WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:17.460 We worship you. We worship you. We submit ourselves to you, offering ourselves for whatever you desire, whatever you want. We'll follow you, which is our worship. We worship you. 00:18.540 --> 00:34.140 Lord, open our hearts and minds for tonight. Help us to follow the veins you want followed and deal with the issues and the items that you want touched. Give us wisdom and direction and Jesus' name. Amen. 00:35.280 --> 00:48.870 Amen. You can be seated. Tonight we might do it a little different. We might have questions and answers as we go because we've got some subtopics. 00:48.870 --> 00:57.870 And if I jump too many topics, then a lot of times you lose the questions from the earlier ones. So we might just interject it as we go. 00:59.490 --> 01:11.090 And the one big starting point we're going to start with, for those of you who are live streaming, if you did not watch last week's Q&A session, I'll bring you up to speed. 01:11.090 --> 01:23.270 The main topic we got going on, which we're going to use as kind of a jump off tonight, is the thought of accidents or any sickness, anything like that. We do up mostly on accidents. 01:24.590 --> 01:36.470 Is it actually a blessing, a curse, or is it neutral to have an accident? So we talked about that some. We're going to pick up on that thought again tonight. So that's why we're going to dwell on it some. 01:36.950 --> 01:43.690 And let me also say, in an effort to cover as much material as we can so we don't forget some obvious things. 01:44.510 --> 01:57.410 If you get questions, shoot them into me. If you get topics you want covered concerning the demonic realm, right now we're kind of stuck in blessings and curses, but anything outside of that, shoot it in. 01:57.970 --> 02:05.170 Let me know what it is. If you're watching online, text it in, whatever, and we'll try to incorporate it into the series. 02:07.850 --> 02:15.590 We finished last week by talking about the concept of everything is either a blessing or a curse. There's no middle road. 02:17.070 --> 02:23.330 Either, and remember what... let's do a little review just to have fun. What does it mean? What does curse mean? 02:24.930 --> 02:32.950 How would you describe curse? What does curse mean? We're under the flow of the kingdom of darkness or Satan. What does blessing mean? 02:34.210 --> 02:39.210 I want you to be easy now. We're under the flow of the kingdom of God. 02:42.490 --> 02:47.930 And again, I really want this emphasized. A curse is not something that randomly jumps on you. 02:48.890 --> 02:58.450 And you had nothing to do with it and you know, you're living your life for God and all of a sudden this curse comes out of the alley and just smacks you, grabs you and destroys your life. 02:58.450 --> 03:07.450 That is not how it works. And tonight we should get into deeper on really explaining that. It just doesn't work that way. 03:08.010 --> 03:18.650 But we really need to make a decision on this first concept and we're going to apply it again to accidents tonight because I want to really emphasize this. 03:21.430 --> 03:31.410 Most Christians believe there is a middle of the road that's neither good or evil. It's neither one. It's just in the middle. 03:32.390 --> 03:40.650 And we drop a bunch of things into that. And the problem with that is number one, it's not scriptural. 03:41.850 --> 03:51.210 I can't find anything in scripture that says some things are the kingdom of darkness, some things are the kingdom of God, and then some things are from neither one. 03:51.930 --> 04:07.310 They just are. I can't find that in scripture. So number one, it's not scriptural. But when we think that way, it determines how we're going to measure our response to it. 04:07.310 --> 04:21.090 Remember Jesus said, be careful how you hear because the way you hear, you will measure it. If we think something is neutral, we don't measure it as good or evil and attach to it accordingly. 04:22.210 --> 04:32.570 Like for instance, if we think that getting the flu, everybody gets the flu. It's just a neutral thing. Christians get it. Non-Christians get it. 04:32.570 --> 04:41.850 It's not necessarily of the flow of Satan. And it's not necessarily the flow of God. It's just one of those things. 04:42.730 --> 04:49.030 Well, you know how you handle that with your faith, then? You don't. You do nothing about it. I mean, you got the flu. 04:49.190 --> 04:51.950 Well, everybody gets the flu. Just get over it. Go to the doctor or whatever. 04:52.790 --> 05:03.890 So if we don't divide some of this out, we're going to handicap our faith. And this is where we came off of. This was on last week's PowerPoint also. 05:04.710 --> 05:13.850 Robert Young from Young's Concordance, he said, there is no such thing as a sickness accident that is from God, sickness or accident. 05:14.510 --> 05:21.820 It's all traced back to a curse somehow. There's no middle ground. 05:24.740 --> 05:32.080 However, by faith, we can live above everything that is of the demonic realm. 05:32.700 --> 05:38.220 So let's go back to... let's go to the accident thing. Let's use this as an example. 05:39.520 --> 05:44.700 Falling down in the ice. Good thing or bad thing? 05:47.020 --> 05:50.360 You fall down, you break your arm, you break your leg, you break your ankle. 05:53.560 --> 05:54.640 Consider that a blessing? 05:58.950 --> 06:08.070 Is it... do you mean if somebody falls on the ice? This is somehow a flow of the devil? 06:14.950 --> 06:18.730 See, if it's not a blessing and it's not the devil, what is it? 06:21.310 --> 06:26.210 Is there such a thing as not a blessing and not the devil? 06:26.370 --> 06:29.490 Now everybody's going to have to figure this out for themselves. You're going to have to measure this. 06:30.350 --> 06:33.890 But for me, if I was going to measure this, this how I'd measure this. 06:35.190 --> 06:40.310 Of course in Adam and Eve's time, they did not have ice, because the earth was a different system back then. 06:42.250 --> 06:47.690 But in Adam and Eve's time, they were living in perfection. 06:48.370 --> 06:53.250 Put the thought in your mind. I wonder if Adam could have fallen on ice and broke his leg. 06:56.160 --> 06:58.220 I wonder if Adam could have gotten the flu. 07:01.300 --> 07:04.080 I wonder if Adam would have ended up with heart disease. 07:08.440 --> 07:16.440 See, all these things that subtract from us, we have to categorize them or we won't use our faith on them. 07:19.400 --> 07:22.840 So let's follow that first one. 07:23.800 --> 07:36.090 If you take falling down on the ice to its lowest level, and this is not a pun or a play on words, but it's part of the fall. 07:38.610 --> 07:43.850 Falling down on ice is part of the fall. It's part of the fall of Adam and Eve. 07:44.870 --> 07:52.750 Because anything that injures, anything that hurts, anything that damages or destroys us was never intended by God. 07:52.870 --> 07:55.350 There's nothing in Scripture you can find that God intended that. 07:58.150 --> 08:01.530 So, it's the result of sin entering the human race. 08:01.730 --> 08:09.950 That's why we had, not last week, but the week before, we had to look at where did these two flows come from? 08:09.950 --> 08:14.690 The flow of God and blessing and righteousness and prosperity and that whole thing. 08:14.790 --> 08:20.710 And the flow of the kingdom of darkness, sickness, death, poverty, that whole thing. 08:21.210 --> 08:23.610 We had to trace them back to where did they come from? 08:23.870 --> 08:37.170 Because once Adam and Eve let the pig out of the cage, so to speak, and the flow of evil was now available to the human race, we now can go in either one. 08:38.330 --> 08:43.550 And we can do it ignorantly. We don't even have to make the choice. 08:44.170 --> 08:48.870 We can do it ignorantly and go into it and we'll see how that happens. 08:49.390 --> 08:54.390 But it's a result of the overall sin. 08:55.370 --> 08:59.330 So is it a curse that we can break? 09:00.810 --> 09:02.970 So we'll never fall. 09:05.070 --> 09:08.690 I've got no up there. I'm not sure that's right. I'm just asking it as a question. 09:11.130 --> 09:20.370 Can you, by faith, believe that for the rest of your life, you will never fall again? 09:30.490 --> 09:33.230 No, we're not ready for questions and answers yet. 09:35.290 --> 09:42.030 So going with that, are we destined to fall down on the ice or fall anywhere? 09:43.590 --> 09:49.790 There's no choice. At some point, you will fall. You're destined to fall. You're going to break something. It's just the way it is. 09:50.370 --> 09:50.890 No. 09:53.110 --> 09:53.630 No. 09:55.190 --> 09:58.890 So here we are again, looking at the promises of salvation and our faith. 09:58.890 --> 10:08.330 Our salvation, which the Greek word for salvation is sozo, promises that we can walk or live in safety, physical walking is part of it. 10:09.310 --> 10:20.950 So just to come from this perspective, if we can faith our way or believe our way beyond it, it has to be of the demonic realm. 10:23.490 --> 10:26.610 Right? If we can believe beyond it. 10:29.300 --> 10:36.340 So, and I want to ask for a show of hands, but this year it's been really icy. 10:38.480 --> 10:45.860 And it was last week. I made my proclamation and declaration again. 10:47.560 --> 10:54.280 I will never fall on the ice and hurt myself. In the name of Jesus, I refuse that. 11:00.020 --> 11:08.040 Because see, if it's of the cursed realm, I have the right to do that. I have the right to say no to it and say, no, I'm not going to do that. 11:09.980 --> 11:15.220 If it's in the neutral realm, stuff happens. 11:17.760 --> 11:24.520 I don't know. Everybody's going to fall sooner or later. See, we'll never apply our faith to it if we see it that way. 11:24.960 --> 11:31.820 But if we see it as, you know what, this started with Adam and Eve and everything getting thrown off and into a tilt here. 11:32.560 --> 11:39.180 And we're living in this. And we will live in this fallen creation as long as we're here. 11:39.940 --> 11:44.240 I don't think we're going to get out of it because the fallen creation won't change till after the millennium. 11:44.860 --> 11:46.040 So we're stuck with it. 11:47.700 --> 12:01.320 As a result, we can either go with it and call it normal or we can stand against it and go with God's flow and call that, that's not of God. 12:02.860 --> 12:06.500 That's demonic. That's of the kingdom of darkness, whatever. It's not of God. 12:09.800 --> 12:23.420 Depending upon how we look at it, we'll determine how we handle what we call curses in our lives, which are really, we're just over in the flow of the kingdom of darkness and maybe not even chose it. 12:24.240 --> 12:31.160 Just not choosing. What does Scripture say? My people perish for lack of knowledge or because of ignorance. 12:31.760 --> 12:41.880 Just not knowing, you know what, I can live above hitting a deer with my car. I never have to. 12:44.560 --> 12:46.280 But I'll tell you this, it can take faith. 12:48.240 --> 12:54.740 But now if we come from the direction of, well, everybody hits a deer sooner or later, I'll hit a deer. I know I will. I mean, everybody hits it. Guess what? 12:55.900 --> 13:02.380 Chances are good. You're in that flow. You're in that thinking you just submitted yourself to, yeah, sooner or later, I'll, I'll, yeah. 13:04.620 --> 13:05.280 It'll happen. 13:07.380 --> 13:08.300 Was that a curse? 13:10.040 --> 13:12.380 Yeah, it's the flow you submitted yourself to. 13:14.040 --> 13:18.760 That's all the curse is, is you submitted yourself to the wrong flow or somehow the wrong flow got on you. 13:19.140 --> 13:22.960 And maybe you didn't even know better to get out from underneath it. 13:24.580 --> 13:34.080 We have been saved from what? What does that mean? Well, John 3.16, I mean, it's a simple verse. 13:34.660 --> 13:39.560 We all know it. Last phrase there, but that the world through him might be saved. 13:39.560 --> 13:44.640 That's why Jesus came so we could be saved. The word sozo. 13:46.080 --> 13:49.580 It's a means second line. 13:51.020 --> 13:56.240 To be safe or to save that is deliver or protect. 13:57.060 --> 13:58.780 So apply that to ice. 14:01.100 --> 14:06.660 Jesus came to save us and to protect us and to deliver us. Keep us safe. 14:07.780 --> 14:13.300 Well, if you're falling in the ice and getting a concussion, you're not safe, are you? 14:15.600 --> 14:19.680 Falling in the ice and whack your shoulder out and tear your rotator cuff. 14:22.220 --> 14:23.520 What did he save you of? 14:25.620 --> 14:35.660 Well, everybody falls in the ice. If you approach it that way, it'll come on you and then you'll damage your body and say, well, it's normal. 14:36.660 --> 14:37.460 It happens to everybody. 14:38.420 --> 14:45.000 That's why we have to erase the middle ground. There's no middle ground. This is either God or this is of the kingdom of darkness. 14:45.260 --> 14:51.620 There's two flows ever since Adam and Eve sinned. There's two flows in the world. We can choose which one we want to get under. 14:52.820 --> 14:59.660 And sometimes we make that choice just because we don't choose this one. We end up in that one. 15:02.560 --> 15:03.280 Follow me. 15:04.240 --> 15:06.700 Okay, because it's really important we get that. 15:08.220 --> 15:15.760 That's why to live overcomingly or victoriously, it's necessary to do a few basic things. 15:16.660 --> 15:20.300 Number one, we have to walk and live by faith. 15:21.360 --> 15:35.360 If we don't declare where our life's going, if we take the theology or the doctrine of whatever the Lord's will is, whatever happens, must be the Lord's will, you take that, you're going to get beat bloody. 15:38.060 --> 15:51.240 We need to declare, am I going to live in blessing or am I going to live in curse? Deuteronomy 30, God laid him out and he said, choose blessing. We choose what we're going to live in. 15:54.120 --> 15:56.660 Right? Which flow we're going to be under? 15:57.440 --> 16:01.720 So we got to walk by faith and we got to live by the Spirit. He leads us. 16:02.620 --> 16:06.580 This was extremely obvious last week during the question and answer time. 16:06.860 --> 16:16.600 Because we got talking about accidents, we got talking about accidents people have been in, and numerous people confirmed what I've always felt. 16:17.320 --> 16:21.080 A lot of the times there is a trap set for us. 16:22.320 --> 16:26.720 And we're not listening to the Spirit, we're just living our life. 16:26.720 --> 16:33.320 And we fall right into the trap where if we'd have listened to the Holy Spirit, he'd have guided us around it. 16:34.360 --> 16:38.380 The trap is under the flow of the demonic side. 16:39.980 --> 16:42.980 Following the Holy Spirit is under the flow of God's side. 16:44.340 --> 16:45.460 We have to choose. 16:47.880 --> 16:54.540 And many times Christians end up in bad situations because they make bad decisions. 16:57.440 --> 16:59.460 Because we're not listening to the Spirit. 17:00.620 --> 17:01.720 We're not applying faith. 17:03.840 --> 17:05.620 So, let's follow this just for a bit. 17:05.740 --> 17:06.920 So what if something bad happens? 17:07.040 --> 17:15.460 And I've got a lot of slides here because I wanted this in such a way that someone can go back and just go through the slides and it really tells them what we've talked about. 17:16.080 --> 17:17.400 What if something bad happens? 17:17.520 --> 17:19.460 Number one, we don't have to blame anybody. 17:23.160 --> 17:26.560 I mean, we're not going to bat a thousand here. 17:27.880 --> 17:30.000 We're going to miss a few that get thrown at us. 17:30.840 --> 17:32.180 Well, it's your fault. 17:33.260 --> 17:35.520 No, don't don't get into the blame game. 17:35.820 --> 17:37.500 We don't have to take the perspective. 17:37.720 --> 17:41.480 Someone has failed and now it's their fault and we wouldn't have been for them. 17:41.760 --> 17:43.640 We wouldn't be in this position. 17:44.080 --> 17:48.320 That is, it's a very negative performance based viewpoint. 17:49.460 --> 17:51.680 And it actually comes out of pride and shame. 17:52.600 --> 17:55.320 The whole blame game thing comes out of pride and shame. 17:55.320 --> 17:58.820 Because I don't want to be at fault because I'll be ashamed. 17:59.680 --> 18:05.560 Therefore, I'll posture myself above you, which is one of the definitions of pride and make you at fault. 18:06.480 --> 18:07.440 See, it's your fault. 18:08.120 --> 18:09.220 I didn't do this. 18:10.500 --> 18:11.380 I did it right. 18:12.340 --> 18:13.500 The roots of that is in shame. 18:13.860 --> 18:19.260 I mean, in pride, the trying to push somebody else down is I don't want to be ashamed. 18:19.360 --> 18:20.940 So I'm going to blame it on them. 18:21.620 --> 18:22.600 We're in a battle. 18:22.720 --> 18:23.900 We don't always hit the target. 18:23.900 --> 18:29.560 So if something bad happens, believe for it to be restored or fixed. 18:33.600 --> 18:34.240 Let's back. 18:35.000 --> 18:36.000 There should be permission. 18:36.220 --> 18:37.200 Yeah, let's go with that one first. 18:37.800 --> 18:38.820 There should be permission. 18:38.960 --> 18:40.840 No condemnation for a mistake, a failure. 18:41.080 --> 18:42.920 He shouldn't be blaming somebody. 18:44.020 --> 18:45.420 We can't always get it perfect. 18:45.720 --> 18:47.040 God knows that he doesn't accept. 18:47.460 --> 18:49.120 God knows that and he doesn't expect. 18:50.120 --> 18:52.140 That should be expect, not accept. 18:52.920 --> 18:53.760 That's a typo. 18:54.680 --> 18:58.480 He doesn't expect perfection and neither should we. 18:59.000 --> 19:03.980 Again, religious and shame and that kind of thing does that. 19:06.420 --> 19:08.280 But we're in a battle. 19:09.600 --> 19:11.260 There's the one that skipped that one. 19:11.540 --> 19:12.520 That was the one I was on. 19:13.020 --> 19:13.640 We're in a battle. 19:13.740 --> 19:14.880 We don't always hit the target. 19:15.100 --> 19:16.080 That's okay. 19:18.940 --> 19:21.800 God never expected you to be perfect. 19:22.900 --> 19:25.040 Once you're saved, you're going to do everything right. 19:25.240 --> 19:26.980 He never expected it. 19:27.640 --> 19:29.380 He still doesn't expect it. 19:29.820 --> 19:33.320 So if he knows we're going to fail and he says it, 19:33.520 --> 19:35.760 when you sin, confess your sin, you'll be forgiven. 19:36.000 --> 19:40.640 If he knows that, why is it not okay when someone misses it? 19:42.700 --> 19:43.880 See, that's religion. 19:46.360 --> 19:47.540 Somebody messes up. 19:47.700 --> 19:49.060 That should be okay. 19:49.680 --> 19:50.940 What are you going to do with it now? 19:51.060 --> 19:51.360 Pick up. 19:51.580 --> 19:52.000 Let's get going. 19:52.500 --> 19:53.900 We can't lay down and die. 19:54.860 --> 19:57.380 But that's where the church crucifies its own. 19:58.500 --> 20:03.140 We attack our own people because we actually believe 20:03.140 --> 20:04.100 two different things. 20:04.860 --> 20:07.400 We know God doesn't expect us to be perfect, 20:07.480 --> 20:09.420 but when someone fails, we crucify him. 20:12.760 --> 20:14.020 See, that's not right. 20:14.020 --> 20:16.340 That we either need to get in or get out. 20:16.460 --> 20:18.220 If we expect everybody to be perfect, 20:18.320 --> 20:20.900 then we need to be expecting ourselves to be perfect, 20:22.420 --> 20:23.880 which we know we can't. 20:24.180 --> 20:27.100 So then it should be okay if somebody messes up. 20:27.260 --> 20:28.460 There shouldn't be condemnation. 20:28.660 --> 20:29.880 There shouldn't be ridicule. 20:30.020 --> 20:30.960 There shouldn't be judgment. 20:31.780 --> 20:33.300 They shouldn't be put down. 20:35.220 --> 20:35.660 Right? 20:36.860 --> 20:38.280 I know that's a big thought, 20:38.440 --> 20:40.960 but it's hard for Christians to say, 20:40.960 --> 20:43.820 oh, I was going after this and I didn't make it. 20:44.160 --> 20:44.940 That's okay. 20:46.400 --> 20:47.720 Oh, it's not okay. 20:48.800 --> 20:51.140 We're supposed to be conquerors in Christ. 20:52.140 --> 20:53.240 You never miss it. 20:54.960 --> 20:55.840 You never mess up. 20:57.520 --> 20:58.580 It should be okay. 20:59.680 --> 21:00.980 Just don't quit there. 21:01.800 --> 21:02.720 Go back at it again. 21:03.760 --> 21:05.540 Pick the bad up, swing again. 21:06.220 --> 21:07.160 Go for it again. 21:08.080 --> 21:09.860 And whatever got messed up, 21:09.860 --> 21:12.020 believe for it to be restored, healed and fixed. 21:12.400 --> 21:13.860 See, this is one. 21:14.060 --> 21:17.680 That top one is one that got into the faith movement. 21:18.620 --> 21:23.780 And you were never allowed to admit you missed something 21:23.780 --> 21:26.020 because now you were less than everybody else. 21:26.240 --> 21:28.780 You had not enough faith or not strong enough faith 21:28.780 --> 21:29.340 or no faith. 21:31.280 --> 21:34.580 Therefore, people would never get real with each other. 21:35.980 --> 21:37.720 They could have a horrible week 21:37.720 --> 21:39.580 and they would try to keep the whole thing a secret. 21:41.240 --> 21:42.960 Something could fall apart in their life. 21:43.080 --> 21:43.960 They try to keep it a secret. 21:44.040 --> 21:45.980 They don't want to let the people in the church know 21:45.980 --> 21:47.560 because now they're going to be labeled 21:49.300 --> 21:50.800 as having less faith, 21:51.320 --> 21:53.500 not strong enough, not spiritual enough. 21:53.860 --> 21:56.960 Somehow, because it's not okay 21:57.920 --> 21:59.500 to miss anything. 22:01.240 --> 22:02.460 And see, that's just wrong. 22:04.180 --> 22:06.560 It puts us in a position where 22:08.240 --> 22:10.880 we're embarrassed to ask church people for help. 22:12.120 --> 22:13.360 So you miss something. 22:13.900 --> 22:15.840 So something happens and you trip 22:15.840 --> 22:17.880 and you fall and you break your arm. 22:20.200 --> 22:21.060 You know what? 22:21.460 --> 22:22.740 It's not what I wanted. 22:25.320 --> 22:26.640 But, it's okay. 22:30.280 --> 22:31.840 Yeah, was it God? No. 22:32.240 --> 22:33.020 Was it blessing? No. 22:34.600 --> 22:36.540 Somehow, I got over into the flow 22:36.540 --> 22:38.560 that there was a trap laid for me 22:38.560 --> 22:39.520 and I fell right into it. 22:41.020 --> 22:42.260 But that's okay 22:44.260 --> 22:46.520 because God doesn't expect me to bat a thousand. 22:47.460 --> 22:48.900 He knows I'm going to miss some. 22:49.340 --> 22:52.580 That's why he offers healing and restoration and fixing. 22:57.040 --> 22:59.020 So, once I broke my arm, 22:59.320 --> 23:01.280 now I can either go into condemnation 23:01.280 --> 23:03.460 and feel bad and cry in my oatmeal 23:03.460 --> 23:05.420 and oh, why did this happen 23:05.420 --> 23:07.120 and get angry? God and shook my fist 23:07.120 --> 23:07.780 and this, that and the other. 23:07.780 --> 23:09.280 Or I can say, you know what? 23:09.900 --> 23:10.640 It's okay. 23:11.100 --> 23:12.820 Somehow, I missed it. 23:14.760 --> 23:18.420 But, now I'm not going to keep missing it. 23:18.980 --> 23:20.880 Now, I'm going to believe 23:20.880 --> 23:23.160 that this thing comes back together. 23:23.360 --> 23:24.460 There will be no arthritis. 23:24.780 --> 23:26.120 There will be no after effects. 23:26.280 --> 23:28.340 This thing will never bother me again. 23:28.920 --> 23:30.300 It will heal perfectly. 23:30.640 --> 23:33.560 There'll be shift back over 23:34.480 --> 23:36.140 and turn the faith back on. 23:41.840 --> 23:44.300 The main thing I'm after is the Christian's attitude 23:44.300 --> 23:46.240 where we get that holier than thou thing. 23:47.780 --> 23:50.020 Because you can't help each other 23:50.780 --> 23:53.140 if someone's in the wrong flow and they get hit. 23:53.640 --> 23:55.780 If we got that holier than thou thing 23:55.780 --> 23:58.960 and well, I could have told you blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 23:59.920 --> 24:02.140 You're not going to help that person at that point. 24:05.390 --> 24:07.130 We all have to understand 24:08.050 --> 24:09.910 stuff's going to happen. Doesn't mean 24:10.670 --> 24:13.010 it was God or a neutral thing. 24:13.010 --> 24:14.010 No, it wasn't God. 24:14.710 --> 24:16.990 But now we've got to pick it up and go forward. 24:18.110 --> 24:19.910 There should be permission, 24:21.010 --> 24:23.710 no condemnation for a mistake or a failure. 24:25.790 --> 24:28.030 See, that just grinds on the religious spirit. 24:28.150 --> 24:29.530 Just that statement grinds. 24:30.170 --> 24:31.970 You're going to give permission 24:31.970 --> 24:34.810 for mistakes and failures? Yes, I am. 24:38.670 --> 24:40.490 Show me in Scripture where Jesus 24:40.490 --> 24:44.730 or the writers, Peter, Paul, James, 24:44.730 --> 24:47.950 show me in Scripture where they didn't give permission. 24:48.950 --> 24:52.510 See, if you don't give permission for a failure 24:52.510 --> 24:54.890 you have no road back. 24:57.820 --> 24:59.620 You fail, you're out. 25:01.080 --> 25:02.460 There's no way back. 25:03.060 --> 25:05.160 Because I never said you could fail. 25:05.940 --> 25:08.280 God knows we're going to fail. 25:09.260 --> 25:12.680 That's why Scripture is written from the perspective 25:13.780 --> 25:17.100 of he will heal us, he will restore us, 25:17.360 --> 25:20.800 welcome the sinner back in on and on and on. 25:21.900 --> 25:24.080 It's a restorative gospel. 25:24.600 --> 25:26.240 It's not legalism. 25:27.160 --> 25:31.300 You get it perfect or you're going to be less than us. 25:31.380 --> 25:32.160 We're going to label you. 25:32.240 --> 25:33.900 You will be known the rest of your life 25:33.900 --> 25:35.300 as the person who failed. 25:37.500 --> 25:38.380 That's arrogance. 25:39.060 --> 25:39.940 That ain't God. 25:41.120 --> 25:43.900 There should be permission, no condemnation 25:43.900 --> 25:45.580 for a mistake or failure. 25:45.800 --> 25:47.920 Now we don't do it intentionally. 25:48.240 --> 25:51.820 It's why it's called a mistake or a failure. 25:53.000 --> 25:57.160 But when it happens, it's okay. 25:57.460 --> 25:58.180 I've had some too. 26:01.820 --> 26:03.840 You know the best thing we can say to someone 26:03.840 --> 26:05.900 who messes up is, 26:07.980 --> 26:08.780 it's all right. 26:10.180 --> 26:11.200 Ain't that big a deal. 26:11.200 --> 26:12.500 I've messed up too. 26:12.900 --> 26:13.960 Let's just get up and keep walking. 26:16.100 --> 26:17.080 Rather than, 26:18.900 --> 26:21.120 now we're going to make you pay 26:22.440 --> 26:24.200 because you messed up. 26:25.740 --> 26:27.220 You ain't going to forget it. 26:27.500 --> 26:29.380 We're going to dangle it in front of you 26:30.100 --> 26:31.420 till you grovel. 26:32.440 --> 26:34.420 Then maybe we'll let go of it. 26:34.500 --> 26:35.740 But if years down the road, 26:37.040 --> 26:38.000 we need it. 26:38.000 --> 26:39.400 We're going to remember. 26:41.060 --> 26:43.240 Yeah, I remember times when you did 26:43.240 --> 26:44.560 things messed up too. 26:44.960 --> 26:47.300 So don't be telling me what to do. 26:47.320 --> 26:50.320 It's just plain and arrogant, prideful posture. 26:51.660 --> 26:52.700 Rather than, 26:53.900 --> 26:56.620 we've all sinned and fallen short of the glory. 26:58.700 --> 26:59.680 Surprise, surprise. 27:00.360 --> 27:02.200 That's not a past statement. 27:02.940 --> 27:05.800 Do you know that Jesus died for your future sins? 27:08.930 --> 27:10.430 He died for all of them. 27:13.330 --> 27:16.070 It's an attitude so we can help each other. 27:16.350 --> 27:19.070 We can't always get it perfect. 27:19.290 --> 27:21.290 God knows and he doesn't expect perfection. 27:21.490 --> 27:22.670 Neither should we. 27:23.610 --> 27:25.670 Our goal, just follow the Spirit 27:25.670 --> 27:27.130 and live according to the Spirit 27:27.130 --> 27:30.310 and claim the blessing and live life. 27:32.770 --> 27:37.970 It's too easy to go the other direction. 27:40.530 --> 27:41.510 Follow the Spirit. 27:41.630 --> 27:42.790 His job is to lead us. 27:43.010 --> 27:44.230 His job is to guide us. 27:45.050 --> 27:48.730 One of the reasons Jesus never fell down 27:48.730 --> 27:49.690 and broke his leg. 27:50.890 --> 27:52.070 One of the reasons Jesus, 27:52.450 --> 27:54.410 there's no record that he ever got the flu. 27:55.690 --> 27:58.090 None of this stuff touched him. 27:59.510 --> 28:01.130 There's two basic reasons for it. 28:01.210 --> 28:04.290 One is Jesus followed the Spirit. 28:04.290 --> 28:09.710 It says he said nothing except he knew the Father told him to say it. 28:10.770 --> 28:14.130 And he did nothing except he saw the Father do it. 28:15.550 --> 28:18.190 Everything he did was led by the Spirit. 28:22.010 --> 28:24.330 That's how you stay in this flow. 28:25.050 --> 28:28.030 Because the Holy Spirit will try to keep us out of this. 28:28.330 --> 28:29.870 But if we're not paying attention, 28:30.510 --> 28:31.870 we're going to end up over there. 28:33.090 --> 28:34.330 That's one of the big things. 28:34.330 --> 28:37.090 The second one is coming is Jesus was not in sin. 28:37.450 --> 28:38.650 He had no sin. 28:39.290 --> 28:42.870 But going with the first one, Jesus lived by and stayed in step with the Spirit. 28:45.150 --> 28:48.370 That's why he was able to say Satan couldn't touch him. 28:48.450 --> 28:49.390 It's one of the reasons. 28:50.950 --> 28:54.830 Now we don't always succeed with walking in the Spirit, 28:54.910 --> 28:58.130 but if we will work on it, we'll get better at it. 29:04.740 --> 29:05.680 Here's the problem. 29:08.460 --> 29:13.420 The average Christian goes through days, weeks, months, even years. 29:14.260 --> 29:17.180 We make our own decisions rarely hearing from him 29:17.180 --> 29:20.600 without ever asking what we should do or if we should do it. 29:20.920 --> 29:24.340 When we do hear, we often ignore the promptings he gives to us 29:24.340 --> 29:26.900 and the traps are laid for us and we fall right into. 29:28.500 --> 29:31.420 And it can be so simple as, 29:32.780 --> 29:34.900 should I go to Walmart or shouldn't I? 29:34.900 --> 29:38.780 How many people as Christians even ask that question? 29:41.000 --> 29:43.180 Should we go there now or shouldn't we? 29:44.900 --> 29:45.880 And get an answer. 29:47.120 --> 29:49.780 But see, we're so poor at hearing God's voice. 29:50.100 --> 29:51.980 We'd never ask that question because we'd never go anywhere 29:51.980 --> 29:53.200 because, well, I can't hear God's voice. 29:53.780 --> 29:55.060 Well, that's a whole different problem. 29:55.740 --> 29:56.860 That needs to be fixed. 29:57.820 --> 30:00.360 Because if we can't hear his voice, how is he going to steer us 30:00.360 --> 30:01.860 around the trap that's waiting for us? 30:03.560 --> 30:05.860 So if we should go to Walmart, which way should we go? 30:06.680 --> 30:09.180 Do we ever stop and feel in our spirit, 30:10.180 --> 30:12.320 should I go that way or should I go a different way? 30:13.140 --> 30:14.520 What feels right? 30:17.240 --> 30:18.800 That's being led by the spirit. 30:21.000 --> 30:25.440 So I'm going to town and I can either follow six east 30:25.440 --> 30:27.700 and come in the north side of Cambridge 30:27.700 --> 30:30.320 or I can run down one and follow 95 in. 30:31.180 --> 30:34.180 What if there's a trap waiting for me down one? 30:37.440 --> 30:39.120 And I come to that stop sign. 30:39.320 --> 30:41.440 What's the Holy Spirit going to try to prompt me to do? 30:42.880 --> 30:43.760 Go the other way. 30:44.980 --> 30:48.200 If I am not asking, if I'm not paying attention, 30:48.240 --> 30:50.620 if life is all about what I want to do, 30:50.680 --> 30:51.720 I will never ask. 30:52.040 --> 30:54.320 If my habit pattern is to go that way, 30:54.460 --> 30:55.260 I'll just go that way. 30:55.920 --> 30:57.220 And I'll fall right into the trap. 31:00.930 --> 31:02.350 For instance, yesterday, 31:03.970 --> 31:06.070 I had to take care of some business in town 31:06.750 --> 31:08.570 and I was ready to come home 31:11.730 --> 31:13.230 and I turned right. 31:14.050 --> 31:15.570 I was on this side of town. 31:15.690 --> 31:17.250 I turned right to go back into town 31:17.250 --> 31:20.090 rather than turning left on 95 to come home. 31:20.410 --> 31:22.310 I turned right and I'm going about a block 31:22.310 --> 31:23.210 and I'm going, what am I doing? 31:23.430 --> 31:24.750 Why did I turn right? 31:25.150 --> 31:26.130 So I asked. 31:26.550 --> 31:27.830 I said, why did I turn right? 31:27.830 --> 31:29.070 I know I'm going home. 31:29.150 --> 31:29.850 I should have turned left. 31:29.910 --> 31:30.730 I was coming from the south 31:30.730 --> 31:32.790 and I should have turned left. 31:33.050 --> 31:33.850 I turned right. 31:34.550 --> 31:36.530 So I asked, why did I... 31:36.530 --> 31:37.890 I didn't just complain. 31:38.650 --> 31:39.490 No, you turned right. 31:39.610 --> 31:40.250 What's wrong with you? 31:40.870 --> 31:42.450 I actually asked, 31:43.150 --> 31:45.430 why did I turn right and not left? 31:45.650 --> 31:47.490 Because I know I should have turned left. 31:47.710 --> 31:49.130 Why did I turn right? 31:51.370 --> 31:52.690 And he answered me. 31:54.810 --> 31:55.770 You know what he said? 31:55.770 --> 31:58.250 He said, because where you're going, 31:58.390 --> 31:59.850 you need to go a little bit later 31:59.850 --> 32:01.150 than if you'd have turned left. 32:05.050 --> 32:06.190 What difference does that make? 32:06.610 --> 32:07.590 Could be a deer smack. 32:08.070 --> 32:08.350 Right. 32:12.290 --> 32:14.710 And that extra minute to get around the block 32:15.290 --> 32:16.970 could be car accident. 32:18.630 --> 32:19.490 Could be anything. 32:21.090 --> 32:22.290 But if we'll culture, 32:22.530 --> 32:23.750 we're trying to live by the spirit, 32:23.830 --> 32:25.510 not just do our own thing 32:25.510 --> 32:26.670 and fall into the trap. 32:28.090 --> 32:29.690 And I'll throw this in here. 32:29.690 --> 32:31.350 If we haven't overcome our fear issues, 32:31.570 --> 32:33.650 what we're talking about now is likely 32:33.650 --> 32:35.170 going to be hard for you because 32:37.050 --> 32:38.470 we're going to start freaking out 32:38.470 --> 32:39.370 because of our own fear. 32:40.610 --> 32:42.190 Oh, that means that anytime 32:42.600 --> 32:43.870 I could get under the wrong floor. 32:44.250 --> 32:45.330 Don't you have any faith? 32:47.170 --> 32:48.230 Don't you trust God? 32:48.410 --> 32:49.270 Don't you believe God? 32:51.250 --> 32:53.690 See, you can't discount... 32:54.230 --> 32:55.370 Well, I just won't think about that 32:55.370 --> 32:56.490 and I'm just going to live my life. 32:57.230 --> 32:58.350 Well, there we go. 32:59.670 --> 33:01.030 Because if I get thinking about it, 33:01.050 --> 33:01.890 I'll get afraid. 33:02.930 --> 33:04.970 Your problem then is fear. 33:06.290 --> 33:07.470 Let everything else go 33:07.470 --> 33:09.490 and get over your fear 33:09.490 --> 33:11.510 because your fear is crippling you 33:11.510 --> 33:13.630 from hearing God and doing what you need to do in life. 33:14.270 --> 33:15.790 Take the first thing 33:15.790 --> 33:16.850 and deal with it. 33:17.270 --> 33:18.370 And that's for many reasons 33:18.370 --> 33:19.630 why a lot of Christians 33:19.630 --> 33:21.910 don't live overcoming lean victoriously 33:21.910 --> 33:24.210 because the actual subject 33:24.210 --> 33:25.330 we're talking about 33:25.330 --> 33:27.390 causes them anxiety. 33:31.430 --> 33:32.570 Do you mean 33:32.570 --> 33:34.650 if I fall down in the ice, 33:34.970 --> 33:36.070 a devil threw me down? 33:36.810 --> 33:38.570 No, I never said that. 33:39.650 --> 33:41.030 Do you mean 33:41.030 --> 33:42.730 if you fall down in the ice, 33:43.010 --> 33:44.510 that was God's best for you? 33:46.230 --> 33:47.010 Well, no. 33:49.550 --> 33:52.730 Do you ever speak out, 33:53.350 --> 33:54.770 pray, declare 33:55.770 --> 33:57.630 about falling down the ice, 33:57.770 --> 33:59.190 about hitting deer, 33:59.510 --> 34:01.530 about your car breaking down? 34:02.650 --> 34:03.970 You know, stuff gets old. 34:04.950 --> 34:06.710 Sooner or later, it quits working. 34:07.350 --> 34:08.170 It needs fixing. 34:08.990 --> 34:11.030 Do you ever declare anything about your car 34:11.030 --> 34:11.790 in regard to that? 34:15.230 --> 34:16.390 Because if you don't, 34:16.730 --> 34:18.130 you're not using your faith. 34:19.710 --> 34:21.410 Because here is this flow. 34:22.310 --> 34:23.470 When a car breaks down, 34:23.550 --> 34:25.730 it's going to be the most inopportune time 34:25.730 --> 34:27.510 you're going to have to get to an appointment. 34:27.710 --> 34:29.090 You won't be able to get there. 34:30.150 --> 34:31.190 You're traveling. 34:31.830 --> 34:34.730 You're someplace where a mechanic's 34:35.450 --> 34:36.950 going to just take advantage of you. 34:37.230 --> 34:38.670 I mean, there's all these things 34:38.670 --> 34:41.190 that go bad in this flow. 34:43.010 --> 34:44.390 And then there's 34:44.390 --> 34:46.750 this flow of sooner or later 34:46.750 --> 34:48.030 something will go bad. 34:50.130 --> 34:51.730 But I'm going to declare when 34:51.730 --> 34:52.730 and how that's going to happen. 34:52.730 --> 34:54.070 And it will obey me. 34:55.550 --> 34:57.550 I can give you an example just from last fall 34:57.550 --> 34:59.250 when we went on vacation. 35:03.210 --> 35:04.270 All the way out there. 35:05.550 --> 35:06.490 Truck ran great. 35:06.950 --> 35:07.570 Everything's good. 35:09.570 --> 35:11.010 Get close to the black hills. 35:12.250 --> 35:14.110 I'm smelling a little bit of antifreeze. 35:14.930 --> 35:16.510 Like what? What's that? 35:17.970 --> 35:19.590 Hmm. Well, whatever. 35:20.150 --> 35:21.090 It's not heating or anything. 35:21.090 --> 35:22.510 I stopped and looked. Couldn't see anything. 35:24.330 --> 35:25.510 So we get there. 35:27.570 --> 35:28.790 The next day 35:29.270 --> 35:30.330 try to start it. 35:30.810 --> 35:31.650 It wouldn't start. 35:32.710 --> 35:34.150 Battery was dead. It's got two batteries. 35:34.270 --> 35:35.130 One of the batteries was dead. 35:37.390 --> 35:38.670 What if that would have happened 35:40.210 --> 35:41.070 on the road 35:41.870 --> 35:42.870 at a filling station? 35:46.250 --> 35:47.410 You say you actually 35:48.330 --> 35:50.270 declare when a battery will go dead? 35:50.530 --> 35:51.150 Yes, I do. 35:52.330 --> 35:54.250 It will always go dead 35:54.250 --> 35:55.990 when it's the easiest 35:55.990 --> 35:57.370 for me to fix. 35:58.710 --> 35:59.270 Always. 36:00.870 --> 36:01.430 Period. 36:01.950 --> 36:03.530 I call that over my vehicles. 36:04.850 --> 36:06.790 I'll walk by. I'm going to say you're blessed. 36:07.250 --> 36:08.510 And when you do, 36:08.570 --> 36:10.150 something does wear out and break. 36:10.430 --> 36:12.570 It will happen at the place and the time 36:12.570 --> 36:14.330 where it's convenient for me. 36:14.970 --> 36:16.050 Yeah. Yeah. 36:16.770 --> 36:19.090 I am intentionally pulling myself 36:19.090 --> 36:20.630 over to this side. 36:22.310 --> 36:22.790 Okay. 36:23.210 --> 36:23.590 So, 36:25.150 --> 36:26.730 I've got to lift the hood 36:26.730 --> 36:27.770 because it's not starting. 36:28.250 --> 36:30.830 Well, now I notice that my antifreeze is down a little bit. 36:31.410 --> 36:32.170 It's like, hmm, 36:32.490 --> 36:34.250 I got to be losing antifreeze someplace. 36:35.130 --> 36:36.390 Well, long story short, 36:36.570 --> 36:37.270 they got a Y 36:37.770 --> 36:39.790 where it comes out of the radiator 36:39.790 --> 36:41.030 and it goes two different directions 36:41.030 --> 36:42.310 and that Y is plastic. 36:43.730 --> 36:45.730 And it develops a hairline crack 36:46.250 --> 36:48.090 and then just seeps and evaporates. 36:48.170 --> 36:49.310 It never really drips or runs. 36:49.450 --> 36:51.790 It just seeps and evaporates until all of a sudden 36:51.790 --> 36:53.570 it gets high pressure and then it'll just blow. 36:54.630 --> 36:54.750 Okay. 36:55.830 --> 36:56.910 So, I, you know, 36:58.310 --> 36:59.430 it looked like 36:59.430 --> 37:01.590 it had gotten... it wasn't wet. 37:02.050 --> 37:02.930 Nothing like that. 37:03.050 --> 37:04.630 It just looked like there was a mark there, 37:04.630 --> 37:05.630 like I think it's leaking there. 37:05.670 --> 37:07.770 So, when I went to get a battery, 37:09.390 --> 37:10.450 I asked the guy. 37:10.970 --> 37:12.650 I said, are there any issues with this? 37:12.650 --> 37:14.870 Oh, yeah. That's common. 37:15.370 --> 37:16.450 You need one? We got them. 37:16.990 --> 37:18.370 You got to buy the whole assembly. 37:18.670 --> 37:19.610 The hoses and everything. 37:20.210 --> 37:20.890 We got them. 37:21.590 --> 37:23.890 He says what typically happens to people 37:25.390 --> 37:27.490 is when they're pulling a trailer 37:27.490 --> 37:28.830 and the load gets heavy, 37:29.250 --> 37:29.730 it blows 37:30.550 --> 37:32.930 and they're stranded out in the middle of the road. 37:36.680 --> 37:38.160 No. No. 37:38.660 --> 37:39.580 That's this flow. 37:40.540 --> 37:42.900 It's trouble. It subtracts from you. 37:42.900 --> 37:44.380 It causes issues. 37:44.700 --> 37:46.520 No. If it's going to go, 37:46.820 --> 37:49.160 it's going to go in the most convenient 37:49.160 --> 37:50.680 way possible. 37:51.220 --> 37:51.560 Yes. 37:52.280 --> 37:53.960 So I bought one and that was it. 37:54.220 --> 37:55.540 When I took it apart, you could see. 37:55.940 --> 37:56.920 It had a little crack in it. 37:58.000 --> 37:59.520 And I put the new battery in. 38:01.060 --> 38:01.820 Always great. 38:02.620 --> 38:04.640 There was a time in Colorado. We were going to the mountains. 38:05.420 --> 38:06.940 And we, we would go 38:06.940 --> 38:08.940 where we didn't have to pay camping fees. 38:09.060 --> 38:11.200 So we went way back in a few hours. 38:12.140 --> 38:12.540 And 38:12.960 --> 38:15.000 ready to go, I had to run to the store and get 38:15.000 --> 38:17.120 something and took the vehicle, ran 38:17.120 --> 38:18.660 the store, got something, brought it back. 38:19.020 --> 38:20.080 We finished packing. 38:20.520 --> 38:21.620 Went to hit the starter. 38:22.380 --> 38:22.760 Nothing. 38:24.940 --> 38:25.340 Nothing. 38:26.960 --> 38:27.360 And 38:29.300 --> 38:30.480 I was angry 38:31.200 --> 38:32.700 because we're in a time limit here. 38:33.080 --> 38:34.540 We got to get up there. We got little kids. 38:34.700 --> 38:36.000 They're already whining and complaining. 38:37.360 --> 38:39.020 Why did it have to break now? 38:40.240 --> 38:40.600 So 38:41.000 --> 38:42.520 got to figure it out. It was a battery. 38:43.240 --> 38:44.900 Battery, all of a sudden the battery 38:44.900 --> 38:46.720 wasn't weak or anything. It just quit. 38:47.640 --> 38:47.780 Okay? 38:48.940 --> 38:50.900 So got a new battery, put it in, delayed 38:50.900 --> 38:52.900 us for an hour, hour and a half, whatever it was. 38:53.580 --> 38:54.980 I'm on the way to the 38:54.980 --> 38:56.980 mountains and the Holy Spirit asked me a 38:56.980 --> 38:57.380 question. 38:58.740 --> 39:00.800 Because I was saying, that stinks, man. 39:01.280 --> 39:02.600 Why'd that have to happen? Is that the other? 39:03.260 --> 39:04.700 He said, well, didn't you pray 39:04.700 --> 39:05.700 and believe for that? 39:06.900 --> 39:08.320 For the battery to break? 39:08.720 --> 39:08.900 No. 39:10.620 --> 39:12.120 Then he reminded me. 39:13.080 --> 39:14.240 He said, what if that would 39:14.240 --> 39:16.440 have happened five hours into 39:16.440 --> 39:16.880 the mountains? 39:17.960 --> 39:20.200 And you're two hours from any place 39:20.200 --> 39:21.540 to buy a battery. 39:23.080 --> 39:24.360 That was an answer 39:24.360 --> 39:25.040 to your prayer. 39:28.710 --> 39:30.490 So we can choose 39:30.490 --> 39:32.170 to live in curses 39:32.930 --> 39:34.410 or we can choose 39:34.410 --> 39:35.590 to live in blessings. 39:35.590 --> 39:38.210 The thing is, the average Christian 39:38.210 --> 39:39.930 isn't choosing anything. 39:41.930 --> 39:43.630 Therefore, it's kind of easy 39:43.630 --> 39:45.630 to get caught in some of these traps. 39:46.510 --> 39:47.710 We're not hearing the Spirit. 39:47.950 --> 39:49.010 We're not making choices. 39:51.870 --> 39:53.870 And it's not just, well, 39:53.970 --> 39:54.970 the devil's after me. 39:56.490 --> 39:57.810 I got news for you. 39:58.170 --> 39:59.750 The devil's after everybody. 40:01.770 --> 40:03.710 Peter said, he roams around 40:03.710 --> 40:05.370 like a roaring lion 40:05.370 --> 40:07.370 looking for somebody to eat. 40:12.400 --> 40:13.640 So how do we respond? 40:18.200 --> 40:19.080 Pray for me. 40:19.580 --> 40:21.020 The devil don't get me. 40:22.380 --> 40:22.960 Fear. 40:24.680 --> 40:26.240 Or ignorance to faith. 40:30.120 --> 40:31.800 Do you know how he should respond? 40:34.290 --> 40:35.580 The devil's after Dave. 40:37.100 --> 40:38.520 The devil will only be 40:38.520 --> 40:40.180 after Dave until Dave recognizes 40:40.180 --> 40:41.700 the devil's after him and then the devil 40:41.700 --> 40:42.440 will be on the run. 40:43.060 --> 40:44.480 Because Dave will be chasing him. 40:49.670 --> 40:50.890 We have that authority. 40:51.430 --> 40:53.370 We can either hunker down on this side 40:53.370 --> 40:54.670 and go, oh man, the devil's after me. 40:54.970 --> 40:56.850 It's just been a bad week. 40:57.230 --> 40:59.290 Why did you let it be a bad week? 41:00.490 --> 41:02.130 Why didn't you stop that 41:02.130 --> 41:03.070 bad week? 41:03.890 --> 41:04.910 Well, it's the enemy. 41:05.630 --> 41:06.570 He's been after me. 41:07.350 --> 41:08.210 Isn't he defeated? 41:09.990 --> 41:11.530 The only way he can do something 41:11.530 --> 41:12.330 is if you let him 41:13.030 --> 41:15.710 get over to the other side 41:17.350 --> 41:19.190 and start demanding 41:19.190 --> 41:21.170 the bad week change. 41:25.040 --> 41:27.960 Well, I just feel cursed. Well, you probably are. 41:29.080 --> 41:31.060 Because remember, curse means 41:32.160 --> 41:34.240 you're under the wrong flow. 41:35.580 --> 41:37.180 Well, I didn't choose to be there, 41:37.260 --> 41:39.640 but you didn't choose not to either, did you? 41:39.640 --> 41:39.740 Yeah. 41:43.970 --> 41:45.570 Sometimes it's just 41:45.570 --> 41:46.390 easy 41:47.290 --> 41:48.450 to get sick. 41:49.710 --> 41:51.850 And the only way you won't 41:51.850 --> 41:53.690 is if you choose 41:55.070 --> 41:56.070 not to. 41:56.450 --> 41:56.570 Yeah. 41:56.970 --> 41:59.430 If you choose nothing, well, it's going around. 41:59.670 --> 42:00.850 Yeah, it is, and we'll hit you too. 42:02.290 --> 42:04.050 We can choose 42:04.050 --> 42:04.990 against it. 42:05.660 --> 42:07.090 And be blessed. 42:07.330 --> 42:08.530 Live under that flow. 42:10.730 --> 42:11.250 So, 42:13.090 --> 42:14.510 I say it again, the purpose 42:14.510 --> 42:16.350 of recognizing the wrong flow, 42:16.870 --> 42:18.410 which is, it's just called curse. 42:18.770 --> 42:19.970 You're in the wrong flow. 42:20.230 --> 42:22.750 Well, I'm cursed. Well, you're actually just in the wrong flow. 42:23.390 --> 42:24.430 Is so we can 42:24.430 --> 42:25.990 turn it into the right flow. 42:26.470 --> 42:27.530 The blessing flow. 42:28.270 --> 42:30.490 That's why we recognize the wrong flow. 42:30.730 --> 42:33.010 And that's why I'm taking so much time in this 42:33.010 --> 42:35.010 because so many Christians don't recognize 42:35.010 --> 42:36.670 they're under the wrong flow. 42:36.670 --> 42:38.650 They think this is normal 42:38.650 --> 42:39.430 for Christians. 42:40.150 --> 42:41.770 And it's not normal. 42:43.130 --> 42:43.950 If it's 42:44.630 --> 42:46.490 subtracting from you, it's not 42:46.490 --> 42:48.570 God. God adds to 42:48.570 --> 42:48.890 you. 42:52.370 --> 42:53.850 Just a little rule of thumb. 42:54.890 --> 42:55.410 So not 42:56.170 --> 42:58.430 do not move in with the enemy or 42:58.430 --> 43:00.610 make covenant with him by calling 43:00.610 --> 43:01.950 it neutral 43:01.950 --> 43:02.950 or normal. 43:03.570 --> 43:06.310 If we measure it wrong, we're going to move in with the enemy. 43:06.310 --> 43:06.650 Okay. 43:07.970 --> 43:10.310 Let's make this one of the question and answer stops 43:10.310 --> 43:10.710 right here. 43:12.110 --> 43:14.070 Anybody have any question? Okay. 43:14.750 --> 43:15.870 We'll get the mic to you 43:15.870 --> 43:18.070 and hopefully 43:18.070 --> 43:19.510 this doesn't become the rest of the evening. 43:19.810 --> 43:21.850 But we'll take it as it comes 43:21.850 --> 43:24.130 because I'm about to shift gears just a little bit on this. 43:25.570 --> 43:26.190 I have 43:26.190 --> 43:27.650 two if you have time. Go for it. 43:27.930 --> 43:30.230 The apostle Paul was shipwrecked, 43:30.230 --> 43:30.690 beaten, 43:32.990 --> 43:33.430 imprisoned. 43:33.430 --> 43:35.770 Was he under the wrong flow when those things happened? 43:36.150 --> 43:36.310 Yes. 43:37.050 --> 43:39.350 Now, let me explain that because 43:39.350 --> 43:41.430 we haven't gotten to listing. There's seven different 43:41.430 --> 43:43.570 realms of curses or ways 43:43.570 --> 43:45.030 we can get under the wrong flow. 43:45.550 --> 43:47.630 One of them is the authoritative 43:47.630 --> 43:48.630 curse 43:49.310 --> 43:50.890 or the authoritative realm. 43:51.670 --> 43:53.330 Paul would have never been in a 43:53.330 --> 43:55.610 shipwreck if he'd have been captain of the ship. 43:57.310 --> 43:59.230 The guy who was in charge 43:59.230 --> 44:01.370 of the ship, Paul told him 44:01.370 --> 44:04.190 I don't feel good about this. 44:04.690 --> 44:05.570 See, the Holy Spirit 44:05.570 --> 44:07.690 we're showing Paul. Yep, you do this. 44:07.810 --> 44:09.250 They're going to be trouble. Go talk captain. 44:09.410 --> 44:11.370 Captain's like, oh, no, the breeze is coming 44:11.370 --> 44:12.970 from the right direction. We can do this. 44:14.370 --> 44:15.170 Paul, shipwrecked. 44:15.250 --> 44:17.410 Was it Paul's fault? No, it was a captain's 44:17.410 --> 44:19.370 fault, but Paul was involved with 44:19.370 --> 44:21.290 that bad flow because he was 44:21.290 --> 44:23.210 under the man's authority. 44:23.690 --> 44:25.190 Now, he didn't choose it. He was going to 44:25.190 --> 44:27.310 roam at that point. So he was being 44:27.310 --> 44:29.490 held prisoner by soldiers. 44:29.490 --> 44:30.870 So he didn't choose that, 44:31.010 --> 44:32.970 but he was under that 44:33.490 --> 44:35.210 authority. So as a result, 44:35.330 --> 44:36.710 he ended up under the bad flow. 44:37.170 --> 44:39.030 Good question, though. Excellent question. 44:39.330 --> 44:41.330 That makes sense because we had discussed that 44:41.330 --> 44:43.230 as a family this last week. 44:43.950 --> 44:45.590 Can you be under someone else's 44:46.130 --> 44:46.890 bad flow? 44:47.450 --> 44:49.270 So that leads into my second question, which I think 44:49.270 --> 44:51.270 you kind of answered. A young child 44:51.270 --> 44:52.150 is abused 44:52.890 --> 44:54.470 by a stranger, let's say. 44:55.110 --> 44:56.610 Who is at fault there? 44:57.770 --> 45:00.430 Can be many different situations, many different 45:00.430 --> 45:00.690 circumstances. 45:01.790 --> 45:03.330 Usually, God gets the blame 45:03.330 --> 45:04.750 as the child gets older. 45:05.490 --> 45:07.410 The child that's been abused 45:07.410 --> 45:07.990 has been 45:09.030 --> 45:10.650 whatever way they've been abused. 45:11.090 --> 45:12.790 As they get older, they're going to, where was God? 45:13.310 --> 45:13.930 Where was God? 45:14.870 --> 45:16.250 God's where he's always been. 45:16.550 --> 45:17.950 My question is, where were your parents? 45:20.510 --> 45:21.590 Why were you 45:21.590 --> 45:22.750 in a position to... 45:24.150 --> 45:24.650 And again, 45:24.650 --> 45:26.510 sometimes stuff happens 45:26.510 --> 45:27.810 and we're not going to lay blame. 45:28.990 --> 45:30.810 But once it becomes a pattern 45:31.430 --> 45:32.650 and it happens over 45:32.650 --> 45:34.230 and over, where's mom and dad? 45:35.710 --> 45:37.090 Where are they 45:37.090 --> 45:38.910 missing, God? Where are they 45:38.910 --> 45:40.350 under the wrong 45:40.350 --> 45:40.850 flow? 45:41.950 --> 45:44.250 And I'll just give you a real simple example. 45:44.590 --> 45:46.590 Situation we ran into this was years ago. 45:48.430 --> 45:50.570 The child was being abused 45:50.570 --> 45:51.490 at daycare 45:52.570 --> 45:53.750 on-goingly. 45:55.830 --> 45:57.570 But the parents were 45:57.570 --> 45:59.650 determined to reach some financial 45:59.650 --> 46:01.570 goals and mom wasn't 46:01.570 --> 46:03.810 allowed to stay home and take care of the child. 46:06.030 --> 46:07.570 So their money got 46:07.570 --> 46:09.450 more important than the child's safety. 46:10.890 --> 46:11.870 This flow 46:11.870 --> 46:14.010 or this flow? Which one is it? 46:14.550 --> 46:15.970 It's definitely not God's side. 46:17.010 --> 46:18.130 It's this side. 46:18.490 --> 46:20.050 So here you've got a child 46:20.050 --> 46:22.130 under the authority, mom and dad, 46:22.510 --> 46:24.050 getting abused because 46:24.050 --> 46:26.270 the authority is making the wrong 46:26.270 --> 46:26.690 choices. 46:29.110 --> 46:30.290 Good question, so 46:30.290 --> 46:31.890 excellent. Anybody else got a question? 46:32.690 --> 46:34.090 Go ahead. Okay, so 46:34.090 --> 46:36.210 Job, his faith was tested 46:36.210 --> 46:38.010 by all the things that occurred 46:38.010 --> 46:39.670 to him. Yes. Okay. 46:40.690 --> 46:41.470 I guess 46:41.870 --> 46:43.990 he wasn't under a curse, was he? 46:44.410 --> 46:46.270 Or he kept agreeing 46:46.270 --> 46:46.910 to it. 46:47.570 --> 46:49.370 There was two things with Job. 46:49.770 --> 46:50.730 Job is 46:51.950 --> 46:53.230 from historians, 46:53.590 --> 46:54.770 Job should be before 46:54.770 --> 46:56.350 Genesis. He's the oldest 46:56.350 --> 46:58.610 book. He lived before 46:59.390 --> 47:00.770 Moses and all those. 47:01.590 --> 47:02.890 He was before 47:02.890 --> 47:03.610 Abraham. 47:04.670 --> 47:06.030 There was no covenant 47:06.770 --> 47:08.330 for him to stand in. 47:09.310 --> 47:10.890 Now he understood, Adam 47:10.890 --> 47:12.550 and Eve understood this because that's what 47:12.550 --> 47:13.750 got Cain and Abel in trouble. 47:13.750 --> 47:15.950 Right. God wanted 47:15.950 --> 47:17.270 blood sacrifices 47:17.270 --> 47:19.550 to cover the sins of that 47:19.550 --> 47:20.230 period of time. 47:21.750 --> 47:23.850 Abel gave that. Cain 47:23.850 --> 47:25.990 brought fruits and vegetables 47:25.990 --> 47:27.730 and watermelon. 47:28.810 --> 47:29.770 And God said, 47:29.850 --> 47:31.750 I don't want that. I want 47:31.750 --> 47:33.510 a blood sacrifice. So God 47:33.510 --> 47:35.570 had told Adam and Eve, and 47:35.570 --> 47:37.010 they had taught their children 47:37.470 --> 47:39.330 what they need to do. Okay. 47:40.330 --> 47:41.610 Job knew, because 47:41.610 --> 47:43.090 Job is somewhere back 47:43.430 --> 47:45.090 before Abraham and after 47:46.190 --> 47:47.550 after Adam. We don't know 47:47.550 --> 47:49.390 if he's before Noah. We're not 47:49.390 --> 47:51.050 sure. We think he's after Noah. 47:51.370 --> 47:53.170 It's hard to place it, but he's way back. 47:53.570 --> 47:55.350 Okay. Job knew 47:55.350 --> 47:57.550 to stay in, 47:57.790 --> 47:59.290 how would you say, the right 47:59.290 --> 48:01.310 standing with God. You had a sacrifice. 48:01.530 --> 48:03.410 And he was continually sacrificing for 48:03.410 --> 48:05.490 his children, it says, because 48:05.490 --> 48:06.810 of the way they were living. 48:06.990 --> 48:08.850 He didn't want something bad to happen. 48:08.850 --> 48:10.770 Okay. That is the 48:10.770 --> 48:12.570 only tool he had. 48:12.950 --> 48:15.050 There was no covenant. Abraham's covenant 48:15.050 --> 48:17.050 wasn't established. If he was after Noah, 48:17.650 --> 48:18.730 that covenant was already 48:18.730 --> 48:20.510 established. But that's more of a governmental 48:20.510 --> 48:22.890 I will not send a flood kind of covenant 48:22.890 --> 48:24.850 rather than a personal promise to 48:24.850 --> 48:25.230 a person. 48:26.610 --> 48:28.570 So he had no rights. 48:29.010 --> 48:29.750 Let's say it that way. 48:30.710 --> 48:32.790 So when things started going 48:32.790 --> 48:34.570 wrong, he could not 48:34.570 --> 48:36.890 say, in Jesus' name, I refuse 48:36.890 --> 48:37.070 this. 48:38.290 --> 48:40.310 This will not happen because 48:40.310 --> 48:42.050 I have rights here. 48:42.270 --> 48:44.910 And I'm going to exercise him. He couldn't do that. Number one. 48:45.530 --> 48:46.390 And number two, 48:47.030 --> 48:48.370 he did let the door open. 48:49.030 --> 48:50.990 Even though he was sacrificing, he let 48:50.990 --> 48:52.530 the gate open for 48:53.090 --> 48:54.070 Satan to hit him. 48:54.450 --> 48:55.530 You know how he did it? 48:57.710 --> 48:58.490 He feared. 48:59.270 --> 49:01.090 He said, the thing I feared the most. 49:01.350 --> 49:02.710 So he was sacrificing 49:02.710 --> 49:04.850 out of fear. He was afraid 49:04.850 --> 49:07.010 something bad was going to come on his life 49:07.010 --> 49:08.830 and destroy him. Well fear is an open door. 49:09.830 --> 49:10.730 But now you 49:10.730 --> 49:12.610 really got to cut Job some slack. 49:13.910 --> 49:14.850 He had nothing 49:14.850 --> 49:16.290 to stand on. He didn't have 49:16.690 --> 49:18.890 I don't think he had any written 49:18.890 --> 49:20.930 word of any kind. He didn't have the 49:20.930 --> 49:22.930 Holy Spirit. He just had 49:22.930 --> 49:24.850 the few things that were handed down 49:25.450 --> 49:26.910 in knowledge from 49:26.910 --> 49:28.970 people who lived before him and what God 49:28.970 --> 49:29.570 had told him. 49:30.750 --> 49:31.230 So 49:31.230 --> 49:34.110 you know whenever Job comes up 49:34.110 --> 49:35.490 and it's a good question because 49:35.490 --> 49:36.550 it's very misunderstood. 49:37.310 --> 49:38.830 Whenever Job comes up 49:38.830 --> 49:41.030 the first thing I say is this 49:41.030 --> 49:41.910 I'm not Job. 49:42.930 --> 49:43.930 You're not Job. 49:45.070 --> 49:46.730 Don't compare yourself to Job. Oh, why wouldn't 49:46.730 --> 49:48.590 I compare myself to Job? Because 49:48.590 --> 49:50.850 we have a covenant. We have 49:50.850 --> 49:53.170 promises. We have the Holy Spirit. 49:53.390 --> 49:54.830 We have the name of Jesus. 49:54.990 --> 49:56.470 We've got the blood of Christ. 49:56.730 --> 49:58.750 We have the word of faith 49:58.750 --> 50:00.150 to call things. 50:01.330 --> 50:02.630 Job had none of it. 50:03.790 --> 50:05.390 So to say, well, bad things happen to 50:05.390 --> 50:06.850 Job happen to me too. If you live 50:06.850 --> 50:07.890 like Job, yes it will. 50:09.090 --> 50:11.010 But I choose since I have 50:11.010 --> 50:12.870 all these things available to me 50:12.870 --> 50:14.130 to not live like Job. 50:15.470 --> 50:17.130 But it's a really good question 50:17.130 --> 50:18.850 because it always comes up. 50:19.770 --> 50:20.770 So that's the 50:20.770 --> 50:22.710 differentiation. When someone says, what about 50:22.710 --> 50:23.690 Job? Are you Job? 50:24.530 --> 50:26.850 Do you live under Job's circumstances? 50:26.850 --> 50:28.670 Then don't compare to Job. 50:31.270 --> 50:32.990 He's a whole different cat living 50:32.990 --> 50:34.030 in a whole different era 50:34.750 --> 50:37.090 without anything to stand on. 50:37.950 --> 50:38.790 We are 50:39.990 --> 50:41.710 literally by the Holy Spirit 50:41.710 --> 50:43.250 in us. We're God 50:43.250 --> 50:44.870 walking around in the flesh as we 50:44.870 --> 50:46.770 follow his leading and declare 50:46.770 --> 50:48.750 what he says declare. Whole 50:48.750 --> 50:50.830 different world. Good question 50:50.830 --> 50:51.990 though. Anybody else got anything? 50:53.090 --> 50:54.970 We got one up here and one back there. 50:55.570 --> 50:57.110 Okay, we'll do three more questions 50:57.110 --> 50:57.810 then we'll move on. 50:58.510 --> 51:00.010 We got three of them. 51:00.290 --> 51:02.770 When you were talking about if something bad happens 51:02.770 --> 51:04.770 one thing that came up for me, are there 51:04.770 --> 51:06.770 certain spirits that typically hang around 51:06.770 --> 51:08.790 each other like a lot of what you were talking 51:08.790 --> 51:10.770 about like the condemnation and the spirit of religion 51:10.770 --> 51:12.150 and that pride thing for example? 51:12.150 --> 51:14.530 Yes. And we haven't gotten to that yet. 51:14.690 --> 51:16.790 But yes, they kind of run in little 51:16.790 --> 51:18.310 herds and they 51:18.310 --> 51:20.510 the kingdom support each other. 51:22.690 --> 51:23.090 Yes. 51:23.650 --> 51:25.390 I'll just answer it that way for now. 51:30.280 --> 51:32.260 If you're standing like 100% 51:32.260 --> 51:33.660 faith that you'll never hit a deer 51:33.660 --> 51:36.000 but you willfully sin like 51:36.000 --> 51:37.940 maybe you lie to your friend or something 51:37.940 --> 51:40.040 is that then a door open for a trap 51:40.040 --> 51:42.160 through you hitting a deer or would the trap 51:42.160 --> 51:43.100 have to be laid somehow 51:43.620 --> 51:45.940 else because you willfully sin. But you're still 51:45.940 --> 51:47.600 in 100% faith that you won't hit a deer. 51:49.300 --> 51:49.700 I 51:50.800 --> 51:52.240 will admit right here 51:52.240 --> 51:53.700 I don't have all the answers. 51:57.820 --> 51:58.340 However 52:00.040 --> 52:01.720 my experience is this 52:03.020 --> 52:04.120 they will use 52:04.120 --> 52:05.820 whatever crack they can use 52:05.820 --> 52:06.320 to get in. 52:07.980 --> 52:09.260 So if you give them 52:09.260 --> 52:11.440 you know if you open the window that far 52:12.300 --> 52:13.700 well will something get in 52:13.700 --> 52:15.700 if open at that far? My advice is 52:15.700 --> 52:16.840 just keep the window shut 52:19.360 --> 52:19.800 because 52:19.800 --> 52:21.180 they will use whatever 52:21.180 --> 52:23.180 crack they want to use 52:23.880 --> 52:24.900 or they can use 52:24.900 --> 52:26.420 not what they want what they can use 52:27.260 --> 52:28.820 will you hit a deer? You may 52:28.820 --> 52:31.000 you may not. It could be 52:31.000 --> 52:33.020 something else that happens. You may fall in the ice. 52:35.000 --> 52:36.620 It could be something else 52:36.620 --> 52:37.880 it could be anything. 52:38.660 --> 52:40.700 You could be driving down 52:40.700 --> 52:42.380 65 down in 52:42.380 --> 52:44.860 Blaine and your car blows up and there you 52:44.860 --> 52:46.780 sit and the people are 52:46.780 --> 52:48.720 walking I mean driving by you 52:48.720 --> 52:50.340 and shaking their fists 52:50.660 --> 52:52.660 and angry with you. It's just the most 52:52.660 --> 52:53.520 inconvenient 52:54.600 --> 52:56.140 worst place to break down. 52:57.160 --> 52:58.880 It could be that. It could be anything. 52:59.640 --> 53:01.120 But if you leave the window open 53:01.120 --> 53:01.480 a bit 53:02.640 --> 53:05.040 chances are somehow something 53:05.040 --> 53:06.440 will get 53:07.180 --> 53:08.860 flowing on you that 53:08.860 --> 53:10.820 you don't want. So it's best to 53:10.820 --> 53:12.760 just keep the window 53:12.760 --> 53:15.000 shut. Keep the door shut. Don't play the game. 53:15.540 --> 53:16.800 Bonnie had a question yet and then 53:16.800 --> 53:18.780 we're going to move on 53:18.780 --> 53:20.640 if you still have a question hold it for the next round. 53:23.460 --> 53:24.800 The people that 53:24.800 --> 53:26.860 say I can 53:26.860 --> 53:28.920 drink like a glass of wine 53:28.920 --> 53:31.180 before my dinner. God doesn't 53:31.180 --> 53:32.320 condemn me for that 53:34.020 --> 53:34.500 I 53:35.420 --> 53:36.900 personally think it's wrong 53:36.900 --> 53:38.800 but I have had 53:38.800 --> 53:41.040 people argue with me Jesus drank 53:41.040 --> 53:43.540 wine and so why can't 53:43.540 --> 53:45.500 I? So what's your thought on that? 53:45.600 --> 53:46.940 I know what brother Caseman said. 53:52.020 --> 53:53.220 First is 53:53.220 --> 53:53.680 this. 53:54.560 --> 53:57.240 I like to have people show me where Jesus drank 53:57.240 --> 53:57.540 wine 53:59.740 --> 54:01.280 and I like to have 54:01.280 --> 54:03.020 them somehow 54:03.020 --> 54:05.160 verify that the wine he 54:05.160 --> 54:06.580 drank was fermented 54:07.280 --> 54:08.320 not sweet 54:09.300 --> 54:10.020 because 54:10.020 --> 54:12.180 in the scripture wine refers 54:12.180 --> 54:14.180 to everything from the 54:14.180 --> 54:16.260 freshly squeezed grape juice 54:16.260 --> 54:18.260 out to the fully fermented 54:18.260 --> 54:19.500 it'll knock you on your butt 54:19.500 --> 54:21.040 gonna wine. 54:24.100 --> 54:24.820 However 54:26.620 --> 54:28.240 it's like everything else 54:28.240 --> 54:30.200 they're going to answer for themselves 54:30.200 --> 54:32.580 we're going to answer for ourselves 54:35.800 --> 54:36.840 our arguing 54:36.840 --> 54:37.940 with them won't 54:37.940 --> 54:39.480 convince them if they 54:40.100 --> 54:41.140 want to do it 54:44.780 --> 54:46.900 where the problem comes in is 54:46.900 --> 54:48.520 if God is trying to pull them 54:48.520 --> 54:50.420 back from whether it's drinking or whether 54:50.420 --> 54:52.720 it's speeding or whether it's 54:53.580 --> 54:54.780 whatever it is lying 54:54.780 --> 54:55.820 whatever it is 54:55.820 --> 54:59.600 if God's working on them trying to pull them back from that and they don't 54:59.600 --> 55:00.320 obey 55:01.040 --> 55:10.540 Now they're opening a door. So that's what will let the evil flow in. Now the 55:10.540 --> 55:15.820 devil usually gets the blink. It's really not his fault. It's our fault. We let it in. 55:16.140 --> 55:22.100 Sometimes knowingly, sometimes unknowingly, but we still let it in. And with it come 55:22.100 --> 55:29.220 the demons. The demons are not really our problem. Our problem is we got in the 55:29.220 --> 55:35.880 wrong flow. The same way when we get over in the in the God flow side, the angels 55:35.880 --> 55:40.540 just flow in with that. The Holy Spirit works with that. It's just a it's a very 55:41.380 --> 55:46.900 spiritually charged thing that happens in our life. The same thing happens over 55:46.900 --> 55:54.980 here. The angels are not the ones who cause the blessing. We do. By aligning 55:55.440 --> 55:59.840 with God. But they will help. And we're gonna touch that here a little bit.