We're talking about the dross, and next week we'll pick up, if the Lord allows us to, we'll
pick up where we left off with that. But the Lord told me to deal with something this morning.
That has to do with that. But it's kind of a side-tagent. And we're going to call this
the principle of the thing versus the reima of a thing. And you know we've taught here
on reima quite a bit. You get a reima word on something.
But there's, the principle word is living in, we've been talking about climbing the watchtower,
right? And in the watchtower, you get revelation. That's where reima comes. That's when
the word comes alive. But that means on the mainland where you live, the word has to be in you,
and it has to come alive as you're climbing up the tower. It's revelation will come.
And so the principle of the thing is knowing the principle of the thing, right? It's knowing
what is the main root here? What is the meat that I'm holding onto? What do I need to eat
of daily? What is the main truth? So principle means most important aspect
or foundational truth. Most important aspect or foundational truth. So if you're going
after your finances and you want revival on your finances, something so dead, but you want it to
come alive, you can't just like they used to call it blab it and grab it. You can't just be like,
ah, here's a good one and pick a scripture. And then just start blabbing it, especially if
you don't really know the principle of it, right? You're building a foundation in your
knowledge area and your understanding. And when you build that foundation, that means
you're rehearsing it, you're digging into it. It's the main thing that you're putting attention on
at the moment. Sometimes a moment can be a whole week. Sometimes a moment can be God trying to
teach you a principle over years, period of time. Sometimes when he deals with me, he's like,
how long do I have to tarry with you? Because I'm trying to get a principle, right? You know,
some of you have the same thing where you're like, I've been working on this project
for a bit here. And I'm trying to see the truth of something. So generational curses like people
bring up are very much just lies that have been passed down, because that's what gives
the demonic any right. Take away the lie with truth. Well, can't stay there. And so
the principle of the thing is so foundational. It's a foundational truth. And it's the most
important aspect of something. You know, that's why when we say, I have principles.
Well, what are they? Well, that's the very thing that you believe as truth. And some,
you know, sometimes we believe as truth something that's a lie from the pit of hell.
I got a lady tell me, I don't believe in prosperity. I'm like, hmm,
that stinks for you, you know, because that's your truth, which really is a lie. That is
not what, you know, God died on the cross for. He brought us the blessing to be blessed in all
things and all ways at all times that we might give that we might participate in the kingdom.
And the kingdom is always prospering. And it's always moving and advancing. And those who lay
hold of it, right? Move with it. And when you move with the kingdom, it's full of blessing.
And it just gets on you. You know, I always like to say you got run over by the blessing
truck. You hang out out in the, in the highway where God is, you'll get run over by the blessing
truck. But there needs to be a foundational truth for that to happen. It isn't like you're walking along
and all of a sudden just got all of a sudden hit you with something. You're like, oh, I don't
know where that came from. I don't even know if I believe that or whatever, but it's happening
in my life. You know, there's some things that, that he'll reveal to you through what
happening, but you're sort of moving into truth in that area to begin with looking. And he'll
give you a little bit of revelation. But that doesn't mean you have the foundational truth enough
to stand there for. When you have a principle, you stand there for. When you've identified
something as truth, you stand there for. See, the church has gone, this is the truth. Now,
it's not kind of the truth, but it sort of has some truth. Now we're like, that's not truth at
all. I mean, it's so mixed. All you have to do is turn on services online and be like,
well, they don't believe that this one does, you know, they're making excuses for this,
because the principles of truth have been messed with. So the only way you can fix that is not
to get a stronger opinion, because opinions are what's coming out of your heart in the
moment or out of your head based on your information. How many of you know we've
all been touched by sin? So our information has been messed with. And so the principle is
that most important aspect, that foundational truth. So you go to the word, which is absolute
truth. Remember, I said, you have to have absolute truth to dispel a lie. You can't just tell
a lie, go away in the name of Jesus. Stop talking to me in the name of Jesus. You
have to have a truth to bring to that lie. And so it's very, very important that we be a
word church. So the other reasons it's important, if we just try to climb the
wall to be the watchman, we want to see deep spiritual things, but we have no
principle. The devil kind of likes that. He's like, go for it. Climb on up there.
I want you to see into things you have no, no foundational proof or truth for,
and I will take you out. I'll use the very revelation of God to take you out.
So it's dangerous if we don't make the principle thing the principle thing.
And so we're going off to the most important aspect of foundational truth. Now,
Reema is revelatory truth. That means you have a foundational truth. Now we're going to
take it to a higher level like the watchman should. You have a main truth you're
living by and you want more revelation on that. So you start climbing the tower
and he begins to reveal even more truth about the truth. Then you're seeing yourself,
you're seeing, you know, the valley below, you're seeing the enemy, you're seeing,
you get to see all kinds of stuff. But if we don't have the foundational truth
on the mainland where we live, then we're operating in religion.
It's religion many times. I mean, I used to bring my very pretty
Bible that had the gold edges that you never took out of the box or you didn't
to church. I used to bring that there and set it because that's what you're supposed to do.
We didn't actually read it though, because that was the pastor's shop.
So talk about be limited to whatever truth he had was the truth I got when I was listening.
And a lot of it wasn't truth. You know, when I came into the church, I got born again.
I got saved at a church. My Bible was happening. Over 100 people were saved in a small town just
in a short period of time. It was like, woo, praise and worship was like the piano, the guitar,
all kinds of stuff was happening. And for that area, it would be equal to the music we have here
for that area, because they still wear a lot of churches were just the organ.
And there was no wild willy on the organ. It was just...
And they always started that way. It doesn't matter which song, you know, you played a few chords
and then everyone go. And then they tell you sing the first or the third verse. You know,
you don't sing the whole hymn, you don't sing, they just pick a couple of verses and
then we'll crank that off, right? And so you're getting very little truth about who God is
and it's a format of behavioral modification, right? Let's tell your kids, I need you to stop
doing this. Okay. You know, or I need you to start doing this. All right. There's no role
modeling. There's no revelation. There's no truth about it. Just dad said or mom said.
You know, so they'll be doing something until they get old enough to go, I ain't doing that
because they have no truth or principle thing built inside of them. So it's very important
that there's a lot of discussion with them about the principle of why we do things or don't do
things. And so it's the same thing with Christianity and growing, right? So Ezekiel 33,
we've talked about verse six where it says, but if the watchman sees the sword coming and does
not blow the trumpet and the people are not warned and the sword comes and takes any one of them,
he is taken away because of his corruption and sin, but I would require his blood from the
watchman's hand. Well, it makes you wonder, why was that guy up there if he's going to
mishandle this like this? Why is he in that spot of authority?
Right? Sometimes we've sat in places, whether it be at our job or, you know,
at a church or whatever you're thinking, how did that guy get behind the pulpit?
Because the job isn't bringing truth, it isn't fulfilling something. And it very much,
there's a lot of people who do this as a job. So, you know, I had one guy tell me, my pastor,
he said, my pastor told me, I like being in the ministry because you can golf on Fridays,
and then I'm part of the bowling team and everything. I'm like, he's telling me that,
I'm like, since when would we have time to do that? You know, because when you're doing what
a job, so the truth coming across the pulpit, a lot of times will come down from headquarters.
They don't even do the sermons. Like in the Synod that we were in, I'll just say it that way.
I found out that, you know, the big dog sends all the churches, this is a sermon for the week.
So you just read it beforehand and look a few things up and get in the pulpit.
That you're not going to get the foundational truth out of that.
So revelation that comes across, one person can say the truth about something,
and one person can be spirit lit about the truth about something. And when the spirit comes over
you off of them through influence, or, you know, the spirits of truth would be like ethereal
fluid, you know, it's like rivers of living water are coming out of them. Suddenly,
you're going to connect into and it's like, I hear the truth. If we just leave it there,
the congregation that leaves it there, the person coming to a church and hears something
and just leaves it there, they have enough, they know enough to be dangerous, but not enough to know.
It's not a good spot to be in. Because the devil will challenge whatever truth comes on you.
And if it's this, it's just hung there, that's really wonderful. But if you don't grow that
truth, he's challenging all the time. He'll get at that truth. And, you know, the word
talks about that, like the seed falling on the ground where it was rocky and all these different
things. You can't play around with the seed. You got to watch over the seed. You got to pay
attention to the seed. And it's not how many different seeds. It's pick the thing
that he's trying to reveal to you and stay on it like white on rice.
You'll get the principle thing. And so the principle thing is the principle thing,
most important aspect, or it's the foundational truth, then revelation does come, right?
So we don't want to be on the wall and have people looking at us and saying,
how'd you get up here? You're not even watching. You're not even paying attention. You're not
even in the truth of what a watchman is. You don't even recognize the responsibility.
So it's the job of the fivefold ministry and the pastors especially to grow the church.
That means we better be grown out ahead of you a bit because I can't take you somewhere
where I haven't gone and I can't give you what I don't have. So I got to understand these
things. And this is just principle of learning how to move in the spirit.
We have to have the principle thing first. So what is the truth you are standing on?
Just the foundational principle, you know, for your life right now, whatever's trying to come
against you, whatever's the weak area, whatever's your achilles heel, you have to
have the anchor of his truth. And the anchor is built in hope. Hope was a joyful, confident
expectation. Something good's going to happen because it's built in truth. You see the
truth and you're like, I have something here. Now I need revelation on it. I need revelation
on it. So let's just take the scripture that God is not a man, this is Numbers 2319. He is not
a man that he can lie. And the rest of the scripture goes on to talk about and he doesn't
need to repent because he's not a man that will live in a lie. So there's no need for God to
repent. Us on the other hand, we have lies all around us, lies that were built into us,
lies, lies, lies. They're trying to get it in every... which way? From 5G to whatever. I mean,
you think about how we record everything through our five senses. They ain't missing a beat on all
five senses. It's like at you, at you, at you, the lies. And so we need the spirit of God
more now than ever. As lawlessness increases, we have to increase in our knowledge of the
truth. So it's not how many, you know, I spoke this somewhere else and a lady said,
well, I don't understand because I know the story of Moses. I know no one, you know,
they'll give me the thing. I mean, a lot of people can crank that off and I'm like,
I have to look that up to even know what you're talking about. You know, I haven't
read that for a bit or whatever. And but they're not getting any results. It's better to
not know the stories in such a detail, just so you can say, I know the whole thing of Moses.
But to know how does Moses actually apply to me? I need to know how Noah's ark even counts.
Well, you know, the rainbow, we give such like little kid answers a lot of times are like,
God's love and he made promises. And it's like, oh no, we have a really shallow revelation
of Noah and that whole, I'm just using that one situation. So if we look at, let's just take a
scripture like this, a lot of times we'll pull truth like healing is the children's bread,
for instance, when we go after healing. And, and how do you eat of that bread? Where do I get
the bread? I mean, those are all questions that come up. But if you, you look at something
that's a principle statement, like this is how God rolls is more of how I would,
would say it. He's not a man that he can lie. And you take that scripture. That's a principle thing
that you have to have believed and you're working on believe and you're establishing that
belief. It's foundational for you. This is now my truth. He is never, ever going to lie to me.
He never has, he never will. He's the same yesterday, today and forever lies not possible
from him. So you take your situation, you measure yourself against that and you're like,
so I never can point my finger at him because it ain't a God thing.
So that means it's a me thing or the enemy's coming against me. But here's the thing, even
when the enemy's coming against me, he's coming against the weak thing that I believe.
I mean, his enemy's always been here. It's not like a new thing.
But if I am in belief and I have a foundational truth, I'm aware that there's these attacks
coming against us and, you know, whatever. We have to just navigate our way through. But here's
the principle thing I'm standing on. And here's the revelation about that principle thing. So just
take that. He's not a man that he can lie. And let's put that on like healing. You're laying
in bed, you had a diagnosis. Well, is the doctor lying? No, they saw the cancer or whatever
on the x-ray. There it is. So you came, I refuse that. That's what a lot of people do in doctors.
I like denial. Because you're seeing into something, you're trying to pretend is not there.
So it might be a fact, but what is the truth about the fact? We have to have a principle
thing that comes up inside of us and says, oh, I see that too. But here's the truth.
I see how it's trying to take my life. I see how it's trying to suck our finances.
I see how it's trying to stop me from parenting or grandparenting. I see how I see this bigger
picture, but God is not a man that he can lie. And he said, see, watchmen are really good at, he said.
Right? And you can blab it. God, you said trying to manipulate him. But when it's
foundational truth in you and you say, God, you said, and you're not a man that you can
lie. So if anything is wrong here, it's not on your end. It's not on your side. I'm not even
going to look to that. I'm going to be searching my own heart. I want you to reveal to me if I'm
doing anything that's blocking something or whatever and you go through it. But his word is true.
He's the same yesterday, today and forever. So doubt and unbelief, it questions the principle
thing. While we're looking for revelation, we're questioning the principle thing.
Well, I don't know, did it really mean that? That we're by his stripes were already healed?
That could just be like a metaphor or he's trying to just draw a picture.
And I heard, and one time someone said, and we'll go down that while we're contemplating this,
when one principle truth can be like, he said it and it's true. He's not a man that he can
lie. And then to pray that you incorporate that into your prayer. It's not manipulative.
It's reminding yourself and the atmosphere and the demonic realm and the thing that's coming
against you. I don't serve a God that lies. So when he said healings for me, it's for me.
It's mine. And the foundational truth will give you the right to stand on something
while revelation is coming even deeper. I'm standing on the foundational truth.
I'm not standing on the revelation. You'll get revelation about the foundational truth,
but let's say you found out something and you chose to believe it and now the war is on.
I don't know where the very thing you found out now you're being challenged.
Well, what he's doing, God's not causing it, but he's going to use the situation
for you to stand so firm on that foundational truth that as you're standing there for having
done all, this is still true. I believe this. This is still true. As this is going, all of a sudden
revelations will come and you're like, I see it now. You're not a man that you can lie.
And I have to have truth to come against this thing. Well, what is this thing?
How is cancer? How is kidney disease? How is financial problems? How is that lying to me?
And you keep peeling the onion, you'll get to the core. Many times the core is right in you, right?
And the core might look like I've never felt like I deserve anything. I know that, you know,
sometimes, you know, I haven't been the best of person, so I'm probably being punished now.
It's a lie from the pit of hell. You can open yourself up to demonic stuff,
but forgiveness is forgiveness. There is a great sending away.
See, but if you don't have that core foundational truth that he doesn't lie,
you're going to spend so much time, what we call, in warfare. And where's the warfare between our
ears? And between our ears, we're having the argument of whether or not we should believe
foundational truth. Foundational truth. So we have to come back to that,
and then Reima begins to be the revelation. It comes across as revelatory, where you have those
aha moments, you're like, I see it now. I see that, that truth is so true that I'd die for it.
I'd die for it. It's the truth, no matter what, it's the truth. So there's that. First Corinthians
15, or I want to read something when it comes to prosperity. I've read a couple weeks ago,
but I want to show you how to pray this, and then we're going to pray. Proverbs 11, 25,
the generous man is a source of blessing. This is in the amplified, and shall be prosperous
and enriched. He who waters will himself be watered, reaping the generosity he has sown.
Sometimes we'll read a scripture like that and we'll be in like, that's a good truth.
Okay, well, you, you just are picking at the frosting at the top. You haven't even gotten
to the all of the ingredients, right? And so when we look at this, we look at the fact that
you can take this apart is a source of blessing. What does it mean to be a source? What is the
blessing shall be prosperous and rich? How does, what does enrichment look like?
You can sit on this word for months, till it's so a part of you, you know the ins and the outs of it.
And even years later, the Lord will bring the scripture back to you and you remember the revelation
of it and he'll take even deeper. Just one scripture. That's what happens when we go after
revelation by going after our foundational truth. So the situation that you are in
is going to be the thing that you have to conquer, but you have to conquer
it through the principle thing first. Living on the mainland, we conquer the area,
we rule and reign by foundational truths. What is our principle? If you've ever
been blindsided, you've ever had your feet kicked out from underneath you and I have,
you know, I can be talking about this. It's not like all of a sudden it's like,
and there's a perfection. No, this is a work that we'll be doing, learning how to rule and reign
through how the word comes alive for the rest of our life. You've ever had it where,
you know, he got one in on you or something like that. The only way you can restore
to a level of peace is go back to the foundational truths.
A lot of times what we look for is like, I'll just climb the wall
and I'm going to get up there and God's going to give me some big revelation
and I'll go to this conference and I'll do whatever, and I'm waiting for the
prophet to say, you already have the foundational truth. If you have the
foundational truth, whatever truths you have, go back and visit them
and reestablish what was already established or the foundation of who you are could get
kicked out from underneath you. And you'll go into absolute doubt and unbelief.
And it always takes the word of the, and the spirit. It always takes the word and
the spirit. The word is the principal thing and the spirit brings it to life.
It brings it to life. Hallelujah. Let's stand.
I'll make this even simpler. To parent, you have a child
and you know, however you didn't like your parents parenting you, remember that?
And know what they're doing and when you get older, you're going to do it different
because somehow you have all this wisdom, but you've never been there.
And remember, they never had a practice family.
Right? So they're practicing on you and then they might have all kinds of
truths, ones that are 50 years old that they didn't have when you were little.
So we have to grace some of that, right? But they come into your life and it puts a pressure
on something. You know what it puts a pressure on? What is it that I believe?
In everything. How you're going to correct them? What foods you're going to feed them?
All of a sudden it's like, I have to think about somebody else. What do I believe about that?
That's like finding the foundational truth. When we go to serve, it'll put a pressure on you that
will grow you. We've read that scripture where in the Amplified it says put on the apron,
there'll be this growth that'll take place through servanthood. Because it puts a demand
on us to go, now what was my truth again? Is that really the truth or was that a lie?
So we grow like crazy when we serve especially.
Let's begin to just begin to thank him for the foundational truths we already have.
Thank you Lord God for salvation power. For what little knowledge we have,
for what little understanding we think we got Lord God. There's so much to you,
you're so vast. But we're so thankful for what we do have. I know when we get home
to be with you, I'm telling you we're going to see things. Those aha moments are going to be
through the roof. We'll get things that we're not seeing right now. But Lord you promised by your
spirit that you would bring Ramas, that you would bring revelation power, that you would bring
comfort, that you would bring that counselor part of who you are, Holy Spirit. We're open to that.
We need your counseling right now and I'll tell you on the side of the prayer, he only counsels with the
truth. Right?
He said he brought the most secret.
So when you pray in unknown tongues it edifies your spirit and the spirit of God lights up
the truth you're already living in. And then whatever comes in, you know, we're going to
when you do devotions is good to pray in the spirit and let him edify. Let him build that.
Let that be so strong that all of a sudden you see the word that you are standing on,
totally different. God we're looking for Ramah words to sit right on top of foundational truths.
Show us. Show us where there's lies and show us where those truths of just the basics
of salvation are. Who are you to us? Who are we to you?
Let's just have the band come and get ready.
A lot of us are going through something right now or have, you know, went through something where
you took a hit, a pretty hard hit or you're in the middle of it right in this moment.
What is your truth? What is the truth? You shall know the truth and the truth
will make you free. Revelation on the truth we already know. Draw us in Lord God.
Draw us in to more revelation about the truths we already know. We know that we're loved. We know
that you will never leave us or forsake us. We know that you are not a man that you can lie.
We know that you are absolute truth. We know Lord God that you are the king of kings
and the Lord of lords and you rule. We know that you're sovereign, but we know that your word gives
principles that we can live by. It gives us the structure that brings us back to what's real.
What is real is your absolute truth. Truth through our pain. Truth through the things
that have tried to come against us. Your truth. Your truth. We submit our lives
to the truth of who you are this morning. Now think about this in a revelation way.
Jesus says the word, he was the word, right? First John.
So if he just stood here before you right now, the all of the word, the power of the word,
would be present. That means no matter what lies, no matter whatever, absolute truth
would be standing here. Well, absolute truth is standing here right here. It's right here.
So, you know, so valuable. So, we had a kid one time in Colorado. He was very angry child,
but he was in our children's church and all of a sudden he took the Bible that was given
and he checked it against the wall. And I remember my heart just going like,
now this is a physical book. You can get another one or whatever,
but it was an act of saying, I don't want the truth.
You see that? So the truth is foundational. And when we grab onto that, we can pull that in
and ask God then to reveal even more about that truth, but it is your anger.
If you're floating, if you're ramping up, if your emotions are through the charts or whatever,
you have to go back to the anchor and put the anchor down.