Hey, Hey, I'm bad with something for you. Yes, you to
think about. In order to be reborn, you must first die. What
you heard me, In order to be reborn, you must first die.
Now, let me say this from the start. Depending on who you serve,
you're still considered to be reborn into that. Those who serve the devil,
and I'm just gonna talk about this very quickly, are reborn into Satanic
culture, Satanic Satanic worship where they make the devil their god. The devil
is not God, but people make him their god because you can make anything
your god, idols, objects, people, But there's only one God.
And that's all I'm saying about that. But it's a process that they go
through when worshiping Christ. The Bible tells us the only way to the Father
is through the Son. So you first must be born again. Roma is
ten and nine. You're being saved, you say, and you believe that
Jesus is the Son of God and he died on the cross for your sins.
That's the first step into worshiping, honoring, and serving the Lord.
To be reborn, you must first die. You must first die. And
what do I mean by that? I mean you must die to yourself,
to all your lustful ways, your greed, your flesh. You must die
to the world, meaning you no longer are seeking after or longing for the
things of the world, the ways of the world. So you must die
to yourself, and you must die to yourself. Is your flesh, and
you must die to this world. It's an absolute must. It's a must.
I'm not talking about reincarnations or none of that, because personally, I
don't believe in that. When Jesus rose the third Day, he rose for
a purpose for us, for the world. He rose for a purpose.
He didn't he wasn't raised as being reincarnated. He rose as himself for a
purpose for us. It was a process that had to be fulfilled. So
when people say, well, Jesus, you're not Jesus, you can't even
put yourself in that category. You can't put none of us in that category.
He did that for a purpose, just like he was born up in
an inimmaculate conception, so there's no comparison. So that was for a reason.
The Bible said, when we die, we are disconnected from our bodies.
We do not come back. The dead does not know what the living
is doing, and obviously vice versa. So a lot of people think that
obviously their loved ones are still hanging around somewhere. I just wish people would
think about it. What sense would it make for them to die? And
a lot of people have died unhappy and then you come back to that same
unhappy realm on earth. Makes no sense to me anyways. We're not gonna
get caught up in that. So to be reborn, you must first die
to yourself into this world. Okay, stop thinking about Jesus being reborn,
because he did it for us. He did he had to come back for
a reason, and then he ascended up to the Father for us. But
when you die to yourself, that means you've given up those things of the
world. The things you've chased and sought after, are no longer important to
you. You're not caught up in the things that you used to be caught
up in. You're not idolizing possessions and things like that anymore. Your heart
and your mind is focused on Christ, because Heaven is your gold. That's
what it means to die of yourself, to die of this world. It
is an absolute musk. And the problem is most people don't They get saved,
but they don't die. They don't die of themselves or this world.
They still want to dibble and dabble into things that are not of God.
And that's the way most people in the world are want to straddle the imaginary
fence because in reality, there's no fence to straddle. Either you're for him
or you're against him, period. So Jesus is our gateway to the Father.
Some people believe Jesus is God. I don't. It's too much evidence
in the Bible that says Jesus is Jesus the Son, and God is his
father. He spoke through them to him all through the Bible and the Bible,
and in the Bible, God spoke to his son also in the presence
of others. So they're not one and the same. They're on the same
accord as one, but they're not one and the same. That's what I
believe, and nobody will change my mind about it. So don't even waste
your time trying. But in order to serve him, you must die to
yourself and of this world. Because a lot of people are claiming that they
love Jesus, but their hearts and mind haven't changed. They're claiming they love
Jesus. But they're still full of anger and hurt and sickness and confusion and
mental anguish. But they say they love Jesus, full of anxiety, fears,
and phobia. But you love Jesus. You gotta cast your cares because
you're still holding on to things of the world. You must cast your cares
because he said, for I care for you. You gotta cast your cares.
You have to lave met his feet, and you can't go back to
pick him up. I don't care how people look at you. I don't
care what they say about you. You have to cast your cares and leave
them there. If you're gonna love, medice, feed them, then when
you leave, you turn around and take them with you. What's the point
of casting them there? You have no faith in God, You have no
faith in His son. Some of you you keep trying to work out your
own problems, but you keep finding yourself going deeper and deeper into darkness because
you're trying to fix something that you're supposed to leave at his feet and leave
there. You have to let go. If you love God, trust him,
trust his son to do what they say they will do, to be
who they say that they are. Stop trying to fix your situation because obviously
you can't give it to Jesus. And let me tell you something. And
I'm a living witness. I am a living witness. Sometimes God don't fix
it the way you want him to fix it. He fix it the way
he knows it needs to be fixed. But old baby, the things you
have to go through sometimes because God fix it a certain way, The things
you have to go through, the burdens you have to bear. M I'm
telling you, but you can handle it. When you trust Jesus, you
can handle anything. I don't care how terrible, how horrific, how sad,
how bad. You can handle it when you've laid it at his feet,
when you cast your carros on him. I'm telling you you can handle
anything. People won't understand. But you know who got it. You know
it didn't turn the way you wanted it to turn, But it turned the
best way. Even though it may look horrible to you. He still knows
best. He always knows best. So don't get discouraged when you cast your
cares upon him. Believe that you can fix the situation. Believe he will
handle the situation. And like I said, it may not be the way
you want it, but it's the right way, even if it looks bad.
That's the trust, and that's the love that you have to have for
him. That's the faith you have to have in him. Because faith is
the substance of things hoped for, evidence of things not seen. So you
have to believe it's all right, even if it don't feel that way.
You have to name it and claim it. You have to believe it is
already done. You have to get your eyes off of the world that include
people and things and get your eyes on the prize. And that's Jesus,
the Son God, the Father in heaven. Because when you die and you
leave this natural body, whatever you chose, why you're here, is where
you're going. You're going according to how you chose to live your life and
who you served. That's a guarantee until judgment. I don't know about you,
but I want to be in a good, happy, peaceful place.
So it's up to you. But know that you have to be reborn.
You cannot walk this water doing the same things you used to do. You
carenot, and that is what we're seeing so much in the churches of today.
Church houses are full with people of the world, to include the leaders,
to include the leaders. That's why you're seeing so much of worldly things
in the church, because now they've made them churches of man and not churches
of God. Clearly, many leaders have not died to themselves and to this
world, clearly, because there's no way they would allow the things that they're
allowing in the churches. No way they would be doing some of the things
they're doing, no way they would be saying some of the things they're saying.
Some pastors curse more than people of the world. And I know not
everybody in the world cursed, because I never was a curser, but some
can rattle it off you hear me, and some so called pastors, and
I will say so called because that's exactly what they are. They curse worse
than people of the world. That's because they are people of the world.
A lot of people say, I don't go to church because look what they're
doing in the churches. Church folks. There's church folks that and I did
a whole episode on him before, just because people go to church that don't
make them children of God, Okay, being God's children and children of God
is a different, totally too differ. We're all God's children, but we're
not all children of God because we haven't all chosen Him as our lord and
savior. Gotta choose his son first, that is first. You must choose
his son first, because through the son you can get to the Father God.
So you gotta let go things of this world. And I mean,
the reason people struggle so hard is because they're trying to steal hold on You
can't. You gotta let it go. You have to let it go,
and don't think about it. Don't keep trying to look back like Lot's wife
did, because all you're doing is keeping yourself in the world. And you
know when your time is up. You don't want to be on that side
when your time is up, cause sure less you live, you're gonna die.
No one knows the day or an hour. So let me tell you
the time is now. Right now, it's all we have. None of
us are guaranteed the next second, the next hour, the next day,
the next week, the next month, the next year. None of us
right now is all we have. Tomorrow is gone and we do we do.
Yesterday is gone. I'm sorry, Yesterday is gone and all we have
is hope for tomorrow, but that don't mean it's ever coming. Today is
all we have. It's time to stop playing because God is not playing with
any of us. And you don't want God to take his hands off of
you. You don't want it. You don't want them to turn you over
to that reprobate mind. That's the worst thing. That's the worst thing.
Our world is in, the condition that is in because of people of the
world, because of LUs because of greed, and people unwillingness to change to
become better. This world is a dark, cold place. And I'm telling
you, in the drop of a dime, you know what a penny,
I would leave and go to the mountains, go somewhere that's secluded. In
a heartbeat. Now by myself, I'm a little you know for that.
I don't know know enough for that. But if I had someone to go
with me. In a dime, I mean quickness drop, I keep saying
to drop of a dime, but a penny, that's how quick I'll go
because I can. It's just people are unpredictable. You go out your mind
and your business people are not making it home because of foolishness, Because people
are so full of hurt and pain and unhealed hearts and minds. You end
up losing your life over their foolishness, and it makes you not even want
to be around people. I love people, but I don't have time for
their foolishness. My tolerance is zero. I don't have no problem being by
myself, being alone. There are many things I wish I knew. How
to live off of the land, how to pick things that won't harm me,
how to build. Oh my gosh, I wish I knew that stuff.
I wouldn't be sitting here. I'll tell you that because these things they
mean nothing to me. They really don't. I was having a conversation with
someone and we were talking about jewelry, and she said that she was gonna
give a friend a piece of jewelry that she has had, you know,
a long time years. But when she got the praise and found out how
much it costs, she said, no, I'm not giving it to that
person. So I said, why not. If you was gonna give it
to that person, it shouldn't matter how much it costs, you should give
it to the person. We can't take any of this with us, And
so she finally said, well, my executor can give it to her.
Well, what if your executor, the person that you got all the faith
in the world in, die before you see, we have to be careful
of who we invest our faith in. We shouldn't invest our faith in no
one but Jesus the Son and God the Father. And I mean, I'm
guilty too. I remember a time when I wrote out my funeral many years
ago and the person I said I wanted to preach my funeral been dead long
ago. But I mean, of course wasn't dead at the time, but
I don't know what I was saying. So the people you think is going
to outlive you, you may end up outliving them. So things that you
should have done, because things are just things that don't matter. You can't
take it with you. So if you don't enjoy it now, I don't
care how much you pay for it. If you're not enjoying it right now,
then let somebody else enjoy it. Somebody that you know will take care
of it. But I just think that's when people are invested in things,
you know, holding on to things and things like that, and God can
fix that situation to be what you totally opposite of what you had planned.
You know, and that's just fact. So stop putting all your faith in
people and thinking you got it all playing down, because God would throw a
monkey wrench in that plan. I'm telling you quick, we should only worship
the Father and the Son, not things, not people, because they don't
matter at the end. This journey is solo. When you die, it's
solo. I don't care if you die with somebody else in a wreck or
something. When you die, you going whatever, and that person going whatever.
Your spirits are going to according to how you live. I don't care
if you the part of this world. At the same time, your spirits
are going according to how you live life. I don't care. If you're
a husband and wife, you've been together seventy years, you died and and
then he died right next to you. Your spirits are going according to where,
going where, according to what you chose while you were alive. That's
why the Bible says there are no marriages in heaven, because it's a whole
lot of merrit People went separate ways or going separate ways, and the Bible
tells us there are no marriages in heaven. You can believe what you want
to believe, if that make you feel better. But I'm going by the
word of God. Don't get mad at me. Read the Bible. It's
right in there. I don't worship people, I don't worship things. And
I've told you before, no, don't matter what I go through, no
matter I don't care what happens. I don't care how drastic, I don't
care how horrible. All I ask God is Jesus the Son, and God
the Father. Give me strength to endure, Give me that peace that continue,
peace that surpasses all understanding. Because I know things are gonna happen.
Horrible things are gonna happen. Horrible things have happened beyond my belief, beyond
things that I ever would have imagined has happened. But I still got peace
because I don't give my power to things or to people. And I just
ask the Lord to continue to strengthen me, the Holy Spirit to continue to
be God. My eyes is on Heaven. My eyes is on the Father
and the Son, not people of the world, not the ways of the
world. I don't care. And when I say I don't care, what
I'm saying is I don't care about all of the distractions that's around. What's
gonna happen is gonna happen. I have no control over it. Only control
I have is how I respond to it. And as long as my eyes
is on the prize, Jesus and the and the Father God, I can
with I can withstand. If it takes me out physically, You've done me
a favor because I know where I'm going. I know where I'm going because
I live my life in such a way. It's not for play, it's
for real. I'm one of the few I know I am. And that's
the mindset you have to adopt. This thing is a twenty four seven things
twenty four to seven. You gotta always be in prayer. You have to
always be thinking about Jesus. You have to always think about what you're doing
and how you're thinking, what you're feeling, is it pleasing to God?
And that may sound crazy to you, but that's how you have to live
your life. You have to walk it as well as talking, because there's
a lot of people. They can talk it. Ooh baby, they can
talk it, but the walk don't align and it's all in vain. You
have more way, more of the walking dead. Then you have those who
are truly serving God, way more of the walking dead. But it don't
matter because God still got it. He got it, He's still in charge.
And like that, like I said earlier, the devil don't have a
kingdom. The devil is not a god, but people have made him their
god and they think the tangible things of the world are more important. You
know, it's like a relationship with your significant other. You been with this
person for so long and you don't have no connection, no communication, no
affection. But you're with this person for so long because of the kids.
The kids get grown and gone and you're still there. But nothing is benefiting
you. It's aging you, it's making you sick, but you're still there.
You're still holding on to it. That's the way people are with the
world. The world make them sick mentally and physically break them financially, but
they still want the world because it's tangible things, only to lose their soul
no peace within. Still the same way mentally, haven't grown any Most adults
are not even mature. They think they are, but they're not. You
could tell by the choices and decisions they make. The things they do.
So when you make a decision to choose Jesus. Sometimes it's a lonely journey,
but hey, it's all right. It's supposed to be because it's a
solo journey. Some of you worried about what someone's saying or what they're gonna
do. You can't. This is your life. You have to know that
what you choose determines your eternal home. You can't do the same things.
You cannot do the same things. You cannot entertain the same people the same
way, you cannot talk the same Even your dress needs to change, and
it will because your heart will be convicted. There's a lot of people that
I know, personally professional and non professional in the gospel industry that says they
you know, they're living for the Lord, and it's a lie. You
can see it all over them. You can see it in the things they
do, the clothes they wear, how they act. But they just happen
to preach well and sing well and speak well. And because of that,
people are so quickly they're so quickly believing that they're anointing when they have no
anointing at all. They just know how to perform well. Some have powerful
voices, but it's not the anointing. So you get caught up in your
emotions thinking it's anointing, and you follow these people who have no anointing because
you've following the man. You have your eyes on the creature and not the
creator. You have to give it up. Love Jesus like that. Love
Jesus the way you're trying to love your significant other, only more. Jesus
got to be first. God has to be the center of our life,
the first, the center, the ending. So serving God, you gotta
let it all go. To be reborn, you gotta die of yourself,
and you gotta die of this world. And that's a must to be that
new creature. Everything must change, and it's not difficult. It has never
ever ever been difficult for me. Have I gotten discouraged? You bet I
have. Yes, I have gotten discouraged because I'm still human. But I
never entertain it. I said, Lord, I know I have good days.
You know you're gonna have good days, You're gonna have bad days.
But serving God, the good is going on our way to bad because you're
not trying to fix it. You gave it to him to fix You gave
it to him to carry that burden, no matter what it is. No
matter what that burden is, financial, sickness, whatever it is, when
you turn it over to Him, it relieves you of it. You shouldn't
be stressed, out, depressed, suicidal, homeless. Are none of that,
not in you. Serving God, the true in living God, not
that person you made your God, not the devil, but the true in
living God, with the Son Jesus. You have to mean it from your
heart. You have to do it with honesty and truth. Your mind has
to be made up. You can't let people persuade you to go back into
the world. You came out of it. You know what's there, you
know what it's like, you know what it has to offer. Serving God.
You can still do all of those things. You can still achieve all
of the accomplishments. But the difference is you're not doing any and everything for
it because it's just not that important to you. So that's all I'm saying.
I'm leaving it right there. Thank you so much for listening. Much
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