Ye Are Manifestly Declared To Be the Epistle of the Messiah Ministered by Us

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[00:09] Sabbath peace. Peace. It's another opportunity for us to come together and hear and learn of [00:15] the word of truth as given to us by the most high God. All honor goes through the [00:20] father. All honor goes to the father through the son whose name is Yahosua. In him lies the only hope for salvation. [00:27] We know that it is obtained by grace through faith, not of works, lest anyone should boast and given freely as a gift [00:33] to all who obey him. We understand that if you do not obey him, it is made manifest or made obvious that you do not [00:40] believe. In this state, you should expect no good thing from the most high. However, anything that you do get, [00:46] whether it be a gift of tongues, a gift of prophecy, or any supernatural experience that you may have, it can and [00:51] it will be used against you in the day of judgment. So, peace to the saints that uh are not [00:58] in the room. Peace to the saints that are watching on the camera, to the saints in the chat, to the saints scattered around the world that we don't [01:03] even know about. But no peace to the wicked. We thought we say to them, the only thing we say to them is repent that [01:10] they might live. Last week, we talked about [01:16] um first Corinthians. We finished up 1 Corinthians. We talked a little bit a little bit about uh 1 Corinthians [01:22] chapter 15 uh which took us through, you know, it kind of it kind of played out [01:27] for us how how Adam was first and then Yahosua was like the second Adam, right? [01:36] Yahosua was like like the same the same way that Adam came and gave birth to all [01:41] humankind. Yahushua came and is going to resurrect and through the resurrection have all [01:48] humankind be born again through him. So we talked a little bit about that [01:53] concept. Um we talked about how Yahw said he's going to put all under [01:59] Yahushua's feet and make his enemies his foottool. Right? So we read that. We [02:04] looked at some examples of that. Uh now we're going to move on to second Corinthians. cuz I know we've been in [02:09] Corinthians for several weeks now. It's going to be a couple more weeks because 2 Corinthians is almost as long as first [02:16] Corinthians. You know what I'm talking about. So, uh it's a lot of good stuff that we want to get to. So, let's see how much we can get through today. This [02:23] is uh 2 Corinthians chapter 1 verse one. 2 Corinthians chapter 1 verse one. Watch [02:29] what the book [02:34] say. Yes. Bam. You know what I mean? out and about. You know what I'm talking about. Welcome back. Y'all blessed. It's [02:42] a blessing to have you back. It's a blessing to have you [02:58] back. My darn pages stuck together. This is 2 [03:03] Corinthians chapter 1 verse 1. Paul an apostle of Yosua by the will of [03:11] God and Timothy our brother unto the congregation of God which is in Corenth with all the saints which are in [03:19] Aacia aaya. Grace be to you and peace from God our father and from our master [03:25] Yahosua the Messiah. Blessed be God, even the Father of our Master, Yahosua, the Messiah, the Father of mercies, and [03:32] the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any [03:39] trouble by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. For as the sufferings of the Messiah abound in [03:45] us, so our consolation also abounds by the Messiah. And whether we be [03:50] afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we [03:58] also suffer. Or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation [04:03] and salvation. And our hope of you is steadfast knowing that as you are partakers of the suffering, so shall ye [04:10] be also of the consolation. Right? So he's he's letting us know that it it [04:16] goes the same as you remember we read that it said God does not mock what you sow you will reap right you'll reap what [04:22] you sow so in other words whatever you plant that's what you're going to end up harvesting right whatever you plant in [04:29] the ground that's the fruit that you going to end up eating from and and here he's saying the same thing he's saying [04:35] listen if you suffer if you suffer with us then you going to get the consolation you going to get the prize that comes [04:41] with Right. Keep going. Watch [04:52] this. For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble, which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out [04:58] of measure above strength, in so much that we dis we despared even of life. [05:04] But we had the sentence of death in ourselves that we should not trust in ourselves. But God which raises the dead [05:11] who delivered us from so great a death and doth deliver in whom we trust that he will deliver us. You also helping [05:19] helping together by prayer for us that for the gift bestowed upon us by the [05:24] means of many persons. Thanks may be given by many of our on our behalf. For [05:30] our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly [05:36] wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world and more abundantly toward to your words. [05:43] Right? So he said, not with fleshly wisdom, right? But through the spirit of the most high God. So what he but in [05:50] other words, what he's saying is he's not using science and and and mathematics and all these different [05:56] things to prove to you who God is, right? You'll see a lot you'll see a lot [06:01] of people that try to use, you know, the wisdom. They'll be quoting all types of historians and quoting all this stuff, [06:08] but they prefer that over the book, right? He's saying he he chose not to. [06:14] That's not saying that it's a it's always a wrong approach. He's telling them that the way I presented to y'all [06:21] intentionally was without all that. So that way just the simplicity of the most high God would get you right cuz the [06:28] extra. So like imagine me, I teach the word and imagine I teach the word but I [06:34] always use fancy animated videos, right? [06:40] It might be the animated video that get you. Let's say I got beautiful music behind it. It might be the music that [06:47] got people coming here and the music that make people want to watch and listen, right? So, it's nothing wrong [06:54] with having animated videos. Nothing wrong with having music. But what he's saying is there's a risk the more you [07:00] add to your teaching of the word, there's a risk that a person might be captured by what you add versus what the [07:07] word is saying. Right? And so, anybody who teaching the word, you got to use that with wisdom. You got to you got to [07:13] think about that with wisdom. So what he's saying is I only came to you with the word. Right? So in other words, when [07:19] you believed, you didn't believe because I was tap dancing for you. You believed just because I gave you the word and you [07:26] heard the word and it made sense to you. And that's the spirit of God talking, right? Keep going. Watch this. [07:38] For we write none other things unto you than what you read or acknowledge. And I [07:45] trust you shall knowledge. I trust you shall acknowledge even to this end, even to the end. As also ye have acknowledged [07:52] us in part that we are your rejoicing, even ye also are ours in the day of the [07:57] master Yahosua. And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before that [08:02] you might have a second benefit, and to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come [08:08] again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judah. When I therefore was thus minded, [08:16] did I use likeness? Or the things that I purposed, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with that with me there [08:23] should be yay, yay, or nay nay. But as God is true, our war toward our word [08:29] toward you was not yay and nay. For the son of God, Yahosua the Messiah, who was [08:34] preached among you by us, even by me and Sylvanius and Timoththeus, was not yay [08:41] and nay, but in him was yay. For all What verse is this? Or what chapter is this? Uh, one still. There still one. [08:48] Okay, keep going. What verse? 20. Okay, keep going. For all the promises of God [08:54] in him are yay, and in him a man unto the glory of God by us. Now he which [09:00] establishes us with you in the Messiah, and has anointed us in God, who hath [09:05] also sealed us, and given the earnest of the spirit in our hearts. Moreover, I call God for a record upon my soul, that [09:12] to spare you, I came not as yet unto Corinth, not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your [09:18] joy, for by faith ye stand. Right? So he said, "Listen, the only reason this I [09:24] want y'all to understand what he's saying. He's saying the only reason I haven't came back to Corinth is to spare [09:30] you." He talking to him. So watch what he about to [09:36] say. But I determined this with myself that I would not come again to you in [09:41] heaviness. For if I make you sorry, who is then who is he then that makes me [09:47] glad but the same which is made sorry by me? And I wrote the same unto you, lest when I came, I should have sorrow from [09:54] them of whom I ought to rejoice, having confidence in you all that my joy is the joy of you all. For out of much [10:00] affliction and anguish of heart, I wrote unto you with many tears. Not right, he says, so out of much affliction and [10:06] anguish of heart, I wrote unto you. Remember, this is his second letter. This is this is second Corinthians. So [10:12] he's referring back to the first letter. He's like, look, when I wrote to you, I wasn't trying to make you sorry. And [10:19] listen, I avoided coming there because I was trying to spare [10:24] you, right? He said it don't make me happy. If I make you sorry, who going to make me happy? Right? Keep going. Watch [10:34] this. But if any Wait, of affliction and anguish of heart, I wrote unto you with [10:41] many tears, not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have more abundantly unto [10:46] you. But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part, that I [10:52] may not overcharge you all. Sufficient for such a man. So what he Let's Let's [10:57] remind ourselves what he's talking about. Go back to uh grab uh 1 Corinthians chapter 5 real quick, cuz I [11:03] want y'all to understand what he's talking about. So remember in First Corinthians, he wrote to them about [11:09] something. Let's read it again so we can understand what he's referencing because he's you we don't have what they wrote [11:15] to Paul but clearly they wrote something to him like man we didn't like what you wrote that hurt our feelings or you know [11:21] what I'm saying who who knows what they actually said but whatever it is it made Paul say I wasn't trying to make you [11:27] sorry now I wasn't trying to hurt your feelings you know what I'm saying in fact I was going to come there but I [11:34] didn't want to come there in happiness I was trying to spare you cuz I was about to get into your excuse me I was about [11:39] to get into y'all butts in person, right? See, it's like I was trying to spare [11:46] you. This is uh 1 Corinthians 5:1. Watch what the book [11:51] say. It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication is not so much as mentioned [11:58] among named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife. Mhm. And [12:03] ye are puffed up and have not rather mourned, that he that has done this deed might be taken away from among you. For [12:09] See how he's talking to him right now? He looking like, man, I heard them boys out there doing the most stuff that [12:15] Gentiles ain't even doing. And y'all out there puffed up. Y'all proud about it. Y'all acting like, you know what I'm [12:20] saying? Y'all so unbothered by this stuff. You know what I'm saying? What y'all should be doing is y'all should be crying. It should make you sad that one [12:27] of your brothers is committing that type of sin. Not even the Gentiles be doing that type of stuff. Right. Keep going. [12:37] For I verily as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present concerning him [12:43] that has done this deed. In the name of our Lord Yahosua, the Messiah, when ye are gathered [12:49] together in my in my spirit, with the power of our master, Yahosua, the Messiah, to deliver such a one unto [12:55] Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the master Yahosua. Right? So he's [13:02] telling them, look, whoever did that thing, all y'all come together, y'all agree with it, and y'all deliver him on [13:07] the Satan so that maybe, you know what I'm saying, his soul could be saved. Right? So this how he talking to him in [13:13] the first letter. So they must have responded like, man, you know what I'm saying? We felt a way about what you did. So now let's jump back. Where' we [13:20] leave off? This 2 Corinthians chapter 2 verse what? Five. This 2 Corinthians [13:25] chapter 2:5. Now watch what he say. [13:34] But if any have caused grief, he has not grieved me, but in part that I may not overcharge you all. Sufficient to such a [13:40] man is this punishment which was inflicted of many, so that contra-wise ye ought to [13:48] forgive him and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with over much sorrow. [13:55] Wherefore I beseech you that you you would confirm your love towards him. For this end also did I write that I may [14:02] know the proof of you whether ye be obedient in all things. To whom ye [14:07] forget to whom ye forgive any to whom you forgive anything I forgive also. For [14:13] if I forgive and if I forgive anything to whom I forgave it for your sakes [14:18] forgive I it in person of the Messiah. Right. So clearly what happened was [14:23] after he told them to give them over to Satan, they did it, but they're beat up about it. They looking like, "Man, [14:29] that's our man." And he asking for forgiveness. He said he done with that. He ain't doing that no more. This what I [14:35] imagine that they writing to him. He ain't doing that no more. This, that, and the other. So now Paul is saying, "Well, listen. Y'all should be [14:42] comforting them then." You know what I'm saying? So y'all need to go and y'all need to comfort them, right? And then [14:47] when you comfort them, invite them back in. Forgive them. Anybody that y'all forgive, then I forgive also. Right? So [14:54] he gave them both side in chapter one he told him kick his butt out there so that his soul might be saved. Right? And then [15:01] after that in the second letter he telling them hey y'all need to comfort him and restore him. Right? That has to [15:08] be our mindset. Right? Our mindset has to be anybody who wants to walk with us [15:15] in this walk. We need to be able to bring them and give them a level of redemption, give them a level of comfort [15:22] in what they trying to do, right? But anybody who walks contrary, we need to like separate [15:30] ourselves from them. If they if they are claiming to be of the same faith, right? [15:35] If they saying, "Hey, no, I'm a disciple of the Messiah, too, but then they walk contrary to our walk, we got to [15:41] separate. We got to make a difference, right?" And then after making that difference, if they say, "Okay, well [15:48] look, I know I was whing out. I apologize. I want us to come together again. I miss y'all, but now we got to [15:55] accept them." Right? This is what Paul is trying to teach them right now. Watch. Watch what he going to say about [16:00] their sorrow. That Satan should get an [16:06] advantage of us, for we are not ignorant of his devices. Furthermore, when I came to Troaz to preach the Messiah's gospel, [16:13] and the door was open unto me of the master, I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus, my brother. [16:20] But taking my leave of them, I went from there to Macedonia. Now, thanks be unto God, that which always causes us to [16:27] triumph in the Messiah, and make manifest the Savior of his knowledge by us in every place, the saver of his [16:34] knowledge by us in every place. For we are unto God a sweet savor of the Messiah. And them that are saved, them [16:41] We are to them a sweet savor. That's a that's a smell. You know what I'm saying? Well, we smell good to who? For [16:50] we are unto God a sweet savor of the Messiah and them that are saved and in right. So if if those that's going to be [16:56] delivered, those that's going to be saved in the end, he said, "Oh, we a [17:01] sweet savor to them. We a sweet smell to them." He said, "Look, when they around us, people praise God about that because [17:10] guess what? They have a soul that's going to be saved." But what else? What else are [17:20] we to the to the one? We are the saver, the saver of death unto death, and to [17:26] the other saver of unto life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things? [17:32] Right? So he said to other people, we are the smell of death. So you notice once you start [17:40] walking this walk, and I'm talking about the real walk. I'm not talking about the the Hebrew Israelite walk or the [17:45] Christian walk. I'm talking about the disciple walk where you turn from all sins against the Messiah, right? And you [17:53] start separating yourself from people who claim that they believe in God or claim that they believe in our book, but [18:00] they don't behave appropriately. Once you start doing that, well then people start looking at you and they feel like [18:07] he judgmental, right? You ain't even said nothing. You ain't you ain't mentioned a [18:13] word, ain't judge nobody, nothing. But they make an assumption about you. They [18:18] stop wanting to be around you. They start wanting to pick fights and argue with you over nothing. You minding your [18:24] darn business because for them when you come around, they smell their own death. [18:32] Right? They start to smell their own death and it bothers them. Right? So, it's always going to be [18:38] two people. It's going to be two people. One person is going to smell you and be like, "Man, I praise God for that's a man of God." And the other one going to [18:44] be like, "Man, get him away from me. He's self-righteous. Get her away from me. He [18:52] always acting holier than thou." Right. Keep going. What verse is [18:58] that? For we are not as many as which corrupt the word of God, but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight [19:05] of God speak we in the Messiah. What verse is up? Uh 17. [19:13] That's 17 you just read. Yeah. Go jump over to uh chapter 3. It's chapter 3 [19:19] verse one. Do we begin again to commend ourselves [19:26] or need we as some others epistles of accommodation to you or let us right? [19:31] You remember that. So you remember in Galatians chapter 5, right? He was going [19:36] back and forth trying to argue like Galatians was written against the [19:42] circumcision party, right? You remember the group of people that consider themselves or that that was called the [19:47] circumcision, right? He was arguing against that. And y'all remember in Acts chapter 15, it was a big argument [19:54] against those who believed that you had to be circumcised and keep the law versus those that said, you know what [20:00] I'm saying? You just got to obey Yahosua. Right? And then at the end of it, Peter and James was like, "No, no, [20:07] no, no, no, no. Paul is right." You know what I'm saying? We didn't, you know what I'm saying? We never commanded the [20:12] the apost I mean commanded the Gentiles to to keep these laws. So they wrote a [20:18] letter. You remember they wrote a letter and they sent it back because everybody [20:24] respects Peter and everybody respects James. So they had to write the letter and was like, "Okay, they sent one of [20:30] their men a reput reputation sent it with him and then they had to explain to everybody like, "No, no, no. This is [20:36] from James and this is from this is from uh Peter. This is the real deal. What Paul's saying is right." So now Paul is [20:43] saying again, he's saying what you trying to tell me I need to go get. Y'all don't believe what I'm telling you. What you trying to say? I need to [20:49] go get a letter of recommendation from James and from Peter again. Watch this. Keep going. Watch what he's saying. I [20:55] just want y'all to understand what he's referencing when he's talking about it. Or need we as some others epistles of [21:01] commenation to you or letters of commenation from you. Ye are our epistle [21:07] written in our hearts known and read of all men. Right? So notice what he's saying. The letter that came from James [21:15] and from Peter, right? That letter was evidence that what Paul was saying [21:23] agreed with the pillars, right, with the head honchos. So they wrote a letter to prove [21:29] to people to say, "No, we stamp what Paul is saying, right?" So what, excuse [21:35] me, what Paul is saying now to to to the audience at uh at Corenth is he's [21:42] telling them, he's saying, "Okay, do we need another letter?" Right? [21:48] I mean, for some people we needed a letter, but are you telling me I need to get another letter for y'all or do I [21:54] need a letter from y'all? Right? Do I need to give a letter to y'all or do I need a letter from y'all? He's like, [22:00] "No, no, no. Y'all are my letter." In other words, y'all are my evidence, [22:07] right, that what I'm teaching is true. Notice what he's trying to say. He's trying to say is what I taught you and [22:14] the change in your behavior, that is the letter. That is the evidence that you [22:19] change and what I'm teaching is is is something that can make a person change from the spirit. Keep going. Watch this. [22:28] For as much as ye are manifestally declared to be the epistle of the Messiah, ministered by us, written not [22:34] with ink, but with the spirit of the living God, not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart. [22:41] And such trust have we through the Messiah to God work. And look what he said. He said, "Fleshly tables of the [22:47] heart." What we got? Grab Exodus chapter 34 cuz I want you. He's painting a picture. He's a This is a bad boy that's [22:53] talking. You know what I'm saying? He's painting a picture, right? He started off with, "Do I need a letter of of [22:59] recommendation?" You know what I'm saying? Or do you need to give me like are y'all the ones that's supposed to say like he's so slick in what he's [23:06] saying. Okay. First, he's saying, "Oh, so y'all need the pillars of the congregation. Y'all trying to say I need [23:12] to to get approval from them from what I'm talking about. Y'all not going to believe it unless they say it." Right? [23:18] And he said, "Or or is y'all the ones that approve what's right? Do I need a letter from y'all?" Right? Do I need [23:25] y'all to tell me what's right when I taught y'all? Do that make it make sense? Then he stopped me. He's like, "No, no, no. Y'all are my letter. Y'all [23:32] are my proof, right, that I'm teaching this thing correctly. Y'all are my proof. Right? He said, I'm [23:41] writing this word on the tables of your [23:46] heart. Now, what he's referring to is he's talking about Moses. This is Exodus [23:52] 34 29. Watch what the book say. [24:04] And it came to pass when Moses came down from Mount Si with the two tables of testimony in Moses's hand. When he came [24:10] down from the mount that Moses was not, that the skin of his face shone while he talked with them. And when Aaron and all [24:16] the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near to him. [24:21] And Moses called unto them. and Aaron and all the rulers of And Aaron and all the rulers that all [24:29] the rulers of the congregation returned unto him and Moses talked with them and and when Moses was talking with him when [24:36] he first came down and his face was shining what he have in his hands of stone the commandment. So the [24:42] tables of stone, when it say tables of stone, it's not talking about a dining room table that's made out of stone. [24:48] It's talking about think of like think of tablet. You know what I'm saying? When we say tablet, you got like this square thing. You know what I'm saying? [24:54] You got this square thing and it shine and you can you can write on it and tap it and have apps. Well, this is the old school tablet, right? You have a big [25:02] stone that you can carve writing into. So now the ten words or the the ten [25:09] commandments that that Yahw spoke from the mountain, it was carved into this [25:14] big, you know, this big stone and he carve it. And so he had two of them because most high God said enough words [25:21] that it didn't fit on just one, right? So he had two of these thing and he carrying it and he coming down from the [25:28] mountain cuz he was up there for 40 days and 40 nights and he come down but his face is shining. So you have to [25:35] understand the imagery that that Paul is picking up. This is what he's talking about. Keep reading. Watch this. And [25:41] afterward all the children of Israel came near and he gave them in commandment all that Yahweh had spoken [25:46] with him in the mount. Right? So when Yahweh when Yahweh gave him the commandments, his face starts shining. [25:54] He gave him these two tablets of stone. Right? Moses came walking down with it. [26:00] People see his face shining. Everybody looking like, "Oh, whoa, his face is [26:06] shine." So they run over to him. Moses to them is the only interaction that they got with God. So when somebody say [26:13] something about God, they think about Moses right now. Moses come down after [26:20] being on this mount for 40 days and 40 nights with this shiny face. It's [26:26] glowing. And they look at him, they looking like, "Oh no, we got to go see what's happening." So they all surround [26:32] Moses and then Moses start teaching them everything that the most high God told him on the mountain. Right? Keep [26:47] going. Until Moses had done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face. [26:52] But when Moses went in before Yahweh to speak with him, he took the veil off until he came out. And he came out and [26:58] spake unto the children of Israel that which were that which he was commanded. And the children of Israel saw the face [27:05] of Moses that the skin of Moses's face shown. And Moses put the veil upon his face again until he went in to speak [27:10] with him, right? So he would have the bail on, right? And his face would be [27:17] shining, but then he would have to go get it recharged. So he'd go into the Most High God, recharge it, and then his [27:25] face start shining. when the Most High God got to tell him something and then he had come back out his face shining. Then after he done, he put his his his [27:31] veil back on so they can't see his face. Right? So this is the scene that when [27:38] you I just want y'all to understand how Paul's brain is working. He's starting off talking about a letter, right? That [27:45] gives him approval to teach what he's talking about. But notice where Paul [27:50] come from. Paul started off this epistle and almost every other epistle saying, [27:55] "I am an apostle of God, an apostle made by God." In others, [28:03] he's a apostle that's not of man, right? Nor taught by [28:09] man. So where Paul comes from is I don't need no approval from none of the other [28:16] apostles. what I got came from God, I can teach it [28:22] to you right from the book. That's his mindset. So when when he feels that the [28:28] the the congregation at Corinth is kind of resisting them, he looking like, "So what? You need me to get approval from [28:35] the other apostles? Is that what y'all trying to say?" Oh, no, no, no. That's not what you saying. What you saying? You need to approve what I'm saying? Oh, [28:43] no. That can't be what you're saying. Let me tell you something. Y'all are my proof. [28:48] Right? But when he's talking about the proof, he started with the letter because the the form of the proof was a [28:53] letter. Right? So his mind he's talking about writing letter, right? Then he [28:59] says, "Do I need a letter from you?" Then he says, "Y'all are my letter." Let's read it again. Let's go back. This [29:05] is 2 Corinthians. Where we at? Type three verse what? [29:12] Uh it was 33. [29:20] 2 Corinthians chapter 3:3. Watch [29:36] this. Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or need we as some Oh, my [29:41] bad. Hold on. For as much as ye are manifestally declared to be the epistle of the Messiah, ministered by us, [29:48] written not with ink, but with the spirit of the living God, not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the [29:53] heart. In such trust have we through the Messiah to God. Not that. So he's saying [30:01] this is being written like you are. Oh my goodness. I want y'all to understand [30:07] it. Right. So do I need a letter from these boys? Because if I got a letter, [30:12] then that serves as proof to you that I'm saying what the apostles is supposed to be saying, right? Okay. No, I don't [30:19] need a letter from them. Do I need a letter from y'all? Are y'all going to be the ones that say, "You know what? What [30:25] Paul says is right?" That can't be the case because I taught y'all. Right? So, you can't determine what I say is right [30:31] or not because I taught you the truth. Right? Then after that, he says, "No, [30:36] y'all are my letter." Right? because the word I'm teaching to you is written in [30:44] your heart, right? Not on tables of stone. So [30:50] now he's calling back to Exodus chapter 34, which we just read where Moses' face [30:56] was shining, right? I just want you to get all that imagery. And the sister [31:01] asked, right, the sister said, "Hold on, hold on. Is is Paul meeting the standard?" In other words, is he [31:07] fulfilling the prophecy that came from uh Jeremiah chapter 31? Cuz Jeremiah [31:12] chapter 31 says that I will write the law on your hearts. That was the [31:18] promise, right? But that's what Paul is referring to. We don't have to get it, but that's what Paul is referring to. In [31:25] other words, he's saying your behavior is going to be the evidence [31:31] that what I'm teaching is correct. because your behavior if you turn away [31:36] from sin is going to lead to you being resurrected with the with the with the [31:42] uh with the law written on your heart. So that's what he's he doing it in a slick way. But that's what exactly what [31:48] he's referencing. He's basically saying you are going to be the proof that what [31:53] I'm saying is right. I don't need no proof from nobody else. I don't need y'all to approve of what I'm talking [31:59] about. Just do what I say and I guarantee you going to be the proof, [32:04] right? That's his whole point. Watch this. Keep going. [32:21] You on mute? Oh, no. My bad. Trying to uh figure out where I [32:26] left off. who has made us able ministers of the [32:32] New Testament, not of the letter, but of the spirit. For the letter kills, but the spirit gives [32:38] life. But if the men, but if the ministration of death, written and engraved in stones, was glorious, so [32:44] that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look on the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance, which [32:50] glory was to be done away. How shall we not, how shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? For if [32:57] the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more does the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. Right? [33:03] So he said, if the ministration of condemnation, in other words, if the [33:08] service of condemnation ends up in glory, cuz he's talking about Moses face, right? So he's [33:16] telling you the law, right, has nothing in it that's going to remove sin from [33:23] you because once you are a like once you sin, the law says you are cursed. So [33:30] he's saying the law brings a service of condemnation. That's what the law does. [33:36] It sets forth what's right and what's wrong. So if you happen to end up wrong [33:41] at any point in your life, the law condemns you. Right? So he says Moses [33:48] brought the service of condemnation. Not because the law is bad [33:53] and the law can only condemn only because everyone that the law has spoken [33:58] to has been a sinner other than Yahosua. So for any sinner, it is going to [34:04] condemn. So the law is the service of condemnation. [34:09] He says that sir, read it again. I want y'all to I just want y'all to like capture what he's trying to say. But if [34:15] the ministration of death written and engraved in stones was glorious so that the children of Israel could not [34:20] steadfastly behold the face of Moses, for the glory of his countenance, which glory was to be done away, how shall not [34:27] the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? So he's saying, look, if Moses [34:32] was glory, they sitting in Moses' face and they hearing a law and all that law do is condemn them. But they looking at [34:39] Moses fade and they looking like, "Man, this is a glorious thing." He said, "How much more glorious is it the [34:46] ministration that brings life?" In other words, the gospel, right? This thing [34:51] that does remove the curse, this thing that does remove sin from you, right? He [34:57] said, "If the law was glorious," which it is, how much more glorious is what [35:02] the law told you was coming next? Right? [35:08] Keep going. Watch [35:15] this. Matter of fact, hold we got grab uh grab uh John chapter 5 for me. This [35:21] is John chapter 5. Then we going to jump over to John chapter uh John chapter uh [35:28] 3. This is John chapter 5. Then we going to jump to John chapter 3. [35:43] is John 5. Give me verse [35:58] 44. Is John chapter 5 verse 404 even on the screen? [36:05] John 5:44. Let's see what the book said. How can you believe which receive honor [36:12] one of another and seek not the honor that comes from God only? Does not do not think that I will accuse you to the [36:18] father? There is one that accuses you. Even who accuses him? Even Moses in whom you trust. Right? Because Moses brought [36:27] the ministration. Right? In other words, the the the service of condemnation. and [36:33] he's the one who accuses you. That's what Yahosua is trying to tell you, right? Yahosua, grab, grab chapter [36:42] 3. This is John chapter 3. Watch how Yahu the whole book is saying the exact same thing. I just want y'all to I want [36:47] it to click for y'all, right? A lot of times a lot of times us lawkeepers, us [36:53] Hebrews or us Israelites, you know what I'm saying? the Hebrew Israelites. What what what we like to do when we look at [36:59] this, we say, you know what, we don't want the law to be condemned. We don't want the [37:05] law to look bad. We want to elevate the law. We want people to love the law because the Christians has spent so much [37:12] time dismissing our law. So, so to correct that, we always want the law to [37:18] look like to to have the best light. We don't want to give any excuse for the Christian to dismiss it. So what has [37:25] happened because of that is because we so focused on invalidating what the Christian think that we lose sight of [37:31] the truth of the word. But understand what the word is saying. The word is saying the law is [37:39] the service of condemnation. That's what it brings. It brings condemnation. Don't [37:45] let the Christian back you off of the truth. Just because a Christian use that to try to dismiss the law don't mean [37:51] that you stop saying it and stop acknowledging it. That's the truth. You cannot understand what God is [37:58] doing if you don't accept that the law brings condemnation. That's what it [38:04] does. Right? Yahosua said it himself. You have one who accuses you, even [38:10] Moses, and you trust him. You thought Moses was glorious with his shiny face. [38:18] and he the one condemning you. This is John chapter 3. Give me verse [38:24] 14. This John 3:14. [38:31] And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up. Uh-huh. That whosoever [38:37] believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. Look, the son of man got to be lifted up just because whoever [38:43] gonna believe in him, they not gonna perish. They going to have eternal life. What's going to happen after that? That [38:48] whosoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that he gave his only [38:54] begotten son that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life. Uh-huh. For God sent [39:01] not his son into the world to condemn the world but that the world through him might be saved. Right? So look, Yah [39:08] didn't send Yahosua to condemn the world. Ain't that what it say? [39:13] The one he sent to condemn the world was who? Moses. Moses brought the service of [39:21] condemnation. That's why Yahosua said in chapter 5 that Moses is the one that [39:27] accuses you. When somebody accuse you, they saying, "Man, he did this." That he's the one who's condemning [39:33] you. Moses. Yahosua said, "I didn't come here to condemn you." Watch this. Keep [39:40] reading. For God did not send his son into the [39:46] world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. Uhhuh. He that believes on him is not [39:51] condemned, but he that believes not is condemned already because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten son of God. So he's telling you [39:58] the only way to get out of your condemnation is to believe on the son. That's the only way because the son [40:05] brings the service of resurrection and life, right? But Moses brought the [40:12] service of condemnation. That is how it works. That's the role he plays. Now, [40:17] let's go back to second Corinthians chapter 2. I mean chapter 3 verse whatever what verse we leave off. [40:24] Seven. Seven. Yeah. Let's do verse seven because we got to see what Paul is [40:32] talking about, right? Paul is trying to make the case that listen, if Moses' [40:38] face was all shiny and all the people looking at him like, "Dang, man, Moses is glorious and he only brought [40:44] condemnation to your butt, how much more glorious should it be the one who brings [40:50] life?" Keep going. This is why y'all don't value Yahosua because y'all don't understand [40:58] what Moses did. If you if you don't understand what Moses if you don't [41:03] understand that Moses brought condemnation, you have no way of properly valuing what Yahosua has [41:11] done, right? We need to have everything in its proper perspective. Keep going. Watch this. [41:17] But if the ministration of death written and engraved in stones was glorious, so [41:22] that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses, for the glory of his countenance, which [41:28] glory was to be done away, how shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious. But if the ministration of [41:34] condemnation be glory, much more does the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory? For even that which was made [41:40] glorious had no glory in this respect by reason of the glory that excels that excelth. For if that which [41:47] is done away was glorious, much more that which remains is glorious. Seeing then that we have such [41:55] hope, we use great plainness of speech. And not as Moses which put a veil over [42:01] his face that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look upon the end of that which was abolished. But their [42:07] minds were blinded until this day remains the same. For until this day remains the same veil un unt un unt un [42:13] unt un unt un unt un unt un unt un unt un unt un unt untaken away in the reading of the old testament which veil is done away in the Messiah. But even [42:19] until this day when Moses is read the veil is upon their heart. Nevertheless when it shall turn to the master the [42:25] veil shall be taken away. Now the master is that spirit and where the spirit of the master is there is liberty. But we [42:33] all with open face beholden as in a glass the glory of the master are changed into the same image from glory [42:40] to glory even as by the spirit of the master. So he's saying pretty much we're [42:45] going to be able to see Yahushua one day and when we see him we will be changed [42:51] into the same thing that he is. Right. Keep going. [43:02] Therefore, seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not, but have renounced the hidden things of [43:10] dishonesty, not walk right now. Uh, chapter four, what verse? Uh, two, this [43:18] chapter 4 verse two. This 2 Corinthians chapter 4:2, watch what the book say. But we have renounced the hidden things [43:23] of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the [43:30] truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. Right? So he's what he's saying is we [43:37] don't take this word and manipulate people. Right? We not taking the word. A lot of these boys do. A lot of these [43:43] boys that y'all turn on YouTube and listen to, they manipulating y'all. [43:49] They manipulating y'all. You see it all the time. They be good with the word. You be thinking it's right, too. You [43:55] sitting there listening to them because a lot of the stuff they be saying be right and it be insightful and then they [44:00] hit you with something, right? I was listening to one brother, you know what I'm saying? I ain't going to mention the [44:05] brother name, but I was listening to I was with it. I was like, "No, that's some good stuff." You know what I'm saying? I might have my kids start [44:11] watching this. You know what I'm saying? It's some good stuff. Cuz y'all don't understand. I be looking for a good teacher. I want to sit my butt down. You [44:18] know what I'm talking about? I be looking for a good teacher so I can retire, right? But I'm listening, bro. [44:24] I'm looking like, nah, okay, my kids, my kids can listen to this. It's cool. You know what I'm saying? I like this. You know what I'm saying? Let's do it. So [44:30] then I'm listening a couple of his video cuz I like to vet stuff out before I start recommending people to watch and [44:37] do stuff. I like to make sure it's right. You know what I'm saying? When it comes to the word, you know what I'm saying? It's like other stuff I don't care. You know what I'm saying? Take a [44:42] chance. But when it comes to the word, I like to make sure it's right. So, I'm looking through some of his videos. I'm [44:47] being critical. I'm like, "No, that's right." Oh, no. He laid that thing out. That's good. Okay. I can't verify that [44:53] part, but according to the word, it ain't wrong. So, I ain't going to say nothing. And then my man got to talking [44:59] about he start what he started talking about, um, they lied to you. You know [45:05] what I'm saying? The earth is flat. This, that, and the other. I said, "Oh my good, here we go." Cuz I just know [45:11] enough about the book where the book ain't going to tell you one way or another very clearly. You know what I'm saying? So it's like, "You about to put [45:17] your claim to flame on the on the shape of the earth." I'm like, "Oh, here it go." I turned that thing all the way up, [45:23] too. I was like, "Let me hear it." You know what I'm saying? That boy started lining it up. He looking like, "Don't you know the Bible says there's a [45:29] firmament. The firmament is a dome. Can't nothing go past the firmament." You know what I'm saying? The people [45:35] trying to make it look like that's why all these space shut, he start going off. I'm looking like, "Bro, you was so [45:40] sound with all of your teaching until now. Because anybody who know the script, [45:47] hold we got to grab Genesis chapter 1. Anybody who know the scriptures, it's certain things. Look, it's certain [45:53] things you can go with in the book, right? But there certain things you can't. I'm not about to teach you. [46:00] I'm not using the book about to teach you whether the earth is flat or round or whatever. I'm not. That ain't none of [46:08] my darn business. I can tell you who the most high God is and I'm going to tell you what you need to do to be saved. [46:15] Right? Because that's in the book. But now if you want to tell [46:20] somebody that it's flat cuz that's what you believe, guess what you got to do now to make the book fit that? You got [46:26] to manipulate it. You have to. So now when you get to telling me it's a firmament, don't you know the [46:33] firmament is a dome? Give me Genesis chapter 1. What verse I want? Give me one. Give me maybe verse 22. It might be [46:39] 24 that I want. Give me verse 22. Let me see what that one [46:44] say. No, I don't even want 22 first. I want um uh what I want maybe uh not 14. [46:52] Give me give me verse Give me verse 10. This is Genesis 1 verse 10. And God [46:58] called the dry land earth and the gathering together of the waters called he seas. And God saw that it was good. [47:04] Mhm. God said, "Let the earth bring forth grass, an herb yielding seed, and [47:10] the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself." Did he already do the firm firmament? Give me [47:15] verse five. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You want before 10. We'll do verse six. Verse 6. This is [47:24] Genesis 1 verse 6. What does the book say? Can you see me? Yeah. Okay. That's [47:31] crazy. And God said, "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it [47:36] divide." Well, you might be frozen, actually. Can you hear me? Can you see me? I can hear you, but you might be [47:41] frozen here. Let me see. I don't know if that's Yeah, the video is folding. [47:47] Frozen. My video not working. All right. As long as you can hear me. [47:53] Mhm. And God said, "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the [47:58] waters." And God made the firmament and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were [48:04] above the firmament. And it was so. So now look, you got a firmament, right? Which they going to tell you it's a dome [48:11] and can't nothing go past it, right? It's a dome. Don't you know? That's why when Elon Mus flew his space shut off [48:18] there, it blew up because you know why? It's a dome and can't nothing get past it, right? I don't let me be clear. I [48:24] don't care if the Earth is flat, round, circle, square. I don't care, right? All [48:30] I care about is don't lie on the book. So now let them tell it. It's a dome and [48:38] there's water beneath the dome and water above the dome and can't nothing get [48:44] inside of this dome is what they be saying, right? Keep going. What What's the name of this dome? [48:52] And God called the firmament heaven and the evening and the morning were the second day. So now every time we look up [48:58] and we say that's heaven, we really saying that's a dome. Heaven is the dome. So now he [49:05] called the firmament heaven. That's the name of the firmament. It's heaven. So [49:10] every time you read about heaven in the book, it's saying dome if you let these [49:16] people tell it. So now give me give me verse 22. [49:22] People make a fool out of darn manipulating the book over stupid stuff. You going to manipulate me and [49:28] manipulate me with something good. You know what I'm saying? Goodness gracious. Over stupid stuff. These [49:34] people do it. Got our people rotting away. I think it's verse 22. I want And [49:40] God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters and the seas, and let foul multiply on the [49:46] earth." He said, "Let the foul multiply on the earth." Watch this. And the evening and the morning were the fifth [49:51] day. Oh, no. That ain't what I want. That's the foul multiplied on the earth. Yeah. Uh, all right. Then give me verse [49:58] 20. Maybe it's 20. And God said, "Let the waters bring forth abundantly, the moving creature [50:05] that has life, the foul that fly above the earth." That fly above where? The [50:10] earth in the open firmament of heaven. In the open what? Firmament of heaven. [50:15] So let me I'm trying to figure out how in the world did this bird that sometime [50:20] be landed on the ground fly all but fly all the way up there into the firmament [50:27] which is also heaven. How did that bird do that? Cuz [50:33] Elon Musk couldn't get his space shuttle and he hit the dome and it blew up. But [50:38] somehow the bird according to the Bible flying all through that thing. It say in [50:43] it or around it. Uh that fly they may fly above the earth [50:49] in the open firmament of heaven. Book say the firmament is [50:56] open and the birds are flying in it. So we got airplanes that go higher than [51:03] birds. You let y'all tell it. We have airplanes that go higher than birds. You [51:08] trying to tell me that's fake too? But these people will make a fool [51:14] out of you. Firmament just means space. It's an expanse. It's a It's a space. [51:20] It's emptiness. He's telling you that there [51:26] is a space and there's water underneath that space and there's water above that [51:32] space. And I named that space heaven. Our scientists named that space a whole [51:39] bunch of stuff. They named it the stratosphere and the armosphere and all the different fears that they darn call [51:45] them. I made that up the armosphere. I don't know. But it's all Tia know she's smart. She got all they got all these darn fears, right? And then above the [51:53] fear they have outer space. And above outer space we got whatever else is out [51:59] there, right? That's how they named it. The most high God called it all heaven. [52:06] So that's why you will see that the most high God said, "I am the God." Or or or you'll see you'll see you'll see us [52:13] praying to God and we'll say the God of the heavens. The heaven of heavens, [52:18] right? Because heaven and then that's, you know, kind of like the space that's above us. And then you have the heaven [52:25] of heavens, which means it's a space above another space. And that's where God is, right? But it's all just a [52:33] space. The same thing is saying outer space, it's all just a space and it's [52:39] open and the birds be flying in in part of that space. That's what the books he [52:45] teaches, right? I didn't make that up. I have no interest in manipulating y'all. [52:50] And that's what Paul's talking about. Let's go back. This is uh this uh 1 Corinthians chapter 4. That's what he's [52:56] trying to talk about. He's saying, "Listen, we didn't handle this word with deceit. We handed this word and commended [53:03] ourselves to every man's conscience. I'm reasoning with y'all. I'll show y'all the book and we talk [53:10] through it. I let you read it for your darn self. If you disagree with what the book say, then you disagree with what [53:16] the book say. But let's talk about it. I'm not trying to play no voodoo on [53:21] nobody, but a lot of these boys do, right? A lot of these boys, they get [53:27] you. They get the they you know what I'm saying? They divorce they wife. This is what these these preachers do. They [53:32] divorce their wife and then guess what they gonna start teaching. Oh no, it ain't a sin. You know what I'm saying? You You can get you another wife. You [53:40] can get you another wife. Look, some of the viewers cutting that thing off right now. Soon as you get talking about this subject, gone. You know what I'm saying? [53:46] No, it's okay to get you another wife. No. See, uh, see, uh, 1 Corinthians 7 say, you know what I'm saying? If she [53:52] depart, you know what I'm saying? Stop that line. It say if she, you can let her go now. Don't get you another one. 1 [53:59] Corinthians 7 ain't never told you to go get you another one. How first Corinthians 7 gonna tell you something different from from what Yahosua say. [54:06] Yahosua said very clearly. Any man who divorc his wife and go get another one [54:12] is an adulterer and he causes her to commit adultery. Why would I manipulate the [54:19] book? Listen, I feel what you feel. I don't want to sit no beautiful couple down in his book and try to I mean in [54:26] this room and then try to explain that to him like nah man you got to go get you you know what I'm saying that y'all really ain't married man you got y'all [54:32] got to go get with y'all first husband y'all first w do you think I want to have that conversation I don't I'm not [54:38] interested in having that conversation I'm interested in teaching people the word so they could be saved but guess what if that's part of the [54:45] teaching what I got to do I got to tell you the truth I can't manipulate the word I can't leave that part [54:53] out. This is uh 2 Corinthians chapter 4. What verse? Verse two. Verse two. Let's [55:01] see what the book say. But have renounced the hidden things of [55:06] dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the [55:12] truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to [55:19] them that are lost, in whom the God of this world has blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the [55:26] glorious gospel of the Messiah, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. For we preach not ourselves, but [55:33] the Messiah, Yahosua, the Master, and ourselves, your servants, for Yosua's [55:38] sake. For God who commanded the light to shine out of the darkness has shined in [55:44] our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Yahosua the Messiah. But we have [55:50] this treasure in earth and vessels that the excellency of power may be of God and not of us. We are troubled on every [55:57] side yet not distressed. We are right. He said on every side we troubled but we not distressed. What else? We are [56:03] perplexed but not in despair. Persecuted but not forsaken. cast down but not [56:09] destroyed always bearing about in the body the dying of the master Yosua that [56:14] the life also of Yosua might be made manifest in our body right we cannot be [56:19] defeated right all this stuff go that's going that's going to press against us and [56:24] that's going to challenge us sometimes going to be good sometimes going to be rough but the point he's making is no [56:30] matter what's happening around us we got to remain faithful to the most high God [56:36] we got to Keep that energy in us, that spirit in us, so that we remain faithful to the most high God, right? It don't [56:44] matter what's going around. Don't matter who's alive, no matter who died, we got [56:49] to stick to it. Don't matter what the money look like, no matter what the family act like, no matter what anybody [56:56] is doing, no matter what your job do, no matter what your kids do, you have to [57:01] stick to it. The most high God can't just be a priority in your life. He has [57:07] to be the priority in your life. He has to. That's the only way you going to get [57:13] through this thing. We keep playing around. We keep we keep justifying in [57:19] our brains that other stuff is important and we get back to [57:24] it. And we don't have it in our brain that that is our downfall. [57:32] We got to focus. We got to be one minded. And it all has to tie back to [57:37] Yah. Otherwise, we just going to keep twirl twirling around the circle. Ain't nothing changing in the [57:45] life around us. There's people falling. There's people struggling. There's [57:50] people in need. There's people looking for something to believe in or somebody to believe in. All this stuff is [57:56] happening around us. And and and all it takes for Satan to scare us a little bit, somebody going to hurt you. We [58:03] throw the whole thing away. Oh, I don't want to be hurt. I don't want nobody to rob me. I don't want nobody steal [58:08] nothing from me. They hunting for my life. I used to be in the streets, right, man? They going to take your job [58:15] from you. I don't want to lose my job. I don't want to do this. They talking about firing [58:21] me. We can't have that mindset. We perplexed on all side, but we still got [58:27] to stand victorious. Can't nobody do nothing with us. And if they do do it, then the most [58:34] high God signed off on it. Next, what's happening next? I ain't about to sin. I [58:39] know that. Grab uh grab chapter 5. This [58:44] chapter 5 verse one. It's 2 Corinthians chapter 5:1. Watch what the book say. [58:57] For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have [59:02] a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we grown earnestly, desiring to be [59:09] clothed upon with our house which is from heaven. If so be that being clothed, we shall not be found naked. So [59:17] if so be that being clothed, we shall not be found naked. For we that are in in this tabernacle do grown, being [59:24] burdened, not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon that [59:29] mortality might be swallowed up in life. Now he that hath wrought us for the same [59:36] the self-same thing as God, who also has given unto us the earnest of the spirit. [59:41] Therefore, we are always confident knowing that whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the master. [59:48] For we walk by faith and not by sight. Look, watch this. Let me show you something. Let me show you something. [59:53] Read that again for me. Now, he that brought us for the self-same thing is God, who also has [59:59] given unto us the earnestness of the spirit. Therefore, we are always confident knowing that whilst we are at [60:06] home in the body, we are absent from the master. He said, we are always confident knowing that while we are at home in the [60:13] body, we are absent from the master. In other words, we're absent from Yahushua. [60:18] So he's laying down a fact. He's saying, "Listen, if I like, if I see earth, if I [60:25] see this life as my home, this is where I want to be. This is what I'm impressed with." He's saying, "You don't have [60:32] Yahosua. You're absent from Yahosua." Right? If you love the world, if you [60:37] love how this thing is playing out, then you don't have Yahosua. Notice what he's [60:42] saying. He's saying, "We perplexed on every side." You know why? Because we hate it here. [60:48] We hate looking at all this sin. We hate that we get tempted. We hate that we keep going through all this foolishness. [60:55] We hate it here. And we perplexed on every side. It seem like we never get a break. It [61:01] seemed like it never let up. It's always something, right? We hate it here. [61:10] But if you love it here and this is your home here, he's telling you then you're [61:16] absent from Yahosua. Keep going. Watch this. I'm about to show you how these people manipulate you. [61:25] For we walk by faith and not by sight. We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body and to [61:32] be present with the master. He said we walk by faith, not by sight. [61:39] Therefore, we are more willing to be absent from the body. In other words, [61:46] absent from the world, right? I don't like it here. I don't work want to be [61:51] here. I want to only imagine myself with Yahosua. So, absent from the body and [61:58] present with Yahosua, right? What people have turned [62:03] that verse into is to say when you die, you go right to heaven. [62:09] But is that what he just said? Read it one more time for me. Therefore, we are [62:14] always confident knowing that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the master. For we walk by faith [62:20] and not by sight. We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the [62:27] master. And to be, they will read this same verse and be like like stated it as [62:32] a fact. To be absent from the uh body is to be present for the That's not what it [62:37] say. It don't say to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. It [62:42] says we would prefer we would rather be absent from the body and to be present [62:49] with the Lord. In other words, I my mindset is not I prefer to be here [62:55] because I know that by having that mindset, God ain't with me. But when I [63:00] know I hated you and I walk by faith and not by sight, I'm imagining myself with [63:07] Yahwh. That's called hope. Keep going. Matter of fact, jump [63:13] over to uh to uh chapter what verse we at? Eight. Eight. [63:21] Eight. Jump on down to to chapter verse six. Verse 16, sorry. [63:30] Wherefore henceforth know we know man after the flesh. Yay. Though we have known the Messiah after the flesh, yet [63:36] now henceforth we know him no more. Therefore, if any man be in the Messiah, he is a new creature. Old things are [63:43] passed away. Behold, all things are become new. All things are of God who [63:49] has reconciled us to himself by Yosua the the master and has given to us the ministry of of [63:56] reconciliation. Jump on jump on over to uh chapter 6. I thought it was something else right there. Uh this this is uh 2 [64:03] Corinthians chapter 6. Give me the beginning. Let me see what that say. It's 2 Corinthians chapter 6 verse one. [64:09] Well then as workers together with him beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. He saith, I have [64:17] heard thee in a time accepted and in a day of salvation have I secured thee. [64:22] Behold now is the acceptable time. Now is the day of salvation. giving no offense in anything that the ministry be [64:28] not blamed. But in all things, he said, "Giving no offense in anything that the ministry be not blamed." If I jump up [64:34] here and start cussing and sinning and lying and cheating, guess what's going to happen? People going to be like, "See, his God ain't nothing." See, [64:42] that's them religious people. They always hypocrites. The ministry, the service that I'm doing is going to be blame. They ain't going, no, no [64:49] reasonable person going to look at him and be like, "Oh, well, no, that's not God. That's just Phil." You know what I'm saying? feel just a nasty scoundrel [64:55] that be lying and cheating and lying and beating up people and shooting and doing all the extra stuff that he be doing, [65:01] right? That's his sin. They ain't got nothing. Nobody is going to look at it and say that. Everybody just going to be [65:06] say, "See that was them religion. He did all that pre that's what happened. All of them like that. All they do is try to collect. [65:13] They going they going to put stuff on me. I ain't even do. All they do is collect your money. You know what I'm saying? Collect your money and just try [65:19] to take advantage of you. Do this that and the other." But that's what happens cuz the ministry is [65:25] blamed, right? That's why you got to be blameless. Keep going. Watch this. [65:31] But in all things are proven ourselves as the ministers of God in much patience and afflictions and nec in necessities [65:37] and distresses in stripes and imprisonments in tumult and labors and [65:42] watchings and fastings by puress by knowledge by longsuffering by kindness [65:48] by the Holy Spirit by love unfeign by the word of truth by the power of God by the armor of righteousness on the right [65:54] hand and on the left by honor and dishonor by evil report and good report as deceivers and yet truth As unknown [66:00] and yet wellknown. As dying and behold we live. As chastened and not killed. As [66:06] sorrowful yet away always rejoicing. As poor yet making many rich. As having [66:13] nothing yet possessing all things. Oh ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you. [66:18] Our heart is enlarged. Ye are not not straightened in us. But ye are straightened in your own bowels. Not for [66:25] recompense in the same I speak as unto my children, but ye also enlarged. Be ye [66:32] not unequally yolked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness? [66:38] Yeah. He said, "What fellowship do you have righteousness with unrighteousness?" He said, "Don't be [66:44] equally yolked with unbelievers because what fellowness fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness?" [66:51] Keep reading. [66:57] Matter of fact, what we got? Grab uh 2 Chronicles. A lot of people use that verse to kind of like uh uh kind of talk [67:06] down on people and make themselves, you know, in a better in a better league than what they are [67:13] compared to [67:18] others. Yeah. Give me 2 Chronicles chapter 18. Let's see if we can get a good example of this. This 2 Chronicles [67:24] chapter 18, give me verse [67:29] one. He said, "Don't even be equally yolked with an unbeliever." Cuz he's he [67:35] asking a question, what fellowship does righteousness have with [67:40] unrighteousness? Right? A lot of people look at equally yolked. They look at [67:45] that like it's it's it's only marriage. That's what that's what most people use it as, marriage. They use it as a way to [67:51] try to get out their marriage. You know what I'm saying? Or they use it as a way to judge somebody's [67:57] marriage, right? Let's see. Let's see if we can get an example of what un uh unequally [68:03] yolked or or equally yolked rather. This is uh 2 Corinthians, I'm [68:10] sorry, 2 Chronicles chapter 18. Give me verse one. Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honor and [68:17] abundance and joined affinity with Ahab. He did what now? Joined an affinity with Ahab. Okay. And after certain years, he [68:24] went down to Ahab to Samaria. And Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance [68:30] people that he had with him and persuaded him to go up with him to Ramoth Gilead. And Ahab, king of Israel, said [68:37] to Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, will thou go with me to Ramoth Gilead? He said, will you go with me to Ramoth Gilead? [68:44] Let's see. I am as you are, my people. He said, I am what? I am as you are. He [68:49] said I am as you are. My people as your people in war. He said [68:55] my people are just like your people. What else? We will be with thee in war. [69:02] We going to be with you in war, right? That's unequally yoke. Y'all [69:08] know who Ahab is? Ahab was killing God's prophets, right? Ahab fought against [69:16] God, him and his wife. But Jehoshaphat looked at him like, "Man, that's my brother though, [69:22] man. That's my man's. That's my cousin. We family." He said, "Man, look. You [69:27] want me to go up? I'm just like you." He joined himself to him. He said, "I'm [69:32] just like you. My people is like your people." That's equally yolked, right? And watch what the Most High Go to uh [69:39] chapter 19, next chapter. Watch what the Most High God say about him. [69:58] Uh you want what verse? Verse [70:07] one. This 2 Chronicles chapter 19 verse one. Watch what the book say. [70:14] And Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in peace in Jerusalem. And Jiu the son of Hannah the [70:19] seer went out to meet him and said to King Jehoshaphat, "Shouldest thou help the ungodly and love them that hate [70:25] Yahweh? Therefore is wrath upon thee before Yahweh." Nevertheless, there are good [70:33] things found in thee, and that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and has prepared thine heart to seek [70:38] God. Jehoshaphat dwelt to Jerusalem and he went out again through the people from Beersa to Mount Ephraim and brought [70:45] them back to the to Yahweh the God of their fathers. So you see Yah checked [70:50] him about that. He said what you going to love them that hate God? That's not appropriate for us. We [70:58] can't somebody who's openly in rebellion to the most high God. We can't step them [71:04] with our approval. Right. [71:10] They're sinners all the way around. And you can have a friend that's a sinner. You can have, but you can't stamp them [71:17] with your approval. You can't stand next to them while they sinning and be like, [71:22] "Yeah, no, but we cool. But we got that." No, you got to separate yourself from that stuff. Unequally I mean [71:29] equally yolked is talking about when it talk about yoke. We talked about this a few times, right? It talk we talked [71:35] about the yoke on a cow, right? You remember you have a cow and you might had a cow on the threshing floor. [71:41] Remember the threshing floor is you take your wheat and you throw it on the floor. And what the cow does is it [71:46] breaks up the kernels of the wheat. You know what I'm saying? So he just step on them and the cow's super heavy. So he [71:51] can just easily break up the kernels of the wheat. And so you would have you want that cow to break up all the wheat. [71:57] So to do that, you build this contraption that spins the cow around in [72:03] this circle and then you put all the wheat on the ground. So then you put the [72:08] cow in a yolk to stay on the contraption. So the the cow just going like this the whole time and it's just [72:15] walking around and it's stepping on the uh it's stepping on the uh on the wheat. [72:21] Or you might put a cow in a yolk to plow a field, right? So when you plow a [72:26] field, you digging into the field to make room to plant the seeds. So you digging ditches almost in the field. And [72:34] so to do that easily, you tie a couple cows to a yolk and then you tie those [72:40] yolks to this plow and the plow digs into the ground. So you might stand on top of it, slap the cows on their butt, [72:47] and the cows start walking and they just pull the yolk and the yolk pulls the the plow and they end up plowing the whole [72:54] thing. So when you have a equal yolk, you have two cows that are around the [72:59] same size that can pull equally. But if you got one cow that's way down here, [73:04] you got a little cow and you got a big cow. Well, guess what? It's not going to pull equally. That thing going to be all [73:10] lopsided. Whoever riding on top of the plow probably going to fall. So he's he's using that imagery and he's saying [73:16] you can't be equally yolked with a sinner. it's going to be [73:22] unequal, right? You can't do it. So, he's saying, don't even put yourself in [73:28] that situation. Don't put yourself in a commitment where you have to approve. That doesn't mean you can't organize [73:35] with people, right? You can organize for a specific cause. You could you can go to [73:41] work. It's just like when you work, you work for an organization and you got a whole bunch of centers working in the [73:48] same job as you. that's not equally yolked, right? But when you personally [73:54] are approving of somebody's behavior that is in contrary with the most high God, right? That is equally yolked and [74:02] you unequally yolked and you can't do it. You got to you got to make sure that you willing to separate yourself from [74:09] anybody who stand against the most high God to make sure it's very clear to anybody around to be like, "No, no, no. [74:15] We different. I don't do that. You don't do that. You can't go to somebody just be like, "Man, I'm just like [74:22] you. Your people just like my people." No, no, no. I'm a little different. I [74:27] obey the most high God. I serve the most high God. I No. I love the brother. The brother is cool, but I serve the most [74:33] high God. These people got to come to us. They have to want to know [74:40] God, right? We cannot go to them. That's not how this works. [74:47] When we do that, then we've been tempted. They have to come to [74:53] us. Jump over to uh jump over jump jump back to uh chapter uh 6. It's 2 [75:00] Corinthians chapter 6:15. 2 Corinthians chapter 6 verse1 15. [75:16] In what concord hath has the Messiah with Balile? Or what part hath he that [75:21] believes with an infidel? And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For ye are the temple of the [75:28] living God, as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my [75:34] people. Wherefore come out from among them and be ye separate, says Yahweh, and touch [75:39] not the unclean thing, and I will receive you. Right? So he said, "Come out from among them, be ye separate. [75:47] Don't touch the unclean thing. And if you do that, I'll receive you." That has to be our mindset. Again, you work you [75:55] work with sinners all day. That's not being equally yolked with a sinner, you going there for a paycheck. That's the [76:00] agreement. Even if you work on a work for a nonprofit organization or a um a [76:07] activist organ organization or organization that protests, right? [76:12] You're doing specific You have a specific goal. I'mma advocate for black [76:18] people. I'mma advocate for poor people. I'mma advocate for people that are [76:24] experiencing mental health issues or autism or whatever. There's nothing wrong with that. You going to have sinners around you all day. You know why [76:31] you there, you know what your person purpose is and you organizing with people around that purpose. But it's [76:38] different when you say based off of my affinity for this individual, I am joining myself to their [76:45] cause to something that they want to do knowing that their purpose is to be [76:51] against God. Even if they don't know it, they may look at it. I'm serving the universe. I worship a different type of [76:57] God. Well, listen. You don't worship my type of God. I can't connect myself personally to you. If we find ourselves [77:05] doing the same thing, I know why I'm doing what I'm doing. I'm doing what I'm doing because I'm collecting a paycheck [77:11] or because I'm fighting for a cause that I believe in or whatever. That's fine. That's different. That's not equally [77:17] yolked. That's organization, right? What I'm saying is you can't join yourself to [77:24] an individual be like, "Man, I love this person so much." You know what I'm saying, man? Let me just No, man. I rock [77:31] with you in that. You know what I'm saying? I do this with you because of this. That's cool. No. Have your reasons [77:36] to deal with people. Separate from that. Don't be dealing with people based off of your love for them when they when [77:43] they when they don't serve the most high God and when they rebellious to the most high God. You deal with them for [77:49] something else, something objective, not based off of your love for them or what you want to do for them or how you can't [77:54] separate from them. How how you can't stand to lose them. You got to be able to lose [77:59] everybody. And when you got the mindset where you can lose everybody, the most high God will give you [78:06] everything. Keep going. Wherefore [78:12] and and I will receive you and will be a father unto you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says Yahweh [78:18] Almighty. Give me uh chapter 7. [78:33] Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, [78:40] perfecting holiness in the fear of God. Receive us. We have wronged no man. We [78:46] have corrupted no man. We have defrauded no man. I speak not this to condemn you, for I have said before that you are in [78:53] our hearts to die and live with you. Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my glorying of you. I am [79:00] filled with comfort. I am exceedingly joyful in all our tribulation. For when we were come unto into Macedonia, our [79:06] flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side. Without were fightings, within were fears. Nevertheless, God [79:14] that com comforted those that are cast down comforted us by the coming of Titus. And not by his coming only, but [79:22] by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your [79:28] fervent mind toward me, so that I rejoice the more. For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, [79:35] though I did repent. For I perceive that that same epistol had made you sorry, though it were but for a season. Right? [79:42] So he said, "Even though I wrote that epistle to you and I made you sorry." So remember he was talking about making them sorry back in chapter 2. So now [79:49] he's coming back to it. He is like, "Now I know I made you sorry in that epistle, but that's not what I was trying to do." [79:54] Right? Keep going. Now I rejoice that you were made sorry, but that ye sorrow to repentance. For ye were made sorry [80:01] after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing. For godly sorrow works repentance to [80:07] salvation, not to be repented of. Right? So he said godly sorrow brings you to [80:12] repentance. It mean in other words when you have there's he said there's different types of sorrow. He's saying [80:18] listen when you have godly sorrow then it's going to make you change your behavior. It's going to make you turn [80:25] away from all sin. He said and for that I'm happy. I made you sorrowful in a [80:32] godly way. Right? If I tell you no man you better stop sinning. That's disappointing bro. You going to go to [80:38] hell. You going to burn in fire forever. You got to leave that stuff alone. Yeah, [80:44] that thing might make you sorry. I may maybe I said it in front of people. Maybe it make you feel bad. But you know [80:49] what you did? You went back and you said, "I ain't doing that no more. He right this, that, and the other." D. You [80:55] were sorry. You mad at me. You mad at a lot of stuff. But then you did it and you got yourself together and turned [81:01] away from sin. He said that I'm not sorry about, right? He said, "If I made you [81:08] sorry in that way, then I'm not sorry. I glory in that. I'm happy about that." [81:13] Watch this. But keep going. Now I rejoice that you were made sorry, but that you sorrow to [81:19] repentance. For you were made sorry after a godly manner, that you might receive damage by us in nothing. For [81:25] godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, not to be repented of, but sorrow. So he's saying, in other words, [81:30] godly sorrow causes you to change your behavior, and that's not to be regretted by him. Right? He shouldn't. And when he [81:36] say not to be repented of, in other words, he's saying if I made you sorry and that led from you to turn away from [81:42] sin, then I shouldn't turn away from leading you to turn away from sin. In other words, keep going. But the sorrow [81:48] of the world workketh death or he said, but the sorrow of the world that workketh death. So that's depression is [81:54] what he's talking about. He's talking about what we would call depression today, right? where we get so sorrowful [82:00] and so sad and we lose all hope and when we do we no longer feel a purpose to [82:06] live. Right? So he's saying there's the sorrow of the world and there's the sorrow of of God. The sorrow of God is [82:13] going to cause you to change your behavior. The sorrow of the world is going to cause you to want to kill yourself or want to die. Right? And it's [82:20] different way it manifest itself in different ways. Y'all them school shooters. Yeah. They may not put the gun to their own head, but they go in there [82:27] knowing they going to die. So they go shoot up a whole bunch of people, that's death. And then the cop kill them. [82:33] That's death. Unless you want some of these white kids, cop don't even kill them. You don't say cop don't even kill him. Just take them in. They go to jail [82:39] and we don't even hear from them no more. Who knows what happened, right? But that's what that's what happened. [82:45] You have Judas, remember Judas, he hung himself, right? when he felt sorrow that [82:52] wasn't so godly sorrow, right? Remember he tried to take the stuff back to the to the priest. The priest was like, "We [82:57] don't want that blood, honey." You know what I'm saying? After that, it made him sorrowful, right? And then he went and [83:04] hung himself. Well, that's the sorrowful of the world, right? The sorrowful of [83:10] God. That would have caused him to repent. He would have went back and he would apologize and tried to make it right. Keep [83:18] going. For behold the self-same thing that he sorrowed after a godly sword. What carefulness it rot in you? Yay. [83:25] What clear? He said, "What carefulness?" Another when he say carefulness, think of [83:31] um when he say carefulness is like uh like like like you're [83:36] worrying, right? Like you're like like I guess it's careful. Like careful like like I don't want to make a mistake. You [83:44] know what I'm saying? Like when you when you really focus on not making a mistake and you being careful, you're worrying [83:49] about each thing that you do. Like, oh, I I really got to get this right. Okay. Boom. Cuz you're being careful, right? [83:54] Watch what he say. What carefulness? In other words, why you you didn't want to make no mistakes. Watch this. [84:01] Yay. What clearing of yourselves? Yay. What? In other When he say clearing of itself, he's saying pretty much like you [84:07] want to make and make sure everybody know you didn't make a mistake. So, not only are you very very careful to make [84:14] sure you don't make a mistake, but then you want everybody to know like, "No, I didn't do that. Nope, I didn't mess up. [84:20] Nope, I did that right." You clear yourself, right? Keep going. Yay, what clearing of yourselves? Yay, what [84:25] indignation? Yay, what fear? Yay, what veheim desire? Yay, what zeal? Yay, what [84:31] revenge? And all right, when he say revenge, he's talking about I want like [84:36] I want to show you, right, Paul? You thought you had me messed up. Paul was writing to us like we was sinners, like [84:42] we was messed up, right? He said, "No, you nah. Now I want to show Paul." So [84:47] now when they say revenge, it's talking about them proving it to Paul like, "No, I'm not what you thought I was." Right? [84:54] I was like that when I was in school, you know what I'm saying? I was, you know what I'm saying? I was goofing off. You know what I'm saying? High school [85:00] goofing off. You know what I'm saying? Getting bad grades. But in my mind, I felt like, eh, I can get it together [85:05] whenever I want, but I'm goofing off. Then my I heard my mom and my auntie talking and my auntie was like, "Oh [85:13] yeah, yeah, he doing bad at school." My mom was like, "Yeah, he ain't even going to graduate. He ain't going to gra I'm [85:18] just hearing him talk." I'm like, "What? I ain't going to graduate." So then at that point, I just wanted to prove it to [85:25] him. Like what? Do you know who you talking to? Let me show y'all something. Right? So I started taking summer [85:31] classes. You know what I'm saying? all this stuff to try to get all my grades up and make up credits and all type of stuff. The truth is, if I didn't hear [85:37] that conversation, I probably wouldn't have graduated. You know what I'm saying? By the grace of God, I heard that thing and then I made sure I [85:43] graduated just by the tip of my little, you know what I'm saying? Just just slid in there, right? I was a darn [85:49] knucklehead. Thought I had it all figured out and I miscalculated, right? And then it's like, okay, well, I heard at the right time. I was able to get it [85:55] together and we do it. But the point is, I had revenge. I wanted to show them. I wanted to prove it to him that I am I [86:03] can do this. I can graduate. Right? And and and that's what Paul is talking about. He was like, "Man, look, I made [86:08] you sorrow sorrowful, but look what it did." Right? Look what it did. It made [86:13] you so cautious and careful, right? It made you want to clear yourself, make it very clear to everybody that no, I did [86:20] this right. Gave you zeal and indignation, right? Made you want to get [86:26] revenge and show everybody like, "No, I'm not what he said. I am right. Keep going. [86:33] Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, wait. Yay, what vehement desire. Yay, [86:39] what zeal? Yay, what revenge. In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this manner. Wherefore, though [86:45] I wrote unto you, I did it not for this cause that had done the wrong, not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor [86:52] for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you. Therefore, we [87:00] were comforted in your comfort, yay, and exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was [87:06] refreshed by you all. For if I had boasted in anything to him of you, I am not ashamed. But as we but as we spake [87:13] all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth. Right? So now he's [87:20] talking about I was bragging about you. You know what I'm saying? And even when I was yelling at y'all, I wasn't ashamed [87:25] about what I was bragging about. But you see, after it all turned out, I'm proving right, right? I can brag about [87:31] y'all and y'all still them boys, right? So, he's letting them know, I was bragging about you, the Titus, and I [87:37] ain't ashamed of that. I'm still bragging about you, right? So, we can stop it right there. Next week, we'll [87:42] pick up at uh we'll pick up and and finish off in chapter 7. You know what I'm saying? What verse we just leave off [87:48] on? 15. 15. So, we'll finish off chapter 7 next week. And uh and I don't know if [87:55] we'll finish off all of 2 Corinthians, but we'll try to get through all of We got through a lot more than I thought we [88:00] were going to get through today. So, we'll we'll try to get through all of it uh uh next week. Any [88:18] questions? She said finishing. She said finishing. Well, I think the next part [88:24] tie in to you know what I mean? It kind of tie I know it's a couple verses, but [88:30] it kind of tie in the You know what I mean? What what you know what I'm saying? Kind of the the rest of the [88:37] uh You know what I'm saying? All right. Well, we'll just read them again. Go ahead. Go ahead and finish out the [88:43] chapter. I've been compelled. And his inward affliction is more abundant toward you whilst he remains the [88:49] obedience of you all. how with fear and trembling you received him. I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you [88:56] in all things. Okay, but we'll get into and we'll see how that tie into some of the things [89:03] that he's about to uh we we'll just read it again next week starting at probably verse 12 and then we'll read on down um [89:10] and then uh move into to chapter [89:16] 8. No questions. Let's go ahead and pray out.