If We Have Sown Unto You Spiritual Things, Is It a Great Thing if We Shall Reap Your Carnal Things?

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[00:00] Four, three, two. [00:12] He's a live panda. He will literally rip your face off. David, peace. [00:19] It's another opportunity for us to come together and hear and learn of the word of truth as given to us by the most high God. All honor goes to the father [00:26] through the son whose name is Yahushua. In him lies the only hope for salvation. Phones away. In him lies the only hope [00:33] for salvation. We know that it is obtained by grace through faith, not of works, lest anyone should boast, and [00:38] given freely as a gift to all who obey him. We understand that if you do not obey him, it is made manifest or made [00:44] obvious that you do not believe. In this state, you should expect no good thing from the most high. However, anything [00:51] that you do get, whether it be a gift of tongues, a gift of prophecy, or any supernatural experience that you you may [00:56] have, it can and it will be used against you in the day of judgment. With that said, peace to the saints that are in [01:02] the room, to the saints that couldn't make it, to the saints watching in on the camera, to the saints scattered around the world that we don't know [01:07] about, and to the saints that's in the chat. But no peace to the wicked. The only thing we say to them is repent that [01:14] they might live. [01:22] Yam. All right. So, last week we was talking about Corinthians, right? We read first through uh Corinthian first [01:29] uh 1 Corinthians chapter 1-4. Uh then last week we read like 5-8 [01:35] if I'm not mistaken. Um and as we read LA uh as we read last week, we we we saw [01:43] Paul expand more on his um on his teachings, right? All right. And he started to teach us a little bit about [01:50] um trying to think what did we go over? What did he what did he go over in uh 5 through8? He tried to teach us [02:00] about Huh. Yeah, that was that was one of the topic. Good job, boy. Yeah, he tried to [02:07] teach us in chapter 7. We spent a lot of time talking about should we be married or not be married and how how we should [02:14] handle it when we burn with passion things of that nature. But one of the themes that we could see is you could tell that he was responding right you [02:22] could tell that he was responding to somebody who wrote to him he is like so concerning this theme when you wrote me [02:27] should you have a wife this is what I say. You know what I'm saying? So he's responding to stuff. So you can see [02:33] there's a dialogue, there's a conversation going back and forth and he responds by letter and and we just kind [02:38] of get dropped in on the conversation. We don't know what was written to him, but he kind of indicates that there was [02:44] something written to him um by the things that he responded with. So we going to pick it up from where we left [02:50] off. Uh we finished out I think we finished out chapter 8. So we going we going to pick up at uh chapter nine. So [02:57] this is 1 Corinthians chapter 9. Give me verse one. Let's go ahead and get through it. 1 Corinthians chapter 9 verse [03:22] 1. You must have disconnected or something. 1 Corinthians chapter 1 vers9. [03:28] Chapter 9 verse one. Yep. that too. 1 Corinthians chapter 9 verse one. [03:36] Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen [03:42] Yahosua the Messiah our Lord? Are not you my work in the Lord? If I be not an [03:47] apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am unto you. For the seal of my apostilhip [03:53] are ye in the Lord. My answer to them that do examine me in is this. My answer [03:58] to them that examine me is this. Have we not power to eat and to drink? Have we not power to lead about a sister, a [04:05] wife, as well as other apostles? Right? So he said, "Do we not have power to eat or to drink?" You know what I'm saying? [04:12] Do we not have power to lead about a sister? So he he's responding, you can tell he's responding to some type of [04:18] criticism. These people must be like criticizing like, "Man, y'all eating too much. Y'all eating good over there." Or something like that. Or they responded [04:25] to him saying something like, you know what I'm saying? maybe to him or maybe to one of the other apostles or one of the other disciples, they look like, [04:31] "Yeah, man. You know what I'm saying? Y'all trying to get you a wife. Are you trying to do something?" You know what I'm saying? So, he's like, "We don't [04:37] have power to lead about a woman." You know what I'm saying? Keep going. [04:58] Uh, have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the [05:04] Lord? And see, take off that cover, son. [05:15] For I only and Barnabas have not we power to forbear working. They said, "Have not we power [05:22] to forbear working?" In other words, you know what I'm saying? It ain't in our authority to retire. Right? So these must be [05:29] criticism that they have like man they don't even got no jobs. Right? Watch what Paul say. [05:43] Where it is written, wait, who goeth who goeth a war warfare [05:50] at any time his own charges? Who plants a vineyard and eateth not of the fruit thereof? Or who feeds a flock and eats [05:57] not of the milk of the flock? Right? So he's asking question. He's like, "If a man plants a vineyard, what man plants a [06:05] vineyard and he don't get a grape from it?" Right? He plant the vine, whole vine. He spent he spent all winter [06:12] preparing his his summer fruit, right? And then finally fruit starts to grow from what he planted and he's saying, [06:19] "What man put all that work in and he don't get a grape from his own vineyard?" Right? So he's he's making a [06:26] case to them. He's starting to make a case and they they must be criticizing him about the liberties that he have. [06:32] You know what I'm saying? Like, man, you know what I'm saying? What you mean? And y'all over there eating. Y'all doing a whole lot of eating. And it looked like, [06:38] you know what I'm saying? You trying to get you a new wife or trying to get you a wife or something like that. And and you know what I'm saying? Like, you know [06:43] what I'm saying? Like, what's going on with y'all? And he talking about like, oh, is that not that against the law for [06:49] us? Can we not go find us a woman? Right? Is it against like are we [06:55] breaking a rule by enjoying food? Right? You telling me I can't [07:02] retire? It's against a rule to retire. Is this not something that we can do? So, it seems like he defending either [07:08] him or the other apostles, probably other apostles that are being criticized, right? Watch what he say [07:14] now. [07:23] For it is written in the law of Moses, "Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treads out the corn." God take [07:29] care for the oxen, or saith he it altogether for our sakes. For our sakes, [07:34] no doubt. This is right. So he said, look, it's written. This is good. I like I like looking at this one because when [07:41] you think about like, okay, so he quoted the he quoted the law, right? He said, "It is written that the ox shouldn't be [07:49] muzzled while he's like while while the ox is doing the ox's work. You shouldn't [07:54] put a cover over his mouth, right?" And Paul is in there. [08:00] He's like, "Do you think God wrote this and gave it to us because he cares so [08:05] much about the ox, or is he giving us a principle that we can adopt for [08:10] ourselves and how we treat one another?" He's gonna make this when you put a [08:16] muzzle on the ox, right? You put it over the face so it can't eat, right? So what they would have is something called the [08:22] threshing floor and you would strap a ox to a yolk, right? So you'll put it over [08:28] the ox neck. So when the ox is bent over like this, right? You slap it on the butt and then the ox start walking. Now [08:36] the yolk makes the ox walk around in circles, right? So the ox is doing like this. M think of ox as a cows like [08:44] m it's just going in circles and it's walking on the floor. Well, some of the [08:49] some of the the grain that we got, you have to crush it first, right, for you [08:54] to do something with it. So, the ox is really just walking over a whole bunch of grain and he's crushing it cuz he's [09:00] so heavy. And so, from that, we can start making bread and we can start making all the stuff that we like to [09:06] make from our grain. So we call it a threshing floor because the ox is threshing out the floor. But you don't [09:13] the ox actually eats grain, right? So you don't want the ox to start eating [09:19] all of the grain. So sometimes a person real smart, they'll say, "Well, let me muzzle that ox so he can just he can [09:26] thresh and he can crush all of my grain, but he can't eat my grain." And so our [09:33] law made that illegal. We could not muzzle a ox that was crushing our grain. You got to let the ox eat some of what [09:40] he's working on. Right? And so the point that Paul is making is like is a man [09:45] going to set up a vineyard and not have a grape from his own vineyard? And then he say even our law tell us that you [09:52] can't muzzle the ox. Grab uh grab let's let's look at the law. This is uh [09:57] Deuteronomy chapter 25. It's Deuteronomy chapter 25. It's somewhere in the beginning. We could just start at verse [10:05] one. Then Deuteronomy chapter 25 [10:21] verse1 the sister said the sister said in Christianity we would say this scripture to pay the preacher. Verse [10:28] nine. That's right. That's no that's that is what he's saying. That's exactly what he's saying. He's saying, well, not [10:34] necessarily the preacher in the in the sense of Christianity, but he's saying pay the man of God. That's exactly the [10:40] point that he's trying to make. He's saying basically the point that he trying to make is if I'm spending my [10:46] time teaching all y'all and I'm going to Corenth and I'm going to to to to Rome [10:52] and I'm going to uh Ephesus and I'm going to all these different cities. I'm [10:58] going back and forth to Jerusalem and I'm giving everybody the word. I'm teaching everybody the word. I'm showing [11:04] you how to do this. I'm sitting here with you. I'm laboring with you. I'm helping you out. I'm guiding you. I'm [11:09] giving advice. I'm doing all these things, right? He's saying, "Is it not in my authority to have a good [11:16] meal? Is it not in my authority to find a woman that I'm attracted to to [11:21] marry? You telling me it's not in my authority to retire from my day job?" [11:27] Right. So the the the point he's making is if I'm if I'm investing in you [11:34] spiritual things, then you can't muzzle me, right? You can't tell me I can't [11:39] enjoy, you know what I'm saying? Some of the things that I'm investing, right? So that's exactly although the Christians, [11:45] you know what I'm saying? All the Christians is uh, you know what I'm saying? Got pastors that really don't teach anything. You know what I'm [11:51] saying? In principle, it's right. Exactly what the Christians is using this for is right. Right. It's about [11:56] paying the man of God, right? Watch. Watch. So, I just want y'all to look at how how the man how Paul is able to take [12:05] a scripture, see the principle in it, and then apply it. This is called judgment. Right? So, with the law, you [12:12] always had, we don't have to get it, but the law gave us that it would have judges that will decide things that were [12:17] not documented clearly in the law. Our law says that it gives authority to judges to decide things that are not [12:24] documented clearly in the law. Right? So the way that the judges are supposed to come up with those judgments is they're [12:30] supposed to use the principles of the law. So that's what Paul is doing right now. He's saying, "Look, I'm looking at [12:35] the principle of our commandment that says this." This is Deuteronomy 25:1. [12:41] Watch this. If there be a controversy between men and they come unto judgment [12:46] that the judges may judge them, then they shall justify the righteous and condemn the wicked. And it shall be if [12:53] the wicked man be worthy to be beaten that the judge shall c cause him to lie down and be beaten before his face [13:00] according to his fault by a certain number. 40 stripes he may give him and [13:05] not exceed less if he should exceed exceed and beat him above these which [13:10] many with many stripes then thy brother should seem vile unto thee. Right? So [13:16] you can get 40 stripes. Right? That's when it say 40 stripes. That means when [13:21] you take somebody and you beat them, right? Let's say when you whooping your kids, right? You get you get you a nice little belt. You know what I'm saying? [13:27] You go like that. You got to count them thing. Yeah. Yeah. But the book say you [13:32] can't go over 40. That's a strict rule. You know what I'm saying? I I whoop many [13:37] of you in here, right? But guess what? I didn't go over 40. I keep count. I one, [13:44] two, three, four. You know what I'm saying? I might lose a count or two, but I estimate at that point. I'll be like, "All right, I might be at about 15." [13:51] Yeah. Yeah. I feel like I'm too close to 40. I'll be like, "All right, let me relax." Right? Because that's law for [13:59] me. The book say you can't go above 40 stripes, right? Keep going. [14:07] Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treads out the corn. Mhm. So now, nobody [14:13] who reads this is going to look at it and be like, "Oh, that's talking about paying the man of God." That's that's [14:18] that's talking about paying the teacher of God. You know what I'm saying? When the man is teaching Yah's work, when the [14:24] man is serving Yah's people, this this verse is talking about paying them. Read it again. [14:31] Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treads out the corn. No. Everybody look at that and say, "All [14:37] right, if you got a ox and he treading out the corn, don't muzzle him." That's law, right? Now, we don't deal with oxen [14:45] much. What a muzzle is you put something on over the face. You know what I'm saying? [14:51] You put, you know what I'm saying? Like, you muzzle a dog so it don't bite you. You know what I'm saying? So, if you got a dog that's real bad, you put a muzzle [14:57] on his face and it's like a little strap that goes around his mouth so he can't open up his mouth and he can't get through it. And then by doing that, now [15:04] the dog can't bite you. But, they would use it for a o ax, which is like a cow. It would use it for the ox so that the [15:10] ox couldn't eat the grain that it was stomping on because if it eat the grain then that's less grain for me. Right? So [15:17] most high God said no that's not fair to the ox. You got the ox doing all this work and you don't want to share none of your grain with them. Most high God said [15:24] no that's not okay. You know what I'm saying? In in Israel we don't muzzle our ox when we when we you know what I'm [15:30] saying? The ox got to get a little bit of the grain that it's working on. That's our culture. That's our law. [15:35] Right. You go to Egypt, you go to Jordan, or you go to, you know what I'm saying? Uh, what's it called? You go to [15:42] uh Syria, you know what I'm saying? You go to Turkey, you go to all these other places. Well, they might well put a [15:48] muzzle on their darn aka. That's not their law, right? But our law wouldn't. They wouldn't let us do nothing crazy [15:53] like that. Don't put no muzzle on that darn ax. Let the ox eat. You know what I'm saying? He working for you. Let him darn eat. He ain't supposed to eat when [15:59] he working. That's crazy, right? So now when Paul read this, he looked at it in [16:05] principle. He said, "Okay, well specifically talking about an ox, but if if we know God's mind, then this [16:13] principle applies to many things." So now he's applying that principle to him, [16:19] right? And he can do that because he knows the law. When he thinks about it, he's looking like, "Look, if I'm [16:24] teaching all y'all the word, if I'm going from city to city, I'm building whole congregations. I'm putting [16:32] teachers in place. I'm training those teachers and teaching them the gospel so that they'll be able to guide y'all." [16:38] Right? He's like, "I'm helping out. I'm giving everything I got for this. And you mean to tell me I don't deserve to [16:45] be able to retire? I can't ask y'all for no money. Y'all saying I can't [16:51] eat. I'm not supposed to eat because y'all, you know what I'm saying? While I'm I'm giving everything to y'all. He's [16:58] like, "Man, that's like that's like violating the law of you got to muzzle a ox when he when he treading the corn. [17:04] You can't do that. You're not supposed to muzzle the ox." And he's basically telling them, "Y'all trying to muzzle [17:09] me, right? Y'all trying to muzzle me, but that's not that's not fair." He's letting them know that's against our [17:15] law. He's like, "What you think? What you think this law is only about ax? You think God cared about a ox? He said no. [17:21] He wrote that for our sake. But because he knows the law, he can apply that [17:26] because it's no different from the Levites or the priests. Right. Go to Leviticus for me real [17:37] quick. That's right. The said you can't just take from the from the labor. And that's what they did. They they're [17:42] looking at they looking at it as two separate things. They looking at the spiritual things like, "Okay, well, yeah. Thank you. Praise y'all. I [17:48] appreciate that. That's a good word. That's a good word. And then they separated when the man is looking like, "All right, well, you know, it's time to [17:55] collect." You know what I'm saying? I need some money. This, that, and the other. Then everybody looking at him [18:00] like, "Uh, no." Then they start criticizing. No, but you you eat you eat good food. [18:06] You know what I'm saying? They probably caught Paul with a nice steak. That boy eating a nice little steak. They looking like But Paul looking like, "What? I [18:13] can't eat. I can't enjoy a meal. Uh, go to Numbers. I said Leviticus. Go [18:20] to Numbers. Give me Numbers chapter 18. It's Numbers 18 [18:36] 21 is Numbers 18 verse 21. [18:50] The sister said Marvin sap the boy. Look, they said that boy said he shut the door. Say he shut the door. No, shut [18:58] up. No, I'm serious. Close the door. He crazy. People are crazy. The people are [19:08] crazy. This numbers chapter 18 verse 21. Watch what the book say. [19:14] And Yahweh said unto Aaron, "Thou and thy sons and thy father's house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the [19:20] sanctuary. And thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood." When it say bear the [19:26] iniquity, it's saying basically if there's something that goes wrong, it's your fault. When it say bear their [19:32] iniquity, he's saying it's your responsibility. It's another way of saying it's your responsibility. Right. Keep going. [19:43] Thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou with thee, that they may be joined unto thee, [19:49] and minister unto thee. But thou and thy sons with thee shall minister before the tabernacle of witness. What verse is [19:55] that? Uh two, go down to [20:02] 21. This is numbers chapter 18 verse 21. [20:14] And behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tent in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which [20:21] they serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation. Neither must the children of Israel [20:26] henceforth come near the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin and die. Levites shall do the service of the [20:33] tabernacle of the congregation. They should. So now, who's doing the service of the tabernacle of the congregation? [20:39] The Levites, right? The Levites is kind of like the ox on the threshing floor. [20:44] The Levites got to walk in a yoke and crush the grain. Are you going to muzzle [20:50] them? Are you going to make it to where they can't eat? Let's [20:58] see. But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their [21:03] iniquity. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel, they have no [21:09] inheritance. But the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer as a heave offering unto Yahweh, I have [21:15] given to the Levites to inherit. Therefore, I have said unto them, among the children of Israel, they shall have [21:20] no inheritance. Right? So, they got no inheritance and they have to serve. But [21:27] in return, the most high God says everybody got to give them a tenth of [21:33] everything. They get the tithe, right? So the most high God is [21:39] showing, well, no, you cannot muzzle the ox. And because Paul understands that in [21:44] principle, then he's able to apply it in this situation that's not specifically [21:50] documented in our law, right? But he's able to take that principle and say, "No, this is wrong." What y'all trying [21:56] to do, right? The way y'all coming at me is wrong, right? It's like, you can't [22:01] get mad at me because I enjoy a good meal. You can't get mad at me because I [22:06] didn't found a woman that, you know what I'm saying? I'm thinking I'm thinking about marrying. You can't get mad at me [22:11] because I'm collecting money from y'all and I get to a point where I say, "You know what? I want to retire." These, [22:17] man, the way y'all coming at this is wrong. Y'all trying to muzzle the ox. Y'all trying to like, no, I'mma stop [22:23] paying a man a guy. You know why? He getting too much money, right? And y'all see it happen in the Christian church [22:29] all the time, right? The only difference is it should happen there cuz nobody should have been giving them boys money [22:35] to begin with. They not teaching nobody nothing, right? They in there trying to make you feel good as a motivational speaker, right? At least they shouldn't [22:42] be giving them money in the name of God. Motivational speakers need money, too. You know what? They deserve money, too. [22:47] They they have a service, too. But when we talking about the the work of the most high God, these Christian don't [22:53] deserve none of this money. You know what I'm saying? Average Christian, they be lying, getting up there, not telling nobody nothing, just teaching [22:59] falsehoods, teaching empty, vain teacher, right? But we talking about Paul. We talking about the man of God. [23:05] We talking about an apostle, right? He looking like, man, I'm worth every darn penny. What are you talking about? I am [23:12] worth every darn penny. Let's go back. This is uh 1 Corinthians chapter 9. Where we leave off? uh verse [23:25] 9. This is uh 1 Corinthians chapter [23:36] 9:9. For it is written in the law of Moses, "Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treads out the corn." [23:42] Does God take care for the oxen? Or sayaith he it altogether for our sakes for our sakes no doubt this is written [23:50] that he that ploweth should plow in hope and he that thresh in hope should be partaker of his hope if we have sown [23:57] unto you spiritual things is it a great thing if we shall reap unto your carnal things right so he's saying he's saying [24:03] listen if I've put spiritual seeds in you right I've labored to dig spiritual [24:11] holes in your soul and put spiritual seeds in there so that something will blossom in you spiritually, right? And [24:18] what does that look like? I'm reading the word. I'm teaching the word. You ask a question. I'm breaking it down. I'm [24:24] doing all these different things. I'm going from this city to that city. I'm doing it. I'm taking some of y'all from [24:30] this city and bring Cuz you see, he is like, "Yo, have so and so come with me." So, I'm going from city to city. I'm [24:36] finding some of y'all. I'm making y'all leaders over your city. Then I'm taking y'all going to different cities, making [24:41] you lead that city. like I'm establishing entire congregation. The man is like religion as a lot of us know [24:50] it. He's setting it up. He's setting the foundation of that right now himself. So he looking at he looking like, "Wait a [24:56] minute. Wait a minute. Let me just let me just make this clear. You mean to tell me you think that I don't deserve [25:03] to have some of your I'm I'm putting spiritual things in you. You think I don't deserve to have some of your [25:09] little money, to have some of your little resources. I can't stay at your darn house. I can't do this. I can't do [25:16] this. Like, what are you talking about? So, he look like the because you have to you have to ask yourself that question. [25:22] What's more valuable? I I I have the opportunity to live forever based off of [25:27] this man's teaching. All of us do. All of us do. All based off of Paul's [25:32] teaching largely, right? We have an opportunity to live forever, right? So, we got to ask [25:39] ourselves, what's more valuable? H living forever or a few funky dollars [25:45] that I got in my pocket that I want to hold on to. And so, Paul's looking like, you [25:50] think I'm putting all this good stuff in you and you think I don't have a right [25:55] to ask you for a couple dollars? He look like, man, y'all are warped in the mind. Right. Keep going. Watch this. [26:09] If others be partakers of this of this power over you, are we not rather? [26:15] Right? So he's telling them if others be partakers of this power. So in other words, he's saying y'all giving these [26:20] money to other people. Right? I'm the man of God. I set [26:25] this whole thing up. Y'all taking this money and y'all giving it to other people. Don't we have a right to do the [26:32] same thing? Y'all getting mad at us, right? Keep [26:41] going. Uh, if others be partakers of this power over you, are we not rather? [26:47] Nevertheless, we have not used this power, but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of the Messiah. [26:53] Right? So, he looking like, you know what, but we ourselves, the way y'all talking to me, I don't even want to ask [26:58] y'all for nothing. Right? Because if I ask y'all for something, it might hinder [27:03] the gospel. In other words, what he's saying is by him asking them for money. And by him making it a thing like, man, [27:10] oh, y'all need to pay up. Y'all need to do this. Y'all need to support the men of God. I shouldn't have to work this, that, and the other. Right? He's saying [27:16] by by if he even put that in front of us, a lot of people that would be like, "No, I don't even want to hear. No, I [27:22] don't even want to hear the gospel." Right? So, he's looking like, "Man, look, I take the hit. I sacrifice. I [27:28] work with my own hands even though I shouldn't have to. I do all these things for the sake of the gospel going [27:35] forward. Right? Keep going. Watch [27:49] this. Do you not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? And they which [27:55] wait at the altar are partakers with the altar. Right? So now he's talking about he's talking about Leviticus or I'm [28:02] sorry Numbers like we was just reading. See how we were just reading that the tenth goes to the Levites and the [28:08] priests, the sons of Levi. So that's kind of what he's talking about here. He is like, "Don't you know the ones that [28:13] service the temple, they live based off of that service?" Keep going. Watch this. [28:25] Even so, that the master ordained that they which preach the gospel should live [28:32] of the gospel. But I have used none of these But I've used none of these [28:37] things, neither have I written these things, that it should be done unto me. For it were better for me to die than [28:42] that any man should make my glorying void. For though I preach the gospel, I have [28:48] nothing to glory of, for necessity is laid upon me. Yay, woe is unto me if I preach not the gospel. Mhm. For if I do [28:56] this thing willingly. Hold on. Grab Leviticus chapter 2 cuz I'm about to show y'all just I I [29:02] just want you to see how he can see the principle in the law cuz he brought up. He said, "Now, you know what I'm saying? [29:07] Don't you know that those that wait on the temple, they the ones that they they they survive by that temple?" It's Leviticus chapter 2. We going to start [29:14] at verse one real quick. Let's go over there. I just want to I just want to show y'all some things. It's Leviticus chapter 2 [29:20] verse [29:25] one. I I really really really like this chapter. Not because I'm asking y'all [29:31] for money. You know what I'm saying? You know, you know the pastor get it the sister brought up Malachi. You know the pastor, they'll bring up Malachi and be [29:37] like the Lord said you robbing God. You know what I'm saying? Be like you robbing God cuz you don't give him a [29:42] tie. Meanwhile, they tell you that the law done away with the hypocrites they are, right? But I like this not not [29:49] because I'm asking for money or I'm saying that, you know what I'm saying, me and brother T deserve money or anything like that. What the point of [29:56] this is is it helps you see how the scripture can be used for practical [30:01] life, right? The things that he's quoting from, it's one thing when the scripture tells you very directly, [30:07] right? The scripture tell you you shall not kill. You shall not steal. That's [30:13] very practical. It's just telling you, hey, don't steal. So if somebody steals, the Bible said don't steal. That's a [30:18] sin. Now, it's different when you take something that is not exactly what the [30:24] scripture said, but you take that principle and you say, "Look, although this is talking about a ox and musling [30:30] the ox or the priest and them getting a tent, this same principle applies here [30:37] because I'm teaching y'all. I'm setting up congregations. I'm feeding y'all spiritually and y'all are talking about [30:44] I can't like gain from that." So, he's looking like, "That's wrong. That is [30:49] just like the law that tells us you can't muzzle the ox, right? And that's [30:55] important for us because at some point as we learn our law and as we learn our scripture and as we start to get [31:01] judgment from God and when we say judgment, judgment, it means that God is deciding what is right or wrong. He's [31:08] showing a path of what's right and wrong in a situation. Once we start to get that, then we can apply the principles [31:14] of those judgments to things that God hasn't directly decided on or he hasn't directly given us a commandment on. And [31:21] that's important because that becomes wisdom for us. Right? This is uh Leviticus chapter 2 verse one. Watch [31:28] what the book say. And when any will offer a meat and [31:35] and when any will offer a meat a meat offering unto Yahweh, his offering shall [31:41] be of fine flour, and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense [31:47] thereon. And he shall bring it to Aaron's sons, the priest. And he shall take there out his handful of the flour [31:54] thereof, of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof. And the priest shall burn the memorial of it upon the [31:59] altar to be an offering made by fire of a sweet savor unto Yahweh. So before the priest burnt it, what did he do? [32:07] Chopped it up. Took all the stuff out. Read it again. Watch this. I just want [32:12] y'all to see what the priest did before he burnt it. And he shall bring it to Aaron's [32:17] sons and priest. And he shall take thereof his handful of the flour thereof, and the oil, and all the [32:23] frankincense thereof, and the priest shall burn the memorial of it upon the altar. Right? You got to take you a nice [32:29] little handful before that thing get burnt. Then the priest burn the rest. Jump over. Look at uh chapter 7. [32:37] This is Leviticus chapter 7. Leviticus chapter 7. Jump jump jump [32:45] jump jump jump jump jump jump jump jump jump jump jump jump jump jump jump jump jump jump jump jump jump jump jump jump jump jump jump jump jump jump jump jump jump jump jump jump jump jump jump jump on down to like verse 28. It's Leviticus chapter 7 verse 28. Watch the book [32:56] say you know what I'm saying? You bring that peace offering that that that meat is a meat offering or a food offering. [33:02] When we say meat when we look at in the King James version and it say got your nose nasty butt. When you you in the [33:07] King James version it say uh meat. It's really saying food. It's not saying meat as in flesh, right? is talking about [33:13] food, right? So when you bring that food offering, right, where it's usually grain, right? You bring a food offering [33:19] and it's grain. You know what I'm saying? Priest got to take a little handful of that. Then he taking he burning. But the handful is his, right? [33:28] This is uh Leviticus uh chapter 7, jump on down to like 28. [33:33] Yahweh spake unto Moses, saying, speak unto the children of Israel, saying, He that offers the sacrifice of his peace [33:39] offerings unto Yahweh shall bring his oblation unto Yahweh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings. His own hand shall [33:45] bring the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, the fat with the breast. It shall it shall he bring that the breast may be [33:52] waved for a wave offering before Yahweh. And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar, but the breast Look, the [33:58] priest is going to burn the fat that's on the altar. Watch this. But the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons. The [34:04] breast is going to be whose? Aaron and his sons. That goes the breast of the animal goes [34:10] to the priest. That's his right. Keep on. [34:17] And the right shoulder shall ye give unto the priest for a heave offering of the sacrifices of your peace offerings. [34:23] So not only do he get the breast, but then he get the right shoulder also. Right? So this is this is what [34:31] this is how Yah set it up that every time I bring a peace offering. We got to [34:36] chop this down. You get that piece and you get that piece. I keep the rest. [34:42] This get burned. I keep the rest. Right? For those of us reading in the [34:48] Bible in the year with us again, we going to get to that when we get to Leviticus and we when we get to Numbers [34:54] and we start to break it all down. We going to see and we going to show y'all images of like, okay, according to the [35:00] law, this piece goes here, this piece goes here. And you'll see how this stuff is divided. But they they lived and [35:06] survived off of their service because every time they burned a sacrifice for the people, the people had to share some [35:13] of that sacrifice. Not every time, but in a lot of them sacrifices, they had to share some of them sacrifices. So now [35:19] the priest who doesn't have an inheritance, right? The most high God didn't give them an inheritance. So the [35:26] priests, what they get is all the other tribes, they get a little piece. They [35:32] get 10% here. They get a piece of your sacrifice. So every little thing that they do, they get a little piece from [35:37] it. So now the ax is not muzzled, right? They get the thresh, but that ox is not [35:43] muzzled. Right? I really want us to be able to do this, right? I want us to be able to take what's in scripture, [35:49] understand the principle of it, and be able to apply it to our real lives. Right? We don't have ox today that's [35:57] doing a threshing floor. But how does that relate? It's telling us if I got somebody working for me or I got an [36:04] animal working for me, then it's not fair to deprive that person or that [36:09] animal to share in the things that it's doing for me. They deserve a peace. That's just [36:16] decency. That's just how we That's what the book is set up for. For us to treat one another, even our animals, right? [36:24] Treat each other with decency and with love and with [36:30] respect, right? And what Paul is trying to tell them is like what y'all doing is not out of love and respect. What y'all [36:37] doing is not fair. And you can even see it in the book, right? This is uh this [36:42] is uh uh 1 Corinthians chapter 9. Where we leave off? Uh verse 17. It's 1 [36:49] Corinthians chapter 9 verse 17. Watch what the book [36:57] say. 1 Corinthians chapter 9 verse 17. For I do this thing [37:04] willingly, I have a re For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward. But if against my will a dispensation of the [37:10] gospel is committed unto me, what is my reward then? Verily that [37:17] when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of the Messiah without charge, that I abuse not my power in the [37:23] gospel. For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself a servant [37:29] unto all, that I may gain the more. And unto the Jews I become as a Jew, that I [37:34] might gain the Jews. To them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law. [37:40] To them that are without law, as without law, being not without law unto God, but under the law of the Messiah. Right? So [37:47] this is them that are without law. This is this is where we can read and see that there's a separation between the [37:54] commandments that came from Moses and the commandments that came from Yahushua. Right? because all this time [38:01] he's making a point of saying, "Look, I have the right if I want to to collect [38:06] money from y'all and to retire from work." Then he came back and was like, "But you know what? Even though I had a [38:13] right to do this, I don't even do it because I don't even want to get in the way of the gospel." Cuz I know some of y'all going to be like, "No, I don't [38:18] even want to hear the gospel if that's the case." Right? So he's like, "Man, I ain't even going to do it. I ain't going to ask nobody for money. Y'all ain't [38:24] about to y'all ain't about to get in the way of my work. I know what my job is. Y'all will provide for me, right? And [38:30] then he's saying, I by doing that, I've made myself a servant to [38:36] everybody, right? I've made myself a servant to everybody. So then he continues with that same idea. You got [38:43] to see how Paul's mind works. Now he's he stopped talking about the money piece [38:48] and now he's sticking with the principle of him being. So he says, "Let me tell you some other ways that I make myself a [38:55] servant to all that I'll give up what I like and what I do for the betterment of [39:01] the gospel." So then he says, "When I'm with people that keep the law, I keep [39:07] the law. When I'm with people that are without law, then I'm without law." But [39:13] then he makes a distinction. Although I'm not without law to the Messiah. So [39:18] what that means is there is there's a different commandment and expectation [39:23] from the Messiah than there is versus the the law when we talking about the [39:29] law of Moses, right? And this is difficult for some people to understand, but that is the fact Moses brought a [39:37] carnal law. Not carnal in the sense that there was no spirituality in it, but carnal in the sense that it was meant to [39:44] govern our bodies, our physical bodies. Yahosua brought something. Well, it was [39:50] both. It was both spiritual and carnal, right? Yahosua brought something that was purely spiritual, right? What he's [39:58] what he's doing is governing and preparing you for a spiritual life, for [40:03] the resurrection. And so, it's two different covenants, two very different [40:09] um expectations. One doesn't one one doesn't get rid of the other, right? And [40:16] this is why Paul has the freedom to say, "No, when I'm with somebody who keeps the law, for the sake of the gospel, I'm [40:23] gonna keep the law." And when I'm with someone who does not keep the law, who doesn't know the law for the sake of the [40:30] gospel, I don't want me keeping the law to get in a way of them understanding what's required for them to be saved. So [40:36] he said, "For them, I don't keep the law. However, I always keep the law of [40:42] the Messiah." In other words, I don't steal, I don't lie, I don't cheat on my [40:48] wife, I don't uh fornicate, I don't He lists all the commandments that Mark [40:54] chapter 7, Ephesians chapter 5, 1 Corinthians chapter 6, uh I'm missing [41:00] one. Revelations 22, I think. Revelation chapter 22. I'm still missing one [41:06] though, ain't I? Galatians 5. Galatians chapter 5. Right. So he's saying I'm all [41:11] those things that are in those those places all the sins that they say will not enter into the kingdom or the sins [41:16] that are going to be without or the sins that defile a man those are the ones that you can't enter into the kingdom [41:23] with and he's saying you have to turn away from those sins. Ari sit over [41:32] here. Keep going. Uh sister Pam had a question. Oh, she's [41:39] this confuses me. Are we under the new covenant with Yahosua? Right. No. Technically, no. The new covenant [41:46] haven't started. But we are we are if we are to live, right? If we want to live [41:52] forever and if we want to be under the new covenant, then we have instruction from Yahushua on how to do that. That's [41:58] why it's called faith. That's why you got to keep it in faith. Cuz that's if [42:04] you want to be under the law, right, and you want to remain, we all under the law. We all under the law just means you [42:10] have to bear the penalty of the law. And the penalty of the law ultimately is [42:15] what? Death. Death. Is there anybody that's going to get out of here without dying? Okay. So therefore, everybody is [42:23] under the law because everybody is going to face the penalty that comes with the law. right now. If that's where you want [42:30] it to end, if anybody is looking like that's good enough for me, I'm going to put my trust in the law and whatever the [42:36] whatever comes with the law, that's what I'm going to do. Then go for it, right? That's what Moses has to offer you [42:43] though. And if you have ever sinned at any point in your life, then the best you going to get from Moses is death. [42:50] Right? So Yahosua came along. He's not doing away with that. Everybody still got to die under Moses law because [42:57] that's righteous and that's right and it's just, right? But what he said is listen, if you do these things that I'm [43:04] telling you, I will resurrect you. So therefore, that's what Paul means when [43:09] he says, I'm without law, but not without law to the Messiah because I'm [43:16] going to do what the Messiah says regardless cuz I know by doing that I'm already condemned by Moses's law. But by [43:23] doing what the Messiah says, guess what? I can be resurrected. Oh, we got [43:29] go to John chapter [43:36] 3. This is John chapter 3. Give me verse uh [43:42] 14. The Gospel of John. It just say John. It don't have no number by it. Just say [43:48] John. Give me John chapter 3. Give me verse uh 14. [43:54] Watch the books [44:12] say and as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up. Mhm. that whosoever [44:19] believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. That's right. For God so loved the world that he gave his only [44:25] begotten son that whosoever shall believe in him should not perish but have everlasting life. Right? So why is [44:32] he telling us this? If you believe on him, you won't perish. You'll have everlasting life instead. Right? What [44:39] he's telling you is everybody under Moses law is going to die. I don't care [44:44] who you are. I don't care what you think you are. Moses, what Moses gave you is death because nobody's gonna live up to [44:50] that law. He's telling you that, right? The most high God sent his son so that whosoever is here that believe on him [44:58] won't perish. They'll have everlasting life. In other words, they'll experience the resurrection. But he'll tell you more clearly. Watch this. [45:05] For God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. He said, [45:11] look, my purpose is not to condemn the world. My purpose is that to give a [45:16] people uh give the people an opportunity to be saved. Let's see why. [45:23] He that believes on him is not condemned. But he that he that believes on him is not condemned. In other words, [45:30] he that believes on him can't be touched by Moses law because of the resurrection. Right? But what happens if [45:38] you don't believe on him? Watch this. But he that believeth not is condemned already. Because he has You're already [45:44] condemned. Why are you already condemned? Because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten son of [45:49] God. Because you are under the [45:55] law. So the question is, are we under the law? Absolutely. And that's why we [46:01] are already condemned. Hold we got go to John chapter 5. Give me John chapter 5. Jump on down [46:08] to what's the last verse? 47. Give me John chapter 5. I [46:14] want 403. I probably want 45 honestly, but give me John chapter 5 verse 43. Let me [46:21] see what the Let me see what the book say. Yosua is telling you you're all I [46:27] didn't Yahosua didn't pop up and condemn you. You were condemned before he got here. You want to start at 39? [46:36] No, not 39. I want like 40. What 43 say? Uh I am come in my father's name and you [46:42] receive. Yeah, that's the one I want. Okay, watch this. This is John 5 verse [46:48] 43. Watch the book set. I am come in my father's name and [46:55] you receive me not. If another shall come in his own name, him ye shall receive. [47:00] How can ye believe which receive honor one of another and seek not the honor that comes from God only? Watch this. Do [47:08] not think that I will cur Do not think that I would accuse you to the father. There is one that accuses you. Look, [47:14] he's telling you. He's saying I'm the same thing. I did not come to condemn you. I did not come to accuse you. [47:21] There's somebody else who already accused you. Who is he? Yahosua. [47:31] Even Moses in whom you trust. Moses condemned your butt [47:37] already. You trust the law. You looking at the law like, "Oh, the law going to save me. I just got to keep the law. If [47:43] I do everything the law so law, that's going to save me. I'mma live forever with the law." You idiot. Moses is the [47:50] one that accuses you. Yahosua is saying, "Look, I'm here. [47:55] You trust Moses. Moses is telling you you can't do it without doing what I say. This Deuteronomy chapter 18. This [48:02] Deuteronomy chapter 18 real quick. Deuteronomy chapter 18. Let's just hear what Moses cuz we got to hear it out of [48:07] Moses mouth. This is the whole setup that Y'all set up for us. Moses give us laws that we not going to live up to. [48:15] Right? Then after that, he give us a way out in Deuteronomy chapter 18. When the [48:20] way out show up in the flesh, we looking at it like, "No, man. We got to do what Moses said." Yo, you was talking about [48:26] Moses was telling you I was coming, right? And then and then these [48:33] liars and these people who ain't taught, they got our minds twisted. Now we can't [48:38] get it right because the reality is Yahosua has the ways to [48:45] life, right? He has the way to life and what he commanded us is not the same [48:50] thing as what what Moses anybody who read the scripture and whoever whoever read the gospel can tell you that [48:56] Yahosua did not command the same thing that Moses commanded [49:02] right and that's the key to understanding this thing. This is Deuteronomy 18:15. Watch the book say [49:08] real quick. Yahwh thy God will raise up unto thee a prophet from the midst of thee of thy [49:14] brethren like unto me. Unto him ye shall hearken. He said unto him you shall do [49:19] what? What hearken mean? Listen do what he say. That's what he [49:24] said. Where whenever he come do what he say. Now tell me if Moses is giving you [49:30] the words that are the only way to life. Why would he tell you to do what somebody else [49:36] said? Why would I? This is verse this chapter 18. He's in the middle of giving the law. Why won't he just say, "Look, I [49:43] already told you everything you need to know. Just do what I say." No, he said, "Look, it's going to be somebody else. [49:49] Y'all already told me this about to happen. Whenever the man come, he going to come. He going to be just like me. He going to be of your brother. He going to [49:55] be an Israelite." All right? I don't know who he going to be. I don't know what his name is. But whenever you see [50:01] that guy, do what he says. That's our law that's saying that. [50:06] Keep going. Watch this. according to all that you desired of Yahweh thy God in Horeb in the day of [50:13] the assembly, saying, "Let me not hear again the voice of Yahweh my God, neither let me see this great fire [50:19] anymore that I die not." What did we want in Horeb when we were sitting at at [50:24] on the mountain and Moses tells us, "Don't approach the mountain or else we'll be shot through." And we look up [50:29] there and it's thundering and it's fire and the mountain is darn erupting and everything is going nuts. It's going [50:35] crazy up there and we looking like what's happening and then the most high God starts speaking the 10 words, right? [50:41] He starts speaking the ten commandments right from the mountain. We heard his voice and it's erupting and going crazy. [50:47] It feel like we all about to die. What did we ask? Who [50:52] remembers? Huh? No, not the 10 plagues. What? What [51:00] did we ask for, brother T? We asked him, Moses, make him stop. Make him stop. And [51:06] then what? We said, you go up and talk to him. Whatever he tell you, you come back and tell us and we'll do [51:13] it. He asked for somebody to be the messenger in between us and God. That's [51:20] what we asked for. Give me somebody who can go here and bring it back to me cuz [51:27] we don't need to hear directly from God. So Moses is telling me look or he's telling us he's saying listen okay okay [51:32] okay okay you y'all asked for this so when buddy [51:38] pop up he going to be other brethren when he come make sure you listen to him [51:44] because he's the one that you asked for y'all thought y'all asked me to go up [51:49] there but I'm not the one when I was talking to the fire guess [51:55] what I had to do take off my darn shoe I'm not the redeemer. He's telling you, [52:01] he's saying, "Listen, the person that you thought I was, he's going to show up [52:07] later. And when he does, listen to him." That's our law telling us that. Watch [52:14] what he say next. In the day of the assembly, [52:20] saying, "Let me not hear again the voice of Yahweh my God, neither let me see his great fire anymore, that I die not." And [52:26] Yahweh said unto me, they have well spoken that which they have spoken. I will raise them up a prophet from among [52:32] their brethren like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command [52:37] him. And it shall come to pass that who It shall come to pass that whosoever [52:43] will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name that anybody who [52:48] don't obey or listen to the words of Yah that this man speaks in Yah's name shall [52:55] what? I will require it of him. He's telling you what is required to [53:03] enter into life. What's required is you listen to the specific words that are [53:09] spit that that are uh spoken by this man. This man that he's prophesying [53:16] about right here ends up being Yahosua. So when we read Yahosua's words, the [53:21] mistake that brothers make is they just assume and say, "No, he's he really just teaching the same thing Moses taught." [53:28] No, he's not. Because Moses wouldn't have told you to listen to him if he was just going to say do everything that I [53:33] already told you, you idiot. Right? What Moses is telling you [53:39] is this man is going to say something and God told me that he's going to put specific words in his mouth and anything [53:45] that that man says, that's what we are required to do. Then you fast forward, you look into [53:53] the gospel and you look at what specifically did he say? Did he tell you you have to keep the Sabbath or you [53:59] going to hell? He didn't tell you that. Does that mean that okay, you shouldn't [54:04] keep the Sabbath? He didn't tell you that either. The only thing he told you is if you want to enter the life, keep [54:10] the commandments. The man asked him which commandment. He told you don't dishonor your mother and your father. [54:15] Don't kill. Don't steal. Don't murder. Don't kill. Don't murder. Right? He gave you like five of the four commandments. [54:21] Then he said, "Love your neighbor as yourself. If you do this, you'll go into the kingdom." Yahweh your God is one. [54:27] He gave you two commands. He said Yahweh your God is one. And he said love your neighbor as yourself. He said by doing [54:33] that you fulfill the prophets. In Mark 7 he tells you these are the things that defile a man. Right? He talk about [54:40] cheating on your wife. He talk about uh uh uh fornication. He talk about magic. He talking about uh blaspheming. He talk [54:47] about all these different things that's listed there in Mark chapter 7. Right? These are the things that defile a man [54:53] and these come out of the heart of a man. This is the teaching of Yahosua. [54:58] The problem that we have is we get to add into it just because we want to make assumptions because we haven't looked [55:04] and said, "Oh, these are the things that's required of us like Moses told us." So what Yahosua is saying to us is [55:10] y'all thought I came to condemn you. I did not. What I came to do is give you [55:15] life, but y'all won't listen to me. You already got somebody who accuses you. [55:21] It's Moses. And that's the one that y'all trust. Y'all think Moses is going to save you. But Moses was telling you [55:27] when he wrote the law, I can't save you. It's going to be somebody that's coming. And when he come listen to you because I [55:34] mean, listen to him because that's what you asked for when you was at Mount [55:40] Si. The boy can't teach none of this darn word. They make a mess of it and got our people confused. [55:48] Let's go back. This is uh 1 Corinthians chapter what? Uh 9 verse 21. [55:56] 9 verse 21. Just uh jump over to 10. This is uh 1 Corinthians chapter 10 [56:07] verse1. Moreover, brethren, I would how that all our fathers were under the [56:13] cloud and all passed through the sea. [56:20] and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea. And did they all eat the same spiritual meat? And did all [56:27] drink the same spiritual drink? They drank of that spiritual rock that followed them. That rock was the [56:33] Messiah. But how many of them God was but but with many of them God was not [56:39] well pleased. Right? So now I want y'all to see what he's doing. He said they all drank of that spiritual rock. Read start [56:45] at verse one for me because it we read over this stuff sometimes and we don't understand what Paul is doing. It's like [56:52] this is a bad boy. Just watch what watch what he's doing. This verse one this 1 Corinthians chapter 10 verse one. Watch [56:58] the book say moreover brethren I would not that ye should be ignorant. How that all our fathers were under the cloud and [57:05] all pass all of our fathers were under the cloud. What is he talking about? [57:12] was the cloud that gave us uh refuge by day. That's the cloud we followed. [57:18] Right? When we came out of Egypt, the most high God put a cloud in the sky to [57:23] block the sun from hitting us. So he he just gave us a a huge shade, right? And [57:28] that cloud also it would move. And so naturally we black. So when that sun [57:34] start hitting us, what we going to do? a group of a a crowd of black people. What [57:40] they gonna do when the sun come out, man? Let me find the shade. You know what I'm saying? Somebody Somebody [57:45] better give me some shade. We go We go right to the shade. So when the when the shade move above us, what you think we [57:51] going to do? No, it's time to move. So he used to use the cloud to show us [57:56] which way to go in the wilderness cuz we would have been lost out there, right? [58:01] We probably avoided all types of battles that we wasn't ready for. You probably got different tribes of people. [58:07] migrating in different places. He like, "Just go this way. Y'all ain't ready for them boy. They'll whoop y'all out." You [58:12] know, sit y'all butts over here for a little while. Okay, now it's safe to go this way. He directing us on where we [58:17] need to go with this cloud. And he said all of our fathers, all of our ancestors [58:23] were under that cloud. Watch this. Keep [58:30] going. And all passed through the sea. All were baptized unto Moses in the [58:35] cloud and in the sea. Right? So all were baptized unto Moses in the [58:42] sea. Right? So now when we when we read it for those of us reading the Bible in [58:47] a year, right? We we about to read this in a in a few weeks, right? We about to read about how we left the wilderness [58:53] and all that in a few weeks. When we read it, you are not going to read anything to say that the children of [58:58] Israel were baptized in the Red Sea. You're not gonna read that. But what he's looking at is he's saying [59:05] technically this testifies of the baptism from the Messiah. Right? So he's [59:12] he's he's he's showing us that he you can interpret into scripture principles [59:18] that are applied later in the Messiah. Right? Keep [59:24] going. This is skill. What he what Paul is doing right now is skill. Right? It's [59:29] just showing that the spirit of God is guiding his understanding of the book. Right? Watch this. Keep [59:35] going. And all were baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and did all [59:40] eat the same spiritual meat, and did all drink the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual rock that [59:46] followed them. And that rock was the Messiah. But with many of them God was not well pleased, for they were [59:52] overthrown in the wilderness. Now these things were our examples in the intent in the to the intent that we should not [60:00] lust after evil things as they also lusted. Right? So what he's saying is [60:05] everybody got the benefit of the cloud. Everybody got the benefit of walking through the Red Sea. Everybody got the [60:11] benefit of of the rock. But he he says that's the Messiah. That was the Messiah. That that was that rock that [60:16] had the water coming out, right? Everybody got these benefits. God was doing this for everybody of our people. [60:23] In other words, all of them look like they were saved, right? But then everybody that [60:31] was over 20 years old got overthrown in the wilderness. So he's looking at it [60:36] like don't think that you made it so far that most high God can't take your butt [60:41] down. Right? That's the message. He's saying learn from that example. Watch this. Keep going. Now these things were [60:48] our example to to the intent we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted. Neither be ye idolattors as were [60:55] some of them as it is written. The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play. Neither let us commit [61:02] fornication as some of them committed and fell one day three and 20,000 [61:08] 23,000. Neither let us tempt the Messiah as some of them also tempted and were destroyed of serpents. Neither murmur ye [61:15] as some of them also murmured and were destroyed of the destroyer. Now all these things happened unto them for [61:21] examples and that are and they are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come. Wherefore [61:27] all right he said excuse me when he say written of our admoni excuse [61:33] me when he say written of our admonition he says they're written to warn us right [61:38] to warn us of what could come if we don't obey. Right? Keep going. [61:44] Now the wait, sorry. Wherefore, let him that think he stands take heed lest he [61:50] fall. There has no temptation taken you but such as such as is common to man. [61:56] But God has in other words there's no temptation that you going to face is nothing that's going to make you want to [62:01] sin that one other person has hasn't said I've overcome that. Right? If you [62:08] got an addiction to drugs, there are people who have overcome an addiction to [62:15] drugs. If you in love with somebody and you fornicating, there are people that even though they was in love, they [62:22] stopped fornicating. Goodness gracious. [62:28] So you got to make sure that you have it in your mind that no matter what sin you [62:34] struggling with, you don't tell yourself, "Oh, it's impossible." Like these Christians try [62:40] to tell us. It's not impossible. He's saying there's nothing that tempts you that's [62:46] not common to man. In other words, this is regular. This is something that people [62:53] have had to deal with from the beginning of time. Nothing's new. you're not dealing with nothing unique. But that's [63:00] what we tell ourselves. We try to isolate ourselves and make ourselves feel like nobody understands what I'm [63:05] going through. That's not true. There's plenty of people that understand what you're going through and there some of them do it better. And you can do it [63:12] just as good as you good just as good as they are if you just get your stuff together. If you make the decision to [63:17] obey. So he's telling you there's no temptation that's unique to you. All of it is common to everybody. Everybody is [63:25] dealing with the same stuff. And whatever sin you struggling with, there are a million people that have overcome [63:31] that sin. All you got to do is tell yourself, "No, I'm going to overcome it because through the Messiah, there is [63:38] nothing that's impossible to me." Right? Keep going. [63:48] But God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able, but will with the temptation also [63:55] make a way of escape that ye may be able to bear it. Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry. I speak as [64:01] to wise men, judge ye what I say. The cup of blessing which we bless, [64:08] is it not the communion of the blood of the Messiah? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the blood of [64:14] the Messiah? Well, grab uh Genesis chapter 4 real quick. I just want to show y'all a real example of [64:23] this. There is no temptation that comes to us that's that's something that's [64:28] uncommon. That's something that nobody has ever dealt with. Everything that we deal with, somebody else has overcome [64:36] already. Right? So then what Yah does is he gives us a way out of it. Before we [64:41] do it, he gives us a way out of it. Right? This is Genesis chapter 4. Give me verse one. [64:48] And Adam knew his wife. And uh jump on down to verse three. [64:54] And in the process of time it came to pass that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground and offering unto Yahweh. But [65:01] Abel he also brought the first lings of his flock and of the fat thereof. Yahweh [65:06] had respect unto Abel and to his offering. But Cain but unto Cain and his offering he had not respect. [65:14] Abel brought the best. When he looked at it, he brought he brought he brought the he brought the animals and he brought [65:20] the best of his flock. He is looking like when Abel came and he was about to give his. He looked at his animals. He [65:26] said, "You know what? That's a nice one there. You might be my favorite. I'mma give God my favorite." Right? And he [65:32] brought the best and he brought it to him. That's what it's talking about when they say the fact, right? He brought the [65:38] best part of it. Then Cain, you know what I'm saying? He brought what he brought. [65:44] And the most high God was looking like, I like what Abel did. I can do something with what Abel did. Brought me an animal [65:50] animal sucker. I'mma You know what? Let's Let's pattern something off of what Abel did. And he brought the best [65:55] of it, too. I like that. Right. Let's see how Cain felt about that. [66:01] Was very wroth and his countenance fell. And Yahweh said unto Cain, "Why art thou wroth?" And why? So, look how the most [66:07] high God guy. This is the temptation. Him being upset with his brother. is being upset that Yah was uh was uh took [66:15] favor on on on on Abel's stuff. That was the temptation. So Yahw popped in to [66:20] give him a way out. Watch what he [66:25] say. Why art thy wroth? And why is thy countenance fallen? If thou doeth well, [66:31] shalt thou not be accepted? And if thou doest not well, sin lies at the door. [66:36] and unto thee his desire, and thou shalt and thou shalt rule over him. So Yahw [66:43] gave him the warning, right? Yah gave him the warning right there, and he gave him a way [66:49] out. Now, it's always up to us to take it. Now, our way out probably won't be [66:54] this obvious. Y'all had to be very obvious to Cain because Kane don't have a lot of instruction from [67:01] y'all, right? But we have a bunch of instruction from Yah. So our way out may [67:07] not be as obvious. We not going to hear the voice of God come out and be like, "Hey, what you what you mad for, right? [67:13] But we got a scripture full of things that gives us a way out that tells us what we should do." We in situations and [67:19] we going to see that something goes wrong. You about to try to fornicate, then all of a sudden the phone [67:27] rings, right? Something going to happen. Something going to go wrong. And then you going to be like, "That's my way [67:33] out." Now, it's up to us to take the way out or to fall to the temptation. But [67:40] when you fall to it, don't be looking like nobody understands what I'm going through. Nobody has had to deal with [67:46] this. No, stop that lying. Your butt had a way out. You had a way out just like everybody else had a way out and you [67:52] decided not to take it cuz you did what you wanted to do. Right. Jump on back over. This is uh uh [68:00] actually go to uh 1 Corinthians chapter 11. It's 1 Corinthians chapter 11. Give me [68:06] verse one. [68:30] be ye fathers of me even as I also am a follower of the Messiah. Now I praise you, brethren, [68:37] that you remember me in all things and keep the ordinance as I deliver them unto you. He said, "I pray you remember [68:43] me in all things and you keep the Listen, the stuff I'm teaching you, you keep it and you hold on to it the same [68:49] way that I taught it to you." Right? Keep going. Watch [68:55] this. But I would have you know that the head of every man is the Messiah, and the head of the woman is the man, and [69:02] the head of the Messiah is God. Mhm. Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head. [69:09] But every woman that prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head. For that is even all one. For for [69:17] that is even all one as if she were shaven. For if the woman be not covered, [69:23] let her also be shorn. He said a woman ain't covered, she might as well be shaved, right? She might as well shave [69:30] her head bald and she ain't covered. Watch this. Keep going. But if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, [69:36] let her be covered. Right? So he's saying, listen, if you if you don't want to shave your head bald, that kind of [69:43] shows you in general, it's a shame for a woman not to have her head covered. So he said, therefore, when she praying, [69:50] make sure that she has her head covered. So he's talking about like a head wrap or something. The woman should have a head wrap is what he's saying, right? [69:57] He's saying, look, just, you know, put a head wrap on her hair. You know what I'm saying? If she don't, if she ain't going to wear head wrap, then why don't she [70:03] shave her head? Oh, okay. If she got a problem with shaving her head, that's proof that generally women don't like [70:10] their head shaved and be bald. So there you go. That's proof that a woman should have her hair covered. So go ahead and [70:15] put on a head wrap. That's what he That's what he's saying, right? Keep going. For a man indeed ought not to [70:20] cover his head for as much he is the image and the glory of God. Right? But he says the opposite for a man. A man [70:28] should not cover his head when he pray. Right? So, a man should not cover his [70:33] head because he's the glory and the image of God. A woman, because the man is the head of the woman, she should [70:41] cover her head when she's praying. Right? Keep going. Watch this. But the woman is the glory of the man. For the [70:48] man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman, but the woman for the [70:55] man. Mhm. For this go for this cause ought the woman have for this cause [71:01] ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels. [71:07] Nevertheless, neither is the man without the woman, right? So now he say all that and he tell you, look, you should know [71:15] that the woman came out of the man. He talking about Adam. Remember Adam was created from the dirt. Then after that, [71:20] the most high God was like, man, go to sleep. I'm about to make you a help meat. Then he pulled from his rib and he [71:25] made woman and named her E or uh and he called her Eve. Right? So he's like the [71:33] woman came from the man. It wasn't like the man came from the woman. But then he came back and he's like however the man [71:40] is not without the woman because what? Watch this. Nevertheless, neither is the man [71:47] without the woman. Neither the woman without the man in the Lord. For as the [71:52] woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman. But all things right. [71:57] So then the man is by the woman. So the woman is of the man. In other words, the woman was created from the man. But the [72:04] man is created by the woman. In other words, when the woman has a baby, out [72:10] comes a baby boy that then becomes a man. Right. Keep keep going. [72:16] Judging yourselves, is it calmly that a woman pray unto God uncovered? Does not, [72:22] right? So then he said, look, you judge for yourself. Is it appropriate, right, for a woman to pray with her head with [72:29] her head uncovered? Keep going. Does not even nature itself teach [72:35] you that if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him? But if a woman have long hair, it is a [72:42] glory unto her, for her hair is given her for a covering. But if any man seem to be [72:48] contentious, we have no such custom, neither do the congregations of God. [72:53] Right? So now Paul went through all that and he tell you at the end, all right, but if anybody disagree with what I'm [72:59] telling you, don't even worry about it because we have no such custom in any of the congregations of God. Right? So what [73:06] he was given at that whole thing is he was just giving his opinion his his his perspective on thing. He looking at like [73:13] well naturally women have long hair and most women don't want to cut [73:19] off their hair. So that kind of shows you in nature that a woman should have [73:24] her head covered, right? Whereas the man generally don't like long hair, right? [73:32] He feel like he look like a girl. So men generally keep their hair short. So [73:37] nature is telling you that a man should not have his head covered, right? And then he related that to biblical [73:44] principles. But then he went back and was like, listen, there's no such custom, right? We do not as Hebrews have [73:52] custom that you must cover your hair. I say I like to go over this because some of these Hebrews, you go to their [73:57] congregations and they'll tell you all women have to have a head wrap. All women have to have this. All women have [74:04] to have their head covered, right? And although there's nothing wrong with that, right? That's not a requirement [74:11] that come from the book and that's not a custom of any of the congregations. Paul was given that probably responding to [74:18] somebody asking a question and he was giving his opinion on it. Right? So, I like going over that. [74:24] But then I also like showing this. Go to uh go to uh 1st Samuel chapter um I mean [74:30] not 1st Samuel 2 Samuel chapter 14. This is 2 Samuel chapter 14 real quick. Give [74:36] me verse [74:41] 25. 2 Samuel chapter 14 verse 25. [74:57] is 2 Samuel chapter 14 verse [75:10] 25. This the problem. A lot of these people that try to teach this book, they cannot rightly divide [75:16] it. They either reading stuff, they don't know what they talking about, they don't know that how to accept [75:23] correction, right? Most high God, listen, you think Most High God ain't going to let your butt [75:28] make a mistake. You going to make a mistake. Then it come down to do you got [75:34] too much pride to be like, "Oh, that was my bad. I misread that." Or do you just be like, "Oh, no. That was my mistake. [75:40] That's right. Let me correct that. Let me retach this. Let me teach it the right [75:46] way." All right. Right. You got to make sure that [75:53] you have a heart to want to do it right. Not that you want to be right outside of [75:59] God. Right? Agree with God and you'll be right. So if you wrong about something, agree with God so that you'll be right. [76:05] But don't make yourself right outside of God. Don't make yourself, well, I want to look right even if I'm not right. That's crazy [76:11] talk. But that's where a lot of these people that call yourself leading congregations, that's where their brain is. So they end up teaching stuff that's [76:18] dead wrong. And when you point it out to them, they can't they can't take it. They gonna spend all their time trying [76:24] to justify what they already said. Try to find every loophole, every misinterpretation of the book to try to [76:31] justify what they already taught so that they don't have to admit that they was wrong. Instead of just saying, "Oh, no, I was wrong." And take whatever come [76:37] with it. If people be like, "No, he wrong too much. He be teaching the word, but he wrong too much. I don't want to listen to him." Okay, well take that. [76:44] Your butt do be wrong. Don't nobody want to listen to you. That's fair. Why they why a person why you can't let a person [76:50] choose whether they want to listen to you or not? You want you want everybody to listen to your video and watch your [76:55] video? That's crazy. If the most high God gave you two people, you better teach them two people [77:01] to win you the best you can. And if he give you 100 million people and you teaching it right, then [77:07] man, praise the Most High God. But either way, whatever he give you, just operate off of that. You ain't [77:14] got to try to lie and manipulate and force people to That's crazy. Like for what? You not getting to what you doing [77:20] it for? Let's go. This is uh second uh [77:26] second uh what's it called? 2 Samuel chapter 14. Give me um verse [77:33] 25. But in all Israel there was none to be such much praised as Abselum for his [77:38] beauty. From the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head, there was no blemish in him. Look, Abselam got all [77:46] the praise. So you you heard what Paul just said. If somebody got long hair, it's if a man got long hair, it's [77:52] shameful. May Allah, he said it's [77:59] shameful, right? If a man got long hair, it's shameful. [78:07] But Abselum in Israel book say he got all the praise. And watch what he had. [78:13] Watch this. And when he pulled his head for it was at every year's end that he pulled it [78:19] because the hair was heavy on him. Therefore he pulled it. He weighed the hair of his head at 200 shekels after [78:25] the king's weight. His hair weighed 200 shekel. Somebody look that up and see [78:30] how much 200 shekels is. Right. He his hair weighed 200 shekels and he pulled [78:37] it. Pulled it means trimmed it. So he cut his hair every year at year's end [78:42] because his hair grew so fast that it reached 200 shekels in weight, right? So [78:48] his hair was super heavy and he had to cut his hair every year. Well, he had long hair. His hair [78:54] grew really fast and he had long hair. But guess what? Everybody looked at him like he's praised. So that tells you [79:01] when Paul is talking about this, he's not talking about all time and he's not talking about a biblical principle. He's [79:08] just giving his opinion, right? Because Aelam had long hair and he wasn't shamed. He wasn't [79:15] ashamed. People looked at him was like, "No, that's the man." Everybody loved obviously. That boy is beautiful. Right. Jump over to uh uh [79:24] chapter 15. It's second 2 Samuel chapter 15. [79:29] 2 Samuel chapter 15, give me verse 30. I'm going to give you another [79:36] example. This is specifically for the brothers that say, "No, if a woman pray, she got to have Sister Pam says, Sister [79:43] Pam said five pounds." How much is 5 lbs of hair? That's a lot of darn [79:50] hair, right? You got hair and it weigh 5 lbs. That's a lot of darn [79:57] hair, right? So for the brothers that say, "No man, a woman got to have her hair [80:03] covered. She going to pray, right? She coming to the congregation, she got to have her hair [80:08] wrapped." Okay. Paul also said that a man would be shamed if he does have his [80:15] head wrapped during prayer. Right? This is uh second uh this 2 Samuel chapter 15. [80:23] Verse 30. [80:34] And David went up by the ascent of Mount Olivet and wept as he Right. So David went up Mount Olivet and watch this. And [80:41] wept as he went up and had his head covered and he went down and he had his head what? Covered. His head was [80:48] covered. Paul just told us naturally that would be a shame. A man shouldn't [80:54] pray with his head covered. So David's hair is covered but he not he's not praying. Let's see what happens next. He [81:00] had his head covered and he went up barefoot and all the people that was with him covered every man his head and went up weeping as they went up. And one [81:07] told David, saying a hyhll is among the conspirators with Abselum. David said, "Oh Yahweh, I pray thee turn." He said, [81:14] "Oh, "Oh Yahweh, I pray thee." Who is he talking to? [81:20] God. That mean he praying. He said, "Oh Yahweh, I what? I [81:26] pray thee." Oh, he said, "I pray thee. I'm praying, right?" But he just told us his [81:33] head was covered. So, it's important for us to understand when Paul, he'll tell us. You [81:39] don't have to guess, right? It's no reason to guess. When you looking at the scripture, Paul is gonna tell I mean when you looking at the epistle letter [81:45] from Paul, he's going to tell you when he's giving you his opinion. Just like here when we was just reading, he said [81:51] in in uh chapter what was that? Chapter 11. In chapter 11, first uh 1 [81:56] Corinthians chapter 11, he's told you if anybody disagrees with this, in other words, if anybody becomes contentious [82:02] what he's saying, in other words, if anybody disagrees with this, we have no such custom in any of the congregations. [82:10] So what he's telling you is this is just my opinion. This is just me kind of theorizing to answer a question. What [82:17] I'm telling you is not a law or it's not a commandment from God. Right? He said we don't have this custom. This is not [82:23] our tradition. This is not how we do things. I'm just kind of explaining something to you. But don't nobody make [82:28] a fight about it. Don't y'all get to fighting and falling out about it because it's not that deep. Right? And [82:34] so we find ourselves fighting and falling out about it today just because people don't understand the scripture. [82:40] But David had his hair covered and he's a man and he prayed and Abselum had long [82:45] hair and even with his long hair all the people thought that he was glorious, [82:50] right? And they praised him for it. So, we have to make sure that our mindset is [82:56] honed in specifically to what is being said and that we remove as many [83:01] assumptions as we possibly can to make sure we have a thorough and a good understanding of this book. All right, [83:09] we going to end there and then pick up next week uh probably jumping over into uh uh 1 Corinthians chapter 13. All [83:17] right, cuz first Corinthiansap chapter 13, we going to start talking about the spiritual gifts. It really starting 12. [83:23] So, we might have to touch 12 a little bit, but it starts it start talking about the spiritual gifts. Okay, any [83:32] questions? Max, I said he look like one of them whack rappers. [83:49] Hi, Uncle T. Hey, what's going on? Hi, Uncle D. What's up, boys? What's up, [83:55] Max? What's up? You get a little tall, huh? I see you over there, bro. [84:02] All right, let's pray out. Somebody hit end stream for me. [84:13] Somebody help him out and hit end screen. Why y'all act like y'all can't do nothing by y'all?