Not As Though I Had Already Attained, Either Were Already Perfect

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[00:00] honest around here. Them sharks coming for him though, bro. You know what I'm saying? They not being too favorable to [00:06] LeBron no more on some of these networks, man. No, the tire going to change. That thing crazy. It's changing [00:11] already. It's going to be bad. [00:16] You going to eat your food, Eli? Huh? You going to eat? Yeah. It's in the refrigerator. You have to put it in the [00:21] microwave. [00:43] Yeah, it's working Saturday. I don't know if I'm going be able to get over that thing. That thing is tough, bro. I'm telling you, it's so hard. I I feel [00:50] you. That thing would be Yeah. next impossible for me. Yeah. Everything else is like I could deal with. I'm like, [00:55] "Bro, this got to change, bro." I know cuz we we uh it's like the [01:02] workload is cracking and for them to not operate on some days, I'm like, "Bro, look, is there any way y'all can just [01:08] like give me a Sunday, the day that no one works to work and in exchange give me Saturday?" [01:14] Yeah, buddy. Talk to about that thing, too. Like, look, I heard you talk about how Sunday y'all got to come back for the misses and the work that's not done [01:21] and people hate coming in on Sunday. I'm happy. I like you give me that. You know what I'm saying? Take away Saturday. I [01:27] got you. Sabbath peace. Sabbath peace. It's another opportunity for us to come [01:33] 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 [01:38] through the son whose name is Yahushua. In him lies the only hope for salvation. We know that it is obtained by grace [01:45] through faith, not of works, lest anyone should boast and given freely as a gift to all who obey him. We understand that [01:51] if you do not obey him and it's made manifest or made obvious that you do not believe in this state, you should expect [01:57] no good thing. However, anything that you do get, whether it be a gift of tongues, a gift of prophecy, or any [02:03] supernatural experience that you may have, it can and it will be used against you in the day of judgment. With that [02:09] said, peace to the saints that are in the room, to the saints that couldn't make it, to the saints watching in on camera, to the saints in the chat, to [02:15] the saints gathered around the world that we barely even know about. But no peace to the wicked. The only thing we say to them is repent that they might [02:23] live. So last week we talked about Paul and we kind of finished out the book of Acts. [02:30] And so we looked at how how Paul, you know, went to trial uh and he and he [02:36] spoke to, you know, some of the governors. He spoke to we we read about the week before how he spoke to Felix [02:41] and how he spoke to um uh King Agria last week and then huh and [02:49] Fesus he spoke to Fesus, right? Fesus made the made the connection, right? And then and then they sent him on to Rome. [02:55] King of Griffith was like, "Yeah, he appealed to Caesar. So now you got to go to Rome." So then he went to Rome. You remember he got on the ship and then the [03:01] ship wrecked and he told him, "As long as y'all stay on the ship, y'all will save y'all life." And then they got off. [03:07] He got bit by the viper and everything. Shook the viper off, went into the fire. So, um, after he landed, he started to [03:14] talk to some of the some of the Hebrews that was in town and then spoke to the Gentiles as well, teaching the word. But [03:20] during that time, what he's doing is he's writing letters, right? So, he's writing letters back to all the places [03:26] that we read about him visiting or hearing about. He's writing letters back to those people to kind of answer [03:33] questions from them or to just give them some some encouragement. So, what we're about to do now is we're gonna start in [03:39] the book of Philippians and we going to finish through all of the letters that Paul wrote while he was in Rome. Right? [03:46] This is uh Philippians chapter 1 verse one. One thing you got to pay attention [03:52] to when when you read all these letters, you got to pay attention to who it's written to. Because if we ever see a [03:58] letter that's written to a Christian, a Muslim, a Jewish person, right, then [04:04] that's what we like we want we want to make note of that if we see that. But if we see it's written to disciples and [04:10] saints, then that makes sense to us. This is Philippians [04:16] 1 verse one. [04:22] Paul and Timoththeus, the servants of Yahosua the Messiah, to all the saints in the Messiah which are at Philippi [04:29] with the bishops and deacons. Right? So you see how he he wrote it to all the saints that were in Philippi, right? If [04:36] you a saint of the Messiah, you're in Philippi. That's who we wrote this letter to. It's not written to [04:41] Christians, right? That's very important because we get to we we start to adapt traditions of the world and we we we [04:50] read those traditions into the book. It's not that we are reading them from the book. We read them into the book, [04:55] right? We start reading and we start imagining that we see Christian and we see, you know what I'm saying, Muslim [05:01] and we see all this other stuff that these people made up over these years, right? The whole purpose of us going [05:07] through this book and reading it page by page and reading the Bible in a year every year is so that we understand how [05:14] to get traditions out of what we read and just get familiar with the written word. Right? Let's keep going. Watch [05:21] this. Grace be unto you and peace from God our [05:26] father and from the Lord Yahosua the Messiah. Mhm. I thank my God upon every [05:32] upon every remembrance of you always in every prayer of mine for you all making requests with joy [05:39] for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now. Being confident of this very thing that he which has [05:45] begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of the Messiah. Even as it is appropriate for me to [05:52] think this of you all, because I have you in my heart, in so much as both in my bonds and in the defense and [05:58] confirmation of the gospel, ye are partakers of my grace. For God is my [06:04] record. How greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Yahosua the Messiah. [06:09] And this I pray that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment that you may approve [06:15] things that are excellent, that ye may be sincere and without offense to the day of the Messiah. Right? That you [06:21] approve things that are excellent. That means that we're able to recognize and and call out that's the way it's [06:28] supposed to be. Right? When somebody is behaving properly, when somebody has good judgment, when somebody understands [06:34] the word properly, we supposed to be able to say that's the way it's supposed to be. Right? Keep going. [06:41] Being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Yosua the Messiah unto the glory and praise of [06:46] God. But I would ye I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things [06:51] which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel. Right? So what he's talking [06:56] about, remember we just read how he was a prisoner taken to Rome. So that's what he's referring to now that he's writing [07:02] from Rome. He's saying, "Look, I just want y'all to know I know y'all heard none all the rumors. I know y'all heard about what happened to me. Just know [07:09] this was for the purpose of the gospel spreading, right? For the kingdom to spread. Keep go going. [07:16] So that my bonds in the Messiah are manifest in all that all the palace and [07:21] in all other places. And many of the brethren in the Lord waxing confident by my bonds are much more bold to speak the [07:28] word without fear. Some indeed preach the Messiah even of envy and strife, and [07:34] some also of good will. Right? So he's like, "Some people they preach the the Messiah of envy and strife." So in other [07:41] words, some people just like trying to compete with me. Like can you imagine [07:46] that? Like so so Paul's out there, he teaching the word because he's doing it out of goodwill. He doing it because [07:53] that's what y'all put on his heart. Y'all commanded him to do it. He looking like, "Well, what else am I going to do other than what y'all commanded me?" So [07:59] he preached the word. Some people though look at Paul preaching the word and they looking like I could do that better. [08:06] Like his like he don't even deliver it right. You know what I'm saying? Like he ain't saying the right things. They just looking at it like I could do that [08:12] better. And so they doing it out of like competition. That's what he mean by strife. They looking at it like okay [08:17] well no I could do that better than I could probably reach more people than him. I could teach it. Like if I taught it these people would really understand [08:23] it if I taught it. I could do it better. Right? And so they they end up teaching the gospel but they really teaching the [08:29] gospel. Their motivation though was out of strife, right? They want to compete. Keep going. Watch this. [08:38] The one preached the Messiah of contention, not sincerity, supposeding to add affliction, affliction to my [08:44] bonds. Uh-huh. But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defense of the gospel. Right. So he said, "One [08:49] person just trying to make it hard on me. They trying to get me out the paint." Right? Everywhere I go and I get [08:57] to preach in the word, they looking like, "Oh, no. We going to preach over there." They trying to set up shop and just get me completely out of there. [09:04] Right? So when he looks at he's looking like, "Man, it's one that do it sincerely out of love." And it's the [09:10] other one that's just doing it to like give strife to me, right? For contention, right? They trying to [09:16] contend with me, right? That's the only reason they doing it. But watch what he say next. What then? Notwithstanding, [09:22] every way, whether in pretense or in truth, the Messiah is preached, and I therein do rejoice. Yay, and will [09:29] rejoice. So he look at it like, at the end of the day, if you're preaching the truth, whether you doing it pretending [09:37] or whether you doing it sincerity with sincerity, right? Either way, I rejoice [09:44] cuz the truth is being preached, right? The Messiah is being preached. His name is being spread. You not spreading lies. [09:50] you trying to contend with me and so it forces you to tell the truth. You're not doing it for the right reason. But you [09:55] know what? At the end of the day, Messiah being preached. Where does he [10:01] get that from? What do you say? He who is uh [10:08] not against me, what he say, he who is with me is with me. And who is not against me is scattered abroad? That's [10:13] right. Scattered abroad. Right. Give me Mark chapter 9. [10:19] Give me Mark chapter 9. Give me verse 38. [10:24] What you going to guess? What was you going to guess? Verse one. [10:29] Verse one. I don't know. Not at this time. I have notes on this [10:35] one. So, you know what I'm saying? I I ain't got to remember this one. This is Mark chapter 9. Give me verse 38. [10:48] They ain't going to be able to sleep, bro. All through the night, they about to be having y. You know what I'm [10:54] saying? All through the night. But Yoshua said, "Forbid him not, for [10:59] there is no man which shall do a miracle in my name that can lightly speak evil of me." Right? So, go back up. What What [11:05] verse is that? John answered him, saying, uh, 39. That's 39. Give me verse 38. [11:10] And John answered him, saying, "Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name, and he does not follow us." Right? [11:17] So they went to the Messiah, and they looking like, "Man, it's some joker out there. He casting out demons, and he's [11:23] saying it in your name." He said, "In the name of Yahosua, the Messiah, come [11:28] out of him." Right? They looking like, "But he not part of our crew. You don't [11:33] teach him. We've never met the man, but he's out there casting out demons in your name. [11:39] So of course when you look at that you looking like man he's a fraud. He's not from where we from. [11:45] He didn't learn from my mans. He didn't learn from my master. He just saw us doing something and he just doing it. He [11:51] repeating what we saying. But watch what Yahosua said. And he follows not us. And [11:56] we forbade him because he does not follow us. We told him, "Hey, cut that out. Only the people that follow the [12:03] Messiah can do that." Right? But watch this. And Yosua said, "Forbid him not, [12:08] for there is no man which shall do a miracle in my name that can lightly speak evil of me. For he that is not [12:14] against us is on our part. For whosoever shall give you a cup of water or drink in my name, because you belong to the [12:20] Messiah, verily I say unto you, he shall not lose his reward. And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that [12:27] believe in me, it is better for him that a milestone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea. Mhm. And [12:32] if thy hand offend thee, cut it off. It is better for thee to enter into life manga than having two hands to go to [12:38] hell. Right? Fire that never shall be quenched. So he's looking at it and he's telling them, "Whoever is not against us [12:46] is for us." What does that mean? All he's saying is if they are not doing [12:52] something that's stopping our goal, then we shouldn't be paying attention to it, [12:59] right? There's no reason for us to even lose no sleep about it. So that's what Paul is [13:04] trying to say here. Look, look, I know these boys are doing it for the wrong reason. They out there, but you know, at [13:09] the end of the day, they preaching the word, which is exactly what I'm trying to do. So now it's two people preaching [13:15] the word instead of just one. So he said, for that I praise Yah. Because he learned from Yahosua, look man, if they [13:22] ain't against us, then they got to be for us. That's not necessarily absolute, but [13:28] it's basically you're for me until you show you're against me. I'm not about to sit here and bother and guess like, man, [13:35] he might be trying to this thing. It might be a trick. He might be No. When [13:41] you display behavior that's contrary to the book, now you're against me. Until [13:46] then, I'm focused on something else. I don't have time for that foolishness. [13:52] Right. But where did Yoshua get it from? [13:59] Grab Numbers. It's Numbers chapter [14:05] no 11. It's Numbers chapter 11 verse [14:15] verse one. Oh what? This is verse one. This numbers [14:22] 11 verse one. And when the people complained, it [14:27] displeased Yahweh. And Yahweh heard it, and his anger was kindled. And the fire of Yahweh burned among them, and [14:33] consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp. And the people cried unto Moses. And when Moses prayed unto [14:39] Yahweh, the fire was quenched. And he called the name of the place Torah, because the fire of Yahweh burned among [14:45] them. Mhm. And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting. And the children of Israel also wept again and [14:51] said, "Who shall give us flesh to eat? We remembered the fish which we did eat in Egypt freely, the cucumbers, the [14:57] melons, and the leaks." Look, when we was in Egypt, man, we had melons. We had [15:03] fish, right? We had onions. Oh my goodness. You could You had flavor on the food [15:10] back in the boy. And now what we've been eating? fish. We've been eating mana. Mana. You [15:18] know what I'm saying? We've been eating mana every day. You know what I'm saying? Now, it tastes sweet. You know [15:24] what I'm saying? It tastes sweet now. But it's like the same thing every single day. That's what we got to eat. [15:32] We've been just drinking water out of rocks. You know what I'm saying? Wherever we can find some water, we drinking it. Man, I miss Egypt. Yeah. [15:39] You can get you a nice fish out in Egypt. You remember that fish shop? Yeah. Jojo fish shop. You remember that [15:45] fish? Oh man, that what we That's what we sitting around doing. We reminiscing like, man, we had potatoes back in [15:51] Egypt. I miss When was the last time you had a potato? And I had one. You know what I'm saying? Probably the day before [15:57] we left. Man, that was like a year ago at this point. I think maybe two years ago at this point, right? So, we looking [16:03] at it just reminiscing about what we used to have in Egypt. Watch this though. Keep going. [16:10] But now our soul is dried away. There is nothing at all besides this mana before our eyes. And the mana was as coriander [16:16] seed, and the color thereof was as the color of bedellum. And the people went about and gathered it and ground it in [16:21] meals or beat it into mortar and baked it in pans and made cakes of it. And the taste of it was the taste of fresh oil. [16:29] And when the dew fell upon the camp and whoever tasted oil, you taste the oil. What oil taste like? [16:39] But what taste do it have? don't really got a taste to it. You know [16:45] what I'm saying? So, imagine eating something that just just very light in taste. You know what I'm saying? It's [16:51] just real light. Like it don't have a ton of flavor, but every day you eat it [16:57] like water. So, you know what they started to do? Read that last part again. Watch this. And the people went [17:02] about and gathered it and ground it in meal. So, they gr they gathered it and every day you gather and you eat it. So, [17:07] at some point you want to do something different. So you looking like, "Let me see if it tastes different. Bring the [17:13] meal over here." So they start grinding it down and breaking it into pieces. [17:19] Because it's like, "Let me eat it differently cuz maybe it'll taste different." You know what I'm saying? [17:24] Look, Tasha, sometime Tasha make tacos. Now sometimes she make the tacos and she'll take the uh tortilla. Tortilla. [17:33] Me personally. What' you say? Like a Mexican. Say it again. Say it again. Tortilla. Tortilla. You know what I'm [17:38] saying? Tortilla, that you say it. You take it and you put it inside me. I tell [17:44] her, "Put it inside of the Ziploc bag and throw it inside the microwave." You [17:49] know what I'm saying? Cuz that's how I was raised. You know what I'm saying? Where I'm from. You throw that thing in the microwave, throw in there for about [17:56] 30 seconds, make it all soft, and then dump your taco meat in there, put a little ketchup and sour cream and cheese [18:02] on it. That's a taco. That's disrespect. That's a taco. You know what I'm talking about. That's disrespect. But it tastes [18:10] good. But then Tasha come out and she get to frying her. You know what I'm [18:16] saying? She take her shell, fry it in there with a bunch of oil. It's dripping and greasy. You know what I'm saying? [18:22] Bunch of oil. Put it in there. And it it tastes like a totally different dish. Don't even taste like She does nothing [18:28] different. She cooked the meat the same. It's the same cheese. It's the same everything else. But just that shell, [18:34] you know what I'm saying? Being prepared a little differently. give it a whole new flavor. So, you gotta imagine when [18:40] we in there, we looking like, "Bring me the darn meal." You know what I'm saying? Let me let me see if I break this thing down and grind it down into [18:47] something. Let's see if we could just, you know what I'm saying? Like, see if we can prepare it differently. You know what I'm saying? Cuz a burger is beef [18:54] and tacos are beef, but do they taste the same? No. No. You know what I'm saying? So, it's like maybe we can make [19:00] this thing taste a little different. So, they grind it in the meals. What else they do? [19:06] and baked it in pans and made beat it in mortar and baked it in pans and made cakes of it. Wait, wait, wait, wait. [19:12] They said they beat it in mortar. You know what I'm saying? So they in there bow, bow. They beating, you know, cuz [19:17] when you take bread sometimes you got to beat the bread down. You know what I'm saying? So they they treating it like bread and they beat it. What else they [19:23] do? [Music] Baked it in pans and made cakes of it. So they baked it in pans. So they baked [19:29] it, flattened it out, put it in the pan, heated it up, and then they tried to make a cake, [19:35] right? They tried to do all these different things to make it different. [19:40] But let's see. And the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil. Still still tastes like oil. [19:47] You know what I'm saying? after they got done with it, it still take. If you go get you some oil right now, get you some [19:53] vegetable oil, canola oil, um, olive oil, any type of oil, right? You put it, [20:00] [Music] it's going to taste like nothing. You know what I'm saying? Going to have a [20:05] very light taste to it, not a lot of flavor. And that's how this tasted. Keep [20:10] going. I just want y'all to see cuz y'all have to see. A lot of time we hard [20:16] on oursel. We hard on our ancestors. We be looking, oh, those rebellious Israelites. They just never want. But [20:22] you have to understand, they're not complaining without a cause. It's like when David walked up to see Goliath and [20:28] his brother tripped on him. Remember his brother tripped on him? His brother like, "Man, what you did came out here to be nosy? Just trying to see stuff." [20:35] And David was like, "Is there not a cause?" You know what I'm saying? Like this man calling all y'all out. He about [20:40] to whoop y'all out. Is it not a cause that I'm out here? And they're they're complaining. It's a cause, right? [20:45] There's a reason that they're complaining, right? So, the reason that they're complaining is because they've [20:51] been spending they've been 2 years eating a very lightly flavored [20:58] substance, right? That's kind of like bread. You know what I'm saying? But it's like very lightly flavored. So, [21:03] it's it's like I've been eating the same thing for two years. Could anybody imagine eating eat even something that [21:10] tastes What's your f what's your favorite food? What? [21:15] Oh my gosh. What's your favorite food? Pizza. Okay, there we go. You know what I'm saying? All right. So, pizza. So, [21:22] look. Can you eat pizza two times a week? No. Three times a week? [21:30] One time a week? Just one time a week. Imagine having to eat pizza every single [21:38] day for two years. You'd be all pizza out. you turn into a [21:44] darn pizza. Right? So that's where they at right now. They looking like, man, we've been eating this stuff for two [21:52] years. Somebody give us something. So they talking like, man, don't you miss, [21:58] man? It's It was so much fish. You don't remember Jojo fish shop? Boy, you go [22:04] over there on Egyptian Street, you get in there, you break that thing down, they break it down, put it out there, they season it nice, put a little oil in [22:10] there. Boy, Jojo can make that fit, didn't he? He made that fit. Everybody looking like, "Yeah, boy. I remember." So we all talking about how it used to [22:17] be in Egypt. And now we start complaining like, "Man, at least when we was in Egypt, at least we had some darn [22:23] fish. Now we eating this whatever it is. We can't even break that thing down, put it in the side of a pan, and make a cake [22:30] out of it. It still tastes like darn nothing, right? Keep going. Watch this." And when the dew fell upon the camp in [22:36] the night, the mana fell upon it. Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their families, every man in the door of [22:42] his tent. And the anger of Yahweh was kindled greatly. Moses also was displeased. And Moses said unto Yahweh, [22:48] "Why hast thou afflicted thy servant? And wherefore have I not found favor in thy sight that thou layst the burden of [22:54] all this people upon me?" Mhm. Have I conce Have I conceived all this people? Mhm. Have I begotten them that you [23:00] should say unto me, carry them in thy bosom as a nursing father bears his suckling child unto the land which you [23:05] swear unto their fathers? Right? So now Moses talking to the most high God. He looking like, "Man, why you put these [23:11] people on me and I got to carry them all by myself? Like, why am I responsible [23:17] for every one of them? Like, they're rebellious. They don't appreciate this stuff." Cuz Moses looking like Moses [23:24] looking at it from a different view. The view that that we should be looking at it. This is a miracle. [23:30] Like we are out in the middle of nowhere and you got stuff falling from the sky [23:36] and you got food growing from the ground every morning for us to eat. This has never happened to anybody. He's looking [23:41] at it like this is amazing. Sure, we got to eat the same thing for two years and [23:46] for 40 years really, but this is amazing. This nothing like this ever happened for anybody. Our other our our [23:53] brothers and sisters, our ancestors, they was kind of looking at it a little differently. They're looking at it just like I'm exhausted of walking around and [24:01] eating this stuff because I had an expectation that we are going to leave Egypt and go right to our new land. They [24:07] would have if you know Well, they never were going to go right to the land. You know what I'm [24:14] saying? But they wouldn't have took 40 years. You know what I'm saying? But you know what I'm saying? Like they had expectation. Remember this is happening [24:20] before this happened before the 40 years got got put on. So like this is this [24:25] they probably like two years in and now they looking like okay well what's next right they were thinking that maybe in [24:31] 30 days we'll be in our new new land right but that's not the case so they expectations was off Moses he's he he [24:40] gets to interact with God so he has he has more of a he he he like he can adapt [24:45] his expectations to a conversations with the most high God they don't so they got to rely on Moses they just got to trust [24:52] the process But trust the process can be hard when you don't understand, when you don't know what's coming. So that's what [24:57] Yah is teaching us right now. He's teaching us how to trust the process even when you don't know what's [25:02] happening. Right? Just trust him. Just trust him. But they hadn't learned that yet. [25:08] So keep going. Watch this. Moses mad, why do you put all these [25:14] people on me? Right? Keep going. Where should I have flesh to give unto all [25:19] this people? For they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh that we may eat. I am not able to bear all this people [25:24] alone, because it is too heavy for me. And if you deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of out of hand, if I have [25:32] found favor in thy sight, and let me not see my wretchedness. Right? So Moses looking like they too much. These people [25:38] are too much. It's too many of them. I can't handle it by myself. He's like, and then Moses told the Most High, God, [25:44] if I got to keep handling all these people by myself, I'm telling you, I can't do it. Just kill me. just put me [25:49] out of my misery now because it's too much for me, right? These are too many people. I cannot deal with all this by [25:56] myself. So, watch how y'all respond. And Yahweh said unto Moses, "Gather unto [26:02] me 70 men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be elders of the people, and of and officers over them, and bring [26:09] them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee." How many men? 70. He told [26:15] him, "Go get you 70 men." Mosite, this too much for me. Most high God was like, "Go gather 70 men." Let me show you [26:21] something real quick. All right, keep going. And I will come down and talk with thee there, and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put [26:28] it upon them, and they shall bear the burden of this people with thee, that you bear it not thyself alone. Mhm. And [26:34] say unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow, and ye shall eat flesh. For ye have wept in the ears of [26:40] Yahweh, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt. Therefore Yahweh will give you [26:45] flesh, and ye shall eat. You shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither 10 days, nor 20 days, but [26:52] even a whole month until they come out of your nostrils, and it will be loathome unto you, because that ye have [26:58] despised Yahwh, which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt? Moses said, and [27:06] Moses said, the people among who I am are 600,000 footmen, and you have said, I will give them flesh that they may eat [27:12] a whole month. Shall the flocks of the herds be slain for them to suffice them? Or shall all the fish of the sea be [27:17] gathered together for them to suffice them? Right? So what Moses Moses kind of doubting right now. He like, "Hold on, hold on, hold on." Cuz Moses looking at [27:24] it like, "This is more work that's about to be put on me." Right? So he's looking like, "Whoa, whoa, whoa. What you trying [27:29] to say is they're about to eat meat, right? You're telling me that they're about to eat meat and they about to eat [27:36] meat not a day or a week or a month." You know what I'm saying? like we about [27:42] to be eating meat until we tired of it is basically what you tell him. So he looking like, "Okay, so what does that [27:48] mean?" Cuz remember, we got a whole bunch of animals, right? We got all types of sheep and ox and all this stuff [27:54] that we're that we got coming along with us, but we haven't been killing our animals to eat it, right? So now Moses [28:01] looking like, "Okay, so what you really trying to tell me is we going to have to kill all these animals, which is a lot [28:06] of work. That means somebody got to slaughter all these animals and pull them together and all this." and he just [28:12] told us that the only way you can slaughter an animal um one of the animals of the herd is you got to bring [28:18] that animal to the priest. So now the priest got it set up and Moses going to have to organize all this stuff and make [28:24] sure everything run clean and he looking like okay more work. Then he asked another question is like or what we [28:29] going to have to walk over to the water and we going to have to fish until we get enough fish for all these people. He [28:36] looking like man this is a lot. This is a lot. Watch what y'all say. Yahweh said [28:42] unto Moses, "Is Yahweh hand waxed short? You shall see. You shall see now whether [28:48] my word shall come to pass unto thee or not." And Moses went out and told the people the words of Yahweh, and gathered [28:53] 70 men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the tabernacle. And Yahweh came down in a cloud, and spake [29:00] unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the 70 elders. And it came to pass that when [29:05] the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease. Right? So look, the spirit that was on Moses, it [29:12] got taken and it got spread out amongst the 70, [29:17] right? So first of all, you got to understand Moses, right? Remember Moses started this thing off with, "No, I [29:24] can't speak." You know what I'm saying? Why don't you send somebody else to speak? You know what I'm saying? Most High God got a little frustrated. Was [29:29] like, "All right, I I'm I'm Go meet Aaron. He gonna meet you in the darn desert, boy." Right? So now Aaron got [29:36] some of the glory that the most high God was going to put on on Moses. Now [29:42] Moses did something sim. He looking like man it's too many people. I can't handle all this this that and another. Rightfully so because remember well you [29:49] know what I'm saying. Remember when we read Jethro a couple chapters before said the same thing. All right. Maybe he [29:54] did it in Exodus. He might have did it in Exodus. It was Exodus. Yeah. Jethro said the exact same thing. He said like [29:59] no you need to you need to kind of split this up between you know what I'm saying? make judges and don't let them only bring the hard stuff to you. Right? [30:08] So, this is really Jethro's plan that the most high God has implemented. Right? This is the plan that Jethro [30:13] already suggested. And so, he had him get 70 people and he took the spirit [30:18] from Moses, not all of it, but he took some of the spirit from Moses and spread it around those 70 people. Right? Watch [30:26] what happened. So, the people start prophesying after that. They got the spirit and they started to prophesy. What happened next? [30:32] They act like they start act like Moses. All right, let's see. But there remained [30:37] two of the men in the camp. The name of the one was El Dad, and the name of the other Midad. And the spirit rested upon [30:42] them, and they were of them that were written, but went not out into the tabernacle, and they prophesied in the [30:49] camp. Mhm. And there ran a young man, and told Moses, said, "Elad and me, Dad, do prophesy in the camp." And Yahosua, [30:55] the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his young men, answered and said, [31:00] "My Lord Moses, forbid them." And Moses said unto unto him, That sound familiar? [31:05] My sake, right? Y'all remember when when Yahosua [31:12] was was walking around with the disciple? The disciples like, "Man, somebody out there casting out demons in your name, but they don't even follow [31:18] us. They ain't even with us." So, we forbade them. We told them, "Stop. [31:25] And Yahosua was like, "What'd you tell him? Stop for if he's not against us, [31:30] he's for us." Right? So now with Moses, 70 people got the spirit. Then there's [31:36] two extra people that wasn't in that that 70 that that was chosen. Two extra people that that look like they acting [31:42] like they got the spirit and they prophesying and all that. And so then Yahosua, the son of Nun, looked at him [31:48] as looking like, "Hold on, Moses." You know what I'm saying? We need to have them boys stop. And he told Moses and [31:54] watch what happened. And Moses And Moses said unto him, "Enest thou for my sake? I wish to God [32:01] that all Yahweh's people were prophets, and that Yahweh would put his spirit upon them." And Moses got him into the [32:06] camp, he and the elders of Israel. And there went forth the wind from Yahweh, and brought quales from the sea, and let [32:13] them fall by the camp as it were a day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other side. Right? [32:19] So the camp. So we we look at this and we see that we see that Moses wasn't [32:26] bothered by two additional people prophesying. In fact, like it didn't make Moses jealous. It it didn't make [32:33] Moses say, "No, only I can be the prophet or only the people that I choose can be the prophet." Right? Moses looked [32:39] at it and said, "Man, look, I prefer that everybody prophesied in the name of y'all." Right? And it's the same thing [32:47] that Paul is having to make himself do as well. Right? Let's go back to Philippians, right? That's why Paul is [32:53] saying, "Look, some of these boys, they preaching Yahosua not because they're [32:58] sincere, but I think they preaching it just because they trying to contend with me. They trying to get me out the paint. [33:04] They're trying to compete with me, right? But whether they they preaching it out of sincerity or out of pretense, [33:11] in other words, they're pretending, right? Either way, I praise Yah because the word is being [33:19] preached, right? And that's the same perspective that we got from Moses, which carried on to Yahosua when he was [33:26] in the flesh, right? Is that if they're not against us, then they're for us. [33:31] Period. If they haven't shown behavior that is directly against the word, don't [33:37] stress yourself out chasing stuff that's not Listen, people will show themselves. It will happen. You don't have to stress [33:44] yourself out trying to make everybody believe that this guy is not telling the truth. No, he either ain't telling the [33:50] truth or he is. Period. And if he telling the truth and he ain't saying nothing wrong, that's all right. Like I [33:58] be sitting all the time with these pal. I'll be like, Tech ain't saying nothing wrong. But I just be knowing they liars. [34:03] You know what I'm saying? But I be knowing it. I know that they liar, but they just slick in how they say it. [34:08] Guess what? I'm not to be about to be jumping online breaking down all they sermons trying to point out the errors [34:14] in all they ser like no we not doing that. You know what I'm saying? What we gonna do is we gonna focus on the word [34:20] being preached. You know what I'm saying? If these people say something wrong and they get brought to my attention then we'll call it wrong. [34:26] Right? This is uh Philippians chapter 1 verse what 18. [34:32] This Philippians chapter 1 verse 19. Watch what the book say. For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through [34:37] your prayer in the sub in the supply of the spirit of Yahosua of the Messiah [34:42] according to my earnest expectation and my hope that in nothing I shall be ashamed and that with all boldness as [34:49] always. So now also the Messiah shall be magnified in my body whether it be by life or by death. For to me to live in [34:56] the Messiah and to die is gain. But if I live in the flesh that is the fruit of my labor, yet what I shall choose I what [35:03] not. For I am in a straight betwe two having a desire to depart and to be with [35:08] the Messiah, which is far better. Right? So notice what he's saying. He's saying, look, I am in a tough position, right? [35:16] Cuz I'm so comfortable with my faith right now. I'm good. And so it's like, [35:22] read it again. Watch this. [35:28] According to my earnest expectation and my hope that in nothing I shall be ashamed. So look, when he says nothing I [35:35] shall be ashamed, he's saying I'm so comfortable with my faith, like there's nothing there's nothing going on that [35:40] I'm I'm doubtful about that I feel like, oh, I might get in trouble with that. He's not ashamed about anything. He's so [35:47] comfortable with his faith. He's so strong in his faith right now. He looking like I'm ready. I'm good. I know [35:53] for a fact, there's no doubt in me that if I die today, when I wake up, I'm [35:59] getting into the kingdom. That's how he looking at it. He's there's so much confidence in his faith, right? But [36:05] watch what he say next. So now also the Messiah shall be magnified in my body whether it be by life or by death. [36:11] Right? So he's saying look either way whether I'm alive or dead the same [36:16] outcome Yahosua will be magnified because that's where my faith is. So now [36:22] he going to tell you how he's he said in a straight but what that means is he's in a tough predicament, right? He's in a [36:29] tough spot. He's at a fork in a roll. Watch what he describes. For to me to live in the Messiah and to die is gain. [36:36] But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labor. Yet what I shall choose, I would not. Right? So he's [36:42] saying I got two options. I can live in the Messiah or I can die. And for me, [36:49] dying is gain. Why does he say dying is gain? Because he'll be resurrected. [36:55] Because now he can rest until the resurrection. Right? If you die, you sleep until the [37:04] most high God send Yahosua back and Yahosua say, "Get your butt up." [37:10] You know how like you ever been excited? You ever like somebody tell you, you know what I'm saying? You got a field trip tomorrow and you you can't wait, [37:20] right? So, you go, you pick your outfit out. Maybe it's the first day of school. [37:25] We you know what I'm saying? We used to be excited about the first day of school sometime, too, right? So, you know what I'm saying? You pick your your outfit [37:30] out. You super excited. You trying to think of everything. Okay. Do I got this? Do I got that? Do I got that? [37:35] Okay, this is it, boy. This it. I'm about to kill him with this one. You know what I'm saying? You pick that first that first day of school outfit [37:42] out. Oh, man. I'm about to kill him with this thing. So, you can't wait to start, [37:48] right? What do you do after you pick everything out? What do you do? [37:59] Don't you go to sleep? You go to sleep because you know going [38:05] to sleep going to make the day come when it's going to make it go faster, [38:11] right? When you go to sleep, you get the it's like fast forward. You know how you watching you streaming? You know what [38:17] I'm saying? Back in my day, we had VHS. Y'all wouldn't know nothing about that. You know what I'm saying? You have VHS. [38:23] You press the fast forward button and it didn't just like right now when you press fast forward like you press it and [38:29] it skip ahead 10 seconds. You know what I'm saying? Do stuff like that. Right now with VHS like you can see it. You [38:35] know what I'm saying? It's big old squiggly lines. Really fast. You have to stop it then fast forward. Yeah. Yeah. [38:41] Yeah. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? You got the squiggly line through the thing. You can hear it. Everybody moving fast [38:47] and stuff. You know what I'm saying? Or like brother said, you stop it. You know what I'm saying? And then fast forward [38:53] super fast and that thing make a noise in the thing. You know what I'm saying? You hear that thing going like Yeah. [39:00] Yeah. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? I don't know nothing about that. But you know what I'm saying? You when you sleep, that's kind of what it is. It [39:06] kind of like you just wake up and it fast forward all the way to where you wake up, right? So when you excited [39:13] about something, you just want to go to sleep. Like and it's hard to go to sleep cuz you so excited. You like, "Oh my [39:18] goodness, did you see that outfit though? I'mma kill him with that outfit. I can't Everybody going to love this outfit. It's going to be so Oh, and my [39:25] first Oh, my first period teacher probably about to be cracking because I got misses. You know what I'm saying? So, you so excited. You think about [39:31] everything, you can't even fall asleep. So, you just like, "Okay, fall asleep. Fall asleep so that they can come faster. Fall asleep so the day can come [39:37] fast." That's how Paul feeling, right? Paul's looking like, "I just want to get into the kingdom." And so, if I live, [39:44] I'mma live to the glory of Yahosua and I understand the work and I appreciate the work. And you know what I'm saying? is [39:50] good. But at the same time, when I die, it's game for me because I can fast [39:56] forward to the good part. I ain't got to deal with no more of this suffering. I ain't got to deal with no [40:02] more of this stuff we dealing with. I can just fast forward to the good part, to my favorite part of this movie. I can [40:09] fast forward to the kingdom. Right? So, watch what he say. [40:15] But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labor. Yet what I shall choose I what not. For I am in a [40:21] straight between two having to desire a desire to depart and to be with the Messiah which is far better. [40:28] Nevertheless, to abide in the flesh is more needful for you. Right? So he's saying I'm in a straight. In other [40:33] words, I'm conflicted about these two options I I have. I haven't chosen one yet, but it's like it's far better for [40:40] y'all if I stay in the flesh, right? Right? In other words, if I stay in this body, if I'm stay alive, it's far better [40:46] for y'all because I still got some teaching I can do. I still got I can help y'all move along. I can get y'all [40:52] to where y'all need to be, right? But it's like the other hand is it's far [40:58] better for me if I just die so I can be with the Messiah, right? Cuz remember, [41:03] if I go to sleep, fast forward, boom, I'mma be with the Messiah, right? So, watch this. Keep going. I [41:10] know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy and faith that your rejoicing may be [41:17] more abundant in the Messiah for me by my coming to you again. Only let your conversation be as it becomes the go [41:23] becometh the gospel of the Messiah that whether I come and see you or else be absent I may hear of your affairs that [41:30] ye stand fast in one spirit with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel and in nothing terrified by [41:36] your adversaries which is to them an e an evident token of predition but to you [41:42] a salvation uh to you of salvation and that of God. For unto you it is given in [41:48] the behalf of the Messiah, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake, having the same conflict which [41:54] you saw in me, and now here to be in me. Right? So now he's saying, I want y'all [42:00] to to like suffer in the faith, and I want you to have the exact same conflict [42:05] that I have. So, in other words, I want y'all to be asking yselves like, man, is it my time to go so I can fast forward [42:12] and get to the kingdom or do I need to spend more time in my body alive so I [42:18] can help my brothers and sisters around me? Those are the choices. That's the conflict that he has. Right? Keep going. [42:24] Watch this. [42:37] If there be therefore any consolation in the Messiah, if any comfort of love, [42:43] if any fellowship of the spirit, if any bowels and mercies, fulfill ye my joy, [42:49] that ye be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind, let nothing be done through strife or [42:56] vain glory, but in loneliness and mind, let each esteem others better than themselves. Look not every man to his [43:03] own things, but every man also on the things of others. Let this mind be in you which is also in the Messiah [43:09] Yahosua, who being in the form of God, though it not robbery, thought it not robbery to be equal with God. Right? So [43:16] he said, look, who being in the same form as Yah, he didn't see it as robbery [43:23] to be equal with Yah. What does that mean? [43:30] Right? When he's talking about he's in the same form as Yah. Basically, he's [43:35] saying what John 1 said that in the beginning was the word and the word was God and the word was with God. [43:43] And the word became flesh. He's saying in the beginning Yah Yahosua had the [43:49] exact he was Yah, right? That that was it. Ezra, right? At the beginning, he [43:57] was Yah. and they were all one. He was one, right? Then at some point, [44:03] he became flesh. And when he became flesh, he didn't look at it like I stole [44:09] something from Yah. I He didn't look at it like I didn't belong with you. I [44:15] didn't belong being one with you. That's not how he saw it. So, in other words, he's looking at it like, "Yeah, that was [44:22] me." You know what I'm saying? I was God. You know what I'm saying? Like, he looked at it like that. He counted it as [44:28] something that belonged to him. He didn't look at it as something that he stole or somebody did him a favor. It [44:33] belonged to him. But even though it belonged to him, watch this. [44:39] Let uh who being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with God, but made himself of no reputation, [44:46] and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men. Right? So it's not like he felt like an [44:53] impostor where he where it was like, "Well, God shared his glory with me in the beginning, but I really didn't [44:59] deserve it, so let me just become a man and be in the flesh because that's what I really deserve." Right? What Paul is [45:06] telling you like that's not that wasn't his mindset. His mindset was I'm 100% [45:11] Yahwh, but now I'm going to be in the spirit and I'm going to become flesh, [45:18] right? And as I become flesh now, I'm going to take on a servant even though I know I am Yahwh. [45:26] I'm going to take on the position of a servant, right? I'mma take on the position of [45:32] somebody that's going to work and that's going to serve God and teach the people how to serve God. So when all the all [45:37] the people that don't believe in Yahosua being being Yahweh, all the people they look at it like, "Okay, so you mean to [45:43] tell me the son is the father, but the son prayed to the father." So really what he's saying is Lord myself, you [45:50] know what I'm saying? Will you bless me? When they say that it's like, well, that's funny, but yeah, that's kind of [45:55] what's happening because he's trying to show y'all even though he is God, he can humble himself as a man to God to show [46:04] us how we should be humble. So the point that Paul is trying to make is goodness gracious, if God himself can take the [46:10] form of man and be humble, right? Then how in the world can't we who've always [46:17] been designed to be a servant to Yah, how can't we be humble? Why do we [46:22] struggle with serving the most high God? Right? Keep going. Watch this. Being found in fashion as a man, he humbled [46:29] himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also has highly exalted him and [46:35] given him a name which is above every name that the name of Yahosua every knee shall bow and all of things in heaven [46:42] and things in earth and things under the earth. Now watch this. And that every tongue should confess that Yahosua the [46:47] Messiah is master to the glory of God and the Father. Glory of God the Father. [46:52] Wherefore my beloved as Wherefore my beloved, watch this. As you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but [46:59] now much more in my actions. Right? So look, when I'm there, y'all obey. But [47:05] even when I'm gone, cuz remember he's locked up. He's in Rome, right? So he's like, "Now that I'm gone, still continue [47:12] to obey even more in my absence." Watch this. Keep going. But now much more in [47:19] my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. Uh-huh. [47:24] For, and remember the theme of what he's talking about. Remember his theme is I'm in a conflict because like I kind of [47:32] feel like it's my time to go. I kind of feel like I'm ready to die, right? [47:37] Because death for me is game. I get to fast forward to see the kingdom. But at [47:42] the same time, if I'm present, in other words, if I'm alive, then I get to teach y'all and guide y'all along. So he's [47:49] like, I'm in this conflict. I don't know which one I should choose. But at the same time, like I'm ready to die. Die, [47:57] I'm absent. If I'm alive, I'm present. I don't know which one. Right. But watch [48:03] this. For it is God which workketh in you both to will and to do of his good [48:08] pleasure. Uhhuh. Do all things without murmurings and disputings, that ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of [48:14] God without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world. Mhm. [48:21] Holding forth the word of life that I may rejoice in the day of the Messiah, that I have not run in vain, neither [48:26] labored in vain. Yay. And if I be offered upon the sacrifice in service of [48:32] your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all. For the same cause also do ye joy and rejoice with me. But I trust in I [48:41] trust in the master Yahosua to send Timothy shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort when I know your [48:47] state. For I have no man like-minded who will naturally care for your state. For all seek their own, not the things which [48:54] are of Yahua the Messiah. But ye know the proof of him that a son with the [48:59] father he hath served with me in the gospel. Him therefore I hope to send presently so soon as I see how it is [49:06] will how it will go with me. But I trust in the I trust in the master that I also [49:12] myself shall come shortly. Yet I suppose it necessary to send to you [49:18] Epaphroditis, my brother, and companion in labor, and fellow soldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my [49:25] wants. For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye [49:30] had heard that he had been sick. For indeed he was sick, nigh unto death. But God had mercy on him, and not on him [49:36] only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow. Mhm. I sent him therefore more carefully, that when ye [49:42] see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be less sorrowful. Receive him therefore in the Messiah with all [49:49] gladness, and hold such in reputation. Because for the work of the Messiah, he [49:54] was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me. [50:04] That's chapter two. Three. Now, chapter three. Um, [50:10] chapter 3, jump start at verse one. Yeah, we can start at verse one. My brethren, rejoice in the master to write [50:16] the same things to you. To me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe. Beware of dogs. Beware of evil. Oh, we [50:22] got some questions. Hold on. Let me see. What is the meaning? [50:30] Yeah. So, that's what we talk. So they they asking what's the meaning to be absent from from from the body and be [50:36] present with uh Yahweh. We we just talked about the meaning, right? To be absent he's saying is to be dead, right? [50:42] So if I'm present, I'm alive here with y'all. That's the conflict that he's been talking about, right? The theme [50:47] hasn't changed, right? I'm talking about a conflict. I got to choose between the two. Like I know on one hand I could be [50:54] dead and that's a gift to me, right? That's a game, right? If I die because [50:59] I'm so confident, I have zero. You remember in chapter one, he said, I have zero to be ashamed about, right? Go to [51:06] that verse. What verse is it? Be absent from the present. Uh uh absent and [51:11] present. Absent from the body, present with Yahweh. That's not That's not in this. [51:17] It's not in Philippians. Didn't we just read it? We just read it. Well, yeah. What you're referencing, not Philippians. He's It's the same concept, [51:23] but it's not. Where's it at? That's Thessalonians. [51:32] Go back Go back to verse uh so here he's saying I would rather be dead because it's better [51:39] cuz I'll be able to see the Messiah. I'll be resurrected. Yeah. Go back to verse uh [51:45] it's probably verse in chapter one, right? Yeah. Yeah. This chapter 1 verse [51:50] 21. Watch the book say. For to me to live in the Messiah and to die is gain. Uhhuh. But I live in the flesh. This is [51:57] the fruit of my labor. Yet what I shall choose, I what not. For I am in the straight between two, having a desire to [52:04] depart and to be with the Messiah, which is far better. Nevertheless, to abide in the flesh is more needful for you. [52:10] Right? So he said desire to depart. In other words, talking about die, right, and be with the Messiah, which is far [52:17] better, right? For him, he's saying this is like this is this is what I prefer, [52:23] right? to to like depart and be there is what I prefer. [52:30] Second Corinthians, where is that? Okay. Uh let's go to second Corinthians chapter 5:8. Dang. All right. I thought [52:36] it was a this 2 Corinthians chapter 5:8. And then we going to jump back over into [52:41] Philipp uh Philippians. Philippians. [52:48] Matter of fact, give me 2 Corinthians chapter 5. Give me about verse four. I might want verse one, but let's see. [53:03] For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with [53:09] hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we grown earnestly, desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is [53:15] from heaven. Right? So we want to be we desire to be clothed upon which are with [53:20] our house which is from heaven. That's talking about the resurrection. Right? [53:26] Remember Yahosua said that he in chapter 5 he said that he going to resurrect the the living. He going to resurrect the [53:32] dead onto life and onto death. Those unto life get a new body and they go [53:39] into resurrection. So that's being clothed with a gift from heaven. That's talking about the resurrection. Keep [53:45] going. Watch this. For if so be that being clothed, we shall not be found [53:50] naked. For we that are in the tabernacle do grown, being burdened, not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon [53:57] that mortality might be swallowed up of life. Uh-huh. Now he that has wrought us [54:03] for the self-same thing is God who has given us unto us the earnest of the spirit. Therefore, we are always [54:09] confident. When he said the earnest of the spirit, in other words, he's saying a token, right? So he's So imagine [54:16] somebody promising you something. Somebody say, "Listen, I just need you, you know, I just need you to work for [54:22] me, you know what I'm saying, for the next two months, and I'mma I'm I'mma pay you at the end of it, but I can't pay [54:27] you until you get to the end of that two months." And you looking like, "Man, how I know you going to pay me? I do all [54:32] this work." And so what he said, "Look, I'll tell you what. I got a little bit for you right now." And he hand you [54:39] $1,000, right? Right? You say, "Okay, look. I got I got a little bit for you right now, but for real, the real [54:44] payment going to come at the end." So, you say, "Okay, good. This kind of proves to me that you really going to [54:50] give me the money. If you gave me this $1,000, I believe you'll give me the rest of it." So, that's like a earnest, [54:56] right? It's like a token. It's like it's it's like a goodwill to show you I'm serious about what I'm talking about. [55:02] You can trust me, right? And so, when Yahw gave the gifts of the spirit to the disciples, that's kind of what that was. [55:08] It was giving them something that they can trust because this about to be a long road. Then you going to die and [55:14] then years later I'mma come back and resurrect you. Right? So everybody kind of sitting here waiting for it. So he [55:21] had to give him a little earnest. So that's why the disciples early on got the spirit and they got to do miracles [55:26] and prophesy because that was something to give them as like a token to show I'm [55:32] serious about what I'm telling y'all. What everything I'm promising y'all is really going to happen. Right? So he [55:37] gave him the earnest of the spirit. Keep going. Therefore, we are always confident knowing that while we are at [55:42] home in the body, we are absent from the master. For we walk by faith and not by sight. We are confident, I say, and [55:49] willing. He said, we walk by faith and not by sight. [55:55] Right? Watch that. We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the [56:02] Lord. He said, "I would be confident and willing to be absent from the body." In [56:08] other words, dead, right? Sleep, right? And be present with Yahweh because [56:14] that's what happens at the end of the sleep, right? When when the resurrection comes, [56:22] uh let's let's do some talking. This is uh this 1 Thessalonians chapter 4 verse uh 1 Thessalonians chapter 4, give me [56:30] verse 13. is 1 Thessalonians chapter 4:13. [56:37] Everything is about the revel I mean about the uh the resurrection. Everything is about the resurrection. [56:44] Like you have to that's the hope that we got to have. Like that's the hope that that saves us. [56:55] [Music] This is uh 1 Thessalonians [57:02] 4:1, I'm sorry, verse 13. But I will not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep. Those who are [57:09] what? Sleep that you they're sleep, right? But they're talking about death. [57:15] You remember Yahushua was talking about, we don't have to get it, but in John, I think it's the 12th chapter. It might be [57:20] 11, but maybe John the 11th chapter, Yahosua talk about uh Lazarus and he [57:26] said Lazarus is sleep and they looking like all right well if he's sleep then it's all good cuz remember Yu told me is [57:31] sick and he is like well look not sleep for real he's really dead but for your [57:36] sake yada yada yada right so Yahosua sees it as sleep because he knows I'mma [57:43] wake you back up so that's the same language that Paul is using here he's saying look I'm not going to like I'm [57:50] not going to I'm not going to hide from you the mystery of people that are asleep. Watch this. [58:00] That ye sorrow not even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Yahosua died and rose again, even so [58:06] them also which sleep in the Messiah will God bring with him. Right? For this we say unto you by the word of Yahweh, [58:13] that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord [58:19] himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trump of God, and the dead [58:24] and the Messiah shall rise first. So the dead and the Messiah shall rise first. Those are the people he who he described [58:31] as sleep. So the people who are asleep are really dead in the Messiah and then [58:36] he's going to resurrect them. So this is what Paul's talking about. Let's go back to to uh 1 Corinthians chapter 5, then [58:43] we going back to uh Philippians 3, right? This is what Paul is talking [58:48] about. Paul is saying, listen, it like we are confident and willing to be [58:54] absent from the body and be present with Yahweh because he's telling them in in [59:00] First Thessalonians that the people who are asleep, in other words, that are absent from the body are going to be [59:07] resurrected first and they're going to come with Yahweh, with the trumpet. [59:13] They're going to appear in the sky. And anybody who's living at that time is not [59:18] going to prevent them. In other words, they're going to go first. And then anybody who's in the Messiah that's [59:23] living goes next. But the first people that's going to go and be resurrected are going to be the ones that are dead. [59:30] In other words, sleep in the Messiah. So he's saying, I'm in a conflict. I don't [59:36] know if I'd rather be sleep or dead and away from my body and therefore with [59:42] Yahweh because I know it's going to be a fast forward to the point where Yahosua come back and raise me up and I'm with [59:50] him. Right? So he's saying I don't know what I prefer. Do I want to keep toiling and [59:57] dealing with time now? Or do I want to fast forward to the point where I'm [60:03] getting woken up by the Messiah and I'm by his side and we're taking over the [60:08] world and bringing in the new world, bringing in the thousand-year reign, bringing in the new heaven and the new [60:14] earth. Right? This is uh this is uh uh where we at? [60:24] First Corinthians chapter 5 verse what? It's 1 Corinthians chapter 5:8. Watch [60:29] the book say, "We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord. [60:36] Wherefore we labor that whether present or absent, we be may be accepted of him. For we must all appear before the [60:42] judgment seat of the Messiah, that everyone may receive the things done in his body according to that he has done, [60:48] whether it be good or bad. This is uh Philippians chapter 3. Give me verse one. [61:03] I'm happy that helped, brother Steve. [61:09] Finally, brethren, rejoice in the master. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for [61:15] you it is safe. Right? So, listen to what he's saying. He said, look, rejoice [61:20] because to write the same thing, matter of fact, if I'm not mistaken, when we went over uh second Corinthians, we [61:27] already went over that, right? But listen, for us to go over the same thing [61:32] for me is not grievous. It's safe. That's what he's saying. He basically saying, "Listen, I keep telling y'all [61:39] the same thing." That's what that's what Paul's I keep telling y'all the same thing. But he said, "That's okay though [61:44] for me. It's not grieving me, right? It's not like a burden to me. It's not like something where I'm like mad like, [61:50] "Oh, I got to tell you this again." He's like, "No, I seriously don't feel that way." He's saying it's safe. Like, it's [61:57] better for me to keep repeating the same thing to you, for you to keep asking the same question or similar questions. It's [62:04] safe. Don't feel bad about that. Don't feel like like if you need something, [62:09] then you get it. This is our salvation. I don't care if you forgot. I don't care if you forget every single time. If you [62:16] forgetting, that means Satan is attacking. If some Look, if I got to go over the [62:22] same thing with you every single time, that means Satan is attacking. What's going to be our answer to that? Say, [62:27] "Oh, I'm tired of saying that. I'm not going to tell you no more." Is that the appropriate? No. If Satan doesn't attack, I got to help my brother. If [62:34] Satan is attacking, I got to help my brother. I gotta help my sister. That's my job. [62:39] So, what he's saying here, and I agree with her wholeheartedly, it's look, we can go over the same. We going to read [62:45] the Bible every year and talk about the same stuff every year. We going to go [62:51] through the book every Bible study and talk about the same stuff, every Sabbath [62:57] study. Guess what? For me, it's not grievous. It's safe. It keeps it in remember. Us [63:04] keeping this stuff in in memory is safe for us, right? This is safe. Keep going. [63:11] Watch this. [63:16] Beware of dogs. Beware of evil workers. Beware of the concision. For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the [63:23] spirit, and rejoice in the Messiah, and have no confidence in the flesh. Though I might also have confidence in the [63:29] flesh, if any other man thinkketh that he has whereof might that he has whereof, he might trust in the flesh, I [63:35] more circumcised the eighth day, the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews. [63:41] Right? So this is this is Paul saying this is why I should He's like, if anybody going to have uh a confident in [63:48] in the flesh, it should be me cuz he's like I'm the quintessential like [63:53] according to the law, I'm the guy. You know what I'm saying? According to the law, I'm blameless. He going to tell you, watch this. [64:00] A Pharisee cons concerning zeal, persecuting the congregation, touching [64:05] the righteousness which is in the law, blameless. But what things were gained to me? Those I counted loss for the [64:11] Messiah. Yay, doubt. Yay, doubtless. And I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of the [64:18] Messiah, Yahosua, my master. for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and do count them but dung that I may await [64:25] the Messiah and be found in him not having my own righteousness which is of the law but that which is through the [64:31] faith of the Messiah the righteousness which is of God by faith that I may know [64:36] him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings being made comfortable unto his death if [64:43] by any means I might attain unto the rection of resurrection of the dead not as though I had already attained he said [64:49] not as though what I had already attained. So he's not walking around like I already got it. I'm saved. Right. [64:55] He's not walking around like, "Oh, I already got saved." I remember the day, it was 1998. [65:02] I was saved. You know how I knew I was saved? Because when the pastor was preaching, the whole room stopped and [65:09] God started speaking to me. And I knew from that moment on I was saved. Listen, [65:14] that could really be your experience. That don't make you darn saved. [65:20] Yahosua told us the man to say, he say, "He that endures to the end shall be [65:25] saved." So guess what? You got to die, be sleep, and then be resurrected. And [65:31] once you resurrected, then you're saved. Because what does saved mean? [65:36] Saved delivered. What are we delivered from? What did Yahushua save us from? He [65:42] saved us from somebody hurting us, right? He said when somebody saying mean words to us. [65:50] No, you're being saved from death after you die and you're asleep. That's [65:55] supposed to be it for you. But Yahosua comes and he resurrects you from it. So [66:01] you've been delivered from the death that had you captive until he showed up. [66:09] That is what it means to be saved. You can't already be saved because you're still living. Doddo bird. [66:17] It's that Christian stuff that just got us saying stuff and repeating stuff. Now listen, the Christians I want y'all to [66:23] know where the Christians get it from. The Christians get it because they they have learned that we need to walk by [66:30] faith, right? And when you walk by faith, you think you speak about things that are [66:36] not as if they are. Right? So that's why they say, "I'm saved." because they're [66:42] looking at it in the future and they saying I know and I'm very confident that I will be saved. So that but the [66:48] problem with that is they've lost the plot. They've lost the context. So now by them speaking in faith in old times [66:56] they passed down these traditions without proper teaching. And so now people just say I'm saved as it's it's a [67:02] moan in the time and they say once saved always saved and all this silly stuff they say and it's like boy you haven't [67:08] even confirmed that you saved yet. You have to confirm that. That has to be [67:13] confirmed. When you actually are saved, that means you've been delivered. [67:20] That hasn't happened yet. That's confirmed only by Yahosua. Right now, you have faith. And you can't [67:27] have faith in something that you already have. Paul told us that in Romans chapter 8, right? You can't have hope [67:34] for something that you've already obtained. Right? Hope is something that you look [67:39] forward to. Faith is something that you look forward to. Keep going. What verse is this? Uh [67:48] 13. This uh Philippians 3:13. Watch the book say, "But I follow [67:55] after if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of the [68:00] Messiah." Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended, but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are [68:06] behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before. So he tells you very plainly, I don't consider myself to [68:13] have obtained salvation. He's saying that I haven't got it yet. [68:20] I'm just forgetting everything that came before and I'm reaching for what's in front of me. Exactly what we just talked [68:25] about. Let's go ahead and finish it out. jump over to uh to uh Philippians chapter 4. [68:33] You can jump on down to verse 10. We don't have to read the whole chapter. It's Philippians chapter 4. Give me [68:38] verse 10. [68:44] But I rejoice in the master greatly that now at the last your care of me has [68:49] flourished again, wherein you were also careful, but you lacked opportunity. Mhm. Not that I speak in respect of [68:55] want, for I have learned in whatsoever state I am therewith to be content. He [69:01] said to be what? Content. This is why I wanted to go to this one. This world would try to teach us being [69:07] content is something wrong with it. Right? They look at content as a lack of [69:13] motivation. You know what I'm saying? They look as content and they'll call it complacent. [69:21] They say, "Man, you should always want more. You should always be striving to do more and do better for yourself. You [69:27] should always be looking to get more and get more." That's the mindset that this greedy world puts on us. And they call [69:33] that the right mindset. That's a sickness. It's a sickness. If you feel like every [69:39] time you get what you wanted, now you got to want more. It's a sickness. And [69:45] don't let nobody like don't let anybody put that in your brain that that's how you should be living. That you should [69:52] always want more, always trying to get more. No, you should always be trying to give more, [69:58] right? Your brain has to be positioned cuz otherwise that stuff will drive you crazy. You'll find yourself in this [70:05] constant loop of never being satisfied because you trained yourself not to be satisfied. [70:11] No, godliness comes with contentment. That's why he say I've learned no matter what state I'm in to be content. [70:19] Right? Watch this. I know both how to be abased and I know [70:25] how to abound everywhere and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry. Both to abound and to [70:31] suffer need. I can do all things through the Messiah which strengthen me. I can do what? All things through the Messiah [70:37] which strengthen me. Right? That has to be our mindset. [70:42] Whatever situation we in, well, that's all right. This is what the most high God gave us. I'm content. I can do all [70:50] things through the Messiah that strengthens me. And that's all things, including turn away from sin. Like, if [70:56] it's possible to stop sinning, then how come how you can't stop sinning? He said, "I could do all things in and Yahosua who in and the Messiah who [71:03] strengthened me." How does that work out? Like, how do the two things work together? Somebody don't believe it. [71:10] You either think it's impossible to stop sinning or you think you can do all things, but you can't believe both. It's [71:16] impossible. Right. Go to um [71:22] uh Fileman. What? Uh the book of Fman. It's that [71:28] little Oh, Filimon. Filimon. Foul. That's how you pronounce it. But you [71:34] know I [71:42] I'm Greek. You wouldn't know nothing about that. [71:48] What? You got an extra book in here? I don't know about [71:53] it's like one page. I always forget where it is. It's uh [72:00] ain't it before like Timothy? Yeah. Think so. [72:08] No, that's like that's I'm thinking it's before he boots. [72:13] That's Titus. Somebody in the chat, if y'all find it, [72:19] tell me what it's before. You got it. I about say we got to cheat. Thought so. It before what? Hebrews. [72:25] And what's before that? Uh that before that would be Titus. Titus. [72:31] Paul, prisoner of the Messiah. Timothy our brother, unto Filimon, our dearly [72:36] beloved and fellow laborer, and to our beloved Apia, [72:42] and our Aripius, our fellow soldier, and to the congregation in thine house. [72:48] Grace to you and peace from God our father, the Lord Yahosua, the Messiah. I thank my God making mention of thee [72:54] always in my prayers, hearing of the love and faith which thou hast toward the Messiah and toward all saints, that [73:02] the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledge of every good thing which is in you and the [73:08] Messiah. For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by [73:14] thee, brethren. Wherefore though I might be much bold in the Messiah to enjoin thee that which is [73:20] convenient, yet for love's sake, I rather beseech thee, being such a one as Paul, the aged and now also prisoner of [73:29] the Messiah, I beseech thee for my son Onimius, whom I have begotten in my bonds, which [73:36] in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and me, whom I have sent again, thou therefore [73:43] receive him, that is mine own bowels, whom I would have retained with me that [73:48] in thystead he might have ministered unto me in bonds of the gospel. Right? So basically he just saying like hey I [73:55] have some boy with the young boy with me and you know what I'm saying? He's been profitable to me but I'm sending them [74:00] back to you. So in other words he's been very helpful to me but I'm sending them to you. Right. So he he's uh he's [74:06] talking to what you call him filon. He talking he said make him sound like a darn Pokemon. You know what I'm saying? [74:11] He talking to Filimon. It's Felon. No it's not. All right man. I'm trying to let you know. Look, Sister Pam say she [74:18] pronounce how you pronounce it. Sister Pam, she say she pronounce it Fleman. [74:23] Well, she country Filimon says yes. Love say she pronounc [74:29] it Filimon. You know if love pronounced it filon is wrong. But keep going. So he said he's [74:36] sending he's sending uh Fman some stuff and he said listen this is what you going to get. You know what I'm saying? [74:42] You you know what I'm saying? You going to get my man's? I know. I know he wasn't profitable to you for a while. He always been profitable to me, but I'm [74:48] sending him again because I know he profitable to you now. Take him. Right. Keep going. But without thy mind would I [74:53] do nothing, that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly. For perhaps he therefore [74:59] departed for a season that you should you should receive him forever. Now, not [75:05] now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, especially to me. But how much more unto thee both in the [75:12] flesh and in the Messiah? If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself. If he has wronged thee, or owe [75:19] thee ought, put that on my account. I, Paul, have written in my own hand, I I will repay it. Albeit, I do not say to [75:26] thee how thou owe unto me thine own self. Besides, yay, brother, let me have [75:32] joy of thee in the Messiah. Refresh my bowels in the Master. Having confidence [75:37] in thy obedience, I wrote unto thee, knowing that thou will also do more than [75:42] I say. But with all, prepare me also a lodging, for I trust that through your prayers I shall be given unto you. There [75:49] salute thee, Epaperus, my fellow prisoner and the Messiah. Marcus, [75:55] Aristoarkus, Deus, Lucas, my fellow my fellow laborers. The grace of our master, Yahosua, the Messiah, be with [76:02] you in spirit. Amen. All right. So now we want to I just wanted to get that one out the way. I don't want to I don't [76:08] want that's a that's more like a personal letter. You know what I'm saying? It's not a ton of teaching in there. It's more like a personal letter [76:14] that we have in there. So I wanted to get that one out the way. So we covered it cuz it's a quick one. And so then next week what we'll do is uh we'll jump [76:21] into Colossians, right? And we'll start reading um his his letter to the Colossians uh and see what we can learn [76:28] from that one. We got a couple good things in. It's a short book, too. Um, so we might we might jump into another [76:33] book, try to cover two books or at least part of two books, but we'll see. We'll see how far we get. It just depends. [76:39] Colossians is deep, so we might spend a lot of time. You know what I'm saying? We'll see. Any questions? [76:59] Y'all funny. So, tomorrow uh we gonna do the fellowship call 4 o'clock Pacific [77:05] time. If you don't have the information to join the call and you'd like to, you can reach out to us. You know what I'm [77:11] saying? You can reach out on the number that's on the screen um or on the ta email um gmail.com. [77:19] Uh and if you have any questions that that I didn't see in the chat, it showed [77:25] me Facebook today. It ain't been showing me yet. Brother Steve is on Facebook. It was showing me the Facebook today. They [77:30] haven't been showing me uh they haven't been showing me Facebook lately. So, that's good. But, um if you have [77:37] questions that you didn't get a chance to answer or get an answer to or if you didn't watch it live, um feel free to [77:44] just reach out and and we'll be more than happy to answer the questions. I don't get as many questions I like as I [77:49] used to. We get all that question in the band app now. That thing keep me busy. You know what I'm saying? But I don't [77:54] get the questions on the call like I used to. So, um, go ahead and shoot some questions over if y'all got them. Other [78:00] than that, I praise y'all that y'all don't got questions. I praise y'all that, you know what I'm saying, that that, uh, y'all y'all y'all are being [78:07] fed what y'all need from Yahweh. Um, so we can persevere for. [78:12] It look like there's no questions. So then, let's go ahead and pray out.