WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:05.640 Chapter 4 is where we're at this morning. As you're filing in, I'm excited about service. 00:05.840 --> 00:09.620 I'm excited about the service up north. There's just a lot to be excited about. 00:10.100 --> 00:12.760 So, there's been a lot of good things that have been happening. 00:13.500 --> 00:17.760 Some prayer requests have come in, and so we're going to deal with that this morning. 00:20.760 --> 00:24.940 James 4-8 is powerful. 00:26.800 --> 00:28.820 The King James, I believe, says it. 00:29.400 --> 00:34.400 Draw near to God, and he will come draw close to God, and he'll draw close to you as one version. 00:34.880 --> 00:38.400 Come near to God, and he will come near to you as another version. 00:39.980 --> 00:44.900 But it starts out with one that we quote when we're riled up about the demonic realm 00:46.480 --> 00:49.960 and about attacks against us, and that is, 00:50.980 --> 00:55.000 Then to God, resists the devil, and he will flee from you. 00:55.600 --> 00:58.280 Come near to God. It's almost like an instruction manual. 00:58.960 --> 01:03.400 You know, I find it interesting. If you look at shampoo, they actually tell you how to wash your hair. 01:04.180 --> 01:08.260 I don't know. They're like, and then do it again, then rinse. 01:08.680 --> 01:12.680 But this is a good instruction manual. 01:12.940 --> 01:17.420 So then, what happens is when I read that one, well then I got to go back and see what came before it. 01:17.420 --> 01:23.080 And then what came before that because it's literally how you put something together for success. 01:24.300 --> 01:29.400 Even the verse before ends with God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. 01:31.120 --> 01:37.860 And so the amplified says grace is poured out daily for those who are humble enough to receive it. 01:38.840 --> 01:42.220 And so God opposes the proud. 01:42.900 --> 01:46.920 You know, he's just, he's for the person, but he's against the pride. 01:47.380 --> 01:51.340 So if you got the pride oozing out of you, you're just caught in the trap, right? 01:51.500 --> 01:56.640 He's opposing that. That doesn't mean he comes against you and, you know, attacks you or whatever. 01:56.840 --> 02:00.040 It's just, he opposes that. Nope, not going to participate. 02:00.740 --> 02:07.980 And so what Pastor Igor has been talking about, what God's leading us into is really understanding how to go low 02:07.980 --> 02:13.320 or to humble ourselves in the sight of the Lord that he might lift us up, right? 02:14.140 --> 02:16.840 If we need to be lifted up, he'll do that. We don't have to worry about it. 02:17.540 --> 02:23.260 We don't have to put on a plastic face to try to get something to be accomplished 02:23.260 --> 02:28.000 or take on a role or be a certain avatar. There's all kinds of ways of saying that. 02:28.520 --> 02:35.900 And so he gives us more and more grace. It says the verse before, he gives us more and more grace. 02:35.900 --> 02:39.620 That is why the scripture says God opposes proud, but gives grace to the humble. 02:40.240 --> 02:48.480 Submit yourself, and we've talked about that much here, where submit literally means to come under the mission of God. 02:49.120 --> 02:56.040 Then to God, resist the devil. And if there was a zist to begin with, you're going to redo that, right? 02:56.320 --> 02:59.920 Anytime the word re is in front of something, resist the devil. 03:00.100 --> 03:04.360 It's like you're in motion of continually doing it. It's kind of like rejoice. 03:04.960 --> 03:11.860 So if you ever experience joy, rejoice right now. You can do that by choice, right? 03:12.640 --> 03:17.520 And so resist kind of works the same way. It can happen at any time you think, well, I did that already. 03:17.920 --> 03:20.900 Well, keep it up. Keep it up. Keep opposed to it. 03:21.180 --> 03:24.740 Get in the place where God is at, where he's opposed to the proud things. 03:25.100 --> 03:31.680 And be opposed to that same thing, because sin has pride written all over it in it, and it's anointed with it. 03:32.480 --> 03:37.520 And so any form of sin is going to have that pride thing in the middle of it. 03:37.800 --> 03:46.520 And so to position ourselves in the vein where God is flowing, we just humble ourselves. We humble ourselves. 03:47.040 --> 03:49.740 But to get there, many times we have to resist. 03:50.940 --> 03:58.900 We have to say, no, I am not. This is how this is going to go. And so then we move over into where grace is at. 03:58.900 --> 04:03.400 Submit yourselves to God, resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 04:03.600 --> 04:10.300 Now in the word picture in the Greek, it means as if in terror. I like that picture. 04:11.080 --> 04:15.660 So if I'm resisting, and I'm under his covering, I'm going about his mission. 04:15.720 --> 04:18.800 Because I'm part of his mission, I already know the Lord's going to deal with stuff. 04:19.860 --> 04:23.980 If I'm outside of his mission, then I'm like, eh, it's iffy here. I don't know, I'm on my own. 04:23.980 --> 04:29.160 But I get into his mission. That's what gives me the confidence to be like, no, I am serving him. 04:29.260 --> 04:33.480 I'm right where I'm supposed to be. I've submitted myself to him. 04:34.080 --> 04:40.040 And so then I resist the devil, and he will flee as if in terror. He's going to freak out over it. 04:40.140 --> 04:43.080 And I kind of get joy from that. I'm just not going to lie to you. 04:44.620 --> 04:49.460 Come near to God, and he will come near to you, which is right behind in the conversation. 04:49.460 --> 04:53.820 It's right behind. You just got done resisting. You're submitted unto him. 04:54.380 --> 04:58.520 And so you're in that spot. Well, then what do you do? You draw close to him. 04:58.820 --> 05:04.740 Tuck right under the shadow of his wing. Get up in there and be protected by our God, right? 05:05.840 --> 05:07.900 So come near to God, and he will come near to you. 05:08.120 --> 05:10.400 Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts. 05:10.460 --> 05:12.960 Well, what are we doing? What happens? Why does that come next? 05:13.280 --> 05:16.080 Because we're tucked up close to absolute holiness. 05:17.320 --> 05:22.360 You can't just pop in there and be like, I'm good. All of a sudden you become aware of yourself. 05:22.620 --> 05:27.540 Like, oh man, it's not a condemnation thing. You're like, I fell short of the glory. 05:27.820 --> 05:32.660 I fell a long way. And that only fell I face planted when I did. 05:33.000 --> 05:39.020 And so you realize, wash your hands, you sinner, purify your hearts. You double-minded. 05:39.440 --> 05:43.180 So if you're in unbelief at all, and you come under his mission, 05:43.180 --> 05:48.660 you begin to resist the devil, and you tuck up under the shadow of his wing, 05:48.860 --> 05:52.200 all of a sudden where you're not believing, shows up big time. 05:53.460 --> 05:56.780 It shows up big time. You can't see that otherwise, by the way. 05:58.020 --> 06:01.440 A lot of times we'll think we're in faith, we're operating a certain way or whatever, 06:01.540 --> 06:03.280 but we don't see ourselves. 06:03.940 --> 06:08.360 We've been talking a lot at two different churches, sometimes three, 06:08.360 --> 06:18.100 about self-awareness, and self-awareness only really comes as you push into the presence of God. 06:18.620 --> 06:21.840 He begins to show you yourself. Otherwise, you're really not aware. 06:22.660 --> 06:27.440 I gave the example the other night of when I was not saved, 06:28.260 --> 06:31.980 and I thought Ted knew it was everything. Not against you, Ted. I'm just saying. 06:31.980 --> 06:39.000 But I mean, and so had my rock and roll band, I'd be in the barn that we had that was still shed, 06:40.020 --> 06:43.640 doing the thing and screaming and all of that kind of stuff. 06:43.860 --> 06:47.260 And I was singing the song Cat's Gratch Fever, and I thought it was the coolest thing. 06:48.880 --> 06:54.320 Cat's Gratch Fever, and I was doing that, and had my cousins there with me and all that. 06:54.620 --> 06:55.520 We thought we were pretty cool. 06:56.200 --> 07:00.240 And then I got born again and tried to sing that song, and I felt conflicted, 07:00.240 --> 07:05.100 and some other songs too, but then I remember my mother saying to me, 07:05.620 --> 07:08.660 you know, you sure you're not supposed to give that stuff up? That's kind of evil. 07:09.700 --> 07:14.680 And I was so ticked off that she, who does she think she is? 07:14.980 --> 07:19.360 And I remember I dishonored her. I mean, I went the full gamut when I was like, 07:19.420 --> 07:21.980 don't tell me what to do, blah, blah, blah, you know. 07:22.400 --> 07:27.700 So there was a pride there, right? Pride, the coolness of my music. 07:27.700 --> 07:29.280 I'm going to be like Ted. 07:29.980 --> 07:35.800 And so I was not submitted to her authority. I was not submitted to the authority of the church. 07:35.920 --> 07:39.320 I was not submitted to God, but I just got born again. 07:39.780 --> 07:40.980 I didn't know how to do that. 07:41.940 --> 07:47.940 And so here's the thing, until I pressed up close against God, got under the shadow of his wing, 07:48.180 --> 07:49.360 I didn't even know what I was saying. 07:50.440 --> 07:52.840 The song is about a venereal disease. 07:54.460 --> 07:57.940 And I sang it to my aunts and uncles when they wanted to say, 07:58.060 --> 08:00.200 what are you into now? How can you play or whatever? 08:00.300 --> 08:05.900 And I remember doing all the bar chords and just being, you know, the stance, the whole thing. 08:06.220 --> 08:08.300 And they were like, that's so good and whatever. 08:08.500 --> 08:11.120 And then after I found out there was a bout of venereal disease, 08:11.300 --> 08:13.020 why didn't I see that up to that point? 08:13.760 --> 08:16.860 You don't see these things. You cannot see yourself. 08:17.260 --> 08:18.740 You cannot hear the words. 08:19.980 --> 08:22.460 It's right in front of you. It's so obvious. 08:22.460 --> 08:23.820 But you're like, but I like the beat. 08:24.300 --> 08:26.020 That's the number one thing people say. 08:26.440 --> 08:27.860 Yeah, but it's a cool song and I like the beat. 08:27.920 --> 08:29.740 It's not like I'm taking that in. Yeah, you are. 08:30.300 --> 08:32.100 And you're honoring it by singing it. 08:32.620 --> 08:38.580 And so just an example of a silly example, but it was something I was willing to defend. 08:39.920 --> 08:41.160 Like this was war. 08:42.320 --> 08:44.400 And then it ended up being war in my soul. 08:44.880 --> 08:47.920 And then my spirit got tight with God. 08:47.920 --> 08:52.940 I drew nigh to Him and He was up close to me. 08:53.340 --> 08:57.140 And then I realized, oh, something fell short here. 08:58.220 --> 09:02.760 And it's so obvious to people who know it, but it wasn't obvious to me. 09:02.960 --> 09:05.240 So then it makes you wonder, what are we into right now? 09:05.360 --> 09:07.560 That's so obvious. It's so obvious. 09:08.400 --> 09:09.420 But we ain't seen it. 09:11.560 --> 09:11.760 Huh? 09:13.020 --> 09:18.220 So I had somebody ask me, and I don't want to get in some debate about Harry Potter or whatever. 09:18.320 --> 09:19.880 There was a big discussion at something. 09:20.180 --> 09:28.640 And I just basically said, you know, you can sit and logically try to figure out if this is right or this is wrong. 09:28.760 --> 09:32.220 But if you submit yourself to God, come under His mission. 09:32.780 --> 09:34.160 Well, you got to know what His mission is. 09:34.440 --> 09:36.400 I am under God. Do you know what His mission is? 09:37.580 --> 09:37.900 Right? 09:37.900 --> 09:40.440 So cat scratch fever had to go. 09:40.620 --> 09:45.320 Once I understood what His mission was, it was like, that's not jiving somehow. 09:45.580 --> 09:47.100 It doesn't fit with His mission. 09:47.540 --> 09:52.120 And then when I went to resist the devil, I was participating with the devil. 09:53.600 --> 09:55.360 Glorifying something that kills people. 09:58.300 --> 10:00.000 Adultress, fornicating behavior. 10:01.140 --> 10:02.220 But I like to beat. 10:02.220 --> 10:08.320 Anyways, so come near to God and He will come near to you and then wash your hands. 10:08.420 --> 10:09.300 That's what it requires. 10:09.680 --> 10:12.820 Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts. 10:13.000 --> 10:13.720 You double-minded. 10:14.140 --> 10:19.920 So in some sense, double-minded means to be duo, to be standing in two places at the same time. 10:20.260 --> 10:25.340 So some people are participating in witchcraft-like things, but they're over here thinking they're in the glory. 10:26.860 --> 10:28.240 It's not the way to live. 10:28.600 --> 10:29.640 It's very yo-yo-like. 10:29.640 --> 10:32.400 It's very... you can't be in two places at the same time. 10:32.540 --> 10:34.440 You won't receive anything in that. 10:35.140 --> 10:36.460 Scripture makes that clear. 10:36.600 --> 10:39.260 The double-minded man will not receive anything. 10:39.940 --> 10:42.180 Because you're not in full faith on either side. 10:42.400 --> 10:45.120 You're just hanging in whatever feels good in the moment. 10:45.740 --> 10:47.340 And so, here we are. 10:47.480 --> 10:49.260 Come near to God and He will come near to you. 10:49.460 --> 10:50.400 Wash your hands, you sinner. 10:50.620 --> 10:51.480 Purify your hearts. 10:51.540 --> 10:52.260 That's a process. 10:52.600 --> 10:56.780 That's not an overnight thing because when I came up close to Him, 10:56.780 --> 11:00.300 I realized sin still has an effect on my thinking. 11:00.900 --> 11:03.180 And then I can't purify my heart. 11:04.200 --> 11:05.020 Can you? 11:06.860 --> 11:07.280 No. 11:07.940 --> 11:10.360 I have to stay tight with God under His mission 11:10.360 --> 11:13.880 and receive what He's given to us from the cross. 11:14.660 --> 11:19.180 And so I got to stay tight to Him and keep in that receiving mode. 11:20.960 --> 11:21.540 Ah! 11:22.980 --> 11:24.200 Then it goes down. 11:24.200 --> 11:25.260 Grieve morn and wail. 11:25.420 --> 11:27.640 Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. 11:27.820 --> 11:30.620 Humble yourselves before the Lord and He will lift you up. 11:31.300 --> 11:33.860 Why is that scripture in between about the morn? 11:34.900 --> 11:36.260 Why do we got to do that? 11:36.480 --> 11:36.760 Why? 11:37.240 --> 11:37.500 Why? 11:37.820 --> 11:38.080 Right? 11:38.880 --> 11:42.040 There's something about repentance that sounds like that. 11:42.220 --> 11:46.060 There's something about just realizing He's God and you're not. 11:46.460 --> 11:50.720 There's something about coming up under the shadow of His wing 11:50.720 --> 11:53.400 where you get to see how what glory looks like. 11:53.400 --> 11:56.220 See, the word glory, that's what we felt short of. 11:56.820 --> 12:00.700 You've heard me say before, one of the meanings is the way God does things. 12:02.460 --> 12:06.920 If you say glory for most groups, they'll think a mist that comes down through the air 12:06.920 --> 12:08.700 and, you know, the glory you've got. 12:08.860 --> 12:10.100 It could appear like that. 12:10.860 --> 12:14.960 But what it produces is that part was like, 12:15.180 --> 12:17.620 oh boy, we're going to line up with the way God does things. 12:18.220 --> 12:20.040 Because that's the thing I felt short of. 12:21.020 --> 12:21.460 Amen? 12:22.740 --> 12:27.800 So I'm bringing this up this morning because we go back into, 12:28.040 --> 12:30.820 no matter if you're learning about tithing, whatever it is, 12:31.260 --> 12:33.900 you're not going to hear things on the outside. 12:34.640 --> 12:37.460 You're going to hear things when you're under the shadow of His wing, 12:38.600 --> 12:39.820 under His covering. 12:40.580 --> 12:43.760 Your ears open up different, right? 12:44.700 --> 12:48.640 This is where witchcraft sometimes flows from the pulpit 12:49.640 --> 12:52.160 because people are outside of things 12:52.160 --> 12:54.860 and the pastors want this thing to happen so bad. 12:54.880 --> 12:58.300 They'll say whatever they have to say to manipulate you to get you to do that thing. 13:01.300 --> 13:02.840 Just letting that sit for a little bit. 13:03.660 --> 13:06.660 And so stuff comes out and it's like, you know, 13:07.240 --> 13:10.080 whether it be by giving or whatever, won't you help me? 13:10.260 --> 13:13.160 And you hear all this stuff when it comes to giving. 13:13.540 --> 13:15.680 If you give now, we're going to do this or whatever. 13:15.680 --> 13:18.320 And it's like, no, no, no, no. 13:18.480 --> 13:22.200 It's really up to the person to decide if they want to be under the shadow of His wing. 13:22.740 --> 13:24.680 If they want to submit to His mission. 13:24.980 --> 13:27.060 If they want to come near to Him. 13:28.240 --> 13:31.480 Now there's an immature thing that when it comes to healing, 13:31.720 --> 13:33.020 when it comes to just about anything, 13:33.840 --> 13:35.700 where this is why the Lord says, 13:35.780 --> 13:38.000 be perfect as my Father in heaven is perfect. 13:38.240 --> 13:40.180 And the word perfect there is be mature. 13:40.580 --> 13:42.660 And I like that He puts the word be before it 13:42.660 --> 13:44.380 because He's literally calling that over you. 13:45.860 --> 13:46.400 Right? 13:47.640 --> 13:48.160 Be. 13:48.780 --> 13:49.500 Light be. 13:50.380 --> 13:51.460 Be perfect. 13:51.900 --> 13:54.580 He's calling that and I'm going to answer that call like, 13:55.020 --> 13:57.820 okay, I'll mature and I move on over to that. 13:58.260 --> 14:03.220 But there's something about when we can't see ourselves, 14:03.900 --> 14:05.700 we can't even tell if we are maturing. 14:05.960 --> 14:08.600 You have to have a measurement that's higher than who you are. 14:09.540 --> 14:11.880 And so if religion's in the house, 14:12.020 --> 14:14.100 we don't measure anything against the word or God 14:14.100 --> 14:15.320 we measure it against each other. 14:17.900 --> 14:20.080 What the highest group in the church is, 14:20.140 --> 14:21.740 well maybe that's what we need to attain 14:21.740 --> 14:23.400 and it can be very fleshly or whatever. 14:23.940 --> 14:26.840 But when we live singly before God, 14:26.980 --> 14:28.800 now there's a corporate anointing where we get together, 14:29.100 --> 14:31.920 but we're going to stand before God on our own. 14:33.020 --> 14:33.900 I'm not going to answer, 14:33.960 --> 14:35.660 my husband's not going to, you know, 14:36.340 --> 14:37.720 be held accountable for me. 14:38.080 --> 14:38.580 He's going to be, 14:38.840 --> 14:40.240 I'm going to be held accountable for me. 14:41.620 --> 14:42.040 Right? 14:42.040 --> 14:43.620 But we're individuals before God. 14:44.340 --> 14:45.320 And when we see that, 14:45.420 --> 14:47.140 then everything comes down to a choice. 14:47.520 --> 14:48.900 And the choice in healing, 14:49.220 --> 14:50.760 the choice in whether or not you give, 14:50.900 --> 14:52.260 the choice in all those things, 14:52.800 --> 14:55.540 can't be coming out of your frontal lobes. 14:56.280 --> 14:58.460 You learn something in your frontal lobes, 14:58.680 --> 15:00.300 you receive it, that's your processor. 15:00.900 --> 15:02.060 If I've said this before, 15:02.180 --> 15:04.320 if you took out the emotional state out of your brain, 15:04.380 --> 15:05.680 which is your underside of the brain, 15:06.200 --> 15:08.780 your digital part would sound like this, 15:08.780 --> 15:11.040 and now I know this information, we must hide. 15:12.500 --> 15:13.540 It's very robotic. 15:14.860 --> 15:14.880 Right? 15:15.080 --> 15:16.100 And the underside of your brain 15:16.100 --> 15:17.740 is really supposed to support 15:18.460 --> 15:19.400 what it believes. 15:19.600 --> 15:20.720 It comes up out of that, 15:20.760 --> 15:22.120 that choice of your will, 15:22.420 --> 15:23.540 because when you make a choice 15:23.540 --> 15:24.920 in the singular area of your brain, 15:25.060 --> 15:26.340 what that does is it says, 15:26.460 --> 15:29.560 yes, I believe, or no, I'm opposed, right? 15:30.380 --> 15:31.360 And so when you say, 15:31.400 --> 15:32.080 yes, I believe, 15:32.240 --> 15:34.400 your emotions start to line up 15:35.120 --> 15:36.920 regarding the thing that you believe. 15:37.920 --> 15:41.620 And so we're going to put ourselves in a spot 15:41.620 --> 15:44.140 where if we just try to do that all on our own, 15:44.240 --> 15:47.680 it has to be a thing where we've spent time with Him. 15:48.060 --> 15:50.440 It has to be a thing where we were in His presence. 15:51.180 --> 15:51.880 Heaven's a place. 15:52.920 --> 15:54.460 The kingdom of God dwells in us. 15:54.540 --> 15:56.640 The kingdom of God is what connects us 15:56.640 --> 15:57.600 to the kingdom of heaven. 15:57.940 --> 16:00.400 And we're supposed to be pulling heaven down. 16:00.580 --> 16:01.620 Our Father who art in heaven, 16:01.800 --> 16:02.560 hallowed be thy name, 16:02.680 --> 16:03.740 thy kingdom come. 16:05.100 --> 16:06.320 Thy will be done. 16:06.320 --> 16:10.900 On earth as it already is in heaven, right? 16:11.000 --> 16:13.760 We're not pulling from the best of what we see on the earth. 16:14.000 --> 16:15.400 If our measurement is like, 16:15.460 --> 16:17.680 well, who's doing what and how's that going so good? 16:17.860 --> 16:18.860 I'm going to copy that. 16:19.120 --> 16:19.900 That's not our measurement. 16:20.240 --> 16:22.120 Our measurement for our personal life 16:22.120 --> 16:25.380 is when we spend time with God 16:25.380 --> 16:27.800 and we pull the heaven thoughts down 16:27.800 --> 16:29.540 by being under the shadow of His wing, 16:29.600 --> 16:30.460 under His understanding. 16:30.640 --> 16:32.020 And in His presence, 16:32.580 --> 16:34.200 well, now we're hearing bigger things. 16:34.660 --> 16:36.140 Now we're hearing more accurate things. 16:36.140 --> 16:37.700 Now we're hearing the things to, 16:37.900 --> 16:39.000 yeah, I'm going to submit to that. 16:39.520 --> 16:42.580 And sometimes what you're submitting to nobody else is. 16:44.760 --> 16:46.260 They're rolling like the world 16:46.260 --> 16:49.640 and we're trying to roll like the heavenlies said to us. 16:50.320 --> 16:50.800 Right? 16:50.940 --> 16:52.680 So that's called revelation knowledge. 16:53.720 --> 16:58.120 So when it comes to receiving from Him, 16:58.820 --> 17:00.240 I just want to point out 17:00.240 --> 17:02.040 because we pray for the sick a lot. 17:02.180 --> 17:05.260 We pray the prayers of all kinds of different things a lot. 17:05.260 --> 17:07.100 And approaches everything. 17:07.520 --> 17:09.460 And so I just want to let you know 17:09.460 --> 17:11.720 when you approach the throne of God, 17:12.220 --> 17:14.420 you come boldly before the throne of His grace. 17:15.520 --> 17:16.760 In your hour of need. 17:17.680 --> 17:19.240 Well, that's easy to say. 17:19.680 --> 17:21.140 But if we haven't been with Him, 17:21.880 --> 17:23.580 if we haven't sought His face, 17:23.720 --> 17:25.060 if we haven't been in His presence, 17:25.600 --> 17:27.420 how bold are you when you come boldly? 17:29.340 --> 17:31.660 Because what happens when you're in His presence 17:31.660 --> 17:34.360 is He reveals Himself to you. 17:34.360 --> 17:36.500 You see how the heavenlies operate. 17:36.740 --> 17:38.160 It's so opposite of the world. 17:38.300 --> 17:39.200 You're like, no. 17:40.120 --> 17:42.280 It takes you a bit, right? 17:42.560 --> 17:44.580 And then you have to resist your training 17:44.580 --> 17:46.500 and resist the things that you've been trained 17:46.500 --> 17:47.500 by this wicked world. 17:47.740 --> 17:50.160 And submit yourself to what He's saying. 17:50.560 --> 17:52.320 And then you draw nigh to God. 17:52.760 --> 17:54.480 And you also will be aware 17:54.480 --> 17:55.560 of where you're double-minded. 17:56.100 --> 17:58.280 You'll be aware where your heart needs to be purified. 17:58.400 --> 18:00.280 You'll be aware that's all in this, right? 18:00.820 --> 18:02.200 And then the end part is 18:02.200 --> 18:03.720 humble yourselves before the Lord, 18:03.840 --> 18:04.780 and He will lift you up. 18:05.400 --> 18:07.240 Well, when I'm under the shadow of His wings, 18:07.740 --> 18:09.340 I'm fully aware He's God, 18:09.460 --> 18:10.080 and I'm not. 18:11.300 --> 18:12.520 When I'm out on my own, 18:13.080 --> 18:14.960 I'm pretty sure my body, 18:15.160 --> 18:16.700 my soul thinks it is God. 18:18.960 --> 18:20.700 Because I got all kinds of great ideas. 18:23.060 --> 18:23.740 And so do you. 18:24.280 --> 18:24.980 And they're like, no, I know. 18:25.120 --> 18:25.960 I went to school for this. 18:26.500 --> 18:29.560 You haven't been with the Master 18:29.560 --> 18:30.660 on this subject. 18:31.200 --> 18:33.780 It doesn't matter what your frontal lobes know. 18:35.320 --> 18:37.300 That's a digital thing that can be knowledge 18:37.300 --> 18:38.420 and understanding. 18:38.940 --> 18:41.020 But wisdom comes from the fear of the Lord. 18:41.760 --> 18:43.140 The fear of the Lord is cultures 18:43.140 --> 18:45.300 and developed by being with Him. 18:48.610 --> 18:49.370 It's seeking Him 18:49.370 --> 18:50.410 and being with Him. 18:51.350 --> 18:51.650 So. 18:52.870 --> 18:55.170 And that runs in such a spectrum 18:55.170 --> 18:56.310 of deepness. 18:56.670 --> 18:58.410 It gets jiggy. 18:58.410 --> 18:59.990 I remember having 19:00.390 --> 19:01.870 the presence of God just 19:02.350 --> 19:03.970 renovate me when I first got born again. 19:04.030 --> 19:05.250 I was at the altar crying. 19:05.530 --> 19:07.830 I mean, it's not dripping, mascara running 19:07.830 --> 19:09.010 just for hours. 19:09.550 --> 19:10.330 I was getting it out. 19:10.730 --> 19:13.090 And then all of a sudden it seemed like 19:13.090 --> 19:15.150 as I got it out, there went this thing of like, 19:15.310 --> 19:15.930 where are you? 19:17.550 --> 19:18.350 God, where'd you go? 19:21.130 --> 19:22.510 He wanted me to seek Him. 19:22.590 --> 19:23.310 He didn't leave me. 19:23.390 --> 19:24.870 He'll never leave me nor forsake me. 19:24.870 --> 19:27.170 But His hand lifted in such a way 19:27.170 --> 19:28.390 He's like, now come follow. 19:29.390 --> 19:31.570 I wanted to stay in this like cleansing 19:31.570 --> 19:33.190 and I just want the intense, 19:33.730 --> 19:35.370 you know, let's stay in that spot 19:35.370 --> 19:36.950 where it's all up to Him 19:36.950 --> 19:37.810 to be doing something. 19:37.930 --> 19:39.910 No, He gave me enough of doing something 19:39.910 --> 19:41.810 so that I could get up and follow Him. 19:43.830 --> 19:45.010 I didn't know how to do that. 19:45.290 --> 19:46.590 I didn't know how to submit to Him. 19:46.670 --> 19:48.810 I didn't know necessarily how to resist the devil. 19:48.990 --> 19:51.030 But that all comes in the follow. 19:52.150 --> 19:53.430 And in order to do that, 19:53.430 --> 19:55.030 I remember trying to copy people. 19:55.950 --> 19:57.110 You know, like, they look like 19:57.110 --> 19:59.290 they're doing the right thing, so I'll just copy that. 19:59.710 --> 20:00.950 I'd copy people's prayers. 20:02.070 --> 20:03.590 You know, sometimes people will copy 20:03.590 --> 20:05.050 mannerisms. We knew a guy who 20:05.050 --> 20:07.090 he went to some classes or whatever 20:07.810 --> 20:09.110 for Kenneth Hagelin. 20:09.290 --> 20:11.470 Next thing you know, he's walking across the platform 20:11.470 --> 20:12.650 like Kenneth Hagelin. 20:13.170 --> 20:15.870 And all of a sudden, because you want the thing so bad, 20:16.350 --> 20:17.770 you will imitate a person. 20:17.850 --> 20:19.110 You'll do whatever you have to, 20:19.210 --> 20:20.990 but you're still not submitted to God. 20:22.350 --> 20:23.750 You're submitted to your 20:23.750 --> 20:24.450 surroundings. 20:25.290 --> 20:26.510 And you don't even know it. 20:26.990 --> 20:28.310 Praise and worship can be like that. 20:29.970 --> 20:31.830 Healing lines can be like that. 20:32.490 --> 20:33.490 Where you're just 20:33.490 --> 20:34.790 imitating something and like, 20:35.010 --> 20:37.510 whatever I gotta do to get this to happen for me. 20:38.090 --> 20:39.270 And so when you look at 20:39.270 --> 20:42.170 draw close to God, the immature part 20:42.170 --> 20:43.690 that I never dealt with, 20:43.850 --> 20:45.990 but going back to now, the immature part 20:46.630 --> 20:47.950 is the way of 20:47.950 --> 20:49.230 thinking of this world 20:49.230 --> 20:51.070 that moves into 20:51.670 --> 20:53.350 to like your approach 20:53.350 --> 20:55.570 is off. Your approach is like 20:55.570 --> 20:57.870 I just been waiting. I shot up a prayer to God 20:57.870 --> 21:00.230 and I don't know, he just doesn't heal me. 21:01.290 --> 21:03.650 I said this to him about my finances. 21:04.310 --> 21:04.670 Nothing. 21:05.730 --> 21:07.090 I did this over here. 21:07.410 --> 21:07.670 Nothing. 21:09.170 --> 21:11.630 That's totally different as you mature. 21:11.730 --> 21:13.630 That's how I was when I asked God 21:13.630 --> 21:15.190 for anything three days 21:15.190 --> 21:17.350 after I was born again. It was like 21:17.350 --> 21:19.370 bam, bam, change, change. 21:19.650 --> 21:21.610 And then he said, now I want you to get up and follow me. 21:22.730 --> 21:24.050 He's going that way anyway. 21:24.250 --> 21:25.330 The kingdom of God is moving. 21:25.530 --> 21:26.470 It's not waiting on us. 21:26.690 --> 21:28.070 It's advancing forcefully. 21:28.410 --> 21:30.430 And forceful men and women lay hold of it. 21:30.850 --> 21:32.190 So, you know, we're trying to 21:32.670 --> 21:35.430 get in that flow and don't know how to get up and do it. 21:35.670 --> 21:37.590 Well, then what ended up happening 21:37.590 --> 21:39.790 is I had to change my approach. 21:40.090 --> 21:41.970 So I went from almost manipulation 21:41.970 --> 21:43.370 to try to get him to do some. 21:43.870 --> 21:45.410 Then I'd even try to cry hard. 21:45.410 --> 21:47.830 I thought, if I just let this out and cry really hard 21:47.830 --> 21:49.150 he'll have to answer this prayer. 21:50.350 --> 21:51.770 He doesn't have to do anything. 21:52.550 --> 21:53.770 He sees you and he's like, 21:53.810 --> 21:55.070 aren't you being silly right now? 21:55.910 --> 21:57.550 Why don't you just get up and follow me. 21:57.750 --> 21:58.870 I'll take you where you need to go. 21:58.970 --> 22:00.510 I can't. It's too hard. 22:00.750 --> 22:02.590 I'm waiting on you to come to me. 22:02.870 --> 22:04.690 Don't you find it interesting that it says 22:04.690 --> 22:08.310 draw night to God. It says you draw night to God. 22:08.630 --> 22:09.790 Yes, but I'm the wounded one. 22:09.890 --> 22:11.990 I'm the child. I'm the whatever. 22:12.450 --> 22:13.470 Well, there's a time and a place. 22:13.470 --> 22:15.670 A baby cries out for the mom and you come. 22:16.470 --> 22:17.270 Right? You should. 22:17.750 --> 22:19.750 You get there. Take care of the needs. 22:20.130 --> 22:21.830 But then after a while it's like, 22:21.930 --> 22:23.750 you know those conversations where you have 22:23.750 --> 22:25.610 like, don't stay in the basement yelling 22:26.550 --> 22:28.410 and think I'm coming down here 22:28.410 --> 22:30.090 just every time you yell. 22:30.310 --> 22:30.970 You come to me. 22:31.950 --> 22:32.810 You got legs. 22:33.670 --> 22:34.770 Did you get that speech? 22:35.130 --> 22:36.110 You never got that speech in your life? 22:36.410 --> 22:38.150 I gave that speech and I got that speech. 22:38.630 --> 22:41.150 And so it's like, you should come to me. 22:41.150 --> 22:43.590 Well, there's a maturing process that 22:43.590 --> 22:45.290 changes in everything. It's like, 22:45.330 --> 22:46.810 well, I know what to do. I'm going to submit 22:47.330 --> 22:49.150 myself, therefore, to God. 22:50.190 --> 22:52.070 And then I'm going to push under 22:52.070 --> 22:53.370 the shadow of his wing, 22:53.710 --> 22:55.690 resist the devil as much as 22:55.690 --> 22:57.310 I have to. No, I'm going there. 22:57.450 --> 22:58.710 No, I said I'm going there. 22:58.830 --> 23:00.730 And you get under the shadow of his wing 23:00.730 --> 23:02.390 and then all of a sudden there's repentance. 23:02.870 --> 23:04.890 All of a sudden you realize where you're double-minded. 23:05.090 --> 23:06.670 All of a sudden there's like, oh man, 23:06.930 --> 23:08.010 this is where I got to grow. 23:09.290 --> 23:10.590 But you're well protected. 23:11.890 --> 23:13.410 It's a painful spot to be, 23:13.570 --> 23:14.610 but it's the best spot ever. 23:16.510 --> 23:16.990 Amen? 23:19.390 --> 23:19.870 So, 23:20.830 --> 23:22.290 change your laughter in the morning 23:22.290 --> 23:23.570 and your joy to gloom. 23:24.950 --> 23:26.690 Humble yourselves before the Lord 23:26.690 --> 23:27.830 and he will lift you up. 23:28.710 --> 23:30.690 Last night I talked about, 23:30.790 --> 23:33.530 on Wednesday I talked about self-regulation. 23:33.730 --> 23:35.030 Wherever sin has touched us, 23:35.150 --> 23:35.910 at least you can come, 23:35.910 --> 23:38.110 wherever sin has touched us, 23:38.990 --> 23:40.930 we are dysregulated. 23:41.810 --> 23:43.750 Where the high highs are the low lows. 23:45.850 --> 23:47.850 You know, we hear things 23:47.850 --> 23:49.910 weigh volume or we can't hear them at all. 23:50.430 --> 23:51.430 It dysregulates us. 23:51.750 --> 23:53.710 We can't figure out if we're up or down. 23:54.510 --> 23:56.170 And God is that constant, 23:57.510 --> 24:00.010 same yesterday, today and forever, 24:00.350 --> 24:02.410 same yesterday, today and forever. 24:02.870 --> 24:04.110 It's almost like 24:04.110 --> 24:05.950 that expectation 24:05.950 --> 24:06.910 of a singer 24:06.910 --> 24:09.550 that is learning to sing 24:09.550 --> 24:10.530 if I would come to 24:10.530 --> 24:12.710 the voice coach. 24:13.830 --> 24:14.810 And I would say, 24:15.810 --> 24:16.970 here's how I sing. 24:21.310 --> 24:22.810 Isn't that good? 24:23.210 --> 24:24.610 It's wonderful, right? 24:25.910 --> 24:27.790 So, if I'm asking 24:27.790 --> 24:29.750 the voice coach 24:29.750 --> 24:31.830 to come to my standard, 24:31.830 --> 24:33.650 my level of how 24:33.650 --> 24:34.890 I hear things 24:34.890 --> 24:36.410 and they're like here. 24:38.510 --> 24:41.930 Right? The only way you're going to learn 24:41.930 --> 24:44.050 to sing is to come to the tone 24:45.610 --> 24:46.850 that regulates you. 24:47.450 --> 24:49.950 You have to hear the tone and hear the tone 24:49.950 --> 24:50.890 and hear the tone. 24:51.090 --> 24:54.110 We had an exercise that my choir teacher would do. 24:54.510 --> 24:56.070 She wanted you to hear the tone so bad 24:56.070 --> 24:57.870 that she would do things like 24:57.870 --> 24:59.730 just play one note on the piano 24:59.730 --> 25:01.510 and you had to stand with your back to the piano 25:01.510 --> 25:03.690 and then go find that note first time. 25:05.510 --> 25:06.550 Right? First time. 25:07.330 --> 25:09.210 I'd get close, I'd be too off or whatever. 25:09.510 --> 25:11.130 She'd play, you know, middle C 25:11.810 --> 25:13.570 and then do the sound of it 25:13.570 --> 25:15.690 and then you knew it had to go 25:15.690 --> 25:17.350 down from there or up from there 25:17.350 --> 25:19.430 and you had to listen for the tone 25:19.430 --> 25:20.810 until you find it. 25:23.330 --> 25:25.350 It's immature of us to think 25:26.150 --> 25:27.490 that I can be like 25:28.130 --> 25:30.270 and God's just got to come to that 25:30.270 --> 25:31.790 and be like, well, whatever you need 25:31.790 --> 25:33.730 I guess I'll have to know. 25:34.210 --> 25:35.650 He's like, I am the tone. 25:36.450 --> 25:37.330 You come to me. 25:37.810 --> 25:38.990 I'll regulate you. 25:40.770 --> 25:41.590 I'll regulate you. 25:43.270 --> 25:44.650 Sickness in the body 25:44.650 --> 25:46.770 many times is dysregulation. 25:48.730 --> 25:50.910 Disease is dysregulation. 25:51.550 --> 25:54.330 Demonic things cause dysregulation. 25:55.690 --> 25:57.470 Poverty is being dysregulated. 25:58.790 --> 25:59.970 Here's his tone 25:59.970 --> 26:01.470 and we're... 26:02.090 --> 26:02.830 That's what we sound like. 26:03.350 --> 26:05.210 I didn't know I sounded that way until 26:05.210 --> 26:06.770 I got under the shadow of his wing. 26:07.150 --> 26:08.290 I was like, look what I can do. 26:08.670 --> 26:11.470 And he was like, um, yeah. 26:12.090 --> 26:13.010 Here's my tone. 26:13.930 --> 26:15.130 I want you to hear it. 26:15.970 --> 26:16.830 Hear my tone. 26:17.590 --> 26:19.330 God has not given us the spirit 26:19.330 --> 26:20.630 of fear but of love. 26:21.710 --> 26:23.290 Right? And a power 26:23.290 --> 26:25.010 and a sound 26:25.010 --> 26:26.970 to mind and that word there 26:26.970 --> 26:29.050 doesn't just mean, you know, 26:29.150 --> 26:29.470 crazy. 26:30.650 --> 26:31.590 There's a tone. 26:33.010 --> 26:34.890 He's given us a tone we need 26:34.890 --> 26:35.430 to go to. 26:36.410 --> 26:38.530 So we come there this morning. Let's stand. 26:42.860 --> 26:44.460 If you're dysregulated, 26:44.800 --> 26:46.980 you know it's like I am not 26:46.980 --> 26:48.600 regular in this area. 26:49.180 --> 26:51.760 Or my body feels dysregulated. 26:51.980 --> 26:53.420 I want you to come to the front 26:53.420 --> 26:55.200 and we'll just agree 26:55.200 --> 26:56.920 in his tone. 26:57.920 --> 26:59.180 Can we do that right now? 27:00.720 --> 27:01.200 Hallelujah. 27:03.480 --> 27:03.920 Hallelujah. 27:05.960 --> 27:07.840 That area that's in your brain 27:07.840 --> 27:09.640 that you know if somebody touches 27:09.640 --> 27:11.260 this button, I'm gonna lose 27:11.260 --> 27:12.060 more stuff. 27:12.780 --> 27:14.000 That's dysregulation. 27:15.000 --> 27:16.920 The area where you keep going 27:16.920 --> 27:18.180 to an unsafe thing 27:18.180 --> 27:20.820 and calling it something that's safe, 27:20.980 --> 27:21.960 that's dysregulation.