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I want I want to share a study with us tonight is of course you know we are doing discipleship evangelism just foundational basic Christianity hear what I want to study with us tonight is just in the face of the Bible my topic tonight is the Bible is the word of God know if you take that at face value it just seems like all mine I’ve heard all this all over and over and I know this but I have come to realize that most believers most Christians cannot defend the Bible now let me ask you this question but don’t answer publicly just answer yourself and your heart why do you believe in the Bible why do you believe in the Bible what if the Bible was not true how do you know that the Bible is true what makes you so sure that this is He only would’ve got some of you in this room have never been exposed to any other religion so growing up the only thing you know about religion was the word of God how about the people who are in places where they know nothing but the Caraun or any other of the holy books what makes the book wrong in your book right why do you believe in the Bible and do you know that if you most believers don’t know this the other things in this Bible but if you will not talk about the word of God if you did not have a solid foundation about defending the Bible you will probably be made a fool off by some people because they would use scriptures to show you that the Bible is inaccurate like the awesome versus the contradict each other no why do you believe in the Bible I believe personally that each believer each question should get to a place where they can give their life for the Bible and say I believe with every last drop off my blood that this is the word of God just not too long ago last month a good series was airing on TV and I believe it’s still playing called the Bible it was on the history channel and other adult channels it’s a it’s not made from a biblical standpoint of you but it’s made in a sense of like as if it was Hollywood to attract new all a new audience and I don’t know the exact number of hits right now on on YouTube but last time I checked was about 5 million people I’ve been watching these Bible series on TV so the people who produce these this movie I believe the woman she’s from Australia I know my husband is I don’t know but I believe she also played in touch By an angel she’s one of the persons behind this movie they were being interviewed on Fox News by Bill Riley as he was interviewing this couple he he asked him so do you guys really believe in the old testament stories and he was like do you really believe that there was a talking snake in the Adam and eve were really actual people and he kept on pushing to respond was he believes part of the New Testament but he doesn’t really believe in the story the Old Testament like there was a real man called Jonah at some Deorro some point who was thrown in the in the sea and swallowed by a whale and that was just shocking but he’s not the only one most Christians actually cannot accurately defined the Bible knows most of us when we read the Bible we read the stories of Elijah calling on the fire coming from heaven we just look at that as if Yeah I sit in the Bible but I really don’t know if that was actually a real man called Elijhaa like the Bible says that the Moses and the children of Israel went through the Red Sea and some people don’t believe that actually went through the Red Sea some scholars say the one through the green sea not the Red Sea through the read see what does really the Bible teach you personally as a member of the body of Christ you should get to a place where you are so sold out on the word of God like I personally I believe that the word of God from cover to cover is accurate and in my heart my heart of hearts I believe that the most accurate book on this planet is this this is better than any books out there and I believe that anything that God sees about mankind about how he created is more accurate than what science was Tried to portray and I also believe that the word of God is millions and millions of years with the head of science but it will take a long time for science to catch up with the truth of the word of God but we as believers we need to be to be equipped so that we we have like this philosophy about the word of God that you know that you know that you know that this word is the true word of God but I remember when President Clinton was still in office he was being asked a question about just his stand on some of the the main issues that divide Americans that, homosexuality emotional and so forth and he claims to be Christian so he made a comment that those things in the Bible as you see them we’re not ready for this generation the world reading for people back in those days but today the world has advanced and we need to learn how to adapt the word of God As if the word of God was yeah I was OK but the truth of the word of God can’t be supportive today and I tell you that is a lie from the pit of hell the word of God is the plumbline that the Lord has given us to guide our affairs daily but you are a child of God you need to get to a place where you know what you believe in and why do you believe in that and I’m not gonna go theological and get details because if I want to teach just about the history of the Bible who wrote the Bible how many here is the facts about the word of God it will take me like a semester here to just teach about that one topic the Bible and I really encourage some of you who I really encourage some of it to just do a deeper study on the Bible how did we get the king James version who are the people behind the king James version why is it that we have over 30 versions of the English Bible and some translations of Good Bible kind of fight each other you need to be equipped about these things because this is your life this is where we based our eternity on what if what we best all eternity on was a lie how do you know that and I know what I’m saying is true because most believers cannot defend the faith most believers cannot stand strongly on the word of God and defend it and say I pledge allegiance to this just like a back in the days when the body of Christ was lost in the world the first century believers they believed in the Bible so much that they gave the lives of the Bible when we read throughout history men and women were burned at stake men and women were drawn to lines in the world eating but they would not give up on their face unless and history has not proven archaeologically that the Bible is true and that the people that we read in the Bible to 10 The able to Noah the Enoch the Abraham these were not fictional people these are people that actually lived on earth I remember coming to the Lord and I remember around 1992 I was talking to my pastor I couldn’t believe the people I know live to be 950 years and I was asking him do you think the year is actually were counted 365 days or did they count the year as 30 days as a year how could people live like that and he told me yes there was a man called Noah who lived to be 950 years there was a man called Methuselah Bull lived to be 969 years this didn’t happen on Jupiter it didn’t happen on the moon it happen here on this planet earth some people even go far to say do you really believe that was such a thing as the tree of knowledge Good and evil or was this just symbolic yes I do believe there was a physical treat with fruit just like an apple tree like a lemon tree or an orange tree and the walls a physical tree called the tree of knowledge of good and evil some people would say you know when the Bible says that Adam and Eve we’re naked but we’re not ashamed it’s because even though they were naked the glory of the Lord was like a cloud around a private area no the Bible doesn’t say that the Bible says the word literally naked as naked can be no another thing that I know about the Bible is this we always mess up the word of God when we add our philosophy to the word of God the word of God should always be taken at face value take it just as it is don’t add spices to it don’t add sugar or salt to it you will ruin the word of God if we take the word of God as is it’s OK Do you know the dark back in history up until the 16th century people believe that the word that the earth was flat people believe that the earth was flat and it kept expanding and kept expanding and some socks even went in the Bible I remember that the Catholic Church even supported the fact that you know that philosophy that the earth is flat because Jesus talks about the four corners of the world but if you go back in the old testament in the book of Job in the book of Isaiah the Lord actually spoke through Jo Ann through Isaiah that the world is certainly isn’t right that there is such a thing called the circle of the earth like in Job chapter 26 verse 10 the word of God says the town board he drew a circle around the earth that the earth is round and job is considered the oldest book in the Bible but back then even When science couldn’t prove or when people are still debating that the world was flat the Bible already showed us that the world was round science back in the days didn’t believe that the the the globe hangs in the universe they believe and ask is nothing but the Bible in the book of Job spoke already that the globe is actually suspended in mid air by the power of the hand the hands of God the Bible is accurate and I personally I am willing to give my life for this I know the shit that some people who believe that they do used to be dinosaurs that lived here in the world many years ago there has been excavations in Colorado and Oregon on the West Coast these dinosaurs live 15 million years ago but biblically speaking dinosaurs then leave 15 million years ago they just leave 6000 years ago In the Scriptures after scriptures that you can look at that’s a dinosaur the Bible talks about dinosaurs that lived with a man was here on earth and the Giants the Giants live not too long ago just a few thousand years ago but we need to learn these things the word of God should know you know learning the word of God meditating on the scripture shouldn’t be something you do casually Leica it’s an add on to your life this should be your life really but you believe in this so much you believe in this so much that you’re willing to give your life for this let’s go to second Timothy chapter 2 chapter 3 second Timothy chapter 3 and let’s see some thing what the Bible says about the Bible second Timothy chapter 3 let’s read verses 10 through 17 and that’s the end that’s from childhood you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make it wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus all scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine for reproof for correction for instruction in righteousness that the man of God may be complete thoroughly equipped for every good work awesome word Paul tells us hear that all scripture was given by inspiration inspiration is like the breath of God the Lord himself instructed people say you put this in the world what what does this verse teach art or what do the Scriptures teachers they teach us that from Genesis to Revelation man doesn’t have any input in the word of God The word of God is not men’s philosophy the word of God it’s not man’s feelings it’s not some guy who ate so much pizza and had a good dream and woke up and started writing things that’s one of the reasons why I can’t understand millions of people embracing the Quran because as far as we all know the Quran was bitten by one man the prophet that the Muslims respect as the prophet Muhammad what happened to trust one man how do you know if he was on drugs when he was writing those things how do you know if he was psychologically unstable when he wrote those things I mean you have to be very delusional to base your whole face on the writings of one man in the word of God took over 100 people to write it and all of them agree and the people who wrote the Bible we’re not like together in one room they are separated by thousands Beers but yet all of them they spoke about the same exact thing that’s some awesome is like the same idea Bing pass-through generation to generation and one thing else about the Bible it was not just one class of people who wrote the Bible it was not just the people who are scholars who are very educated who wrote the Bible no the mood use people like Emma’s – manhole at the book of Amos who was on a man without any education who was a farmer who didn’t even know how to write the Lord use the men like that right but the mud also use the man like Isaiah when you read the book of Isaiah it seems like this guy is a poet this guy he’s a philosopher he’s one of the most brilliant character in the Bible the book the medical does it but people like that he’ll take a man like King David to write the Bible he’ll take a man like Moses all of them We never knew each other face-to-face spoke about one thing and talked all Timothy whatever they wrote down was not the imagination it was not something that they just came up with it was not something that they wrote because it made more sense for them no he said it was God inspired what do we learn from that scripture or what do you learn about the Bible the Bible is not a man-made book the Bible is gods idea and because we know that God is perfect God never makes a mistake therefore if God inspired the Bible the Bible can not have one single mistake in the Bible can never be wrong when people does Collins Hall but the allegiant who studied the Bible tried to compare the mistakes you know what those mistakes are it’s just the Darding on an offer in on all the crossing of a T But that’s the few mistakes that they have in the Bible but every single thing about the Bible is true why because policies the scripture was given by inspiration it was not somebody who just felt good like man I think I should write up instructions for the next generation know the Lord inspired them the Lord lead these things the most dictated he told Moses you write this down he told Jeremiah you write this down he told Michael you write this down that’s exactly how we get the Bible and then I tell you this is the greatest book of all time and I think even the Guinness world record says that the Bible is the best sellers of all books of all time of all time that has never been a book like this and one thing also you’ll find out about the Bible man the Bible can never lead you wrong he can never eaten never take you You know sidetracking never lose you out there in the wilderness anything written in the Bible like postseason in verse 16 all scripture is given by inspiration of God it is profitable for doctrine for reproof for correction let’s stop right there the word of God will always correct you the word of God will always align you the word of God will like straighten you up do you really need a rebuke all the things in our lives that are just stupid that we do that I just stupid why not run to the Bible the Bible was given to give us correction one of the reason why we commit all these mistakes and we regret why did I talk like this why did I do this why did that do that it’s because his word did not take the first place in our lives when I tell you my friends Some thing that we have naturally it’s called pride know the word the word the Lord has taught me about pride or self-centered as it’s some thing that we struggle with for the rest of her life I don’t know one single person who’s gotten to a place where self-centeredness was totally removed out of their lives only Jesus but all of us in one way or another we will have a degree of self-centeredness somehow someway we always want us first somehow it varies from one person to another some of us not as much as the others in the bottom of our sales Santa nice blinds us to the reality of the word of God because usually we get to places were to someplace and what would feel like we can correct ourselves we can figure out our lives but the word of God here if we give it preeminence if we make it the first thing Can I live it will always correct as the word of God will correct us equal strength to strengthen us now we’re 17 that the man of God may be complete the word of God will make a complete thoroughly equipped for every good work there’s only one way to get to a place where you are given good works for your life is nothing but a spring of good works it’s still the word of God because it’s not accurate do you know one of the reasons why God can never lie all the word of God can never light it’s because the word of God reflects the character of God amen they say is never better a man is not better than his word you know the character of the man but how much words he keeps you cannot be Any man a man who never respects his word doesn’t respect other things about himself it is say that you can tell the character of a man when he tells you I will do he will do I will show up at this upon a time he will show the time if he can shop at the time he’ll call you and let you know sorry I’m running late but a good man or a man of character always hold his word and God is also like that the Bible tells us in the book of Psalms 138 verse to the Lord has exalted his word above himself he has exalted his word above himself the Bible also tells us in the book of Psalms chapter 15 verse four but a godly man will swear to his own heart a godly man means a man who is like God because he receives this character from God God in his character he will swear to his own What does that mean once a word goes from the mouth of God he will never break it even if it hurts him the word that comes from the mouth of God he can never break it God is not a saint son of man that he may repent he is not a son of man that he would just sit does it and I blew that funding that I made a big mess in that anything that God sees him inside anything the dots men’s he say is God is not like us when God says I will do this he will do it and that’s exactly how he gave us this word if this word cannot be trusted nothing else can be trusted about God if there’s just one mistake in the word of God then the whole word of God is wrong I was on the Internet just trying to update myself trying to see when I have some people who are atheist whore who go against the word of God they came out with I am of the biggest mistakes in the Bible and this mistakes are just laughable like us somewhere in the book of Leviticus it says that the Lord told the children Israel you shall not eat any bugs that you should not eat any bugs that has four legs but doesn’t fly I can’t remember this in Leviticus chapter 17 and people in the 80s will say there’s no bugs on earth has four legs all bugs have six legs or more how could God say bag with all eggs and there’s also also an explanation to that what God meant in that scripture is a leg is a leg because it has a foot and all the bags has have only 4 feet the two other legs don’t have feet attach them it’s just clear just simple anybody would read that and he would say that but people do use things like Have to go against the word of God and others about five major mistakes like that and those are just minor mistakes or not if they’re not even mistakes it’s just men not trying to understand not using his brain to see what the man is trying to start reading the word of God go to see if you want to find a mistake somewhere you will always find a mistake in them and the time is details and there’s five of these but the word of God is accurate one of the reasons why I personally believe in the word of God it’s because the prophecies that the word of God gave about Jesus the Messiah all of them were fulfilled that’s one of the reasons why I believe in the accuracy of the word of God do you know how many prophecies were given about Jesus about 360 professors and how many did Jesus fulfilled 360 yes and the odds of one Man for filling eight of those prophecies are one in one quadrillion one and one quadrillion let me break down one quadrillionth that the sun is 93,000,000 ly away from us if you took one dollar bills and you stack them from the earth all the way to the sun that would be one quadrillion no just imagine that none of those bills is scorched by the heat of the sun they survived you take just one one of those bills and you Mac market with a black X mark on it what are the odds of you climbing on a ladder and trying to retrieve that one dollar bill out of the stack that goes from the earth all the way to the sun that is the odds of one and one quadrillion You can do that and the odds of one person for filling eight of the 360 prophecies of the Old Testament 01 and one quadrillion but Jesus did not fulfill eight he fulfilled 360 wow it’s just impossible that one person would be described as Jesus will describe most the way Jesus fulfilled the prophecy’s was so accurate that most scholars and philosopher said they didn’t believe those prophecies were written before Jesus somebody must have written the Scriptures after the death of Jesus and that could’ve been OK that could’ve been arguing argue because what how would you prove that these prophecies were written before Jesus until 1947 some lessons that’s his problem, 1947 Juan Luis shepherd boy in the Judy and there’s a deer was a hard one of the ship lost and so he leaves these are the sheets and goes after this one this one she wanted in a cave and the boys still fighting to go in the cave so he grabs a rock and throws a rock there to scare the shit out of the cave but instead of hearing the ship and I’m making a funny noise he heard a pottery break so he was all like Styrofoam what is that so he ran and grab his cousin and they came in there and they found these old pottery in the inside with this old scrolls these calls were reading 100 years before Jesus was born and all the boy went another word got out and they went in the retreat these that’s his cross between 1947 in 1956 these manuscripts are Oldest Bible manuscripts in the world and all those manuscript Word for Word were exactly as we have them in the Bible today what does showed is this these people who wrote 100 years ago these manuscripts it’s not like they added anything only but God also was behind that he made sure that they wrote it down these words heat them in the cave and the Lord himself preserve his word and the prophecies of Azaya of Jeremiah of Mika do exactly all how we have them in the woods so there was no no way the prophecies of Jesus were written after his death they were written hundreds of years before Jesus let me show you one of the prophecies about Jesus done with me to talk to Mika chapter 5 verse one you know We have Silas I want to tell us to be called Mika but you know what mama wants mama gets is that a Micah chapter 5 verse verse two actually not first one Michael chapter 5 verse two but you I’m on wait a second for some of you are still looking Micah chapter 5 test it but you Bethlehem avatar avatar though you are a little among the thousands of Judah yet out of you shall come forth to meet the one to be ruler in Israel who is going to fourth and who’s going forth awesome of old from everlasting right here the Lord pin points out of all Israel were his son will be born in Bethlehem was this fulfilled yes it was good Member when Jesus was born the star lead the magi’s to Bethlehem look at Matthew chapter 2 verse one Matthew chapter 2 verse one was my touch up the five hours to eight exactly fulfilled as it was foretold by Mika hundreds of years ago yes Matthew chapter 2 verse one now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of hair that can’t be hold the wisemen from the east came to Jerusalem see Jesus was born in Bethlehem when you go to gym in the book of Jeremiah chapter 31 Jeremiah study the Bible here I’m not preaching and teaching so take your time here Jeremiah chapter 31 verse 15 another prophecy they are 360 prophecy I couldn’t read old all of them here but I just have a few selected Jeremiah chapter 31 verse 15 diocese the Lord of voice was heard in Arama lamentation and better whipping Rachel weapon for her children refusing to be covered by her children because they are no more Jeremiah so innovation oh he prophesied it around the birth of Jesus kids will be killed in Bethlehem did this did this happen it was exactly for filled I’m not gonna be there just there in Matthew chapter 2 there you can you can read in verse six and the rest key heard when he heard that the wisemen told him yeah the Saudi born in Jerusalem what he did in Bethlehem what he did he sent the soldiers to go kill the children exactly as it was poor photo José For instants he prophesied that Jesus as a boy his parents will find refuge in Egypt because a kid a king will try to kill him exactly fulfilled just exactly like that the Lord spoke to Joseph and they took Jesus as a boy to Egypt everything about Jesus was already prophesied think even about Mary the Lord prophesied that it would be through a virgin but his son will be born it happened exactly like that but up not only that let’s go to Isaiah Chapter 40 Isaiah chapter 40 look at this one prophecy as a chapter 40 look at verse three the voice of one crying in the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord make straight in the door is it a Highway For our god no go now to Malachi chapter 3 Malachi let’s study the Bible my friends chapter 3 verse one behold I send my messenger and he will prepare the way before me and the Lord who music will suddenly come to his temple even the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight behold his comments say the Lord of hosts these two passages show us that 700 years before Jesus was born to profit how to really prophesied that a messiah will come but this is one of the signs you will know that he is the Messiah before he comes publicly to be introduced to Israel another man will proceed here as I said it it will be the voice of one crying in the wilderness prepare the ways of the Lord Malachi said behold I send my message Before me who is this melody talking about it’s on the Baptist who is the best messenger that God was sending was it fulfilled yes it was for filled just before Jesus was introduced in the world if you read Matthew chapter 3 the Bible says that in that day Matthew chapter 3 verses one through 11 but John came to Jesus talk to Israel and he was just prophesying and ministering for six months the Pharisees want to ask him are you the Messiah and he told him I’m not the messiah then who are you who gives you the power of the authority to do these things he said I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness prepare the way of the board that was just man right there that shows me that these things didn’t just happen accidentally you see the husband other people in history who have made predictions they have been so I think so I made predictions one of the men that most people know is called Nostradamus Nostradamus made these predictions and one of the greatest predictions that he made was a World War II I have read the predictions of Nostradamus and they say that he even pro predicted that there will be a man called Hitler he never said that for U2 to come to the conclusion that Notre Dame is really predict the future you’d have to use your brain it’s just these vague prophecies even the name Hitler and Nostradamus predictions it’s not Hitler it’s Hitler and he’s not talking about the man he’s talking about the Danube about a river in Europe and when he talks about the Germans he’s not even talking about the Germans are in as a nation he’s talking about a man with a German brother and German as in a sibling So even the predictions of Nostradamus I just these vague predictions other psychics who have made predictions there was this other woman and her last name I believe was decent shape addicted to John Kennedy would be a kill he would win the elections and he’ll die in office it came to pass and she also prophesied the damn Nixon will be president but not only that but World War III Woodstock 1954 never came to pass if you take all the predictions of Mrs. Dixon only 6% of those came to pass but the rest 94% it was just hot air I mean if I had to make predictions when I’ll get at least 50% right or 75% right so any other person in history who’s ever made predictions they’ve always missed it there’s only one place were predictions were made hundreds of years Go home prior and they came to pass exactly you don’t even need to be a rocket scientist to see that yes this is it it’s in the Bible this is the only book with accurate predictions do you know for instants when Jesus came as the Messiah it had already been pre-predicted that he will be betrayed how much money did Judas collect to betray Jesus how many pieces call Maha my brother let’s log Don Don Don Don Don say thumbs up Zachariah chapter 11. Then I say to him if it is agreeable to you give me my wages and if not we’re friends so the word out for my wages 30 pieces of silver say that Jesus would even be betrayed with the exact number of pieces of silver only the word of God only God’s word And not only does it also shows that Jesus would be crucified crucifixion was introduced by the Romans but the Romans didn’t rule the world all these years hundreds of years before Romans were here on earth hundreds of years before even men thought of crucifying somebody God had already use profits like they would in Sunset the 22 to say that the Messiah would have his hands and his feet pierced but he would be crucified before men even thought about crucifying somebody there’s no other books in this world that predicts this only the word of God and that Jesus would would be betrayed by one of his friends only the word of God said that that when he would hang on the cross his clothes would be divided between between like the book of Psalms Call them the dogs of Bashan talks about the Romans it happened exactly like Jesus does it even say that when he dies he will be laid in the tomb he would be crucified he would be killed between themes Jesus was crucified between 2 feet and he will be laid to rest in the tomb of a rich man it happened exactly like that when Jesus died on the cross Joseph of Arimathea request that his body be laid in the tomb and I reached out in a Richmond stone in the sun 16 says that his body will not DK we’re not decompose it happened exactly like that the Jesus’s body did not see corruption my friend when I look at the pro predictions about Jesus there’s no errors any margin of error is that 0.00901 it’s none everything to the last details happened exactly like that that’s why The reason why I believe in this I believe in this like that when Jesus was alive who was the king or who was the Roman emperor make a nano this is a class of history here it was Cesar Augustus Tiberius Tiberius was the the route the reigning emperor do you know there are more mountain Scripps around the time talking about Jesus then about Tiberius and if one of them was a fictional character Tiberius will be a fictional character all scientist believe the Tiberius actually existed the walls of fear of a Cesar cool Tiberius but people around Tiberius is not route more about Jesus than about Tiberius so Jesus really existed he really lived in Israel he was really crucify the man to see that the Bible has predicted that that gives me a leg to stand on I know the day Bible did not like let me show you another ancient prophecy that was spoken about a man 300 years before he was born and it happened just like the tune with me to the book of first Kings chapter 13 verses one and two first Kings chapter 13 we are talking about the Bible is the word of God we should stand in the face of the word of God look at the first Kings chapter 13 verses one and two and hold a man of God went from Judith to Bethel by the word of the Lord and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense then he cried out against the older by the word of the Lord and side or alter alter that says the Lord behold a child Josiah by name shall be bound to the house of David in on you shall sacrifice the price of the hot places to Uber Incense on you and man’s bones shall be burned on you this is awesome after king Solomon disobeys the board the Lord sends a profit go to Hijo 08 who prophesies that Israel will be divided into two kingdoms the northern kingdom and the southern kingdom the northern kingdom made of tin trout the southern kingdom of two tribes the trouble Judah and the tribe of Benjamin and dump the dirt not the southern kingdom is controlled by the lead the descendants of King David and the northern tribes is controlled by all these evil wicked kings so you’re a woman becomes the first king of the northern tribes but he’s very concerned that even though he’s a king in northern Israel old Israel goes to worship God in Jerusalem so he feels that if they keep going down to Jerusalem they may eventually turn down turn turn against him what does He do he builds these bad all Thursdays I don’t worship and alters to his knees these false gods and he goes on to sacrifice on him so the nonsense of profit the profit comes and he prophesies against the altar and he says all alter or alter upon you a boy so I’ll be in Noxubee born his name will be Josiah and on you he shall burn the insides of all these false prophets when did this man talk about Josiah it was 300 years before this I was born Israel had never known the person called Josiah nobody knew but this prophecy that will be a boy named Josiah and he even point of the baseboard will come through the family of David did this happen let me show you second Kings chapter 23 let’s verify This happened exactly like this man seat 300 years later second Kings chapter 23 second Kings chapter 23 verses 15 through 18 second Kings chapter 23 verses 15 through 18 more over the altar deposit Bethel at her place which Jeroboam the son of the bad who made Israel scene had made both at altar in the high place he broke down and he burned heartless and crushed it to powder and burn the wooden image and as Josiah turned he saw the terms that were there on the mountain and he said and took the bones out of the terms and burn them on the altar and they filed it according to the word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed who processor proclaimed these words then he said what gravestone is this that I see so the man of the city told him It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and proclaimed these things which you have done against altar of Bethel and he said let him alone let no one move his bones so they let his bones alone with the bones of the prophet who came from Samaria exactly as the prophet of God had predicted man that was an accurate prophecy 300 years before this man was born the Lord said I will send a boy his name will be even Josiah I’m not going to thunder but if you read the Isaiah chapter 45 verses one through six the Bible Isaiah prophesies about an oh he’s in King called Cyrus that Cyrus Bolton is real free after Israel has gone into captivity a man named Cyrus will be instrumental in releasing them Cyrus The real person who existed hey storm is still there today in Iran if you go to Iran you will see the tomb of Cyrus Cyrus is a real man who existed years ago but do you know that I spoke about Cyrus hundreds of years before this man was born and in the book of Ezra chapter 1 verse one through three which is Cyrus being introduced as the man who told Israel anybody wants to go build a temple to God go ahead so how do I do I believe that the Bible is true I believe the Bible is true because all the predictions of the word of God saying it may have taken hundreds hundreds of years but they came to pass no Jesus before he died he said that the temple of Jerusalem will be destroyed and the two shall see the signs and the signs and the signs he even say this generation shall not pass until these things come to pass Jesus died The year 3380 but do you know only a few years after that in the year 70 a general Roman general cold Titus came surround Jerusalem and burned it exactly like Jesus said when you go back to the book of Daniel Daniel was in Babylon but the Lord gave him a prophetic vision of the kingdoms has they will be succeeding each other the Babylonian the Persians the Greeks and the Romans and at the time of the Romans God will usher in the kingdom of heaven things happen exactly like that I don’t need this book gives us those kind of predictions only does that’s why I believe in this but does also another reason my friends what I believe in the Bible it’s because he brush out the form is 12 size the word of God is alive and it’s active if the word of God is alive that means everything written in the word of God can be witnessed You can be you can witness these things have I ever seen in my life a promise of the Lord accomplished in my life yes let me give you an example the Bible says in the last days is the board your sons and your daughters will prophesy because of what my Spirit upon all flesh I read the scripture at 1992 and I believe than that and the Lord help me there’s been times that I have prophesied and people I think James is a witness that I had prophesied on him things have come to pass just like that but last night I was talking to a friend of mine he passes in South Africa he was in Washington DC and he traveled back to South Africa today he lives in Pretoria Hilo sterling me that in 2002 he had managed for him address one of his meetings there was a young man and his church who is a very poor man who is best to hook I never have a residence and he told me Eddie you pointed out that man that the Lord will make him so rich beyond his wildest imagination and that he should be careful at the time because the enemy will try to steer his heart away he said after you left everybody laughed because it’s almost like you embarrass yourself that God was one of the poorest guy in the church there was no physical means to prove the point of the fact that this man can become a rich guy for years after that that man became so rich for years after that and the enemy used his wife to steer his heart against the board and the guy walked away and this friend of mine says anytime I remember that prophecy I can’t believe it I remember around 2000 I was ministering in a country called them that way it’s in southern Africa as a ministering there’s a young man sitting in the in the church I pointed out to him and I said you young man The Lord says get ready because he’s going to take you out of this continent he’s going to take you to a land far far away what you’ve never thought off and you’ll be pastoring there and it was like stupidity because this guy didn’t even think about leaving his home country he just wanted to leave there and give back to his own people a couple years after that he found himself in England and everything he did didn’t work well so he ended up in the church serving and the people in the church loved him so much they sent him to Bible college 2005 when I was in Colorado I got a phone call from England but this young man said you may not remember me but a few years ago you came to our country and you prophesied that I will be pastoring a church I’m inviting you to England to come and help I’ll be there as I’m getting old name as the pastor of this church have I ever seen a prophecy coming to pass yes I have sent how did I believe the prophecies Happen how how do I see these things simply because the word of the man upstairs sees in the last day says the board up with my Spirit upon all flesh your sons and daughters shall prophesy and I tell you my friends everything that is written in this word happens it happens like for instance most of us in this room hear the word of God promises that if any man is in Christ he is a new creature old things passed away nothing of all things become new most of us in this room if you tell me about your life before you came to Christ in your life now we can all sit down and see exactly 2nd crowd at second Corinthians chapter 5 verse 17 is true because look at the picture of me before Christ and look at the picture of me after Christ I am a better person I’m a I’m a stronger man because the word of God is alive and active why do I believe in the word of God because anything that the word of God They will never go to waste Jesus sees heaven and earth will pass away but my work will never pass away I believe in the integrity of the word of God do you know not to Longo disciplined by five years ago they just found out the people who smile a lot and who laugh a lot tend to be healthier they just found out not too long ago five years ago and it took it they put about 10 millions to conduct a study we could’ve save them the 10 million if we just show them the word of God fathers the word of God says a merry heart does good like medicine that’s exactly what the Bible says I just found out also that about two years ago scientists are now beginning to find out that a word that a man sees affects the environment around him that even the space around you Obey your word and the Bible had already said those things life and death are under the power of your word or your tongues I tell you my friends this is the truth the only word of God you know I know Pastor Chris is been a face statement of faith it says that the Bible is the only odd but the only authority infallible word of God this not the Quran this not the books of the Buddhist and Hindu West end all kinds of religion added this is the only book that contains the truth and if this contains the truth I believe it would be wise for this to be your best friend I believe it’s wise for this to be my best friend Jesus talks and Matthew chapter 7 about two people who build their houses one builds in the sand and one bills and The Rock anytime I read about the menu Who built the house in the sand always think of people who build a face their life on their philosophy on their feelings on what the world teaches but the men who built the word on his life on the rock you build the world in here they are and like I was a ministering two weeks ago I love Sundays the word of God naturally never make sense when I read things in the Bible he doesn’t go through this exactly like pulses in first Corinthians chapter 2 verse 14 the natural man does not receive the things of the spirit for they are spiritually discerned but when I read the word of God with my spirit it makes all the sense in the world it makes all the sense in the world what what do you do I want you to go home with tonight not only is the word of God true not only is the Bible worth living your life done For the word of God should actually be your best friend you should invest in the word of God you should meditate on the word of God you should read the word of God you should study the word of God the world is the way God made us the word is the seed the sperm of God the word contains the very life of God if we plant this word in our heart it will yield fruit if we replace our theology out of philosophy our feelings for the word of God we can never fail in life amen

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But I just the Lord’s been teaching me some really good stuff very practical stuff and I just have to share it because it changes me and it changes me from the inside out and that’s that’s what his word does that’s what his heart does when we adopt his heart so father I just thank you for your word thank you that nothing can change your word and we can stand on it Lord I just pray that the seeds that are that are spoken today from your word that they would go forth and they would hit fertile soil Lord and that they would begin to produce Lord in Jesus name may be your words not mine so if you weeks ago a friend of mine who is kind of notorious she’s got household her kids and she’s notorious for complaining and she’s a believer and she is just her favorite saying I guess I’m just an old sinner saved by grace and that really bothers me I don’t know hopefully nobody in here says that if you do you got a change it because that’s not true you were an Old Center, Saint by grace right now your righteous in his sight your clothes and his righteousness and she was just talking about how you know I always fall you know I’m always being patient with my kids or you not letting the best of the situation get me and she just is 

constantly saying I’m an old San Jose by Gracie and I just can’t change that habit or whatever but that’s not true that’s not what his word says over us and I just I want to speak to that today because we all struggle with that familiar since big or small doesn’t matter we have them but his word says that we can change his word says it by his blood we Archie And we need to be reminded of that so I want to start talking about the same problem and if you want to turn with me to John chapter 5 John chapter 5 women start at verse five now certain man was there who had infirmity for 38 years when Jesus saw him laying there he knew that he had already been in this condition a long time I’m reading from Looky Looky James he said to him do you want to be made well the sick man answered him sir I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up but while I’m coming another steps down before me Jesus said to him rise take up your bed and walk and immediately the man was made well took up his bed and walked and that day was the Sabbath the Jews therefore did you said to him therefore who is cured it is sad but it is not Lawful for you to carry your bed he answered them who made he who made me well said to me take up your bed and walk but the one who was healed did not know who it was for Jesus had withdrawn a multitude of being in that place afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him see you have been made well set an a more less the worst thing come upon you and I just think the story has a lot more going on than just healing it’s a popular 

passage of scripture that we use for healing but first of all we have the Pharisees hanging out there and they’re quick to jump on the situation and say you know let’s stirrups in trouble here but what’s going on and in reality is sin had caused this man whatever Senate was to not be able to walk that’s what Jesus says he says Say no more less the worst thing come upon you and you can go in and study that for yourself text Jay really good study but Jesus told him send no more if he told him that then it’s possible say no more and he says that the fall is it with less the worst thing come upon you and I’m gonna go into that a little bit and see how send really does affect us it’s not just baggage that we carry but it’s an inroad for Satan to re-Kavic in our lives and he’s good at that when we let him so I just keep that in mind that we don’t have to send any more Jesus not only said that he kind of proclaimed that they’re saying no more on the other story that we know of Where Jesus says in the more is the woman who was caught in adultery and the Pharisees were going to stone her and I know if you remember and in that story he’s he tells her go and sin no more so that’s Jesus’s heart for us if that’s his heart for them he knows what send us to his people it’s those tragedies in our lives that Jesus wants to prevent that sin causes Jesus doesn’t want us to have to deal with him and right here he saying we don’t we don’t have to send we don’t have to carry you know you reap what you sow we don’t have to test to reap the burden of sin and the destruction of sin and all that the enemy tries to stick to steal from us doesn’t have to be there so holiness in the life of a believer is so important because Can we give 

into sin no matter what it is like I said big or small we yield to Satan we all are hard to say in whether it’s through our mind or actions were yielding to him even though Jesus our father were still allowing Satan’s influence to control us through our flesh and if Satan is the author of sin which we know which we know is true then that can only come from him it’s not temptation that Jesus allows you know that God sends across our path to see how well do send can only come from the author of sin and that Satan and as believers God doesn’t hold our sin against us because we’re covered by the blood our actions either release the power of Satan or the power of God in our lives and if we are yielding to God over on this side We’re saying I’m walking by the spirit I will not walk by the flash you know of course we’re going to far we know that we don’t have to we don’t have to abide in those familiar since Jesus said it’s an option it’s hard choice you know I have a friend or a family member who grew up just like the rest of us do you know wholesome family goods staffed but every decision he made growing up as he got older just cut them down and now he’s an appointed his life where he has ripped a harvest of destruction simply for making bad choices and he loves the Lord you know and but if you can’t turn one choice around and give God the authority in your life and gave God that victory And receive it and actually walking it you’re going to reap exactly what you sow and it’s so true look at the lives of all of us around you know my life I know I know what I rape because I know what I’m song and it’s you know it’s a choice just like just like he said go and sin no more so like I said God’s not holding our sins against us anymore but we can’t afford sent in our lives we can’t afford it if you 

look at the cost of what it what it gives us not even worth it you know and I’m not talking about murder here you know I think we’re all beyond that but those little things they bring weeds into our lives and Pastor Chris a few weeks ago so he’s kind of thought on it more than once Soil you know and how the seeds that we plant it’s true for weeds and that’s what send us and we all know weeds they grow a heckuva faster than the than the good stuff you know and they take over and they dominate but the father is so good he pulls them out by the route he doesn’t spray weed killer on them he pulls them out when we let him so it’s again it’s our choice whether we want to produce life and be on God side with our choices or whether we want death that’s what sin causes it causes death when one form or another it causes death in our lives and because we’re reborn because we have a new spirit we get to have the Holy Spirit with us at all times and he is cheering us on you know it I think a lot of people get confused about what the job of the Holy Spirit is It’s to convict righteousness sometimes we need to go back and read that he can fix us of righteousness so he’s not saying you know the cliché where we have the devil on one shoulder and the angel on the other he’s not shaking his fingers and he’s going to do it you know or look at that opportunity get in there bring life to that situation you know are you are my beloved you belong to the father you’re better than this rise above it stand on 

your feet he’s cheering a song he’s the best cheerleader we could ever have you know that’s one thing when I married Eddie the Lord showed me you know what what I can be for him I can be his greatest cheerleader but that’s what the Holy Spirit is for us if we use it that’s what he’s therefore He’s good at it so as we choose to identify sin and not partake of it we remove Satan and his strongholds from our lives and the more we do it big and small situation the better we get at it because you gain that experience and you can look back and say you know what I was victorious there I remember that I remember how it feels I remember how God brought me through and gave me the authority over that situation and he wants us to become experts at it because then you get to another level words like I don’t even wanna go there you know that’s old that’s not me anymore I’m over here now that’s you know I have nothing to do with that person anymore and walking you know that the scripture he says now he supposed to walk in the Lord So there is an option for sin and his wording and believers we have the ability not to sin when you understand the cross what Jesus did for us saying noticing actually becomes pretty easy when you look at the sacrifice and what we gain from the cross what Jesus gave to us as a gift it’s pretty easy to say noticing maybe not in the midst of it but if you stop a second look at what’s going on and what your choices are before you it’s pretty easy choice and like I said the 

more you train yourself just like Paul talks about as athletes you know that picture of the Roman you know they perfected the human body the Romans were really good at that and that’s what Paul talks about training ourselves like an athlete would you know they’re not gonna get a candy bar you know I can’t afford those extra calories and whatever’s in that candy bar their body can’t afford to take that you know their bodies better than that that’s how we need to see ourselves as believers do you know that royalty Inn and Kings and Queens of his kingdom he’s giving us that authority to start carrying it the other thing that’s cool when we choose to rise above our son especially those familiar since you know that make you feel like an Old Center, Saint by grace when you rise above them saying has no authority over you and he’s gonna kind of stop trying because he knows he can’t get you he’s got a back off he’s like you know what that old trick doesn’t work anymore because look they don’t get it you know they moved on I can’t I can’t get anywhere there anymore he knows that because he knows that God is bigger than him 

and he knows that we carry that authority but we got to use it I’ll sit I’ll share a story with you I like to go fast in the car I’m not one minute like speed limit and it when I was a young teenager I’d I sell them got tickets but I still had like a rebellion he was like oh I can go like you know 10 maybe 15 miles over the speed limit and probably not get caught and I’ve always done that and the Holy Spirit one day was I have to go through to school zones to get to work every day and I was just singing some praise worship in the car is about six months ago as an ongoing process but singing some praise music and Down furthest the schools 20 miles an hour you know and Holy Spirit was like good job way to go he did that without even trying and I was just kind of like I did because I was in the front you know when you’re behind somebody app slow down but I was in the front of my lane and I was like I did that without even trying and he said see how easy it is when you have this leading you to very easy and now I am over this feeding thing I mean you know and I way I like driving fast but I slow down to like 15 in school zones you know and there’s been many times that you know police come the other way and I’m like yes I’m going slow and everybody behind me have to go to sleep You know and it changes from the inside you know because if you know anybody can slow down but what my motivation was the fathers motivation you know and it wasn’t me trying to be good and struggling because I don’t want to 

you know I don’t really want to slow down but I know I should I was an inward motivation it was automatic and that’s what holiness is but it’s it’s being Houlie on accident and it comes from inside not outside not an action so if you would turn with me to second Corinthians 521 second Corinthians 521 if you don’t have this one memorized I think it’s a awesome one to work on for memorizing I’m not a huge Legalistic person with memorizing scripture but there’s some good ones that we need to have second Corinthians 521 for he for he made him who knew no sin to be sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God in Christ that’s you and me right now doesn’t happen when we die it’s right now we are the righteousness of God in Christ can’t change it that’s what you get from the cross we get his righteousness nothing that we can do can give us any less nothing we can do give us anymore we are made righteous when we are in him and if you don’t know that or if you don’t believe it then you’re always in a struggle with then you’re going to be frustrated and you’re going to go on Circles because your son is going to chase you if you don’t know that you’re righteous or if you don’t believe it Jesus talks a lot about unbelief in the Bible and how distraction comes from it and most of us you know whether we grew up in church or new ad at this game it’s something that we’re not taught we’re not taught that were righteous were taught they were scum and that we yeah we have to crawl to a holy 

God that’s not what his word says about us not at all that’s right where we’re old sitter saber Grace that’s not true let’s jump to another passage of scripture Romans chapter 6 Romans chapter 6 when I start a verse 16 I’m going to read a chunk of scripture again do you not know that to whom you present yourself slaves to obey you are that one slaves to whom you obey weather of sin leading to death or obedience leading to righteousness but God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin yeah obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered and having been set free from sin you became slaves of righteousness I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh for just as you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness so now present your members as slaves to righteousness for holiness for when you were slaves of sin you were free in regard to righteousness but what fruit did you have then in the things of what you are now ashamed for the end Those things as death but now having been set free from sin and having become slaves of God you have your fruit to holiness and the end everlasting life for the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord now Paul’s got a lot of 

words in there sometimes it’s hard to muddle through some of his I Collett worthiness but there are some amazing principles in this passage of scripture and I’m going to just pull out one because a lot of us struggle with a slave idea kind of going back to religion you know I don’t want somebody to tell me what to do but the kind of slave that Paul is talking about here is like a obligated one out of choice yeah oven safe and it’s like you I want this is my duty but I’m happy to do it you know and so I want you to look I think it’s the second part of verse 16 might be 17 in that in that passage there but God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin yeah you’re a bad from the heart that form of doctrine to what you were delivered I’m gonna read it once more so you get it but God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin yeah you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered what he saying is all that automatic holiness you will beat it because it was in your heart not that’s not what used to do I mean the lawlessness came freely and easily he saying now you’re a bad from your heart it’s like an allegiant It’s where your choice was naturally his choice because he changed it from the inside out so back to the old center by save by grace we’re no longer unworthy spiritually were perfect our spirit man is perfect it’s just like God when God sees us he sees her reflection of himself and boy is he happy Bible says he sings and dances over us he’s not down there or up there you know throwing thunderbolts down he’s pretty happy he’s joining us over us most the time we don’t see it that way do you know and our little vision that we have of him but it’s true what the Bible says if you don’t believe it you might be believe in something that’s not true some of us need to Challenge those beliefs that we have and start seeing ourselves the way that 

he sees us I’m just going to read a couple scriptures you don’t have to turn their Ephesians verse chapter 4 verse 24 says that and you put on the new man speaking of our new born-again spirit which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness you and I are righteous and truly holy that’s what he says over us Eddie and I were watching a preacher a while ago and he was talking about how God’s word is kind of like a prophecy over us instead of something to be obeyed and read and studied and he said do you know if you look at it like he’s prophesying over you what you get who you are what’s your called it’s kind of like him prophesying Right here in this really big book lots of prophecy in here over his children and if he says that you’re righteous and truly holy he means it so we need to start seeing ourselves righteous and truly hold me so my spirit and your spirit is truly holy and nothing we can do send can’t change that same can be a part of it but not in our spirit because we have three parks the body soul and spirit can’t touch your spirit your spirit is sealed there’s one analogy we listen to haul freight favorite preacher 

and he says it’s like tanning you know when you suck that lid on with the heat or whatever that’s sealed and you and you know you have to pry it open to get this the goodies out but that’s how we are in the Lord our spirit is sealed Israel Always. But it seals vacuum back which means nothings going on nothings coming out absolutely yeah that’s pretty creative you know so so remember that when that familiar sin comes that temptation to do what you always do or the temptation to do the easy way versus the hard way whatever it is in your life that you’re struggling with remember that I am wall-to-wall Holy Spirit 1/3 of me which means I’m perfect and if I start pulling that perfection out of my spirit and feeding it to my mind and my body I’m going to start you know yielding to that perfection and we’re always in the fall I don’t focus on falling you know if you I’m not a hunter but when you do target practice stuff I remember from grade school you know you don’t look at the whole bull’s-eye you look at the very middle if you want to hit the middle that’s why you look not the whole thing because then you’re probably not even going to hit it but if you look at the middle and you focus on the middle you just might hit it so the more we think about who we are in Christ instead of our failures in our ugliness in the flesh you just might start seeing a change in your actions you just might cause God so what bigger than our flesh what is puny in comparison absolutely puny and we don’t like it in the beginning you know what I like to start with so it’s pretty easy another scripture Hebrews 1223 so speaking of the church the born-again the spirits of men Made we’re just made perfect we read again the spirits of just man made perfect perfect God likes those words he likes righteous 

he likes holy he likes perfect and we’re just like him we are it’s time we start believing it and walking in it another scripture Colossians chapter 1 verse 12 through 14 we’re not gonna read the whole thing but this is another really good one to memorize least I’m trying to memorize it says that we’ve been translated or transferred to life and we are free from darkness and that’s something that you’re not at that new birth it’s hard to understand in a human way but if we look at it in our spirit there is no more darkness in us not an ounce Because where there is light there cannot be darkness so we’re full white we’re carrying a pretty awesome package and God took us out of that darkness and he placed us in light so we bring light wherever we go where do we like it or not whether were aware of it or not whether we choose to participate in it or not it’s true then you know we all say we’re in the world not of it you know right we live a separate life because he’s living inside of us but our nature has been changed the very core of who we were before they shredded literally shredded cannot come back that’s what happens it’s not just like water baptism Are you thinking yeah I’m going down and I’m coming up fresh no the water is gone you know like flush down the toilet gone shredded gone cannot come back like I talked about before resealed nothing can come in or out so religion teaches and most of us probably grew up you know in early Christianity with ideas that holiness or actions acting holy and righteous doing good things doing the right thing is what makes us holy and gives us God’s approval but it’s not true it’s not true because the only way the Bible says that we can be holy because he is holy there’s no other way if you try it the other way you’re stinky to God You’re very stinky this doesn’t work can’t be saved without the sun and it’s the sun that gives us that holiness yeah so we’re closed in righteousness and it’s the righteousness of Jesus Christ that makes us righteous nothing we can do on our own can change our righteousness can be more or less nothing we can do on our own because it if you look at it like I’m gonna do good this week do you know what that does say that you know that says Jesus and what you’re convincing yourself of is that Jesus his work was not enough he’s not enough so I got to try harder it’s not true it’s not an ounce of that is true you know what I’m going to say I am seated with Christ that 

is enough that is true I’m gonna walk in his righteousness and I’m gonna let the inside come out in my actions and what the inside is you know we all know the heart speaks or out of the mouth the heart speaks right so it’s the same with within absolute same what do you focus on coming out we need to live holy lives because of the relationship that we already have with Jesus coming back to that slave idea we have we have holiness because of our relationship with Jesus Jesus bridge that gap between he and us and there’s a natural obligation but along In the core of who we are as believers to want to be righteous and the more you pay attention to that the more easy it becomes to stay on the highroad rather than the low road and truly if you look at what happened at the rebirth and what we get from the cross it’s easier to walk in the light than it is the dark actually easier course we reap the benefit of it but it’s actually easier you know I mean if you if you laid it all out and put it on paper and studied it down to the very end it’s actually easier so if if we know who we are in Christ and if we know that we are righteous it’s going to start spewing out whether we like it or not righteousness is a gift that something that is obligated to us But Jesus offered that we could receive that gift and Romans five 1718 we kind of know this one but it’s a gift that we receive through faith how many of us believe it I mean all that I’m talking about today how many of you believe that that you are righteous that you are perfect that you’re capable of not singing it’s something by faith we have to receive but the cool part about faith is that it’s not just believing it’s walking it out and having action to those beliefs you know so I am righteous I don’t have to speed I am righteous I don’t have to listen to garbage I am righteous I will talk righteous whatever it is It’s going to be a natural outflow not some 

thing that we have to generate and struggle and strive to get should be natural the gift of salvation produces a changed heart and intern that changes our actions that’s the gospel any other religion out there can’t do that they can’t they have to and I will surrender this and change that and I’ll do this and that no the gospels they’re almost too good to be true news that you know what when we’re change on the inside everything else changes it’s supposed to if you know who you are it’s supposed to so we cannot clean up our actions in order to clean up our hearts it doesn’t work from the outside in how many I’ve ever tried that I have and it doesn’t work It doesn’t work you can you know you can scrub and scrub and scrub and scrub and toil and toil and oil but you’re going to fall again I remember when I was in college I would go running in the mornings and there was a morning show on a non-Christian radio channel that it was just a talk show and I loved listening to them argue and there was just very entertaining and they would play secular music in between the brakes and it was like it was high energy so it was nice to run to but I rate the seed of that in my life whether I chose to or not because I let it in and my appetite for music changed because I liked what I was hearing And those words in the songs in the concepts that are in secular music came out in me in ways that I didn’t really I didn’t see it coming but I also didn’t I didn’t plan on it those were weeds I gave Satan a pretty big door to consume me in those ways and I quickly realize what the source was going on it’s like I got a turn that radio channel pretty simple pretty easy but it was really obvious to me that there was 

a death coming from just something as simple as music and non-Christian talk very simple I was in here wasn’t anything blasphemous was there anything overtly you know perverted there was I think but it was non-Christian and it planted seeds in me that were not of him and the Holy Spirit showed me later you know I had some ground to recover from that and I had to tell Satan he told me some things that he stole from me during that that season but it’s pretty dominant as simple as that you company on your own in your own lives you know that so start identifying those areas where simple very simple little things that don’t come from him they come from sin the author of sand and get rid of them get rid of them do you know identifier say it close the door and go to such a good daddy he’s so good he says you know what I’m gonna come in there just like Pastor Chris was talking about I’m going to sprinkle Fresh soil I’m going to chill it up I’m gonna get you going over again it’s an absolute promise we would you turn to Matthew 23 Matthew 23 verse 25 and 26 Jesus is speaking to those also lovely Pharisees he says well to you scribes and Pharisees hypocrites for you cleanse the outside of the cup and dish but the inside are full of extortion and self indulgence blind Pharisee first cleanse the inside of the cup and dish that the outside of them may be also clean do you hear what he said he called them blind how many of us have allowed blindness in our lives were sent worse Send abides we just glance over it but he saying we get to be clean from the inside out so let’s do it change actions can only come from a changed heart actions are the fruit to the heart produces and like I said earlier is the gospel that changes hearts if you don’t understand this principle you’ll be endlessly frustrated and full of guilt as you try to establish righteousness through your own good works 

Romans 10 three we know that one any trust in your own goodness void the atonement Christ made for us Galatians 54 he can only come from one source Romans 11 six hopefully you know this one and if by grace then it is no longer works otherwise grace is no longer grace if by grace then it is no longer works Why is Grace is no longer Grace and what’s really cool about God is that Grace can never not be grace but it’s us who hast to change grace is always going to be grace in count on it you can put your money in the bank on Grace so it’s works they need to change they will automatically so really the work is not ours if you look at it that way if Jesus is work on the cross is a finished work which means there’s nothing that Hass to be added to it that’s all we really need he’s giving us every tool to accomplish what we need to do and he’s set in motion every work that needs to happen for us to be who we are but we have to believe But we have to have faith in what he said which means working it out Colossians 26 as you therefore have received Christ Jesus so walking him so walking him that free gift he steals your heart from the beginning that salvation he steals it you become a slave whether you choose to or not you just want to your stolen heart becomes a servant and we get to walk in him what better gift is that he’s giving us a manual we get to walking him just like in the very beginning the way he wanted it to be just walking in the garden just walking with him we don’t have to wait for heaven we get to experience How do you briefed on that eternal life begins now I have to wait 

and you watch your life change you watch your life change the more you channeling to that spirit and pull that righteousness out feed it to your flash in your mind you’ll change automatically one month down the road six months down the road you will be a different you because you’ve chosen to focus on that righteousness he chosen to walk in him I wanted to share a story with you there was a man very wealthy man he was an art collector he loves fine art and he spent millions and millions on it has a very large collection that the art world was just jealous of Got married his wife also loved art and they continue to grow their collection and spent a lot of time together looking and talking and just sitting in there and their art collection and one day I had a son and instill that love of art in his life too and you know the father just kept collecting more and more and just filled his house with these priceless treasures and the mother grew one day and died and the father and son found a lot of sauce solace in the fact that they could just remember mom remember the time they spent together and enjoying the art talking about it and critiquing it in their own immature way and one day the boy wanted to draw his mothers favorite painting it was a little obscure Picasso and he did his you know eight year old version Painting it and that became the father’s favorite painting he hung out and framed it beautifully more than anything else that became his treasure and the sun was killed tragically in a car accident and the father found himself alone again and he tried to fill that grief you know what they are that was the only thing that really kept him going but he just he just died he fell asleep and never woke up of a broken heart and there was scuttle in the art world about this because all of a sudden this priceless collection of art was going to be going up for auction and the father had made all the arrangements ahead of time and that’s what he wanted his pieces to be auctioned off and so there were thousands and thousands of people preparing for this Said it was it you know monumental auction in the Art World and the Butler who was very close with their father wanted to be there he wanted to see the art once again and just be a part of that kind of final chapter in his life and he tried to get a good seat but he wasn’t able to get too close to the front but the very first piece of art was an anonymous piece nobody recognized it it 

looked very childish but the butler saw what it was he saw that it was that boys painting and it was the father’s favorite and you know they started the auction pretty low everybody was kind of like you know what is this disappointed and the auctioneer started you know will you give me 100 nobody you know it’s not going well 75 and the butler thought about he said you know I could afford $75 for that and I would really love to have that as the father’s favorite piece he put his hand up an auctioneer tried to get some more nope nobody wanted it so they close the bidding and the auctioneer said OK you’re all dismissed the auction is over and everybody was quite upset and they all left you know when everybody’s mad left and the butler came to claim his his peace and pay for it and the auction you’re so well part of the deal was the the man the father wanted whoever to who bought that piece to get the entire collection and that’s how Jesus gives us Everything we get there was one action one main action of his death on the cross we get a really big package we get a lot in that and we’re still you know we never done we’re never done there’s always something fresh and new that he gives us through this it doesn’t stop and I challenge you get in this and automatically things will get out of your life that you don’t want in your life right now and he’s going to be glorified you’re going to be happy it’s a win-win situation and the more we get rid of things that are not of him the more room we have for him 

the more blessing we have from him because we’re looking for it we’re going to see it OK we want to pray with you But I want you to be real and honest with the Lord identify some things you want out of your life because he said it’s possible not to go insane number please he wouldn’t say it if it wasn’t possible so have some real conversations with him starting today don’t wait till tomorrow make some time today go home spend some time with him do some walking and just say you know what dad this needs to go not only for me but for you for everyone I need to go and I can do it with your help and like we talked about earlier he pulls things out by the route which means it’s a done a done deal if you don’t go back to it it’s done he remove all traces of it And then you get the bonus of a change of heart and process that will automatically reflect him from from then on out and just like little kids I love being a parent because I know that it’s not overnight but things happen it’s a process but I do know that he’s there to hold her hand and walk us through it to go and just open up the front if you need prayer or want prayer

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Out the hallmarks of a godly family the hallmarks of a godly family the whole Mark’s Hallmark hallmark steaks a LLMARKS hallmark of a godly family the whole marks of godly family before I get there I want to to just do a quick review of last weeks sermon this is a message I was suppose to have done last week but last week I press something else self in the book of songs chapter 127 I have said this this passage this is week number 10 but I keep starting my sermon with the Scripture look at that now I hope you have it memories by now sounds chapter 127 verses one and two shams chapter 127 verses one and two except the Lord builds the house Play labor in vain that build it what a powerful scripture except the Lord keep the city the watchmen work it but invite it is fine for you to rise up early to set up late to eat the bread of sorrows bus so he gave us his beloved sleep I would’ve God shows us here that we live in two worlds senator I must say that word but I was going to butcher it at the same time simultaneously her I said so fast lol I don’t know that you butchered that live in twirled something all right we leave we are like we have a dual citizenship we have a citizenship in the heavenly realms and we have one here on the earth whatever we say here on the earth is a replica it’s a reproduction of that which takes place in the real world in the real world I keep thinking about When people dies and often times I have to go back to see the first nation of those words in the Bible like in the case of Abraham and in the case of Jacob but those to stand up because it says in the case of Abram by the Lord told him in Genesis chapter 15 after you are grown that’s 175 years you will go to your fathers know in the case of Jacob it say when he died did not even say he died it says he went to his fathers and the implication being there is it which is there is this one person dies it’s not like the battery although the fridge gets unplugged and electricity is cut off we have electricity comes up comes from it’s frozen no he walks he keeps walking and he goes to where they’re going they said when his son died he said I will go to him when when John Jacob heard the reports that your son Joseph is that he said Will go do you see that right there with in this world we see a person who is immobile probably facing up the skies but actually the person has a stepped out and they keep walking keep walking I have heard stories and I have watched videos on YouTube of people who have had near death experiences and do it they said they were able to see everything point in case he is my neighbor who came here a few weeks ago Yvonne she was in child labor it was intense and she started freaking out and she passed out she said she didn’t freak out she didn’t pass out at all all of a sudden she saw the baby that was in the one who was pulled out the baby started work going away I thought it all my God I’m gonna catch up with my baby and she said I just walked out and I could see myself laying on that bed in the hospital and I could say Call who was here he was a baby don’t go please come back I should I’m here I’m here but I need to catch up with the baby and she say I’m going to catch up with this bitch but that babies going faster than I can I please come back please come back please come back and then she’s not afraid of feeling these pains wherever she was going instead of slowing down those pains were caused by the doctors were trying to resuscitate her push that stuff on her and it’s so painful she keeps coming back comes back and then I’m back here well in the natural realm that was just an emotional person the computer that was beeping beeping beeping the lines were flat but actually she was not flat at all she was just walking and she was telling these people behind don’t do this now in the hospital or her eyes at work clothes but when she came back she looked she told them exactly what they were doing you were standing here you were standing here what is the point that we live in To world the real world in this world here Paul says that he was pressed between the two this is in the book of Philippians to go to that World oil to stick a round here and he said I’m pressed between the two no in the scripture it shows us that family dynamics must be understood in those terms as well that they raise the lawn at work in the invisible world in the spirit realm and the reason is here doing our best trying to build trying to build now he sings this if the Lord has not built whatever you do here is doomed to fail and it says here if the Lord does not watch over you you could fight your best now you can give it your very best I won’t help and I look in that verse three says it’s in vain for you to rise up early to set up late to eat the bread of sorrows that means that in this physical realm I’m making Even a 10° of success but it comes at a very painful cost there’s a prize the dump he said you can get the parrot up the bread but it’s the bread of sorrows but if I do not just focus on the physical world and elevate the Lord elevate his word elevate his place in my life he will give me the bread and the Bible sees the blessing of the Lord makes come on one rich and it adds no sorrow’s and I want to ask you what is the place of God in your life so when we talk about the hallmarks of a godly family before I even get there why would you in a church setting for 10 Sundays keep talking about family family family family because family is the most basic unit of any society your your failures in life in this material physical Can be linked directly to how family handled you your physical traits your psychological trait your social skills we can trace it straight to the family and the church the congregation has done a poor job addressing family issues and that’s what I’m talking about families anyway oh Mark what does a hallmark mean when you hear the word Hallmark and I had to go in the dictionary to find because the British people have a way of talking which is different from the way the Yankees talk hallmark what is a hallmark hallmark is a unique distinctive characteristic of someone or something indicating its creator and place of origin when we say hallmark I’ll give you a cheesy example but it makes us know this ring here that I’m wearing is my work room Gold ring my expensive gold ring this one is the cheap one this is a titanium one if you get this and inspect inside you will see nothing because this is a cheap one but not my gold one if you take it you look inside the engravings the marks the whole marks in that not sure that this is the genuine thing this is not made the gold one it’s not made in China it’s not made in Vietnam this is made by whoever sees that it has a number a serial number it has the carrot know the weight of it it’s written there what is written there is the hallmark it’s not which distinguishes that gold ring can I see your finger I know I know the real one when I know that so that’s the real one if I show you her and you can see the whole mark it proves that this is The genuine thing in Christianity there is the genuine and there is the fake remember Christ saying in Joe’s market drop the seven beware of false prophets they don’t have the hallmarks of true prophets so when I’m talking about the hallmarks of a Christian or a godly family I’m talking about what are some imprints what are some engravings that must be in your family to prove that you are truly a godly family what are some things that you must carry that distinguishes you from other people now let’s go to Joshua chapter 24 verse 15 let me kick this engine on Joshua and if it’s still evil out to you to serve the Lord shows you this day whom you will serve what are the gods with your fathers That were on the other side of the flood or the gods of the emirates girl who’s doing it well but as for me and my house we will serve the lord this is Joshua at this point he’s an old man he’s 105 years old his son at all Joshua was born in North Africa in Egypt precisely he was there with Moses he walked with Moses he had come to learn how to serve God he was there with Moses in fact the Bible says when the glory cloud would come in attempt of assignment at the tabernacle Moses would go in there with Joshua and Moses would come out and Joshua would stay there in the process now old man Joshua mean he’s been there since that and he has Cinderella billion of the jewels they have rebuild have worship the golden calf they have rebelled against the Lord time after time again in his dying days Is this you choose what you want to be but for me and my family we have demarcated some lines we have some engravings we have some hallmark which sets us apart from other people we will serve the lord and I tell you man this morning the Lord is calling you and I to make this decision to say all the families around here may choose to do whatever they wanna do they make shows to watch the want to watch choose to listen to listen to to celebrate whatever festivities they want to celebrate in the family but for me and my house we will serve the lord and I’ll show you some Hallmark the first Hallmark and I’ll show you five of them the first hallmark that which is stamped in a Christian family what is it that sets them apart the first thing is the glorify God God is the center of the Family do you want to be a godly family do you want your house to be like Joshua’s house when he sees for me and my family we will serve the lord you have to decide to make Jesus the center of your life Jesus has to be the center don’t be like that church I told you of loud see you in Revelation chapter 3 last week gross 20 behold I stand at the door and I’m knocking my friend a man he has my voice and opens up I will come in now done with him don’t be like that church be the church that sees no Christ is in here if anybody else is not going out there who is the imposter but the real price is here let me ask you a question what is the place of Jesus in your family what is the place of Christ in your family and I can tell you if you let me come to your house and show me your bookshelf or your bookshelf Take a glance at the books that you have there and I’ll tell you who is the saint of your life the movie when you go to your own house or to your house it almost all the books 80% of your book is all about novels about their some novels about that but Christ the word what is the place of God’s word what is the place of gods gods gods values the hallmarks of a Christian of a godly family is in this house we glorify God in this house with blessed God in this house we pray in this house we watch Christian movies on TV in this house on YouTube we watch Christian gospel most people think that down it’s a joke man for you to go in your house and have your kids you know what Christian music make your kids watch Christian movies make your own house make yourself what question stuff now I understand Movies are some of the most boring movies you wanna ever come across but make a point to please God in the center the word of God 24 seven the hallmarks of a godly family the first thing you have to put down to the center now let’s go to Deuteronomy chapter 6 verses one through seven let’s say some thing there statistically in this country it says this children who are raised in a Christian home where it was a genuine Christian home have 75% chances of walking with God when they go off to college make your family a godly family to try to meet up to six verse one through seven it says now these are the Commandments the statutes and the judgments which the Lord your God commanded to teach you but you might do them in the land whether you go to possess it that’s all my trust for the Lord thy God to keep all his statutes and his commitments Recommend it though in the sun and the sun sun all the days of my life what is that God sees that his word is a family affair he says I’m giving you these words the word of God the rim of the word of God logos of God not only for you it’s for you and your children and your children’s children the Lord is stamping the hallmark of a godly family in the nation of these real all the days of the life in the days maybe that it may be well with me and that he may increase mightily as the Lord God as the Lord God of the fathers has promised me in the land of slow with one milk and Honey you or Israel the Lord our God is one Lord and that was felt love the Lord of the Lord thy God with all thy heart with all down so with all that damn money and these words Which I commend the best they shall be in your heart that you shall teach them diligently on to your children you see the point that the Lord is trying to make here is he wants to have fellowship with us God wants to be our very best friends he wants to be so close to us God is not close to us to rebuke us God is not close to us to be like the grumpy old old man know if you do something or you feel condemned I missed it it’s not the Spirit of God but they’ll do that when you do something wrong and you feel bad about it you’ll feel sorry about it that’s not the Holy Spirit was doing that to you the Holy Spirit never makes you feel sorry the job of the Holy Spirit is never to convict you of your sin You will be condemned of your sins but not by the Holy Spirit no you can put the script and then I’m not gonna look at it but you can have it there at John chapter 16 verse 8709 but first aid primarily what is this window Spirit of the Lord will come people convinced he’ll come out come out look at it John chapter 16 when he the Holy Spirit is come he will reproval who are you in the world off and off and off now let’s see how the next person gets juicy after this one verse nine what does it say often because of what do you believe in Christ if you believe in Christ the Holy Spirit never converse is yourself Why because God never comes to condemn you of your sin he never even points to your sins I’ll come there why because he’s your friend he does not come to tell you hey jerk I did wrong on the tremendous conviction the Lord spoke to me that I’m a bad person let me go quickly if you come in a church service and a man comes here for you the Lord says three years ago I see you committed murder that’s not the loudspeaker the Lord did not tell him that why the Lord never condemns people post is this in first Corinthians chapter 14 verse 25 through 27 if you are prophesy In an unbeliever comes in your professor on him the secrets of his heart exposed he will do it he will fall on his knees and do it well shit how does a person worship when you tell them to send if they tell you you’re saying you don’t worship you repent that means when I’m allowed to leave a comes here he never comes to a place where his sins are exposed my brother the reason why things are tight in your life it’s because two years ago you into a tight that say if the Lord no that’s not the Lord Jesus is my sheep know my voice and I know his voice that’s not his voice why because he says he wants to be our best friend Oh best friend is he who encourages us but when you commit a sin what condenser is what first John chapter 3 verse 19 and 21 not the Holy Spirit let’s see it first John three can I stay on my line here not stop chasing the rabbit trail first John chapter 3 verse 19 through 21 I’m here but we know that we are of the truth and we shall assure our hearts before him for F word convince you if you’re hot cold and you not the Spirit of God when you do something wrong it’s not the job of the Holy Spirit to condemn you it’s the job of your heart to condemn you why because he has taken the room to stop the rock or stone out of you He’s given you the rock off flash that can tell you this is right this is wrong but that’s not what he does his job is convinced the world of sin and heal of righteousness what does it mean that he converses your Francesca’s he tells you even though you have done it wrong but you have an advocate with the father Jesus who is already paid for your sins past present and future God is greater than our hot and now with all things but why did God say is that to the Jews into trying to make up the six verse one through seven you shall love the Lord with all your heart with all your stress with all your mind he was not telling them that God is going to be a burden in your life God is going to be watching over your shoulder burnt know most people think of God like you have to beg him You have to plead with him it breaks his heart it breaks his heart he doesn’t want you begging him can you imagine if you were in your house right under in for your child to do anything that said to go to sleep they have to beg you a roller for daddy I’m sorry I missed it today I messed up can I not go to sleep please I’m so tired can you help me take me to sleep what a terrible father you are but we think that that’s how God is know when God told the Jews you shall love the Lord it’s because that’s how the Lord relates to them the hallmarks of a godly family a godly family places value on the word of God what is the place of the word of God in your life my friend most of you you value peoples opinion not the word of God it’s time for you to start thinking of the word of God let me take it a step further and tell you this you can have faith in God I’m still not trust him you need to go back and listen to what I’m saying here when you go home you can have faith in God and not trust him because even a thief who goes to steal it still believe God’s going to help him go steal it and nobody’s gonna catch him but does he trust God no he doesn’t because if we trust in God he will believe that God will make supplies for him I heard the story of a prostitute who is praying every day that her business will flourish have you ever heard the joke about if a man sells a coffins how does he break amen can have faith in God and not trust him faith in God makes you believe in him it means that you know he exist he loves you yes But trust is it’s not only you trust him but you trust his word you trust everything he told you in his word he will keep his word often times we believe in God but most of us will lean on our own understanding when we lean on our own understanding we sure by that we don’t trust him if you trust him you were close with him even when things got worse you still believe in him when a man trust God he knows that you know what it what is the scripture it may indoor for night and then joy comes in the morning what is it whipping me in July for a night but you hang onto it you hang onto you know that you know that you know sooner or later it’s all come to pass Sarah believed in God but she did not trust God that’s why when God told Abraham he will have a child 30 amen God will give us The child but not through this you take my servant by doing that she showed that she believed in God but she did not trust God most of us here what our finances are up and down do we trust God we believe God when you are under so much pressure and you know that you know that you know that you know I may not make it until next week it’s it’s due it’s overdue what is going to happen do you trust God all the time you throw it away godly Family Your Pl., God above all and let me tell you man the Bible says I was young now I’m grown I have never seen the righteous for sake in it may be it may seem to be tough today but you will you will win if you look at the end of the book which ever way you win you can never lose for winning do you trust God or you do you just believe in him When you trust in him your place him at the center of your family it’s time for you to sit down and said no it’s December 2019 I’m getting ready I’m gearing up for next year Jesus is the center of this family you have to speak like Joshua you just do what you want to do it I’ll still be your friend but as for me and my family we will serve the lord amen second thing the hallmarks of a Christian a godly home commitment to God’s work in the local church commitment to God’s work in the local church when you are a godly family it will show how you serve in the local church Jesus spoke to Peter I told you last week how Peter was crying and most of us never knew why is it a Peter Jesus I told him theater You would you’ll deny me three times I’ve been to say no all these guys here they can deny you for me I’m gonna go with you and Jesus said but I tell you before the rooster crows today you have denied me and he denied him the first time when he denied of the person sees how can you say you don’t know him you just sound like him the second time the woman come is it true you are there the third time there was a guy who came they’re cool so Peter in the garden with Jesus when they came to race Jesus that was a guy called Marcus it’s cousin Sophie to pull out the side cut off his cousins gear and the guy saw Jesus pick up the deer stick it up and he’s all better now he says the same BS I just saw you a few hours ago and when he say that I just saw you a few hours ago Jesus is battling past right now Here in Jesus is right here sitting right here and he’s looking at Jeezy dude if I know this guy may I be a curse that all the curses come on me I don’t know this man I don’t want Jesus just terms of our looks at him and Peter looks at him in the Bible sees the rooster crowed and Peter remember what Jesus told him and he started crying and I told you last week he was not crying because he was a coward know he was crying because he realize how much Christ love them because he is a man being accused by 3 x 3 witnesses this every proof possible that you are bad when they came to arrest Jesus that night the plot was not to arrest Christ alone it was Doris Christ Peter John Mark all of them and peters here in the hands of the enemy and buy some supernatural power nobody lays fingers on him Members why they can’t touch him why even though they have three accusation against some reason they can’t touch him he remembered what Christ told him better the devil has asked us if you like weed but don’t worry whatever happens today nobody’s going to lay fingers on your Peter and Peter look at this guy’s barn he’s got me covered and the lesson we learn from it is this way whatever you going through right now you’re not by yourself you have an advocate with the father who is already got you covered whatever you think is bad right now I tell you it could’ve been worse some of you were here this morning but actually the plan was for you to be in the hospital this morning but you are not in the hospital because you have an advocate with the father who’s got his hands upon you and the Bible says if you do well under the shadow of the most high you are by on the door power of the Almighty I thousand will fall on your left 10,040 or left to right but he will not be touched no Peter when he wakes up Christ shows up to him I said do you love me do you say yes in Jesus tells him if you do love me feed my sheep oh I tell you man that right there is the hallmark of a godly man a godly man feeds the ship of God what are you doing in the church what are you doing in the church the reason why we have pastors we have evangelist we have profits we have a Postel it’s not for them to drive Bentleys it’s not for them to fly out expensive aircraft know the job of the pastor of the evangelist it’s not for him to stand on TV and brag about her How much money he has in the bank account his job is to make sure you are equipped for the work of the ministry the one who is supposed to do ministry in the church is not the people it’s not the person behind the puppet it’s the person in the pew a godly family is dedicated to serving God and I tell you man we need help around here we need help we need help we need help cleaning the toilets we need help with the youth we need help driving people to church we need help vacuuming this place we need help and the help is with you the whole mark of a Christian of a godly man is serving in the church let me see that scripture Romans chapter 12 for as we have as we have many members in one body and all members have not the same office so we Bing many I want body in Christ we have a song the way I mean yeah we are one body in Christ and everyone one members one of another having been gifts different according to the grace that is given to us I’ll talk to Asia where the prophecy let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith or ministry let us wait on our ministry look at that if you have the gift of ministry or if you have a ministry you need to do your ministry or heat that teaches you have to teach exhort it on exhortation either give it let him do it with simplicity is the ruler with villages either short mercy what’s your full Ness people told that tells us here everybody in the church is important it’s time for you now to quit Sitting on your butt in the church bills you’ve worn those pills enough it’s time for you to get to work you need to find a place to serve in the church we are involved in church ministry activities in our local church that’s part of godly hallmark we attend service was sick to promote God and him and his work in a local church if you don’t go out there bringing people in this place shame on you shame on you the Lord has given us grace in this church to have great teachings to have a good heart servants heart good praise and worship then why aren’t you inviting people when are you bringing me a grown-up is that serving in the church some of us we just come to church and watch other people are mad they can say good what are you doing it’s time that you start looking around here and see what’s wrong in this place how do you send something We’re not doing better well you just find a ministry will all been waiting for you to do it open waiting for you to do it and I know when people are serving in the church when church is over unless you are a medical doctor and you just got a bid on your cell phone like there’s a life and death situation here we need you in the surgery in the emergency room right away you don’t have any business rushing out of church after service and around here you’re gonna get stuck in traffic for 30 minutes why what’s the point stick around here ask a few questions about children ask a few questions about praise and worship ask a few questions about butterflies can you teach me how to play the drum but it’s enough for us to just come here and sit down we have great teachers and less please ask us about starting a self up in your house you need to serve you need to serve you need to serve in the church and you don’t serve soup Because you said that nobody gives me what to do or does something for you to do how do you check the bathroom likely when you come around you don’t you see the trash out there there’s something for you to do a man three we are committed to charity the godly them at the hallmarks of a godly family is commitment to charity when I’m using the word charity charity here in terms of doing go to other people we help others with the best of our abilities our abilities because we understand that life is not just about us and our populace is it a man a man or a woman who understands that they are servants of God the godly person they realize that it’s not enough for them not to affect other people positively Just had thanksgivings a few days ago I got a phone call not a text message in the morning somebody from the church telling me I’m taking my family to go serve some people we are veterans around here we have all kinds of things when are you going to get involved it’s about time we let our children know that they’re spoiled brats after them having 25 pairs of shoes it’s enough they can now donate to other people it’s time that you start touching other people with the love of God Isaiah chapter 58 verse five through 11 is this is it such a fast that I have chosen a date for a man to flip his soul is it is it to bow down his head and to spread some cloth and ashes around him what Val call this a fast and an acceptable day to the Lord is it not this fast that I have chosen to lose the band Wickedness to undo the heavy burdens to let the oppressed go free and then you break every yoke is it not a dildo that bread to the hungry and that dog bring the poor that a cat out of the house when they’ll see is the make it look at that but now cover him and that high note that sell from Dan on flash then look at that your lights I’ll break forth as the morning your Health shall spring forth speedily and the righteousness of God before then the glory of the Lord shall be the reward then shall dial Cole and the Lord shall answer your surprise and he shall say here I am if you take away from the midst of you the yolk the putting forth a far off the finger and speaking vanity and if you draw out your soul to the hungry and satisfy the flipping soul Daniel then shall die like right In obscurity and the darkness be as noonday praise the Lord the Bible tells us he got to say it’s not just about you coming in church and stick in your area here hallelujah praise the Lord know God sees what are you doing with the poor people around you how many of us and don’t show me my hand have even done anything go to often how many of us in this place have done anything good to disable people to single mothers how long are you just gonna be buying stuff for yourself and not for any other person how long are you just gonna sit around eat your food from Monday through Sunday just by yourself me and myself and you are not a godly person a godly person helps the poor there’s a godly values this is not just in the Old Testament and the New Testament you say to pulsate Seahorse steel steel no more but let him work with his hands so that he may have something to give to those who don’t have it what is the point of work oh well brother I just want to build one for what what do you what do you want to build wealth on well I want to build my wealth so that I can touch others with the love of God Proverbs chapter 22 verse nine he that hath a bountiful I shall be blessed of his bride to the poor but still playing you need a good theologian to help you misunderstand that one it says that you need to do go to people I don’t know it’s time to help others it’s time for you to hear the cry of those who are who are who are suffering they may be here in America they may be in a Third World country than maybe wherever reach out no not to brag but one of the things that I know that I have done well I felt good Was when I went to Niger and I found a way to help people not by teaching them just a word but doing more than that no people need the word let’s not blow the line here the most important thing you can do for a person is to bring them to Christ but is that enough know if you have something in your pocket reach out and help them out especially if you can sit down on life and say hey there’s this education you can do for whatever amount of time and point that person in the right direction that is what God wants you to do let’s go to the number the number for hallmarks of a godly family and commitment to prayers especially for others praying for other people oh man it’s time that you are you surround people in your house if you are a married man even if you’re a single person that’s fine you can still do it myself but learn how to pray For others I was so humble this morning when the church prayed for me but you don’t know how much I covet those prayers you don’t know how much I covet those prayers but not only for me but also for other people it’s not on that you say I’m gonna pray for Mr. Trump I’m gonna pray for Virginia I’m going to pray for every single member of springs of life church but all the churches around here in the book offered first Timothy chapter 2 verse one and three the Bible tells us something about praying for other people I exhort there for that first what’s the boss applications prayers and a sessions and giving of thanks be made for all men for kings prayers in a session and giving of thanks be made or Allmond pray for kids what is that for kings here with me the President of the United States and all the presidents in the world the Senate Senate Congress those in the arm services pray for them that are in authority that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in Gordon estate honestly say we had this idea I don’t know where it came from where people have this mindset that as days go by things will get worse and worse will have more wars will have more family people go to the things of Christ said will be that the sign of the end of the old testament in magic chapter 24 when the disciples asked Jesus how are we going to know that this is the sign that the temple is about to be destroyed Jesus told them you will hear of wars and rumors of wars they’ll be false prophet you they’ll be earthquakes the way all those things most people think that he’s talking about you and I that is stupid why Because these guys left 2000 years ago how does it affect them anyway and 2000 all be dead he’s telling them and in the same script I said by the way this generation shall not pass away most people think that when he says this generation shall not pass away he’s talking about your generation you know if Jesus was talking about your generation he would not say this generation shall not pass away he would say that generation shall not pass away we are not the generation of Christ say that generation will not pass away no no no say when the Bible talks about the end it’s an ambiguous word that means you have to read the whole context to understand and of what in the Bible there is no such a thing as the end of the world as we think of it in the English language there is the end of the age what age the the the mosaic edge by Peter witnessed those things when the Holy Spirit came What did Bill tell them oh no no we’re not drunk this is the sun what time that we are the last days in the last day says the Lord of world my spirit your sons and daughters will prophesy the last days of what better the last days of the World no I was 2000 still here if the last days have been 2000 years then it’s intellectually dishonest to believe that we’ve been in the last days for 2000 years no we are in a do they know there’s a reason why I’m telling you this when the Bible says they’ll be wars and rumors of wars that wants to tell the disciples disciples how do you know that the time has come for the old testament to close and for the new testament to be fully active no pool heater says this if we pray for peace Most of us we don’t believe we can pray for peace and peace in the world why because we believe all this going to be warmer it’s going to be wars do I believe that they can be a day where there’s no fun in the world I believe so I do believe so much there’s gonna be a day there’s gonna be a cure for cancer or not do you believe there’s gonna be a cure for HIV yes I do believe in that what is it that we don’t have a cure for cancer and HIV because the church curse of the world every day well life and that is out of the power of the time we are cutting of spiritually the supply of intelligence that can produce it what we need to do is to pray for our son is like Emmanuel there like Israel there the Israel go back to school study hard so maybe you will find a cure for cancer yeah that’s why I tell you man I’m not In a hurry to pack my bags and leave this place and if you were in a hurry to leave this place and go to heaven I encourage you put your bags down and pack them go back home we have work to do policies that we have to pray that they’ll be peace in the world will there ever be peace between the Jews and the Palestinian yes why is it that there’s no peace between the Jews in Palestine because everybody and Christian television says they can never get together they can never get together yes I can get together how can the Jews in the palace in and get together bring them to the prince of this Jesus Christ let them know their brothers and their lives peacefully so we pray for each other the last point I cannot do it because it’s the end of the service let’s stand on our feet done

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I have told told you about relationships I told you about dating about divorce about parenting about marriage I’ve told told you about children and last week I was talking about the spiritual dynamics of the family spiritual dynamics of the family and they were a few points that I made last week and I was just listening to up to myself and it just ministered to me also that the words that I brought here what are the things that I said was every family has issues including your family and the problem with most of us is we try to put our make up on and act as if we don’t have problems some of you sitting under the sound of my voice right now you are dealing with addiction and until you come face-to-face with that reality and say please help me out you will stay with those tanks there’s so many people that I know Either in Georgia and Colorado in New York and New Jersey and Delaware who come to church and after church go home and commit suicide

we have so many people who are in the puppet ministry day and night and go home and engage in homosexuality in affairs in watching x-ray of the materials and doing all kinds of things the problem is we have learned how to become good actors and not to be real if you have an issue one of the first thing you wanna do is recognize I have a problem you see the Bible sees that face calls those things that be not as though they are the Bible does not say faith does face goals those things that are still there not listen to me start over again face calls those things that are not as though they are but face does not called those things that are as though they are not faith recognize How is things and put a butt beauty on it and see but God will help me out of it it’s it’s it’s one thing for you to think that you don’t have issues the only person who from birth to death to Resurrection did not have an issue with the Lord Jesus Christ

the Bible states he was tempted in every way possible and yet without sin but do you know that the rest of us the best of us in the old and New Testament always has an issue now what do you don’t kill today will kill you tomorrow what you do not face today it will face you tomorrow the Bible says even in the book of numbers you sent me she will find you you have to talk talk to come face of this he honesty without plastics without make up’s without lipstick cool what am I dealing with is it my anger is it my sexual permit security Is it my desire to cuss to smoke to drink there is a way of drinking which is wrong now let me stop right there and let me make sure that this goes on live drinking in itself is not a sin drinking itself is not as in the Bible sees this when it comes to drinking and eating let nobody judge you he’s not talking about drinking water because nobody judges you want to drink water

he says when it comes to drinking let no man judge you drinking is not a problem in itself but drinking can become very dangerous it can lead to destroy your health your family and everything around you if you know the drinking is a problem why even play with it some of us we don’t have a problem watching an X-rated movie on TV oh I don’t care it’s just a movie listen there are dates for your soul First get to your soul is your ears full faith comes from the second gate to your soul is your eyes do you know that by looking into your eyes I can see your soul what you Leo eyes on will stay on your heart now in French we say this you can lie to anybody or you cannot lie to your conscious you can pretend I am OK everything is OK well the other people had heart attacks always claimed they were OK until was too late the other people who got pregnant I’m OK I played safe they played safe until they had a late for two months all what happened to my parents don’t play too safe with sin

sin is Filson even under the new covenant the Bible says in the book of Romans chapter 6 don’t you know the two whom you offer yourself as servants you become slaves Could become a slave to righteousness or you could become a slave to sin sin is still as deadly as it was in the old testament today you have to watch out you have the right to watch whatever you wanna watch on TV but what I’m telling you is this the stuff that you watch I heard in your soul that hurting your heart I’m making you week we all have dysfunctional families who is Amanda was all in fact the only man in the Bible who was filled with the Spirit of God from his mothers womb do you know his name John the Baptist John the Baptist is the only person who had the spirit of God dwelling on him in his mothers womb as good as John the Baptist was he had an issue one day he doubted Jesus in the freezer he say is he really the Messiah or should we wait for another person I’ll tell you man Paul the apostle Wrote half the New Testament had issues with anger yes read the book of acts podcast out somebody because the mouth beater had issues big issues in the book of Galatians

we find out that when he was a monks the Jews he acted like a Jewish man when the Jews were not looking at the differently in Poco Diablo hypocrite you don’t have issues really are you serious now if you don’t say you don’t have issues you just lied you have issues with lying or telling the truth that’s your issue right there do you have an individual you have issues you have to come face-to-face with those issues and the church we have to be a police with everybody with the baggage is with the field comes and feels I’m home we have to be like the prodigal son when he comes home he feels like father I’m home and daddy say wash them Do you have issues with anything just just be honest and say I have issues help me out and you don’t you don’t go tell everybody your issues because there’s some people in the church the moment you tell them your issues they have issue keeping their mouth shut they struggle with gossip as soon as you say thank you so much they pick up the phone and they put it out that you don’t want to talk to people like that but you want to talk to people like me or honestly right now I haven’t told anybody you’re dirty secret 

all right let me come back I’ll be OK we all have issues and we have to deal with with those issues with the word of God secondly your family does not change myself you have to do something for your family to to change and like Deborah in the five she said a rose up as a mother and I changed I changed it one of the things that you need to do is sit down one day it’s already November it’s already December it’s already 2019 what is wrong with my family is it lack of education in this family is it the miss behavior is it loose language is it anger is it jealousy is it pride is it hypocrisy is it duplicity is it sexual impurity is just not being sexually pure do we have those issues how do I fix these issues until you do that nothing will happen I realize in my my life well data one day I was sitting with Jessica I said it doesn’t really matter how much money you make if you don’t have a budget and then we started thinking what is a budget budget to simply tell him the money what to do and if you don’t tell your mother Your money will tell you what to 

do Leica take me to the mall take me online let’s go shopping yes sir I will do that your money will tell you take me to dinner not any dinner tonight take me to dinner in a fancy restaurant downtown DC and then next week second I made so much money while the money went with the money told you to go and most people don’t realize that if you don’t have a budget your money will tell you what to do with it what is the budget is simply saying well I have $1000.50 you belong to the light 60 you belong to Internet or 20 you belong to gas 25 you belong to this this you belong to that and by the end of the sheet right on special paper you wrote thousand you should say zero at the end of it if you do all No the expenses and by the end still have half left then you lost something out somewhere here let’s go back a budget simply means all my money by the time I do my calculations I what I pay this debt and I save this and I put this in ministry by the time I’m done with this it should read zero at the bottom of it if it doesn’t rain zero the leftover will tell me what to do with it and I will not be in charge it will be in charge of me the same thing like you do a budget with your money you do also a self assessment with yourself as an individual and as a family in my going forward or am I going down backwards it’s 

OK to come to church and stick your hands in the air and scream hallelujah hallelujah but it might going forward or am I going backwards every family has issues and those issues don’t fix themselves you have to do something about it You must fight for the family but today when I wanna show you is against Sunstop to 127 verses one and three let’s so let’s just call 11 and two verse one and two I want to show you the hallmarks of a godly family the whole Mark’s Hallmark hallmark HALLMARK Hall marks till in the book of songs of 127 verses one through two in the king James version can we do the king James not the amplified except the Lord builds the house the labor in vain the building except a bowl kit the city the watchman wake up but in vain and his van for you to rise up early to set up later to eat the bread of sorrows so he gives his beloved sleep the Bible he shows us that the family has two levels to dynamics the natural dynamic the natural level what I can see with my eyes what I can Touch and there is also the spiritual dynamic of my family that which I don’t see what happens behind the veil behind 

behind the natural realm the Reza spiritual realm for my family and now it shows us in this passage unless the spirit realm controls my family my family is doomed except the Lord is involved in the machinery in the working out in the functioning of my life of my house of my family nothing happens now I want you to remember that the Lord is spirit so basically what happens is the outcomes of my life are dictated by the spirit realm what I see in the physical here is a manifestation of what happens in the spirit if God is not involved in what I am doing I’m just dumb to It’s OK it’s fine for you to rise up early set up Layton to eat the bread of sorrows that means that you can work hard and get bread but it came at a very gusty price but he calls the bread of sorrows but remember what the Bible sees the blessing of the Lord make us one rich and he adds no sorrow’s there is a way that God wants to relate to us that I get my bread without the sorrows and how do I get there I have to let him be the guide be the pilot beat the 

boss be the master be everything I am here just to follow the steps of the road do you want me to go to left or you want me to go to Ralph F Gardens and walk in the workings of my life by the end of the day I come out victorious no problem with me the problem with you is we trying to figure everything out by out Call peanut brain let me tell you this life is too big too rich for you to figure it out with your own brain unless the Lord builds the house unless what is gods place in your life what does God mean to you what does the word of God mean to you by the end of the day you’ll have to decide am I going to be led by my own understanding all by the word of God am I led by what people say or is this the final authority in my life unless the word be the final authority in my life I’m just wasting my time the spirit realm controls what I see here in the earth where is God in your finances where is God in your Health Where is God in your work some of us we are like the church called The Church of Law decision Revelation chapter 3 Jesus sees inverse 20 behold I’m standing outside and I’m knocking on the door if any man he was my 

voice and opens up I will come in to meet up into him and I will dine with him that is a very bad scripture that is a sad picture right there it says right to the church for church of Jesus or two or three assemble together in my name I’m in the midst welcome that he says I’m at the door he’s not supposed to be at the door of the church is supposed to be inside of the church in Revelation chapter 3 verse 20 says I’m outside here I’m knocking on the door and I’m telling you man you look good this morning you have your make up on and you have your Christian outfit on but in their cries Is outside the door of your job he’s outside the door of your finances he’s outside the door of your language he’s outside the door of your communication you are in here and he’s outside would you please allow me in because if I do not build you up you’re wasting your time building yourself up in vain it’s time to bring Jesus back to where he belongs he does not belong out there knocking on the door if he’s knocking out the door who am I having fellowship in here inside when my Lord and my savior is out there it’s time that you inventory your life are you still going to be in charge or are you done being in charge are you going to throw the flag and say I’m sorry I surrender I made a big mistake with mine when I came to the 

Lord the first thing was assume that anyone who comes to the church is a Christian and that’s a big mistake People know how to talk Chris Chinese question is is a language that the lingua of those who go to church screamed hallelujah and Abdel Halle way in Christ is not in there it’s time to be genuine it’s time to be yourself and say hi I am a Christian and I’m not ashamed of it Jesus is the master he’s the Lord of my life I heard Andrew Warmack say there’s no point Jesus being Savior in your life if he’s not load the Bible does not say if you believe in Jesus he says if you believe in the Lord Jesus he has to be Lord of all in your life Nehemiah chapter 4 verse 14 and 15 and 16 Nehemiah chapter 4 and I looked up in Rosa Parks safe and nobles into the rulers of To the rest of the people be not afraid of them remember the Lord which is great and terrible and fight for your brother and your sons for your daughters for your wives and your houses and it came to pass without enemies heard that it was unknown and told us and got about the Castleton out that we returned all of us to the wall everyone at his work I stop right there Nehemiah was rebuilding the city of Jerusalem the Jews had been taken captive into Iraq by king 

the king later when it was taken out the king that only took them out but he burned everything behind them houses the table everything Nehemiah comes back it’s been over 100 years he comes back here to Jerusalem he’s find the city in Orion the temples not there not their houses are gone there’s no field is nothing it’s time for him to rebuild No has he started to rebuild the enemies of Israel colluded together and got permission to stop the rebuilding project so Nehemiah petition the king to have these enemies stopped in the tracks so the king wrote to stop the enemy in the tracks near myosin I’m not gonna be foolish enough to think that these people are just gonna stop I’m gonna build but fight them at the same time so what he did he give them two things I’ll give you a break but also give you a sword I’m gonna build here but if you come to impede the work of God I’m gonna just saying I’m gonna arrange the meeting between you and God I like how you heard this morning right yeah and in that scripture we switch him I said this we build the work of God but we fight for our families have you thought for your family if you Fight for your family the implication being your family is always under attack by the enemy not let me let me tell you this how does the enemy attack you the enemy attacks you through accusations through accusations accusation remember how Revelation chapter 12 sees the enemy was hurled down here who is the accuser of the brethren Satan 

fights you with accusations no accusations is everything negative side against you accusations have two levels there is the lower level of accusation and there’s the highest level of accusation the lowest level of accusation is the sins you commit it’s the things that you do by breaking the word of God when you know that you should be doing this you do it you break that the enemy will build the case Yes you know the devil look at me here most of us we had this idea that God sits here in Heaven on Earth on his head judge God and the devil stands right here wearing a red suit and they bring the vacuum that he was here and then you present yourself here before God and judge God sister and the enemy starts to accuse you this is the man he did this this man he stole this man he smoke this man he got drunk this this guy he he killed somebody and then I’m here to accuse him give me permission to destroy him and then got ask you now sir did you do all these things that the enemy side and then you have to argue back-and-forth back-and-forth that’s the idea that most people have with God that there’s no Christ heals Dance next to USA 

yes Satan Mr. Satan you may be right but I’ve already forgiven him that’s not how it happens this concept most people even have that but on the last day we will all stand in a long line next yes or I’m coming there angels open the name and then say how do you spell in a baby you are OK I’ve got his file ready and then they pull out this stack on March 1, 2015 you were standing on the corner of seventh and you did this I didn’t then the movie power flashes right now and then you can see yourself doing whatever oh my God on the other day on the other end of the day I was accusing you and then finally God will tell the angel by the way is his name in the lambs book of life And then the angel will pull out this huge boat so what’s your name again are you is your name is the name is there or not that’s what people think but this is not true this is not true on the last day you cannot be judged on this day on this day unless they did this why because in heaven there are no records of sin in heaven there are no records of sin if you don’t believe me read Hebrews chapter 11 do you see these people named the men of faith Abraham mental faith Moses mental faith David they write nothing evil about them in those books in the 

book that you have and surprisingly even Sarah is known as the mighty woman of faith the same Sarah who doubted God the Bible says she was a mighty woman of faith why because in heaven there is no record of him Jesus said if you believe in me come on you have gone from death into life and you know the last group to ride the punching line it says this there is therefore no condemnation to those who are in Christ for if any man be in Christ come on he is a new creature if they try to even dig out a place on March 7 yourself it does not exist in heaven anytime you commit a sin here on earth that sin is never in your spirit because your spirit can never see him he who is born of God cannot send why because your spirit right now is seated in heaven in the highlife in high places with Christ Jesus that’s why you don’t have to worry am I gonna make it to heaven or not oh brother One of these days the top of Mesa View may miss the rapture you haven’t read the Bible sir I’m not hurting her to make it make it to heaven heaven lives in me I live in heaven Jesus said you will know that I am in you you are in the father and we are together if I am in him how can I miss having you can worry about heaven I’m 

worried about bringing heaven here on earth right now but when you commit a sin the part of you that since it’s the part that does not need to be saved that part is called your soul your spirit is the part that is saved if any man be in Christ he is a new creature that part of you cannot be born again again and again remember what the big deal was told I told Jesus how can a man be born again after he’s already been born Can he go back in his mouth what does that mean it is this if you are saved that’s it you cannot lose it and then go back again in the in the blood of Jesus and come out again and I grew up in a churchman where I was born again and a 12 lost it at two again at four lost it at six God born again there was a guy in this country and God bless his heart he’s already gone when he was born he was back but he developed a sickness where it was called vitiligo and the medical profession had to change his skin completely where he did not look anything dark again he look pale or wider than white people’s hair was long when I was a kid he used to play this song called thriller but in that guy His passport as why does his boss receipt be because once you have that drop of blood in you you cannot lose it if I teach you the grace of God and I don’t make you question like are you saying I’m safe then I didn’t say it to you 

then I have to teach you the grace until you ask me so do I have the license to go do anything I want to know if you ask me now so I can’t do anything there’s a problem here the problem is this year me when my mother wind me from breast-feeding me that was it I never went back to it why does it sound good why there’s nothing in me the desires of mothers milk if you are truly born of God Add sin does not appeal to you you can try I won’t work I know a gentleman in DC one day he was a single guy and maybe four years ago he called me so can you please come and pick me up then I went and picked him up at the bar tender at all you just walked in the door how long ago I said what about 20 minutes ago why aren’t you staying there why are you going back home he said I tried I don’t belong here I don’t belong here I can’t but why did you go there so I’m a single guy I thought maybe if I go there can you not meet the lady and then start a relationship but as soon as I walked in there I did not belong there if you are truly born-again man you just don’t belong and sent you don’t belong in it anyway let’s come back to the judgment here so when I commit a sin The devil accuses me but he does not accuse me to god why the Bible tells me in Romans chapter 8 who will accuse the elect does God and the devil talk no does God and the devil fight no has the devil ever seen God never even angels have never 

seen God why it’s impossible to see God and stand on your 2 feet again if you say God fights the devil it’s an assault to God God does not have to insult the devil to fight the devil just by doing this the devil is gone and his memory is gone but who does the devil accuse and who the devil Achilles’ heel to your unconscious accuses you in your own heart first John chapter 3 verse nine Our heart accuses us that’s where your heart accuses you know when your heart Achilles’ heel it makes it impossible for you to flow in the things of God that is how the enemy gets to you when you do something wrong he starts accusing you to send that is the lowest form of accusation how do you deal with sin when you commit a sin you say a word you don’t you’re not supposed to say you do something you’re not supposed to do how do you deal with it you have to stand in the righteousness of God acknowledge you did wrong and thank God that he showed it to you and MoveOn from that the Bible sees agree with your accuser on the way to the judge if the devil tells you you know what you did that was wrong so yes you’re right it was wrong but thank God I’m the righteousness of God The second level of accusation it’s while people talk about you it’s how people talk about you whatever you do people are always accusing you you are not this 

you’re not that you are not this you’re not that that is worse than sin it’s called witchcraft witchcraft and it’s self is not a demon spirit of witchcraft no let me show you the scripture Galatians of the 519 Galatians chapter 5 verse 19 witchcraft is not a spirit witchcraft is a condition of the falling man it’s something every human being is capable of practicing now the works of the flesh a manifest every single human being I want to operate in witchcraft witchcraft is awesome guy whore flies in the night and then they cut your neck and that’s something else but witchcraft is the ability to project evil on other people the ability to cause remember this life and death is worth when you use your tongue to talk to release death that is witchcraft now the works of the flesh and the demons know the names of demons now the works of the flesh which are a manifest which RVs adultery fornication uncleanness lasciviousness next bit first 20 idolatry and what snacks and I just told you it says the work on the flash doesn’t say these are demons I said what I have a spirit of fornication you don’t have a spirit of all Acacian you love fornication you ever seen a Demon come to you and strip meal no and I’ve never seen a person get up in the morning coming home what happened to the stupid 

no you know you were going to do it that day and night before you knew you were gonna do it the week before you knew you were going to do it you struggled with that you struggle it says the work of the flesh not the spirit now we are going to buy the spirit of witchcraft brother you can buy nothing will go nowhere I was praying for this one lady at the border of Niger in booking a fossil that she was mad and she was talking talking Grandma brought her to me and her mom let’s pray that lady just looking at me like this all right let’s take a break and stay there I’m gonna go pray for us I need to know what’s going on here as I’m starting to pray right now how do you press just speak in tongues father in the name of Jesus show me what am I doing wrong I’m tired of this thing and the Lord told me you were trying to cast the demon that doesn’t exist you’re cussing out a demon that doesn’t exist that lady doesn’t have a demon she has a mental condition she doesn’t need the liver she needs healing see you can go far deep into the demons and stuff until you create demons that don’t even exist sometimes the devil is even Amazing 

how we describe wow they will let me do this the devil made me do that the devil made me do this and I can let people do that I didn’t know that which Devil are we talking about the one that the Bible says he was stripped naked destroyed the cross or are we talking about a different day for that God doesn’t know that the devil himself doesn’t know or are we just talking about these things put together one man who just appeared to be some thing here in the works of the flesh or witchcraft what is witchcraft is this ability in your heart to wish evil on somebody else that is what witchcraft witchcraft is the ability to present you know this the devil cannot touch you demons can never touch you without you allowing them for another person and allowing them and beside that is filled with the spirit as we are we cannot stop the devil from coming here No and I can tell he’s coming in anytime Jesus when he was eating the last supper the Bible says as soon as the JUNOs took the Mozel the devil Anthony and what was the devil right there with Jesus at the table if Jesus could not keep the devil away from his table you and I cannot kill him away from here beside the devil I’ve told you he’s not omnipresent he cannot be in Lawton and he may Maryland at the same time wherever he is now he’s not here right now he’s probably England right now he’s probably in Germany right now so I worry about them that’s come back but the accusation is anything that is spoken against you when you read in the Bible it says over 

and over the words of the enemy I like our rules the words are like arrow Yes how how does this happen I’m from one of my family and everybody has always said things against my dad against my mom gets my people group those people are always that they’re always this not one person saying accusation against me another person says accusation against me these accusations put together empowers the enemy to come against me some of the pain you have in your body right now it’s somebody talking evil on you and think about this words carry power how do you stop the words the Bible says enough is it up to 5454 verse 17 no weapon formed against you shall prosper and every tongue that rises up in judgment in opposition against you you shall condemn What do you do you stand up and you say I cut off every accusation in my family over my children over my finances in the mighty name of Jesus let me stop you quickly and tell you something most of us we don’t need prayer when things don’t go right you don’t always need prayer in fact when things don’t go right the last thing you need is prayer when things don’t go right Jesus said this whoever shall speak to this come on talk to me church whoever shall speak to this mountain and say diesel removed and be cast in the sea shell not doubting inside by so believe whatever he says he shall have whatever he sees Jesus did not say who am I I’ll pray to God to remove a mountain shall have his prayers answered when you deal with mountains you 

do not need to pray now let’s redefine prayer prayer is an a humble attempt from the Christian from the believer to approach God and say I can’t do this by myself please help me it’s your hand of faith reaching out in the heart of God I said daddy come to my rescue do not be worried the anxious of nothing but in all things make your requests known to God so prayers and thanksgiving let’s not talking about mountains what do you need some when you are facing hard issues is not a prayer you need to enforce the blessing what is enforcing the blessing the blessing is not something that is outside of you it’s something That is already inside of you you pull it out and you channel it towards a goal you rise up and you say I decree I command you get remove you go this way everything make away let there be light that is what most of us we need we don’t need prayers prayers you can pray for somebody present if you have reached the bottom of your life and you can pray but when it comes to things that are not working you need to commend one of those things is the command over your family look in your family what are we dealing with in my family and my children now begin to channel the blessing of God in every area in the life I tell you man some of the things that I have personally suffered it was not the enemy per se it was just somebody who was spewing this poison out their poison in building a case building a case until the enemy Since that and brought it against me when the Lord showed me one day and I’m not gonna go into much detail as he was one Wednesday or Thursday night I 

was in this place I was someone sitting here and then I could see this person spilling stuff and this darkness coming to over commit and in this position I don’t need help from outside because God showed me the power is already here rise up from here and speak against it and that’s a start it right to speak against it it’s just like it left me saying I’m not gonna go there but it’s time for you to fight for your family how do you fight for your family you look at your kids and you start targeting the blessing of God and then I speak life over you I speak life over if you have children sleep in the bedroom and then the sleeping and just lay your hands on them and say I communicate the grace of God on you you will succeed you Will not die at that point you were speaking you are channeling everything in my life to line up with the purposes of God thank you and I promise you I was gonna tell you about the hallmarks of our godly family and I have not told you anything about it all the time done it’s just reviewing last weeks material I’m not gonna tell you about the Hallmark so far I’ve gotten the family because I feel my heart this is exactly what God wanted me to tell you but some of the things that you are facing right now some of the things that are dragging you down now it’s the powers of evil coming to guess why because somebody speaking evil against you read it in the book of Psalms read it in the book of acts of the apostles Paul says that often times he was handed to go where God wanted him to go 

because of the accusations The evil one is a scripture web for Jesus tells Peter this is a new chapter 22 Simon Simon Satan has requested you to sift you like wheat but I have prayed that your face value not when you are converted reaffirm your I’ll touch your brothers listen to that Simon Simon Satan has requested you how do you set a request Simon says go to heaven is it not give me Simon know there’s only one part in the Bible when you see a man going in the presence of God and saying can you give me a job and want to die till the devil behold all he has is yours somebody makes a world of God awful job to the devil no no no Could you slow down get you a good dictionary look at every word you read the Bible compared in the dictionary behold all she has is yours that’s what God told the devil in the case of job it’s not like you did Giovani see you sure about this God cannot tell job and give them to Satan why because God does not obey to the devils command if the devil say give me a job and God takes job and gives him devil the devil he has just obey the devil the devil has made God do something but what did God say behold all he has is yours look at that word again behold what he has is not will be what happened the devil did not know job was already his when he was requesting the devil job How

do we know the job was already of the devil or belong to red Devil Picazzo have Sand how fallen short of the glory of God job live before Christ shed his precious blood on the cross in the whole world was under the power of darkness all of it Satan was too dumb he just did not know that the devil the job belong to him and I told him you don’t need to request my job is already else is already yours but the devil does not request us to god how did the devil request Simon he went through Judice Judas one to talk to the Pharisees that was the Devil requesting Simon and Jesus said I have prayed for you you know that when Jesus is parent being paraded in front of everybody and they asked Peter do you know him I don’t know him and the third time when done You are one face and crises right here in passing if I know this guy may I be a cursed and cry stones around looked at him and then Peter looks at Jesus and he heard the noise remember right the rooster right across or cock-a-doodle-doo in the Bible states and Peter remembered what Christ told him what a better remember he remembered rice told him this is a spiritual matter I’ve already taken care of it Satan has requested you but I’ve already prayed for you when Jesus look at Peter Peter did not look at Jesus and felt guilty that’s what you assume he felt so guilty he didn’t feel guilty because if he felt guilty why didn’t he does follow him what stop him from following him I’m sorry Take me to he wasn’t feeling guilty at all the Bible tells you he remembered before the rooster crows children denied me but I have already covered 

your man when people look to Jesus he said himself man tonight would have been much worse if this man had not covered me up with his prayers when he was crying he was loving on Jesus it was love in Christ a while this is how much he loves me see when Christ rose up the first thing he told Peter he told them how do you love me a better size I do what did you read my shit why because Bella was told by Christ the Devil has request due I have covered you but when you are converting take care of your brother and him Peter never apologize for denying Christ in fact I’m denying Christ did not protect him what protected him was the love of Christ and let me tell you this some of the things that you are suffering now it could’ve been much worse than what you think but you have an advocate with the father who has covered you that’s why the Bible say count it all come on now count it all joy because he who is my advocate with the father has in the end and he’s already covered me and then my turn I have to love him by doing good the people in my life my man

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Psalms 127 verses one and five I wanna show you some other thing today which I believe is going to impact your life positively the Bible tells us and I’m teaching on the subject of the Christian family today with a special emphasis on the spiritual dynamics of the family there is more to family than what makes the eyes there is a spiritual aspect of the family which propels us forward or which drugs us down except the Lord builds the house they labor in vain that build it except the Lord keep the city the watchmen keep it and then I want you to notice that there is a spiritual warfare going on against the house there is a spiritual warfare going on against the family we may not see it physically but I am there is a spiritual warfare going on some of the trouble we have personally it’s not accidental it’s some I think that is not only on us as an individual it’s something that is in the family but you have to fight there’s a story in the Bible in the book of Esther you remember the professor but unless you study Jewish history you’ll never see what happened in there there’s a man who vows to tall destroy all the Jews and that name is that man’s name was Helen but what people don’t know who is the walls as there was a descendent of King Saul the first king of the Jews and that man Hammond was the descendent of King a God the mend of king soul spared you remember God has sent Samuel to tell to tell so go and destroy all the Amalekites when he went this is a first Samuel chapter 15 killed everything except for the king And all the big animals what he did not know is he just set himself up and his children in the future but you can see in the next generation there is a night a guy called Jonathan king David was never God’s plan a to be the king of Israel we’re not because soul is told by Kingza by the prophet Samuel in first Samuel chapter 15 if you had obey the word of the Lord the Lord would have made you and your descendants kings forever in the nation of Israel today we couldn’t have been talking calling Jesus Jesus son of David we would actually have been calling Jesus son of Saul but what so did not only did he destroy his own life he also destroyed the next generations live there is a guy in the Bible call Jonathan when you look at this guy that is king Saul son he is way way David this is a real guy and you can see the man’s heart because he knows the Lord has rejected his dad and the Lord has appointed king David and yet he becomes David’s best friend even though David has now taken what rightfully belongs to him so Jonathan is going to be killed finally adult in the last chapter of first Samuel chapter 38 out of the 31 he did not die because of a crime he committed but because his dad destroyed his his next generation not only Jonathan down the road the king the king sol sol his life his spirit is the sand it now rises up to wipe out Israel when I met my my coworkers message administer meanwhile they kept saying something I never heard before and now it stayed in my heart that the snake that men did not destroy The garden of Eden became what the dragon in the book of revelation because that which you do not deal with today will be dealt with by your children and some of the things you do not deal that you are dealing with today it’s not you it’s a fight that started a long time ago and I will show you this is not just old testament gibberish this is actually verified in the New Testament as well no Esther has to destroy him and demanded whose grandfather or holes and sister was supposed to be killed or destroyed by his ground he’s a sister as well what I’m trying to tell you is this we are under the grace of God but there is still another spiritual dynamic attached to us some of you you have sicknesses right now either in blood sugar or in hot condition that is that has always been running in your Family line that’s why when you go to the doctor like I went to my doctor this week they asked me tell me tell me about your dad about your grandfather now let’s go on your mom side why because even in the medical profession they understand the children today receptacles of what happened before them now here it’s it shows as in Sam chapter 127° a spiritual warfare which is what is against the family and without the Lord’s involvement in that fight it’s all you’ve already lost the battle it’s already a lost cause that’s what he say except the Lord watches over your family over the city unless you invite the lawn you may try to fight but it’s not going to avail and I want you to know there is a spiritual dynamic attached to your family I have an account Lies when I came to the Lord that there was an idea that me and I do apologize for those who are not of my background me as an African man there was always this idea placed in my mind that my ancestors were evil the witches in the demons and when things like that it was just the slack off on the ring my parents not that everything that they did was right but there may be one or two things that they did that was right and I want you to know that the Bible carries this principle from the old testament into the New Testament in the writings of Paul when he says honor your father and your mother what if you do not honor your father and your mother it will show in your life now will that stop you from going to heaven no because going to heaven has nothing to do with you honoring your father and mother but it will impact your walkie on On earth and I have told you before that I’m not in a hurry to go to heaven because Jesus told me occupy until I come back if you read the Bible right go all the way to the end the book of revelation and you get the shock of your life it is this John so the church leaving Heaven coming back to do here on earth at the end after everything has been taken care of Satan has been killed kicked out there’s no more judgment there’s no more wrath of God did not keep the church up and have a lot of why heaven was never made for men even the highest of heavens belong to God but the earth belongs to men I’ve always wondered if the earth was so bad what is it that Jesus said blessed are the peacemakers Because that will inherit what the earth what is all the peacemakers hit the earth and they get out of here they all go to asylum and Heaven call wheel and Jesus makes it even plain as it was in the days of Noah so shall it be in the days of the son of man not think about this in the days of Noah some people were removed from the earth Jesus sees that in Maddie chapter 24 they the eighth married they did business until the flood came and took them all why did God do that so that no one the righteous man may stay again on the earth and repopulate the earth what I’m trying to tell you is this you’ll be here on earth is not a curse you being here on earth it’s not an accident It’s God’s blessing on the earth God wants you to succeed here on earth God doesn’t just want you to be so heavenly minded you become earthly stupid it’s about time that we get some brothers who in addition to knowing the word of God they also know math they also understand geography they also understand business they also understand lol they also understand police work they also understand how to fly how to fly an airplane God for bid that all of us one day will become pastors will be good for some of us to be pilots it’s good for some of us to be lawyers some of us to be medical doctors become medical doctors is not of the devil we wait a second you think is the devil who gives the medical doctors the ability to talk to heal people how to treat people No how do we know that because Jesus is the devil comes to kill steel and destroy the one who is guiding the hands of the doctor it’s not certain if it’s up to say can you make sure that the stupid doctors are all higher than the good doctors I’ll tell in the unemployment line but the church will need to write to raise every kind of people who is available to us there is a spiritual warfare going on and we need to understand that we need to involve God has to be a day where you sit down and inventory your family and you ask yourself lol why is it that of all the families in the world you chose me to be of this family you wanted me to be in the Emile family why did you want me to be a Talya why did you want me to be a Carter why did you want me to be a no so why did you want me to be your son/why did you want me to be a Natasha do you has to be something here And let me tell you this it’s wrong for you to be the only successful person in your family it’s wrong for you when there’s a need in the family you are the only person where everybody frogs to it’s not good for you to be the only successful person in your family and you may have brothers we have sisters who may have cousins have you ever prayed for them taken down to go to say change the lives soft in my heart because some of us we are so ashamed of our family members they don’t look as good either ugly they can’t speak good they probably smell they just nasty people we just don’t want to associate with them but that’s wrong why did God choose you to be part of your family is it possible that the future of your family depends on the spiritual warfare you engage on the up and behalf of your family that you can Turn around and get the things that the Lord has invested in you pass it to them and to tell your brothers until the sisters be like me this morning we just had a sister Lauren here saying that when she looks back at the past two years of her life it’s been one success after another success after another success but she has a twin sister what’s the point of her succeeding and her twin sister is not enjoying what she’s enjoying and she has nephews she has nieces she has a brother she has a dad she has a mom let’s take all of them to God the reason men in the Bible called Joseph who God called yes who turn the train who turned the cycle of his family and I’m telling you you are the Joseph of your family you are the Josephine of your family and in your time the enemy must stop in the stock of your family must rise up it is possible in the name of cheese Yes and I’ll walk you through this before I get to the let me tell you a few good things about the family first of all family is gods idea because in the beginning God initiated family God created everything because he wanted to have a family creation therefore has no meaning without family one of the best book I have in my bookshelf sitting right there now is written by EW Canyon the father and his family he says that you cannot understand creation until you see God as a man or as a father who longs for family why did God create us why did God create you why did he create me often times we say God created me so that I may worship him well that is involved in the package somehow but that’s not the reason why I created you why did God create you God created you because God needs you if he did not need you then why create you why waste his time creating you call needs of the other person more than the other the man or the car some of you have a Lotta nice cars I see you out there yeah who needs more who is who more you or the car do you need a car I really do you really need a car I meant to go from here to go to Manassas do you really need a car to go from your house to work do you really need a car when your wife is a labor and you need to go to do you really need a car that means you need the car the car is important isn’t it if you don’t need a car why don’t you give it to me that I don’t mind take that same concept apply to God why did God create men because God needs men God does not need food God is God with or without worship but God says it’s not good for him to be by himself because the thing that makes God hot bitch bitch bitch bitch bum is love and that love must be shared with somebody so he creates angels he creates the earth he creates the heaven but he doesn’t have someone in the home he can pour his love that’s why he created man why did God create us because God wanted to have a family that’s all creation when you look at the moon the stars the mountains and everything the purpose for creation is family family is the most important unit in the earth I’ve always wondered what is more important heavens and the earth and not answering I’ll tell you what’s more important in the book of Genesis chapter 1 14 you’ll find out that God sees he created all the stars all the galaxies so that they may minister to the earth it says that in your Bible Genesis chapter 1 verse 14 God created the sun so that the sun may enlighten or make us the light on the earth God created all the stars the Jupiter the planet Jupiter Mars Venus all the stars serious Polaris those are the stars yeah Bellatrix regulus those Estás he quit all these big stores to gaslight on the earth listen to this in other words without the earths does have no reason to exist because they were only created to minister to the earth why did God create the earth saw that his man his family would have a habitat a place to live In other words man is more important than the earth the earth is more than it more important more important than all the stars see how important man is and look around here God created the mountains the lakes created the diamonds the gold under liquid all the valleys and in the trees and he created all the beautiful thing around us why God is God he doesn’t need a mountain he doesn’t need water he doesn’t even need oxygen why did God create everything you see on earth or man God created it for men why because God only wanted to have a relationship with Adam and eve that’s why when he created them he told him you have everything and every evening then they heard the voice of the Lord coming just to have fellowship with them that’s exactly how God wanted it to be when they turn their back on God What did you do tell them you go that way and I’m a go this way oh no God walked outside the garden with them and he’s the one who showed them how to survive outside of the garden when they had the children guess who was there to Kristen the children God himself when they had the children guess who was the babysitter guess who was hanging out with the children God himself now the children were so used to God that can use to talk to God like you talk to your buddy how do we know this because in Genesis chapter 4 when God asked him pay what is your brother do you know what Kendall God am I am a mama brothers keeper why are you asking me see how comfortable how familiar can was with God God has always wanted to have a family in other words family is the most important unit here on earth secondly the church As a divine mission to empower families we as the church we cannot succeed we can never have an impact in the world if we do not empower the church what does that mean the church is not a place were good people only come to church is supposed to be the place was sick people go and find refuge church is supposed to be a place where when you come in this place after a year you say you know what my life is much better I have a better life now I think better one thing I’ll tell you right I will pound this idea in you until it was out of your ears out of your nose out of your mouth out of every almost hit something out of everywhere in your body it comes out what idea you need to be productive here on earth you need to be productive do you know that there is Anointing to work better than everybody else on your job read it in the book of Exodus God said to Moses I have anointed Betzalel to make golden stuff there is an anointing that comes from you that makes you understand math that makes you understand computers but makes you understand money that makes you understand all the things yes it’s part of the package it’s part of the package that’s part of the package what destroys the world is not what the evil people are doing what destroys the world is what the Christian spirit filled people are lacking in doing in my days I’ve vowed to be the best at everything that I lay my hands on but we want people who succeed want people who do better we want people who will go forward be like Moses the Bible says he was an educated man be like Paul the Bible says he was an educated man understand things better because the church has been called to make disciples of all nations remember Jesus told the church go and make disciples of nations so the church has a mandate to the nations but what is the most basic unit of a nation it’s the family is the family we can do things in this area but you have no idea we can change literally the state we can we can we have a mandate I believe that we as a church we can turn a generation around we need to be dedicated we need to be intentional society will never be healed until the family has been healed most of the people we have in society today who are rapist who are in the prison Who don’t do anything what do you think they got that sing that germ from in the family and we have issues man most families have dark secrets that people say all skeletons in the closet skeletons in the closet the rate and I can only talk about this area for now but I know we can talk about Maryland we can talk about this in the rate of prostitution around here drug addiction around here why is it that those things are rampant around here because families are dysfunctional just the next subdivision right here is a section 8 housing program you should go there one Friday evening one time I spent like two or three weeks just going around here in my car just trying to sniff around and try to execute the area and look around lol why did you play sauce in Lawton here there is dysfunctional families here but if the church Does not help them they cannot get help and they will be a problem to society it will be a problem to society think about the terrorist when they wanna ruin the country what do they do they go to families they go find a guy and cut them in $1 million check and tell them you go blow yourself up in the bus and your family has $1 million they target families 123123 and they are a threat to world security the church has the answer we have to help families most of those people come to church here you just look good when you come to church here are you really have issues you really have problems you really have problems some of you what you need right now is to put everything to stop to the side and see me as a pastor help me I have an issue I have an addiction I have this problem and there are things prayers by yourself won’t cut you need the guidance of a spiritual mental God that’s what the church is supposed to do the church is not supposed to be a place where people come to because they get it is homosexuality a real problem yes yes there’s a preacher that a new man are used to love the speech on TV I loved him he was young he was from Baltimore moved to Florida where is the 20,000 member church but before we know it about 45 years ago he was found in a hotel in New York dead with cocaine with drugs with prostitutes and everything and the church did what the church does best or say he was a hypocrite we knew he was a hypocrite but that man had four girls nobody’s caring about this for girls but I’ll ask myself how come that a man of God has these issues in the church and yet he looked always good he had a program on TV and he was under the stars net worth 20,000 member church friends with Paula white with me a Dunkin Williams for tea The big names of ministry in America the way his friends how come to this man never opened up because he was not secure another man of God in in in Atlanta who died maybe 23 years ago was accused of having molested four boys why didn’t he ever open up to any other person because the church has not created an environment where people have skeletons in the closet don’t feel comfortable supposed to help me manage to help my sister help me let’s drag the skeleton out it’s time for you to lose the plastics and be yourself and say I have an issue Jesus help me out big search we have a God-given mandate to restore families don’t be ashamed of what’s in your family don’t be ashamed of what’s in your family I remember like maybe 34 months ago when I looked in my hair and does the grays increasing by the day Henry I knew this day would come let’s run to one of those stores and find something to Document every Sunday I’m going to document and I did that mistake a duck in that thing and nothing washed off all it was worse than before if you have a gray like me don’t touch it just leave it alone the point is this I was trying to hide something and the Lord told me that not that I don’t see the Lord the wisdom of God and misery why what are you trying to prove you’re not getting any younger you are it’s going to get like that I like that’s it like that and it will probably be five years before that whole hair is all gray what are you gonna do but you know that’s what I was trying to do most of you do the same thing you deal with personal issues and you just trying to look cute some of you have to hear you go home and you’re going to struggle with something and we’re going to be with you here for 234 years and you’ve never opened up it’s time for you to cut the mask off of your face and be real step out of The shadow and let the light of Christ shine on you my heart burns when I go to prisons and I see the number of African-American guys who are locked up in this country statistically an African-American man has more chance of going to jail then he has to go to college why it’s not in the family church has to take its rightful place and clean it if we can’t fix this in the church and we can’t fix society going to get worse and worse and worse but without the springs of life church to turn the tides will commit ourselves to families your family will be much better will pray with you will counsel you and will make sure that you get better family is not governments responsibility the only thing I want from the government is to make sure I’m safe and I can get justice when I when I need it in the sky Anytime government steps in anything he destroys that thing do you want to destroy something in America get the government involved in it do you want to destroy the family fabric let the government tell you what a family is the government exist to create conditions of safety and justice for citizens when the government dictates the family how to be equates problem let me go because you’re so far because I’m now taking way more time every family has a struggle either moral financial or ethical every single family is dysfunctional every single one of us comes from a broken family and your families no exception every single family if it’s not you then it’s your sister I’m not and I said this to tell you that it’s it’s good to the face what’s your face what’s in your family identify what it is Expose it and destroy it every family in the Bible has always been dysfunctional think of Abraham Abraham was a very dysfunctional man from a very dysfunctional family his dad was an idol worshiper but Abraham is the man who lied and got his wife to go stay with another man I never say the word is functional family Isaac Isaac as good as Isaac was in the Bible he and his wife never talked never communicated properly when she’s pregnant and the boys are struggling in the womb the Lord tells her the younger men and Jacob will both take over the Old Dominion easel she never told it a Isaac this issue she never told him she kept that secret from Isaac and that create a trouble in the family when Isaac is old and he wants to That’s the brother the blessing he didn’t know the wife he’s on wife never told him at this time his kids are almost 70 years old for 70 years there was a secret in his family he never knew the mom son that’s my son to but you are my favorite what kind of mother talks like that hey let’s step out for a minute and put ourselves in the shoes of easel how would you feel if you’re on a mother betrayed you are the most important time of your life when your dad is supposed to communicate to the blessing she takes it away from you I don’t know how he ever look at the mom anymore but but Jacob himself before I get to Jacob think of lot but if there’s a man in the Bible I’ve always wanted to go punch in the face of this guy cold lot that’s two strangers who come in town just saw the lights everywhere they come and bang on the door We want to ask too many because we want to have a time with them what does not say listen to this he steps out I have two girls in here who are virgins I will bring them to you so you can do whatever you want to do with them man I just wanna punch this guy in the face you’re going to treat this to stress is better than your daughters I think that’s funny but that’s wrong father that’s around father I’m showing you that in the Bible we have dysfunctional families what did the two girls do with their father they get them drunk and they get pregnant from him nasty stuff that is just a shame. King David was the mighty worshiper this guy would had an addiction to women like you can never believe it he’s the man who killed another man will have his wife one of his sons I am non-raped On sister Emma and brother Absalom killed Eminem and Absalom try to take the throne away from David let me tell you this I’ll be ashamed of your family in fact finding your heart to change your family tree financially you’re going to change it educationally you’re going to change it don’t say you are too old to go back to college if you and your family nobody ever has graduated from college say no it’s tops with me if you and your family nobody’s wealthy financially signal that’s not right something has been stolen from my family if you and your family people don’t get married say no this is not OK this stops with me and I tell you it’s possible to but my Bible tells me except the Lord fights except the Lord watches over your family if you invite him and say Lord my eyes are not Open do something new it’s all happened so dysfunctional family including yours is in the Bible but let me tell you this every family has the right to God’s blessing by coming to Jesus if you bring your family to Christ Jesus through the word of God praying them in the kingdom of God your family will partake of the blessing of God and now the Lord had to say to Abram get the out of the country and from the kindred and from the fathers house until the land that I will show you and I will make of you a great nation and I will bless you and make your name great and you shall be a blessing and I will bless them God bless you and Chris him that process you in and then he’ll shop all families of the earth do you be blessed be blessed in all new shut all families in earth do you think in this whole family to yours maybe include it It says email or families not the blessing of Abraham I don’t have a time to show you in the land of the Lord was showing him it’s more spiritual than what meets the eye but let’s go to to Galatians chapter 3 verse 14 and 15 all the families of the world will be blessed I didn’t close yours as well and you have to say yes there is something good in my family and I’m gonna fight you get that thing back now hear that the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus that we might receive the promise of the spiritual faith the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus that we might receive the promise of the spiritual faith Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law being made a curse for us but it is written Christ is everyone who hangs on a tree that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Remember that God told Abraham he will bless him in him the families of the earth will be blessed those families being blessed it’s only through Christ Jesus if I get my family through Christ Jesus and there is a way to pray for family if I begin to love them in the kingdom of God to Christ Jesus if I get the word of God to my family if I pray for my family they will partake of the blessing of Abraham know another point your family will never change myself you can just stay in bed stick your feet up in the air scream hallelujah hallelujah and expect your family to change it will not change by itself your family changes until you stand up and take a rightful place now show me judges chapter 5 verses six and seven let me show you something in Georgia sea at the five or six and seven judges up to five or six and seven if your family does not change by self Unless you go to work he does some thing heals you and your purpose in your heart I’m gonna do something for my family in the days of Cham God the son of anise in the days of jail the highways were unoccupied and the travelers walked through my Waze the inhabitants of the village assist they sit in Israel until I Deborah arose that I Arosa mother in Israel Deborah is a great woman you read the preceding chapters you’ll see her story how the Lord turn the fate of Israel through her listen to the words of Deborah brother Alex he say say is this everything stopped working there was no more spiritual and there was no more activity no commas no prosperity things I’ve taken been taken away stolen by the enemy until I arose as a mother in Israel oh man I can’t tell you enough this morning how much God wants you Rise as a wife God wants you to rise as a husband he wants you to rise as a son he wants you to rise as a daughter he wants you to rise as a cousin he wants you to rise as a as an uncle as a grandfather to turn the things around in your family and I tell you man it’s time to rise up because if you don’t rise up nobody else it has the time or will rise up for your family there’s some people out there whose families are prospering don’t you think it’s time for your family to prosper and I’m telling you man your family may be messed up people like my people messed up full of incest and rape and witchcraft in Black Magic but they’re still good people in there God sent you in the family for a purpose some of you still have the blessing of having a living I mean you’re your dad or your mom may still be here on earth unlike me who his parents have already gone to be with the Lord And you still treat them like they don’t exist know some of you when you talk to your little brother or little sister your big brother and big sister it’s only saying the bad in them have you shown them the right way have you send them the way of Christ have you called on the blessing of God in your family you must labor with God for the prosperity of your family Nehemiah chapter 4 verse 14 and 15 stays wet and let’s stop right here for today oh are you clapping me away from the pulpit mama for 14 through 15 and I looked and it rolls up and said onto the nobles and to the rulers and to the rest of the people don’t be afraid of them remember the Lord which is great and terrible and look at that one fight for your brother for your family fight for your sons and your daughters your wives and your houses it came to pass Enemies heard that it was not out to us and God had brought the council to note that we returned all of us to the wall everyone at his work Nehemiah is telling us that there is a time where you have to put the sword of the spirit in your hand in your mouth and begin to fight you have to fight for your family you have to fight for everything that has stolen something in your family how do you fight you have to fight and prayers you have to fight by declaring the word of God over your family you have to fight by sitting down and doing an inventory in your life and say you know what my family shall not always be known as losers

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Except the Lord builds the house they labor in vain that build it except the Lord keep it the city the watchmen wicked but in vain I want you to notice that God wants our cooperation God does not want us to be idle to be just in inertia just sitting down doing nothing he wants us to actively participate in what he’s doing but he doesn’t want us to be in the driver seat he has to be in the driver seat but on our part we don’t sit down and just eat bonbons and wishing it’s gonna work itself out no except the Lord builds the labor be still a place of you and I to labor to give it our very best if you working if you are married if you are studying everything you do you have to be the best at your job you have to be working harder than anybody there In your marriage you have to be the one who gives the most in your parenting you have to be who is the one who sacrifice is the best in the church you have to be the one who prays the most for everyone for all of us when nobody’s looking you have to be the one working harder work is not a curse work is a blessing work is not a curse before God gave Adam a wife can you give him a job because if you don’t work forget about it forget about marriage that was work before that was sent in the world but notice that God wants us to cooperate with him nothing happens until you put your hand out that I have come to learn in my life that God does not bless dreams God bless his actions God does not say if you stay in bed and stick your hand in your your your feet up as a hallelujah Halen Luh Ya hallelujah nothing will happen but one thing is guaranteed to happen I can guarantee you this bills will always come to a mailbox not that one is coming whether you like it or not somebody’s gonna send you a bill yes and God does not bless you because you just sit down no God sees I will bless the work of your hand the woman with the issue of blood did not stay home in the house just sticking my feet up in the air say hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah Jesus going to kill me no she had to get up go out there pursue it Zacchaeus who was the short man in the Bible when he heard the Jesus is coming he struggled hard seeking Jesus looking for Jesus and when Jesus stood under the sycamore tree he looked in the keys inside you come down I’m going there but think about this Zacchaeus is seeking Jesus and Jesus is actually I’ve been sick and you know think about that and put it together What ever you are seeking is also seeking you but it will not find you in bed sticking your feet up in the air saying hallelujah hallelujah no you have to get out there and will find it get up early in the morning work harder than anybody except the lord build a house you have to build don’t sit down you have to plan you have to go to work out details you have to do give your best except the Lord builds the house the city or whoever builds is Weston is that God is interested in family notice also except the Lord keep us in the city God is involved God is interested in our city let’s keep reading and I’ll show you where I’m going today it is waiting for you to rise up early to set up late to eat the bread of Soros awful so it gives his beloved sleep you know why the scripture is written sometimes you don’t understand this is written to Jules by Julie What does it mean what kind of wisdom is hidden in the Scriptures God gives his beloved he gives us things to his beloved said the truth is this when you sleep you continue to exercise you continue to work even in your sleep during your sleep the Lord continues to minister to your soul sometimes when you don’t know how what to do what if I should go left or right just pray and go to sleep your spirit catches things that your brain cannot understand it was a man who went to look to see a preacher and he had a preoccupation say well I’m out I just wanna get the wisdom of God and direction let this man of God tell me something when he went there the man’s wife say oh he’s taking a nap and that is more important than what I came to tell him because when that man is asleep the Lord begins to minister to him in ways that you don’t understand what I’m trying to tell is this There is a way that God relates to you only when you lay down when you think but you have to purpose in your heart when I’m closing my eyes the Lord will speak to me do you know that according to the word of God you can ask the Lord to show you a dream Lord show me a dream about what I should do I don’t have time to go in the Scriptures because I have somewhere to go but you can find in the Bible people who were given divine strategies on how to prosper when they slept when I sleep I may not see anything but the moment I wake up when I open up my eyes my spirit is in touch with things I don’t understand I’ll come up on the subject some other time but I’ll let me continue where I’m going here in Sun Valley Inn that you would rise up early to set up late and eat the bread of sorrows it doesn’t mean to stay home stick up your feet in the air shout hallelujah hallelujah know it simply means work harder than everybody else No look at that one lol behold children are a heritage of the Lord I want you to pick up three things that the Lord uses three words that the Lord uses to define children children in the eyes of God what are they what do you think is the first thing the Lord calls your children in the scripture they are what do you know the difference between a blessing and an inheritance according to the the word of God the blessing is what you have by default being a child of God everyone who is a child of God is already blessed blessed be God the father follow Jesus who has blessed us so every human every question is already blessed but there is another level of empowerment which is called heritage that one is only given from a father or mother to a son or daughter it’s a layer of blessing That it’s a layer of empowerment that is not given to anybody else it’s given to you to connect you with the previous generation and the next generation God calls children with heritage now let’s look at the second thing that he calls the children the fruit of the womb is wet so we know according to the word of God children are a heritage and then what else I reward what is the reward reward is a thank you note you work hard all my way of appreciating you is by bestowing this thing on you listen to that your children any child is gods way of saying thank you that’s why I keep telling you in the series never call a child illegitimate a child is a heritage from God a child is a token of God’s gratitude to mankind Scott let’s keep reading at the next one let’s say the last thing that the Lord calls the children for us for as arrows in the hand of the mighty men so are children of the year what is the third thing the Lord calls the children arrows not in the hands of a weasel in the hands of a weekly in the hands of a mighty man a man of war that which he falls back on to attack the enemy that’s what children look like according to God’s word from justice or sounds 127 your children of God’s weapon they are instrumental in destroying the enemy in fact look at the lights voice what does it say blessed is everyone happy is the man that has his quiver full of them children them children shall not be ashamed they shall speak with the enemies in the gate when I tell you last week that our children are the future but I am not concerned about Heaven today I’m concerned about bringing heaven down here on earth and God says in his strategies of bringing heaven down silencing the enemy is in us investing in our children so I will children every child in this room is God’s blessing so today I wanna show you something about Christian parenting parenting is something that scares me when I watch some movies when you hear the kids steal their children tell their parents I hate you that scares me scares me because the Bible says honor your father and your mother that it may be well with you know your dad your mom may not be the best person the man even be a Christian but God does not give us the right to dishonor them and in my submission today I’d like to show you that We can only give our children what we have you can’t give them what you don’t have and what you have is honor your father and your mother and I will show you today that you still have to honor your father and your mother if you honor your father and your mother you can transmit it to your children what is the best way to raise your kids the best way to raise your kids is to raise them the way your parents raised you why because if you raise the kill kids the way your parents raised you they will turn out just like you aren’t you proud of yourself what are you ashamed of yourself if you are ashamed of yourself right now then don’t raise them the way your parents raised you how do you raise your children that’s the way your dad and your mom raised you because look at you I don’t know about you but you have success not OK maybe I’m not talking to the right people anybody who is not a who is ashamed of themselves or you are a jerk if you’re not a jerk your parents need a good job now you want your kids to be good people just think about with dad and mom before you pass the same value to them and guess what just like magic wow they’re gonna be good well unless you wanna raise your kids like the neighbors raise theirs or like your uncle Ray’s but if you wanna raise good children raised them like your father and your mother raised you why is that important because the Bible says honor your father and your mother one way of honoring your father and your mother is raising your kids the way your parents raised you by raising your kids the way your parents raised you have what about my I don’t know if I want to raise My dad and mom so are you telling me you’re shamed of yourself the book of Proverbs chapter 22 verse six train up a child in the way he should go when he is old he will not depart from it noticed that the wisemen here tells us a child needs to be trained you have to train a child know when God gives us children the worst thing we wanna be to our children is to be adults adults are not a good idea for children children do not need adults they need parents difference between adults and parents is this adults see what’s wrong and the react on the spot on what is wrong parent see what’s wrong and they find a way to prevent it if you Child is missed behaving do not correct them on the spot give it a day two or three or even a week before you talk to them because if my kid or your kid missed behaves usually there they will be scared whatever you were telling them they will not see the big picture there will be more scared of you than they are receptive if you know when a child is scared of you what day brain is hypocrisy no to prevent hypocrisy that’s why your parents or children think this is a principal even in leader ship in good leader ship when there is a problem you’ll give it a day or two until it cools off before you address it why because you want to pick the big picture now the scripture is explaining to us the power of parenting it says that you have to train up a child The way he showed that means your kids don’t tell you what is good for them you tell them what is good for them and it doesn’t happen accidentally there’s another scripture in the book of Proverbs which says every child is born stupid every kid is born foolish and the last resort to remove that foolishness from them is to lay a smack down on the backside of Soulé Sunday but let’s not get there yet. So you have to train a child in the way they should go that means you have to be intentional with your children you have to look at the big picture and you have to bring them their children do not need unconditional love unconditional love spoils children Most of the jerks in the world who turned out to be psychopaths are the people whose parents never told them no it’s a wrong thing for you to say that I will do anything for my kids are you kidding me you would do anything for your kids have you thought about that like what like what let me tell you this the only thing you would say I would do anything for my kid is when it’s a medical condition and the only way out is for giving them one of your living organ apart from that I will not do anything for you like what I will do anything for my kids when they want to eat something I’ll give it another word when they miss behave they will know there is a consequence I’ll do anything for my my kid that is a wrong message because it tells them it doesn’t matter what you do No kids need to be reminded that no there is a way to go which is the right way and there is another way if I am your parent you will not go down this way because guess what that’s exactly what my parents did to me when I try to go this way if you had good parents and they try to you try to go this way do you know what your parents need right come on not talking to your mom talking to zombies anybody if you had a parent will you know that you already knew you already knew you don’t mess up well look how you turned out today turned out to be a decent person a law-abiding citizens you may not have liked what the parents did look at you today Somerville here you can speak good English what do you think how do you think you’ll learn how to speak good English some of you hear you don’t beat people you don’t use profanity some of you he will never practice witchcraft or any bad thing what do you think you got that from from your parents I need a good job so how am I going to train my kids exactly the same way my parents treated me and I’m gonna tell them if if it’s not broken there’s no reason to fix it I’m not going to reinvent the wheel here I’m going to do exactly like my prices I’ll get to a point in a second here to show you that most of us we only appreciate Jewish parents Abraham Isaac King David king Solomon but our own parents which is our own person I don’t worship with no no no no baby you don’t know the Jewish people that well read in the Bible God will book them all the time why are you giving your hearts to idols the Jewish people often times it always fell into a dollar tree in the idolatry villa not as clean as you think there were some of us when we think of our own parents we are so ashamed no no no that’s why we have issues the Bible says honor your parents if you can’t honor your parents you cannot come Unikitty to your children what you need to communicate to the children is the values that the parents instilled in you they got the good values to your godly values let’s go to Genesis chapter 18 Genesis chapter 18 verses 17 through 19 what does it say Genesis and the Lord say so I heard from Abraham that thing which I do sing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him now look at this but I know him God says that I know him that he Abraham will command his children and his household after him that and that they shall keep the weight of the law to the justice judgment that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he had spoken to him I want you to notice that the Lord chose Abraham in the Lord say I know Abraham will command his children and his household after him that they would walk in the ways of God one of the things that the Lord laid on Abraham’s heart was not just to be this great man of faith but it was to be a manhole pro who gives out a godly legacy to his family and this is how God wants us to be God wants wants wants to say this I know Abby he will raise his children in the ways of God in the ways of God that’s what God say so we have a God-given mandate to raise our children in the godly way and I’ll tell you this not only our children but also our grandchildren we need to keep on the legacy going on like that there is a godly way to raise children and the reason none godly way look in the book of Ezekiel Chapter 20 verses 16 through 19 is equal voice search up to 20 verses 16 through 19 the God even tells us there is a way of raising children which is ungodly look at that because they despise my judgments he’s talking about their parents and what not in my statutes but polluting my Sabbath for the hot weather after idols I was just telling you that the Jewish folks the parents also were idol worshipers so some of us like me for instance when I grew up my father practice which were a black magic he had a native Dr. Buttar my grandfather was the same way to migrate grandfather was a tribal chief if he heard that somebody was original in the Endo in the village he just grabbed his gun when they shot them my great great grandfather was a slave trader but is that all the walls in my ancestry know thanks In my lineage if they were not some good things what do you think I’m such a nice guy where did I get it from I mean some of you you still think that your parents did a bad job how come that you are so polite but somebody must’ve taught you how to be polite if somebody didn’t teach you how to be polite you’ll be a jerk today I’m still a little jerk nevertheless mine ice paired them from destroying them neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness but I seen under their children in the wilderness look at that God speaks not to do the children of the bad parents because there are bad parents out there God speak to the children do not walk in the statues of your fathers do not observe their judgments no defile sell yourselves with the idols I am the Lord your God walk in Nice touch it and keep my judgment and do them he will see God speaking to two godly people like hey your parents messed it up big-time don’t be like them what I want you to pick from the scripture is not every parent is a good parent some parents are bad parents and you can see them I remember when I was still living in Oregon I was working at this job and this man came with the kid and the boy was maybe by six but a maybe six or 806708 the boy was talking as if he was a hip-hop artist but not the clean one the rough one give me my blank blank blank blank blank blank is the blank with you I need my black black white blanket no no I said blank blank because he was using profanity what did the boys learn how to use the blank blank language experience he heard them There is bad parenting bad parenting making Wolfel language no matter how upset you are that’s just some words you cannot use around your children no pole tail told Timothy if a man cannot raise a godly family he cannot serve in the church let’s go there first Timothy chapter 3 verses four and five no Paul is laying down here the criteria’s for serving in the church and being a leader ship not one of those things that you have to be able to rule well your own house having your children in subjection with all gravity or even men know not how to roll his own house how shall he take care of the church of God see the Bible tells us that there is a place where you need to raise your children godly way you need to teach them how to play you need to teach them how to read the word how to be thankful because if you don’t do those things then we cannot put Still in charge in the church we cannot allow you to serve in ministry because the way you raise your children reflect what you think of the word of God God saying that Abraham was cold to pass is godly values to his children you and I are called by God to pass godly values to our children therefore parenting God got a parenting gods Way is about first of all passing godly values to your children know I just told you if you don’t have godly values yourself you cannot pass them to others you need to have godly values some of you in this room you don’t have children somebody you already have grown-up children you still have to find a way to remind them godly values later give me an example of godly value here integrity discipline what else confidence courage loyalty honesty sexual purity We have to remind our kids our daughters Allison’s and our daughters that you cannot be playing around no no you cannot because it’s not good the second thing about godly parenting I want you to know that godly parenting or parenting God’s way is a multi generation affair you are connected to your parents parents and to your children’s children I wanna show you something that most people are not really thought about you are not only connected to your parents you’re also connected to your parents parents the Bible says about honor your father and your mother how does what does it mean to honor my father and my mother I honor my father and my mother by honoring what they honor what is the most important thing in your father and mother’s life the parents know Biblically the blessing of the heritage is a multi generational thing some of the blessing some of the blessings some of the good things you are enjoying in life today it’s because of your parents some of the things you are enjoying today it’s because of your grandparents when God does you good luck down the generation in the Bible we have people who messed up but God said because of your grandfather I will grant you mercy you remember king David a man after gods heart he had a son and the sons name was king Solomon the wisest king of the king Solomon his son was called the real bomb but king Solomon had messed up in the end at the end part of his life so bad do you remember what he did him he married 1000 women 700 wives and 300 concubines What a blessed man that’s not a blessed man it’s not the wives I’m concerned about is the the in-laws I’m concerned about if you can survive your mother-in-law you are a blessed man but having two in-laws 314 Laws Rd. got no wonder he had money but anyway but after him real bone did even worse but God said this I will keep real born on the throne because of his grandfather did God stop that kind of way of relating to ask when Jesus died no I’ll show you in the New Testament or even today some of the good things you are enjoying in life it’s because your parents may have done one good thing in the new testament the Bible still shows us over and over when you do a good deed God always remembers that A good day and will not go unnoticed with God the Bible says for instants he Hall lens to the pour gives until the Lord but we are told about Cornelius that his good deed had reach the throne of God in the Bible we say it over and over that we should be doing good to people watch because what I do good now I may not repeat but Silas would rip it all Gabriella if not him my grandson will rip it from me but think about your self some of you you are successful now you are sick sitting in places where you don’t even qualified to 16 why do you think you are still getting by with things that other people can go to get by with a new check yourself you don’t know why well maybe because your dad let me because your mom did something good I’m icing that your father or your mom were always a perfect people but every tiny good things they need you were harvested Renting is a multi generational thing the way I treat my parents and my grandparents will show up in my life when I grow up I told you before my story that my dad was a polygamist there was a time I was never proud of my father I could never think of any good thing about my dad he was a womanizer he had children all over town and things like that but I had to come to please listen to this if your dad had children all over town that’s none of your business does that those are his blood in the Bible tells me to honor my father how can I say are on my father but I hate my father’s children I am dishonoring that man when I started writing them out a script for my book on forgiveness for giving as God does he remember my introduction I was just castigating my father my father used to beat me up when I was 15 years old and my father Just tripped me naked and he used to leave me outside but I just know in my heart that is wrong that is wrong that you’re not honoring your father did he did all these things yes he did but do you have to put it on the book and publish it to put it out there for everybody to know and to say no and the Lord showed me remove those things from your book I’m not gonna have to remove those things I have remove those things and some of the good things that I’m enjoying no I’m looking it’s because my dad did something good he may not have been a perfect dad but at least he sent me to school if I was a stupid man I wouldn’t be speaking English here today I’m not speaking in English because the Holy Spirit showed up in a dream and told me he may be busy no somebody put his foot down and did something good for me and it breaks my heart when I hear these spoiled brat say yeah I hate you I remember family were grandpa had gone to Kmart for Christmas and bought them gifts but these kids were not used to things from Kmart because these kids grow up with parents who told them the good stuff the value things don’t come from Kmart they knew names are Gucci that these kids need new names like our Louboutin and things like that Jumanji and things like that so Angela knows Chanel now we know what kind of gifts with Chanel for real oh my God but the window window grandpa went to Kmart and bought them shirts and the kids look at that as it is from Kmart I don’t like it and grandpa was so fat and he never bought the medicine After that grandpa was a multi millionaire maybe if they were nice to grandpa he could’ve left them in our house here or a condo there or something like that but the way we treat our parents will reflect in the way we treat our children a family family is a multi generational affair in such a way that the Lord says he does as good not only for us but for our father and our fathers fathers but not only that for us individually God does not only bless Abby he blesses Abby Abby’s son or daughter Angela and Angela’s children and Angela student are blessed and blessed because of what Abby does and we have to take this thing very seriously that everything I’m doing today I am investing in my children and my children’s children’s future most people are always preoccupied about going to heaven I am not preoccupied about going to have enough Told you before I am preoccupied about staying here to sing my children’s children and their children’s as well and I want to die an old man on the very old man after I’ve seen my son son son of my daughters children’s children and I want to be able to sit down and say Lord in my day maybe I didn’t enjoy everything and I wanted to enjoy but I thank you that my grandchildren I enjoyed this thanks we live in a society we will need about broadcast images of people disrespecting their parents using them beating them calling them burdens some people think of their parents as burdens no let me just go straight to one point I want to tell you when the Bible says that honor your father and your mother I want you to notice what are your father or mother is still here on earth all day or not they’re still alive when my mother passed away from this life Into the real life she was 47 years old if my mother was alive today should be 62 years old just imagine how young she was she had me when she was very young or as a teenager but even though she’s gone but I know she’s alive and she’s not like 10,000 miles away from me she’s right here because when people pass on this life when people die they don’t see us leaving they don’t stop believing because death is not the opposite of life death is not the opposite of life death is the opposite of birth not of life life is bigger than the death now when a person dies they actually are more alive than you ever think they are not like 1000 miles away from me they have entered this new dimension which is more real which is more Vibrant which is more colorful which is better than this one here but you’re not that far from me what what is heaven we have always joked and less church about was having was having heaven is not like 1000 miles away from here heaven is right here heaven is a dimension that I just don’t see with these physical eyes but I see with the eyes of my heart do you know that according to the word of God you right now you are already sitting in heaven even though you are here on earth you are already in heaven Ephesians chapter 2 verse five all the way through and I see what he rolls us up together with Christ and he made us sit were in the heavenly’s with Christ right now you are sitting in heaven where is heaven it’s not a physical place it’s a spiritual place now in my case my mothers name is Yvette Yvette When she died it’s just her physical body went to rest when a person dies the worse the last thing we wanna tell that person may the soul of your loved one rest in peace that’s all Kent rest in peace no we should actually tell them made the body of your loved one rest in peace not the soul it’s the body depressed in peace why because the soul goes I’m living in fact the soul is not much better have you ever had a dream where in your dream you did things you can do physically like flying what is it that is flat it’s my soul that means my soul can do things with my body can’t do my body is like a restraining powered hold me captive here in the world so my mother is very alive where is she she’s right here and I have read my Bible to see that anytime I have something good happening to me here the first person was who is made of where is my Yvette she knows exactly like when I had my daughter she was there I just jumping and dancing if you have a parent who have gone on to be with the Lord or a grandparent you’re still here with us we’re still here in your face you’re still alive in your jeans are still alive in your blood but they are more alive not just an idea of the more real than one one thing we have to do for them is to honor them how do you honor them like me for instance I have my mothers pictures in my house used to be when I when I walked by with my mothers picture was I just didn’t want to look at it because it would break my heart about the 47 year old lady passed away and I hadn’t done anything for this woman but now I am not looking I look at her now when I pass grandma’s pictures in my house right when I see it I look at it That woman is a blessed woman she’s not resting in peace right now no she’s just dancing in the presence of the Lord she’s jubilating her body is resting somewhere in the Congo in the day comes when the trumpet sound that somebody is going to stand up in that part of her which is in heaven is going to come back there and she’s gonna hug me again but until then she’s well I love you what do I do I appreciate her not my father died when he was 64 years old when he passed away human I didn’t have good relationship and I kept thinking the beating he used to do I don’t like this guy he was he had children all over town and I used to tell my family all the time the worst mistake my mother date did in her life she married this guy she should never have married this guy do you have your understory in India of a guy who sold his parents but they gave birth to him without asking him for his permission say how dare you chose to be my You don’t even consult me through Google that but the story was thrown out of court right because the parent said well we wanted to ask him for his permission but we couldn’t find him anywhere he was missing we couldn’t find them so but anyway what was I talking about anyway my father Ray but the more I started to collect myself I said what are you doing you say your dad was this was that was this with that but that man was probably very proud of you some of the good things you’re enjoying today may not be because of your mother because of your dad and where he is you know it’s it’s it’s it’s an insult to your parents for you to think that your parents if they’re not in this life there in hell do you even think of your parents like that you’re burning in hell right now no no no no no no no no no that’s not the spirit of God Spirit of God says honor your father and your mother but they’re not here on earth they still here on earth were they here on earth in your blood the hill on earth in your face some people when they look at you look and see your dad in your face some people look at it while you just remind me of your mom she still alive in your face but you personally have to honor them you have to honor them I remember last year when he was saying something about I can see my dad in heaven just saying I’m proud of my son that is a way to honor your dad and when you order them like that you are passing to your children something beautiful but I’ll let’s go fast to second Timothy chapter 2 chapter 1 verses one through six and let’s learn this airplane will not show you another fact do you know that Moses died in the Old Testament right Moses a servant of God died in Deuteronomy chapter 30 and he was buried But his body we didn’t nobody knows with the body of Moses wise because the Jewish people would’ve kept the body worship that he was the greatest the greatest prophet of God but in Matthew 17 Moses appeared talking to Jesus showing that he was still alive and I tell him and when I read those scriptures it reminds me my grandfather in the village in the Congo was probably Annette he contracted witchcraft in Black Magic but that man is my grandfather is in heaven or in hell how dare I even think of like that on my grandfather I should respect that and say no only God knows where he is but he did good because he raised a man who raised me and I think iPhone but look up all praises his ancestors Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus to Timothy my dearly Beloved son Grace mercy and peace from God when Paul says the Timothy is a son what was not Timothy is my logical father what made Timothy’s Paul son was because Timothy was his pastor was his pastor can I tell you something here without offending you some of you your father is me not because I lead you to Christ and the way you treat me well either add a blessing or a heritage to your life oh no who is the man who calls another man you’re my son but I can’t blow my own horn here anyway I’ll go find me another pastor who’s gonna come here one of these days or one of the ministers he can but I know you have a teaching on owner right now let’s come back on Oh OK we’re still goes to the restroom papa pop of the house for Timothy my dear beloved son I didn’t say that he said that Grace mercy and peace from God or the father in Christ Jesus our Lord I think God whom I serve from my forefathers with a pure conscious Paul’s forefathers lived in the Old Testament and the the other covenant even though Paul knew that he was in the better covenant he was saying he had something much better than his ancestors and yet he had some kind of respect for them he’s honoring his fathers with a pure consciousness without setting I have remembrance of the in my prayers night and day greatly desiring to see the big mindful of the tears that I may be Now look at this when I recall when I called to remember is the unfeigned faith that is in you which do I do first in whore and grandmother Lois Ellen day mother Eunice and I am persuaded is a little notice how tall is showing us that family is a multi generational affair that the faith that he had is thanks God for his fathers and his fathers fathers but he also tells Timothy but you told my son it’s not just you the blessing that you are enjoying in the heritage have here it was in your dad or in your in your grandmother and your great grandmother I just give you an example like a sister over his mom here how many blessings you think are on a manual and Emily because of that woman of God the tea is that she has shared and look at Ivy today I’m working beautiful disciplined woman what do you think you got all those arguments from society from yourself and from that woman sitting right there the last thing I want you to know is this there is something about your faith your spiritual faith which also covers your children there is a grace that’s upon your life which seals your children until they make a decision to walk away from God in the morning when your children go to school the anointing that upon your life goes with them there when they have children the same grace that upon you dwells on the dock your grandchildren as well I will say a good man lives in inheritance for his children’s children problem chapter 13 verse 22 there is something upon your life which protects your children show me now Genesis chapter 37 verses 31 through 30 Six and they took Joseph’s coat and kill the kill of the goats and dip the coat in the blood and I said the coat of many colors and they brought it to their father and said this and said this have we found no no whether it be the suns core or not and he knew it and said it is my sons coat an evil bass has devoured him Joseph is without doubt right in pieces and Jacob 90s P is closed this is a painful episode here and puts a cloth up on his lines and moan for his son many days it was just crying crying and all his sons now look at us all his sons and daughters rose up to comfort him but check this out but he refused to be comforted and he said for I will go Down to into the grave and to my son morning that his father worked for him was 36 and the meat and I sold him into Egypt at the park for an office on pharaohs and cabins in Captain G’s soul Joseph is well beloved by Jacob but he’s his other son do not love Jacob I do not love Joseph you remember Joseph had a series of dreams when he had the dreams he saw that they were binding sheaves in the field the other people shoes bow down to his shit and he came to his brothers he had a dream that we were all in the field your shoes beltline what do you think that means oh OK I don’t know and he had another dream and he said I saw the sun in the moon and 12 stars or 11 stars were worshiping me OK in this family how many are we we are 12 so you saw 11 stars We have a dad and a mom and a son and a star in the moon and you were there and the other ones were worshiping you when they hated him one day though you know the hurting the ship somewhere in the Dodge send them when they say I’m coming from let’s get them back they got him one of the brothers he know he still a brother we can kill him and the Judah say no let’s sell them let’s make some money out of them they sold them for 30 pieces of silver they took his clothes he had this coat of many colors they rent it they killed one of the animals the dictator in blood and the lie to the dead that’s what happens here is it dad look at this can I use your salsa does this look like Darrens but it’s taking the blood we just found it we don’t know do you think that’s yours and that looked at it I made it for dress up in the Bible says he was heartbroken because he loved Joseph like his own soul but he did some thing that protected Joseph and it’s in those scriptures you have to read carefully to see it it shows not to believe that his son was gone forever and he refused to be comforted now as he’s crying he’s crying they come to comfort him what are they trying to do they are trying to get him to agree with the lie if Jacob had agreed with that lie he would’ve given power to whatever they say he would’ve killed his own son if Jacob had settle say you know what the Lord has given alone has taken would’ve killed Joseph but Jacob because he refused to believe that his son to be comforted for his son that faith kept his son alive and kept his son alive No that he kept his son alive look at this dick would’ve sold them to anybody but the tears of Jacob not faith of Jacob started guiding the steps of Jack of Joseph whatever he wants I tell you man your faith can guide your children when they are away from your house and you and I have to get a price will be refused to accept without children are failures people may say your kids did something bad and I refuse to be comforted with that don’t settle down to see my son is going to go down this way my daughters gonna be down this way your son depends on your face to be guided in the journey of life there was a man there was a lady who had lost her son the Bible say she was a weirdo of name give me two minutes and I’ll be out of your way as she comes out Jesus saw the boy and he saw the mom crying take him to that to the procession and he touched he touched on it he said Don’t cry why did he tell the mom don’t cry because he could not talk to the boy the boy the painted 100% on the mom’s face if the mom had refused God has gone Jesus would not have raised him it’s about time that we stop moaning over our children but we stop believing that I don’t get my child will not be a failure my child will be a success I will see to it that my child is the best of the best of the best let’s see the power of Jacobs faith what it does to his son and Joseph was brought down to Egypt and part of for an officer of pharaoh captain of the guard in Egyptian bottom of the hand of the Ishmaelites which had brought him down there and the Lord was look at that ha ha Ha And the Lord was with Joseph and he was a prosperous man how was he a prosperous man what did he get the blessing from what caused Joseph to be a prosperous man in Egypt look at that and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian and his master so the Lord was with him and the download made all that he did prosper in his head what caused Joseph to prosper it because it’s because he has a father who protects him spiritually every morning cast a spiritual covering on your children as a mother you say my son is blessed my daughter is blessed my son is a man of God my daughter is a woman of God are used to be afraid that if my son went to public school it will be rotten know now I don’t sit like that anymore now I see that My kids go to public school they will affect all of the kids with the light of Christ in them and I want you to know that your God is alive brother K and then you say the same thing on Jeremy on Alexis and see my children under God’s protection just like Jake up you will communicate them a force that will make them thrive and prosper everywhere let’s turn on our feet

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Verses one through five and let’s get started before I share with you what I have in mind and I have some thing which I believe is going to bless your heart tremendously I’ve been thinking is it worth it on a Sunday morning preaching about Christian family fishing about dating about sexuality about marriage about divorce about parenting and the Lord sees I’m leading your steps sometimes people you know it’s a hall pass that you’re not supposed to preach that kind of stuff on Sunday morning you should wait maybe in a different setting on every Sunday morning you should tell us about you’re going to turn on the burner you gotta go to hell in and things that which in American English is a cuss word in itself when you tell somebody they can go there it’s already bad and people want that hey people already have enough bad news come to church get some good news and the reason why am teaching this It’s because I know in my heart that’s what the Lord wants me to talk about if that’s the one thing I want us to major in in this church would be on the subject of faith of family and finances because if you are good on faith you’re good on your family understanding of family and google finances then that is heaven on earth right there so here in Sunset 127 verses one through five the Bible sees except the lord build a house they labor in vain who build it except the Lord keep the city the watchmen wake up but in vain it is fine for you to rise up early to set up late to eat the bread of sorrows but so the Lord gives his beloved sleep it’s a grace to just sleep good because it’s right that says God gives you good sleep lol Children or any in Heritage or Heritage from the mall children are not a burden children are not a distraction children are not all man we had a better life until we had these people no no no child is a child what are the child was born in Whitlock outside would like the child is a blessing of God we have some people today who think that they are a blessed child is only a child that is born in the confines of a holy macro morning meeting them the man and the wife were legally married but that’s not true you look at the children of Israel we have 12 tribes of those 12 tribes six of those 12 tribes were not born in the confines of holy macaroni six of those children were born to Jacob and he’s going to mines not with his wife and it’s the Lord so it’s fair to bless those children and called them the blessed nation of Israel So children are a heritage from God I don’t know about you but for me if springs of life we filled every other thing at least let’s not fail in our children and by the way I am not concerned about we are in the last days I’m not concerned about that but we are the last generation grew up and I was just a show with somebody yesterday I’ll go up in the church where the pastor used to tell us all the time don’t worry about tomorrow because Jesus may come before this church services over the pastor told us those things 27 years ago and one person who is very dear to me chose not to go to school because the pastor said Jesus may come tomorrow and today that person has zero education and he’s a burden to everybody everybody has the Melle Mel who wrote that means that means life the pastor would not cause a big Y in the last days baby brother the last days can wait Well I’m on this topic right let me tell you something else I am not concerned about going to heaven right now I am concerned about bringing heaven earth right now because Jesus said in John chapter 17 I pray that you do not take them out of the world but I pray that you keep them from the world man is useless to God in heaven if Heaven was that much great why didn’t Jesus say for God so loved the heavens that he gave his only begotten son what did he say for God so loved one and for us to assure that heaven is here on earth our focus should be on children children children children children through our children we can bring heaven literally here on earth anyway let’s get back now here by the fruit of the womb is his reward as our I was in the hands of a mighty man so our children of the youth let’s stop right there I’m talking about the Christian family because the family is under attack it has been proven now through Bonners research Barnhill conductor the statistics and he does a search that one out of every three marriage ends up in a divorce here in the in the state of Virginia and also if you check the state of Maryland the lines are stacked up the lawyers don’t even have enough time on the calendar to file for divorce papers because divorce is real it’s real it’s decimate is not only unbelievable it’s also there’s a meeting question so we are children of God we have to put the family in its proper place that’s why that verse first one the first verse except the Lord builds the house the labor That means that it doesn’t matter how many seminars we attend about marriage it doesn’t even matter how many books if you ask me Pastor Eddie do you have any good book you recommend to couples to people who are contemplating dating the best book for me is called the five languages of love of anybody knows Chapman right that is a good book it doesn’t matter whether you’re married or you are single get to get a hold of that book but the Bible says except the Lord is this a center of your relationship Chapmans book the five language of love will not cut it for you if God is not there yet so when I talk about marriage when I talk about sexuality when I talk about divorce I’m trying to bring God at the center of it God has to be at at the mill in the middle of it there is a way of conducting yourself which is godly and the reason way of conducting yourself which is ungodly let me ask you a question Just to check the temperature here why did God institute marriage oh yes you are so soft spoken I almost give you an F you actually you’re right yeah you know say it again brother Alex why did God institute marriage. And you say the same thing right I know somebody was paying attention can you imagine our future is bright he understands why male is the purpose for marriage is first of all to break London is for God said it’s not good for man to be alone and not come here to tell everyone of us here you may have been disappointed in relationships in the past you may have written it off but God says it’s not good for you to be alone do you have to consider being in a relationship but not in any relationship If you are a Christian if you want to talk to you about the presents come on are you making me laugh now OK if you are a Christian and you are single never even think about dating an unbeliever don’t even try it according to the Bible the Bible says this let no man put asunder that which the Lord has put together in the same Bible in first Corinthians chapter 7 at some point I may go to first Corinthians chapter 78 season is between a believer and nonbeliever there is no bonding they are not bound bound bound together so marriage is only bound in the confines of a child of God and a woman of God toward marriage if you come here one day and say pastor I found someone or somebody found me which ever the case it’s either you found it goes right And I don’t care where it where you find a mate do used to be a time to find a good person you have to come to church only to find out that most Christians aren’t actually Christians so so saying that I met somebody in the church doesn’t steal mean anything all right they speak in tongues day that they preach still doesn’t make me a mate mean anything OK no when you come here and you supposed to Eddie would you cancel us would you what would you help us build a marriage I would want to make sure first of all that you both are born of God if you are not born again you can’t be bothered but bound together Jesus said that which the Lord has put together let no man put asunder the implication being not everything is put together by God if everything is already put back together by God why would Jesus go to the extent of that which the Lord has put together that means there is other other things out there that the Lord has not put together and those things can be Terminate at any time so if you are married married is marriage is not a destination itself it’s a journey that you have to do talk to go to work on together so when you are married it doesn’t mean that well with that and that’s this is it no way especially me as a guy most most of last Man I’m talking to men here we have a hard time understanding why do our wives insist on us telling them I love you so what do you like tell your lover 12 years ago have I left you anything wrong I don’t need to remind you every day that I love you I love you I love you well they’re actually right and we are wrong we need to keep that fire in the marriage alive the kissing hugging the walking hand-in-hand those things are supposed to be there and I understand some other semi smiling already that’s the juicy butter I understand some of us in this from your spouse may not be Here you are going through some legal process and are hoping to be to bring them closer one thing I can promise you is Pastor Eddie will always pray for you until the spouse of yours he will not stop praying for you all pray until you are both reunited together and it shall come to pass in Jesus name a man all right I have no time to go back to all the things that I have talked about where I want to go today with you it’s about divorce can’t be on a Sunday morning and she’s going to talk about turnover and go to hell or something like that no no no this is what the Lord has led me to think about the way when you become the pastor you can teach whatever you want to teach on Sunday he wants it it’s OK it was a two saddle or some people you just have to shut them up yeah let’s go to Matthew chapter 19 verses three through 12 Matthew chapter 19 verses three through 12 Where is this also came on to him tempting him and saying onto him is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every calls if you have a physical Bible not electronic like I do you could highlight there if your electronic device allows you to book market you can book market is it lawful for men to put away his wife for every calls for every cars that’s it it’s simply means the fair is the ask Jesus can I just wake up one morning and put an end my marriage and he answered and said unto them have you not read that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female and sad for these cars shot a manly father and mother in Shell shack leave those wife and the twain shall be one flash water for them no more twine but one flash what they forgot half Telling you what God has joined together the implication being God doesn’t join everything together if everything is joined by God why put God has joined why not just say everything that is joint but the fact that you say therefore what God has joined when you are god that means I think that I joined but not by God let no man put asunder they say and to him why did Moses then commend us or come in to give a writing of the voice meant and to put her away he said onto the Moses because of the hardness of your heart suffered you to put away your wives but from the beginning notice here Jesus is here Moses is the one who created that something called divorce there are things in the Bible that God did not say but either the prophet or the priest say those things we may look at those things as if the gods word That’s not God God did not say that’s what Jesus is here divorce was created by Moses Moses who created this thing called divorce and he said you have to draft it in writing calling it the writing of the voicemail he said unto them Moses because of the hardness of your heart soft for you to put away your life but from the beginning it wasn’t all and I say onto you whosoever shall put away his wife except it be for fornication no let’s go to slowly slowly here can you still see me Jesus sees that even though God doesn’t want God doesn’t settle for you parting ways he says well that may be some exceptions which means even though God’s not the author all divorcing people putting ways it’s not gods ideal still God knows that human beings get to a place which is not not possible for them to get together to stay together Jesus highlights just one of the reasons but this is not the only reason today what I will show you is biblically I find about three girls that are legitimate to put an end to marriage and me as a pastor I wouldn’t want to pass to somebody who lets day we just get a phone call that she’s dead or he’s dead because the person did not do the personal I stayed with the person because they did not break these are the grounds but we’re good in this area I’ll show you some ground dirt in the state of Virginia in the state of Maryland in most states in America are still grand for you to pack up your bags and go and she’ll marry another comedian adultery and who saw Mary at her which is put away that commit adultery and I will try to bring a little light here because so many people today I have the shame to have this burden they feel like divorce is the end of the weather Divorce is not the end of the world it’s not the end of the world it may have happened to you you probably regret that it happened to you probably have questions could I have done this should I have done this but let me tell you that’s not the end of the world they were still life and actually better life after that anyway 10 is the Siple say I’m to him if the case of the man be so with his wife it’s just not good to Mary is it really worth getting married what are you a second you’re probably gonna do you not understand what I’m saying Jesus say but he said onto them all men cannot receive what I’m saying same they to whom it is given there are some units which were so bond from the mothers womb are unique it’s just a person who cannot reproduce and in the case of a man it’s him And who cannot become a father biologically he cannot get a woman pregnant and they’re in there thank you are some units which were many units of men and their BMX which have made themselves UNIX for the kingdom of heaven sake he that is able to receive it let him receive it now let’s go I’ll slow down here and I will break down the scripture Jesus here is approached by the Pharisees and the Pharisees in the times of Jesus in addition to the 613 laws that Moses had given to Jules the first seat at the Pharisees have a quiz over close to 400 more laws and most of the laws of the Pharisees gave to the Jews were anti-women so the Pharisees had these laws that were against women for instants in the synagogue in the church women were not supposed to Sit together with men today Pharisees still exist but they have a different name called rabbinical Jews the rabbis and when you go to the shore or the yeshiva whether the Pharisees the rabbinical Jews meet together today women still don’t sit together with men women usually sit over there and the men sit here have you noticed that in the Bible to say that Jesus feeds 5000 man if they say not counting the man of the women and the children that was the society in Jesus is days Inn and Jesus Christ days women didn’t mean anything even in this country in America up until I believe 1912 1913 women could not vote what not allowed to vote unless women in this country does some laws the worst some laws in the state of Georgia for instants that a man had the right to beat his wife except on Sunday You could beat her up on Monday through Saturday except on Sunday and you will be punished punished by the law if you beat her on Sunday on church premise then you will be found guilty of just to tell you America to become better OK all right so in the days of Jesus they had some thing that they called every cars that’s why they asked in my switch off the 19 here is it lawful for men to put away away forever calls every cars means what it means she didn’t have to do anything for me to divorce her I could just wake up one morning and say I don’t like the T-shirt you’re wearing hey get out of my house get up one morning and say well you know what why do you even burial will you anyway fuck your stuff and leave and not culture there was nothing I could do have you noticed that in the Bible we are told that Jesus was a face With a case of a woman who is gotten adultery the way I understand it takes two to tango right it takes two to make war a text to commit adultery how come that they only brought the woman and they didn’t bring the guy because in that society women with things and they bring the same thing to Christ and Jesus tells them know oh Moses gave you those laws because of the hardness of your heart in God’s agenda in God’s mind you cannot split a man and a woman and let me tell you hear a man who does not put a woman in a proper value as the daughter of the most high God is worse than a dog he’s no man at all real man have a great honor for women because women are not things women are not Subhumans no women are fully loaded Children of the most high God in the beginning when he created them the Bible says he bless both of them have you noticed that the after the end of the forbidden for God told Adam and eve this is your desires will be for your your husband but he will rule over you when you look at that scripture it seems as if the woman is cursed no actually still cursed she has not been elevated because nowadays woman has become so valuable that man feels empty without her every man will do his best to move a woman told the woman is not cursed a woman is precious in the sight of God the Bible says that the woman and the man on the totem flash that one flash that’s how close to each other they are and I tell your brothers and sisters if you were married like me for a while you begin to realize Is that it doesn’t matter how you met your spouse she says things you can’t see there’s something about women that we do not appreciate but when you look in the Bible woman was always anointed to give the nation of victory anytime a woman rolls up the nation was set up for victory in a good woman a real woman who understands who she is she is an encourager she busts you up hey it’s proven medically married people live longer than single people it’s proven scientifically married people tend to manage money better than single people it’s proven scientifically married people tend to be cleaner than single guys what makes it what woman when she comes in Life it’s a blessing the Bible says what a virtuous woman is the crown is the shining is the glorification is the elevation the promotion of that man the woman herself she adds weight to your life she has something beautiful that you can never have without her that is you may have to take an offering for me I’m talking about since your school cool off and don’t tell your husband are you listening to that all right divorce divorce was not gods idea it was Moses his idea why did Moses asked to do because he realize that when the Jews came out of Egypt that was just the first anyhow they could be the woman I could do anything Samosa say if I don’t do something about this they will kill the women easily So he say OK if you want to divorce a woman you have to write a contract no there’s something here about the well I was going to talk about the valve when the valves that we make and I’ll be with you until death do your part is it smart or is that foolish actually to tell somebody on till death do us apart well will come back on that one some other day maybe some other years but not for now there’s a lot of foolish stuff that we have said in the past God forgive us for most of us it was videotaped so you can’t even hide it till death do us apart are you sure about that I remember in the 2000 for my friend and my cousin are you just log lingerie my cousin in Colorado in the church had his wedding that the more depressed the preacher kept asking him to make this virus go to feeling sad for the guys like wow are you kid And then I failed at this little thing called wedding rate it may actually be handcuffed you thought you were wearing something you have just been locked it the more I heard the dude this guys why would you like this guy tell you to make those kinds of owls you can make promises just promise ahead to the best of my ability I may do this but don’t make a bow and then to finish that valve he said until death do us apart divorce is not a sin but what does God say about divorce in the book of Malachi chapter 2 verse 16 what does it say and I’ll come back to Matthew 19 Malachi chapter 2 verse 16 now for the Lord for the Lord the God of Israel see if that’s the head of putting away for one coverage Vales with his garment see if the Lord of hosts therefore taking Do you spirits that you deal can you find the amplified Bible with these put away I want to see the other version like an ass beer and I have a say some thing about divorce in the fall I hate the Fossett and thank you thank you God says I hate divorce sees the Lord the God of Israel so what is the God did not say I hate divorcees he hates the act in itself of divorce but you as an individual what it when you go through divorce God did not say he hates you so don’t put it in your mind the divorce is a sin because I have been divorced or committed a sin no God says I hate the voice not the devil sees and don’t think in your mind a divorce makes you a second-class citizen I know of churches were if you have been divorced forget about ministry forget about being married again in the church and I knew I know A new one preacher who had to be cold all the time to go bless people in the church because the actual pastor would not bless those who are divorced but he will take offering from them offering is blessed but them it’s not OK what about a second so God doesn’t want you to bless us but you can take out money in this church if you were divorced before you come here with a second wife and everything checks U2 are right we will bless you and if you have a calling of God we will make you whatever God wants you to be you can be a pastor and you were the boss yesterday who cares about you yesterday anyway when God says if any man be in Christ he is a new creature old things are passed away all things are become new one policy is the top forgetting those things which are behind me I’m pressing forward toward the goal when God says forget the former things because I’m making a new thing how do you tell me that I cannot be in ministry God Please there is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ who walk according to the spirit for the Spirit of life has set me free from the spirit of law and death so you were the first thought life goes on the Bible say something powerful in the book of Joshua chapter 1 verse one after the death of Moses the man of God God spoke to Joshua get up and cross over there is sometime you know I did but I did buy the guy said hey you know what that thing is dead wipe your tears get up in crossover let’s go to Johnnie Quinta Journey continuous on no divorce in itself is wrong but they are about three grounds which I believe a reasonable enough to put an end to America the first one in Matthew chapter 19 but Jesus it except for Forney kitchen phone case and let’s call it a daughter or a daughter go to Matthew chapter 5 let’s see versus 32 and 33 Matthew 30 I’m actually 31 and 32 not 31 3331 and 32 it has been saying whosoever shall put away his wife and divorce his wife let him give her a writing of the voicemail but I say onto you that whosoever shall put away his wife saving for the cause of publication and parentheses adultery causes her to commit adultery and whosoever shall never heard that is the worst committed adultery so Jesus says here that adultery is a ground for divorce but let me tell you this there’s 3 g of time telling you about divorce I’m going to rank them in this way low medium and high low means that you still have a chance you should not consider divorcing you should consider actually repairing it may take a while but you should consider when when I go to the next one Now we are starting to get to the place where am I begin to tell you how this is a 50-50 no the last one it will be like I will be a volunteer to help you pack your stuff and get out of there do you know how much the U-Haul truck will cost I don’t know OK I’ll rent it for you myself I’ll I’ll come over there and have you called the police yet I’m coming with them myself don’t even worry I’ll call the police for you but before we get there let’s start with the lowest one the lowest one is adultery adultery is it’s a painful thing whether it was committed by the man or the woman but I believe there is still a chance to forgive it it will take a while and repaired and rebuild it and make it something good in the Bible we have cases of people who went through adultery and the Lord transform them rebuild them and give them Something beautiful out of it no adultery in itself Jesus sees you could use it as a ground for termination but now if adultery should be the reason why I’m going to break my marriage I have to make sure that it’s the last resort to the last resort means the person is prone to repeat it again but the person has not shown any remorse the person has not stopped the behavior that led them lead them into adultery in that case it’s OK I can stop I know of guys who when the day had broken the marriage because of adultery say why do you say sir I have kept secrets that you can’t you don’t know this is not the first time this is not the second time this is not the third time it’s an on going problem this person in that case it was a female she has a personal problem But she has to deal with by herself no when people fall into adultery let’s say a man and a woman it’s not always the same case the reason why women do it it’s not the same as the reason why men do it if you know this in the Scriptures are you sure it was the emphasis on the dogs read that the woman commits but the men also may commit adultery do I have a biblical basis to forgive adultery yes yes and you know the story the woman was caught in adultery she was brought she was brought to Christ and Christ wrote down left it up his face he say he who is without sin let him cast the first of the first on and I did not kill her I told her I do nothing then you go and don’t do it again let’s say I am in a relationship with a husband I’m talking as if I’m a spouse your wife here When my husband comes to me and say honey we need to have a conversation let’s go somewhere we’re gonna talk and the stairs in my eyes I’m so sorry I disappointed you how long ago six months ago how long ago three years ago and I feel bad there’s a chance that you may never discover this and I can promise you I will clean myself up I think that men should be given another chance if it’s the woman I think she should be given another chance but if you are in a position where he say you know what he did it once I’m not even interested in revisiting the story I’m done I’m done I will still give it to you and if you go you live you can go to remarry if you go and he stays he can remarry what I’m trying to say is this let’s say the man has committed adultery OK that adultery is the manifestation of something deep For that adultery before we were cast to get him can we address the root cause of the problem what is the root cause could it be that the woman herself is the problem it was one preacher if I make mention his name you will discover another preacher but his wife did not leave him when asked why didn’t you leave him he said I take full responsibility because for a long time I had denied him what is due to him and he apologize to her she apologize they cleaned them selves up but I know when I was still living in Colorado when Ted Haggard story came to the TV you know Tim how did used to live 30 million evangelicals in this country he was George W. Bush’s senior spiritual advisor one day he was doing a parade against homosexuality we should ban one man in the gym was working out a second I know that guy what is my name Different guy who’s leading the parade the past that he’s a pastor and his name is Ted I don’t know his name is Ted I know him as this thing is going on happen live on the guy called TV station say breaking news that guy who is talking about homosexuality is my boyfriend don’t believe me we do more than that in fact I supply him with drugs I have his voicemails here he’s begging me he can’t wait to get back together with me this was the biggest church in Colorado for 10,000 members but to show you the wickedness of people the church forget it OK the past of my stuff is still your brother this is the man who played with you that’s the man who canceled it there’s a way to address this issue away from the TV they brought the TV and they tried what he did was wrong he was going to be suspended but do you have to put it on live TV I don’t think so the church made a big statement that he’d be kicked out When when he stepped down from the church the church petition the mayor of Colorado Springs get him out of office I was city they got them out of Colorado Springs they didn’t stop right that they went to Governor Bill rates of Colorado we want him out is also state of Colorado when the governor said no he’s an American citizen he could leave it wherever he wants to leave now the church went to the wife went and told her you need to leave this loser he has abused you and everything and she said no I’m not gonna leave him he needs me now more than ever she stayed with him until today you can see dead hogs interview on Oprah he’s a broken down man he does not justify his what he did he recognize it was wrong and because of his wife that happened to target so it was one that was 15 years ago today that Hoggard is back in ministry and the church is still thriving in Colorado Springs just to say that It’s not the end of the world if you can find in your in your heart to forgive OK when does an instance of adultery that’s gonna be everybody out there who is not concerned in your marriage in your life who is going to come with an opinion that you need to leave her what do you have to do just try to keep them away not the Bible say about marriage you should leave your father and mother and cleave in most cases when there’s a instance of adultery here your family has only one advice on the mind for you get out in fact we’re gonna go talk a little trash on this guy second ground second ground it’s worse than adultery the second round is abandonment abandonment first Corinthians chapter 7 let’s read verse five first and I’ll show you some thing and then I will jump will read verse 12 through 15 first Corinthians chapter 7 the frog here not one another except it be with consent for a time that he may give yourself to fasting and prayer. The Bible says that you should protect each other and not abandon each other you are a man you are a Y or you are a husband you are a wife you could expose your spouse to sin by not giving them what they do right in the scripture we see the negative consequence of abandoning the other person but it gets worse let’s go to versus 12 through 15 but to the rest speaker not the Lord if any brother had a wife that believe it’s not that means you are brother but your wife is not a Christian and if she that unbeliever is pleased to dwell with you let him not put her away you cannot come here Well my wife isn’t coming to church I’m not she has to pack her bags if she loves you but she’s an unbeliever she doesn’t believe in Christ the Bible says you cannot you should not put her away for that and a woman which has an a husband believe it’s not and he’s pleased to dwell with her let her not leave him that means if your husband is not really a committed Christian but he still loves you he’s there with you you know that this man is connected to you but the only thing he doesn’t like is Christianity question that shouldn’t be the reason why you should leave them OK you could get a brother who speaks in tongues like this brother new South Africa we had this guy lead the prayer service in the morning he’ll come and how do you does it to the left hands in the church the same hands I just laid on his wife the bloody hands he would lift them up and he spoke in tongues I’d rather have that unbeliever Who doesn’t lay hands on you then this fool here who left the damn bloody hands in the pop if you know what I’m sorry for that but the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife sanctified by the way what does it mean it doesn’t mean that that he’s sanctified as in save know it’s implement his he benefits from the blessing that is on his wife it also stretches to him and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband else we are children and clean but now are they holy but if the unbelieving the part let him depart a brother or a sister is not on the bondage in such cases then I just tell you that the only holy union exist between a bar a brother in Christ and a sister in Christ if one of them is not a child of God to read they are not bound they are not bound together So abandonment is a reason why you should leave you should what is abandonment abandonment it doesn’t mean that you and your wife got to a point say you know what this thing isn’t working don’t you think we should just part ways if he bought Wesley said he abandoned me know he did not abandon you you both agree to abandon each other that is not abandonment abandonment doesn’t mean that he went to jail that’s not abandonment abandonment means you just woke up one morning and he’s nowhere to be found he doesn’t make contact he doesn’t reach out to you you are by yourself paying the bills by yourself if you have kids it’s all about you a week white lost by two weeks three weeks do you know the guys there on your on his phone you can still see when he’s alive what’s up you can try to track him on Facebook he still posting stuff but when you reach out to him he’s not responding in the state of Junior year that is grounds for termination of that marriage yes it’s colder at fault abandonment at fault divorce in the state of Maryland Maryland is a little bit all lenient state you know in a few things you can get by with in Maryland they say it takes about a year if he’s gone and you have calculated a year and within that year that has not been any physical contact yes but if you saw him somewhere and you said hi to him at the mall and he can prove that yeah I saw you at the mall the other day no he did not abandon you because you’ll find a way to get in touch with him but in Virginia here if the brothers been gone for fuel for six months that’s it a Bandan meant to me I think it’s worse than adultery it was a Bandan meant simply means I don’t care you can go do yourself I was in this for myself I’m going left you can go right if you go north I’ll go self abandonment the Bible he is saying is if the spouse leaves you you didn’t do anything wrong but they choose to abandon you that’s it in the case of a Bandan meant I would say it’s a 50-50 chance the pastor it’s been four months it’s been six months and the person is nowhere to be found what do I do well let’s pray those were led by the Spirit of God as children of God lead the Lord show us some thing but I want you if you’ve been a Bandan I want you to promise yourself that you have too much love in this hard to stay single person you are not going to withhold the good love you have in your heart because the jerk left you know if they want to go let them go but you’re gonna find you another find one would it be a man and this time find one is better looking than the other one and rub their nose in this If the first one had a big tummy get you one who has a flat tummy right at the first wok on Speedgoat English get you one has a masters degree yeah if he drove a Corolla or civic Honda get you one who drives the best and make sure you know where he lives and drive around a little bit don’t do that I’m just kidding I’m just kidding let the love of God I’m just kidding I didn’t say I didn’t minute but it sometimes it feels good though hello I was gonna say something but my daughter is here I have to stop abandonment the last thing which I say that this right here should be grounds for termination it’s called abuse abuse and by abuse here I’m talking about physical abuse of either you or the children either you or the children When when we talk about physical abuse physical abuse is worse than divorce then adultery physical abuse is worse than abandonment when a person has the audacity to put their hands on you thank God today’s hits tomorrow it may be a 2 x 4 and the day after that it may be a knife or a weapon or a gun legally the United States of America gives you the right to put an end to that not only would you pay for part ways peacefully you should actually reported to the police it’s a brother here comes and say my wife beat me up and choked me or try to poison me as loving as we can be springs of life a good church will still have to call the police unless because the Bible says in Romans chapter 13 verse one through eight that police officer carries that gun For a purpose he’s a minister of God we need to turn it to them I know of guys who are bitten all the time there was this one guy in fact this guy was it was an attorney in our church he wouldn’t come to church mostly in the mornings and one day he missed church and we went there and we found this brother his wife was Theresa she was bigger than him and he was a little small and short your brother has been beaten up brutalize and he was under the bed this guy was in the town he was there under the bed when we found this out and too bad it was in Africa writing on the side of jungle justice and we had to to do a few things I’m not proud of but to help the brother out but in this country right here nobody has the right to beat you up somebody may say what but then the Bible says if they slip Are you on the left at the tender all right but when Jesus sees if they slap you on the left does not mean don’t let people take advantage of you let me give you an example if they slap you on the left you should turn off at the right you go to minister in North Korea to preach the word of God and it’s against the law there if they beat you there the beach on the left and the right as well lay down your life for Christ but in this country here where I am protected by the law and I was a pretty high what what do you think would happen one Sunday has some guy come here and attacks one of our ladies oh brother we do apologize are you kidding me no no lock the doors brother I’ll be where are you what Isaac brother Noah take him to the bathroom nobody Beat that sucker up let’s teach him a lesson of course that will teach him a lesson and every other guy out there never to try that again why would I allow you to meet a guy who comes here to victimize easy I believe in healing even if you break yourself if we kill them with believe in raising the dead right now no the point is will try our best not to let that happen but we cannot allow some guy to come here and and disturb our peace no we are protected by the laws of the country that gives us the right to worship freely the same laws give you the right to a good marriage you should not be somebody’s punching bag I knows of ladies who are even pregnant and the man had audacity to push them into Slap them all don’t even know if a man has the audacity what is it gonna be tomorrow well you can forgive them tomorrow when he put a bullet in your head and go ahead and forget them then and when he puts the bullet in your head he can claim self-defense and then he gonna find a fine lady after you are you are gone and he’s going to settle down and make more babies so let’s stop it right now is divorce a sin no it’s not a sin but it’s not as an F0 lol 000 reasons all grounds are met and you know that I can’t be in here divorce is not I sent you cannot call darling is it load please forgive me for having to wash my wife Lord please forgive me for having the worst my way I’m at my husband now that’s not to say you should not even sure I’ll feel guilty about that that’s God hates divorce People are you kidding me he does not put the first people I showed you the scripture Malachi God hates divorce the actual itself but the people God still loves that kind of person who was divorced for no good reason remarry again let’s say like you had divorced your spouse what they had not abandon you did you not commit adultery they did not abuse you I need to terminated that what are you gonna do what are they married now do you think there’s a chance for you to get back together if you still want to get back together to them and they’re ready to talk to to connect with you what we can work it out but you don’t know but if you have been divorced and you’ve moved on to personal done just just settle down with a new person believe God for another person a lady was saying do you think that any guys out there who will take me say wait a second why do you have to put it that way Many guys why do you have to put it plural do you need guys for real how many do you want to really dig guys out there do you want to of them do you want to me how many do you want to marry are they guys out there who would settle for me guys does it have to be poor I really know you say is there a guy want to know if you say is there a guy out there then you’re talking about is there any guys out there where are you do you take an application how many applications are you reviewing are there any guys out there why do you have to put it in plural it’s not about how many guys will settle down with you know is there one out there and the answer is always yes there is one out there but you’re not gonna find them in the bar in the club you’ll find them on your knees by seeking God first he has one buddy for you and he will give them to you the last thing I think I already told you it’s that down when you’ve been divorced If you’ve been divorced it does not mean God cannot use you know we have examples in the Bible of people who have done worse than divorce and God use them one example that comes to mind is that Paul the apostle Paul was a murderer in fact he killed Steven he killed the church to the Christians yet God turn them around and bless them so don’t let any devil in hell say that because you had the voice in the past you can never serve God you can never build it while I’m here on on this one let me just to tell you my position on the Bizzarre on women what women can do and cannot do Pastor Eddie do you believe women can preach and teach him to just yes yes I do believe in that do you believe a woman can be a pastor and evangelist a Bible teacher yes I do believe in that we have some women in this church here who is just so much gifted and it would be a shame For us to see a woman cannot do this how dare you say a woman cannot do this pulsates when it please God to reveal his son to me and called me into ministry what it say is ministry is gods pleasure if God has called us at Acacia hair we’ praise God chicken but it doesn’t matter whether this person was divorced yesterday if they were divorced God bless them that was a wrong decision I made I was the right decision but we do not hold that against him and then less than half and then we can go

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The book of Psalms chapter 127 verses one through five that’s Maya my son and I hope you like my swag nowadays so I know OK sounds 127 verses one through five I have been talking for the past four weeks this is week number five about the Christian family in the book of Psalms chapter 127 season except the Lord builds the house in the house there and open up parentheses and say relationship dating marriage divorce remarriage) unless the Lord builds those things they labor in vain to build it in other words I would even say this except the lord build my family except the Lord builds my relationship I’m just wasting my time there’s no point me reading books there’s no point me attending seminars There’s no point me watching movies after movies under purchasing book after book after book about relationship if God is not involved in the machinery in the working out in the design of my family except Donald builds a house they labor in vain who build it acceptable watches over the city the watchmen work if we could like to stay awake but invite in his van for you to rise up early to set up late at the bread of sorrows success in life excellence progress has nothing to do with your personal understanding of things unless God is involved in everything you do you see it from top to bottom it’s all about all about God’s word is spirit Lord guide my steps show me the Waze if God is not involved you can work overtime and still be broke You could work you can get another certificate and get another company to hayu it means absolutely nothing and with God he has the power to turn that which is desperate into something precious he is the master of doing this so this scripture is showing us that we have to desire God to be involved in our relationship let’s keep reading full so God gives his beloved sleep lol children are in Heritage or in Heritage of the Lord for the fruit of the womb is reward is the fruit of the womb is reward this is almost like telling you that you never get to a place where you think of your children as a burden children are not mistakes and I told him maybe to three weeks ago that it’s wrong for you to call your children a burden children are not a burden what did they be biological or adopted some people think It’s simply because this child does not come out of my loins out of my warm out of my my my loins well it’s so maybe my spouse is kiddo it’s my husband son daughter my wife’s son daughter know a child is a reward it’s a gift we need to appreciate that with we see the husband and wife the children the way God sees them then we appreciate the children not all children may get messed up the menu things that are wrong but we have to keep in mind children are not a curse children are not a burden children are a blessing from God as arrows are in the hand of a mighty man so I’ll children of the youth man I am not even going to go into that one but the last one sees what happened is the man that has his quiver full of them they shall not be ashamed but they shall speak with enemies in the game I’ve been trying all I’ve been telling you that marriage was gods idea relationship was God’s idea God is the original manufacturer of relationships we know how God tells us in his word it’s not good for man to be alone when God says it’s not good for man to be alone I will give him a relationship I will give them a family I will give him to help me what is God truly saying it’s not good for man to be alone and I ask you that were done in question when did God find out that it was not good for man to be alone when he made it or before he made it when God says it’s not good for man to be alone what is God really saying he is talking about himself because you remember he said let us make man in our image and in our likeness so in the image of God it’s not good for God to be alone God does not like to be alone That’s why we have one God but he is completely in the father son Holy Spirit because God does not make loneliness God says it’s not good for man to be alone and as you will discover through my teaching today the curse of this is not a curse the most painful thing in relation in life is loneliness loneliness is that which in genders that gives birth to fear to the sales of protecting yourself not trusting other people because you don’t know if they are with you all day I’m not with you there’s so many people who even though the smiling on the outside deep inside they still feel empty they still feel lonely did they have everything to say because people are so lonely they will try to hide behind money behind title Behind Kohl’s behind houses and behind sex not that they’re looking for something else all they want is to be filled to know that I am not lonely I am not alone and God himself in the beginning as he creates everything perfect oh it’s not good for man to be lonely God knows it’s not good for man to be lonely when it’s so tragic today the most people have a loved one a spouse or girlfriend or fiancé a boyfriend or a husband I hit they still feel like I’m not OK there’s all kinds of books about marriage is all kinds of seminars how is it that it’s still not working I know of preachers who have held seminars in fact I know of one and I respect the spritzers so much is one of the most precious woman of God I watch Teaching that she did on marriage and wrote the book read the book that she wrote on marriage it wasn’t too long before she was announcing divorcing the men she was describing as the king of kings and Lord of lords and when you do you know hear his version and her version like well you’re right she’s right the problem is you were still lonely you did everything to get them in their money to have a big church that calls jewelry all over the world all the sex in the world between the two of them and that’s not a dirty word by the way it’s a clean word yet and we’re not fulfilled and you and we have also tried to hide behind all kinds of make up some excuse me for saying this if you’re gonna lose weight to please someone can you setting your self up for the failure we have these Swimming hall as skinny as they get they still feel that I’m not still do the fat why why because I don’t want him to see me if the guy will stick with you because you are size 0 what are you trying to look for in losing that weight it’s good to lose weight lose weight because you want to lose weight for your personal health because you you understand why you live but if you lose weight to play somebody come on come on in for the guys to put you guys to don’t try to look a certain way sound a certain way look a certain way to please a woman no do it because of yourself and I told you that’s just a review when God created man and woman he blessed them the Hebrew word is he gave them the breaker be our a CHA that means he completed them spirit soul and body Everything to ever need it you can find it in Genesis chapter 1 verse 26 and 27 and God missing image in our likeness and he told him have dominion have leader ship everything she ever lived on the planet earth was king Solomon no king Solomon was not the wealthiest man in the world the wealthiest man in the world was Adam and eve those were the wealthiest people they on every single thing on planet earth every single thing on planet earth and by the way Eve had everything she was the daughter of the most high God she was pretty she was loaded with the blessings of God she could talk to god any time the only thing these two missed was each other in such a way that relationships marriage dating from God standpoint of you I am doing this because of you it’s you I won’t notice things you have in gods definition of perfect relationship godly relationship is why do you love her why do you love him for nothing for nothing in other words nothing comes between the two of us and we all have to come to a place where we understand if you’re like me American man do you love her body the gratification is that comes with her body do you love her luxe and make up or hide her size or do you love her as an individual and the same thing for the man to do you love what about the woman to do you love him or do you Love education why aren’t you like the other guys why is it why aren’t you like adamant adamant do this other men do that man nothing kills man oh if you if you ever heard a woman who cared for hotel you why aren’t you like the other guys know nothing stays with you it hurts and that it hurts worse than anything being compared to another man is it like emasculate you to emasculate means it got shut up you feel worthless why don’t you like the other guys why don’t you buy me flowers really well that’s your own fault was yourself I’ll try to stay up I’ll try to stay under the anointing of God here what am I talking about anyway but go back to my my teachings are from the past the previous weeks on YouTube on spa on Facebook and find what we talking about so go to Sam’s chapter 11 verse three Psalms chapter 11 verse three it says this if the foundations be destroyed what can the righteous do in a relationship and dating in marriage and looking for the one you have to lay the right foundation the foundation has to be good he tells us if the foundation is not good what what happened to the building architects and engineers say that the most important step in building any property is the foundation because the foundation has to be able to carry the structure the people the furniture and everything that will sit on top of it you must dig deeper go down and build Strong foundation you remember how crazy is that two people were building one built on the rock one built on sand the one who built on sand his wife his house was blown away by the one who built on the rock which is Jesus Christ the rock of ages the cornerstone his house with stood the test of time so what is the foundation of a relationship we have to understand the foundation if the foundation is not OK will have trouble in the outside sometimes we we we get unfulfilled in the marriage we get unfulfilled in our relationships but why is it that when we start it was all beautiful and now it’s not working well the foundation was not correct in my assignment this morning is we have to say man the way God sees men we have to say woman the way God sees Women because in society today men and women are treated equally like monsters things that I said about guys man it’s a miracle to see a guy actually putting a ring on a woman’s finger today it’s a huge it’s a miracle and most guys most men like me like other gentleman in this place need to be healed the hots need to be healed some of us come from a dysfunctional family some of us have already been in other relationships and some of us in today’s society you have to walk on egg shells because if you do not if you don’t know what yourself you’ll be kicked out and be sent to jail you’ll be portrayed like the zombie in the neighborhood yeah man today who have anger issues so much anger issues and windy I sleep in the bed at night they keep wondering what will it take to please her oh my God I don’t wanna be like my father I don’t want to be like my best things that we carry as baggage is the whole all the time I knew my father when my father died I was 34 years old no I was 32 years old the whole 32 years I have never heard my father tell me Santa I love you never never heard my dad say I love you never but it was one time sorry I was talking on the phone with my father and he said something when my dad said those those words to me I felt like I was born again I felt like I could climb a mountain I could run on my marathon I was talking to him one day say Eddie I am proud of you I wish all my sons and daughters were like you I feel tears Joy it’s like something I’ve been wanting to here for ever and when dad told me those words something came alive in me most guys have not had a chance to be told by another man I love you most guys have never had a chance to be heard by another Manako like a real hiking today inside it’s even going to give you a hug because you wanna know what is he trying to tell me is my cologne smelling not good why is he checking me out what was the matter with him get away from my brother and things like that but why do we have those one of our president in American history the shortest prison prison Buchanan was it was the medicine the one who was kicked out of what do you see my above out of Philadelphia by the British in 18 James Madison in one email in his face it says that one night it was so cold he slept in bed with another man in today’s culture you say things like that oh my God does it mean that we’ve had one president who was some thing but in those days that’s what guys did today if you see a guy holding hands with another guy walking oh my God you know that I saw you holding hands guys we have issues and truly most guys have anger issues they’re not themselves they’re like in a competition trying every day to please somebody to please somebody in such a way that most guys are not in touch with them selves they’re not in touch with them selves why because you guys are portrayed like losers some guys are portrayed like sex predators it’s amazing it’s amazing Do you know that the last display to me and I’ll get to the women in the moment Malachi chapter 4 show me versus five and six and I want you to notice that this is the last word in the old testament it says this behold I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord and he shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the heart of the children to the fathers less I come and smoke the earth with a card I want you to pick out something here but God sees the real be a curse on the land if sons and fathers are not connecting then will be a curse on the land we have issues today when the guy say I see a door a sister that I’m attracted to I see a lady I’m attracted to we feel like oh is he trying to abuse her again this is another one of his conquest Why is it that man but not real men today because there is a crisis woman never learned from my father and other generations men behave a certain way today men behave a different way I don’t have time to watch some movies some awesome shows on TV but I remember when I came to this country years ago they used to be the show that I used to watch all the time it was called the Jerry Springer show yeah you is it still running or they pull that thing up how do you know it’s the right and I thought you were watching the word of God it’s good to laugh in church but just imagine the windows people talk to each other in a strip each other naked and things like that and you go in churches are still scandal after scandal after scandal after scandal most guys. With addictions today with a bit X-rated material addictions there is more to it than just that those are avenues of trying to cope with something inside that needs to be healed what needs to be healed is this condition here a father and son unless you are a good son you cannot be a good father and God says here we have a problem here in this country I just I just saw a men’s breakfast maybe 67 months ago just up the road at the other church or a glow help a glow apostles and it was a guys talking and guy started to talk why this one gentleman was talking about how he feels worthless because he met a woman she had three kids she was successful she had a car she had an appointment she had a good income she was beautiful Him and everything he does in the house he just feels like he’s on the edge and it’s gotten to a point where he can’t even talk to the doctor the kids don’t you talk to my kids like that and things like that and he’s like how do I release the love and the passion that I have I don’t want to see this as her son or a daughter this is my son this is my daughter we don’t have to have come out of me I love this boy I love this girl but she won’t give me a chance and I know of guys who have actually been cussed out by the woman’s kids and I know the women also who have suffered by the guys children things like that but you are or the person you love the most in the song of Solomon oh gloves are coming off now Chapter 6 Chapter 5 verse eight and 17 just imagine how much passion It comes to this man how much love he feels song is a song of Solomon and if you’re honest with me that’s one of those books you don’t really read what is the book anywhere in the Bible song of Solomon chapter 5 verses eight through 17 you have a son OK I’ll charge you or daughters of Jerusalem if you find my beloved but you tell them that I’m sick of love this is a woman telling other ladies I can’t find my man I can’t find my husband I can’t find my love if you just fine and please tell him I’m lovesick now the women asking him what is that Villa diner beloved more than another beloved old Alfaro first among women white women I say tell us a little bit about your man why is it that you’re so lazy now listen to this answer and days if you can see yourself and what her answer is you are one lucky son of a Bible Let’s read it all right is the beloved more than another beloved outdoors my beloved is white and ready cause I really already ready right at Chiefess Hilton Hotel does the cheapest among 10,000 is better than 10,000 guys ha ha Ha ha ha oh man that’s sweet his head is the most fun goal but if you get this crap like that by the woman you love is nothing you can do for that woman his locks are bushy and black as a raven is eyes the eyes of a doll by the rivers of water washed with milk and quickly said this chicks talk about past 80 right there was a bit of spices oh yeah a sweet frog His lips Achilles dropping sweet smelling mirror is Hans gold ring set with the barrel is belly he’s a bright ivory overlaid with sapphires ha ha Ha ha ha things like this you are low one lucky son of a Bible yeah why am I at his legs he said she started from the head right she’s been telling him like from head to toe his legs are as pillars of marbles set up on sockets far hung all his countenance is Lebanon excellent as the Cedars it’s mouth is the most sweet yeah it is altogether lovely this is my beloved this is my friend daughters of Jerusalem but sisters I’ll get to you in the moment and show you that you are amazing you are wonderful and no mention of a trick you less than what God has made you but see how God wants you to see that man in your life he sees that among the 10,000 is different any man who is like this can conquer a mountain any man who knows that he gets the turbo power in the house go to Champion bowl Thai go get it man it’s good and God wants us to see each other like that no the man also appreciates a woman I want you to go to song a song a song a song is here chapter 6 verse one and eight if you are a lady and your guy can talk to you like this and talk about a baby I’m a blessed woman of God God all songs on chapter 6 verse one and eight where has your beloved gone All fairest amongst women where is the beloved where is he yet but we may seek him with me my beloved is gone this is the mental OK thanks my girl she’s gone she’s gone down into the gardens put the beds or spices to feed in the gardens come on and to gather Lillys I am my beloved and my beloved is mine listen to that that’s what I’ve been teaching you for the past four weeks that is the concept of marriage is we belong to each other there is no me the reason no you the results I am her she’s mine I am her property it’s not unless couches don’t call people my property in real property but do you understand what I’m trying to say and now I am my beloved and my beloved is mine in Phoenix among the lilies now are beautiful Oh my love as teaser calmly as Jerusalem terrible as an army with banners turn it way down ice for me I’ll just just turn your ways away from me because you do something when I look at you they have overcome me so her eyes your eyes have a company that hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gillie’s guy sees your eyes half of a company because in Jewish culture they say you can see a man’s soul who is eyes and if your soul is so full of love and honesty and integrity it shows in the way you look that’s why he say you are overcoming your hair is a flock of goats that appear from Gilead your teeth are as flock of sheep which go up from Watching where of everyone Barrett twins and there is none that is bearing amongst them as a piece of a pomegranate are the temples within the locks three score queens and foursquare concubines and virgins without number I’m inside there’s all kinds of women out there they come in all shapes in all sizes all backgrounds ethnicity education and yet you are unique but my dove is his wife is my dove the sweetest bird of all the birds my perfect one stands alone above them all this man is saying that my woman I wife my girl she stands above all the queens all the queens all the kings and princes she is her mother’s only daughter she is the pure child of the one who bought her the maiden saw her and called her Blessed and happy the queen and the concubines also and they praise her saying who is this it looks down like the dawn fair and beautiful as the full moon clear and pure as the man other that’s words in the Bible you can use to describe your woman and you catch her hot did you see what I just saw there who is this dude that looks down like the dawn fair and beautiful and the full moon clear and pure as the sun as majestic as an army with banners I went down to the orchard of not sure of not sure yet to see the flowers of the valley to see whether the grapevine had blood in the pomegranates were in flower OK OK let’s stop right here this book of songs of Solomon reflects the love between Jesus Christ and the church when Solomon was writing these words he was actually talking about the love between God and God’s people but I think about it that’s exactly what Paul tells us in Ephesians of the five starting from verse 22 all the way down he sees marriage is a reflection of how God deals with us in other words if you don’t understand marriage you don’t even understand the relationship between God and us so for a man God wants you to represent Jesus Christ do you still live with your spouse and as a woman God wants you to be like the representation of the body of Christ the intimacy between the body and him that’s exactly what marriage is an impulse is those words can you finish up the five that marriage reflects the relationship between Christ and the church I was society portrays men and women as monsters Manhood has been severely attacked they are there any crisis is real woman hood has been misrepresented and abuse to such an extent that most people have ungodly image of women most people they associate women with an object and that’s wrong a woman is a beautiful queen of a creature from God that needs to be honored that needs to be given the proper proper place no me as a man I need to see myself the way God sees me in the way God sees me is not a monster who is heartless who’s only thing on mine is how do I get to my wife how do I get what I want no God wants me to see me as Christ that my place is to sacrifice myself for her I need to honor her He doesn’t have to see herself as a victim she has to see herself as a blessed person you see marriage like I told you it’s not a place of a half a person and another half well I’m gonna find me my better half well I hope you don’t find a half a man and I hope you don’t find half a woman do you don’t wanna marry awful woman you don’t want to live with half a woman either can you imagine living with somebody half a brain half mind no God did not make as 1/2 and 1/2 and that way when we come together the two has become complete no he made a soul fool he made the woman holding the manhole so that the two of them can make a whole marriage know in John chapter 2 we are told that the first miracle the Christ ever performed was at the marriage In Cana in this marriage what happened is Jesus was invited and they ran out of wine when they ran out of wine his mom came and told him son they are out of wine can you help out on Jesus told her no don’t bother me my time hasn’t come but when Easton came he went and saw the service and he told them gather the jars and fill them with water when he they filled them with water he turned that water into wine now they took the wine and gave to the governor of the wedding the guy who is in all running the wedding making sure that the wedding is a success when he tested it he called the guy what’s going on here we’ve been drinking the bad line and now when people are tired you got to bring the good wine out no this is not this is this is not OK you should’ve given us the best wine first People get drunk when they’re drunk now we can give them the cheap wine didn’t want till this is good or bad they’ll just be drinking it like that what is the lesson why is it a God of all the miracles he could do Jesus he will start with a miracle in a wedding first of all marriage is not that important to him he is the one who said it’s not good for man to be alone it’s so important to him but when he stepped in the wedding I want you to notice something he made that wedding the best wedding people ever attended to what is the lesson marriage is sweeter relationships are sweeter dating is sweeter remarriage is sweeter if Jesus is at the center of it not as an principles but alive and well that means if you choose to Soul Jesus in your relationship you will never be disappointed you can never be disappointed most of us we uplift ourselves we lift ourselves up in a minute we are the center of the marriage it starts and ends with me no Christ has to be at the middle point in my marriage I tell you man when Christ is in everything you do it’s always sweet no I want you to think about this in Jewish culture it takes them about two years to prepare wine I have to go grab the grapes I have to step on them press them and I have to keep that one for at least two years do you know how these French people like wine and the best one is the oldest one what takes many years to prepare took Jesus a split second that means what do you I’ve been looking for in other books and other videos call on the name of Jesus is so faithful enough to turn everything in your marriage around and make it successful when Jesus is in the middle of your marriage is in the middle of your relationship you will always be happy there will be days where things will be tough for the peace of God will still be there remember what Jesus said peace be steel when there’s a storm in that house Jesus would speak Bisby missed all the problem is we have taken Jesus put them out and he’s out there we need to bring him back here see yourself the way Jesus sees you see your spouse see the other people the way God sees them I have been told that some some of us in this room through my my teachings have questions and I just haven’t been able to address those questions so please write me those questions So that I may study then I was about to take a risk and say yeah you can just come to church and ask me that question and I’ll answer answer you right away now I realize now some questions as it relates to relationships I made me some time to go research and find scriptures so if you ask me an impromptu question I didn’t prepare that in a church setting like this I may not give you the best answer so if you have questions please keep them and make sure you pass me those questions ASAP that way I can start up let’s go now to the book of Proverbs chapter 19 verse 14 I want you to see something Proverbs chapter 19 verse seven verse 14 it says this house and wealth the inheritance from fathers but a wise understanding and sensible wife is a gift and blessing from the Lord ha ha Ha in other words You can get anything you want a house a car you don’t need anybody you can do it by yourself but a woman is not a say it’s a gift from God brothers and I’m only talking to the guys right now you may have watched x-rayed and materials well women were treated like pieces objects you may have heard music but you are the child of God look at that scripture and see what God tells you how you should look at women a woman it’s not a thing you can get a thing from your dad and from your dad you can get a wealth you can get houses you can get cars you can get inheritance but a wife that is a gift from God that is a gift from God and if it’s a gift from God it needs to be handled carefully go now to first Peter chapter 3 verse seven We live in a society where people just think they do woman and I didn’t get any woman I heard the conversation between guys not to Longo on YouTube and say why every man should be treated like a king because men are a rare species yeah more women out there than guys so they need to treat us with all dignity shut up you moron the Bible says a woman is a gift from God you do not appreciate the woman you do not treat her correctly you are despising the Lord God himself in the same way you husband live with your wives with an understanding way with great gentleness and talk and with an intelligent regard for the marriage relationship stop right there see what Peter is telling us when you see a woman She’s not a thing a woman is a person well endowed with the blessings of God you have to have God’s understanding God’s honor you treat her correctly what are the things that most Christians do which is despicable and now use good language my daughters here is when they are in the confines of house bedroom or bad whatever intimacy takes place they become loose with your mouth there’s so many Christians who are so clean any other time until it’s time for the showdown listen to what I’m talking about right my kids are here OK I’m not talking about match I’m not talking about running around I’m talking about showdown you know what I’m talking about right if you don’t know you probably need to be in When is for the showdown we forget that we are Christians our mouth start using profanity swearing and cussing don’t come in my bedroom while I’m coming I’ll be respectful I’m not coming I’ll let the word of God come with you they all stay out here I’ll just show you the word of God now you may choose to talk which ever way you want to talk will still be good friends whatever happens behind the veil it’s between you and the other person and the and the Lord I will never ask you I do not even want to know all I can tell you is the word of God the reason no such a thing as I can use clean language until it’s time for the showdown then when is the show down I do I go about the same Repair the spot here yeah OK what I’m trying to say is respect honor dignity does not stop society has betrayed human sexuality is just an act animalistic act from gods 10 point of you that act in itself is a holy act the showdown is a holy act it needs to be treated with dignity and not the vulgarity know the human anatomy there’s nothing on the human body that is vulgar if you are a man after 40 about 40 is the time you need to go to the doctor so that they can check check your prostate they will use every organ on your part and use the actual term for it that’s a good When you step out there and you meet your friends at work or you watch TV physical organs change names from technical clean respectful to vulgar base animalistic I was a child of God the act of intimacy is pure show me the scripture and I’m not gonna forget my long hair Hebrews chapter 13 verse J let the marriage bed way people shop and 13 let’s traverse for our hope it’s not for but it says let marriage be on in a law and a marriage bed is a first for marriage is to be held in honor among all look at that marriage is to be held in honor among all that is regarded as something Great value the marriage bed and the file but in morality or by any sexual sin from God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous this is not Leviticus this is not to try to be an old testament this is under gods grace in the New Testament tells us meet as a child of God they can never be a time where my wife is an object I will talk to her like Eminem talks like Puff Daddy talks gone right about 8090 years old now I don’t know the new guys back in our day we had Puff Daddy you had Eminem they probably like on a wheelchair right now those guys and God forgive me the good people that may not mean harm but there is a way people talk and even as Christians we tend to forget there is some thing Going on in all days today where people take intimate pictures and send it to each other I hope you don’t do that at least for one reason there’s people called hackers out there next time we know you will be on Facebook and he won’t be coming to church I don’t even go there don’t even go there I’m trying to tell you something here but I’m trying to be very very polite in my company God wants us to honor each other if you truly honor each other act itself the intimate act is precious it’s not Monday Ami it’s not ridiculous it’s not a joke God says your marriage is to be held in honor in honor among all regarded as some thing of value and the marriage bed has to be under I’ll have to be undefiled let’s try to clean our mind let’s clear all my dad things that people in the world may practice and I’m not gonna go in Greta details here is your mature mind here yeah things that people in the world to practice and questions that they ask those things add no value to the act itself some things like water it’s good to just drink it as plain as most water I’ve ever gotten to a place where we were so thirsty even when you took soda still didn’t do it for you we live in the world where we try to treat each other like objects we are not objects or bodies are still holy our bodies are still temple let’s say I’m just giving an example is not true I can only use me as an example not to embarrass you and it’s not true Example before I came to the Lord before I get married I was a playboy I was a gigolo I was a pimp I was at Macdaddy I was at Casanova I was in Valentino I’ll everything that is ugly I was a dog and I treated women like objects a mouthful the file by actions were beyond human even animals don’t do this now I’m married filled with the Holy Spirit speaking tongues and even cold as Pastor Eddie until it’s time for the shoulder when is the show down but the whole wide world I don’t know buddy I am a man no no no no brother your mind has to be holy treat each other with what you do that’s between you and God all I can do as a pastor I can only tell you what I know the Bible say is what the apostle start with church has talked throughout history is sexuality In the confines of marriage should not be vulgar language is good there’s a word we say in French is this the Mickey Mouse and a bumper it’s implement the best way is if you’re eating just keep your mouth shut don’t talk let’s be punk a couple of minutes quickly and then I hope I did not offend you right at the mouth sending you what are you looking so sad and then don’t make me feel bad come on talk to the brother you are processing and it’s going to come as questions like yeah probably when it comes to sexuality a lot of fantasy doesn’t add any value tell me the reasons why I want to do this it really doesn’t add anything let’s go back to mats about relationship one of the myth the most people tell us the date is the foundation of a strong relationship is good communication You have to communicate that is not true that is not true most people believe that if you don’t communicate you can’t have a good relationship a good relationship lies we have to communicate that’s not true when people talk about communicating what they meant is don’t hide things and you don’t keep it bottled up in your chest talk tell them the truth don’t sweep things under the carpet that’s not always true sometimes it’s foolishness to talk on the emotion sometimes it’s maturity to just let other things go and keep your mouth shut you don’t have to be justified in everything when people man good communication the man you have to talk about every single thing now you don’t have to we don’t have to good communication good communication actually can destroy a marriage I’m a tell her how I feel come on loser you gonna lose your marriage I’m gonna tell her Note there is a scripture in the book of Proverbs that says it all full specs and emotions as a script out I’ll find it if you remind me of I believe it’s gonna be probably 729 a full speaks his mind good communication doesn’t mean we sit down and let’s have a chat we have not talked I have a lot of things I have I’m gonna put it in your face and some people do those things and it just breaks the heart what we need is not good communication what we need is good connection good communication means I’m going to tell you that way you know how I’m feeling you don’t always have to tell people how you feel and sometimes when you don’t feel good you don’t have to say I feel good sometimes we just have to pray God that the Lord will open the eyes I showed them that you didn’t feel good that Jesus the Bible says he was the lamb who did not open his mouth sometimes you don’t have to talk just keep quiet it’s not like I’m keeping this quiet but there will be a day it will come out now I’m keeping this quiet and it’s gone I’m letting it go some of the things people get offended about in a relationship it’s just hanging out you said that she said that you said that you come on grow up man all your thumb out of your mouth quit sucking the time you’re too old for that grow up sometimes people can see things that can wave at you with one finger it’s not a big deal so what life moves on no no no I will make him know that he hurt me to know that when Jesus rose from the dead I don’t see where he went to pilot and say you’re not tell you till you don’t you shouldn’t crucify me I’m back Jesus then go out there to the end of the guys who crucified him what are you up and you say that come down from the cross three I’m here dude what would you pick it up done at one of them actually in the bathroom take a shower and I’ll be there believe me now no Jesus never talk to the people why because somethings you don’t have to bring it up if your spouse said some thing fun man or we need to have a good communication these things will build a build up that’s what all the therapist on TV tell us you watch all the TVs they say the same thing over and over you watch Dr. Phil is the same thing opera it’s the same thing stay married yourself don’t stay married everybody has an opinion on marriage and marriage what we need is not good communication is good connection what does good connection made a good connection means I know that even No she say those things I still belong to her she still belongs to me our hearts are connected when your hearts are connected you don’t always have to talk sometimes in your side less you build better sometime when you talk about communication about people who can talk how did they communicate and still survive marriage nothing is your hot ass to be connected just like to book a song Simon say my beloved is mine and I’m hers you have to find a way to connect with your wife or with your husband or with your boyfriend you have to connect connection is in the hot the last thing and I’ll let you go out I’m not gonna bother you anymore it’s house chores house chores is one of those mats who cooks in this house who washes dishes all change his bedsheets and all that stuff I heard guys complain I love you so lazy she can’t cook brother do you know what the best cooks in the world are all guys the best chef in the world of guys I can’t be in this house because my wife won’t wash my clothes who does what and this helps some people take marriage as it’s something it’s like a legalistic thing John you get up in the morning vacuum the house all the laundry wash the dishes clean the car pull the meat out of the freezer side stop stalling and now Susie you have to make sure that the kids are in bed and this time you have to do this you have to do this you have to do that those things are not sustainable you can fake those things And those things actually can break your part because it got to the point where you become slaves or you are not leaving I don’t have to expect my wife to cook me all the time in fact some of you and this from your life would be better if you were the guy was doing the cooking and let the lady do other things here my wife said come on baby what do you mean a man supposed to say minute that I love you Jesse anyway but the truth is the task list the point is not task list there is something better than tasks to do and that thing is called honor honor each other that’s what the Bible teaches us men honor your wife wife honor your man if I own her in fact the task list is too short if I on her and we had a task list Do you know the grass you pull the meat out of the freezer you take Gabriella down the road Jesse play with Silas play with lazy and then you arrange the book on the bookshelf if I on her I want to tell me babe don’t worry about it don’t do anything I’ll do all this and when I’m done I’ll ask you do you have any more there’s nothing more than let’s go hang out that his owner Ha Hah Hah Hah Hah man you don’t want to hear my server