WEBVTT 00:00:00.500 --> 00:00:02.939 I'm not sure it'd be more than happy to bless you with one. 00:00:03.569 --> 00:00:05.580 We're going to go to Ephesians chapter six. 00:00:06.360 --> 00:00:07.570 Ephesians chapter six. 00:00:07.679 --> 00:00:16.379 So once you received that Bible, would you please turn along with the rest of us to the book of Ephesians Chapter Six. 00:00:17.760 --> 00:00:42.090 And so we are on principle number three, the art of faith. 00:00:43.240 --> 00:00:48.780 My enemies warfare's always, always based on deception. 00:00:49.979 --> 00:00:57.869 And so one of the things that Sun Tzu wrote was he said, all warfare is based on deception. 00:00:57.871 --> 00:01:00.990 When we are able to attack, we must seem unable. 00:01:01.530 --> 00:01:04.650 When using our forces, we must appear to be inactive. 00:01:05.010 --> 00:01:08.670 When we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away. 00:01:09.209 --> 00:01:22.420 And when we are far away, we was make him believe that we are near the premise of understanding that deception is your enemy's greatest weapon. 00:01:23.859 --> 00:01:38.230 And so when we understand truth, and I don't mean just all truth, I mean the truth, uh, when you begin to recognize Biblical truth, uh, then you begin to stack the odds against your enemy. 00:01:38.530 --> 00:01:39.040 Amen. 00:01:39.439 --> 00:01:44.530 So ephesians chapter six, verse 10 says, finally my brethren, be strong in the Lord. 00:01:44.531 --> 00:02:01.329 And the power of his might put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil, for we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against rulers of darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. 00:02:01.930 --> 00:02:06.400 Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day. 00:02:06.609 --> 00:02:17.139 Having done all to stand, stand therefore having your loins girt about with the truth, having on the breastplate of righteousness and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace. 00:02:17.439 --> 00:02:24.819 Notice what he says above all, in other words, most important one is taking the shield of faith. 00:02:25.629 --> 00:02:35.680 Where with you shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked and take the helmet of salvation, the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God. 00:02:36.280 --> 00:02:37.419 Let's go to luke 22. 00:02:39.129 --> 00:02:52.229 Luke 22 verse 31, Luke 20 two verse 31. 00:02:53.439 --> 00:02:59.800 You're there, say, man says, and the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has desired to have that. 00:02:59.800 --> 00:03:00.069 He may 00:03:00.069 --> 00:03:13.810 sift you as wheat, but I prayed for the that the faith that I faith fail, not, and when thou art converted strength and my brother, and he said unto him, Lord, I am ready to go with the both into prison and to death. 00:03:14.139 --> 00:03:22.210 And he said, I tell the Peter the cock shall not crow this day before thou shalt thrice deny that thou knowest me. 00:03:22.930 --> 00:03:24.849 There's a kind of a tinge back there guys. 00:03:24.850 --> 00:03:27.009 So if you could just bring me down just a little bit. 00:03:27.580 --> 00:03:28.629 I feel like I'm in a can. 00:03:30.900 --> 00:03:31.870 I don't want to be in a camp. 00:03:34.689 --> 00:03:35.560 I want to be free. 00:03:37.449 --> 00:03:41.009 Freedom rains arrange for me to they. 00:03:41.750 --> 00:03:43.389 So do you. 00:03:43.390 --> 00:03:45.370 Look at somebody next to you and just let them know. 00:03:45.371 --> 00:03:46.560 The devil is a lie. 00:03:49.150 --> 00:03:51.099 Look at somebody else, told them the same thing. 00:03:51.100 --> 00:03:52.139 The devil is alive. 00:03:53.979 --> 00:03:59.169 Now, based on the way we said that the devil is not a lie. 00:03:59.170 --> 00:03:59.590 He's a. 00:03:59.650 --> 00:04:02.830 That is truth, that he is the devil, but he is a liar. 00:04:02.830 --> 00:04:04.610 But we shortened that the devil is a lie. 00:04:04.610 --> 00:04:06.789 So I wanted to make sure we understood that. 00:04:06.790 --> 00:04:16.600 I, I slang that a little bit, but I wanted to be certain that in terms of our vernacular and how we're speaking, that we're absolutely clear that the devil is not a lie. 00:04:16.750 --> 00:04:19.870 He is in fact the devil, but he is a liar. 00:04:20.649 --> 00:04:21.370 Are you with me? 00:04:22.209 --> 00:04:38.709 And so the thing that becomes most apparent to me in this scripture is he begins to tell you that Satan is not a really after anything but your faith, and so he's not after your stuff. 00:04:39.279 --> 00:04:41.500 You are the only one who's after stuff. 00:04:43.540 --> 00:04:45.819 He's not after your stuff. 00:04:46.269 --> 00:04:58.589 He's after your faith, and so Jesus said that you shall deny that thou knowest me and see the, the concept of, of no, when. 00:04:58.591 --> 00:05:02.230 Remember when Jesus said, depart from me, you work over iniquity. 00:05:02.230 --> 00:05:02.889 I never knew. 00:05:02.891 --> 00:05:07.120 You see, the understanding of no comes in a couple of different words. 00:05:07.120 --> 00:05:20.560 And one of the challenges of proper interpretation biblically is that when you don't study Greek or Hebrew, it becomes very difficult sometimes to discern what certain words mean. 00:05:20.560 --> 00:05:25.000 For example, uh, love is not all the same when it comes to the Bible. 00:05:25.420 --> 00:05:38.379 How many of you know you can love your dog, just don't love your dog, and so just because the word love is being used, it doesn't mean the same thing every single place. 00:05:38.560 --> 00:05:39.550 Does that make sense? 00:05:39.759 --> 00:05:54.879 And so just by my inflection you got my point, but in the Hebrew and Greek language, different words have different understandings and so this word knowest me when Jesus said, depart from me, you work over iniquity. 00:05:54.879 --> 00:05:55.959 I never knew you. 00:05:56.259 --> 00:05:59.319 The challenge that I thought Jesus knew all things. 00:06:00.279 --> 00:06:09.879 So then if Jesus knows all things and how could he say he doesn't know me, and now this comes down to the difference between[inaudible] and Ginosko. 00:06:10.420 --> 00:06:20.019 Now this is not a Bible college lesson, but it's worthy for you to understand because it's important to recognize that oil means to have an Aha moment. 00:06:20.021 --> 00:06:24.759 It means that you begin to have some spiritual discernment and you get it. 00:06:24.761 --> 00:06:33.670 In other words, how many times have you heard a particular scripture or a particular concept and then one day you go, Aha, I got it. 00:06:34.269 --> 00:06:37.240 It just all of a sudden it clicked and it made sense. 00:06:38.290 --> 00:06:45.970 That's to know something by discernment or by a comprehension that comes spiritually. 00:06:47.519 --> 00:06:51.040 Ginosko means that I have no experience with you. 00:06:51.250 --> 00:06:54.850 I can know something because I've been through it a couple, two, three times. 00:06:55.029 --> 00:06:59.199 You know sometimes you deal with people that go through a problem and you start talking to them. 00:06:59.201 --> 00:07:01.209 You're like, look, I'm not telling you what I heard. 00:07:02.259 --> 00:07:05.529 I'm telling you what I know I've been through that. 00:07:05.531 --> 00:07:07.480 Got The t shirt and retired from it. 00:07:07.870 --> 00:07:13.839 Now I'm trying to help you and you can't see that I'm not speaking out of my comprehension. 00:07:13.990 --> 00:07:15.769 I am speaking out of my goodness. 00:07:15.959 --> 00:07:19.329 Go my experience that I've had in the situation. 00:07:19.331 --> 00:07:22.449 So when Jesus said, depart from me, I never knew you. 00:07:22.600 --> 00:07:26.649 What he was saying was, I don't know that we've had any experience together. 00:07:27.910 --> 00:07:32.240 I know who you are, but you and I don't work together. 00:07:33.709 --> 00:07:36.829 And that's why I said, depart from me, you worker of Iniquity. 00:07:37.879 --> 00:07:42.569 So here Jesus is speaking to Peter and they're having all kinds of conversations y'all. 00:07:42.589 --> 00:07:45.069 This is right before the last supper. 00:07:45.180 --> 00:07:47.300 And they're over there arguing about who's the greatest. 00:07:48.230 --> 00:07:51.259 And Jesus said, look, Peter, let me, let me share something with you. 00:07:52.009 --> 00:07:58.839 Satan has asked for you why you weren't about being the greatest Satan. 00:07:58.841 --> 00:08:01.720 Just put a request in for your name. 00:08:03.189 --> 00:08:11.560 And so what I'm going to tell you is, since I'm, you know, God in the flesh and I'm the halfway of all things great and small, I'm the Alpha and the Omega. 00:08:11.740 --> 00:08:14.470 I'm just going to go ahead and rebuke that and shut it down. 00:08:15.699 --> 00:08:16.509 It's not what he said. 00:08:19.029 --> 00:08:21.699 He gave him the typical church answer. 00:08:23.290 --> 00:08:32.779 Oh, I'll pray for you brother Jesus himself. 00:08:33.919 --> 00:08:34.509 I'd have been like, really? 00:08:34.519 --> 00:08:37.700 Jesus, you all pray for me. 00:08:38.429 --> 00:08:40.009 Wow, I appreciate that. 00:08:40.010 --> 00:08:45.679 But, uh, since you beheld Satan fall from heaven like lightning, you was there when that happened. 00:08:46.809 --> 00:08:52.519 Uh, because your brother up, he said, I'm a Predator of faith. 00:08:52.820 --> 00:08:53.090 Feels not. 00:08:54.129 --> 00:09:09.600 He's there because when you're see, we as Christians rally around the, the salvation or getting saved or entering into the family of God. 00:09:09.840 --> 00:09:25.980 But very few people talk about the conversion process because the reality is that it cannot be that he's speaking to salvation because Peter was the one who stepped up when Jesus said, who do men say that I am? 00:09:26.129 --> 00:09:29.820 He said, thou art the Christ, the son of the living God, God in the flesh. 00:09:29.821 --> 00:09:32.879 He said, flesh and blood has not revealed that onto him. 00:09:33.059 --> 00:09:36.960 So now here we sit with a man who knows who Christ is. 00:09:37.139 --> 00:09:41.759 Therefore he is fully aware of his salvation that is vested in Christ. 00:09:41.970 --> 00:09:48.509 It is not now for him to then determine what it is that Christ is because he already knows. 00:09:50.710 --> 00:09:56.110 So then it cannot be the conversion process is him getting saved or coming to the knowledge of Christ. 00:09:56.200 --> 00:09:58.090 He already came to the knowledge. 00:10:00.330 --> 00:10:04.169 So it says, you know, you guys are wondering who is the greatest and all this other stuff. 00:10:04.171 --> 00:10:05.340 He says, St Nash for you. 00:10:06.570 --> 00:10:09.029 He said, and since he's asked for you, I know he's coming for you. 00:10:10.059 --> 00:10:12.539 Since he's coming for you, I'm going to pray your faith fail you not. 00:10:13.409 --> 00:10:24.179 Because when you're converted, I want you to turn around and strengthen your brother, and his first answer is, I will follow you into prison and to death. 00:10:24.960 --> 00:10:29.610 Whatever Peter Dem is lies. 00:10:32.429 --> 00:10:39.450 I fully believe at the moment he thought that was the truth, but we all know that's not what happened, and watch what he says. 00:10:39.451 --> 00:10:39.870 Keep going. 00:10:42.090 --> 00:10:46.500 And he said, I tell the Peter the cock shall not crow. 00:10:46.500 --> 00:10:51.870 This day before you have three times denied that you know me. 00:10:53.730 --> 00:10:57.009 That word no is oil dose. 00:10:57.240 --> 00:10:59.580 It is to have a revelation. 00:11:00.750 --> 00:11:19.590 He says, you will deny that you even have a revelation of who I am, that you will literally lose the revelation of who I am, not they're going to asco, not the experience, because you'll remember the experience. 00:11:22.690 --> 00:11:22.690 Good, 00:11:25.529 --> 00:11:30.059 but you'll start to lose revelation because of the attack. 00:11:34.919 --> 00:11:36.120 Y'All ain't ready this morning. 00:11:37.799 --> 00:11:39.629 So then so then wash this. 00:11:39.940 --> 00:11:41.279 Why the Satan wants your faith? 00:11:42.720 --> 00:11:50.490 Because the nature of faith transforms a finite being into an infinite reality. 00:11:51.690 --> 00:12:01.120 Paul Tillich said that it is so important for you to understand that faith is the ultimate leveler. 00:12:03.669 --> 00:12:26.409 See, in this world, a talent may be distributed all amongst the world, but opportunity is not, and so you have plenty of talented people that might be in the hood, but because they don't have opportunity, they are unable to capitalize on the very talent that they have. 00:12:26.590 --> 00:12:31.870 There are people I know y'all gonna get mad at me when I say this, but I'm telling you it's the truth. 00:12:32.110 --> 00:12:44.500 There are people that I have known over the years that have been drug dealers that have been better ceos come on that had greater leadership skills, 00:12:45.629 --> 00:12:52.980 but because of the social economic condition by which they have been raised in, it shifts their life to a different place. 00:12:53.159 --> 00:12:57.179 And so the thing about faith is that faith holds no gender. 00:12:57.330 --> 00:12:58.769 Faith holds no race. 00:12:58.950 --> 00:13:19.289 Faith is all about God and he is the ultimate leveler of the playing field that brings us all into a place that you might have in your head, a finite reality, but when faith steps into the scene, it begins to take that which is finite and moves it into the world of infinite 00:13:20.509 --> 00:13:21.769 possibilities. 00:13:22.279 --> 00:13:23.090 Dreams. 00:13:25.009 --> 00:13:32.120 It's the ultimate level, and so now let's go to Romans chapter 12. 00:13:33.620 --> 00:13:38.870 Romans chapter 12, verse three, don't know about y'all, but I'm, I'm ready to. 00:13:40.070 --> 00:13:41.070 I'm ready to get it. 00:13:41.769 --> 00:13:42.230 Y'All ready? 00:13:42.799 --> 00:13:43.490 Watch this. 00:13:43.850 --> 00:14:10.220 Romans chapter 12, verse three, he says, for I say through the grace given unto me to every man that is among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man, the measure of faith, so then every man, every person. 00:14:10.940 --> 00:14:12.529 This is not gender specific. 00:14:13.250 --> 00:14:18.799 Every person has a measure of faith. 00:14:20.360 --> 00:14:20.899 Watch this. 00:14:20.929 --> 00:14:24.139 August, Alex said it this way, faith in an unseen. 00:14:24.140 --> 00:14:45.649 Christ brings man into connection with an unseen world in which he moves without distinctly apprehending it, and in proportion as he has learned to look with faith to that world, the more is the measure of his spiritual powers elevated. 00:14:47.000 --> 00:15:02.990 In other words, the more that a person begins to look beyond what they see with the eyes of faith, it now elevates the power that's available to that person. 00:15:03.799 --> 00:15:09.320 And so then when people say, well, does faith a conflict with natural law? 00:15:09.500 --> 00:15:12.620 Does faith conflict with my circumstance? 00:15:12.860 --> 00:15:27.200 There's faith conflict with reason a, isn't it just denial when you start making face statements that I believe are not true, this is not the case because faith is not in conflict with these things. 00:15:27.500 --> 00:15:35.149 Faith transcends these things and so can your world still be a world of failure? 00:15:35.600 --> 00:15:40.580 While my world of which I'm in it with you mind can be a world of possibility. 00:15:40.730 --> 00:15:56.509 All because I am willing to elevate my view into a place of faith that you are unwilling to walk in and slash or to live in, but we can be in the same place that the same time and experience different things. 00:15:56.659 --> 00:16:03.620 Because my faith is not a place where I realized I will not be handicapped by your limitations. 00:16:03.860 --> 00:16:06.889 I will not be shut down by your view of God. 00:16:07.009 --> 00:16:10.610 That my revelation of God is individual to me. 00:16:10.759 --> 00:16:15.289 And if I believe that he's able, he can make it happen. 00:16:19.250 --> 00:16:27.830 So then this is when Jesus said to the man, if you can believe all things are possible, oh my God. 00:16:27.919 --> 00:16:39.090 See, this is a problem for most religious folks because when you say all things are possible, at what point? 00:16:39.091 --> 00:16:47.279 When you start complaining about what's going on in your life, do you ever come to the realization that all things are possible? 00:16:47.429 --> 00:16:49.320 You can be on her death bed. 00:16:49.470 --> 00:16:51.149 Oh, things are possible. 00:16:51.269 --> 00:16:53.490 You can be struggling in some area. 00:16:53.700 --> 00:16:55.620 Oh, things are possible. 00:16:55.820 --> 00:17:00.350 Every single thing is possible with the eyes of. 00:17:04.789 --> 00:17:09.809 He said, if you can believe all things are possible, do you have any idea? 00:17:09.810 --> 00:17:11.759 The magnitude of the check he just wrote? 00:17:14.220 --> 00:17:24.220 Literally, he said, if you can write it, there's no check. 00:17:26.230 --> 00:17:27.279 The God can't cash. 00:17:29.140 --> 00:17:32.680 Why do so many people struggle with faith? 00:17:33.319 --> 00:17:45.430 If faith truly has the ability to do anything, faith cannot be obtained by the angel individual parts of the body. 00:17:46.690 --> 00:17:49.150 It can only be obtained by all your faculties. 00:17:50.579 --> 00:17:51.509 You are a spirit. 00:17:53.009 --> 00:17:56.069 You live in a body and you possess a soul. 00:17:57.569 --> 00:18:03.029 You cannot have faith in your spirit and not have faith in your mind. 00:18:03.030 --> 00:18:05.849 Your soul and have faith in your body. 00:18:07.069 --> 00:18:14.059 It requires you to understand that the nature of faith is not an intellectual discourse. 00:18:14.339 --> 00:18:20.869 Worse, it is not a base of of of probability. 00:18:21.140 --> 00:18:22.130 It's not gambling. 00:18:22.910 --> 00:18:28.519 It's not looking at a circumstance and saying, well, the odds are I'm going to get through this. 00:18:29.559 --> 00:18:30.410 That's real good. 00:18:30.500 --> 00:18:32.990 The odds are this is not going to take me out. 00:18:33.529 --> 00:18:52.400 The odds are nobody ever dies from a headache and most people try to say that that's their faith or or say it this way, the function or discourse of rule or law or nature is not faith either. 00:18:54.009 --> 00:19:05.259 So in other words, if somebody is struggling with sickness and it's an infection of some sorts, and they began to take antibiotics. 00:19:07.210 --> 00:19:14.289 Now if we beat the tree long enough, can we come to the realization that God gave the man the knowledge to make antibiotics? 00:19:14.290 --> 00:19:17.319 We can but quit saying that's God, 00:19:17.630 --> 00:19:17.839 right? 00:19:19.329 --> 00:19:21.730 Because that's a rule or a function of nature. 00:19:23.549 --> 00:19:23.549 Yep. 00:19:25.690 --> 00:19:28.690 See, there are things that are functions of nature. 00:19:28.890 --> 00:19:38.769 If you were stuck in a second story building and you jumped out of it to deliver yourself from a fire and you maybe you broke a leg, but you live your life, glory to God. 00:19:38.770 --> 00:19:39.279 I made it. 00:19:39.460 --> 00:19:42.880 I'm all about giving God the glory, but don't call that faith. 00:19:45.740 --> 00:19:45.980 Now. 00:19:46.069 --> 00:20:13.509 If you jumped out of 100 stories and got up and walked away from it, that we can now call faith because that is not the natural discourse of the world stopped putting things on God that is not necessarily all together him because what it does is limits your ability to get into faith by depending on what you see, we don't walk by sight. 00:20:13.690 --> 00:20:27.400 We walk by faith in the son of God who loved us and gave himself for so then the world can be very different place for different people based on the level of faith in which they are willing. 00:20:30.329 --> 00:20:43.140 Which means that when the Bible says that a heart man believe it, confession is made unto salvation, then the spirit has to tell his mind to give assurance to his body. 00:20:45.799 --> 00:20:52.420 That's when faith in faith is not a mental thing where I know the scriptures and I've read certain scriptures. 00:20:52.630 --> 00:20:53.920 I just don't understand this. 00:20:54.230 --> 00:20:54.490 No, no. 00:20:54.609 --> 00:21:02.500 Faith is a place when you know that you know that you know that it cannot be denied, that God is truly the one who reigns supreme. 00:21:02.650 --> 00:21:13.019 When you have real faith, there's a sense in a presence in all of your faculties that you are overly consumed with the belief and the knowledge that God is. 00:21:15.700 --> 00:21:29.500 It's not just in my head, it's not in the flesh, not what I can touch, because if you're going to deal with God, the Bible says you must believe that he is. 00:21:30.609 --> 00:21:31.299 He is what? 00:21:31.960 --> 00:21:32.410 He is. 00:21:32.411 --> 00:21:33.190 My helper. 00:21:33.549 --> 00:21:34.750 He's my standby. 00:21:34.960 --> 00:21:36.130 He's my strengthener. 00:21:36.279 --> 00:21:37.630 He is my victory. 00:21:37.750 --> 00:21:40.329 He is my physical healer of mob body. 00:21:40.480 --> 00:21:41.769 He is El Shaddai. 00:21:41.890 --> 00:21:43.240 He's the one that provides. 00:21:43.359 --> 00:21:56.170 He's the one that because he is truly the Alpha and the Omega, he's the author and the finisher. 00:21:57.250 --> 00:22:03.849 Do you know when you read a book, you know the only person who knows the ending of the book? 00:22:04.839 --> 00:22:06.309 First is the author. 00:22:08.240 --> 00:22:08.240 Great. 00:22:09.009 --> 00:22:15.819 As you read the book, you're ending unfolds, but the author is fully aware, 00:22:16.559 --> 00:22:17.039 right, 00:22:21.750 --> 00:22:40.440 and so you are caught when you read a book, you are caught in a maze and a trail that has been predestinated by the author, the only one who does not know where you're about to end up is you. 00:22:41.819 --> 00:22:50.910 So then the author becomes the author and the finisher of that book because he takes you to the finish line. 00:22:51.750 --> 00:22:54.269 Wherever it is he has predetermined. 00:22:57.509 --> 00:23:09.150 So when you have the victory, so then it's not probabilities. 00:23:10.910 --> 00:23:13.349 It's not statistics. 00:23:14.789 --> 00:23:22.109 It's not things that already are happening based on the assumption of the intellect. 00:23:24.029 --> 00:23:28.980 See, the problem with most people when it comes to faith is they are ruled by their intellect. 00:23:29.849 --> 00:23:33.750 Their intellectual capacity begins to change things in their life. 00:23:33.759 --> 00:23:46.079 It begins to direct what they're going to do as they look at a situation and they say, well, I don't think I can afford to do that, or I don't think that's gonna work for me, or I'm not going to get that job that that is too far 00:23:46.079 --> 00:23:49.019 beyond my scope or my capabilities. 00:23:49.200 --> 00:24:18.589 Or I don't think I can do this, or I'm not sure we can have that, or I'm not sure that God would bless this, or I'm not sure he can heal this because besides nobody has gotten healed from this before today, which is the same discourse that is said by every single person who has been an athlete who has ever broken a record 00:24:21.779 --> 00:24:23.000 that's right. 00:24:23.990 --> 00:24:32.390 Every single athlete who has broken a record and became the benchmark by which everyone after them has come to follow has thought in her head. 00:24:32.509 --> 00:24:37.390 Nobody has ever done better than me until right? 00:24:39.109 --> 00:24:50.900 So then the world of infinite possibilities has to be placed where it does not conflict with reason. 00:24:51.259 --> 00:24:53.869 It just transcends reason. 00:24:54.769 --> 00:24:57.500 In other words, just because you think it's not possible, 00:24:59.269 --> 00:24:59.269 right? 00:25:01.410 --> 00:25:03.119 Doesn't mean it's not possible. 00:25:04.660 --> 00:25:19.680 There was a little girl in a history class or a history teacher told her to draw a picture of a historical event, and so as she's drawing this picture and teachers walking around and she looks and she looks on her face, she says, what is that? 00:25:20.519 --> 00:25:21.630 She said, oh, it's a whale. 00:25:23.150 --> 00:25:25.019 And she goes, what's this little person right here? 00:25:26.140 --> 00:25:27.269 That's Jonah in the whale. 00:25:28.559 --> 00:25:29.970 She says, no, no sweetheart. 00:25:30.119 --> 00:25:41.029 She goes, I want you to do historical factual things so you have to do historical, factual things that have happened. 00:25:41.180 --> 00:25:42.319 And she said, that did happen. 00:25:42.529 --> 00:25:43.670 It's in the Bible says it happened. 00:25:45.400 --> 00:25:47.539 And she says, oh no sweetheart, it didn't happen. 00:25:47.990 --> 00:25:49.309 She says, I'm telling you, it happened. 00:25:49.310 --> 00:25:52.549 We watch and when I get to heaven I'm going to talk to them about it. 00:25:55.859 --> 00:25:58.259 So the teacher says, what if he's not in heaven? 00:25:59.279 --> 00:26:00.269 She said, then you ask them, 00:26:03.400 --> 00:26:03.400 okay. 00:26:07.660 --> 00:26:29.950 See, the the realities are are, are that we have to begin to recognize that faith and God is not confined by the parameters of your history. 00:26:31.509 --> 00:26:36.579 He is not confined by the parameters of your science. 00:26:38.289 --> 00:26:44.049 And if you begin to really think you will begin, realize 00:26:44.259 --> 00:26:50.049 that much of what you struggle with, it is not the absence of faith. 00:26:51.289 --> 00:26:55.430 It is the presence of the wrong type of faith. 00:26:57.829 --> 00:27:01.039 Because faith merely is what you believe. 00:27:02.119 --> 00:27:11.359 And if you believe that God cannot heal, then you have more faith. 00:27:15.720 --> 00:27:24.150 So that means steph faith cannot be rejected or denied until a new faith has replaced it. 00:27:25.890 --> 00:27:42.569 As long as you hold onto your old preconceived new faith will never come along until you are able to reject the premise in which you are already holding. 00:27:43.230 --> 00:27:54.690 So then that takes us to a different place because then the nature of faith is now vested in our ability to think and to process and to discern and to know. 00:27:57.259 --> 00:28:06.589 And if what you know is based on your years of experience, you don't understand, pastor, I've been dealing with sick folks all my life. 00:28:08.940 --> 00:28:09.390 Oh, 00:28:11.750 --> 00:28:36.109 so let's take your little 40, 50 years and compare that to the infinite position of God, but you know better than he does because in some way, shape or form, the narcissism in you has allowed you to think that you can even mentally process God in the first place. 00:28:38.710 --> 00:28:41.180 And God's like thinking ahead to your fastest moment. 00:28:41.299 --> 00:28:42.440 I'll be sitting there waiting on it. 00:28:45.700 --> 00:28:47.230 Let's go to Hebrews 11 real quick. 00:28:47.470 --> 00:28:48.309 Let me show you something. 00:28:51.500 --> 00:29:02.369 He was a loving how they live now. 00:29:02.371 --> 00:29:02.880 Faith. 00:29:05.259 --> 00:29:05.740 Now faith. 00:29:06.779 --> 00:29:07.539 What kind of faith? 00:29:09.309 --> 00:29:14.950 When is now okay now, what about now? 00:29:16.650 --> 00:29:17.500 What kind of faith? 00:29:18.430 --> 00:29:19.420 Now faith. 00:29:20.349 --> 00:29:38.980 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen, so in other words, it is the evidence of what I cannot see because it has not manifested yet in the realm of the natural, but I have it in the realm of the spirit. 00:29:40.119 --> 00:29:43.130 Keep going for by it. 00:29:43.279 --> 00:29:43.970 By what? 00:29:46.069 --> 00:29:59.000 By holding on to that which has not been seen yet, the elders obtained a good report, right? 00:29:59.799 --> 00:30:02.920 Keep going through faith. 00:30:02.921 --> 00:30:14.049 We understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. 00:30:15.519 --> 00:30:19.690 Everything in this world started with an idea. 00:30:20.470 --> 00:30:25.119 The chair you're sitting in started in somebodies head. 00:30:25.299 --> 00:30:38.259 It was conceived with something that was not seen in order to produce that which is seeing, and so many people are asking, God, give me a car, give me a house, give me this. 00:30:38.470 --> 00:30:38.829 God. 00:30:38.830 --> 00:30:40.420 Don't make the cars or the house. 00:30:40.480 --> 00:30:43.029 He makes the metal that's in the ground. 00:30:43.779 --> 00:30:47.859 He makes the wood that's in the tree and he expects you 00:30:48.099 --> 00:30:48.289 right 00:30:49.910 --> 00:30:55.819 to come with a supply of faith to turn what is resource into manifestation. 00:30:56.450 --> 00:31:05.990 So then if the world of infinite possibilities truly exists, then I cannot walk up to a tree and say, no one's ever created a chair before. 00:31:07.400 --> 00:31:13.059 So I guess the world will have to sit on the floor for the rest of eternity. 00:31:14.950 --> 00:31:16.990 Then why do you deal with God in that same way? 00:31:19.509 --> 00:31:19.819 So, 00:31:21.680 --> 00:31:25.549 because what begins the realm of impossibility for you? 00:31:27.279 --> 00:31:28.450 It is not faith. 00:31:29.259 --> 00:31:39.140 Once you start talking about what can't happen, because the truth of the matter is the world was framed 00:31:43.299 --> 00:31:43.299 right? 00:31:43.710 --> 00:31:46.859 Everything functions by faith. 00:31:47.910 --> 00:31:49.170 If you came. 00:31:50.349 --> 00:32:06.630 Uh, it, it, it was a recent story, a article about a bill cosby is trying to hide his money in bitcoin a because he believes his wife may be a leaving him for all the things that have transpired, whatever it is or does not. 00:32:07.019 --> 00:32:14.339 And uh, so he decided he's going to try to put his money into bitcoin because when he does that, his money disappears and only he can get access to it. 00:32:15.750 --> 00:32:20.490 Now the, the challenge with that is number one, it's insane. 00:32:22.630 --> 00:32:33.519 But number two, do you think about the idea of what now becomes possible when he begins to think of what is impossible? 00:32:36.039 --> 00:32:44.250 In other words, you can't come me and spend drachma I want US dollars. 00:32:46.869 --> 00:32:54.309 So then the level of currency that I'm willing to deal with is predicated upon what it is that I accept. 00:32:55.200 --> 00:32:55.200 Alright? 00:32:55.920 --> 00:33:08.970 So then if you want to deal with God, the currency of God, his faith, and he's telling you the world was framed by it, that the elders have tamed a good report by it. 00:33:09.720 --> 00:33:18.029 So then he's letting you know that if you want to operate in the natural and deal with a natural, then live there. 00:33:19.559 --> 00:33:36.000 But if you want to transcend what is natural or what is expected or what is quote unquote normal, then you'd better understand the currency of heaven is not in what he cannot do, but it isn't what he can do. 00:33:36.240 --> 00:33:45.240 This now begins to kind of mess with you a little bit because now what you have to do is you spend all of your life believing certain things. 00:33:45.630 --> 00:33:45.880 Oh Man, 00:33:48.769 --> 00:33:51.470 my child is learning how to dive into the pool. 00:33:52.619 --> 00:33:52.619 Yeah, 00:33:53.049 --> 00:33:55.460 because she knows how to swim and she knows how to float and stuff. 00:33:55.461 --> 00:34:00.049 So now she's diving and so she just jumps off the edge and into the water. 00:34:00.050 --> 00:34:01.700 She goes, no fear. 00:34:02.799 --> 00:34:02.799 Okay. 00:34:02.880 --> 00:34:05.490 So we're sitting on the couch in the house. 00:34:06.319 --> 00:34:16.590 She climbs up on times up on the Ottoman and she goes, ready, go. 00:34:20.130 --> 00:34:22.380 Now we are wondering what happened to set. 00:34:25.769 --> 00:34:33.449 Because when she said ready, if she hadn't said set, we'd had enough time, but she skipped, set and went straight to go. 00:34:35.340 --> 00:34:37.000 Needless to say, she face planted. 00:34:39.360 --> 00:34:44.679 Now the point I'm trying to get at is everything don't work everywhere. 00:34:51.530 --> 00:34:54.679 She is only 20 months. 00:34:55.099 --> 00:34:56.239 What's your excuse? 00:35:02.309 --> 00:35:03.869 Everything don't work. 00:35:06.500 --> 00:35:09.440 There are rules to have, 00:35:11.170 --> 00:35:11.170 right, 00:35:11.889 --> 00:35:27.309 and this is why when people are caught in the war, in the battle, see, Satan wants your faith because your faith allows you access to transcend even him. 00:35:29.889 --> 00:35:29.889 Hello? 00:35:31.320 --> 00:35:32.639 No, I'm getting ahead of myself. 00:35:32.869 --> 00:35:36.030 Let's, let's, let's go back to luke 22, verse 31. 00:35:39.059 --> 00:35:50.239 Luke 22 verse 31, and the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold Satan has deliver our desire to have you that he may do what? 00:35:52.099 --> 00:35:53.599 We have a video I want you to see. 00:35:54.059 --> 00:35:55.579 I want you to pay attention to this video. 00:36:54.000 --> 00:37:03.130 Do you have any idea that when Jesus said that Satan desires to sift you like wheat? 00:37:03.730 --> 00:37:09.039 See, I was trying to find a way to help you to understand what Jesus just told him. 00:37:10.300 --> 00:37:20.320 Because in our society, if you want flour, you just go down and you buy you a five pound, 10 pound bag of. 00:37:21.909 --> 00:37:30.900 But what I wanted you to see was the process because in those days there was no fries, was no safe way. 00:37:32.019 --> 00:37:41.650 So in order to get wheat it first had to be beaten and struck with a stick constantly to break off. 00:37:41.949 --> 00:37:47.619 And then the elements and the wind would blow away the unnecessary parts in the midst of the storm. 00:37:50.559 --> 00:37:54.849 And then they had to sort through it and pick out the impurities. 00:37:54.851 --> 00:37:58.539 It's Kinda like when you buy a bag of beans, anybody's ever cooked beans. 00:37:58.541 --> 00:38:08.500 I hate beans by the way, but, but I do understand that if you're gonna make some beans, you better sort through them because you might see a little pebble that looked like a bean and you mess around and be at the dentist office. 00:38:10.690 --> 00:38:13.599 So you had to sort through and pick out the impurities. 00:38:13.750 --> 00:38:22.050 And then once you got to that point, then it had to be milled and ground and now you have flour. 00:38:23.219 --> 00:38:36.320 Beaten through the storm, picked over all the impurities and then ground up in order to be used. 00:38:39.360 --> 00:38:54.869 And as he says to him, dummies, see when he said, when you're converted, he's saying after you've gone through beatings and the wind has carried away all the things that are worthless in you. 00:38:57.139 --> 00:38:59.719 And then we got to pick through all of your. 00:39:02.260 --> 00:39:10.769 And then after all of that, after you've been beaten and picked over, then we grind you up. 00:39:16.010 --> 00:39:25.190 Listen, all that wheat goes through doesn't transform wheat into something else. 00:39:26.360 --> 00:39:37.340 What gets it to the place where it needs to be is how the wheat responds to the attack that it has to go through to become what it needs to become. 00:39:38.420 --> 00:39:51.619 And so when he's talking to Peter and he's saying, you're going to deny me, you're going to act like you don't even know me because the attack is going to become so great that it's going to steal your revelation of what you already know. 00:39:51.829 --> 00:39:57.050 Because you might've been through some things with me and I tried to get you to a certain place. 00:39:57.199 --> 00:40:03.559 But when this attack comes into your life, it's going to change what you think about me. 00:40:03.619 --> 00:40:19.480 If you let it, but you'd better know that the moment you are converted, the moments you've gone through an attack, the moment you've gone through the store, the moments you've been ground up, chewed up, spit out, mad, angry, broke, busted, disgusted, can't be trusted. 00:40:19.750 --> 00:40:27.019 The moment you get through all of that, well Pressler Wise, Satan picking on me, why is he picking on me? 00:40:29.210 --> 00:40:31.909 You ought to rejoice that you have a reputation in hell. 00:40:33.679 --> 00:40:37.010 You ought to rejoice that you have a reputation in hell. 00:40:37.699 --> 00:40:38.659 That Satan is gone. 00:40:38.661 --> 00:40:41.119 Oh yeah, that one right there. 00:40:42.320 --> 00:40:42.980 Yeah, we coming. 00:40:42.981 --> 00:40:43.880 We coming for you. 00:40:45.079 --> 00:40:45.889 You'd be like, what's up? 00:40:50.269 --> 00:40:50.840 Get at me Bro. 00:40:50.900 --> 00:40:51.530 What's up? 00:40:52.610 --> 00:40:52.880 Why? 00:40:52.880 --> 00:41:08.300 Because the reality is that if you are under an attack or you've been through or you bout to go into, he said, the moment you are converted, converted can not mean salvation at this point. 00:41:09.650 --> 00:41:16.340 It must mean when you get to the other side of the thing, you keep complaining about it. 00:41:16.340 --> 00:41:17.809 Complaining is not faith. 00:41:18.949 --> 00:41:25.610 God is waiting on you to get to the place where you understand that he is after the attack. 00:41:25.670 --> 00:41:29.750 That's why he said it's able to quench the fiery darts of the enemy. 00:41:30.710 --> 00:41:32.059 You know what a fiery dart is? 00:41:32.061 --> 00:41:34.010 It's an arrow that has 00:41:34.010 --> 00:41:40.130 been especially dressed on the end of it so they can light it on, fire it. 00:41:41.239 --> 00:41:42.050 What's the point? 00:41:42.829 --> 00:41:47.510 When it lands, it sparks ablaze. 00:41:49.099 --> 00:41:56.750 The Shield of faith can stop those darts because st is always throwing something. 00:41:58.929 --> 00:42:08.179 You know you messed up, God saw that he saw what you did dark, and if you let it hit you, 00:42:09.340 --> 00:42:15.099 it'll spark a blaze on the inside of you that all the sudden you'll be thinking more about what you did wrong. 00:42:15.429 --> 00:42:32.559 Then what you have done right, and you will begin to forget all about what God is trying to do because you have dropped your shield of faith and allow yourself to be exposed to the fiery darts of the enemy that he is constantly wailing at you to see if you're willing to give up. 00:42:32.679 --> 00:42:34.119 I willing to give up. 00:42:34.210 --> 00:42:35.500 I'm not shrinking back. 00:42:35.650 --> 00:42:39.639 I'm not going to get up from this whole situation and walk away. 00:42:39.760 --> 00:42:45.469 I'm going to stand and when I've done all to stand, stand some more knowing that my God 00:42:50.760 --> 00:43:00.000 quit Naina and option because that's what separates the wheat from the chaff. 00:43:00.659 --> 00:43:01.860 It's our response to the attack. 00:43:05.579 --> 00:43:21.389 It's in its response and so then the question becomes that if we are ready to go to war, because remember Jesus said, Satan desires you keep going. 00:43:23.010 --> 00:43:27.440 He says, I prayed for you that your faith fail, not, and when you are converted, strengthen your brother. 00:43:27.989 --> 00:43:31.590 The first thing he says is, what next? 00:43:34.159 --> 00:43:37.010 Lord, I'm ready to go with you on to prison. 00:43:40.059 --> 00:43:40.840 Let me explain it to you. 00:43:42.949 --> 00:43:46.809 Usually the person who jumps up and says, what they gone do is usually the person that ain't going to do it. 00:43:50.349 --> 00:43:51.769 It is amazing to me. 00:43:52.039 --> 00:43:52.369 Watch. 00:43:52.371 --> 00:43:53.300 This is amazing to me. 00:43:53.769 --> 00:44:06.530 See, I've been in ministry for what almost 15 years and it's amazing to me how I've learned some things when people come to a church and and they and they have to see the pastor and they got to come talk to me and tell me how great the message was. 00:44:06.739 --> 00:44:08.780 Those are the ones I know we probably won't see you again. 00:44:09.480 --> 00:44:09.480 Yeah. 00:44:12.570 --> 00:44:15.980 It's usually the ones you don't hear nothing from, but they. 00:44:16.019 --> 00:44:18.570 But in their hearts to like, uh, I'm intrigued. 00:44:19.199 --> 00:44:20.190 This is working for me. 00:44:21.360 --> 00:44:22.949