WHAT YOU THINK MATTERS - 3 - Acts 26:2 - I Think Myself Happy

WHAT YOU THINK MATTERS - 3 - Acts 26:2 - I Think Myself Happy

On the front lines of spiritual warfare, my heart and mind are kept by God through Jesus Christ! Now I have the peace of God in this world and that makes me happy! What do you think of yourself? What’s kept in my mind matters and God is a keeping God! Directly from the word of God let’s find out what should be on our mind and what we should be thinking. Get your Bible, listen, and be blessed…

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My name is Lincoln. Thanks for joining me once again. You're listening to That's the Truth. Coming right up is the audio recording of one of our live stream services from the House of God here in Montreal. You can watch the video recording on our Facebook page, Linked with God. That's L-I-N-K-E-D with God. Or you can head on over to our YouTube channel, That's the Truth. If you have trouble finding that page, go to youtube.com, enter That's the Truth in the search bar, click on the filter button, which you'll see a little lower to the left of the search bar, then click on the channel button where you'll see the Bible icon that identifies our channel, That's the Truth. And that should appear right on top of the list. Click on the Bible icon where you'll then have access to all of our teachings on video. Please share these links with your friends and family so they too can be blessed with the word of God as you are receiving it right now. This is how you can help me preach the gospel of Christ, salvation for this generation. Well, let's get right to it. Get your Bibles. There's a lot to read because God has a lot to say to us directly from the Word of God. You're listening to That's the Truth. Praise God. I know some of you you may be you may be within the confines of your living room or your kitchen. Some of you are listening from behind bars, so there's only so much I will expect of you. But I thank God the Bible says to shout unto the Lord with the voice of triumph. And I'm not standing defeated today, I'm standing in victory because Jesus Christ is my Lord, Jesus Christ is my savior. And I thank God, amen, for that blessing that I can take with me. Praise God. I had it when I woke up this morning, I had it when I went to bed last night, and I still have it. Someone say amen. Despite what the despite what the devil will try to do, and um I thank God. I mean, we were we started about four hours ago on the French side, and we had our service. Now we're in English. Thank God for everyone listening. I welcome you and everyone else who's listening. Praise God. Share this link and help me to um help me to evangelize because I've got some good news and his name is Jesus. Praise God. Amen. If you're wanting, well, politically, uh, not so much, economically, well, even less. Amen. Physically, well, I'm doing all right because Jesus is not just my savior and my Lord, he's my healer, praise God, and my deliverer. But I thank God I have good news and I'm holding the word of God in my hand. Hallelujah. The scriptures which are holy, amen. And as the Bible teaches us to live, actually, I mean, Jesus taught us, it's in our Bibles, yes, but more specifically, the Son of the living God, Jesus Christ came. He looked at the devil and he said, It man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word. Someone say every. Praise God. I thank God that I'm not missing a word or two. I'm not deciding to rip out Romans chapter 1 and Leviticus chapter 18 or chapter 20 and go go with a Bible that's got some pages missing. Thank God there's nothing missing in my King James Bible. Praise God. You at home that have the same Bible that I have in English, Louis Segot in French, but you have the same Bible, we can sit there and say, Praise God for every word. Amen that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Praise God. Because I don't know about you, but I need every word. Amen. Today, praise God. Everything is going down, amen. Going down, praise God, amen. What you're saying, you you're you're saying inflation's going up, but yeah, but that inflation going up means it's it's it's going down, amen. Accept God's word. In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. Praise God, amen. A little later on, you read a few verses, you know, you have to read a few verses, and a little later on it says, and the word became flesh, and then Jesus Christ came and he dwelt amongst us, praise God, Amen. Mercy and truth and grace. I thank God today, praise God, that made a difference to those who received him, because those who received him received power to become a son of God, power to become a daughter of God. Hallelujah! And I thank God for that power today. For I'm not ashamed of this gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation. Praise God. Put your hands together and clap, as the Bible says, clap your hands, amen. Unto the Lord. I've got something to clap about, I've got something to rejoice about, amen. I've got something that kiss me, amen. The joy of the Lord, which is my strength. Praise God. Hallelujah. Praise God. I'm gonna read something.

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May as well get into the word of God as quickly as we can. So let's start. The last two verses in Psalm 13. But I have trusted in thy mercy, my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation. I will sing unto the Lord because he has done unto me, he has dealt, he has dealt with me bountifully. Praise God. On the French side, that was translated, He has done me good. Amen. He m'a fait du bien, he has done me good. Praise God. So we can. I know the King James, it goes back up, you know, the English goes back a little while, so we're not used to saying he has dealt bountifully with me. Well, we can say it, amen, a little more modern. Say, He has done me good when I think of his goodness, amen, and all that he has done for me. My very soul cries out, hallelujah! Amen. I thank the Lord for saving me. As I mentioned, we're gonna pray in a couple of minutes. We're gonna thank God for daily benefits which He has given us. Amen. We're gonna ask God, give us this day our daily bread. Amen. Some of you have joined with us, most of you have stayed over for a double portion that are here before me. Some of you online were listening, you know, an hour ago. You were still listening in French, whether you understand much or not, and I appreciate that you're back for this double portion. And we're gonna get into the word of God. As I said, everything is everything's everything's going down. Nothing, what is stable, amen. The Bible says the writer in Hebrews teaches us that by God, by two immutable things, amen. We read, we read, uh, I quoted a scripture, I'll get to it in a couple minutes, and where Jesus said, Verily, verily, amen. Two immutable things. Some people say, Why did he say verily twice? Because it's immutable, amen. And I thank God, one of those things of the word of God. Anything that can be shaken will be shaken. And I thank God to be standing on something that's called a rock. Amen. Jesus, and I quote Jesus, yet it said, Upon this rock I shall build my church. That's where it's my that's where my feet are. Praise God. Upon this rock I shall build my church, and the gates to hell and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Praise God. It doesn't matter, amen, what has, it doesn't matter what we're up against. Amen. Any weapon that comes my way or that's aimed my way, it shall not prosper. Praise God. And I thank God today that we can lift up a name that is above all other names, and that name is Jesus Christ. Praise God. Amen. Hallelujah. If some of you have seen pictures on our Facebook page, you've seen pictures. And by the way, I welcome everyone on Facebook. I welcome everyone that's listening on our YouTube channel, and I welcome everyone that's listening on godly.tv from wherever you're listening to. This is a live stream from the house of God in Montreal. Or if you're listening in repo, in the repeat mode, amen. I welcome every one of you. You know, if you've seen a picture of um billboards that are being put up, two words Jesus Savior. Amen. That's all it is. There's an image of the Bible in the corner, but there's two words, and not everybody's happy with those two words. Praise God. I can relate to those two words because Jesus, I let people know Jesus Christ is not dead, but he is alive. Amen. And he lives in me. Praise God. And I thank God for that. Praise God. That we can that we can celebrate his word. Amen. That we can celebrate what Jesus Christ has done, what Jesus Christ has spoken to us. That's what I mean by celebrate. Praise God. We can get excited over it. Amen. A little we're going to begin the teaching this afternoon in the 26th chapter of Acts. You've heard me teach from this chapter before where I said this is one of the greatest testimonies ever given us in the Old Testament or the New Testament. That's my personal you you may have your favorite passage, but that's my pass, that's my passage. And we can read where the people they had heard a lot about this man, this evangelist, the apostle Paul, and um they figured, well, maybe it's time to meet him, and they got dressed up in fancy clothes and did their makeup and did their hairdo and and dressed as if they were going out to a special occasion. And it was a special occasion because they're about to hear from the man of God. They're about to hear a man from the man who is anointed of God to be where he was. Amen. When it didn't look like he was gonna make it, uh, you know, in the middle of his trip, in the middle of his ship, the the ship which looks like it was gonna be wrecked and whatever, God says, Don't fear for your life, because you have been ordained, your steps have been ordained, have been ordered to stand before the king, to stand before uh Agrippa, and um that's not happening today, but it will happen. Don't fear for your life. This is the message he this is the message that he received. So and I thank God today that that these folks that did uh the uh a little extra than the ordinary, and they came and they heard what the man of God had to say. So today, everyone listening doesn't matter if you are in your living room or your bedroom or if you're driving down the highway, or I don't care if you're on the golf course or sitting around the campfire, as long as your ears are open to hear what thus saith the Lord. Amen. So we're gonna pray for those of you that put some nice clothes on and you're standing here in front of me with your hair done and all dressed in in the presence of God. This is my point I'm trying to make, that we can be found in the presence of a holy God, amen. And as he is holy, the Bible teaches us, Jesus taught us last verse in Matthew chapter 5 as he is holy, we are to be holy. Praise God, amen. A holy God, amen, demands holiness, praise God. Without such, amen, no man shall see the Lord. As the Bible says, to follow peace, praise God, and holiness. Have your hands up, please. Praise God as I get ready to go to God. Amen. Our sister was singing, prayer makes a difference, prayer changes things, amen. And I thank God we we can pray, praise God. And whoever's listening, wherever you're listening, amen. The praying, amen, of the saints that the prayer of a righteous man, the prayer of a righteous woman, praise God, it accomplishes much, it's it availeth much, amen. This is how James teaches us. So we are, amen, we are going to pray. Praise God. Father in heaven, we're thankful for this day which you have given us. Father in heaven, we're thankful for this place which you have established for the good of our souls. Father in heaven, I thank God for your presence. I thank God for the word of God. Folks leaving right now, but they're going home with the Bible, maybe for the first time. They're they're going home with words of spirit and of life. Open up their eyes, and may not be the right language, but open up their eyes, amen, for what they have heard today, for your spirit, which they have felt, which can make a change in their life for all of eternity. Father in heaven, I thank God for the sun which is shining upon us. It's a blessing, amen, to be serving you. We're praying for our leadership in our provincial level, in our uh federal levels, uh, uh the mayor's leadership, even within the scholastic system. Praise God, I thank God that decisions can be made that will be that will decide peace. Decisions can be made that will be what that will be godly minded, structured with a godly mind, structured with a a godly uh a pursuit of godliness, I mean a pursuit of righteousness, because righteousness exalteth the nation. So I thank God today that we can call upon you, knowing that you are a God who is faithful to his word. You said to ask and we shall receive. So we ask. On behalf, I have I pray for my brothers and sisters. Their flesh is in trouble, there's there uh is being troubled, there's an onslaught of of uh illness or sickness, but Lord I thank God, amen. Some folks can't sleep through the night. Well, in Jesus' name, tonight's gonna be the best night's sleep they ever got in years and years to come, Father in heaven. Blood that needs to circulate begins to flow right now in Jesus' name. The work of your hands begins to do work, Father in heaven. I thank God, amen, for this blessing which we do have. Those that are incarcerated, they're listening in prison. I thank God, Lord, that the their space which is small and confined, through your spirit, praise God, open up the atmosphere, open up, praise God, that they don't they don't feel as if they're being compressed, uh, they don't feel as if uh you know that as if there's nothing left in this world, praise God, they can come to you and make a difference, praise God. So I pray for my brothers and sisters, they not be defeated in life. They have the word of God and they before their eyes, in their hands, in their heart, in their mind. They have your spirit to work with, they can make a difference, praise God, even to the even to the guardsmen or the guardswoman or even to their cellmates in Jesus' name, praise God. Touch my sister right now, praise God, from the top of her head to the soles of her feet, that blood begins to flow and makes a difference in her body, praise God, amen. I thank God, amen, for the blessing which belongs to my brothers and sisters that are listening on the other side of this technology, that they can have they they that as we open up the word of God, that they can have and receive this blessing, Lord, across this nation, praise God, north of the lake, south of Lake Ontario, praise God, in the prairies, central Saskatchewan, amen. A different out in the Maritimes and as far east as Newfoundland, praise God. We have we have assembled ourselves with believers, amen. The naysayers, well, if there's naysayers listening, Lord, I pray that a a positive spirit will be upon them as they receive, as they hear the word of God. But for all of us listening, for the saints that we have gathered with gathered with, Lord, I thank God for the blessing that we can exhort and we can edify one another, we can pray for one another in Jesus' name, praise God, because of the love and the compassion which we have received. Amen. By work which was brought on Calvary by your son Jesus Christ. That work has not been done in vain. What was accomplished on the cross, bloodshed for the for the remission of my sins, is making a difference in our lives. And Lord, I thank God today that we can give you all the praise and all the glory and all the honor as we stand before you and worship you, as we come before you as true worshipers to adore you and to worship you and to and to lift up not with no shame, we can lift up the name of Jesus Christ. Power in that name, healing in that name, salvation in that name, praise God, deliverance in Jesus' name that we can stand fast in the liberty wherewith Jesus Christ has made us free, not to be entangled again with the yoke of bondage. No more yoke of bondage, praise God. The yoke which we have received, it's light and it's easy to bear. We're attached, amen, to our living Savior. We're attached to Jesus Christ, and no longer, amen, to the sin and to the death which so easily besets us around us. But in Jesus' name we can walk in the victory, he saved, sanctified, healed in the name of Jesus Christ. Praise God. Lord, I give you all the praise and all the glory. We thank you, Father in heaven, for your love, amen. Which you loved us, you so loved this world that you gave us your only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth upon him shall not perish, but shall have everlasting life. So we I thank God today, praise God, for for this everlasting life which we do have. For Jesus Christ came, your son was sent, your son Jesus Christ came to give us life, and he said, I give it to you more abundantly. We're so thankful for these things. Father, anoint the message as it is about to come forth. Anoint this vessel, praise God, that I may speak what the Holy Ghost, uh, what the Spirit of the Lord has uh for the church today. I thank God it will be a blessing for everyone listening with ears open to hear, eyes open to see, and a heart open to receive your word in Jesus' name, praise God. Once again, any kind of headache, any kind of pain, back pain, shoulder pain, foot pain, knee pain, elbow pain, whatever kind of pain, praise God. Devil, amen. You're rebuked in Jesus' name, shoulder pain, praise God, chest pain, amen, stomach pain, amen. You're rebuked in Jesus' name, and I thank God for the victory. Praise God, I pray peace amongst us for the next 60 minutes or so as we get into the word of God in Jesus' name, Father. We ask you for these things. Amen. Amen and amen. Praise God. If you believe, if you agree with what I have just decreed or declared, praise God. Someone say or everyone say, Amen. Praise God and Amen. Put your hands together, give God praise and give God glory. Hallelujah! Praise God. Hallelujah. Amen. In me. Praise his holy name. My very soul cries. My very soul cries. Amen. Praise God. She's just gonna play it one more time. Amen. Hallelujah. Clap your hands before you seat it. Sister's gonna play it one more time. Hallelujah. Praise his holy name. I thank the Lord. I thank the Lord. Hallelujah. Praise God. Is that is that my key? I feel it like it's not my key. It's my key. Okay. I'll try it again some other time. Amen. In the meantime, I'll say it. I thank the Lord. Amen. For saving me. Praise God. Hallelujah. You may be seated. Already mentioned in the presence of a holy God. Amen. Hallelujah. Good to see you in front of me. Amen. I don't know if the singing was bad or if that's not what they expected when we lost all the new folks. Amen. But I'm glad to see one lady going home with a Bible. Praise God. Amen. She might have stayed, but her friend seemed to be agitated. Praise God. Hallelujah. But I thank God today that we are not, that we are receivers and not rejecting the word of God. I mentioned this last week where our two brothers were in the street. He offers a lady coming a flyer. And I guess the lady saw the Bible, the picture, or the word Bible, and she just so um so quickly and so um nonchalantly, I should say, just like disregarded. And just like make the motion as if to say, I don't need it or I don't want it. And this is so so easily um it's so this is seen over and over again and so easily seen in the world today. And the the the this is the the wiles of the devil. So people don't think about Jesus. So people don't think about uh hell. Amen. You can go to church and I know church meetings, church services aren't really that long anymore, but for as long as a church service, you can go to church and not hear the word hell. If I'm preaching, if I'm an hour into a broadcast and uh of the future, and if you haven't heard the word hell yet coming out of my mouth, send me a text. Say, hey buddy, call me pastor, call me your friend, call me whatever. Hey, um, talk about where most people, and it's not me, Matthew chapter 7, verses 12, 13, 14. Most people where Jesus said, many, amen. That's the word. I'm saying I said most, but Jesus said, many there be on that way which leadeth to hell. Amen. Why? He said the way is wide. The way needs to be made wider. Because that's how many the number is. Amen. The gates of hell, I don't know what they used to look like, but today they're wider. God's determination, God decided, He decided. He didn't have it, he didn't have much choice. If you read 2 Peter 3 9, it is the it is the will of God that no man perish. God has set things up. Someone say thank you. Father in heaven, thank you, my God, who love me. Amen. Praise God. Because he set things up that we can have eternal life. If you leave it up to this world today, churches, the religion of Islam, the real the Catholic, you know, holy Roman or unholy Roman Catholic Church and the Pope and everything else in between. They're all the following their corrupt mother that started um playing around with the scriptures. And all of a sudden, here we are in this day and age, this modern day and age, and this is a live stream from Canada. In case I know we have listeners in the U.S., welcome you south of the border, praying for you folks. And uh, my brothers and sisters, we have we have a government that has decided to step in. And whether the government does it today or tomorrow or whatever, I know here in Canada they they push Bill C9. Uh it's made it to the next step or to the next level. So it looks like it's going to be passed by the House and then signed off by uh parliamentary, whatever the last of the prime minister on behalf of the queen or the king signs off on it, and however it works this way. But even if it wasn't the parliament parliament or if it wasn't our federal government, we we have AI. We have the folks behind artificial intelligence that's rewriting a book. I don't want to call it a Bible because it would be a false Bible, but if you're writing a book, you're gonna call it a Bible, they're writing a book that the world can agree with in the world. This is God's word. Amen. You want to go to heaven? You better agree with what the Bible says. Amen. As I said, I prayed for the naysayers that their nay can be a yay. Amen. Praise God. Word of God is, and some people, you know, and and again, they they sit there and they say, Well, you know, you ought to act more like Jesus. Okay, John chapter 3 in the third verse. When I read this verse on the French side a couple hours ago, I said, you know what? This is my personal belief. Um, and when you read John 3 3, it's probably, and this is my personal belief, probably one of the most shocking verses in the Bible. And it's not, I mean, I thank God for John, I thank God for Jeremiah, I thank God for Moses and all the others, amen, men and women of God, I thank God for them. But this is Jesus Christ in John 3 3, where he says, Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily, verily I say unto thee, except a man or a woman be born again, yeah. Listen to the exception. Oh, the Bible's not conditional. You need eyes to see, so that you can read what thus saith the Lord. Amen. So if you don't believe me, get a Bible and read it for yourself. Jesus said, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born again, he cannot see. Amen. Are you following along? He cannot see the kingdom of God. Amen. He cannot see. This is why I'm saying this is this is a this is the truth. And if the truth needs to be shocking, if it needs to shock you out of hell, then let the Spirit of God do a work in your life. Those of you listening right now, and you've yet to make that decision. Amen. To know Jesus Christ, uh amen, for the pardon of your sins. Amen. To know Jesus Christ in his mercy, in his grace, in his truth. This is how Jesus Christ came. Amen. Like I said, you can sit in the church pew and not hear the word hell, not go home and not hear the word holiness, go home and not hear the word sanctification. Amen. Even as I say these words, I know there's verses because most of you listening have been in your Bible for a number of years. Listening, you've been you're well read, put it this way. And when I say these words, they can flash in your mind. Praise God, what you think matters. This is the third week in this installment, and in this installment, this is the third installment, the third week in the series, and we need see, folks, today their mind needs to be changed. Thank God we still have the law on our side. I've received um we've been uh the sister that's put up the these billboards in association with the church, she um been working on a couple of weeks in the from Portugal where she went and visited. She scouted out some great uh great areas for that message. Two words, Jesus Savior. How that sounds in Portuguese, I don't know, because I'm not Portuguese. So we've been working on the paperwork, and this week, as the I saw when the paperwork was finalized, finally, and everything went through for for international financial transactions, et cetera, et cetera. Amen. As soon as that was done, I get an email, and I thank God for this person. I get an email, Pastor Lincoln, you may find this of interest. So I'm going, well, I scroll down, a a complaint has been lodged against what are your against your billboards, against your message. And I read the complaint, and the person's mad. This is just distracts me while I'm driving, and this shouldn't be it. Litter is the landscape, and this is uh Jesus Christ, and then there's a picture of a Bible, just like 300 words of blah, blah, blah, blah, and some more blah, blah, blah. But thank God the law found us, amen, not guilty. Amen. The person writing from this uh the the agency, this government agency for the I think it's the um protection, consumerism protection department of something or something, you know, to make sure that there's nothing slanderous or no false anything. When when you're when you're not that we're limited, but when you limit your message to two words, you really can't go wrong. Well, I'm not promising somebody that you know something that I can't deliver. Amen. The Bible says that Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior. So when you put up the message, Jesus, Savior, it's pretty simple and straightforward. And if I felt like um, and I thank God where I wrote back and I said, I and I said, Thank you so much, very much appreciated. That she didn't give me the name of the person who complained, but she gave me the complaint. It was about this long, all in bold letters, about 300 words plus, and she said, uh, and she that the the person received the reply from the from the government from this agency and said, We have carefully considered your plaint, your complaint that was lodged against the church, church name and whatever, and we have found no reason for it to be considered or deemed illegal. So so far, amen, we have uh legislation or we have the law on our side. But as I said, two words, Jesus Savior. Amen. And apparently it's and it's not the other complaint that was lodged, maybe it's the same person lodging it twice. I don't know. But the other complaint we received, it's just it's distractive when I drive. Amen. Look some some of the and and um this was being discussed uh on a live radio program in French about a month ago, and um the hostess of the program and her colleague, the hostess said, doesn't that distract you while you're driving? He just he just said uh he replied so quickly, he said, just look somewhere else. That's what we have to do. Amen. There's nobody lodging a complaint when there's when there's a woman that's half clothed advertising perfume or whatever else on the billboard, nobody complaining, nobody complaining, and someone sent me a picture, said is there a complaint against this billboard and a stripper's 24 hours slash seven days a week in the on the club right beside the highway. But does that seem to distract anybody? Amen. Same thing for a man. If uh if uh you you see a man forgot to put his shirt on and he's advertising who knows what on the board, nobody's complaining. That's normal. Amen. When they call evil good and they call what's good evil, you know what day and age that we're living in. Amen. So that's why we need people, there's a gap that has been created, and that gap, the church is responsible for that gap. Amen. I might be losing some amen, and don't tune, don't log off, don't don't, don't go watch some sports replay. Stick with me if you mean business with God, amen. The Bible says that we need to we need to lift up a scepter of righteousness unto God, and the Bible says there needs to be a holy man and a holy woman to stand in the gap, and that gap, this is the the the gap. Well, I blame it on the church because the gap is is the fenced wall, it's the wall that protects the city, and that's the church. Amen. We have a government right now, they seem they say I know they're balancing other things in their books and you know trying to fix the economy and the war and the prices going up or down, whatever else. But at the same time, they're wasting time playing around with the word of God. And this is not me going to Ottawa, this is Ottawa that's that has barged into my church, that is barged into our amen place, our sanctuary and our refuge. This is who I'm protecting, amen. When folks say don't get involved with politics, I'm not, I'm standing here minding my own business. They're the ones that are coming into the church and saying, you know what? You have three, four pages, too many in your Bible. Well, try and touch it. Amen. The Bible says don't touch what's anointed, amen. And I'm right now I'm not talking about Mr. or Mrs. or brother or sister, I'm talking about God's word. This is anointed. This is this is the Spirit of God, amen, that has an anointing that makes a difference when this word of God is um imparted into the lives of our brothers and sisters. Amen. Jesus said, we read this last week. Jesus said, You you do err, you make a mistake because he says you're you're looking, you read your Bible, you're, you know, you have the, and this is what's happening in parliament. You have these naysayers and they read a passage, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Uh, this shouldn't be in the this, we're not allowed, this is this shouldn't be uh allowed. Uh the young people shouldn't be allowed to read it. You shouldn't be allowed to buy a book as such. Gotta get rid of it. And then you say, so Jesus had the same thing happen in his day. People showed up with the scroll. I mean, it looks different. This is the word of God, my Bible that's in my hands right now. People show up with the scroll looking at Jesus, and Jesus said, Well, yeah, he says you read that you search the scriptures in English. He says, You search the scriptures every day, but he says, Ye do err because you don't understand. And if you missed this teaching from last week, last week was there it was a good teaching to replay. And um I'll get you the verse where we read, where Matthew 22, 29, ye do err, no uh not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. Amen. You see, when when I speak to people, they say, Well, what's wrong if the government decides to eliminate a page from the Bible or something? The uh well, they should take the they should learn their lesson when they remove the Bible out of the classroom. This is where we are at today. The word of God, and I've mentioned this before. The God's in the beginning was the word, the word was with God, and the word was God. In other words, the word is inseparable. You push the Bible, you're pushing God. Amen. This is what if you know, if you know some um some uh I'm trying to think of the word, some cabinet ministers or government people, or even the mayor, whoever's behind this, talk to them. Say, push the Bible, you're pushing God away. Push the um uh push God, you're pushing his word away. They're they're inseparable. One comes with the other. Amen. So we today when when when we need to uh handle these scriptures, what's in our hands correctly, and the vision I received, and I'm this is what I mentioned last week, they had this the scriptures, the word of God was before before their eyes, it was in their hands. But Jesus, when he continued, he says, It's not in your heart. Amen. It's not what's in your mind, and this is what we're looking at. What you think, what's in your mind, is important. Praise God. And last week when we looked at there's one other thing I want to mention before we uh we read Matthew chapter 22. I trust this week, we can see how God is or Jesus, the Son of God, how He was um the opposition which was uh which ran against Him, which withstood, which he had to withstand as far as uh the Word of God is concerned, and how Jesus was able to um to teach and rebuke because there's some rebuke, chastisement, there's another biblical word I can use to the the folks that who were around him and those who were willing, because see there was a combination of uh religious groups, and they had one thing in common we don't like Jesus. Amen. On the Sabbath day, well, some believe in the resurrection, and the Sadducees don't, and they had they had different doctrinal uh assessments as far as what Jesus was trying to straighten all this mess up, and um, so they couldn't worship together, they couldn't go to church together, go to synagogue together, but they could get together and go up against Jesus. No note and understand what's taking place. Praise God. Amen. You have and the same thing, you have different denominations, you can't sit in this within the within the same row within the, you know, with on the same pew on Sunday morning, and yet we're all supposed to be, we're all supposed to end up in the same place in God's heaven. Amen. God's creator is God's place, amen. God has certain there's certain stipulations, if you would, for those who are going to make it, for those who are going to get in. Praise God. So I trust the what we mentioned to read a couple of verses in Psalms 119 last week. I trust that this was uh uh a part of your time this week to make a difference in your life. And uh, you can read the teaching that Jesus had when it came to the finances, you know, the coin that he asked for, uh, the teachings that Jesus made uh based on the on the resurrection and uh the especially the first and the great commandment, praise God, that we have to uh live by that Jesus gave us. This is teaching. I again, this is teaching that needs to um be uh it needs to replace what's taken place in the churches today. Amen. It's too much when when I see what is going on from these the places that are supposed to be a house of prayer for all the nations, and uh they are they are wandering, W-A-N-D-E-R, they are wandering further and further from the truth, further away from what God has established as his word. Amen. God is God, he decides. Praise God. So we're gonna get find the book of Acts. Let's go into the right this um near the end of the book of Acts, Acts, chapter 26. Pray for our young people that are in school, or some of the some of the not so young, they may be adults in college, university. There, as I mentioned, there's an onslaught of the devil trying to eradicate any thought of Jesus Christ, amen, all the way up to Hollywood. They can make millions of dollars, amen, in Hollywood, retelling this, you know, pick uh with with moving pictures, however you want to call it, in living color, retelling stories from the um from the Bible and such. And they're they're little subtle inaccuracies that show up, and I spend very little time, amen, with with um with what with what Hollywood or with what man has to has to offer. Um this week there was something that caught my eye. I don't even know the name of the movie, I don't want to see it. I I don't even know what it was. Did you see it? It's from Disney. And for those of you, everybody knows my thoughts on Disney, but uh this showed up on my I'm scrolling through and I don't even know what they were advertising, and and my eyes that that that read faster than I can scroll, I guess. Uh I stopped scrolling because it said the devil never backs down. And I go, Who's this ministry? I ain't never heard of I go, This is Disney? Hey man, I thought some preacher was telling the truth, and it said, like I said, I don't know the movie it's associated with. I I don't even know if the title was there, it's a picture of some guy in a mask. And I'm sitting there going, This is Disney. Amen. If I put up a billboard, if I put this is this is uh um, I don't know what the movie's concerned. Uh is do they have a devil character, Disney? I don't know, but it's I'm sitting the devil never the devil. This I I'll preach that anyways. So I don't know if I'll pray for Disney. I don't think so. Waltz long and gone. Whoever's taking over that company, it's in bad hands right now. But for that one line, amen. I I may have said the devil never backs down. Yeah, that's who is this? I'll go, Disney. Oh my goodness, amen. What is taking place in the world today? Praise God. Let's find out what God has to say, amen. And the word of God, which is a blessing to have someone say, I'm blessed, because there is a word, praise God, for me, the word of God. Amen. Have you found Acts if I missed your name or forgotten your name that I miss anybody, or I apologize, but we're gonna get into the word of God. I'm ready to preach. Acts chapter 26. If you notice the subtitle, this is as I said, the third installment in what you think matters. If you notice the subtitle, which comes from this verse in the book of Acts, I think myself happy. Praise God. I'm not going to depend. I mean, thank God I'm happily married for 41 years, and uh my wife supports me in so many different ways in every way that I need to be supported. I thank God for that. But besides that, you and I have a responsibility. Amen. I don't depend on anything or any resources that are worldly that come from this uh day and age of modern secularism, uh, Western religious uh beliefs or whatever may exist. I have the word of God, amen. I'm not, I don't need someone's approval. I have the word of God, amen. And that I find approval. When Paul wrote here, he says, standing before the king, and uh he's testifying, and he says, I think myself happy, King Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself. This is the point that I'm trying to make. I don't want anybody to answer for me, amen. Besides Jesus Christ, who's my intercessor, who's my mediator when I stand before God. We finish reading what Jesus said in John chapter 3 in the third verse, where he says, For Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto me unto the Father but by me. Amen. And then Jesus, this is a look few chapters later on. Well, we read in John 3, verse 3, where Jesus said, Verily, verily I say unto you, unless a man, unless a woman be born again, they shall not see, they shall not inherit, you're not gonna get close. You may be up on the door knocking on the door, but you won't be recognized. Your is your name written in the Lamb's book of life. That's where your name needs to be your name needs to be on the list. Otherwise, you don't get in. So when Paul, uh this is why I want to uh um I'm uh I want to lay some foundation, but I think I'm beyond the foundation part. This is the this is the core, this is the the my text today, where Paul says, I make myself, and I want everyone to read this. He says, I think myself happy. What you think matters. Amen. Tossed in a ship that's about to be wrecked. And here, Paul, and I want you to get this vision. I think myself happy, and uh they they uh I'm I'm happy today. We prayed for our our government, and I've got a Bible that I've been waving around and I've been yelling for a half hour and quoting scriptures, and nobody's shut me down or shut me up. I'm happy. Amen. I can put my right hand up in the air, my left hand can be in my pocket, like this, trying to look, you know, also it's also a dapper, and my right hand could go. Pretty simple, pretty easy for me to be happy. Now let's let me describe Paul. He says, I think, hey king, I think myself happy. Not only are his hands you know cuffed, he's he's he's tied, he's attached to a guard, making sure we gotta make sure this guy's a high flight risk. Gotta make sure he doesn't run. So he's he's tied up to a guard, and here is Paul saying, I think myself happy. Clothes are still wet from shipwreck. How many times you back is still scarred because they flogged him, whipped him. But he may not have holes in his hands. Thank Jesus. Jesus took amen the punishment, the abuse on the cross for you and I. So I want to say thank you, Jesus. Amen. But Paul came, was coming pretty close. Praise God. You look at my hands. Amen. I'm blessed. The only callus on my fingers is the last time when I picked up drumsticks. Amen. I'm blessed. Pretty easy for me to think myself happy. Amen. And it's also pretty easy for to think to think myself into a downward spiral of rejection and self-pity. Talking about somebody else, because I allow the devil into my mind. Amen. If the devil can make his way through your mind, it won't be long that he makes his that that he once he makes his way through your mind, he's into your heart. And then your resistance is a whole on a whole new level. Amen. Thank God for the word of the word of God today, which builds our character. Amen. I know who I am. I'm going to get into this. Amen. I'm not building myself up. I'm giving all the glory and honor to God. And the next verse that we're going to read is going to knock down, it's going to knock whoever needs to be knocked down on that humility, you know, that humbleness meter. We're going to get knocked down for who we are. But we are who we are in Christ. Amen. Last week, when I read Ephesians chapter 2, verses 8 and 9, it's a familiar two verses that so many people can quote walking into church and walking out of church. You seem to have a little difficulty with the 10th verse. Because our works matter. We're not, there's two different things that when you read that chapter, we are saved by grace. So thank God for salvation. Praise God. Thank God for Jesus Christ. Amen. Through faith, by faith, amen, by grace, through faith. This is who we are. But when we get into verse 10, we need to allow God, amen, to be who God is. Amen. So if you ask me the question, well, who's God? God's creator. God's Amen. He's been creating since day one. Let there be light. And there is light. Amen. However, you don't ask Einstein or um, who's the guy who did the light bulb? Was that Einstein? No. Edison. Edison. Don't ask Edison. Amen. Edison did it with carnal, you know, ordinances from the face of the earth. I thank God for Edison. But with the way God did it, he just spoke a word. He spoke a word into existence. And this is how this is how God becomes known to you and I as a creator. But God is still creator. When you read this 10th verse in Ephesians chapter 2, how we become his workmanship, amen, saved unto good works. There's salvation, there's a remission of our sins which are which can only be done through Jesus Christ, through blood which is precious, through the through the understanding that we have of the word of God. But then our works change. Amen. Because I am now in Christ Jesus. As the Bible says, Amen. If any man, if any woman be in Christ Jesus, they are what? They are a new creature. Amen. Old things having passed. Praise God. What's that mean? It means old things are behind me. Praise God. The way I was messed up and laying in a field, still attached, amen, through my navel to my to my to my mother. I'm speaking second. This is the vision that Ezekiel gave us. God looked down and he had pity. There was mercy that was upon him. Why? Because we are the creation of God. We are his creation. And God did not have in his mind that our creation would end up sick and sorrowful and sinful. Amen. I don't want to lose any of my amens. But God, amen, in he when in his favor, praise God. When when we the the the um the the the not not the vision, but the creation that God had making who he did that we may be a glory unto him. That we that and and you you know God was good when he looked at Adam and Eve and He says, I give you dominion over all. He didn't look at Adam and say, Well, you can have, you know, have you gonna I'll give you power over the worms or the bugs. Amen. God, this is how this is the if you if you sit there and say, uh, how did God realize because he made us, he created us, and he gave us dominion over all, whatever's on this earth, in the waters, fowls in the air. While you're at it, Adam, name them. Amen. This is the dominion that we had, but they gave they exchanged that for knowledge by believing a lie. Amen. When Jesus Christ came and he said that he will give us life and to give us life more abundantly, it's the devil that has come to steal and to and to kill and to destroy. It's the devil that comes to rob, the Bible says. And we need to uh we need to protect what God has given us. Amen. As I said, what's in my mind, the devil wants to come, he wants to take it out. So many times I hear people say the devil made me sin. Well, no, uh I'm not so sure. The devil may have pushed some buttons, he may have sow some seed of sin or whatever you want to call it, of doubt, whatever it is, amen, into your hearts, into your mind. But a sinner decides he's I'm gonna go and sin, I'm gonna go. Meanwhile, Jesus has given us power, amen, over the flesh. When you when you read um Romans chapter 8, there's therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh, but walk after the spirit. So we're gonna as we continue to read, we're gonna look at people that are fleshly and earthly and carnal rather than to be spiritual. Drop down to the fourth verse that the righteousness of the law may be, amen, fulfill in us who walk not after the flesh, but who walk after the spirit. This is Romans chapter 8, verse 1 and verse 4. This is who we are in Christ. This is who we, this is how we walk on the face of this earth. Amen. Hallelujah. Praise God. Walk in the spirit. So when you when you look, so that I'm not going to walk in the spirit, I'm not gonna let any other influence whatever the devil can invent, what he can come up with. Amen. To effect or to destroy or to create havoc in my life. I think myself happy. Verse 2, Acts 26. I think myself happy. Amen. I have the word of God. When the storms of life are there during the week, whatever administration and people calling and even naysaying, and you shouldn't do this, and shouldn't, anyways, what whatever comes against me, the moment I open up the word of God, amen. It's as if there is a a uh uh well, it's by it's spirit because I'm walking in the spirit, praise God, mining spiritual things, but it it's it's as if there is an overcoming of peace. Amen. Uh use the word baptize if somebody pour as if somebody's pouring water on my head and it's it's making its way down my face, my shoulders, and all the way down to my feet. And that's how the Holy Ghost is. It's the moment I open up the Word of God and begin to read. There is a peace that takes over, there is a peace that comes into my life, there is a peace that this world can't give and the world can't take away. Amen. That the word of God allows me, uh like I said, opening the word of God. Another thing that allows us is the preaching of the word of God. I put the sermon on, and within a couple of minutes, my mind with what I'm thinking about, because there's a preacher, there's a man of God, he may be yelling, amen. But I'm just making sure everybody can hear. Amen. So when you put the preaching on, say, I need to stop thinking about my problems, I need to stop thinking about the temptations, amen. I need to stop thinking about whatever's against me, whatever my neighbor said, whoever called me a name on Facebook, whatever my teacher disagreed with. I need to I just need to have this peace. Um, when you read Ephesians chapter 2, for he is our peace, so making peace, he came, amen. Praise God to give us peace. He is the minister of peace. And I'm talking about Jesus Christ. You can't get this any from anywhere else. People tell me they say, I know we need to pray for Jerusalem because the Bible says that. They go, you gotta pray for peace. Yeah, well, the the day, the day that land, Israel, and may as well throw in everything else, Iraq and Iran and wherever else is bombs falling left and right and center. The day, amen, the day peace, that land becomes peaceful is the day that the feet of Jesus Christ touches down on that mount. And even that will do a little shaking and some splitting from the east and from the west. Praise God. Amen. People will take their eyes off Temple Mount and they'll be looking at who's standing on the mountain. Amen. Devil's madden up, devil's upset. Because I'll put I'll make my throne. Note how jealous the devil is. When you get to know your the enemy, your your your adversary, when you get to know who he is, every single thing he does is because he's just jealous. I'll set my throne up on that mountain. No, you won't. Amen. There's a place reserved on that mountain, Mount Zion. There's a place reserved, amen, for when Jesus is going to touch down. Start changing some things. Amen. You think Armageddon was rough? You think Gog and Magog was rough? Amen. Wait till Jesus comes back. Amen. Right now, there's just a time period of allowance so that people can get right with their maker and escape the wrath of God. Amen. Tribulation there will be in the flesh. Amen. The Bible teaches this. Amen. This is not, this is not an escape route before something happens. There's people losing their heads right now for the sake of they they will not deny Jesus Christ. Amen. So there is tribulation. This is not a western viewpoint. This is something that comes from the Bible. Amen, where God just does not have a western or northern or southern or an eastern or a central viewpoint. This is this is God. Amen. Amen. This is the God, this is God whom we serve. We need to have an understanding of who God is. We also have to know who the devil is. Here Paul is saying, he says, King, he says, you may have heard some things, but now it's my turn to speak. He says, I think myself happy. What matters, amen, what you think matters. And he says, I shall answer for myself this day before thee, touching all the things whereof I am accused of the Jews. Take responsibility for uh there is no escape. The day when you stand before God, take responsibility for that for what's going to take place in judgment. And this is how I think it through. Some of you already know say, oh no, we're gonna get a Lincolnism. This is how I think it through. Because the Bible teaches me, you're gonna be judged on every idle word, you're gonna be judged on you know everything. I'll bring it personal a little bit. So, how how are I treated my wife after 41 years or every every word in husbands, amen? Just just look straight, amen, at the screen. Don't look, you know, just say, Amen, amen, brother. And he sit there and say, Oh, well, wait a hold on for a sec. There's billions of people that are gonna go through judgment, BMC, whatever you want to call it, stand before God. Thank God for the intercessor Jesus Christ. I know there's billions of people. So you say, How is every word, how's he gonna say, uh, throw one word into that mix? All of eternity. The Bible says God is a righteous God. He's not gonna skip or overlook some evidence. Oh, we got to move on. You have court cases today before the judge, he's hungry, he wants to go eat. Case closed,$300, you're guilty. Next. That's not gonna be judgment day before God, because God is gonna have time on his side. This is a timeless gospel that I'm preaching. Thank God for a timeless. I'm not following some sort of trend because then I have to reinvent myself every time the trends change. I mentioned this last week. People say you should try dressing, you know, show up in your you know, your slippers or your socks or your Jordans and a t-shirt and whatever else, or in a jersey and a hoodie or whatever. Oh, I hold on for a sec. Amen. First of all, I'm too old for that. Amen. Second of all, amen. I respect where I stand right today in the presence of God. Amen. I'm glad you're here. Amen. As long as you're dressed modestly, I'm glad you're here. Amen. People say, amen, they've told me this is but the gospel, when you read, when I open up the word of God in the beginning was the word. I'm going back a ways, I'm going back to before I showed up. So, so the the respect and how I honor the word of God, like I said, this is a gospel which must be preached the same, amen, yesterday, today, and forever. This is who Jesus Christ is. This is who he was, this is who he is, and this is who you always will be. This is scriptural. So when going back to judgment, say, well, are you sure? When you look at the teaching, amen, what you say matters. We read some scripture saying this leads me to believe that God is listening, and there's someone that bears record. So think about him, and the next time you say, go do something, allow Satan to give you some input. Well, this is what I think you should do. Get thee behind me, Satan. I mean Peter, Simon. This is how Jesus dealt with that situation. So don't, there's a responsibility, and young people who are listening, some of you are like maybe seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven years old. Thank God for holy mom or holy dad. You're listening today because holy parents. And if you're listening to me, and most of you I've met some of the young people, I've met all you young people, praise God. You're old enough to make a difference, anyways. You're old enough to see light and darkness. Amen. To see the difference between what is what is the holiness of God, the righteousness of God, and what is whatever else this earth has to offer up. What was Jesus offered? When you look at where he, when the devil took him for a ride, and uh it started in the in the desert, then it went up, you know, a couple of stories to the top of the temple, and then it went up into a high mountain. So there was an increase always from a loaf of bread, amen, to something a little greater, to something, yeah. Whatever you see, it's all yours. Just get on you, throw yourself down and bow down and worship me. Hey, devil, it is written. Amen. I don't care what the devil puts on the table, nothing compares to the blood of Jesus Christ. Wash my sins away. The devil doesn't want anyone to believe this. These religions today, even my even religions that are supposed to be Christian, so-called, you have men of the cloth, they're not men of God, they're just men of the cloth, women of the cloth, standing, you know, where where I would be standing before the assembly. And it doesn't matter if they have a crucifix or a cross or a chain or a rosary or a long garb or a collar that's put on backwards, or a robe, purple hair, color hair, green hair, whatever, you see all kinds. And and you and you there the I mean it doesn't take much to uh discern, it doesn't take any discernment spiritually. You just listen to what comes out of their mouth. You don't have to discern. You can discern just by their their appearance. But once they begin to speak and they deny virgin birth, they deny the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Oh no, we know he died, we know he was buried, and then their religion stops at that moment. They don't want to believe in resurrection. This is and this is the devil's doing. This is Satan who wants to, who thought he was dead and wanted to keep him dead, because the moment the devil realized that Jesus was not so dead, Jesus was standing on his doorstep. Hey, give me those keys of death and of hell. This is my Lord and my Savior who I serve today. Amen. I can see Lucifer and his angels say, Are you supposed to be dead? Yeah, well, that didn't turn out so much, did it? Amen. Thank God for his death, thank God for bloodshed, because here I stand today. Like I said, this is not me, this is me in Christ. Amen. This is not me, born of my mother, born of my dad, short of the glory of God. Amen. This is me born again. Hallelujah. Read Romans chapter 6 in the first eight verses, read the whole chapter, it's all good to read. Amen. And the devil's wondering what just happened. Paul said, had they known, they wouldn't have crucified him. They might have thought of something else, but they couldn't do anything but what was prophesied. Amen. And it was prophesied that by his stripes we shall be healed. Amen. The chastisement of my peace was set upon him by him, my amen. By his wounds, praise God, my transgressions, amen. Because of it, he was wounded for my transgressions, bruised for my iniquities. There we go. Get the prophet Isaiah. Someone say thank you, Jesus. Amen. The chastisement of my peace was upon him, and by his stripes ye were healed. That's prophecy, that's what took place. Amen. People today following a religion. Um, pray for Pastor Michel. He had to sit for three days this week in a government called meeting, and they had the uh bishops and the archbishops and the and the Imans and the Mos the Islam leader, whoever, they're all in the same room because the government's worried. The government wants help from the church. And I, you know, it was encouraging Pastor Michel saying, the only help that the world needs is Jesus Christ and him crucified. But you're sitting in a room with a bunch of unbelievers, amen, that will deny, not only deny the works of Jesus Christ, deny who he is and deny where he is right now. Amen. With false representations and false writings and false books that are, and then and then they deny, amen, they deny what we have, they deny who Jesus Christ is. Amen. Because they don't know about it. They search in the scriptures, they can quote a scripture or two, but they don't that they're not living by every word. Amen. It's a difference. When I live this word, there's a difference from somebody who's just going around with a Bible tucked away on their shelf in the drawer. There's a difference. I live it. Amen. I breathe it. Romans chapter 12. We're gonna get more into the I part. Hallelujah. Because I I don't want to, I don't want anybody to get the wrong the wrong trick, the wrong picture. So the next two, three uh passages we're gonna read, the writings of Paul to Romans, the writings of Paul to the Corinthians, the writings of Paul to the Galatians, like I said, it's going to allow us, it's gonna give us a better picture of who we are. Talking about the folks born again. For I say, verse 3, Romans 12, verse 3. For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every, I underline that word, every, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think. So twice we highlighted the word think, it's gonna show up again right now, but to think soberly and uh according as God, and I underline God because this is important, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. So when we read I think myself happy, I don't want someone to sit there and say, oh man, this guy's just standing there and it's all about it's a one-man show and it's all about him and it's his works or whatever. No, hang on for a sec. This is this is who I am in Christ, strengthened by Jesus Christ, in the power of his might. Hallelujah. Someone say thank you, Jesus. He says, through the grace given unto me to every, and this is important as we get ready to read the next passage. Every, someone say every. Every man, every person. And he says, God has dealt to every man the measure of faith. Someone say, Thank God for my the measure of faith I have received. Thank God my faith is on the increase today because I'm hearing more word of God. We're in Romans chapter 12. We just left behind Romans chapter 10, which says, faith cometh by hearing. Amen. And hearing by the word of God. This is how my faith is increased. Thank God for faith to begin with. Amen. People don't have faith in God. So I'm an atheist. I'm a, you know, they they have different titles that they can call themselves because they have zero faith or they have negative faith as far as the word of God is concerned. And Before I continue, let's read 1 Corinthians chapter 8. I'm going to read the first two verses in that chapter. Again, we're looking at. I don't want someone to standing or sitting, listening, and saying, well, if it's up to me, in a way, I'm just trying to get this outright. Outright, two different words. In a way, it is up to you. You need to make the decision. But after that, God takes over. Amen. This is where this is where the difference lies. This is not religion. Saying dress like this or talk like this or be here on Saturday, be here on Sunday, or be this is not this is not religion. This is God. Remember Ephesians chapter 2 in the 10th verse. This is God making a difference in our lives. And I mean, submit the Bible says to submit yourselves. So we we come to God and say, God, here I am. First of all, God's going to look at you and say, hold on for a sec. Gotta make some changes. Let's start with the heart. Amen. Take out that stony, whatever you want to call it, heart, and replace it with a heart of flesh. Start to write commandments, precepts, ordinances. God can deal with the heart that He's gonna give you. Heart I got from Mom and Dad, not so much. Amen. That heart even had trouble dealing with mom and dad. Needed a new heart. Amen. This is God creator looking at his creation, looking at you and I. Some changes. I I said this story um on the on the French side, and I'll I'll try to get it. It's a little lengthy. This happened probably 15, 16 years ago, I think 2000. Well, maybe more, 15, 20, 18. Anyways, 2008 or 2009. And my mom was still alive, and she says, You need to go buy yourself some new suits. You're looking pretty shabby there. So I ended up in a store of I'm that this goes back like two, three generations. My my cousin was a model, and and um I don't know anyway. I'm going into the store for the first time, my wife and I, and I gotta buy a new suit. So um we walked into the store, and a salesperson comes over, and um, I had some questions because I hadn't bought a suit for a while. And um the the uh we look at suits and this is nice, and I like this and this and that. Oh, so we said I'm I'm done, I'm walking out. And um, even though what what we picked, what we thought was nice, this could work, and and the salesman, I don't know if if blame me. I'll just blame my wife and I we're we're walking out. So, and there's two there's two young men in that store. So the other young man comes comes running running after me, goes, hang on, hang on for a sec. He says, You you came in here to buy a suit. I said, Yeah. And I said, This is what we're looking at. And he looks at me and goes, No, no, no, no, no. He says, That's not gonna work. Forget what you looked at, forget, take, take it off. It's it's not he says, Do you trust me? And I go, Yes. So he goes, let me dress you. So um, and on the French side, when I went and took my jacket off, this is the shirt, one of the shirts. That's how long it goes back. So if I took my jacket off, there'd be like a hole in the slap in the collar, but I thought this is a good color. I like this shirt, amen. And the belt and the shoes, it goes, it goes way back. This goes way back, and um so he he comes. So, anyways, one suit turned out to be three suits, but there he dressed me and he goes, Here's a tight now, watch. He said, You can take this shirt and you can wear it with all three suits. He says, You're buying one shirt, but it's gonna go like he had this war, he had everything picked up uh economically and whatever. So I'm walking out, like I said, one suit turns into three suits, and because he said, Dude, allow me. And I'm saying, I like this. No, no, that doesn't go. Not at all, not at all. He can't be this long, gonna be this long. You think you're tall, but you're not that tall. You need to quote this suit. And he had length inside, get that shirt off. He says, It looks baggy, it's saggy, you know. He had all the this was his thing. I can quote the Bible, but I can't. Some of you sitting there saying you can't dress yourself pretty well. Even this morning, I was in the uh after reading the Bible and getting out some verses. I'm in the closet and I'm going, Lori, can you come help me? What tie goes with this jacket? So I still needed help to get, but anyways, but the stuff that he picked up. So we're I'm walking out of the store. Uh my wife and I, and stuff is gonna be tailored and fit and pants and hem, so we need to go back in three days. I'm walking out, so I turned to the uh to Robbie, his name's Robbie. I turned to Robbie and I said, What's the deal between you and the other guy? And he goes, he goes, uh I saw you walking out, and he said, You didn't buy anything, and he said, I made a bet wrote my friend that I'll sell you a suit. I said, Yeah, but now you sold me three suits. I said, Who's gonna get the commission? He said, I'm giving all the commission to to my colleague. He said, You're his, he says, you're he kept you in the store. I said, Yeah, but he didn't sell me anything. I said, It doesn't matter. He said, I made a bet, I won the bet, and he said, uh, the commission's gonna go to him, and uh and he says, We're we're still on all we're still on all good terms. So that's the flesh, that's the spirit, that's a story of 20 years ago, that's or or 18 years ago, however long it is. Now, let me bring this into the spiritual aspect. We come before God. Here I am, and now God, but we need to submit, we need to allow God to do what God does best. Amen. Because who we are in sin is not what God expects or expected from you and I and Adam and Eve to begin with. It's not how God made us. See, the devil came and got involved. And when if we can allow God to do his thing, I mean, there's expectations uh from us as well, because we have Jesus Christ. There is a power that is within us. Again, it comes from God, because we James wrote, he said, Thus saith the Lord. It was James quoting what the thus saith the Lord. He says, draw an eye. This is God saying, draw an eye unto me, I'll draw an eye unto you. So when we present ourselves to God here on this earth, see, God, here I am, I'm a sinner. I mean, this is how you this is how if you haven't done this yet, this is this is your approach. I'm a sinner. God be merciful unto me, a sinner. I'm tired of myself, I'm sick and tired, I'm ashamed of my disobedience. I'm tired of following into the same old pit, I'm tired of sinking into the miry clay. However, you want to go up, whatever situation, predicament you're in, the degradation of sin, if you would. And because that's what it does. It degrades the human mind, it degrades the human heart, it degrades what God has created. And this is you and I, in his image. Amen. This is why the devil is on a rampage. Find 1 Corinthians in the eighth chapter. We're gonna read something as far as being able to not only identify us in Christ, identify yourself in Christ, but to be able to represent Jesus Christ, to represent God, to represent the truth on this earth today. So Paul, when Paul writes, and I'm gonna read something and then I'm gonna continue with what with my thought. So Paul writes, he says, now as touching things, uh, verse 1 and 2, 1 Corinthians. Now it's touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. The second verse says, Now, if any man, if sisters, you're in you're included, if any man think what you think matters. Amen. Now, if any man think that he knoweth anything, he knoweth nothing yet. See, that little word changes modern religion. Because like I said, you sit in church, we ain't nothing. Now we're all weak. We all sin. Well, that's what you know up until now. But when you read here, he says, He knoweth nothing yet, as he ought to know. See, when you have a false teacher in front of you, and the Bible's closed, or even if it's open, sometimes they'll twist things. And I mean, look at this motion. You see the motion? Who does that? That's how a snake crawls. Amen. In um in Alberta, and I have the proof on my phone. Um I'm trying to think of the city, not Lethbridge, but you cross the border where the big teepee is. Medicine hat, there it is, where the teepee is. And um they have a welcome center, free bikes. You sign a name, you get on the bike, and you ride the trails, you go all the way down the cliff and you walk, so it's a great place to stretch your legs. So my wife's about 50 feet in front of me. She missed all the action. She's on the phone talking to her mom, and I'm walking along, and all of a sudden I see something move in the grass beside me, and I go, Oh, that's a snake. Oh, that's a snake about four feet long. That's a pretty big snake. So I take out my phone and I'm and I'm seeing it crawl. This is this is like from from here to the chairs, like I said, I'm less it less than 10 feet, and I'm not exaggerating because I got the phone to prove it. And I'm standing on the bike trail, which is which is paved, the walking trail, and um the grass is not very high. And I'm looking at the snake, I go, uh that that's got like diamonds on it, and it's yellow. Those things are are they I'm and I'm seeing it crawling through. I mean, here like I used to play with garter snakes, they're like a foot long. When you're lucky, amen. If you get a garter snake, it's like six inches long. But when you get a foot long, it's like, oh well, look at the one I found. That's why I was but this was a whole different level. This was a whole different, this was like this was big. And and I was told if they coil, you need to be careful. This one wasn't coiling, it was like mining his business. I was mining my business, my camera out, and you see it, and I'm going, well, it can't even go straight. It's like the way it's crawling, it's like going sideways. And I'm watching this thing like I'm watching the devil. I'm watching this thing going. It gave me a whole different perspective on how crooked and how nasty the devil is. Like I said, you see this motion, but they can't go straight. When you're when you're that twisting and that curling and and twist and it's going sideways through the through the uh, and like I said, I have my phone, I got video on my phone to prove it. That's how the devil is twisting everything around. So when you read the scripture verse here, there there was a time when I wasn't nothing. There was a time when I was weak, but the devil teaches us to resist. The devil teaches us that there's a power that is in me that will resist the devil and see him flee. I'm not the one running away from the devil. The Bible teaches me who does the running. We I do the resisting, I see him flee. So when you read scriptures like this, you say, Well, this is the the the don't don't stick to the first part of the verse. If any man think that he knoweth anything, he knoweth nothing yet. Thank God for the yet. Because before I came to God, all I knew was sin, all I knew was disobedience, all I knew was some you know reckless thinking that would destroy you know the upbringing that godly parents tried to put or tried to sow into my life, but the flesh wants to rebel, the flesh doesn't want anything to do with God, the flesh doesn't want anything to do with holiness, the flesh doesn't want anything to do with sanctification, the flesh just wants give it to me all, give it to me all because I'm gonna die and I'm gonna end up dust all over again. Got nothing to lose. I've said this before. Thank God for the spirit that can come and give us the teaching that we need to know as of yet, as he ought to know. And if any man think that he knoweth anything, yeah, hang on for a sec. This reminds me of the folks that came to Jesus last week that we read, trying to trick them. They weren't looking for the answer that Jesus would give, they weren't looking for an answer, they were just well, well, yeah, we'll we'll tell this guy off. We'll back him into a corner and he won't be able to, you know, squirm his way out. Uh well to begin with, Jesus is the word. So you're not gonna pull and and the word was long, was around long before your schooling, your googling, your seminaries, wherever else you came from, sitting at the feet of Gamaliel, it doesn't matter. And they came to Jesus and they had some, like I said, some serpentine, venomous, fork tongues. Don't know whether to go with the left side of the fork or the right side of the fork. It's demonic. There's a reason why you and I are sheep, and the reason why the devil's a serpent. I mean, this is biblical understanding. Jump into turn a few pages into Galatians, the last chapter, chapter six. You think you know something? I know what I know, but I also know what I don't know. Saying, how can you know what you don't know? That's why I keep reading the Bible, so I get to know what I should know, what I ought to know. I may not know it yet, but tomorrow I'm gonna know something that I didn't know today. Because God's word, this is what I mean when you live the word of God. Man saying, Where's that in the Bible? Man shall not live by bread alone, but he shall live by I live by the word of God. Every time I open up the Bible, I don't want to get too carnal, but every time I open up the Bible, I get an upgrade. And I wish Bell would leave my phone alone. I'm tired of going, the button used to be there. Used to pop up and paste was to the left. Why'd they move paste to the right? Now I could, you know, I instinctively go to the left. I go, now I just copied. Now I just lost what I wanted to paste because they moved the buttons, stop. But it's not when it comes to God and I open up the word of God, I get an upgrade every time. If I read it twice a day, I'm upgraded twice a day. Amen. If I read the same verse that I've been reading for 50 years, I still get an upgrade. This is this this is who God's spirit is, this is who we are in Christ. No upgrade, I'd just roll over and die. I'd be obsolete for the kingdom of God. I don't want to be obsolete. Hallelujah. Amen. I want I want to be who God has made me, who God expects, because the workmanship of God is being produced in my life. Amen. Now listen, Galatians 6, 3. For if any man think himself to be something, amen. As I said, I didn't, I don't, I don't want the wrong spirit coming from Acts 26 and Paul saying, I think myself happy. Who does he think he is? Well, I I think the way the Bible teaches me to think. So in Galatians 6, for if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. Let's keep reading. Amen. I can keep reading, but let every man prove his own work. Let's keep reading, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone. Someone say amen. And not in another. Some folks are not rejoicing. They say, Do you see what sister did? Look at Brother Luke. Brother Luke, who? Brother Luke Warm, look what he's doing. I don't know. I don't want to look at Brother Lukewarm. I have enough trouble dealing with my own self. My responsibility. Let every man prove his own work. Works are important. It's not my works that got me saved. But once I got saved, my works changed. Amen. Don't anyone, don't anyone of you try to tell me that before you got saved, no, you had no works. You smoked your two packs a day, you downed your six-pack, which wasn't enough, so it became a 12-pack, which became a 24-pack of alcoholic beverage. Amen. One man couldn't satisfy you, one woman couldn't satisfy you. What else? Drugs? And then you show up, you know, you say the sinner's prayer in church and say, it doesn't matter really what you do. Oh, yeah, I did before a sinner, amen. A sinner knows how to sin. Because a sinner likes to sin. Then you show up in church and say, ah, well, you know, it doesn't really, you know. You you so you see people praying, God, you know, forgive me, God, give me this, God, you know, fix me up, God, do whatever. And then you turn around and say, Well, yeah, you just do what you feel like doing, do what the flesh feels like doing. You don't keep up your end of the bargain, but you expect God to keep up his end of the bargain. Oh, I'm so sorry I messed up. I'm so sorry that I died. Whatever you said, but God, you know, I need your, I need you by my side. Fix up the mistakes I just did. Go with God and establish his will, not only in your life, but establish his will on the face of this earth. Amen. Then you will have a relationship with God that's going to be on good terms. Not you coming back and saying, God, give me, give me God, do your thing because I messed up and did my thing. That's not the work of God. You can't rejoice, you can't be God. Amen. I can stand here today because of who I am in Christ. Amen. When the devil comes and wags anything, what do you want? Perversion, addiction, sex, drugs, whatever it was. Amen. I've had contracts that were offered to me when I was working in the industry at the six figures. And six figures was a lot of money 20 years ago. Lay it out on the table. And then I'd sit there and say, Well, here's my counter offer because you don't know who I am. You don't know the decision that I made to serve my God. Hallelujah. And I'm gonna have to say no. I'm gonna have to say no. And then they they the the the and this happened on a on three occasions, I think I was offered very lucrative positions. And one time it was very tempting because the$100,000 was put on the table, and like I said, that's a lot of money about 20 some years ago. And that$100,000 was put on the table, and when I argued my way out of it, she looked at me and said, and there'll be a hundred thousand dollars extra on a signing bonus. The hundred just got doubled, laid out on the table. And here I'm sitting there saying, God, Spirit of God is there reminding me this is who you are as a son of God, this is who you are in my kingdom. Don't fall for what the devil has to offer. I mean, if somebody offers you, if you're a plumber and you get offered a hundred thousand dollar contract, brother in security, if you get a hundred thousand dollar contract, I'd be praying for you. Amen. But in my position, it was a little different for where I was at the time. Knowing that there was a calling, knowing that God was shaping me. I wasn't there yet, but God was shaping me, molding me, forming me, and here I am all these years later, standing up in the presence of God with something worth a whole lot more than whatever man could offer, man could slide me on the table. Having made the right decision because of what the Bible says. There may have things that I did not know then, but I know them now. Thank God for the yet. Amen. I trust all of you are following me in the King James Bible. If you have a different version, I trust it ends up to tell you the same thing. Because we get told things, and we get to like I said, the Bible teaches me who I am in Christ. Man may say you're weak, you're just human, you're just society, this you've changed this the way you were born, whatever else. But I thank God for who I am in Christ. Amen. When Jesus Christ moves in, Jesus says, I come in to make my abode with you. And he says, I'm not coming alone, but my father comes with me. That's Jesus Christ, that's his father, and that's me. And Jesus said, and the three shall be one. Amen. I thank God we have one mind, one heart, one vision, with one doctrine, and I have one goal that I may know him, Jesus Christ, in the power of his resurrection. Praise God. This is who I am. Amen. In Christ, someone say in Christ. Let every man prove his own work. Amen. Forget about Brother Luke. Lukewarm. Amen. Forget about sister whoever. Amen. Sister stiff necked. Work out your own salvation. Finish the verse for me, someone. Amen. Fear and trembling. From the book of Philippians. Let's go into Philippians chapter 4. I'm gonna pray in a few minutes, but I'm gonna have one thing, one more thing. I'm gonna ask you a question what's on your mind? Philippians chapter 4. Reading the seventh verse. And the peace of God. Underline peace of God because it's gonna, those three words are gonna come back. And the peace of God which passeth all understanding shall keep your hearts and keep your minds through Christ Jesus. Shall keep. Do you know God is a keeper? God keeps. This is what we're reading. The peace of God. Amen. This is who he is. Amen. So well it doesn't really say God, it says the peace of God. Yeah, we're gonna keep reading. Just wait till we get to verse 9. Then you get the whole all of God. Right now we're talking about the peace of God. Itch up because and we know. Read the scriptures. We know thou wilt keep him. Thank you, my sister. Keep going. In perfect peace. Amen. This is Isaiah chapter 26. Thou shalt keep him. God play God God keeps. Someone say I'm kept. Amen. The God that I serve, he's a holy God, but he's a keeping God. Amen. It's not like society today, everything's just recycled and thrown away, and phone doesn't work, throw it out. Can't you fix the phone? Nope. Get something new. Thank God God makes me a new creature in Christ Jesus, and then He keeps, keeps my mind, keeps my heart, keeps who I am, keeps me where I am at. Amen. On a rock which is Jesus Christ, amen. A place where the foundation is solid, a place where it is immutable, unmovable. Doesn't matter, amen, what who shakes what? So keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Hallelujah. Amen. What's the opposite of God keeping? The devil thieving. Wants to take, wants to take it away. Praise God. What God has given me. I thank God I serve an eternal God. What God has given me, it's permanent. Amen. It's a it becomes a permanent fixture in my body. And then I I go about protecting it. Amen. Then here says, Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, you can count them down. Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of a good report, if there be any virtue, if there be any praise, what's it say? Think on these things. And the peace of God, go back to verse 7, which passeth all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds through Jesus Christ. Verse 9. Those things which ye have both learned, received, two, and heard, three, and seen, four. In me, do someone say do. And the God of peace shall be with you. Verse 7, you've got the peace of God, verse 9, you have the God of peace. Told you those three words were gonna repeat themselves, just in a different order. Amen. The peace, same thing in French, the peace of God. And when you get down to verse 9, and the God of peace. Praise God. Gets a little better. Don't mind the peace of God, but I sure would love to have the God of peace. Praise God. That's what Israel doesn't have. Amen. Even if they're making war against the enemy. I mean, you think the president has any peace? Well, this is a lot longer than I thought. I thought I'd bomb them for a couple of days. I thought their missiles only had a 2,000 kilometer range. Well, now they're hitting targets at 4,000 kilometers. I guess you didn't. The Bible says before you go to war, count how many men they have. Before you build a building, count. See if you have enough bricks. The devil says, We've got to pay, pray for Mr. President or whoever's making these decisions. London does some math. Oh, we're not getting involved yet because you thought their missiles, the missiles of Iran had a 2,000 kilometer range. Now they can hit you because you're only 3,800 kilometers away from where they've been launching these missiles. Now London says, Yeah, we want in the war. You need some boats, you need some men. Let us help you out. And thank God I'm not dependent on any of that. Certainly not dependent on what we got. Dependent on the word of God. I'm going to pray in a couple minutes. This is the God of peace. Jesus Christ. I didn't finish my story when I said, I know the Bible says pray for Jerusalem. This week, this is a one of the leaders of higher-up rabbi in Israel, mocking. Mocking my Lord and Savior. Mocking. Antichrist. Small little A. Antichrist. Christians can't say, can't even they can't say the name of Jesus Christ. Rabbi standing there in his garb and his hat and his doom and whatever else. Talking about Christianity, this and Christianity that. And if for those of you who don't know what J. C. Penny is, in the in the US, J. C. Penny is a is like it's like I could say Hudson's Bay, but Hudson's Bay doesn't exist anymore. See Sister Luann and Sister Pamela, they all know what JC Penny is. Amen. There's one in Grand Forks, if it's still there. At least J. C. Penny was a tither. But J. C. Penny has nothing to do with Christianity. Like I said, he was a tither, he's long dead, but yeah, J. C. Penny, it's a chain of department stores. Yeah, Simon's here in Canada. We have Simons or Hudson's Bay. We had the Bay. Um we had Kmart, one of the other things we grew up with. Yeah. Um that's what JC Penny is. It's twice. Oh, we don't have to mention JC Penny. Yeah, well, maybe you should. He was a tither. That's your old testament there, Mr. Rabbi. Amen. J C Penny was prosperous. Lots of stores. Always growing in the in despite the economy because JC Penny tithes. The day his children took it over, stopped tithing. They pulled the tithe out of the church. And the store has been going downhill ever since. I don't even know if that's that's what JCPenney is. How they know about that in Israel, I don't know. Maybe there's JC Penny in Israel. I don't know. But mocking. Jesus Christ. It's important today. I mentioned I'm going to pray in two minutes. Sorry, give me another two minutes. Stand. That'll remind me that I need to pray in two minutes. Let's all stand. We cannot let the world off the hook. We may be saved and sanctified, and we got what we want, and we're on our way to heaven. Amen. But there's people dying every, what is it, two every second? Two every second. They're going to war and they're dying. We need to pray. Can't let the world off the hook. The devil wants us. He wants us to let it slide. You don't have to say anything. Yeah, I think I do. And it starts with what's in your what's on your mind, what's in what has been sowing into your spirit for the last hour. Praise God. Put your hands up, getting ready to pray. Make a decision today. I'm not talking about JC Penny. This is Jesus Christ and Him crucified. Someone say thank you, Jesus. Blood much more precious than silver and gold. Slain for the remission of sins. Slain by the same people. Back up, Mr. Rabbi. If he's more than likely a Levite, back them all the way up to the Levites that stood before Jesus. The high priest. Amen. High priest Jesus Christ did not become high priest by inheritance. His mother's side, I looked at this last week. They said, Oh, we can trace you back to David. Yeah, in the flesh. Not bad. Keep going, Abraham. Keep going, keep going. Not on his dad's side. Your hands are up. We're going to pray and thank God. Amen. For Jesus Christ and who he is. Like I said, not because he was a Levite, not because you could. The rabbis and Levites, the Levi, the son of Aaron, they need to be, they gotta chase themselves back to Aaron, brother of Moses. Jesus Christ is a thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living God. Amen. Matthew goes into details, all the begats and begats and begats. And Luke goes into details, all the begats and the begats. John hits it, he nails it in one verse. In the beginning was the word, the word was with God, and the word was what God. Two verses, and the word became flesh. There's a genealogy for those who walk in the spirit. Amen. Thank God for Mary, thank God for David. Thank God for Obed, thank God for uh Rahab. Thank God for whoever else is in the lead. Thank God, thank God for all these holy men and holy women of God. Thank God for the word. Father in heaven, I pray, amen, that the word of God which we have received today, it just makes us stronger, gives us more zeal, more courage to witness. Tomorrow, in school, on the way to school, at work, on the way to work, the devil's gonna lose ground. Because we've been fed. Something you've been fed twice, double portion. You got it in French, and you got a whole lot more in English. Hallelujah. Listening, brothers and sisters, the same thing. Not ashamed of this gospel, not ashamed of the gospel of Christ. Father in heaven, a difference needs to be made in our lives, and it starts tonight. If someone's all new to this, they haven't confess they don't know Jesus Christ, the remission of their sins. May they come to Him today for His mercy, for His grace. The truth which we have heard, it just stirs us up. That anointing, that gift that is in us just gets stirred up so we can go forth and not let these things slide, not let the devil have any kind of leeway at all. We're here to defeat his purpose, we're here that his kingdom comes to naught. We're here to find the center of your will, Father in heaven, that thy will be done on this earth as it is in heaven. Father in heaven, ordain our steps as we go forth from this day forward with a mind of what we should be thinking about. Truth, honesty, a good report. If there be any virtue, if there be any praise, things that are lovely, things that are pure, things that are honest. Those are the things that we think about. Even the young people, I know they have to say focus on their homework and getting the right answers on the test. But in between all these things, they're gonna have a mind that'll get them to. Keeps them out of sin, out of disobedience. Father in heaven, I pray for them. Every single person listening, praise God. Christina joined us, Pastor Michelle joined us, Luella, up Luella up north and Alberta region. Glad to have you with us, praying for you and your family, your business. Praise God. And anyone else, receive what we have been given today from God, making a difference in our lives, in our hearts, in our minds, in our souls, for all of eternity. I'm thankful for the reading of the word, thankful for the Holy Ghost, which was able to lead us and to guide us into truth, all truth, into righteousness. Again, we pray for our leaders, pray for peace. They shouldn't be dropping bombs, but so they are. Amen. Not receivables that sit there for six weeks. Whatever company, whatever business, whatever your trade is, in Jesus' name, it is blessed and it prospers. Praise God. In school, they prosper, praise God. Not ashamed of the gospel of Christ. Thank God for our billboards which display that message, Jesus, Savior. Praise God. In Jesus' name. Keep the devil mad. Praise God. Father in heaven, I pray a blessing in the lives of all my brothers and sisters. Thank God for this opportunity that we have been given today from the house of God here in Montreal to receive the word, to walk around with the Bible in our hands, open to whatever page we feel like reading, and so we can read it. Thank God for that peace. We're not taking it for granted until Jesus comes. Praise God. We're going to think on those things, amen, which are honest, which are pure, which are lovely. Praise God. Amen. That show up with a good report. Praise God. Amen. Which are pure. I think a missing one, if there be any virtue, if there be any praise. Think on these things. Not only your peace, praise God. Keep us, Father in heaven, praise God. The peace of God, but the God of peace be with each and every one of my brothers and sisters. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen. And amen. Praise God. Word of God, this is what you need. I read one, two, three, four, five different passages from the New Testament. I trust it exhorted. I trust it edified. I trust it encouraged you. Um, allowed us to grow in the grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Um, remember who we are. I think myself happy. I am who I am because of what Christ Jesus did, what God did in me, because of who is in me. Greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world. Amen. Christ in you is the hope of glory. If any man be in Christ, praise God. This is it's it's I thank God for the word of God is a blessing. Praise God. Um take advantage of God's word in your life every day. As I said, Pastor Kevin, brother Steve, we post on Facebook. I do as well. I text, I email hundreds of people every day, and I thank God for it. Remember, Paul said, I think myself happy. Remember the position what he was in. Amen. Wherever you are, amen. Jordan, if you're listening, I know you're you're Chad listening. We spoke yesterday. Chad, you know, for a few minutes, you're confined, you're paying your debt to society. Just remember where Paul was in that predicament, and he says, you know what? I think myself happy. So whoever's listening, amen. Thank God. Put the word of God to work in your life, and you will be blessed. What you think matters makes a difference. Praise God. Praying for each and every one of you. I love you. My name is Lincoln. You're listening to That's the Truth. Be blessed. Praise God. What you think matters? Praise God. I think myself happy. It's a copy of all the glory, to gotta be all the praise. Amen and amen. Praise God. Hallelujah. Praise God, be the best. His name is Shut his name. Well, I trust the word of God has blessed you today. God has given us a generous portion of our daily bread. All the glory be unto God. Someone say thank you, Jesus. Remember, you can see the video and audio files of this teaching on our YouTube channel, That's the Truth, as well as our Facebook page, Link with God. Please share these links with your friends and family so that they too can be blessed. This is how you can help me preach the gospel of Christ, salvation for this generation. Stay tuned, there's a lot more of the Word of God coming right up. My name is Lincoln, and you're listening to That's the Truth.