of that. 00:14:17.039 --> 00:14:21.519 And the Bible tells us that Satan was given this. 00:14:21.840 --> 00:14:31.519 See, this is why you can't be fooling yourself thinking that you, by yourself, without Jesus, who created Satan, can handle him. 00:14:32.080 --> 00:14:39.600 He's a lot more smarter than you in every way, and without this word, you can't challenge him. 00:14:41.360 --> 00:14:42.879 I want to make that known. 00:14:43.120 --> 00:14:48.720 So he was given full wisdom, had beauty, and we see the description of what all this beauty was. 00:14:48.960 --> 00:14:52.480 But even with that full wisdom, it wasn't the wisdom that tripped him up. 00:14:52.559 --> 00:14:54.320 Watch this, we're gonna see it in a minute. 00:14:54.559 --> 00:15:03.519 So on the day he was created for verse 14, you were the anointed cherub who covers, protects, and I placed you there. 00:15:03.600 --> 00:15:09.840 So now a cherubim angel is very important to God because he protects the sacred things of God. 00:15:09.919 --> 00:15:22.720 This is the reason why, after the fall of Adam and Eve, when God banished them from the Garden of Eden, put them outside of it, in order to protect it, he put cherubim angels there. 00:15:22.960 --> 00:15:26.559 In which one point in time Satan was the leader of. 00:15:28.799 --> 00:15:34.320 See, this is why Satan was so hungry for that throne that he helped protect every day. 00:15:36.639 --> 00:15:38.799 I want y'all to let that sink in for a minute. 00:15:40.720 --> 00:15:43.759 He was protecting this throne of God every day. 00:15:44.879 --> 00:15:49.440 And eventually he got so conceited in himself, he said, you know what? 00:15:49.519 --> 00:15:50.399 I can be God. 00:15:50.559 --> 00:15:52.159 I got all full wisdom. 00:15:52.320 --> 00:15:54.639 I'm more beautiful than any angel up here. 00:15:54.799 --> 00:15:56.799 I'm the head man in charge. 00:15:58.480 --> 00:16:00.960 Who needs God when I can be God myself? 00:16:01.200 --> 00:16:05.200 I'm already protecting the very throne that I actually have access to. 00:16:06.639 --> 00:16:10.240 Unfortunately for him, he's not powerful than the one who created him. 00:16:10.399 --> 00:16:11.679 So let's keep going. 00:16:12.159 --> 00:16:18.000 So he was an anointed cherub angel who covers and protects. 00:16:18.480 --> 00:16:19.919 This is part of what their job was. 00:16:20.080 --> 00:16:27.440 This is why you always see when you read in the Old Testament the description about cherubim angels being put on the ark and being put on. 00:16:27.519 --> 00:16:39.919 Uh even when King Sodom was building a temple, he had these cherubim angels built, representing the protections that they show and display in heaven. 00:16:40.320 --> 00:16:46.720 This temple was a physical representation on earth as to what heaven embodies. 00:16:47.840 --> 00:16:49.600 Alright, so now let's keep going. 00:16:49.840 --> 00:16:56.159 So he says here, you were on the holy, look at this, y'all, mountain of God. 00:16:56.480 --> 00:16:57.279 Watch this. 00:16:57.600 --> 00:17:02.720 You walked in the midst of the stones of fire, sparkling jewels. 00:17:02.879 --> 00:17:14.640 You were, watch this, y'all, blameless in your ways from the day you were created until, here we go, the turning point, unrighteousness and evil were found in you. 00:17:14.799 --> 00:17:15.119 Why? 00:17:15.279 --> 00:17:20.319 Because he developed a craving and a hunger for that which did not belong to him. 00:17:20.640 --> 00:17:26.960 And he thought he was actually capable of being what God was, the one who created him. 00:17:27.599 --> 00:17:29.519 Alright, so now let's keep going. 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:39.599 Through the abundance of your commerce, you were internally filled with watch this y'all, lawlessness and violence. 00:17:42.319 --> 00:17:51.440 Meaning there was no more uh hold of being able to convict him of him living unrighteously. 00:17:51.920 --> 00:18:00.240 He welcomed living evil, and that took precedence over God correcting him. 00:18:01.440 --> 00:18:02.960 Alright, let's keep going. 00:18:03.200 --> 00:18:05.519 And you what he did, you sinned. 00:18:07.680 --> 00:18:09.359 The first one to do so. 00:18:09.839 --> 00:18:16.240 And because what he did, he caused over a third of the angels, as we see in the Bible, to do the same thing and follow him. 00:18:16.799 --> 00:18:17.519 Watch this. 00:18:17.680 --> 00:18:24.559 Therefore, I have cast you out as a profane and unholy thing from the mountain of God. 00:18:24.799 --> 00:18:35.200 Now, right now, as of tonight, ladies and gentlemen, Satan is still able to come among the sons of God, the other angels, and have conversation with God. 00:18:35.359 --> 00:18:41.200 We saw that as a perfect example of when he came up and had a conversation with God about Job. 00:18:42.400 --> 00:18:51.599 But there is going to come a time where the final casting out, Satan will no longer have access in the heaven and the war will truly be on. 00:18:52.640 --> 00:18:58.640 That's why we have in that seven-year tribulation, Satan and his demonic friends are going to wreak havoc. 00:19:01.039 --> 00:19:06.799 They're going to do and have a joy for a time to rule. 00:19:08.319 --> 00:19:09.839 That time's going to be cut short. 00:19:09.920 --> 00:19:12.559 The Bible says that God is going to speed it up. 00:19:14.079 --> 00:19:16.960 So that he can help get his people through it. 00:19:17.839 --> 00:19:19.599 That remnant that is. 00:19:19.759 --> 00:19:21.200 Alright, now let's keep going. 00:19:21.440 --> 00:19:27.440 So from the mountain of God he has been cast from it, and I have destroyed you, O covering cherub. 00:19:27.519 --> 00:19:31.119 Now, this is again his future because he hadn't destroyed Satan yet. 00:19:31.279 --> 00:19:35.839 But according to Revelation chapter 20, that destroying is going to happen. 00:19:35.920 --> 00:19:37.839 And this is what God is talking about again. 00:19:37.920 --> 00:19:41.680 Now, now he will get his permanent casting down from heaven. 00:19:41.759 --> 00:19:45.759 He won't no longer, he will no longer have access to communicate with God. 00:19:45.920 --> 00:19:51.440 He will be sent and them third of the angels along with him, I believe, according to Revelation chapter 12. 00:19:51.680 --> 00:19:53.839 And the war will be truly on. 00:19:55.759 --> 00:20:00.480 And it's going to wreak havoc on the earth, specifically through the Antichrist. 00:20:00.640 --> 00:20:05.519 But his demonic followers will be taking over people and doing whatever they want to for a time. 00:20:05.599 --> 00:20:12.480 They will be ruling, and that's why he's going to sit up and uh desecrate that temple that is going to be built. 00:20:12.720 --> 00:20:17.839 Because that is going to be his place of residency for a little short time, for three and a half years. 00:20:19.759 --> 00:20:26.960 He's going to get a little few moments of fame to live out his dream of having a throne. 00:20:27.839 --> 00:20:36.480 Until he is finally cast into the lake of fire and will eternally be punished, just like everyone else that followed him. 00:20:36.559 --> 00:20:40.240 Alright, so now this is what God is alluding to here. 00:20:40.480 --> 00:20:44.079 He will be destroyed from the midst of the stones of fire. 00:20:44.240 --> 00:20:49.599 Your heart was, watch this, guys, proud and arrogant because of your beauty. 00:20:49.839 --> 00:20:51.759 Had nothing to do with the wisdom. 00:20:53.759 --> 00:20:56.079 He got conceited and caught up in himself. 00:20:56.160 --> 00:20:58.559 He looked in that mirror and said, Whoa, I look good. 00:21:00.640 --> 00:21:04.160 He fell in love with himself, ladies and gentlemen. 00:21:05.440 --> 00:21:09.759 This is the reason why God heavily preaches against self-importance. 00:21:11.359 --> 00:21:14.640 Because when you rock with self-importance, guess who you're rocking with? 00:21:14.880 --> 00:21:15.759 Satan himself. 00:21:15.920 --> 00:21:17.680 Alright, now, so let's keep going. 00:21:18.160 --> 00:21:21.119 He says, You destroyed, look at this, y'all. 00:21:21.440 --> 00:21:25.680 Your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. 00:21:25.920 --> 00:21:29.519 Ladies and gentlemen, need I keep saying this. 00:21:29.680 --> 00:21:32.000 The man fell in love with himself. 00:21:34.000 --> 00:21:37.920 He only uses his wisdom to dupe us when we don't know this word. 00:21:39.680 --> 00:21:48.079 But he is more in love with who he is and how he looks than the wisdom that he was given. 00:21:48.960 --> 00:21:51.839 I'm gonna go back and read that right now because maybe y'all didn't catch that. 00:21:52.480 --> 00:21:54.000 Watch what his beauty did. 00:21:54.480 --> 00:21:59.680 Because of the beauty that he was caught up in, the beauty helped to destroy his wisdom to make. 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:01.279 Decisions, right? 00:22:01.359 --> 00:22:02.160 Decisions. 00:22:02.400 --> 00:22:06.559 For the sake of your splendor, I cast you to the ground. 00:22:06.720 --> 00:22:10.319 I lay you before kings that they might look at you. 00:22:10.559 --> 00:22:20.400 You profaned your sanctuaries by the great quantity of your sins and the enormity of your guilt, by the unrighteousness of your trade. 00:22:20.559 --> 00:22:24.000 Therefore, I have brought forth a fire from your midst. 00:22:24.079 --> 00:22:26.000 It has consumed you. 00:22:26.240 --> 00:22:28.880 And I have reduced you to the ashes on the earth. 00:22:29.039 --> 00:22:35.519 In the sight of all who look at you, all the people, nations who knew you are appalled at you. 00:22:35.680 --> 00:22:40.160 You have come to a horrible and terrifying end and will forever cease to be. 00:22:40.319 --> 00:22:44.079 Now, there's talk in the book of Revelation. 00:22:44.319 --> 00:22:50.880 I believe you can look in Revelation chapter 18, talking about the great Babylon and talks about the harlot. 00:22:57.359 --> 00:23:07.680 Brought to not having people brought to tears because they were so caught up in themselves, mostly demonic activity causing them to be this way. 00:23:09.200 --> 00:23:16.319 Saying to themselves that God don't see what's going on, He's not gonna stop a thing, and then God comes and bring all that to not. 00:23:17.279 --> 00:23:22.000 The economic system brought the not, the religious system brought the not. 00:23:22.640 --> 00:23:23.839 It's gone. 00:23:25.200 --> 00:23:29.279 These are the things that God is talking about here that eventually he's going to do to Satan. 00:23:29.359 --> 00:23:32.720 He's gonna bring all of his power to nothing. 00:23:34.160 --> 00:23:44.160 And Satan will be eventually cast into the lake of fire along with everyone else that walked this life of self-importance. 00:23:46.240 --> 00:23:49.519 Now, let's keep on going into this self-importance. 00:23:49.599 --> 00:23:53.599 This is the reason why God doesn't want us walking in that way. 00:23:56.480 --> 00:24:05.759 Because he is protecting us from being caught up into the mindset of Satan, which leads to arrogance and pride. 00:24:08.000 --> 00:24:09.200 So let's keep going. 00:24:09.359 --> 00:24:10.799 Let's get on over here. 00:24:10.960 --> 00:24:13.839 Uh now that we've read, let's go to Galatians. 00:24:14.160 --> 00:24:20.720 Let's go to Galatians, and I want to read chapter six and look at verses one and two. 00:24:20.880 --> 00:24:22.559 Watch what it talks about here. 00:24:22.799 --> 00:24:26.480 The dangers of comparing ourselves to others. 00:24:37.519 --> 00:24:43.039 And I actually want to read verses three through five, is where I really want to go. 00:24:43.200 --> 00:24:45.599 Not Galatians 6, 1 and 2. 00:24:45.680 --> 00:24:49.759 I want to go to Galatians 6, verses 3 through 5. 00:24:49.920 --> 00:24:51.119 Watch this now. 00:24:51.599 --> 00:24:52.799 It started verse 3. 00:24:52.880 --> 00:25:04.720 It says, For if anyone thinks he is something special, when in fact he is nothing special except in his own eyes, he deceives himself. 00:25:04.880 --> 00:25:07.680 Now that is a tough one to swallow. 00:25:09.279 --> 00:25:19.359 That's why you have so many pastors that speak out of the wisdom of their own mind, because they want to be more important than allowing this word to do the speaking. 00:25:31.680 --> 00:25:32.559 Alright? 00:25:33.039 --> 00:25:41.119 And this is how you get caught up into yourself more so than humbling yourself before the Lord. 00:25:41.359 --> 00:25:42.160 Alright, now. 00:25:42.480 --> 00:25:49.599 So for anyone who thinks of himself as being more special than they are, they have to seed themselves. 00:25:49.680 --> 00:25:51.599 Now, what does what does Satan do? 00:25:52.400 --> 00:25:54.880 He got caught up in his own self. 00:25:56.960 --> 00:26:00.960 He got caught up in his own self. 00:26:04.079 --> 00:26:07.920 Not even in his beauty, but his wisdom, he gave that up. 00:26:08.079 --> 00:26:12.160 He destroyed it for the sake of his own beauty. 00:26:13.200 --> 00:26:13.839 Alright? 00:26:14.160 --> 00:26:18.720 And this is what the apostle Paul is talking about here as he's talking to the churches in Galatea. 00:26:18.799 --> 00:26:22.240 Don't be so caught up in thinking you're more special than what you are. 00:26:22.480 --> 00:26:34.000 Alright, now each one must carefully scrutinized his own work, examining his look at his actions, attitudes, and behavior. 00:26:34.319 --> 00:26:43.279 And then he can have the personal satisfaction and inner joy of doing something commendable without comparing himself to others. 00:26:43.519 --> 00:26:59.519 Putting more people more people's interests above your own, sacrificing your own desires keeps you out of the land of self-importance, which has you walking side by side with Satan when you become more important than what you are. 00:26:59.680 --> 00:27:13.920 When you begin to compare yourself to someone else, now you're trying to obtain what they have, if not more, because now all that you thought you accomplished all of a sudden became not enough because you're seeing someone else accomplishing more than you. 00:27:14.240 --> 00:27:35.519 And instead of you allowing God to be your source in life, you're allowing those things, temporal things, to become your motivation, your ambition to wanting more things and not the things of heaven, which you are a resident of tonight, if the Holy Spirit is in you. 00:27:35.680 --> 00:27:36.559 Alright now. 00:27:37.119 --> 00:28:02.000 So when we examine ourselves, our own attitudes, actions, and behavior, then we can have the satisfaction of inner joy of uh doing something commendable without comparing ourselves to others, meaning seeking the greater good of others, being ready to always do good, without the motive of what I'm going to get out of it for doing. 00:28:03.599 --> 00:28:16.240 Verse 5, for every person will have to bear with watch this patience, his own burden of faults and shortcomings for which he alone is responsible. 00:28:16.640 --> 00:28:25.440 In other words, this self-evaluation is very important that we have to do to make sure we're not walking a life of self-importance. 00:28:27.200 --> 00:28:29.039 And we're walking in love. 00:28:30.559 --> 00:28:32.960 Alright now, let's go to Micah. 00:28:33.119 --> 00:28:40.960 I'm gonna go to Micah chapter six, and let's continue to talk about self-importance. 00:28:43.599 --> 00:28:46.240 Why we have to eliminate it. 00:28:46.880 --> 00:28:47.440 Alright. 00:28:49.119 --> 00:28:50.640 Let's go to verse 8. 00:28:52.160 --> 00:28:53.759 Watch what it says here. 00:28:56.079 --> 00:28:59.039 Make sure I'm in the right place, make sure I'm in the right place. 00:29:02.720 --> 00:29:04.640 Yep, let's start at verse 8. 00:29:04.799 --> 00:29:06.000 And watch what it says here. 00:29:06.160 --> 00:29:09.039 I just want to make sure I was there where I needed to be. 00:29:09.359 --> 00:29:11.119 Micah chapter 6, verse 8. 00:29:11.200 --> 00:29:12.160 Watch what it says. 00:29:12.480 --> 00:29:15.279 He has told you, oh man, what is good. 00:29:15.440 --> 00:29:25.920 And what does the Lord require of you except to be just and to love and to diligently practice kindness, compassion. 00:29:26.160 --> 00:29:26.720 Why? 00:29:27.920 --> 00:29:37.839 And to walk humbly with your God, setting aside any overblown sense of importance or self-righteousness. 00:29:38.319 --> 00:29:49.519 This is why we walk in love, ladies and gentlemen, so that we don't get caught up in becoming more important over God. 00:29:50.160 --> 00:29:55.200 God is protecting us from the soulless desires of ourself. 00:29:58.000 --> 00:30:06.559 That's why he continues to harp on it because he knows the very master of self-importance himself, named Satan. 00:30:08.880 --> 00:30:10.880 Now, let's go to Lamentations. 00:30:11.039 --> 00:30:14.480 I want to go to all these uh scriptures here. 00:30:16.960 --> 00:30:21.599 See if I remember them because for some reason I didn't write this one down like I thought it did. 00:30:21.759 --> 00:30:24.079 So I'm gonna see if I can find it. 00:30:24.720 --> 00:30:33.039 I believe it's Lamentations chapter 3, uh verses 40 through 41. 00:30:33.119 --> 00:30:35.279 But let me see if I remember this. 00:30:36.000 --> 00:30:36.799 If it comes. 00:30:37.119 --> 00:30:38.480 Yes, yes, right here. 00:30:38.799 --> 00:30:40.079 Watch this, y'all. 00:30:40.319 --> 00:30:41.839 Lamentations chapter 3. 00:30:41.920 --> 00:30:42.799 Thank you, Holy Spirit. 00:30:42.960 --> 00:30:45.839 Lamentations chapter 3, verses 40 through 41. 00:30:46.000 --> 00:31:00.720 The importance of examining ourselves to make sure we're not walking in a life of self-importance, and we're walking more in love displayed, such as the way we're about to see Christ displayed it in a few minutes. 00:31:00.880 --> 00:31:01.519 All right now. 00:31:01.680 --> 00:31:10.720 It says, verse 40 says, let us test, look at this, y'all, and examine our ways, and let us return to the Lord. 00:31:10.960 --> 00:31:30.400 Let us lift up our hearts and our hands in prayer toward God in heaven, recognizing that He is our source, recognizing that God is our most important need, not ourselves and what we can accomplish. 00:31:30.720 --> 00:31:36.079 But everything that's given to us, ladies and gentlemen, as the Bible tells us, God gave it to us. 00:31:38.079 --> 00:31:48.000 Now you might want to believe that you accomplish these things on your own, but God had to allow you to have everything that you have. 00:31:48.720 --> 00:32:00.000 Alright, now, one more place before we get back into Proverbs, because I want to keep, I want to make sure we understand the importance of denying self-importance. 00:32:00.240 --> 00:32:21.039 Because this is how we're going to be able to allow love to more abound for one another, being able to help one another without thinking that we are above another person, having the hearty eyes, as they say, that I'm better than you. 00:32:21.359 --> 00:32:28.240 Alright, now let's go to Proverbs chapter 3. 00:32:28.720 --> 00:32:37.359 And I want to look at verses 33 through 34 when we talk about denying self-importance. 00:32:40.160 --> 00:32:43.759 Alright, watch this verse 33, Proverbs 3. 00:32:44.400 --> 00:32:49.359 And it reads, The curse of the Lord is on the house of the wicked. 00:32:49.759 --> 00:32:53.279 But he blesses the home of the just and righteous. 00:32:53.359 --> 00:32:54.319 Watch this, y'all. 00:32:54.559 --> 00:33:02.960 Though he scoffs at the scoffers and scorns these scorners, those who reject the truth of God's word. 00:33:04.319 --> 00:33:06.400 But watch who he does on him. 00:33:07.839 --> 00:33:19.759 Yet he gives his grace, his undeserved favor to the humble, those who give up what y'all self-importance. 00:33:22.319 --> 00:33:36.559 This is the reason why it is important to live a life that does not walk alongside of that, caught up in your own value of yourself. 00:33:36.880 --> 00:33:40.160 Because when you do that, you allow yourself to be manipulated. 00:33:40.319 --> 00:33:49.599 If you ever want to know the secret to weakening the power of manipulation, is to live a life with no expectations. 00:33:52.240 --> 00:33:53.759 Let that sink in for a minute. 00:33:54.160 --> 00:33:54.960 We're gonna go to that. 00:33:55.119 --> 00:33:59.599 Matter of fact, we're gonna go to Luke before I even get back to Philippians. 00:33:59.680 --> 00:34:00.960 I want to go over here to Luke. 00:34:01.119 --> 00:34:04.960 And I told y'all we read a lot of scripture over here, and there's a reason for that. 00:34:05.359 --> 00:34:09.920 To allow the scripture to do as much of the speaking as possible. 00:34:12.400 --> 00:34:13.760 Let's get on over here. 00:34:14.000 --> 00:34:16.800 Let's look at the definition of what Jesus says love is. 00:34:16.880 --> 00:34:29.599 Now we know the great chapter of love that the apostle Paul slid up in there by Holy Spirit diviness in between these gifts in 1 Corinthians 12 and 14. 00:34:29.760 --> 00:34:32.480 He slides the great love chapter in there. 00:34:32.880 --> 00:34:33.360 Alright. 00:34:33.519 --> 00:34:38.639 Now, let's watch what Jesus says about the keys to how to love people. 00:34:39.039 --> 00:34:45.840 That's the Apostle Paul told us about walking in unselfishness and emptiness, thinking only about ourselves. 00:34:47.440 --> 00:34:52.880 I want to go to uh Luke chapter 6, and I want to start in the 27th verse. 00:34:53.039 --> 00:34:56.480 And yes, my friend, we're gonna go all the way to 36. 00:34:59.119 --> 00:35:00.400 Now watch this. 00:35:01.119 --> 00:35:08.239 Here goes Jesus describing love and what love truly is, as he tells us that love is the fulfillment of the law. 00:35:08.400 --> 00:35:09.920 Alright, so now let's go. 00:35:10.159 --> 00:35:16.000 Verse 27 says, But I say to you who hear me and pay attention to my words. 00:35:16.719 --> 00:35:22.719 Love that is, watch this, unselfishly seeks the best or higher good for your enemies. 00:35:22.960 --> 00:35:26.480 Make it a practice to do good to those who hate you. 00:35:26.639 --> 00:35:29.199 Now hard. 00:35:30.239 --> 00:35:34.079 You have been treated so wrong to love this way. 00:35:35.039 --> 00:35:42.800 But the other reason for that, because it keeps you out of the mindset that we saw Satan had. 00:35:43.679 --> 00:35:46.880 In Ezekiel chapter 28, verses 11 through 19. 00:35:47.039 --> 00:35:48.079 And watch this. 00:35:48.239 --> 00:35:53.840 Verse 28, blessed and show, bless and show kindness to those who curse you. 00:35:54.000 --> 00:35:56.000 Pray for those who mistreat you. 00:35:56.159 --> 00:36:00.400 Whoever strikes you on the cheek, offer him the other one also. 00:36:01.519 --> 00:36:10.639 Simply ignore insignificant insults or losses, and do not bother to retaliate, maintain your dignity. 00:36:10.800 --> 00:36:15.440 Whoever takes away your coat, do not withhold your shirt from him either. 00:36:15.519 --> 00:36:16.800 Now, what is he talking about? 00:36:16.960 --> 00:36:19.039 How to walk in humility. 00:36:19.440 --> 00:36:26.480 Even though you may have the ability to do something bad, damaging to that person, it is better to not do it. 00:36:26.719 --> 00:36:32.320 Because I'm gonna tell you right now, it is more of a burden on you than what you think. 00:36:32.800 --> 00:36:38.880 When you walk and live in anger and hatred to do something to somebody than it is to just let it go and let God. 00:36:42.960 --> 00:36:50.079 David understood this, and this is the reason why David would never retaliate against Saul when he could have. 00:36:50.159 --> 00:36:57.519 This is the reason why David would never retaliate against many enemies, because what was he knowing that he recognized that he would do if he does that? 00:36:58.159 --> 00:37:08.719 When we retaliate and we respond to every insult that we're given, we are weakening God's divine protection over our lives. 00:37:11.440 --> 00:37:14.320 I need y'all to let that sink in for a minute. 00:37:16.000 --> 00:37:31.519 David could have easily gone up against some of these enemies that he had, but some of them he understood, and even when he was getting ready to in one situation, the man's wife stopped him. 00:37:32.000 --> 00:37:33.519 Thank God she did. 00:37:34.000 --> 00:37:37.199 Because he almost weakened God's divine protection. 00:37:37.280 --> 00:37:41.039 This is why he was able to live as long as he did, even with all the enemies he had. 00:37:41.119 --> 00:37:43.360 And David had a lot of enemies, ladies and gentlemen. 00:37:43.519 --> 00:37:50.800 But yet God gave him the ability to live a long life, even with all those enemies on every side. 00:37:51.679 --> 00:38:00.719 The reason why was because he allowed vengeance to be of the Lord, which kept him in divine protection. 00:38:02.000 --> 00:38:09.679 This is why we walk in love, so that we don't get out of God's divine protection for our lives. 00:38:10.079 --> 00:38:11.360 So let's keep going. 00:38:11.679 --> 00:38:14.639 So this is why he said, this is why he goes to the stream. 00:38:14.719 --> 00:38:17.519 If someone slaps you on the cheek, give them the other cheek. 00:38:18.079 --> 00:38:24.079 Or if someone takes your shirt, give them your coat also, or give them your shirt also. 00:38:26.000 --> 00:38:30.000 You gotta understand the situations in which to do that and when not. 00:38:30.480 --> 00:38:36.639 Now there are situations where you may have to defend yourself, and the Bible does not deny you to be able to do so. 00:38:36.719 --> 00:38:44.000 But the Bible also tells you in Proverbs, do not harm your brother or your neighbor if they do not give you a reason to do so. 00:38:44.159 --> 00:38:52.000 You gotta know when the right moment is to have to do something versus when you should let something go. 00:38:55.840 --> 00:39:00.719 And the Holy Spirit will let you know this when you have a right relationship with Him. 00:39:01.280 --> 00:39:02.960 Alright now, so let's keep going. 00:39:03.119 --> 00:39:06.400 Verse 30 Give to everyone who asks of you. 00:39:06.639 --> 00:39:10.480 Whoever takes away what is yours, do not demand it back. 00:39:10.960 --> 00:39:13.840 Treat others the same way you want them to treat you. 00:39:14.000 --> 00:39:26.960 Does not mean necessarily those very people that are not treating you right are going to treat you right, but you understand that God is your source, and God will cause people to give into your bosom, whether it's the people that are not treating you right or not. 00:39:28.480 --> 00:39:54.639 See, you love the way you want to be treated because you realize your source of that love does not come from the people that you're loving, it comes from God ultimately, and God will cause unexpected people that you didn't even realize that were going to bless you, to bless you, even though the people that you felt like you wanted to be blessed by or had expectations on were not blessing you. 00:39:55.199 --> 00:40:09.199 See, when you live a life knowing that I can bless someone, not expecting them to bless me back because God is my source and God can pull on the heart strings of others to bless us that we didn't even expect to bless us, that weren't even the people that we wanted to bless us. 00:40:09.840 --> 00:40:11.280 So let's keep going. 00:40:11.760 --> 00:40:16.239 So we are the first 31 treat others the same way you want them to treat you. 00:40:16.400 --> 00:40:19.360 32, if you only love those who love you. 00:40:19.519 --> 00:40:21.519 See, this is the way the world is trained. 00:40:22.079 --> 00:40:26.400 I'm not gonna do because what am I gonna get out of it? 00:40:26.719 --> 00:40:29.199 If I do this with them, what am I gonna get? 00:40:30.639 --> 00:40:33.679 But this word is telling us to think the opposite. 00:40:33.920 --> 00:40:37.920 If you only love those who love you, what credit is that to you? 00:40:38.159 --> 00:40:42.800 For every even sinners love those who love them. 00:40:43.519 --> 00:40:45.440 What I'm gonna get out of it. 00:40:45.920 --> 00:40:48.559 They're gonna give me something, then I give them some. 00:40:49.599 --> 00:40:52.800 If they don't give me nothing, I'm gonna be upset. 00:40:56.079 --> 00:40:57.199 Apologize, y'all. 00:40:57.280 --> 00:41:01.039 I'm trying to keep my computer screen on to make sure I have more lighting. 00:41:01.440 --> 00:41:03.679 Um so let's keep going. 00:41:03.920 --> 00:41:05.119 So watch this. 00:41:05.360 --> 00:41:06.159 Verse 33. 00:41:06.400 --> 00:41:13.119 If you do good to those who do good to you, see that what credit is that to you? 00:41:13.280 --> 00:41:15.119 For even sinners do the same. 00:41:15.360 --> 00:41:21.119 If you lend money to those from whom you expect to receive it back, slap slap. 00:41:21.920 --> 00:41:23.440 What credit is that to you? 00:41:23.599 --> 00:41:27.360