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Keeping Your Intensity
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[00:00:00] I'm sorry. I've come with my.
[00:00:10] And I forgot that you're in a.
[00:06:49] Jesus, we thank you, God almighty, that you have given us your word.
[00:06:56] We thank you for the Bible, Lord, we thank you for the truth.
[00:06:59] We thank you that you've given us your believers, your followers.
[00:07:03] You've given us your Holy Spirit to lead us and guide us into all truth.
[00:07:08] Lord, I ask you to help us as we walk by faith and not by sight,
[00:07:13] as we are in constant spiritual warfare against the forces of darkness.
[00:07:19] Lord, we ask for your strength.
[00:07:21] We ask for discernment and revelation.
[00:07:24] We ask that you would put in us a heart that will fight and fight and fight
[00:07:30] and keep fighting and not grow weary and well doing.
[00:07:35] Lord, help us to be those kind of people, Lord.
[00:07:38] I pray, and it's in Jesus name that we pray. Amen. Amen.
[00:07:43] You may be seated this morning.
[00:07:46] Welcome, everyone, to Fire and Grace Church.
[00:07:49] Those watching and listening from all over.
[00:07:51] All right. Y'all ready to get into it?
[00:07:56] I had to run to my office.
[00:07:57] I had to find a quote in a Charles Finney's book.
[00:08:04] I'm going to read this here.
[00:08:06] And if you've never read Charles Finney's book,
[00:08:09] Revival Lectures, of course, it's kind of a thick book.
[00:08:13] And if you don't know who Charles Finney was,
[00:08:15] he was one of the greatest revivalist America has ever known.
[00:08:19] Pretty much just him.
[00:08:22] He spearheaded the Second Great Awakening.
[00:08:26] He was so filled with the Holy Spirit that
[00:08:31] he would go in places and thousands of people would just fall
[00:08:34] under conviction of the Holy Spirit and get saved.
[00:08:38] He was a lawyer by trade, and so he knew how to argue his case.
[00:08:44] He also knew the power of prayer.
[00:08:46] And he talked about if you have much of the spirit of God.
[00:08:51] And this is what I I want to help you with.
[00:08:54] If you if you love Jesus and you are full of the Holy Spirit
[00:09:00] and you're all about following him, of course, you need to understand
[00:09:04] that you're going to be targeted by the devil.
[00:09:09] He's going to leave the lukewarm ones alone.
[00:09:10] He's got them. All right.
[00:09:13] I want to read something that Charles Finney said.
[00:09:15] And this is in his chapter on being filled with the spirit.
[00:09:20] And it's just excellent. It says here, he said,
[00:09:28] basically, if you have much of the spirit of God,
[00:09:32] you must expect very frequent and agonizing
[00:09:36] conflicts with Satan.
[00:09:38] Satan has very little trouble with those Christians
[00:09:41] who are not spiritual, but lukewarm and slothful
[00:09:44] and worldly minded and such do not understand
[00:09:48] what is said about spiritual conflicts.
[00:09:50] Perhaps they will smile when such things are mentioned.
[00:09:54] And so the devil lets them alone.
[00:09:57] They do not disturb him nor he them.
[00:10:00] But spiritual Christians, he understands very well
[00:10:04] and they are doing him a vast injury and therefore
[00:10:07] he sets himself against them.
[00:10:09] Such Christians often have terrible conflicts.
[00:10:13] They have temptations that they never thought of before.
[00:10:16] Blasphemous thoughts, doubts, atheism,
[00:10:20] suggestions to do deeds of wickedness to destroy
[00:10:24] their own lives and the like.
[00:10:26] And if you are spiritual, you may expect these
[00:10:31] spiritual conflicts.
[00:10:33] And that's just one of his points that he makes
[00:10:38] in revival lectures.
[00:10:40] The battle is real.
[00:10:43] And I'm just going to say this.
[00:10:44] I've been over my many years of walking with the Lord
[00:10:47] Jesus through times of such intense spiritual
[00:10:52] battle, mental, emotional, physical,
[00:10:57] from other people, persecutions and times.
[00:11:02] It just seems like that you just want to slow down,
[00:11:07] just give up, stop, you know, back away.
[00:11:13] And what the Lord has always shown me
[00:11:17] is that it just takes a person to overcome these things.
[00:11:22] You have to be a person who will refuse
[00:11:26] no matter what you feel that you refuse to back away
[00:11:34] from your intensity to follow Jesus and to fight
[00:11:39] the devil and to resist temptation.
[00:11:43] In fact, it's not real faith if you see it.
[00:11:49] You understand?
[00:11:50] Or what I'm saying too is if you're, if you feel
[00:11:54] it, you get what I'm saying?
[00:11:56] If you feel, have to feel it for it to be real to you,
[00:12:00] if you have to feel good and riding high in the Holy
[00:12:02] Spirit all the time to do what you need to do,
[00:12:05] you're still immature and you're going to have to
[00:12:09] learn the lesson that sometimes, in fact, a lot
[00:12:13] of the times and the older you get in the Lord
[00:12:16] as you walk with him, you're going to have to
[00:12:18] just maintain your intensity no matter how you feel.
[00:12:26] In fact, that's kind of the definition of an adult.
[00:12:29] You know, we go to work and we don't feel like it, right?
[00:12:34] We take care of our kids when we got a fever, right?
[00:12:38] You understand?
[00:12:40] It's like the body and the mind will try to
[00:12:45] tell you, just back away.
[00:12:49] And that's what the devil wants.
[00:12:50] He wants you to back away.
[00:12:52] And see, here's what happens.
[00:12:54] If you back away from prayer, if you back away
[00:12:56] from the word, if you back away from worship time,
[00:12:58] if you back away from church and fellowship and
[00:13:01] those that you back away, the devil knows you're
[00:13:04] going to get slowly get weaker and weaker and
[00:13:07] weaker, and then he's got you, then he can
[00:13:11] bring the stuff and you just cave like a house
[00:13:14] of cards in a whirlwind.
[00:13:17] You have to maintain your intensity and walk by
[00:13:21] faith and not by sight in those times when
[00:13:25] the battle is intense.
[00:13:28] This is why in Ephesians six, when he said,
[00:13:32] what, having done all to stand, stand, meaning
[00:13:38] don't allow yourself to lose any ground.
[00:13:42] Don't move backwards.
[00:13:46] You hear me?
[00:13:49] There's no rope-a-dopes in this, uh, battle.
[00:13:52] And for you people that don't understand a
[00:13:53] rope-a-dope is what Muhammad Ali used to do.
[00:13:56] He used to just move backwards and let them
[00:14:00] wear out and he would guard himself the
[00:14:01] best he could, but he'd let the other fighter
[00:14:04] wear out, especially as he got older.
[00:14:06] This was his trick.
[00:14:07] And then he would start pounding them.
[00:14:09] But when the devil, you can't give up ground.
[00:14:14] You can't step back.
[00:14:16] You can't ease up your intensity.
[00:14:19] You can't do it.
[00:14:22] Somebody say don't lose ground, but I'm going
[00:14:27] to tell you the number one way Christians lose
[00:14:29] ground, I'm going to tell you what laziness.
[00:14:35] The fact is a lot of times I don't feel like it.
[00:14:39] I'm tired way, way, way, right?
[00:14:50] One thing that we learn about our soldiers
[00:14:52] is if they're in the midst of a battle, they
[00:14:56] don't even get, take a break, go to the bathroom.
[00:15:00] Why?
[00:15:01] Cause you, you get up, I got to go run to
[00:15:02] the bathroom and then you get shot.
[00:15:10] And that's one of the things I've
[00:15:12] shared this before, but you know, our Navy
[00:15:15] seals and special forces, one of the things
[00:15:17] that their training takes them through.
[00:15:19] And the reason they put them through such
[00:15:21] hell is to make them realize that their mind can
[00:15:29] overcome what the body's trying to tell them.
[00:15:33] Meaning they, they realize that they can
[00:15:35] push their body further than they ever realized.
[00:15:39] And basically what they learn to do is tell
[00:15:42] the body, the flesh, no matter how much
[00:15:44] pain it's in, no matter how uncomfortable
[00:15:46] it is, keep doing your job.
[00:15:51] That's what they learned.
[00:15:53] The rest of us, that's why so many of
[00:15:55] them in seal training ring the bell and leave.
[00:16:01] They finally give in and say, my body
[00:16:04] just can't take it anymore.
[00:16:06] I'm done.
[00:16:08] And this is what a lot of Christians do.
[00:16:09] It's too, it gets too hard.
[00:16:12] It's too difficult.
[00:16:14] So I'm going to retreat into Luke
[00:16:18] Warmville and Luke Warmville.
[00:16:24] The devil goes, Oh, let me just leave
[00:16:25] them alone.
[00:16:27] And that person starts thinking, Oh, I found
[00:16:29] a place of peace, but let me tell you,
[00:16:31] it's a false piece.
[00:16:34] It's a place where the reason you're
[00:16:36] having some peace is because you've
[00:16:38] waved the white flag of surrender.
[00:16:41] You see in this battle we have with Satan
[00:16:44] and the forces of darkness and all his
[00:16:45] evil in the world, we must keep moving
[00:16:50] forward.
[00:16:51] And what do I mean by that drawing
[00:16:53] closer to Jesus, filling ourselves
[00:16:56] with his word, being in prayer, and
[00:16:59] then doing things that he tells us to do.
[00:17:02] And if you don't spend time with him,
[00:17:04] if you don't fast, if you don't pray,
[00:17:06] if you don't meditate and stay in
[00:17:07] the word, read the word, study the
[00:17:09] word, then you will not be able to
[00:17:11] hear what the Holy Spirit is telling
[00:17:14] you to do.
[00:17:14] And if you don't hear what the
[00:17:15] Holy Spirit is telling you to do,
[00:17:17] then he succeeded at cutting you off
[00:17:20] from communication and then we don't
[00:17:22] move forward because you have to hear
[00:17:25] things that the Holy Spirit wants you
[00:17:27] to do and do them for the kingdom of
[00:17:30] God to advance, to reach the laws,
[00:17:33] to reach the prodigals.
[00:17:35] You have to hear his voice and move
[00:17:38] forward and do things.
[00:17:39] Like I've said before, there's
[00:17:40] nowhere in the Bible that it says
[00:17:42] Dean Odell, go to Opelika, Alabama,
[00:17:46] go to your hometown and start a
[00:17:48] church.
[00:17:49] It's not written in here.
[00:17:50] I've checked.
[00:17:53] So how did I know that's what I was
[00:17:55] supposed to do to advance the
[00:17:57] kingdom of God?
[00:17:58] Not everybody's called to start a
[00:17:59] church or pastor a church, so
[00:18:01] you have to know what God wants
[00:18:03] you to do.
[00:18:04] And that's how the kingdom of
[00:18:05] God expands.
[00:18:07] That's how we win battles against
[00:18:09] the devil.
[00:18:10] And the battles that we are fighting
[00:18:12] are for these unsaved lost souls.
[00:18:15] He's lost people around us that
[00:18:16] if we don't do what God wants us
[00:18:19] to do, if we don't win the
[00:18:21] battles, if we don't move
[00:18:22] forward, then they are going to
[00:18:25] be lost.
[00:18:27] We are the Lord's witnesses,
[00:18:30] messengers.
[00:18:32] We are his ambassadors on this
[00:18:34] earth.
[00:18:35] He has chosen to do it that way.
[00:18:38] Yes, he could say, I don't need
[00:18:40] them and I'll do it all myself,
[00:18:41] but that's not the way he set it
[00:18:43] up.
[00:18:44] He set it up to say, if you will
[00:18:46] follow me, I will fill you.
[00:18:49] I will empower you.
[00:18:51] And if you will surrender your
[00:18:52] life to me and become a good
[00:18:54] soldier of Jesus Christ, then
[00:18:59] you're going to see you're going
[00:19:01] to you're going to set captives
[00:19:03] free.
[00:19:04] You're going to reach the lost.
[00:19:06] You're going to help the POWs
[00:19:09] we have get free.
[00:19:12] That's what deliverance is all
[00:19:13] about.
[00:19:16] We got POWs, so many of them, but
[00:19:18] we got a lot of AWOL too.
[00:19:22] You got you got a little lead
[00:19:24] for three days and you made it
[00:19:25] 30 or three years.
[00:19:28] Some people walked away from the
[00:19:30] Lord and they knew him.
[00:19:32] They walked with him and walked
[00:19:35] away from the Lord, walked
[00:19:38] away from that intensity of
[00:19:42] going after him and going after
[00:19:44] the devil and after the world
[00:19:46] and getting in this battle and
[00:19:48] fighting it.
[00:19:49] They've lost their intensity and
[00:19:50] they just found a church that
[00:19:52] will tell them what they want to
[00:19:53] hear that's comfortable and
[00:19:58] they sit there and convince
[00:19:59] themselves that they're winning
[00:20:02] this battle.
[00:20:06] You know, I don't want to go
[00:20:09] into eternity and the Lord look
[00:20:15] at me and go because you didn't
[00:20:18] obey me because you didn't keep
[00:20:21] your intensity.
[00:20:25] I want to show you all these
[00:20:26] thousands of people that went
[00:20:27] to hell because you didn't obey
[00:20:29] me.
[00:20:30] So blood's on your hand, son.
[00:20:34] But see, it doesn't just go for
[00:20:35] me.
[00:20:37] It goes for you.
[00:20:40] Maybe God's only called you to
[00:20:42] reach one person.
[00:20:44] You better, you better reach that
[00:20:47] person because this life is all
[00:20:52] about what, what we do.
[00:20:55] Do we do the will of God?
[00:20:56] See, that's the part a lot of
[00:20:57] people don't like.
[00:20:58] It's like, oh, Pastor Dean,
[00:21:00] know it's all by grace and I'm
[00:21:01] eternally secure if I just
[00:21:03] believe it.
[00:21:04] Oh, really?
[00:21:06] Why does it say over and over
[00:21:07] again, he who does the will of
[00:21:09] God will live forever.
[00:21:15] Let me show you this.
[00:21:16] Let's go to, uh, second Kings
[00:21:19] chapter 13.
[00:21:20] I want to read this right here.
[00:21:21] This is something that stood out
[00:21:23] to me the last few days because
[00:21:30] I'm going to tell you, there are
[00:21:32] some weeks that maybe you
[00:21:37] can't see it on the outside,
[00:21:40] but I just go through what I'll
[00:21:45] just call just a spiritual and
[00:21:49] mental hell for a while.
[00:21:53] And then, of course, I slammed my
[00:21:55] finger in my door too.
[00:21:57] So those things will happen and
[00:21:58] broke my finger.
[00:22:00] As you can see, this fingernail
[00:22:01] is going to come off.
[00:22:02] I probably at some point and
[00:22:06] that hurt.
[00:22:06] Like somebody had beaten me
[00:22:09] with a aluminum bat.
[00:22:12] Um, goodness, but the, you
[00:22:15] know, you just stack these
[00:22:16] things up and it sometimes it
[00:22:18] seems like it's just one thing
[00:22:19] after another, after another,
[00:22:21] after another, and then you got
[00:22:24] to go, all right, well, you
[00:22:27] know, some people know this is
[00:22:28] what a lot of, a lot of
[00:22:29] Christians do when it gets
[00:22:32] intense and difficult, they go
[00:22:35] smoke a joint because they need
[00:22:37] to relax or they go have a few
[00:22:43] couple of drinks.
[00:22:44] You know, I'm not getting
[00:22:44] drunk.
[00:22:45] I'm just, I'm just relaxing,
[00:22:47] just dealing with helping my
[00:22:48] nerves or for a lot of people
[00:22:55] they go to porn because that
[00:22:58] releases all kinds of chemicals
[00:23:00] in the brain, it's called
[00:23:01] neurotoxin, everything mixes
[00:23:03] together and oh yeah, it's like
[00:23:04] a drug and some people go from
[00:23:08] that, go to actual sex, sexual
[00:23:11] sin, because again, they're
[00:23:13] looking for a feeling, they're
[00:23:17] looking for something to feel
[00:23:18] satisfied.
[00:23:19] Some people, they love spending
[00:23:20] money or gambling because that
[00:23:23] gives them some pump of
[00:23:25] adrenaline and some excitement,
[00:23:26] some, some dopamine, right?
[00:23:33] But see, this is where we as
[00:23:34] Christians have to overcome,
[00:23:36] not just the flesh, but the
[00:23:39] carnal mind to see the mind is,
[00:23:44] is what you end up doing what
[00:23:47] stays up here.
[00:23:50] And if you let those things
[00:23:51] stay in there, you end up
[00:23:55] doing them.
[00:23:55] This is why it's so important
[00:23:57] when someone starts talking
[00:23:58] about suicide to take it
[00:24:00] seriously, because if they're
[00:24:01] talking about it, that means
[00:24:04] they've been thinking about it
[00:24:05] for a while because from the
[00:24:06] abundance of the heart, the
[00:24:07] mouth speaks.
[00:24:09] So if they start talking about
[00:24:10] it, then they could be very
[00:24:14] close to acting upon it.
[00:24:18] And again, all of that with
[00:24:20] even the spirit of suicide is
[00:24:23] about giving up.
[00:24:24] It's about, I can't take
[00:24:25] anymore.
[00:24:25] It's about, I need relief from
[00:24:28] this world or whatever I'm
[00:24:30] going through my family
[00:24:31] situation or the abuse I
[00:24:33] suffered or my own stupid
[00:24:35] mistakes or my drug addiction
[00:24:37] or my alcohol addiction.
[00:24:39] I want to run from this and
[00:24:41] have relief.
[00:24:42] So they put it in their
[00:24:44] mind that if I end it, I'm
[00:24:45] going to, I'm going to be at
[00:24:46] rest, right?
[00:24:49] Not realizing that kill
[00:24:52] yourself, you're a murderer
[00:24:55] and no murderer has eternal
[00:24:56] life abiding in them.
[00:24:57] According to 1st John,
[00:24:58] chapter three, and you're
[00:25:00] dead now, so you can't
[00:25:01] repent.
[00:25:03] So it's kind of final.
[00:25:08] A lot of people, I've known
[00:25:09] people back in the day,
[00:25:11] there was a young man that
[00:25:14] I had led to the Lord and
[00:25:15] baptized in water and who
[00:25:18] was on fire for Jesus for
[00:25:19] awhile, but through
[00:25:22] different things.
[00:25:23] Family issues, his own
[00:25:25] rebellion, his pressure from
[00:25:30] his friends and all that
[00:25:31] stuff, he went back to
[00:25:34] drinking and partying.
[00:25:35] And then he was killed in a
[00:25:38] car accident and this was
[00:25:39] here in Beulah.
[00:25:41] And I, I knew his family
[00:25:43] well.
[00:25:45] In fact, I had led his
[00:25:46] whole family to Jesus, his
[00:25:47] mom, his dad, and they
[00:25:50] were on fire for Jesus.
[00:25:52] And I will never forget
[00:25:56] the cries of that mother as
[00:26:00] she laid over his coffin
[00:26:04] because he lost his
[00:26:06] intensity to stay with
[00:26:07] Jesus.
[00:26:11] That was one of the saddest
[00:26:12] days of my life watching
[00:26:16] that.
[00:26:18] And he was only probably
[00:26:20] when he was killed 18, 19,
[00:26:23] maybe 20, I can't remember
[00:26:25] now, but a long time ago,
[00:26:30] I've seen people back away,
[00:26:33] fall away, just simply
[00:26:36] because they would not keep
[00:26:38] fighting no matter how they
[00:26:39] felt.
[00:26:42] I can't stress this enough.
[00:26:46] I don't care what your
[00:26:47] brain tells you, what your
[00:26:49] body tells you, you're
[00:26:52] either going to keep
[00:26:53] believing the word of God
[00:26:54] and seeking after him, or
[00:26:57] you're going to give up,
[00:26:58] draw back, get lazy, and
[00:27:02] be in a very dangerous
[00:27:04] place.
[00:27:07] I want to show you
[00:27:07] something here about not
[00:27:10] having the intensity you
[00:27:11] should have.
[00:27:12] This is a second Kings,
[00:27:15] Chapter 13.
[00:27:18] We're going to go down to
[00:27:19] verse 14 and read there.
[00:27:21] Now, Elisha, this is Elisha,
[00:27:23] the prophet who had the
[00:27:24] double portion of Elijah's
[00:27:26] anointing of the Holy
[00:27:28] Spirit upon him.
[00:27:29] It says, now Elisha was
[00:27:30] fallen sick of his
[00:27:32] sickness, whereof he died.
[00:27:34] And Joash, the king of
[00:27:36] Israel came down into
[00:27:37] him and wept over his
[00:27:38] face and said, Oh, my
[00:27:40] father, my father, the
[00:27:41] chariot of Israel and
[00:27:42] the horsemen thereof.
[00:27:44] And Elisha said unto him,
[00:27:45] take bow and arrows.
[00:27:47] And he took unto him bow
[00:27:49] and arrows.
[00:27:49] And he said to the king
[00:27:50] of Israel, put thine
[00:27:51] hand upon the bow and he
[00:27:54] put his hand upon it.
[00:27:55] And Elisha put his hands
[00:27:57] upon the king's hands.
[00:27:59] And he said, open the
[00:28:00] window eastward and he
[00:28:03] opened it.
[00:28:03] Then Elisha said, shoot.
[00:28:06] And he shot.
[00:28:07] And he said, the arrow of
[00:28:08] the Lord's deliverance and
[00:28:10] the arrow of deliverance
[00:28:11] from Syria, for thou shalt
[00:28:13] smite the Syrians in
[00:28:15] affect, tell thou have
[00:28:16] consumed them.
[00:28:18] And he said, take the arrows
[00:28:20] and he took them and he
[00:28:21] said unto the king of
[00:28:22] Israel, smite upon the
[00:28:23] ground and he smoked thrice
[00:28:26] or three times and
[00:28:26] stopped.
[00:28:28] And the man of God was
[00:28:29] Roth or very angry with
[00:28:31] him and said, thou should
[00:28:33] us have smitten five or
[00:28:34] six times.
[00:28:36] Then had thou smitten
[00:28:37] Syria, tell thou has
[00:28:38] consumed it, whereas now
[00:28:40] thou shalt smite Syria,
[00:28:42] but thrice and Elisha died
[00:28:44] and they buried him.
[00:28:46] I'm going to stop there.
[00:28:48] Now, Israel, you have to
[00:28:51] remember, this is after
[00:28:52] Solomon, the kingdom
[00:28:54] divided, ten tribes
[00:28:56] went to the north to
[00:28:59] Samaria and all the
[00:29:01] kings of Israel, they
[00:29:02] created basically a
[00:29:03] counterfeit, false system
[00:29:06] of worship up there.
[00:29:08] Jeroboam did.
[00:29:10] And all the kings, if you
[00:29:13] go through first and
[00:29:15] second Kings, first and
[00:29:16] second Chronicles, and you
[00:29:17] pay attention, you will
[00:29:18] notice it'll talk about
[00:29:20] you had the kingdom, the
[00:29:21] north kingdom of Israel.
[00:29:22] And then there was the
[00:29:23] kingdom of Judah.
[00:29:24] Okay.
[00:29:25] In the south and
[00:29:26] Jerusalem, and you'll
[00:29:28] notice that every single
[00:29:30] king of Israel, of the
[00:29:32] northern kingdom who was
[00:29:34] wicked, every single one
[00:29:38] was disobedient to God,
[00:29:40] was into idolatry, was
[00:29:42] rebellious, was a problem.
[00:29:46] Not one said that they
[00:29:48] serve the Lord or love
[00:29:49] the Lord with all their
[00:29:50] heart and was true to God.
[00:29:52] Now, in the southern
[00:29:54] kingdom, you would see
[00:29:56] every now and then you
[00:29:56] see a good king, a bad
[00:29:57] king, a good king, a bad
[00:29:59] king. That's where you
[00:29:59] had Hezekiah, good king
[00:30:01] and Josiah, of course.
[00:30:06] So every now and then
[00:30:07] you'd have a righteous
[00:30:08] king in Judah, but never
[00:30:10] in Israel.
[00:30:11] Now, here's what blows my
[00:30:12] mind. And here's what's so
[00:30:13] powerful is we'll just
[00:30:16] say that, oh, King here,
[00:30:18] Joe Hesh, the king of
[00:30:20] Israel, we know that he
[00:30:22] was not a righteous man.
[00:30:25] Okay.
[00:30:27] And in fact, we can even
[00:30:28] back up where it says in
[00:30:29] verse 11, where it says
[00:30:32] he did that, which was
[00:30:32] evil on the side of the
[00:30:33] Lord and departed not
[00:30:34] from all the sins of
[00:30:35] Jeroboam, the son of
[00:30:36] Nebat who made Israel to
[00:30:38] sin, but he walked therein.
[00:30:41] Now, what makes this
[00:30:42] amazing though, and I
[00:30:45] think that this is a
[00:30:46] picture of so many
[00:30:49] Christians in America, in
[00:30:52] the West, that we live
[00:30:56] kind of with a foot in
[00:30:58] both worlds. We got a foot
[00:31:01] in the church, in the
[00:31:03] kingdom of God, in
[00:31:04] Christianity, we got our
[00:31:05] other foot in the world
[00:31:06] and we're trying to, we're
[00:31:08] trying to walk that fence.
[00:31:10] And it was obvious here,
[00:31:12] what's amazing, I think,
[00:31:13] is that this king of
[00:31:16] Israel had enough sense to
[00:31:18] know when Elisha was dying,
[00:31:20] that this was a man of
[00:31:22] God. This was a warrior.
[00:31:24] This is the one who God
[00:31:26] used to give them
[00:31:27] information on Syria, to
[00:31:30] fight the battles between
[00:31:32] them in Syria, to hear
[00:31:33] from God. He was like,
[00:31:37] oh crap, you know, the
[00:31:40] prophets going away. And
[00:31:43] he was really, I think God
[00:31:46] had mercy on this man
[00:31:49] because he acknowledged
[00:31:51] the prophet, he acknowledged
[00:31:52] the man of God, he
[00:31:53] acknowledged the anointing
[00:31:54] on him. And he really
[00:31:55] realized, I think, wow,
[00:31:56] this is the guy who God
[00:31:58] used to keep delivering us
[00:32:00] from the Syrian armies
[00:32:03] and invasion. And what
[00:32:05] Elisha was doing here,
[00:32:07] God had Elisha do this,
[00:32:12] had him shoot the arrow and
[00:32:15] these prophets did these
[00:32:16] things sometimes with
[00:32:17] these symbols and with
[00:32:18] these illustrations, but
[00:32:20] shoot the arrow out the
[00:32:22] window. When he shot the
[00:32:24] arrow out the window,
[00:32:25] this is the arrow, the
[00:32:26] Lord's deliverance from
[00:32:27] Syria. This is your
[00:32:29] promise of victory over
[00:32:33] Syria, that the Lord's
[00:32:34] going to be with you. And
[00:32:38] then he said, take the
[00:32:40] arrows and smite them on
[00:32:41] the ground. Now,
[00:32:43] remember, sometimes these
[00:32:45] things, the Lord does, he
[00:32:47] doesn't tempt us with evil,
[00:32:49] but he does test us. And
[00:32:53] when the King of Israel
[00:32:55] smoked three times and
[00:32:56] stopped, Elisha was very
[00:32:59] angry. He said, you
[00:33:02] should have done it five
[00:33:03] or six times. Had you
[00:33:04] done it five or six times,
[00:33:06] even though he wasn't a
[00:33:07] righteous man, he said,
[00:33:09] if you'd have done it
[00:33:10] five or six times,
[00:33:12] instead of three, you
[00:33:15] would have defeated Syria
[00:33:16] completely destroy the
[00:33:17] kingdom and never had to
[00:33:18] deal with this enemy
[00:33:19] again. And what this is
[00:33:23] an illustration of is the
[00:33:24] Lord leaves it up to us to
[00:33:26] decide how intense we're
[00:33:29] going to be about this
[00:33:31] walk with Jesus, how
[00:33:33] intense we are going to be
[00:33:35] about believing the word
[00:33:36] of God, no matter what,
[00:33:39] how intense we're going
[00:33:40] to be when we face
[00:33:41] persecution, when we face
[00:33:45] reproach, when we face
[00:33:47] sickness, difficulty,
[00:33:49] pain, constant demonic
[00:33:51] attacks, losing someone
[00:33:55] close to us. How are we
[00:33:58] going to respond? Are we
[00:33:59] going to become lazy, get
[00:34:01] offended with God, get
[00:34:02] angry because everything
[00:34:03] ain't working out the way
[00:34:04] we want it to work out or
[00:34:07] God's not making it easy
[00:34:09] for us. Are we going to
[00:34:13] get lazy and just smite
[00:34:16] three times? You know
[00:34:17] what I can, I'll just, I
[00:34:19] think what made the man
[00:34:21] of God so angry, he did
[00:34:24] not see the intensity and
[00:34:26] the fight in this king.
[00:34:31] Think about us. The Lord
[00:34:35] knows everything out there
[00:34:37] in this world system,
[00:34:39] this beast Antichrist
[00:34:40] system that is arrayed
[00:34:43] against us. Spiritual
[00:34:45] forces, governmental
[00:34:49] forces, economic forces,
[00:34:52] pharmaceutical forces,
[00:34:54] everything in this entire
[00:34:57] evil system is meant to
[00:35:01] push us backwards to make
[00:35:03] us weak, tired, defeated,
[00:35:06] sick, and to give up. You
[00:35:12] just under, you gotta
[00:35:13] understand this. Satan,
[00:35:14] the fallen angels, the
[00:35:16] demon spirits, and the
[00:35:18] people that serve them are
[00:35:19] at war with us every single
[00:35:23] day. Everything they do
[00:35:25] is motivated at defeating
[00:35:28] true born again Christians.
[00:35:32] They want us stamped out,
[00:35:36] annihilated, removed from
[00:35:38] this earth because they
[00:35:41] know that the power of
[00:35:43] Jesus that works through
[00:35:44] us and the truth that
[00:35:45] comes through us and the
[00:35:47] influence we have on
[00:35:48] people, reminding them
[00:35:49] that they need to do
[00:35:50] good, even wicked kings,
[00:35:52] reminding them that they
[00:35:53] need to do things. Just
[00:35:55] being a voice, being a
[00:35:56] light influences our
[00:35:59] leaders, even if they're
[00:36:00] wicked. In fact, I
[00:36:05] remember Walter Cronkite
[00:36:08] speech when he won the
[00:36:11] Norman Cousins Award from
[00:36:12] the world, you know,
[00:36:14] wanting the World
[00:36:15] Federation, wanting the
[00:36:16] world government. He
[00:36:17] won the top world
[00:36:19] government award that
[00:36:20] there was. And he was
[00:36:22] furious that who was a
[00:36:25] Pat Robertson had wrote a
[00:36:27] book about the New World
[00:36:30] Order and where he said
[00:36:33] we're not going to have a
[00:36:35] utopia or a new kingdom
[00:36:37] until Jesus, the Messiah
[00:36:39] returns in any attempt to
[00:36:41] set that up beforehand is
[00:36:43] of the Antichrist or of
[00:36:45] Satan and Walter Cronkite
[00:36:46] said, Hey, I'm glad to
[00:36:48] stand at the right hand
[00:36:49] of Satan. And he was so
[00:36:50] angry that the Christian
[00:36:53] right, he said, were
[00:36:54] influencing senators and
[00:36:56] congressmen to move away
[00:36:59] from the UN to not pay
[00:37:00] our UN dues and did not
[00:37:01] go along with the UN
[00:37:02] agenda. And it was really
[00:37:05] the pressure from
[00:37:06] Christians and all these
[00:37:09] places that was that was
[00:37:10] doing that. And let me
[00:37:11] just add this with the
[00:37:12] whole thing, but Trump,
[00:37:13] everybody wants to be
[00:37:14] Trump's evil. Trump's
[00:37:15] this, Trump's that. Let
[00:37:16] me tell you something,
[00:37:17] whether he is evil or
[00:37:19] not, the Lord told me
[00:37:21] this about him. I put
[00:37:23] my hand upon him. When
[00:37:25] Elisha, the prophet put
[00:37:27] his hands upon the king's
[00:37:29] hands, he wasn't
[00:37:30] endorsing everything
[00:37:31] that this king was doing
[00:37:32] in his wicked life. But
[00:37:35] what he was saying is,
[00:37:37] you know what? I'm going
[00:37:39] to put my hands upon
[00:37:41] you, which is a transfer
[00:37:43] of the anointing of the
[00:37:44] Holy Spirit. So you can
[00:37:46] do what you need to do
[00:37:48] for the people of
[00:37:48] Israel. Now think about
[00:37:49] that. God so loves his
[00:37:51] people. He will use a
[00:37:53] wicked king for his
[00:37:55] purpose. He can put his
[00:37:57] hand upon him. That's
[00:37:58] why the scripture says
[00:37:59] that the heart of the
[00:38:00] Lord's in the hand of
[00:38:01] the king and he turns it
[00:38:03] wherever he wants to turn
[00:38:04] it. Hmm. Did I say that
[00:38:10] backwards? The heart of
[00:38:11] the king's in the hand of
[00:38:12] the Lord. I'm sorry. He
[00:38:14] turns it wherever he
[00:38:15] wants. So again, when I
[00:38:19] say these things, I'm not
[00:38:20] even endorsing Trump. I'm
[00:38:22] just saying, I know the
[00:38:23] Lord said, I put my hand
[00:38:25] on him and it's going to
[00:38:26] be better for you. Now
[00:38:27] think about this because
[00:38:29] this king had through
[00:38:32] Elisha, the hand of God
[00:38:33] and the anointing put
[00:38:34] on him and gave him an
[00:38:36] opportunity of being able
[00:38:39] to defeat the Syrians,
[00:38:41] which would protect all
[00:38:42] the people of Israel,
[00:38:43] right? That king didn't
[00:38:46] have his intensity that
[00:38:48] he needed and yes, praise
[00:38:50] God, he got to win three
[00:38:53] major battles. But what
[00:38:55] did it mean that he
[00:38:58] didn't do it five or six
[00:38:59] times that he would not
[00:39:00] completely destroy his
[00:39:02] enemy, meaning that Israel
[00:39:03] would face them again
[00:39:06] in the future. And this
[00:39:09] is another thing. This is
[00:39:10] another picture of
[00:39:12] deliverance. A lot of
[00:39:14] people give up on
[00:39:15] deliverance. You've got
[00:39:16] strongholds in your life.
[00:39:18] You've got all these
[00:39:19] different things going
[00:39:20] on. And a lot of people
[00:39:22] maybe do a little bit
[00:39:24] and never finish or get
[00:39:27] lazy and tired or say I
[00:39:28] don't want to deal with
[00:39:29] it or I don't believe
[00:39:30] it. And then what
[00:39:34] happens is you might
[00:39:34] have won a few battles
[00:39:35] that you dealt with, but
[00:39:38] you're going to face
[00:39:38] them. They're going to
[00:39:39] rise up in you again.
[00:39:44] And if they rise up
[00:39:45] again and you're being
[00:39:46] lazy, you might lose
[00:39:50] that battle. See, go
[00:39:56] with me to Philippians
[00:40:02] chapter three. I love
[00:40:25] this in Philippians.
[00:40:35] Let's just read from
[00:40:36] verse one. Finally, my
[00:40:38] brother and rejoice in
[00:40:39] the Lord to write the
[00:40:41] same things to you. To
[00:40:42] me, indeed is not
[00:40:44] grievous, but for you
[00:40:45] it is safe. Beware of
[00:40:46] dogs. Beware of evil
[00:40:48] workers. Beware of the
[00:40:49] concision. For we are
[00:40:51] the circumcision which
[00:40:52] worship God in the spirit
[00:40:55] and rejoice in Christ
[00:40:56] Jesus and have no
[00:40:57] confidence in the flesh.
[00:40:59] Though I might have
[00:41:00] confidence in the flesh,
[00:41:01] if any other man think
[00:41:02] it that he hath,
[00:41:03] wherever he might trust
[00:41:04] in the flesh, I more
[00:41:06] circumcise the eighth
[00:41:07] day of the stock of
[00:41:08] Israel, the tribe of
[00:41:09] Benjamin, a Hebrew of
[00:41:11] Hebrews is touching the
[00:41:12] law of Pharisee
[00:41:13] concern concerning zeal,
[00:41:16] persecuting the church,
[00:41:17] touching the righteousness
[00:41:18] which is in the law
[00:41:19] blameless, but what
[00:41:21] things were gained to
[00:41:22] me, those I counted
[00:41:23] lost for Christ.
[00:41:24] Yea, doubtless I count
[00:41:25] all things, but lost for
[00:41:27] the excellency of the
[00:41:28] knowledge of Christ
[00:41:29] Jesus, my Lord, for
[00:41:31] whom I have suffered
[00:41:32] the loss of all things
[00:41:33] and do count them but
[00:41:34] dung, that I may win
[00:41:36] Christ and be found in
[00:41:37] him, not having my own
[00:41:39] righteousness, which is
[00:41:40] of the law, but that
[00:41:41] which is through the
[00:41:42] faith of Christ, the
[00:41:44] righteousness, which is
[00:41:45] of God by faith, that I
[00:41:48] may know him and the
[00:41:50] power of his resurrection
[00:41:51] and the fellowship of
[00:41:52] his sufferings, being
[00:41:54] made conformable unto
[00:41:55] his death, if by any
[00:41:56] means I might attain
[00:41:57] unto the resurrection of
[00:41:58] the dead, not as though I
[00:42:00] had already attained,
[00:42:01] either were already
[00:42:02] perfect, but I follow
[00:42:04] after, if that I may
[00:42:05] apprehend that which I
[00:42:07] am also apprehended of
[00:42:08] Christ Jesus.
[00:42:09] Brethren, I count not
[00:42:10] myself to apprehended,
[00:42:12] but this one thing I
[00:42:13] do, forgetting those
[00:42:14] things which are behind
[00:42:16] and reaching forth
[00:42:17] unto those things which
[00:42:18] are before, I press toward
[00:42:20] the mark for the prize
[00:42:22] of the high calling of
[00:42:23] God in Christ Jesus.
[00:42:25] Let us therefore, as
[00:42:26] many as be perfect, now
[00:42:28] this word perfect means
[00:42:29] mature, fully spiritually
[00:42:31] mature. He says if you're
[00:42:33] going to be mature, you
[00:42:35] must be thus minded. What
[00:42:37] minded? Pressing toward
[00:42:39] the mark. Somebody say
[00:42:42] pressing, pressing,
[00:42:45] pressing, pressing,
[00:42:47] pressing for the high
[00:42:49] calling. What is the
[00:42:50] high calling of God? The
[00:42:53] high calling of God. I'm
[00:42:54] gonna just put it this
[00:42:55] way is the perfect will
[00:42:57] of God for your life.
[00:42:59] What he has called you
[00:43:01] to do, the good works
[00:43:04] he created you to do
[00:43:06] before the foundation of
[00:43:07] the world, what he
[00:43:10] wanted you to be and
[00:43:15] Paul would never back
[00:43:16] up, you know, let's go
[00:43:18] over to acts, go to
[00:43:47] chapter 21. Paul was on
[00:44:00] his journey toward
[00:44:01] Jerusalem. Let's go to
[00:44:05] verse eight. He says,
[00:44:06] the next day we that
[00:44:08] were of Paul's company
[00:44:09] departed and came into
[00:44:10] Caesarea and we entered
[00:44:11] into the house of Philip
[00:44:12] the evangelist, which was
[00:44:14] one of the seven and
[00:44:15] abode with him. And the
[00:44:16] same man had four
[00:44:17] daughters, virgins, which
[00:44:19] did prophesy. And as we
[00:44:21] carried there many days,
[00:44:22] there came down from
[00:44:24] Judea, a certain
[00:44:25] prophet named Agabus. And
[00:44:27] when he was come unto
[00:44:28] us, he took Paul's
[00:44:29] girdle and bound his own
[00:44:31] hands and feet and said,
[00:44:32] thus sayeth the Holy
[00:44:33] Ghost, so shall the Jews
[00:44:35] at Jerusalem bind the
[00:44:37] man that owneth this
[00:44:38] girdle and shall deliver
[00:44:39] him into the hands of
[00:44:40] the Gentiles. And when
[00:44:42] we heard these things,
[00:44:43] we both we and they of
[00:44:45] that place besought him
[00:44:47] not to go up to
[00:44:48] Jerusalem. And then Paul
[00:44:49] answered and said, what
[00:44:50] mean ye to weep and to
[00:44:51] break my heart? For I
[00:44:52] am ready not to be
[00:44:54] bound only, but also to
[00:44:56] die at Jerusalem for the
[00:44:57] name of the Lord Jesus.
[00:44:59] And when he would not
[00:45:00] be persuaded, we see
[00:45:02] saying the will of the
[00:45:04] Lord be done. Now I
[00:45:06] want to stop right there.
[00:45:09] And this is something
[00:45:10] that I think that a lot
[00:45:12] of us just don't get the
[00:45:15] prophet. And it's very,
[00:45:16] it's very important that
[00:45:17] when we hear something
[00:45:18] from the Lord that we
[00:45:20] don't add to it or take
[00:45:23] from it, did at any
[00:45:26] point as Agabus prophesied
[00:45:29] over Paul, did he tell
[00:45:31] Paul, the Lord says,
[00:45:32] don't go to Jerusalem.
[00:45:35] No, he just told him
[00:45:37] what's going to happen
[00:45:38] when you go. All right.
[00:45:43] So the disciples and the
[00:45:45] people around them, all
[00:45:46] of a sudden, oh, Paul,
[00:45:49] you can't go to
[00:45:50] Jerusalem. They're going
[00:45:51] to arrest you. They
[00:45:53] might kill you. And Paul
[00:45:56] was like, don't y'all
[00:45:58] get it? I know that is
[00:46:02] the will of God for me
[00:46:03] to go there. And even
[00:46:08] if I am arrested and
[00:46:09] even if I die, so be
[00:46:12] it. I'm ready. You want
[00:46:18] to talk about not losing
[00:46:20] your intensity. If you
[00:46:25] go there, they're going
[00:46:26] to arrest you and you're
[00:46:26] going to die. But I know
[00:46:27] God wants me to go
[00:46:28] there. So what do you
[00:46:29] do? What if you knew the
[00:46:34] Lord told you to do
[00:46:35] something, but the thing
[00:46:39] that you're going to do
[00:46:39] may may get you killed?
[00:46:42] What do you do? Well,
[00:46:50] Pastor Dean, if I do
[00:46:51] what the Lord's telling
[00:46:52] me to do, I might lose
[00:46:54] my job. Guess what?
[00:46:57] You better do what the
[00:46:57] Lord tells you to do,
[00:46:58] because he'll have
[00:46:59] another job for you.
[00:47:02] This is what I mean
[00:47:03] about trusting him. This
[00:47:04] is what I mean about
[00:47:05] not losing your
[00:47:05] intensity. It's this
[00:47:07] intensity to keep
[00:47:09] pressing forward in Jesus
[00:47:12] and his will for your
[00:47:13] life, no matter what the
[00:47:17] consequences. But what
[00:47:23] about my family, Lord?
[00:47:25] Let me tell you
[00:47:25] something. Have you seen
[00:47:26] what happens to families
[00:47:27] that that they were the
[00:47:29] husband and the parents
[00:47:31] don't follow Jesus and
[00:47:33] live a lukewarm lifestyle?
[00:47:38] You got no guarantees of
[00:47:39] trying to keep everything
[00:47:40] safe and cushy for
[00:47:44] everybody that it's going
[00:47:47] to work. Satan has a way
[00:47:51] of moving into a
[00:47:52] household. You know, I've
[00:48:00] shared this many times
[00:48:01] when I was in Africa in
[00:48:02] 2002 and teaching the
[00:48:05] seminary students who
[00:48:06] were getting ready to
[00:48:06] graduate, graduate, and
[00:48:08] I was going to be the
[00:48:09] speaker at the big
[00:48:10] graduation. And I
[00:48:12] remember I taught them
[00:48:13] for like the last month
[00:48:15] before they graduated. And
[00:48:18] I'll never forget, see,
[00:48:20] and I mean, that school
[00:48:22] pilgrims theological
[00:48:24] seminary that's now
[00:48:25] pilgrims University there,
[00:48:26] of course, the founder
[00:48:28] Bishop Comos Akbo that I
[00:48:29] knew and then I went
[00:48:30] there with he's passed
[00:48:31] away now. And but they
[00:48:34] had schools all over
[00:48:36] planted churches all over
[00:48:38] Nigeria. I mean, they
[00:48:39] were doing it. The
[00:48:40] government of Nigeria
[00:48:41] hated them, put out
[00:48:42] lies about them. They
[00:48:45] were in a battle with
[00:48:46] Muslim politicians. And I
[00:48:50] mean, it was, it was, you
[00:48:51] go there and the battle
[00:48:52] is real. Okay. But if
[00:48:56] you as a Christian go
[00:48:58] into like the capital of
[00:49:02] Buja and north of there,
[00:49:04] that is Muslim country.
[00:49:07] And for the Christians
[00:49:09] who go there, most of
[00:49:10] them are killed. When I
[00:49:13] was there, several
[00:49:14] thousand were killed,
[00:49:15] churches were burned. Um,
[00:49:18] anybody heard of Boko Haram?
[00:49:21] Yeah, bad stuff. These
[00:49:26] Muslims would go into
[00:49:27] these churches in Nigeria
[00:49:28] with machetes and hack
[00:49:30] women and children to
[00:49:31] pieces. Y'all haven't
[00:49:33] yet. We have it easy
[00:49:35] here in America. All
[00:49:37] right. But some of these
[00:49:39] students that I was
[00:49:40] teaching would come and
[00:49:42] talk to me after classes
[00:49:44] in the mornings or at
[00:49:45] lunch. And they would
[00:49:47] tell me I know that I
[00:49:49] am called to go to a
[00:49:51] Buja that I am called to
[00:49:54] go into the north of
[00:49:55] Nigeria and preach the
[00:49:57] gospel. And I know that
[00:50:00] my life may be very
[00:50:01] short. Do you think I
[00:50:05] told any of them don't
[00:50:06] go? What did I say to
[00:50:11] them? You must do the
[00:50:13] will of God, whatever
[00:50:15] happens. Now that's some
[00:50:18] intensity right there.
[00:50:22] They knew where God was
[00:50:24] leading them and it
[00:50:26] might be their end. They
[00:50:28] may even be captured for
[00:50:31] a season. They may even
[00:50:32] be tortured for a season.
[00:50:41] And here in America, we
[00:50:44] can't get Christians to
[00:50:47] go next door and share
[00:50:49] the gospel with their
[00:50:51] neighbor. We're too
[00:50:59] worried about what they
[00:51:01] might say about us, what
[00:51:04] it might cost us. And
[00:51:10] this comes down to
[00:51:11] everything you guys, you
[00:51:14] choose, you will choose
[00:51:16] to do things God's way or
[00:51:18] you would choose to do
[00:51:19] things your way or the
[00:51:21] devil's way. Everything
[00:51:24] from being a wife, you're
[00:51:26] going to do it God's way
[00:51:27] or you're going to do it
[00:51:27] the devil's way. Be in a
[00:51:28] husband, you'll do it
[00:51:30] God's way, you're going
[00:51:31] to do it the devil's
[00:51:31] way. Children, you're
[00:51:34] going to do it God's
[00:51:35] way or you're going to
[00:51:36] do it the devil's way.
[00:51:41] Pastors. See, it's all
[00:51:49] about the word of God.
[00:51:50] When it comes down to
[00:51:52] Judgment Day, you know
[00:51:53] what we're going to be
[00:51:53] judged by. It says the
[00:51:56] books are going to be
[00:51:57] open. Let me tell you
[00:51:58] what books, first of all,
[00:52:00] the 66 of them right
[00:52:01] here, you will be judged
[00:52:04] by this first, then you
[00:52:09] will be judged. There's
[00:52:10] a book of remembrance
[00:52:11] written. You know what
[00:52:12] the book of remembrance
[00:52:13] is? It's mentioned in
[00:52:13] Malachi chapter three.
[00:52:15] That's about every word
[00:52:16] you've spoken. Then
[00:52:24] there's the book of
[00:52:25] life. If you made it,
[00:52:29] your name will be in
[00:52:30] the Lamb's Book of
[00:52:31] Life. Here's what's so
[00:52:34] amazing is Jesus told
[00:52:36] the churches there in
[00:52:38] Revelation, he told one
[00:52:39] of them, if you don't
[00:52:41] stop the sin, if you
[00:52:43] don't get your defiled
[00:52:45] garments cleansed, your
[00:52:47] name's going to be blotted
[00:52:48] out of the Book of Life,
[00:52:50] meaning erased, meaning
[00:52:52] it was there, but it
[00:52:54] got erased. Don't let it
[00:52:59] get erased. That's what
[00:53:03] the books are going to
[00:53:04] be. They're going to be
[00:53:05] opened and says we're
[00:53:07] going to be judged
[00:53:08] everyone out of those
[00:53:09] books. According to what
[00:53:14] we believed or according
[00:53:17] to what we did, which
[00:53:19] one does it say? Does
[00:53:20] anybody know what we
[00:53:23] did, how we lived our
[00:53:25] lives. I knew when I
[00:53:31] went to Nigeria, I knew
[00:53:32] when I went to the
[00:53:33] island of Mauritius, I
[00:53:34] knew there was a
[00:53:36] possibility that things
[00:53:39] could go very wrong. Of
[00:53:43] course, in Nigeria, I
[00:53:46] think when I landed to
[00:53:47] 747s were full and
[00:53:50] emptied out and we were
[00:53:51] all standing around to
[00:53:53] get our luggage. And I
[00:53:54] was the only white boy
[00:53:55] standing there. I stood
[00:53:58] out like, you know,
[00:54:02] Christmas tree in the
[00:54:03] darkness. And it was so
[00:54:08] dangerous that Bishop
[00:54:10] Komosokbo, who had been
[00:54:11] in the Nigerian
[00:54:12] military and fought in
[00:54:13] the Nigerian Civil War
[00:54:15] and who had been an
[00:54:16] officer, had a couple
[00:54:19] soldiers that he knew
[00:54:22] with AK-47s to guard
[00:54:24] me, one here and one
[00:54:26] here to get me from the
[00:54:27] airport across Legos to
[00:54:30] another airport so that
[00:54:33] we could fly to the
[00:54:33] south where I would be
[00:54:35] much safer. That's what
[00:54:40] kind of situation I was
[00:54:42] in. But I knew that going
[00:54:44] in. You say, well,
[00:54:47] Pastor Dean, now, what
[00:54:48] if you, what if they
[00:54:49] had killed you in Nigeria
[00:54:50] in 2002? I was obeying
[00:54:54] the Lord. 2006, they
[00:54:58] got, probably got closer
[00:55:00] to it, but he got me
[00:55:02] out of there. And that's
[00:55:04] the thing. I want to say
[00:55:04] this. This is not doom
[00:55:05] and gloom. The Lord can
[00:55:07] deliver us in these
[00:55:08] situations as he
[00:55:10] delivered Paul. They
[00:55:11] wanted to kill Paul when
[00:55:12] he went to Jerusalem. They
[00:55:13] arrested him. There was a
[00:55:15] plot to kill him and God
[00:55:18] moved in that situation.
[00:55:19] And then, of course,
[00:55:20] Paul appeals to Caesar,
[00:55:22] which the Lord had told
[00:55:23] him, you're going to
[00:55:23] stand before Caesar. And
[00:55:25] so they took him and
[00:55:26] Paul ended up going on
[00:55:28] a long voyage, getting to
[00:55:30] Rome and witnessing to
[00:55:32] Caesar under house
[00:55:34] arrest, then led half of
[00:55:35] Caesar's household to
[00:55:36] Jesus while he's there
[00:55:39] before they cut his head
[00:55:41] off. But see, Paul said,
[00:55:47] I know all these things,
[00:55:48] all these things. The
[00:55:49] Lord told me the things
[00:55:50] I'm going to suffer for
[00:55:51] him. But if Paul hadn't
[00:55:55] obeyed and went to
[00:55:56] Jerusalem and got
[00:55:57] arrested and appealed to
[00:55:59] Caesar and he would have
[00:56:01] never led all those
[00:56:02] people to Jesus. This is
[00:56:06] why I love the Apostle
[00:56:08] Paul so much. He
[00:56:10] never lost his intensity
[00:56:14] for following the Lord
[00:56:16] and doing his will. Never.
[00:56:19] He was like a laser
[00:56:21] focused guy that just,
[00:56:25] in fact, when he was the
[00:56:27] what was it, the lawyer
[00:56:28] to what was his name?
[00:56:29] Tertullian or something
[00:56:31] like that. I can't
[00:56:32] remember his in here,
[00:56:34] but it's called Paul, a
[00:56:36] plague, a Christian
[00:56:39] disease that everywhere
[00:56:42] Paul went, he infected
[00:56:44] people with Christianity
[00:56:45] with the real thing.
[00:56:48] But of course, he meant
[00:56:49] it in a derogatory way
[00:56:51] that he was a Christian plague.
[00:56:56] Let me ask you something.
[00:56:56] You infected anybody
[00:56:57] with true Christianity
[00:56:58] lately? Or are you in a
[00:57:07] comfortable little spot
[00:57:08] where nothing's
[00:57:10] difficult and, you know,
[00:57:14] you're not really
[00:57:14] hearing from the Lord.
[00:57:15] You just kind of you
[00:57:17] got on cruise control
[00:57:18] on the interstate, just
[00:57:19] cruising, make sure it's
[00:57:22] set not over the speed
[00:57:23] limit at all. Right.
[00:57:24] We're just going to cruise.
[00:57:29] That might be good
[00:57:30] for some folks, but that's
[00:57:31] not what he wants us to do.
[00:57:33] Amen. See, I'm going
[00:57:40] to tell you something.
[00:57:41] Nothing in me in 2020.
[00:57:44] There was nothing in me
[00:57:46] that wanted to run
[00:57:47] for governor of Alabama.
[00:57:52] Two years of my life
[00:57:57] taking tolls on my family
[00:58:02] because being exhausted.
[00:58:08] But the Lord wanted me
[00:58:10] to be a light and a witness
[00:58:13] and a voice of truth
[00:58:15] in that world to people
[00:58:16] who would have never
[00:58:18] turned on fire
[00:58:20] and grace church service.
[00:58:25] So a passion thing,
[00:58:26] that was a lot of work
[00:58:30] to lose.
[00:58:31] I didn't lose anything.
[00:58:34] I obey the Lord.
[00:58:35] When you obey the Lord,
[00:58:38] you don't lose.
[00:58:39] The devil loses.
[00:58:42] Amen. Whenever the Lord
[00:58:49] sent me somewhere,
[00:58:50] go to Texas,
[00:58:53] go to Africa, go to Mauritius,
[00:58:59] go to Israel,
[00:59:05] stop your car and go talk
[00:59:07] to that person right there.
[00:59:08] I've had the Lord do that.
[00:59:10] I've had the Lord say,
[00:59:11] turn around, go back
[00:59:12] to that house right there,
[00:59:13] knock on the door
[00:59:14] and talk to this man.
[00:59:15] He's dying of cancer.
[00:59:17] And sure enough, knock
[00:59:18] on the door,
[00:59:20] start talking to him.
[00:59:21] He's dying of cancer
[00:59:24] and said, the Lord sent me
[00:59:25] to talk to you about Jesus
[00:59:26] and that you need to get
[00:59:27] your your life ready.
[00:59:34] See, I'm not talking
[00:59:34] about things that I haven't done.
[00:59:37] Like I said, I've had the Lord
[00:59:38] tell me to stand up
[00:59:39] in the midst of
[00:59:40] as that Auburn football game
[00:59:41] one time,
[00:59:43] well, right before the game,
[00:59:44] actually, there's people everywhere.
[00:59:47] The Lord says, stand up on that
[00:59:49] bench right there
[00:59:50] and preach the gospel.
[00:59:53] But they'll think I'm crazy.
[00:59:58] Look, you believe the virgin conceived
[01:00:02] that God in the flesh
[01:00:03] was born of a virgin,
[01:00:06] that God was here and walked
[01:00:07] and lived a sinless life
[01:00:09] and did great miracles,
[01:00:10] was crucified, dead and buried
[01:00:12] and raised from the dead.
[01:00:13] They already think you're crazy.
[01:00:17] The scientific communities
[01:00:19] of this world think you're crazy.
[01:00:24] Oh, that's why they think
[01:00:25] we're dangerous.
[01:00:26] They should take our kids away
[01:00:28] because we should
[01:00:28] should the world shouldn't allow
[01:00:30] our children to be indoctrinated
[01:00:31] by these crazy Christians.
[01:00:43] It's quiet in here, man.
[01:00:44] It's it's more quiet
[01:00:45] and Episcopalian church service.
[01:00:51] So quiet is like the
[01:00:54] the frozen chosen, right?
[01:00:57] I'm just going to believe
[01:00:58] you all are reflecting, pondering.
[01:01:09] Don't be lukewarm.
[01:01:11] We've got a job to do.
[01:01:16] And like I've said before,
[01:01:18] there are things at times
[01:01:19] you're not going to want to do
[01:01:22] that the Lord is going to have you do.
[01:01:25] That's what makes us powerful.
[01:01:27] That's what makes
[01:01:30] the devil just shudder.
[01:01:32] A Christian who is living for Jesus,
[01:01:36] living a holy life,
[01:01:40] seeking after God
[01:01:41] and nothing will deter them.
[01:01:46] But but but what?
[01:01:49] Psalm 91 thousand fall at my side,
[01:01:51] 10,000 at my right hand.
[01:01:57] I'm going to keep going.
[01:02:01] See, we're about to see
[01:02:02] some scary things in the world.
[01:02:07] We got drones.
[01:02:08] We got UFOs.
[01:02:09] We got war with China.
[01:02:13] It's a war with China is coming,
[01:02:15] you know, war with China is coming.
[01:02:20] Matter of fact,
[01:02:21] our government is predicting it
[01:02:24] by 2027.
[01:02:25] They say we will be
[01:02:26] the United States
[01:02:26] will be over China by then.
[01:02:35] Somebody is going to set off
[01:02:37] a nuke somewhere.
[01:02:42] Y'all think that the
[01:02:44] the deep state, the Illuminati,
[01:02:46] satanic, Luciferian
[01:02:48] worshippers are through.
[01:02:51] We're going to enter a golden age.
[01:02:52] I'm sorry, but they're
[01:02:53] wrong about that.
[01:02:58] We're not entering a golden age
[01:03:00] until Jesus comes.
[01:03:01] It's called his millennial reign
[01:03:07] and Satan will be bound
[01:03:11] and there'll be no war
[01:03:16] and he'll heal the nations.
[01:03:21] So I want to be in that kingdom.
[01:03:22] Don't you?
[01:03:27] Let me show you something.
[01:03:28] Go to Luke 16
[01:03:29] and we'll finish with this.
[01:03:44] Luke 16 verse 16.
[01:03:47] That ought to be easy to remember, huh?
[01:03:51] Here's what it says.
[01:03:52] The law and the prophets
[01:03:54] were until John.
[01:03:56] Since that time,
[01:03:57] the kingdom of God is preached
[01:04:00] and every man presseth into it.
[01:04:04] Press.
[01:04:07] Do you see that?
[01:04:09] So the kingdom of God is preached,
[01:04:11] but you must press into it.
[01:04:16] Let me show you how this was
[01:04:17] worded in Matthew.
[01:04:18] Go to Matthew 11.
[01:04:35] Matthew 11 verse 12.
[01:04:42] He says him from the days
[01:04:43] of John the Baptist until now,
[01:04:46] the kingdom of heaven
[01:04:47] suffer with violence
[01:04:48] and the violent take it by force.
[01:04:55] In spiritual warfare,
[01:04:58] you are to be violent.
[01:05:01] You hear me?
[01:05:03] You are to fight.
[01:05:04] You are to press.
[01:05:07] You are to be intense.
[01:05:12] You are to be a soldier
[01:05:14] moving forward, unafraid,
[01:05:17] as they say, rushing into the battle,
[01:05:19] not taking a seat,
[01:05:24] not taking a vacation.
[01:05:27] I love when preachers tell me they retired.
[01:05:29] You don't retire from this.
[01:05:36] The only time I'm going to retire
[01:05:38] is if I can't even get up to walk there
[01:05:40] and I still be preaching.
[01:05:42] They'll have to retire me
[01:05:44] if you know what I'm saying.
[01:05:47] Or Jesus will come.
[01:05:48] That's the only way I'm getting retired.
[01:05:51] How do you retire from being called
[01:05:53] to preach the gospel?
[01:05:57] To teach the word, you don't retire.
[01:06:01] Oh, help us, Jesus.
[01:06:05] I do want to go to one more.
[01:06:07] You all right?
[01:06:10] It's early, still.
[01:06:13] Second Timothy, chapter two.
[01:06:22] I remember when I read this long time ago
[01:06:24] when I was a young man,
[01:06:25] the Lord really made this leap off the page at me.
[01:06:32] Here's what he says, verse one.
[01:06:35] Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace
[01:06:38] that is in Christ Jesus.
[01:06:40] Now the grace means the power of the Holy Spirit
[01:06:42] to do the will of God doesn't mean a license to sin.
[01:06:46] He said, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus
[01:06:49] and the things that thou has heard of me
[01:06:51] among many witnesses,
[01:06:52] the same commit thou to faithful men
[01:06:55] who shall be able to teach others also.
[01:06:57] So he's telling him,
[01:06:58] he's not telling him sit down,
[01:07:00] take a vacation, retire.
[01:07:02] He's telling him to teach and prepare
[01:07:04] and train other men that can do this.
[01:07:07] And then he says, you thou therefore endure hardness
[01:07:13] as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
[01:07:16] No man that warth entangles himself
[01:07:18] with the affairs of this life
[01:07:19] that he may please him
[01:07:21] who have chosen him to be a soldier.
[01:07:25] God's chosen us to be soldiers for him.
[01:07:29] And he's chosen us to endure
[01:07:31] and he's told us to endure hardness.
[01:07:35] What is that?
[01:07:36] Difficulties, trials, tests, temptations,
[01:07:41] attacks, loss, endure it.
[01:07:45] That means don't cave in,
[01:07:48] don't break down, don't give up,
[01:07:51] don't move backwards.
[01:07:54] Can somebody say amen?
[01:08:01] Come on y'all, even Baptist say amen
[01:08:02] out loud in church now.
[01:08:10] Endure hardness.
[01:08:14] If you find yourself like,
[01:08:16] oh God, it's just too hard.
[01:08:19] You expect the Lord to come over there
[01:08:21] and go, it's okay, it's okay little puppy.
[01:08:27] You know what he's gonna say?
[01:08:29] Get up, move forward, endure hardness.
[01:08:34] You're in a battle.
[01:08:35] Quit being a little wimpy person, right?
[01:08:42] Say, well, what do I do?
[01:08:43] What do I do?
[01:08:44] Well, you gotta cast down imaginations
[01:08:46] in every thought that rises itself
[01:08:48] up against the knowledge of God.
[01:08:50] You gotta get control of your mind.
[01:08:54] Say, well, I have a problem with that.
[01:08:55] Well, let me ask you something.
[01:08:56] How much crap are you feeding your mind
[01:08:59] from the world?
[01:09:00] You're gonna have a real hard time
[01:09:01] if you don't shut off some stuff.
[01:09:06] You gotta bind demons and resist them
[01:09:08] in the name of Jesus Christ.
[01:09:10] And I bind the demons attacking my mind.
[01:09:13] Depression, lust, suicide, whatever it may be.
[01:09:16] I bind those demons and I command them to go for me.
[01:09:19] I resist the devil.
[01:09:20] I cast down these imaginations and thoughts and images
[01:09:24] these devils are giving me.
[01:09:26] I fight this off in Jesus name.
[01:09:28] I resist the devil and he will flee from me.
[01:09:31] But remember, even when Jesus resisted the devil
[01:09:33] the first time, the devil still hung out.
[01:09:35] So sometimes it takes more than one situation.
[01:09:38] Maybe you need to quote some scripture
[01:09:39] and get the scripture in your mind
[01:09:42] instead of what you've been meditating on from the world.
[01:09:49] The number one area of this battle
[01:09:51] is gonna be right here.
[01:09:54] The spiritual mind versus the carnal mind.
[01:09:59] And the carnal mind, what is the carnal mind?
[01:10:02] There's voices.
[01:10:03] And listen, they're gonna say, oh, they're crazy.
[01:10:05] Now they're talking about voices.
[01:10:06] Oh, there's voices.
[01:10:09] Let me tell you what voice, your flesh,
[01:10:12] your fleshly nature wants to do things bad
[01:10:16] and he will be talking to you.
[01:10:18] And the devil of course incites the flesh
[01:10:20] and he talks through it.
[01:10:22] Your spirit man will be saying, uh-uh,
[01:10:25] you know better than that.
[01:10:27] The Holy Spirit will be saying, you know better than that.
[01:10:34] And then you're gonna have a choice to make.
[01:10:37] Which way do I go?
[01:10:42] And the devil would just love,
[01:10:43] let me tell you the most deceived people in the world.
[01:10:48] We think it's the unsaved people.
[01:10:49] Nope, nope.
[01:10:55] Remember Jesus said to the church,
[01:10:56] Laodicea, be hot or be cold.
[01:11:03] But if you're lukewarm.
[01:11:05] And then he told them, he said,
[01:11:07] the lukewarm people didn't know
[01:11:10] that they were cold, that they were blind,
[01:11:12] naked, poor, miserable.
[01:11:15] They didn't know it.
[01:11:16] They thought, oh, I'm a Christian.
[01:11:18] I go to church.
[01:11:19] This Laodicea in church, I'm good.
[01:11:23] But they were lukewarm.
[01:11:25] And if you look up what the word hot in the Greek
[01:11:28] when he says bezellus therefore repent.
[01:11:30] Bezellus means what?
[01:11:33] Bezios is the word in Greek.
[01:11:35] It means to be fervent like boiling water.
[01:11:38] It means that you are intense.
[01:11:41] It means that you are fighting and moving forward
[01:11:45] and growing and you're not backing up
[01:11:48] and you're not giving up.
[01:11:51] See, the problem is the most deceived people in the world
[01:11:53] are lukewarm Christians
[01:11:56] because they have enough to think that they're okay,
[01:11:59] but not enough to get all the way in.
[01:12:04] And they were in the Lord's body for a time.
[01:12:06] And he says, if you're lukewarm,
[01:12:08] I'm gonna spit you or spew you,
[01:12:10] vomit you out of my body.
[01:12:14] He's being very clear.
[01:12:15] There will come a point
[01:12:16] where the lukewarm Christian
[01:12:18] will no longer be comfortable
[01:12:20] because the Lord is going to move them out of his body
[01:12:24] and say, that's it.
[01:12:26] That's when it's gonna be very uncomfortable
[01:12:28] to hear the words depart from me.
[01:12:32] Oh, hey, angels, come take this one right here,
[01:12:35] who was my servant and cast them in an outer darkness
[01:12:38] that should be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
[01:12:41] This one right here that came to the wedding feast
[01:12:44] without his garments, his robes of righteousness,
[01:12:48] you'll take him and get him out of here.
[01:12:53] Say, then there's gonna be uncomfortableness for eternity.
[01:12:59] And there, but see, this is the good news.
[01:13:00] There is a rest for us, y'all.
[01:13:05] The rest is when we get to sit down in the kingdom
[01:13:07] with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
[01:13:12] We're with Jesus and that will get to go on forever.
[01:13:23] Leonard Ravenhill used to say that this life
[01:13:27] is just a dressing room for eternity.
[01:13:31] So what are you getting dressed with?
[01:13:33] What does the Bible say?
[01:13:35] Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ.
[01:13:39] You'll either put on Jesus and live for him
[01:13:43] or you're gonna put on the world
[01:13:45] and act like you're a Christian.
[01:13:49] You got it?
[01:13:49] Let's stand.
[01:13:54] I wanna do that song we did again at the end there,
[01:13:57] the last song.
[01:14:00] I think it says it all.
[01:14:05] You say, well, Pastor Dean, I think I've been lukewarm.
[01:14:10] I think I've fallen into some lukewarmness,
[01:14:13] some worldiness, some sin.
[01:14:15] Well, guess what?
[01:14:16] What'd Jesus say to do?
[01:14:18] He told the Laodicean church, the lukewarm Christians,
[01:14:21] he said, be zealous and repent.
[01:14:26] Somebody say zealous means intense.
[01:14:33] We're gonna call this one, keep your intensity.
[01:14:37] Don't lose it.
[01:14:39] That's why a lot of people say it used to be scared.
[01:14:40] They scared of me because somebody said,
[01:14:42] well, your bald head, it scares me.
[01:14:44] I had someone, one little Baptist girl,
[01:14:46] she'd hear me appreciate, he's scary.
[01:14:49] His bald head scares me.
[01:14:50] Yeah, it wasn't what was scaring her.
[01:14:53] She's hearing, and some people say,
[01:14:55] oh, he's just too mean, he's too intense.
[01:14:59] And then they get around me and they find out,
[01:15:01] oh, no, he's just, he's a normal person.
[01:15:05] He said, why is he so intense when he preaches?
[01:15:08] Because I take it seriously.
[01:15:13] I know that every sermon could be the last one you hear.
[01:15:20] And y'all don't realize, these messages reach people
[01:15:25] and just, I never cease to be amazed
[01:15:28] at how many new people are listening for whatever reason.
[01:15:36] And the truth, let me tell you, I can say this.
[01:15:40] The truth is getting through to people.
[01:15:44] People are being reached.
[01:15:48] And that's what it's all about.
[01:15:49] And I wanna thank you guys that do come
[01:15:53] to Fire and Grace Church here and those that watch
[01:15:55] and you guys that support the church and help us do this.
[01:16:00] I mean, really, it's all you guys.
[01:16:04] Like I told some people, said it's,
[01:16:06] whatever fruit comes from here is your fruit too.
[01:16:09] Amen.
[01:16:12] Let's pray and we'll do this song, forwardly.
[01:16:14] Father, thank you for your word and help us, Lord.
[01:16:18] Help us stay hot on fire for you, Lord.
[01:16:23] Intense, pressing toward the mark.
[01:16:26] Enduring hardness as a good soldier
[01:16:28] and staying in the fight and not letting our flesh
[01:16:33] or our carnal mind or the devil's lies
[01:16:35] and temptations and tricks take us down
[01:16:38] into a lukewarm Christianity, Lord.
[01:16:41] I want no part of that.
[01:16:43] Let us hear your voice and be led by the Holy Spirit
[01:16:46] and let us know what you've called us to do.
[01:16:49] Fill us with the knowledge of your will
[01:16:50] so we may know what you've called us to do
[01:16:53] so that we may do it and have impact
[01:16:56] and push the devil's darkness back off of people
[01:17:00] and break his chains off of people.
[01:17:03] Well, I pray, Lord, for the arrow of your deliverance
[01:17:05] to go forth from this church even greater than it has,
[01:17:08] Lord, I pray, Lord, as we come to you, Lord,
[01:17:12] we will take these arrows and smite them five, six,
[01:17:16] seven, eight, nine, 10 times.
[01:17:17] We're gonna keep smiting them on the ground
[01:17:20] because we are determined to be part of the church
[01:17:23] that endures to the end.
[01:17:25] The church where the gates of hell
[01:17:27] will not prevail against it.
[01:17:28] Lord Jesus, we want you to keep building this church
[01:17:31] and this mission to be what you want it to be,
[01:17:33] to say what you want it to say,
[01:17:36] to stand for the truth that you want put forth, God.
[01:17:41] Lord, I pray in Jesus' name that you will help us.
[01:17:44] Lord, so many ministries are falling.
[01:17:47] There's so many scandals and sexual sin
[01:17:50] and skeletons in closets that are coming forward.
[01:17:53] Lord, help us stay out of all of that and be an example.
[01:18:00] Help us be an example of true believers.
[01:18:05] And if they come for us, Lord, we will not run and hide.
[01:18:14] Bless your people with boldness, with intensity, with fire,
[01:18:18] with power from the Holy Spirit.
[01:18:21] Help them make up their minds
[01:18:23] that there are gonna be soldiers and warriors for you
[01:18:26] and they're going to press in and hear your voice
[01:18:30] and do what you've called them to do
[01:18:32] and live according to your holy word.
[01:18:36] I pray this in Jesus' name, amen.
[01:18:40] Let's worship him for me.
[01:27:22] God, help us keep our intensity
[01:27:24] to press in to your kingdom, to be like John,
[01:27:29] the one that wanted to press in
[01:27:30] and lay his head on your chest and stay right next to you.
[01:27:33] Lord, we wanna be like John.
[01:27:40] We want you and not this world system,
[01:27:42] not the things of the world or the lust of the world
[01:27:45] or the wealth of the world.
[01:27:46] We want you and we wanna do your will.
[01:27:49] We wanna draw near to you, we wanna please you.
[01:27:53] I wanna be a light for you, Lord.
[01:27:57] We understand that that's gonna be in conflict
[01:28:01] with this world system and almost everybody around us
[01:28:06] that's in darkness.
[01:28:09] So Lord, we just pray for your grace.
[01:28:11] We pray for your anointing and power.
[01:28:14] We pray you forgive us for our laziness,
[01:28:16] slothfulness, lukewarmness.
[01:28:19] Forgive us for getting distracted with worldly things.
[01:28:22] Wash our sins away and help us, Lord, be on fire for you.
[01:28:28] We pray this in Jesus' name, amen, amen.
[01:28:32] All right, we all know the drill there.
[01:28:35] I wonder if I'm hearing a little, okay.
[01:28:38] I don't know what that is either.
[01:28:40] Thought you were starting a song for a second.
[01:28:42] Like, okay, huh?
[01:28:45] Anyway, we're gonna say bye.
[01:28:46] Y'all know the drill out there.
[01:28:47] Hugs the necks before you leave.
[01:28:49] If you have a testimony, share it with us.
[01:28:52] Send your testimony in.
[01:28:54] Oh, just on a side note,
[01:28:59] people have been asking, there's a few people have been asking.
[01:29:01] I will be addressing the issue of the final experiment,
[01:29:05] as they call it in Antarctica.
[01:29:07] I will be addressing that in the weeks ahead.
[01:29:10] I don't know exactly when,
[01:29:11] but I've just been waiting to see what happens,
[01:29:14] but we will discuss it.
[01:29:16] So I don't want anybody to think I'm ignoring that.
[01:29:19] I'm just was waiting for that whole thing to be over with,
[01:29:24] and it's not quite, so we'll,
[01:29:27] but I will be addressing it from the Bible.
[01:29:29] But let me just say this before we go.
[01:29:32] I believe the Bible.
[01:29:36] Not anything that happens with the luminaries,
[01:29:40] I believe this.
[01:29:42] Amen?
[01:29:43] And we're gonna talk about that.
[01:29:45] All right, hugs the necks before you leave.
[01:29:49] God bless.
[01:29:52] Go ahead.