Believing Matters - Bishop T.D. Jakes

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father in the name of jesus we approach your throne oh god asking you for grace to minister to your people tonight we thank you in advance what you are going to do and we trust that you will do it in the name of Jesus we pray shout amen you can sit down we are going to work on this believing in something so nebulous and indescribable difficult to define as something untouchable is very, very important before applying it to things spiritual, let's look at the natural.

There is a fight right now about what you believe. People from the same family do not believe the same. Different ideologies and ideas have become so widespread that wars. They've fought over what you believe, believing is absolutely important when I came to church, we focus a lot on behavior and behavior is important, but believing in Trump's behavior, in fact, I would suggest before we delve into this that you don't. can. change your behavior until you change your belief what you believe about yourself what you believe about your god what you believe about your house what you believe will affect how you behave is so strong that the bible says with the heart man believes for salvation That is Incredible with the heart, man believes exactly what a heart believes constitutes salvation, not what a hand does, what a heart believes, and if you begin to study and understand the importance of believing, we are going to try to analyze it a little tonight. i think it's important that you understand wow wow go to john 3 16 for a minute go to john 3 16. and let's go to john 3 16 and establish a basis for a discussion because god loved the world so much that he gave his only begotten son, you could probably simply quote it that everyone who believes in him must not perish but have eternal life wait wait wait that God loved the world so much that he sometimes gave us something to know and being able to quote it does not mean that we really listen to it because God loved the world so much that he is the king he fell in love with a harlot he didn't say for god he loved the church so much he says for god he loved the world so much god has fallen in love with something that is so beneath him think about that for god he loved the world so much that he had to fix it he gave it to his only son that he who believes believes I almost said underlying because I am used to people having Bibles not telephones but he who believes in him must not perish but have eternal life it is all based on what you believe because God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world but to save the world through him he who believes in him is not condemned but he who does not believe is condemned now I want you to hear that anyone who believes in him is not condemned but he who does not believe is already condemned condemned because because not because of what they did not because of who they slept with not because of what they drank not because of what they shot there but because they have not believed in the name of the only son of God, those are the charges that are brought against you, not your behavior, your belief system, because God understands that you cannot change your behavior until you change your belief system, so in the level it says this.

It is the verdict that the light has come into the world but people love the darkness instead of the light because their actions were evil now if the light was not in the world you would have no choice but when the light comes into the world now you have a choice in everyone who does evil hates the light and does not want to come to the light for fear that his deeds will be discovered, but he who lives by the truth comes to the light so that what he has done can be clearly seen. , it has been done in the sight of God that is what the word of God says, can you say amen?

I want you to see that believing is the central point of what defines you as a Christian, as a believer, as a person of faith, as a child of the king, and so, if there is anything that the enemy wants to attack, he wants to attack what you believe now. . Intellectualism is extremely important and research should never be discounted. You want to be as smart as possible. Learn everything you can. Read everything you can. Develop everything you can. Everything evolves. may that's very important but believing is our only gateway to god not intellectualism believing is our only is our only is not passing off is not paying bills you can't buy it is not singing in the choir is not preaching the word believe is our The only gateway to God now there have been many groups that have had different ideas than this.

One of them is the Gnostics and they had a philosophy called Gnosticism and it assumes that the more you know, the closer you are to God, that's one of the things. they believe they believe in a hierarchy of angels many things if this were so then the illiterate would be at a serious disadvantage perhaps the condemned babies would have no hope of going to heaven because they do not yet know it and the senile would have lost the way to god then if intellectualism It is the method through which we embrace God so it is not fair because we do not all have the same IQ we do not all have the same exposure we do not all have the same intellectualism and that is why God had to reduce it to something that we all have in common which is a belief system.

Gnosticism is the idea of ​​knowing. Think of our contemporary term. Think of our contemporary term. Agnostic, which means not knowing. Agnostic. Gnostic is knowledge. Agnostic is not knowing. beliefs and ideas but the substratum of the term evolves around an idea we are still in a struggle between knowing and believing we see it in all spheres of our contemporary society take it out in the context of scripture for a moment and we are fighting over the masks we are fighting for the vaccine we are fighting for politics we are fighting for racism we are we are fighting for everything there are all kinds of arguments between knowing and believing removing it from society and eliminating it For you the enemy comes against what you believe and what you know about God because satan knows that it is with the mind that we serve the lord most of the things that concern you that the enemy is playing with he does not need satan no I do not need your apartment Satan does not need your house Satan does not need your car What Will you do that with your car?

The devil took my car. What are you going to do with it? He said you're going to see the devil driving down. thirty breaks his boundaries talking about I'm the devil he doesn't need your car he needs you worried he needs you upset he needs you emotionally frustrated so any way he can get to your mind the enemy is after your mind so God says he has us given peace to guard our hearts and our minds because you have to put up a defense against what you allow to infiltrate the context of your mind because it is with the mind that we serve the lord that your mind has to be healthy and your mind has to be free and your mind has to have a conviction about what it believes, even if the person sitting next to you believes something contrary, you cannot allow your affection for the individual to override your fidelity to what you believe, come on someone, you must understand this when We began to talk about how God loved the world so much that he gave his only begotten son so that everyone who believes in him would not perish but have eternal life.

He did it so that we would all have equal conditions. He did it so that everyone would have a foot in the sky. equality an equal place he made it so that we would understand that the problem in the first place in the book of genesis begins with unbelief original sin is really unbelief at the root of the forbidden fruit is Unbelief, those who do not believe, God said , questioning what God says is an attempt to tear down the belief system that was built that allowed them to remain in the garden so that the enemy does not try to physically remove them from the garden that he attempts.

Lead them away from what they believe because if he leads them away from what they believe, he will automatically drive them out of the garden. You all don't listen to what I'm saying so it goes against what you know about God trying to modify it, oh you should eat it because if you eat it you will be like god, you will know it like god, even though now he is questioning the integrity of god as If god was trying to stop you from doing something because god is intimidated by you, what arrogance. what other arrogance what other stupidity and yet he is attacking he is not attacking their bodies he is attacking their belief system the enemy is not after your body he is after your belief system now he could attack your body but he is only attacking your body to break down your belief system, then if that is how sin entered the world through an ideology, an idea that goes against what God has said, then to fix how sin entered the world , we have to move from disbelief to belief, so God now fixes it.

It's just that a fool, even a walker, can still get in there, so the person, whether brilliant or not, went to school or didn't go to school, intellectual or non-intellectual, means nothing. It makes a difference if it is three hundred or three hundred God has arranged that we must all become like children and have faith like a child and dare to believe him and although knowing is important and learning is important and growing is important you don't want to lean towards your own understanding, no you don't want to. lean on what you know because what you know is always evolving.

Oh come on, someone for one simple thing when I went to school, Pluto was the pretty planet and then they decided that's how it was. It's not a planet at all, it was a star because they say there is no more knowledge that it is always changing. Ideas are always changing. Your belief system has to be built on something that is solid and stable and something that is proven and something that is true and something that trust in your belief system has to be based on God, not on the church, not on denominations, oh everyone listen to what I say, not in preachers, but not in televangelists, not in pastors of small churches, it makes no difference, people turn all kinds of things into gods. they make gods of their children you can make gods of anything all these things will shake all these things will crumble but your hope has to be based on nothing less than Jesus Christ and his righteous not yours not yours but he is not yours but he is not mine but his is not your mother's but his righteousness is not your grandfather's but his righteousness your faith has to be built on something that is solid as a rock so that you are above being a methodist baptist presbyterian church of god in christ church of god prophecy church of god made it work in the name of jesus built on top of whatever your name is if you are nothing more at the very least you must be what they first called us a believer so someone shout I am a believer if I am a believer what does a believer when a believer believes?

So, he has to start with beliefs. You can come here to accept Christ and be killed in the spirit. Other people burst into tears and some people get goosebumps. Some people don't feel anything at all. It's not any emotion you're looking for, it's a change in your belief system. I've seen people run all over the church roll and roll and roll and be at the strip club on Wednesday because actions don't necessarily constitute a change in the the bible says Esau sought repentance with many tears and found it, no, this It's not about emotions, you can't turn on the tears faucet and move, God, have you ever seen people who could cry at will and every time they wanted attention, they would start crying, God said?

I'm not going to get upset because you cry. I'm not watching you cry. I'm looking at how you think. Esau sought repentance with many tears and did not find it for the reason that he could not find it. changing through your emotions and regret means changing your mind metatonia changing your mind so you can change your emotions all day long, but if you don't change your mind, how many of you has someone promised that I never will? no more, I will never do this again, no more, I promise you I will never do it again, I will never do that again and I did it again, they had emotions, they could even feel those emotions, but they did not change, the gospel then is designed to give you a new belief system where you build your life not just around your habits, not just going to church on Sundays, but you build your life around it, you make your decisions around it, you make your choices about it you get married around that you decide what I'm going to do and what I'm going to be based on that belief system that absolute sovereign belief system the Bahamas used to have uh London as sovereign even though they were separated by mouths with water the rule of law in the bahamas if they drove on the left in london they drove on the left in the bahamas because they were imitating their sovereign let the will of london be done in the bahamas your will be done on earth as it is in heaven, so when heaven becomes your sovereign, you want to imitate what is happening in heaven in your life, you develop your customs around what is divine and you stop trying to keep up, trying to be contemporary, try to be nervous.

To keep up with the culture, the church is not supposed to chase the culture, the culture will send you to hell. Today we have a church that has fallen in love with the culture and the leaders think it is their job to be relevant to the culture. I'm not trying to be culturally relevant. I'm trying to be relevant to the kingdom. Oh, you guys don't listenwhat I'm saying. I'm trying to be relevant to the kingdom because culture can do anything. can go anywhere the culture can change its mind about everything the kingdom is my ruler and it stops me from being unstable and it stops me from being unstable stop, stop, stop and stop, stop always trying to impress the culture with how fly you can be, how flippant you can be. you can be how cool you can be how edgy I don't know what they say now I'm using alter whatever term you want to use it's not your job to try to imitate the world it's their job to be influenced by you they are not the salt of the earth you are the salt from the earth come on someone meat is not given to season the salt salt is given to season the meat but the problem today is that we have stopped being the season and we started trying to be the meat we are trying to be the culture you are the salt of the earth a city built on a hill that cannot be hidden you have your own identity your own personality your own way of doing things and you don't You don't have to live up to their standards to be accepted by them.

You have to dare to be true to what you believe. God wants you to believe him. Its integrity justifies your belief. To believe Him is to embrace God's integrity, not my integrity. Abraham became We're going to talk more about him in a minute, but Abraham became a friend of God because he believed in God, he believed in the integrity of God, do you believe in the integrity of God? God said I am not a man to lie to or the son of man. that I should repent if I didn't say it I won't do it I didn't say it I won't do it well this is the word of God it's not contemporary ideology it's not about embracing culture it's not about the latest fad that's going on it's about accepting what God has done and believe that his integrity is absolute.

Why do you think Jesus performed more miracles than messages? It is because he did the miracles, that you can believe that the miracles meant nothing to God, it was the mechanism to obtain them. You must believe, oh all, let us take Lazarus, for example, Lazarus is sick, Jesus waits and lets him die, why does Jesus raise the ladder from the dead in John chapter 11 when he knows that no matter how many times he resurrects Lazarus from the dead? Lazarus is still going to die healing the woman with the issue of blood didn't stop him from dying feeding the 5,000 didn't stop him from being hungry again he just did the miracle so you don't You don't hear what I say so you can believe then Jesus waits and lets Lazarus die and lets them bury him and shows up at the house when they are eating chicken, he even cries with them while they cry and says, show me where you are. he put him to bed now jesus knows which ladder to die to be absent in the body is to be present with the lord jesus is not sad because he died jesus is using the death of lazarus as an illustration he let him die if jesus had been worried about the death of lazarus he did not have to go to resurrect him, I could have just said the word and Lazarus would have risen from the dead, Lazarus' death was a trap and then he goes and raises him from the dead and I told the Lord that I lost one of my loved ones and While they were dying I told him sir, if you are going to take them, you better go ahead and take them because it will never be a good time for you to take them because if you let them live to be 90 years old they could ask for a hundred if you let them live until they are 100 they could ask for 120 every time you take them it will hurt just give me the strength to endure it because you know what is best for me I trust your decision I trust your choice I trust your way of drinking and you know how I am it will never be a good time to say goodbye to someone that I love go ahead and shoot the best you can do what you have to do you know what is best for me because I believe in eternity and I believe in eternal life and I believe that I will see them again and I believe that they will shake off mortality and They will wear immortality and I believe that being absent in the body is being present with the Lord and I believe that this whole world is not my home and I did not come here to stay.

When you really believe what you believe, then you stick to what you believe and yes, I like another week, but then I'm going to want another week. and then if I have another week I'll want another month and then if I have another month I'll go another year so I'll never be satisfied. I trust you to make the decision that was painful, but that was my decision. Conversation with God Now God knows that Lazarus died and even Mary and Martha knew they would see him again in the resurrection, so why did he let Lazarus die? She left Lazarus to die and then came and woke up Lazarus.

Go to go to This happened in the Gospel. from Saint John chapter 11 but go to the gospel of Saint John chapter 12. all these dramas happen in 11 the crying of lazarus is dead the tomb mary running shouting to jesus everyone is going crazy the family is going crazy jesus removes the stone lazarus rises from among the dead now in john chapter 12 lazarus has risen from the dead and is sitting in the feasts with jesus and here come the unbelievers and the bible says in john 12 9 meanwhile a large crowd of jews discovered that jesus was there and came not only because not only for him but also to see Lazarus whom he had raised from the dead oh well, then the high priest made plans to kill Lazarus and also Lazarus was the problem because because of him many of the Jews were go to Jesus and believe in him, so the whole purpose of life, well, not the only purpose, but one of the purposes of raising Lazarus from the dead, was so that they could believe that the purpose of the miracle is not the miracle if he gives you. bread you're going to be hungry again if he gives you life you're going to die again if he heals your body he's not going to stop death all this is just so you can believe someone screams i'm a believer oh you sounded so weak you said you sounded so weak say it like you mean and I'm a believer john 14 28-29 let's continue our bible study tonight have you heard how I told you I'll give you one minute I'll give you one minute I'll give you one minute I'll give you one minute I'll give you 10 seconds left 10 seconds finally find john 14 28 29 let's go you have heard how I told you I am leaving and I will return to you if he loved me, you would be happy because I said that I am going to the father because my father is older than me and now I have told you before it happens, to that when it happens you can believe, he said, I tell you before.

It happens, he said, I am giving you prophecies so that when the prophecy is fulfilled, your faith will increase and you will be able to believe. He said the only reason I'm telling you what's going to happen before it happens, so that when it happens. and I rise from the dead and I rise again so that your faith may be strengthened and so that you may believe not so that you can dance not so that you can play the tambourine not so that you can start a choir not so that you can shout at your drops of makeup on your face no god says what I want from you above all is to believe and dance and praise him and play tambourines and kind but if that leads you to believe that you can also drop your tambourine to the ground we are in a fight of faith we are in a fight of faith we are in a fight of faith we are in a fight of faith right now we are in a fight of faith and what you believe matters not how you feel not how it hurts not how your emotions are not what you would like to have not that you would like to draw life not what you would like to live in what matters most is what you believe I believe in God I believe in his word I believe in what he said I believe he is capable I believe he loves me I believe he knows what he is better for me and if it hurts then I heard it knowing that if you allowed it to hurt me it must work out for my good, that's why we glory in tribulation for tribulation's sake working patience, let patience experience and experience hope. and i hope you're not embarrassed if you're listening to this bible god kind of lord i believe in god sometimes you have to remind yourself i believe in god i believe in god i believe in god i'm not talking about that crazy i believe in god type where you don't lock the door where you don't you fasten your seat belt where you don't wear masks where you don't do common sense things where you don't brush your teeth where you don't comb your hair where you don't take care of your baby, I'm talking about something deeper than this kind of silly, fanatical faith and crazy, why do you call that crazy faith?

I will prove it with the scriptures, the enemy tempted Jesus, he said if you are the son of God. throw yourself off this mountain jesus didn't take unnecessary risks to prove who he was if you really had faith you would take unnecessary risks so jesus should have jumped just because you're a believer doesn't mean you should make him jump off a cliff doesn't mean you should take unnecessary risks doesn't mean you shouldn't fasten your seat belt doesn't mean you shouldn't wear a mask doesn't mean you shouldn't go to a doctor which means you shouldn't do everything you can to take care of yourself just because you think that doesn't mean you shouldn't shower doesn't mean you shouldn't put on deodorant come on someone come on someone come on someone even then satan was trying to get Jesus to take unnecessary risks and put himself in danger to prove who he was you never have to prove who you are when you know who you are when you know who you are you just are who you are me no I don't care what they call you, I don't care how they troll you, I don't care how they access your Internet, I don't care what they say on social media, you have to know who you are, you can't need the support of people who don't even They don't even know you oh I'm preaching better than you shouting now we're getting close I haven't even gotten to the text yet this is on the way to the text so I might have to break this in two weeks to do it but this is important look at someone say that believing matters Hebrews 11 1-6 tells us again now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see wait a minute let's get back to that Faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.

I don't need faith for what I can see. I don't need faith for what I can do for myself. I need faith when I have no other. evidence the bible says in king james faith is the substance of things hoped for it is the evidence of things not seen it is my evidence what is your evidence admissible in court I believe I believe I believe this is why the ancients They were praised by faith we understand that the universe was formed by order of God so that what is seen was not made from what is visible and most of what concerns you is what is visible or you are not going to answer me most of what you are praying for is what is visible, but what you need to understand is what made what is visible invisible and therefore if you break it in the spirit, you can break it in the flesh, glory God, don't you listen to what I'm telling you that Jesus found a woman who was bent over for 18 years and couldn't get up and he didn't cure her, he just gave her a new belief system, he said woman, you are free from that disease and the moment he heard that. she was loose she immediately changed her demeanor and straightened up what you think about yourself has you baffled what's going through your head makes you stumble the moment you know the truth and the truth will set you free I don't know who I'm with speaking today, but someone is going to make a breakthrough.

I don't care what you see with your eyes. I care what you believe in your heart. This is what the elders were praised for, not their behavior, their beliefs. by faith abel brought to god a better offering than cain by faith he was praised as righteous when god spoke well of his offerings and by faith abel still speaks even though he is dead he does not do so by faith he was taken from this life so that he would not should experience death, he could not be found because God had taken him away because before he was taken away, he was praised as one who pleases God.

Anyone here wants to please God, if you want to please God, make some noise, come on, make some kind of noise. is on the line I want to please God I want to please God I want to please God I can't hear you I want to please God I want to please God I want to please God I want to please God I can't hear you I want to please God that's why I love that song that You say, take it out of me if you don't like it, Lord, take it out of me. I want to please God.

I have not always pleased God. I have disappointed him. I have disappointed him. But I want to please God. You have to have the desire to please God. He who hungers and thirsts for justice will be. satisfied not he who is righteous he who hungers and thirsts for justice will be satisfied you have to warn him how many people want to please God Hebrews 11 6 says and without faith he is in is he is in it is impossible to please God without faith I don't care what I don't care how talented you are, no I don't care how you preach, I don't care how important you are to your church, I don't care how big the check is, you're right, the Bible said, oh my God, it will be I better resign.

I feel like I'm someone. I almost switched to that. another voice the bible said without faith it is impossible to please god because anyone who comes to him must believe that he is, that he exists and that he rewards those who with fervor, with fervor of heart, seek him, seek him, I came here to look for him . I live my life to seek Him I have not mastered God I am seeking God I have not fully sought Him His thoughts are above my thoughts His ways are above my ways but I came to seek Him the bible says seek and you will Find, ask and They will call you and the door will open to you.

Is there a god? There are still seekers, I see the crowd.seekers I see the stage seekers I see the money seekers but are there any god seekers left in the church today? I can't find god seekers I can't find people who lie face down and say everything What I want is that you have to seriously search for it. Can I go a little further now? That's all my setup. I don't even know whether to go further. Someone just screams. I think the more we start talking about this doubt. expelled from the room is being expelled from your mind is being expelled from your spirit is being expelled from your behavior I think say it again if God raised Lazarus from the dead just so people would believe if God prophesied his own resurrection so that when we saw it we could believe that god has been working overtime trying to straighten out your mind god wants to straighten out your belief system god wants to get your head right god wants to get you away from yelling and worrying and dancing and being upset god wants you to stop going to church and getting drunk because you can't deal with life god wants your mind to go back to the place it should be someone who throws their hands up and says I think I'm a believer when you walk into the room they thought a walk in the room when you walk into the hospital faith must come in the hospital when you enter the office faith must enter the office you are a believer that is your contribution that is what if I had believed in god my eyes have not seen my ears have not heard nor have they entered into the heart of man what God has in store for me but has been revealed to me by his spirit the spirit not only convinces me the spirit convinces me the spirit informs me what is mine the spirit informs me what is possible how you receive it believe it no you can receive what you don't believe preachers don't tell you this they just say sow it and you will reap no yes If you don't believe it, you can sew all day, but if you don't have the belief system that accompanies the action, you will never reap more than you think .

If you don't believe in a harvest, some of you are not going to get a harvest, some of you don't feel worthy of the harvest, some of you self-sabotage the harvest, some of you do things to annihilate the harvest and even though your actions say a one thing, your belief system says something else and you're saying why this doesn't work because without faith it's impossible to make this work if you're going to work on it you're going to have to work on it by faith look at someone telling me it will work yes I'm so sick of these Mammy Pansy thoughts Christian.

I tried it and it didn't work. I tried it and it didn't work. I tried it on Stock Chair and it didn't work. I tried to get out. debt and it didn't work and it will work if you work it won't work while you sit on your butt it won't work while you sit and watch soap operas it won't work while you sit and play with your teeth your face looks better than your head your makeup is perfect but your mind is crazy will work if you are working oops every time the enemy attacks you he is attacking your belief system what you value what is important to you now to the book of romans the impact of Paul's arrival in Rome cannot be overstated outside of class Wednesday night Bible class I said I built my church off of a Wednesday night Bible class I never built my church off of Sunday morning I built my church off of Wednesday night Bible class the impact it has Paul in his role is beyond anything I can really articulate and although it is doubtful that he is the founder of the faith in Rome, he does extensive work there to shape its impact on what was quickly becoming its new base for Christianity as Jerusalem had begun to wither as the epicenter of Christian thought. it began to wither because jerusalem had been cursed when jesus stood on the mount of olive trees and wept over jerusalem there are only two times in greek that uses this type of word to mean cry out loud said oh jerusalem jerusalem how many times I He would have gathered you together like a hen gathers her chicks, but you did not want to see, your house will be desolate and like the fig tree he spoke it and when he returned the fig tree had withered, Jesus spoke it and Jerusalem ceased to exist.

The epicenter of Christianity slowly moved towards Rome. Am I helping anyone now? Rome was the most politically gifted city of its time It was a place of innovation and creativity It was booming It was full of ideas It was colonizing new territories It was taking over new lands according to the Iranians A 2nd century church father The church in Rome was founded directly by the apostles Peter and John Peter and Paul I am sorry, however many modern scholars do not agree with the Iranians who maintain that while little is known of the circumstances of the church the foundation was not founded by Paul, in fact it was strengthened by Paul and claims that its authorship is more likely to be Peter, therefore the Roman Catholic Church establishes Peter as its first pope, but Paul's arrival in Rome has all kinds of implications: he is reaching an epicenter of thought politics, creativity and ideology, multiplicities of religions and ideas and a city that, although Roman, also had many Jews with many different sects of Judaism coexisting in any city, as we do in Dallas, as you do in Memphis. as you do in new york as you do in paris not everyone in every city has the same idea adam clark says that many of the brothers went out to meet paul when he was approaching rome that phrase there suggests that it did not start with paul if many brothers went out to meet him so there was a church there when he arrived there there is evidence that Christianity and the Christian people were in Rome in considerable numbers and probably had more than one meeting place when Paul first arrived at the occasion of writing the epistle that Paul wrote had known all the circumstances all types of people of the Christians in Rome there were Christians in Rome who had Jewish ancestry there were Christians in Rome who were Greeks there were Christians in Rome who were Gentiles there were Christians in Rome who if they were not all in Rome and any discovery that it was partly the pagans who converted to Christianity and partly the Jews who had, with many remaining prejudices, ideas that they had converted, but had many prejudiced ideas that they believed in Jesus as the true messiahs and that many Disputes arose from Gentile claims for equality.

They did not believe that Gentiles could have equal standing because Gentiles had been idolaters. They had participated in the origins. They had had a dirty past and the idea that they could just believe in Jesus and. Being equal to people who were steeped in religious traditions and ideologies was a difficult pill for Jews of that time to swallow their refusal to admit these claims unless Gentile converts were circumcised. It became more and more pronounced, they wanted Gentiles to act like them. many people try to evangelize people and they not only bring their Christ but they bring their culture oh that's so good so I want your Jesus but no, I don't want your culture, don't tell me that's the only way to be a Christian is act like you because just because you have that culture doesn't mean I have to have that culture, let's separate your culture from your Christ, oh can't you hear me, that's deeper than you think.

He wrote this epistle. to adjust and resolve these differences in other words, when you think of Paul, he is almost an abolitionist, he is trying to free the new testament church from the religious dogma of Judaism and the legalism that demanded more of them than they were supposed to. they should have. fighting to abolish the myths and ideas that cohabit with Christianity and therefore contaminate Christianity, he is trying to teach them as he said in Galatia that there is neither Greek nor male nor female, nor Jewish nor free bond, but we are all one in Christ Jesus and still today.

There is a spirit of separation that exists in the church that does not recognize that women are on equal footing with men that God cannot speak to a woman that God cannot use a woman I have news for you if a woman can sing the gospel she can preach the gospel what's the difference oh let me stop fighting what's the difference between letting them sing and teaching sunday school and then stealing the word whether i say it in the question or i said it on the floor but it's just selfishness masculine that does not accept the fact that the same spirit that vivifies a man vivifies a woman the same spirit that vivifies a white man vivifies a black man the same spirit that vivifies the republican can vivify a democrat but we separate and Paul is trying to bring them back he is fighting for equality he is fighting for equal rights he is fighting for unity he is fighting for unity he is fighting for that equality because he vacillates between addressing both the Jews and the Romans in the book of Romans.

Jewish believers and Gentiles, ultimately bringing both to the need for the same radical assignment of faith, he said: You have religious traditions, you have had religious traditions for years, but the door is not your washings, your ceremonies or your cleansings. , you still have to believe God, you still have to believe God, you won. You will not be saved through your feasts You will not be saved through unleavened bread You will not be saved through your feasts Is it us? The door is believing that she comes to the Gentile and tells him that you should have seen God in nature and you did not recognize Him. god in nature you have become a natural affection and lost you have entered into all kinds of lust and depravity and perversion and evil he said but the same door that exists for the religious man exists for the man both have to be brought to the same humility to say if you don't believe in God you can't see the glory of God this is a radical father of faith the believer who is teaching us here someone says I'm a believer that's all I need to be anointed I don't care if I come from Judea or Samaria I don't care if I come in the box as a man or in the box as a woman it is not my box that God wants to deal with it is my content God wants Fill my heart with his power and with his anointing and with you no I'm going to say anything, but I don't even care, we have to have some freedom in this place and start to understand if God could use an ass that he could use. a woman if so paul is trying to bring unity between all this division and it is like the swedish alps of the epistle is his longest writing is his most eloquent position is his largest and most complex document that is attributed to us the apostle paul is the book of romans is him writing to the city he is a citizen of while paul is a jew he is a citizen of rome he writes to rome from a different perspective because he belongs there do you hear what i'm saying? and he goes in there to bring them down to a level you must go in the door you remember that old song you can be high you can be low you can be rich you can be poor when suddenly everything still has to pass the door there is still a door there is still a gentleman there is still one faith there is still one baptism there is one way in there is no special door I was in South Africa uh looking at the apartheid museum and they had a door for colored people and the door for black people in the door for white people god doesn't have three doors Jesus said I am the door there is only one door for anyone to come here I don't care what color you are I don't No matter what language you speak, no matter what country you come from, no matter what your gender is, there is only one door, God will not create a separate water fountain because you are a woman, it is a spirit of division.

I am all for the speech but the division is satanic to divide the churches to weaken the church to deny us the brilliant potential that exists in our sisters and brothers it is to weaken the fabric of the church itself there are women who are finding cures for diseases and finding cures for everything kind of toxicity, we need that mind in a time like this, we need every soldier, we need every soldier, so I want every believing and thinking person in this room to clap your hands and let God know you. you are available I don't care what you did in your past I don't care what your religious tradition is outside your tradition god is trying to get us to one place an idea a perspective he shouted I am a believer understanding that is simply knowing that believing matters believing matters not your dogma nor your tradition I come from five generations of amy I don't care my great-great-grandmother started the apostolic church I don't care I have been the church of God Christ I don't care why we are so concerned about all these organizations that are less than a hundred years old.

You serve Jesus in 2000 years. What happened to the other 1900 years? Was there no expression of God before your denomination of 100,200? 250 years old, some of them may even be 300 years old, what happened to the other 1700 years old? Did God ever run out of a witness before his founder founded his movement? God still existed before his mother was pregnant before she was born. I had to resign. I have to start god is still god he is bigger than your

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he is bigger than your denomination he is bigger than the creed of your church he is bigger than your ideas god will not be enslaved andtrapped behind a religious philosophy god is still god he is sovereign he is absolute he is powerful he is god he just sits tall seems short he has all the power in his hand god is god and you believe in anything else you are not a believer it may sound like maybe you can dance like it you can sing like it but you are not when the real thing comes then everything that is fake will have to go back and get out of the way to save it believe it you will go to hell raise your hands and shout I am a believer you don't just believe on Sunday you don't believe just for a couple hours this is bigger than church this is bigger than wednesday night bible class i'm a hospital believer i'm a broke believer i'm a breadline believer i'm a food stamp believer i'm a believer without a car I'm a believer who comes to get to church I used to come to get to my church I was still a believer I'm a believer when I'm up I'm a believer when I'm down my faith is firm my life is crazy but my faith is firm my conditions are wild my position is secure I am seated together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus and although he killed me I must still trust in him some trust in horses some trust in chariots but I will remember the name of the lord for the name of the lord in the strong tower where the righteous hang their hand I want every believer to take a praise break and give your god some praise I believe it, I believe it, I see we have too many text messages, people who grew up on junk food , five ways to be blessed, three ways to get a car 12 ways to get a house leave this junk food and go back to the word of God because the devil is fighting against you and you have to have some word inside of you that says: still I believe if you take my house I still believe if you take my car I still believe take me to my knees and I still believe I broke broken and disgusted and I still believe that what you believe matters praise it until the demons shake praise until the tumors scream praise until the lame rise praise him until the dead begin to walk praise him until someone's lungs open praise him until hell breaks down praise him until the witches are killed if your curses are broken you know what's in this room right now that one It's the holy spirit bearing witness to the truth You can't get God to anoint a lie but if you preach the truth the truth will make its own sauce the truth will bring its own anointing the truth will produce its own glory I don't need tricks I don't need those scams, ugh, You better come get this, you better come get this because I'm about to ruin this, it's about to ruin here, it's about to ruin here because I feel the anointing of the saint.

Ghost here right now I feel the power of God adjusting someone's belief system. I feel the power of God reminding you that you are not your circumstances, you are not your bank account, you are not your emotions, you are not your feelings, the righteous will live. by the liver of joshua the justified praise him I feel someone's body heal praise him now praise him now praise him right now I feel someone's mind rise praise him now praise him now there has been a demon of oppression that has been upon you all week but I feel it breaking right now in the name of Jesus.

I wish I had someone who really knew how to praise God. I wish you would stop being cute and open your mouth and praise God like a blood-washed believer. I dare you. I dare you to find the devil to find the devil the power I dare you Holland someone tell them believe matter you can't fight the kind of devil you're fighting and fight him in your emotions and fight him in your feelings you won't I have that fight by faith I will let someone else and say believe matters believe will heal you believe will restore you believe will revive you believe willing to like believe will strengthen you believe what will strengthen you believe will strengthen you I feel the strength of the almighty god driving through this place you don't need a lover You don't need a husband You don't need a boyfriend You already have a man His name is Jesus He is the rock He is the minute He is the rose He is the morning star Shout yes what Paul came to do by letter and by word and by ministry and by his life was to change the belief system that was causing so much confusion because the Roman church did not have its head in the street and he comes the truth always comes to put your head together to adjust your belief system I'm going to stop right there I'm going to pick it up next Wednesday night I knew I was going to get through it I knew I would I'm going to make it because God is behind your belief system, the way you process, the way you process what you're in. standing still, he has too many emotions contaminated by too much meat, too much meat and by the type of assault he has. come against the church right now we don't need church members we need believers we need believers we need prayer warriors and intercessors and people lying face down and moaning and groaning in the holy spirit and travailing in the spirit, I know it's old fashioned Go ahead and keep up with the culture with your cute self, but I'm worried about God's glory returning to a place to confront the forces of hell.

Arsenals of demons have been released onto the earth like we've never seen before at a time when the church is trying to be cute, modern and sassy we need some prayer warriors we need some glory we need some old rock good supernatural anointing away from this flesh that is what defines us we have emotions like anyone else we have feelings just like anyone else they waver just like anyone else we go from our soulless man to our spiritual man and we believe in God I admit it sometimes I have to crawl to get there, sometimes I have to cry to get there, sometimes I need a few days to get there. there sometimes I have to feel for it and grope for it and try to put my hands on it like Samson trying to put his hand on the pillar, but once I have my hand on the pillar I will bring the whole place to him, not by my strength, but for yours, because believing matters.

What has been fighting you? What have you been trying to manage for yourself? What have you been struggling with in your emotions? Maybe God is trying to talk to you about your belief system. You are watching online. now the holy spirit is speaking to you about where you are now you need to change your belief system god is about to promote you to an area that you cannot enter with your old belief system you need to get rid of it like a snake coming out of its skin Like a butterfly coming out of a cocoon there has to be a transformative moment where you refuse to conform and instead transform yourself.

How am I going to do that by renewing your mind? Raise your hands and talk to your dad all over the world. world in front of your computer raise your hands and talk to your dad you don't talk to your dad jacob you have been talking to your mom you haven't been talking to your dad you have depended on your own devices your schemes and your tricks talk to your dad open your mouth be honest with him be honest with him I've been lost I've been all over the place I spent your money on a wild life and part of this debt I brought on myself I tried to buy the love of my friends and they all abandoned me and I'm muddy and I smell like garbage but I heard that word and I came to myself and dad, if you let me come back, I'll come home, I'll come home. my head I'm coming home thinking I'm coming home in my belief system how many servants in my father's house have enough bread and despair and yet I repeat like a parrot I'm not supposed to die I came to myself and remembered who I am, I am who God says I am, I can do what God says I can do, I can have what God says I can have, yeah I'm shy, talk to your dad, talk to everyone else except the one who can change something Due to the intensity of the struggle, they have a glory for God, they need to hide, get closer to him than ever before.

Some of you are on the verge of the greatest elevation of your life, but your belief system always sabotages you. down like gravity pulling you back to the same place and I break the gravitational pull that has been in your life that keeps pulling you back to the same place and the same type of people and the same type of thinking and the same type of ideas and God. It's given you enough speed to spread your wings like an eagle and fly and it's time for you to get out of that chicken coop you're not one of them can't you see you're not one of them you're not one of them You're not one of them now you're not one of them they come to your house but you are not one of them you slept with them but you are not one of them repent come to yourself you are not with them but you are not one of them you work with them but you are not one of them you are the son of the king I want to pray for you right now I want to pray because believing matters and we are in an hour where the devil doesn't want us to believe anything we fight for everything vaccines masks where we sit where we are what we teach what we are anything we can find what to fight for we fight because the spirit of Witchcraft Sunday has become so prevalent that You'd rather die if you admit you were wrong You'd rather die and drown in your own fluids than humiliate yourself and change your mind You'd rather die alone and take all your children away from you Don't you know you're going to grow up ? more childish than your children humble yourself change your belief system go home go home say I was wrong I am no longer worthy of being called our son or your husband or that wife or that worker make me a day laborer humble yourself and watch him kill the fatted calf put a robe on your shoulders put a ring on your finger he has something for you everyone here who knows you need to strengthen your belief system come to this altar as we prepare to close I'm going to close praying for you you're online you cannot come to this altar but you can receive this prayer you are not one of them you work with them but you are not one I need a better belief system I need to be rooted and grounded I need to be instructed in the word not in my feelings my flesh is out out of control my emotions are out of control my thoughts are all over the place someone has been fighting the suicidal spirit I feel the suicidal spirit I feel the suicidal spirit I feel the suicidal spirit and you call yourself a Christian and you are ready to take your entire life you need to change your belief system I curse that spirit from the root and I order it to dry up and leave your mind and your thoughts and your life and your spirit you will not die but you will live and you will declare the works of the lord you have not seen your best day yet no you have sung your greatest song you have not seen your greatest miracle and that demon that says you will never be happy and you will never smile again and you will never have joy is a lying spirit from the well and I curse it and send it back to where it came from sing that again god is making some adjustments receive him well right now he loves you the world he gave his only begotten on the cross they are supposed to be the father god we have heard your cry and it has resonated with us and it speaks to every belief system poisoned tainted by abuse and bondage tainted by self-hatred, fear and doubt, tainted by satanic attack and depression, tainted by pain, tainted by low self-esteem, tainted by pride and arrogance, tainted by hatred, harshness and secrets, you are as sick as your secrets and right now in the name of Jesus.

I decree and declare that there will be change there will be change not only while I am here not only while she sings there will be change in your car there will be change in your house there will be change in your kitchen there will be change in your house in your life in your bedroom in your thinking in your time private that god is drawing you back to the father's house back to the fullness of joy back to the presence of god back to the fundamental values ​​that he called us to that he died so that we have right now let the transforming power of the holy spirit begins a transformation in us that gets in the car and enters the house and enters our perspectives we are worried about things god that only you can handle we leave our worries aside for you this is too heavy for us it is too much for us it's too complicated for us it's too complex for us we can't fix everything and everyone and control everyone's decisions we surrender to you let god be god hallelujah and his enemies be scattered I no longer take care of things that I'm not in charge.

I no longer take responsibility for things I'm not responsible for. I no longer try to fix things I can't fix. I gave them to you. Give me back my piece, give me back my peace. I'm going to get my piece back. I will hang up on anyone who tries to disturb my peace. I take my piece back so I can have a guard for my heart and mind, parents. We come to the end of this Bible class the word has been beneficial to us the word has been useful to us the word has been healing us the word has strengthened us the word has invigorated us the word has corrected us the word has rebuked us the word has revived us and we are happy about it keep talking to me jesus keep talking to me jesus it may be a difficult case but keep talking to me until you destroy me until you fix me until you regulate it keep talking to me I'm live but keep talkingwith me I'm at work but keep talking to me I'm at home but don't give up I've been praying for my behavior I did it I don't know how to pray for my belief system.

If my belief system is broken, my behavior will always be dysfunctional. Thank you for putting hope within my reach. You didn't get so high that I'm not smart enough to take advantage of it. not to do is beyond my reach, my reach, I can believe, I cannot believe, children believe, I cannot believe that they must die, that peace is coming to my heart right now, I can believe that contentment is coming to my spirit I can believe I'm your son if my dad doesn't know me if my mom doesn't like me if they don't recognize me if they found me in a dumpster I found my dad God you're my father and I'm crying for you right now abba abba abba abba pick me up daddy pick me up daddy I am yours right now in the name of Jesus amen give him the best praise you have the best praise you have