June 11, 2024 • 34 mins
To serve God the Father, you MUST be reborn and become a new creature. You can't do that without dying to yourself and this world. There's NO other way! Being reborn means you are no longer the same. You won't think, walk, talk, or even dress the same, because hearts will be too convicted to do anything against God. Bottom line is you can't be a "new creature" doing the same old things.
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Hey, Hey, I'm bad withsomething for you. Yes, you to
think about. In order to bereborn, you must first die. What
you heard me, In order tobe reborn, you must first die.
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Now, let me say this fromthe start. Depending on who you serve,
you're still considered to be reborn intothat. Those who serve the devil,
and I'm just gonna talk about thisvery quickly, are reborn into Satanic
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culture, Satanic Satanic worship where theymake the devil their god. The devil
is not God, but people makehim their god because you can make anything
your god, idols, objects,people, But there's only one God.
And that's all I'm saying about that. But it's a process that they go
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through when worshiping Christ. The Bibletells us the only way to the Father
is through the Son. So youfirst must be born again. Roma is
ten and nine. You're being saved, you say, and you believe that
Jesus is the Son of God andhe died on the cross for your sins.
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That's the first step into worshiping,honoring, and serving the Lord.
To be reborn, you must firstdie. You must first die. And
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what do I mean by that?I mean you must die to yourself,
to all your lustful ways, yourgreed, your flesh. You must die
to the world, meaning you nolonger are seeking after or longing for the
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things of the world, the waysof the world. So you must die
to yourself, and you must dieto yourself. Is your flesh, and
you must die to this world.It's an absolute must. It's a must.
I'm not talking about reincarnations or noneof that, because personally, I
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don't believe in that. When Jesusrose the third Day, he rose for
a purpose for us, for theworld. He rose for a purpose.
He didn't he wasn't raised as beingreincarnated. He rose as himself for a
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purpose for us. It was aprocess that had to be fulfilled. So
when people say, well, Jesus, you're not Jesus, you can't even
put yourself in that category. Youcan't put none of us in that category.
He did that for a purpose,just like he was born up in
an inimmaculate conception, so there's nocomparison. So that was for a reason.
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The Bible said, when we die, we are disconnected from our bodies.
We do not come back. Thedead does not know what the living
is doing, and obviously vice versa. So a lot of people think that
obviously their loved ones are still hangingaround somewhere. I just wish people would
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think about it. What sense wouldit make for them to die? And
a lot of people have died unhappyand then you come back to that same
unhappy realm on earth. Makes nosense to me anyways. We're not gonna
get caught up in that. Soto be reborn, you must first die
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to yourself into this world. Okay, stop thinking about Jesus being reborn,
because he did it for us.He did he had to come back for
a reason, and then he ascendedup to the Father for us. But
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when you die to yourself, thatmeans you've given up those things of the
world. The things you've chased andsought after, are no longer important to
you. You're not caught up inthe things that you used to be caught
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up in. You're not idolizing possessionsand things like that anymore. Your heart
and your mind is focused on Christ, because Heaven is your gold. That's
what it means to die of yourself, to die of this world. It
is an absolute musk. And theproblem is most people don't They get saved,
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but they don't die. They don'tdie of themselves or this world.
They still want to dibble and dabbleinto things that are not of God.
And that's the way most people inthe world are want to straddle the imaginary
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fence because in reality, there's nofence to straddle. Either you're for him
or you're against him, period.So Jesus is our gateway to the Father.
Some people believe Jesus is God.I don't. It's too much evidence
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in the Bible that says Jesus isJesus the Son, and God is his
father. He spoke through them tohim all through the Bible and the Bible,
and in the Bible, God spoketo his son also in the presence
of others. So they're not oneand the same. They're on the same
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accord as one, but they're notone and the same. That's what I
believe, and nobody will change mymind about it. So don't even waste
your time trying. But in orderto serve him, you must die to
yourself and of this world. Becausea lot of people are claiming that they
love Jesus, but their hearts andmind haven't changed. They're claiming they love
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Jesus. But they're still full ofanger and hurt and sickness and confusion and
mental anguish. But they say theylove Jesus, full of anxiety, fears,
and phobia. But you love Jesus. You gotta cast your cares because
you're still holding on to things ofthe world. You must cast your cares
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because he said, for I carefor you. You gotta cast your cares.
You have to lave met his feet, and you can't go back to
pick him up. I don't carehow people look at you. I don't
care what they say about you.You have to cast your cares and leave
them there. If you're gonna love, medice, feed them, then when
you leave, you turn around andtake them with you. What's the point
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of casting them there? You haveno faith in God, You have no
faith in His son. Some ofyou you keep trying to work out your
own problems, but you keep findingyourself going deeper and deeper into darkness because
you're trying to fix something that you'resupposed to leave at his feet and leave
there. You have to let go. If you love God, trust him,
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trust his son to do what theysay they will do, to be
who they say that they are.Stop trying to fix your situation because obviously
you can't give it to Jesus.And let me tell you something. And
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I'm a living witness. I ama living witness. Sometimes God don't fix
it the way you want him tofix it. He fix it the way
he knows it needs to be fixed. But old baby, the things you
have to go through sometimes because Godfix it a certain way, The things
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you have to go through, theburdens you have to bear. M I'm
telling you, but you can handleit. When you trust Jesus, you
can handle anything. I don't carehow terrible, how horrific, how sad,
how bad. You can handle itwhen you've laid it at his feet,
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when you cast your carros on him. I'm telling you you can handle
anything. People won't understand. Butyou know who got it. You know
it didn't turn the way you wantedit to turn, But it turned the
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best way. Even though it maylook horrible to you. He still knows
best. He always knows best.So don't get discouraged when you cast your
cares upon him. Believe that youcan fix the situation. Believe he will
handle the situation. And like Isaid, it may not be the way
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you want it, but it's theright way, even if it looks bad.
That's the trust, and that's thelove that you have to have for
him. That's the faith you haveto have in him. Because faith is
the substance of things hoped for,evidence of things not seen. So you
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have to believe it's all right,even if it don't feel that way.
You have to name it and claimit. You have to believe it is
already done. You have to getyour eyes off of the world that include
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people and things and get your eyeson the prize. And that's Jesus,
the Son God, the Father inheaven. Because when you die and you
leave this natural body, whatever youchose, why you're here, is where
you're going. You're going according tohow you chose to live your life and
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who you served. That's a guaranteeuntil judgment. I don't know about you,
but I want to be in agood, happy, peaceful place.
So it's up to you. Butknow that you have to be reborn.
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You cannot walk this water doing thesame things you used to do. You
carenot, and that is what we'reseeing so much in the churches of today.
Church houses are full with people ofthe world, to include the leaders,
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to include the leaders. That's whyyou're seeing so much of worldly things
in the church, because now they'vemade them churches of man and not churches
of God. Clearly, many leadershave not died to themselves and to this
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world, clearly, because there's noway they would allow the things that they're
allowing in the churches. No waythey would be doing some of the things
they're doing, no way they wouldbe saying some of the things they're saying.
Some pastors curse more than people ofthe world. And I know not
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everybody in the world cursed, becauseI never was a curser, but some
can rattle it off you hear me, and some so called pastors, and
I will say so called because that'sexactly what they are. They curse worse
than people of the world. That'sbecause they are people of the world.
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A lot of people say, Idon't go to church because look what they're
doing in the churches. Church folks. There's church folks that and I did
a whole episode on him before,just because people go to church that don't
make them children of God, Okay, being God's children and children of God
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is a different, totally too differ. We're all God's children, but we're
not all children of God because wehaven't all chosen Him as our lord and
savior. Gotta choose his son first, that is first. You must choose
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his son first, because through theson you can get to the Father God.
So you gotta let go things ofthis world. And I mean,
the reason people struggle so hard isbecause they're trying to steal hold on You
can't. You gotta let it go. You have to let it go,
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and don't think about it. Don'tkeep trying to look back like Lot's wife
did, because all you're doing iskeeping yourself in the world. And you
know when your time is up.You don't want to be on that side
when your time is up, causesure less you live, you're gonna die.
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No one knows the day or anhour. So let me tell you
the time is now. Right now, it's all we have. None of
us are guaranteed the next second,the next hour, the next day,
the next week, the next month, the next year. None of us
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right now is all we have.Tomorrow is gone and we do we do.
Yesterday is gone. I'm sorry,Yesterday is gone and all we have
is hope for tomorrow, but thatdon't mean it's ever coming. Today is
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all we have. It's time tostop playing because God is not playing with
any of us. And you don'twant God to take his hands off of
you. You don't want it.You don't want them to turn you over
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to that reprobate mind. That's theworst thing. That's the worst thing.
Our world is in, the conditionthat is in because of people of the
world, because of LUs because ofgreed, and people unwillingness to change to
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become better. This world is adark, cold place. And I'm telling
you, in the drop of adime, you know what a penny,
I would leave and go to themountains, go somewhere that's secluded. In
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a heartbeat. Now by myself,I'm a little you know for that.
I don't know know enough for that. But if I had someone to go
with me. In a dime,I mean quickness drop, I keep saying
to drop of a dime, buta penny, that's how quick I'll go
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because I can. It's just peopleare unpredictable. You go out your mind
and your business people are not makingit home because of foolishness, Because people
are so full of hurt and painand unhealed hearts and minds. You end
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up losing your life over their foolishness, and it makes you not even want
to be around people. I lovepeople, but I don't have time for
their foolishness. My tolerance is zero. I don't have no problem being by
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myself, being alone. There aremany things I wish I knew. How
to live off of the land,how to pick things that won't harm me,
how to build. Oh my gosh, I wish I knew that stuff.
I wouldn't be sitting here. I'lltell you that because these things they
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mean nothing to me. They reallydon't. I was having a conversation with
someone and we were talking about jewelry, and she said that she was gonna
give a friend a piece of jewelrythat she has had, you know,
a long time years. But whenshe got the praise and found out how
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much it costs, she said,no, I'm not giving it to that
person. So I said, whynot. If you was gonna give it
to that person, it shouldn't matterhow much it costs, you should give
it to the person. We can'ttake any of this with us, And
so she finally said, well,my executor can give it to her.
Well, what if your executor,the person that you got all the faith
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in the world in, die beforeyou see, we have to be careful
of who we invest our faith in. We shouldn't invest our faith in no
one but Jesus the Son and Godthe Father. And I mean, I'm
guilty too. I remember a timewhen I wrote out my funeral many years
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ago and the person I said Iwanted to preach my funeral been dead long
ago. But I mean, ofcourse wasn't dead at the time, but
I don't know what I was saying. So the people you think is going
to outlive you, you may endup outliving them. So things that you
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should have done, because things arejust things that don't matter. You can't
take it with you. So ifyou don't enjoy it now, I don't
care how much you pay for it. If you're not enjoying it right now,
then let somebody else enjoy it.Somebody that you know will take care
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of it. But I just thinkthat's when people are invested in things,
you know, holding on to thingsand things like that, and God can
fix that situation to be what youtotally opposite of what you had planned.
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You know, and that's just fact. So stop putting all your faith in
people and thinking you got it allplaying down, because God would throw a
monkey wrench in that plan. I'mtelling you quick, we should only worship
the Father and the Son, notthings, not people, because they don't
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matter at the end. This journeyis solo. When you die, it's
solo. I don't care if youdie with somebody else in a wreck or
something. When you die, yougoing whatever, and that person going whatever.
Your spirits are going to according tohow you live. I don't care
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if you the part of this world. At the same time, your spirits
are going according to how you livelife. I don't care. If you're
a husband and wife, you've beentogether seventy years, you died and and
then he died right next to you. Your spirits are going according to where,
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going where, according to what youchose while you were alive. That's
why the Bible says there are nomarriages in heaven, because it's a whole
lot of merrit People went separate waysor going separate ways, and the Bible
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tells us there are no marriages inheaven. You can believe what you want
to believe, if that make youfeel better. But I'm going by the
word of God. Don't get madat me. Read the Bible. It's
right in there. I don't worshippeople, I don't worship things. And
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I've told you before, no,don't matter what I go through, no
matter I don't care what happens.I don't care how drastic, I don't
care how horrible. All I askGod is Jesus the Son, and God
the Father. Give me strength toendure, Give me that peace that continue,
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peace that surpasses all understanding. BecauseI know things are gonna happen.
Horrible things are gonna happen. Horriblethings have happened beyond my belief, beyond
things that I ever would have imaginedhas happened. But I still got peace
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because I don't give my power tothings or to people. And I just
ask the Lord to continue to strengthenme, the Holy Spirit to continue to
be God. My eyes is onHeaven. My eyes is on the Father
and the Son, not people ofthe world, not the ways of the
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world. I don't care. Andwhen I say I don't care, what
I'm saying is I don't care aboutall of the distractions that's around. What's
gonna happen is gonna happen. Ihave no control over it. Only control
I have is how I respond toit. And as long as my eyes
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is on the prize, Jesus andthe and the Father God, I can
with I can withstand. If ittakes me out physically, You've done me
a favor because I know where I'mgoing. I know where I'm going because
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I live my life in such away. It's not for play, it's
for real. I'm one of thefew I know I am. And that's
the mindset you have to adopt.This thing is a twenty four seven things
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twenty four to seven. You gottaalways be in prayer. You have to
always be thinking about Jesus. Youhave to always think about what you're doing
and how you're thinking, what you'refeeling, is it pleasing to God?
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And that may sound crazy to you, but that's how you have to live
your life. You have to walkit as well as talking, because there's
a lot of people. They cantalk it. Ooh baby, they can
talk it, but the walk don'talign and it's all in vain. You
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have more way, more of thewalking dead. Then you have those who
are truly serving God, way moreof the walking dead. But it don't
matter because God still got it.He got it, He's still in charge.
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And like that, like I saidearlier, the devil don't have a
kingdom. The devil is not agod, but people have made him their
god and they think the tangible thingsof the world are more important. You
know, it's like a relationship withyour significant other. You been with this
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person for so long and you don'thave no connection, no communication, no
affection. But you're with this personfor so long because of the kids.
The kids get grown and gone andyou're still there. But nothing is benefiting
you. It's aging you, it'smaking you sick, but you're still there.
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You're still holding on to it.That's the way people are with the
world. The world make them sickmentally and physically break them financially, but
they still want the world because it'stangible things, only to lose their soul
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no peace within. Still the sameway mentally, haven't grown any Most adults
are not even mature. They thinkthey are, but they're not. You
could tell by the choices and decisionsthey make. The things they do.
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So when you make a decision tochoose Jesus. Sometimes it's a lonely journey,
but hey, it's all right.It's supposed to be because it's a
solo journey. Some of you worriedabout what someone's saying or what they're gonna
do. You can't. This isyour life. You have to know that
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what you choose determines your eternal home. You can't do the same things.
You cannot do the same things.You cannot entertain the same people the same
way, you cannot talk the sameEven your dress needs to change, and
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it will because your heart will beconvicted. There's a lot of people that
I know, personally professional and nonprofessional in the gospel industry that says they
you know, they're living for theLord, and it's a lie. You
can see it all over them.You can see it in the things they
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do, the clothes they wear,how they act. But they just happen
to preach well and sing well andspeak well. And because of that,
people are so quickly they're so quicklybelieving that they're anointing when they have no
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anointing at all. They just knowhow to perform well. Some have powerful
voices, but it's not the anointing. So you get caught up in your
emotions thinking it's anointing, and youfollow these people who have no anointing because
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you've following the man. You haveyour eyes on the creature and not the
creator. You have to give itup. Love Jesus like that. Love
Jesus the way you're trying to loveyour significant other, only more. Jesus
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got to be first. God hasto be the center of our life,
the first, the center, theending. So serving God, you gotta
let it all go. To bereborn, you gotta die of yourself,
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and you gotta die of this world. And that's a must to be that
new creature. Everything must change,and it's not difficult. It has never
ever ever been difficult for me.Have I gotten discouraged? You bet I
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have. Yes, I have gottendiscouraged because I'm still human. But I
never entertain it. I said,Lord, I know I have good days.
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You know you're gonna have good days, You're gonna have bad days.
But serving God, the good isgoing on our way to bad because you're
not trying to fix it. Yougave it to him to fix You gave
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it to him to carry that burden, no matter what it is. No
matter what that burden is, financial, sickness, whatever it is, when
you turn it over to Him,it relieves you of it. You shouldn't
be stressed, out, depressed,suicidal, homeless. Are none of that,
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not in you. Serving God,the true in living God, not
that person you made your God,not the devil, but the true in
living God, with the Son Jesus. You have to mean it from your
heart. You have to do itwith honesty and truth. Your mind has
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to be made up. You can'tlet people persuade you to go back into
the world. You came out ofit. You know what's there, you
know what it's like, you knowwhat it has to offer. Serving God.
You can still do all of thosethings. You can still achieve all
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of the accomplishments. But the differenceis you're not doing any and everything for
it because it's just not that importantto you. So that's all I'm saying.
I'm leaving it right there. Thankyou so much for listening. Much
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love to you. Please check outRelationship Chronicles. This is relatable. Like
Chronicles end every episode to save it, I hope and Lord knows, I
pray you do it than on it
Hey, Hey, I'm bad withsomething for you. Yes, you to
think about. In order to bereborn, you must first die. What
you heard me, In order tobe reborn, you must first die.
(00:25):
Now, let me say this fromthe start. Depending on who you serve,
you're still considered to be reborn intothat. Those who serve the devil,
and I'm just gonna talk about thisvery quickly, are reborn into Satanic
(00:52):
culture, Satanic Satanic worship where theymake the devil their god. The devil
is not God, but people makehim their god because you can make anything
your god, idols, objects,people, But there's only one God.
And that's all I'm saying about that. But it's a process that they go
(01:17):
through when worshiping Christ. The Bibletells us the only way to the Father
is through the Son. So youfirst must be born again. Roma is
ten and nine. You're being saved, you say, and you believe that
Jesus is the Son of God andhe died on the cross for your sins.
(01:40):
That's the first step into worshiping,honoring, and serving the Lord.
To be reborn, you must firstdie. You must first die. And
(02:01):
what do I mean by that?I mean you must die to yourself,
to all your lustful ways, yourgreed, your flesh. You must die
to the world, meaning you nolonger are seeking after or longing for the
(02:22):
things of the world, the waysof the world. So you must die
to yourself, and you must dieto yourself. Is your flesh, and
you must die to this world.It's an absolute must. It's a must.
I'm not talking about reincarnations or noneof that, because personally, I
(02:47):
don't believe in that. When Jesusrose the third Day, he rose for
a purpose for us, for theworld. He rose for a purpose.
He didn't he wasn't raised as beingreincarnated. He rose as himself for a
(03:10):
purpose for us. It was aprocess that had to be fulfilled. So
when people say, well, Jesus, you're not Jesus, you can't even
put yourself in that category. Youcan't put none of us in that category.
He did that for a purpose,just like he was born up in
an inimmaculate conception, so there's nocomparison. So that was for a reason.
(03:39):
The Bible said, when we die, we are disconnected from our bodies.
We do not come back. Thedead does not know what the living
is doing, and obviously vice versa. So a lot of people think that
obviously their loved ones are still hangingaround somewhere. I just wish people would
(04:02):
think about it. What sense wouldit make for them to die? And
a lot of people have died unhappyand then you come back to that same
unhappy realm on earth. Makes nosense to me anyways. We're not gonna
get caught up in that. Soto be reborn, you must first die
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to yourself into this world. Okay, stop thinking about Jesus being reborn,
because he did it for us.He did he had to come back for
a reason, and then he ascendedup to the Father for us. But
(04:46):
when you die to yourself, thatmeans you've given up those things of the
world. The things you've chased andsought after, are no longer important to
you. You're not caught up inthe things that you used to be caught
(05:11):
up in. You're not idolizing possessionsand things like that anymore. Your heart
and your mind is focused on Christ, because Heaven is your gold. That's
what it means to die of yourself, to die of this world. It
is an absolute musk. And theproblem is most people don't They get saved,
(05:36):
but they don't die. They don'tdie of themselves or this world.
They still want to dibble and dabbleinto things that are not of God.
And that's the way most people inthe world are want to straddle the imaginary
(06:02):
fence because in reality, there's nofence to straddle. Either you're for him
or you're against him, period.So Jesus is our gateway to the Father.
Some people believe Jesus is God.I don't. It's too much evidence
(06:23):
in the Bible that says Jesus isJesus the Son, and God is his
father. He spoke through them tohim all through the Bible and the Bible,
and in the Bible, God spoketo his son also in the presence
of others. So they're not oneand the same. They're on the same
(06:44):
accord as one, but they're notone and the same. That's what I
believe, and nobody will change mymind about it. So don't even waste
your time trying. But in orderto serve him, you must die to
yourself and of this world. Becausea lot of people are claiming that they
love Jesus, but their hearts andmind haven't changed. They're claiming they love
(07:04):
Jesus. But they're still full ofanger and hurt and sickness and confusion and
mental anguish. But they say theylove Jesus, full of anxiety, fears,
and phobia. But you love Jesus. You gotta cast your cares because
you're still holding on to things ofthe world. You must cast your cares
(07:30):
because he said, for I carefor you. You gotta cast your cares.
You have to lave met his feet, and you can't go back to
pick him up. I don't carehow people look at you. I don't
care what they say about you.You have to cast your cares and leave
them there. If you're gonna love, medice, feed them, then when
you leave, you turn around andtake them with you. What's the point
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of casting them there? You haveno faith in God, You have no
faith in His son. Some ofyou you keep trying to work out your
own problems, but you keep findingyourself going deeper and deeper into darkness because
you're trying to fix something that you'resupposed to leave at his feet and leave
there. You have to let go. If you love God, trust him,
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trust his son to do what theysay they will do, to be
who they say that they are.Stop trying to fix your situation because obviously
you can't give it to Jesus.And let me tell you something. And
(08:43):
I'm a living witness. I ama living witness. Sometimes God don't fix
it the way you want him tofix it. He fix it the way
he knows it needs to be fixed. But old baby, the things you
have to go through sometimes because Godfix it a certain way, The things
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you have to go through, theburdens you have to bear. M I'm
telling you, but you can handleit. When you trust Jesus, you
can handle anything. I don't carehow terrible, how horrific, how sad,
how bad. You can handle itwhen you've laid it at his feet,
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when you cast your carros on him. I'm telling you you can handle
anything. People won't understand. Butyou know who got it. You know
it didn't turn the way you wantedit to turn, But it turned the
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best way. Even though it maylook horrible to you. He still knows
best. He always knows best.So don't get discouraged when you cast your
cares upon him. Believe that youcan fix the situation. Believe he will
handle the situation. And like Isaid, it may not be the way
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you want it, but it's theright way, even if it looks bad.
That's the trust, and that's thelove that you have to have for
him. That's the faith you haveto have in him. Because faith is
the substance of things hoped for,evidence of things not seen. So you
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have to believe it's all right,even if it don't feel that way.
You have to name it and claimit. You have to believe it is
already done. You have to getyour eyes off of the world that include
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people and things and get your eyeson the prize. And that's Jesus,
the Son God, the Father inheaven. Because when you die and you
leave this natural body, whatever youchose, why you're here, is where
you're going. You're going according tohow you chose to live your life and
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who you served. That's a guaranteeuntil judgment. I don't know about you,
but I want to be in agood, happy, peaceful place.
So it's up to you. Butknow that you have to be reborn.
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You cannot walk this water doing thesame things you used to do. You
carenot, and that is what we'reseeing so much in the churches of today.
Church houses are full with people ofthe world, to include the leaders,
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to include the leaders. That's whyyou're seeing so much of worldly things
in the church, because now they'vemade them churches of man and not churches
of God. Clearly, many leadershave not died to themselves and to this
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world, clearly, because there's noway they would allow the things that they're
allowing in the churches. No waythey would be doing some of the things
they're doing, no way they wouldbe saying some of the things they're saying.
Some pastors curse more than people ofthe world. And I know not
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everybody in the world cursed, becauseI never was a curser, but some
can rattle it off you hear me, and some so called pastors, and
I will say so called because that'sexactly what they are. They curse worse
than people of the world. That'sbecause they are people of the world.
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A lot of people say, Idon't go to church because look what they're
doing in the churches. Church folks. There's church folks that and I did
a whole episode on him before,just because people go to church that don't
make them children of God, Okay, being God's children and children of God
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is a different, totally too differ. We're all God's children, but we're
not all children of God because wehaven't all chosen Him as our lord and
savior. Gotta choose his son first, that is first. You must choose
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his son first, because through theson you can get to the Father God.
So you gotta let go things ofthis world. And I mean,
the reason people struggle so hard isbecause they're trying to steal hold on You
can't. You gotta let it go. You have to let it go,
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and don't think about it. Don'tkeep trying to look back like Lot's wife
did, because all you're doing iskeeping yourself in the world. And you
know when your time is up.You don't want to be on that side
when your time is up, causesure less you live, you're gonna die.
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No one knows the day or anhour. So let me tell you
the time is now. Right now, it's all we have. None of
us are guaranteed the next second,the next hour, the next day,
the next week, the next month, the next year. None of us
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right now is all we have.Tomorrow is gone and we do we do.
Yesterday is gone. I'm sorry,Yesterday is gone and all we have
is hope for tomorrow, but thatdon't mean it's ever coming. Today is
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all we have. It's time tostop playing because God is not playing with
any of us. And you don'twant God to take his hands off of
you. You don't want it.You don't want them to turn you over
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to that reprobate mind. That's theworst thing. That's the worst thing.
Our world is in, the conditionthat is in because of people of the
world, because of LUs because ofgreed, and people unwillingness to change to
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become better. This world is adark, cold place. And I'm telling
you, in the drop of adime, you know what a penny,
I would leave and go to themountains, go somewhere that's secluded. In
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a heartbeat. Now by myself,I'm a little you know for that.
I don't know know enough for that. But if I had someone to go
with me. In a dime,I mean quickness drop, I keep saying
to drop of a dime, buta penny, that's how quick I'll go
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because I can. It's just peopleare unpredictable. You go out your mind
and your business people are not makingit home because of foolishness, Because people
are so full of hurt and painand unhealed hearts and minds. You end
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up losing your life over their foolishness, and it makes you not even want
to be around people. I lovepeople, but I don't have time for
their foolishness. My tolerance is zero. I don't have no problem being by
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myself, being alone. There aremany things I wish I knew. How
to live off of the land,how to pick things that won't harm me,
how to build. Oh my gosh, I wish I knew that stuff.
I wouldn't be sitting here. I'lltell you that because these things they
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mean nothing to me. They reallydon't. I was having a conversation with
someone and we were talking about jewelry, and she said that she was gonna
give a friend a piece of jewelrythat she has had, you know,
a long time years. But whenshe got the praise and found out how
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much it costs, she said,no, I'm not giving it to that
person. So I said, whynot. If you was gonna give it
to that person, it shouldn't matterhow much it costs, you should give
it to the person. We can'ttake any of this with us, And
so she finally said, well,my executor can give it to her.
Well, what if your executor,the person that you got all the faith
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in the world in, die beforeyou see, we have to be careful
of who we invest our faith in. We shouldn't invest our faith in no
one but Jesus the Son and Godthe Father. And I mean, I'm
guilty too. I remember a timewhen I wrote out my funeral many years
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ago and the person I said Iwanted to preach my funeral been dead long
ago. But I mean, ofcourse wasn't dead at the time, but
I don't know what I was saying. So the people you think is going
to outlive you, you may endup outliving them. So things that you
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should have done, because things arejust things that don't matter. You can't
take it with you. So ifyou don't enjoy it now, I don't
care how much you pay for it. If you're not enjoying it right now,
then let somebody else enjoy it.Somebody that you know will take care
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of it. But I just thinkthat's when people are invested in things,
you know, holding on to thingsand things like that, and God can
fix that situation to be what youtotally opposite of what you had planned.
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You know, and that's just fact. So stop putting all your faith in
people and thinking you got it allplaying down, because God would throw a
monkey wrench in that plan. I'mtelling you quick, we should only worship
the Father and the Son, notthings, not people, because they don't
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matter at the end. This journeyis solo. When you die, it's
solo. I don't care if youdie with somebody else in a wreck or
something. When you die, yougoing whatever, and that person going whatever.
Your spirits are going to according tohow you live. I don't care
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if you the part of this world. At the same time, your spirits
are going according to how you livelife. I don't care. If you're
a husband and wife, you've beentogether seventy years, you died and and
then he died right next to you. Your spirits are going according to where,
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going where, according to what youchose while you were alive. That's
why the Bible says there are nomarriages in heaven, because it's a whole
lot of merrit People went separate waysor going separate ways, and the Bible
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tells us there are no marriages inheaven. You can believe what you want
to believe, if that make youfeel better. But I'm going by the
word of God. Don't get madat me. Read the Bible. It's
right in there. I don't worshippeople, I don't worship things. And
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I've told you before, no,don't matter what I go through, no
matter I don't care what happens.I don't care how drastic, I don't
care how horrible. All I askGod is Jesus the Son, and God
the Father. Give me strength toendure, Give me that peace that continue,
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peace that surpasses all understanding. BecauseI know things are gonna happen.
Horrible things are gonna happen. Horriblethings have happened beyond my belief, beyond
things that I ever would have imaginedhas happened. But I still got peace
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because I don't give my power tothings or to people. And I just
ask the Lord to continue to strengthenme, the Holy Spirit to continue to
be God. My eyes is onHeaven. My eyes is on the Father
and the Son, not people ofthe world, not the ways of the
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world. I don't care. Andwhen I say I don't care, what
I'm saying is I don't care aboutall of the distractions that's around. What's
gonna happen is gonna happen. Ihave no control over it. Only control
I have is how I respond toit. And as long as my eyes
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is on the prize, Jesus andthe and the Father God, I can
with I can withstand. If ittakes me out physically, You've done me
a favor because I know where I'mgoing. I know where I'm going because
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I live my life in such away. It's not for play, it's
for real. I'm one of thefew I know I am. And that's
the mindset you have to adopt.This thing is a twenty four seven things
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twenty four to seven. You gottaalways be in prayer. You have to
always be thinking about Jesus. Youhave to always think about what you're doing
and how you're thinking, what you'refeeling, is it pleasing to God?
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And that may sound crazy to you, but that's how you have to live
your life. You have to walkit as well as talking, because there's
a lot of people. They cantalk it. Ooh baby, they can
talk it, but the walk don'talign and it's all in vain. You
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have more way, more of thewalking dead. Then you have those who
are truly serving God, way moreof the walking dead. But it don't
matter because God still got it.He got it, He's still in charge.
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And like that, like I saidearlier, the devil don't have a
kingdom. The devil is not agod, but people have made him their
god and they think the tangible thingsof the world are more important. You
know, it's like a relationship withyour significant other. You been with this
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person for so long and you don'thave no connection, no communication, no
affection. But you're with this personfor so long because of the kids.
The kids get grown and gone andyou're still there. But nothing is benefiting
you. It's aging you, it'smaking you sick, but you're still there.
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You're still holding on to it.That's the way people are with the
world. The world make them sickmentally and physically break them financially, but
they still want the world because it'stangible things, only to lose their soul
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no peace within. Still the sameway mentally, haven't grown any Most adults
are not even mature. They thinkthey are, but they're not. You
could tell by the choices and decisionsthey make. The things they do.
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So when you make a decision tochoose Jesus. Sometimes it's a lonely journey,
but hey, it's all right.It's supposed to be because it's a
solo journey. Some of you worriedabout what someone's saying or what they're gonna
do. You can't. This isyour life. You have to know that
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what you choose determines your eternal home. You can't do the same things.
You cannot do the same things.You cannot entertain the same people the same
way, you cannot talk the sameEven your dress needs to change, and
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it will because your heart will beconvicted. There's a lot of people that
I know, personally professional and nonprofessional in the gospel industry that says they
you know, they're living for theLord, and it's a lie. You
can see it all over them.You can see it in the things they
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do, the clothes they wear,how they act. But they just happen
to preach well and sing well andspeak well. And because of that,
people are so quickly they're so quicklybelieving that they're anointing when they have no
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anointing at all. They just knowhow to perform well. Some have powerful
voices, but it's not the anointing. So you get caught up in your
emotions thinking it's anointing, and youfollow these people who have no anointing because
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you've following the man. You haveyour eyes on the creature and not the
creator. You have to give itup. Love Jesus like that. Love
Jesus the way you're trying to loveyour significant other, only more. Jesus
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got to be first. God hasto be the center of our life,
the first, the center, theending. So serving God, you gotta
let it all go. To bereborn, you gotta die of yourself,
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and you gotta die of this world. And that's a must to be that
new creature. Everything must change,and it's not difficult. It has never
ever ever been difficult for me.Have I gotten discouraged? You bet I
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have. Yes, I have gottendiscouraged because I'm still human. But I
never entertain it. I said,Lord, I know I have good days.
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You know you're gonna have good days, You're gonna have bad days.
But serving God, the good isgoing on our way to bad because you're
not trying to fix it. Yougave it to him to fix You gave
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it to him to carry that burden, no matter what it is. No
matter what that burden is, financial, sickness, whatever it is, when
you turn it over to Him,it relieves you of it. You shouldn't
be stressed, out, depressed,suicidal, homeless. Are none of that,
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not in you. Serving God,the true in living God, not
that person you made your God,not the devil, but the true in
living God, with the Son Jesus. You have to mean it from your
heart. You have to do itwith honesty and truth. Your mind has
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to be made up. You can'tlet people persuade you to go back into
the world. You came out ofit. You know what's there, you
know what it's like, you knowwhat it has to offer. Serving God.
You can still do all of thosethings. You can still achieve all
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of the accomplishments. But the differenceis you're not doing any and everything for
it because it's just not that importantto you. So that's all I'm saying.
I'm leaving it right there. Thankyou so much for listening. Much
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love to you. Please check outRelationship Chronicles. This is relatable. Like
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