October 8, 2025 • 64 mins
The last three "fruit of the Spirit" described in Galatians 5:22–23, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control are experienced both internally and externally. They are produced by the Holy Spirit as Believers "walk in the Spirit" rather than succumbing to the desires of the flesh. This ties all the fruit together in a supernatural produce for the benefit of all.
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and the power of prayer. Pray for our persecuted brothers
and sisters around the world who are being slaughtered for
their faith in Yeshuah. And pray for the peace of Jerusalem,
because that means the return of the Prince of Peace.
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Father.
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We come to you in his name, the name of
your only begotten son, Jesus of Nazareth, Yeshiah Hamashiyak, the Messiah,
King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Boldly approach your throne
of grace and mercy. Abbah Papa Daddy, We hold up
our hands to your arms, to you and praise and
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a heartfelt desire for you to pick us up and
hold us close. We thank you for sending you seer
to pay our debts, something we never would have been
able to do, so that we could be restored to
You and spend eternity with you.
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Lord.
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Thank you for doing that. Thank you for the Cross,
Thank you for the empty tomb, Thank you for the
Upper Room. For sending back the Holy Spirit Rua kak
Kadish to walk with us and teach us and guide us,
and to do what he does every day. Thank you,
Holy Spirit. We need you. We need your help. We
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need your revelation, We need your inspiration. We need your
comfort and your care. We ask right now that you
would protect the technology, Lord, keep any distractions out, keep
the enemy from us. We take our thoughts captive to
the obedience of Messiah. Claiming the mind of Messiah, we
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cast down every vain imagination that exalts itself above the
knowledge of ely On God Most High, our Father. Have
you awagh, Holy Spirit, This is your time. Bless and
protect everything we have, homes, families, pet's possessions, and we
give you all the honor and the glory and the
praise for all these things.
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And we pray, and you shoe his name. Amen.
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Okay, get those bibles open, take notes. However, you take
notes if you get the weekly scriptures. You have space
at the bottom to do so. We're still talking the
fruit of the spirit. We're concluding that talking about the
fruit of the spirit, love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,
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and self controlled a ninefold fruit of the spirit. A
byproduct of living a life for God. What you are
connected to is what you will produce. That is what
a byproduct is. It's something produced in a usually like
an industrial or biological process, in addition to the principal product.
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So it means whatever the principal product was, the principal
intention was, there is a tangible byproduct. It's the manufacture
of something else. In this case, as we become more
like Him, these things are produced in us the fruit
of the spirit, of virtues that confirm the reality of
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our life in the Lord. They are authentic examples of
the ethical character produced in those who walk by the Spirit.
John fifteen five. I am the vine. You are the branches,
the one who remains in me, and I and him
bear as much fruit for otherwise, apart from me, that
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is cut off from vinyl union with me, you can
do nothing. Without him, we can do nothing. Vine branches fruit.
He's the vine where the branches, the Holy Spirit is
the sap. In that vine, fruit is produced. The Believer's
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Bible commentary says, it's not a question of the branch
living it's life for the vine, but simply letting the line,
the life of the vine, flow through the branches.
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That's it.
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That's why our prayer is, Lord, help me to live
my life for you, help me to live your life
through me.
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Because without him we can do nothing. We are nothing.
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And the sooner we understand that and acknowledge that and
embrace it, he can come in and take over. And
the vine and the branch have one purpose to bear fruit.
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That's it.
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It's not an ornament. It's not there to look good,
not there for a show. Hey, look at all that fruit. No,
that's not it. It's to bear fruit to be used
for others. And if it's not useful, the only thing
that's good for is fire. Would that scripture remain in me?
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And I will remain in you starting John fifteen four,
just as no branch can bear fruit by itself without
remaining in me, the vine without remaining and the vine
let me back up here.
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Sorry boy this.
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You know, sometimes when I start doing this with you
and I begin to speak this word out loud, That's
why you have to read the word out loud over yourself.
It takes me into a I don't want to call
a different dimension because then it sounds you know, the
hocus and pocus and no. But when you speak that
word and your spirit man gets involved, and the spirit
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gets involved, it's like takes you to another place. And
I begin to see things, and I begin to hear things,
and it sometimes pulls me away from what I'm trying
to say.
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So let's start again.
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Let me slow down, because the spirit is in this room,
and I'm excited.
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We need to be excited.
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We're living in exciting times where we are needed. The
fruit we can produce is needed. People are dying and
they're hungry, and they need sustenance, and they need his body.
The real Church remain in me, and I will remain
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in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by
itself without remaining in the vine, neither can you bear
fruit producing evidence of your faith unless you remain in me.
I am the vine. You are the branches. The one
who remains in me and I in him bear as
much fruit. For otherwise, apart from me, that is cut
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off from vital union with me, you can do nothing.
If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown
out like a broken off branch and withers and dies.
And they gather such branches and throw them into the
fire and they are burned. If you've never been around
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believers who's have withered and died, it's difficult to understand.
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What he's saying.
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He is the real vine, which indicates to me that
there are counterfeit vines, and that's the enemy, and that's
the world, and that's all these other things that we
allow to bear fruit through us. He's the source of
all life, destructive wild vines that are no good and
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produce nothing but more destructive vines. We have those. I
don't know where they came from. They're like aliens from
outer space. They got into the ground, they take over everything.
You think you've got them, but you miss one little bulb,
one little round nodule, and then they're back with the flourish.
That's what sin does. That's what this fallen world does.
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That's what Hacitan and the fallen do. True fruitful spirituality
comes from living under the control of the Holy Spirit,
willingly giving up control to the roya kak kadish. And
the evidence is the fruit of the spirit, spiritual maturity
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and growth in holiness.
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That's what this is all about. That's right.
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No, this is what it's all about, bearing fruit for
the Kingdom of God. It's not about anything else. It's
not about personal kingdoms. It's not about denominations, abominations. It's
not about buildings, it's not about pro It's about the
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Kingdom of God and his righteousness, his name, his glory,
bringing people to Him, setting the captives free. I say, then,
walk in the spirit, and you shall not fulfill the
lust of the flesh for the flesh, lust against the spirit,
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the spirit against the flesh. And these are contrary to
one another, so that you do not do the things.
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That you wish.
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Paul refers to that as sin in another place in Romans.
But if you are led by the spirit, you are
not under the law. Now the works of the flesh
are evident, which are adultery, fornication on cleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contingents, jealousies,
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outbursts of wrath, selfish, ambition, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries,
and the like of which I tell you beforehand, just
as I told you in time past, that those who
practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
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But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
long suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self control. Against such
there is no law. And those who are messiahs have
crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we
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live in the spirit, let us also walk in the spirit.
Walk in the spirit, and you will not fulfill the
things of the flesh. If you're struggling with the things
of the flesh, it's a clear indication you're not walking
in and.
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With the Holy Spirit.
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But if we live in the spirit, let us walk
in and with the spirit. I know I've told you this,
but I'm going to say it again. When I first
got saved, I would every day pull out this scripture,
read it out loud, and I would bind. The works
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of the flesh. I would bind, I would forbid them
from manifesting and being a part of my life, and
I would calm them out. I bind adultery, fornication, uncleanness, ludinance.
I'd go all the way down the line, and then
I would loose love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,
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and self control. You have to make it a part
of your life Earlier in gods. Paul says in Glatians
two twenty, I have been crucified with Messiah. It is
no longer I who live, but Messiah lives in me,
in the life which I now live in the flesh.
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I live by faith in the Son of God, who
loved me and gave himself for me. I lived this life.
I live in the spirit. I live this way by
faith in the Son of God. I can't do it
on my own, but Messiah lives in me and live
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in the body. Still we're still in the body. We
live it by faith, by adherence to and reliance on
and complete trust in the son of God, who loved
us and gave himself up for us. If you do that,
you no longer value the desires.
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Of the world.
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You no longer have the values of the world. He
says in Galatians six fourteen. God forbid that I should
boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah,
by whom the world has been crucified to me and
I to the world. Your battle is always going to
be with your flesh, and part of that battle is
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the battle of the world and the enemy, the god
of this world. Maybe you're at a point where you
have to specifically every day, I crucify my flesh, I
crucify the things of this world. It's just it's difficult.
This isn't easy. I wouldn't I wouldn't lie to you
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and fool you. Just pray this prayer and you're all good. No,
it's a daily battle. We have to take the spiritual
reality that I'm presenting to you, and we haven't even
gotten into the final three fruit of the spirit, and
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apply it to the passions and the desires of the flesh.
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We all have them.
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We're all different, we all have different buttons and different
things the enemy uses to manipulate us and trip us up.
We need to keep our focus on God. Don't focus
on the sins, don't focus on the being tripped, get up, repent, pray,
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move on, focus on Him and on his word, and
through the fruit of the spirit, we will have a
life that we walk and talk the relationship with the Lord. See,
people are hungry for the reality of this. They've seen religion.
They've seen the Dog and Pony Show. They can flip on.
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I don't even know how many channels. I should look
that up and find the Dog and Pony Show. They
want the real deal. They want to see people that
have love and joy and peace. They want to see
people that are patient, kind, benevolent, faithful, gentle, self controlled.
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See love, joy and peace is phase one, or the
fruit of the spirit. Long suffering, kindness, goodness, Phase two, faithfulness, gentleness,
self control, which we'll be talking about today are phase three.
See in phase one, that's how the Lord is towards us.
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We get inside of us love, joy and peace. Phase
two is how we are towards others with long suffering,
with patient, kindness, with goodness. And phase three is how
the spirit inspires us to be, to be faithful, to
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be gentle or meek, and to have self control. And
it's amazing how And I don't I know the spirit
did it. I'm not sure if Paul knew he was
doing it. Three groups of three love join peace, internal
fruit offered to us, supernatural long suffering, kindness, goodness, external
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manifestation fruit we offer to others, which is inspired by
the spirit. And then the final cluster of faithfulness, gentleness,
and self control is fruit that we experience both internally
and externally. We feel it, we receive it, we offer
it to others. So let's get into them. Faithfulness, steadfastness, dedicated, dependable,
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worthy of trust, and its basic meaning is to trust
or be trustful, to believe.
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It's the same root word for amen.
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It could be described as trustworthy, dependable, loyal. Faithfulness was
a common Greek word in the secular Greek, and it's
simply meant trustworthiness. It's the characteristic of people who can
be relied on, and boy do we sure need that
the body. It's a belief, it's a trust, it's a confidence,
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it's a fidelity. If you have faith, you should be
faith full or full of faith. It's pretty basic. I mean,
these words aren't that complicated. But when Paul speaks about
the flesh, he's speaking about the Greek word sarks sarx,
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carnally minded, fleshly earthly Galatians six 's eight. For he
who sows to his flesh will love the flesh reap corruption.
But he who sews to the spirit capitalists will love
the spirit reap ever lasting life. So if we sow
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to our human nature, with its frailties and its physically
or morally inept a condition and the passions that go
with it, we're sowing destruction. We're planting seeds of destruction
and eternal destruction that will reap a harvest.
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We're sowing.
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The nature of the flesh, sexual, immorality, impurity, sensuality. My
major button, one of my buttons in the church is
people men and women who think that Sunday is a
good day for getting dates, and they show up looking
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sensual and not adhering to modesty in those things that
I'm not approved, believe me, but I've seen things that
just make my eyes go wide. And shake my head
and going to myself and sometimes muttering it too loud.
I guess there's no mirrors in your house. We need
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to be responsible. And if you act centrally in how
you look whatever, you lack self control, idolatry that involved
in Paul's a, ritual prostitution, sorcery, occult practices, witchcraft, drug
induced ritualistic practices, hostility, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, disputes, dissensions,
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factions that promote heresy, envy, drunkenness, riotous behavior, and the
things which will keep us from inheriting the Kingdom of God,
which is eternal life. See, the enemy doesn't have to
do very much. All he has to do is trigger
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the things that he knows are already hint inherently inside
of us. Romans A thirteen. If you live according to
the flesh, you will die. But if by the spirit
you put to death the deeds of the body, you
will live. If by the spirit you put to death
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the deeds of the body, you will live. Not by determination,
not by concentration, not by I'll repeat this mantra. No.
If by the spirit you're struggling, go to the spirit,
Holy Spirit, help me. In Greek literature, the word sarks flesh,
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it usually meant nothing more than the human body, and
many times in the New Testament that's how it's used
in John one fourteen when it says the word became
flesh and dwelt among us, and that word dwelt in
the original Greek means to tabernacle with, to live with,
to set up with. We're in the feast of tabernacles,
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probably more than likely when he was born, the word
became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld as glory.
The glory is the only begotten of the Father, full
of grace and truth. So Paul often used the word
also to represent the entire fallen human being, not just
the sinful body, but the entire being, the soul and
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the mind, everything that's affected by sin. And Paul pitted
the flesh against the spirit, two diametrically opposed forces. Well, wait, Richard,
I thought it was Satan and God. Well it is,
But who's the god of this world?
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Satan?
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That means he's the God of the flesh. So the
flesh and the spirit are diametrically opposed to one another.
They are opposite forces. Always in battle, always in conflict.
That's why you have to fight it. And I would
love to tell you it gets easier. It just gets
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not easier, but you get better at it. It's always
there as long as we're in these human bodies. As
long as we're in these mortal bodies, it's going to
be a battle. See, we can only live right now
in this body. But we are born again, we are
renewed in the spirit. What's inside of us is born
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from above, and we can choose whether we're going to
live in the flesh of the world, of a carnal nature,
or live in the spirit of a spiritual nature. And
so what Paul encourages in Galatians is that we set
out and set our minds to overcome the deeds of
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the flesh, not by focusing on it, not being obsessed
with it, but focusing on what living in the spirit,
and those who belong to Messiah crucify the flesh, the
godless human nature with its passions and appetites and desires.
So the final triad of the spiritual fruit are the
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ones I believe the flesh fights the hardest. Faithfulness, gentleness,
self control, faithfulness, exercising good faith, and fidelity in our relationship,
just as God does with us. See everything he asks
us to do, he's already done. We're not asked to
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do anything that he didn't already do, both for us
and through Yeshua, issue is a living example of everything
we've ever should aspire to or strive to. No temptation
has overtaken you, except such as is common man. But
God is faithful who will not allow you to be
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tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation
will also make a way of escape so that you
may be able to bear it. One Corinthians ten thirteen.
He's always going to make a way out, no matter
what path you're on, whether you set it yourself, the
enemy puts you on it, and he's put you on it,
He's going to give you a way out. Faithfulness is trustworthiness, dependability.
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It comes from deep inside our hearts, from seeds planted
by the Holy Spirit. Faithfulness is our commitment to a
relationship with God and with each other. It's seen in
our loyalty and our devotion in our service, which is
why it's a reflection of God's own faithfulness to us.
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Over and over, Scripture points to the faithfulness of Yashuah
as an example for believers. Even in the Old Testament
Deuonomy seventy nine. We see, therefore, know that the Lords
your God, he is God, the faithful God who keeps
covenant and mercy for a thousand generation with those who
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love him and keep his commandments. Therefore you can know
without any doubt and understand that the Lords your God,
he is God, the faithful God who is who is
keeping actively keeping his covenant and his steadfast, loving kindness
to a thousand generations. Why a thousand he promised Abraham
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through his generations with those who love him and keep
his commandments. And by the way, don't get caught up
in the anti Semitism or the replacement theology. The covenant
he made with Abraham is still in effect. We have
been grafted into the vine by Isshuah, and the law
of sin and death has been broken over us, since
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we've already been made righteous by His blood our names
written in the Lamb Book of Life. But we in
no way have superseded our Jewish brothers and sisters or
were still walking in darkness. We just live a better
life than they do. And in truth and I was
thinking about this today because I watched a video online
of somebody I only mention their names who.
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Had just really clearly deluded.
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It's interesting to me that most of these people that
are deluded like this about the Church and Israel and
all those things come from a particular religious mindset. But
we did not replace Israel. Paul says that in Romance
now we are blessed more than they are, and they
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will suffer more to accept him as Hamashia as their Messiah,
and we should just be thankful for that. We should
have all been Messianic Jews. There should never been a
new religion or a new denomination of domination, whatever you
want to call it. I can't called one without the other,
who was all supposed to be one. So the proper
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response to God by his covenant people us as faithfulness.
It's a steadfast commitment which reflects His faithfulness. It's important
in all believers, but it's especially important in leaders. Mother
Teresa said something I want to remind you of abused before.
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God hasn't called me to be successful. He's called me
to be faithful. And I would add to that, he
called us to be fruitful. One Thessalonians five twenty four.
He who calls you as faithful, who will also do it?
See right there, as you're out, I know some of
you is suddenly feeling this pressure and everything I'm saying
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is piling on you, and you're going, I can't do this,
and you start to get overwhelmed.
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No, he who, cause he was faithful, who will also
do it.
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He's in there with you. He's walking with you through
the infilling of the Holy Spirit. Being faithful in all
things means we are players in the game, but he's
the one managing it and keeping score. It's our fast
commitment to God. Two Timothy two eleven through thirteen. This
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is a faithful saying. For if we died with him,
we shall also live with him. If we endure, we
shall also reign with him. If we deny him, he
will also deny us. If we are faithless, he remains faithful.
He cannot deny himself. He cannot deny his own nature.
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See what I'm talking about here is Messiah's nature. It
was what was prophesied of him in Isaiah forty eleven.
He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will
gather the lambs with his arms. He shall carry them
in his bosom and gently lead those who are young. Yes,
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we very quietly slipped into gentleness. Gentleness is the Lord.
Everything about him is gentle. And we saw him lose
it a couple of times in the temple, where he
tied up the rope into knots and overturned the tables.
His zeal got the better of him, his zeal for
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his father and his father's house. But otherwise he was gentle,
he was patient, he was kind. Matthew eleven twenty nine.
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for
I am gentle and lowly in heart. And you find
rest in your souls that meekness, gentleness of moral quality
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exhibited by faith in God during times of difficulty or suffering.
Something we will be rewarded for at the end Matthew
twenty five twenty one, when he says, well done, good
and faithful servant. You were faithful over a few things,
and I will make you ruler over many things. Enter
into the joy of the Lord. They all tie together
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each fruit. Yes, they're listed separately, faithfulness, gentleness, self control
Psalm eighteen thirty five. You've also given me the shield
of your salvation. Your right hand has held me up.
Your gentleness has made me great. Gentleness it's so powerful.
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That's meekness, self control.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
All go together. These last all the fruits flow together.
They're all tied together.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
They're all in their clusters on the same vine, but
one flows into the other. Gentleness is the antithesis of
the things of the flesh. And what is Paul talking
to the church in Glacia about the flesh and the spirit.
If you have gentleness, you won't have hatred. There won't
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be contentions, there won't be jealousies, there won't be selfish ambitions.
If you have self control, they won't be outbursts of wrath,
because that's not very gentle. Takes strength to be gentle.
And when you see gentle people, people that are meek,
people that are I don't know what the word is,
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in control, but in control in such a soft way.
I mean, children love the Lord. We know that they
ran up to him, they wanted to get on his lap,
They surrounded him. Children don't go to somebody who's not gentle.
They consense animals. Consens takes strength to be gentle. Proverbs
fifteen to one. A soft answer turns away wrath, but
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harsh word stirs up anger. In this day and age,
especially social media today and everything, politics matter, what it is,
everybody's got harsh words and the I'm going to solve
every situation with harsh words, not understanding all they're doing
is stirring up the anger and doing exactly what the
enemy wants them to do. Proverbs fifteen to four. A
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gentle tongue, with its healing powers is a tree of life,
but willful contrariness, and it breaks down the spirit. What
we see right now in the world, not a whole
lot of self control, not a whole lot of gentleness,
not a a whole lot of kindness. We see just
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the opposite. Even among people that are supposed to be
righteous and showing us the right way, they've lost their way.
That's why I'm taking this and sliding into spiritual warfare.
And I know some are thinking, I'm interested to see
how you do this, Richard. Well make sure you hang
in there over the next couple of weeks, because I'm
going to.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Show you to be a warrior for the Lord.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
You must be kind, you must be gentle, you must
have self control, you must have.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Love and joy, in peace.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Oh yes, you have to have the gifts of the spirit,
but you better have the fruit of the spirit, and
the two better be working together, or you're going to
cause as much damage in the Kingdom of God as
you will in the kingdom of darkness. Paul says in
Ephesians four, verses one through three. I therefore, the prisoner
of the Lord beseech you to walk worthy of the
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calling with which you were called, with all lowliness and gentleness,
with long suffering, bearing with one another in love, endeavoring
to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond
of peace. God can be described as meek and gentle,
because that's how he deals with us. Meekness is a
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character trait that is not natural to the human condition.
Is something that He must give you, something he must
give me.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
And it's not.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Easy, especially people that are I don't want to say
type A, but people that are go getters, people that
have set their minds like flint, that can do what
they do, especially people that are instinctively warriors. We need
to adopt that samurai meekness self controlled concept. And I
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know when I say Summaris people go all wow, just
now you're off into the you know, the false religions
and paganant No, they did you know that there were
actually Christian samurai in their day, at the end of
the japan feudalism era, there were Christian samurai, not a lot,
but they were. They had become believers, and they applied
their faith and the Word to what they did as
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warriors were coming into the time. That that's the kind
of warriors we need. Two Corinthians ten, verses one through six,
kind of sets that up. When Paul says, Iy, Paul
myself and pleading with you by the meekness and gentleness
of Messiah, who in presence I am lowly among you, but
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being absent and bold towards you. But I beg you
that when I am present, I may not be bold
with that confidence by which I intend to be bold
in some who think of us as if we walked
according to the flesh.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
For though we.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
Walk in the flesh, we do not war according to
the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal,
they're not fleshly, they're not of this world, but mighty
in God. For the pulling down of strongholds, casting down
arguments in every high thing that exalts itself against the
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knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the
obedience of Messiah, and being ready to punish all disobedience
when your obedience is fulfilled. That right there sets up
the basics of spiritual warfare.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
They're not of this world. They start in our mind.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
We need to pull down the strongholds that the enemy
has built up in this world in us, and we
can't punish any other disobedience to we punish our own.
So meekness the disposition to be gentle, kind, indulgent, even
balanced in temper and passions, patient, even suffering injuries without
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feeling the spirit of revenge. Boy, is that one difficult
We've been raised to get even, We've been raised to
make things right instead of letting the Lord do it.
And I can tell you, whenever you take it into
your own hands, and he may allow you to do that,
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you're going to mess it up. The Vine's complete exposure
Addictionary of Old and New Testament words. Is Meekness is
not in a person's outward behavior, only not knowing yet
in his relations to his fellow man, as little in
his mere natural disposition. It is rather an in wrought
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grace of the soul, ingrained grace of the soul, and
the exercises of it are first and chiefly towards God.
It is that temper of spirit which we accept His
dealings with us as good, therefore without disputing or resisting.
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It's very closely linked with the word humility, and follows
directly upon it. If we're not meek, if we're not
humble in our relationship with Him, we won't be meek
and humble with our relationship with a A w Tozer
in the Pursuit of God says this, The meek man
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is not a human mouse afflicted with the sense of
his own inferiority. Rather, he may be in his moral
life as bold as a lion and as strong as Samson,
but he has stopped being fooled about himself. He has
accepted God's estimate of his own life. He knows he
is as weak and helpless as God has declared him
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to be. But paradoxically, he knows at the same time
that he is, in the sight of God, more important
than angels. And he knows well that the world will
never see him as God sees him, and has stopped caring.
Boy that is powerful. It's the character of the new
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man and new woman. Therefore is the elect of God,
holy and beloved. Put on tender mercies, kindness, humilities, meekness,
suffering Colossians three twelve. Clothe yourselves therefore as God's chosen ones,
his picked representatives in this fallen world, who are purified
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and holy and well beloved by God himself, by putting
on behavior marked by tenderhearted pity and mercy, kind feeling,
a lowly opinion of ourselves, gentle ways, patience, tireless and
long suffering. Who has the power to endure whatever comes
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with good temper. That kind of an army cannot be defeated.
That kind of an army cannot be manipulated into acting
out or self destructing. So the meekness, first of all,
is a meekness before God. If you can't be meek
with God, you can't be meek with men. And it's
out of a sense of permission by Him that you've
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been purified, that you've been saved, that you've been closed.
When you know that, you know that, you know that
you were born again name written in the Lamb's Book
of Life, Healed and redeemed. There is no doubt. There's
no question. The enemy cannot manipulate that. And I see
most challenges come people that aren't completely convinced that they're
right with God. You got that devil in your ear,
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the demon in your ear reminding you of every wrong
thing you've ever done. And the answer to that is
that person is dead. They don't exist anymore. I am
a new creation in Messiah Matthew five to five, Blessed
of the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. He's
not going to give leadership to people that can't control
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their temper, which takes his right into self control. They all,
even though they're listed separately, I see them as all
in the same clusters. They're on the same vine. Self control, temperance.
It's a moderation in the indulgence of the appetites and
passions of the flesh. Home and Bible Dictionaries says modern
translations of this term. There's several Greek words. They indicate
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sober or temper, to calm, a dispassionate approach to life.
Having mastered personal desires and passions. God's people are called
to exercise self control. Self control is self restraint. Self
control is meekness, and it comes from strength, not weakness.
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If you don't understand meekness, meekness is controlled power. I
could lash out, I choose not to second Peter one
verse starting verse five. But I also for this very reason,
giving all diligence add to your faith, virtue to virtue,
knowledge to knowledge, self control to self control, perseverance to perseverance,
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to godliness, to godliness, brotherly kindness, to brotherly kindness.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
Love this. If you follow.
Speaker 1 (45:57):
Verses five through seven, each world leads to the next word.
Speaker 2 (46:01):
You're on a path. You're in a pattern.
Speaker 1 (46:03):
For if these things are yours and a bound you
will neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of
the Lord Jesus the Messiah. For he who lacks these
things is short sighted even to blindness, and has forgotten
that he was cleansed from his old sins. So each
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of those aspects in Tewo Peter one five through nine,
one leads to the other. One creates the other their
ingredients of a fruitful growth in the faith, and they
pair together to give us the aspect.
Speaker 2 (46:41):
Of the Lord's character. Everything is about being like him.
Speaker 1 (46:45):
He wasn't a man be Pamby weak man to attract
the people he did. He was a strong man, he
was visibly strong. He had a presence about him, but
that same presence drew children to him. Paul did that
in front of Felix, Acts twenty four. He reasoned with
Felix about righteousness and self control and the judgment to come,
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and Felix got afraid, needs to go away for now.
I think when I have a convenient time, I'll call
for you. I was hoping for mercy and that he
might release him, and Felix kept calling for him, and
he conversed with him. Never got it though, to knowledge,
self control, to self control, perseverance, to perseverance, godliness, there's
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the patterns. There's the formula if you want. Of those
people that need patterns and formula, there it is. It
follows knowledge, suggesting that what has learned requires self control
to be put into practice, and it is the bridge
to perseverance.
Speaker 2 (47:48):
And if that's not a formula for warfare and of
a soldier, I don't know what is.
Speaker 1 (47:54):
One of the first things we taught in martial arts,
which was an active part of your test to get
your blasd B belt, both verbally and the word part
of it, and then out on the floor is exercising
self control. You can have all the knowledge in the world,
but if you can't exercise self control, A, you're gonna
hurt somebody, and B you're gonna get yourself in trouble.
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Self control says I need to walk away from the situation.
Me Winning means retreating. If you're fired up, if you
have an anger, if you have a desire to get even,
you're gonna mess up. True story. I don't think I've
told this, but I could have failed my black belt
test because I got paired with somebody I think he
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was my age or older, who had no control over
his kicks and his punches. And you're not supposed to
kick people in the head. You're just not because you're
just sparring. This isn't a competition for points. And he
ain't threw a kick and he nailed me right in
the face. He didn't pull it, and his attitude was, well,
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you should have moved, And it brought up that street
nature inside of me.
Speaker 2 (49:07):
And when they said bow.
Speaker 1 (49:10):
And gave the command to fight, I hit him square
in the padded part of his chest with everything I
had and literally knocked him backward into the mirrors and
started to explain in my thinking, this is flesh, this
is the street nature, proving to him the mistake of
his actions. They could have failed me right on the spot.
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They pulled me, offer him, calmed it down, they made
they it was equal. What he did was delivered. He
showed that by his actions he never should have been
on the floor. He was somebody's students who did. The
student did.
Speaker 2 (49:47):
Not qualify for the black belt would be.
Speaker 1 (49:49):
That, as it may, they could have failed me, and
they would have been in their rights to do so.
Thankfully they didn't. Self control is important in all situations.
Probably would have scored more points for not retaliating problem.
In the leadership of the churches today, we don't have
some of these things. It's an aspect of leadership required
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by the Lord Titus one Versus seven through nine. A
bishop must be blameless as a steward of God, not
self willed, not quick tempered, not given to wine, not
violent nor greedy for money. What there goes most of
the leadership, but hospitable, a lover of what is good,
sober minded, just holy, self controlled, holding fast the faithful
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word as he has been taught that he may be
able by sound doctrine both to exhort and convict those
who contradict one. Timothy III gives us the qualifications of
overseers blameless husband, one wife, temperate, sober minded, good behavior, hospitable,
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able to teach, not given to wine, not violent, not
greedy for money, gentle, not quarreless, not covetous. One who
rules over his own house. There goes the other half
of the leadership, having his children in submission and all reverence.
For if a man does not know how to rule
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his own house, how will he take care of the
Church of God? Not a novice, Lest being puffed up
with pride, he'll fall into the same condemnation as the devil.
And moreover, he must have a good testimony among those
who are outside, lest he fall into the reproach and
the snare of the devil. And if you want to
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know why leadership in the church fail so miserably, there
it is. For Timothy III is a man named Sir
Alec Patterson. He was a prison reformer from the early
in eighteen hundred, said something very profound. He said, Oh God,
help us to master ourselves, that we may be servants
of others. That's what spiritual war for is. You're a
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servant of God, and you're a servant of others. You're
not a servant of yourself. This isn't your agenda, this
isn't your reward. Proverb sixteen thirty two. He was slow
to anger is better than the Mighty, and he who
rules his spirit than he who takes a city.
Speaker 2 (52:33):
And acts.
Speaker 1 (52:33):
Twenty Paul exhorts the elders in Ephesus on how to
be the leaders they need to be by using himself
as an example, serving the Lord with all humility, many
tears and trials which happened to me by the plottings
of the Jews, how I kept back nothing that was helpful,
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but proclaimed it to you and taught you publicly from
house to house, testifying to Jews and also to Greeks,
repentance towards God and faith towards our Lord Jesus the Messiah.
And see now I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem,
not knowing the things that will happen to me there,
except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying
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that the chains and tribulations await me. But none of
these things move me. Nor do I count my life
dear to myself, so that I may finish my race
with joy in the ministry which I receive from the
Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of grace of
God Acts twenty seventeen through twenty four. You want to
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be a leader, then you'll be better be able to
do these things. You better be able to discipline yourselves,
bring it into subjection, lest be disqualified.
Speaker 2 (53:53):
Because what you preach.
Speaker 1 (53:56):
Is and what you practice. That's essentially First Corinthians nine
twenty seven. I disciplined my body, bring it into subjection,
lest when I have preached to others, I myself should
become disqualified. Be the witness you need to be to
be the witness of the Lord to others. Practice what
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you preach. And I've been around long enough in the body.
I just realized next week it will be.
Speaker 2 (54:27):
Was that thirty seven years.
Speaker 1 (54:30):
To see everything I'm sharing with you, to have experienced it,
even having done it the bad stuff too. But there's
a story about Alexander the Great shared in a book
called Managing Your Motions by Irwin Lutzer. We all know
that Alexander the Great conquered the world. What few people
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know is that this mighty general could not conquer himself.
Clead Us, a dear friend of Alexander's and general in
his army, became intoxicated and ridiculed the emperor in front
of his men. Blinded by anger, quick as lightning, Alexander
snatched a spear from the hand of a soldier and
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hurled it at Cleatus. Though he only intended to scare
the drunken general, his aim was true, and the spirit
took the life of his childhood friend. Deep remorse followed
his anger. Overcome with guilt, Alexander tried to take his
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own life with the same spear, but was stopped by
his men. For days, he lay sick, calling for his
friend Kleidus, chiding himself as a murderer. Lutser concludes by saying,
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Alexander the Great conquered many cities, he conquered many countries,
but he felt miserable to conquer his own self, and
I will it cost him dearly as outbursts of wrath
like that and lack of self control will do. You
cannot do spiritual warfare of any kind, whether it's for
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your family, for yourself, for others, or for the Kingdom
of God against the enemy, with any aspect of the
enemy in you. And if we're going to produce fruit,
we must open ourselves up completely to the light of
the Lord and the glory of God. To have everything
and it's exposed that's not of Him, and to have
it removed for it to wither and die, and for
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the fruit to grow. But I will tell you that
the Holy Spirit empowers us to do that, to avoid
the sin the snare of the devils. First Thessalonians four,
three and five. For this is the will of God
your sanctification, that's the will of God to be sanctified.
That you should abstain from sexual immorality. That each of
you should know how to possess his own vessel in
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sanctification and honor, not in passion of lust, like the
gentiles who do not know God. We must allow him
to tend to and nurture the vine. The planted seeds
of our walk need his light and the water of
the Word and the spirit to bear fruit. Let me
say that again to those of you that are struggling.
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The planted seeds of our walk need his light and
the water of His word and spirit to bear fruit.
We cannot do this by ourselves. Like when you write me,
if you will call me and we talk about what's
going on, I'm gonna give away my little trick to
you that I've learned from the Lord. I get you
to talking two reasons. We bring it out into the
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of the Lord. It gets exposed, the enemy gets exposed.
It's easy to pull the root because it's withering and dying.
As you're speaking, you also get to hear it for yourself,
and the answers come to you. I just confirm those
answers through the spirit and through the unction given to me.
The point being, it needs to be exposed, stop hiding,
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stop holding it. In the active, powerful, living presence of
the Rua kak Kadesh in believers will produce the Lord's
virtues within us, and as living trees we will bear
good fruit. Colossians one ten through thirteen, That you may
walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing and being fruitful
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in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God,
strengthened with all might according to His glorious power, for
all patience and long suffering with joy, giving thanks to
the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of
the inheritance of the saints and the Light. He has
delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us
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into the kingdom of the Son of his Love. He
has rescued us and has drawn us to himself, from
the dominion of darkness, and has transferred us to the
kingdom of his beloved Son. He has transplanted us from
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one to the other, from spiritual ignorance, from immorality, from
the misery of this world, to a fruitful life of
the spirit planted in the Father's vineyard. But the thing
about this is it takes time to grow.
Speaker 2 (59:28):
George A.
Speaker 1 (59:28):
Chauncey was a Presbyterian minister graduate of the Yale Divinity School.
He said the church should be a community of dates
instead of pumpkins. Pumpkins you can harvest in six months.
Dates must be planted, intended by people who will not
live to harvest them. Dates are for future generations abiding
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in the presence of Messiah and the importance of that
and the need for spe spiritual growth. Continued spiritual growth
takes time and cultivation, and you don't do it alone.
He's the one doing it. I am convinced. Paul says
in first Philippians one six. I am convinced and confident
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of this very thing, that he who has begun a
good work in you will continue to perfect and complete
it until the day of Messiah Iseshua the time of
his return. If he began it, he'll finish it. You
have to let him. You have to take your hands
off of it. You have to submit, you have to
be humble, you have to be open. You have to
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keep going, and if you keep going, you will keep growing.
Speaker 2 (01:00:42):
I'm living proof of that which takes us back to
where we started. John fifteen.
Speaker 1 (01:00:47):
If you remain in me and my words remain in you,
that is, if you are vitally united, we are vitally united.
If you and Messiah are vitally united. My message lives
in your home, he said. Ask whatever you wish, and
it will be done for you. It's not going to
be done for somebody that's not vitally connected with him.
It's the outgrowth of your relationship with him. My father
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is glorified and honored by this. This is really important
Verse eight. My father is glorified and honored by this.
When you bear much fruit and prove yourselves to be
my true disciples. What'd you say, Lord, it's not about
building our own kingdoms or our own organizations, our own businesses.
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It's not about the number of buildings or all these
other things. That's about bearing fruit, the fruit of the spirit,
of showing the people that we're like you, of drawing
people to you. Yeah, that's what he's saying. That's our
job to defeat the enemy. And he was defeated on calvery,
don't get me wrong. But he has not submitted. He
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has not given in, He is not let go. So
we're dealing with a satanically empowered terrorist army that we
have to submit. That we have to forcefully submit. That's
what Tarrying is occupying, is being a military presence in
this fallen world. But to do that we must have
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the fruit of the spirit. We must apply all of this.
If we do, that will be successful. So, Father, in
the name of your Shue and the name of your Son,
I ask to everyone that's listening, that you reveal to
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us anything that's not of you, any way of thinking,
any thought, any choice, any ground that the enemy still
has in us, anywhere that there are weeds or wild vines.
And first I ask that you shine your glory down
on it so hard that it withers and dies, that
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you rip it out from the root, and that you
set us free, that we let go of our past,
that we let go of all the words that have
wounded us, whether done by ourselves or others, And set
us free so that we can shine, That we can
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arise and shine in these dark times, and that we
can be more like you, loving, joyful, compassionate gentle set
the captives free, and shake this world in a way
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it's not seen before, even from the book of ex Cherts.
One last time, before the return of the King. And
I pray, Holy Spirit, that you would take that desire
and that prayer and drive it into our hearts and
remind us every day what we need to do to
fulfill it. And I pray all these things. And you
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shoe his name. If you agree with me, say amen.
May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord,
may I don't know, I make his face to shine
upon you, be gracious to you. May the Lord I
don't know, your shoe a homosiak Jesus the Messiah, lift
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up his countenance upon you and give you peace. Give
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and sisters around the world who are being slaughtered for
their faith in Yeshuah. And pray for the peace of Jerusalem,
because that means the return of the Prince of Peace.
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Father.
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We come to you in his name, the name of
your only begotten son, Jesus of Nazareth, Yeshiah Hamashiyak, the Messiah,
King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Boldly approach your throne
of grace and mercy. Abbah Papa Daddy, We hold up
our hands to your arms, to you and praise and
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a heartfelt desire for you to pick us up and
hold us close. We thank you for sending you seer
to pay our debts, something we never would have been
able to do, so that we could be restored to
You and spend eternity with you.
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Lord.
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Thank you for doing that. Thank you for the Cross,
Thank you for the empty tomb, Thank you for the
Upper Room. For sending back the Holy Spirit Rua kak
Kadish to walk with us and teach us and guide us,
and to do what he does every day. Thank you,
Holy Spirit. We need you. We need your help. We
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need your revelation, We need your inspiration. We need your
comfort and your care. We ask right now that you
would protect the technology, Lord, keep any distractions out, keep
the enemy from us. We take our thoughts captive to
the obedience of Messiah. Claiming the mind of Messiah, we
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cast down every vain imagination that exalts itself above the
knowledge of ely On God Most High, our Father. Have
you awagh, Holy Spirit, This is your time. Bless and
protect everything we have, homes, families, pet's possessions, and we
give you all the honor and the glory and the
praise for all these things.
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And we pray, and you shoe his name. Amen.
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Okay, get those bibles open, take notes. However, you take
notes if you get the weekly scriptures. You have space
at the bottom to do so. We're still talking the
fruit of the spirit. We're concluding that talking about the
fruit of the spirit, love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,
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and self controlled a ninefold fruit of the spirit. A
byproduct of living a life for God. What you are
connected to is what you will produce. That is what
a byproduct is. It's something produced in a usually like
an industrial or biological process, in addition to the principal product.
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So it means whatever the principal product was, the principal
intention was, there is a tangible byproduct. It's the manufacture
of something else. In this case, as we become more
like Him, these things are produced in us the fruit
of the spirit, of virtues that confirm the reality of
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our life in the Lord. They are authentic examples of
the ethical character produced in those who walk by the Spirit.
John fifteen five. I am the vine. You are the branches,
the one who remains in me, and I and him
bear as much fruit for otherwise, apart from me, that
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is cut off from vinyl union with me, you can
do nothing. Without him, we can do nothing. Vine branches fruit.
He's the vine where the branches, the Holy Spirit is
the sap. In that vine, fruit is produced. The Believer's
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Bible commentary says, it's not a question of the branch
living it's life for the vine, but simply letting the line,
the life of the vine, flow through the branches.
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That's it.
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That's why our prayer is, Lord, help me to live
my life for you, help me to live your life
through me.
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Because without him we can do nothing. We are nothing.
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And the sooner we understand that and acknowledge that and
embrace it, he can come in and take over. And
the vine and the branch have one purpose to bear fruit.
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That's it.
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It's not an ornament. It's not there to look good,
not there for a show. Hey, look at all that fruit. No,
that's not it. It's to bear fruit to be used
for others. And if it's not useful, the only thing
that's good for is fire. Would that scripture remain in me?
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And I will remain in you starting John fifteen four,
just as no branch can bear fruit by itself without
remaining in me, the vine without remaining and the vine
let me back up here.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Sorry boy this.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
You know, sometimes when I start doing this with you
and I begin to speak this word out loud, That's
why you have to read the word out loud over yourself.
It takes me into a I don't want to call
a different dimension because then it sounds you know, the
hocus and pocus and no. But when you speak that
word and your spirit man gets involved, and the spirit
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gets involved, it's like takes you to another place. And
I begin to see things, and I begin to hear things,
and it sometimes pulls me away from what I'm trying
to say.
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So let's start again.
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Let me slow down, because the spirit is in this room,
and I'm excited.
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We need to be excited.
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We're living in exciting times where we are needed. The
fruit we can produce is needed. People are dying and
they're hungry, and they need sustenance, and they need his body.
The real Church remain in me, and I will remain
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in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by
itself without remaining in the vine, neither can you bear
fruit producing evidence of your faith unless you remain in me.
I am the vine. You are the branches. The one
who remains in me and I in him bear as
much fruit. For otherwise, apart from me, that is cut
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off from vital union with me, you can do nothing.
If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown
out like a broken off branch and withers and dies.
And they gather such branches and throw them into the
fire and they are burned. If you've never been around
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believers who's have withered and died, it's difficult to understand.
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What he's saying.
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He is the real vine, which indicates to me that
there are counterfeit vines, and that's the enemy, and that's
the world, and that's all these other things that we
allow to bear fruit through us. He's the source of
all life, destructive wild vines that are no good and
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produce nothing but more destructive vines. We have those. I
don't know where they came from. They're like aliens from
outer space. They got into the ground, they take over everything.
You think you've got them, but you miss one little bulb,
one little round nodule, and then they're back with the flourish.
That's what sin does. That's what this fallen world does.
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That's what Hacitan and the fallen do. True fruitful spirituality
comes from living under the control of the Holy Spirit,
willingly giving up control to the roya kak kadish. And
the evidence is the fruit of the spirit, spiritual maturity
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and growth in holiness.
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That's what this is all about. That's right.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
No, this is what it's all about, bearing fruit for
the Kingdom of God. It's not about anything else. It's
not about personal kingdoms. It's not about denominations, abominations. It's
not about buildings, it's not about pro It's about the
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Kingdom of God and his righteousness, his name, his glory,
bringing people to Him, setting the captives free. I say, then,
walk in the spirit, and you shall not fulfill the
lust of the flesh for the flesh, lust against the spirit,
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the spirit against the flesh. And these are contrary to
one another, so that you do not do the things.
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That you wish.
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Paul refers to that as sin in another place in Romans.
But if you are led by the spirit, you are
not under the law. Now the works of the flesh
are evident, which are adultery, fornication on cleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contingents, jealousies,
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outbursts of wrath, selfish, ambition, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries,
and the like of which I tell you beforehand, just
as I told you in time past, that those who
practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
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But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
long suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self control. Against such
there is no law. And those who are messiahs have
crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we
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live in the spirit, let us also walk in the spirit.
Walk in the spirit, and you will not fulfill the
things of the flesh. If you're struggling with the things
of the flesh, it's a clear indication you're not walking
in and.
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With the Holy Spirit.
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But if we live in the spirit, let us walk
in and with the spirit. I know I've told you this,
but I'm going to say it again. When I first
got saved, I would every day pull out this scripture,
read it out loud, and I would bind. The works
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of the flesh. I would bind, I would forbid them
from manifesting and being a part of my life, and
I would calm them out. I bind adultery, fornication, uncleanness, ludinance.
I'd go all the way down the line, and then
I would loose love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,
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and self control. You have to make it a part
of your life Earlier in gods. Paul says in Glatians
two twenty, I have been crucified with Messiah. It is
no longer I who live, but Messiah lives in me,
in the life which I now live in the flesh.
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I live by faith in the Son of God, who
loved me and gave himself for me. I lived this life.
I live in the spirit. I live this way by
faith in the Son of God. I can't do it
on my own, but Messiah lives in me and live
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in the body. Still we're still in the body. We
live it by faith, by adherence to and reliance on
and complete trust in the son of God, who loved
us and gave himself up for us. If you do that,
you no longer value the desires.
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Of the world.
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You no longer have the values of the world. He
says in Galatians six fourteen. God forbid that I should
boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah,
by whom the world has been crucified to me and
I to the world. Your battle is always going to
be with your flesh, and part of that battle is
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the battle of the world and the enemy, the god
of this world. Maybe you're at a point where you
have to specifically every day, I crucify my flesh, I
crucify the things of this world. It's just it's difficult.
This isn't easy. I wouldn't I wouldn't lie to you
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and fool you. Just pray this prayer and you're all good. No,
it's a daily battle. We have to take the spiritual
reality that I'm presenting to you, and we haven't even
gotten into the final three fruit of the spirit, and
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apply it to the passions and the desires of the flesh.
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We all have them.
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We're all different, we all have different buttons and different
things the enemy uses to manipulate us and trip us up.
We need to keep our focus on God. Don't focus
on the sins, don't focus on the being tripped, get up, repent, pray,
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move on, focus on Him and on his word, and
through the fruit of the spirit, we will have a
life that we walk and talk the relationship with the Lord. See,
people are hungry for the reality of this. They've seen religion.
They've seen the Dog and Pony Show. They can flip on.
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I don't even know how many channels. I should look
that up and find the Dog and Pony Show. They
want the real deal. They want to see people that
have love and joy and peace. They want to see
people that are patient, kind, benevolent, faithful, gentle, self controlled.
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See love, joy and peace is phase one, or the
fruit of the spirit. Long suffering, kindness, goodness, Phase two, faithfulness, gentleness,
self control, which we'll be talking about today are phase three.
See in phase one, that's how the Lord is towards us.
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We get inside of us love, joy and peace. Phase
two is how we are towards others with long suffering,
with patient, kindness, with goodness. And phase three is how
the spirit inspires us to be, to be faithful, to
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be gentle or meek, and to have self control. And
it's amazing how And I don't I know the spirit
did it. I'm not sure if Paul knew he was
doing it. Three groups of three love join peace, internal
fruit offered to us, supernatural long suffering, kindness, goodness, external
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manifestation fruit we offer to others, which is inspired by
the spirit. And then the final cluster of faithfulness, gentleness,
and self control is fruit that we experience both internally
and externally. We feel it, we receive it, we offer
it to others. So let's get into them. Faithfulness, steadfastness, dedicated, dependable,
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worthy of trust, and its basic meaning is to trust
or be trustful, to believe.
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It's the same root word for amen.
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It could be described as trustworthy, dependable, loyal. Faithfulness was
a common Greek word in the secular Greek, and it's
simply meant trustworthiness. It's the characteristic of people who can
be relied on, and boy do we sure need that
the body. It's a belief, it's a trust, it's a confidence,
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it's a fidelity. If you have faith, you should be
faith full or full of faith. It's pretty basic. I mean,
these words aren't that complicated. But when Paul speaks about
the flesh, he's speaking about the Greek word sarks sarx,
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carnally minded, fleshly earthly Galatians six 's eight. For he
who sows to his flesh will love the flesh reap corruption.
But he who sews to the spirit capitalists will love
the spirit reap ever lasting life. So if we sow
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to our human nature, with its frailties and its physically
or morally inept a condition and the passions that go
with it, we're sowing destruction. We're planting seeds of destruction
and eternal destruction that will reap a harvest.
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We're sowing.
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The nature of the flesh, sexual, immorality, impurity, sensuality. My
major button, one of my buttons in the church is
people men and women who think that Sunday is a
good day for getting dates, and they show up looking
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sensual and not adhering to modesty in those things that
I'm not approved, believe me, but I've seen things that
just make my eyes go wide. And shake my head
and going to myself and sometimes muttering it too loud.
I guess there's no mirrors in your house. We need
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to be responsible. And if you act centrally in how
you look whatever, you lack self control, idolatry that involved
in Paul's a, ritual prostitution, sorcery, occult practices, witchcraft, drug
induced ritualistic practices, hostility, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, disputes, dissensions,
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factions that promote heresy, envy, drunkenness, riotous behavior, and the
things which will keep us from inheriting the Kingdom of God,
which is eternal life. See, the enemy doesn't have to
do very much. All he has to do is trigger
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the things that he knows are already hint inherently inside
of us. Romans A thirteen. If you live according to
the flesh, you will die. But if by the spirit
you put to death the deeds of the body, you
will live. If by the spirit you put to death
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the deeds of the body, you will live. Not by determination,
not by concentration, not by I'll repeat this mantra. No.
If by the spirit you're struggling, go to the spirit,
Holy Spirit, help me. In Greek literature, the word sarks flesh,
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it usually meant nothing more than the human body, and
many times in the New Testament that's how it's used
in John one fourteen when it says the word became
flesh and dwelt among us, and that word dwelt in
the original Greek means to tabernacle with, to live with,
to set up with. We're in the feast of tabernacles,
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probably more than likely when he was born, the word
became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld as glory.
The glory is the only begotten of the Father, full
of grace and truth. So Paul often used the word
also to represent the entire fallen human being, not just
the sinful body, but the entire being, the soul and
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the mind, everything that's affected by sin. And Paul pitted
the flesh against the spirit, two diametrically opposed forces. Well, wait, Richard,
I thought it was Satan and God. Well it is,
But who's the god of this world?
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Satan?
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That means he's the God of the flesh. So the
flesh and the spirit are diametrically opposed to one another.
They are opposite forces. Always in battle, always in conflict.
That's why you have to fight it. And I would
love to tell you it gets easier. It just gets
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not easier, but you get better at it. It's always
there as long as we're in these human bodies. As
long as we're in these mortal bodies, it's going to
be a battle. See, we can only live right now
in this body. But we are born again, we are
renewed in the spirit. What's inside of us is born
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from above, and we can choose whether we're going to
live in the flesh of the world, of a carnal nature,
or live in the spirit of a spiritual nature. And
so what Paul encourages in Galatians is that we set
out and set our minds to overcome the deeds of
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the flesh, not by focusing on it, not being obsessed
with it, but focusing on what living in the spirit,
and those who belong to Messiah crucify the flesh, the
godless human nature with its passions and appetites and desires.
So the final triad of the spiritual fruit are the
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ones I believe the flesh fights the hardest. Faithfulness, gentleness,
self control, faithfulness, exercising good faith, and fidelity in our relationship,
just as God does with us. See everything he asks
us to do, he's already done. We're not asked to
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do anything that he didn't already do, both for us
and through Yeshua, issue is a living example of everything
we've ever should aspire to or strive to. No temptation
has overtaken you, except such as is common man. But
God is faithful who will not allow you to be
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tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation
will also make a way of escape so that you
may be able to bear it. One Corinthians ten thirteen.
He's always going to make a way out, no matter
what path you're on, whether you set it yourself, the
enemy puts you on it, and he's put you on it,
He's going to give you a way out. Faithfulness is trustworthiness, dependability.
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It comes from deep inside our hearts, from seeds planted
by the Holy Spirit. Faithfulness is our commitment to a
relationship with God and with each other. It's seen in
our loyalty and our devotion in our service, which is
why it's a reflection of God's own faithfulness to us.
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Over and over, Scripture points to the faithfulness of Yashuah
as an example for believers. Even in the Old Testament
Deuonomy seventy nine. We see, therefore, know that the Lords
your God, he is God, the faithful God who keeps
covenant and mercy for a thousand generation with those who
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love him and keep his commandments. Therefore you can know
without any doubt and understand that the Lords your God,
he is God, the faithful God who is who is
keeping actively keeping his covenant and his steadfast, loving kindness
to a thousand generations. Why a thousand he promised Abraham
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through his generations with those who love him and keep
his commandments. And by the way, don't get caught up
in the anti Semitism or the replacement theology. The covenant
he made with Abraham is still in effect. We have
been grafted into the vine by Isshuah, and the law
of sin and death has been broken over us, since
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we've already been made righteous by His blood our names
written in the Lamb Book of Life. But we in
no way have superseded our Jewish brothers and sisters or
were still walking in darkness. We just live a better
life than they do. And in truth and I was
thinking about this today because I watched a video online
of somebody I only mention their names who.
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Had just really clearly deluded.
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It's interesting to me that most of these people that
are deluded like this about the Church and Israel and
all those things come from a particular religious mindset. But
we did not replace Israel. Paul says that in Romance
now we are blessed more than they are, and they
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will suffer more to accept him as Hamashia as their Messiah,
and we should just be thankful for that. We should
have all been Messianic Jews. There should never been a
new religion or a new denomination of domination, whatever you
want to call it. I can't called one without the other,
who was all supposed to be one. So the proper
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response to God by his covenant people us as faithfulness.
It's a steadfast commitment which reflects His faithfulness. It's important
in all believers, but it's especially important in leaders. Mother
Teresa said something I want to remind you of abused before.
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God hasn't called me to be successful. He's called me
to be faithful. And I would add to that, he
called us to be fruitful. One Thessalonians five twenty four.
He who calls you as faithful, who will also do it?
See right there, as you're out, I know some of
you is suddenly feeling this pressure and everything I'm saying
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is piling on you, and you're going, I can't do this,
and you start to get overwhelmed.
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No, he who, cause he was faithful, who will also
do it.
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He's in there with you. He's walking with you through
the infilling of the Holy Spirit. Being faithful in all
things means we are players in the game, but he's
the one managing it and keeping score. It's our fast
commitment to God. Two Timothy two eleven through thirteen. This
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is a faithful saying. For if we died with him,
we shall also live with him. If we endure, we
shall also reign with him. If we deny him, he
will also deny us. If we are faithless, he remains faithful.
He cannot deny himself. He cannot deny his own nature.
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See what I'm talking about here is Messiah's nature. It
was what was prophesied of him in Isaiah forty eleven.
He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will
gather the lambs with his arms. He shall carry them
in his bosom and gently lead those who are young. Yes,
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we very quietly slipped into gentleness. Gentleness is the Lord.
Everything about him is gentle. And we saw him lose
it a couple of times in the temple, where he
tied up the rope into knots and overturned the tables.
His zeal got the better of him, his zeal for
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his father and his father's house. But otherwise he was gentle,
he was patient, he was kind. Matthew eleven twenty nine.
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for
I am gentle and lowly in heart. And you find
rest in your souls that meekness, gentleness of moral quality
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exhibited by faith in God during times of difficulty or suffering.
Something we will be rewarded for at the end Matthew
twenty five twenty one, when he says, well done, good
and faithful servant. You were faithful over a few things,
and I will make you ruler over many things. Enter
into the joy of the Lord. They all tie together
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each fruit. Yes, they're listed separately, faithfulness, gentleness, self control
Psalm eighteen thirty five. You've also given me the shield
of your salvation. Your right hand has held me up.
Your gentleness has made me great. Gentleness it's so powerful.
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That's meekness, self control.
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All go together. These last all the fruits flow together.
They're all tied together.
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They're all in their clusters on the same vine, but
one flows into the other. Gentleness is the antithesis of
the things of the flesh. And what is Paul talking
to the church in Glacia about the flesh and the spirit.
If you have gentleness, you won't have hatred. There won't
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be contentions, there won't be jealousies, there won't be selfish ambitions.
If you have self control, they won't be outbursts of wrath,
because that's not very gentle. Takes strength to be gentle.
And when you see gentle people, people that are meek,
people that are I don't know what the word is,
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in control, but in control in such a soft way.
I mean, children love the Lord. We know that they
ran up to him, they wanted to get on his lap,
They surrounded him. Children don't go to somebody who's not gentle.
They consense animals. Consens takes strength to be gentle. Proverbs
fifteen to one. A soft answer turns away wrath, but
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harsh word stirs up anger. In this day and age,
especially social media today and everything, politics matter, what it is,
everybody's got harsh words and the I'm going to solve
every situation with harsh words, not understanding all they're doing
is stirring up the anger and doing exactly what the
enemy wants them to do. Proverbs fifteen to four. A
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gentle tongue, with its healing powers is a tree of life,
but willful contrariness, and it breaks down the spirit. What
we see right now in the world, not a whole
lot of self control, not a whole lot of gentleness,
not a a whole lot of kindness. We see just
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the opposite. Even among people that are supposed to be
righteous and showing us the right way, they've lost their way.
That's why I'm taking this and sliding into spiritual warfare.
And I know some are thinking, I'm interested to see
how you do this, Richard. Well make sure you hang
in there over the next couple of weeks, because I'm
going to.
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Show you to be a warrior for the Lord.
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You must be kind, you must be gentle, you must
have self control, you must have.
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Love and joy, in peace.
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Oh yes, you have to have the gifts of the spirit,
but you better have the fruit of the spirit, and
the two better be working together, or you're going to
cause as much damage in the Kingdom of God as
you will in the kingdom of darkness. Paul says in
Ephesians four, verses one through three. I therefore, the prisoner
of the Lord beseech you to walk worthy of the
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calling with which you were called, with all lowliness and gentleness,
with long suffering, bearing with one another in love, endeavoring
to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond
of peace. God can be described as meek and gentle,
because that's how he deals with us. Meekness is a
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character trait that is not natural to the human condition.
Is something that He must give you, something he must
give me.
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And it's not.
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Easy, especially people that are I don't want to say
type A, but people that are go getters, people that
have set their minds like flint, that can do what
they do, especially people that are instinctively warriors. We need
to adopt that samurai meekness self controlled concept. And I
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know when I say Summaris people go all wow, just
now you're off into the you know, the false religions
and paganant No, they did you know that there were
actually Christian samurai in their day, at the end of
the japan feudalism era, there were Christian samurai, not a lot,
but they were. They had become believers, and they applied
their faith and the Word to what they did as
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warriors were coming into the time. That that's the kind
of warriors we need. Two Corinthians ten, verses one through six,
kind of sets that up. When Paul says, Iy, Paul
myself and pleading with you by the meekness and gentleness
of Messiah, who in presence I am lowly among you, but
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being absent and bold towards you. But I beg you
that when I am present, I may not be bold
with that confidence by which I intend to be bold
in some who think of us as if we walked
according to the flesh.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
For though we.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
Walk in the flesh, we do not war according to
the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal,
they're not fleshly, they're not of this world, but mighty
in God. For the pulling down of strongholds, casting down
arguments in every high thing that exalts itself against the
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knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the
obedience of Messiah, and being ready to punish all disobedience
when your obedience is fulfilled. That right there sets up
the basics of spiritual warfare.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
They're not of this world. They start in our mind.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
We need to pull down the strongholds that the enemy
has built up in this world in us, and we
can't punish any other disobedience to we punish our own.
So meekness the disposition to be gentle, kind, indulgent, even
balanced in temper and passions, patient, even suffering injuries without
(40:30):
feeling the spirit of revenge. Boy, is that one difficult
We've been raised to get even, We've been raised to
make things right instead of letting the Lord do it.
And I can tell you, whenever you take it into
your own hands, and he may allow you to do that,
(40:52):
you're going to mess it up. The Vine's complete exposure
Addictionary of Old and New Testament words. Is Meekness is
not in a person's outward behavior, only not knowing yet
in his relations to his fellow man, as little in
his mere natural disposition. It is rather an in wrought
(41:18):
grace of the soul, ingrained grace of the soul, and
the exercises of it are first and chiefly towards God.
It is that temper of spirit which we accept His
dealings with us as good, therefore without disputing or resisting.
(41:42):
It's very closely linked with the word humility, and follows
directly upon it. If we're not meek, if we're not
humble in our relationship with Him, we won't be meek
and humble with our relationship with a A w Tozer
in the Pursuit of God says this, The meek man
(42:06):
is not a human mouse afflicted with the sense of
his own inferiority. Rather, he may be in his moral
life as bold as a lion and as strong as Samson,
but he has stopped being fooled about himself. He has
accepted God's estimate of his own life. He knows he
is as weak and helpless as God has declared him
(42:29):
to be. But paradoxically, he knows at the same time
that he is, in the sight of God, more important
than angels. And he knows well that the world will
never see him as God sees him, and has stopped caring.
Boy that is powerful. It's the character of the new
(42:50):
man and new woman. Therefore is the elect of God,
holy and beloved. Put on tender mercies, kindness, humilities, meekness,
suffering Colossians three twelve. Clothe yourselves therefore as God's chosen ones,
his picked representatives in this fallen world, who are purified
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and holy and well beloved by God himself, by putting
on behavior marked by tenderhearted pity and mercy, kind feeling,
a lowly opinion of ourselves, gentle ways, patience, tireless and
long suffering. Who has the power to endure whatever comes
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with good temper. That kind of an army cannot be defeated.
That kind of an army cannot be manipulated into acting
out or self destructing. So the meekness, first of all,
is a meekness before God. If you can't be meek
with God, you can't be meek with men. And it's
out of a sense of permission by Him that you've
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been purified, that you've been saved, that you've been closed.
When you know that, you know that, you know that
you were born again name written in the Lamb's Book
of Life, Healed and redeemed. There is no doubt. There's
no question. The enemy cannot manipulate that. And I see
most challenges come people that aren't completely convinced that they're
right with God. You got that devil in your ear,
(44:19):
the demon in your ear reminding you of every wrong
thing you've ever done. And the answer to that is
that person is dead. They don't exist anymore. I am
a new creation in Messiah Matthew five to five, Blessed
of the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. He's
not going to give leadership to people that can't control
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their temper, which takes his right into self control. They all,
even though they're listed separately, I see them as all
in the same clusters. They're on the same vine. Self control, temperance.
It's a moderation in the indulgence of the appetites and
passions of the flesh. Home and Bible Dictionaries says modern
translations of this term. There's several Greek words. They indicate
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sober or temper, to calm, a dispassionate approach to life.
Having mastered personal desires and passions. God's people are called
to exercise self control. Self control is self restraint. Self
control is meekness, and it comes from strength, not weakness.
(45:25):
If you don't understand meekness, meekness is controlled power. I
could lash out, I choose not to second Peter one
verse starting verse five. But I also for this very reason,
giving all diligence add to your faith, virtue to virtue,
knowledge to knowledge, self control to self control, perseverance to perseverance,
(45:49):
to godliness, to godliness, brotherly kindness, to brotherly kindness.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
Love this. If you follow.
Speaker 1 (45:57):
Verses five through seven, each world leads to the next word.
Speaker 2 (46:01):
You're on a path. You're in a pattern.
Speaker 1 (46:03):
For if these things are yours and a bound you
will neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of
the Lord Jesus the Messiah. For he who lacks these
things is short sighted even to blindness, and has forgotten
that he was cleansed from his old sins. So each
(46:24):
of those aspects in Tewo Peter one five through nine,
one leads to the other. One creates the other their
ingredients of a fruitful growth in the faith, and they
pair together to give us the aspect.
Speaker 2 (46:41):
Of the Lord's character. Everything is about being like him.
Speaker 1 (46:45):
He wasn't a man be Pamby weak man to attract
the people he did. He was a strong man, he
was visibly strong. He had a presence about him, but
that same presence drew children to him. Paul did that
in front of Felix, Acts twenty four. He reasoned with
Felix about righteousness and self control and the judgment to come,
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and Felix got afraid, needs to go away for now.
I think when I have a convenient time, I'll call
for you. I was hoping for mercy and that he
might release him, and Felix kept calling for him, and
he conversed with him. Never got it though, to knowledge,
self control, to self control, perseverance, to perseverance, godliness, there's
(47:33):
the patterns. There's the formula if you want. Of those
people that need patterns and formula, there it is. It
follows knowledge, suggesting that what has learned requires self control
to be put into practice, and it is the bridge
to perseverance.
Speaker 2 (47:48):
And if that's not a formula for warfare and of
a soldier, I don't know what is.
Speaker 1 (47:54):
One of the first things we taught in martial arts,
which was an active part of your test to get
your blasd B belt, both verbally and the word part
of it, and then out on the floor is exercising
self control. You can have all the knowledge in the world,
but if you can't exercise self control, A, you're gonna
hurt somebody, and B you're gonna get yourself in trouble.
(48:18):
Self control says I need to walk away from the situation.
Me Winning means retreating. If you're fired up, if you
have an anger, if you have a desire to get even,
you're gonna mess up. True story. I don't think I've
told this, but I could have failed my black belt
test because I got paired with somebody I think he
(48:40):
was my age or older, who had no control over
his kicks and his punches. And you're not supposed to
kick people in the head. You're just not because you're
just sparring. This isn't a competition for points. And he
ain't threw a kick and he nailed me right in
the face. He didn't pull it, and his attitude was, well,
(49:02):
you should have moved, And it brought up that street
nature inside of me.
Speaker 2 (49:07):
And when they said bow.
Speaker 1 (49:10):
And gave the command to fight, I hit him square
in the padded part of his chest with everything I
had and literally knocked him backward into the mirrors and
started to explain in my thinking, this is flesh, this
is the street nature, proving to him the mistake of
his actions. They could have failed me right on the spot.
(49:32):
They pulled me, offer him, calmed it down, they made
they it was equal. What he did was delivered. He
showed that by his actions he never should have been
on the floor. He was somebody's students who did. The
student did.
Speaker 2 (49:47):
Not qualify for the black belt would be.
Speaker 1 (49:49):
That, as it may, they could have failed me, and
they would have been in their rights to do so.
Thankfully they didn't. Self control is important in all situations.
Probably would have scored more points for not retaliating problem.
In the leadership of the churches today, we don't have
some of these things. It's an aspect of leadership required
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by the Lord Titus one Versus seven through nine. A
bishop must be blameless as a steward of God, not
self willed, not quick tempered, not given to wine, not
violent nor greedy for money. What there goes most of
the leadership, but hospitable, a lover of what is good,
sober minded, just holy, self controlled, holding fast the faithful
(50:41):
word as he has been taught that he may be
able by sound doctrine both to exhort and convict those
who contradict one. Timothy III gives us the qualifications of
overseers blameless husband, one wife, temperate, sober minded, good behavior, hospitable,
(51:06):
able to teach, not given to wine, not violent, not
greedy for money, gentle, not quarreless, not covetous. One who
rules over his own house. There goes the other half
of the leadership, having his children in submission and all reverence.
For if a man does not know how to rule
(51:27):
his own house, how will he take care of the
Church of God? Not a novice, Lest being puffed up
with pride, he'll fall into the same condemnation as the devil.
And moreover, he must have a good testimony among those
who are outside, lest he fall into the reproach and
the snare of the devil. And if you want to
(51:49):
know why leadership in the church fail so miserably, there
it is. For Timothy III is a man named Sir
Alec Patterson. He was a prison reformer from the early
in eighteen hundred, said something very profound. He said, Oh God,
help us to master ourselves, that we may be servants
of others. That's what spiritual war for is. You're a
(52:11):
servant of God, and you're a servant of others. You're
not a servant of yourself. This isn't your agenda, this
isn't your reward. Proverb sixteen thirty two. He was slow
to anger is better than the Mighty, and he who
rules his spirit than he who takes a city.
Speaker 2 (52:33):
And acts.
Speaker 1 (52:33):
Twenty Paul exhorts the elders in Ephesus on how to
be the leaders they need to be by using himself
as an example, serving the Lord with all humility, many
tears and trials which happened to me by the plottings
of the Jews, how I kept back nothing that was helpful,
(52:56):
but proclaimed it to you and taught you publicly from
house to house, testifying to Jews and also to Greeks,
repentance towards God and faith towards our Lord Jesus the Messiah.
And see now I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem,
not knowing the things that will happen to me there,
except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying
(53:19):
that the chains and tribulations await me. But none of
these things move me. Nor do I count my life
dear to myself, so that I may finish my race
with joy in the ministry which I receive from the
Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of grace of
God Acts twenty seventeen through twenty four. You want to
(53:41):
be a leader, then you'll be better be able to
do these things. You better be able to discipline yourselves,
bring it into subjection, lest be disqualified.
Speaker 2 (53:53):
Because what you preach.
Speaker 1 (53:56):
Is and what you practice. That's essentially First Corinthians nine
twenty seven. I disciplined my body, bring it into subjection,
lest when I have preached to others, I myself should
become disqualified. Be the witness you need to be to
be the witness of the Lord to others. Practice what
(54:17):
you preach. And I've been around long enough in the body.
I just realized next week it will be.
Speaker 2 (54:27):
Was that thirty seven years.
Speaker 1 (54:30):
To see everything I'm sharing with you, to have experienced it,
even having done it the bad stuff too. But there's
a story about Alexander the Great shared in a book
called Managing Your Motions by Irwin Lutzer. We all know
that Alexander the Great conquered the world. What few people
(54:51):
know is that this mighty general could not conquer himself.
Clead Us, a dear friend of Alexander's and general in
his army, became intoxicated and ridiculed the emperor in front
of his men. Blinded by anger, quick as lightning, Alexander
snatched a spear from the hand of a soldier and
(55:12):
hurled it at Cleatus. Though he only intended to scare
the drunken general, his aim was true, and the spirit
took the life of his childhood friend. Deep remorse followed
his anger. Overcome with guilt, Alexander tried to take his
(55:33):
own life with the same spear, but was stopped by
his men. For days, he lay sick, calling for his
friend Kleidus, chiding himself as a murderer. Lutser concludes by saying,
(55:53):
Alexander the Great conquered many cities, he conquered many countries,
but he felt miserable to conquer his own self, and
I will it cost him dearly as outbursts of wrath
like that and lack of self control will do. You
cannot do spiritual warfare of any kind, whether it's for
(56:14):
your family, for yourself, for others, or for the Kingdom
of God against the enemy, with any aspect of the
enemy in you. And if we're going to produce fruit,
we must open ourselves up completely to the light of
the Lord and the glory of God. To have everything
and it's exposed that's not of Him, and to have
it removed for it to wither and die, and for
(56:37):
the fruit to grow. But I will tell you that
the Holy Spirit empowers us to do that, to avoid
the sin the snare of the devils. First Thessalonians four,
three and five. For this is the will of God
your sanctification, that's the will of God to be sanctified.
That you should abstain from sexual immorality. That each of
you should know how to possess his own vessel in
(57:00):
sanctification and honor, not in passion of lust, like the
gentiles who do not know God. We must allow him
to tend to and nurture the vine. The planted seeds
of our walk need his light and the water of
the Word and the spirit to bear fruit. Let me
say that again to those of you that are struggling.
(57:21):
The planted seeds of our walk need his light and
the water of His word and spirit to bear fruit.
We cannot do this by ourselves. Like when you write me,
if you will call me and we talk about what's
going on, I'm gonna give away my little trick to
you that I've learned from the Lord. I get you
to talking two reasons. We bring it out into the
(57:44):
of the Lord. It gets exposed, the enemy gets exposed.
It's easy to pull the root because it's withering and dying.
As you're speaking, you also get to hear it for yourself,
and the answers come to you. I just confirm those
answers through the spirit and through the unction given to me.
The point being, it needs to be exposed, stop hiding,
(58:05):
stop holding it. In the active, powerful, living presence of
the Rua kak Kadesh in believers will produce the Lord's
virtues within us, and as living trees we will bear
good fruit. Colossians one ten through thirteen, That you may
walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing and being fruitful
(58:27):
in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God,
strengthened with all might according to His glorious power, for
all patience and long suffering with joy, giving thanks to
the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of
the inheritance of the saints and the Light. He has
delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us
(58:51):
into the kingdom of the Son of his Love. He
has rescued us and has drawn us to himself, from
the dominion of darkness, and has transferred us to the
kingdom of his beloved Son. He has transplanted us from
(59:11):
one to the other, from spiritual ignorance, from immorality, from
the misery of this world, to a fruitful life of
the spirit planted in the Father's vineyard. But the thing
about this is it takes time to grow.
Speaker 2 (59:28):
George A.
Speaker 1 (59:28):
Chauncey was a Presbyterian minister graduate of the Yale Divinity School.
He said the church should be a community of dates
instead of pumpkins. Pumpkins you can harvest in six months.
Dates must be planted, intended by people who will not
live to harvest them. Dates are for future generations abiding
(59:54):
in the presence of Messiah and the importance of that
and the need for spe spiritual growth. Continued spiritual growth
takes time and cultivation, and you don't do it alone.
He's the one doing it. I am convinced. Paul says
in first Philippians one six. I am convinced and confident
(01:00:16):
of this very thing, that he who has begun a
good work in you will continue to perfect and complete
it until the day of Messiah Iseshua the time of
his return. If he began it, he'll finish it. You
have to let him. You have to take your hands
off of it. You have to submit, you have to
be humble, you have to be open. You have to
(01:00:38):
keep going, and if you keep going, you will keep growing.
Speaker 2 (01:00:42):
I'm living proof of that which takes us back to
where we started. John fifteen.
Speaker 1 (01:00:47):
If you remain in me and my words remain in you,
that is, if you are vitally united, we are vitally united.
If you and Messiah are vitally united. My message lives
in your home, he said. Ask whatever you wish, and
it will be done for you. It's not going to
be done for somebody that's not vitally connected with him.
It's the outgrowth of your relationship with him. My father
(01:01:10):
is glorified and honored by this. This is really important
Verse eight. My father is glorified and honored by this.
When you bear much fruit and prove yourselves to be
my true disciples. What'd you say, Lord, it's not about
building our own kingdoms or our own organizations, our own businesses.
(01:01:33):
It's not about the number of buildings or all these
other things. That's about bearing fruit, the fruit of the spirit,
of showing the people that we're like you, of drawing
people to you. Yeah, that's what he's saying. That's our
job to defeat the enemy. And he was defeated on calvery,
don't get me wrong. But he has not submitted. He
(01:01:54):
has not given in, He is not let go. So
we're dealing with a satanically empowered terrorist army that we
have to submit. That we have to forcefully submit. That's
what Tarrying is occupying, is being a military presence in
this fallen world. But to do that we must have
(01:02:16):
the fruit of the spirit. We must apply all of this.
If we do, that will be successful. So, Father, in
the name of your Shue and the name of your Son,
I ask to everyone that's listening, that you reveal to
(01:02:38):
us anything that's not of you, any way of thinking,
any thought, any choice, any ground that the enemy still
has in us, anywhere that there are weeds or wild vines.
And first I ask that you shine your glory down
on it so hard that it withers and dies, that
(01:03:01):
you rip it out from the root, and that you
set us free, that we let go of our past,
that we let go of all the words that have
wounded us, whether done by ourselves or others, And set
us free so that we can shine, That we can
(01:03:22):
arise and shine in these dark times, and that we
can be more like you, loving, joyful, compassionate gentle set
the captives free, and shake this world in a way
(01:03:42):
it's not seen before, even from the book of ex Cherts.
One last time, before the return of the King. And
I pray, Holy Spirit, that you would take that desire
and that prayer and drive it into our hearts and
remind us every day what we need to do to
fulfill it. And I pray all these things. And you
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shoe his name. If you agree with me, say amen.
May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord,
may I don't know, I make his face to shine
upon you, be gracious to you. May the Lord I
don't know, your shoe a homosiak Jesus the Messiah, lift
(01:04:25):
up his countenance upon you and give you peace. Give
you shallam. I'm Richard Grund. This has been the porch
on Firefall Talk Radio.
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