WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:05.020 I know that we've been in a message. Pastor has been bringing us through a message of tithing, which has been really good. 00:05.120 --> 00:06.460 I don't know about you, but it's been really good. 00:07.100 --> 00:11.980 But I'm going to take a little bit of a sidestep here, and I'm going to take us a little bit differently. 00:12.180 --> 00:17.360 I'm not continuing this series that we're in, but I will say that I have... 00:17.360 --> 00:18.900 Is my mic on? Can you guys hear me fine? 00:19.200 --> 00:20.080 Okay, all right. 00:21.440 --> 00:23.700 I will say that I have a word of the Lord today. 00:24.260 --> 00:28.180 And the reason why I'm saying it and say it with such confidence is because I'm preaching from the Bible. 00:28.560 --> 00:31.980 And I believe that if you're preaching from the Bible, it's the word of the Lord, right? 00:33.060 --> 00:34.380 Perfect. So you're on board with me. 00:36.240 --> 00:39.340 I want to encourage you as we get into the message today. 00:39.520 --> 00:42.300 I want to encourage you to listen very carefully today. 00:43.560 --> 00:45.000 And here's why I say that. 00:46.680 --> 00:52.560 Each and every one of us have a different background, the way that we were raised, the things that we have experienced on and so forth, 00:52.560 --> 00:54.740 which causes each and every individual. 00:54.920 --> 00:59.320 I think this is very beautiful and it's challenging at the same time from a speaker's perspective. 00:59.760 --> 01:04.980 But each and every one of us have a filter that we will feed things through in the way that we receive it. 01:05.460 --> 01:07.100 So I say this on the forefront. 01:07.460 --> 01:10.880 I just want you to listen very carefully to what I'm saying today. 01:11.340 --> 01:13.000 Because I do want to make some corrections. 01:13.580 --> 01:15.260 And this is not towards one individual. 01:15.560 --> 01:20.360 This is to us as a body and as a church and where we're headed to. 01:20.360 --> 01:22.660 So I just say that, just listen. 01:22.780 --> 01:26.180 Allow the Holy Spirit to really work at your heart this morning. 01:26.700 --> 01:27.080 You with me? 01:27.960 --> 01:28.360 Perfect. 01:29.200 --> 01:32.720 I was doing some research in preparation to today's message. 01:32.980 --> 01:36.120 I was doing some research and it's really interesting. 01:36.360 --> 01:37.300 I was like, oh, this is something cool. 01:37.400 --> 01:39.260 I should bring it up, ties in with the message. 01:40.040 --> 01:48.200 That as of June 2nd, which was this past Monday, we are officially halfway through the year of 2025. 01:49.980 --> 01:50.780 Isn't that crazy? 01:51.840 --> 01:54.000 I feel like we just had open heavens last week. 01:54.220 --> 01:55.340 I'm being honest with you. 01:56.220 --> 02:02.660 So literally as of June 2nd, we are now halfway, more than halfway through the year of 2025. 02:04.040 --> 02:15.720 And more than that, as I was doing the research, the person that was writing all this out as I was researching said that we are officially closer to the year 2050 than we are to the year 2000. 02:17.440 --> 02:18.800 Just think about that for a second. 02:19.840 --> 02:25.640 We are officially closer to the year 2050 than we are to the year 2000. 02:26.920 --> 02:34.060 We came to America in 98, which is I'm like, oh my goodness, I've been here much longer than I've been back in Ukraine. 02:35.740 --> 02:53.340 But I say all that to say that oftentimes, living in the culture and living in the things that we are living in, in this fallen and broken world, we can oftentimes fall into what I think is so prevalent in our culture and just in the world is distractions. 02:55.040 --> 03:02.900 So when we live, we've lived already six months, and I guarantee you that there is a lot of people. 03:03.020 --> 03:11.740 It's not just one or two or three, but there's a lot of people that have actually forgotten what God has asked them to do because we get so caught up in the distractions. 03:14.240 --> 03:16.400 I mean, just think of it. 03:16.400 --> 03:23.640 In open heavens, we saw a vein of the Lord, we saw the Holy Spirit really begin to emphasize some things. 03:24.580 --> 03:32.880 And it was good some of us were able to last in that for a month, some two months, some three months, but majority of us have probably even forgot what that vein is. 03:34.120 --> 03:35.020 That's the truth. 03:37.160 --> 03:50.980 We get so caught up in the things, our daily routines, our going to work, our going home, where we actually put on the back burner the things that God is asking us to do as individuals and as a corporate house. 03:52.300 --> 03:53.700 It's been six months, friends. 03:54.820 --> 04:00.140 And here's my question for you, and you don't have to answer this, but this is, I'm going to be honest, this is something I do. 04:00.140 --> 04:04.960 This is the way that I heart check myself often. This is what I do personally. 04:05.460 --> 04:06.460 My wife and I, we do this. 04:07.280 --> 04:16.400 I want to ask you, since 2000, since the beginning of this year, to where you are at now, have you actually seen a progress? 04:18.180 --> 04:21.240 You don't know, don't answer it. I'm not asking you to answer it, okay? 04:21.640 --> 04:24.720 I don't answer it out loud to my wife, like, yeah, I think I've seen progress. 04:27.260 --> 04:33.060 But have you seen, have you seen, this is what I really want to emphasize today, and we're going to get into it. 04:33.400 --> 04:40.620 Have you actually seen the word of God, the command of God, what God has spoken to you? 04:40.940 --> 04:46.460 Have you actually seen that take flesh in your life? Have you seen the word become flesh in you? 04:47.340 --> 04:50.120 Don't answer that. I'm not asking you to answer it, okay? 04:50.280 --> 04:53.400 Thank you for your response, but I'm not asking you to answer it out loud. 04:54.240 --> 04:57.480 There's a reason why I'm not asking you to answer it out loud. 05:01.600 --> 05:04.920 Honestly, have we been obedient to what he's been asking us to do? 05:07.740 --> 05:12.660 Have we seen a growth and a maturity, now I want to do a little timeout, 05:12.780 --> 05:15.900 not just in the gifts of the Holy Spirit, but in our character? 05:19.980 --> 05:22.180 Have we seen a maturity in our character? 05:24.040 --> 05:29.220 Have we seen us grow to a place of where we're not lying anymore? 05:30.460 --> 05:35.240 Have we seen us grow to a place of where we're not over exaggerating? 05:35.760 --> 05:40.760 By the way, did you know that over exaggeration in the scriptures is actually a false witness? 05:41.700 --> 05:45.800 We think it's okay to over exaggerate. I'm not lying. That's actually a false witness. 05:45.800 --> 05:52.320 To over exaggerate, to make something that's a mouse into an elephant for our benefit 05:52.320 --> 05:55.380 or for the benefit of our hears, you're actually false witnessing. 05:59.140 --> 06:03.960 Have we seen growth in our character in the way that we interact with our wife? 06:04.960 --> 06:09.440 In the way that we interact with our husband? In the way that we interact with our children? 06:10.380 --> 06:15.580 Because when God asks us of things, it's not just for the sake of let's get all spiritual about it. 06:15.580 --> 06:19.760 God is really concerned about our character. He wants to build us. 06:19.880 --> 06:23.300 He wants to shape us. He wants to make us like Jesus. 06:24.240 --> 06:28.420 Conformed into the image of who? Of Jesus. That's what the scriptures say. 06:30.260 --> 06:34.340 So if you really sit back and you begin to think and you begin to waste some things 06:35.720 --> 06:37.860 and you're like, man, have I actually really grown? 06:38.380 --> 06:41.980 Yeah, I probably prophesy a little bit more now, but man, I still lie. 06:46.350 --> 06:47.970 I want you to really just think about that. 06:48.210 --> 06:51.950 If you have your Bibles, open up to first, not first John, the Gospel of John chapter one. 06:55.940 --> 06:58.640 I got a few things here listed off while you're opening up your Bibles. 06:58.740 --> 07:01.560 I read down some questions that I asked myself and I'll ask you. 07:02.440 --> 07:04.660 The first one is, is the word becoming flesh in me? 07:07.000 --> 07:10.440 Am I seeing progress in maturity of the Lord? 07:10.600 --> 07:12.720 In other words, am I, do I know him more? 07:14.560 --> 07:17.980 And let me, let me elaborate on that a little bit more. 07:18.620 --> 07:20.960 Because oftentimes people say, well, yeah, I know him more. 07:21.240 --> 07:23.000 This is what I've learned in my life. 07:24.320 --> 07:28.120 The way that I actually know that I know him more, I change. 07:32.390 --> 07:35.190 That's how I know that I actually have grown in the knowledge of who he is. 07:35.790 --> 07:39.770 You cannot be in the actual presence of God. 07:39.890 --> 07:43.570 You cannot be in an encounter with the Lord and leave that place the same. 07:43.570 --> 07:46.690 You can't. You literally can't. 07:47.370 --> 07:52.930 If he touches your life, if he actually touches your life and you encounter him, 07:52.990 --> 07:55.450 take Moses for an example, never the same. 07:56.530 --> 07:59.830 Take the apostle Paul for an example, never the same. 08:00.650 --> 08:04.270 You cannot be in his presence and leave that place the same. 08:05.630 --> 08:10.030 You can leave that place understanding that I need to make a decision. 08:11.130 --> 08:15.890 And that decision will determine are you actually willing to know him more 08:15.890 --> 08:18.470 or are you going to stay where you're at? Am I making sense of what I'm saying? 08:19.310 --> 08:20.290 You're following me. 08:21.750 --> 08:24.870 Have I seen positive change in my life? 08:25.810 --> 08:28.750 Guys, I'm just going back to January. I'm not going back to years past. 08:29.130 --> 08:30.730 I'm just bringing us back to January. 08:31.190 --> 08:33.090 We are halfway through the year. 08:33.390 --> 08:36.850 I think it's important for us to be sobered of actually where are we? 08:38.750 --> 08:42.270 Am I being obedient to what he has been asking of me? 08:42.750 --> 08:43.950 See, that's a huge one. 08:44.890 --> 08:47.990 Have I been actually obedient to what he's been asking me to do? 08:50.750 --> 08:52.770 Has my love for him grown more? 08:53.510 --> 08:55.670 Has my love for people grown more? 08:56.950 --> 09:00.110 Am I submitted more on to God than I was before? 09:00.650 --> 09:01.850 That ties into obedience. 09:03.350 --> 09:05.550 Because to be obedient, you got to submit more. 09:05.550 --> 09:10.510 Is there a greater surrender to him now than it was before? 09:12.110 --> 09:18.290 First John, or I'm sorry, John chapter 1 is a very famous scripture that we know. 09:18.370 --> 09:20.490 But I'm bringing this up because I want to draw you something here. 09:20.830 --> 09:21.650 Let me read it here. 09:22.270 --> 09:23.490 John chapter 1 verse 1, 09:23.690 --> 09:25.770 In the beginning was the Word. 09:26.410 --> 09:28.130 And the Word was with God. 09:28.510 --> 09:29.630 And the Word was God. 09:30.110 --> 09:31.570 He was in the beginning. 09:31.950 --> 09:34.030 He was in the beginning with God. 09:34.030 --> 09:36.670 And I'm going to jump down to verse 14. 09:38.810 --> 09:39.390 It says, 09:40.070 --> 09:44.150 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. 09:44.930 --> 09:52.410 And we beheld his glory and the glory as of one of the only begotten of the Father, 09:52.610 --> 09:54.270 full of grace and truth. 09:54.830 --> 09:58.150 I might irk somebody with what I'm about to say, but that's okay. 09:59.770 --> 10:06.090 Imagine if the Word of God never became flesh. 10:07.870 --> 10:13.470 Just imagine if God, the Father, the Son and the Spirit are in heaven 10:13.470 --> 10:15.370 and they're discussing what they're going to be doing. 10:15.850 --> 10:18.210 And all of a sudden they're like, yeah, that's a great idea. 10:18.370 --> 10:19.910 And they stop and they don't do nothing. 10:21.410 --> 10:25.370 Imagine if Jesus actually was not an incarnated God. 10:25.370 --> 10:29.370 If he was not the Word that became flesh, do you know what would happen? 10:29.650 --> 10:30.390 We'd all be doomed. 10:31.410 --> 10:32.330 We'd be doomed. 10:34.350 --> 10:38.710 I'm drawing that perspective to you because I really want you to know the privilege, 10:39.070 --> 10:43.050 the honor and the ability we have of knowing him and the price that he paid. 10:44.950 --> 10:48.450 We can oftentimes take the small, what we consider small things for granted. 10:50.270 --> 10:52.550 Imagine if the Word did not become flesh 10:53.570 --> 10:55.510 and the Word just was with God. 10:55.870 --> 11:00.090 The Word never came to fulfill what it was sent for. 11:00.730 --> 11:01.490 We would be doomed. 11:03.130 --> 11:05.450 Now I want you to flip that really quick. 11:05.610 --> 11:09.210 Imagine if the Word of God in us never takes flesh. 11:10.390 --> 11:11.470 God won't be doomed. 11:12.390 --> 11:15.810 God won't be doomed because the Bible says that even the rocks will cry out. 11:16.950 --> 11:19.130 But here's what I want to draw your attention to. 11:19.130 --> 11:28.290 If we as a body, listen carefully, if we as a body, if we do not embody the actual Word of God, 11:28.390 --> 11:32.590 if we do not obey and the Word does not become flesh in us, 11:32.790 --> 11:36.970 we're going to miss a window of opportunity of what God wants to do here. 11:39.270 --> 11:46.470 If we don't allow the Word of God to become flesh in us, our destinies to come forth, 11:46.470 --> 11:49.650 we're going to miss an opportunity of what God wants to do in this house. 11:52.450 --> 11:55.930 If we don't allow the Word of God to take flesh in us, 11:56.150 --> 12:00.450 if we don't allow the Word of God to embody our lives and we begin to walk it out, 12:00.650 --> 12:06.350 as individuals we will miss the opportunity of what God is wanting to do. 12:08.050 --> 12:10.330 That's the truth. God won't be doomed. 12:10.870 --> 12:13.070 God says the rocks will cry out. That's what Jesus said. 12:13.750 --> 12:16.510 They said, hey, have them stop worshiping. 12:16.530 --> 12:20.130 He said, listen, if I have them stop worshiping, the rocks are going to cry out. 12:21.450 --> 12:23.590 Because it's His creation. He created it. 12:23.870 --> 12:27.310 And they will worship Him regardless of what's going on. 12:30.210 --> 12:36.430 But if we choose to simply sit and look at the things of God that He has spoken to us, 12:36.530 --> 12:40.510 or even His written Word, if we look at this as a good idea, 12:41.270 --> 12:43.630 we're going to miss the opportunity of what God wants to do. 12:45.690 --> 12:50.550 Friends, I'm being serious. We will miss the opportunity of what God wants to do 12:50.550 --> 12:52.790 if we remain as just, that's a good idea. 12:53.810 --> 12:55.410 Man, that's a good idea, pastor. 12:56.030 --> 12:58.910 Yeah, to see the outpour of the Holy Spirit. Oh, that's great. 12:59.950 --> 13:04.050 You know, everybody loves the ideas and it seems as if though everybody has the ideas. 13:05.030 --> 13:08.650 But when it comes to put boots to the ground, there's very few laborers. 13:10.090 --> 13:13.350 That's the truth. And that has been a problem for years. 13:16.310 --> 13:20.850 The harvest is ripe, friends. The harvest is ripe. The Word is right here. 13:21.510 --> 13:25.890 The Word is right here and the Lord is allowing us by the Holy Spirit to embody, 13:26.310 --> 13:30.790 to have the Word become flesh so that we, like Christ, filled with the Holy Spirit, 13:30.950 --> 13:33.310 would walk and do the things that the Lord has done. 13:33.730 --> 13:37.270 And everybody's like, that's a great idea, pastor. Woo-hoo! You got this! 13:39.290 --> 13:41.350 Where the Lord is like, yeah, but I'm talking to you. 13:42.050 --> 13:48.670 But I'm asking of you, but I'm inviting you to have my Word take flesh in your life 13:49.170 --> 13:51.970 and actually begin to walk it out and live it out. You still with me? 13:52.890 --> 13:55.250 You still with me, right? Praise the Lord. 13:57.930 --> 13:58.630 Thank you, Dean. 14:00.590 --> 14:04.710 The other thing that I've noticed in a people, again, I'm not pointing out any individuals, friends. 14:04.710 --> 14:08.650 I'm just bringing you a broad stroke. It's like a brush stroke. 14:11.430 --> 14:13.490 Everybody is after the big picture. 14:15.250 --> 14:18.050 Everybody's after the big picture of things. And that's not a bad thing. 14:18.490 --> 14:22.510 But can I tell you something that's a little bit more important than the big picture? 14:22.890 --> 14:23.890 It's the small things. 14:26.430 --> 14:28.650 I don't know about you, but when I put together a puzzle, 14:29.210 --> 14:31.870 the puzzle doesn't come completed for me. I got to put it together. 14:32.810 --> 14:39.410 And there are small pieces to the puzzle that we have to add to create the big picture. 14:39.910 --> 14:45.410 And I love seeing people in this house. I love seeing people excited for the big picture stuff. 14:45.730 --> 14:48.730 I love seeing that. But let me highlight something to you. 14:49.010 --> 14:52.430 There are small things that we have to pay attention to 14:52.430 --> 14:55.110 and that we have to do to create the big picture. 14:56.350 --> 15:00.510 There are small things that nobody else wants to do seems like 15:00.510 --> 15:04.410 because the small things don't give you the praise. 15:04.770 --> 15:06.890 The small things don't give you the entitlement. 15:07.110 --> 15:09.150 The small things don't give you the attention. 15:09.550 --> 15:12.330 The small things don't bring about a people looking at you. 15:12.630 --> 15:15.010 The small things usually are done when nobody else sees. 15:17.010 --> 15:19.630 And we're all wanting the big picture and that's good. 15:19.890 --> 15:23.130 I'm excited for what the Holy Spirit is wanting to do. 15:23.330 --> 15:27.130 But I also know that if I myself and my own personal life 15:27.130 --> 15:30.530 don't do the small things, what we consider small things, 15:30.730 --> 15:31.930 the big picture will never happen. 15:33.370 --> 15:36.930 Why is it that everybody wants to come up and give a prophetic word 15:36.930 --> 15:38.230 but nobody wants to fast? 15:40.310 --> 15:43.630 Why is it that everybody wants to grab a mic and pray out loud 15:43.630 --> 15:45.590 but nobody wants to do it when they're at home? 15:48.210 --> 15:50.570 Why is it that we're after these things 15:50.570 --> 15:53.350 where God is more concerned of the small things? 15:53.970 --> 15:56.990 Because it's the small things that create the foundation 15:56.990 --> 15:58.370 for the big picture. 15:59.410 --> 16:03.030 Why is it that everybody wants to operate in the gifts of the Holy Spirit? 16:03.230 --> 16:05.050 Which, by the way, I'm all for that. 16:05.750 --> 16:08.230 If a church is not operating in the gifts of the Holy Spirit, 16:08.530 --> 16:09.870 I question if it's a church. 16:10.930 --> 16:12.090 I'm honest with you. 16:13.170 --> 16:15.210 Because if the first church experienced it, 16:15.390 --> 16:17.630 that's my format of what a church should look like. 16:17.910 --> 16:20.410 You gotta have the gifts. You gotta have the glory. 16:20.670 --> 16:23.650 But why is it that we are more concerned about the gifts 16:23.650 --> 16:24.550 rather than the fruit? 16:25.730 --> 16:27.290 Because when I read the scriptures, 16:27.690 --> 16:29.710 the Bible says that the prophecies will seize. 16:30.130 --> 16:31.590 Tongues will seize. What is he talking about? 16:31.810 --> 16:32.730 He's talking about heaven. 16:33.930 --> 16:36.470 But you know what remains? Peace, joy, and love. 16:36.750 --> 16:38.510 What is that? That's the fruit of the Spirit. 16:42.220 --> 16:43.980 So we're looking at all these things 16:43.980 --> 16:45.500 and we're saying, yeah, we're after that. 16:45.880 --> 16:49.540 I actually love it. I was at an encounter on Thursday 16:49.540 --> 16:52.120 and Pastor Brian was speaking at our youth service, 16:52.220 --> 16:54.540 which, by the way, youth highly encourage you to go. 16:54.540 --> 16:55.440 I really do. 16:56.560 --> 16:58.520 Pastor Brian was speaking and he read 16:58.520 --> 17:00.480 on 1 Corinthians 14. 17:00.720 --> 17:01.580 And I said, thank you, Lord. 17:01.940 --> 17:03.460 In 1 Corinthians 14, it says, 17:04.360 --> 17:07.380 pursue love, desire the gifts. 17:08.140 --> 17:10.040 And Pastor Brian underlined something. 17:10.220 --> 17:13.020 He said, in the church, he said, we gotta backwards. 17:14.140 --> 17:15.900 He said, we're pursuing the gifts, 17:16.580 --> 17:18.180 but we're desiring love. 17:18.600 --> 17:21.320 Or the apostle Paul writes, pursue love 17:21.320 --> 17:23.160 and desire the gifts. 17:25.280 --> 17:27.640 I'm gonna encourage you to desire the gifts, 17:27.780 --> 17:29.600 but I'm gonna encourage you even more. 17:30.120 --> 17:32.680 Pursue him, Jesus, pursue love. 17:33.140 --> 17:36.540 Because the Bible says God is... 17:36.540 --> 17:37.960 pursue him. 17:38.360 --> 17:42.020 I've learned in my life that if I actually pursue the Lord, 17:42.420 --> 17:45.360 the gifts are inevitable, meaning that they show up. 17:47.120 --> 17:49.000 They seriously, they show up. 17:50.220 --> 17:51.800 I'll give you even a little bit of a secret. 17:52.260 --> 17:54.220 You cannot know him without the gifts. 17:59.220 --> 18:04.340 To know him, the gifts will begin to come up 18:04.340 --> 18:05.840 and you begin to experience him. 18:05.920 --> 18:06.800 You begin to know him. 18:07.440 --> 18:09.660 You begin to understand who he is. 18:12.220 --> 18:13.580 I'm saying all these things, 18:13.700 --> 18:15.340 because friends, I want you to really understand 18:15.340 --> 18:17.440 where God has us as a body of Christ, 18:17.660 --> 18:18.740 as this local body here. 18:20.220 --> 18:22.140 I feel, I've said this before 18:22.140 --> 18:23.820 and I'm gonna repeat myself here, 18:23.920 --> 18:25.720 I feel as if though we're like on trial. 18:28.040 --> 18:31.540 I honestly, I feel that God is so gracious to show up. 18:31.920 --> 18:34.360 Every Sunday, he is so gracious to show up 18:34.360 --> 18:35.760 and he entrusts us. 18:36.060 --> 18:38.440 But at the same time, I see the Lord 18:38.440 --> 18:40.000 as if though he's looking at us 18:40.000 --> 18:41.240 and he's weighing us. 18:42.960 --> 18:44.420 Can I trust you with more? 18:45.640 --> 18:47.380 How are you gonna handle what I've given you? 18:48.760 --> 18:50.440 This goes to us as individuals 18:50.440 --> 18:52.520 and this goes to us as a corporate body. 18:55.640 --> 18:57.700 There is a saying in the medieval times, 18:58.340 --> 18:59.860 in the middle ages during the nights. 19:01.180 --> 19:03.000 There's a saying, let me actually read it to you 19:03.000 --> 19:03.880 so I don't butcher it. 19:04.380 --> 19:05.460 Find my notes here quick. 19:08.060 --> 19:11.000 It says, you have been weighed. 19:11.120 --> 19:12.060 This is a very famous saying 19:12.060 --> 19:13.580 that they used to say back in the night's time. 19:13.680 --> 19:14.540 I like the medieval time, 19:14.580 --> 19:15.880 so that's why I'm pulling it out of there. 19:15.880 --> 19:17.840 I like to see the night's fight. It's pretty cool. 19:19.300 --> 19:20.860 It says, you have been weighed. 19:21.880 --> 19:23.060 You have been measured. 19:23.760 --> 19:25.460 And you have been found wanting. 19:28.000 --> 19:30.580 What that means, it's very simple, 19:30.840 --> 19:31.700 but let me speak it to you 19:31.700 --> 19:32.780 in case you don't understand it. 19:34.000 --> 19:35.980 To be weighed is to be, in a sense, 19:36.500 --> 19:37.700 it's like a testing period. 19:37.960 --> 19:39.480 You're being weighed and you're being measured. 19:39.660 --> 19:41.780 Are you worthy or are you able 19:41.780 --> 19:43.580 to steward that which you have? 19:44.320 --> 19:46.380 So a lot of the times nights when they would fight 19:46.380 --> 19:47.980 and one night would defeat another night, 19:48.540 --> 19:49.820 he would say, you've been weighed, 19:49.940 --> 19:51.500 you've been measured, you've been found wanting. 19:51.840 --> 19:53.700 The second portion of it is found wanting 19:53.700 --> 19:54.740 is basically you failed. 19:56.040 --> 19:57.480 That's what that second phrase means. 19:58.100 --> 19:59.920 I feel, I sense this. 20:00.260 --> 20:01.820 I feel as though the Lord is saying, 20:01.960 --> 20:02.640 I'm weighing you. 20:03.440 --> 20:04.480 We don't have a result yet. 20:05.100 --> 20:06.800 But I sense that this house 20:06.800 --> 20:09.000 is like God saying, I'm weighing you 20:09.000 --> 20:09.920 and I'm measuring you. 20:14.760 --> 20:16.540 I'm weighing and I'm measuring, 20:16.760 --> 20:18.780 are you able to steward 20:18.780 --> 20:19.660 that which I have given you? 20:19.840 --> 20:20.500 Is the word? 20:20.800 --> 20:22.580 I'm going to emphasize this more and more, friends. 20:22.860 --> 20:24.980 Listen, is the word becoming flesh in you? 20:26.920 --> 20:29.720 Are we obedient to the little that he has asked us? 20:31.520 --> 20:32.240 As individuals. 20:34.420 --> 20:36.080 The book of James, if you have your Bibles, 20:36.160 --> 20:37.080 open up to the book of James. 20:44.570 --> 20:46.150 I want to read some stuff out of here. 20:50.940 --> 20:52.000 This is the book of James. 20:53.500 --> 20:54.940 Ah, let's go... 20:57.960 --> 21:01.180 Let's go James chapter 1, verse 21 and 25. 21:02.240 --> 21:03.940 Verse 21 to 25. 21:08.880 --> 21:10.100 Here's what James writes. 21:10.720 --> 21:11.160 He says, 21:11.260 --> 21:12.440 But be doers of the word 21:12.440 --> 21:14.380 and not hearers only. 21:14.660 --> 21:15.700 Deceiving yourself. 21:16.380 --> 21:18.820 For if anyone is a hearer of the word 21:18.820 --> 21:20.280 and not a doer, 21:20.660 --> 21:23.100 he is like a man observing his natural face 21:23.100 --> 21:24.180 in the mirror. 21:24.800 --> 21:26.440 For when he observes himself, 21:26.720 --> 21:28.100 goes away and immediately forgets 21:28.900 --> 21:30.640 what kind of man he was. 21:32.480 --> 21:35.060 This is not a statistic that I probably 21:35.060 --> 21:37.000 found somewhere, this is honestly, 21:37.180 --> 21:38.840 this is my opinion more than anything. 21:39.560 --> 21:41.640 But I think there is very few, 21:41.720 --> 21:42.800 this is not just our body, 21:42.940 --> 21:44.860 I'm talking about as the church as a whole. 21:45.480 --> 21:48.080 There is a very small percentage 21:48.080 --> 21:50.360 of Christians that are actually 21:50.960 --> 21:52.460 doers of the word. 21:53.320 --> 21:55.300 And here's why I make that conclusion. 21:55.840 --> 21:57.640 If there was a greater majority of Christians 21:57.640 --> 21:59.040 that were doers of the word, 21:59.360 --> 22:00.380 our world would look different. 22:01.280 --> 22:02.940 I said our world would look different. 22:04.720 --> 22:06.800 And you have people that come to churches, 22:07.500 --> 22:09.200 they listen to the preacher preach, 22:09.680 --> 22:10.740 they agree with him, 22:11.180 --> 22:13.020 amen pastor, that's awesome, 22:13.360 --> 22:15.260 you're awesome, whoo-hoo, yip-dee-doo. 22:15.600 --> 22:17.560 But then they leave the sanctuary, 22:17.760 --> 22:18.640 they leave the church, 22:19.080 --> 22:20.960 as if though somebody that went to a mirror 22:20.960 --> 22:22.100 looked at themselves, 22:22.340 --> 22:23.080 checked themselves out, 22:23.200 --> 22:24.060 man, I look good today. 22:24.200 --> 22:24.820 And then they leave 22:24.820 --> 22:25.840 and they forget how good they look. 22:27.600 --> 22:28.520 That's the reality. 22:30.600 --> 22:32.540 Do you know why so many Christians 22:32.540 --> 22:34.160 choose not to be doers of the word? 22:35.340 --> 22:36.720 Because it costs you something. 22:40.660 --> 22:42.220 To be a doer of the word, 22:42.320 --> 22:44.000 it will literally cost you something. 22:46.260 --> 22:48.140 To allow the word of God 22:48.140 --> 22:49.860 to take flesh in you 22:49.860 --> 22:51.040 and to begin to live out, 22:51.180 --> 22:52.220 to embody the word, 22:52.380 --> 22:53.600 and begin to live it out, 22:53.740 --> 22:54.960 it will literally cost you something. 22:57.200 --> 23:00.000 And it becomes very inconvenient for us. 23:01.160 --> 23:02.620 So we choose not to do it. 23:05.420 --> 23:07.280 Let me share some things from our life here 23:07.280 --> 23:08.160 as a testimony. 23:10.300 --> 23:11.500 Over two years ago, 23:12.580 --> 23:14.240 when the Lord called me and my wife 23:14.240 --> 23:15.580 into a season of consecration, 23:15.660 --> 23:16.820 where he literally pulled us, 23:17.200 --> 23:17.800 he hit us, 23:19.040 --> 23:20.600 it cost us a lot of things. 23:21.960 --> 23:23.640 It cost us a lot of things. 23:24.520 --> 23:26.720 It cost us relationships with people. 23:27.840 --> 23:29.760 It cost, it costed us, 23:30.020 --> 23:31.740 let me go even deeper to make it more intimate, 23:31.880 --> 23:35.060 it costed us relationships with our family members. 23:36.200 --> 23:37.700 And I don't know if you guys know me 23:37.700 --> 23:39.300 and my family, we are very close. 23:39.900 --> 23:41.540 It's just how we do it in the Slavic communities. 23:41.680 --> 23:42.340 We're very close. 23:43.580 --> 23:44.660 And it would cost us, 23:44.720 --> 23:45.520 and it wasn't pleasant. 23:46.280 --> 23:47.640 And here I thought that, okay, 23:47.720 --> 23:49.360 a year into it, I thought, okay, Lord, 23:50.760 --> 23:52.120 you know, I laid that down. 23:52.300 --> 23:53.460 You're probably done with me. 23:53.820 --> 23:54.280 You know what I mean? 23:54.380 --> 23:56.180 You're gonna move on and go somewhere else. 23:56.380 --> 23:57.620 In the next year, 23:57.980 --> 24:00.020 our relationships with people 24:00.020 --> 24:01.480 that are very close to us, 24:01.640 --> 24:03.580 our friends that we've been running with 24:03.580 --> 24:04.820 for many, many years, 24:04.940 --> 24:05.700 all of a sudden, 24:05.720 --> 24:08.040 we began to see those relationships diminish. 24:08.640 --> 24:09.880 And that was even more painful. 24:12.760 --> 24:14.760 People that I was running with closely 24:14.760 --> 24:16.040 that were at our prayer meetings, 24:16.320 --> 24:17.520 that were constantly there. 24:17.640 --> 24:19.480 We were encouraging meeting together 24:19.480 --> 24:20.980 a minimum of once a week. 24:21.160 --> 24:22.180 All of a sudden, 24:22.240 --> 24:24.160 I began to see those doors close. 24:26.260 --> 24:27.560 And you sit back and you think, 24:27.680 --> 24:28.880 Lord, is this actually you? 24:31.040 --> 24:32.280 And then he'll remind you 24:32.280 --> 24:32.880 and he'll nudge you, 24:32.940 --> 24:33.820 the word that he's given you. 24:34.600 --> 24:35.380 And it's painful. 24:36.700 --> 24:38.780 It's painful to see relationships 24:38.780 --> 24:41.040 that you have built for years 24:41.040 --> 24:42.320 come to a close. 24:42.840 --> 24:45.680 And it's not one party's or the other party's fault. 24:45.840 --> 24:48.020 It's simply the Lord stewarding it. 24:48.960 --> 24:49.800 We tried. 24:49.960 --> 24:50.480 My wife and I, 24:50.600 --> 24:52.360 we tried reaching out to our friends 24:52.360 --> 24:53.960 and we tried to do things, 24:54.040 --> 24:55.680 but it seemed to not be the same. 24:58.300 --> 24:59.440 We spent some time, 24:59.480 --> 25:00.400 but it wasn't as often. 25:00.780 --> 25:02.240 But friends, it cost you something. 25:03.300 --> 25:04.860 And then after two years, 25:05.320 --> 25:06.640 the Lord brings us here. 25:07.140 --> 25:09.380 And I'm not going to get into too much detail, 25:09.420 --> 25:10.180 but it's like, God, 25:10.680 --> 25:11.920 here I thought I was done. 25:11.920 --> 25:13.320 And he said, son, I'm not done yet. 25:17.110 --> 25:18.010 I'm going to be honest with you. 25:18.090 --> 25:19.430 I'm holding back all my tears here. 25:19.730 --> 25:20.790 I'm going to be honest with you. 25:21.130 --> 25:22.970 I feel like I'm in an oil press. 25:27.720 --> 25:29.760 I feel like I'm in an oil press. 25:30.100 --> 25:31.540 And I know I'm not the only one. 25:31.620 --> 25:33.080 I know there's people sitting in this congregation. 25:33.500 --> 25:35.360 You're feeling the exact same thing that I'm feeling. 25:36.320 --> 25:39.000 I feel as if though there's an oil press 25:39.000 --> 25:42.180 of God pressing and wanting and ushering 25:42.680 --> 25:44.180 and bringing me to a place 25:44.180 --> 25:47.140 and us to a place of where we embody His scriptures 25:47.140 --> 25:48.720 and we begin to live them out. 25:49.020 --> 25:51.540 Of where the word becomes flesh 25:51.540 --> 25:53.000 and we begin to live it out. 25:54.760 --> 25:56.140 That's what I feel for this house. 25:58.140 --> 26:00.080 And I don't want you to avoid 26:00.080 --> 26:03.140 the things that you consider are small things 26:03.140 --> 26:05.340 where God is saying those aren't small things. 26:05.520 --> 26:07.560 Those are things that I've asked of you 26:07.560 --> 26:09.660 and I'm wanting you to keep doing it. 26:13.100 --> 26:14.660 I feel like I'm in an oil press. 26:16.340 --> 26:18.320 I asked Pastor Verne last week, I said, 26:18.400 --> 26:21.560 Pastor, how long do I got to remain in the oil press? 26:21.840 --> 26:24.080 He giggled and said, that's... 26:24.080 --> 26:25.040 it's all up to you, man. 26:25.980 --> 26:27.320 He said, it's all up to you. 26:30.280 --> 26:33.240 God will have you somewhere in a position 26:33.240 --> 26:36.500 until he sees that finally they got it. 26:37.460 --> 26:38.900 Finally the word is in him. 26:39.120 --> 26:40.840 Finally the word is becoming life 26:40.840 --> 26:43.740 and it's taking flesh in this person's body 26:43.740 --> 26:44.800 and they're living it out. 26:45.400 --> 26:46.700 God is very patient. 26:47.920 --> 26:49.740 I said, God is very patient 26:49.740 --> 26:51.280 and he's very gentle. 26:51.820 --> 26:53.560 And he will sit on something 26:53.560 --> 26:55.960 when we think that we're done and we're here 26:55.960 --> 26:57.700 and God's over here and he's saying, 26:57.740 --> 26:58.700 yeah, but I'm not done. 27:00.140 --> 27:02.080 But I'm not done with your character yet. 27:03.360 --> 27:04.460 So why don't you just 27:05.000 --> 27:06.300 get down a ground level? 27:07.340 --> 27:09.220 Don't be so super spiritual. 27:09.960 --> 27:11.360 In Russian we call those people 27:11.360 --> 27:13.240 ultra-duchovnaya. That's what we call them. 27:14.000 --> 27:14.600 I'm telling you. 27:15.340 --> 27:17.400 Ultra-duchovnaya. It's somebody that's super spiritual. 27:17.760 --> 27:20.460 And it's like, just come down a few steps. 27:20.980 --> 27:21.820 God is still here. 27:22.300 --> 27:24.580 God is still working out some things in your character 27:24.580 --> 27:26.200 before he can entrust you 27:26.200 --> 27:27.540 with the things of his spirit. 27:31.320 --> 27:32.740 Do you know what I believe the Lord is 27:32.740 --> 27:35.320 wanting to establish even more in this house? 27:35.920 --> 27:36.500 His holiness. 27:41.060 --> 27:42.460 Can I give you a little bit of advice? 27:44.160 --> 27:45.460 Can I give you a little bit of advice? 27:46.160 --> 27:49.860 Can we not, as a church, as a people, 27:50.320 --> 27:53.400 can we not loosely throw this phrase, 27:53.700 --> 27:54.240 God told me? 27:55.440 --> 27:56.260 Can we not do that? 28:01.440 --> 28:03.620 Because it seems like everybody hears from God 28:03.620 --> 28:04.300 and I'm like, whoa. 28:05.580 --> 28:07.100 Am I the only one missing him? 28:09.500 --> 28:11.740 I believe the Lord is wanting to establish 28:11.740 --> 28:13.140 a greater measure of holiness. 28:13.580 --> 28:17.000 With holiness comes a less measure of looseness. 28:19.700 --> 28:22.480 You see, we oftentimes confuse holiness 28:22.480 --> 28:23.400 and legalism. 28:23.800 --> 28:26.180 We do. The church has a difficult time 28:26.180 --> 28:27.460 of actually discerning the two. 28:28.820 --> 28:31.540 We call things that are holy, 28:31.560 --> 28:33.230 we say that's religious and that's legalism, 28:33.680 --> 28:35.380 where God says, no, that's actually holiness. 28:36.520 --> 28:39.300 And we call the things that are actually legalistic 28:39.300 --> 28:41.680 and religious, we say that they're holy. 28:44.600 --> 28:47.040 So just, you can listen to me, 28:47.080 --> 28:48.160 you cannot listen to me, 28:48.300 --> 28:49.820 but would you please wait 28:49.820 --> 28:51.220 before you go and tell somebody, 28:51.280 --> 28:53.580 God told me, because I have seen, 28:53.600 --> 28:54.800 this is not just in this house, 28:54.960 --> 28:56.700 I've seen this amongst Christian, 28:56.840 --> 28:58.000 especially younger people. 28:58.440 --> 28:59.480 It's like God told me. 28:59.860 --> 29:00.620 So hold on a second. 29:01.300 --> 29:01.940 Hold on a second. 29:02.020 --> 29:03.220 I'm not doubting that he did, 29:03.540 --> 29:04.600 but hold on a second. 29:05.140 --> 29:07.440 When you use that phrase with such looseness, 29:07.620 --> 29:09.720 it has me really question, 29:09.720 --> 29:11.060 did you hear from God? 29:12.840 --> 29:14.300 I gave this advice to people 29:14.300 --> 29:15.700 that my wife and I used to disciple 29:15.700 --> 29:17.240 and used to mentor and raise up. 29:17.320 --> 29:18.100 I said this, hey listen, 29:18.440 --> 29:20.500 use the word I sense, the Lord. 29:21.620 --> 29:23.040 I sense this. 29:23.280 --> 29:24.860 I feel this, 29:25.680 --> 29:27.560 prior to making a statement of, 29:27.820 --> 29:28.760 God told me. 29:28.860 --> 29:29.760 It's like, whew. 29:30.580 --> 29:31.880 Because when I read the scriptures, 29:32.500 --> 29:33.100 I don't know about you, 29:33.180 --> 29:34.220 when I read the scriptures 29:34.220 --> 29:36.780 and when God actually spoke to people, 29:37.040 --> 29:38.440 there was something that was about it. 29:38.440 --> 29:40.300 There was an effect that affected 29:40.300 --> 29:41.440 more than just one individual. 29:44.540 --> 29:45.620 Let me tell you again, 29:45.700 --> 29:46.800 this is again my opinion. 29:47.200 --> 29:47.900 Okay, you can agree, 29:47.980 --> 29:48.860 you can disagree with me. 29:49.380 --> 29:51.840 I believe, I believe in my life, 29:52.340 --> 29:54.780 90% of the time when God is speaking, 29:55.160 --> 29:56.700 it's concerning me, not everybody. 29:57.180 --> 29:58.900 And only 10% of the time, 29:59.060 --> 30:00.080 it's to everybody else. 30:01.880 --> 30:03.680 There's only unique situations, 30:04.080 --> 30:04.900 like Pastor and I, 30:04.960 --> 30:05.780 we were talking about it. 30:05.920 --> 30:07.440 There's only unique situations 30:07.440 --> 30:10.060 when God has you to steward a service 30:10.060 --> 30:11.240 or something else, 30:11.300 --> 30:12.460 will those two change? 30:13.880 --> 30:15.480 But on a day to day base, 30:15.720 --> 30:17.900 God is actually talking to me 30:18.250 --> 30:19.320 and dealing with things 30:19.320 --> 30:20.540 that I need to deal with 30:20.540 --> 30:22.340 and showing himself to me 30:22.340 --> 30:24.120 more than he is having me 30:24.120 --> 30:25.520 talk to other people. 30:28.220 --> 30:29.300 That's how it is in my life. 30:29.360 --> 30:30.320 Maybe it's different in your life. 30:30.400 --> 30:31.060 I'd love to sit down 30:31.060 --> 30:32.000 and talk with you about it. 30:34.200 --> 30:36.120 But God will deal with us 30:36.120 --> 30:37.700 and in the dealing with us 30:37.700 --> 30:38.920 and in the speaking to us, 30:39.040 --> 30:40.380 other people are affected by it. 30:42.160 --> 30:43.860 And then there's 10% of the time 30:43.860 --> 30:45.980 where he has us go and give a word, 30:46.460 --> 30:48.000 pray, whatever the case may be. 30:48.620 --> 30:49.560 You guys following what I'm saying? 30:50.020 --> 30:50.920 It's heavy in here. 30:51.000 --> 30:51.500 I don't know about you. 30:51.600 --> 30:52.420 Everybody's looking at me like, 30:52.520 --> 30:53.100 it's heavy in here. 30:55.160 --> 30:56.620 I'm not giving these things 30:56.620 --> 30:59.360 out of I'm upset or this. 30:59.860 --> 31:01.000 I'm giving you these things 31:01.000 --> 31:02.200 because friends, I see where 31:02.200 --> 31:03.260 the Lord is taking us. 31:04.380 --> 31:06.300 I see where the Lord is taking us 31:06.300 --> 31:06.900 as a body. 31:09.360 --> 31:10.360 I do see that. 31:10.480 --> 31:11.340 I love what Pastor Brian, 31:11.460 --> 31:12.560 I love what you said to the youth 31:12.560 --> 31:13.040 on Thursday. 31:13.380 --> 31:14.560 By the way, the other portion 31:14.560 --> 31:15.420 of it too I'm going to share. 31:15.800 --> 31:17.360 The Lord spoke to Pastor Brian 31:17.360 --> 31:18.980 on Thursday and the Lord said, 31:19.200 --> 31:20.020 I'm not upset at you. 31:20.320 --> 31:21.640 I'm not frustrated with you. 31:21.740 --> 31:22.780 I just want to commune with you. 31:22.980 --> 31:23.140 Right? 31:23.300 --> 31:24.240 That's what the Lord said on Thursday. 31:24.780 --> 31:26.360 I feel that not just for the youth. 31:26.520 --> 31:27.580 I feel that for our church. 31:28.660 --> 31:30.120 God is not upset with us. 31:30.440 --> 31:31.980 He's not frustrated with us. 31:31.980 --> 31:33.500 He's not like how dare you. 31:33.620 --> 31:34.700 But he's simply saying, 31:34.720 --> 31:36.320 listen, I want to commune with you 31:36.320 --> 31:37.460 in greater ways. 31:37.680 --> 31:39.860 I want to visit you in greater ways. 31:39.940 --> 31:41.880 But here is the standard. 31:42.180 --> 31:43.780 And it's not self-righteousness. 31:44.060 --> 31:45.540 To achieve that standard 31:45.540 --> 31:47.080 is to submit and surrender more. 31:50.470 --> 31:51.530 That's why you see, 31:51.610 --> 31:52.570 that's why I asked you earlier. 31:52.950 --> 31:54.110 Put down your filters because 31:55.810 --> 31:57.130 I don't want you to think 31:57.130 --> 31:58.190 that we're preaching works. 31:58.750 --> 32:00.030 We're not preaching works. 32:00.390 --> 32:01.470 We're preaching faith. 32:02.990 --> 32:03.870 Saved by... 32:04.470 --> 32:04.910 Through... 32:04.910 --> 32:06.290 That's what we're preaching. 32:08.930 --> 32:10.950 But for us to actually 32:10.950 --> 32:12.030 get to the standard 32:12.030 --> 32:13.050 of where the Lord wants 32:13.050 --> 32:14.090 the bride of Christ to be, 32:14.470 --> 32:15.490 friends, we have to submit 32:15.490 --> 32:16.890 and we have to surrender more. 32:18.630 --> 32:19.730 We have to. 32:21.910 --> 32:23.550 We have a grace-preaching gospel. 32:23.750 --> 32:25.510 All just be how you are. 32:26.450 --> 32:27.530 I don't know about you, 32:27.570 --> 32:28.630 but the Son has a standard 32:28.630 --> 32:29.310 for His bride. 32:31.790 --> 32:33.710 The sin that you were committing last week, 32:33.790 --> 32:35.130 you should probably deal with that. 32:35.930 --> 32:37.590 You should probably deal 32:37.590 --> 32:39.390 with some of the characteristic issues 32:39.390 --> 32:40.250 that are in you. 32:40.830 --> 32:42.430 And the Lord is more than willing 32:42.430 --> 32:43.810 to help you deal with those things. 32:46.230 --> 32:47.950 You guys catching what I'm saying this morning? 32:50.570 --> 32:51.750 For the Word of God 32:51.750 --> 32:53.910 to become flesh in this house, 32:54.090 --> 32:55.310 friends, it's going to cost us things. 33:01.620 --> 33:02.880 Is there anybody in the house 33:02.880 --> 33:04.760 that feels like I said, 33:04.760 --> 33:06.340 you know, man, I feel like I've been under 33:06.340 --> 33:07.860 under an oil press too. 33:07.940 --> 33:08.880 Is there anybody here that can 33:08.880 --> 33:10.520 raise your hands high so I can see? 33:12.280 --> 33:13.440 See, I'm not the only one. 33:15.140 --> 33:16.580 It's like the Lord is pressing. 33:17.520 --> 33:18.680 And in the pressing, 33:18.860 --> 33:20.320 He's trying to bring about something. 33:22.240 --> 33:23.860 In the pressing, He's trying 33:23.860 --> 33:25.000 to bring about a holiness. 33:25.420 --> 33:26.840 In the pressing, He's trying 33:26.840 --> 33:28.620 to bring about and conform 33:28.620 --> 33:29.580 Christ in us. 33:30.600 --> 33:31.660 It's in the pressing. 33:35.600 --> 33:37.000 I feel as if though we're being 33:37.000 --> 33:38.020 measured as a house. 33:41.940 --> 33:43.120 And the Lord watching. 33:43.920 --> 33:45.600 And the Lord seeing individually, 33:45.740 --> 33:46.940 friends, this is an individual 33:46.940 --> 33:48.540 and a corporate thing. 33:49.760 --> 33:51.440 This is not just us. 33:51.780 --> 33:53.040 This is when we go home. 33:54.540 --> 33:55.880 This is when we're at home. 33:57.640 --> 33:59.560 This is when we come together as well. 34:01.440 --> 34:03.360 God is bringing us into something. 34:03.520 --> 34:04.100 I feel it. 34:04.740 --> 34:05.720 I sense it. 34:05.720 --> 34:06.480 I know it. 34:07.320 --> 34:08.940 I have confidence in it. 34:17.390 --> 34:18.590 James chapter 2. 34:22.500 --> 34:23.660 This is why we're not preaching 34:24.600 --> 34:26.200 works or self-righteousness. 34:26.320 --> 34:28.440 James chapter 2 verse 26. 34:28.580 --> 34:29.680 I want to show you something here. 34:29.940 --> 34:30.740 Just so you're understanding. 34:30.920 --> 34:32.020 We are not preaching works. 34:32.400 --> 34:34.140 We are not preaching self-righteousness. 34:34.420 --> 34:35.900 We are preaching to obey 34:35.900 --> 34:37.080 and to submit to the Lord. 34:37.380 --> 34:39.660 James chapter 2 verse 26. 34:40.260 --> 34:42.300 For as the body without the spirit 34:42.300 --> 34:45.500 is dead, so faith without works 34:45.500 --> 34:46.420 is dead. 34:47.220 --> 34:48.740 Let me elaborate a little bit more 34:48.740 --> 34:50.020 so that we can really understand. 34:51.360 --> 34:52.440 I've said this before. 34:52.580 --> 34:53.140 I'll say it again. 34:54.280 --> 34:55.940 Everybody likes the idea 34:55.940 --> 34:57.680 of what God is doing in this house. 34:57.820 --> 34:58.360 Everybody does. 34:58.480 --> 34:59.180 I like the idea. 34:59.300 --> 35:00.740 Tell me somebody who doesn't like the idea. 35:01.900 --> 35:03.480 But there's very few people 35:03.480 --> 35:04.760 that have actually caught it. 35:06.840 --> 35:08.320 What I mean by that is that 35:08.320 --> 35:09.340 when you catch something, 35:09.620 --> 35:11.600 you actually begin to 35:11.600 --> 35:13.980 do the actions to follow 35:13.980 --> 35:16.020 that which you like, the idea. 35:16.140 --> 35:17.140 You guys catching what I'm saying here? 35:18.640 --> 35:21.060 As a body without a spirit is dead, 35:21.580 --> 35:23.900 so faith without works is dead. 35:25.420 --> 35:27.680 If I'm actually believing the Lord 35:27.680 --> 35:29.820 for some things of what he's going to do 35:29.820 --> 35:31.720 in this house and what he is doing in this house, 35:31.960 --> 35:33.940 if I'm actually believing the Lord, 35:34.100 --> 35:35.380 I have to begin to live it out. 35:36.940 --> 35:39.240 I have to actually begin to 35:39.240 --> 35:41.160 make decisions in my life 35:41.160 --> 35:42.560 that are going to be painful. 35:42.960 --> 35:44.100 Friends, they're going to be painful. 35:44.960 --> 35:47.160 But if I'm actually believing the Lord, 35:47.540 --> 35:49.000 I know that the outcome of it 35:49.000 --> 35:50.240 is going to be far more rewarding. 35:51.660 --> 35:53.360 Does not the apostle Paul say 35:53.360 --> 35:55.000 that these temporary things 35:55.000 --> 35:56.100 that I'm experiencing, 35:56.460 --> 35:58.380 they do not even compare 35:58.380 --> 35:59.480 to the glory. 36:03.940 --> 36:06.020 If we're actually believing the Lord 36:06.020 --> 36:07.040 for a building. 36:07.140 --> 36:08.180 Let me just talk about the building 36:08.180 --> 36:09.480 just for a second, okay? 36:10.080 --> 36:11.860 If we're actually believing the Lord 36:11.860 --> 36:12.620 for a building. 36:13.280 --> 36:14.960 And this is not with just tithing. 36:15.360 --> 36:16.720 We're going to need more people 36:16.720 --> 36:17.560 to be on board. 36:18.940 --> 36:20.260 People that we can trust 36:20.260 --> 36:21.500 to lead different things. 36:21.560 --> 36:23.140 Because according to the vision 36:23.140 --> 36:24.200 of word of life, 36:24.280 --> 36:25.240 of what the Lord has given, 36:25.580 --> 36:26.940 we're expecting to see a multitude 36:26.940 --> 36:28.240 of babes come into the house. 36:30.120 --> 36:30.280 Okay? 36:30.500 --> 36:31.200 Don't answer this. 36:31.300 --> 36:31.380 Okay? 36:31.480 --> 36:32.100 Don't answer this. 36:32.820 --> 36:34.660 But how many of you are actually 36:34.660 --> 36:35.920 ready to disciple somebody? 36:39.960 --> 36:40.400 Honestly. 36:42.800 --> 36:44.580 How many of you are actually 36:44.580 --> 36:46.920 ready to take somebody under your wing 36:46.920 --> 36:48.440 and to help them walk 36:48.440 --> 36:50.640 through life and to pour into them 36:50.640 --> 36:52.200 and actually have something 36:52.200 --> 36:53.040 to pour into them? 36:54.980 --> 36:56.360 My wife and I said this 36:56.360 --> 36:57.320 all the time to people. 36:57.740 --> 36:59.040 If I'm an empty vessel, 36:59.540 --> 37:01.180 how can I pour into another vessel? 37:02.520 --> 37:04.820 If I don't know the Lord personally, 37:05.140 --> 37:06.880 if I'm not with him personally, 37:07.100 --> 37:08.880 if I'm not seeking him out personally, 37:09.140 --> 37:10.640 how can I talk about him 37:10.640 --> 37:12.400 to somebody who doesn't know him? 37:13.020 --> 37:14.020 You can't. 37:15.520 --> 37:16.760 So the question is, 37:16.840 --> 37:18.420 how many of us are actually ready 37:18.420 --> 37:20.280 to take somebody under our wing 37:20.280 --> 37:21.120 and disciple them? 37:24.000 --> 37:25.000 There's not many. 37:27.000 --> 37:28.080 But these are the things 37:28.080 --> 37:28.840 that I'm talking about. 37:28.940 --> 37:30.440 So when I'm regarding the building, friends, 37:30.820 --> 37:31.760 I'm not just talking about 37:31.760 --> 37:33.540 let's give more for it to build. 37:33.820 --> 37:35.860 I'm talking about readying yourself 37:35.860 --> 37:37.140 for what's to come. 37:39.480 --> 37:41.700 I'm talking about the multitudes of people 37:41.700 --> 37:43.060 that are going to be hungry 37:43.060 --> 37:45.840 to hear the word of the Lord. 37:46.200 --> 37:47.120 That are going to come from 37:47.120 --> 37:48.740 south and east and north and west. 37:49.060 --> 37:49.800 All the regions, 37:49.960 --> 37:51.280 they're going to come to hear what? 37:51.740 --> 37:52.580 Not Pastor Igor. 37:53.000 --> 37:53.840 They're going to come to hear 37:53.840 --> 37:54.660 the word of the Lord. 37:55.920 --> 37:56.740 They're going to come 37:56.740 --> 37:57.680 and hear the word of the Lord. 37:57.840 --> 37:59.480 But if the word of God in me 37:59.480 --> 38:00.220 is not flesh, 38:00.480 --> 38:02.060 if I have not eaten the scroll, 38:02.400 --> 38:03.920 how can I give it to somebody? 38:04.340 --> 38:05.040 You can't. 38:06.140 --> 38:07.500 You can't. 38:07.760 --> 38:10.480 You'll give them another user-friendly gospel 38:10.480 --> 38:14.420 of how to make Jesus convenient for you. 38:16.220 --> 38:18.800 When I read the scriptures to follow him 38:18.800 --> 38:21.000 has always been an inconvenience 38:21.000 --> 38:22.480 for the flesh. 38:25.740 --> 38:27.660 Friends, I'm saying all this 38:27.660 --> 38:29.600 to really stir you to something. 38:29.920 --> 38:31.720 We are now halfway through the year. 38:32.560 --> 38:33.980 We're halfway through. 38:34.460 --> 38:35.820 We're closer to 2050 38:35.820 --> 38:38.000 than we are to the year 2000. 38:38.500 --> 38:39.800 That sobers me up. 38:39.880 --> 38:40.480 I don't know about you. 38:40.620 --> 38:41.560 That sobers me up. 38:41.800 --> 38:43.800 That causes me to look at my life 38:43.800 --> 38:45.760 and say, Lord, wow. 38:46.500 --> 38:48.200 Am I actually obeying 38:48.200 --> 38:49.220 what you're asking me to do? 38:49.940 --> 38:51.940 Am I actually seeking you 38:51.940 --> 38:54.160 when you are wanting to be sought after? 38:59.210 --> 39:00.710 You're catching what I'm saying today? 39:02.450 --> 39:04.150 God is bringing us somewhere. 39:04.390 --> 39:05.590 But I'm telling you. 39:05.710 --> 39:06.690 I'm telling you. 39:06.910 --> 39:08.070 He is measuring us. 39:09.950 --> 39:11.150 He's weighing us. 39:12.650 --> 39:14.010 Can I trust you 39:14.010 --> 39:16.110 with what I want to give you in its fullness? 39:17.870 --> 39:18.750 I don't know about you, 39:18.790 --> 39:20.090 but I feel the fear of the Lord on that. 39:23.480 --> 39:25.160 The fear of the Lord to steward 39:25.160 --> 39:26.160 what he asks for us. 39:30.190 --> 39:32.190 As the body without a spirit is dead, 39:33.710 --> 39:35.450 so faith without works is dead. 39:37.490 --> 39:38.390 You know what the difference 39:38.390 --> 39:40.050 between self-righteousnesses 39:40.050 --> 39:41.830 and actually working by faith? 39:43.150 --> 39:44.730 Self-righteousness is when you go 39:44.730 --> 39:46.610 ahead of what God has told you. 39:47.910 --> 39:49.290 Where this scripture right here, 39:49.430 --> 39:50.330 he's simply saying, obey. 39:51.210 --> 39:52.970 As faith without works 39:54.250 --> 39:54.930 is dead. 39:55.370 --> 39:56.770 But if my faith is alive, 39:56.910 --> 39:58.090 that means that I'm obeying 39:58.090 --> 39:58.890 what he's asking me to do. 39:58.910 --> 39:59.490 Is that making sense? 39:59.810 --> 40:01.150 I did one of these here real quick. 40:04.270 --> 40:05.510 God is bringing us somewhere. 40:05.630 --> 40:06.270 You guys are going to hear me 40:06.270 --> 40:07.150 say that over and over 40:07.150 --> 40:08.290 because I'm really trying 40:08.290 --> 40:09.530 to stir your hearts to something. 40:10.110 --> 40:11.310 The Holy Spirit is wanting 40:11.310 --> 40:13.130 to bring us somewhere 40:13.130 --> 40:15.590 deeper into himself.