WEBVTT NOTE Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver Episode: Manifesting Melchizedek Publishing Date: 2009-05-03T06:00:44-07:00 Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/manifesting-melchizedek/ 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.760 Incident of living and the topic today is manifesting Melchizedek. It's a continuing series of what we've been doing over the last many 00:00:09.000 --> 00:00:11.000 weeks and 00:00:12.460 --> 00:00:14.460 The thing is 00:00:15.040 --> 00:00:18.840 All the stuff we've been talking about oh, sorry, you know, I'm on yeah 00:00:19.300 --> 00:00:23.540 All the stuff we've been talking about the principles the insights the revelations 00:00:24.280 --> 00:00:26.680 if if they don't move from 00:00:27.640 --> 00:00:29.920 Kairos to Kronos, okay? 00:00:30.840 --> 00:00:34.520 When I say Kairos to Kronos Kronos means time, okay, so 00:00:35.400 --> 00:00:40.560 Whenever God does something there's a season for everything that God does and we can kind of though 00:00:40.560 --> 00:00:43.120 This may not be the exact definition Kairos is 00:00:43.680 --> 00:00:51.620 The things that are released from seasons from God seasons that that kind of that kind of encompasses the whole idea of Kairos 00:00:52.380 --> 00:00:55.340 We've got to take what God is revealing in 00:00:56.060 --> 00:01:01.160 Kairos or in God seasons and we've got to make them real in Kronos, which is 00:01:02.020 --> 00:01:03.220 time 00:01:03.220 --> 00:01:05.220 chronology time and 00:01:06.580 --> 00:01:14.860 If we are not able to do that then everything we are talking about these insights these teachings these principles these revelations are 00:01:16.980 --> 00:01:18.980 Untested and useless 00:01:18.980 --> 00:01:23.860 So anything that we talk about has to be brought from God's 00:01:24.380 --> 00:01:30.180 Presence season or whatever he wants to do and whatever he's releasing we take that and we build it in our present time 00:01:30.180 --> 00:01:34.780 It has to be something tangible and it has to demonstrate the life and the power of God 00:01:34.940 --> 00:01:38.220 Hey, Ranita, it has to demonstrate the life and power of God 00:01:38.420 --> 00:01:44.940 So if we don't do that, then everything we are doing thus far is useless. Okay, so just remember that 00:01:45.500 --> 00:01:47.500 Thanks Ryan 00:01:48.180 --> 00:01:50.180 So 00:01:50.660 --> 00:01:52.660 We've been talking about 00:01:52.900 --> 00:01:57.140 What did we talk about last week unprecedented living what what we were discussing last week 00:01:58.460 --> 00:01:59.660 Jacob's Ladder 00:01:59.660 --> 00:02:05.300 We're talking about how to access things from the heavenlies and make them here on earth. See as priests 00:02:05.820 --> 00:02:11.180 We access the heavenlies as kings. We execute whatever we see on the earth 00:02:11.340 --> 00:02:18.340 As priests we access the heavenlies it says priests that we have an insight or an 00:02:19.540 --> 00:02:21.540 or a 00:02:21.860 --> 00:02:27.460 Ability to penetrate the heavens and see what's happening there and it says kings that we now 00:02:28.460 --> 00:02:30.460 execute it here and 00:02:30.900 --> 00:02:32.900 we talked about this about 00:02:33.140 --> 00:02:37.820 Six or seven months ago how we are priests kings here on earth 00:02:37.820 --> 00:02:40.380 We are priests kings here on earth 00:02:41.100 --> 00:02:45.220 revelations chapter 5 verse 10 says he has made us priests and 00:02:46.220 --> 00:02:53.380 Kings here on earth not in the future here on earth Ryan is a priest king 00:02:54.700 --> 00:02:58.900 crazy, he's only 16 or 17. He's a priest king and 00:03:00.060 --> 00:03:05.540 If he is born again, then he has which he is then he has the ability to access 00:03:06.260 --> 00:03:12.800 What God is doing in the heavens and he has the ability as a priest to do that because priests are allowed access into the 00:03:13.860 --> 00:03:18.860 Very throne room of God in the Old Testament. Remember when priests would come they would not stay outside 00:03:18.860 --> 00:03:23.820 The people would stay outside the priest would go right into the holy of holies. Hey Matt, could see you right up front 00:03:25.340 --> 00:03:28.920 So he would go straight into the holy of holies the priest could do that 00:03:28.920 --> 00:03:35.360 So Ryan has the ability to now go into the heavenlies and God can show him what is happening and then Ryan because he's priest 00:03:35.580 --> 00:03:38.700 King has now the ability to hear on earth as a king 00:03:39.300 --> 00:03:41.300 Establish what he's seen there 00:03:41.380 --> 00:03:43.380 this is how it works and 00:03:45.620 --> 00:03:49.200 Basically guys priests and King are the two tracks on which 00:03:51.340 --> 00:03:53.340 Remember we talked about finished work 00:03:54.540 --> 00:03:56.860 Every everything God did is already 00:03:57.620 --> 00:04:01.480 Complete finished there is a finished work called Marcus 00:04:02.100 --> 00:04:04.360 There is a finished work called acts 29 00:04:05.820 --> 00:04:07.820 There is a finished work called 00:04:08.740 --> 00:04:11.500 The New Jerusalem, which we already and which is yet to come 00:04:13.100 --> 00:04:16.540 Everything God did is complete but we don't see it yet, but it is finished 00:04:16.660 --> 00:04:22.300 but for a finished work to come to pass it runs on the tracks of 00:04:23.180 --> 00:04:25.180 priest 00:04:25.180 --> 00:04:26.340 and 00:04:26.340 --> 00:04:29.620 King it's if a finished work 00:04:30.620 --> 00:04:36.200 If let's put it this way if if the finished work called Jacob meaning the Jacob who God has 00:04:36.540 --> 00:04:43.640 Crafted who he wants to see fulfill his destiny who he has shaped and written down every day of his life 00:04:43.640 --> 00:04:47.220 The way it should work out. It's up to me whether I want to do that or not. Hi guys 00:04:48.060 --> 00:04:49.780 Welcome 00:04:49.780 --> 00:04:51.780 Good to see you again 00:04:52.420 --> 00:04:54.420 So as 00:04:54.660 --> 00:04:56.660 priests 00:04:57.140 --> 00:05:01.360 For God to bring to pass everything that I Jacob should be 00:05:01.900 --> 00:05:06.940 The first thing I need to do is understand that the two tracks that I have to run on is one 00:05:07.700 --> 00:05:13.140 That of me as a priest and the second that of me as a king because only then can I access the things God is showing 00:05:13.140 --> 00:05:15.860 In the heavenlies and finish it here on earth. Let me give you an example 00:05:16.860 --> 00:05:19.220 Gosh now I can face the whole church 00:05:19.980 --> 00:05:24.900 Or till about ten minutes ago. Everybody was sitting there now the whole place is kind of full so 00:05:26.660 --> 00:05:28.660 I 00:05:29.700 --> 00:05:31.700 Need eyes of faith in this shirt sometimes 00:05:34.340 --> 00:05:38.980 Priest and King are the tracks on which the finished work accelerates towards completion 00:05:38.980 --> 00:05:43.940 Let me say that again priest and King are the tracks on which the finished work 00:05:44.740 --> 00:05:51.220 Accelerates towards completion here on earth. For example, if you turn to Genesis chapter 30 Genesis 30 00:05:52.980 --> 00:05:54.980 Genesis 30 00:05:57.660 --> 00:05:59.660 Genesis 30 00:06:04.580 --> 00:06:12.340 Genesis 3 0 and if you turn to 31 and 32 00:06:19.140 --> 00:06:21.140 And it says that 00:06:22.020 --> 00:06:29.300 This is Jacob and Laban Laban was his uncle and he is Laban asking him what shall I give you and Jacob says 00:06:30.340 --> 00:06:38.340 Don't give me anything Jacob replied, but if you will do this one thing for me, I will go on tending your flocks 00:06:40.340 --> 00:06:48.540 Today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep every dark colored lamb and every spotted or speckled goat 00:06:48.740 --> 00:06:50.580 They will be my 00:06:50.620 --> 00:06:53.540 Wages and then go to verse 43 in verse 43 00:06:53.540 --> 00:06:58.620 It says that in this way the man meaning Jacob grew exceedingly 00:06:58.820 --> 00:07:05.860 prosperous and came to own large flocks and maidservants and men servants camels and donkeys and if you go a little above it go to 00:07:05.940 --> 00:07:07.300 verse 00:07:07.300 --> 00:07:09.820 37 no not worth 37 was 00:07:13.020 --> 00:07:14.340 Was 00:07:15.340 --> 00:07:22.340 When the flocks were in heat and came to drink they mated in front of the branches and they bore young that was streaked or 00:07:22.340 --> 00:07:23.700 speckled or spotted 00:07:23.700 --> 00:07:26.940 Jacob set them apart set apart the young of the flock by themselves 00:07:27.180 --> 00:07:32.740 But made the rest face the streaked and dark colored animals that belong to Laban thus 00:07:32.740 --> 00:07:36.340 He made separate flocks for himself and did not put them with Laban's animals 00:07:36.660 --> 00:07:41.980 Whenever the stronger females were in heat Jacob would place the branches in the troughs in front of the animals 00:07:41.980 --> 00:07:46.660 So they would mate near the branches, but if the animals were weak he would not place them there 00:07:46.660 --> 00:07:51.740 So the weak animals went to Laban and the strong ones to Jacob in this way the man grew exceedingly 00:07:51.980 --> 00:07:59.900 Prosperous and came to own large flocks and maidservants and men servants and camels and donkeys folks the finished work here is 00:08:00.060 --> 00:08:01.820 verse 00:08:01.820 --> 00:08:03.100 43 00:08:03.100 --> 00:08:07.200 Verse 43 is the finished work and what is it that Jacob? 00:08:08.780 --> 00:08:10.780 Prosper that's the finished 00:08:10.860 --> 00:08:13.380 Work okay now as a 00:08:14.420 --> 00:08:15.540 King 00:08:15.540 --> 00:08:21.820 Jacob did something look at verse 37 as a king Jacob did something look at verse 37 00:08:22.140 --> 00:08:25.780 Jacob however took fresh cut branches from poplar 00:08:26.300 --> 00:08:27.580 almond and 00:08:27.580 --> 00:08:33.960 Plain trees and made white strips on them by peeling the bark and exposing the white inner wood of the branches 00:08:34.060 --> 00:08:37.220 Then he plays the peel branches in all the watering troughs 00:08:37.260 --> 00:08:43.300 So that they would be directly in front of the flocks when they came to drink so as a king he places these 00:08:45.580 --> 00:08:51.860 Rods that were speckled and that were chipped so that they would be right in front of the water trough 00:08:52.220 --> 00:08:54.220 when the animals came to 00:08:54.500 --> 00:08:56.500 drink so 00:08:56.580 --> 00:08:58.580 This is a finished work 00:09:01.580 --> 00:09:05.300 And what is the finished work that Jacob would prosper that's the finished work 00:09:05.500 --> 00:09:08.580 What does Jacob do as a king he takes 00:09:09.100 --> 00:09:15.100 Those different branches and cuts them so that they're spot speckled and spotted and he puts it in front of the water trough 00:09:15.700 --> 00:09:19.500 So what did he do as a priest? Here's the crazy thing go to Genesis 31 00:09:25.100 --> 00:09:27.660 And it says there in Genesis 31 00:09:27.660 --> 00:09:33.380 Verse 6 you know that I worked for your father with all my strength 00:09:34.660 --> 00:09:40.460 Yet your father has cheated me by changing my wages ten times. This is Jacob speaking to Rachel. However verse 00:09:41.260 --> 00:09:48.140 7b however God has not allowed him to harm me if he said the speckled ones will be your wages 00:09:48.140 --> 00:09:52.580 Then all the flocks gave birth to speckled ones and if he said the streaked ones will be your wages 00:09:52.780 --> 00:09:57.420 Then all the flocks gave birth to speckled ones and if he said the streaked ones will be your wages 00:09:57.780 --> 00:10:04.580 Then all the flocks were streaked ones. So God has taken away your father's livestock and has given them to me and then 00:10:05.060 --> 00:10:07.060 in verse 00:10:07.700 --> 00:10:11.940 7 to 13, okay keep going in the breeding season 00:10:11.940 --> 00:10:18.780 I once had a dream in which I looked up and saw that the male goats mating with the flock was streaked speckled or 00:10:18.780 --> 00:10:21.540 Spotted the angel of God said to me in a dream Jacob 00:10:21.540 --> 00:10:28.780 I answered here I am and he said look up and see that all the male goats mating with the flock a streaked speckled 00:10:29.100 --> 00:10:32.100 Spotted for I have seen all that layman has been doing to you 00:10:32.100 --> 00:10:36.420 I am the god of Bethel where you anointed a pillar where you made a vow to me 00:10:36.580 --> 00:10:39.460 Now leave this land at once and go back to your native land folks 00:10:40.340 --> 00:10:41.860 in 00:10:41.860 --> 00:10:45.180 Genesis chapter 31 we find that Jacob 00:10:46.300 --> 00:10:48.140 accessed 00:10:48.140 --> 00:10:50.140 the heavenlies 00:10:50.940 --> 00:10:52.940 Through a 00:10:53.060 --> 00:10:54.780 Through a 00:10:54.780 --> 00:10:58.460 Dream and God specifically says I am the god of 00:10:59.500 --> 00:11:04.980 Bethel and Bethel was where he saw that dream with the angels ascending and descending on the 00:11:06.060 --> 00:11:08.060 ladder 00:11:08.580 --> 00:11:10.580 So you see what is happening here 00:11:12.700 --> 00:11:14.700 This is a finished work 00:11:14.700 --> 00:11:21.060 The finished work is Jacob prospered as a king he had to do something but before he does something he has to see something 00:11:21.220 --> 00:11:28.160 he sees a dream in which God specifically tells him how to go about taking the speckled and spotted and 00:11:29.220 --> 00:11:31.220 he shows him that picture and 00:11:31.660 --> 00:11:36.900 So Jacob sees that and now as a king he decides aha now that God has shown it 00:11:37.020 --> 00:11:41.420 Let me now do this as a representation of what God has shown him 00:11:42.180 --> 00:11:44.300 God showed him speckled and spotted he takes these 00:11:45.340 --> 00:11:47.140 branches and he begins to 00:11:47.140 --> 00:11:50.180 Speckled and spotted and set them up now Jacob has 00:11:50.540 --> 00:11:56.100 Brought to pass on the earth as a king what he saw as a priest so that the finished work will be complete 00:11:57.020 --> 00:11:59.020 This is how it works folks 00:11:59.500 --> 00:12:05.020 You see something and then you trust God to show you how to implement it here on earth 00:12:05.020 --> 00:12:10.980 And when you do that suddenly you find that you're one step closer to the finished work of whoever or whatever you are 00:12:11.460 --> 00:12:13.460 questions 00:12:15.700 --> 00:12:17.700 Comments challenges disagreements 00:12:23.260 --> 00:12:31.060 Yeah, it was just a God what Jacob was doing was not some kind of magic that would say look at these branches and start mating 00:12:31.060 --> 00:12:33.860 No, it was it was it was a sense of 00:12:34.580 --> 00:12:37.840 Putting here on earth some kind of a representation of what he saw in the 00:12:38.440 --> 00:12:42.480 Heavens it was more it's more an action of faith here on earth 00:12:42.600 --> 00:12:47.820 So that what was seen in heaven could now be shown symbolically here on earth 00:12:47.840 --> 00:12:52.540 So that what God had said would come to pass and this is what priests do priests see 00:12:52.640 --> 00:12:58.300 meaning that you should do you as a priest should see what God is showing in heaven and then you 00:12:58.680 --> 00:13:04.120 Do whatever you need to do here on earth symbolically or in faith and you will see a finished work happen 00:13:04.800 --> 00:13:09.280 In everything this works folks beat marriage business church 00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:15.720 Individualized this works, but I've got to know what I am seeing first and as a priest King Ryan 00:13:15.720 --> 00:13:19.200 And I have the ability to see what God is showing first 00:13:21.920 --> 00:13:25.240 It works in anything it works in training up your children 00:13:25.760 --> 00:13:30.480 It works in taking care of your home. It works in business. It works in everything 00:13:31.080 --> 00:13:33.080 In everything 00:13:42.800 --> 00:13:45.680 This is yeah where it becomes neoshtan yeah 00:13:47.440 --> 00:13:54.320 I'd say Matt once you see something in the heavenlies know you will know how much do in faith here on earth 00:13:54.920 --> 00:13:56.920 You will just know it 00:13:57.240 --> 00:14:00.440 Like like for instance I I keep saying stuff like 00:14:04.160 --> 00:14:06.160 One day I'll 00:14:07.160 --> 00:14:12.460 Have whatever is required to distribute money travel do whatever and have a surplus I 00:14:13.280 --> 00:14:17.760 Know that because I'm I know it's a finished work God has already shown it 00:14:17.760 --> 00:14:25.080 So how do I go about now here on earth whenever I see what I know God wants me to have when he releases? 00:14:25.800 --> 00:14:28.840 The wealth that is coming my way I say father 00:14:28.840 --> 00:14:32.800 I know you're pointing towards a thank you for that and I'll keep an eye on for that or 00:14:34.120 --> 00:14:39.400 Knowing that I'll stand before Kings because that's a finished work that has been spoken over my life. I make sure that 00:14:40.040 --> 00:14:43.780 Whenever I'm traveling I'll take one set of clothes that is decent to stand before Kings 00:14:43.780 --> 00:14:50.780 Yeah, but that's where priests Kings have to learn how to discern and we'll talk about how we can become the whole point of this 00:14:51.540 --> 00:14:54.300 Teaching today is to avoid exactly that Matt 00:14:55.060 --> 00:15:01.900 To avoid anything that would come in the way of you being a bona fide priest King who access the accesses of the heavens and dusting 00:15:01.900 --> 00:15:04.380 Zero on earth everyone is a priest King 00:15:05.020 --> 00:15:08.900 And you have to learn how to discern and how to be a priest King 00:15:08.900 --> 00:15:12.740 You are a bona fide priest King who access the accesses of the heavens and dusting zero on earth 00:15:13.260 --> 00:15:18.420 Everyone here can be that because like it or not you are a nascent priest King 00:15:19.140 --> 00:15:24.540 nascent meaning something that you're born with the moment you become a believer you are a 00:15:25.140 --> 00:15:26.100 priest King 00:15:26.100 --> 00:15:31.900 But it is veiled in flesh and sometimes that has to be removed so that you can begin to walk in it and the moment 00:15:31.900 --> 00:15:35.300 You walk in it you begin to walk on those two tracks that will bring you to your completion 00:15:35.340 --> 00:15:41.680 To the finished work of who you are just imagine the the hundreds of people who are going to benefit from your life in my life 00:15:41.680 --> 00:15:43.680 When we walk as priest Kings 00:15:44.060 --> 00:15:47.800 Just imagine how the earth is going to benefit when you walk as a priest King 00:15:49.020 --> 00:15:53.260 I'm talking about the earth folks. I'm not I'm not limiting it to Vancouver. I'm talking about the earth 00:15:53.780 --> 00:15:57.960 Imagine how the earth is going to benefit when I I walk in the fullness of a priest King that I am 00:15:58.020 --> 00:16:03.800 Christ walked in the fullness of who he was high priest and King because he is a high priest and King 00:16:03.800 --> 00:16:06.240 So we are priests and Kings to here on earth 00:16:06.960 --> 00:16:10.380 This is reality. This is the truth. This is not theory 00:16:12.200 --> 00:16:16.500 And the sooner we begin to grasp and understand this note the more we can walk in it man 00:16:19.560 --> 00:16:21.560 It's so real 00:16:22.280 --> 00:16:24.280 You know, I remember 00:16:24.520 --> 00:16:26.520 sometime ago I was 00:16:26.960 --> 00:16:29.480 At be asking the Lord so father. What do you have to say about this? 00:16:29.480 --> 00:16:32.380 What do you have to say about this thing? This person asked me this question 00:16:32.380 --> 00:16:34.300 What should I say to this person at one point? 00:16:34.300 --> 00:16:36.020 I remembered the Lord saying to me take it 00:16:36.020 --> 00:16:41.140 You know sometimes you use me like a phone booth and you go into the phone booth with a 25 cent coin drop it in 00:16:41.140 --> 00:16:44.700 Pick up the phone and say so what about this and you receive an answer you put the phone booth back 00:16:44.700 --> 00:16:47.140 He's I don't want you to live like you're entering a phone booth 00:16:47.140 --> 00:16:50.820 I want you to live like you are roaming around in a mansion and you're getting answers wherever 00:16:51.700 --> 00:16:58.020 Why am I saying that you guys because priest Kings know they don't go into a phone booth and drop a 25 cent coin to 00:16:58.020 --> 00:16:59.660 Ask the Lord. What do you think about this? 00:16:59.660 --> 00:17:04.600 They walk in a mansion called I am what I am 00:17:08.420 --> 00:17:11.940 It is but you begin to walk in walk in answers 00:17:12.900 --> 00:17:14.900 James you 00:17:15.020 --> 00:17:19.220 Yeah, otherwise what happens is God becomes a phone booth that you go into 00:17:20.420 --> 00:17:25.500 But what if you're what what if the earth is a phone booth? I mean imagine a humongous 00:17:26.060 --> 00:17:28.180 Not for but what if the earth is tell us? 00:17:29.180 --> 00:17:30.740 Now you don't have to go to a phone booth 00:17:30.740 --> 00:17:35.660 You've got all those connections right at the place you begin to walk in a mansion called. I am what I am 00:17:35.820 --> 00:17:41.900 that's the name of God and then everything that pours through you that goes through you begins to come from the 00:17:42.740 --> 00:17:45.940 Very nature and spirit of God because you don't live outside of it 00:17:46.140 --> 00:17:49.620 So you don't have to take a step and say I've got to pause for a moment 00:17:49.900 --> 00:17:55.380 Think five songs become holy ask God a question come out. We're not Superman going into a phone booth 00:17:55.580 --> 00:17:57.580 For a change of dress 00:17:58.860 --> 00:18:00.860 We live that way 24-7 00:18:03.500 --> 00:18:07.100 You begin to live in a mansion called I am what I am 00:18:10.420 --> 00:18:13.180 That's his name what I'm trying to say is we begin to live in God 00:18:13.180 --> 00:18:16.820 So there's no need to go to God because we are living 00:18:17.860 --> 00:18:19.860 In him or with him 00:18:20.180 --> 00:18:22.180 Yeah 00:18:23.060 --> 00:18:24.700 If 00:18:24.700 --> 00:18:27.460 Folks try to shift that and you will find that now 00:18:28.180 --> 00:18:31.980 Someone could call you in the middle of the night and you will speak the wisdom of God 00:18:32.140 --> 00:18:36.080 Why because you're living in the fullness of who you are as a priest and a king 00:18:37.420 --> 00:18:39.420 There's a difference folks 00:18:39.700 --> 00:18:41.700 When it becomes your permanent 00:18:42.860 --> 00:18:44.860 permanent 00:18:45.300 --> 00:18:47.980 Lifestyle then you don't have to switch into it 00:18:52.180 --> 00:18:53.260 Yeah 00:18:53.260 --> 00:18:57.260 At once he never he when the disciples would come and ask him a tough question 00:18:57.260 --> 00:19:01.380 He'd say just a minute. I got to go into my son of God costume go into a phone booth 00:19:01.860 --> 00:19:04.600 Comes out with a cape and says now no Jesus never did that 00:19:05.620 --> 00:19:10.140 He always lived both a son of man and son of God continuously 00:19:16.420 --> 00:19:21.840 No, you have to begin to live as a priest king and as you begin to live as a priest king you will find 00:19:22.340 --> 00:19:28.780 That the wisdom of God begins to become your natural place of dwelling instead of having to go to the wisdom of God 00:19:28.820 --> 00:19:35.340 He who is the wisdom of God the Christ begins to become more and more evident in everything you begin to see 00:19:37.820 --> 00:19:43.500 Yeah brings it forth because now you're living as a priest king you're not taking days off 00:19:43.500 --> 00:19:45.500 I'll give you an instance 00:19:45.500 --> 00:19:49.500 Yeah, Sue called me last night and she was yesterday evening and she asked me 00:19:49.500 --> 00:19:56.060 We are Sue and I was supposed to meet a person and the person decided not to meet and so Sue was talking over the phone 00:19:56.060 --> 00:20:00.500 And she said she and we were talking about the person. I've never met the person before but 00:20:01.980 --> 00:20:03.980 We would 00:20:03.980 --> 00:20:09.500 We were talking about the person and she said she was talking about the person and she said she was talking about the person 00:20:09.500 --> 00:20:11.500 I'm not sure what she was talking about 00:20:12.260 --> 00:20:14.260 We were 00:20:14.260 --> 00:20:19.180 Basically thinking so what's the next step and I didn't have to wait for a moment to say father 00:20:19.180 --> 00:20:22.620 So what's the next step Lord? What do you want us to do with this person? 00:20:22.620 --> 00:20:28.160 No as I'm talking I'm so completely aware that the only thing God wants to say to the person because right there 00:20:28.160 --> 00:20:33.820 And then the Lord said I do not snuff out a smoldering wick and I do not break a bruised reed 00:20:33.820 --> 00:20:36.160 It's from Isaiah and as he's saying it 00:20:36.240 --> 00:20:44.440 I know exactly what he means, but this person has not come but keep encouraging keep investing in her life only good things regardless of how 00:20:44.680 --> 00:20:50.800 Terrible or bad or against God she may be keep saying how much I love her how much I love her how much I treasure her 00:20:50.800 --> 00:20:55.660 How much I value her how much I enjoy her how much my pleasure is in her how much I see 00:20:55.760 --> 00:21:01.880 What she will become and as you keep doing that this woman will change and so there was not even a second's hesitation in 00:21:02.200 --> 00:21:04.720 Conversation I was I knew I was giving 00:21:05.320 --> 00:21:07.740 God's I was speaking God's wisdom 00:21:21.940 --> 00:21:22.960 Okay 00:21:22.960 --> 00:21:27.280 When we discuss these next five points about how to walk as priests kings 00:21:27.280 --> 00:21:33.000 You'll see how anyone even a new believer if he begins to catch on can grasp it and begin to grow in it 00:21:33.000 --> 00:21:38.240 There are because yes, you can become a priest king immediately because that's who you are 00:21:38.360 --> 00:21:41.720 But at the same time you have to grow in it too. Just like you exercise a muscle 00:21:41.720 --> 00:21:44.200 so because Jesus grew in favor stature and 00:21:45.240 --> 00:21:47.160 and 00:21:47.160 --> 00:21:54.280 Wisdom with God and man so Jesus grew too in it. So that is there but like Paul says you can be a 00:21:54.760 --> 00:21:57.520 spiritual babe as long as you want and in the 00:21:58.480 --> 00:22:01.720 In in the kingdom of God being a babe is not cute 00:22:03.800 --> 00:22:09.680 It's just ridiculous so you can have people who are 40 years as Christians who are just babies or 00:22:10.160 --> 00:22:14.120 You can have one who's two years old two years a Christian and lose a champion 00:22:15.400 --> 00:22:21.480 So that's how it works and by the way, if you don't know scripture God can speak in language that would seem very 00:22:22.120 --> 00:22:26.840 Like he would probably say to a novice. Hey, I don't butt out cigarettes 00:22:28.000 --> 00:22:31.080 Instead of saying I don't snuff out a small drink wick 00:22:31.800 --> 00:22:38.680 He could actually say I don't butt out cigarettes and the guy would understand immediately. He may not know it's from Isaiah 00:22:39.480 --> 00:22:41.900 But God would convey the same thing 00:22:42.480 --> 00:22:44.840 So he's able to convey scriptures 00:22:46.080 --> 00:22:48.680 Quite easily. I'm not encouraging 00:22:49.640 --> 00:22:54.600 Smoking nor am I saying is that cigarettes should be left on unbutted, but that's another 00:22:57.120 --> 00:22:59.760 Any questions comments challenges disagreements 00:23:01.080 --> 00:23:03.080 Yes, Melchizedek means 00:23:05.880 --> 00:23:07.880 Yes Melchizedek means 00:23:09.440 --> 00:23:11.320 King of 00:23:11.320 --> 00:23:17.000 Actually Melchizedek means righteousness son of righteousness king of righteousness, but he was the king of Salem and 00:23:17.800 --> 00:23:21.400 the king of peace and righteousness in the sense of speaking 00:23:23.280 --> 00:23:24.960 No 00:23:24.960 --> 00:23:26.040 No 00:23:26.040 --> 00:23:30.640 Melchizedek was a type of Christ folks when when I use the word or whenever anyone uses the word 00:23:31.040 --> 00:23:35.160 Something is a type of something what it means is it's a shadow of what the actual is 00:23:35.600 --> 00:23:42.220 So when when the Bible says Melchizedek is a type of Christ what it means is Melchizedek is a shadow representation of what? 00:23:43.320 --> 00:23:45.400 Jesus is so it's a type 00:23:49.000 --> 00:23:54.960 No is a shadow a type he it was not Melchizedek was not 00:23:55.880 --> 00:23:59.620 Jesus Christ. He was a type of Elijah is a type of 00:24:01.120 --> 00:24:07.140 John the Baptist because the Bible says one shall come like unto Elijah and that's John the 00:24:07.720 --> 00:24:12.720 Baptist so Elijah was a type of John the Baptist. So that's the way Moses was a type of Christ 00:24:13.360 --> 00:24:14.360 because 00:24:14.360 --> 00:24:17.200 Israel is told from amongst you shall rise a prophet like 00:24:17.920 --> 00:24:19.480 Moses 00:24:19.480 --> 00:24:21.480 So that's how it works 00:24:25.240 --> 00:24:30.520 Any questions guys with regard to how it works in terms of seeing and executing like Jacob 00:24:31.480 --> 00:24:33.480 Okay 00:24:35.480 --> 00:24:37.480 The King priests nature 00:24:38.280 --> 00:24:41.800 Is already in us but can stay veiled in our flesh 00:24:42.440 --> 00:24:48.680 Sometimes till we go to our grave folks. I'm telling you there are hundreds and hundreds of Christians dying who have 00:24:49.440 --> 00:24:52.080 died as believers will go to heaven but never 00:24:53.120 --> 00:24:55.120 discovered the the 00:24:56.280 --> 00:24:58.320 Awesomeness of walking here on earth as 00:24:58.400 --> 00:25:00.400 Priest Kings 00:25:02.160 --> 00:25:08.320 Have a terrible man to spend a life not realizing that or not living it out it's already within you guys 00:25:08.840 --> 00:25:10.840 But it's veiled in flesh 00:25:11.400 --> 00:25:14.040 It's veiled in flesh. Can you see her baby? No 00:25:14.840 --> 00:25:16.840 But do you know? 00:25:16.840 --> 00:25:18.360 that 00:25:18.360 --> 00:25:20.040 It's almost like that 00:25:20.040 --> 00:25:25.240 It's veiled in flesh, but you know, it's gonna happen just like Suhani, you know, she's gonna give birth 00:25:25.240 --> 00:25:27.240 But can you see the baby yet? 00:25:27.520 --> 00:25:29.240 No 00:25:29.240 --> 00:25:31.680 So priests King is already there within us 00:25:32.400 --> 00:25:34.400 But it has to show 00:25:34.560 --> 00:25:41.440 It has to make an appearance and I want to take the life of Abraham to show you how 00:25:42.080 --> 00:25:44.240 The King priest makes an appearance 00:25:45.040 --> 00:25:47.040 Now if you go to Genesis 14 00:25:47.760 --> 00:25:49.760 Genesis 14 00:25:50.080 --> 00:25:52.080 Genesis 14 00:25:58.080 --> 00:26:00.080 Genesis 14 reading from verse 1 00:26:02.160 --> 00:26:06.080 I have half of mine to make someone else read this with all those names, but I will 00:26:07.400 --> 00:26:12.600 At this time Genesis 14 verses 1 onwards at this time Amraphel king of Shinar 00:26:13.000 --> 00:26:18.920 Ariok king of Elyaser Kedor Laumer king of Elam and Tidal king of 00:26:19.400 --> 00:26:22.440 Golem went to war against Bera king of Sodom 00:26:22.920 --> 00:26:24.920 Bersha king of Gomorrah 00:26:24.960 --> 00:26:26.960 Shinaab king of Adma 00:26:26.960 --> 00:26:31.120 Shemebar king of Zebulim and the king of Bela that is Zohar 00:26:31.120 --> 00:26:36.880 All these latter kings joined forces in the valley of Sidum the salt sea for 12 years 00:26:36.880 --> 00:26:42.720 They had been subject to Kedor Laumer, but in the 13th year they rebelled in the 14th year 00:26:43.520 --> 00:26:49.360 Kedor Laumer and the kings allied with him went out and defeated the Raphites in Ashtaroth, Karneim 00:26:49.640 --> 00:26:56.640 The Zuzites in Ham the Emites in Shaveh, Kiriyathim and the Horites in the hill country of Seir as far as Elparan 00:26:56.640 --> 00:27:00.360 Near the desert then they turned back and went to En Mishpat 00:27:00.360 --> 00:27:07.000 That is Kadesh and they conquered the whole territory of the Amalekites as well as the Amorites who were living in 00:27:07.000 --> 00:27:08.320 Hazazon, Tamar 00:27:08.320 --> 00:27:14.360 Then the king of Sodom the king of Gomorrah the king of Adma and the king of Zebulim and the king of Bela 00:27:14.360 --> 00:27:17.360 That is Zohar marched to the south of the desert 00:27:17.360 --> 00:27:23.360 The king of Bela that is Zohar marched out and drew up their battle lines in the valley of Sidum against Kedor Laumer 00:27:23.360 --> 00:27:30.880 King of Elam, Tidal king of Golem, Amraphel king of Shinar, Ariok king of Elassar, four kings against five 00:27:32.960 --> 00:27:38.400 Now the valley of Sidum was full of tar pits and when the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled some of the men 00:27:38.520 --> 00:27:41.080 Fell into them and the rest fled to the hills 00:27:41.080 --> 00:27:45.440 The four kings seized all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food and they went away 00:27:45.520 --> 00:27:51.440 Then they also carried off Abraham's nephew Lot and his possessions since he was living in Sodom 00:27:51.920 --> 00:27:55.960 One who had escaped came and reported this to Abraham the Hebrew 00:27:56.040 --> 00:28:02.960 Now Abraham was living near the great trees of Mamre the Amorite a brother of Eshkol and Aner 00:28:02.960 --> 00:28:07.760 All of who were allied with Abraham when Abraham heard that his relative had been taken captive 00:28:07.760 --> 00:28:13.200 He called out 318 trained men born in his household and went in pursuit as far as 00:28:13.520 --> 00:28:15.520 Dan 00:28:15.520 --> 00:28:17.520 The simplest name was the hardest to find 00:28:17.520 --> 00:28:19.520 During the night, I almost expected something bigger 00:28:19.520 --> 00:28:25.520 During the night Abraham divided his men to attack them and he routed them pursuing them as far as Hobah north of Damascus 00:28:25.520 --> 00:28:31.520 He recovered all the goods and brought back his relative Lot and his possessions together with the women and the other people 00:28:31.520 --> 00:28:35.520 After Abraham returned from defeating Kedor Laumer and the kings allied with him 00:28:35.520 --> 00:28:39.520 The king of Sodom came out to meet him in the valley of Shaveh 00:28:39.520 --> 00:28:41.520 That is the king's valley 00:28:41.840 --> 00:28:46.640 Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine 00:28:46.640 --> 00:28:50.640 He was a priest of God most high and he blessed Abraham saying 00:28:50.640 --> 00:28:54.640 Blessed be Abraham by God most high creator of heaven and earth 00:28:54.640 --> 00:28:58.640 And blessed be God most high who delivered your enemies into your hands 00:28:58.640 --> 00:29:00.640 Then Abraham gave him a tenth of everything 00:29:00.640 --> 00:29:02.640 The king of Sodom said to Abraham 00:29:02.640 --> 00:29:04.640 Give me the people and keep the goods for yourselves 00:29:04.640 --> 00:29:06.640 But Abraham said to the king of Sodom 00:29:06.640 --> 00:29:10.640 I have raised my hand to the Lord God most high creator of heaven and earth 00:29:10.760 --> 00:29:13.760 And I have taken a note that I will accept nothing belonging to you 00:29:13.760 --> 00:29:15.760 Not even a thread or the thong of a sandal 00:29:15.760 --> 00:29:18.760 So that you will never be able to say I made Abraham rich 00:29:18.760 --> 00:29:23.760 I will accept nothing but what my men have eaten and the share that belongs to the men who went with me 00:29:23.760 --> 00:29:25.760 To Anir, Ishkol and Mamre 00:29:25.760 --> 00:29:27.760 Let them have their share 00:29:27.760 --> 00:29:29.760 Folks 00:29:29.760 --> 00:29:36.760 I want us to look at the life of Abraham and see how the king priest makes an appearance in his life 00:29:36.880 --> 00:29:42.880 The king priest is here represented by Melchizedek 00:29:42.880 --> 00:29:46.880 Melchizedek or Melchizedek I'm not too sure how to pronounce it Gisela 00:29:46.880 --> 00:29:52.880 Melchizedek is a king priest 00:29:52.880 --> 00:29:54.880 He was a king of Salem 00:29:54.880 --> 00:29:58.880 And he was a priest of the most high God and his name means righteousness 00:29:58.880 --> 00:30:01.880 Priest of the most high God 00:30:02.000 --> 00:30:09.000 So we find that a king priest makes an appearance in Abraham's life 00:30:11.000 --> 00:30:20.000 And through this story we want to see what it takes for the king priest within us to manifest or to make an appearance 00:30:20.000 --> 00:30:22.000 That's what we are heading, we are trying to find out 00:30:22.000 --> 00:30:29.000 How does a king priest who is already within you because you are a king and priest because Christ is king and priest 00:30:29.120 --> 00:30:33.120 How does a king priest manifest or make an appearance in your life? 00:30:33.120 --> 00:30:35.120 We want to find that out 00:30:35.120 --> 00:30:37.120 Because Melchizedek the king priest appeared to Abraham 00:30:37.120 --> 00:30:39.120 So let's find out how 00:30:39.120 --> 00:30:41.120 Look at the strange thing folks 00:30:41.120 --> 00:30:43.120 When does he appear to Abraham? 00:30:43.120 --> 00:30:49.120 He appears to Abraham not before the battle but after the battle 00:30:49.120 --> 00:30:56.120 You would expect that a king priest who is from God would appear to you before you go into battle 00:30:56.240 --> 00:30:59.240 To encourage you, to strengthen you 00:30:59.240 --> 00:31:06.240 The king priest here appears to Abraham not before the battle but after the battle 00:31:06.240 --> 00:31:10.240 After he has beaten the four kings then he appears 00:31:10.240 --> 00:31:14.240 And he says I am the king of Salem and I am also the priest of the most high God 00:31:14.240 --> 00:31:19.240 I would suggest to you that one way to find out how we can begin to live as priest kings 00:31:19.240 --> 00:31:24.240 How we can tear off that veil that sometimes hides the priest king within us 00:31:24.360 --> 00:31:30.360 How we can begin to live it out is to look at the names of the four kings that Abraham beat 00:31:30.360 --> 00:31:33.360 Abraham conquered four kings 00:31:33.360 --> 00:31:37.360 When we look at their names it will give us a clue as to what is required 00:31:37.360 --> 00:31:44.360 What we need to conquer before the priest king in us can manifest or appear 00:31:44.360 --> 00:31:46.360 Any questions? 00:31:46.360 --> 00:31:48.360 Do you understand where we are heading? 00:31:48.480 --> 00:31:53.480 Because by looking at the names of these four kings that Abraham conquered 00:31:53.480 --> 00:31:56.480 We will find out that when we conquer these four 00:31:56.480 --> 00:32:00.480 Suddenly the priest king within you will begin to become more and more evident 00:32:00.480 --> 00:32:04.480 Suddenly he will be birthed, he will be manifested, Melchizedek in your life 00:32:04.480 --> 00:32:07.480 The priest king in your life will make himself very obvious 00:32:07.480 --> 00:32:09.480 And then when you start running on those two tracks 00:32:09.480 --> 00:32:12.480 You will see how finished works that God has in store for you 00:32:12.480 --> 00:32:15.480 Will begin to accelerate and come to pass 00:32:15.600 --> 00:32:17.600 If you notice even with Abraham 00:32:17.600 --> 00:32:20.600 As soon as Melchizedek blessed him after he defeated the kings 00:32:20.600 --> 00:32:24.600 And Melchizedek blessed him after that Abraham's life began to accelerate 00:32:24.600 --> 00:32:26.600 In chapter 15 God comes and speaks to him 00:32:26.600 --> 00:32:28.600 In chapter 16 and 17 God comes and speaks to him 00:32:28.600 --> 00:32:31.600 In chapter 18 or so he starts bargaining with God for Sodom 00:32:31.600 --> 00:32:37.600 In chapter 19 to 21 you find him ultimately reaching the fullness of who he was 00:32:37.600 --> 00:32:41.600 As the father of faith on Mount Moriah when he has to sacrifice his son Isaac 00:32:41.600 --> 00:32:43.600 And God turns up 00:32:43.720 --> 00:32:46.720 And today he has children sitting at Acts 29 00:32:46.720 --> 00:32:49.720 Because we are the true children of Abraham 00:32:49.720 --> 00:32:51.720 The seed of Abraham, we 00:32:55.720 --> 00:32:59.720 And so this priest king in us can manifest two folks 00:32:59.720 --> 00:33:01.720 So let's look at the four kings 00:33:01.720 --> 00:33:03.720 The first king, his name was 00:33:05.720 --> 00:33:07.720 The manifestation of the priest king nature in us has veiled 00:33:07.720 --> 00:33:09.720 As long as these four kings rule over your life 00:33:09.720 --> 00:33:11.720 As long as these four kings folks 00:33:11.840 --> 00:33:13.840 Rule over my life 00:33:13.840 --> 00:33:15.840 It's going to be very hard for the priest king within me 00:33:15.840 --> 00:33:17.840 To begin to come into full display 00:33:17.840 --> 00:33:19.840 That nature to come into full display 00:33:19.840 --> 00:33:21.840 Is going to be very hard 00:33:21.840 --> 00:33:23.840 The first king is Amraphel 00:33:23.840 --> 00:33:25.840 A-M-R-A 00:33:25.840 --> 00:33:27.840 It's on your page right? 00:33:27.840 --> 00:33:29.840 Amraphel 00:33:29.840 --> 00:33:31.840 Now Amraphel means 00:33:31.840 --> 00:33:33.840 Sayer of darkness 00:33:33.840 --> 00:33:35.840 Amraphel means 00:33:35.840 --> 00:33:37.840 Sayer 00:33:37.840 --> 00:33:39.840 S-A-Y-E-R 00:33:39.960 --> 00:33:41.960 Darkness 00:33:43.960 --> 00:33:45.960 He speaks darkness over things? 00:33:45.960 --> 00:33:47.960 He speaks negativity 00:33:47.960 --> 00:33:49.960 Darkness not necessarily 00:33:49.960 --> 00:33:51.960 As darkness 00:33:51.960 --> 00:33:53.960 And demonic 00:33:53.960 --> 00:33:55.960 But I'd suggest to you that anything that is 00:33:55.960 --> 00:33:57.960 At its core negative 00:33:57.960 --> 00:33:59.960 Does not come from 00:33:59.960 --> 00:34:01.960 The father of lights in whom 00:34:01.960 --> 00:34:03.960 The actual medium of Amraphel? 00:34:03.960 --> 00:34:05.960 Yeah, Sayer of darkness 00:34:05.960 --> 00:34:07.960 Folks 00:34:08.080 --> 00:34:10.080 The sense of darkness here 00:34:10.080 --> 00:34:12.080 Some may say it has to do with 00:34:12.080 --> 00:34:14.080 The demonic but I'd just 00:34:14.080 --> 00:34:16.080 Say anything 00:34:16.080 --> 00:34:18.080 That personifies negativity 00:34:18.080 --> 00:34:20.080 That keeps coming out of my mouth 00:34:20.080 --> 00:34:22.080 Is what I would associate with it 00:34:22.080 --> 00:34:24.080 Amraphel is a Sayer of darkness 00:34:24.080 --> 00:34:26.080 There's a negativity in words used 00:34:26.080 --> 00:34:28.080 There's a negativity in the manner words are spoken 00:34:28.080 --> 00:34:30.080 There's a negativity in the manner words are spoken 00:34:30.080 --> 00:34:32.080 There's a negativity in the manner words are spoken 00:34:32.080 --> 00:34:34.080 Because there are people who won't say things that are negative 00:34:34.080 --> 00:34:36.080 Because there are people who won't say things that are negative 00:34:36.200 --> 00:34:38.200 But in the manner it is said 00:34:38.200 --> 00:34:40.200 It carries tremendous negativity 00:34:40.200 --> 00:34:42.200 And I'll tell you why it is important to beat this king 00:34:42.200 --> 00:34:44.200 And I'll tell you why it is important to beat this king 00:34:44.200 --> 00:34:46.200 So the first one is Amraphel 00:34:48.200 --> 00:34:50.200 Remind me to buy another board this week 00:34:50.200 --> 00:34:52.200 Amraphel 00:34:52.200 --> 00:34:54.200 Amraphel 00:34:54.200 --> 00:34:56.200 Means Sayer of darkness 00:34:56.200 --> 00:34:58.200 And 00:34:58.200 --> 00:35:00.200 Personified by negativity 00:35:00.200 --> 00:35:02.200 Personified by negativity 00:35:02.200 --> 00:35:04.200 In words 00:35:04.320 --> 00:35:06.320 In words 00:35:06.320 --> 00:35:08.320 In words spoken 00:35:08.320 --> 00:35:10.320 In words spoken 00:35:10.320 --> 00:35:12.320 And the way it is spoken 00:35:22.320 --> 00:35:24.320 I'd say it goes further than that Matt 00:35:24.320 --> 00:35:26.320 I would agree that that's part of it 00:35:26.320 --> 00:35:28.320 Where you are 00:35:28.320 --> 00:35:30.320 It's self-inflicted 00:35:30.320 --> 00:35:32.320 But I'm saying that when we begin to speak it 00:35:32.440 --> 00:35:34.440 To others too 00:35:34.440 --> 00:35:36.440 Because eventually if I'm a person 00:35:36.440 --> 00:35:38.440 Who keeps talking negatively about me 00:35:38.440 --> 00:35:40.440 I will see everything 00:35:40.440 --> 00:35:42.440 Through a pall of negativity 00:35:42.440 --> 00:35:44.440 And so it will go out to others too 00:35:44.440 --> 00:35:46.440 And so it will go out to others too 00:35:46.440 --> 00:35:48.440 And this is important that you check in your life 00:35:48.440 --> 00:35:50.440 In my life whether this is happening 00:35:50.440 --> 00:35:52.440 Negativity in words used and in the manner it is spoken 00:35:52.440 --> 00:35:54.440 Criticism of fault finding 00:35:54.440 --> 00:35:56.440 Criticism of fault finding 00:35:56.440 --> 00:35:58.440 Anger 00:35:58.440 --> 00:36:00.440 Rude-ness 00:36:00.560 --> 00:36:02.560 Rude-ness 00:36:02.560 --> 00:36:04.560 And the other thing 00:36:04.560 --> 00:36:06.560 Which is so subtle 00:36:06.560 --> 00:36:08.560 Is 00:36:08.560 --> 00:36:10.560 Inducing fear in others 00:36:10.560 --> 00:36:12.560 Through the words that you speak 00:36:12.560 --> 00:36:14.560 It will come from a very nice place 00:36:14.560 --> 00:36:16.560 But it's like putting a gun to someone's head and says 00:36:16.560 --> 00:36:18.560 If you don't do exactly what I tell you 00:36:18.560 --> 00:36:20.560 God is going to curse you 00:36:20.560 --> 00:36:22.560 Now that came out very nice 00:36:22.560 --> 00:36:24.560 It was a very nice council 00:36:24.560 --> 00:36:26.560 But basically I'm putting a gun to her head 00:36:26.560 --> 00:36:28.560 And saying if you don't do what I tell you 00:36:28.680 --> 00:36:30.680 And that's how things will happen 00:36:30.680 --> 00:36:32.680 It's still negative 00:36:32.680 --> 00:36:34.680 Through words to control 00:36:34.680 --> 00:36:36.680 Through words to control 00:36:36.680 --> 00:36:38.680 And if this is a part of your character 00:36:38.680 --> 00:36:40.680 Then I'm telling you 00:36:40.680 --> 00:36:42.680 A priest should carry 00:36:42.680 --> 00:36:44.680 Knowledge on his lips 00:36:44.680 --> 00:36:46.680 Malachi chapter 2 verse 7 says 00:36:46.680 --> 00:36:48.680 God says I want to find on the lips of a priest 00:36:48.680 --> 00:36:50.680 I want to find knowledge 00:36:50.680 --> 00:36:52.680 The knowledge of God 00:36:52.680 --> 00:36:54.680 That's what I want to find 00:36:54.680 --> 00:36:56.680 But when on the lips of a priest 00:36:56.800 --> 00:36:58.800 When I find negativity 00:36:58.800 --> 00:37:00.800 When I find fault finding 00:37:00.800 --> 00:37:02.800 When I find constant criticism 00:37:02.800 --> 00:37:04.800 When I find words that are spoken 00:37:04.800 --> 00:37:06.800 As if they're coming from me 00:37:06.800 --> 00:37:08.800 But usually to control and put a gun to someone's head 00:37:08.800 --> 00:37:10.800 Then King Amrath fell 00:37:10.800 --> 00:37:12.800 Is ruling in your life Jacob 00:37:16.800 --> 00:37:18.800 Even casual talk 00:37:18.800 --> 00:37:20.800 Will then constantly be lamenting the state of the church 00:37:20.800 --> 00:37:22.800 The state of BC 00:37:22.800 --> 00:37:24.800 The state of Canada 00:37:24.920 --> 00:37:26.920 It will always be negative 00:37:26.920 --> 00:37:28.920 You run into people like that man 00:37:28.920 --> 00:37:30.920 I know someone so well 00:37:30.920 --> 00:37:32.920 Who 00:37:32.920 --> 00:37:34.920 He came to Canada 00:37:34.920 --> 00:37:36.920 Some time ago but 00:37:36.920 --> 00:37:38.920 He's doing well but every time you go to him 00:37:38.920 --> 00:37:40.920 He'll tell you how lousy the country is 00:37:40.920 --> 00:37:42.920 How lousy the people are 00:37:42.920 --> 00:37:44.920 How lousy his job is 00:37:44.920 --> 00:37:46.920 I've never seen him happy 00:37:46.920 --> 00:37:48.920 Yeah but 00:37:48.920 --> 00:37:50.920 But he won't do that Gisela 00:37:50.920 --> 00:37:52.920 He won't do that 00:37:53.040 --> 00:37:55.040 He won't do that 00:37:55.040 --> 00:37:57.040 He has a right sense 00:37:57.040 --> 00:37:59.040 Who often prays for technical things 00:37:59.040 --> 00:38:01.040 To him he shows his faith 00:38:01.040 --> 00:38:03.040 For his own nature 00:38:03.040 --> 00:38:05.040 What happens 00:38:05.040 --> 00:38:07.040 He can't even do it himself 00:38:07.040 --> 00:38:09.040 Shows his glory to the one who 00:38:09.040 --> 00:38:11.040 See and I want to say that 00:38:11.040 --> 00:38:13.040 It happens outside of the church 00:38:13.040 --> 00:38:15.040 So it's very easy for us to be saying the right words here 00:38:15.040 --> 00:38:17.040 But if I go and ask your wife 00:38:17.040 --> 00:38:19.040 Or your husband 00:38:19.040 --> 00:38:21.040 If I go and ask your neighbors 00:38:21.160 --> 00:38:23.160 If you go and ask your wife or your daughter 00:38:23.160 --> 00:38:25.160 If you go ask my mum or my sister 00:38:25.160 --> 00:38:27.160 Then you will find out whether Amr Afel 00:38:27.160 --> 00:38:29.160 Is ruling in my life or not 00:38:29.160 --> 00:38:31.160 Because here it's easy folks 00:38:31.160 --> 00:38:33.160 Here it would be easy 00:38:33.160 --> 00:38:35.160 But ask my mum 00:38:35.160 --> 00:38:37.160 Ask my sister when they 00:38:37.160 --> 00:38:39.160 Ask me a question that I don't want to answer 00:38:39.160 --> 00:38:41.160 When they press into 00:38:41.160 --> 00:38:43.160 An issue that I don't think is their business 00:38:43.160 --> 00:38:45.160 Then how do I react 00:38:45.160 --> 00:38:47.160 Is it anger? Is it rudeness? 00:38:47.160 --> 00:38:49.160 Is it lashing back? 00:38:49.280 --> 00:38:51.280 Or is it still the same Jacob? 00:38:51.280 --> 00:38:53.280 I should go ask your wife or your husband 00:38:53.280 --> 00:38:55.280 How is it at home? 00:38:55.280 --> 00:38:57.280 Critical, fault finding 00:38:57.280 --> 00:38:59.280 Rude, angry 00:38:59.280 --> 00:39:01.280 Then Amr Afel is ruling 00:39:01.280 --> 00:39:03.280 In my life and your life 00:39:03.280 --> 00:39:05.280 And just a word of caution to husbands 00:39:05.280 --> 00:39:07.280 There are tons of 00:39:07.280 --> 00:39:09.280 Negative Amr Afel husbands in the church folks 00:39:09.280 --> 00:39:11.280 Tons of them 00:39:11.280 --> 00:39:13.280 They are rude 00:39:13.280 --> 00:39:15.280 They are fault finding 00:39:15.280 --> 00:39:17.280 They are miserly with their wives 00:39:17.280 --> 00:39:19.280 They are money, legalistic 00:39:19.280 --> 00:39:21.280 And they operate on the basis that a woman should 00:39:21.280 --> 00:39:23.280 Submit to a man and a man should rule over 00:39:23.280 --> 00:39:25.280 Tons of husbands like this in the church 00:39:27.280 --> 00:39:29.280 And if that is who 00:39:29.280 --> 00:39:31.280 You are as a husband or you are as a wife 00:39:31.280 --> 00:39:33.280 Then that is something that has to change 00:39:33.280 --> 00:39:35.280 Has to change 00:39:37.280 --> 00:39:39.280 Questions, comments? 00:39:39.280 --> 00:39:41.280 So obviously negativity in the world 00:39:41.280 --> 00:39:43.280 Is sort of prevalent 00:39:43.280 --> 00:39:45.280 But there's stuff in life that's serious 00:39:45.280 --> 00:39:47.280 Let's say a man's got a son 00:39:47.280 --> 00:39:49.280 That's on the wrong path 00:39:49.280 --> 00:39:51.280 And so you can't 00:39:51.280 --> 00:39:53.280 In a situation like that 00:39:53.280 --> 00:39:55.280 It can't be touchy feely, nicey nicey 00:39:55.280 --> 00:39:57.280 Always pointing out the sunshine 00:39:57.280 --> 00:39:59.280 So where's the line when you gotta sort of speak? 00:39:59.280 --> 00:40:01.280 Very simple Matt 00:40:01.280 --> 00:40:03.280 The principle of operation 00:40:03.280 --> 00:40:05.280 Is there is no speaking the truth 00:40:05.280 --> 00:40:07.280 Without love, there is no love without the truth 00:40:07.280 --> 00:40:09.280 Simple 00:40:09.280 --> 00:40:11.280 I have the truth in love or love in truth 00:40:11.280 --> 00:40:13.280 The moment in my, let's assume you're my son 00:40:13.280 --> 00:40:15.280 And you do something negative 00:40:15.280 --> 00:40:17.280 The moment when I speak to you 00:40:17.280 --> 00:40:19.280 I come across with all kinds of truth 00:40:19.280 --> 00:40:21.280 But no love, then it's not really the truth 00:40:21.280 --> 00:40:23.280 And if I come to you and you're doing wrong 00:40:23.280 --> 00:40:25.280 And I show a lot of love 00:40:25.280 --> 00:40:27.280 But there is no truth in it, then it's not love 00:40:27.280 --> 00:40:29.280 And you missed out on the father that I am 00:40:29.280 --> 00:40:31.280 If I do any of these two things 00:40:33.280 --> 00:40:35.280 Right now the words I'm saying 00:40:35.280 --> 00:40:37.280 It's not a negative warning 00:40:37.280 --> 00:40:39.280 But in love? 00:40:39.280 --> 00:40:41.280 No, it's not a negative warning 00:40:41.280 --> 00:40:43.280 Right now as I'm speaking 00:40:43.280 --> 00:40:45.280 I know that I'm speaking the truth 00:40:45.280 --> 00:40:47.280 But I'm not here with an axe to chop anyone down 00:40:49.280 --> 00:40:51.280 Right now I'm speaking the truth 00:40:51.280 --> 00:40:53.280 And I'm speaking it in love 00:40:53.280 --> 00:40:55.280 It is a warning 00:40:55.280 --> 00:40:57.280 I specifically am warning Amraphel husbands 00:40:57.280 --> 00:40:59.280 On the tape so that when it goes out 00:40:59.280 --> 00:41:01.280 People around the world will know it 00:41:01.280 --> 00:41:03.280 And if you as a spouse here 00:41:03.280 --> 00:41:05.280 Has this problem, change it 00:41:05.280 --> 00:41:07.280 Because a king called Amraphel, a seer of darkness 00:41:07.280 --> 00:41:09.280 Is ruling in your life 00:41:09.280 --> 00:41:11.280 If you have a wife who has that same attitude 00:41:11.280 --> 00:41:13.280 With her husband, change it 00:41:15.280 --> 00:41:17.280 And the strange thing is 00:41:17.280 --> 00:41:19.280 Amraphel husbands and wives 00:41:19.280 --> 00:41:21.280 Will never be like this with the rest of the world 00:41:21.280 --> 00:41:23.280 They'll be very generous with the rest of the world 00:41:23.280 --> 00:41:25.280 But they'll be very miserly with their spouses 00:41:25.280 --> 00:41:27.280 They'll be very kind to the rest of the world 00:41:27.280 --> 00:41:29.280 But very rude and fault finding with their spouses 00:41:31.280 --> 00:41:33.280 I've seen so much of this guys, it's not funny 00:41:39.280 --> 00:41:41.280 No, no 00:41:41.280 --> 00:41:43.280 Inducing fear is when suddenly 00:41:43.280 --> 00:41:45.280 In my relationship with anybody 00:41:45.280 --> 00:41:47.280 The person does it because they are afraid of me 00:41:47.280 --> 00:41:49.280 The moment that happens 00:41:49.280 --> 00:41:51.280 That relationship is on horrible ground 00:41:57.280 --> 00:41:59.280 I'm saying that's wrong 00:42:01.280 --> 00:42:03.280 Oh no, no 00:42:03.280 --> 00:42:05.280 Saying consequences is not a problem 00:42:05.280 --> 00:42:07.280 But when I do something to cause 00:42:07.280 --> 00:42:09.280 When I do something to cause fear in Ryan 00:42:11.280 --> 00:42:13.280 No, no, not fear, I'm not talking about God 00:42:13.280 --> 00:42:15.280 In my relationship with Ryan 00:42:15.280 --> 00:42:17.280 The moment fear enters James, that relationship is not true 00:42:19.280 --> 00:42:21.280 If a wife does things 00:42:21.280 --> 00:42:23.280 Because she's afraid of her husband 00:42:27.280 --> 00:42:29.280 Yeah, yeah 00:42:29.280 --> 00:42:31.280 And that's what God did with Adam 00:42:31.280 --> 00:42:33.280 Hey Adam, tons and tons of trees 00:42:33.280 --> 00:42:35.280 You can go and eat whatever you want 00:42:35.280 --> 00:42:37.280 Because if you eat it 00:42:37.280 --> 00:42:39.280 You'll lose out on this amazing life that you have with me 00:42:39.280 --> 00:42:41.280 Okay, just so you know 00:42:41.280 --> 00:42:43.280 And he left him alone 00:42:43.280 --> 00:42:45.280 Don't eat, don't eat 00:42:45.280 --> 00:42:47.280 Because Adam didn't live in fear 00:42:47.280 --> 00:42:49.280 If Adam lived in fear, he would not have sinned 00:42:51.280 --> 00:42:53.280 If Adam lived in fear 00:42:53.280 --> 00:42:55.280 He would not have sinned 00:42:59.280 --> 00:43:01.280 Folks, like I said 00:43:01.280 --> 00:43:03.280 I hope I'm not wrong 00:43:03.280 --> 00:43:05.280 And we'll talk about that at the end of the teaching 00:43:07.280 --> 00:43:09.280 When someone asked me four months ago 00:43:09.280 --> 00:43:11.280 What is the biggest strength of Acts 29 00:43:11.280 --> 00:43:13.280 My response was 00:43:13.280 --> 00:43:15.280 People are free to do what they want 00:43:19.280 --> 00:43:21.280 Because that's how God is the best 00:43:21.280 --> 00:43:23.280 Yeah, totally 00:43:23.280 --> 00:43:25.280 That is surprisingly the biggest strength of Acts 29 00:43:25.280 --> 00:43:27.280 People are free to do what they want 00:43:27.280 --> 00:43:29.280 People are free to do what they want 00:43:29.280 --> 00:43:31.280 But we are putting in principles 00:43:31.280 --> 00:43:33.280 So that people will know how to 00:43:33.280 --> 00:43:35.280 Live in the liberty of what they now have 00:43:39.280 --> 00:43:41.280 Please 00:43:41.280 --> 00:43:43.280 While I was doing this 00:43:43.280 --> 00:43:45.280 I was thinking of my sister 00:43:45.280 --> 00:43:47.280 And at times when she asked me questions 00:43:47.280 --> 00:43:49.280 That I don't want to answer 00:43:49.280 --> 00:43:51.280 Or when she challenges me on something 00:43:51.280 --> 00:43:53.280 That I'm saying is of God 00:43:53.280 --> 00:43:55.280 She says 00:43:55.280 --> 00:43:57.280 But what if, what if 00:43:57.280 --> 00:43:59.280 My sister, because she's close to me 00:43:59.280 --> 00:44:01.280 I know I won't lose her 00:44:01.280 --> 00:44:03.280 So I get irritated 00:44:03.280 --> 00:44:05.280 And I was writing this, asking myself 00:44:05.280 --> 00:44:07.280 There have been times when I've been rude to her 00:44:07.280 --> 00:44:09.280 And Amr Fel speaks negatively and rudely 00:44:09.280 --> 00:44:11.280 He's a seer of darkness 00:44:11.280 --> 00:44:13.280 And I was doing this 00:44:13.280 --> 00:44:15.280 And I was thinking to myself 00:44:15.280 --> 00:44:17.280 I've got to take out rudeness from my way of living 00:44:17.280 --> 00:44:19.280 I cannot afford to be rude 00:44:19.280 --> 00:44:21.280 Jesus was not rude ever 00:44:21.280 --> 00:44:23.280 Ever, man 00:44:23.280 --> 00:44:25.280 He was blooming angry with the Pharisees 00:44:27.280 --> 00:44:29.280 And I've been calling them vipers 00:44:29.280 --> 00:44:31.280 I'm telling you he was not rude 00:44:33.280 --> 00:44:35.280 So what business do I have 00:44:35.280 --> 00:44:37.280 Being rude with anybody 00:44:41.280 --> 00:44:43.280 I've got to live as a priest king 00:44:43.280 --> 00:44:45.280 Here on earth folks 00:44:45.280 --> 00:44:47.280 We've got to become this 00:44:47.280 --> 00:44:49.280 We have to let the Melchizedek manifest 00:44:49.280 --> 00:44:51.280 The king priest manifest 00:44:51.280 --> 00:44:53.280 Appear in our lives 00:44:57.280 --> 00:44:59.280 If we have any one of these 00:44:59.280 --> 00:45:01.280 Then what's the next step 00:45:01.280 --> 00:45:03.280 We'll come to that 00:45:03.280 --> 00:45:05.280 28 minutes from now 00:45:11.280 --> 00:45:13.280 When Amr Fel is active 00:45:13.280 --> 00:45:15.280 The priest no longer has knowledge on his lips 00:45:15.280 --> 00:45:17.280 And the king no longer 00:45:17.280 --> 00:45:19.280 Speaks words of God's wisdom 00:45:19.280 --> 00:45:21.280 If you go to Malachi 2.7 00:45:21.280 --> 00:45:23.280 It says a priest should speak knowledge 00:45:23.280 --> 00:45:25.280 And God should find knowledge on his lips 00:45:25.280 --> 00:45:27.280 And the priest should speak words of God's wisdom 00:45:27.280 --> 00:45:29.280 That's in Proverbs 16 verse 10 00:45:29.280 --> 00:45:31.280 That the sentences that come from a king's mouth 00:45:31.280 --> 00:45:33.280 Should be divine 00:45:33.280 --> 00:45:35.280 Sentences as in decrease 00:45:35.280 --> 00:45:37.280 And both those are 00:45:37.280 --> 00:45:39.280 Undone 00:45:39.280 --> 00:45:41.280 Folks, let me deal with what Sue asked immediately 00:45:41.280 --> 00:45:43.280 How do we overcome this 00:45:43.280 --> 00:45:45.280 I have the absolute ability 00:45:45.280 --> 00:45:47.280 To stop being rude, folks 00:45:49.280 --> 00:45:51.280 No longer 00:45:51.280 --> 00:45:53.280 Before it could be 00:45:53.280 --> 00:45:55.280 I would say 10 years ago I would tell you to go pray 00:45:55.280 --> 00:45:57.280 Go fast 00:45:57.280 --> 00:45:59.280 Go read the Bible more 00:45:59.280 --> 00:46:01.280 But now the answer is very simple 00:46:01.280 --> 00:46:03.280 It is in my absolute control and ability 00:46:03.280 --> 00:46:05.280 To not be rude 00:46:05.280 --> 00:46:07.280 Because the only person that lives within me is 00:46:07.280 --> 00:46:09.280 Yeah 00:46:09.280 --> 00:46:11.280 Christ living in me through 00:46:11.280 --> 00:46:13.280 The union of my spirit and his spirit 00:46:13.280 --> 00:46:15.280 That's all 00:46:15.280 --> 00:46:17.280 It is absolutely possible for me to live this way 00:46:17.280 --> 00:46:19.280 It is a deliberate decision, folks 00:46:19.280 --> 00:46:21.280 And slowly 00:46:21.280 --> 00:46:23.280 Maybe once or twice or three times 00:46:23.280 --> 00:46:25.280 The decision will be a struggle 00:46:25.280 --> 00:46:27.280 After that it will become a preference 00:46:27.280 --> 00:46:29.280 Because I want to become like 00:46:29.280 --> 00:46:31.280 Jesus 00:46:31.280 --> 00:46:33.280 And if that is my desire 00:46:33.280 --> 00:46:35.280 Then my rudeness will change regardless of the circumstances, folks 00:46:35.280 --> 00:46:37.280 Jesus was not rude with his mother 00:46:37.280 --> 00:46:39.280 Jesus was not rude with his brothers 00:46:39.280 --> 00:46:41.280 Even when they came to say he was crazy 00:46:41.280 --> 00:46:43.280 And they wanted to take him away 00:46:43.280 --> 00:46:45.280 And put him in a house for a little while 00:46:47.280 --> 00:46:49.280 It is absolutely possible 00:46:49.280 --> 00:46:51.280 You might say but you don't know my wife 00:46:51.280 --> 00:46:53.280 Or you don't know my husband 00:46:53.280 --> 00:46:55.280 True I don't 00:46:55.280 --> 00:46:57.280 But you know if you are married 00:46:57.280 --> 00:46:59.280 You have more grace than me to handle that 00:46:59.280 --> 00:47:01.280 You have it 00:47:01.280 --> 00:47:03.280 Even when 00:47:03.280 --> 00:47:05.280 If you 00:47:05.280 --> 00:47:07.280 Come across a situation 00:47:07.280 --> 00:47:09.280 Your mind is different 00:47:09.280 --> 00:47:11.280 To answer 00:47:11.280 --> 00:47:13.280 Like you know, I don't know the other day it happened to me 00:47:13.280 --> 00:47:15.280 Like one of the passengers 00:47:15.280 --> 00:47:17.280 He had an excellent idea 00:47:17.280 --> 00:47:19.280 And we had to make it less 00:47:19.280 --> 00:47:21.280 Whatever it was 00:47:21.280 --> 00:47:23.280 And he went and made less 00:47:23.280 --> 00:47:25.280 And he came and he banged his bag on the table 00:47:25.280 --> 00:47:27.280 I noticed that 00:47:27.280 --> 00:47:29.280 And my boss noticed that also 00:47:29.280 --> 00:47:31.280 And I said 00:47:31.280 --> 00:47:33.280 Excellent is perfect 00:47:33.280 --> 00:47:35.280 But his attitude was 00:47:35.280 --> 00:47:37.280 Bang the bag on the table 00:47:37.280 --> 00:47:39.280 So I just changed it because 00:47:39.280 --> 00:47:41.280 It was a different thing 00:47:41.280 --> 00:47:43.280 Your personality changes, folks 00:47:43.280 --> 00:47:45.280 As Christ is in you 00:47:45.280 --> 00:47:47.280 Chris talks about 00:47:47.280 --> 00:47:49.280 Other examples where it tells us 00:47:49.280 --> 00:47:51.280 People will call us, she picks up the phone and they 00:47:51.280 --> 00:47:53.280 Rant and rave and use sometimes foul words 00:47:53.280 --> 00:47:55.280 And before 00:47:55.280 --> 00:47:57.280 She never respond before she 00:47:57.280 --> 00:47:59.280 Cry and stuff like that 00:47:59.280 --> 00:48:01.280 Now even the crying is done 00:48:01.280 --> 00:48:03.280 Because it's like Teflon 00:48:03.280 --> 00:48:05.280 Not because she's grown harder 00:48:05.280 --> 00:48:07.280 But the person inside her is softer 00:48:07.280 --> 00:48:09.280 She can handle it 00:48:11.280 --> 00:48:13.280 And these are all connected folks 00:48:13.280 --> 00:48:15.280 Criticalness, fault finding 00:48:15.280 --> 00:48:17.280 Rudeness, anger 00:48:17.280 --> 00:48:19.280 They all connect 00:48:19.280 --> 00:48:21.280 At the end of the day it's a preference 00:48:21.280 --> 00:48:23.280 And it's only a preference if I 00:48:23.280 --> 00:48:25.280 Want to become like the one who 00:48:25.280 --> 00:48:27.280 I keep talking about 00:48:27.280 --> 00:48:29.280 Show me the 00:48:29.280 --> 00:48:31.280 I mean like 00:48:31.280 --> 00:48:33.280 George 00:48:33.280 --> 00:48:35.280 Bush the first said 00:48:35.280 --> 00:48:37.280 Where's the beef 00:48:37.280 --> 00:48:39.280 Ariok 00:48:39.280 --> 00:48:41.280 I'll sum it all up in the end 00:48:41.280 --> 00:48:43.280 Ariok 00:48:43.280 --> 00:48:45.280 Ariok is lion like 00:48:45.280 --> 00:48:47.280 The meaning of Ariok 00:48:47.280 --> 00:48:49.280 Is lion like 00:48:49.280 --> 00:48:51.280 Lion like 00:48:53.280 --> 00:48:55.280 Lion like 00:48:59.280 --> 00:49:01.280 Ariok was another king 00:49:01.280 --> 00:49:03.280 Lion like 00:49:05.280 --> 00:49:07.280 What this means 00:49:07.280 --> 00:49:09.280 Is 00:49:09.280 --> 00:49:11.280 It is possible 00:49:11.280 --> 00:49:13.280 As believers to displace 00:49:13.280 --> 00:49:15.280 The lion of Judah with the defeated 00:49:15.280 --> 00:49:17.280 Lion like foe 00:49:17.280 --> 00:49:19.280 Seeing his footprints in all things 00:49:19.280 --> 00:49:21.280 Instead of the hand of God in all things 00:49:21.280 --> 00:49:23.280 Let me say that again 00:49:23.280 --> 00:49:25.280 It is possible especially for charismatic 00:49:25.280 --> 00:49:27.280 Evangelical Christians 00:49:27.280 --> 00:49:29.280 To displace the lion of Judah 00:49:29.280 --> 00:49:31.280 With the lion like 00:49:31.280 --> 00:49:33.280 Enemy that we have called Satan 00:49:33.280 --> 00:49:35.280 Where we begin to see 00:49:35.280 --> 00:49:37.280 In all things the footprints 00:49:37.280 --> 00:49:39.280 Of the devil instead of seeing 00:49:39.280 --> 00:49:41.280 In all things the hands of 00:49:41.280 --> 00:49:43.280 God 00:49:43.280 --> 00:49:45.280 I mean 00:49:45.280 --> 00:49:47.280 I know this was my condition 00:49:47.280 --> 00:49:49.280 Where I would see the work 00:49:49.280 --> 00:49:51.280 Of the enemy more clearly 00:49:51.280 --> 00:49:53.280 Than I would see the work of God 00:49:53.280 --> 00:49:55.280 And it would be 00:49:55.280 --> 00:49:57.280 Based on perhaps one 00:49:57.280 --> 00:49:59.280 Experience with the demonic 00:49:59.280 --> 00:50:01.280 Or perhaps a deliverance session 00:50:01.280 --> 00:50:03.280 Or perhaps even a school I attended 00:50:03.280 --> 00:50:05.280 And so everything I do now 00:50:05.280 --> 00:50:07.280 Would be based simply 00:50:07.280 --> 00:50:09.280 On experiential 00:50:09.280 --> 00:50:11.280 Knowledge that I have 00:50:11.280 --> 00:50:13.280 And so in everything I would see more the hand 00:50:13.280 --> 00:50:15.280 Of the enemy than the hand of 00:50:15.280 --> 00:50:17.280 God 00:50:17.280 --> 00:50:19.280 The problem with that is 00:50:19.280 --> 00:50:21.280 As soon as you begin to see 00:50:21.280 --> 00:50:23.280 The hand of the enemy as 00:50:23.280 --> 00:50:25.280 More evident than the hand of God 00:50:25.280 --> 00:50:27.280 You will do what Jesus said 00:50:27.280 --> 00:50:29.280 In Luke I think 00:50:29.280 --> 00:50:31.280 He said 00:50:31.280 --> 00:50:33.280 If you see a king who is stronger 00:50:33.280 --> 00:50:35.280 Than you coming against you 00:50:35.280 --> 00:50:37.280 If you have 10,000 troops 00:50:37.280 --> 00:50:39.280 And a king coming against you has 20,000 troops 00:50:39.280 --> 00:50:41.280 What will you do? You will send out 00:50:41.280 --> 00:50:43.280 An emissary to meet him 00:50:43.280 --> 00:50:45.280 So that you can establish a 00:50:45.280 --> 00:50:47.280 Treaty with him 00:50:47.280 --> 00:50:49.280 Hezekiah did it 00:50:49.280 --> 00:50:51.280 In Isaiah 42 or 00:50:51.280 --> 00:50:53.280 Somewhere. What he did was 00:50:53.280 --> 00:50:55.280 He heard that a king was coming against him 00:50:55.280 --> 00:50:57.280 So he sends the king a letter saying 00:50:57.280 --> 00:50:59.280 What will it take for me to come into 00:50:59.280 --> 00:51:01.280 A treaty with you? And he pulls out 00:51:01.280 --> 00:51:03.280 Of his treasury the temple 00:51:03.280 --> 00:51:05.280 Articles to send to the king 00:51:05.280 --> 00:51:07.280 Why? Because now you are beginning 00:51:07.280 --> 00:51:09.280 To see the footprints of the 00:51:09.280 --> 00:51:11.280 Enemy more than the hand of God 00:51:17.280 --> 00:51:19.280 Sorry? 00:51:19.280 --> 00:51:21.280 Yeah 00:51:21.280 --> 00:51:23.280 Saul wouldn't handle Goliath 00:51:23.280 --> 00:51:25.280 Until David came along 00:51:25.280 --> 00:51:27.280 A king who sees a stronger enemy 00:51:27.280 --> 00:51:29.280 Will make peace long ways off 00:51:29.280 --> 00:51:31.280 It's in Luke 14, 32 00:51:31.280 --> 00:51:33.280 It's also 2 Kings 18, 14 00:51:33.280 --> 00:51:35.280 Please understand that Satan 00:51:35.280 --> 00:51:37.280 Is defeated and disarmed 00:51:37.280 --> 00:51:39.280 But he is able to 00:51:39.280 --> 00:51:41.280 Deceive. So what I have to be 00:51:41.280 --> 00:51:43.280 Able to do is be sober and vigilant 00:51:43.280 --> 00:51:45.280 Folks. Let me say it again 00:51:45.280 --> 00:51:47.280 Satan is deceived 00:51:47.280 --> 00:51:49.280 Satan is disarmed and defeated 00:51:49.280 --> 00:51:51.280 But he can deceive 00:51:51.280 --> 00:51:53.280 Me. So what 00:51:53.280 --> 00:51:55.280 I and you have to do 00:51:55.280 --> 00:51:57.280 Is to make sure that we are sober 00:51:57.280 --> 00:51:59.280 And vigilant but not hyper aware 00:51:59.280 --> 00:52:01.280 Sober and vigilant 00:52:03.280 --> 00:52:05.280 Like I said 2 weeks ago 00:52:05.280 --> 00:52:07.280 Ecclesiastes 10, 8 says 00:52:07.280 --> 00:52:09.280 If you break the hedge 00:52:09.280 --> 00:52:11.280 A serpent will bite you. Meaning 00:52:11.280 --> 00:52:13.280 If you break the boundaries 00:52:13.280 --> 00:52:15.280 If you break the walls that you should 00:52:15.280 --> 00:52:17.280 Stay within and then go 00:52:17.280 --> 00:52:19.280 A serpent will bite you 00:52:19.280 --> 00:52:21.280 But if I don't transgress the 00:52:21.280 --> 00:52:23.280 Boundaries that I know I can operate 00:52:23.280 --> 00:52:25.280 Within then as long as 00:52:25.280 --> 00:52:27.280 I'm sober and vigilant I'm saying to us 00:52:27.280 --> 00:52:29.280 Folks that we do not need 00:52:29.280 --> 00:52:31.280 To watch out for the footprints of the enemy 00:52:31.280 --> 00:52:33.280 Because we'll see the hand of God 00:52:33.280 --> 00:52:35.280 Evident 00:52:37.280 --> 00:52:39.280 I was talking to 00:52:39.280 --> 00:52:41.280 Some people from the search 00:52:41.280 --> 00:52:43.280 And I was saying to them that purity 00:52:43.280 --> 00:52:45.280 Is what 00:52:45.280 --> 00:52:47.280 Intimidates Satan the most 00:52:47.280 --> 00:52:49.280 Purity 00:52:49.280 --> 00:52:51.280 Intimidates the devil most 00:52:51.280 --> 00:52:53.280 Your sanctified life is your 00:52:53.280 --> 00:52:55.280 Security 00:52:55.280 --> 00:52:57.280 A sanctified life is your security 00:52:57.280 --> 00:52:59.280 The more I decide that I will 00:52:59.280 --> 00:53:01.280 Be pure the less the enemy 00:53:01.280 --> 00:53:03.280 Has any hold upon my life 00:53:03.280 --> 00:53:05.280 Purity intimidates the enemy 00:53:07.280 --> 00:53:09.280 It's the easiest way 00:53:11.280 --> 00:53:13.280 Always turn it up a notch 00:53:15.280 --> 00:53:17.280 Who was the genius that was about trying to make peace with? 00:53:17.280 --> 00:53:19.280 It's in 00:53:19.280 --> 00:53:21.280 Isaiah 00:53:21.280 --> 00:53:23.280 Sorry, it's in 2 Kings 18 00:53:23.280 --> 00:53:25.280 Verse 14 00:53:25.280 --> 00:53:27.280 Oh no, no, it's not 00:53:27.280 --> 00:53:29.280 It's in 00:53:31.280 --> 00:53:33.280 Ah shucks, I don't know where it is 00:53:33.280 --> 00:53:35.280 I don't know 00:53:35.280 --> 00:53:37.280 But he does it 00:53:37.280 --> 00:53:39.280 I don't remember, it's in Isaiah 00:53:39.280 --> 00:53:41.280 I don't know, it's in Isaiah 00:53:47.280 --> 00:53:49.280 Questions, comments, disagreements 00:53:51.280 --> 00:53:53.280 As long as we do not break the hedge 00:53:53.280 --> 00:53:55.280 A serpent will not bite us 00:53:55.280 --> 00:53:57.280 My purity intimidates the enemy 00:53:57.280 --> 00:53:59.280 Satan is defeated and disarmed 00:53:59.280 --> 00:54:01.280 But he can deceive 00:54:01.280 --> 00:54:03.280 Therefore Jacob as it says in 1 Peter 5 00:54:03.280 --> 00:54:05.280 8 be sober and vigilant 00:54:05.280 --> 00:54:07.280 But do not be hyper aware 00:54:07.280 --> 00:54:09.280 The more I see the footprints of Satan 00:54:09.280 --> 00:54:11.280 In things around me 00:54:11.280 --> 00:54:13.280 The more I will choose 00:54:13.280 --> 00:54:15.280 To not step into 00:54:15.280 --> 00:54:17.280 Not take 00:54:17.280 --> 00:54:19.280 Not shoot three times 00:54:19.280 --> 00:54:21.280 Not take, not shoot three arrows 00:54:21.280 --> 00:54:23.280 Not put my hand 00:54:23.280 --> 00:54:25.280 And take by both horns 00:54:25.280 --> 00:54:27.280 That which is mine 00:54:27.280 --> 00:54:29.280 Because 00:54:29.280 --> 00:54:31.280 Once I begin to see Satan 00:54:31.280 --> 00:54:33.280 In things around me 00:54:33.280 --> 00:54:35.280 I suddenly realize that the enemy is stronger 00:54:35.280 --> 00:54:37.280 One of the biggest changes in my life 00:54:37.280 --> 00:54:39.280 Over the last three years 00:54:39.280 --> 00:54:41.280 Is that I see the hand of God more than the enemy 00:54:49.280 --> 00:54:51.280 Question, does that make sense? 00:55:19.280 --> 00:55:21.280 Second Kings 13, 17 00:55:21.280 --> 00:55:23.280 The Kings name was Aram 00:55:23.280 --> 00:55:25.280 A-R-A-M 00:55:25.280 --> 00:55:27.280 That story about Hezekiah 00:55:27.280 --> 00:55:29.280 Second Kings 13, 17 00:55:35.280 --> 00:55:37.280 The next one 00:55:37.280 --> 00:55:39.280 The next Kings name was Long 00:55:39.280 --> 00:55:41.280 His name was Chador 00:55:43.280 --> 00:55:45.280 Chador or Chador 00:55:45.280 --> 00:55:47.280 Chador, Chador 00:55:47.280 --> 00:55:49.280 Chador or Chador 00:55:49.280 --> 00:55:51.280 Laomer 00:55:51.280 --> 00:55:53.280 And it means 00:55:53.280 --> 00:55:55.280 A 00:55:55.280 --> 00:55:57.280 Handful 00:55:57.280 --> 00:55:59.280 Of sheaves 00:55:59.280 --> 00:56:01.280 A handful 00:56:01.280 --> 00:56:03.280 Of sheaves 00:56:03.280 --> 00:56:05.280 A handful of sheaves 00:56:07.280 --> 00:56:09.280 A handful of sheaves 00:56:09.280 --> 00:56:11.280 S-H-E-A-V-E-S 00:56:11.280 --> 00:56:13.280 Chador, Laomer 00:56:13.280 --> 00:56:15.280 A handful of sheaves 00:56:17.280 --> 00:56:19.280 This King represents 00:56:19.280 --> 00:56:21.280 A poverty mentality 00:56:21.280 --> 00:56:23.280 A handful of sheaves 00:56:23.280 --> 00:56:25.280 Just whatever he does 00:56:25.280 --> 00:56:27.280 There's only a handful of sheaves 00:56:27.280 --> 00:56:29.280 There's not much 00:56:29.280 --> 00:56:31.280 It represents a poverty mentality 00:56:31.280 --> 00:56:33.280 A poverty mentality 00:56:33.280 --> 00:56:35.280 A poverty mentality 00:56:35.280 --> 00:56:37.280 And there's a 00:56:37.280 --> 00:56:39.280 Some of the 00:56:39.280 --> 00:56:41.280 Guys who 00:56:41.280 --> 00:56:43.280 Tried explaining this name 00:56:43.280 --> 00:56:45.280 Say that 00:56:45.280 --> 00:56:47.280 There's a generational sense to this name 00:56:47.280 --> 00:56:49.280 So it might be a name 00:56:49.280 --> 00:56:51.280 That came down generations 00:56:51.280 --> 00:56:53.280 So it's a poverty mentality 00:56:53.280 --> 00:56:55.280 And it carries a generational sense 00:56:55.280 --> 00:56:57.280 Chador, Laomer means 00:56:57.280 --> 00:56:59.280 A handful of sheaves 00:56:59.280 --> 00:57:01.280 And it basically portrays a poverty mentality 00:57:01.280 --> 00:57:03.280 And it may be something 00:57:03.280 --> 00:57:05.280 That carries a generational sense 00:57:05.280 --> 00:57:07.280 And the strange thing is 00:57:07.280 --> 00:57:09.280 It was Chador, Laomer 00:57:09.280 --> 00:57:11.280 Who actually led the other Kings 00:57:11.280 --> 00:57:13.280 I found that fascinating 00:57:13.280 --> 00:57:15.280 That this is the King who led the others 00:57:15.280 --> 00:57:17.280 Which then shows 00:57:17.280 --> 00:57:19.280 That there's power 00:57:19.280 --> 00:57:21.280 In this character if it begins 00:57:21.280 --> 00:57:23.280 To wield in my life 00:57:25.280 --> 00:57:27.280 I would think that 00:57:27.280 --> 00:57:29.280 These bunch of guys should be led by Arioc 00:57:29.280 --> 00:57:31.280 Who's lion like 00:57:31.280 --> 00:57:33.280 Who are one of those other guys 00:57:33.280 --> 00:57:35.280 But his name is a handful of 00:57:35.280 --> 00:57:37.280 Sheaves which carries a sense 00:57:37.280 --> 00:57:39.280 Of either mediocrity or 00:57:39.280 --> 00:57:41.280 A poverty mentality really 00:57:41.280 --> 00:57:43.280 He's the one who led all these Kings into battle 00:57:43.280 --> 00:57:45.280 So if this 00:57:45.280 --> 00:57:47.280 Begins to show in my life 00:57:47.280 --> 00:57:49.280 It begins to have tremendous 00:57:49.280 --> 00:57:51.280 Power and let me explain 00:57:51.280 --> 00:57:53.280 What it is 00:57:53.280 --> 00:57:55.280 When this character comes up in my life 00:57:55.280 --> 00:57:57.280 And it has force 00:57:57.280 --> 00:57:59.280 This was a very strong nature that I had 00:58:01.280 --> 00:58:03.280 Not when I became a Christian 00:58:03.280 --> 00:58:05.280 Years after I became a Christian 00:58:05.280 --> 00:58:07.280 This was one of the things that I 00:58:07.280 --> 00:58:09.280 Had to battle against most 00:58:11.280 --> 00:58:13.280 What it will be characterized with is 00:58:13.280 --> 00:58:15.280 Low sight 00:58:15.280 --> 00:58:17.280 As in you won't aim high 00:58:17.280 --> 00:58:19.280 It will always be 00:58:19.280 --> 00:58:21.280 Low 00:58:21.280 --> 00:58:23.280 Low sight 00:58:23.280 --> 00:58:25.280 I believe there's some kind of a deer 00:58:25.280 --> 00:58:27.280 In Africa 00:58:27.280 --> 00:58:29.280 It's a variation of a deer 00:58:29.280 --> 00:58:31.280 And the way they capture it is fascinating 00:58:31.280 --> 00:58:33.280 It can leap 30 feet 00:58:33.280 --> 00:58:35.280 And I know I'm exaggerating 00:58:35.280 --> 00:58:37.280 But 6 feet in the air kind of a thing 00:58:37.280 --> 00:58:39.280 But somehow if you put a fence 00:58:39.280 --> 00:58:41.280 At the eye level of this deer 00:58:41.280 --> 00:58:43.280 This deer can't jump 00:58:43.280 --> 00:58:45.280 Because as long as it sees the fence 00:58:45.280 --> 00:58:47.280 It is incapable of jumping 00:58:47.280 --> 00:58:49.280 But if you take away the fence it will go 00:58:49.280 --> 00:58:51.280 It will go like crazy man 00:58:51.280 --> 00:58:53.280 It can jump over a 2 feet 3 feet 00:58:53.280 --> 00:58:55.280 Fence easily but because the fence 00:58:55.280 --> 00:58:57.280 Is at eye level something happens 00:58:57.280 --> 00:58:59.280 In its mind so how farmers 00:58:59.280 --> 00:59:01.280 Catch this animal is when they see the animal 00:59:01.280 --> 00:59:03.280 They somehow put a 00:59:03.280 --> 00:59:05.280 Drive it into an enclosure 00:59:05.280 --> 00:59:07.280 And once they drive it into the enclosure 00:59:07.280 --> 00:59:09.280 They know it's caught even though it's fully capable 00:59:09.280 --> 00:59:11.280 Of scaling it 00:59:13.280 --> 00:59:15.280 Low sight 00:59:15.280 --> 00:59:17.280 Mediocrity 00:59:21.280 --> 00:59:23.280 Folks I want to say that this is not 00:59:23.280 --> 00:59:25.280 A poverty mentality is not about 00:59:25.280 --> 00:59:27.280 Money 00:59:27.280 --> 00:59:29.280 It's not about being poor 00:59:29.280 --> 00:59:31.280 It's not about how much money I have or how much money I don't have 00:59:31.280 --> 00:59:33.280 It's a mentality, it's a mindset 00:59:33.280 --> 00:59:35.280 It's a way of thinking 00:59:35.280 --> 00:59:37.280 Low sight, mediocrity 00:59:37.280 --> 00:59:39.280 Inability to receive 00:59:45.280 --> 00:59:47.280 Hoarding 00:59:47.280 --> 00:59:49.280 In lack 00:59:49.280 --> 00:59:51.280 And in plenty 00:59:51.280 --> 00:59:53.280 Hoarding in lack and in plenty 00:59:55.280 --> 00:59:57.280 Hoarding in lack and in plenty 00:59:57.280 --> 00:59:59.280 Money driven 01:00:01.280 --> 01:00:03.280 And I would say 01:00:03.280 --> 01:00:05.280 I would say this very respectfully 01:00:05.280 --> 01:00:07.280 I suggest to you that 01:00:07.280 --> 01:00:09.280 Most people who are 01:00:09.280 --> 01:00:11.280 Adherents of prosperity preaching 01:00:11.280 --> 01:00:13.280 Have this problem 01:00:13.280 --> 01:00:15.280 Strange right? 01:00:15.280 --> 01:00:17.280 Prosperity preaching which is 01:00:17.280 --> 01:00:19.280 Supposed to make you rich 01:00:19.280 --> 01:00:21.280 Most of the adherents have 01:00:21.280 --> 01:00:23.280 This mentality and I 01:00:23.280 --> 01:00:25.280 Know I'm making a very generic 01:00:25.280 --> 01:00:27.280 Statement and that may 01:00:27.280 --> 01:00:29.280 Not be completely fair but I'd like to suggest that 01:00:29.280 --> 01:00:31.280 Money driven 01:00:31.280 --> 01:00:33.280 Prosperity adherents 01:00:41.280 --> 01:00:43.280 Despising the Joneses 01:00:43.280 --> 01:00:45.280 I'll explain that 01:00:45.280 --> 01:00:47.280 Despising the Joneses 01:00:49.280 --> 01:00:51.280 I'm not talking about Joan, I'm talking about the Joneses 01:00:51.280 --> 01:00:53.280 So let me explain this 01:00:53.280 --> 01:00:55.280 Folks, when I have a poverty mentality 01:00:55.280 --> 01:00:57.280 One of the things that may happen to me 01:00:57.280 --> 01:00:59.280 Is my sight is set low 01:00:59.280 --> 01:01:01.280 My sight may move now from 01:01:01.280 --> 01:01:03.280 I have a two bedroom, tiny two bedroom apartment 01:01:03.280 --> 01:01:05.280 Oh I wish I had a three bedroom apartment 01:01:05.280 --> 01:01:07.280 That would be 01:01:07.280 --> 01:01:09.280 The ultimate 01:01:09.280 --> 01:01:11.280 My sights are very low 01:01:11.280 --> 01:01:13.280 Oh I have this job, I have this job 01:01:13.280 --> 01:01:15.280 I have this job, I have this job 01:01:15.280 --> 01:01:17.280 I have this job, I have this job 01:01:17.280 --> 01:01:19.280 I have this job, I have this job 01:01:19.280 --> 01:01:21.280 My sights are very low, oh I have this job 01:01:21.280 --> 01:01:23.280 I wish I could get eight dollars more 01:01:23.280 --> 01:01:25.280 Your sights are super low 01:01:25.280 --> 01:01:27.280 It does not expand like 01:01:27.280 --> 01:01:29.280 God would have you expand 01:01:29.280 --> 01:01:31.280 There's nothing wrong with a one bedroom 01:01:31.280 --> 01:01:33.280 Apartment, there's nothing wrong with a 01:01:33.280 --> 01:01:35.280 Five dollar job 01:01:35.280 --> 01:01:37.280 But that's not the point, the point is my sights suddenly 01:01:37.280 --> 01:01:39.280 Become set low 01:01:39.280 --> 01:01:41.280 It's not about money folks 01:01:41.280 --> 01:01:43.280 Secondly 01:01:43.280 --> 01:01:45.280 Mediocrity, I will settle for things 01:01:45.280 --> 01:01:47.280 That are good enough 01:01:47.280 --> 01:01:49.280 I don't have to 01:01:49.280 --> 01:01:51.280 Do well 01:01:51.280 --> 01:01:53.280 With the gifts and the talents I've been given 01:01:53.280 --> 01:01:55.280 I'll settle with doing 01:01:55.280 --> 01:01:57.280 Mediocally well 01:01:57.280 --> 01:01:59.280 That's good enough 01:01:59.280 --> 01:02:01.280 I'll put in my eight hours, I'll do what is required 01:02:01.280 --> 01:02:03.280 I have no desire to overdo it 01:02:03.280 --> 01:02:05.280 Overdo is a word that's not in my dictionary 01:02:05.280 --> 01:02:07.280 Thirdly 01:02:07.280 --> 01:02:09.280 Inability to receive 01:02:09.280 --> 01:02:11.280 I've met people who are super rich 01:02:11.280 --> 01:02:13.280 Who do not know how to receive 01:02:13.280 --> 01:02:15.280 Just don't know how to receive 01:02:15.280 --> 01:02:17.280 They know how to give but they do not know how to receive 01:02:17.280 --> 01:02:19.280 Surprisingly that's poverty mentality 01:02:21.280 --> 01:02:23.280 Holding in lack and in plenty 01:02:23.280 --> 01:02:25.280 Doesn't matter whether you've got tons of money or little money 01:02:25.280 --> 01:02:27.280 You'll hold it 01:02:27.280 --> 01:02:29.280 I knew a man who supplies 01:02:29.280 --> 01:02:31.280 The cloth 01:02:31.280 --> 01:02:33.280 To all the stores in India 01:02:33.280 --> 01:02:35.280 In Vancouver 01:02:35.280 --> 01:02:37.280 And lives in North Phan 01:02:37.280 --> 01:02:39.280 And has tons and tons of buildings 01:02:39.280 --> 01:02:41.280 But you know 01:02:41.280 --> 01:02:43.280 Every three months he'll go and order one of these 01:02:43.280 --> 01:02:45.280 Water coolers from different companies 01:02:45.280 --> 01:02:47.280 Because they all give you a three month test run 01:02:57.280 --> 01:02:59.280 That's how he got all his buildings 01:02:59.280 --> 01:03:01.280 You see 01:03:03.280 --> 01:03:05.280 At the end of three months 01:03:05.280 --> 01:03:07.280 He will return 01:03:07.280 --> 01:03:09.280 So that he can now go to another company 01:03:09.280 --> 01:03:11.280 When people come to visit him 01:03:11.280 --> 01:03:13.280 In his office he had one table and one chair 01:03:13.280 --> 01:03:15.280 So he would pull out 01:03:15.280 --> 01:03:17.280 The last 01:03:17.280 --> 01:03:19.280 Seat from his van 01:03:19.280 --> 01:03:21.280 And put it in his office for people to sit 01:03:23.280 --> 01:03:25.280 I'm not mentioning any names 01:03:25.280 --> 01:03:27.280 You see what I'm saying is 01:03:27.280 --> 01:03:29.280 Pardon 01:03:33.280 --> 01:03:35.280 Holding in lack and in plenty 01:03:37.280 --> 01:03:39.280 This is a poverty mentality 01:03:39.280 --> 01:03:41.280 He has tons of money 01:03:41.280 --> 01:03:43.280 He's one of the wealthiest persons 01:03:43.280 --> 01:03:45.280 I've met in this part of the world 01:03:47.280 --> 01:03:49.280 Money driven 01:03:49.280 --> 01:03:51.280 Suddenly everything you do is driven by 01:03:51.280 --> 01:03:53.280 The need to 01:03:53.280 --> 01:03:55.280 Money 01:03:55.280 --> 01:03:57.280 Prosperity adherence 01:03:57.280 --> 01:03:59.280 These are the people who I would suggest to you 01:03:59.280 --> 01:04:01.280 Are prosperity adherence 01:04:01.280 --> 01:04:03.280 I won't explain that much more 01:04:03.280 --> 01:04:05.280 This is an odd thing about poverty mentality 01:04:05.280 --> 01:04:07.280 What happens is you have some kind of 01:04:07.280 --> 01:04:09.280 Dislike towards anyone 01:04:09.280 --> 01:04:11.280 Who is doing well 01:04:11.280 --> 01:04:13.280 You're not happy at someone else's prosperity 01:04:15.280 --> 01:04:17.280 It's an odd thing 01:04:17.280 --> 01:04:19.280 You go into a house of someone who's doing well 01:04:19.280 --> 01:04:21.280 And you'll say 01:04:21.280 --> 01:04:23.280 These people are not godly, look at the house 01:04:23.280 --> 01:04:25.280 Or you see someone who's got a 01:04:25.280 --> 01:04:27.280 Good car 01:04:27.280 --> 01:04:29.280 And boy, that money could have been given to the poor 01:04:29.280 --> 01:04:31.280 Judas thought like this too 01:04:31.280 --> 01:04:33.280 It's a poverty mentality folks 01:04:37.280 --> 01:04:39.280 Can't find it in scripture 01:04:39.280 --> 01:04:41.280 It's one of those pet phrases 01:04:41.280 --> 01:04:43.280 Do your best and god will do the rest 01:04:43.280 --> 01:04:45.280 That's also not in scripture 01:04:45.280 --> 01:04:47.280 God will shut one door 01:04:47.280 --> 01:04:49.280 And open the other door 01:04:49.280 --> 01:04:51.280 Not in scripture 01:04:51.280 --> 01:04:53.280 Yeah, could be son of a bitch 01:04:53.280 --> 01:04:55.280 I'm not saying that 01:04:55.280 --> 01:04:57.280 I'm not saying that 01:04:57.280 --> 01:04:59.280 I'm not saying that 01:04:59.280 --> 01:05:01.280 Yeah, could be son of music 01:05:01.280 --> 01:05:03.280 Yeah 01:05:03.280 --> 01:05:05.280 Folks, the emphasis is on 01:05:05.280 --> 01:05:07.280 Poverty mentality, not on the amount of money 01:05:07.280 --> 01:05:09.280 What happens is 01:05:09.280 --> 01:05:11.280 When I have a poverty mentality 01:05:11.280 --> 01:05:13.280 I project my lack 01:05:13.280 --> 01:05:15.280 Or my want 01:05:15.280 --> 01:05:17.280 As the primary competing concern 01:05:17.280 --> 01:05:19.280 Over god 01:05:19.280 --> 01:05:21.280 Everything now is this thing 01:05:21.280 --> 01:05:23.280 Of lack or want 01:05:23.280 --> 01:05:25.280 That becomes the primary competing 01:05:25.280 --> 01:05:27.280 Concern 01:05:27.280 --> 01:05:29.280 That always comes ahead of god 01:05:29.280 --> 01:05:31.280 And when the priest 01:05:31.280 --> 01:05:33.280 Chases after an inheritance here on earth 01:05:33.280 --> 01:05:35.280 Forgetting that his portion is due 01:05:35.280 --> 01:05:37.280 From god, he misses out on the wine 01:05:37.280 --> 01:05:39.280 Oil and grain reserved for him 01:05:39.280 --> 01:05:41.280 Go to Numbers chapter 18 01:05:41.280 --> 01:05:43.280 Numbers 18, verse 20 01:05:43.280 --> 01:05:45.280 And 12 01:05:45.280 --> 01:05:47.280 Numbers 18, verse 20 and 12 01:05:51.280 --> 01:05:53.280 Numbers 18, verse 20 01:05:53.280 --> 01:05:55.280 Numbers 18, verse 20 01:05:55.280 --> 01:05:57.280 Numbers 18, verse 20 01:05:57.280 --> 01:05:59.280 Numbers 18, verse 20 01:05:59.280 --> 01:06:01.280 And here's what it says 01:06:01.280 --> 01:06:03.280 The lord said to Aaron 01:06:03.280 --> 01:06:05.280 You will have no inheritance in their land 01:06:05.280 --> 01:06:07.280 Nor will you have any share among them 01:06:07.280 --> 01:06:09.280 I am your share and your inheritance 01:06:09.280 --> 01:06:11.280 Among the Israelites 01:06:11.280 --> 01:06:13.280 Now go to Numbers 18, 12 01:06:13.280 --> 01:06:15.280 I give you all the finest olive oil 01:06:15.280 --> 01:06:17.280 And the finest new wine and grain 01:06:17.280 --> 01:06:19.280 That they give the lord 01:06:19.280 --> 01:06:21.280 As the first fruit of the earth 01:06:21.280 --> 01:06:23.280 That they give the lord as the first fruit of their harvest 01:06:23.280 --> 01:06:25.280 What god is saying is 01:06:25.280 --> 01:06:27.280 Guys, you are priests who are serving me 01:06:27.280 --> 01:06:29.280 Know this that you have no inheritance here on earth 01:06:29.280 --> 01:06:31.280 I am your inheritance and your portion 01:06:31.280 --> 01:06:33.280 And because I am your inheritance and portion 01:06:33.280 --> 01:06:35.280 I will supply you new grain, oil and wine 01:06:45.280 --> 01:06:47.280 It is vital that this be broken off our lives folks 01:06:47.280 --> 01:06:49.280 Because as long as this is there 01:06:49.280 --> 01:06:51.280 It's almost impossible to come out 01:06:51.280 --> 01:06:53.280 And live a lifestyle that's different 01:06:53.280 --> 01:06:55.280 Impossible 01:06:57.280 --> 01:06:59.280 I remember 01:06:59.280 --> 01:07:01.280 In one of the things spoken over my life 01:07:01.280 --> 01:07:03.280 One of the things that was said from Isaiah 49 01:07:03.280 --> 01:07:05.280 Was 01:07:05.280 --> 01:07:07.280 Your reward is from me 01:07:07.280 --> 01:07:09.280 And what is due you will come from me 01:07:09.280 --> 01:07:11.280 And the moment I heard that 01:07:11.280 --> 01:07:13.280 I realized that 01:07:13.280 --> 01:07:15.280 Oh shucks 01:07:15.280 --> 01:07:17.280 God owes me dues 01:07:17.280 --> 01:07:19.280 And when he wants he will either give it to me as a lump sum 01:07:19.280 --> 01:07:21.280 Or he will put it in my bank every month 01:07:21.280 --> 01:07:23.280 And so I don't need to worry anymore 01:07:23.280 --> 01:07:25.280 Because if god says 01:07:25.280 --> 01:07:27.280 That your reward is from me 01:07:27.280 --> 01:07:29.280 And your dues will come from me 01:07:29.280 --> 01:07:31.280 I realize shucks 01:07:31.280 --> 01:07:33.280 Don't need to worry anymore 01:07:33.280 --> 01:07:35.280 Yeah 01:07:35.280 --> 01:07:37.280 It's a completely different way of living 01:07:37.280 --> 01:07:39.280 So 01:07:39.280 --> 01:07:41.280 You can walk around with her if you want 01:07:41.280 --> 01:07:43.280 Yeah 01:07:43.280 --> 01:07:45.280 Yeah 01:07:45.280 --> 01:07:47.280 Yeah 01:07:47.280 --> 01:07:49.280 Did all this 01:07:49.280 --> 01:07:51.280 Come just from the meaning of the name 01:07:51.280 --> 01:07:53.280 Or did that king have traits that 01:07:53.280 --> 01:07:55.280 No 01:07:55.280 --> 01:07:57.280 No, chedro lamor means a handful of sheaves 01:07:57.280 --> 01:07:59.280 And a handful of sheaves means 01:07:59.280 --> 01:08:01.280 Very little 01:08:01.280 --> 01:08:03.280 It's like god consciously says you've collected a lot 01:08:03.280 --> 01:08:05.280 But there's nothing in your hands 01:08:05.280 --> 01:08:07.280 You harvest but there's nothing 01:08:07.280 --> 01:08:09.280 It's a mindset 01:08:09.280 --> 01:08:11.280 Or a place of abject lack 01:08:11.280 --> 01:08:13.280 Settling for a handful of sheaves 01:08:13.280 --> 01:08:15.280 Settling for a handful of sheaves 01:08:15.280 --> 01:08:17.280 Understood but 01:08:17.280 --> 01:08:19.280 This is quite involved in 01:08:19.280 --> 01:08:21.280 Stuff so is that coming just from his name 01:08:21.280 --> 01:08:23.280 Or was that king did he like 01:08:23.280 --> 01:08:25.280 Steal things or 01:08:25.280 --> 01:08:27.280 Nope, nope, it's coming from his name 01:08:27.280 --> 01:08:29.280 He must have been a rich man 01:08:29.280 --> 01:08:31.280 So there's no sort of behaviors that he did 01:08:31.280 --> 01:08:33.280 Historically 01:08:33.280 --> 01:08:35.280 That I would know of 01:08:35.280 --> 01:08:37.280 I wouldn't 01:08:37.280 --> 01:08:39.280 So we're just going on with the meaning of the name 01:08:39.280 --> 01:08:41.280 And remember in the Old Testament 01:08:41.280 --> 01:08:43.280 The Old Testament 01:08:43.280 --> 01:08:45.280 Is again a parable 01:08:45.280 --> 01:08:47.280 That we are supposed to use in the New Testament 01:08:47.280 --> 01:08:49.280 Everything in the Old Testament 01:08:49.280 --> 01:08:51.280 Is a story or parable that we derive 01:08:51.280 --> 01:08:53.280 Out in the New Testament 01:08:53.280 --> 01:08:55.280 Therefore names in the Old Testament 01:08:55.280 --> 01:08:57.280 Are super revealing 01:08:57.280 --> 01:08:59.280 Super revealing 01:08:59.280 --> 01:09:01.280 It just seems strange that whoever named that guy 01:09:01.280 --> 01:09:03.280 It just seems strange that whoever named that guy 01:09:03.280 --> 01:09:05.280 Like he was a king so he must have come from rich families 01:09:05.280 --> 01:09:07.280 So why would they name him 01:09:07.280 --> 01:09:09.280 Crazy, don't know 01:09:09.280 --> 01:09:11.280 And the other thing is sometimes 01:09:11.280 --> 01:09:13.280 A name that would be given by the 01:09:13.280 --> 01:09:15.280 Hebrews to kings 01:09:15.280 --> 01:09:17.280 Would perhaps portray the character more than the original name 01:09:17.280 --> 01:09:19.280 Because at the end 01:09:19.280 --> 01:09:21.280 This might not have been his actual name 01:09:21.280 --> 01:09:23.280 Just what the Hebrews had called him 01:09:23.280 --> 01:09:25.280 No, we don't know, I'm saying like 01:09:25.280 --> 01:09:27.280 When we come to the word Sodom we'll see that too 01:09:27.280 --> 01:09:29.280 There's a 01:09:29.280 --> 01:09:31.280 Hebrew equivalent of 01:09:31.280 --> 01:09:33.280 The name and there is a 01:09:35.280 --> 01:09:37.280 Canaanite or 01:09:37.280 --> 01:09:39.280 Indian equivalent of that name so 01:09:39.280 --> 01:09:41.280 We'll come to that later 01:09:41.280 --> 01:09:43.280 Guys, when priests chase after 01:09:43.280 --> 01:09:45.280 An inheritance here on earth 01:09:45.280 --> 01:09:47.280 Forgetting that their portion is due from God 01:09:47.280 --> 01:09:49.280 You miss out on the wine, oil and grain 01:09:49.280 --> 01:09:51.280 Reserved for you 01:09:51.280 --> 01:09:53.280 When kings run after what pagan 01:09:53.280 --> 01:09:55.280 Nations are pursuing, instead of pursuing 01:09:55.280 --> 01:09:57.280 The kingdom they end up chasing things 01:09:57.280 --> 01:09:59.280 That would be added to them, this is so sad 01:09:59.280 --> 01:10:01.280 Just hear this, okay 01:10:01.280 --> 01:10:03.280 If I run after the things of the 01:10:03.280 --> 01:10:05.280 World 01:10:05.280 --> 01:10:07.280 Instead of running after the kingdom 01:10:07.280 --> 01:10:09.280 You know what I'm really running after 01:10:09.280 --> 01:10:11.280 I'm running after the things that God said I will add to you 01:10:13.280 --> 01:10:15.280 What a shame, eh 01:10:15.280 --> 01:10:17.280 God said 01:10:17.280 --> 01:10:19.280 Ryan, seek my 01:10:19.280 --> 01:10:21.280 Rule and reign and all these 01:10:21.280 --> 01:10:23.280 Things will be added 01:10:23.280 --> 01:10:25.280 To you and here is 01:10:25.280 --> 01:10:27.280 Ryan, here is 01:10:27.280 --> 01:10:29.280 Jacob running after 01:10:29.280 --> 01:10:31.280 The things 01:10:31.280 --> 01:10:33.280 That are supposed to be added 01:10:33.280 --> 01:10:35.280 To me, I'm running after them 01:10:35.280 --> 01:10:37.280 That I would get anyways 01:10:37.280 --> 01:10:39.280 If I just lived out my life 01:10:39.280 --> 01:10:41.280 As a king, seeking the kingdom 01:10:43.280 --> 01:10:45.280 So simple, man 01:10:45.280 --> 01:10:47.280 This guy is like a subtle 01:10:47.280 --> 01:10:49.280 Manipulator, you get guys 01:10:49.280 --> 01:10:51.280 On to the prize that you 01:10:51.280 --> 01:10:53.280 Would have gotten, man, anyways 01:10:53.280 --> 01:10:55.280 True 01:10:57.280 --> 01:10:59.280 So it's vital to 01:10:59.280 --> 01:11:01.280 Wield contentment 01:11:01.280 --> 01:11:03.280 With godliness, with the riches and glory 01:11:03.280 --> 01:11:05.280 In Christ, knowing your place, folks 01:11:05.280 --> 01:11:07.280 It will all come together, it's got nothing to do with money 01:11:07.280 --> 01:11:09.280 It's got to do with a mentality or a mindset 01:11:11.280 --> 01:11:13.280 Strange thing is 01:11:13.280 --> 01:11:15.280 Abraham, after 01:11:15.280 --> 01:11:17.280 Beating this king, he has a lot 01:11:17.280 --> 01:11:19.280 Of spoils and he gives 01:11:19.280 --> 01:11:21.280 10% to Melchizedek 01:11:21.280 --> 01:11:23.280 And he gives the rest to the guys who came with him 01:11:23.280 --> 01:11:25.280 And he doesn't take a cent 01:11:27.280 --> 01:11:29.280 And yet, he becomes 01:11:29.280 --> 01:11:31.280 The richest man in the land 01:11:31.280 --> 01:11:33.280 Doesn't take a cent 01:11:33.280 --> 01:11:35.280 Gives 10% to Melchizedek, gives the rest away 01:11:35.280 --> 01:11:37.280 And he comes out the richest 01:11:37.280 --> 01:11:39.280 It's an upside down 01:11:39.280 --> 01:11:41.280 Kingdom we live in, folks 01:11:41.280 --> 01:11:43.280 But the principles once they settle 01:11:43.280 --> 01:11:45.280 I'm telling you, man 01:11:45.280 --> 01:11:47.280 You will never have 01:11:47.280 --> 01:11:49.280 I'm saying to you, as we begin to connect 01:11:49.280 --> 01:11:51.280 With this house, as we begin to connect with 01:11:51.280 --> 01:11:53.280 The set man in this house 01:11:53.280 --> 01:11:55.280 Meaning Muaq, as we begin to connect 01:11:55.280 --> 01:11:57.280 With principles 01:11:57.280 --> 01:11:59.280 As we begin to connect with 01:11:59.280 --> 01:12:01.280 Who we are as priests and kings 01:12:01.280 --> 01:12:03.280 You will find an increase in assets and 01:12:03.280 --> 01:12:05.280 Substance in this house 01:12:05.280 --> 01:12:07.280 I'm not talking about this house having assets and substance 01:12:07.280 --> 01:12:09.280 I'm saying we 01:12:09.280 --> 01:12:11.280 As people having assets and substance 01:12:11.280 --> 01:12:13.280 I guarantee you this on the 01:12:13.280 --> 01:12:15.280 On the strength of the word of God 01:12:15.280 --> 01:12:17.280 Because that is always a pattern 01:12:17.280 --> 01:12:19.280 Always a pattern 01:12:19.280 --> 01:12:21.280 And the strange thing is, as assets and 01:12:21.280 --> 01:12:23.280 Substance come into this house, you will find 01:12:23.280 --> 01:12:25.280 That we will become the best 01:12:25.280 --> 01:12:27.280 Givers we have ever been 01:12:27.280 --> 01:12:29.280 You should be the best 01:12:29.280 --> 01:12:31.280 Giver you have ever known 01:12:31.280 --> 01:12:33.280 I should be the best giver I have ever known 01:12:35.280 --> 01:12:37.280 But it is vital that 01:12:37.280 --> 01:12:39.280 You connect to this house 01:12:39.280 --> 01:12:41.280 Why? Because that grace is going to come upon this house 01:12:41.280 --> 01:12:43.280 I'm just saying it to you 01:12:43.280 --> 01:12:45.280 If you want to receive it as a prophetic 01:12:45.280 --> 01:12:47.280 Word, please do 01:12:51.280 --> 01:12:53.280 Questions, comments 01:12:53.280 --> 01:12:55.280 This king was the guy who led everybody else, strangely 01:12:57.280 --> 01:12:59.280 Questions, comments 01:12:59.280 --> 01:13:01.280 Agreements, disagreements 01:13:01.280 --> 01:13:03.280 Challenges 01:13:03.280 --> 01:13:05.280 Go ahead 01:13:17.280 --> 01:13:19.280 Okay, when I say low sights 01:13:19.280 --> 01:13:21.280 I mean not expecting 01:13:23.280 --> 01:13:27.280 Not expecting anything in my life to change 01:13:27.280 --> 01:13:29.280 In terms of God interventions 01:13:29.280 --> 01:13:31.280 Where 01:13:31.280 --> 01:13:33.280 This is who I am 01:13:33.280 --> 01:13:35.280 This is what I am, this is what I will be 01:13:35.280 --> 01:13:37.280 And immediately 01:13:37.280 --> 01:13:39.280 I cut myself off from what else 01:13:39.280 --> 01:13:41.280 God can do 01:13:41.280 --> 01:13:43.280 If I were to go with 01:13:43.280 --> 01:13:45.280 My qualifications 01:13:45.280 --> 01:13:47.280 Then I would be very limited 01:13:47.280 --> 01:13:49.280 I did a Masters in political science 01:13:49.280 --> 01:13:51.280 I did not complete my Bible school 01:13:51.280 --> 01:13:53.280 And 01:13:53.280 --> 01:13:55.280 Yeah 01:13:55.280 --> 01:13:57.280 And so 01:13:57.280 --> 01:13:59.280 In that sense it would be very limited 01:13:59.280 --> 01:14:01.280 But there is no 01:14:01.280 --> 01:14:03.280 There is no limit 01:14:03.280 --> 01:14:05.280 To what God can do 01:14:05.280 --> 01:14:07.280 With my two 01:14:07.280 --> 01:14:09.280 Fish and five loaves 01:14:09.280 --> 01:14:11.280 But when I set my eyes low 01:14:11.280 --> 01:14:13.280 I've met 01:14:13.280 --> 01:14:15.280 I've met people who have come to this church 01:14:15.280 --> 01:14:17.280 Who did not see themselves 01:14:17.280 --> 01:14:19.280 As anything more than what they are at present 01:14:19.280 --> 01:14:21.280 And what they are at present was not even a shadow 01:14:21.280 --> 01:14:23.280 Of what they 01:14:23.280 --> 01:14:25.280 Could be 01:14:25.280 --> 01:14:27.280 And when I prophesied over them 01:14:27.280 --> 01:14:29.280 They still 01:14:29.280 --> 01:14:31.280 When I met the person about two months ago 01:14:31.280 --> 01:14:33.280 The person was still refusing to see 01:14:33.280 --> 01:14:35.280 It the way God was seeing it 01:14:35.280 --> 01:14:37.280 God was saying 01:14:37.280 --> 01:14:39.280 You will be this, this, this and this 01:14:39.280 --> 01:14:41.280 And the person said no I don't think so 01:14:41.280 --> 01:14:43.280 I don't see myself like that 01:14:43.280 --> 01:14:45.280 So 01:14:45.280 --> 01:14:47.280 That's what I mean by 01:14:47.280 --> 01:14:49.280 Setting my eyes low 01:14:51.280 --> 01:14:53.280 Yeah 01:14:53.280 --> 01:14:55.280 I mean 01:14:55.280 --> 01:14:57.280 The person is setting his sights high 01:14:57.280 --> 01:14:59.280 And this manipulated guy is going to get 01:14:59.280 --> 01:15:01.280 No I set my eyes high 01:15:01.280 --> 01:15:03.280 On the star that God wants me 01:15:03.280 --> 01:15:05.280 To hitch my wagon to 01:15:05.280 --> 01:15:07.280 No no no 01:15:07.280 --> 01:15:09.280 I set my eyes high on 01:15:09.280 --> 01:15:11.280 Like Paul says I set my 01:15:11.280 --> 01:15:13.280 I set 01:15:13.280 --> 01:15:15.280 I grab that with God is grabbing 01:15:15.280 --> 01:15:17.280 A hold of me for 01:15:17.280 --> 01:15:19.280 So I set my eyes on the finished work 01:15:19.280 --> 01:15:21.280 That God is showing me 01:15:21.280 --> 01:15:23.280 Not trying to create my own finished work 01:15:23.280 --> 01:15:25.280 But the finished work that he is 01:15:25.280 --> 01:15:27.280 Showing me 01:15:29.280 --> 01:15:31.280 Is that like degree in secular 01:15:31.280 --> 01:15:33.280 Political science? 01:15:33.280 --> 01:15:35.280 Master? 01:15:35.280 --> 01:15:37.280 If you weren't 01:15:37.280 --> 01:15:39.280 Doing a church thing like this 01:15:39.280 --> 01:15:41.280 You'd be like looping with the elections 01:15:41.280 --> 01:15:43.280 And that kind of thing 01:15:43.280 --> 01:15:45.280 No most political science students 01:15:45.280 --> 01:15:47.280 End up as 01:15:47.280 --> 01:15:49.280 Being in civil services 01:15:49.280 --> 01:15:51.280 Or 01:15:51.280 --> 01:15:53.280 Doing some research for some guy who wants to 01:15:53.280 --> 01:15:55.280 Know political stuff or they end up teaching 01:15:55.280 --> 01:15:57.280 And if they're not good for any of these 01:15:57.280 --> 01:15:59.280 They become pastors 01:16:03.280 --> 01:16:05.280 Moving on to the fourth king 01:16:05.280 --> 01:16:07.280 The fourth king is title 01:16:07.280 --> 01:16:09.280 T-I-D-A-L 01:16:09.280 --> 01:16:11.280 And it's not a detergent 01:16:11.280 --> 01:16:13.280 Title means 01:16:15.280 --> 01:16:17.280 King of a foreign race 01:16:19.280 --> 01:16:21.280 Title means 01:16:21.280 --> 01:16:23.280 King of a foreign race 01:16:23.280 --> 01:16:25.280 King of a foreign race 01:16:29.280 --> 01:16:31.280 Title means 01:16:31.280 --> 01:16:33.280 King of 01:16:33.280 --> 01:16:35.280 A foreign 01:16:35.280 --> 01:16:37.280 Race 01:16:37.280 --> 01:16:39.280 Race or nation 01:16:39.280 --> 01:16:43.200 That's what it means. 01:16:43.200 --> 01:16:47.480 Folks, the intent of this king is very simple. 01:16:47.480 --> 01:16:50.160 We've talked about this at length for four weeks in the past. 01:16:50.160 --> 01:16:54.440 The intent of this king is he's a ruler who wants us to make, wants to make us subjects 01:16:54.440 --> 01:16:56.000 of Babylon. 01:16:56.000 --> 01:17:02.160 He's a ruler who wants to make us subjects of Babylon and we talked about Babylon for 01:17:02.160 --> 01:17:05.240 four weeks about four months ago, three months ago. 01:17:05.240 --> 01:17:10.760 He's a ruler whose intent on making me a subject of Babylon. 01:17:10.760 --> 01:17:17.200 A system that is God opposing in lifestyle, in conduct, in code, in morality, in principles, 01:17:17.200 --> 01:17:18.680 in objectives. 01:17:18.680 --> 01:17:24.320 Babylon is a God opposing system and the intent of Tidal is always to make me a subject of 01:17:24.320 --> 01:17:25.700 the system called Babylon. 01:17:25.700 --> 01:17:26.700 How does he do it? 01:17:26.700 --> 01:17:31.540 Very simple folks and this is so pertinent to our lives and to Christianity as a whole. 01:17:31.540 --> 01:17:35.060 He does it one through affecting my sexual standards. 01:17:35.060 --> 01:17:38.260 He affects my sexual standards. 01:17:38.260 --> 01:17:45.740 What I mean by that is he tries to affect my sexual standards and by that I mean trying 01:17:45.740 --> 01:18:02.380 to lower my tolerance for what is moral and pure and what is not. 01:18:03.220 --> 01:18:10.520 It is a well-known fact that if you go to different parts of the world and you ask them 01:18:10.520 --> 01:18:15.360 what is moral and what is pure in terms of sexuality and what can be seen, what can be 01:18:15.360 --> 01:18:19.900 practiced, what can be viewed, you will find that the standards are much lower than what 01:18:19.900 --> 01:18:21.900 they should be. 01:18:21.900 --> 01:18:31.980 It is the easiest way to turn me or conform me to the system of Babylon because Babylon 01:18:31.980 --> 01:18:36.660 thrives on idolatry, false religion and sex. 01:18:36.660 --> 01:18:43.740 These were three of the things that Babylon was known for. 01:18:43.740 --> 01:18:46.900 Idolatry and sex. 01:18:46.900 --> 01:18:51.860 It affects my sexual standards particularly in terms of what bombards my senses and so 01:18:51.860 --> 01:18:57.660 I lower my standards and as I lower my standards I break the wall or the hedge and now the 01:18:57.660 --> 01:19:01.420 serpent can bite me because my purity does not intimidate the enemy anymore. 01:19:01.420 --> 01:19:05.460 The enemy can now intimidate my purity because I am letting it go. 01:19:05.460 --> 01:19:09.180 Please remember that you are a priest first and then a king. 01:19:09.180 --> 01:19:13.540 If your priesthood is taken away, your kingship is undone. 01:19:13.540 --> 01:19:19.620 We talked about this many weeks ago that your kingship is built on your priesthood and a 01:19:19.620 --> 01:19:21.980 priest is called to be holy. 01:19:21.980 --> 01:19:26.520 If you take away my priesthood then it is pointless trying to live here as a king. 01:19:26.520 --> 01:19:29.960 We never hear Christians shouting, oh hallelujah we are priests. 01:19:29.960 --> 01:19:33.520 No, we always hear people shouting hallelujah we are kings. 01:19:33.520 --> 01:19:37.360 But the first thing that we have to shout hallelujah about is that we are priests first 01:19:37.360 --> 01:19:41.360 and it is on our priesthood that kingship is built. 01:19:41.360 --> 01:19:46.360 And just like in the UK if you are a priest you are a king. 01:19:46.360 --> 01:19:49.360 If you are a priest you are a king. 01:19:49.360 --> 01:19:52.360 If you are a priest you are a king. 01:19:53.200 --> 01:20:00.200 And just like in the UK if royalty marries commoners, a commoner, then the royalty is 01:20:02.000 --> 01:20:03.000 no longer royal. 01:20:03.000 --> 01:20:05.320 He does not have right to the throne. 01:20:05.320 --> 01:20:06.680 That happened to some prince. 01:20:06.680 --> 01:20:08.680 I don't remember which one. 01:20:08.680 --> 01:20:10.680 It is the same way. 01:20:10.680 --> 01:20:15.040 The second way that title tries to affect me is it tries to affect me through power 01:20:15.040 --> 01:20:18.400 and pride using recognition. 01:20:18.440 --> 01:20:23.440 That too affects me through power using recognition among people. 01:20:36.000 --> 01:20:38.200 Because once that happens pride kicks in. 01:20:38.200 --> 01:20:43.200 That is the second way I am affected by it. 01:20:44.000 --> 01:20:49.000 One of the philosophies of Babylon is make a name for yourself. 01:20:49.000 --> 01:20:50.880 That is the philosophy of Babylon. 01:20:50.880 --> 01:20:53.000 Make a name for yourself at any cost. 01:20:53.000 --> 01:20:58.560 And so one of the ways title affects Christians and completely destroys their ability to live 01:20:58.560 --> 01:21:05.560 as priest kings is that they give a person a sense of power or a sense of upstanding 01:21:06.560 --> 01:21:13.560 based on how you are recognized by the world or by your peers. 01:21:13.560 --> 01:21:17.560 Once it becomes insidious what happens is you are undone. 01:21:17.560 --> 01:21:20.560 Acts 29 has to be careful about it because we are doing well. 01:21:20.560 --> 01:21:24.560 Jacob has to be careful about it because recognition will come. 01:21:24.560 --> 01:21:28.560 And when that happens it will test you. 01:21:28.560 --> 01:21:30.560 The message puts it this way. 01:21:30.560 --> 01:21:33.560 15 minutes of fame will test who you really are. 01:21:35.560 --> 01:21:40.560 One of the things we have to learn to do and I was thinking of it just yesterday is 01:21:40.560 --> 01:21:45.560 whenever we do a job well and it is really good and people are telling you it is good 01:21:45.560 --> 01:21:48.560 and you know you have done a good job immediately let go of it. 01:21:48.560 --> 01:21:52.560 Don't favor it. 01:21:52.560 --> 01:21:55.560 Someone told me this years ago but I still haven't. 01:21:55.560 --> 01:21:57.560 It is not my reflex now. 01:21:57.560 --> 01:21:59.560 It is still something I have to practice. 01:21:59.560 --> 01:22:05.560 I was at a place yesterday where I had to MC and do worship and I did a brilliant job. 01:22:05.560 --> 01:22:08.560 And I know absolutely no modesty. 01:22:08.560 --> 01:22:12.560 And people came up and said great Jacob, great Jacob. 01:22:12.560 --> 01:22:19.560 And I realized that when I went home every now and then I would recall how well it went. 01:22:19.560 --> 01:22:24.560 I would think of some of the really smart puns that I came up with right at the moment. 01:22:24.560 --> 01:22:28.560 And I found myself savoring it again and again and again. 01:22:28.560 --> 01:22:32.560 And suddenly out of the blue I remember this pastor telling me Jacob, 01:22:32.560 --> 01:22:35.560 once you do something and it is good, let go of it. 01:22:35.560 --> 01:22:40.560 Do not go back and taste it. 01:22:40.560 --> 01:22:43.560 Yeah, don't do it. 01:22:43.560 --> 01:22:45.560 Don't do it. 01:22:45.560 --> 01:22:47.560 It is the same as when you sin, you walk away right? 01:22:47.560 --> 01:22:48.560 Yeah. 01:22:48.560 --> 01:22:49.560 It should be the same. 01:22:49.560 --> 01:22:52.560 Same with, because at the end of the day amazing grace, 01:22:52.560 --> 01:22:55.560 how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. 01:22:55.560 --> 01:22:57.560 I am not saying look at yourself as a wretch, 01:22:57.560 --> 01:23:01.560 but understand that everything in my life is sheer grace. 01:23:01.560 --> 01:23:05.560 Sheer grace. 01:23:05.560 --> 01:23:07.560 Don't regurgitate your success. 01:23:07.560 --> 01:23:10.560 Don't regurgitate your success, especially when you want to savor it. 01:23:10.560 --> 01:23:13.560 Because anything that comes back into your mouth from your stomach, 01:23:13.560 --> 01:23:19.560 as tasty as you think it is, it is not. 01:23:19.560 --> 01:23:24.560 Hey, that was a revelation Lord. 01:23:24.560 --> 01:23:37.560 The third way I am affected by Psydolin is intense godliness, 01:23:37.560 --> 01:23:48.560 denying any power, which is another way of defining legalism. 01:23:48.560 --> 01:23:53.560 Like I said, Babylon loves religion. 01:23:53.560 --> 01:23:55.560 Babylon loves religion. 01:23:55.560 --> 01:23:59.560 And if Babylon can influence the church where the church gets religious, 01:23:59.560 --> 01:24:04.560 where it gets intensely godly, but denies power, 01:24:04.560 --> 01:24:08.560 then Babylon has entered. 01:24:08.560 --> 01:24:10.560 Which is why all these teachings, 01:24:10.560 --> 01:24:15.560 if they do not become tangible reality in our lives in terms of living as priests and kings, 01:24:15.560 --> 01:24:21.560 then I am saying do not come next week. 01:24:21.560 --> 01:24:22.560 Do not come. 01:24:22.560 --> 01:24:30.560 Because this is not the right place to come if this is all just theory. 01:24:30.560 --> 01:24:33.560 We see that in 2 Timothy 3.5. 01:24:33.560 --> 01:24:35.560 Paul is writing to Timothy and he says, 01:24:35.560 --> 01:24:38.560 You will meet tons of people Timothy who will be very godly, 01:24:38.560 --> 01:24:41.560 but their godliness will deny the actual power of God. 01:24:41.560 --> 01:24:45.560 They will just be godly, but there will be no power showing. 01:24:45.560 --> 01:24:49.560 That is another way that tidal affects us. 01:24:49.560 --> 01:24:56.560 Legalism, where I will say, Matt, this is not the holy way to sit. 01:24:56.560 --> 01:24:58.560 Please put your feet down. 01:24:58.560 --> 01:25:01.560 And that becomes intense godliness. 01:25:01.560 --> 01:25:04.560 But what did I achieve through it? 01:25:04.560 --> 01:25:09.560 It was a show of godliness, but there was nothing in it. 01:25:09.560 --> 01:25:12.560 So he sits like that, it doesn't make him any more reverent. 01:25:12.560 --> 01:25:16.560 Nothing happens. 01:25:16.560 --> 01:25:18.560 You find it in so many... 01:25:18.560 --> 01:25:24.560 I mean I have been in churches where that is the way it is. 01:25:24.560 --> 01:25:29.560 I was at a meeting a while ago with the other people in Kosovo, 01:25:29.560 --> 01:25:31.560 and in the middle of worship and stuff, 01:25:31.560 --> 01:25:37.560 there was really like Christian and holy and reverent and godly, 01:25:37.560 --> 01:25:40.560 but I have to say that there is no sort of power there. 01:25:40.560 --> 01:25:43.560 So is that sort of the same thing that they keep them... 01:25:43.560 --> 01:25:45.560 they are actually doing the right thing, 01:25:45.560 --> 01:25:48.560 but there was no manifesting, their lives weren't changing. 01:25:48.560 --> 01:25:50.560 Yeah, yeah. It has to come back to life. 01:25:50.560 --> 01:25:53.560 When I say power, I don't mean supernatural stuff, 01:25:53.560 --> 01:25:55.560 as in people falling and all that stuff. 01:25:55.560 --> 01:25:59.560 I am talking about my life should begin to display Christ. 01:25:59.560 --> 01:26:03.560 You should begin to see more and more of the nature and the person 01:26:03.560 --> 01:26:05.560 and the stature of Christ in me. 01:26:05.560 --> 01:26:08.560 Not necessarily that if I touch someone, someone falls. 01:26:08.560 --> 01:26:11.560 Not necessarily that lightning comes inside the room, 01:26:11.560 --> 01:26:14.560 but that when you walk, people know, 01:26:14.560 --> 01:26:16.560 here goes someone and here is a church 01:26:16.560 --> 01:26:18.560 that is growing into the fullness of Christ. 01:26:18.560 --> 01:26:20.560 That whole song. 01:26:20.560 --> 01:26:22.560 We come not in our name, we come not in our fame, 01:26:22.560 --> 01:26:25.560 we come not to chase after riches, but to live lives 01:26:25.560 --> 01:26:29.560 that will accurately represent the full stature of who Christ is, 01:26:29.560 --> 01:26:32.560 what he looked like when he walked the earth. 01:26:33.560 --> 01:26:36.560 So how would you get this group of believers, 01:26:36.560 --> 01:26:39.560 their hearts are in the right place, they are doing everything Christian, 01:26:39.560 --> 01:26:41.560 but there is no life changing walk on water? 01:26:41.560 --> 01:26:44.560 I would say any supernatural manifestation that does not change you 01:26:44.560 --> 01:26:49.560 is just manifestation and I don't know whether it even comes from the Spirit of God always. 01:26:55.560 --> 01:26:59.560 Folks, the last thing that I want to touch on before we leave is 01:26:59.560 --> 01:27:02.560 there was another king that did not have to be overcome, 01:27:02.560 --> 01:27:06.560 but that met Abraham. 01:27:06.560 --> 01:27:08.560 He was the king of Sodom. 01:27:08.560 --> 01:27:11.560 Abraham did not have to conquer him, 01:27:11.560 --> 01:27:13.560 but after he conquers as he is coming, 01:27:13.560 --> 01:27:15.560 there is this king called the king of Sodom 01:27:15.560 --> 01:27:17.560 and the king of Sodom comes up to him 01:27:17.560 --> 01:27:19.560 and he comes as a friend. 01:27:19.560 --> 01:27:21.560 He comes as a friend. 01:27:21.560 --> 01:27:24.560 It is almost like Joshua 9, verse 7, 01:27:24.560 --> 01:27:27.560 where there was a nation called the Gibeonites. 01:27:27.560 --> 01:27:30.560 They put on old clothes and they brought moldy bread 01:27:30.560 --> 01:27:32.560 and they came to Joshua saying, 01:27:32.560 --> 01:27:34.560 we are coming from a far off nation, 01:27:34.560 --> 01:27:36.560 we want to make a treaty with you. 01:27:36.560 --> 01:27:38.560 And they made a treaty with Joshua 01:27:38.560 --> 01:27:40.560 so Joshua could never touch them after that. 01:27:40.560 --> 01:27:43.560 It was called the Gibeonite deception. 01:27:43.560 --> 01:27:45.560 And Sodom, king of Sodom comes like that. 01:27:45.560 --> 01:27:49.560 And the word Sodom would normally mean burning or scorching, 01:27:49.560 --> 01:27:52.560 but I would suggest to you that the actual meaning 01:27:52.560 --> 01:27:56.560 based on how the Hebrew phonetics is written, 01:27:56.560 --> 01:27:58.560 how the Hebrew phonetics spells it, 01:27:58.560 --> 01:28:02.560 is Sodom is secret or hidden? 01:28:02.560 --> 01:28:04.560 Or hidden? 01:28:04.560 --> 01:28:06.560 Secret or hidden? 01:28:06.560 --> 01:28:08.560 Secret or hidden? 01:28:08.560 --> 01:28:11.560 Pardon? 01:28:11.560 --> 01:28:13.560 Yeah, it literally is secret and hidden 01:28:13.560 --> 01:28:15.560 and inflamed from within. 01:28:15.560 --> 01:28:16.560 You don't see it. 01:28:16.560 --> 01:28:17.560 Secret or hidden. 01:28:17.560 --> 01:28:18.560 That's what it means. 01:28:18.560 --> 01:28:22.560 So many dictionaries will just say scorching or burn, 01:28:22.560 --> 01:28:26.560 but I'd suggest that it's, not I'd suggest, 01:28:26.560 --> 01:28:28.560 based on what I've been finding out, 01:28:28.560 --> 01:28:32.560 it's secret or hidden. 01:28:32.560 --> 01:28:34.560 That's what it means. 01:28:34.560 --> 01:28:36.560 So along comes the king of Sodom 01:28:36.560 --> 01:28:41.560 and he is not conquered by Abraham. 01:28:41.560 --> 01:28:43.560 He's the fifth king who's exposed by Abraham 01:28:43.560 --> 01:28:44.560 and he's set aside. 01:28:44.560 --> 01:28:47.560 He comes not as a foe, 01:28:47.560 --> 01:28:49.560 but as a friend who's grateful. 01:28:49.560 --> 01:28:54.560 And the sense of his name is he, 01:28:54.560 --> 01:28:56.560 if you allow him into your life, 01:28:56.560 --> 01:28:58.560 he establishes a foundation in you 01:28:58.560 --> 01:28:59.560 which is hidden under the ground 01:28:59.560 --> 01:29:01.560 and will inflame in time. 01:29:01.560 --> 01:29:03.560 It's a foundation that enters your life 01:29:03.560 --> 01:29:10.560 which is hidden, but will inflame when the time is right. 01:29:10.560 --> 01:29:16.560 That's what it means. 01:29:16.560 --> 01:29:17.560 The king of Sodom, 01:29:17.560 --> 01:29:19.560 if I allow the king of Sodom into my life, 01:29:19.560 --> 01:29:23.560 what will happen is he will enter my life 01:29:23.560 --> 01:29:25.560 and then get into my life 01:29:25.560 --> 01:29:29.560 and at the right time he'll begin to be hidden 01:29:29.560 --> 01:29:34.560 and then he'll come out like this. 01:29:34.560 --> 01:29:36.560 Now that I've explained that properly, 01:29:36.560 --> 01:29:37.560 just had to do that. 01:29:37.560 --> 01:29:38.560 I felt like doing that. 01:29:38.560 --> 01:29:39.560 Sorry, Sue. 01:29:39.560 --> 01:29:44.560 So notice that he comes not as a foe, 01:29:44.560 --> 01:29:45.560 but as one who is grateful. 01:29:45.560 --> 01:29:48.560 And then once the foundation is penetrated, 01:29:48.560 --> 01:29:50.560 it's like a frozen horse, 01:29:50.560 --> 01:29:51.560 it inflames in time. 01:29:51.560 --> 01:29:54.560 One of the ways this happens in your lives and mine, 01:29:54.560 --> 01:29:56.560 this is just one of the ways we've talked about 01:29:56.560 --> 01:29:57.560 and then I'll talk about the final way, 01:29:57.560 --> 01:30:00.560 is that defective alliances with people, 01:30:00.560 --> 01:30:01.560 with set men, with...