My Son Was Dead, and Is Alive Again; He Was Lost

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[00:00] good dad told me and she'll respect that not my fault [00:08] none we ain't all morning baby uh savage peace it's another opportunity [00:15] for us to come together in here and learn the word of truth that's given to us by the most high god boy down there playing [00:20] the switch [00:25] all honor goes to the father through the son whose name is yahweh in him lies the only hope for salvation [00:32] we know that it is obtained by grace through faith not of works lest anyone should boast and give him freely as a gift to all who obey him [00:39] we understand that if you do not obey it is made manifest or made obvious that you do not believe in this state you [00:46] should expect no good thing from the most high however anything that you do give whether it be a gift of tongues a gift [00:52] of prophecy or any supernatural experience that you may have it can and it will be used against you [00:57] in the day of judgment with that said peace to the saints that are in the room to the saints that couldn't make it [01:03] that the saints watched on the camera but no peace to the wicked the only thing we say to them is repent [01:08] that we might live you know what i'm saying you pack the house out with kids make you feel like you're doing [01:13] something you know still got the same one person [01:20] what are you taking when you take away all the fluff all right let's go uh let's go ahead and [01:26] go to um this is uh last week we finished off luke 14. [01:33] should have been luke 14 that we finished off the heart you see it is luke 14 yet where are you going [01:52] you got a seat um for the other bible let's uh let's start off uh [02:00] let's start off is it about that boy tj yeah get a book let's start off ezekiel [02:06] chapter [02:14] ezekiel chapter 18. [02:25] you just gonna work look through the book like you really don't find [02:34] something [Music] [02:41] ezekiel [02:48] easy [02:54] ezekiel chapter 18 verse one and the word of the lord came up to me again saying what means that you use this [03:02] proverb concerning the land of israel saying the fathers have eaten sour grapes but grapes and the children's teeth are set [03:07] on edge right he said what does this mean you talking about the father eat sour grapes and the kids [03:12] get cavities you know what i'm saying like what does that mean right let's see keep going [03:18] as i live says the lord god you shall not have any occasion anymore to use this proverb in israel [03:24] right he's saying that the kids you ain't gonna have no occasion to say that the kids are getting the punishment [03:29] of the fathers right he's like that's not the case that's not what i told you right keep [03:35] going behold all souls are mine as the soul of the father [03:41] so also the soul of the son is mine he said i own them both the souls that sin it shall die right [03:48] but if a man be just and do that which is lawful and right and has not eaten upon the mountains neither lift up his eyes to the idols of [03:55] the house of israel neither has defiled his neighbor's wife neither has come near to a [04:00] minstress woman and has not oppressed any but has restored to the debtor his [04:05] pledge has spoiled none by violence has given his bread to the hungry it has covered the naked with the [04:11] garment he that has not given forth upon usury neither has taken any increase that is withdrawn that has withdrawn his [04:18] hand from iniquity he said he was drawing his hand from iniquity [04:23] that means he stops sinning keep going has executed true judgment between man and man has walked in my statutes and kept my [04:30] judgments to deal truly he is just he shall surely live says the lord why should [04:35] jump on down to uh what's the last verse in this chapter [04:44] 32 give me like 28. this is ezekiel 18 28 27 27 this is [04:51] ezekiel chapter 18 verse 27. what the book says again when the wicked [04:56] man truly when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed and does that which is lawful and right [05:02] he shall save his soul alive uh-huh because he considers and turns away from all his transgressions that he [05:07] has committed you see surely live he shall not die he said he considers and he does what [05:12] he turns away from all his transgressions from some of his transgressions from all his transgressions that he has committed from the ones that [05:19] god has showed them from all his transgressions that he's committed he shall surely lay [05:24] what we just read right there is the definition of what repentance is right repentance is turning away from [05:31] all sin yeah some people say well you know you see him without even [05:38] knowing you saying listen i should've been there right i don't know what you got going on [05:43] that's your business all i'm saying is to repent you're gonna have to learn about him what do you say you have to do first [05:50] he said you did what the wicked man turns away from his wickedness uh-huh but he is committed and does that [05:55] which is lawful and right he shall save us all alive uh-huh because he did what considers [06:01] what was he considering he was considering like i didn't realize that was a sin but it [06:06] is so if you don't know it's a sin first thing you need to do is consider [06:12] right it has to be considered then after you consider you do what [06:18] turn away from all his transgressions you consider it right you think about it that's what [06:23] consider me right you think about them trying to think about all the sins everything that is a sin [06:29] and then you turn away from them a lot a lot of times people the reason people think they send it sometimes they're not [06:34] saying it right that's one thing and then sometimes people are actually sending and it's true that they don't even know [06:40] it's a sin and that comes from us not knowing the book go ahead [06:56] that's a sin there's a whole lot of sin we ain't got to go through them right but yes those are sins right so once you [07:04] know what the sins are then you've considered from there you can turn away from sins meaning that you [07:10] can stop sinning you can stop doing all those sins right let's keep going watch this [07:16] yeah it says the house of israel the way the lord is not equal uh-huh oh house of israel are not my ways equal [07:21] are not your ways when they say the word he said yet says the house of israel the way of yahuwah is not equal [07:30] right when it says not equal what does that mean they saying the way of yahuwah is not [07:36] fair all right so who will come back to me say what [07:44] are not your ways unequal he said ain't it you always the ones that's not fair [07:49] watch this therefore i will judge you a lot of israel uh-huh everyone according to his ways he said i'm gonna judge [07:55] everyone according to what he thinking about his ways according to how he feel in his heart [08:01] his ways he clear i'm gonna judge everyone [08:06] according to the stuff that he be doing and then what says the lord god [08:12] repent and turn yourselves from all your transgressions that's how we save ourselves that's the only way right that's the only way [08:18] that's the only way i understand at some point stop and never do it again [08:25] right and not just one i repent every day like i stopped doing this one i stopped doing that one and then later on stop [08:32] doing that or not once you stop all of them that's day one [08:37] everything else just you lying like you just running a dark mouth once you step stop every one of them that's day one that's [08:43] the start right keep going watch this repent and turn yourselves from all your transgressions [08:50] so iniquity shall not be your ruin uh-huh cast away from you all your transgressions where you have transgressed [08:55] he didn't catch away some or all all your transgressions whereby you have transgressed and make you a new heart and a new [09:02] spirit for why will you die o house of israel for i have no pleasure in the death of him that dies says the lord god [09:09] therefore turn wherefore turn yourselves and live that's why when we start off we say [09:14] repent that they might live right so last week we talked about repentance as well right we talked about [09:20] sin as well um because y'all sure was saying what was y'all what you were saying last week y'all should tell enough that um [09:29] that uh that the people you know i'm saying they started to make excuses he invited the people [09:36] to you know i'm saying to his land um our two well he gave up gave us a parable invited people to a [09:41] supper and one by one they started to make excuses right then later on he told us you know [09:47] i'm saying why would you start something that you don't even think you can finish if you haven't even thought about it to make sure that you can finish the job [09:53] right and we said that we all have to stop and consider because the book tells us very clearly if you don't hate your mother your father your brother your [09:59] sister your your husband your wife or even your own self [10:04] right then you say you are not worthy of me can i be my disciple right [10:11] that's what you said yeah he said you're not worthy to be my disciple right so that that makes us pause i ever [10:17] had to make us stop and think like we have to be able to give up everything including our own self [10:23] our own um uh fame or our recognition or or or what people [10:29] think we got to be able to sacrifice all that including family including all that people [10:34] eat christian to tell you a lot they tell you god is a god of family he wouldn't do nothing to make he [10:41] wouldn't do nothing that would make your wife upset that's not peter just had to go [10:49] peter had to leave his whole family behind you think his wife was just like yeah [10:54] let's do it i imagine his wife was putting up a fight about it [11:00] but guess what work got to be done right we got to be a position where it's [11:08] like all everything can be detached because once you think about it you say okay everything i got i got it from who [11:16] everything i got i got it from the most high god right so then now i'm about to go to the most [11:23] high god so this needs to be a win-win for me because now i can sacrifice everything [11:28] but i got it from the most i got anyway what's the most like god promises he's like man even in this world i'll give it [11:35] to you again right so if you've got that mindset then [11:42] it all comes down to belief if you believe it you're gonna do what the man wants you to do if you don't [11:48] believe it you're gonna hesitate and that's what this is all about he wanna see who gonna do it and who don't [11:53] hesitate this is luke chapter 15 verse one [11:58] this is luke chapter 15 verse one maybe i'll uh fill up one of my uh [12:07] lemonade bottles of water or something yeah i mean [12:12] then drew near unto him all the republicans and sinners for to hear him right so all the publicans and sinners [12:18] came to hear him right these are the rejects of yes right here right we looking it up but our people [12:24] we look at this like you mean you republican why would a public can be a reject it's somebody that worked for rome yeah [12:30] a traitor for us yeah they're working for these gentiles against us you collecting taxes [12:36] to give to these gentiles like man you the scum of the darn earth [12:41] right and in the sinners we are holy people so we think right like man i ain't messing around [12:48] with a little center you you know you're a dark drunkard and you this and you that he messing around with these darn [12:54] sinners right so yahooshua has all these types of people gravitating to him [13:00] let's see what happens in the fair season scribes merman saying [13:06] this man receives sinners and eats with them and he spake this parable unto them saying [13:12] what man of you having a hundred sheep if you lose one of them does not leave the ninety and nine in [13:17] the wilderness and go after that which is lost until he finds it and when he has found [13:22] it he lays it on his shoulders rejoicing and when he comes home he calls together his friends and [13:27] neighbors saying unto them rejoice rejoice with me for i found my sheep which was lost [13:33] i say unto you that likewise george shall be in heaven over one center that repents more than over 99 in just 99 just [13:41] persons which need no repentance does that make sense to us [13:46] right the most like guy is basically telling us through yahoo sure he's saying that it is more expedient it [13:53] is is more of a priority for me to go after one individual that needs to repent [14:02] than it is for me to focus on 99 individuals that have already repented right are 99 [14:09] individuals that do not need to repent they're already living righteously we [14:16] make the assumption that this 99 have already repented they're already on the good path they're [14:21] already living righteously but there's one out there that needs to [14:27] repent who needs to hear the word needs to be catered to because that person is going to repent [14:34] or needs to repent and the most like god needs to get to them that person is that person is the priority for the most high god [14:41] he said i'm a leader 99 she and i'mma go to that one sheet here is the problem that we face [14:49] from readers in this verse there are people who will take this verse and they will use this to say [14:57] god has never left my side right they'll say see even here you'll [15:04] see that the most high god will leave the 99 to go after that sinner [15:10] right and then they paint this picture as if this is available to everyone [15:19] but that's not the case right what we have to understand we have to be very reading the bible and understanding [15:26] the bible you have to be extremely precise you can't make guesses you can't just [15:31] jump over and jump all over the place things have to connect and they have to make sense so the first thing we're [15:36] going to do is we're going to look at just very basic biblical principle this is [15:43] leviticus what 26 hey yeah [15:52] 26 what i want yeah it's leviticus chapter 26 you have to help me on the verse i don't know why i never remember [15:57] this i want to say 40 maybe this leviticus chapter 26 let's try 40 see what happens [16:07] if they shall confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers that's 40. yeah oh that's a bad boy [16:13] there well it is leviticus chapter 26 verse 40. he said if they shall confess their iniquity [16:19] and the iniquity of their fathers and the iniquity of their fathers that mean it ain't just on you you can't [16:24] just say like i seen you have to acknowledge so it's important for us especially now and this time it's important for us to not understand [16:31] just that i sin it's more done my father's sin the people that came before me sin [16:37] and that's why i'm here right they send and conditioned a [16:43] situation for me to live in a country that is not native to my people [16:51] in fact my people came here as captive right they came here by boat [16:58] inside the dark shackles a lot of them didn't make it over the darn ocean [17:05] then when we get here we whipped on our backs we treated unfairly and even to this day [17:12] we have inherited the negative of those experiences right [17:20] so we have to say i mean this is a question that black people ask why us why me right [17:28] this is what we have to acknowledge for that why are we here because of the sins of me and the sins of my [17:34] fathers so he said acknowledge that then what else [17:42] if they shall confess their iniquity in the iniquity of their fathers with their trespass which they trespassed against me and [17:48] that also they have walked contrary unto me and so on top of confessing the sins [17:54] and the trespasses which we all trespass against him along with the trespasses of our father that trespass against him we also have [18:01] to do what um and also what and [Music] [18:07] confess that they also have walked contrary under me so we have to also confess that we've walked contrary onto [18:15] the most high god that is a requirement he's telling us confess that we've [18:21] walked contrary but watch this next part this is the one that's difficult and that i also have walked contrary [18:27] unto them and have brought them into the land of their enemies if then their uncircumcised heartbeat [18:32] hearts be humble and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity then will i remember [18:37] my covenant with jacob and also my covenant with isaac and also my covenant with abraham will i remember [18:43] and i will remember the land so right now most of our guys haven't remembered the land you haven't [18:48] remembered those covenants right and we're still in the land of our enemies and the reason is because we have people [18:55] that they don't have a problem confessing that they send us christians walk around all the time talking about we sinners [19:01] they're like i'm gonna sin they proud sinners in fact matter of fact they saved sinners saved and sanctified sinners you let [19:08] them tell it right so that part they don't have a problem confessing that they've walked contrary to god [19:14] they have a problem saying that god walked contrary to them and that's how the devil worked he looked at the details and he said [19:20] okay i can get them there so then he take us to the verse that we just read in luke and that verse [19:26] in luke says i'll lead the 99 and not go for the one and then that's what the devil will say see [19:31] this is proof that god never left your side in other words god never walked away from you in other [19:37] words he's never walked contrary to you [19:43] right and by doing that now he's then he's the devil is taken away [19:48] from you your ability to confess that god has walked contrary to you which is a requirement for us to be able [19:55] to recognize for god to be able to recognize and remember the promise that he had with our fathers and therefore take us back to our land [20:06] right the most high god walk contrary to us when we sin we sin against him and he is [20:12] against us that is enmity right that's not it's not a friendly relationship it's not like he's [20:17] sitting there waiting like oh my son right keep reading watch this go back to luke 15 wherever we left off watch this [20:25] we read about the prodigal son [20:32] y'all heard about the prodigal son before right that was the p that was the the christians caller [20:38] yeah everybody wrote the prodigal son mm-hmm you know where the prodigal son oh we about to yeah he wasn't even a [20:44] real christian um [20:52] yeah at some point maybe can you mind your business [20:59] i use your darn head [21:06] in luke chapter 15 verse 7. i say unto you that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one center that repents more than [21:13] over 99 just persons which need no repentance okay either that woman having ten pieces of [21:20] silver if she lose one piece does not light a candle and sweep the house and seek diligently till she find [21:25] it right he said i got ten pieces of silver i end up losing one of them [21:31] he said what do you think you just gonna let it go no he said she's gonna start sweeping picking stuff up trying to look [21:37] under stuff where did i lose his darn piece of silver that's that ten pizzas i only got nine now where's my piece of silver [21:44] right he said well that's the same way if he got nine people that already repented and he [21:49] got one that needed to repent that's the same way he gonna go after it right christian would have us believe [21:56] that means that god never left your side even though you strayed away [22:02] even though your sin is still in you god is still there pulling for he look [22:08] god is sweeping your life goddess sweeping your life he turning [22:13] stuff over in your life looking for it right now though right we just finished and they sound good you [22:19] look at that and be like dang man you know what god have been there the whole time [22:24] because you know what i ain't even deserve that job that i got you know what i did find a hundred [22:30] dollars yesterday and i needed that for my rent we've been looking at we've been dreaming of all this stuff like man all [22:36] this stuff a blessing from god mother gossip man [22:42] you know that thing just happened to you that might be the devil that gave you that right you never even know what's the point i [22:50] mean should you even try to figure it out what should we be focused on [22:56] because at the end of the day what does it matter i get it from the devil i get it from god if i'm obeying guess what it's all a win [23:04] for me and if i'm disobeying guess what it's all a loss you can get something from god you can [23:10] get a gift directly from god god can give you the gift of speaking tongues [23:15] and you keep on sinning most of our guys gonna look at you and say i never knew you in the end [23:20] what benefit was it he's gonna pull it on the highlighter and be like man i get you to give the tongue you still didn't [23:26] know baby we gotta get it but you look at amos [23:32] amos he is like man listen i made it rain on this city and right next door it didn't rain [23:38] and y'all still didn't pay attention he's like man i'm doing wild stuff to y'all and y'all still not [23:44] doing it they probably look that'd be like man look at the devil [23:49] devil working today that other people listen to something bad but they just assume it's the devil well i got like now i'm trying [23:56] to get your attention trying to bring you back i'm trying so at the end of the day you can look at [24:02] everything like it's from god if you want to as long as you obey and if you're not obeying you good as [24:07] looking at everything from the devil whatever it's going to take to get you there [24:15] where are we and when she has found it she calls her friends and her neighbors together saying rejoice with me for i [24:21] found the peace that i had lost likewise i said to you there's joy in the presence of the angels [24:27] of god over one center that repents right he said there's joy in the in the what in the presence of [24:32] the angels so the angels is out there they partying up over what one center that repent one sinner that [24:39] says the sin of prayer so one center that just shows up the church as they are [24:45] one center that repents the book is clear one center that repents [24:52] based off of what we read in ezekiel what is repent away from sin turn away from sin turn [24:58] away from all sin that's what repent me first thing y'all sure came on the scene what did he say [25:04] for the kingdom of heaven at some point we got to get it in our heads that the whole game is about repenting [25:11] all this other stuff we talking about god is a god of family that's great that's good that's secondary though [25:16] hey right that's secondary what the book is about is turning away [25:23] from sin you got sin in there get away from it book say consider it and then be done with it [25:31] right keep going watch this and he said a certain man had two sons a certain man have two sons it's the [25:37] prodigal son now if you're a christian you know about the prodigal son i don't know what daniel you know if you're a christian though [25:43] you know about time if there's any christians watching this is the prodigal son this is what y'all heard about y'all whole life [25:50] and i'm about to show y'all something y'all been reading your whole life your pastor been darn reading it let's look at this because people will [25:57] use this to say god has never left your side we just read in leviticus though what do the [26:03] vigors tell us what have we got to confess confess the sins of your father we gotta confess our sins [26:09] the sins of our father and that you all contrary to me we got to confess that we walk contrary to god [26:16] and the last one and this is the one to get our christian butts we be christians all our doors and this the one to get us [26:22] we have to make sure that we confess that god walked contrary to [26:29] us god wasn't with us god was a in fact god was against us [26:36] or that one hurts that's the one that we can't do we have a problem with is pride that keep us from doing that [26:42] right no no no no no i mean i may not be perfect that way i may not be there always bring [26:48] your brain nobody actually be perfect you know i'm saying that would never a requirement for you to be perfect [26:53] you can be perfect though don't get me wrong but that that wasn't a requirement no i may not be perfect i mean yeah i [26:59] may fall sometime but i tell you what god is always there to pick me up you need to stop [27:05] that line because by that you're not confessing that the man walked contrary to you [27:11] god was walking contrary to you and your sin and it's not until you repent that he [27:18] leaves the nine-nine the 99 and then go get the one it's not until you repent [27:23] that the angels rejoice in heaven that means that you turn away from all [27:28] your sins not some of your sins all of them right let's keep reading why should it's the prodigal son we love [27:34] this story watch it and the younger the younger of them said to his father father give me the portion of goods that [27:40] falls to me and he divided unto them his living and not many days after the younger son [27:46] gathered all together and took his journey into a far country and there wasted his substance with [27:51] rigorous living right so the younger he said younger son he is like listen go ahead and give me my my portion of [27:57] the inheritance now yeah meows i got a little trip got something i want to get into go ahead go and give me my [28:02] my portion of inheritance now right so we gave him the inheritance right because as a man [28:07] what we supposed to do you have to understand that we black people right yeah we are black even you all [28:13] right we're all black right he's like we black people so we came into this situation [28:19] with a negative right you understand like it's a different world we got any white folks watching anything [28:25] it's they know they'll tell you actual white brain it's a different world right they pass down wealth to their [28:31] children right so when they when they go they make wheels and all that and they say well joseph will get the car [28:38] right oh and hubert he's he's gonna get uh he's gonna get the uh [28:43] the uh the how the home right and josephine she'll she'll get the uh [28:49] the the trust fund the largest trust fund you know i'm saying so they divide up what's gonna happen so this is what the [28:55] son is doing he's looking like remember you we used to do this too that's where these people got it from we used to hand down our stuff it's just [29:02] that when we came here we came here as what we came here slaves so when we got here [29:07] slaves we don't have anything to hand down other than debt and even to this day we are stuck in [29:13] debt because the country has made laws and pigeonholed us in the certain parts of the country in certain situations [29:18] where we haven't been able to get ahead and i know there's exceptions to every rule sure you've got a jay-z [29:24] who came literally came from that and then he's a billionaire they say right cool i'm not saying there's not [29:29] exceptions i'm saying in mass jz doesn't represent the mass majority of black people [29:34] regardless of what they try to make y'all think right the average black person don't have [29:41] anything in the bank right virtually has nothing in the bank [29:46] right so we don't have when we die and we have nothing in the bank chances are we got credit card bills we [29:52] still owe on our cardinal we if we own a home we still have that or we don't own a home and we just [29:57] rent in the place and we get kicked out of that place or our kids get kicked out of the place because we dead and we ain't on the kids ain't on the [30:03] leash right so what you end up inheriting is dead [30:10] so we don't have that now but back in our day we had that so the parable is you have two sons right two sons say [30:19] you know what i'm getting the inheritance from my dad the younger son says go ahead and go [30:25] ahead and divide my portion right now yeah i wasn't going to wait but go ahead and divide i got some plans [30:31] what pops do well let me get that together for you so he divided his portion he gave it to him then the son said he went out and he [30:38] smoked it right let's hear about it [30:45] and he took his journey into a far country and there wasted his substance with rigorous living right when it said he wasted it with [30:51] rigorous lift that means the boy was like partying a riotous riot is living right that means he is out there [30:58] partying he is living it up the equivalent to david you know getting drug getting a [31:03] couple hookers doing all y'all saying just living it up right [31:09] keep going and when he got spent all there or when he had spent all there are rows of [31:14] mighty famine in that land and he began to be in one right so then he went to a land [31:20] he spent all all of all his uh his uh wealth and all of a sudden the famine hit the [31:25] land so now he needs something to eat he's in need watch this and he went and joined [31:32] himself to a citizen of that country and he sent in sent him into the fields to feed swine [31:37] and he would feign have filled his belly with the husks that swan did eat and no man gave unto him [31:45] and when he came to himself he said how many hired servants of my fathers have bred enough [31:50] and to spare and i perished with hunger right so he's looking at it he's like he's been reduced to eating pig food [31:58] he's not eating the pig no no even worse he's eating the food the slop that pit i went to arkansas one time in [32:04] my pocket right and they had pigs yes they had pig they had pigs and the pigs they used to have like [32:11] these like these young things like they call them troughs yeah i'm saying but it was like yeah you know all about this you know saying matthew get up here [32:17] and tell us all about it you know what i'm saying but they had like these little truck and then you put anything in there i mean it was like you [32:25] know you know like sometimes we like we rinse out our pots and put it in the in the blender and we turn the blender on put [32:31] it up and dispose them yeah that'll make no sense you know that you got a pig that don't make no sense now you just take the pot you know this [32:38] this three day old food and you got the refrigerator you just take the pot and you put it inside of there and the [32:43] spoiled milk you put in there you whatever you want to you just put it in there guess what that pig and after you had that i'll [32:51] watch that pit tear that stuff up it was a bad thing it don't matter what came in i don't even know what they're [32:57] putting i just know that the thing looked all it looked soupy and white and i was like what in [33:02] the world is stump and then they eat the pig let me tell you let me tell you [33:08] something they [33:16] parts of the pit i ain't never darn heard of i'm looking like oh this is nasty all right this is now i [33:23] mean back then i ate pork so i was like well go ahead and give me a yummy go ahead give me a pork chop now [33:29] now i don't want the you know i don't want the other bar i don't want the darn uh what's it called the chitlins you know go ahead give me a [33:34] little pork chop though you know something about but they eat every part of that darn pig right [33:40] so imagine you so low i mean we hebrews so we don't eat pig [33:45] the man is eating what he he won't even eat this pig he's eating the food that the pig eats [33:50] the nasty slopped at the piggy so he thought to himself he said [33:56] that this don't make a whole lot of sense cause even where i come from my daddy his servants the people that [34:04] work for him at least they get a plate of food you know at the very least he said [34:09] it don't make no sense and i'm saying here eating people why don't you go back home and at least i can get a plate of food [34:16] right let's hear about it [34:27] where are we at how many higher servants am i what is this 17 this is uh this is a luke chapter 15 [34:33] verse 17. watch this how many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare and i perish with [34:39] hunger he said i'm sitting here i'm sitting here eating darn pig slop starting hungry right let's see i will rise and go to my [34:46] father and he and will say unto him father i have sinned against heaven and before you and am no more worthy to be called your [34:53] son make me as one of thy higher servants he looking like man i know i ain't even got a chance [34:58] getting back where i was i didn't blew my whole inheritance i'm coming back looking pitiful and darn hungry [35:04] you know i'm saying so yeah i ain't gonna ask you i don't even deserve to be your son no more pops i tell you what [35:11] make me a servant right this this is his idea so he already thought it through look i i ain't even [35:18] thinking about trying to be your son no mo just make me a servant he thought it through he settled out that's what i'm gonna do in my mind [35:24] watch this and he arose and came to his father but when he was yet a great way off his father saw him and had [35:30] compassion and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him wait a minute wait a minute he said he arose and went to his father [35:37] he said when he was a great way off his father did what his father saw him and had compassion [35:43] and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him and the son said unto him father i have sinned against heaven and in your sight [35:50] and am no more worthy to be called your son look but the father said to his servants [35:56] bring forth the best robe and put it on him and put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet and bring here the fatted calf and kill [36:03] it and let us eat and be married for this my son was dead and is alive again he was lost in his found and they [36:09] began and they began to be married now his elder son was well no no no pops found his son didn't [36:15] he where'd he find him coming right back to his own yeah did pops go out looking for the son no [36:24] not one time did he when did pops get compassion on the sun [36:30] when he saw the sun a great far way up walking towards him that's when he said [36:38] we don't hear nothing about papa looking for him he didn't send his servants out hey go find my boy he ain't showing up [36:44] in a couple months the man hadn't been through a whole famine right he didn't have enough time to blow [36:50] all of his inheritance he eaten darn pig slop we don't hear nothing from pops but when [36:57] he saw his son on the way back he said that's my boy [37:04] and then when the son came back was like look man i don't deserve to be a scientist shut up go get him the best role [37:11] when he came back he was found when he came back [37:17] that's what repentance is the father wasn't with the son the whole time [37:25] the father had compassion when the son made a made up his mind that he wanted repentance [37:34] that's what it's about for us that's when the most high god is recognizing us when it's time for us to repent when we [37:41] set it in our minds that you know what i got to change my life i got to stop doing this i got to stop doing this [37:46] maybe even before we stop actually start stopping right but when we have it in our mind that's when the most high god says okay [37:52] let me deal with you remember this all started this whole [37:57] chapter started because yahweh right is walking around with publicans [38:02] and sinners our people are looking at it like they don't be hanging over no you know what [38:07] i'm saying right that's how they looking at cause they're looking we're hanging out no ferris eating everybody don't be hanging [38:14] out no darn republicans say that's great they reject right they don't reject the society why would you be hanging out with them [38:20] but let's go back to the beginning and make sure because is it yahushua seeking out the sinners [38:27] this verse one luke chapter 15 verse one then drew near unto him all the republicans then [38:34] drew near unto who y'all so then the republicans and the sinners [38:39] drew near in other words came close to yahweh keep going and the fair season scribes [38:46] remember saying this man receives sinners and eats with them he does he receives or he goes on to them he receives [38:53] you have to understand what's happening these are this is the precision that you have to understand the book [38:58] these people have you right now go street preach they how you making signs saying be a [39:05] christian today just repeat after me this sinner's prayer they on the strip you got darn drunk people are trying to [39:11] have a good darn time they getting in they way they holding up this sign saying jesus [39:17] loves you you think i'm trying to think about how jesus loved me when i'm slamming him back right now that's wrong [39:26] y'all she would never did it that way he want the man that's going to twit [39:31] down the drink and say you know what i need to stop doing this that's when he [39:36] there and say i'll receive you he's receiving sinners that are coming [39:42] to him he's receiving publicans that are coming to him the prodigal son came to his father [39:51] the lost sheep is a sheep ready to repent [39:56] you understand like these are they would have us believe that everybody's a lost sheep [40:02] everybody's a prodigal son that's not the case [40:07] there are certain of us that were chosen at the foundation of the earth [40:13] foundation of the world the most high god chose some of us not all of us but some of us [40:22] who knows who those are who does it most like i know [40:31] do we know well that's not fair how we supposed to [40:38] know if we saved tonight if we don't know if we saved or not [40:43] but what you mean the book i don't get it how do i know that i'm saying i just want to know that i'm saved how do i [40:49] know that i'm safe [40:56] this is the confusing part for people because we're told just believe give me romans chapter uh [41:04] 10 10. give me romans chapter 10. i'm gonna tell you what we're told right we're told we're instructed this is how [41:11] the bible is presented to us and our lives are on the line like i can't i can't stress this stuff enough [41:17] our lives are on the line and there is nothing and i said it last [41:22] week and i might just say it every week going forward there is nothing like [41:30] again i i get the urge to just say that nobody out there is [41:36] teaching this stuff right that i mean i if i'm just being completely honest with y'all that's what [41:41] i want to say the only thing that keeps me from saying that because i know of a bible verse [41:48] where a man said similar things and the most high god came back to him was like nah man it's 7 000 out there that ain't been [41:54] to need a bail so i'd like to believe that there are at least 7 000 out there [42:01] that's teaching the truth but just imagine you got a country full [42:06] of people and there's only seven thousand like you have at least a million people somebody do that math real quick who got [42:13] it let's just say what just do seven thousand divided by let's just say it's at least [42:19] a million people i'm sure it was more than that let's just say it's at least a million people what's that matter [42:27] no less than seven percent eighteen point seven percent yeah it's [42:33] gonna be like point oh seven point zero zero one zero so it's zero zero seven percent [42:39] all right no point zero so that's that's point seven percent that's what it is yeah it comes out to [42:44] be in point seven percent right [42:50] so we look at that like even that bible verse you gotta think why do you think why did why was elijah [42:56] under the impression that nobody else was standing strong for the most i died because only [43:02] 0.7 i mean only 0.7 was out there he's not gonna run across [43:08] that point seven percent that's crazy he's never met him so [43:15] that's what i have to keep i have to humble myself in that and say you know what there is [43:20] likely such a small percentage of people teaching the truth [43:25] i've just not come across it yet i mean it's not as though it's not as though i'm out searching and [43:31] looking like who's teaching the truth either right i kind of stick to myself [43:36] i'll put i put our teachings out there and then we have people that we receive right but [43:42] it's not like i'm out there looking but outside of that my instinct would tell me [43:47] i just can't trust my own instinct but if i did trust my own instinct i would say [43:52] nobody is teaching this stuff correctly in fact we i would say we are the only ones [43:58] teaching the bible correctly right that sounds cocky that sounds arrogant [44:03] that sounds silly for my family or my friends who know my past and know me and they look young then you look at that be like what [44:11] are you talking about you know that people looking through they scrolling through youtube right now they looking like this video has six [44:16] views you know come up there's only six you ain't nobody paying attention what you talking about boy yeah yeah boy you ain't business [44:25] seminary cause i told you i'll talk to the pastor like who i told the pastor i was like man what you just preached was all wrong [44:31] that boy said who are you that boy looked at me and said [44:36] who are you like the level of offense in his eyes i get it like i do i do get it i get all [44:43] those things and nevertheless i can tell you i am the only and we are the only [44:50] group that i know of like if you came to me it was like man other than you [44:56] can you point to it i ain't even being a hater it ain't like i'm like wow whether you come to meeting this person this [45:01] i don't care nothing about that stuff i'm telling you honestly i don't feel comfortable pointing you to any of these guys [45:09] and some people get close but close is dangerous man that's the worst one in this close [45:14] i'd rather you get it all the way wrong you get close man you get drug in there you get to thinking that you in there [45:20] and people don't teach it right and you get hung up on the one thing and send your butt right to him [45:27] right at some point people have to teach the [45:33] people the truth so that's why i stress this because our lives are on the line when it comes to [45:38] sin this is the one thing that i can tell you i haven't seen [45:43] anybody teach correctly what's a sin how do you get into the kingdom i'm [45:48] telling you right now you have to repent repent from what you go to mark chapter seven [45:54] you go to first corinthians chapter six you go to galatians chapter five and it will tell [46:00] you exactly what the sins are and those sins precisely are what you need to turn away [46:05] from it's everything you do is sin heck no is every thought that you have a sin no some of them are [46:11] not all of them though right look at those verses those chapters read [46:17] those chapters specifically in ephesians five [46:23] ephesians five what all right ephesians six is it ephesian not ephesians right i mean first [46:30] corinthians this first corinthians chapter 6 verse 9 right you want to do galatians [46:36] chapter 5 verse 2 19 19 20. yeah i'll say yeah about 19 then you want to do uh mark chapter 7 [46:43] verse 20. right if you get those and just read those sins [46:49] those are the sins precisely that you need to turn away from there's no iffins there's no guessing [46:55] there's no i just want you to feel this way it's not about how you feel it's not about what what what you listen [47:00] what's in your heart hope we got we about to get romans chapter 10 and hold that go to jeremiah [47:07] 17 verse 9. it's jeremiah chapter 17 verse nine [47:12] i got that all wrong i want to say six [47:19] it's jeremiah chapter 17 verse nine because it's going to connect this is going to make sense in a second [47:27] the heart is deceitful the heart is what deceitful above all things what is deceitful mean [47:32] tj what does that mean deceitful it's a heart what is deceitful me evil [47:39] that's a good one that's close right what's deceitful mean steven's always trying tricky [47:45] it's lying to you he said the heart is deceitful amongst [47:51] all things above all things that means it's going to lie to you your heart lies to you so when they tell [47:58] you just follow your heart what are they saying to you [48:04] you're lying to yourself when you stand in the mirror and you're repeating affirmations [48:10] you're lying to yourself our people are living in la la land and [48:16] it's because we've detached ourselves from our spirituality from our culture what is our culture [48:22] our culture talking about the people who came over as slaves from the atlantic sea our culture is [48:29] this book that has been taken from us we've been [48:34] taught that this came to us from a white man the nerve of these people [48:44] the white man took our book because they saw value in it and they didn't take it to control and [48:50] dominate the world they didn't take it to make slaves out of people that's not true they took it because they saw that this [48:57] thing was the truth then they made a mess out of it you know [49:02] that's just different and they start believing stuff and start making stuff up and improvising because we weren't there to teach them right they [49:09] enslaved us at the same time as taking our religion so we weren't there to guide and be like ah this is the history of it let me just [49:15] make sure you understand it so they improvised they tried to figure it out and they made the mess but we didn't get this from a white man [49:22] we weren't the only people that they tried to make his slaves they tried to make the more slaves why didn't the more stick as because the [49:30] morris knew who they were and they wasn't about to they wouldn't they knew they were muslims and they [49:35] wasn't about to believe no christianity that's crazy why didn't they why didn't the native americans think of slaves [49:41] read the history of if anybody don't believe me read the history on this stuff they couldn't get the native americans [49:48] instead they couldn't indoctrinate them they couldn't drink them boys stuck to it and [49:53] they kept escaping because they knew who they were [50:02] and you can't convert me to your stupid religion i know what i believe i believe in [50:07] hokotoko he come from the sun i worship the darn horse and then i ride [50:14] them afterwards you know somebody's like this is what they do [50:20] but us why would it why why were they so successful and just making us forget our [50:26] religion because they taught it back to us the [50:31] only thing they did is changed we was like yahushua they called him jesus [50:36] you whipped me on the back enough of the time all right fine jesus you know something fine call him what you wanna call him [50:41] same god we call them moshe they call them moses [50:46] listen you get to with me on my back fine mo okay motion didn't part the red sea [50:51] moses did you happy stop whipping me for us it wasn't a big deal it's like [50:56] man it's the same story that we grew up on y'all book is written in a different [51:02] language y'all speaking of them for sure but it's the same concept it's the same stories [51:11] it's important that we look at this stuff and we understand who we are this is our culture once we understand [51:17] who we are then we can confess the sins of us we can confess the sins of our fathers and once we confess the sins of our [51:22] fathers then we can say i've been walking contrary to god and god has been walking contrary to me and once we do that then he can remember [51:29] the land he can remember the covenant that he made with our fathers and he can bring us back to where we're supposed to be right now we continue to [51:36] suffer we continue to get shot down we continue to have stuff and some of it [51:41] is because of our sin we're whole to we're held to a higher [51:48] standard period watch this this is uh this is uh keep [51:54] reading this is the jeremiah 17 verse 9. the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked [52:00] who can know it either i the lord searches the heart and i try the reigns even to give every man according [52:06] according to us according to his ways it's going to his ways right so he says i'm searching the heart [52:13] we think our heart is like our thoughts our feelings all that right he said he's searching that [52:18] and he gonna give everybody according to what what he found he said i'm still gonna give it to you [52:25] the way you did it if you sing guess what your butt going to hell you don't repent you going ahead [52:33] that's it it all comes down to what you do now think about that heart is deceitful [52:38] and most high god is going to search the heart right watch this romans chapter 10 let me know [52:45] where we want to start today this is romans chapter 10 [52:57] this is romans chapter 10 verse nine why would the book say that if you shall confess with your mouth the lord yah sure and shall [53:04] believe in your heart that god has raised him from the dead you shall be saved so if you confess [53:09] with what confess with your mouth that y'all sure as lord you confess with your mouth right that's [53:17] just what we just got done reading we've got some sins of me my father's that i walk contrary to god and god why [53:23] contrary to me so you confess with your mouth the lord yahshua and shall believe in [53:28] your heart that god has raised him from the dead you shall be saved and then you got to believe in your what [53:33] heart but the heart is deceitful amongst all things right so how do you believe [53:38] in your heart what does that mean how do you believe in your heart why does why did why didn't it just say [53:44] just believe why does that you have to believe in your heart [53:52] yeah these things these things come out of the heart of a man [53:58] we ain't got to get it but if you look at mark chapter 7 verse 20 it says out of the heart of a man comes [54:05] these evil things sin comes out of the heart it doesn't go [54:11] into you it comes out of your heart so if you have sin yahushua also says [54:18] uh out of the heart of the man are there are his treasures right so if at the heart of man he brings [54:24] forth uh bad fruit then that guess what that's a bad heart [54:30] he said the fruit is no different from the tree you ain't gonna pick good fruit from a bad tree and you ain't gonna put bad bad food [54:36] from a good tree period right this y'all she was talking when you say this so that if that's the case [54:43] and i have sin coming out of my heart that tells me what about my heart heart is deceitful right [54:51] so no matter how i feel about myself if i'm sinning this is why we have the book this is why he gave it to us [54:57] if i'm sinning he's letting me know hey your heart is lying to you if you think you i right now it's our diagnosis [55:05] right i'm able to look at it because my heart is lying to me i have no way to know what the truth is so when i look at the book i can look at [55:12] it and be like oh i'm not supposed to be doing that but i am doing that but i still feel [55:18] like i'm saved i feel like i believe god but i'm still sinning the book is trying to tell you if you doing that [55:24] don't trust your heart your heart is lying to you [55:30] so once you stop all sin your heart is no longer producing sin because sin is not coming [55:36] out of you if you commit a sin where'd it start your heart so if you [55:41] stop sinning guess what your heart is no longer producing sin so now i can believe from my heart [55:55] we can't take this as if this is just saying just believe say something out loud [56:00] that's where the standard prayer comes from you say something out loud and you just believe from the heart no [56:06] no no no this is much deeper than that and i'll prove it to you keep going watch this for what the heart man believes unto [56:12] righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation so with the heart man believes unto righteousness [56:21] right well all we got there let's go hold on we got there let's go to mark chapter 7 mark chapter 7 [56:28] verse 20 then we'll come back so with the heart man believes and that belief [56:36] takes him to righteousness right so he's giving you the symptoms he [56:43] doesn't even give you like what's going on he's giving you look you can't tell there's no x-ray to tell you that your heart is [56:49] producing what it's supposed to produce the only thing you can look at is symptoms when you go to the doctor you can't tell [56:55] just by looking at yourself well most of the time you can't tell just by looking at yourself oh i got cancer unless you have symptoms i have [57:03] i don't know if i have covered i don't know right but if i have shortness of breath [57:11] and i'll lose my taste guess what i need to go see a doctor and where's the doctor going to ask you [57:18] are you running a fever yeah shortness of breath are you losing have you been exposed to anybody with he start asking questions [57:25] about physical things he can see because he knows inside of your body is something that he can't see [57:30] so he asks you about the physical things that he can't see to prove what's inside [57:37] and then he takes his because he got a special machine he takes his sample he sends it in they run it up and then [57:43] he can tell you okay you do got it or you don't got it that's the judgment of god like that's [57:49] going to happen for us too god got a little covey a test for us too but that happened at the end [57:54] if if he got to tell you you too late we have to be looking at the symptoms [58:00] now to start treating it right keep going uh this is uh mark [58:06] chapter 7 verse 20. and he said that which comes out of the man that defiles the man uh-huh but from within of the heart of [58:12] man from within of the heart of man out of the heart of men perceive evil thoughts adulteries fornications [58:19] murders deaths covetousness wickedness deceit mischievousness an evil eye blasphemy [58:25] pride foolishness all these evil things come from within and defile the man so this is what defiles you so if your [58:32] heart is defiled by any of these things how can you believe onto righteousness from the heart [58:38] you can't so we have to understand this is not as [58:43] simple as just saying just believe no what he's trying to tell you right now [58:49] is you have to believe on to righteousness what makes what makes your belief solid is that it [58:54] leads you to righteousness in other words doing the right thing in other words repentance from dead works [59:01] let's go back this romans chapter 10 what verse we have this romans chapter 10 verse 10. [59:15] most high god knew us from the foundation of the world but we didn't know us from the foundation of the world [59:23] for what the heart man believes unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation [59:28] uh-huh but the scripture says whosoever believes on him shall not be ashamed uh-huh there is no difference between the jew [59:33] or the greek but the same lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him but whosoever shall call upon the name [59:39] of the lord shall be saved he said whoever calls upon the name of the lord will be saved shall be saved right [59:47] how then shall they call on him and whom they have not believed and this is the key question if we stop there and [59:53] we say oh that's true it's a fact that is true right whoever calls on the name of yahuwah will be saved whoever calls on the name [60:00] of yahushua will be saved right that is a fact [60:05] but watch this how then shall they call on him and whom they have not believed how you gonna call them somebody you [60:11] don't even believe in and how you gonna believe in somebody [60:16] and how shall they believe in him whom they have not heard right hey you don't believe in somebody you haven't heard about [60:23] watch this and how shall they hear without a preacher and how you gonna hear about somebody if nobody's there to preach it to you to [60:29] tell it to you right watch this and how shall they preach except they'd be sent and how are you gonna have a preacher if he's not [60:35] sent from the most high god the problem is this string these are all [60:40] in my job we call them dependencies right you can't have this without the next right so these are all dependencies [60:47] on calling that's why he had to make this specific he said whoever calls on the name of you or shall be saved however these are the [60:54] dependencies all these have to be in place and correct you have to have some you first of all you have to believe [61:01] and to believe you have to have heard and to have heard you have to have a preacher and have a preacher you have to have somebody sent from god [61:08] right all those have to be in line i'm telling y'all you guys are being taught a jesus that is not the jesus or not the [61:15] yahushua that is of this book sure you're believing in something [61:20] because you were you heard something and you would preach something and the [61:25] guy was sent from somewhere he just wasn't sent from god therefore he wasn't preaching from the most high god therefore [61:31] you didn't hear something that was from the most high god therefore you're not believing in the one and true [61:39] it may feel like the same guy it may you may think it's the same guy it's not the same guy that's why the the [61:45] right uh paul told you and i think second corinthians he told you um uh there's another gospel [61:53] and there's another jesus he's telling you that this is like these are other people like you think you believe in the same there's [62:00] other ones watch keep on this romans chapter 10 one verse [62:05] how shall they preach except they be sinned as written how beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of [62:11] peace and bring good tidings of good things but what but they have not all obeyed the gospel [62:16] it always comes down to obedience in this same thing i guarantee your [62:21] christian pastor ain't never read down that though this is all one thought we all talking we haven't stopped talking about the [62:27] same thing it's all one thought and you see at the very end of it he say but they have not all obeyed the gospel it comes down to [62:35] obedience it comes down to obeying what god told you to do comes out to doing the right thing it comes down to turning away [62:40] from sin to believe from the heart you have to go on to righteousness to go into righteousness that means you have [62:46] had to turn away from sin already if you haven't turned away from sin already your heart [62:51] is lying to you you feel like you know what god loves me and god is by my side and you ain't [62:57] seeing your heart just hear from me just because we heard it from the book [63:02] your heart is lying to you your life is on the line you may think [63:09] this stuff is a game you may think it's not that big of a deal you may think i'm just blowing this way out of proportion [63:15] i'm letting you know this is in the book it came nobody that i've seen and that i've met [63:23] right explain this book in a way that it makes sense consistently [63:30] right they're going to give you some work version that fits what they've been taught or fits their [63:35] their theories or their ideas but you're going to see inconsistency somewhere [63:41] as christians what what we've done when we were christians if we've we've been we've been bombarded with so [63:47] many inconsistencies that it don't even it don't even trigger us anymore it don't hit our brain anymore [63:52] deep down we all know like ah that don't really make sense and i don't really get it but none of us admit it we all just say [63:59] oh well i just believe well no the whole bible all of it is right then somebody start to question you on some [64:04] of the parts you'd be like well i mean some of the bible is just allegory [64:09] that's what happens every single time because nobody a lot of people i haven't met these people who who [64:16] learn and believe the bible these other ways these the denominations all this stuff i haven't met any of them right that i [64:23] couldn't ask enough questions too to where the point i'll catch them up and they end up oh you know well some of this stuff was [64:29] just changed in the book all right some of the bible just changed it's not all and you know this passed [64:34] through hands in hand okay so you're saying you don't believe this that's all you're saying which i'm fine with let's just say that [64:40] though don't say that don't don't don't cause a whole lot of confusion you just don't believe it and once you don't believe in this like okay now [64:46] we're in a clear place you know damn i wash my hand you good you know you do what you need to do but if you're saying you believe it then [64:52] i i feel the need to help you out cause you believe in it wrong you know i don't know what you're doing [64:58] right all right let's see what we got uh uh let's see grab uh grab uh [65:09] let's go back to uh did we finish off uh luke chapter 15 no all right let's go [65:15] back to luke chapter 15 and try to finish this out [65:27] now his elder son was in the field and as he came and drew near to the house he heard music and dancing [65:32] and he called one of his servants and asked what these things meant he said unto him your brother has come and your father has killed the fatted [65:39] calf because he has received him safe and sound and he was angry and would not go in therefore came his father out to entreat [65:45] him and he answering says his father look these many years do i serve you neither transgressed i at any time your [65:52] commandment and yet you have never gave me a kid that i might make merry with my friends [65:57] but as soon as this your son was come which has devoured your living with [66:02] harlots you have killed for him the fatted calf and he said to them son you are forever [66:08] you are ever with me and all that i have is yours it was me that we should make merry and [66:14] be glad for this your brother was dead and is alive again and was lost and is found [66:22] the lesson here that we have to understand the lesson is not that god is always with us that's not what this is communicating to us [66:28] the lesson with this is repenting needs to be our priority if i'm someone [66:36] who have already repented and i'm already with the father right my joy my priority should be my brother [66:44] repenting his brother you see his brother he came like man what you what's that you're [66:50] having a celebration i've been by your side this the whole time and you have this celebration for him this mess he just [66:57] left and came back and you just celebrated and you're looking at it like no no you have to understand you have to look at this different [67:03] that man was dead to us and now he's alive you always with me everything i got is [67:10] yours you got it whenever you want all this stuff is yours [67:16] he was dead to us and now he's alive we found him now [67:22] that has to be the importance for us seeing a man or one woman turn to the most high god [67:29] that has to be our priority once we see a person starting to change and starting to feel [67:34] like you know what i want to do this differently that has to be our focus that's what we hone in on [67:41] sure sometimes it's going to pan out and sometimes it's not but we don't know the only way we know [67:48] is by the symptoms right yes that's it by the symptoms it's not [67:55] that god is walking by our our side every step of the way no no no no no no god is chasing after the ones that he [68:02] foreknew and when you say fort knew he knew us before before the world was he knew [68:09] certain of us right but we don't know [68:15] it's always two perspectives right there's always two ways to look at things you can look at it from god's view and [68:21] this is throughout the bible there's things that god tell us in terms of prophecy or in terms of revelation [68:26] right he's telling us from his view and then there's our view our view [68:33] is limited we can only view things with our own eyes and then we take what god [68:39] says and we have to trust what he says until what he says lines up with our view [68:45] right but his view has everything it's like a light right so look [68:50] you know what i'm saying let's see if we can do this real quick [69:04] hello [69:10] [Music] so this is like our view right here right [69:16] so it's like nighttime for us right we ain't got we ain't got the whole we ain't got the whole line of sight [69:21] all right so at the very bottom there we just got a whole bunch of people it all imagines all the people in the world for [69:27] us everybody look the same i can't tell you which one going just by looking at an individual [69:33] i can't tell by the way your hair laid to the side i can't tell i can't tell by looking at you whether [69:38] you're going to the kingdom or not the only thing i can do is i can look at [69:44] my behaviors most of all right my own behavior is most of all not really looking at everybody else [69:49] that's secondary first thing i want to look at is my own behavior and i say does my behavior [69:56] line up with what yahoshua expects and requires of me [70:01] if the answer to that is yes then my faith tells me that i am [70:08] chosen by god i have that by faith right i don't know [70:14] it for sure only thing i know is i believe it because i believe the book because the books say if you behave this way [70:21] you're chosen by god god is saying i chose some people and the people i [70:27] chose live like this so i look at the symptoms of my life and i say okay [70:33] i live like this therefore i must be chosen by god i have to maintain that behavior to the [70:39] end of my life and then most like god will prove it out for me that's what faith is faith is not oh i [70:46] hope i get this job oh i got that job that's not faith that's not the [70:52] faith that the bible describes the faith that the bible describes says this is the behavior that i tell you are [70:59] people that will make it into the kingdom and then i exhibit that same behavior [71:04] and i do it for the rest of my life and then when i wake up i'm in the kingdom [71:12] right but this is god's view all right that didn't work let's try it [71:17] this way [71:23] all right guys this is a [71:39] all right so then [71:44] this is god's view right so you look at the mozart guy's view he shined the light on the whole shebang [71:50] everything is revealed to him right so you got little people down there some of them got the green box around them [71:56] those would be the elect he knows from the beginning of the world he knows everybody that's going you going you [72:02] going you going you going nose is very few right you going you going you going you going [72:08] you going we don't have this view the problem is christianity tries to make us believe that we have this view [72:16] christianity tries to make us believe the verse that says that he knew us before the world applies to everyone [72:24] it doesn't it applies to those who through the end raise up with him [72:31] he tells us the ones that's going to raise up with him behave righteously so the only way we know the [72:38] only hint that we have is by righteous behavior [72:43] that's just me talking though let's prove it out let's go to hebrews chapter one i mean chapter 11 verse one these are [72:49] all verses that you christians know about christians know about these verses y'all heard these before i'm telling you how [72:55] to look at them correctly not with the voodoo that pastors try to do they're not with the just make it [73:01] feel good i'm trying to show you how to look at them correctly i saw a homegirl she posted on her page [73:09] she said um if your heart condemns you god is greater than your heart and she posts she poses like [73:15] encouragement but don't worry about your silly heart condemning you god is greater than that like that's not [73:21] what that's saying that's not what that's saying they're saying if you [73:26] if your heart if your heart is telling remember your heart is deceitful if your heart is telling you that you [73:32] sin right believe that that the most high god [73:38] is way smarter than your heart he know everything so he said you better deal with that in [73:44] other words you need to make sure your heart is confident before god before approaching the most like god [73:50] if you feel it if you feel it if you in church and you like man am i saying that's what he's talking [73:56] about that question am i saved and you're always going to have that question until somebody gives you specifics [74:03] don't believe don't believe this stuff that it's just some just a feeling that you have to have is [74:08] that like uh what paul is like saying that you gotta show yourself you have to show yourself [74:14] approval that's exactly what it means because that's that confidence that you have to build [74:19] if you don't build that confidence within you the confidence comes from the word you look at the word you say okay the word saying specifically i need to [74:25] do this now don't do this okay specifically i stopped doing this and i started doing this [74:31] now i have confidence before god because guess what god said he got to keep his birth god said that he's faithful god said even if [74:37] we not faithful he remains faithful okay well god i'm doing exactly what you said [74:43] so now when i approach god i'm gonna sound like job remember when joe job approached guys he's like man i'll write this my whole life [74:49] i did this i did that that's the confidence and even though we may look at it like [74:54] like most like god scolded job remember at the end job had to sacrifice [74:59] for his friends it wasn't the other way around [75:08] job was just ignorant it wasn't that joke was out there sinning [75:14] he just didn't understand how the whole thing play out we got the benefit of having the whole book revealed to us [75:19] so we understand a little bit more job didn't have that right so the most like god had this [75:24] whole view watch this hebrews chapter 11 verse one now faith is the substance of things hopeful so faith is the substance of [75:31] things hoped for understand what that is saying faith right faith [75:38] which is like an empty thing it's a concept right he said faith is the substance substance it kind [75:44] of tells you it's tangible right so it's the substance it's the evidence [75:49] right of things hoped for right hope is another idea it's a concept so [75:55] what's the definition of faith oh faith is the substance of what you hope for okay [76:00] what does that mean keep going the evidence of things not seen it's the evidence of things that you [76:07] can't see so if the most high god says these are the type these are the people [76:13] i i for new people that will make it into the kingdom you can't see that but guess what you can't see behavior [76:21] you can see when the most likely i say the people that make it into the kingdom will turn away from sin and they will uh [76:27] walk in righteousness oh you could see that you can see that yourself [76:33] so what is faith faith is that evidence what is the evidence that evidence is the way i'm living the way i [76:41] walk what i do what can't be seen my heart what's the [76:49] substance that you can't see my behavior so what's faith oh it's the substance of [76:55] things hoped for remember the whole cause we don't come back to that substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen [77:03] evidence of things that you cannot see who echoes this this sentiment [77:15] paul how about james oh [77:28] let's do james chapter two [77:54] james chapter two what verse i want 14. it's james chapter 2 verse 14. [78:04] this is just and i want y'all to know this is basic this is the beginning this is what this is where every church [78:11] should start off with this is just basic stuff without this you you're not even doing [78:18] that you're not born again you don't know god don't you you're nothing without this like without understanding these simple [78:24] concepts you're nothing without it what i'm telling us they have robbed us from the most [78:29] basic of teaching and i don't blame our moms and our dads [78:35] and our pastors even they've been taught this garbage i kind of blame the pastors right because as a pastor that means [78:41] that you've assumed the leadership position and you've taken on the responsibility to get it right [78:46] so you can look into it you can figure this stuff out you got to i can't believe the most high god won't [78:52] let you figure it out it's just somewhere along the way you've made the decision not to figure it out to ignore something or to cut the [78:57] corners or whatever and ain't no side deals with god right what does it profit my brother and [79:05] though a man say he has faith and have not works uh-huh so remember save him remember [79:10] faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things that you cannot [79:17] see right so he said what does it profit if a man say what [79:24] if a man say he has faith and have not worked can faith save him uh-huh if a brother or sister be naked [79:30] and destitute of daily food and one of you saying to them depart in peace be you warmed and filled notwithstanding [79:36] you give them not those things which are needful to the body what does it profit even so faith [79:42] if it has not works is dead being alone so he said if faith faith doesn't have works it's dead being [79:48] alone so we understand that faith is a concept so you can't really see faith but what is faith the definition [79:54] was the evidence of things that you can't see so you can see the evidence of faith you can't see the behaviors of faith [80:00] so he's telling us what is faith if it doesn't have works what is works the evidence so he's [80:06] saying what is faith if you can't see the evidence watch this even so faith if it has not [80:12] works is dead being alone uh-huh yeah a man may say you have faith and i have works so somebody he's [80:18] telling me somebody might say you have faith but i have works right somebody might try to compare that [80:24] like oh you got faith well i can't see your faith but i got works watch this show me [80:30] your faith without your works and i will show you my faith by my word he's saying when i [80:35] show you my works you've seen my faith because it's the evidence of things you [80:42] cannot see that's what faith is right that's what all this stuff is that's [80:48] what he's trying to line up for you that's what the whole book is trying to line up for you you don't have faith you don't believe [80:55] if you don't so when it comes down to our view versus the most high gods [81:01] we have to be able to look at ourselves we have to say okay my behavior lines up with the book [81:07] therefore i have been for known by god therefore at the end he will say come on [81:14] into my kingdom however those that don't line up with [81:19] the book he gonna say depart from me i never knew you in other words i did not [81:25] foreknow you at the beginning of the world this is what it all comes down to [81:31] are you going to repent or not [81:37] any questions all right let's pray out