The Shadow Huggers
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[00:00:08] will you answer him do whatever you want me to do lord
[00:00:18] i'll go where you want me to go and i cry
[00:00:32] god almighty who was it this is love
[00:00:44] no there shall be no end
[00:00:49] there's a little bit more in here now come on sing it to him now
[00:02:05] to land i cry
[00:02:23] and i bow my heart before you because you're holy and worthy
[00:02:31] and glorious powerful honor you
[00:02:36] want everybody to help me one more time come on
[00:03:14] holy holy holy is the lord god almighty
[00:03:18] who was and he is and is to come the one who is
[00:03:23] alive forevermore amen somebody praise the lord this place do you
[00:03:29] you know let me just go and tell you something the bible talks about gives us
[00:03:33] instructions about praise and worship you know it says clap your hands all you
[00:03:37] people right shout unto god with the voice of
[00:03:40] triumph right lift up holy hands without wrath and
[00:03:43] doubting there's so many commands in there about
[00:03:47] praise and worship we got to break free of tradition you guys
[00:03:52] tradition is dead the traditions of man make the word of god none effect
[00:03:57] christians is supposed to live by the word of god and by being led by the
[00:04:01] spirit of god not by the traditions and the doctrines of men
[00:04:05] amen and i'm about to shatter some of them for you this morning all right
[00:04:09] all right you may be seated hallelujah praise the lord
[00:04:14] now i know what you've been told but let me just go on and tell you
[00:04:22] today is not resurrection sunday easter and passover it's two different
[00:04:31] things all right and easter i mean easter you
[00:04:37] know it sounds like uh this thing remember called ishtar the fertility
[00:04:40] goddess remember that why do you think bunnies are involved
[00:04:46] playboy bunnies you remember that it's all about sexual
[00:04:49] sin and immorality passover is when jesus was crucified
[00:04:56] and that week he was resurrected first fruits because he is the first fruits
[00:05:02] you have the passover unleavened bread first fruits
[00:05:07] so you know this year i think it falls on april 22nd
[00:05:11] is when passover is so we're not even close now every now and then
[00:05:15] they end up in the same time period but easter
[00:05:19] is not about the resurrection of jesus not about the crucifix and
[00:05:24] resurrection sorry i know the traditional church
[00:05:27] word tells you that i know the calendars may tell you that
[00:05:31] but that's not the way it is jesus was crucified on passover
[00:05:37] and then unleavened bread and then he was raised on first fruits in that
[00:05:42] first week now having said that i'm sorry if y'all
[00:05:49] we're all into that this way i hate to bust some bubbles but let me just go
[00:05:55] ahead and i want to i want to but i'm going to address something
[00:05:58] this morning um go ahead and put up the picture this was a comment
[00:06:03] on last week's sermon and i'm i'm addressing this because i'm just about
[00:06:06] tired of hearing this stuff okay can somebody say as we get into this
[00:06:12] we are some oh come on that's pitiful we are
[00:06:17] a new testament church not old testament all right let's get
[00:06:26] that straight we're going to address some of that today
[00:06:28] but here's i get these questions all the time on our social media during
[00:06:33] services all the time and it sees people obsessed with
[00:06:39] do you does your church preach about the feast days and how we are supposed
[00:06:43] to celebrate them okay i'm going to just bust those bubbles
[00:06:49] right now first of all as a church we do not
[00:06:53] celebrate easter as in the eggs and the bunnies
[00:06:58] okay now if you do that i'm not condemning you
[00:07:01] i'm just telling you that's not from the bible there's nowhere you find
[00:07:04] eggs and bunnies in the celebration of the death and
[00:07:07] resurrection of jesus christ it just doesn't exist
[00:07:10] okay now do i think you're going to hell over it no
[00:07:13] all right if you if you do that that's your business
[00:07:17] now there was a neat little tradition within the jewish community that during
[00:07:20] Passover or as they got there the father of the
[00:07:24] house would hide pieces of leaven bread all over the house
[00:07:28] and the children would run around and find all the
[00:07:32] the leaven and get it out because leaven represented sin it represents false
[00:07:36] doctrine but i'm going to show you today and
[00:07:39] i'm gonna deal with this as a new testament church
[00:07:42] we should not be celebrating halloween or easter
[00:07:46] there's elements of christmas we shouldn't celebrate but there's others
[00:07:49] that are fine and i've dealt with that in the past
[00:07:52] but here what i'm saying the people that get worked up over that and that
[00:07:56] becomes their issue this is what i notice
[00:08:01] about them that they focused on wanting to go
[00:08:03] back and keep the feast keep the sabbath keep the dietary laws
[00:08:08] basically they want to go back under and try to keep the old covenant
[00:08:12] here's what i see about them and this is after
[00:08:16] dealing with this for many years this is what i see
[00:08:19] number one the focus gets off of jesus the focus gets off of jesus death
[00:08:27] and atoning sacrifice for our sins his shed blood
[00:08:30] and the power of his resurrection you don't i can go through torah observant
[00:08:38] social media pages websites and for the most part
[00:08:41] the gospel of jesus christ that calls you to repent and believe and walk by
[00:08:46] faith is not there it's all about keeper the
[00:08:50] feets keep the sabbath don't eat pork i mean
[00:08:54] it's just nonsense and again it sounds good because yes do they
[00:08:59] have old testament scriptures to prove that and push that on you yes
[00:09:04] but what shows is either they are ignorant of what the new covenant says
[00:09:09] about those things or they have an agenda and i want to
[00:09:15] tell you right now they use the problems within
[00:09:20] the mainstream i was just saying mainstream churches
[00:09:23] they use the issues like celebrating easter and halloween and some of these
[00:09:27] they use those things to point out see look they're in error so you need to
[00:09:31] follow us but they're just in much error okay
[00:09:35] in fact it's worse and i'm gonna show you their error is worse
[00:09:40] but we are not required by new covenant christianity to keep the feast
[00:09:48] in fact you can't keep them according to the way they're written
[00:09:51] because all of them demanded certain animal sacrifices and burnt offerings
[00:09:56] y'all gonna start sacrificing lambs and stuff
[00:09:59] no so don't give me this crap i hear all the time
[00:10:03] oh the feast were eternal oh really so the way they were mapped out in
[00:10:06] lividicus 23 you're supposed to keep them like that
[00:10:09] forever right so where's your sacrificial animals
[00:10:14] and your burnt offerings see either jesus fulfilled
[00:10:20] these things or he didn't and i don't know why we have to keep having this
[00:10:26] conversation when it says he fulfilled these
[00:10:31] things he didn't come to destroy the law he fulfilled it the word there
[00:10:35] in greek means he completed it all right let me let me just break it
[00:10:40] down for you let's break down the seven feet passover jesus
[00:10:43] first christian five says christ our passover was sacrificed for us why don't
[00:10:47] we put that up jesus is our passover lamb behold the
[00:10:51] lamb of god that takes away the sin of the world
[00:10:54] right so either jesus came and became the
[00:10:59] once for all eternal sacrifice for our sins or we better keep sacrificing lambs
[00:11:05] on passover but do the torah observant hebrew roots
[00:11:12] people who say if you don't keep the feast you're not really right with god you
[00:11:15] don't really love god do they do it according to the scriptures
[00:11:18] no they don't because why they don't do sacrifices because
[00:11:22] jesus is the sacrifice now he fulfilled all of that
[00:11:28] sacrificial system because he was the perfect
[00:11:34] sinless man god in the flesh to die for our sins
[00:11:39] for you to start saying again that we need to go back
[00:11:42] under the law for righteousness you are really
[00:11:46] speaking against what he did and completed what he finished
[00:11:50] right does everybody see that he says purge out the old leaven
[00:11:54] that she may be a new lump as you're unleavened for even christ
[00:11:58] our Passover is sacrificed for us first Corinthians five and verse seven
[00:12:04] right let's look at the the next phase what's the next phase we just dealt with
[00:12:08] it unleavened bread well unleavened bread
[00:12:11] leaven was a representative of sin and false doctrine Jesus is the only one
[00:12:15] who had no sin he never sinned nor did he ever teach anything that
[00:12:20] was false so Jesus had no leaven he's the unleavened
[00:12:25] bread and the unleavened bread back in those days
[00:12:27] had stripes upon it and even now if you get the matzah it has stripes and
[00:12:32] it's pierced what was that to show that he would be
[00:12:37] the unleavened bread the sinless spotless
[00:12:41] Son of God Lamb of God would be beaten and pierced
[00:12:45] for us that's unleavened bread so Jesus fulfilled that then the first fruits it
[00:12:51] says Jesus is the first fruits from the dead go ahead and look that
[00:12:55] one up first fruits i'm really just float off the cuff
[00:12:59] today because i'm i'm just i'm a little irritated i'm out
[00:13:04] tired of these judyizers these ebeanites trying to pull people back under the
[00:13:11] law under the old covenant because it's really
[00:13:15] a crime i'm going to show you it's a it's a sin and it's destroying people's walk
[00:13:19] with God yet they think that they're walking
[00:13:23] closer but let me tell you what else is absent
[00:13:25] not only is it absent their understanding of the new covenant and
[00:13:29] the focus gets off Jesus it becomes powerless
[00:13:34] because the moment you focus on trying to be under old covenant laws rituals
[00:13:39] and ceremonies you are no longer seeking
[00:13:43] the infilling and power and gifts to the Holy Spirit i'll show you that too in a
[00:13:47] minute but here it is what first Corinthians 15
[00:13:50] but now is Christ risen from the dead and become the
[00:13:53] first fruits so we've got Jesus fulfilling
[00:13:57] Passover unleavened bread first fruits now we jump over to Pentecost the Feast
[00:14:02] of Pentecost all right which is 50 days after Passover
[00:14:08] what is the feast of penance the feast of harvest right
[00:14:12] now the feast of harvest who is the one that draws all men Jesus said if i be
[00:14:17] lifted up i will draw all men to myself he's the harvester
[00:14:23] he's the one that's drawing mankind now not all will come
[00:14:27] but he's drawing all to what repentance to believe the gospel to repent and turn
[00:14:33] from sin Jesus is the one he said i came to
[00:14:36] call sinners to repentance right so Jesus is the number one
[00:14:44] chief harvester of the harvest and then also what happened on the day of
[00:14:50] Pentecost to the church if we go to acts chapter two what happened on the day of
[00:14:53] Pentecost it says the Holy Spirit came and they
[00:14:56] were all filled he called it being baptized in the
[00:15:00] Holy Spirit they were all baptized with the Holy
[00:15:03] filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke with other tongues supernatural tongues
[00:15:07] that they did not know they did not learn now yes there's tongues of men and
[00:15:11] they're tongues of angels the gift of tongues sometimes can be
[00:15:14] a known language that you didn't learn i never learned Chinese but i i know the
[00:15:18] Holy Spirit can move upon me and if i need to speak Chinese i can
[00:15:21] speak Chinese but Paul talked about too there are the tongues
[00:15:25] that are unknown that no man knows first Corinthians 14
[00:15:29] but that's when the Holy Spirit and Jesus is he said i will baptize you
[00:15:35] the Holy Spirit he's the baptizer in the Holy Spirit
[00:15:39] he's the one that gives us the fullness of the Holy Spirit see instead of
[00:15:42] focusing on trying to keep some feast of Pentecost the feast of harvest
[00:15:48] how about getting filled with the Holy Spirit so you can have the power to be
[00:15:52] a witness than be a harvester see this is one of the things i'm
[00:15:55] talking about if you are walking with Jesus and
[00:15:58] walking in the power of the Holy Spirit and the gifts of the Holy Spirit
[00:16:01] you're going to be a soul winner you're going to lead others to Jesus
[00:16:06] some of these people they're not leading people to Jesus they're leading
[00:16:08] them to the law they're leading them to the old covenant it's all about keeping
[00:16:12] the feast keeping the commandments keeping
[00:16:14] these old covenant laws and rituals instead of
[00:16:18] let me get filled with the Holy Ghost so that i can have power to be a
[00:16:23] witness in fact let's put up put up uh
[00:16:26] acts one eight this morning y'all pardon me if i'm just going to
[00:16:30] preach a little bit today acts one eight but you shall receive
[00:16:39] power dunamis that's the Greek word is dunamis and
[00:16:43] it means miraculous supernatural power from the Holy Spirit
[00:16:46] you shall receive supernatural power after that the Holy Ghost has come upon
[00:16:51] you and you shall be witnesses unto me both
[00:16:54] in jerusalem and in all judea and samaria into the uttermost parts of
[00:16:57] the earth so the feast of pentecost in your life
[00:17:03] jesus fulfilled it because what he was filled with the Holy Spirit without
[00:17:07] measure he walked in being led by the Holy
[00:17:13] Spirit always did what the Holy Spirit led him to do
[00:17:16] just like he did with the woman at the well you want to see the harvester
[00:17:20] he walks up starts talking to this woman at the well
[00:17:24] he says you know go get your husband she says i don't have a husband he said
[00:17:28] that's right you don't have a husband you've had
[00:17:32] five and the one you're with now is not your husband
[00:17:35] she said sir i perceive you're a prophet and then she said we know when messiah
[00:17:41] comes he will tell us all things she said he
[00:17:44] said i that speak to you and he see jesus used the gift of the word
[00:17:52] of knowledge a supernatural revelation of her
[00:17:55] five husbands and the one she is with now and then he led her
[00:18:00] to himself to know him as the messiah and she went and told the whole town
[00:18:04] and the whole town came out and guess what the whole town believed when they
[00:18:08] heard they said we now we believe not just
[00:18:10] because of the word of this woman because we've heard him ourselves
[00:18:13] the harvester was operating in the power of the holy spirit the supernatural the
[00:18:18] gift of the word of knowledge led this one woman to repentance and
[00:18:22] salvation and faith and she wouldn't let a whole city to
[00:18:25] jesus but the religious crowd said whoa what's he doing speaking to this
[00:18:31] woman yeah boy i've had that what are you
[00:18:35] what are you doing talking to that person
[00:18:37] what are you doing associating with that one well maybe i'm trying to win them to
[00:18:40] jesus maybe that's none of your business
[00:18:49] be careful because you can be quickly become a pharisee
[00:18:53] start thinking well i think oh i'm not like other men
[00:18:57] i don't associate with those publicans and sinners anymore i don't eat with
[00:19:01] oh they can't touch me start thinking like that like you some hot stuff
[00:19:05] christian i keep the feast y'all don't you know
[00:19:11] what that is pride oh and let me go in and tell you
[00:19:15] something too look i'm not just picking on the
[00:19:19] the people that want to go back under the law because there's a bunch of baby
[00:19:22] christians get filled with the holy spirit god gives them a gift and then
[00:19:25] they get in pride over it even in this place i've seen some of
[00:19:29] you you can you it's dangerous god give you
[00:19:33] supernatural gifts to the holy spirit start working in your life
[00:19:36] you can become like hmm look at me look how i'm doing i'm doing good
[00:19:40] no none good no not one the moment you get in pride too let me tell you what's
[00:19:46] coming a little bit of a fall there's coming
[00:19:50] uh or a humbling one of the two a fall or a humbling's coming
[00:19:56] i've had to humble some people and i'm about to humble a couple more
[00:20:03] but hear me so that's the feast of pentecost let's go to the next one
[00:20:06] trumpets now this is where they say the feast of trumpets oh this is the
[00:20:13] raptured this is the lord coming in the clouds and this is the
[00:20:17] pre-tribulation rapture they'll teach it that way
[00:20:19] this is the rat no that's not what i think the trumpets are
[00:20:23] oh what do you think the trumpets are well
[00:20:28] let's see look and see go to joel chapter two
[00:20:34] i'm gonna give you two passages actually what trumpets are about
[00:20:41] oh just start yes there we go verse one what does it say here we're gonna
[00:20:45] read a little bit below ye the trumpet in zion and what
[00:20:49] sound and alarm in my holy mountain let all the inhabitants
[00:20:54] of the land tremble for the day of the lord cometh for it is nigh at hand what
[00:20:58] day of the lord is he talking about the day of judgment and wrath
[00:21:02] and i'm gonna deal with i'm gonna deal with this rapture issue in a minute a
[00:21:05] little bit deeper somebody say with me the trumpet blowing
[00:21:11] was an alarm it was about warning of war i'm gonna show you this go to first
[00:21:20] carinthians 14 where he talks about the trumpet
[00:21:23] must give a clear sound the trumpet represents the preaching
[00:21:30] the prophetic preaching the warning of what's coming
[00:21:35] it's not about the rapture that's at the last trump there's trumpets before the
[00:21:42] last trumpet y'all know that paul said that the rapture the catching
[00:21:47] away the resurrection the first resurrection he said that's
[00:21:52] at the last trump but there are trumpets that must be blown
[00:21:57] the bible gives us seven of them right in the last days i believe five of them
[00:22:01] have already blown we got one more big one come in the
[00:22:07] sixth trumpet war but i can't get into all that this morning
[00:22:14] let's go on down to where he says the trumpet must give a clear or certain
[00:22:19] sound i need you all okay with this we're
[00:22:24] finding out what the what the feasts really are
[00:22:31] yeah here we go paul said in the midst of all this talking about the gifts and
[00:22:37] power of the holy spirit talking about the proper use of tongues in the public
[00:22:40] worship service talking about the gift of tongues and the purpose of it in
[00:22:43] your private devotion life but in the middle of all this because he
[00:22:47] talked about the need to prophesy to the church
[00:22:50] he said for if the trumpet give an uncertain sound
[00:22:54] or unclear if it gives an unclear sound who will prepare himself
[00:23:00] for the battle so i believe the feast of trumpets is talking about the clear
[00:23:05] preaching that brings the clear warnings
[00:23:08] of god's wrath and judgment to come jesus did that did he not
[00:23:13] did he not warn them he warned jerusalem of their coming
[00:23:17] judgment he warned the world of what exactly would happen in the last days
[00:23:24] and he called people to repentance meaning to turn from sin in fact
[00:23:32] let's go to matthew 11 he got angry at some cities where his mighty works
[00:23:37] were done because they did not repent go to
[00:23:44] matthew 11 i'll turn to it myself this time
[00:23:53] i know i'm rolling kind of fast because i got a lot to cover here
[00:23:56] verse 20 he says then began he that is jesus to abrade that means to rebuke
[00:24:05] correct sternly he says he began to abrade the cities where most of his
[00:24:10] mighty works were done because they repented not
[00:24:13] he said woe unto thee korazin woe unto thee beth sadia for if the mighty
[00:24:17] works were which were done in you had been done entire inside on they would
[00:24:21] have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes
[00:24:23] but i say unto you it shall be more tolerable for tiring side on in the day of
[00:24:27] judgment than for you and he says in thou capernom which are
[00:24:31] exalted unto heaven thou shall be brought down to hell for if the mighty works
[00:24:34] which had been done in which were done in thee
[00:24:37] had been done in sodom it would have remained into this day
[00:24:40] but i say unto you that it should be more tolerable for the land of sodom
[00:24:43] than in the day of judgment than for thee
[00:24:46] so he told them over and over again repent and he listed sins to repent
[00:24:54] affordication bearing false witness lying stealing
[00:25:03] adultery idolatry jesus preached against sin jesus preached
[00:25:10] and taught about hell he taught a lot about
[00:25:15] the parables he taught a lot about who's going to make it and who's not
[00:25:18] going to make it and why but folks i'm going to tell you
[00:25:23] right now he taught this so see trumpets is that
[00:25:32] giving a warning it's a prophetic warning it's about what's coming
[00:25:35] it's about getting your life in order you know everybody's tripping out right
[00:25:39] now about the the eclipse on april 8 i'm going to
[00:25:44] touch on that in a minute too a little bit more detail but i'm gonna tell you
[00:25:47] right now what i feel like and i'm not saying this is thus saith the lord
[00:25:49] just in my gut feels like y2k a lot of hullabaloo
[00:25:53] over nothing okay i can tell you one thing that's not
[00:25:58] going to happen on april 8 for a fact the rapture will not take place on that
[00:26:03] day i can tell you that right now i know there's thousands and tens of
[00:26:07] thousands there's all these youtubers and
[00:26:09] tens of thousands and in hundreds of thousands of views everybody
[00:26:13] all the raptors are going to happen because because the eclipse
[00:26:16] shadows passing through rapture indiana it will not happen
[00:26:24] you know every time i've stood up here and voted one of these rapture
[00:26:28] predictions and every time i've said that it will not happen it hasn't
[00:26:33] i have a good record on that right there and why
[00:26:40] because i know the bible there's a lot of things that have to happen and the
[00:26:43] rapture happens at the end of the tribulation
[00:26:45] not before and i know you're you've been taught in
[00:26:48] traditional men doctrine that it's a pre-tribulation rapture it is not
[00:26:54] now say passionate but i think all that i think something bad may happen on
[00:26:58] april it could it could but let me tell you this
[00:27:05] if you've been listening to me preaching teach you should be ready for it whatever
[00:27:08] is going to happen you should be prepared if you if you're
[00:27:15] scurrying around now to get ready that that's your fault
[00:27:20] you've been listening i'm ready i don't care i'm ready of nuclear war hits i'm
[00:27:24] ready to go are you ready i'm ready if the power is
[00:27:28] out for three months are you ready you see i'm saying i'm
[00:27:33] ready i'm ready to roll i'm ready if the blue helmets come
[00:27:36] come down the street i'm ready passion gonna be in the woods
[00:27:40] face painting everything i'm gonna be scary
[00:27:53] i'm ready i'm ready to feed my family if i got to go out in the woods and hunt
[00:28:00] are you so i don't know what's going to happen on april 8th i can tell you the
[00:28:06] rapture will not happen but could the illuminati satanic
[00:28:12] cabal elite pull another false flag or something crazy yes
[00:28:15] they could but they could do it tomorrow
[00:28:19] they could do it the next day y'all forgetting about 9 11
[00:28:23] we've had quite a few of these false flag events
[00:28:27] the bridge is one of them too and this stuff's going to happen
[00:28:32] because they're evil people that plot evil things they're always plotting
[00:28:41] why is this unusual trumpets what comes after trumpets
[00:28:45] a feast of what atonement now what is atonement about atonement was the day
[00:28:53] that the high priests alone and he had to go through this preparation
[00:28:59] had to go into the holy of holies and sprinkled the blood
[00:29:03] on the mercy seat where the glory and presence of god was in the
[00:29:07] tabernacle of moses and then in solomon's temple but he had to go in
[00:29:10] there and sprinkled the blood on that to make an atonement for the entire
[00:29:14] nation of israel well let me just go and
[00:29:18] tell you who's the high priest now does the
[00:29:24] bible tell us that the levitical priesthood
[00:29:27] is over why is it over it was established in the old testament the
[00:29:34] levitical priesthood you had to go to a priest
[00:29:37] you had to take your offerings and sacrifices to a priest to get forgiveness
[00:29:43] to get your sins covered why do we not have to do that anymore
[00:29:46] because jesus now is our high priest forever after the order of melchizedek
[00:29:51] he is the high priest he went into the holy of holies
[00:29:55] in heaven and laid his own blood on the mercy seat
[00:29:58] one time for all and then all we have to do
[00:30:03] is believe that and come to him and say jesus forgive me of my sins
[00:30:08] be lord of my life i repent and i will follow you
[00:30:15] he's our high priest he fulfilled it he became that
[00:30:22] the levitical priesthood is ceased it has come to an
[00:30:26] end we don't need it anymore if jesus didn't fulfill it you better be
[00:30:35] hunting for a levite or you're headed to hell
[00:30:44] you hear me do you see how ridiculous this is
[00:30:48] oh we gotta follow the commandments yes what context old covenant or new
[00:30:56] covenant i'm in the new covenant i'm not
[00:31:03] required to keep any type of day i'm not
[00:31:07] required to esteem one day above another not sunday not saturday not any day and
[00:31:15] let's just go ahead and settle that too real quick while we're at it
[00:31:18] because the feasts are called sabbaths but then there's the sabbath
[00:31:22] right what is the main thing they were commanded to do
[00:31:25] on the sabbath number one thing rest do no work therein i can read it for
[00:31:35] you leviticus 23 you can read over rest rest rest
[00:31:40] do no work therein right back to matthew 11 let's look at something
[00:31:51] because see i'm going to tell you it's a fact of bible fact and a fact of
[00:31:55] history that the church began to meet on the first day of the
[00:31:58] week that's sunday we got people out there saying if you
[00:32:02] meet on sunday that's the mark of the beast
[00:32:04] no it's not you idiots where do you get that from it's not bible to say that
[00:32:14] oh i'm sorry if idiot offends you i will say the king james word
[00:32:18] brutish stupid because it is stupid when we follow traditions of men and just
[00:32:26] make up stuff that's not in the bible you understand
[00:32:34] matthew 11 let's read this right here going over to
[00:32:38] verse 25 so right after he rebuked the cities
[00:32:41] for not repenting it says at that time jesus answered said i thank the old
[00:32:47] father lord of heaven and earth because thou has hid these things from the wise
[00:32:51] and prudent has revealed them unto babes even so father for it seemed good in
[00:32:56] thy sight all things are delivered unto me of my
[00:32:58] father and no man knoweth the son but the father and neither knoweth any man the
[00:33:02] father save the son and to whomsoever the son will reveal him
[00:33:06] come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden
[00:33:09] and i will give you rest take my yoke upon you and learn of me
[00:33:14] for i am meek and lowly in heart and you shall find
[00:33:17] rest for your souls for my yoke is easy and my burden is light
[00:33:24] jesus is our rest he is my sabbath rest if i truly believe
[00:33:33] he died for me and rose from the dead and i believe it enough
[00:33:37] to repent and turn from sin and my own agenda
[00:33:40] to follow him as lord master savior of my life
[00:33:46] then guess what here's why i tell people all the time
[00:33:50] if you're an adulterer you got a lot of work to do especially if you're trying to
[00:33:54] hide it from a spouse you got to have two phones i've said
[00:33:56] this many times you got to plan these little rendezvous you got to be careful
[00:34:00] who sees you who doesn't see you make sure there's no cameras around
[00:34:03] i mean you got to do all kinds of stuff that's a lot of work and that's
[00:34:07] why the bible calls adultery a work of the flesh
[00:34:11] guess what when i come to jesus and i say lord forgive me for being an
[00:34:15] adulterer i repent meaning i stop become stop
[00:34:19] practicing the sin of adultery and i receive forgiveness of that sin
[00:34:23] and i cease from that work i get rid of the second phone
[00:34:30] i don't have to make hotel reservations i ain't got to meet anybody anywhere
[00:34:33] i don't have to worry about looking for cameras looking around i don't have to
[00:34:36] worry about it that's why repentance they say they say
[00:34:44] when i've ever just got people out there
[00:34:46] they say when i preach repentance from sin that i'm teaching work salvation
[00:34:51] i'm like how is stopping something at work
[00:34:54] i've never understood that that's like that's like obama math and
[00:34:58] and clinton clinton and uh what's it gore had his fuzzy math
[00:35:03] remember that when you stop something you're not
[00:35:09] working you're resting when i quit drinking and doing drugs
[00:35:14] when i quit fornication when i quit those things guess what
[00:35:19] i'm arresting now in jesus my sins are forgiven
[00:35:23] and i receive power from the holy spirit not to have to do those things anymore
[00:35:28] i'm not a drunkard i mean i was pretty much addicted to alcohol at 19 years old
[00:35:34] i was drinking getting drunk four or five times a week
[00:35:37] there's only seven days in a week i don't have to look for a drug dealer i
[00:35:45] don't have to go buy a beer i don't have to spend uh friday and
[00:35:50] saturday night hanging over a toilet that's a lot of work too
[00:35:55] i did that many times see he's my rest
[00:36:05] jesus fulfilled yes he's the lord of the sabbath
[00:36:08] and he is the sabbath he is my rest i rejoice in the fact that i don't have
[00:36:14] to live like i used to live i used to end up in bars and clubs with
[00:36:19] guns and knives put in my face and fights and
[00:36:22] come home cut and beat up and you should see the other guys but
[00:36:29] i remember coming home a few times going what am i doing
[00:36:32] what am i doing this gun stuck in my face so many times
[00:36:36] and i'm like all somebody had to do is pull the trigger and i'm
[00:36:41] i'm in hell i i drove drunk so many times
[00:36:48] i shouldn't be here i drove 30 and 40 miles a time so drunk i don't remember
[00:36:54] the entire trip talking about god having mercy on
[00:36:59] somebody i think about that many times i could
[00:37:02] have gone to a party in auburn one night
[00:37:05] and and woke up in hell not even knowing what happened in between
[00:37:12] i was in a party one night in auburn and a guy a guy started to start trouble
[00:37:16] with me and i just told him i was cool i said hey man just chill just leave it
[00:37:19] alone band playing hundreds of people out
[00:37:23] there this guy snuck around and snuck around
[00:37:27] behind me and i never saw him and i never heard him
[00:37:31] but i know it's my grandmother's prayers told me to turn around
[00:37:36] and he was opening a knife right behind my back he was about to stab me
[00:37:39] in the back with a knife and i snatched that knife out of his hand
[00:37:42] and knock him unconscious but had i not turned around at that
[00:37:46] very moment he would have sucked that knife right
[00:37:49] in my back just because i told him to chill
[00:37:55] see that's some work i don't have to worry about that
[00:37:59] i'm not out at the sae house or the sigma kai house
[00:38:03] drunk and partying and who knows who's there's gonna pull a knife out or a
[00:38:07] gun a friend of mine got shot in the back
[00:38:09] of the head in auburn back in those days and died so a guy we tried to
[00:38:15] lead to jesus before that night and he didn't accept jesus
[00:38:19] shot right in the back of the head with a shotgun so don't tell me it can't happen
[00:38:25] oh it can happen when you repent of sin you are ceasing from the works
[00:38:33] of the flesh in fact let's read that galatians 5 verse 19 let's just read
[00:38:39] it for for a second see this is what we should be
[00:38:41] concerned about not trying to keep some feast halfway that we can't keep
[00:38:47] anyway the way it was we should be worrying about this stuff
[00:38:53] in our lives and yes the new testament the new covenant
[00:38:57] has commandments that we are to keep that we are to obey
[00:39:02] my lord just read them just read the new testament the new covenant you won't
[00:39:08] you won't get that you get to live a lawless sinful
[00:39:12] licentious life now you might get that from the baptist church down the road
[00:39:15] that tells you you're once saved always say no matter how you live that's a
[00:39:17] false doctrine of men but you're not going to get that if you
[00:39:21] read the new testament you're going to see the new testament tells
[00:39:24] you to repent of these sins and live a holy
[00:39:28] obedient life unto jesus let's read this now the works somebody
[00:39:32] say works the works of the flesh are manifest or
[00:39:38] revealed which are these adultery fornication
[00:39:41] uncleanness lasciviousness idolatry witchcraft hatred variants
[00:39:47] emulations wrath strife sedition heresies envings murders drunkenness
[00:39:54] revelings i just talked about some revelings i used to do
[00:39:57] right partying and the such like of the which i tell you before as i have also
[00:40:03] told you in time past that they which do
[00:40:05] such things shall not inherit the kingdom of god
[00:40:09] the greek word do is praso it means to practice habitually
[00:40:13] it's also a present tense greek verb which means ongoing continuous action
[00:40:17] taking place in the present so it's telling you
[00:40:19] if you do these works habitually it's a lifestyle
[00:40:23] you are not inheriting the kingdom of god you are not going to heaven when you
[00:40:26] die you are not going to get to rule and reign with jesus in the earthly kingdom
[00:40:30] when he comes back you have to repent and turn from sin
[00:40:37] let me tell you right now this is not preached in 99 of churches but
[00:40:42] it's not preached in most of these torah ministries either
[00:40:50] i wouldn't give you a wooden nickel for all these torah ministries
[00:40:55] not nothing and i know it i make their blood boil
[00:41:01] just i live rent free in their heads they just
[00:41:06] they watch my sermons even though they can't stand me
[00:41:15] but see i i'm free can somebody say jesus made me free not free
[00:41:24] to live however i want to live i can't live like this
[00:41:29] and go to heaven or have a relationship with jesus right
[00:41:36] let me show you something let's go to boy we're doing good
[00:41:41] i'm amazed we got another hour at least here we go
[00:41:44] um go to first corinthians chapter two this is this is one of my favorite
[00:41:51] passages here and you got to remember the apostle
[00:41:55] paul though he was a jew of jews an israelite
[00:41:59] the seed of abraham though he was all that he was the one
[00:42:04] fighting against those who were saying you've got to
[00:42:09] keep the feast and the sabbaths and the new moons and all this stuff
[00:42:14] galatians romans colossians too i mean he we could spend half the morning going
[00:42:20] through all this stuff but i wanted you to see this because
[00:42:25] this is where they miss out and i hadn't forgotten we were just on
[00:42:29] atonement we got we got another one we'll deal with that
[00:42:31] one in a minute i know there's seven of them we all
[00:42:34] know we got six done six of the feast but look at here
[00:42:40] paul said this verse one he said and i brother and when i came to you came not
[00:42:43] with the excellency of speech or of wisdom
[00:42:46] declaring unto you the testimony of god for i determined not to know
[00:42:49] anything among you save jesus christ and him crucified
[00:42:54] and i was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling and my
[00:42:57] speech and my preaching was not with the enticing words of man's wisdom
[00:43:01] but in the demonstration of the spirit and of power
[00:43:05] the word power there is due to him as the supernatural power anointing
[00:43:10] power of the holy spirit he says my preaching it was not with man's
[00:43:15] wisdom but in the demonstration of the spirit
[00:43:18] of power that your face should not stand in the
[00:43:20] wisdom of men but in the power of god this is this is
[00:43:26] jump over to chapter four and go down to verse 20
[00:43:40] oh there's so much actually we're gonna read a little bit more
[00:43:49] go to verse nine paul was having to defend
[00:43:52] himself against the tax and he says this he says for i think that god has set
[00:43:59] forth us the apostles last as it were appointed to death for we
[00:44:02] are made a spectacle unto the world and to angels and to men
[00:44:06] we are fools for christ's sake but you are wise in christ
[00:44:09] we are weak but you are strong you're honorable but we
[00:44:13] are despised even in this present hour we both hunger and thirst and are naked
[00:44:17] and are buffeted and have no certain dwelling place and
[00:44:20] labor working with our own hands being reviled we bless being persecuted we
[00:44:24] suffer it being defamed we entreat we are made as
[00:44:27] the filth of the world and are the offskering of all things unto this day
[00:44:32] i write not these things to shame you but as my beloved
[00:44:35] sons i warn you for though you have 10 000
[00:44:38] instructors in christ yet have you not many fathers for in christ
[00:44:42] jesus i have begotten you through the gospel
[00:44:45] wherefore i beseech you be ye followers of me
[00:44:49] for this cause have i sent unto you timothy who is my beloved son and
[00:44:52] faithful in the lord who shall bring you into
[00:44:55] remembrance of my ways which be in christ
[00:44:58] as i teach everywhere in every church now some are puffed up and they've
[00:45:03] gotten in pride as though i would not come to you but i
[00:45:06] will come to you shortly if the lord will and will know not the
[00:45:10] speech of them which are puffed up but the power
[00:45:13] for the kingdom of god is not in word but in power here here what i'm going to
[00:45:20] tell you right now i don't want to hear keep the fees keep
[00:45:26] the fees keep the feast i want to see the power of god
[00:45:31] and the proof of the power of god is not just
[00:45:35] miracles not just healings not just those things
[00:45:38] the proof of the power of god is that people are convicted
[00:45:42] and truly repent and are born again if that's not happening through your
[00:45:50] ministry you best check yourself because that's the ultimate test right
[00:45:57] there are the unsaved being convicted and
[00:46:03] drawn to repent and accept jesus as their lord and savior
[00:46:07] and to the point they are born again have the witness of the holy spirit
[00:46:12] and show the proof of that that their lives change
[00:46:17] because i'm not talking about church and getting people churched
[00:46:20] i hate that term churched i'd rather you be born again not churched
[00:46:28] you hear me there's a lot of people church that are going to go to hell
[00:46:33] they got choir robes on they've been baptized 15 times
[00:46:36] but they're still in adultery or fornication or drunkenness
[00:46:42] no i want somebody that's repentant of their sin that has the fear of god
[00:46:46] and that has has proof of repentance the fruit of repentance that it's a
[00:46:50] they have a changed life because of the power of god come upon them
[00:46:54] he's given us look john chapter one verse that said he has given us
[00:46:58] power to become the sons and daughters of god if there's no power in
[00:47:02] your life what do you have oh i said a prayer when i was 12 years old
[00:47:09] i don't care many prayers you prayed have you been born again and if you've been
[00:47:14] born again that means the witness or power of the
[00:47:16] holy spirit has touched you and filled you
[00:47:19] and changed you and you know that you've been born again
[00:47:26] not i've been churched not i said a prayer not i went up
[00:47:29] not my name's on the roll in some church somewhere well i'm catholic well
[00:47:35] i'm fabulous well i'm presbyterian you know what hell's filled with all those
[00:47:38] people they were their names were on the church
[00:47:42] rolls they were baptized sprinkled i worked with a man named berry
[00:47:49] sang in church every sunday had a beautiful voice
[00:47:54] sang in the choir sang solos oh he was he was
[00:47:57] the cats meow they loved him the church loved him big church
[00:48:04] but i worked with the man so i saw him through the week
[00:48:10] and let me tell you he was drinking and getting drunk through the week
[00:48:14] at work he was drunk friday night saturday night
[00:48:20] and sobered up enough to go to church on sunday morning to sing
[00:48:24] and the lord told me we were working on a construction job together we were
[00:48:28] working for a big construction company out of
[00:48:30] montgomery and we were working at this years ago and i remember the lord
[00:48:33] telling me go talk to berry he's churched but
[00:48:37] he's not born again and i got to talk to berry but you
[00:48:42] know what berry admitted to me after i explained to
[00:48:46] him what being born again was about repenting from being a drunkard
[00:48:49] what that means that you can't be a drunkard and go to heaven that you got
[00:48:52] to repent and you need jesus yes just jesus to
[00:48:55] forgive you and you got to turn and stop drinking alcohol man
[00:49:00] and i asked berry i said berry now do you understand what it means be born
[00:49:03] again he said yes i do i said are you born again no i'm not
[00:49:07] so my company sent me to work in memphis tennessee the next
[00:49:12] six weeks with berry's son actually we shared a hotel room
[00:49:18] and i was there the friday night in memphis in the hotel room with his son
[00:49:24] when he got the phone call that his dad went out
[00:49:29] from the time he got off work drinking drove his truck into a tree
[00:49:34] and died and i was the last person to talk to berry
[00:49:44] that i know of about being born again i wasn't telling him he need to keep the
[00:49:49] feast or he shouldn't eat ham if that's what
[00:49:54] you're telling folks you are wasting their time your time
[00:50:00] and you are not preaching the gospel you are preaching the law
[00:50:04] and the gospel of jesus christ is where the power of god is not
[00:50:09] in the law not in the old covenant see the kingdom of god must have power
[00:50:21] see people people contact me all the time
[00:50:24] and they say pastor dean i was drinking i was doing i was smoking
[00:50:29] marijuana all the time i was i hear it all the time i went to
[00:50:34] church and never you know i heard these big mega churches you
[00:50:37] know how to deal with stress at work and all these
[00:50:39] sermonettes for christianettes they said but i started listening to you
[00:50:48] and all of a sudden i realized i was lost
[00:50:52] i had been deceived to think i could live
[00:50:55] this way and god just would accept it and some of them talked about the fear
[00:51:03] and trembling came upon them and they got down on their knees and said god
[00:51:05] forgive me i repent of my sin see that's the power of god
[00:51:14] if that's not happening if souls aren't being saved
[00:51:18] and prodigals coming home truly repenting of their sins
[00:51:22] then there is no power on your ministry you have nothing
[00:51:30] and if if you don't have it then it's time to it's time to ask
[00:51:33] what am i preaching what am i teaching what am i telling people
[00:51:38] because there should be some fruit yes yes we spent a lot of time sowing
[00:51:43] seeds as christian but there should be some power sometimes for
[00:51:47] there to be some fruit let me tell you one night we went to
[00:51:50] village mall in albert this was back in the
[00:51:52] in the early 90s and this will tell you we started witnessing
[00:51:57] and we started preaching there was these nine kids
[00:52:01] i think it was six girls and three boys or something like that but they were
[00:52:04] sitting at the front door of village mall number used to be
[00:52:07] different they changed the way it looks now but they
[00:52:11] were sitting out there the lords that go preach the word to
[00:52:14] them we go over give them tracks about jesus sit down and talk to them
[00:52:20] but as we're talking to them about repentance
[00:52:23] about making jesus lord of their lives about how they have to
[00:52:26] turn from sin the power of god fell upon them they start crying
[00:52:33] we're sitting in the front door the mall people going in and out the front door
[00:52:38] and they start crying power of god falls upon them
[00:52:42] i said y'all ready to repent and give jesus your lives
[00:52:46] yeah that's when you leave people in the prayer to ask jesus to come in and be
[00:52:50] lord of their lives all nine of them gave their lives to
[00:52:55] jesus that night so i ask you is there power
[00:53:03] is there power not not not did you convert somebody
[00:53:07] from celebrating the easter to celebrating the passover
[00:53:13] see this is what they're trying to convert people to this is what they say
[00:53:16] i went through last night i went through one of the big
[00:53:19] torah facebook pages trying to find going down through post after post
[00:53:24] after post trying to find any call to repentance and to believe in
[00:53:28] jesus accept jesus christ by faith nothing nothing over and over and over
[00:53:35] again nothing nothing nothing i've gone back to some of the big
[00:53:38] ones and looked at at their messages for years and you're like
[00:53:45] never never is the gospel preached see the new testament if you preach
[00:53:57] the cross that is the power let me go back to one of my favorite verses y'all
[00:54:01] want to see one of my favorites matter of fact one of the first verses i ever
[00:54:04] learned i ever memorized first Corinthians chapter 1 verse 18
[00:54:12] and 19 i love this we're gonna read a little bit
[00:54:18] here right here y'all don't mind verse 18 he says for the preaching of the
[00:54:22] cross is to them that perish foolishness
[00:54:25] but unto us which are saved it is the power of god there's that dunamis holy
[00:54:30] ghost power again for it is written i will destroy the
[00:54:33] wisdom of the wise and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent
[00:54:37] where is the wise where is the scribe where is the disputing of this world
[00:54:41] hath not god made foolish the wisdom of this world
[00:54:44] for after that in the wisdom of god the world by wisdom knew not god
[00:54:48] it pleased god by the foolishness of preaching
[00:54:52] to save them that believe for the jews require a sign that the greek seek after
[00:54:57] wisdom but we preach christ crucified unto the jews a stumbling block why
[00:55:01] because the jews want to keep the law to the greek's foolishness because the
[00:55:05] greeks were all about science and wisdom and knowledge
[00:55:09] their own wisdom he says but under them which are called both jews and greeks
[00:55:14] christ the power of god and the wisdom of god
[00:55:18] because the foolishness of god is wiser than men and the weakness of god is
[00:55:21] stronger than men and then he says for you see your
[00:55:24] calling brother and how that not many wise men after the flesh and not many
[00:55:27] mighty not many noble are called god hath chosen
[00:55:31] the foolish things of the world who confound the wise and god had chosen the
[00:55:34] weak things of the world who confound the things
[00:55:37] which are mighty and the base things of the world
[00:55:39] and the things which are despised hath he chosen and the things which are
[00:55:43] not to bring to naught things that are that no flesh should glory in his
[00:55:46] presence but of him are ye in christ jesus who
[00:55:50] of god is made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and
[00:55:54] redemption that according as it is written he that
[00:55:57] glory has let him glory in the lord the preaching of the cross
[00:56:04] and notice it says to them that are perishing
[00:56:07] that's a that's a present tense greek verb means ongoing
[00:56:11] those who continue to be walking in the destruction
[00:56:16] see as a christian as admitted yes we have to talk about other issues we have
[00:56:21] to address many issues but the focus the primary thing should be
[00:56:27] the preaching of the cross not the preaching of the law
[00:56:31] not the preaching of keeping feasts the sabbaths new moons
[00:56:35] dietary laws i wonder if sometimes these people have read first timothy four
[00:56:40] where it says god has every creature is to be received with
[00:56:44] as long as it is received with thanksgiving for it is sanctified by
[00:56:47] the word of god in prayer every creature now we pray over it we
[00:56:51] can eat it and i do i eat the fluffy shrimps
[00:56:58] i eat oysters oh i mean they're gonna just
[00:57:02] i'm going to hell now all right i had bacon this morning and it was
[00:57:08] good you know my great aunts and my great
[00:57:15] grandmother they ate bacon every morning then at lunch there was bacon in
[00:57:21] their peas and green beans and then at night
[00:57:25] there was bacon in their cream corn and that bacon was and and of
[00:57:31] course fat back was in everything and my great great
[00:57:37] grandmother that lived in the house that i live in right now was 98 my
[00:57:42] great aunt lived to be 97 my other one lived to be 89
[00:57:48] you get what i'm saying you know why they were godly women they always
[00:57:52] prayed over their food they were always thankful because they
[00:57:55] lived through the depression so they knew what it was to be without
[00:58:00] and even to be hungry and so they prayed over their food and they were thankful
[00:58:04] for their food and guess what it says first put up first
[00:58:07] him before it says that it is sanctified
[00:58:13] that mean that bacon this morning i prayed over it was sanctified
[00:58:18] it tasted sanctified but it was sanctified
[00:58:26] you know what that means that means something that wasn't holy
[00:58:30] is made holy when it's sanctified you've been sanctified if you are
[00:58:35] truly walking with jesus by faith through his blood and his resurrection
[00:58:40] you have been sanctified you were once unclean but now you're clean
[00:58:43] not because you're good because he's good and your faith is in him and your
[00:58:49] trust is in him not in yourself i know i can't do it see this is the
[00:58:57] difference our righteousness christ jesus is our righteousness
[00:59:04] not our works our own good deeds not our striving not our trying
[00:59:09] if i if i spend time with him and say follow me
[00:59:13] and i mean he says follow me and i just follow him
[00:59:16] he says go here go do this and i go do that oh
[00:59:19] he leads me to something in the word you know what you need to do that you see
[00:59:22] right here where it's written do that that's what makes it fun and there it
[00:59:29] is back it up let's let's just let's just
[00:59:32] read from verse one can we read from verse one
[00:59:36] now the spirit speakers expressly that a lot of time some will depart from the
[00:59:39] faith giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils
[00:59:42] speaking lies in hypocrisy and having their conscience seared with a hot iron
[00:59:47] doctrines of devils seducing spirits what are they going to what are they
[00:59:50] going to seduce us to ah it tells us forbidding to marry well
[00:59:53] that's your roman catholic priesthood commanding to abstain from meats
[00:59:58] bill gates and the world economic forum which god hath created to be received
[01:00:03] with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth but also
[01:00:05] commanding us to abstain from meats is the torah and
[01:00:09] law the old covenant law movement and he tells us going out
[01:00:14] he says for every creature of god is good and nothing to be refused somebody
[01:00:18] say every creature every creature every creature like
[01:00:24] oh crab legs
[01:00:29] i thank god for the new covenant that these things can be sanctified
[01:00:33] by the word of god in prayer he says for every creature of god is good and
[01:00:38] nothing to be refused if it be received with thanksgiving
[01:00:42] for it is sanctified by the word of god and
[01:00:46] prayer this is why we pray over our food and then he goes on let's just keep
[01:00:52] reading this because it's good if thou put the brethren in remembrance of
[01:00:56] these things thou shalt be a good minister of jesus christ nourished up
[01:00:59] in the words of faith and of good doctrine where unto that has attained so
[01:01:03] right now i'm being a good minister jesus kind of reminding you of these
[01:01:08] things let's read the next one but refuse
[01:01:14] profane and old wives fables and exercise thyself rather unto
[01:01:18] godliness y'all hear me now i'm not even gonna i mean i could go
[01:01:26] well let's go to galatians 3 i'm sorry go to galatians 3 start at verse 1
[01:01:30] that's where paul was addressing this and i want to show you this verse
[01:01:34] because it does make my point you should be
[01:01:39] crying out for the power of god in your life for god to
[01:01:43] power your words when you share the gospel
[01:01:48] and you should be sharing the gospel with people not telling them to keep
[01:01:51] the feast old foolish galatians who has
[01:01:56] bewitched you that you should not obey the truth before whose eyes jesus christ
[01:01:59] has been evidently set forth and crucified among you
[01:02:03] this only what i learn of you and then he asked this question
[01:02:07] did you receive the spirit by the works of the law
[01:02:11] or by the hearing of faith did did the holy spirit come and baptize them because
[01:02:18] they kept the law no it's because they believed in jesus
[01:02:22] and they chose to follow jesus and jesus told them to go wait in jerusalem
[01:02:27] for the promise and they obeyed that and they got
[01:02:30] filled with the holy spirit so he says did you receive the spirit by the works
[01:02:33] of the law by the hearing of faith and then he says this are you so
[01:02:37] foolish having begun in the spirit are you now made perfect by the flesh
[01:02:42] have you suffered so many things in vain if it be yet in vain
[01:02:47] he therefore that ministers ministereth to you the spirit
[01:02:50] or demonstrates or operates or supplies you the power of the holy spirit he
[01:02:57] says and worketh miracles among you does he do it
[01:03:00] by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith
[01:03:03] and i could ask the same question romans tonight are we saved by the works of
[01:03:06] the law are we saved by the hearing of god's word
[01:03:10] faith arising in our hearts and we respond to that
[01:03:14] believing jesus died for our sins and that jesus
[01:03:17] fulfilled the whole entire old testament blood sacrifice thing
[01:03:26] every part of it was pointing to him now if all of that written in the old
[01:03:32] testament all those sacrifices and burnt offerings
[01:03:36] all those blood sacrifices of animals was pointing to something
[01:03:42] shouldn't that be our focus and that's what hebrew says
[01:03:47] those things were all shadows jesus is the substance think about this
[01:03:55] if i was standing outside and the sun was over here
[01:03:59] it would be casting my shadow this way there would be a shadow there
[01:04:06] think of that as that's the old testament is that shadow
[01:04:12] but see that's all they had that's all we had but that shadow leads to someone if
[01:04:16] you follow that shadow where you come to the real person
[01:04:22] that's the new testament we all get to know
[01:04:26] intimately the real person of jesus christ god in the flesh and if your
[01:04:34] focus goes back to the shadow you are getting the focus off of jesus
[01:04:40] and this is what it says go to galatians 5
[01:04:44] and this is why he says this two christians who are being pulled back
[01:04:49] into trying to keep the law for righteousness
[01:04:54] and he says to them stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith christ
[01:04:58] has made us free and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage what
[01:05:02] yoke of bondage going back under the law he says
[01:05:05] behold i say unto you i paul saying to you that if you be
[01:05:08] circumcised christ shall profit you nothing
[01:05:11] so he's dealing with one issue here but it's really the law because they were
[01:05:14] saying you got to be certain to be saved you got to be circumcised
[01:05:17] right and paul saying y'all don't get it
[01:05:20] it's not about that anymore and then he says this keep going
[01:05:25] for i testify again to every man that is circumcised that he is a debtor to
[01:05:29] do the whole law so if that's the way you're going to put your
[01:05:31] righteousness in you got to do the whole thing
[01:05:33] and you can't and then he says this christ has become of no effect unto you
[01:05:40] whosoever you are justified by the law you are fallen from grace
[01:05:45] now this is where they they mess up now i agree with their
[01:05:49] the torah world on this thing the torah observant world
[01:05:53] grace is not a license to sin as it is taught in many
[01:05:57] traditional churches they say grace is unmerited favor that is not the
[01:06:02] definition of grace never has been never will be but you've been told
[01:06:04] that over and over and over again look it up
[01:06:09] the greek word is charis and it means to be endued with power
[01:06:15] from the holy spirit so that you can do what god wants you
[01:06:20] to do that is grace okay and so he's talking about walking
[01:06:25] in the power of god and it talks about one part of the
[01:06:31] definition is the divine influence upon your heart and its
[01:06:34] reflection in your life all right now think about this so he says
[01:06:40] if you are trying to be justified made righteous look more righteous be more
[01:06:45] holy if that's your your your agenda is to go
[01:06:48] back and say oh i keep the feast look at those heathens over there
[01:06:53] you know doing easter okay if that's what you're doing
[01:06:58] saying that that's this is what makes me righteous because i'm keeping the
[01:07:00] feast or i'm keeping the dietary laws or i'm
[01:07:02] wearing the zitzits if that's what you think is making you more
[01:07:06] righteous than your brothers and sisters who have simple faith in jesus christ and
[01:07:09] his blood and his resurrection this is you and here's what's dangerous
[01:07:15] about it and this is why i preach about it often
[01:07:19] if that is what you are doing then christ has become
[01:07:24] no effect zero your so-called i'm following yeshua no you're not no
[01:07:34] you're not you're following the law you know hebrews
[01:07:42] three talks about there's two houses he said there's mose's house
[01:07:45] and there's jesus house there was a time for mose's house
[01:07:49] he said but now what we're in jesus house it's a different house
[01:07:54] it's a different covenant yes it demands obedience
[01:07:57] and holiness but it's different and i'm going to stay in jesus house
[01:08:11] now i've had friends in the past that they like to celebrate the feast and
[01:08:15] they like to learn the principles and things that they point to and all that
[01:08:18] that's fine that's fine if you want to do that and you
[01:08:22] want to study that and you want to learn you know the old testament if you're if
[01:08:25] you're reading and studying it in the context of saying
[01:08:28] how all this points to jesus and what he would do for us on the cross
[01:08:33] and his resurrection if that's your goal to learn that's
[01:08:37] fine study it go to the path i've been to
[01:08:41] pass over i've celebrated all the feasts at one point or another
[01:08:45] with friends of mine who never made it a requirement for salvation
[01:08:49] or that you have to do it just want they just wanted to do it to learn
[01:08:53] it's fine and dandy but the moment you start thinking i'm more holy than you
[01:08:58] because i do the feast and you don't then you
[01:09:03] become a Pharisee and the moment you start thinking this
[01:09:07] is what really makes me right with god this is what really
[01:09:10] proves i love god because i keep these old covenant feasts and sabbaths and
[01:09:15] the moment you do that christ has become no effect to you
[01:09:20] and this is why there's no power in those ministries
[01:09:25] that push this zero no power you hear me i've watched it i've
[01:09:38] been doing this for too many years we're going on 37 years
[01:09:41] doing this i've seen everything there is to see
[01:09:46] in the body of christ i'm talking about from every denomination
[01:09:52] i've been in different parts of the world i've seen it i've seen it all
[01:09:55] i've seen the good the bad and the ugly so this doesn't come from somebody who
[01:10:00] doesn't know i've been around this thing a long
[01:10:03] long time and what does it all come back to
[01:10:10] what's the most important thing walking with jesus knowing him
[01:10:15] by faith and faith without works is dead yes
[01:10:20] what is our work of faith repenting of our sins ceasing from the works of the
[01:10:24] flesh entering into our rest who is jesus
[01:10:30] entering into our sabbath rest getting free
[01:10:35] from the demonic control in our lives getting free from sin
[01:10:42] so i hate to see the person that has to do it i can't stop
[01:10:47] guess what they need they don't need oh if you come over here and keep the
[01:10:50] Passover with us brother yeah that's what you need
[01:10:53] no they need you to say you got to repent
[01:10:56] and then we're going to cast the demons out of you the power of god's
[01:10:58] going to come upon you and you can be changed you can be
[01:11:01] delivered you can be delivered from your addiction to alcohol and drugs
[01:11:04] and pornography you can be delivered from that
[01:11:10] but you have to be serious i get somebody serious about repentance
[01:11:13] fearing god and repenting of their sin casting the demons out of them easy
[01:11:17] and they get real freedom real freedom
[01:11:22] no i'm not a drunkard anymore hallelujah i'm not a fornicator anymore
[01:11:27] i'm not an idolater anymore is it because of my own ability
[01:11:31] no god gave me the forgiveness and the grace and the power to do it and then
[01:11:36] showed me gave me the weapons of warfare and the authority and power of jesus name
[01:11:40] to cast the demonic strongholds out of me so i didn't have to do it anymore
[01:11:44] i broke free from that addiction because of him
[01:11:47] and because of his authority and power in my life
[01:11:51] we've got to have the power of jesus christ
[01:11:55] not the law not the ceremonies not all this other this is just
[01:11:59] it is absolute distraction from jesus christ you're loving the shadow when you
[01:12:07] could be you're trying to hug a shadow when you
[01:12:10] could go hug him and then they want to tell us oh
[01:12:14] jesus is not his name and all this fight let me tell you something i got
[01:12:19] saved healed delivered baptized in the holy spirit
[01:12:25] the gifts of the through the name of jesus because guess what that's what
[01:12:29] we call him in english and that's the way it is
[01:12:32] and i've seen people demon possessed demons talking to them
[01:12:35] face changing shaking growling and when i say the name of jesus
[01:12:40] and they come out of them so don't give me all this
[01:12:44] yahusha what all this stuff i i've consulted people who are
[01:12:50] like hebrew and greek scholars and none of that
[01:12:53] is that's all just made up stuff i saw one linguist
[01:13:04] like dr michael brown his phd from mid-eastern languages and he was like
[01:13:12] yeah people started saying oh jesus and has zeus in it and
[01:13:15] no he said that's like you know just taking two english words and just
[01:13:20] melding them together and say see it's just nonsense
[01:13:26] isn't it amazing i'm gonna tell you this i've watched these torah
[01:13:30] hebrew roots ministries not only get away from jesus
[01:13:37] in these things but they they get away how do i put it they get away from who
[01:13:42] he is as being god in the flesh they start
[01:13:44] denying that he is god almighty in the flesh
[01:13:49] so what happens is when christ becomes no effect to them
[01:13:54] then the seducing spirits come in and take them even further down these roads
[01:14:00] now a lot of them are into the whole jesus already came and the whole
[01:14:03] tutorial millennial reign has already happened
[01:14:07] it just look at one deception after another they just dive into
[01:14:12] because guess what they don't have the holy spirit helping to lead them into
[01:14:16] all truth yet they find us some conspiracy
[01:14:19] and they find some truth about it see i'm a truther you are a gopher truther
[01:14:23] if you don't know the difference between the old testament and the new testament
[01:14:29] you know the bible talks about rightly dividing the word of god the first place
[01:14:32] we got to rightly divide it is what is old and what is new i mean it's
[01:14:38] real simple the old says i got to sacrifice animals
[01:14:41] to cover my sin and the new says we don't have to do that so which one do i
[01:14:44] take hmm simple rightly dividing
[01:14:51] right and roman's is clear one man's that steams one day over another
[01:15:00] one man steams every day alike and he says
[01:15:03] don't judge one another these things don't judge no man colossians no man
[01:15:07] is to be judged when it comes to concerning a sabbath
[01:15:10] a full moon or any of those things that's colossians too
[01:15:15] you look me up paul even told him in galatians four he said i'm afraid of you
[01:15:22] you observe these days and times and you he said i'm afraid of you
[01:15:25] maybe i've bestowed labor upon you in vain
[01:15:28] because i put i led you to jesus now you're trying to go back
[01:15:32] to the law and let me tell you what he says you go to galatians one what does
[01:15:35] he say to the people who preach this
[01:15:37] he says they are perverting the gospel of jesus christ and they are
[01:15:41] preaching another gospel and they are cursed
[01:15:45] they are cursed that's how serious this is
[01:15:51] they are cursed for doing this now god has mercy on them and he will give
[01:15:56] them space and time to repent but if they do not
[01:16:02] let's go to galatians one put that up just so y'all see it i'm not making it
[01:16:07] up hallelujah amen or oh me right going down a
[01:16:21] little bit keep going keep going he says okay stop go
[01:16:31] go back to six he tells them about the gospel and he says if jesus christ he
[01:16:35] said i marvel that you are so soon removed from him that called you into
[01:16:37] the grace of christ into another gospel which is not another but there be
[01:16:42] some that trouble you and would pervert the gospel of christ
[01:16:46] he says both though we are an angel from heaven preach any other gospel into
[01:16:49] you than that which we have preached and you let him be
[01:16:53] cursed this is serious because this whole book of galatians is just about
[01:17:00] this the people who were perverting the
[01:17:01] gospel saying you got to be circumcised to be saved you
[01:17:04] got to keep the feast to be saved you got to go back and do the
[01:17:07] the old covenant to be saved and there was a whole group
[01:17:10] in the first century called the ibianites that did this
[01:17:16] so you know the last two weeks here's what i've given you last week was the
[01:17:20] simple gospel and i've really done it again
[01:17:25] because it comes down to this do you believe jesus christ is god in the
[01:17:29] flesh who lived a holy sinless life who was born of a virgin
[01:17:35] that he is god in the flesh that he's called wonderful counsel of the mighty
[01:17:38] god the everlasting father the prince of peace
[01:17:41] that he is god in the flesh the fullness of the godhead bodily
[01:17:45] colossians 2 8 9 he is the fullness of the godhead bodily
[01:17:49] not part not just the word of god not just the son of god not the arm of god
[01:17:53] not the hand of god he is the fullness of the godhead
[01:17:57] bodily it's a great mystery god was manifested in the flesh
[01:18:00] that's what paul said colossians 3 6 i mean first timothy 3 16
[01:18:05] god was manifested in the flesh this is a great mystery
[01:18:09] kind of hard for us to understand sometimes this father son holy spirit
[01:18:12] thing but the bottom line we better know because all cults
[01:18:18] diminish him they all say oh he was just
[01:18:23] he was just the son of god or he was just a man he was just a prophet he
[01:18:27] was just a great teacher no the bible teaches
[01:18:30] very clearly both in the old testament and the new
[01:18:33] jesus christ is god in the flesh do you believe that
[01:18:36] do you believe he died on the cross for your sins and rose from the dead on
[01:18:39] the third day do you believe that and not just do you
[01:18:44] believe it do you believe it enough to repent turn from your sins and
[01:18:50] follow him because after that then the next thing you do is get
[01:18:56] filled with the holy spirit and then you have the revelation you
[01:19:00] are not your own you're bought with the price
[01:19:02] and then you surrender to the god's will for your life
[01:19:06] many people have never surrendered to god's will for their lives they
[01:19:12] believe but they've never repented and surrendered
[01:19:18] see when i was 19 and god got hold me i repented
[01:19:22] and surrendered i had my own plans for my life
[01:19:26] and those were over i wouldn't be standing here before you today if i had
[01:19:31] followed my own plans and now every week
[01:19:38] thousands and thousands of people listen every week all over the world but if i
[01:19:48] decided oh i believe in jesus but i'm gonna do my own thing
[01:19:53] we don't get to do that you better find the will of god for your life
[01:20:00] because the bible says the sons of god and the daughters of god this is roman's
[01:20:04] 814 the sons of god the daughters of god are
[01:20:07] led by the spirit of god not their own selves
[01:20:12] hear me can somebody say amen did you learn something today i know i
[01:20:20] shared some scary verses but we are okay with the scary
[01:20:24] verses right because the fear of god is the beginning
[01:20:27] of wisdom so as long as it scares you straight right
[01:20:32] that's good that's why jude said on some have compassion making a difference
[01:20:37] and others say with fear pulling them out of the fire
[01:20:41] hating even the garment spotted by the flesh
[01:20:44] yep some people we have compassion and just a lot of patience because they've
[01:20:47] been beat up abused bruised and you have a lot of
[01:20:51] patience with those people but for the most part the rest of us
[01:20:55] use fear and guess what the greek word is there
[01:20:58] phobeo it means fear it means terror that's why paul said knowing the terror
[01:21:05] of the lord we persuade men one day we're going to stand all of us
[01:21:09] at the judgment seat of christ christians those who have been born
[01:21:14] again we're going to stand before the judgment seat of christ and i know the
[01:21:16] baddest have taught you that oh that's only the place where you
[01:21:19] either going to get some rewards and not get some rewards and you're still
[01:21:22] going to go to heaven no yes it is a place of where rewards
[01:21:27] will be dealt out and some will get less and others will
[01:21:30] get more but that's not even the issue because the judgment seat of christ is
[01:21:34] where some will hear these words enter in
[01:21:39] to the joy of thy lord you've been faithful
[01:21:43] others are going to hear you wicked and slothful servant you knew what you
[01:21:47] should have done but you didn't do it and then he tells the angels you take
[01:21:51] him bind him hand and foot and cast him
[01:21:53] into outer darkness there should be weeping and gnashing of teeth
[01:21:59] so you have to make up your mind is jesus lord of your life
[01:22:04] are you filled with the holy spirit do you want grace
[01:22:07] the help from god the power of god to do what you need to do
[01:22:10] to live it and be a light and a witness or do you want to try to go under the
[01:22:14] law do you want to live in moses house or
[01:22:16] jesus house you got to make up your mind
[01:22:19] you can live in jesus house moses house or you can live in the crack house
[01:22:23] you got to figure out which one i want jesus house amen let's stand we
[01:22:37] need to do a song before we leave and let me say this i give altercalls
[01:22:43] sometimes most of the time i don't what's that
[01:22:50] but i'm going to give you a chance this morning if you are not truly born again
[01:22:56] and you're saying today's the day i'm surrendering to jesus is my savior my
[01:22:59] lord the bible says this if you confess him
[01:23:02] before men he will confess you before others so it has to be a public thing
[01:23:07] yes it can happen in private but at some point it's going to have to be
[01:23:09] public there's no there's no secret clause
[01:23:13] at christians but i'm going to give you a chance if you need
[01:23:17] to come up and say i am today i'm marking today is the day
[01:23:23] i repent i accept jesus i turn from my own will in my own way i want you to
[01:23:30] pray for me i want to pray that prayer with you
[01:23:32] if you need to do that and if you're a christian but you've been a prodigal
[01:23:36] you went back to the world went back to living in the pig pen
[01:23:39] it's time to come out of it and again if you step forward today you're
[01:23:43] saying i'm doing this not just today in front of the church
[01:23:46] but i'm doing this monday tuesday wednesday thursday the rest
[01:23:49] of my life i've given to jesus i tell people all the time you can come up here
[01:23:55] and pray a prayer with me but if you don't do it tomorrow and the
[01:23:59] next day and the next day then you just you just told a lie
[01:24:03] because if you said jesus i want you to be my lord and savior and you don't
[01:24:06] let him be your lord and and and your boss boss
[01:24:11] as my friend said here in greek it's controller you let him be the controller
[01:24:15] if you don't do that you say it out of your mouth but you don't let him do it
[01:24:19] then you just lied you told lying church all right so don't do this unless you're
[01:24:24] serious about it and if you're serious you will seek him
[01:24:29] and you will find him and you will obey him and you will follow him
[01:24:32] and the power of god and the grace of god will fill your life and you'll be
[01:24:35] able to do it amen uh give me a give me uh you got
[01:24:42] one all right i don't know what's what's
[01:24:45] song are you doing was it lover of my soul let's do that
[01:24:50] that's a good one we're gonna sing this during the song if
[01:24:52] you need to come for prayer come on up
[01:25:33] things i just don't understand i must recount your faith
[01:25:44] and the mercy of your everything is said and done
[01:25:54] and there's nothing left to say cross of crime enough you are good
[01:26:05] you are trust you and there's nothing yeah come on sing it to you
[01:27:15] loves us he's the lover of our soul sing it to it
[01:27:48] you're the lord nobody else cares for me you always love me
[01:28:43] nobody like you the earth or heaven above nobody like you lord
[01:28:53] the lord has peerings me to my knee reverent fear trust your everything
[01:29:23] and there's nothing left to say you know that brings me to the final
[01:32:19] feast remember that i didn't forget tabernacles you know what that means
[01:32:25] tabernacle with us that means he came to be with us
[01:32:30] and it's not about building some booths and living outside your house for seven
[01:32:34] days it's about letting jesus live in rain
[01:32:39] and work in your heart and through you see apart from that it's where i would
[01:32:47] rather you be flowing in the power of the holy
[01:32:50] spirit because jesus is in you because you've been truly born again
[01:32:54] and trying to keep any feast out there he came
[01:33:00] so that he could make that possible and yes they talk about oh we'll celebrate
[01:33:06] tabernacles in the millennium yes we will because
[01:33:10] where will he be he will be here physically not just
[01:33:16] spiritually he will be here and we're going to have a good time and
[01:33:20] guess what the tabernacles in the millennial kingdom is not going to be
[01:33:22] the same as it was no tesla guess what and then we sacrament no
[01:33:26] sacrifice and animals none of that it's going to be a time of gathering
[01:33:30] and worship and loving god because he is with us
[01:33:34] i long for the day that i can walk up to him
[01:33:40] and talk to him because he's sitting on his throne
[01:33:43] and you can see the nail prints in his hands
[01:33:46] that's going to be a great day amen no war no more pain no more sorrow
[01:33:55] that day's coming all right y'all know the drill around here
[01:33:59] the only rule we have at the end hugs them next before you leave
[01:34:03] hey man if you want to stay afterwards go get something you want to eat
[01:34:07] come back we stay here at five six o'clock
[01:34:10] usually so you're welcome to come hang out and
[01:34:13] talk and fellowship and eat together or not eat just stay
[01:34:19] whatever you want to do all right god bless y'all say bye to everybody out
[01:34:22] there love y'all