WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:04.460 I want to talk about something. I felt like the Lord brought it to my attention this morning. 00:05.420 --> 00:12.380 And then after Mary spoke through prayer, I went, yeah, I believe that's God. 00:13.980 --> 00:18.640 They had a couple of people get saved again last night at TBO, which is awesome. 00:23.640 --> 00:29.440 And I want to show you some things that she sent my direction. 00:30.120 --> 00:36.680 Well, one picture. I want to show you a picture as soon as this connects. 00:37.220 --> 00:38.760 There we go. Look at that. 00:44.200 --> 00:58.700 That was put on the platform by someone who got saved last night as far as I know they were a young teen, teenage person. 01:01.760 --> 01:08.780 For those of you who say what the world is that, that's a meth pipe. 01:12.380 --> 01:14.340 So they got rid of a meth pipe. 01:15.080 --> 01:17.980 So now I want to address something, because this is important. 01:24.680 --> 01:32.300 Sometimes it feels to me like there's an attitude that develops against TBO because they're those kind of people. 01:33.940 --> 01:43.660 And it's either coming from pride and arrogance, like the Sadducees and Pharisees, or it's coming from fear. 01:46.080 --> 02:00.380 So I want to address this just a bit, because if we're going to be effective in reaching and ministering to the younger generation, 02:01.400 --> 02:03.320 that's a reality of life. 02:04.900 --> 02:10.600 And we have to embrace what's needed to deal with that. 02:14.800 --> 02:23.520 Statistics say high school graduates between 35 and 40 percent of them have dealt with illicit drugs. 02:25.020 --> 02:25.900 Consumed. 02:26.940 --> 02:32.560 Of course if you throw alcohol in on that, now alcohol is a drug. 02:35.390 --> 02:38.150 And I just want that to soak in. Alcohol is a drug. 02:39.850 --> 02:44.250 If you throw alcohol in on that, 35-40 percent is way low. 02:45.590 --> 02:47.010 Okay, so that's coming out of high school. 02:48.190 --> 02:55.190 Now if you go into coming out of college, college is where it first gets weird. 02:57.450 --> 03:03.630 I would think that number easily doubles coming out of college. 03:05.030 --> 03:11.290 70 to 80 percent have worked in the realm of illegal drugs. 03:12.010 --> 03:16.650 And if you throw alcohol, which is legal in on that, well then it probably even goes up from there. 03:21.740 --> 03:25.340 That's just a representative. That's not necessarily any particular thing. 03:25.340 --> 03:35.360 But I want to make this point. Many people who started at TBO have ended up here. 03:40.140 --> 03:45.900 So to get an attitude towards that kind of person, we're actually getting an attitude with ourselves. 03:48.020 --> 03:49.420 And you know what's real? 03:51.000 --> 03:58.180 There's numerous people in a group this size who are struggling with drugs here. 04:01.160 --> 04:03.460 It is so prevalent in society. 04:05.940 --> 04:12.760 And the thing that keyed this morning, what Mary brought up that I want to touch, 04:14.480 --> 04:27.500 she was talking about divination and how that divination is actually just the thirst for the supernatural. 04:33.380 --> 04:42.880 When we're hungering for drugs, we're actually hungering for the Spirit of God, the supernatural of God. 04:43.560 --> 04:46.960 We don't know it, but we are. 04:47.740 --> 04:49.500 This is the way Paul expressed it. 04:50.160 --> 04:53.380 Do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation. 04:53.520 --> 04:55.280 That's how the New King James reads that. 04:55.960 --> 04:57.340 But be filled with the Spirit. 04:57.340 --> 05:05.460 He connects the supernatural, the Holy Spirit, with why people get drunk. 05:06.720 --> 05:11.610 Okay, so I want you to see something here that I thought was quite interesting. 05:12.740 --> 05:19.340 Here is Strong's definition of that word dissipation. 05:20.480 --> 05:21.600 It can be debauchery. 05:22.120 --> 05:24.720 I think the NIV and the King James used debauchery. 05:25.580 --> 05:26.600 It's that word. 05:28.320 --> 05:30.900 That's the word translated from the Greek to the English. 05:32.620 --> 05:40.700 It is a compound as a negative participle, and it's presumed to be derived from 4982. 05:40.860 --> 05:42.220 And I'm not going to show you that yet. 05:42.560 --> 05:46.160 I want you to see this first, and then I'm going to shock you with 4982. 05:47.360 --> 05:52.280 So it's a negative participle, or it's the opposite of 4982. 05:52.280 --> 05:55.020 The Strong's number 4982. 05:55.740 --> 05:59.740 It's dealing with unsaviness, profligacy. 06:00.240 --> 06:02.980 I don't know if that's the correct pronunciation. I don't use that word every day. 06:05.460 --> 06:07.140 Excess, okay? 06:07.780 --> 06:10.940 So that's what it's talking about. 06:12.180 --> 06:13.460 It's the opposite. 06:17.510 --> 06:18.890 See if I can expand this. 06:19.370 --> 06:21.490 It won't expand for me. You have to have good vision. 06:21.490 --> 06:24.310 Anybody read the third line down on the right side? 06:26.030 --> 06:26.510 No? 06:27.170 --> 06:28.650 It's the word sozo. 06:29.850 --> 06:31.070 What is sozo? 06:32.470 --> 06:35.970 It's the Greek word for salvation. 06:40.070 --> 06:47.410 It's the Greek word to be made safe, to be protected, to heal, to be delivered, to be made whole, to be made well. 06:49.870 --> 06:53.430 Do not be drunk with wine. 06:53.990 --> 06:55.750 No, it's not going back to it. 06:55.910 --> 06:57.450 Let me go in a different way. 06:58.570 --> 07:03.130 Ephesians 5 verse 8, 9, 4. 07:05.310 --> 07:07.650 Give me a second. You're watching me work live. 07:08.270 --> 07:08.790 518. 07:15.610 --> 07:16.510 Oh, you're playing. 07:17.150 --> 07:18.010 Is this on now? 07:18.250 --> 07:19.870 Oh, there you go. 07:21.030 --> 07:22.110 Scared me for a second. 07:22.110 --> 07:22.830 I thought I did something. 07:24.330 --> 07:25.570 Okay, you go ahead and adjust that. 07:28.370 --> 07:40.590 There's the word that he uses there in Ephesians 5, 18, saying excess, dissipation, debauchery. 07:42.010 --> 07:45.470 It is the opposite of sozo. 07:46.650 --> 07:50.250 So it's totally separate. 07:50.250 --> 07:54.850 Okay, one word in... 07:54.850 --> 07:56.150 Let me go back. 07:56.910 --> 07:59.690 One word there, and I wish I could expand it. 08:00.170 --> 08:07.270 It's profligacy, or however that's pronounced, as one of the definitions for dissipation. 08:08.410 --> 08:09.790 Now this is interesting. 08:12.970 --> 08:19.570 I had it here, but profligacy. 08:23.000 --> 08:26.420 The quality or state of being... 08:27.040 --> 08:27.640 Yeah, hell. 08:28.320 --> 08:31.440 Okay, so let's go see what that is. 08:33.820 --> 08:36.960 Completely, it sucks about wildly extravagant. 08:37.220 --> 08:43.560 Completely given up to dissipation or licentiousness, shamelessly immoral. 08:44.260 --> 08:45.720 What is dissipation? 08:47.280 --> 08:53.920 The act or process of dissipating the state of being dissipated. 08:54.700 --> 08:57.720 Now take that, put it back into Ephesians 5, 18. 08:58.640 --> 09:06.260 Do not be drunk with wine, which is dissipation, but be filled with the spirit. 09:07.480 --> 09:14.240 When we're pulling in, because when you're dealing with drugs, according to Revelation, you're dealing with the spirit realm. 09:14.240 --> 09:16.160 It's called sorcery. 09:17.020 --> 09:20.620 So you're hungering after something more than just the drug. 09:20.720 --> 09:30.020 You're hungering after the thing that goes on in the spirit realm, and your spirit is trying to find something here to feed it, and it doesn't even know it. 09:31.420 --> 09:38.540 But when you're hungering for it and you go after it and participate, now Paul used alcohol. 09:39.700 --> 09:41.880 Of course, back then I don't think they had meth. 09:43.740 --> 09:49.360 I doubt that they had some of the other drugs we're dealing with. 09:51.400 --> 09:53.900 So he pulled out the drug at the time, alcohol. 09:54.900 --> 10:09.720 When you're after the drug, you're actually diffusing or in the state of being made less and less and you're dissipating. 10:13.680 --> 10:21.780 As you're pursuing that drug, you are not becoming more, you're becoming less. 10:23.620 --> 10:34.940 And the longer you pursue that, the less you become and the less you have and the less you are and the more confused and the more frustrated and everything that goes with that becoming less. 10:36.000 --> 10:43.680 Which is the opposite of sozo, which that is what builds us up and makes us something. 10:44.820 --> 10:48.920 Changes our life into good. Changes our life into profitable things. 10:48.920 --> 11:02.160 Changes our life so that we're moving forward in good things versus wasteful expenditure or excessive drinking will do that. 11:03.240 --> 11:17.170 So my whole point is this, with the percentage of people 25 years old and under messing with drugs, 11:18.930 --> 11:30.210 we are seeing without them even knowing it an entire generation pursuing spiritual things or the supernatural. 11:32.830 --> 11:39.810 Paul says, don't go the route of the drugs. And of course, Paul is writing for God. 11:40.790 --> 11:43.310 He's being directed by the Holy Spirit. What to write? 11:43.310 --> 11:55.690 Don't go the route of drugs. If you need pursue the Holy Spirit, which will satisfy that hunger and that thirst for something inside of you. 11:55.830 --> 12:01.390 Because if you go the route of drugs, including alcohol, because Paul specifically mentioned that, 12:02.230 --> 12:05.670 it's going to make you less and less and less and less and less. 12:06.310 --> 12:09.310 It's going to dissipate you. It will not... 12:09.310 --> 12:12.890 Well, I can't wait to Friday and then I can add something to my life. 12:12.950 --> 12:15.310 No, actually, you're subtracting every Friday that comes. 12:16.750 --> 12:18.390 Less and less and less and less. 12:18.850 --> 12:24.450 That's why you watch people who have been involved in drugs all their life and they're 60, 70 years old. 12:24.790 --> 12:27.390 You look at them and it's like, wow, they're just a shell of a person. 12:31.820 --> 12:35.980 There's just no substance there anymore. It's just like, wow, I feel sorry for them. Look at them. 12:37.640 --> 12:42.320 That's because the drug has dissipated it all their life. 12:43.200 --> 12:50.160 If they would have gone to the Holy Spirit and entered into the spirit realm, 12:50.540 --> 12:54.920 the things of the supernatural that the Holy Spirit wanted to do inside of them, 12:55.080 --> 13:01.400 it would do just the opposite and rather than making them less, make some more. 13:05.620 --> 13:08.480 So I say all that to say this. 13:16.320 --> 13:21.580 The world needs us to understand it more and more and more 13:23.140 --> 13:27.120 because that is an example of what's getting worse and worse and worse. 13:27.960 --> 13:31.400 They are looking for what we have. 13:35.640 --> 13:39.840 And when they can't find it, they end up going a route 13:39.840 --> 13:44.100 that is actually a realm of divination. 13:47.540 --> 13:54.920 They're actually tying in to the spirit world from a direction that will just eat away at them until they're gone. 14:00.500 --> 14:06.200 People need you. People need what you know. People need what you have. 14:06.580 --> 14:10.300 And if you don't have it, let's fix that before you leave today 14:10.300 --> 14:12.780 so you get it and get going the right direction. 14:14.080 --> 14:15.140 Just that easy. 14:17.600 --> 14:21.260 But as she was going through the prayer time and explaining that 14:21.260 --> 14:23.880 and what she's going to be getting into and dealing with, 14:24.780 --> 14:27.760 I thought, you know, that is... 14:28.580 --> 14:29.940 that's important enough. 14:30.560 --> 14:34.960 I need to touch what I felt the Holy Spirit gave me this morning. 14:35.360 --> 14:40.420 So I touched it. 14:42.480 --> 14:44.100 Did you get anything out of that? 14:46.420 --> 14:49.640 Hopefully that gave you something to consider and ponder. 14:51.380 --> 14:53.880 Because it's important in the time we're living in. 14:55.520 --> 14:56.500 It's important.