WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:06.919 You're listening to KFI A six on demand. Fight the 2 00:00:06.919 --> 00:00:11.560 Good Fight one Timothy six twelve says, fight the good 3 00:00:11.599 --> 00:00:17.079 fight of faith. They hold on eternal life. You know, 4 00:00:17.199 --> 00:00:20.879 having a good focus is important, knowing what the prize 5 00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:24.760 is in any given situation, what your goal is, what 6 00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:30.359 you're shooting for. But in this verse that that phrase 7 00:00:30.480 --> 00:00:34.880 fight the good fight of faith. How many times have 8 00:00:34.960 --> 00:00:37.159 you heard the term fight the good faith or fight 9 00:00:37.200 --> 00:00:42.039 the good fight when somebody is up against negativity or 10 00:00:42.119 --> 00:00:46.039 evil or something that is counter to the will of God. 11 00:00:47.600 --> 00:00:54.119 Now it maybe guised in something that looks secular, but 12 00:00:54.280 --> 00:00:56.799 really all fights against good and evil, right and wrong, 13 00:00:57.320 --> 00:01:02.200 justice and injustice are fights for God. And in this 14 00:01:02.359 --> 00:01:05.040 verse it reminds you that it's a fight of faith, 15 00:01:07.920 --> 00:01:13.519 that it will be a continual fight. Remember, in scripture 16 00:01:13.560 --> 00:01:17.799 you are asked to be a living sacrifice, So this 17 00:01:17.959 --> 00:01:25.560 is a daily battle fighting this fight. Well, I want 18 00:01:25.599 --> 00:01:28.159 you to think about that concept and allow it to 19 00:01:28.519 --> 00:01:31.760 permeate who you are and find out how you are 20 00:01:31.799 --> 00:01:38.159 to be the best fighter you can be. Now, it's 21 00:01:38.159 --> 00:01:41.760 not about fighting with sticks or stones, or fighting with 22 00:01:41.879 --> 00:01:47.400 swords or guns. This battle that it's talking about in 23 00:01:47.400 --> 00:01:52.239 scripture is a spiritual one, and you need to know 24 00:01:52.959 --> 00:01:58.439 what it takes to be that spiritual fighter, and what 25 00:01:58.480 --> 00:02:07.200 your enemies look like, sound like, feel like you See, 26 00:02:07.200 --> 00:02:11.879 if you were a championship boxer of a fighter, you 27 00:02:11.919 --> 00:02:15.800 would be fit, you'd be in shape, you'd be healthy. Right, 28 00:02:17.560 --> 00:02:21.520 So if you're gonna fight the good fight, you need 29 00:02:21.560 --> 00:02:32.639 to be spiritually fit, spiritually in shape, spiritually healthy. This 30 00:02:32.800 --> 00:02:37.960 is not really any different than being physically fit, or 31 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:41.439 physically in shape or physically healthy. There are similar rules 32 00:02:41.479 --> 00:02:46.759 in both. This can only be obtained with effort, the 33 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:51.520 same way it does in the physical world. You strengthen 34 00:02:51.560 --> 00:02:57.680 your muscles by giving time to them, by focusing on them, 35 00:02:58.479 --> 00:03:04.240 by working out. In one Timothy four to seven, it says, 36 00:03:06.639 --> 00:03:08.599 and I'm going to abbreviate this a little bit. On 37 00:03:08.639 --> 00:03:12.879 the other hand, discipline yourself for the purpose of godliness. 38 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:16.759 So this discipline that you would normally use, maybe for 39 00:03:16.879 --> 00:03:21.199 your physical strength, now is to be used for the 40 00:03:21.240 --> 00:03:27.680 purpose of godliness. Honing, strengthening, guiding, and building your spiritual muscles. 41 00:03:30.599 --> 00:03:34.800 Goes on to say, for bodily discipline is only of 42 00:03:34.879 --> 00:03:40.280 little profit, but godliness is profitable for all things, since 43 00:03:40.280 --> 00:03:43.840 it holds promise for the present life and also for 44 00:03:43.879 --> 00:03:50.159 the life to come. Working out and strengthening your body 45 00:03:50.240 --> 00:03:53.840 is a wonderful thing. Being healthy physically is a wonderful thing, 46 00:03:56.240 --> 00:04:03.159 But it means nothing if your spiritually unfit. If you're 47 00:04:03.199 --> 00:04:08.840 spiritually out of shape or spiritually unhealthy. So when Scripture 48 00:04:08.919 --> 00:04:12.400 calls you to fight the good fight of faith, and 49 00:04:12.439 --> 00:04:19.120 you prepare yourself like a fighter, you spend time push 50 00:04:19.199 --> 00:04:25.560 yourself with effort to discipline yourself for the purpose of godliness. 51 00:04:28.079 --> 00:04:31.720 You don't want to grow weary or sluggish or weigh 52 00:04:31.800 --> 00:04:35.839 down at tropheed by not participating in the things of God, 53 00:04:36.079 --> 00:04:39.759 by not reading scripture, by not praying, by not spending 54 00:04:39.839 --> 00:04:45.879 time in God's house with God's people. Hebrews six eleven says, 55 00:04:46.160 --> 00:04:49.959 and we desire that which each one of you show 56 00:04:50.000 --> 00:04:54.160 the same diligence, so as to realize the full assurance 57 00:04:54.160 --> 00:04:57.720 of hope until the end, so that you will not 58 00:04:58.040 --> 00:05:04.079 be sluggish, but imitators of those through faith and patience 59 00:05:04.560 --> 00:05:12.319 inherit the promise. You know that that term imitator, in 60 00:05:12.319 --> 00:05:16.399 this case, imitators of those who, through faith and patience, 61 00:05:16.879 --> 00:05:22.279 inherit the promise. When you first start working out physically, 62 00:05:25.399 --> 00:05:29.399 sticking to the concept of this fighter, the first thing 63 00:05:29.439 --> 00:05:31.439 you do, just like when you were a child, is 64 00:05:31.480 --> 00:05:38.600 to imitate, to mimic. You look at what's being done, 65 00:05:38.720 --> 00:05:41.879 and you try and mimic it at first, and then 66 00:05:41.920 --> 00:05:46.839 you slowly start to understand it, consume more information and 67 00:05:46.879 --> 00:05:52.680 apply it to your life. But to imitate, to look, 68 00:05:54.160 --> 00:05:58.079 to take guidance from those around you, who are older 69 00:05:58.079 --> 00:06:03.839 in the faith, are stronger to help guide you. The 70 00:06:03.839 --> 00:06:08.959 Bible is not just a book of bumper sticker thoughts 71 00:06:09.040 --> 00:06:14.160 or really nice thoughts. It's a guide. I want you 72 00:06:14.240 --> 00:06:19.160 to see how the disciples acted, the early apostles acted, 73 00:06:19.199 --> 00:06:23.839 the early Church acted. I want you to be able 74 00:06:23.879 --> 00:06:26.720 to mimic these things as you do the good godly 75 00:06:26.759 --> 00:06:30.800 people in your life. Now you're called to that this 76 00:06:32.480 --> 00:06:39.800 will truly give you strength. All these things, both physically 77 00:06:39.920 --> 00:06:47.360 and spiritually, can only be obtained with effort. Titus three 78 00:06:47.439 --> 00:06:52.639 eight says this is a trustworthy statement. Goes on to say, 79 00:06:53.319 --> 00:06:56.199 those of you who have believed God will be careful 80 00:06:56.240 --> 00:07:00.800 to engage in good deeds. These things are good and 81 00:07:00.920 --> 00:07:06.000 profitable for men to practice good things, to engage with 82 00:07:06.120 --> 00:07:11.240 people in a good way, in a godly way, gives 83 00:07:11.240 --> 00:07:18.240 you strength to spend time in scripture reading to pray. 84 00:07:18.839 --> 00:07:27.399 These things build spiritual strength Philippians four eight. Finally, brethren, 85 00:07:27.720 --> 00:07:33.000 whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever 86 00:07:33.079 --> 00:07:37.839 is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, 87 00:07:39.120 --> 00:07:42.600 if there is any excellence, and if anything worthy of praise, 88 00:07:43.079 --> 00:07:47.399 dwell on these things, the things you have learned and 89 00:07:47.439 --> 00:07:52.199 received and heard and seen in me. Practice these things, 90 00:07:53.120 --> 00:07:56.879 and the God of Peace will be with you here. 91 00:07:56.920 --> 00:08:01.639 What's being said here, it's this list is that the 92 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:09.399 nutrients of a healthy spiritual life. These are the guidelines 93 00:08:09.959 --> 00:08:13.600 to understanding how to build your spiritual muscles to fight 94 00:08:13.720 --> 00:08:15.920 that good fight of faith, as it says in One 95 00:08:15.959 --> 00:08:19.800 Timothy six twelve. And how wonderful it is as you 96 00:08:19.839 --> 00:08:23.319 look through this list to help guide you through everyday 97 00:08:23.360 --> 00:08:28.959 life practicing these things, those things that are pure, that 98 00:08:29.040 --> 00:08:35.440 are right, that are lovely, that are of good repute, 99 00:08:35.679 --> 00:08:39.799 that are excellent, that are worthy of praise. Dwell on 100 00:08:39.879 --> 00:08:42.679 these things. This is where you should live. This is 101 00:08:42.720 --> 00:08:49.799 what you should consume, participate in, exude every day. And 102 00:08:49.879 --> 00:08:52.759 interestingly enough, it goes back to that concept of watching 103 00:08:52.840 --> 00:08:57.320 and learning, because it says the things you have learned 104 00:08:57.360 --> 00:09:02.279 and received and heard and seen in me. Practice these 105 00:09:02.320 --> 00:09:05.799 things and the God of Peace will be with you. 106 00:09:06.480 --> 00:09:13.399 So once again to mimic to look, to imitate at 107 00:09:13.440 --> 00:09:17.240 the beginning, at the beginning, to act as the other 108 00:09:17.320 --> 00:09:19.919 people that you trust, that you love, that you know, 109 00:09:20.159 --> 00:09:24.159 love God, and seek God's will. Act And in the 110 00:09:24.200 --> 00:09:28.919 process of doing that you learn, you build your spiritual muscles, 111 00:09:29.039 --> 00:09:32.080 and you become that person that God wants you to be. 112 00:09:36.960 --> 00:09:40.679 Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold on eternal life, 113 00:09:40.679 --> 00:09:46.360 says on Timothy six twelve. We've learned that if you 114 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:49.960 were to be like a championship boxer, but in the 115 00:09:50.000 --> 00:09:56.279 spiritual realm, that you have to give effort, you have 116 00:09:56.360 --> 00:10:00.960 to participate, You have to read scripture and be in 117 00:10:01.000 --> 00:10:03.440 the house of God and spend time with God's people, 118 00:10:04.440 --> 00:10:09.919 have time of prayer, to do good things, like in 119 00:10:09.919 --> 00:10:13.159 Philippians four eight. To focus on the things that are godly, 120 00:10:13.919 --> 00:10:20.440 whatever's right, pure, lovely, of good repute, if it's excellent, 121 00:10:21.000 --> 00:10:23.720 it's if it's worthy of praise, then these are the 122 00:10:23.720 --> 00:10:26.399 things that you should be focusing on. They will build 123 00:10:26.440 --> 00:10:31.759 your strength. But also, if you were a championship boxer, 124 00:10:31.799 --> 00:10:37.879 you would protect where you were most vulnerable, and as 125 00:10:37.919 --> 00:10:43.080 a believer, you need to know where those places lie, 126 00:10:43.320 --> 00:10:46.559 where you're vulnerable, where the enemy will want to poke 127 00:10:46.600 --> 00:10:52.120 at you. And for a believer, vulnerability lies in temptation, 128 00:10:53.519 --> 00:11:00.279 false teachings, persecution, and you need to remind yourself of 129 00:11:00.360 --> 00:11:07.320 that temptation. For instance, James one to two says, consider 130 00:11:07.360 --> 00:11:11.519 it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, 131 00:11:13.000 --> 00:11:18.240 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance more 132 00:11:18.320 --> 00:11:23.519 athletic type terms in scripture endurance and let endurance have 133 00:11:23.639 --> 00:11:27.879 its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, 134 00:11:28.279 --> 00:11:33.279 lacking in nothing. The key of dealing with temptation and 135 00:11:34.320 --> 00:11:42.159 those trials that fall upon you is that endurance, going 136 00:11:42.200 --> 00:11:47.039 back continually to your faith to build strength. False teachings 137 00:11:47.600 --> 00:11:51.639 Matthew seven fifteen says, beware of the false prophets who 138 00:11:51.639 --> 00:11:56.039 come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. 139 00:11:56.879 --> 00:11:59.440 We tell you over and over on this program to 140 00:11:59.519 --> 00:12:03.759 test all things, hold fast to that which is true. Yes, 141 00:12:03.919 --> 00:12:09.639 this show included always always. Test. Doesn't mean that your pastors, 142 00:12:09.679 --> 00:12:13.399 that the ministers, that people won't make mistakes, But there's 143 00:12:13.440 --> 00:12:17.320 a difference between mistakes and outright rebelliousness, or the passing 144 00:12:17.360 --> 00:12:24.320 on of heresy or false doctrine persecution. Hebrews twelve three says, 145 00:12:24.480 --> 00:12:27.720 for consider him who has endured such hostility by sinners 146 00:12:27.720 --> 00:12:31.360 against himself, capital h there so that you will not 147 00:12:31.480 --> 00:12:34.759 grow weary and lose heart. You have not yet resisted 148 00:12:34.799 --> 00:12:38.679 to the point of shedding blood in your striving against 149 00:12:38.720 --> 00:12:42.480 me or against sin. So in this it reminds you 150 00:12:42.600 --> 00:12:48.279 that God sent me so that I can endure things 151 00:12:49.399 --> 00:12:51.399 in a way that you never will, and to use 152 00:12:51.440 --> 00:12:57.000 that as your standard. And finally, as Romans one sixteen says, 153 00:12:57.120 --> 00:13:04.600 never be ashamed of your faith, hy rone. Welcome to 154 00:13:04.639 --> 00:13:05.240 the Jesus Christ. 155 00:13:05.279 --> 00:13:06.399 Show how you doing? 156 00:13:06.600 --> 00:13:07.039 I'm well? 157 00:13:07.080 --> 00:13:08.399 How are you pretty good? 158 00:13:08.559 --> 00:13:09.200 How can I help you? 159 00:13:10.559 --> 00:13:12.480 Well? I'm a believer, you know, I believe in the 160 00:13:12.480 --> 00:13:16.679 most High God. But I sometimes talking to Christians, I 161 00:13:17.879 --> 00:13:21.039 get a different interpretation. You know what I mean of 162 00:13:21.399 --> 00:13:23.720 what I've been reading. Now, I believe, you know, the 163 00:13:23.759 --> 00:13:25.759 first I believe in the commandments, and I do all that, 164 00:13:26.360 --> 00:13:29.000 but the first, the first commandment, you know, as far 165 00:13:29.039 --> 00:13:32.559 as worshiping God, I wanted. All I do is I 166 00:13:32.559 --> 00:13:34.679 pray to God in Him. Only now the Christians that 167 00:13:34.720 --> 00:13:36.919 I talk to, Some of them say they pray to Jesus, 168 00:13:36.919 --> 00:13:39.080 some say the Holy Spirit. Now what I want to 169 00:13:39.120 --> 00:13:42.000 know is is that idolatry or is that wrong? Or 170 00:13:42.000 --> 00:13:44.279 am I wrong? Or is it okay? Because I get 171 00:13:44.279 --> 00:13:46.000 into some heated conversations about that. 172 00:13:46.639 --> 00:13:50.240 Well, scripturally, you can't even talk to the Father without 173 00:13:50.799 --> 00:13:54.240 going through Christ. The way it works is the Holy 174 00:13:54.279 --> 00:13:56.879 Spirit brings you to Christ. Christ brings you to the Father. 175 00:13:57.440 --> 00:14:01.000 So so really it says it's scripture there is one 176 00:14:01.080 --> 00:14:04.279 mediator between man and God, and that is Jesus Christ. 177 00:14:04.759 --> 00:14:09.759 So scripture is very clear that when you pray, and 178 00:14:09.799 --> 00:14:11.519 I'll give you some verses that you can look up 179 00:14:11.639 --> 00:14:16.440 Matthew seven through eleven, John sixteen, twenty three and twenty four, 180 00:14:17.039 --> 00:14:22.440 John fifteen and seven. Look through these because really these 181 00:14:22.519 --> 00:14:26.080 say it are always referring to and follow up within 182 00:14:26.240 --> 00:14:31.559 my name. So to the Christian they're supposed to pray 183 00:14:31.679 --> 00:14:36.399 in the name of Christ. Okay. So that's really I mean, 184 00:14:36.440 --> 00:14:42.559 I know it seems semantical, but look at it this way. 185 00:14:43.039 --> 00:14:45.879 You have to get through your front door to get 186 00:14:46.000 --> 00:14:49.120 into any bedroom door in the house, and so you 187 00:14:49.159 --> 00:14:52.480 can't just jump into a bedroom door until you go 188 00:14:52.519 --> 00:14:54.320 through that first door in the front of the house, 189 00:14:54.720 --> 00:14:59.360 and there's a system, but it's not it's a system 190 00:14:59.399 --> 00:15:04.000 dealing with the go Godhead or the Trinity, but it's 191 00:15:04.039 --> 00:15:06.080 it's not like the Father doesn't hear you if you're 192 00:15:06.080 --> 00:15:09.840 a Christian, but that Christianity only comes through the Blood 193 00:15:10.320 --> 00:15:14.559 on the Cross and through going through Christ to begin with. Okay, 194 00:15:15.639 --> 00:15:18.039 So I'm not sure why you only pray to the Father. 195 00:15:18.120 --> 00:15:19.080 What what does that mean? 196 00:15:20.440 --> 00:15:23.919 Well, I pray to God. Like I said, I read, 197 00:15:24.159 --> 00:15:26.440 I read my Bible and when I read it, do you. 198 00:15:26.480 --> 00:15:27.799 Believe the Holy Spirit's God? 199 00:15:29.240 --> 00:15:31.159 Well, I believe the Holy Spirit is in me. I believe. 200 00:15:31.200 --> 00:15:32.440 That's what makes mean okay. 201 00:15:32.279 --> 00:15:34.519 But do you believe? But do you believe the Holy 202 00:15:34.559 --> 00:15:35.279 Spirit is God? 203 00:15:36.080 --> 00:15:38.759 I don't believe Jesus was God or the Holy Spirit. 204 00:15:38.919 --> 00:15:42.080 Okay, then you're not a Christian. So that's that's why. Okay, 205 00:15:42.320 --> 00:15:46.240 So that's why you're you're arguing. You're you're arguing different things, 206 00:15:46.360 --> 00:15:50.480 but you're saying, as a Christian, yes, they're the Trinity 207 00:15:50.519 --> 00:15:53.039 exists and they're all the God had. But if you're 208 00:15:53.039 --> 00:15:55.799 not a Christian, then no, why would you worry about 209 00:15:55.919 --> 00:15:58.039 Why would you worry about what a Christian has to say. 210 00:15:58.279 --> 00:16:01.759 Well, because, for one, my my wife considers her says 211 00:16:01.799 --> 00:16:04.279 she's a Christian. And I was raised in the Church 212 00:16:04.360 --> 00:16:07.039 Baptist Church of God in Christ, and I believe the 213 00:16:07.080 --> 00:16:09.360 same way everybody else did, and so I actually picked 214 00:16:09.360 --> 00:16:12.600 it up and read it myself. Personally, I believe Jesus 215 00:16:12.720 --> 00:16:15.360 was a Jew. I believe he came back to reform Judaea. 216 00:16:15.840 --> 00:16:19.000 Christianity didn't start until the New Testiment. It didn't start 217 00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:21.919 into Antioch. The Antiochs were considered the first Christians. 218 00:16:22.759 --> 00:16:25.039 No, no, no, no, no, You're you're getting You're getting things kind 219 00:16:25.039 --> 00:16:29.799 of mixed up. The fact that Christianity is an outreach 220 00:16:29.840 --> 00:16:32.440 of Judaism and the fact that I was a Jew 221 00:16:33.039 --> 00:16:37.840 doesn't change Christianity at all. The first Christians had to 222 00:16:37.879 --> 00:16:41.360 have been Jews. First, all of them were the Disciples, 223 00:16:41.639 --> 00:16:44.200 and then, as it says in scripture, first to the Jews, 224 00:16:44.200 --> 00:16:47.200 second to the Gentiles, meaning that it was passed along 225 00:16:47.879 --> 00:16:50.639 through the Gentiles. And you had Romans Roman Guards in 226 00:16:50.679 --> 00:16:56.639 scripture that became Christians. You had the Pagans that became 227 00:16:56.759 --> 00:17:01.840 Christians as well, and those were the non Jews or 228 00:17:02.080 --> 00:17:04.240 what is referred to as the Gentiles, which is just 229 00:17:04.319 --> 00:17:08.839 of another tribe. But I don't know how you're picking 230 00:17:08.839 --> 00:17:11.920 it up or what you're reading, but you're kind of 231 00:17:11.960 --> 00:17:14.200 confusing the situation unnecessarily. 232 00:17:14.799 --> 00:17:18.160 Okay, now, and see that's actually I do get that 233 00:17:18.599 --> 00:17:22.720 from a lot of people. And I don't understand exactly 234 00:17:22.799 --> 00:17:24.319 how I can read you know, how you can read 235 00:17:24.359 --> 00:17:26.440 another book and then you read this when and people 236 00:17:26.480 --> 00:17:30.799 tell you're getting a wrong interpretation, you know what I mean? Well, no, 237 00:17:31.079 --> 00:17:33.200 I don't believe. I mean, I believe. 238 00:17:32.960 --> 00:17:33.519 Jesus was here. 239 00:17:33.559 --> 00:17:35.119 I believe he did everything that you said. 240 00:17:35.200 --> 00:17:38.559 So who So for argument, then who would you say 241 00:17:38.559 --> 00:17:38.880 that I am? 242 00:17:38.920 --> 00:17:39.079 Who? 243 00:17:39.200 --> 00:17:41.599 Who was Jesus? Then Jesus. 244 00:17:41.640 --> 00:17:44.039 When Jesus talked to ask Peter, he said, Peter, who 245 00:17:44.079 --> 00:17:46.160 do they say that I am? He said, you're the 246 00:17:46.160 --> 00:17:47.880 son of God. And Jesus were like, no, who do 247 00:17:47.920 --> 00:17:50.200 you say that I am? He said, you're the son 248 00:17:50.240 --> 00:17:52.880 of the Living God. And then he was like, he said, 249 00:17:52.880 --> 00:17:53.480 blessed are you? 250 00:17:53.519 --> 00:17:53.720 Peter? 251 00:17:54.279 --> 00:17:55.559 You know what I mean because nobody told you this 252 00:17:55.640 --> 00:17:57.559 but my father in Heaven. And that's exactly who I 253 00:17:57.559 --> 00:17:59.400 think Jesus is. I think he's the son of God. 254 00:17:59.759 --> 00:18:02.960 But I claimed to be God. As a matter of fact, Thomas, 255 00:18:03.000 --> 00:18:05.519 when he put his fingers in my hand and in 256 00:18:05.599 --> 00:18:10.039 my side, he said in the Greek Ethusmu, Theeusmu, he said, 257 00:18:10.039 --> 00:18:12.839 the God of me, the Lord of me. And I 258 00:18:12.960 --> 00:18:15.279 did not correct him. As a matter of fact, it 259 00:18:15.279 --> 00:18:18.200 would have been blasphem blasphemy for him to refer to 260 00:18:18.279 --> 00:18:21.599 me as that, unless it were true. Also, when they 261 00:18:21.640 --> 00:18:23.559 when they tried to stone me, I said, for which 262 00:18:23.599 --> 00:18:27.079 when I said that I am the I am? When 263 00:18:27.119 --> 00:18:29.880 I said before Abraham, was I am? That is the 264 00:18:30.000 --> 00:18:33.480 name for God to the Jewish people they went to 265 00:18:33.519 --> 00:18:36.319 stone me, I said, which, for which good work do 266 00:18:36.359 --> 00:18:38.799 you stone me? And what was their response? Tyrone? It 267 00:18:38.920 --> 00:18:41.079 was not for a good work, but for you, a 268 00:18:41.160 --> 00:18:45.279 mere man claiming to be God. Yes, over and over again. 269 00:18:45.400 --> 00:18:47.960 So I could not have been the son of God 270 00:18:48.400 --> 00:18:50.839 in that sense if I was not God. What I 271 00:18:50.920 --> 00:18:53.039 was saying was that I am the same as God. 272 00:18:53.279 --> 00:18:57.000 I said before Abraham, was I am? Not I was 273 00:18:57.359 --> 00:18:57.920 I am? 274 00:18:58.640 --> 00:19:01.559 Well, period, I can understand that because God knew you 275 00:19:01.599 --> 00:19:03.039 and I were going to be here before we were 276 00:19:03.279 --> 00:19:05.400 in here, So I can understand. 277 00:19:05.039 --> 00:19:08.160 That that's not the term. It's saying before Abraham was 278 00:19:08.400 --> 00:19:12.000 I am God. That is what's being said. The problem 279 00:19:12.079 --> 00:19:15.359 is that people don't read it in the context in 280 00:19:15.400 --> 00:19:18.759 which it stated, I am claiming to be God. Over 281 00:19:18.799 --> 00:19:21.920 and over, it says that I created the world. It 282 00:19:22.000 --> 00:19:24.799 says the Holy Spirit created the world. It says the 283 00:19:24.839 --> 00:19:27.920 Father created the world. It also says that I am 284 00:19:28.119 --> 00:19:30.960 I and the Father are one. There is no way 285 00:19:31.000 --> 00:19:34.000 to separate. All I had to do the whole time 286 00:19:34.440 --> 00:19:38.079 was renounced that I was really God, and I wouldn't 287 00:19:38.079 --> 00:19:41.240 have gone to the to the cross, and I didn't 288 00:19:41.319 --> 00:19:47.240 because it was true. There's no there's no way around that. Really, 289 00:19:47.279 --> 00:19:49.799 it can't make me a guru, a good guy, a 290 00:19:49.880 --> 00:19:54.599 nice teacher, a manifestation of someone else. You can't because 291 00:19:54.640 --> 00:19:57.400 I claim to be God. That would make me nuts. 292 00:19:58.359 --> 00:19:59.960 And people in the Bible did think he was crazy. 293 00:20:00.279 --> 00:20:02.759 Yep, why because I claimed to be God. 294 00:20:02.920 --> 00:20:05.119 Well, you know what, To be honest with you, people 295 00:20:05.160 --> 00:20:06.119 tell me the same thing. 296 00:20:06.640 --> 00:20:07.839 You know what I mean, that you're nuts. 297 00:20:08.079 --> 00:20:10.839 Yeah, I don't understand because I've changed the way that 298 00:20:10.880 --> 00:20:13.119 I do things now, I've changed, you know what I mean. 299 00:20:13.160 --> 00:20:15.160 I used to be a curse or you know what 300 00:20:15.200 --> 00:20:17.160 I mean. Drinker and all that once I picked up 301 00:20:17.200 --> 00:20:19.440 the Bible and started reading, I changed all of that. 302 00:20:19.559 --> 00:20:21.359 So all the people that were around me before that 303 00:20:21.519 --> 00:20:23.839 used to see the old tyrone see a different one. 304 00:20:24.000 --> 00:20:27.480 Good. But what are you missing? Why are you missing 305 00:20:27.559 --> 00:20:31.200 this one thing? Why do you wrestle with the concept 306 00:20:30.559 --> 00:20:36.119 of me being God or the Trinity? 307 00:20:36.160 --> 00:20:38.279 Because if you start from in your Bible and you 308 00:20:38.319 --> 00:20:41.799 read it from the Old Testament, it's almost it makes 309 00:20:41.839 --> 00:20:44.039 you seem like, in the Old Testament, I can talk 310 00:20:44.039 --> 00:20:46.359 to God, I can go straight to him. Now in 311 00:20:46.400 --> 00:20:48.640 the New Testament, I have to go through somebody. 312 00:20:48.799 --> 00:20:51.160 No, no, no. In the Old Testament it was much different. 313 00:20:51.279 --> 00:20:54.640 You couldn't approach the Holy of Holies. On the contrary, 314 00:20:54.720 --> 00:20:58.079 you couldn't look in the face of God. Moses couldn't. 315 00:20:58.440 --> 00:21:02.119 They had the issues, probably right, was always under certain context, 316 00:21:02.160 --> 00:21:05.119 and the burning of bush and the holies of holies 317 00:21:05.759 --> 00:21:09.119 and these types of things. There was barriers. On the contrary, 318 00:21:09.519 --> 00:21:15.559 it has become a personal belief system. Through the birth 319 00:21:15.599 --> 00:21:19.119 of my flesh, I've always been alf in the Mega, 320 00:21:19.200 --> 00:21:21.359 the beginning of the end. There has been no There 321 00:21:21.400 --> 00:21:23.680 was no beginning of who I am. There was only 322 00:21:23.720 --> 00:21:26.200 the beginning of my flesh. And people get confused with 323 00:21:26.240 --> 00:21:29.519 those things. But there's specifics you talk about the beginning 324 00:21:29.519 --> 00:21:32.480 of scripture, Tyrone. You go to the beginning of scripture 325 00:21:32.759 --> 00:21:35.279 and you hear God saying, let us go down there 326 00:21:35.319 --> 00:21:38.880 and make man in our image. Who's he talking to. 327 00:21:39.279 --> 00:21:41.799 He's talking about the host, everybody that he's already made. 328 00:21:41.799 --> 00:21:43.799 He's talking to the angels and everybody else that was 329 00:21:43.880 --> 00:21:44.200 up there. 330 00:21:44.240 --> 00:21:46.079 So you're made in the in the image of an. 331 00:21:45.960 --> 00:21:47.920 Angel, image of God. 332 00:21:48.200 --> 00:21:53.759 Okay, But he says us, let us go down there, 333 00:21:53.839 --> 00:21:56.960 let us go down there and make man in our image. 334 00:21:57.359 --> 00:22:01.680 I see it as he's said, let's make let's make 335 00:22:01.720 --> 00:22:04.920 man in our image, meaning whoever was up whoever was 336 00:22:05.000 --> 00:22:07.079 up there he had already created, and who was. 337 00:22:07.079 --> 00:22:10.200 Up there angels. So are you saying that you're made 338 00:22:10.240 --> 00:22:12.920 in the image of an angel? No, I'm not, okay, 339 00:22:13.240 --> 00:22:17.640 So that so then that so that doesn't fit the context, Tyrone, 340 00:22:17.759 --> 00:22:21.680 you're saying that people are making you know, reading into scripture, 341 00:22:21.720 --> 00:22:25.240 there's two types of studying. There's what they call exegy, 342 00:22:25.359 --> 00:22:28.440 which is when you extract what's out of scripture by 343 00:22:28.440 --> 00:22:30.599 its very nature, and then there's icogy, when you're reading 344 00:22:30.640 --> 00:22:33.240 into scripture trying to make it, and for some reason 345 00:22:33.640 --> 00:22:36.079 I feel that. And although there's been change in your life, 346 00:22:36.240 --> 00:22:38.759 I've seen people change that don't know me at all, 347 00:22:39.680 --> 00:22:42.559 not at all. There's people in Scripture who proclaimed my 348 00:22:42.720 --> 00:22:45.480 name and I said they were from the power of Satan. 349 00:22:46.000 --> 00:22:48.559 So I'm not worried about that type of change. Just 350 00:22:48.599 --> 00:22:50.880 for the sake of change what I want and more 351 00:22:50.880 --> 00:22:53.880 importantly than anything else. Over and over in Scripture, I 352 00:22:53.960 --> 00:22:56.240 asked the question, who do you say that I am? 353 00:22:56.759 --> 00:23:00.559 That is the important question, and Peter knew it. Peter 354 00:23:00.759 --> 00:23:04.480 said that I was God, and I said of God. No, 355 00:23:04.599 --> 00:23:06.799 that you don't understand. In the context of which it's 356 00:23:06.839 --> 00:23:09.119 being stated. He is saying that I am one with 357 00:23:09.200 --> 00:23:11.559 the Father. I am of the same essence of the Father. 358 00:23:13.200 --> 00:23:16.000 So us as being here on earth, we're not in that. 359 00:23:16.720 --> 00:23:18.799 We don't look like God, and we're not in his essence. 360 00:23:19.079 --> 00:23:22.319 No, you're in his image. You're designed with the intellect, 361 00:23:22.319 --> 00:23:25.039 will and emotion. That's the same as God. God has intellect, 362 00:23:25.079 --> 00:23:28.559 will and emotion. You have intellect, will and emotion. God 363 00:23:28.640 --> 00:23:31.720 is a creator. Man desires to create. The devil desires 364 00:23:31.759 --> 00:23:35.920 to destruct and is destroy. So in this particular context, 365 00:23:35.960 --> 00:23:38.519 if you if you really are looking at scripture and 366 00:23:38.559 --> 00:23:40.599 you go to all the different verses that talk about 367 00:23:40.599 --> 00:23:44.920 the Holy Spirit creating, the Son creating, and the Father creating, 368 00:23:45.240 --> 00:23:48.200 they are one in the same. I know it becomes difficult, 369 00:23:48.240 --> 00:23:50.240 but I want you to hear it this way. The 370 00:23:50.319 --> 00:23:54.319 chemical compound for liquid water is H two O. The 371 00:23:54.400 --> 00:23:57.400 chemical compound for solid water ice is H two O. 372 00:23:58.119 --> 00:24:01.680 The chemical compound for steam or water in its gaseous 373 00:24:01.680 --> 00:24:04.759 state is H two oh. It's all the same in 374 00:24:04.880 --> 00:24:09.720 three different personalities, if you will. Now, when it comes 375 00:24:09.799 --> 00:24:13.640 to the Godhead, you're dealing with three who's and one what. 376 00:24:14.240 --> 00:24:17.200 They're all God, one what. And I know it can 377 00:24:17.240 --> 00:24:20.480 be confusing, But if you go back and read through scripture, Tyrone, 378 00:24:20.480 --> 00:24:23.000 because I know you have you you're on fire. I 379 00:24:23.039 --> 00:24:27.200 know you want to study. You've obviously cracked open that book. 380 00:24:27.319 --> 00:24:30.119 You have to see that because who you say that 381 00:24:30.200 --> 00:24:33.000 I am is the most important part of all of it. 382 00:24:34.119 --> 00:24:36.559 That's the most important part of all of it. And 383 00:24:36.640 --> 00:24:39.200 if you take me out of the equation, trust me, 384 00:24:39.319 --> 00:24:47.200 you're not talking to the Father. Jasmine. Welcome to the 385 00:24:47.240 --> 00:24:48.119 Jesus Christ Show. 386 00:24:49.559 --> 00:24:51.359 Hello, Hi, how can I help you? 387 00:24:52.440 --> 00:24:57.079 Yes, I was wondering. I have a question on the 388 00:24:57.440 --> 00:25:07.359 words the words from angers? Do the words from drugs? 389 00:25:08.039 --> 00:25:10.359 How does that work? 390 00:25:10.559 --> 00:25:14.799 In what sense? Are you having struggles with drugs? 391 00:25:15.160 --> 00:25:18.680 No, I am not the friend of mine lis okay? 392 00:25:18.680 --> 00:25:23.839 And are they somebody of faith? Do they? Are they Christians? 393 00:25:24.680 --> 00:25:24.960 Yes? 394 00:25:25.200 --> 00:25:27.000 As a matter of fact, they are okay. 395 00:25:27.279 --> 00:25:29.720 And is this something that's reoccurring in their life? It 396 00:25:29.720 --> 00:25:31.200 comes up over and over again? 397 00:25:32.599 --> 00:25:33.079 Yes? 398 00:25:33.160 --> 00:25:37.160 And do they act on it? Do they go into 399 00:25:37.200 --> 00:25:41.720 a program and detox and go through that process or 400 00:25:41.720 --> 00:25:44.440 do they just go through a time of cold turkey 401 00:25:44.480 --> 00:25:46.880