1 00:00:01,480 --> 00:00:04,440 Speaker 1: There was a day, oh, I don't have to scream anymore, thank you. 2 00:00:05,230 --> 00:00:12,380 Speaker 1: A great preacher of preachers Charles Spurgeon back in the day used to speak to literally thousands without amplification. 3 00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:20,800 Speaker 1: And he used to make it very clear that if you're going to be called to be in a pulpit back then, you better have a voice that can go. 4 00:00:23,140 --> 00:00:26,360 Speaker 1: Welcome to Out West Bible Church. 5 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:29,280 Speaker 1: If you haven't been here before, my name's actually Scotty. 6 00:00:32,739 --> 00:00:36,540 Speaker 1: Well, especially if you don't like the message, my name is Scotty. 7 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:37,920 Speaker 1: No. 8 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:40,340 Speaker 1: What a gift for me. 9 00:00:40,340 --> 00:00:43,580 Speaker 1: I was up here all day yesterday with some of your people. 10 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:50,060 Speaker 1: I have a reputation for being something that's a little bit awkward within Christian circles. 11 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:53,380 Speaker 1: The term is called an exorcist. 12 00:00:58,120 --> 00:00:59,280 Speaker 1: I love this church. 13 00:00:59,300 --> 00:01:05,519 Speaker 1: already because most places it goes like totally dead silent people start like they don't even 14 00:01:05,710 --> 00:01:11,340 Speaker 1: bother standing to get up they just kind of scoot across their seat and then they throw something to 15 00:01:11,380 --> 00:01:16,060 Speaker 1: make a distraction where we looks that way and they go out the door um i'm here this morning simply to 16 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:24,840 Speaker 1: tell you about my jesus and if that causes some of you to have an exorcism today i am so happy 17 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:29,260 Speaker 1: yes so father as we come to you right now we say 18 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:34,360 Speaker 1: simply want to pray. I love how Steve said, let's pray together. I know I need prayer God, 19 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:39,860 Speaker 1: but we're praying together. My brothers and sisters that are here are praying with me. 20 00:01:40,780 --> 00:01:45,180 Speaker 1: But then if there's people that are here today are literally listening on the live stream 21 00:01:45,780 --> 00:01:50,380 Speaker 1: or watching this later, Lord, I've seen you do this so many times that you move 22 00:01:50,979 --> 00:01:57,260 Speaker 1: simply through your spirit when your word is proclaimed. And so that's what we want to do this morning. 23 00:01:57,400 --> 00:02:19,780 Speaker 1: But in order to do that, especially today I'm asking you, Father, to maybe do something a little different, would you literally envelop all of us here at Out West Mountain, out west Bible church in a seamless canopy of the blood of Jesus, literally establishing this as holy ground, cutting off all communication from the outside of the inn. 24 00:02:21,100 --> 00:02:27,300 Speaker 1: And literally, if there are things of the enemy that have followed any of us in this morning, 25 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:30,620 Speaker 1: morning in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, you're going to come to attention and be muzzled this 26 00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:38,220 Speaker 1: entire time so that the word of God will not be twisted, perverted, or stolen by you in Jesus' name. 27 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:45,380 Speaker 1: Amen. So I have to take a picture. Normally I take the picture to prove to my wife that it was 28 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:51,860 Speaker 1: actually preaching at a church because in my old days, maybe I kind of used that to maybe go watch 29 00:02:51,940 --> 00:02:57,280 Speaker 1: the football games during Sundays, which I know some of you have considered because I've seen 30 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:01,260 Speaker 1: some of you actually brandishing your team's logo this morning. 31 00:03:01,860 --> 00:03:04,480 Speaker 1: If you are brave enough this morning to simply honest, 32 00:03:04,640 --> 00:03:07,340 Speaker 1: if you have something on your person, 33 00:03:08,300 --> 00:03:09,320 Speaker 1: may not be a jersey, 34 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:11,140 Speaker 1: it may not be able to be seen, 35 00:03:11,740 --> 00:03:14,120 Speaker 1: besides the guy who's wearing the Dan Marino jersey back there, 36 00:03:14,300 --> 00:03:14,600 Speaker 1: love it. 37 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:19,020 Speaker 1: If you are here and you are a football fan 38 00:03:19,030 --> 00:03:21,180 Speaker 1: and you literally have something on your possession, 39 00:03:21,340 --> 00:03:22,880 Speaker 1: could be a key chain, could be a hat, 40 00:03:23,220 --> 00:03:25,320 Speaker 1: could even be the boxers that nobody ever sees. 41 00:03:25,460 --> 00:03:26,120 Speaker 1: We ain't going to go there. 42 00:03:26,660 --> 00:03:30,140 Speaker 1: We're going to ask to see, but would you just raise your hand if you're here today 43 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:32,120 Speaker 1: that you actually have something on? 44 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:32,980 Speaker 1: Where's my? 45 00:03:33,610 --> 00:03:34,040 Speaker 1: Okay, good. 46 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:35,560 Speaker 1: They're in your pocket, your keychain. 47 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:39,780 Speaker 1: Trust me, this doesn't mean like you've got demons on you because you've got that. 48 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:43,740 Speaker 1: They're going, the exorcist is asking me if I have these things on. 49 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:44,000 Speaker 1: No. 50 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:45,540 Speaker 1: Only that few of you? 51 00:03:45,740 --> 00:03:46,360 Speaker 1: Okay, good. 52 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:50,340 Speaker 1: How many of you actually would admit the fact that you're a football fan, though, 53 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:52,740 Speaker 1: that you've got a team that you root for and pull for? 54 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:55,020 Speaker 1: Okay, keep your hands up. 55 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:58,860 Speaker 1: So everybody who's a football fan, if your team has actually won a Super Bowl, 56 00:03:59,260 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 1: keep your hand up. 57 00:04:00,100 --> 00:04:01,300 Speaker 1: Everybody else put your hands down. 58 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:07,000 Speaker 1: You can put your hands down, Victor's. 59 00:04:08,780 --> 00:04:10,940 Speaker 1: Speaking of Victor, the reason why I took the picture, 60 00:04:11,700 --> 00:04:13,960 Speaker 1: if you're not familiar with the ministry that I come from, 61 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 1: it's called All Things Possible. 62 00:04:15,980 --> 00:04:19,120 Speaker 1: And the head of that, who found is a guy by the name of Victor Marks. 63 00:04:19,799 --> 00:04:19,940 Speaker 1: Anybody? 64 00:04:20,280 --> 00:04:22,620 Speaker 1: If you know Victor Marks in our ministry, would you raise your hand? 65 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:24,480 Speaker 1: Oh, a good portion of you. 66 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:29,000 Speaker 1: Okay, so Victor's running for governor of Colorado, which you probably know. 67 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:33,540 Speaker 1: Victor and I are kind of competitive. 68 00:04:34,740 --> 00:04:36,080 Speaker 1: Actually, that's an understatement. 69 00:04:36,980 --> 00:04:38,940 Speaker 1: He's really competitive and so am I. 70 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:44,220 Speaker 1: He's literally speaking at a church in my home city right now. 71 00:04:45,660 --> 00:04:49,720 Speaker 1: The pictures to show him that I have a bigger crowd than the future governor of Colorado. 72 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:55,040 Speaker 1: The only bummer about that. 73 00:04:55,060 --> 00:04:58,720 Speaker 1: me just saying that as one of our board members is watching the live stream of this right now, 74 00:04:58,780 --> 00:05:02,740 Speaker 1: and so I don't know if I'm going to have a job at the end of today. But that's okay, 75 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:09,160 Speaker 1: because the Lord takes care of me. I'm 61 years old, been ordained for over four decades. 76 00:05:09,310 --> 00:05:13,860 Speaker 1: I come out of the Calvary Chapel system. I used to be the assistant to a guy by the name of 77 00:05:13,980 --> 00:05:17,680 Speaker 1: Mike McIntosh in San Diego, Horizon Christian Fellowship. Some of you may know Mike. 78 00:05:18,230 --> 00:05:25,020 Speaker 1: A great man of the Lord, just a gifted evangelist. Mike's 81 now. He's 20 years older than 79 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:32,540 Speaker 1: still going strong for Jesus. And so it's an honor to be here with you this morning. My wife of 42 80 00:05:32,860 --> 00:05:40,740 Speaker 1: years, oh, my better nine-tenths, as I refer to her as. I used that term this morning as a lady was saying, 81 00:05:40,840 --> 00:05:46,100 Speaker 1: oh, you got to go meet Steve's wife, his better half. I said, that lady ain't his better half. 82 00:05:46,180 --> 00:05:51,840 Speaker 1: That's his better nine-tenths. And the lady look at me kind of just like, it was puzzled. 83 00:05:52,540 --> 00:05:56,540 Speaker 1: And then when I said, if I could use decimal points, I would because it's more than nine 84 00:05:56,700 --> 00:05:58,640 Speaker 1: tenths, but most people don't understand decimals. 85 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:00,540 Speaker 1: Most of us went to public school. 86 00:06:00,980 --> 00:06:02,220 Speaker 1: So we don't understand. 87 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:06,400 Speaker 1: So nine tenths is the closest thing that we can actually really understand there. 88 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:10,820 Speaker 1: But my wife of 42 years, we have 26 children. 89 00:06:12,500 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 1: Yes, for those of you from LDS backgrounds, I am not. 90 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:18,440 Speaker 1: I'm Roman Catholic race, so maybe that could be it. 91 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:21,120 Speaker 1: But we actually have six biological and 20 adopted children. 92 00:06:21,940 --> 00:06:23,200 Speaker 1: The youngest is... 93 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:28,740 Speaker 1: It sounded like a good idea back then, 94 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:32,280 Speaker 1: but it's just basically brought a whole lot of pain and heartache into our lives. 95 00:06:32,540 --> 00:06:36,040 Speaker 1: For those of you who have gone through that with your teenagers in your early 20s, 96 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:37,860 Speaker 1: kids, you understand that. 97 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:41,700 Speaker 1: Just multiply that by a large number, and that's what we've gone through. 98 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:45,040 Speaker 1: But the Lord's faithful, and we do understand his heart, 99 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:48,160 Speaker 1: and we do understand maybe a little bit better than most, 100 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:51,299 Speaker 1: the pain and suffering that the perfect father goes through 101 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:54,360 Speaker 1: when he thinks about the billions of his children 102 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:57,060 Speaker 1: that are literally flipping them off every day, 103 00:06:57,640 --> 00:06:59,300 Speaker 1: by the choices they make, 104 00:06:59,380 --> 00:07:01,280 Speaker 1: and he's the perfect father, right? 105 00:07:02,380 --> 00:07:03,060 Speaker 1: That's our God. 106 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:04,200 Speaker 1: He's so gracious. 107 00:07:04,820 --> 00:07:06,100 Speaker 1: And if you're here listening today 108 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:08,060 Speaker 1: and he's not your father yet, 109 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:09,340 Speaker 1: he loves you. 110 00:07:10,100 --> 00:07:11,380 Speaker 1: He loves you unconditionally. 111 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:12,980 Speaker 1: He loves you right where you are, 112 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:14,020 Speaker 1: but he loves you so much 113 00:07:14,100 --> 00:07:15,520 Speaker 1: that he won't leave you right where you are 114 00:07:16,340 --> 00:07:18,660 Speaker 1: if you come to him and say, I need you. 115 00:07:19,490 --> 00:07:20,360 Speaker 1: And so this morning is, 116 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:23,820 Speaker 1: if you turn in your Bibles, please, to 2 Corinthians chapter 10. 117 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:26,900 Speaker 1: Oh, look at that. 118 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:28,300 Speaker 1: I got a text from the board member. 119 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:30,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, he said, we have to talk after the service. 120 00:07:33,940 --> 00:07:34,780 Speaker 1: It's all good. 121 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:38,900 Speaker 1: Victor is a dear friend, 122 00:07:39,260 --> 00:07:41,860 Speaker 1: and when he decided to run for governor, 123 00:07:42,660 --> 00:07:46,380 Speaker 1: they began a search looking for who's going to be the next CEO 124 00:07:46,660 --> 00:07:47,240 Speaker 1: for the ministry, 125 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:50,360 Speaker 1: and they were looking for qualified people 126 00:07:50,380 --> 00:07:54,760 Speaker 1: like guys with MBAs who have done all the training and things like that. 127 00:07:54,840 --> 00:07:59,020 Speaker 1: And I wasn't in the running and I was totally fine with that because I didn't want to be the head of the ministry. 128 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:03,900 Speaker 1: I knew what it took out of Victor and Eileen. 129 00:08:04,100 --> 00:08:07,980 Speaker 1: I knew all the fiery darts that went at them when you're in the front. 130 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:16,560 Speaker 1: If you don't understand what Pastor Scottie goes through in the slightest bit, please pray for the man. 131 00:08:18,220 --> 00:08:26,120 Speaker 1: To be a man of God today that will literally stand up for truth in both a physical world 132 00:08:26,140 --> 00:08:33,919 Speaker 1: and as well as a spiritual world that truth is not seen as truth, that takes courage. 133 00:08:35,340 --> 00:08:38,680 Speaker 1: And it also takes courage to have a guy come and fill your pulpit that you've never met before. 134 00:08:39,900 --> 00:08:40,140 Speaker 1: Literally. 135 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:44,360 Speaker 1: He literally, I believe, took Josh's recommendation. 136 00:08:44,780 --> 00:08:46,860 Speaker 1: So this is all on you, Josh and Kelly Golden. 137 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:50,540 Speaker 1: I give out your address, but I think everybody knows it already anyway. 138 00:08:52,340 --> 00:09:02,600 Speaker 1: But this morning, I simply want to encourage us in how we, as believers, have it already within us because Christ dwells within us. 139 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:09,580 Speaker 1: The same power that raised him from the dead dwells in every single believer according to scripture. 140 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:13,080 Speaker 1: Therefore, we can defeat the devil. 141 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:15,940 Speaker 1: and all of his minions. 142 00:09:17,220 --> 00:09:18,220 Speaker 1: And I'm sorry to use minions, 143 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:20,240 Speaker 1: because I know many of us think of the cute little yellow, 144 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:22,240 Speaker 1: you know, Cheeto-like things 145 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:24,280 Speaker 1: that have one or two eyes and they're cute and everything. 146 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:25,540 Speaker 1: But the reality of it is, 147 00:09:26,580 --> 00:09:32,720 Speaker 1: the devil himself doesn't have black horns and red skin and a tail. 148 00:09:34,560 --> 00:09:37,000 Speaker 1: It says he can make himself look like an angel of light. 149 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:39,140 Speaker 1: He makes himself very alluring. 150 00:09:40,660 --> 00:09:43,179 Speaker 1: And many of us, it's very silent in here right now 151 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:46,340 Speaker 1: because we've danced with the devil in the moonlight before. 152 00:09:48,020 --> 00:09:48,860 Speaker 1: But guess what, beloved? 153 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:52,280 Speaker 1: Greater is he that is in us than he that is in this world. 154 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:57,400 Speaker 1: And so I'm going to give you a couple little tidbits this morning 155 00:09:57,500 --> 00:09:59,800 Speaker 1: because you have a great teaching pastor. 156 00:09:59,940 --> 00:10:04,940 Speaker 1: And I love because being a Calvary Chapel saved, trained, 157 00:10:05,260 --> 00:10:08,200 Speaker 1: raised, ordained person were expositors, 158 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:10,440 Speaker 1: meaning that we go through verse by verse. 159 00:10:10,940 --> 00:10:11,960 Speaker 1: We go through books. 160 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:15,580 Speaker 1: And when you're a Calvary Chapel pastor visiting at someplace else, 161 00:10:16,419 --> 00:10:19,600 Speaker 1: you're often tempted just to do the book of Jude, right? 162 00:10:20,900 --> 00:10:23,620 Speaker 1: Or second or third John, right? 163 00:10:24,460 --> 00:10:26,860 Speaker 1: But I have found that the freedom that I have in Christ 164 00:10:27,020 --> 00:10:29,920 Speaker 1: is simply to go and do what he wants me to do. 165 00:10:30,020 --> 00:10:33,600 Speaker 1: And what he shared in my heart as I was coming this week and preparing was this. 166 00:10:33,700 --> 00:10:36,240 Speaker 1: And it's something that I speak about a lot, but not everywhere. 167 00:10:38,180 --> 00:10:41,680 Speaker 1: But there's something about what's going on right here in southeast Idaho. 168 00:10:43,380 --> 00:10:45,560 Speaker 1: your church is stepping to the forefront 169 00:10:45,980 --> 00:10:48,660 Speaker 1: to literally do battle with the devil directly 170 00:10:49,640 --> 00:10:50,940 Speaker 1: and all his minions. 171 00:10:52,040 --> 00:10:55,540 Speaker 1: And already, since I got here on Friday, 172 00:10:56,440 --> 00:10:59,540 Speaker 1: I have seen, and you have people walking among you 173 00:10:59,640 --> 00:11:00,840 Speaker 1: that this is their home church 174 00:11:01,620 --> 00:11:05,800 Speaker 1: that can testify to the training that I brought with me yesterday 175 00:11:07,220 --> 00:11:08,320 Speaker 1: is going to help you, 176 00:11:09,340 --> 00:11:11,019 Speaker 1: release your body 177 00:11:12,180 --> 00:11:18,780 Speaker 1: body of believers to be able to go out and to bring freedom in a way that it hasn't been brought 178 00:11:19,100 --> 00:11:25,020 Speaker 1: before. It's all in the glory of the name of Jesus. It's all to glorify him. But I tell you, 179 00:11:25,180 --> 00:11:33,680 Speaker 1: beloved, there are testimonies galore already from just 36 hours of being here, of people getting 180 00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:38,659 Speaker 1: freedom that they never thought they could have. And so if you're here this morning, and even when I prayed 181 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:44,920 Speaker 1: that prayer this morning, if all of a sudden maybe you're thinking clearer or hearing clearer 182 00:11:45,780 --> 00:11:50,660 Speaker 1: than when you came in this morning, you got to go see Josh, because he and Scotty and the church 183 00:11:50,680 --> 00:11:56,320 Speaker 1: are already trained to help you get ultimate and total freedom in those areas of your life. 184 00:11:57,500 --> 00:12:03,520 Speaker 1: Because it's not an anointing. It's literally what every believer has within us because we have 185 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:08,640 Speaker 1: the power of Christ in us. Do we not remember that our Jesus literally said that his followers 186 00:12:08,700 --> 00:12:16,900 Speaker 1: would do what? Lessor things than him? What did he say? Greater? What did he do? Oh, he only just 187 00:12:17,020 --> 00:12:25,260 Speaker 1: cast out demons, raised the dead, healed the lame, the blind. Those that couldn't hear? 188 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:33,360 Speaker 1: In my mind, greater means greater than those things. So my challenge to the church wherever I go is, 189 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:37,920 Speaker 1: are we even doing those things? And remember this. 190 00:12:38,600 --> 00:12:41,000 Speaker 1: if the person that just died in front of you as a believer, 191 00:12:41,280 --> 00:12:42,500 Speaker 1: don't try to raise them from the dead. 192 00:12:42,580 --> 00:12:43,380 Speaker 1: They're not going to be happy. 193 00:12:45,220 --> 00:12:47,820 Speaker 1: For those of us who have kids or you just like animated movies, 194 00:12:47,940 --> 00:12:50,620 Speaker 1: it's just like the scene in Ice Age, right? 195 00:12:51,040 --> 00:12:53,320 Speaker 1: Where the little squirrel that's always in the beginning 196 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:54,980 Speaker 1: trying to get to the gold made corn, 197 00:12:55,720 --> 00:12:58,460 Speaker 1: finally gets to the gold made corn because he's dead. 198 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:01,860 Speaker 1: But just as he's about to embrace that, which he worships, 199 00:13:02,420 --> 00:13:04,140 Speaker 1: all of a sudden he's being sucked backwards, 200 00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:07,120 Speaker 1: literally sucked out of where he wants to be, 201 00:13:07,760 --> 00:13:11,680 Speaker 1: And he twirls and stumbles and all of his, all of a bit just sucked back. 202 00:13:11,690 --> 00:13:12,960 Speaker 1: And all of a sudden he opens his eyes. 203 00:13:13,060 --> 00:13:16,200 Speaker 1: And there's Sid the Sloth, who had just given him CPR. 204 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:21,320 Speaker 1: And Sid the Sloth just literally goes, I saved you little buddy. 205 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:27,480 Speaker 1: Well, Sid the Sloth got a beaten because he was there. 206 00:13:27,700 --> 00:13:31,680 Speaker 1: I always tell people, especially in churches that don't know me, if I pass out and it appears 207 00:13:31,780 --> 00:13:36,640 Speaker 1: that I'm dead while the service is happening, do not resuscitate is on my forehead. 208 00:13:37,620 --> 00:13:41,840 Speaker 1: Just sing another praise song and leave and going, gosh, we can get home to the game early today. 209 00:13:43,500 --> 00:13:44,300 Speaker 1: Praise you, Jesus. 210 00:13:44,680 --> 00:13:44,880 Speaker 1: Yeah. 211 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:50,700 Speaker 1: Chapter 10 of 2 Corinthians, verse 1. 212 00:13:50,780 --> 00:13:53,480 Speaker 1: We're just going to go through six verses here and we'll get you out early. 213 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:55,560 Speaker 1: So it's one of those things as a guest speaker. 214 00:13:56,020 --> 00:14:00,640 Speaker 1: You can have the people like you by letting them out earlier than what the normal pastor does. 215 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:03,900 Speaker 1: Or you can go a half hour longer than the normal pastor does. 216 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:07,580 Speaker 1: And then the pastor will love you because nobody here will ever complain to him how long 217 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:08,280 Speaker 1: He teaches him. 218 00:14:09,700 --> 00:14:12,000 Speaker 1: I'm going to try to be on your side today. 219 00:14:13,620 --> 00:14:19,360 Speaker 1: Beginning at verse one, I, Paul, myself, entreat you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ. 220 00:14:20,100 --> 00:14:25,300 Speaker 1: I who am humble when face to face with you, but bold toward you when I am away. 221 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:31,860 Speaker 1: I beg of you when I am present, I may not have to show boldness with such confidence 222 00:14:31,980 --> 00:14:37,080 Speaker 1: as I count on showing against some who suspect us of walking according to the flesh. 223 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:43,920 Speaker 1: for though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. 224 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:51,340 Speaker 1: For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but have divine power to destroy strongholds. 225 00:14:51,940 --> 00:14:56,380 Speaker 1: We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God 226 00:14:56,920 --> 00:15:03,280 Speaker 1: and take every thought captive to obey Christ, being ready to punish every disobedience 227 00:15:03,880 --> 00:15:05,860 Speaker 1: when your obedience is complete. 228 00:15:06,540 --> 00:15:10,700 Speaker 1: Father, once again, thank you for your word that is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword. 229 00:15:10,820 --> 00:15:13,180 Speaker 1: It never returns void. 230 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:16,560 Speaker 1: It always accomplishes what you set it forth to do. 231 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:21,860 Speaker 1: So for my brothers and sisters that are here in person for those that are watching live stream 232 00:15:21,860 --> 00:15:30,100 Speaker 1: and those who will watch this later, would you be true to your word as you always are changes from the inside? 233 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:31,620 Speaker 1: I'll be praying, Jesus name. Amen. 234 00:15:33,139 --> 00:15:36,500 Speaker 1: So being a Calvary Chapel guy, there's no way I can go into chapter. 235 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:41,180 Speaker 1: of a book and not give you a little background. Here's the little background. Second 236 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:46,340 Speaker 1: Corinthians is a lot like Idaho Falls today. Corinth of that time is a lot like Idaho Falls today. 237 00:15:46,960 --> 00:15:53,100 Speaker 1: Now we can get into the word. Okay. Do you get it? This is not some place that is necessarily, 238 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:59,400 Speaker 1: oh, it's so different. It was a place where a lot of trade routes came through. There was a lot of 239 00:15:59,860 --> 00:16:06,480 Speaker 1: travel going through on the isthmus of Corinth. Everybody said that. Isseh 240 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:07,720 Speaker 1: Isthmus of Corinth. 241 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:10,440 Speaker 1: You know what Corinth was known for? 242 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:13,460 Speaker 1: They used to sing a song around December 25th 243 00:16:13,660 --> 00:16:16,420 Speaker 1: that kind of got brought in to the fellowship 244 00:16:17,419 --> 00:16:19,720 Speaker 1: once Constantine made Christianity, 245 00:16:20,180 --> 00:16:23,460 Speaker 1: the official church of the Roman Empire in the 300s. 246 00:16:23,500 --> 00:16:24,460 Speaker 1: You know what that song was? 247 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:26,620 Speaker 1: We wish you a merry isthmus. 248 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:32,760 Speaker 1: Free corn available. 249 00:16:32,940 --> 00:16:33,920 Speaker 1: I had 26 kids. 250 00:16:34,020 --> 00:16:34,260 Speaker 1: Come on. 251 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:35,839 Speaker 1: You got to do stuff to keep them occupied 252 00:16:35,860 --> 00:16:36,860 Speaker 1: and keep them entertained. 253 00:16:37,900 --> 00:16:39,860 Speaker 1: These people that were here, though, 254 00:16:42,140 --> 00:16:45,520 Speaker 1: were known for their pleasure-loving. 255 00:16:47,420 --> 00:16:49,660 Speaker 1: The Temple of Aphrodite was here. 256 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:51,540 Speaker 1: Maybe you've heard of that before. 257 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:58,860 Speaker 1: Literally religious rituals involving sex 258 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:02,300 Speaker 1: with temple, priests, and prostitutes, 259 00:17:02,980 --> 00:17:04,380 Speaker 1: were normal at the time. 260 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:08,160 Speaker 1: So maybe it's a little bit worse off than Idaho Falls. 261 00:17:08,319 --> 00:17:09,020 Speaker 1: Okay, I get it. 262 00:17:09,699 --> 00:17:10,860 Speaker 1: But the reality of it is 263 00:17:10,980 --> 00:17:13,959 Speaker 1: is that there's so much sexual deviancy going on 264 00:17:14,140 --> 00:17:15,199 Speaker 1: within our world right now, 265 00:17:15,500 --> 00:17:16,760 Speaker 1: and especially at high levels, 266 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:20,760 Speaker 1: it's a lot like it is everywhere in the world right now. 267 00:17:21,439 --> 00:17:22,959 Speaker 1: One of the things that we do at all things possible, 268 00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:25,319 Speaker 1: we have a protecting children's innocence task force. 269 00:17:25,819 --> 00:17:28,640 Speaker 1: We focus on helping police in the United States of America 270 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:30,060 Speaker 1: hunt pedophiles. 271 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:32,120 Speaker 1: Yeah. 272 00:17:35,420 --> 00:17:42,060 Speaker 1: Because of the past generations of leadership in states and at the federal level, 273 00:17:42,940 --> 00:17:46,400 Speaker 1: there was this thing you might have heard it before called defund the police. 274 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:50,160 Speaker 1: Well, it happened a lot. 275 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:58,180 Speaker 1: And because the funding for so many things that were considered not necessarily beneficial, 276 00:17:58,500 --> 00:17:59,520 Speaker 1: the money went away. 277 00:18:00,780 --> 00:18:03,780 Speaker 1: And if you talk to your local law, I mean, how many of you here? 278 00:18:03,980 --> 00:18:06,380 Speaker 1: I would imagine there's at least one police officer here 279 00:18:06,940 --> 00:18:08,200 Speaker 1: that's here because you choose to be here. 280 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:15,940 Speaker 1: Do we have any active duty, LE here, police, sheriffs, FBI, HSI? 281 00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:18,480 Speaker 1: Undercover. 282 00:18:18,580 --> 00:18:20,560 Speaker 1: If you're undercover here, don't raise your hand. 283 00:18:22,120 --> 00:18:22,900 Speaker 1: Oh, I see you. 284 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:23,900 Speaker 1: Okay, yeah. 285 00:18:27,560 --> 00:18:30,640 Speaker 1: There's a dear guy from northeast Maine. 286 00:18:32,220 --> 00:18:33,780 Speaker 1: Gosh, I just lost his name, but he's just. 287 00:18:34,120 --> 00:18:35,720 Speaker 1: famous for saying he's a pastor he says 288 00:18:36,380 --> 00:18:37,700 Speaker 1: I'm always packing when I'm preaching 289 00:18:37,900 --> 00:18:39,620 Speaker 1: because I've got my Glock for the flock 290 00:18:41,620 --> 00:18:43,600 Speaker 1: I pity the fool that 291 00:18:43,700 --> 00:18:45,660 Speaker 1: comes in and tries to do something to my 292 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:47,700 Speaker 1: sheep I said oh I love that 293 00:18:48,100 --> 00:18:48,840 Speaker 1: love that 294 00:18:50,380 --> 00:18:51,720 Speaker 1: I don't have a cool 295 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:53,220 Speaker 1: saying for my SIG 296 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:55,740 Speaker 1: you know there's nothing about the church 297 00:18:56,040 --> 00:18:57,420 Speaker 1: like my SIG for my pig 298 00:18:57,580 --> 00:18:58,840 Speaker 1: you know it's not quite the same 299 00:18:59,380 --> 00:18:59,620 Speaker 1: right 300 00:19:00,940 --> 00:19:02,040 Speaker 1: but here we are this morning 301 00:19:02,360 --> 00:19:03,760 Speaker 1: understanding that the background 302 00:19:03,780 --> 00:19:08,940 Speaker 1: setting for this is not something that we need to go into depth to understand what Paul is saying 303 00:19:09,180 --> 00:19:13,820 Speaker 1: here. Because what he's trying to tell them is even though there are people saying that, hey, 304 00:19:14,580 --> 00:19:20,900 Speaker 1: when I'm with you, I'm nice, but when I'm away from you, I'm really bold and how I write really 305 00:19:21,140 --> 00:19:26,280 Speaker 1: harsh things to you. That's what he's saying in those first couple of verses. He goes, well, 306 00:19:26,360 --> 00:19:32,300 Speaker 1: the reality of it is, is I don't want to have the time when I'm with you, the short amount of time, 307 00:19:32,700 --> 00:19:34,680 Speaker 1: to berate you and belittle you. 308 00:19:35,100 --> 00:19:37,280 Speaker 1: And so when I'm with you, I'm trying to encourage you, 309 00:19:37,820 --> 00:19:38,860 Speaker 1: trying to build you up. 310 00:19:38,940 --> 00:19:45,940 Speaker 1: But when I'm away, I will address the things that you are doing wrong very directly. 311 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:52,600 Speaker 1: But this is what he wants to talk about in this writing to them that they're doing wrong. 312 00:19:53,100 --> 00:20:00,040 Speaker 1: Verse three, for though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. 313 00:20:00,120 --> 00:20:01,440 Speaker 1: Everybody say waging war. 314 00:20:02,540 --> 00:20:06,820 Speaker 1: When was the last time you thought of your faith in Jesus as a wage of war? 315 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:14,780 Speaker 1: If we're not realizing we're in a war, are we even in the war? 316 00:20:17,660 --> 00:20:23,580 Speaker 1: I have been blessed since 2015 to be in the war against ISIS about 20 different times, 317 00:20:25,120 --> 00:20:27,860 Speaker 1: embedded with both the Iraqi and the Peshmerga army. 318 00:20:28,460 --> 00:20:29,520 Speaker 1: I've seen it up front. 319 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:30,540 Speaker 1: I've seen it up close. 320 00:20:31,360 --> 00:20:37,100 Speaker 1: and I've seen it where they're just tripping out on the fact that, hey, crazy Americans, 321 00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:42,460 Speaker 1: you're not like exactly here to kill like we are. 322 00:20:42,860 --> 00:20:45,780 Speaker 1: You don't necessarily have all of the equipment either. 323 00:20:47,020 --> 00:20:49,420 Speaker 1: I actually don't see like a weapon on you. 324 00:20:50,260 --> 00:20:51,140 Speaker 1: Why are you here? 325 00:20:52,620 --> 00:20:55,480 Speaker 1: Because you're here to set captives free, and when you set them free, 326 00:20:55,580 --> 00:20:58,080 Speaker 1: you don't have anything to love on them with. 327 00:20:58,300 --> 00:20:59,480 Speaker 1: You've got no basic stuff. 328 00:20:59,580 --> 00:21:00,240 Speaker 1: You've got no water. 329 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:02,560 Speaker 1: You've got no milk for the babies. 330 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:07,480 Speaker 1: Because there's literally, we're watching people get set free by the droves and they're coming out. 331 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:08,680 Speaker 1: And they're so excited. 332 00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:11,320 Speaker 1: But now with this freedom, where do they go? 333 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:12,420 Speaker 1: What do they do? 334 00:21:13,460 --> 00:21:15,500 Speaker 1: And sure enough, that's what we were there for. 335 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:19,520 Speaker 1: And they would look at us and they'd go, you're Christian. 336 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:20,260 Speaker 1: Yes? 337 00:21:20,700 --> 00:21:21,080 Speaker 1: Say yes. 338 00:21:21,580 --> 00:21:22,820 Speaker 1: You know we're Muslim, right? 339 00:21:23,140 --> 00:21:23,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, we know you're Muslim. 340 00:21:24,780 --> 00:21:25,860 Speaker 1: And you still want to help us? 341 00:21:26,300 --> 00:21:26,840 Speaker 1: God loves you. 342 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:27,660 Speaker 1: We love you. 343 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:36,140 Speaker 1: it's how the world finds out that the god of the universe the real god loves them even right where 344 00:21:36,180 --> 00:21:38,580 Speaker 1: they're at but he loves them so much he doesn't want to leave them where they're at 345 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:45,420 Speaker 1: sometimes people would ask victor hey i notice that you're wearing like an a k in the pictures 346 00:21:45,580 --> 00:21:52,980 Speaker 1: of you guys ministering over there and victor would say yes and people would say well is that like 347 00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:57,680 Speaker 1: real official ministry if you have to wear an AK don't you trust that 348 00:21:57,700 --> 00:21:58,760 Speaker 1: that God will take care of you? 349 00:21:59,960 --> 00:22:01,440 Speaker 1: I loved it one of the first times I saw him 350 00:22:01,820 --> 00:22:03,540 Speaker 1: after service when somebody actually approached him 351 00:22:03,540 --> 00:22:04,400 Speaker 1: and said that Victor says, 352 00:22:04,580 --> 00:22:06,580 Speaker 1: do you lock your door on your house at night? 353 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:10,780 Speaker 1: What does that have to do with it? 354 00:22:12,700 --> 00:22:14,340 Speaker 1: Well, when I'm over in places 355 00:22:14,460 --> 00:22:15,860 Speaker 1: where people want to shoot at me, 356 00:22:16,780 --> 00:22:17,600 Speaker 1: I want to be able, 357 00:22:17,820 --> 00:22:18,840 Speaker 1: if they're shooting at me 358 00:22:18,870 --> 00:22:20,060 Speaker 1: and possibly going to hurt somebody 359 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:22,440 Speaker 1: that's indefensible behind me, 360 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:24,060 Speaker 1: I want to be able to shoot back to protect them. 361 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:25,720 Speaker 1: I think that's the same reason 362 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:27,160 Speaker 1: why you lock your door at night, right? 363 00:22:27,260 --> 00:22:29,820 Speaker 1: just in case somebody wants to try and come and hurt your family? 364 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:35,060 Speaker 1: And if they come in, do you actually maybe have a weapon that's loaded near your bed 365 00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:37,640 Speaker 1: so that you can actually defend your family? 366 00:22:38,500 --> 00:22:38,760 Speaker 1: Right? 367 00:22:39,620 --> 00:22:42,160 Speaker 1: Beloved, this is what's going on in the physical realm, 368 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:46,320 Speaker 1: but do we understand that there's literally a war waging in the spiritual realm 369 00:22:47,340 --> 00:22:49,840 Speaker 1: for the souls of people? 370 00:22:51,860 --> 00:22:54,680 Speaker 1: There's a spiritual war waging to make those of us 371 00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:57,220 Speaker 1: who have already been sealed with the promise of the Holy Spirit, 372 00:22:57,700 --> 00:22:59,660 Speaker 1: to not let our little light shine. 373 00:23:03,020 --> 00:23:08,620 Speaker 1: There are demonic entities that are literally speaking lies into our brain so that we will hide it 374 00:23:08,740 --> 00:23:09,580 Speaker 1: under a bushel. 375 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:18,620 Speaker 1: And I'm here to tell you today, we have everything we need to defeat that plan of the enemy. 376 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:22,980 Speaker 1: Because right here in verse 3, we see that Paul tells us under the unction of the spirit 377 00:23:23,380 --> 00:23:27,020 Speaker 1: that though we are walking in the flesh, we don't wage war. 378 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:35,140 Speaker 1: according to the flesh. Why? For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but have divine power 379 00:23:35,380 --> 00:23:43,620 Speaker 1: to what? Destroy strongholds. And this is where it gets a little, you know, a little tough for people to 380 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:50,160 Speaker 1: understand because sometimes the thought that a Christian can have a stronghold jumps into 381 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:55,640 Speaker 1: wrong theology would say, oh, you mean that they're possessed by the devil? No. 382 00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:06,020 Speaker 1: not at all how many of you here would admit the fact that there's sometimes thoughts that come to your mind 383 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:11,220 Speaker 1: that you have no idea where they came from and they are nasty and ugly and evil 384 00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:20,220 Speaker 1: hmm hmm steve's better nine-tenths just said it's pretty normal for her 385 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:25,700 Speaker 1: oh she's talking for steve sorry she said it's pretty normal for steve 386 00:24:25,980 --> 00:24:26,180 Speaker 1: Sorry. 387 00:24:27,420 --> 00:24:28,820 Speaker 1: Hey, guess what, beloved? 388 00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:30,220 Speaker 1: What does that tell us? 389 00:24:30,340 --> 00:24:31,480 Speaker 1: Where is the battlefield? 390 00:24:32,260 --> 00:24:37,280 Speaker 1: Where's the war waging for the enemy trying to get influence on the life of the church? 391 00:24:40,900 --> 00:24:47,880 Speaker 1: There's all these amazing, cool Christian kids' songs that speak such truth to spiritual warfare. 392 00:24:48,500 --> 00:24:51,120 Speaker 1: Like, be careful little eyes what you see. 393 00:24:51,940 --> 00:24:53,860 Speaker 1: Be careful little ears what you hear. 394 00:24:54,740 --> 00:24:56,740 Speaker 1: For the Father up above is looking down in love. 395 00:24:56,960 --> 00:24:57,700 Speaker 1: So be careful. 396 00:24:58,040 --> 00:24:58,800 Speaker 1: Why do you have to be careful? 397 00:24:58,900 --> 00:25:01,340 Speaker 1: Because this is where the enemy is trying to get a foothold 398 00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:05,020 Speaker 1: into our lives so he can build a stronghold. 399 00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:16,420 Speaker 1: In America, we've seen that this has been a very effective form of warfare, 400 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:21,780 Speaker 1: especially against men, using these types of things 401 00:25:22,860 --> 00:25:24,460 Speaker 1: and these things that we sit behind 402 00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:28,280 Speaker 1: that you can watch things that God only designed 403 00:25:28,360 --> 00:25:29,680 Speaker 1: that you were supposed to have with your wife 404 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:31,280 Speaker 1: and you can watch things that were never designed 405 00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:32,200 Speaker 1: to happen with anybody. 406 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:36,140 Speaker 1: And we get sucked in. 407 00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:40,260 Speaker 1: And we allow the enemy to get a foothold. 408 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:42,960 Speaker 1: And what does the enemy do with a foothold? 409 00:25:43,100 --> 00:25:45,100 Speaker 1: He builds a stronghold. 410 00:25:46,220 --> 00:25:48,920 Speaker 1: And if we don't deal with the footholes and the strongholds, 411 00:25:49,140 --> 00:25:50,340 Speaker 1: what does that do to us? 412 00:25:52,820 --> 00:25:56,100 Speaker 1: it basically takes the temple of God that each one of us is, 413 00:25:57,500 --> 00:26:00,240 Speaker 1: doesn't give it over to the enemy like he gets to own it, 414 00:26:00,300 --> 00:26:03,320 Speaker 1: but he gets free rent in some rooms. 415 00:26:03,660 --> 00:26:06,720 Speaker 1: Would we agree that that's maybe a good way to look at it? 416 00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:10,040 Speaker 1: And if you don't think that's a good way to look at it, 417 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:14,000 Speaker 1: this afternoon go read Nehemiah chapter 13 418 00:26:14,210 --> 00:26:17,740 Speaker 1: and see what the high priest of the temple named Elia Shib 419 00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:19,180 Speaker 1: did back then. 420 00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:23,680 Speaker 1: when he allowed his daughter to marry Tobiah the Ammonite 421 00:26:23,860 --> 00:26:27,600 Speaker 1: and then took a couple of the rooms that were in God's temple 422 00:26:27,740 --> 00:26:29,480 Speaker 1: and cleared him out and let Tobiah live there, 423 00:26:29,540 --> 00:26:31,920 Speaker 1: even though God had said there will be no Ammonite 424 00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:34,720 Speaker 1: in the congregation of Israel for up to 10 generations 425 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:37,220 Speaker 1: for the evil that they did against my people. 426 00:26:38,460 --> 00:26:41,180 Speaker 1: So here he is the high priest of God's temple 427 00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:43,800 Speaker 1: going directly against what God said 428 00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:49,000 Speaker 1: for the sake of a political alliance with their enemies, 429 00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:54,260 Speaker 1: and then totally lambasting God's holiness 430 00:26:55,300 --> 00:26:57,260 Speaker 1: by clearing out a couple of the rooms 431 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:01,200 Speaker 1: in the temple that he was the high priest over 432 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:04,840 Speaker 1: and allowing that what shouldn't have been there to be there. 433 00:27:05,100 --> 00:27:07,980 Speaker 1: Does that possibly sound kind of like maybe some of the things 434 00:27:08,060 --> 00:27:10,460 Speaker 1: that we do with some of the things that are out there 435 00:27:10,460 --> 00:27:11,880 Speaker 1: in our culture that are acceptable? 436 00:27:13,420 --> 00:27:14,940 Speaker 1: Or even things that aren't acceptable? 437 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:16,880 Speaker 1: That's what happens. 438 00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:18,840 Speaker 1: So if we give over a little bit of the, 439 00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:22,920 Speaker 1: room of our holiness. And guess what? Our lights don't shine as bright as they can. 440 00:27:23,900 --> 00:27:28,040 Speaker 1: People don't necessarily see that we're different in our lifestyles. And this is one of the 441 00:27:28,180 --> 00:27:31,840 Speaker 1: areas that the enemy's been very effective. And that's trying to get us to believe that 442 00:27:32,060 --> 00:27:35,520 Speaker 1: the church needs to be more like the world in order for the world to come to the church. 443 00:27:38,140 --> 00:27:45,299 Speaker 1: Actually, beloved, it's just the opposite. Ask anybody currently who used to be of the world 444 00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:47,020 Speaker 1: why they didn't come to church, 445 00:27:47,340 --> 00:27:50,260 Speaker 1: and often you'll hear because they were just a bunch of hypocrites. 446 00:27:50,660 --> 00:27:54,260 Speaker 1: They did everything that I did when I wasn't a believer, 447 00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:55,860 Speaker 1: and maybe even worse. 448 00:27:57,900 --> 00:27:58,660 Speaker 1: We need to understand. 449 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:00,880 Speaker 1: This is what God wants from us, beloved. 450 00:28:01,020 --> 00:28:04,940 Speaker 1: As his body, we need to be holy because he calls us to be holy. 451 00:28:06,140 --> 00:28:08,340 Speaker 1: And he gives us all the tools to be holy. 452 00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:12,180 Speaker 1: But we have to meet him in this process, 453 00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:13,780 Speaker 1: in this work of sanctification. 454 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:18,940 Speaker 1: We destroy arguments. 455 00:28:20,360 --> 00:28:25,000 Speaker 1: Verse 5, and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God 456 00:28:25,620 --> 00:28:28,640 Speaker 1: and take every thought captive to obey Christ. 457 00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:34,660 Speaker 1: Anybody had a political argument recently with somebody? 458 00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:37,320 Speaker 1: And it didn't necessarily need to be argument. 459 00:28:38,100 --> 00:28:40,840 Speaker 1: Because an argument literally is just a discussion 460 00:28:42,020 --> 00:28:43,600 Speaker 1: between people that don't agree. 461 00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:49,460 Speaker 1: An argument can go to an extreme of a heated argument. 462 00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:52,600 Speaker 1: So if you've just had an argument, 463 00:28:53,180 --> 00:28:55,500 Speaker 1: a discussion with somebody lately about something political, 464 00:28:55,940 --> 00:28:56,740 Speaker 1: raise your hand lately. 465 00:28:57,640 --> 00:28:57,820 Speaker 1: Yeah. 466 00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:01,220 Speaker 1: How many of us have had arguments lately 467 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:03,060 Speaker 1: about something spiritual with somebody? 468 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:05,060 Speaker 1: Oh, good. 469 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:05,940 Speaker 1: Yes. 470 00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:09,860 Speaker 1: This is how people get challenged 471 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:12,480 Speaker 1: about what they're thinking not being correct, 472 00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:14,500 Speaker 1: is that we have a dialogue. 473 00:29:14,780 --> 00:29:17,260 Speaker 1: Now, I want to strongly encourage you, 474 00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:19,480 Speaker 1: make sure that when you're having the arguments 475 00:29:19,660 --> 00:29:20,820 Speaker 1: about the things of the Lord, 476 00:29:21,420 --> 00:29:23,920 Speaker 1: that you are always the one that's the most calm. 477 00:29:26,260 --> 00:29:28,240 Speaker 1: That's not easy, is it sometimes? 478 00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:30,720 Speaker 1: That is not easy. 479 00:29:31,700 --> 00:29:32,660 Speaker 1: But I do know this. 480 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:35,380 Speaker 1: The scripture tells us that the wrath of man 481 00:29:35,500 --> 00:29:37,580 Speaker 1: does not produce the righteousness of God. 482 00:29:38,940 --> 00:29:40,700 Speaker 1: I have never met anybody that said, 483 00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:42,460 Speaker 1: my testimony is me and my best friend. 484 00:29:42,700 --> 00:29:46,100 Speaker 1: He used to yell at me all the time about how wrong I was about Jesus. 485 00:29:46,540 --> 00:29:48,800 Speaker 1: And then eventually, yeah, that brought me home. 486 00:29:49,060 --> 00:29:50,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, that brought me to Jesus. 487 00:29:52,620 --> 00:29:54,220 Speaker 1: Actually, in Romans it says, 488 00:29:54,580 --> 00:29:58,500 Speaker 1: it's the kindness of God that leads us to repentance. 489 00:30:00,180 --> 00:30:02,460 Speaker 1: How do people see the kindness of God 490 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:05,220 Speaker 1: if the people in his church are mean to them? 491 00:30:07,500 --> 00:30:08,020 Speaker 1: They don't. 492 00:30:09,180 --> 00:30:14,220 Speaker 1: beloved this is what we're called to do we're called to be the light of the world and is this stuff 493 00:30:14,350 --> 00:30:23,180 Speaker 1: easy absolutely not i am samoan welsh irish and chinese that is a formula for a grade a temper 494 00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:35,720 Speaker 1: and it exists only when i yield to my flesh because god wants to take that response that gives me 495 00:30:35,700 --> 00:30:44,780 Speaker 1: natural, you know, divine indignation, you know, holy indignation about things that God hates as well. 496 00:30:45,460 --> 00:30:51,560 Speaker 1: But then he wants to take and move me from there to lean into my spirit and allow that to 497 00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:57,460 Speaker 1: motivate you to be able to speak what I want you to speak, how I want you to speak it. 498 00:30:59,220 --> 00:31:00,240 Speaker 1: That's the hard part, beloved. 499 00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:04,080 Speaker 1: But understand, we have that ability, don't we? 500 00:31:05,700 --> 00:31:08,760 Speaker 1: we don't personally, but how do we have that ability? 501 00:31:10,740 --> 00:31:11,840 Speaker 1: Jesus help me. 502 00:31:14,820 --> 00:31:18,500 Speaker 1: There's oftentimes when we find ourselves having to throw up the quick prayer. 503 00:31:19,260 --> 00:31:19,740 Speaker 1: It's okay. 504 00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:21,480 Speaker 1: Go back and read Nehemiah chapter one. 505 00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:23,900 Speaker 1: You'll see that guy threw up a quick prayer. 506 00:31:24,500 --> 00:31:26,480 Speaker 1: He didn't tell the king, let me get back to you 507 00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:28,540 Speaker 1: after I go and pray and fast for a week. 508 00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:33,400 Speaker 1: Because sometimes you have to be God's representative on the spot 509 00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:35,460 Speaker 1: when you weren't thinking that you're going to have to be it. 510 00:31:36,180 --> 00:31:40,000 Speaker 1: So you throw up the quick prayer and you speak slowly 511 00:31:40,820 --> 00:31:44,140 Speaker 1: and you encourage them to talk so that you can listen. 512 00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:46,240 Speaker 1: And while you're listening within yourself, 513 00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:48,560 Speaker 1: you're praying to God, give me wisdom and I want to say 514 00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:50,480 Speaker 1: and how to say it and what not to say. 515 00:31:51,700 --> 00:31:54,740 Speaker 1: Because if we do that, we get empowered to be able to do what, 516 00:31:55,020 --> 00:31:56,180 Speaker 1: to destroy the arguments. 517 00:31:57,520 --> 00:31:59,920 Speaker 1: Because the arguments are often based on the fact 518 00:31:59,980 --> 00:32:01,320 Speaker 1: that it's a lofty opinion. 519 00:32:02,540 --> 00:32:06,340 Speaker 1: Because there's so many people out there that literally think they know better than the God of Scripture. 520 00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:13,620 Speaker 1: And beloved, I'm here to tell you that sometimes saraly that some of those people are actually as children. 521 00:32:16,780 --> 00:32:25,760 Speaker 1: We all need to be able to humble ourselves before Almighty God and admit the fact that he's the only one who knows everything that's going on. 522 00:32:26,900 --> 00:32:32,040 Speaker 1: And if we will lean into him and if we'll yield to our own understanding and lean on his understanding, 523 00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:32,760 Speaker 1: And guess what? 524 00:32:33,500 --> 00:32:35,880 Speaker 1: We can experience his victory right there and then. 525 00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:40,080 Speaker 1: But this last part of verse 5, 526 00:32:41,060 --> 00:32:44,200 Speaker 1: taking every thought captive to obey Christ. 527 00:32:45,020 --> 00:32:47,400 Speaker 1: Now, the vast majority of us raised our hands 528 00:32:48,180 --> 00:32:49,820 Speaker 1: when we, and I asked the question, 529 00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:53,200 Speaker 1: do we ever get thoughts that come to hear that are like, 530 00:32:53,380 --> 00:32:54,340 Speaker 1: we know they're evil? 531 00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:57,580 Speaker 1: Well, what do we do when those thoughts come like that? 532 00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:02,040 Speaker 1: Literally lift up that shield of faith 533 00:33:02,060 --> 00:33:03,600 Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus, I rebuke that thought. 534 00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:06,140 Speaker 1: Now I'm going to encourage some of you to start doing that out loud. 535 00:33:06,860 --> 00:33:10,060 Speaker 1: Now, I'm not necessarily saying out loud that you've got to scream at so that in the middle of 536 00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:16,300 Speaker 1: Walmart while you're going down and get your can of baked beans to have with your hot dogs 537 00:33:16,500 --> 00:33:18,260 Speaker 1: that night that you like or are you screaming. 538 00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:20,540 Speaker 1: I rebuke that thought in the name of Jesus. 539 00:33:24,020 --> 00:33:25,300 Speaker 1: That'll clear the aisles, yes. 540 00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:29,580 Speaker 1: If you're going to do that, wait until you're actually in line to check out. 541 00:33:29,780 --> 00:33:31,420 Speaker 1: Do that and then it'll clear and you can get out. 542 00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:39,800 Speaker 1: but we have to realize that though we are walking in the temporal world here, 543 00:33:40,860 --> 00:33:42,960 Speaker 1: this stuff is not the real world. 544 00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:45,140 Speaker 1: This all burns. 545 00:33:46,020 --> 00:33:50,380 Speaker 1: The real world literally, C.S. Lewis used to refer to it as something that was like a parallel 546 00:33:50,780 --> 00:33:52,760 Speaker 1: universe that we're walking along. 547 00:33:52,820 --> 00:33:57,180 Speaker 1: And sometimes God gives us the blessing of maybe getting a foot inside the eternal realm. 548 00:33:58,220 --> 00:34:01,420 Speaker 1: And he brings us back here because there's so much stuff in there 549 00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:05,300 Speaker 1: that is so beyond us and some of it's so good and some of it's so evil that we just couldn't 550 00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:11,300 Speaker 1: handle it. But we need to understand is that we have the ability when these things come 551 00:34:11,399 --> 00:34:20,080 Speaker 1: because those fiery dots, fiery darts of the enemy, their thoughts usually, and their thoughts 552 00:34:20,220 --> 00:34:29,060 Speaker 1: usually that are based in lies and they are wrapped in the bacon of sin that we have succumbed to 553 00:34:29,100 --> 00:34:29,480 Speaker 1: before. 554 00:34:30,940 --> 00:34:32,120 Speaker 1: Never thought of it that way before. 555 00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:33,179 Speaker 1: The bacon of sin, 556 00:34:33,300 --> 00:34:35,159 Speaker 1: because, man, you wrap bacon around anything 557 00:34:35,230 --> 00:34:36,720 Speaker 1: and all of a sudden it tastes good, right? 558 00:34:37,540 --> 00:34:38,700 Speaker 1: Whatever your least favorite 559 00:34:39,060 --> 00:34:40,879 Speaker 1: vegetable it is, for those of you who like those 560 00:34:41,220 --> 00:34:42,960 Speaker 1: little small cabbage things that they 561 00:34:43,100 --> 00:34:45,040 Speaker 1: call something different, but they're only just many cabbages. 562 00:34:45,179 --> 00:34:45,840 Speaker 1: What are those things called? 563 00:34:46,720 --> 00:34:49,139 Speaker 1: Brousel. Oh, nastiness. 564 00:34:49,300 --> 00:34:50,419 Speaker 1: But you wrap those things in bacon. 565 00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:51,840 Speaker 1: Oh, I'll eat those all day long. 566 00:34:53,179 --> 00:34:54,800 Speaker 1: This is the way the enemy works, though. 567 00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:56,899 Speaker 1: That's what rat poison is, right? 568 00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:59,020 Speaker 1: 98% stuff that is five. 569 00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:01,880 Speaker 1: and good to a rat and 2% of the stuff, it'll kill him. 570 00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:04,300 Speaker 1: This is what the enemy does. 571 00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:09,140 Speaker 1: He wraps the lies that he sends your way 572 00:35:10,660 --> 00:35:13,140 Speaker 1: in the bacon of whatever it is 573 00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:14,880 Speaker 1: that'll get you to take it. 574 00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:17,620 Speaker 1: We simply need to lift our shield of faith 575 00:35:17,720 --> 00:35:19,760 Speaker 1: and say, not to day Satan, no. 576 00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:22,300 Speaker 1: And I claim the truth of God, 577 00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:23,640 Speaker 1: and I claim the name of Jesus, 578 00:35:23,670 --> 00:35:26,000 Speaker 1: and I claim the blood of Jesus to stop that. 579 00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:32,480 Speaker 1: But sometimes you might need a little bit more help from a brother or sister to simply come along 580 00:35:33,140 --> 00:35:39,180 Speaker 1: and help determine whether or not you have this cloud of negative witnesses following you. 581 00:35:39,720 --> 00:35:42,460 Speaker 1: Like, anybody remember, Pigpen from the Charlie Browns? 582 00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:44,040 Speaker 1: Yeah. 583 00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:51,060 Speaker 1: Pigpen had this horrific cloud of dirt because he never bathed and never took care of himself. 584 00:35:51,700 --> 00:35:57,980 Speaker 1: And it became almost like his badge of honor that he didn't realize how dirty and filthy he was. 585 00:35:59,100 --> 00:36:04,580 Speaker 1: beloved that can be us in the spiritual realm just going through not even realizing that we have this 586 00:36:04,820 --> 00:36:11,340 Speaker 1: negative cloud of witnesses that are there and they've been messing with you're here and you have 587 00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:18,060 Speaker 1: been lied to that you cannot tell anybody especially at church because they will think less of you 588 00:36:19,420 --> 00:36:24,000 Speaker 1: I'm here to tell you if that's a lie that you've been dealing with you need to go see pastor 589 00:36:24,020 --> 00:36:30,300 Speaker 1: Mr. Scotty, Pastor Josh, and they'll help you get rid of those demonic entities that are 590 00:36:30,500 --> 00:36:40,760 Speaker 1: literally feeding those lines in your pig pen cloud of negative influence. Because it's available to us 591 00:36:40,940 --> 00:36:47,960 Speaker 1: because of what Jesus has done and what he has given us in his spirit. And then we close today 592 00:36:48,060 --> 00:36:53,960 Speaker 1: with being ready to punish every disobedience when your obedience is complete. This isn't about us, 593 00:36:55,240 --> 00:37:00,160 Speaker 1: punishing disobedience. This is about the spirit of the Lord. Who is the only one that is able to 594 00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:09,520 Speaker 1: righteously judge? Jesus. We have to, as the body, realize that there's some people in this world 595 00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:16,340 Speaker 1: that we cannot stand, and maybe you even use the H word that ends with E, and has two letters 596 00:37:16,490 --> 00:37:23,960 Speaker 1: in between it, that's a prepositional word. Those people 597 00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:25,340 Speaker 1: aren't our enemy. 598 00:37:28,220 --> 00:37:29,420 Speaker 1: They were made in the image of God. 599 00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:31,800 Speaker 1: You know what God says about him, 600 00:37:31,900 --> 00:37:33,220 Speaker 1: both Old Testament and New Testament? 601 00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:35,100 Speaker 1: I take no delight in the death of the wicked, 602 00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:36,120 Speaker 1: saith the Lord, 603 00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:38,680 Speaker 1: but my desire is that all would come to repentance, 604 00:37:38,860 --> 00:37:40,740 Speaker 1: Ezekiel 33, and then you come over into Peter. 605 00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:43,120 Speaker 1: The Lord's not slack concerning slackness, 606 00:37:43,180 --> 00:37:44,380 Speaker 1: as some consider slackness, 607 00:37:45,720 --> 00:37:47,040 Speaker 1: but he doesn't want any to perish, 608 00:37:47,240 --> 00:37:48,240 Speaker 1: therefore he's long-suffering. 609 00:37:49,240 --> 00:37:50,480 Speaker 1: So, beloved, we need to understand. 610 00:37:50,940 --> 00:37:53,120 Speaker 1: It's all a spiritual battle. 611 00:37:54,220 --> 00:37:58,840 Speaker 1: and we have been lied to by the enemy for so long that number one, he doesn't exist, 612 00:37:59,660 --> 00:38:03,800 Speaker 1: and that number two, everything's his fault. 613 00:38:05,380 --> 00:38:08,080 Speaker 1: How many of you remember Flip Wilson back in the 70s? 614 00:38:09,060 --> 00:38:10,600 Speaker 1: The devil made me do it. 615 00:38:12,260 --> 00:38:13,500 Speaker 1: What was he doing back then? 616 00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:18,560 Speaker 1: He was ridiculing the church who at that time had basically tried to blame the devil 617 00:38:18,610 --> 00:38:20,800 Speaker 1: for everything that was happening in their life, 618 00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:24,740 Speaker 1: when so much of it was simply us getting the repercussions of what we were choosing. 619 00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:27,960 Speaker 1: And rightfully so, he was making fun of the church. 620 00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:29,480 Speaker 1: But the church now needs to understand. 621 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:31,420 Speaker 1: There are some things that the enemy is doing, 622 00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:34,060 Speaker 1: and there's some things the enemy is just coercing you to do, 623 00:38:35,500 --> 00:38:38,680 Speaker 1: and you're taking the bait, hookline, and sinker. 624 00:38:40,460 --> 00:38:41,540 Speaker 1: So beloved this morning, 625 00:38:43,060 --> 00:38:44,620 Speaker 1: I'm sent to you by God. 626 00:38:44,700 --> 00:38:48,500 Speaker 1: I don't know if Scotty will ever want me back after you talk to him. 627 00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:50,800 Speaker 1: But the reality is, God is speaking to many of them. 628 00:38:50,820 --> 00:38:57,180 Speaker 1: you today about a challenge that he's given each and every one of us concerning where we're at 629 00:38:57,180 --> 00:39:03,400 Speaker 1: and our walk with him and what we're willing to do to get it to a better and deeper level of 630 00:39:03,460 --> 00:39:10,960 Speaker 1: what he really wants from us. So as the worship guys come up, look at that, Steve landing the 631 00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:19,440 Speaker 1: plane a little early. Welcome. Yeah, they're like, what? 632 00:39:23,060 --> 00:39:27,160 Speaker 1: If you're here this morning, or you're watching the live stream, 633 00:39:27,660 --> 00:39:30,460 Speaker 1: or you're watching this later as it's recorded, 634 00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:35,200 Speaker 1: and you don't know the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, 635 00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:38,180 Speaker 1: and something got through to you today, 636 00:39:38,260 --> 00:39:41,440 Speaker 1: and you realize today is the day of salvation for you, 637 00:39:42,780 --> 00:39:43,960 Speaker 1: make your peace with them right now. 638 00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:47,440 Speaker 1: There's no magic words to say. 639 00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:48,820 Speaker 1: He's listening to your heart. 640 00:39:49,820 --> 00:39:54,440 Speaker 1: but just in a little guidance all you simply need to do is acknowledge the fact that you know that you're a sinner 641 00:39:55,480 --> 00:40:01,160 Speaker 1: and that you know that if you were to die today in your current state without him that hell is your destination and rightfully so 642 00:40:02,020 --> 00:40:07,560 Speaker 1: but that you're actually hearing that this god loves you and is willing to take you right where you're at 643 00:40:07,660 --> 00:40:14,040 Speaker 1: if you'll simply believe that he loved the world so that he sent his one and only son to die in the cross for you 644 00:40:14,180 --> 00:40:18,840 Speaker 1: and he would have done it had you been the only person throughout human history that bowed 645 00:40:18,860 --> 00:40:19,680 Speaker 1: your knee to him. 646 00:40:21,140 --> 00:40:22,060 Speaker 1: There's no greater love. 647 00:40:25,720 --> 00:40:26,960 Speaker 1: Make your peace with them now 648 00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:28,760 Speaker 1: as we get a musical interlude 649 00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:30,480 Speaker 1: for a few seconds 650 00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:33,200 Speaker 1: and then I'll continue the prayer here in a second. 651 00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:52,300 Speaker 1: And then maybe you're here this morning or listening or watching 652 00:40:53,940 --> 00:40:56,780 Speaker 1: and there was a time in the past where you committed yourself to him. 653 00:40:56,880 --> 00:41:01,260 Speaker 1: You accepted him into your heart and you accepted his forgiveness and you made up your Lord, 654 00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:02,520 Speaker 1: but you've drifted away, 655 00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:06,160 Speaker 1: that the things of the world have literally pulled you away 656 00:41:06,300 --> 00:41:08,100 Speaker 1: and you realize it's time to come home to Jesus. 657 00:41:09,540 --> 00:41:11,800 Speaker 1: He's standing with his arms wide open, 658 00:41:11,940 --> 00:41:13,860 Speaker 1: and you take that one step towards him, 659 00:41:13,860 --> 00:41:16,080 Speaker 1: and what you're going to see is him come running to you, 660 00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:18,840 Speaker 1: just as we saw in the story of the prodigal. 661 00:41:19,580 --> 00:41:21,320 Speaker 1: Take that one step to him now. 662 00:41:22,100 --> 00:41:23,660 Speaker 1: Admit the fact that you've been away, 663 00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:25,780 Speaker 1: ask his forgiveness, 664 00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:27,000 Speaker 1: accept his love, 665 00:41:28,540 --> 00:41:30,760 Speaker 1: be empowered by his spirit to move forward, 666 00:41:30,940 --> 00:41:33,120 Speaker 1: and I ever, ever stray again. 667 00:41:34,780 --> 00:41:38,220 Speaker 1: Once again, there's no magical formula of words to speak. 668 00:41:39,300 --> 00:41:40,420 Speaker 1: Just tell them from your heart. 669 00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:42,180 Speaker 1: He's listening. 670 00:41:53,500 --> 00:41:57,800 Speaker 1: And then for the rest of the body, Lord, that you have died for. 671 00:41:57,900 --> 00:42:00,740 Speaker 1: We just thank you for where we are at. 672 00:42:00,940 --> 00:42:03,600 Speaker 1: now, but Lord, we never want to be complacent. 673 00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:05,720 Speaker 1: We want to continue to grow. 674 00:42:05,860 --> 00:42:09,180 Speaker 1: We want to continue to grow in the grace and the knowledge of you. 675 00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:11,740 Speaker 1: And we want to be used more for the advancement of your kingdom. 676 00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:17,260 Speaker 1: We literally want to sow more into things that are going to have eternal ramifications. 677 00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:23,180 Speaker 1: And so whatever giftings you've given us, God, may we use them for the advancement of the 678 00:42:23,300 --> 00:42:27,340 Speaker 1: kingdom of heaven, storing up our treasures in heaven, not on earth. 679 00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:32,480 Speaker 1: And then Lord, some are asking, Lord, I want to be used more. 680 00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:40,160 Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, would you do that for your own glory's sake, for the glory sake of the Godhead? 681 00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:51,220 Speaker 1: Expand the tent pegs and the borders of those of your children who are desiring to see more of you and to work alongside and more of what you're doing. 682 00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:53,220 Speaker 1: Would you do that for your own glory's sake? 683 00:42:56,380 --> 00:42:59,460 Speaker 1: We pray for Pastor Scott is he's ministering to people who are. 684 00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:02,840 Speaker 1: literally walking through the valley of the shadow of death right now. 685 00:43:04,100 --> 00:43:05,640 Speaker 1: Would you bring comfort to their souls? 686 00:43:05,820 --> 00:43:07,540 Speaker 1: And for those that don't know you as Lord and Savior, 687 00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:11,100 Speaker 1: would this moment of them looking at their own mortality 688 00:43:11,380 --> 00:43:14,420 Speaker 1: be something that you would use as you speak through Scotty, 689 00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:15,480 Speaker 1: as you minister through him, 690 00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:18,060 Speaker 1: to bring people to know you as their Lord and Savior. 691 00:43:24,060 --> 00:43:27,780 Speaker 1: And then, Father, as we just worship you through this one last song together, 692 00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:29,440 Speaker 1: and as we go from this place to this, 693 00:43:29,460 --> 00:43:32,620 Speaker 1: May we rejoice that we came to meet with you, 694 00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:35,780 Speaker 1: that you honored our faith and you met with us, 695 00:43:36,440 --> 00:43:38,400 Speaker 1: that we heard from the one true living God, 696 00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:40,800 Speaker 1: and that we would go from this place rejoicing 697 00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:42,800 Speaker 1: that the God of heaven's armies, 698 00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:45,820 Speaker 1: the one who created and sustained the universe, 699 00:43:47,420 --> 00:43:48,480 Speaker 1: loves us unconditionally. 700 00:43:52,340 --> 00:43:53,740 Speaker 2: We pray this all in Jesus' name. 701 00:43:54,100 --> 00:43:54,240 Speaker 2: Amen.