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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Really, the real ar Bernard is on Instagram?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Did you say that real Rabernard is on Instagram to
be six get the Airbernardista in Instagram.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
You mean every other Thursday at three pm Eastern time,
we can catch the real aar Bernards live on Instagramy yes.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
Join ar Bernard on Instagram live every other Thursday at
three pm Eastern ar.
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Some people are afraid to think, b they're afraid to dream.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Be And if you're afraid of being disappointed, sit.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Out, check out, forget it because disappointment is part of it.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Failure is the womb for success.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Some of life's greatest lessons I learned through failure.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Welcome to aar Bernard Ministries. You were about to hear
from aar Bernard, one of today's most influential voices in ministry,
A best selling author and charismatic teacher of spirit led truth.
Today's thought evoking message and captivating word will empower you spiritually,
inform you intellectually, and motivate you with renewed strength to
stand boldly in your purpose and live out your faith
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in today's ever changing culture. Tune in and join us
now for ar Bernard.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
As you grow in God's love. That love will mature
in you. It's called perfect love, perfected love.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
And as that.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Grows in you, fear has no place because usually what
keeps you back is fear. Some people are afraid to
think big, they're afraid to dream big.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
And if you're afraid of being disappointed.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Check out forget it, because disappointment is part of it.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Failure is the womb for success.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Some of life's greatest lessons I learn through your failure
because you say I'm not gonna let that happen again,
but you say it in a way that you're not
also going to resign yourself from life, because we were
designed for achievement, for purpose, for meaning, for fulfillment, and
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you'll be frustrated.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
That's why unemployment hurts the psyche, the soul.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
It goes deep. It's not just the pocketbook. And what
is true in the natural is true and the spiritual.
If you're spiritually unemployed, it affects your spirit because the
call of God is not just to save you, but
to save you to save somebody else.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
How many sad.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
And I'm talking about the kingdom of God here, I'm
talking about the economy of God here, So please please
be generous in your thinking, because we serve a great
and generous God.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Amen.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
So with that said, there is this tension between maintaining
a Christian identity and assimilating into the society.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
So we ask the question, how far do we.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Blend into the culture before we lose our Christian identity?
So people don't recognize us as distinct, as different anymore.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
We just become one of them. Got it?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
See as a as a pastor, as a spiritual mentor.
I keep that in mind, especially if I'm dealing with
people in positions of power and influence.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Got it.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I get invited to a lot of their events. I
don't go because I want to maintain my spiritual authority
and never become perceived at a peer level where I
can no longer speak into their life with transparency and vulnerability.
So I have to maintain a certain distinction.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Are you with me?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
In order to be effective and efficient in what I
have to do to help people? You're be conscious of
all of these things, folks, very very important. So how
far do we blend into the society without losing our
Christian identity? How far do we adjust to the culture
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without compromising our Christian values in our Christian convictions, and
that's not always easy, as black and white life is
filled with more gray areas than black and white areas.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
How many found that out?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yeah, So we try to navigate our way, and we're
trying to do it with them very serious hindrances. Let
me okay, let me go back to the beginning a
little bit. You read Genesis three, Yes, all right, so
you know what went down, right, give you a deeper
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understanding of it. So God says you can eat from
every tree.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Did you hear what I just said? Then this is
the problem.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
We can have access to everything, be told we can't
have that one thing, and then we want it.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
So everything in the garden is yours.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
You can have it, except except what the tree of
the knowledge of good and evil. Please understand what God
did when he did that. He determined what was good
and what was evil, which he should. He's transcendent, he
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knows better, he knows more.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yes, okay. So now if God's determined this is good
and this is evil, and we come along.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
And we say, well, I want that, what we've essentially
done is now taken over the determination, the determination of
what is good and what is evil.
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So that's why the devil painted a different picture to Eve.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
And after he worked on her, she looked at the
tree that was forbidden differently, she saw that it was
pleasant to the eyes, good for food, able to make
one wise. So now what God declared as evil, she
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now sees as what good.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
You see the switch, but you also see the problem.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Because she was doing something she didn't have the capacity
to do, and without the capacity to do it, in
engaging in it, it leaves her in a devastating situation
that she did not understand. Remember, she was deceived, She
was tricked Hoodwick. You know the rest. God determines good
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from evil because he has a capacity. He is perfection,
he's ultimate good, right, so he can determine what's good.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
And what is evil. Was not good?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
We come along and we say, no, what you say
is evil, We think it's good.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
So we're going to access it. And guess what.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Since that time, we are now struggling to discern what
is good and what is evil? Come on, isn't it true?
We chose to take that authority. We chose to take
that determination and make it our own.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
And now we are in.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Chaos because we struggle to identify what is good and
what is evil. Why because evil can disguise itself as good.
Remember it began with deception. Evil can be deceptive and
make you think it is good, and then you fall
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for it, you grab it.
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Because we're struggling, we're in that tension.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
So when you talk about assimilating into the society and
being aware that there's a point where you can lose
your Christian identity, there's a point where you can compromise
your conviction, your Christian conviction.
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What are you doing. You're trying to.
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Discern what is good for you within that society and
what is evil or not good for you in that society.
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And that's a tough thing to do. Amen.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Every day of our lives we're sorting through trying to
figure out is this good? And see it's not just good,
but then you have to decide is it good for you?
Because something can be good but not good for you.
How many have been in that situation? Yeah, So it
just goes on and on and on, because why we
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are absent ultimate good, which is God. And that's why
in the world, which is becoming more secularized as we
go along, because throughout human history, for the most part
of human history. All right, the world has been religious,
but since the Enlightenment, secularization is coming in and the
world is becoming more secularized. God is love, life and light.
So to move away from God is to move away
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from love, life and light. And without love, life and light,
which is without God, what is left lust, death, and darkness.
So the more we move away from God, we move
away from the source of the very things that we're
looking for to satisfy a real need. That's why we
got to pray for our name, our communities, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Amen.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
So discernment becomes critical to us, very very important. So
let's go to Romans, chapter eight, verse fourteen. So here's
the problem. Here's a problem, all right. When sin entered,
it created a condition, that condition that we live in,
that we're born into now that affects us all as
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human beings, is called original sin. There is personal sin,
which is the personal choices that Adam and Eve made.
We're not being punished for that, but those personal choices
create a condition that we now are born into and experience.
That condition is one of brokenness, woundedness, disorder, and dysfunctionality.
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I shared this with you the last time I was here. Remember,
the condition is what brokenness, woundedness, disorder, and dysfunctionality. So
even our attempts to discern good from evil can be undermine,
hindered by that brokenness, by that woundedness, by that disordered state,
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by that dysfunctionality.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
So it becomes tough for us.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
When man sinned, we entered what is called a state
of privation, the holiness and justice of God, which we
once possessed when we were created in the image of God,
before sin was lost.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
So now.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
We suffer that privation. There's something missing in us. And
because of that's something missing. We are in the state
that we are in, and we do what we do,
think what we think, and experience what we experience, we
get it, folks. See, that's why when you see a
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person going through changes, you know that there's something missing
in their life and you have to ask what is
missing that's manifesting itself in anger, aggression, and even violence. Okay,
So that brokenness, that woundedness, that disorder, that does some
finality interferes even as Christians we get born again right
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and we taste the powers of the world, the kingdom
to come, the age to come, but we're not fully there.
So when we pray and experience healing, experience a miracle,
or whatever we experience the power of God, we.
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Access it, but it's still it tastes. It's what the Bible.
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Calls an installment, the first fruit of something to come.
So we still have to struggle through the realities that
are present in this particular period in human history. So
we live in a broken world, a wounded world, a
disordered world, a dysfunctional world, and everything that we create
suffers the influence of that condition, that state of existence.
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So when the Kingdom of God comes into our life,
it begins to it has to work on that stuff.
And some of some folks the wound is so deep.
It takes time for God to work on that because
it can be so deep that you're not ready to
deal with it right away. He's got to bring you
to a place where you can have that conversation. How
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many have known interoct with somebody that you love and
they need to have You need to have a conversation
with them, but.
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They're not ready for that conversation.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
They're not at the place where they can objectively listen
and embrace and appreciate what you're trying to bring to them.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Their defenses are going to be up. They're going to
push back.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
And sometimes we can push back against a very thing
that come to save us. Didn't they push back against Jesus?
Did he come to save? What did they do? They
crucified him. So the very thing that can give you
salvation can be the very thing that you push back
against and can even destroy. So to navigate this tension
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in these realities, we need.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
The Holy Spirit, because the.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Holy Spirit comes and by his presence here now begins
to elevate us above the noise, open our understanding, increase
our sensitivity so we can make better judgment. When you're
born again, the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God takes
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up residency in your life and you become the Temple
of God.
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Oh are you all with me?
Speaker 2 (14:44):
The scripture says, know you're not that your little king
James language, and know you not that your body is
the why?
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And this was the plan. This was the plan all along.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
The first Temple of brick and water was temporary and
it was a shadow of something to come.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Who boy, no, we can't go in that direction.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
But anyway, so Jesus is having a conversation with a
woman at the well, and she says, you say, it's
in Jerusalem, at the temple, that is the right place
to worship. We say, as Samaritans, that it's in this mountain.
It's in this place. And what does Jesus say? He said, woman,
The hour is coming, and now is when the true
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worshipers of God, who worship the Father in spirit and
in truth for the Father's secrets, us to worship him.
They won't worship neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
Why because no longer would the brick and mortar be
the temple. He would be the chief cornerstone of a
new building. And that building will be made up of
believers who are the living stones, who are part of
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that new universal temple called the Body of Christ. And
the Holy Spirit comes and takes up residency inside of us.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
He said, I will be in you a well of
water springing up to life.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Amen to your neighbors, say, neighbor, if you're a Christian,
your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. So
the Holy Spirit has taken up residence. And the reason
he candact before because you were unclean. He can't dwell
it in.
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An unclean temple.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
And what made you unclean You were out of relationship
with God. You had to be reconciled back to God.
And once that was done, now he can come in
and take up residency without any conflict legal conflict, because
there's still a conflict between the flesh and the spirit.
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Amen.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
So in order to navigate in this world that we
have to assimilate into and experience this tension successfully, we
need Roman's eight fourteen. For all who are all who
are by the they are the and that sons generic
term children of God, male female included. They are the
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children of God. You see that all who are what
led by the Spirit of God. They demonstrate a relationship
with God because whoever is in relationship with Him, he
has given them their his spirit. Whereby they cry Abba Father,
expressing the union the relationship.
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But the question is how are we led by the Spirit?
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How does that happen, How does it work, how does
it function? How do we experience it? What does that
look like? Being led by the Because he's a spirit
of truth, He's a spirit of holiness, the spirit of peace.
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How are we led by him? See, this is the
problem of sitting up front.
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I need a microphone testing one, two, three, four. She's
just gonna share her experience and she's a seasoned saint.
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So praise God.
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Praise God. Pastor, how am I led by the Spirit
of God?
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Well, experience being led by the Spirit of God?
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Another one? In order to say that, you have to
identify that it was God. Yes, Amen, Remember discerning good
from evil. God is good, there's evil. So if you
say that's God, you're saying that's good. If you say
that's good, you're saying that's God. And that's not so
easy because the apostle Paul says and Frost Corinthia that
right now we know in part we understand, in part
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we see through an opaque glass.
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We don't see clearly perfectly.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
That's why we're groping and feeling our way, and we
have to grow in our ability to discern.
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Led by the spirit.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
However, I've been led by the Spirit of God. Well,
first of all, it's within Him that I live, I move,
and I have my being, So I seek Him in
every single thing that I do. So there are times
sometimes when I'm walking to work and the Holy Spirit
will say, you know, walk a certain way or go
down a certain street, don't go down there, And I'm like, oh, okay,
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and I'll go the way he tells me to go,
because I know that he is leading and direct me.
There's also times when.
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I was there. How do you know it was? It
was the Holy Spirit?
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As I said, it's within him that I live a pastor.
I have a piece about it. That piece that's the
past is all understanding, so I know it's the Holy stor.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
So you felt peaceful about not going down right.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
And there was a time when I missed the train,
and initially I said, oh man, I'm going to miss
this train. I said, you know what, that's a distraction
to lead me away from what I may have run
into a particular situation.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
So let's we got to drill down here, all right.
That's why I said, she's a seasoned saint. She's experienced
this relationship over time, so she's developed an ability to identify.
You take a baby Christian. They may not be able
to articulate it, so clearly they might mean they're asking
the question I don't know is that God?
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Is it not God? All right?
Speaker 2 (20:29):
So we need to unpack the experience so that we
can understand it and articulate it right, Okay, so you
you you, you expressed certain things that you felt.
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Use words like peace. What else I can say?
Speaker 5 (20:44):
I felt my help coming on because I felt this boldness.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
There was no fear, So the absence of fear, there
was peace help coming on.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
That's that's Pentecostal talk.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
At the cost of language, there coming home. Look at y'all,
look at you know that stuff definitely.
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The Bible says the imitators of God as dear children.
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Did you say that real Rabernard is on Instagram to
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You mean every other Thursday at three pm Eastern time,
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Join ar Bernard on Instagram live every other Thursday at
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Some people are afraid to think, b they're afraid to dream.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Be And if you're afraid of being disappointed, sit.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Out, check out, forget it because disappointment is part of it.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Failure is the womb for success.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Some of life's greatest lessons I learned through failure.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Welcome to aar Bernard Ministries. You were about to hear
from aar Bernard, one of today's most influential voices in ministry,
A best selling author and charismatic teacher of spirit led truth.
Today's thought evoking message and captivating word will empower you spiritually,
inform you intellectually, and motivate you with renewed strength to
stand boldly in your purpose and live out your faith
(01:09):
in today's ever changing culture. Tune in and join us
now for ar Bernard.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
As you grow in God's love. That love will mature
in you. It's called perfect love, perfected love.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
And as that.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Grows in you, fear has no place because usually what
keeps you back is fear. Some people are afraid to
think big, they're afraid to dream big.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
And if you're afraid of being disappointed.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Check out forget it, because disappointment is part of it.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Failure is the womb for success.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Some of life's greatest lessons I learn through your failure
because you say I'm not gonna let that happen again,
but you say it in a way that you're not
also going to resign yourself from life, because we were
designed for achievement, for purpose, for meaning, for fulfillment, and
(02:16):
you'll be frustrated.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
That's why unemployment hurts the psyche, the soul.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
It goes deep. It's not just the pocketbook. And what
is true in the natural is true and the spiritual.
If you're spiritually unemployed, it affects your spirit because the
call of God is not just to save you, but
to save you to save somebody else.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
How many sad.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
And I'm talking about the kingdom of God here, I'm
talking about the economy of God here, So please please
be generous in your thinking, because we serve a great
and generous God.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Amen.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
So with that said, there is this tension between maintaining
a Christian identity and assimilating into the society.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
So we ask the question, how far do we.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Blend into the culture before we lose our Christian identity?
So people don't recognize us as distinct, as different anymore.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
We just become one of them. Got it?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
See as a as a pastor, as a spiritual mentor.
I keep that in mind, especially if I'm dealing with
people in positions of power and influence.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Got it.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I get invited to a lot of their events. I
don't go because I want to maintain my spiritual authority
and never become perceived at a peer level where I
can no longer speak into their life with transparency and vulnerability.
So I have to maintain a certain distinction.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Are you with me?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
In order to be effective and efficient in what I
have to do to help people? You're be conscious of
all of these things, folks, very very important. So how
far do we blend into the society without losing our
Christian identity? How far do we adjust to the culture
(04:27):
without compromising our Christian values in our Christian convictions, and
that's not always easy, as black and white life is
filled with more gray areas than black and white areas.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
How many found that out?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yeah, So we try to navigate our way, and we're
trying to do it with them very serious hindrances. Let
me okay, let me go back to the beginning a
little bit. You read Genesis three, Yes, all right, so
you know what went down, right, give you a deeper
(05:06):
understanding of it. So God says you can eat from
every tree.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Did you hear what I just said? Then this is
the problem.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
We can have access to everything, be told we can't
have that one thing, and then we want it.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
So everything in the garden is yours.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
You can have it, except except what the tree of
the knowledge of good and evil. Please understand what God
did when he did that. He determined what was good
and what was evil, which he should. He's transcendent, he
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knows better, he knows more.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yes, okay. So now if God's determined this is good
and this is evil, and we come along.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
And we say, well, I want that, what we've essentially
done is now taken over the determination, the determination of
what is good and what is evil.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
So that's why the devil painted a different picture to Eve.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
And after he worked on her, she looked at the
tree that was forbidden differently, she saw that it was
pleasant to the eyes, good for food, able to make
one wise. So now what God declared as evil, she
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now sees as what good.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
You see the switch, but you also see the problem.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Because she was doing something she didn't have the capacity
to do, and without the capacity to do it, in
engaging in it, it leaves her in a devastating situation
that she did not understand. Remember, she was deceived, She
was tricked Hoodwick. You know the rest. God determines good
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from evil because he has a capacity. He is perfection,
he's ultimate good, right, so he can determine what's good.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
And what is evil. Was not good?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
We come along and we say, no, what you say
is evil, We think it's good.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
So we're going to access it. And guess what.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Since that time, we are now struggling to discern what
is good and what is evil? Come on, isn't it true?
We chose to take that authority. We chose to take
that determination and make it our own.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
And now we are in.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Chaos because we struggle to identify what is good and
what is evil. Why because evil can disguise itself as good.
Remember it began with deception. Evil can be deceptive and
make you think it is good, and then you fall
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for it, you grab it.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Because we're struggling, we're in that tension.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
So when you talk about assimilating into the society and
being aware that there's a point where you can lose
your Christian identity, there's a point where you can compromise
your conviction, your Christian conviction.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
What are you doing. You're trying to.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Discern what is good for you within that society and
what is evil or not good for you in that society.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
And that's a tough thing to do. Amen.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Every day of our lives we're sorting through trying to
figure out is this good? And see it's not just good,
but then you have to decide is it good for you?
Because something can be good but not good for you.
How many have been in that situation? Yeah, So it
just goes on and on and on, because why we
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are absent ultimate good, which is God. And that's why
in the world, which is becoming more secularized as we
go along, because throughout human history, for the most part
of human history. All right, the world has been religious,
but since the Enlightenment, secularization is coming in and the
world is becoming more secularized. God is love, life and light.
So to move away from God is to move away
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from love, life and light. And without love, life and light,
which is without God, what is left lust, death, and darkness.
So the more we move away from God, we move
away from the source of the very things that we're
looking for to satisfy a real need. That's why we
got to pray for our name, our communities, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Amen.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
So discernment becomes critical to us, very very important. So
let's go to Romans, chapter eight, verse fourteen. So here's
the problem. Here's a problem, all right. When sin entered,
it created a condition, that condition that we live in,
that we're born into now that affects us all as
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human beings, is called original sin. There is personal sin,
which is the personal choices that Adam and Eve made.
We're not being punished for that, but those personal choices
create a condition that we now are born into and experience.
That condition is one of brokenness, woundedness, disorder, and dysfunctionality.
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I shared this with you the last time I was here. Remember,
the condition is what brokenness, woundedness, disorder, and dysfunctionality. So
even our attempts to discern good from evil can be undermine,
hindered by that brokenness, by that woundedness, by that disordered state,
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by that dysfunctionality.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
So it becomes tough for us.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
When man sinned, we entered what is called a state
of privation, the holiness and justice of God, which we
once possessed when we were created in the image of God,
before sin was lost.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
So now.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
We suffer that privation. There's something missing in us. And
because of that's something missing. We are in the state
that we are in, and we do what we do,
think what we think, and experience what we experience, we
get it, folks. See, that's why when you see a
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person going through changes, you know that there's something missing
in their life and you have to ask what is
missing that's manifesting itself in anger, aggression, and even violence. Okay,
So that brokenness, that woundedness, that disorder, that does some
finality interferes even as Christians we get born again right
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and we taste the powers of the world, the kingdom
to come, the age to come, but we're not fully there.
So when we pray and experience healing, experience a miracle,
or whatever we experience the power of God, we.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Access it, but it's still it tastes. It's what the Bible.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Calls an installment, the first fruit of something to come.
So we still have to struggle through the realities that
are present in this particular period in human history. So
we live in a broken world, a wounded world, a
disordered world, a dysfunctional world, and everything that we create
suffers the influence of that condition, that state of existence.
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So when the Kingdom of God comes into our life,
it begins to it has to work on that stuff.
And some of some folks the wound is so deep.
It takes time for God to work on that because
it can be so deep that you're not ready to
deal with it right away. He's got to bring you
to a place where you can have that conversation. How
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many have known interoct with somebody that you love and
they need to have You need to have a conversation
with them, but.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
They're not ready for that conversation.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
They're not at the place where they can objectively listen
and embrace and appreciate what you're trying to bring to them.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Their defenses are going to be up. They're going to
push back.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
And sometimes we can push back against a very thing
that come to save us. Didn't they push back against Jesus?
Did he come to save? What did they do? They
crucified him. So the very thing that can give you
salvation can be the very thing that you push back
against and can even destroy. So to navigate this tension
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in these realities, we need.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
The Holy Spirit, because the.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Holy Spirit comes and by his presence here now begins
to elevate us above the noise, open our understanding, increase
our sensitivity so we can make better judgment. When you're
born again, the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God takes
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up residency in your life and you become the Temple
of God.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Oh are you all with me?
Speaker 2 (14:44):
The scripture says, know you're not that your little king
James language, and know you not that your body is
the why?
Speaker 1 (14:52):
And this was the plan. This was the plan all along.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
The first Temple of brick and water was temporary and
it was a shadow of something to come.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Who boy, no, we can't go in that direction.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
But anyway, so Jesus is having a conversation with a
woman at the well, and she says, you say, it's
in Jerusalem, at the temple, that is the right place
to worship. We say, as Samaritans, that it's in this mountain.
It's in this place. And what does Jesus say? He said, woman,
The hour is coming, and now is when the true
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worshipers of God, who worship the Father in spirit and
in truth for the Father's secrets, us to worship him.
They won't worship neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
Why because no longer would the brick and mortar be
the temple. He would be the chief cornerstone of a
new building. And that building will be made up of
believers who are the living stones, who are part of
(15:51):
that new universal temple called the Body of Christ. And
the Holy Spirit comes and takes up residency inside of us.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
He said, I will be in you a well of
water springing up to life.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Amen to your neighbors, say, neighbor, if you're a Christian,
your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. So
the Holy Spirit has taken up residence. And the reason
he candact before because you were unclean. He can't dwell
it in.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
An unclean temple.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
And what made you unclean You were out of relationship
with God. You had to be reconciled back to God.
And once that was done, now he can come in
and take up residency without any conflict legal conflict, because
there's still a conflict between the flesh and the spirit.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Amen.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
So in order to navigate in this world that we
have to assimilate into and experience this tension successfully, we
need Roman's eight fourteen. For all who are all who
are by the they are the and that sons generic
term children of God, male female included. They are the
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children of God. You see that all who are what
led by the Spirit of God. They demonstrate a relationship
with God because whoever is in relationship with Him, he
has given them their his spirit. Whereby they cry Abba Father,
expressing the union the relationship.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
But the question is how are we led by the Spirit?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
How does that happen, How does it work, how does
it function? How do we experience it? What does that
look like? Being led by the Because he's a spirit
of truth, He's a spirit of holiness, the spirit of peace.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
How are we led by him? See, this is the
problem of sitting up front.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
I need a microphone testing one, two, three, four. She's
just gonna share her experience and she's a seasoned saint.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
So praise God.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Praise God. Pastor, how am I led by the Spirit
of God?
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Well, experience being led by the Spirit of God?
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Another one? In order to say that, you have to
identify that it was God. Yes, Amen, Remember discerning good
from evil. God is good, there's evil. So if you
say that's God, you're saying that's good. If you say
that's good, you're saying that's God. And that's not so
easy because the apostle Paul says and Frost Corinthia that
right now we know in part we understand, in part
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we see through an opaque glass.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
We don't see clearly perfectly.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
That's why we're groping and feeling our way, and we
have to grow in our ability to discern.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Led by the spirit.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
However, I've been led by the Spirit of God. Well,
first of all, it's within Him that I live, I move,
and I have my being, So I seek Him in
every single thing that I do. So there are times
sometimes when I'm walking to work and the Holy Spirit
will say, you know, walk a certain way or go
down a certain street, don't go down there, And I'm like, oh, okay,
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and I'll go the way he tells me to go,
because I know that he is leading and direct me.
There's also times when.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
I was there. How do you know it was? It
was the Holy Spirit?
Speaker 5 (19:40):
As I said, it's within him that I live a pastor.
I have a piece about it. That piece that's the
past is all understanding, so I know it's the Holy stor.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
So you felt peaceful about not going down right.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
And there was a time when I missed the train,
and initially I said, oh man, I'm going to miss
this train. I said, you know what, that's a distraction
to lead me away from what I may have run
into a particular situation.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
So let's we got to drill down here, all right.
That's why I said, she's a seasoned saint. She's experienced
this relationship over time, so she's developed an ability to identify.
You take a baby Christian. They may not be able
to articulate it, so clearly they might mean they're asking
the question I don't know is that God?
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Is it not God? All right?
Speaker 2 (20:29):
So we need to unpack the experience so that we
can understand it and articulate it right, Okay, so you
you you, you expressed certain things that you felt.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Use words like peace. What else I can say?
Speaker 5 (20:44):
I felt my help coming on because I felt this boldness.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
There was no fear, So the absence of fear, there
was peace help coming on.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
That's that's Pentecostal talk.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
At the cost of language, there coming home. Look at y'all,
look at you know that stuff definitely.
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