Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to Wednesday Service, episode number two,
Speaker 1: brought to you by a Cult, the Conspiracy Podcast. I'm
Speaker 1: your host, Josh Monday. If you don't know me, I'm
Speaker 1: a Christian rapper, devoted husband, father, and army veteran, and
Speaker 1: the host of Josh Monday Christian conspiracy podcast. So yeah,
Speaker 1: so I got a little little bit of a cold,
Speaker 1: but I'll be good. Let me just take a drink.
Speaker 1: So today, oh yeah, I'm also the host of Sunday Service.
Speaker 1: So thank you guys for tuning in. I really appreciate it,
Speaker 1: and thank you so much Jonathan and Jacob for allowing
Speaker 1: me to do this show. Today we're going to be
Speaker 1: actually going over the Book of Matthew, which is going
Speaker 1: to be exciting. So I think on Wednesdays I'm gonna
Speaker 1: try to do some New Testament and on Sundays, I'm
Speaker 1: actually in the Book of Exodus, so I'm doing Old Testament.
Speaker 1: So I think that'd be really good for you guys
Speaker 1: to learn, and you know, kind of going going from
Speaker 1: New Testament to Old Testament. You know, I think that
Speaker 1: it's very important, and some people they choose to just
Speaker 1: stick with the New Testament. But for me, I think
Speaker 1: it's it's good. You know, all scriptures inspired by God,
Speaker 1: you know, profitable for doction, reproof for correction. So I
Speaker 1: think it's good to go through all scripture. And you
Speaker 1: also need a great foundation before you jump into the
Speaker 1: New Testament. So we've already gone over the book of
Speaker 1: Genesis all the way to Exodus if you are following along,
Speaker 1: and you know with our Sunday Service podcast. So now
Speaker 1: for Wednesday's I think we are going to dive into
Speaker 1: the New Testament. So thank you guys so much for
Speaker 1: tuning in, like I said, and it'll be such a blessing.
Speaker 1: So first, before we get into Matthew, we'll get a
Speaker 1: little history of Matthew. He is a disciple of Jesus.
Speaker 1: He's a tax collector. He's one of the four evangelists
Speaker 1: who wrote the Gospel in the New Testament. And yeah,
Speaker 1: so he was. He was Matthew called to follow Jesus
Speaker 1: while sitting at the receipt of custom in Capernaum, sorry Copernaum.
Speaker 1: And then also Matthew was a patron saint of accountants
Speaker 1: and tax collectors. In the Feast of Saint Matthew is
Speaker 1: celebrated on September twenty first. So, yeah, I just kind
Speaker 1: of want to let you know that. And uh yeah,
Speaker 1: so let's let's go ahead and get into uh Matthew. So,
Speaker 1: uh the genealogy of Matthew or the genealogy of Jesus Christ,
Speaker 1: the Son of God, the son of Abraham. Abraham begat Isaac,
Speaker 1: Isaac begat, Jacob, Jacob begat, Judah and his brothers Judah
Speaker 1: begat Perez and Zara by Tamar Perez begat, Hesron and
Speaker 1: Hesron begat ram Ram, begat Amenda, dab Midda, dab begat, Nashon,
Speaker 1: Nisshaun begat Salmon, Salmon, begat Boez by Rahab Rahabos got
Speaker 1: obed by Ruth Obed begat Jesse and Jesse begat. David
Speaker 1: the King. Very interesting so far. We when we were
Speaker 1: going over in the Book of Genesis, we saw that
Speaker 1: Judah uh slept with the prostitute and begat Perez, which
Speaker 1: was very interesting, and so we see Perez in the
Speaker 1: in that line. Yeah, very interesting right there, and also
Speaker 1: Rehab is interesting as well. So we'll continue, Uh, David,
Speaker 1: the Kings of Solomon. David the King begot Solomon by
Speaker 1: her who had the wife of Uriah. Solomon begat Roabam
Speaker 1: Roabam begat Abajah and Abajah begat a shah Asa begat,
Speaker 1: Jesse Fat, Jesse Fat begat Joram and Joram begat Uzza
Speaker 1: Uzzah begat Joatham Joatham begat a has and it has begot. Hezekiah,
Speaker 1: Hezekiah begat Manassai, Manassai begot, Amin Amin begat Josiah Josiah
Speaker 1: begat Jack Andiah and his brothers about the time that
Speaker 1: they were carried away to Babylon, and after they were
Speaker 1: brought to Babylon, Jakiah begat shellet Tel and shelle Attel
Speaker 1: begat zerouble ball zeruble Ball begat a bid Abid begat
Speaker 1: Ali kim Ali Quim begat azor Azor begat sadax A,
Speaker 1: doct begat Akeem Aquem begat Elliott, Elliot begat Eliezer Eliezer
Speaker 1: begat Nathan and Methan begat, Jacob and Jacob begat Joseph,
Speaker 1: the husband of Mary of whom was born Jesus, who
Speaker 1: is called Christ. So some interesting thing about this, uh
Speaker 1: was I kind of went over the Perez thing that
Speaker 1: was kind of interesting that Judas slept with the prostitute. Well,
Speaker 1: Judah slept with his sister in law, which he thought
Speaker 1: was a prostitute. And then they begat Perez. So that
Speaker 1: was really interesting. And then yeah, so I think that's
Speaker 1: super interesting. And then also there's another one in here,
Speaker 1: jacka Andiah. Okay, so Jack and Noiah. If you go
Speaker 1: to so Jacob, he got Judas, which means Judah. Okay,
Speaker 1: So if you go to Jeremiah twenty two thirty, there's
Speaker 1: a curse on Jack and Yah. All right, So this
Speaker 1: line is going through Joseph. Joseph is not obviously Jesus's
Speaker 1: biological father, but Joseph is his father and you know,
Speaker 1: earthy father, stepfather I guess, or by whatever you want
Speaker 1: to say. But in Jewish tradition, they would they would
Speaker 1: go even though Jesus is not his biological father, he
Speaker 1: would still so they would still use Joseph as the lineage, right,
Speaker 1: So that's why Matthew is choosing to go with Joseph.
Speaker 1: And if you go the crazy thing is, if you
Speaker 1: go to Jeremiah twenty two thirty, it says that thus
Speaker 1: says the Lord write this man down as childless, a
Speaker 1: man who shall not prosper in his days, for none
Speaker 1: of his descendants shall prosper sitting on the throne of
Speaker 1: David and ruling anymore. In Judah, and this is referring
Speaker 1: to Jacka Andiah, there's a curse on jek Andiah. And
Speaker 1: if you notice, jack Andiah is in this line. So
Speaker 1: if Jacka and I, or if Joseph would have been
Speaker 1: Jesus's biological father, then Jesus would not have been able
Speaker 1: to rule on the throne of David because of this curse.
Speaker 1: So that's why you end up seeing in the Book
Speaker 1: of Luke, we believe he's going over Mary's lineage, and
Speaker 1: that goes through a different line and doesn't go to
Speaker 1: through jack and Aiah. So Mary is his biological mother
Speaker 1: obviously through the Holy Spirit. So that's why you kind
Speaker 1: of have that. So I think it's really interesting when
Speaker 1: you kind of break it down. And also I'm going
Speaker 1: to kind of go over something too, the prophecy of
Speaker 1: Christ our Messiah coming through the line of David. We
Speaker 1: want to look at that too, So that twod Samuel seven,
Speaker 1: verses ten through seventeen, it says moreover, I will appoint
Speaker 1: a place for my people Israel, and will and plant
Speaker 1: them that they may dwell in a place of their
Speaker 1: own and move no more, Nor shall the sons of
Speaker 1: wickedness suppress them anymore as previously, since the time that
Speaker 1: I commanded judges to be over my people, Israel, and
Speaker 1: have caused you to rest from their enemies. Also, the
Speaker 1: Lord tells you that he will make you a house.
Speaker 1: When your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers,
Speaker 1: I will set you up. I will set up your
Speaker 1: seed after you, who will come from your and I
Speaker 1: will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for
Speaker 1: my name, and I will establish the throne of his
Speaker 1: kingdom forever. I will be his father, and he shall
Speaker 1: be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten
Speaker 1: him with the rod of a man and with the
Speaker 1: blows of the sons of men. But by my mercy
Speaker 1: shall not depart from him. But as I took it
Speaker 1: from Saou, whom I removed from. Before you and your
Speaker 1: house and your kingdom shall you be established forever before
Speaker 1: you and your throne shall be established forever, according to
Speaker 1: all these words and according to all this vision. So
Speaker 1: Nathan spoke to David. So if you look at numbers twelve,
Speaker 1: verses four through eight. I've kind to always go over this,
Speaker 1: but it's very important. God, the Father says I come.
Speaker 1: Actually the Lord says I come to profits and vision
Speaker 1: and in dreams. But when it comes to Moses, I
Speaker 1: speak to them face to face, you know, mouth to mouth,
Speaker 1: and the new King James, so on the old and
Speaker 1: the King James. So if you understand, this is Nathan
Speaker 1: the prophet. So God is giving coming to Nathan in
Speaker 1: this vision and telling him this. Okay. So this is
Speaker 1: very interesting. So this is the prophecy of Christ, the
Speaker 1: Christ or Messiah coming from the line of David, the
Speaker 1: Messianic prophecy. Okay. So I think that's super interesting. We
Speaker 1: really need to know stuff like this, and that way
Speaker 1: we know what's going on. When you know what prophecies
Speaker 1: were foretold before Jesus was was born. So we have
Speaker 1: that and the Jack and Aiah curse. That's that's a
Speaker 1: really interesting part too as well. Fascinating. So all the
Speaker 1: generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations. From David
Speaker 1: until captivity and bat Baplon are fourteen generations, and from
Speaker 1: the captivity in Babylon until the Christ are fourteen generations
Speaker 1: the Christ, meaning the Messiah. Okay, so now we're gonna
Speaker 1: have Christ born of Mary. Before we do that, let's
Speaker 1: go over a few things in Isaiah that are kind
Speaker 1: of foretelling Jesus's birth right. So it says Isaiah seven
Speaker 1: thirteen through fourteen. Then he said, here now, o house
Speaker 1: of David, it is a small thing for you to
Speaker 1: weary men, but you will weary my God. Also therefore
Speaker 1: the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the
Speaker 1: Virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call
Speaker 1: his name Emmanuel. Some people have a problem with that
Speaker 1: because they go, then Jesus was never called Emanuel. Why
Speaker 1: is he called Jesus? Or why is he called the Christ?
Speaker 1: Why is he called Yoshua? And that's what it means.
Speaker 1: Jesus is Joshua, that's it, or Yoshia. Either way you
Speaker 1: could say that. And my name is Joshua as well.
Speaker 1: I'm actually named after not after Jesus, but after Joshua
Speaker 1: in the Bible. But Emanuel means God is with us, right,
Speaker 1: so it means God is with us. So it could
Speaker 1: be that that's why people will call him Emmanuel, because
Speaker 1: people will say that God is with us. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what people say, because we believe that Jesus is God.
Speaker 1: So God is with us, you know, so it might
Speaker 1: be kind of a more of a meaning to the
Speaker 1: name that instead of like them literally calling him Emmanuel. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's that's what some people believe in. And I think
Speaker 1: that's a pretty good interpretation there. Okay. So we have
Speaker 1: Isaiah and nine four through six as well. It says,
Speaker 1: for you have broken the yoke of his burden, and
Speaker 1: the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor,
Speaker 1: as in the day of Midian, for every warrior sandal
Speaker 1: from the noisy battle, and garments roll than blood will
Speaker 1: be used for burning in fuel fire. For unto us,
Speaker 1: a child is born, unto us, a son is given,
Speaker 1: and the government will be upon his shoulder, and his
Speaker 1: name will be called wonderful counselor Mighty God, everlasting Father,
Speaker 1: and Prince of peace. Yes, everlasting Father. Wow. Interesting huh.
Speaker 1: We also have Micah five two through five. Here's another one.
Speaker 1: I want to go over for you guys.
Speaker 2: But but you, Bethlehem, Efritah, though you are little among
Speaker 2: the thousands of Judah, Yet out of you shall come
Speaker 2: forth to me the one to be the ruler in Israel, whose.
Speaker 1: Goings forth or from old, from everlasting. Therefore he shall
Speaker 1: give them until the time that he was, that she
Speaker 1: who was in labor has given birth, that the remnant
Speaker 1: of his brethren shall return to the children of Israel.
Speaker 1: And he shall stand and feed his flock. And the
Speaker 1: strength of the Lord and the majesty of the name
Speaker 1: of the Lord his God, and they shall abide. For
Speaker 1: now he shall be great to the ends of the earth.
Speaker 1: And this one shall be peace. When the Assyrian comes
Speaker 1: into our land, when he when he treads into our palaces,
Speaker 1: then we will raise, rise, raise against him seven shepherds
Speaker 1: and eight princely men. The Assyrian is actually in the
Speaker 1: Old Testament, is like a it's like the anti Christ.
Speaker 1: It's like an anti Christ. It's the Assyrian. So I
Speaker 1: think that's really interesting how that they're so anyways, all right,
Speaker 1: so yeah, those are those are some prof you know,
Speaker 1: prophetic of Jesus coming. We'll go ahead and get into
Speaker 1: the Jesus being born now. So now the birth of
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ as follows after his mother Mary was bethralled, bethralled, bethrolled,
Speaker 1: sorry to Jesus to Joseph. Before they came together, she
Speaker 1: was found with a child in the Holy Spirit. Now,
Speaker 1: bethrolled is there's no word in the English for that.
Speaker 1: What that is the closest thing to it would be
Speaker 1: like an engagement. But the thing is, when you're bethrilled
Speaker 1: or be thralled bethrolled, I don't know how to say
Speaker 1: the word. I'm sorry, be throeded, be thralled. So anyways,
Speaker 1: when you are bethrolled to Joseph, what that means is
Speaker 1: that at this point, now you're so together. You're not
Speaker 1: married yet, but you're so together that it would actually
Speaker 1: take a bill of divorce for you to separate. So
Speaker 1: they are in it to win it at this point. So,
Speaker 1: before they came together, she was found with a child
Speaker 1: of the Holy Spirit. Then Joseph, her husband, being a
Speaker 1: just man and wanting to make her a public not
Speaker 1: wanting to make her a public example, was minded to
Speaker 1: put her away secretly. But why he thought about these things? Behold,
Speaker 1: an angel, an angel of the Lord, appeared to him
Speaker 1: in a dream, saying, Joseph, son of David, do not
Speaker 1: be afraid to take to you marry your wife, for
Speaker 1: which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit,
Speaker 1: and she will bring forth the sun, and you shall
Speaker 1: call his name Jesus, for he will he will save
Speaker 1: his people from their sins. So back then, you know,
Speaker 1: we didn't have a pregnancy test. Back then, they didn't
Speaker 1: have that, you know, so they would just start to show.
Speaker 1: So she started to show, and you know, didn't want
Speaker 1: to make a public example out of her. Right they
Speaker 1: weren't married yet everybody knew that. So, you know, Joseph,
Speaker 1: he was a just man, it says, and uh, I
Speaker 1: think it's it's it's interesting that an angel of the
Speaker 1: Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, Senator David,
Speaker 1: do not be afraid to take your wife Mary. So
Speaker 1: he obviously was a great man, you know, because he
Speaker 1: ended up by faith, accepting this pregnancy, accepting that it
Speaker 1: was of the Holy Spirit, still giving his wife a chance.
Speaker 1: And I think that he's definitely a fascinating character in
Speaker 1: the Bible, you know, Joseph, because of the way that
Speaker 1: he did that, you know, the way he accepted that,
Speaker 1: because it takes a real man to do that, because
Speaker 1: you could obviously just put her out there on blast
Speaker 1: and get her stone to death or whatever. It would
Speaker 1: happen to her back then and get her, get a
Speaker 1: bill of divorce and leave her. But instead he took
Speaker 1: her in, and he took on the you know the responsibility.
Speaker 1: It says, so all this was done, that it'd be fulfilled,
Speaker 1: which is spoken by the Lord through the prophets. Ain't
Speaker 1: behold the version shall be with the child and bear's son,
Speaker 1: and shall call his name Emmanuel, which is translated God
Speaker 1: with us. Then Joseph arose from his sleep, did as
Speaker 1: the angel of the Lord commanded him, and took him
Speaker 1: and his wife, and did not know her till she
Speaker 1: brought forth her son, firstborn, for her firstborn son, and
Speaker 1: he called him Jesus Yoshia the mashiat so Joshua. Right, So,
Speaker 1: so did you did you understand what it said right
Speaker 1: there said did not know her till she had brought
Speaker 1: forth her firstborn son. That means did not make love
Speaker 1: to her until she brought forth her firstborn son. So
Speaker 1: obviously Mary was not a virgin her whole entire life,
Speaker 1: because you can read right here plainly that it says
Speaker 1: that he did not know her till she had brought
Speaker 1: her forth her firstborn son, did not know her, meaning uh,
Speaker 1: you know, make love to her, right, and he called
Speaker 1: his name Jesus. Okay, so we need to understand that
Speaker 1: because when he people try to come into you and
Speaker 1: tell you she was a virgin role life. Well, I mean, plainly,
Speaker 1: we could see that Jesus had brothers, right, and sisters,
Speaker 1: so obviously she was in a virgin of ural life.
Speaker 1: They didn't. They didn't all come from a Joseph's side
Speaker 1: before he got with her, right. So I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know why why they would bring that type
Speaker 1: of thing, but they want to have Mary worship. That's why.
Speaker 1: You know. I just want to let you guys know
Speaker 1: that obviously that that's not the case. So we'll go
Speaker 1: in and switch to our notes for Matthew two. Okay,
Speaker 1: So this is this is about the wise men from
Speaker 1: the East. The wise men. Yeah, this is a fascinating
Speaker 1: as well. So now, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem
Speaker 1: of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold,
Speaker 1: wise men from the East came to Jerusalem. Now, one
Speaker 1: thing I want to tell you about Bethlehem. Uh So
Speaker 1: it says, now Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea.
Speaker 1: Now I want to tell you about Bethlehem, because Bethlehem
Speaker 1: is actually where King David was born roughly a thousand
Speaker 1: years earlier. He was born in Bethlehem. He was the
Speaker 1: youngest son of Jesse, a farmer a shepherd for the
Speaker 1: tribe of Judah. David was also a shepherd as a child.
Speaker 1: Bethlehem was known as Efiratha Epiatha. Sorry, it's hard for
Speaker 1: me to pronounce him with his Hebrew, which means fruitful
Speaker 1: in Hebrew. Okay, Efirath is what some people how, some
Speaker 1: people pronounce itrath but has an ah at the end,
Speaker 1: so it sounds like Epiratha. But Efirath is what Bethlehem
Speaker 1: was known as, okay before. So I think that's pretty
Speaker 1: fascinating stuff. And so we want to also, I kind
Speaker 1: of want to key in on these wise men, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, what does that even mean? A wise man?
Speaker 1: So the Greek word is a magos, right, magos, And
Speaker 1: the name was given by the Babylonians, Chaldeans, Persians, and
Speaker 1: others to the wise men teachers, the midis, also the midies,
Speaker 1: the Persians and others. There were teachers, priests, physicians, astrologers, theears,
Speaker 1: interpreters of dreams, augurs, soothsayers, and sorcerers. So these happen
Speaker 1: to be they happened to be astrologers, these ones. Okay,
Speaker 1: so these are actually you know, magi or magicians. That's
Speaker 1: what these guys are. And I also want to tell
Speaker 1: you that the there's like you know, you hear the
Speaker 1: Christmas songs like the three Kings, these are not kings.
Speaker 1: These are magicians that came from the east. You know
Speaker 1: that King Herod had sent. Okay, so they're astrologers or
Speaker 1: watchers of the stars. And just to let you know,
Speaker 1: since interpreters of dreams are you know, interpreters of dreams,
Speaker 1: that's what Joseph and Daniel were in Egypt and in Babylon, right,
Speaker 1: Daniel and Babylon. Joseph in Egypt, he was they were
Speaker 1: They were basically looked at as magi or or magicians,
Speaker 1: even though you know biblically they're not magicians, but that's
Speaker 1: what they were looked at. But they were getting their
Speaker 1: power from God. So obviously they're not magicians or they're
Speaker 1: not sorcerers. They were getting their power from the King
Speaker 1: of kings, the lord and lords, from God himself, right,
Speaker 1: So they were just interpreting the dream. But if you
Speaker 1: if you notice when when Joseph and Daniel were interpreting
Speaker 1: the dream, they were always giving glory to God. Right,
Speaker 1: so especially Daniel Man, he kept on saying that, like
Speaker 1: every single time that they would say something to him
Speaker 1: about it, he was always giving glory to God about
Speaker 1: you know, interpreting the dream. God is the one that's
Speaker 1: doing it, not me, taking the glory off himself and
Speaker 1: pointing out to God. So that that's what you gotta do, right.
Speaker 1: You don't want to just oh, hey, that's a great sermon, well,
Speaker 1: oh thank you, and then you just walk away. That's
Speaker 1: not all glory to God. You know, God is someone
Speaker 1: that gave me this, you know, these this message today
Speaker 1: or God is the one that gave me this. Uh
Speaker 1: these words that I spoke today, It wasn't me, you know,
Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit speaking through me. You know, you got
Speaker 1: you gotta give glory to God. So anyways, uh so
Speaker 1: we'll go ahead and continue. And also the wise man,
Speaker 1: there wasn't three of them. They would come in and
Speaker 1: in groves like they would come with a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of people. They would they would come deep, they would
Speaker 1: they would come deep. You know they wouldn't come, and
Speaker 1: they didn't come the day that that Jesus was born either.
Speaker 1: You know, you guys got to know that they didn't
Speaker 1: come to the exact day he was born. Well, we'll
Speaker 1: continue reading here and you'll see. So when they try
Speaker 1: to say, like, oh, they try to tell you the
Speaker 1: Christmas story, that's that's not even accurate, especially the songs
Speaker 1: that they try to say about it. You know, it's
Speaker 1: definitely a little dressed up, all right and inaccurate. They
Speaker 1: got to go from what the Bible says, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know it obviously it happens now after Jesus was
Speaker 1: born in Bethlehem of Judah and the days of Herod
Speaker 1: the King, Behold, wise men from the east came to
Speaker 1: Jerusalem saying, here is he who has been born king
Speaker 1: of the Jews. But we have seen his star in
Speaker 1: the east and have come to worship him. So they
Speaker 1: know that he is going to be a king. Okay,
Speaker 1: they know they're magicians and they are astrologers, right, so
Speaker 1: they have they have this thing where they know he's
Speaker 1: going to be king, and you could tell because they
Speaker 1: bring gold. It says when Herod the King heard this,
Speaker 1: he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him, and we
Speaker 1: had When he had gathered all the chief priests and
Speaker 1: scribes of the people together, he inquired of them, were
Speaker 1: that the Christ? Where the Christ was to be born? Now,
Speaker 1: let's do a little Let me give you a little
Speaker 1: history on King Herod. King Herod, he was actually an Edomite. Right,
Speaker 1: So there was the Moobites and Edomites. And the way
Speaker 1: that they happened to come into fruition is when Lot
Speaker 1: slept with his daughters. Right, That's when the Moobites and
Speaker 1: the Edomites came into fruition. Right. So King Herod was
Speaker 1: an Edomite, a Semitic people who converted to Judaism in
Speaker 1: the second century BC. Herod's father was a high ranking
Speaker 1: official in Judea and Edomite by descent. Antipot Anti Panther
Speaker 1: was the descendant of Esau, the brother of Jacob, the
Speaker 1: ancestor of the Israelites. So Herod's ethnic background he okay.
Speaker 1: Arry Kennarty went over that Herod was raised as a Jew.
Speaker 1: He was married into a Hashemonian family and rebuilt the
Speaker 1: temple in Israel. Harold ruled Judea from about thirty seven
Speaker 1: BCE until his death and four b. He tried to
Speaker 1: be both a Jew of the Jews and a Roman
Speaker 1: to the Romans. So I just want to tell you
Speaker 1: that also Herod killed his He killed his two sons,
Speaker 1: Alexander and Aristobus the fifth, along with his oldest son
Speaker 1: Antipater the second. Okay, So Herod was known for being
Speaker 1: a powerful ruler, but he was also jealous and he
Speaker 1: would kill anyone he considered a threat to his reign.
Speaker 1: He had eight wives and at least fourteen children. Harod
Speaker 1: killed his sons and they were who were the sons
Speaker 1: of his wife Mariam. He also killed Mariam her mother
Speaker 1: and her grandmother grandfather. So I just want to tell
Speaker 1: you this guy that we're dealing with here, King Herod
Speaker 1: is brutal, Okay, he is no joke, like he killed
Speaker 1: his sons, killed his wife and her grandfather's Oh it
Speaker 1: says his grandmother, Oh and her mother and her grandfather.
Speaker 1: This fool is no joke, like he's straight slam fools.
Speaker 1: So yeah, he's very powerful, so we need to understand that.
Speaker 1: And he is, uh, he was a that's why when
Speaker 1: you see what he ordered with all the first born,
Speaker 1: you see what's going on anybody that's trying to get
Speaker 1: in the way of his reign, he wants to kill them.
Speaker 1: And also, the devil has been trying to kill the
Speaker 1: line of the Messiah ever since canaan Abel. Once he
Speaker 1: found out in Genesis three seventeen that her seed is
Speaker 1: gonna bruise his heel. Right, he is our sorry Bruce's
Speaker 1: head that he was gonna bruise her seed's heel, and
Speaker 1: then he was gonna bruise his head, right, give him
Speaker 1: a mortal headwind. He was automatically the devil was like
Speaker 1: that was like started the cosmic chess match. So you
Speaker 1: see that in Egypt all the firstborn. You see in
Speaker 1: Genesis six where they had you know, the angels came
Speaker 1: down had sex with women and they ended up having nepheline. Right,
Speaker 1: that's the DNA getting corrupted. He wanted to corrupt the
Speaker 1: DNA so that when you know, when Jesus was was born,
Speaker 1: he would have that DNA that corrupt the DNA. You
Speaker 1: see that. You know, Egypt kill all the firstborn, right,
Speaker 1: so we see that happening. So it's kind of a
Speaker 1: it's kind of interesting, you know, to see the chess
Speaker 1: match that the devil tries to have with God. Obviously,
Speaker 1: God is all powerful, all knowing, omni president, knows the
Speaker 1: future of the past. But the devil always tries to
Speaker 1: do what he can. He tries his best, right, he
Speaker 1: tries his best, but he can't succeed. But this is
Speaker 1: another one of his tactics to try to take out
Speaker 1: the king of kings, the lord of lords, the king
Speaker 1: of the Jews, Jesus, the Christ, the Messiah. You'll show
Speaker 1: with him is Hiach, It says, so they said to
Speaker 1: him in Bethlehem with Judea. For thus is written by
Speaker 1: the prophet. But you, Bethlehem and the land of Judah,
Speaker 1: are not the least among the rulers of Judah. For
Speaker 1: out of you shall come a ruler who will shepherd
Speaker 1: my people Israel. Then Herod, when he had secretly called
Speaker 1: the wise men, determined from them what time the star appeared,
Speaker 1: and he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, go and
Speaker 1: search carefully for the young child, and when you found him.
Speaker 1: When you have found him, bring backward to me that
Speaker 1: I may come and worship him. Also, obviously you know
Speaker 1: that this is a trick. He ain't trying to worship Jesus.
Speaker 1: He's trying to kill him because he knows that he
Speaker 1: could take his throne. When they heard the king, they departed,
Speaker 1: and behold the star, which had seen in the east,
Speaker 1: went before them till it came and stood over the
Speaker 1: young child where the where the young child was. When
Speaker 1: they saw the star, they rejoored with exceedingly joy. So
Speaker 1: this is a star, right.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: This is why when I talk to you guys about
Speaker 1: biblical cosmology, there's biblical proof that stars can be angels
Speaker 1: and planets what you call planets, they're actually called wandering
Speaker 1: stars in the Greek and in the Book of Jude
Speaker 1: it talks about them getting judged in eternal darkness forever.
Speaker 1: The wandering stars are the ones that are doing different
Speaker 1: rotations than the stars. The other stars are doing the
Speaker 1: same rotation, the wandering stars are doing different rotations. That's
Speaker 1: why they're called wandering stars. And right here you see
Speaker 1: a star. Uh, that is being used supernaturally, or I
Speaker 1: would say an angel is what there is what's being
Speaker 1: used here. That's why you know when there's motion that
Speaker 1: when there's motion, what does that When something's in motion,
Speaker 1: that means life. So that's what they believed back then.
Speaker 1: I you know they believe that stars were angels. You
Speaker 1: could you could tell when they talk when they talk
Speaker 1: man in the writing. So I'm not telling you one
Speaker 1: hundred percent that stars are angels. I'm not a thousand times.
Speaker 1: I'm not a thousand percent yet. But in biblical cosmology,
Speaker 1: I do believe that stars are angels. So at this point,
Speaker 1: but I mean, I'm not one hundred percent convinced yet
Speaker 1: because i still have to do more studies. But I'm
Speaker 1: just letting you know this is obviously an angel because
Speaker 1: it stops and they you know, like it's doing certain
Speaker 1: things supernaturally. Right. It says when they saw the star,
Speaker 1: they rejoiced with exceedingly great joy. And when they had
Speaker 1: come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary,
Speaker 1: his mother, and fell down and worshiped him. And when
Speaker 1: they had opened their treasures, they presented gifts to him gold, frankinsense,
Speaker 1: and murder. So go old is something that they only
Speaker 1: brought to kings. Uh. You know, back when King Solomon
Speaker 1: was ruling, there was so much gold that silver started
Speaker 1: becoming worthless because there was so much gold. So gold
Speaker 1: is something they're going to bring to King. Frankinsense is
Speaker 1: like It's like something that would spray in the hallways
Speaker 1: of of of royal, you know, royalty, and you would
Speaker 1: it would make that the hallways smell good, you know.
Speaker 1: So we have that. And then Murr is like a
Speaker 1: bitter herb or something, you know, like a bitter herb. Right,
Speaker 1: So I think that's you know, gold is is something
Speaker 1: you know, they bring to royalty. Frankn sense is something
Speaker 1: to bring to royalty. Murr is like bitter. So I
Speaker 1: think that's something that, uh, some people interpret as as
Speaker 1: because Jesus is gonna have to go through some horrendous things,
Speaker 1: So that could be why that is brought. That's what
Speaker 1: some people believe bitterness. Yeah, He's gonna have to go
Speaker 1: through a lot. Then being divinely warned in a dream
Speaker 1: that they should not return to Herod. They departed from
Speaker 1: their own country another way, so they knew that if
Speaker 1: they go back to Herod. They were obviously divinely told
Speaker 1: in a dream God or you know, an angel came
Speaker 1: to them in a dream. Because it says divinely warned.
Speaker 1: Divine means God warned them or you know, divinely warned.
Speaker 1: Maybe God send an angel to warn them that they
Speaker 1: should not return to Herod. So they departed for their
Speaker 1: own country and went another way. So see if I
Speaker 1: have any notes on that. Yeah, so now this is
Speaker 1: the flight into Egypt. Now, when they had departed, behold
Speaker 1: an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, arise,
Speaker 1: take the young child and his mother. Flee to Egypt
Speaker 1: and stay there until I bring you word, for Herod
Speaker 1: will seek the young child to destroy him. When he arose,
Speaker 1: he took the young child and his mother by night
Speaker 1: and departed for Egypt and was there until the death
Speaker 1: of Herod that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken
Speaker 1: by the Lord through the prophet, saying, out of Egypt,
Speaker 1: I called my son. That prophet was Hoseiah, Okay, and
Speaker 1: it was eleven to one, and it says when Israel
Speaker 1: was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt
Speaker 1: I called my son. So that's what that is. And
Speaker 1: it's pretty interesting because Matthew he does this kind of
Speaker 1: a few times where he now this was talking about
Speaker 1: Israel or Jacob was a child, or when Israel was
Speaker 1: a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I
Speaker 1: called my son. Well, he's actually connecting this to Jesus
Speaker 1: and saying, out of Egypt, I called my son. So
Speaker 1: he does that a few times, where when you read
Speaker 1: it in the Old Testament you might not have connected that,
Speaker 1: but Matthew was connecting it. So obviously it's important. This
Speaker 1: is Holy Spirit brief, right, So I think that's that's
Speaker 1: super interesting. So that is why he said I loved him,
Speaker 1: and out of Egypt that called my son, and that
Speaker 1: in that verse massacre of the Innocence. Then Herod, when
Speaker 1: he saw that he was deceived by the wise men,
Speaker 1: was exceedingly angry, and he set forth and put to
Speaker 1: death all the male children who were in Bethlehem and
Speaker 1: in all his districts from two years old and under,
Speaker 1: according to the time which he had determined from the
Speaker 1: wise men. One thing I wanted to bring up. I
Speaker 1: was in the United States Army before, and I couldn't
Speaker 1: imagine the soldiers that were under King Herod, especially having
Speaker 1: to go in and and do this, you know, having
Speaker 1: to go in and kill all the children that were
Speaker 1: two years in under that's that is that would be
Speaker 1: so terrible for you know, as a soldier being told
Speaker 1: to have to do that. I couldn't imagine being and
Speaker 1: the these uh were you know, being underhard. Obviously he was.
Speaker 1: He was crazy ruler. And it is uh. Some of
Speaker 1: the people might have had to serve too. I don't
Speaker 1: know how it worked back then, but man, imagine getting
Speaker 1: those orders. He'd be scary. So it says, uh, two
Speaker 1: years old and under to the time he had determined
Speaker 1: from the wise men, then was fulfilled. That was spoken
Speaker 1: by Jeremiah, the prophet saying a voice was heard in
Speaker 1: Ramah lamentation weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children,
Speaker 1: refusing to be comforted because they are no more. This
Speaker 1: is another time that Matthew does that. You know, this
Speaker 1: is Rachel, Jacob's wife weeping for her children, refusing to
Speaker 1: be comforted because they are no more. This is this
Speaker 1: is when you know Rachel was weeping, right, But he's
Speaker 1: connecting this to you know, fulfilling with the prophet spoken.
Speaker 1: You know, Jeremiah has spoken, so I think that's interesting
Speaker 1: that he connects that as well. The home of Nazareth.
Speaker 1: So one thing about Nazareth, it's like when somebody calls
Speaker 1: somebody a Nazarene. It's it's like saying it's kind of
Speaker 1: like a derogatory term. It's like the same thing when
Speaker 1: Paul was was around somebody calling someone, you know, a Corinthian, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, a Nazarene. It's like there was nothing good
Speaker 1: to come out of Nazarene. That's what's said in in
Speaker 1: a little bit later. So it's like he came from
Speaker 1: a place where, you know, Jesus came from a place,
Speaker 1: you know, where there wasn't a whole bunch of good
Speaker 1: people or things coming out of there that were rich
Speaker 1: and and royalty, and you know, he's just it's just
Speaker 1: a normal place, you know, but there was a lot
Speaker 1: of evil there. So I think that's that's interesting that
Speaker 1: that uh he you know, just a common person. Is
Speaker 1: how Jesus came. Now, when Herod was dead, beholding Angel
Speaker 1: of the Lord, appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying, arise,
Speaker 1: take the young child and his mother and go to
Speaker 1: the land of Israel, for those who sought the young
Speaker 1: child's life are dead. And then he arose, took the
Speaker 1: young child and his mother and came into the land
Speaker 1: of Israel. And when he heard that Achilles was reigning
Speaker 1: over Judea instead of his father Herod, he was afraid
Speaker 1: to go there, and being warned by God in a dream,
Speaker 1: he turned aside into the region of Galilee, and he
Speaker 1: came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth. And it
Speaker 1: might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, he
Speaker 1: shall be called a Nazarene, a riot. So now we
Speaker 1: have Matthew three. So now we're in Matthew three to one,
Speaker 1: kind of moving right along pretty quick here, and now
Speaker 1: we're going to kind of get into John the Baptists. Okay,
Speaker 1: so that's that's going to be Matthew verse one, and
Speaker 1: it says in those days, John the Baptist came preaching
Speaker 1: in the wilderness of Judaea and saying, repent for the
Speaker 1: Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. For this is he
Speaker 1: who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, saying the
Speaker 1: voice of the wilderness, the voice of the one crying
Speaker 1: in the wilderness. Prepare the way of the Lord, make
Speaker 1: his pass straight. So I think it's interesting that that
Speaker 1: John the Baptist, his preaching or his teaching was just
Speaker 1: repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. He
Speaker 1: just wanted you to repent for your sins. That was
Speaker 1: what his baptism was about repenting for your sins, right,
Speaker 1: So sactification is what it was about. And I want
Speaker 1: to kind of go over something too. I think i'll
Speaker 1: go over it after we get to John's baptism. Part
Speaker 1: says now, John himself was clothed in camel's hair, with
Speaker 1: a leather belt around his waist, and his food was
Speaker 1: locust and wild honey. Then Jerusalem, all today and all
Speaker 1: the region around the Jordan went out to him and
Speaker 1: were baptized by him, and the Jordan confessing their sins.
Speaker 1: So a fulfillment of John's baptism prophecy of the baptism
Speaker 1: of the Holy Spirit is in Acts two, verses two
Speaker 1: through four. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven
Speaker 1: as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the
Speaker 1: whole house where they were sitting. Then there appeared to
Speaker 1: them divided tongues as of fire, and one sat upon
Speaker 1: each of them, and they were all filled with the
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues as
Speaker 1: the Spirit gave them uttering. So we'll read about that
Speaker 1: right now. It says, But when he saw many of
Speaker 1: the pharisees and saddesties come into his baptism. He said
Speaker 1: to them broad of vipers, who warned you to flee
Speaker 1: from the wrath, to come, therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance.
Speaker 1: And do not think to say to yourself, we have
Speaker 1: Abraham as our father. For I say to you that
Speaker 1: God is able to raise up children to Abraham for
Speaker 1: those for these stones. And even now the axe is
Speaker 1: laid to the root of the trees. Therefore every tree
Speaker 1: which is not fair good fruit is cut down and
Speaker 1: thrown into the fire. Indeed, I indeed baptize you with
Speaker 1: water unto repentance. But he who is coming after me
Speaker 1: is mightier than I, who sandals I am not worthy
Speaker 1: to carry. He will baptize you with his Holy Spirit
Speaker 1: and fire. His whino wing fan is in his hand,
Speaker 1: and he will thoroughly clean out his threshing threshing floor
Speaker 1: and gather his wheat into the barn, and he will
Speaker 1: burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. So as you
Speaker 1: see in Acts two two through four, that is what
Speaker 1: that is the prophecy of the baptismal Holy Spirit fulfilled.
Speaker 1: And that's you know, the Holy Spirit began to speak
Speaker 1: in tongues, you know, coming over them so also so
Speaker 1: he will baptize us, you know, us believers, you know,
Speaker 1: by the Holy Spirit and fire. Right, but also he
Speaker 1: will burn the chaff with unquenchable fire. So he's talking
Speaker 1: about non believers will also be burned through the fire
Speaker 1: with unquenchable fire. Now what does that mean? Now understand something.
Speaker 1: When Jesus in Luke sixteen, Jesus is talking about the
Speaker 1: rich man and Lazareth the poor man, and he's talking
Speaker 1: about Abraham's bosom, which is in the earth. One side
Speaker 1: is paradise and the other side is sheal, and Paradise
Speaker 1: is on one side, and then there's like a chasm
Speaker 1: in between them that you cannot get over to. And
Speaker 1: the rich man ends up on one side, which is
Speaker 1: like sheel or hell, where there's unquenchable fire, unquenchable thirst.
Speaker 1: He's able to speak, he's able to hear. He said,
Speaker 1: you know, he's got the five senses. While he's still
Speaker 1: in hell and Lazareuth and Abraham are on one side,
Speaker 1: and he says, Father Abraham, will you please have Lazarus
Speaker 1: come and put a drip of water on my tongue.
Speaker 1: He says, you know, we can't go through this chasm.
Speaker 1: We can't get over there. You know this is impossible.
Speaker 1: Father Abraham, will you please go tell my five brothers
Speaker 1: about this. I don't want I don't want anybody to
Speaker 1: come down here. I'm just paraphrasing, right. I don't want
Speaker 1: them to come down here. He says. They have the
Speaker 1: prophets up there already. And even if someone did come
Speaker 1: back from the dead, like Jesus did, he rose from
Speaker 1: the dead, you know that's a prophecy right there, they
Speaker 1: still would not believe you. See. So I think it's
Speaker 1: fascinating when you think about this part. The non believers
Speaker 1: will burn up in the up the chaff with unquitchable fire.
Speaker 1: So now we have John baptizes Jesus. Then Jesus came
Speaker 1: from Galilee to John at the Jordan to be baptized
Speaker 1: by him, and John tried to prevent him, saying, I
Speaker 1: need to be baptized by you, and you are coming
Speaker 1: to me. So John is saying, I'd rather be baptized
Speaker 1: by you. I can't even lace up your sandals, is
Speaker 1: what he says, you know in an earlier verse. But
Speaker 1: Jesus answered and said to permit it to be so now,
Speaker 1: for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.
Speaker 1: Then he allowed him. When he had been baptized, Jesus
Speaker 1: came up immediately from the water, and behold, the heavens
Speaker 1: were open to him. And he saw the Spirit of
Speaker 1: God descending like a dove, and a lightning upon him.
Speaker 1: And suddenly a voice came from heaven saying, this is
Speaker 1: my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased. So
Speaker 1: God's throne is above the firmament. He's looking down on
Speaker 1: his son, He's looking down on everyone like grasshoppers. His
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit descended like a dove. So now you see
Speaker 1: one body is up here where God's stone is located.
Speaker 1: Excuse me. Another person is coming down, which is the
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, and then Jesus is the third person. So
Speaker 1: you literally have the trinity right here. I know some
Speaker 1: people don't believe in the trinity. Some people believe in oneness,
Speaker 1: some people believe in unitarian it's all it's okay, it's
Speaker 1: all good. I ain't trying to debate people on that,
Speaker 1: saying this is what I see right here. You could
Speaker 1: say that this is a oneness verse. You could say
Speaker 1: that this is a Unitarian verse. Whatever you want to say.
Speaker 1: I believe I see a trinitarian in this verse, because
Speaker 1: God the Father is in heaven speaking saying, this is
Speaker 1: my son, why I'm well please. The Holy Spirit is
Speaker 1: descending like a dove, so it's actually moving, and it
Speaker 1: suddenly came from heaven saying this my yeah, and it's
Speaker 1: descending like a dove, and a lightning upon him, right,
Speaker 1: so the Holy Spirit upon him. So one thing I
Speaker 1: think is interesting is that John's baptism was a was
Speaker 1: a baptism of repentance, where people confess, confess their sins. Well,
Speaker 1: if you go into one Peter two twenty one through
Speaker 1: twenty five, it is for to this you were called.
Speaker 1: Because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example
Speaker 1: that you should follow his steps. Who committed no sin,
Speaker 1: nor was deceit found in his mouth, Who when he
Speaker 1: was reviled, did not revile and return, when he suffered,
Speaker 1: he did not threaten. So all I want to tell
Speaker 1: you right there, the most important part is who committed
Speaker 1: no sin? So Peter is saying that Christ committed no sin,
Speaker 1: there was no deceit found in his mouth. The Bible
Speaker 1: says that Jesus was sinless in several passages, as well,
Speaker 1: including Hebrews seven twenty six. Jesus was holy, harmless, undefiled,
Speaker 1: and separate from sinners. Separate from sinners means holy right
Speaker 1: Tewod Corinthians five twenty one. Paul says that Jesus knew
Speaker 1: no sin one Peter two twenty two. I already went
Speaker 1: over that one first. John three five. John says that
Speaker 1: Jesus appeared in order to take away the sins and
Speaker 1: him there was no sin. Hebrews four fifteen, the author
Speaker 1: of Hebrews, says that Jesus was tempted in every way
Speaker 1: like humans, but without sin one Peter one nineteen. Peter
Speaker 1: says that Jesus's blood was like that of a lamb,
Speaker 1: without a blemish or spot. Jesus had to be the
Speaker 1: perfect lamb. Okay, I need liquid on that throat. My
Speaker 1: throat is hurtain. So what was Jesus doing if he
Speaker 1: didn't have to confess his sins to me? I'm not
Speaker 1: saying that I'm a theologian and I know him right here.
Speaker 1: This is what I believe that Jesus. I believe that
Speaker 1: Jesus was. I believe that Jesus was kind of giving
Speaker 1: us a blueprint on a blueprint on what he wants
Speaker 1: us to do, you know, And Jesus was also he
Speaker 1: was a man. You know, he is God, but he
Speaker 1: was a man, right and the people that saw him
Speaker 1: getting baptized probably didn't even know, you know, they might
Speaker 1: not they didn't even know that Jesus was who he
Speaker 1: was gonna be. This is when he before he started
Speaker 1: his ministry, right so, I think he was just trying
Speaker 1: to give us a blueprint on what he wants us
Speaker 1: to do. And I think that he did this for
Speaker 1: us to know what we need to do, right So,
Speaker 1: I think that's why he did this. I think that's uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I think that's that's I believe that's what
Speaker 1: he was doing. He didn't need to repent for his sins,
Speaker 1: that's for sure, right So, and that whole thing right
Speaker 1: there is just a beautiful vision of God. Now, if
Speaker 1: God was trillions upon trains upon trillions of miles away,
Speaker 1: like the heliocentric models trying to say, then that would
Speaker 1: probably be hard for you to hear his voice. But
Speaker 1: it sounds like God is close above the fermament, looking
Speaker 1: down on us, saying, this is my son, who I
Speaker 1: am well pleased. Whether you believe in a globe, or
Speaker 1: you believe in h you know, or a flat earth,
Speaker 1: biblical cosmology, you know, just think about it. God is
Speaker 1: obviously close, right, He's not far away, He's not trains
Speaker 1: upon trains of miles away. He's obviously close right. So
Speaker 1: he's his thrown is above the firmament. That's what the
Speaker 1: Bible talks about. That's what it says. Now we're gonna
Speaker 1: get into Matthew four, verse one, and this is gonna
Speaker 1: be satan when he tempts Jesus. Okay, then Jesus was
Speaker 1: led up by the spirit into the wilderness to be
Speaker 1: tempted by the devil. And when he had fasted forty
Speaker 1: days and forty nights afterward, he was hungry. Now, when
Speaker 1: the tempter came to him, he said, if you are
Speaker 1: the son of God, commanded these stones to become bred,
Speaker 1: the tempter being the enemy, right, the adversary, right, So
Speaker 1: the devil. So one thing I want to point out
Speaker 1: here is he fasted for forty days and forty nights.
Speaker 1: Some of us it's hard to I mean including myself.
Speaker 1: I mean, I left weights. I'm always a very active person,
Speaker 1: and it's very hard for me to fast for forty
Speaker 1: eight hours, much less forty days. So Jesus was just
Speaker 1: on another level same thing as Moses. Moses fastest for
Speaker 1: forty days as well. That must have been crazy. He
Speaker 1: was probably starving. And you see that the tempter came
Speaker 1: to him and said, if you are the son of God.
Speaker 1: And this part that says if you are the son
Speaker 1: of God, if you look at it in the Greek,
Speaker 1: that actually means since you are the son of God. Right,
Speaker 1: so they said, if you are the son of God,
Speaker 1: as if it's a question, but really means, since you
Speaker 1: are the son of God, command these stones to become bred.
Speaker 1: And what does Jesus do? But he answered and said,
Speaker 1: it is written man should not live by bread alone,
Speaker 1: but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
Speaker 1: So what do we see here? You see that he's
Speaker 1: being tempted by the devil, and we see that Jesus
Speaker 1: is using the word of God against him as his
Speaker 1: spiritual sword, double ed sword. That's what the word of
Speaker 1: God is supposed to be used for the devil tempts.
Speaker 1: You use the word of God against him. And you
Speaker 1: see that Jesus has given us a prime example of
Speaker 1: how to deal with spiritual warfare, and what does he get?
Speaker 1: What is he asking him command? With your command these
Speaker 1: stones to become bred. Right those stones are probably looking
Speaker 1: like a loaf of bread right now because he is starving,
Speaker 1: you know, so you can tell man like man, the
Speaker 1: devil waits until you are tired, till you are hungry,
Speaker 1: till you are angry, till you are at your last
Speaker 1: bit for him to come and tempt you. And everybody
Speaker 1: has these hot buttons that Satan knows to try to
Speaker 1: attempt you with. You know, he's not going to attempt
Speaker 1: to tempt you with something that he knows that you're
Speaker 1: not going to be tempted by. He's gonna tempt you
Speaker 1: with something that he knows he can get you with.
Speaker 1: So you've got to make sure that you start building
Speaker 1: your spiritual armor. You need that shield of faith. You
Speaker 1: need to build that shield as big as you can
Speaker 1: get it. And you know how you build faith. Faith
Speaker 1: cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God.
Speaker 1: That's how you build faith. Faith cometh by hearing and
Speaker 1: hearing by the word of God. So the more you
Speaker 1: listen to this podcast, the more faith you're going to
Speaker 1: be built. Because I'm going to be reading the Word
Speaker 1: of God to you, not saying that it's coming from me.
Speaker 1: It's coming from God, and it's coming from the Word.
Speaker 1: But this is how you build faith by hearing the
Speaker 1: word of God. So your faith is your shield, right,
Speaker 1: you need to have that shield. The word of God
Speaker 1: is your sword. That's your offensive weapon. You have a
Speaker 1: breastplate of righteousness, helmet of salvation, a belt of truth.
Speaker 1: And you also have your sandals of the you know,
Speaker 1: the gospel, Gospel sandals right walking with the Gospel. So
Speaker 1: this is really important that you understand that this is
Speaker 1: Jesus showing you what he does in spiritual war, fear,
Speaker 1: even at his weakest point, you know. So then the devil.
Speaker 1: Then the devil took him up to the Holy City,
Speaker 1: set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said
Speaker 1: to him, if you are the son of God, throw
Speaker 1: yourself down, for it is written. Like I said in
Speaker 1: the Greek, I mean, since you are the son of God,
Speaker 1: throw yourself down, for it is written. He shall give
Speaker 1: his angels charge over you. Whoa Now we have Satan
Speaker 1: using scripture against Jesus, and I think that's in the
Speaker 1: book of Psalms and in their hands they shall bear
Speaker 1: you up lest you dash your foot against a stone.
Speaker 1: Jesus said to him, it is written again, you shall
Speaker 1: not tempt the Lord your God. So he is using
Speaker 1: the word of God against the devil, and the devil
Speaker 1: is trying to use scripture to influence his mind. Like wow,
Speaker 1: Now you know, even though somebody tries to come up
Speaker 1: to you and starts using scripture, they're not always on
Speaker 1: the up and up. So make sure that you test
Speaker 1: the spirit. That's why Paul says that. So some people
Speaker 1: can come out to you and spit all these different
Speaker 1: Bible verses from you, but then there might be I'm
Speaker 1: no offense to Mormons. I'm not trying to, but let's
Speaker 1: say they're Mormons and they know Bible verses and they
Speaker 1: try to suck you in and then boom, they start
Speaker 1: ending with the Book of Mormon. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So just letting you know that Satan can come like
Speaker 1: an angel of light and start giving you Bible verses,
Speaker 1: but you could actually be temp be tempted by the
Speaker 1: devil at that point. So Jesus said to him, it
Speaker 1: is written, you shall not tempt the Lord your God.
Speaker 1: Right And then here's the other part, which is fascinating
Speaker 1: as well. Again, the devil took him up to an
Speaker 1: exceedingly high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of
Speaker 1: the world and their glory, and he said to him,
Speaker 1: all these things I will give you if you fall
Speaker 1: down and worship me. So now he gets to the
Speaker 1: point of what he really wants. He really wants that worship.
Speaker 1: And as you could see, it's all about that pride.
Speaker 1: You know, he wants that worship. And you see that
Speaker 1: he also how could it even be a temptation if
Speaker 1: these kingdoms were not his? See back when Eve and Adam,
Speaker 1: Adam and Eve sinned, there was a grant deed of
Speaker 1: the earth that Adam had, and when he sinned, he
Speaker 1: handed that grant deed to Satan. So Satan started ruling
Speaker 1: over these kingdoms of the world and their glory. He
Speaker 1: was trying to show Jesus like, hey, these are my kingdoms,
Speaker 1: and you don't have to go to the cross. I
Speaker 1: will let you bypass the cross, and I will give
Speaker 1: you all these kingdoms without you having to do that.
Speaker 1: But what happened then Jesus said to him, away with you, Satan,
Speaker 1: for it is written you shall worship the Lord your God,
Speaker 1: and him only you shall serve. So understand, guys. First
Speaker 1: of all, I think it's fascinating that the kingdoms are
Speaker 1: Satan's right. You see that the world is Satan's kingdoms. Right.
Speaker 1: He is the prince of the air. And for him
Speaker 1: to give him this temptation, he had to have had
Speaker 1: these kingdoms. They had to have been his right. You
Speaker 1: can see that. So now then Jesus said to him,
Speaker 1: away from you, Satan is written, you shall worship the
Speaker 1: Lord your God, and him only you shall serve, once again,
Speaker 1: hitting him with scripture three temptations, lust of the flesh,
Speaker 1: lust of the eyes, and pride. That's the three right,
Speaker 1: so you have and the devil left him, and behold,
Speaker 1: the angels came and ministered to him. So Jesus was
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously, he was exhausted, he was hungry, he
Speaker 1: was in a very terrible spot. And the angels knew
Speaker 1: they had to sit back and wait and let this
Speaker 1: temptation happen. Right, And then the angels came and ministered
Speaker 1: to him and probably brought up his spirit and helped him.
Speaker 1: And it's and in that instant, but you see that
Speaker 1: God Uh. You know, Jesus was tempted, just like we are,
Speaker 1: and he didn't give in. And what did he do.
Speaker 1: He used the word of God against him. Resist the
Speaker 1: devil and he shall flee. That's James what five to seven?
Speaker 1: I think? Excuse me, I believe that's Uh. Resist the
Speaker 1: devil and he will flee. James four to seven. Submit
Speaker 1: yourselves to God. Resist the devil and he will flee.
Speaker 1: Jesus was resisting him, and he will flee. Even though
Speaker 1: Jesus was at his first point, it was hungry, he
Speaker 1: was probably thirsty, he was exhausted. Satan came and tempted him,
Speaker 1: and Jesus prevailed. He resisted the devil, and the devil
Speaker 1: left him. You see that, That's all it takes. And
Speaker 1: we need to understand that, and we need to have
Speaker 1: a game plan set up when the devil's gonna tempt you,
Speaker 1: and understand that. If you have a problem with alcohol,
Speaker 1: stay out of the bars, stay away from the family barbecues,
Speaker 1: stay away from anywhere that's gonna have alcohol around for
Speaker 1: a while until you get straight with the Lord. I'm
Speaker 1: just letting you know. If you have a problem with pornography,
Speaker 1: stay off of Instagram and stay off of TikTok, and
Speaker 1: stay off of certain things that are gonna gonna try
Speaker 1: to tempt you because there's an algorithm and you've probably
Speaker 1: click certain things. So what happens is it brings it
Speaker 1: up and it causes you to go step and then
Speaker 1: another step, and then you're looking up butts and then
Speaker 1: you're looking up porn. Let's say, if you have a
Speaker 1: drug addiction, you need to erase all the phone numbers
Speaker 1: of all of your hookups for whatever drug that you're into.
Speaker 1: Erase them, change your phone number, stay out of the
Speaker 1: area that that person is. There's gonna be things that
Speaker 1: that tempt you. Triggers is what they're called. And the
Speaker 1: triggers are you going through your contacts and seeing that
Speaker 1: name of that person that you call for those drugs.
Speaker 1: That's a trigger. There's certain things that are gonna are
Speaker 1: gonna happen. The devil, he knows it. Now. If you
Speaker 1: have an opportunity, which is very hard when people are
Speaker 1: addicted to drugs, to leave that area and move, that
Speaker 1: is probably the best thing for you. Move, change your
Speaker 1: phone number and just get away. If you have a
Speaker 1: problem with women, right some kind of addiction to sex
Speaker 1: or something or adultery or all that you need to
Speaker 1: you know, you need to resist the devil. He will flee. Joseph,
Speaker 1: what did he do? The woman came on to him
Speaker 1: and he ran, He fleed, he took off. You got
Speaker 1: to run. I'm just kind of giving you guys. You
Speaker 1: guys understanding that you got to have a game plan.
Speaker 1: If you have some type of thing that the devil
Speaker 1: knows is your temptation, you need to have a game
Speaker 1: plan beforehand. You know, when you go into a baseball game,
Speaker 1: a football game, you go into any type of sports,
Speaker 1: what happens the coach he has a master plan for
Speaker 1: that game. And sometimes that plan doesn't work. And that's
Speaker 1: not going to work for the devil every time. But
Speaker 1: you need to have a plan when something pops up
Speaker 1: that that triggers you. You need to know that you
Speaker 1: need to resist. In Jesus's name, I rebuke this whatever
Speaker 1: it is, you know, I rebuke this pornography. I rebuke
Speaker 1: this devil worship. I rebuke this sorcery. I rebuke this witchcraft.
Speaker 1: I rebuke this in Yasue of the Mischiak's name, you know,
Speaker 1: you've got to have some kind of plan, and you
Speaker 1: got to have versus prepared for when you go through
Speaker 1: those temptations. In Ephesians six, verse twelve. I'll go over
Speaker 1: that really quick my memory. I know's we wrestle not
Speaker 1: against flesh and blood, but principalities of evil. Let's look
Speaker 1: that up real quick, because since we're kind of in
Speaker 1: the spiritual warfare thing. Finally, my brethren, be strong in
Speaker 1: the Lord and in the power of His might, put
Speaker 1: on the whole armor of God, that you may be
Speaker 1: able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For
Speaker 1: we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but principalities,
Speaker 1: against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness
Speaker 1: of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in heavenly places,
Speaker 1: in the King and says high places. Therefore, take up
Speaker 1: the whole armor of God, that you be may be
Speaker 1: able to withstand in the evil day. And having done
Speaker 1: all to stand so I already went over the exact
Speaker 1: you know what. The armor is, girded with your waste
Speaker 1: of truth, having put the breastplate of righteousness, having shot
Speaker 1: your feet with the preparation of the Gospel of peace,
Speaker 1: above all, taking the shield of faith with you, which
Speaker 1: you will be able to quench all the fiery darts
Speaker 1: of the wicked one. And take the helmet of salvation
Speaker 1: to protect your brain. Protect your dome is from metal
Speaker 1: podcasts as protect your dome. And the sword of the Spirit,
Speaker 1: which is in the Word of God, which is the
Speaker 1: Word of God. Praying always with all prayer and supplication
Speaker 1: in the spirit, being watchful to this end, with all
Speaker 1: perseverance of supplication for all the saints and for me,
Speaker 1: the utterance may be given to me that I may
Speaker 1: open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of
Speaker 1: the Gospel for which I am an ambassador in chains
Speaker 1: that in it I will speak boldly as I ought
Speaker 1: to speak. So understand that prayer, praying in the spirit.
Speaker 1: Prayer is also our offensive weapon, and the Word of
Speaker 1: God is the sword that's our offensive weapon. Faith the
Speaker 1: shield is our defensive weapon. And all this other armor
Speaker 1: that you can put on, which I already went over.
Speaker 1: So understand that spiritual battles are real. There's I mean,
Speaker 1: people keep thinking about the physical so much. I have bills,
Speaker 1: I have this, I have that, I have this, I
Speaker 1: have that. Well, Jesus is telling you right here with
Speaker 1: these temptations, especially the bread like, man should not live
Speaker 1: on bread and lode, but word of God, like, do
Speaker 1: you understand what he's saying. He's saying that bread. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's important to feed your body, but the most important
Speaker 1: thing is the spiritual, not the physical. And that's what
Speaker 1: he's reminding the death. I'm not, hey, you know what,
Speaker 1: The physical is not important to me. The Word of
Speaker 1: God is the spiritual. That's what he's telling the devil
Speaker 1: right here, that's what he comes with. That's why he says,
Speaker 1: man shall not live by bread alone, but by every
Speaker 1: word that proceeds from the mouth of God. Showing you
Speaker 1: that the physical man shall not live by bread alone
Speaker 1: is not as important as the spiritual. That's why God,
Speaker 1: that's why he says that. And then you shall not
Speaker 1: tempt the Lord your God is what the other one is.
Speaker 1: And then away from you, away with you, Satan, for
Speaker 1: it is written you shall worship the Lord your God,
Speaker 1: and him only you shall serve. Later on, I'll show
Speaker 1: you that it says you can only worship one master,
Speaker 1: one master. That's it. You can either worship God or
Speaker 1: the God of manner, or the God of money or
Speaker 1: I would say that is Satan. Right, So you can
Speaker 1: either worship even if you you might not even know it.
Speaker 1: You might not even know it, but you are not
Speaker 1: worshiping God, then you are worshiping or the God of Mana. Right,
Speaker 1: So let's continue here. So yeah, that's kind of just
Speaker 1: to prepare you guys for battle spiritual warfare. I just
Speaker 1: want to make sure that you guys are aware of
Speaker 1: that and understand. You know, there's a man so much
Speaker 1: out there. It's so easy right now to get caught
Speaker 1: up in spiritual warfare and so easy to get caught
Speaker 1: up and you know these types of vices. Because the
Speaker 1: phone is right here in your hand, you can easily
Speaker 1: google whatever you want, you know what I mean. So
Speaker 1: there is a lot of spiritual warfare happening from the
Speaker 1: devil in certain ways, and I just want you guys
Speaker 1: to be prepared for the battle. This is the type
Speaker 1: of stuff that we need to get into. That's why
Speaker 1: the Old Testament is good to get into, and the
Speaker 1: New Testament is getting into. So you know about spiritual
Speaker 1: warfare and the battles and the demons and stuff like
Speaker 1: that that Jesus is casting out. So and the devil
Speaker 1: knew that he was the son of God. Okay, that's
Speaker 1: why he says, since you're the son of God in
Speaker 1: the Greek right, So all right, so let's uh check out.
Speaker 1: This is gonna be Matthew four. We're going to be
Speaker 1: at verse twelve. Now, when Jesus heard that John had
Speaker 1: been put in prison, he departed to Galilee, and leaving Nazareth,
Speaker 1: he came and dwelt in Capernium, which is by the sea,
Speaker 1: and the reigns of Zebylon and Naphtali, that it might
Speaker 1: be fulfilled, which was spoken by Isaiah the Prophet, saying,
Speaker 1: the land of Zebelon and the land of Nephtali, by
Speaker 1: the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan Galilee of
Speaker 1: the Gentiles. The people who sat in darkness have seen
Speaker 1: a great light, and upon those who sat in the
Speaker 1: region and shadow of death, light has dawned. Excuse me.
Speaker 1: And from that time Jesus spoke, began to preach and
Speaker 1: say repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.
Speaker 1: Four fishermen called as disciples, and Jesus walked. Jesus walked,
Speaker 1: this is a on call. Give me one. Sorry about that.
Speaker 1: Yep I had to take a quick on call phone call.
Speaker 1: I will. I am going to get back to the word. Yep,
Speaker 1: here we go. So yeah, for Wednesday service. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be recording on Sunday night, which I am on call
Speaker 1: from my work. So apologize I got that call. But anyways,
Speaker 1: no worries. Four fishermen called this Disciples and Jesus. Walking
Speaker 1: by the sea of Galley, saw two brothers, Simon called
Speaker 1: Peter and Andrewa's brother, casting a net into the sea,
Speaker 1: for they were fishermen. Then he said to them, follow me,
Speaker 1: and I will make you fishers of men. Then immediately
Speaker 1: they immediately left their nets and followed him. Going on
Speaker 1: from there, he saw two brothers, James, the son of Zebedee,
Speaker 1: and John, his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father,
Speaker 1: mending their nets. He called them and immediately left the
Speaker 1: boat and their father and followed him. So follow me,
Speaker 1: and I will make you fishers of men. He wants
Speaker 1: you to fish for men to save souls. He wants
Speaker 1: you to assist God in helping God save souls. Jesus
Speaker 1: heals a great multitude. And Jesus went about all Galilee,
Speaker 1: teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom
Speaker 1: and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of
Speaker 1: disease among the people. Then his fame went throughout all Syria,
Speaker 1: and they brought to him all sick people who were
Speaker 1: afflicted with various diseases and torments, and those who were
Speaker 1: demon possessed, epileptics and paralytics, and he healed them. Great
Speaker 1: multitudes followed him from Galilee and from the Apocalypse Jerusalem,
Speaker 1: Judea and beyond the Jordan. So he was teaching in
Speaker 1: the synagogues. He was preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom
Speaker 1: and healing all kinds of sickness, right, So he was
Speaker 1: healing all types of diseases. So I think it's kind
Speaker 1: of interesting that if you look what Elon Musk is
Speaker 1: trying to do with his excuse me, his brain implant.
Speaker 1: I don't know why it's slipping my mind right now,
Speaker 1: but what is it called? Oh, my goodness, Lelon Musk.
Speaker 2: H.
Speaker 1: Eurolink, thank you, jeez. My mind is yeah. I worked
Speaker 1: all day to day, so man, I'm tired today. I
Speaker 1: had a lot going on, but it's all good. And
Speaker 1: I got little cold going so my mind is a
Speaker 1: little rusty. But anyways, so the neuralink, right, So, I
Speaker 1: think it's fascinating that he is trying to create the
Speaker 1: neuralink to do what to heal the blind, heal the death,
Speaker 1: and he's trying to also help paraplegic people. He's trying
Speaker 1: to make it so that they can walk again. It's
Speaker 1: almost like he's trying to mock Jesus and the healing
Speaker 1: that Jesus did. And I think the neuralink, I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to get off subject here, off topic. I'm just
Speaker 1: trying to let you know that it's fascinating that he
Speaker 1: his neuralink, is trying to do that. But yeah, we'll
Speaker 1: get back to the word. But I just think it's fascinating.
Speaker 1: Now it says various diseases and torments and those who
Speaker 1: were demon possessed. So I think some people some of
Speaker 1: these diseases were caused by people being demon possessed, some
Speaker 1: of them, not all of them, some of them, right.
Speaker 1: So I think that, uh, that's something that people need
Speaker 1: to understand nowadays because a lot of doctors and psychologists.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you ask the psychologist how many people
Speaker 1: have you healed in your life? Psychologists would probably tell
Speaker 1: you a zero. They're they're not healing people. Psychologists. They're
Speaker 1: just there to give you medicine to make you feel better,
Speaker 1: and that's it. They're not healing anybody. Because I think
Speaker 1: a lot of them maybe could some of them might
Speaker 1: might have a demon. I see people walking around town
Speaker 1: in rialto you know, when I when I'm you know,
Speaker 1: I used to do valves and I would I would
Speaker 1: just I would just meet people that walk around and
Speaker 1: they would be I could tell that they have some
Speaker 1: I mean, I would just feel this presence about them
Speaker 1: and they wouldn't want to speak to me. They would
Speaker 1: just walk by, you know, just they were they were homeless.
Speaker 1: But hey, I pray for them. And I'm not saying
Speaker 1: all homeless people or abdemons. I'm just saying that some
Speaker 1: of them I felt this that they might have something
Speaker 1: like that, you know. So all right, So we're at
Speaker 1: Matthew five now, and this is the beatitudes and seeing
Speaker 1: the multitudes. He went up on a mountain, and when
Speaker 1: he was seated, his disciples came to him. Then he
Speaker 1: opened his mouth and taught them, saying, Blessed are the
Speaker 1: poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom, and for
Speaker 1: Theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn,
Speaker 1: for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for
Speaker 1: they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger
Speaker 1: and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled. Blessed
Speaker 1: are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are
Speaker 1: the peer and heart, for they shall see God. Blessed
Speaker 1: are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
Speaker 1: Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness, for theirs
Speaker 1: is the kingdom of heaven. So blessed are you when
Speaker 1: you revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of
Speaker 1: evil against you falsely for my sake, Rejoice and be
Speaker 1: exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. Or
Speaker 1: they persecuted the prophets who were before you, so you
Speaker 1: see that you were gonna be You know, some people
Speaker 1: believe that when you get saved, that everything's easy from there.
Speaker 1: You know, your life is gonna be blessed. You're gonna
Speaker 1: be profiting, You're gonna have money, You're gonna have, oh,
Speaker 1: everything that you thought you were gonna have. But when
Speaker 1: you get saved, that's when the battle first begins and
Speaker 1: you know you will definitely be persecuted. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: a Christian, I'm a Christian rapper. I don't run a
Speaker 1: rap anymore because this podcast takes up so much of
Speaker 1: my time. But I have definitely been persecuted, you know
Speaker 1: when when you I've debated people that were atheists and
Speaker 1: in their comments section, I'm being persecuted. So being a Christian,
Speaker 1: that's when the battle begins as soon as you get saved,
Speaker 1: because you think the devil is like cool, you're saved,
Speaker 1: Now have a good day. I'm going to go onto
Speaker 1: the non saved and try to you know, even though
Speaker 1: those people that aren't saved, that are atheists that don't
Speaker 1: care about God, the devil doesn't. He already did his job.
Speaker 1: He's like, cool, have a good day. You know, you're
Speaker 1: already not believing in God. You're already going to hell
Speaker 1: at this point. So I'm going to go and try
Speaker 1: to get the people that are saved. He would like
Speaker 1: you to stumble. He wants to make you stumble, and
Speaker 1: he wants you to make you sin. You see. So
Speaker 1: so man, Jesus is just just just powerful words that
Speaker 1: he's speaking here. You know you are the salt of
Speaker 1: the earth. But if the salt loses his flavor, or
Speaker 1: how shall it be seasoned, it is then good for
Speaker 1: nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.
Speaker 1: You are the light of the world. A city that
Speaker 1: is set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do
Speaker 1: they light a lamp and put it under a basket.
Speaker 1: But on a lampstand it gives light to all those
Speaker 1: who are in the house. Let your light so shine
Speaker 1: before men, that you shall see your good works and
Speaker 1: glorify your Father in heaven. We need to be the
Speaker 1: salt of the earth, a man, and the light of
Speaker 1: the world. Okay, So christ fulfills the law. So do
Speaker 1: not think that I came to destroy the law or
Speaker 1: the prophets. I do not come to destroy, but to fulfill.
Speaker 1: For assuredly I say to you, till heaven and earth
Speaker 1: pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no
Speaker 1: means pass from the law till it is fulfilled. Who
Speaker 1: whoever therefore breaks one of the less least of these
Speaker 1: commandments and teaches men soul shall be called least in
Speaker 1: the Kingdom of Heaven. But whoever does and teaches them,
Speaker 1: he shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.
Speaker 1: For I say to you that unless your righteousness succeeds
Speaker 1: the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not,
Speaker 1: by no means enter the Kingdom of Heaven. So if
Speaker 1: you break one of these commandments, it's like breaking them all.
Speaker 1: And that's what it says, and James actually says that
Speaker 1: as well. So we need to understand that. So that's
Speaker 1: why we need Jesus, because we cannot we cannot hold
Speaker 1: to the laws, we cannot hold to the commandments, the
Speaker 1: Ten Commandments. We need Jesus, right, that's why he is
Speaker 1: here to fulfill the law. Now, does that mean that
Speaker 1: it's okay for us to just go and sin? And
Speaker 1: you know, we're say by grace through faith, not by words, right,
Speaker 1: So no manchill boasts, right, For is the gift of God,
Speaker 1: not of yourself, So that no man that shall boast.
Speaker 1: Yes Ephesians two eight. Of course we're saved by grace
Speaker 1: through faith, But that doesn't mean that we have a
Speaker 1: past to go and sin and do whatever we want.
Speaker 1: We still need to make sure that we're following the commandments.
Speaker 1: And we're discipling for Jesus, right, We're discipling for God.
Speaker 1: And yeah, we need to make sure we're doing that
Speaker 1: and that's that is important, you know, as a disciple.
Speaker 1: So yeah, anyways, we are saved by grace through faith.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we're saved by by faith in Jesus. But
Speaker 1: we also need to understand that we need to have obedience, right,
Speaker 1: we need to have obedience. We need to pray for obedience.
Speaker 1: So all right, so murder begins in the heart, excuse me.
Speaker 1: So something we need to understand is like when you
Speaker 1: covet your neighbor, right, when you covet your neighbor's stuff, like,
Speaker 1: you shall not covet your neighbor's you know, cars, women, wife,
Speaker 1: I mean, or whatever. You know, that's a thought. So
Speaker 1: that thought is a sin. So this is kind of
Speaker 1: what Jesus is gonna point towards here. He says, you
Speaker 1: have heard that it was said to those of old
Speaker 1: you shall not murder, and whoever murders will be in
Speaker 1: danger of the judgment. But I say to you that
Speaker 1: whoever is angry with his brother without a cause, excuse me,
Speaker 1: without a cause, shall be in danger of the judgment.
Speaker 1: And whoever says to his brother raca shall be in
Speaker 1: danger of the council. But whoever says you fool shall
Speaker 1: be in danger of hell fire. Therefore, if you bring
Speaker 1: your gift to the altar and there remember that your
Speaker 1: brother was something against you, your brother has something against you.
Speaker 1: Leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way.
Speaker 1: First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and
Speaker 1: offer you your gift. Agree with your adversary quickly while
Speaker 1: you are on the way with him, lest your adversary
Speaker 1: deliver you to the judge. The judge hand you over
Speaker 1: to the officer, and you shall be thrown into prison. Surely,
Speaker 1: I say to you, you will by no means get
Speaker 1: out of there till you have paid the last penny.
Speaker 1: So you need to understand that we need to not
Speaker 1: have ah. We need to make sure that we reconcile
Speaker 1: with our brothers and sisters, and we make sure that
Speaker 1: we we we don't make adversaries, we don't make enemies,
Speaker 1: you know. And and if you're trying to uh talk
Speaker 1: bad or slander somebody, it's the you know. It's basically
Speaker 1: it says you fool, you shall be in danger of
Speaker 1: health fires, So we got to make sure that we
Speaker 1: be careful of that. Right. We don't need to be
Speaker 1: angry with our brothers and sisters. We don't need to
Speaker 1: be angry at people. We need to forgive. Right, It's
Speaker 1: it's something that that man, it's like it's I know
Speaker 1: it's hard for some people to understand, but you know,
Speaker 1: you might have family members that did something to you,
Speaker 1: or you might have a brother or sister in Christ
Speaker 1: that did something to you where you don't want to forgive,
Speaker 1: but you don't want to hold that poison. That's what
Speaker 1: it is when you when you unforgive, you know it's poison.
Speaker 1: So murder begins in the heart, and then our next
Speaker 1: one we're gonna go over. Matthew five twenty seven is
Speaker 1: adultery in the heart. You have heard that it is
Speaker 1: said to those of old you shall not commit adultery.
Speaker 1: But I say to you that whoever looks at a
Speaker 1: woman to less what there has already committed adultery with
Speaker 1: her in his heart. If your right eye causes you
Speaker 1: des sind, pluck it out and cast it from you,
Speaker 1: For it is more profitable for you that one of
Speaker 1: your members parish than for your whole body to be
Speaker 1: cast into hell. And if your right hand causes you descind,
Speaker 1: cut it off, cast it from you, for it is
Speaker 1: more profitable for one of the members of Paris than
Speaker 1: for your whole body to be cast into hell. So
Speaker 1: he is saying that if you think about committing adultry,
Speaker 1: then you already have committed adultery. This is another thought sin.
Speaker 1: So that is why pornography is so dangerous to Christians,
Speaker 1: because you are not only are you covening somebody's wife,
Speaker 1: because some of those women are married, but you're also
Speaker 1: thinking of committing adultery with this person in the act
Speaker 1: of you know, masturbation, you know, so understand that it
Speaker 1: is so if your right eye causes you to sin,
Speaker 1: So like, if your cell phone castes you to sin,
Speaker 1: then toss it out. You're better off going to heaven
Speaker 1: by yourself than bringing your cell phone with you, you know,
Speaker 1: or or you know whatever. That's kind of like the
Speaker 1: thing here, like what is causing you to sin, Pluck
Speaker 1: it out and cast it from you, you know, So
Speaker 1: whatever it is, you know, but that's why. And then
Speaker 1: also the people that are actually doing that type of thing,
Speaker 1: you know, pornography, they're also causing their Christian brothers to stumble,
Speaker 1: so they are in sin totally as well, you know. So,
Speaker 1: so that's what's interesting is Jesus is saying that if
Speaker 1: you think it, then you've already committed it. So Jesus
Speaker 1: is like, that's why we need Jesus so bad, because man,
Speaker 1: there's so many people that you know, they walk by
Speaker 1: a woman and they look at her one look, hey,
Speaker 1: that's okay. But when you look back again and then
Speaker 1: you start having this lust in your mind that is
Speaker 1: lusting after a woman, then that is Jesus is saying,
Speaker 1: then that is committing adultery. So this is serious stuff.
Speaker 1: Marriage is sacred and binding. Furthermore, it has been said,
Speaker 1: whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate
Speaker 1: of divorce. But I say to you that whoever divorces
Speaker 1: his wife for any reason except sexual immorality causes her
Speaker 1: to commit adultery. Whoever marries a woman who is divorced
Speaker 1: commits adultery. How many people are getting divorced nowadays in America? Jeez,
Speaker 1: I think it's like fifty percent of marriages don't last.
Speaker 1: So marriage is sacred and it is binding. You're making
Speaker 1: it covenant with God. So this is so important, you know.
Speaker 1: So Jesus is saying that whoever divorces his wife for
Speaker 1: any reason, accept sexual immorality. So if if the woman
Speaker 1: or the man is doing sexual immorality, and then you know,
Speaker 1: then basically he is saying for any reason except that.
Speaker 1: So if you have a woman that doesn't like to
Speaker 1: clean and cook, you can't divorce her for that. Okay,
Speaker 1: if she is a her personality is like, well, she's
Speaker 1: you know, she talks a lot of mess to you,
Speaker 1: you know, puts you down. He's saying that that's not
Speaker 1: you know, you should have never gotten into that binding,
Speaker 1: sacred marriage in the first place. It's still binding. As
Speaker 1: long as she's not doing sexual morality, then you can't
Speaker 1: just divorce her. But you see that people are divorcing
Speaker 1: people left and right as if the marriage is not
Speaker 1: sacred and it's not binding. And as you see, the
Speaker 1: devil is trying to make marriage less and less sacred.
Speaker 1: He is trying to open it up for trans LBGT,
Speaker 1: gaze all this other stuff. Right, So obviously you know,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying biblically that's not correct. Secular that's different.
Speaker 1: But biblically. I'm gonna tell you I have to be honest.
Speaker 1: It's not correct for that to happen. Marriage is sacred
Speaker 1: and it's binding between a man and a woman. Just
Speaker 1: letting you know, right, we already know that, So you
Speaker 1: guys don't need to beat a dead horse. So all right,
Speaker 1: So Jesus forbids oaths again. You have heard it was
Speaker 1: said to you of old, you shall not falsely, but
Speaker 1: shall perform your oaths to the Lord. But I say
Speaker 1: to you, do not swear at all, neither by Heaven,
Speaker 1: for it is God's throne, nor by earth, for it
Speaker 1: is his footstool, nor by Jerusalem, for it is the
Speaker 1: city of the Great King. Nor should you swear your
Speaker 1: hand your head, because you cannot make your hair white
Speaker 1: or black. But you're yes, be yes. But let your
Speaker 1: yes be yes, and you're no no. For whatever is
Speaker 1: more than these is from the evil One. So this
Speaker 1: is why I try to tell people not to get
Speaker 1: into secret societies and not to do because they're swearing oaths.
Speaker 1: Don't put your hand on the Bible and swear an oath.
Speaker 1: Don't do that because you know you cannot keep these oaths.
Speaker 1: You could try to make an oath and you could
Speaker 1: die tomorrow and you can't fulfill that oath. It's like
Speaker 1: let your yeses be yes and your nose be no.
Speaker 1: That's it. So when they try to have you in
Speaker 1: court and they're like, put your hand on the Bible,
Speaker 1: say I you know, I don't swear by anything. I'll
Speaker 1: let my yeses be yes, my nose be no. That's
Speaker 1: what Jesus says. He forbids you to do oaths. That's
Speaker 1: why in Freemasonry and these secret societies, for you to
Speaker 1: enter you have to do an oath. When you go
Speaker 1: into the Skull and Bones, you have to do rituals.
Speaker 1: To end up getting into these these secret societies, it
Speaker 1: is because you are swearing falsely and performing oaths not
Speaker 1: to the Lord, but you're performing oaths to who. Well,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what it is to Satan, bro to
Speaker 1: the devil. That's who it is to you know, the
Speaker 1: the god of this world, uh, you know is not.
Speaker 1: That's that's why when you see the Great Argue, we
Speaker 1: already know when you get into when you start studying
Speaker 1: freemasonry and all these secret societies, you know who the
Speaker 1: architect of you know, their their their little g God,
Speaker 1: I would say, is, and it's not. You know that,
Speaker 1: it's not God of the Bible, right, it's Lucifer, right,
Speaker 1: that is the light bearer that they are worshiping. So
Speaker 1: that's why I tell people not to swear oaths. Not
Speaker 1: to you know, you can't do that. You know you
Speaker 1: can't get into that. And I am guilty myself. I
Speaker 1: swore an oath to the United States Military. This is
Speaker 1: me not even thinking about it. I just raised my
Speaker 1: right hand and I and I did an oath, you know.
Speaker 1: And also like there's little weird little things that happened
Speaker 1: in the military when you get through boot camp and
Speaker 1: you once you get done with boot camp in your
Speaker 1: in your you know, basically you do your last twelve
Speaker 1: mile rock march, you are you get putting this little
Speaker 1: weird I would say, like a ritual to earn your bereat.
Speaker 1: There's little things in the military that are like that.
Speaker 1: It's it's really strange that I noticed Jesus forbids oaths.
Speaker 1: Remember that Christians remember that this one says, go the
Speaker 1: second mile. That's the title you have heard. It is
Speaker 1: said an eye for an eye and a tooth for
Speaker 1: a tooth. But I tell you not to resist an
Speaker 1: but I tell you not to resist an evil person.
Speaker 1: But whoever slaps you on the right cheek, turn the
Speaker 1: other to him. Also, if anyone wants to sue you
Speaker 1: and take away your tunic, let him have your cloak also.
Speaker 1: And whoever compels you to go one mile, go with
Speaker 1: him too. Give him who asks you, and from who
Speaker 1: wants to borrow from you, do not turn away. So
Speaker 1: Jesus is so graceful and so amazing. This is a
Speaker 1: blueprint for how we should live. If everybody on earth
Speaker 1: lived like Jesus lived, then there would there would be
Speaker 1: no chaos, there would be no war. Everything would be
Speaker 1: copoesthetic and would be amazing and would be beautiful, and
Speaker 1: we would be taking care of one another. We wouldn't
Speaker 1: be having people with snakes trying to stab people on
Speaker 1: the back, trying to have people to borrow money on interest,
Speaker 1: and wars and pestilence and all this different stuff that happens.
Speaker 1: Like you see how Jesus is such a beautiful, graceful person.
Speaker 1: He wants you to be a certain way to one another.
Speaker 1: That you see that we have lost that, I mean,
Speaker 1: we have lost that totally. You go to this if
Speaker 1: you go to a gas station right now, and I
Speaker 1: always do this, I'm like, hey, how you doing today,
Speaker 1: you know, or just be nice to people. How's it
Speaker 1: going man? You know, and they're they're like surprised, like whoa,
Speaker 1: who's this person? We're supposed to be like that. We're
Speaker 1: supposed to be the salt of this world, the light
Speaker 1: of this world. How are you going to be that
Speaker 1: by sitting there just being all mad all day? Now?
Speaker 1: You need to be you know, happy, uplifting and talking
Speaker 1: to people. But I just want to let you guys
Speaker 1: know he is Jesus is so graceful and beautiful, the
Speaker 1: way his personality was so beautiful. Love your enemies. You
Speaker 1: have heard it. It was said you shall love your
Speaker 1: neighbor and hate your enemy. But I say to you,
Speaker 1: love your enemies, Bless those who curse you, Do good
Speaker 1: to those who hate you, and pray for those who
Speaker 1: spitefully use you and persecute you, that you you may
Speaker 1: be sons of your Father in heaven. For he makes
Speaker 1: his son rise on the evil and on good, and
Speaker 1: sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For
Speaker 1: if you love those who love you, what reward have
Speaker 1: you do not. Even the tax collectors do the same.
Speaker 1: And if you greet your brethren only, what do you
Speaker 1: do more than others? Do not even the tax collectors do.
Speaker 1: So therefore you shall be perfect, just as the Father
Speaker 1: in Heaven is perfect. So interesting that Jesus uses the
Speaker 1: tax collector thing. And this is in the Book of Matthew,
Speaker 1: because Matthew was a tax collector. Right, excuse me, So
Speaker 1: love your enemies. You shall love your neighbor and hate
Speaker 1: your enemy. No, see that Jesus says. No, you shall
Speaker 1: love your enemies, Bless those who curse you, do good
Speaker 1: to those who hate you, and pray for those who
Speaker 1: spitefully use you and persecute you. So, if somebody is
Speaker 1: persecuting you, somebody hates you. Somebody can't stand the fact
Speaker 1: you're Christian. Someone can't stand the fact that you got
Speaker 1: that promotion. Someone can't stand the fact that you know
Speaker 1: you have a whatever, you need to pray for them
Speaker 1: if you have an enemy, but you shouldn't. You gotta
Speaker 1: let it go. You gotta let it go, You gotta forgive,
Speaker 1: you gotta love you know it's it's it's it's hard
Speaker 1: for people to do this, I know, But it's like
Speaker 1: love those who love you. Yeah, that's you know, that's easy.
Speaker 1: That's what Jesus is saying here. Yeah, oh, you love
Speaker 1: those who love you. Anybody does that, Even the Pagans
Speaker 1: do that. Even the devil worshipers love their mom. Their
Speaker 1: mom loves them. But love though. But see, it takes
Speaker 1: a different level of when you when you're loving your enemies,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, That's what Christians are supposed
Speaker 1: to do. We're supposed to love our enemies. We're supposed
Speaker 1: to pray for those who try to persecute you and
Speaker 1: use you. Right, and when somebody uses you, uh, it's
Speaker 1: it is a terrible feeling, but forgive and pray for them.
Speaker 1: If someone persecutes you, it's a terrible feeling. Someone starts
Speaker 1: putting you down, you know. You know, I have people
Speaker 1: in the comment section sometimes and they yeah, you're this,
Speaker 1: you're that, you're you know, you're whatever. And sometimes it's
Speaker 1: it's hard not to get involved in that that, you know,
Speaker 1: that back and forth. But I try to be graceful
Speaker 1: with them, and and you know, I think it's it's
Speaker 1: it's very important, you know. And obviously I'm guilty of
Speaker 1: this too, and we all are, but just we need
Speaker 1: to try to. Jesus is given us a blueprint of
Speaker 1: exactly how we should be. And I will tell you
Speaker 1: that your reward is way greater when you were, when
Speaker 1: you were nice to people. When you treat people with
Speaker 1: respect and you treat people with love, your reward like
Speaker 1: your your your gratification inside, besides your you know, you're
Speaker 1: heavenly reward that God will give you. I'm just saying
Speaker 1: that you feel so much better as a person than
Speaker 1: if you got one over on somebody out of spite,
Speaker 1: or if you use somebody or you persecuted somebody. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: that person is that I got over on him. Ah Oh,
Speaker 1: you think that that's good. But you know that's that's
Speaker 1: that's vinegar, that's that's that's that's poison. That's that you're
Speaker 1: you're trying to loathe. Then you know, all right, we're
Speaker 1: in Matthew six. Now this is Matthew six to one.
Speaker 1: Do good to please God. Take heed that you do
Speaker 1: not do your charitable deeds before men to be seen
Speaker 1: by them. Otherwise you have no reward from the Father
Speaker 1: in heaven. Therefore, when you do a charitable deed, do
Speaker 1: not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do
Speaker 1: in the synagogues and in the streets. That they may
Speaker 1: have glory from men, surely I say to you that
Speaker 1: they have their reward. But when you do a charitable deed,
Speaker 1: do not let your left hand know what your right
Speaker 1: hand is doing. That your charitable deed maybe in secret,
Speaker 1: and your father, who sees in secret, will him self
Speaker 1: reward you openly, so you understand that. You know, they
Speaker 1: got these philanthropists that go on stage and say I
Speaker 1: donated forty million dollars to the homeless, and everybody cheers.
Speaker 1: That cheer, right there is your reward. But when you
Speaker 1: do it in secret, you know, you don't let your
Speaker 1: left hand know what your right hand is doing. And
Speaker 1: it's hard. You know. One thing that's hard for me
Speaker 1: is like my wife, you know, like am I supposed
Speaker 1: to let my wife know I if I give somebody
Speaker 1: some money because the money is ours, right, it's not
Speaker 1: just mine. Like that's kind of the hard part for me.
Speaker 1: Like when I do certain things, you know, I'm trying
Speaker 1: to keep it a secret, you know, but it's like
Speaker 1: are you supposed to not? Yeah, it says right there,
Speaker 1: do not let your left know what your hand is doing.
Speaker 1: So you are doing charitable things, keep it in secret,
Speaker 1: so your father, who sees it and seeking himself, will
Speaker 1: reward you openly. So that's how you get your reward.
Speaker 1: If you're trying to get glory from men, that'll be
Speaker 1: your reward, your physical reward here. But if you are
Speaker 1: trying to do it for God and you don't care
Speaker 1: about glory for men, that's when you get rewarded from
Speaker 1: heaven and from the Father who sees it and seeking himself,
Speaker 1: will reward you openly. So you just do what you do,
Speaker 1: slide through, you know, do what you do. You know,
Speaker 1: like be charitable, do your deed to the homeless or
Speaker 1: whatever you do, and then you just keep going, keep
Speaker 1: it moving, do it, keep it moving, and then God
Speaker 1: will see that and he will reward you openly. You
Speaker 1: don't do it to get the reward though, that's not
Speaker 1: what you're doing it for. And you don't do it
Speaker 1: to get men's gratification. That's not why you do it.
Speaker 1: Oh today, dude, I'll give you like fifteen bucks to
Speaker 1: this home this guy. Oh man, that's so awesome. Bro,
Speaker 1: you're so great. Oh yeah, I know. See that's not
Speaker 1: what you do, it's all glory to God, and you
Speaker 1: try to not let people know what you're doing it.
Speaker 1: So it's definitely understandable and it's great. But all right,
Speaker 1: the model rare. And when you pray, you should not
Speaker 1: be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing
Speaker 1: in the synagogues and on the corners on the streets,
Speaker 1: and they may have seen that they may be seen
Speaker 1: by men. Assuredly, I say to you that they have
Speaker 1: their reward. But you, when you pray, go into your room,
Speaker 1: when you have shut your door, pray to your father,
Speaker 1: who is is in this secret place. And your father,
Speaker 1: who sees in secret, will reward you openly. And when
Speaker 1: you pray, do not use vain repetition as the heathens do,
Speaker 1: for they think they have what they heard for their
Speaker 1: many words. Therefore, do not be like them. For your
Speaker 1: father knows the things you need. You have need before
Speaker 1: you ask him in this matter, before you pray, so
Speaker 1: before we get into the Lord's prayer. So it's what's
Speaker 1: in your heart. Right. So if you were, if you're
Speaker 1: praying on the corner for people to be seen, then
Speaker 1: and you want people to think that you're holy by
Speaker 1: doing those prayers, then then that's obviously bad, you know,
Speaker 1: like it's it's then you get your reward right there.
Speaker 1: But if you go and you pray in secret, you like,
Speaker 1: you don't want to pray to God just for people
Speaker 1: to see you so that people think you're holy. That
Speaker 1: that's not the way it works. You know, you want
Speaker 1: to pray to God. You want to have a relationship
Speaker 1: with God, not a religion, but a relationship. Right, So
Speaker 1: you want to be praying to God in secret. You
Speaker 1: want to be praying to God, and you don't want
Speaker 1: to be doing vain repetitions that the heathn't like. You
Speaker 1: don't want to keep saying the same prayer all the time,
Speaker 1: you know, repeating it, repeating it, repeating. I do see
Speaker 1: some churches that do that, and you know, I do
Speaker 1: see some people that do that, and I think it's
Speaker 1: it's not good. You want to talk to God and
Speaker 1: be precise, and you want to speak to God, I
Speaker 1: think with obviously with respect. But it says for they
Speaker 1: think they may be heard for their many words. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so yeah, and you know what, I do pray at
Speaker 1: the end of this podcast, but I'm not praying to
Speaker 1: be holy. I'm just praying to you know, close up
Speaker 1: the show and to pray for you guys. That's really
Speaker 1: what I'm trying to do. So therefore, so it says, therefore,
Speaker 1: do not be like them, for your Father knows the
Speaker 1: things you need before you ask him in this manner. Therefore,
Speaker 1: pray so, Oh Father in heaven, hallowed be your name,
Speaker 1: hallowed being holy. That's what it means. Your kingdom Come,
Speaker 1: you will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Speaker 1: Give us this day our daily bread, forgive our debts,
Speaker 1: and forgive our debtors. And do not lead us into temptation,
Speaker 1: but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is
Speaker 1: the kingdom and the power and the glory forever a men.
Speaker 1: So yeah, Jesus is just telling us how we should pray.
Speaker 1: Holy be your name, right, your kingdom Come, you will
Speaker 1: be done on earth as it is in heaven. What
Speaker 1: I think is interesting is do not lead us into temptation,
Speaker 1: but deliver us from the evil one. Right, So you
Speaker 1: have to ask God not to deliver us into temptation, like,
Speaker 1: do not lead us into temptation. You know, God doesn't
Speaker 1: tempt us, He tests us. So you just want to
Speaker 1: ask him to not lead us into temptation. Like help
Speaker 1: me to not walk into temptation. Deliver me from evil.
Speaker 1: For if you forgive men their truspasses, your heavenly Father
Speaker 1: will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive
Speaker 1: men their truspassors, neither will your Father forgive your truspasses.
Speaker 1: So you can't sit here and ask for forgiveness for
Speaker 1: your sins. Please forgive me, Lord, forgive me, Lord, But
Speaker 1: you are not forgiving your fellow man, or your brother,
Speaker 1: or your sister, or your mom, or your wife or
Speaker 1: your kids. You know your children. You have to forgive
Speaker 1: men their truspasses like the Father will also forgive you.
Speaker 1: So don't expect God to forgive you when you can't
Speaker 1: even forgive your son, or can't even forgive your daughter,
Speaker 1: or can't even forgive your wife, or whatever it may be.
Speaker 1: Just Jesus is laying it down, you know, Jesus is
Speaker 1: laying it down right here. So fasting to be seen
Speaker 1: only by God. Moreover, when you fast, do not be
Speaker 1: like the hypocrites with a sad countenance, for they disfigure
Speaker 1: their faces and they may appear to be fasting. As
Speaker 1: surely I say to you that you that they have
Speaker 1: their reward, but you when you fast, annoint your head
Speaker 1: and wash your face so that you do not appear
Speaker 1: to men by fasting to be fasting, but to your
Speaker 1: father who is in the secret place, and your father,
Speaker 1: who sees in secret, will reward you open them. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I would have to admit that this is difficult because
Speaker 1: as soon as like for me, like when I'm sick,
Speaker 1: like I admitted to you guys, I'm sick right now,
Speaker 1: like you know, it's for me. It's like it's something
Speaker 1: that I don't know why, but it comes naturally from
Speaker 1: me to when I have some type of weakness going
Speaker 1: at that moment, for me to express it and to
Speaker 1: speak and say that I'm going through that. So for me,
Speaker 1: it's hard to do that. And I'm just gonna admit
Speaker 1: it straight out, and I know that it's wrong, you know.
Speaker 1: But if I was fasting, I know that I would
Speaker 1: probably for some reason want to speak out and say
Speaker 1: that I'm hungry, or maybe my personality would be different
Speaker 1: when I went to work, right, So then I would
Speaker 1: tell people, hey, I want to diet, so that they know,
Speaker 1: like this is why this guy's not active. The same
Speaker 1: you know, I feel like I have to announce it,
Speaker 1: but God is saying, do not do that. Do not
Speaker 1: do that. And it's something that for me is difficult,
Speaker 1: something I need to work on. I don't know about
Speaker 1: for you guys. But I wear my heart on my sleeve,
Speaker 1: so when something is wrong, I always want to express it,
Speaker 1: you know, and God is saying, don't do that. Keep
Speaker 1: it between you and God. The fasting, and you don't
Speaker 1: want to like brag the people that you're fasting, right,
Speaker 1: lay up treasures in heaven. Do not lay up for
Speaker 1: yourselves treasures on earth, or moth and rust destroy and
Speaker 1: where thieves break in and steal. But lay up yourself's
Speaker 1: treasures in heaven where neither moth nor rust destroys, where
Speaker 1: thieves do not break in and steal. For where your
Speaker 1: treasure is there, your heart will also be will be also.
Speaker 1: So you can't bring a hearse with you, or you
Speaker 1: can't bring a U haul with you into heaven. You know,
Speaker 1: when you die, you're not going to be trailing a
Speaker 1: U haul with all your stuff. And like, oo, I
Speaker 1: get to die with all my stuff. That's now what happens.
Speaker 1: I mean, you see it, Oh my gosh. Like I
Speaker 1: know family members that they work their whole entire lives
Speaker 1: and they bought a house and they have a life
Speaker 1: insurance and then you know, somebody passes away. You know
Speaker 1: that the person passes away, and then the wife gets
Speaker 1: all the stuff and in the house and they pay
Speaker 1: off the house and it's paid off. Now you know,
Speaker 1: you don't get to keep that stuff. You might think
Speaker 1: that the most important thing is what you own here
Speaker 1: on earth, but really it's not. You know, it's like
Speaker 1: your house, your children, your wife, your job, everything is important. Yeah,
Speaker 1: your bank account, Yeah that's it's important for the physical.
Speaker 1: But the number one thing is God. You know, your
Speaker 1: your relationship with God, your You're the kingdom of Heaven.
Speaker 1: That's the number one thing. It's not about the bills,
Speaker 1: the job, the wife, the kids. You need to put
Speaker 1: God first, Seek God first, and everything else will follow.
Speaker 1: You know, you gotta know that. It's it's telling you
Speaker 1: that everything you have on earth is gonna rust destroy,
Speaker 1: where thieves break in and steal. And then you know,
Speaker 1: another thing I think it's fascinating is one hundred years
Speaker 1: from now. Right now I'm forty one. One hundred years
Speaker 1: from now, someone else is going to be living in
Speaker 1: this house. Someone else is going to be enjoying this
Speaker 1: place that I live in now, because I will be
Speaker 1: gone unless the rapture happens or something like that, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. If the rapture is going to
Speaker 1: happen like that, unless Jesus comes back and to get
Speaker 1: called up to heaven, that's different. I mean, I still
Speaker 1: wouldn't be living in this house anyway. But yeah, just
Speaker 1: letting you know, one hundred years from now, I will
Speaker 1: be gone. We need to make do with the time
Speaker 1: that we have. And what do we make do? What
Speaker 1: do we need to do. We need to read the
Speaker 1: word of God, get close to God and make sure
Speaker 1: that the Kingdom of God is placed first. Now, obviously,
Speaker 1: to live this physical life, we need the other stuff.
Speaker 1: We need that job, we need the bank account, we
Speaker 1: need to pay bills, we need to do all that. Yes,
Speaker 1: but if we put God first and understand that everything
Speaker 1: we have, we give glory to the Father for everything
Speaker 1: we have, and every time we have something, whether it's
Speaker 1: a bill or it's money in the bank, we were
Speaker 1: thanking God like, thank you God. I appreciate this house.
Speaker 1: I appreciate this you know. So I just think that
Speaker 1: we need to understand that. Especially during that time, Jesus
Speaker 1: was asking these disciples to drop everything they had going
Speaker 1: and follow me. That's what he was saying. The lamp
Speaker 1: of the body, the lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore,
Speaker 1: your eye is good, your whole body will be full
Speaker 1: of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole
Speaker 1: body is full of darkness. If therefore the light that
Speaker 1: is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness?
Speaker 1: So it's like if you have a cup of water
Speaker 1: and you put a couple of drops of poison in it,
Speaker 1: it can kill you. Right. So even though this water
Speaker 1: is full and there's only a couple of drops of poison,
Speaker 1: that poison is still in the water. It becomes bad.
Speaker 1: So even a little bit of evil can make your
Speaker 1: whole body fill fill the darkness. So whatever you have
Speaker 1: that is causing that problem, like, find out what it is,
Speaker 1: make a game plan, and get rid of that evil.
Speaker 1: Whatever you got to do, you know, get rid of
Speaker 1: that evil. Make sure that you pray, make sure that
Speaker 1: you have a game plan for when that temptation comes.
Speaker 1: Here's the verse I was talking about earlier. No one
Speaker 1: can serve two masters. For either he will you will
Speaker 1: he will hate the one and love the other, or
Speaker 1: else he will be low to one and despise the other.
Speaker 1: You cannot serve God and Mammon. Right, you cannot serve
Speaker 1: God and Mammon. Mammon is money, the God of money.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be the devil Satan. Okay, So you can
Speaker 1: only serve one master, and God wants you to hate
Speaker 1: the other, right, he wants you to hate the other.
Speaker 1: He doesn't want you to. He wants you to love
Speaker 1: him and hate the other. So when sin comes about,
Speaker 1: he wants you to despise it and hate it. He
Speaker 1: doesn't want you to embrace it and love it. Because
Speaker 1: you can't serve God and serve sin at the same time. Okay,
Speaker 1: you can only serve God. So what happens when you
Speaker 1: sin and you love that sin, You separate yourself from
Speaker 1: God and you are serving Mammon, the devil. Right, That's
Speaker 1: what's happening. So we have to try to do our
Speaker 1: best to start being obedient, and then we will not
Speaker 1: be serving Mammon or the God of money or the devil.
Speaker 1: All right, we want to serve God. Do not worry. Therefore,
Speaker 1: I say to you. Do not worry about your life,
Speaker 1: what will you eat, or what you will drink, nor
Speaker 1: about your body what you will put on is not
Speaker 1: life more than food, and body more than clothing. Look
Speaker 1: at the birds of the air, for they neither sow,
Speaker 1: nor reap, nor gather into barns. Yet your heavenly Father
Speaker 1: feeds them. Are you not more value than they? Are
Speaker 1: you not of more value than they? Which of you
Speaker 1: by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? So
Speaker 1: the birds they ain't got they don't have a barn
Speaker 1: or where they're you know, taking all this food and
Speaker 1: placing it in a barn, and then you know, placing
Speaker 1: it taking all this more food and put it in
Speaker 1: a barn. No, they don't have that, So they're not
Speaker 1: gathering their food into barns. No, like we're we are
Speaker 1: more value than them. So we need to walk by faith,
Speaker 1: walk by faith. And all the worry that people have.
Speaker 1: It's it's like it's not going to add one cubit
Speaker 1: to your statue. It doesn't. It doesn't add a day
Speaker 1: for you. Right, life is but a mist right. So
Speaker 1: if you're worrying about something you can't change anyways, you
Speaker 1: need to stop doing that. You need to walk by faith.
Speaker 1: God will provide. God will provide. Now I would also
Speaker 1: say that you need to make sure that you're not
Speaker 1: just like I need a job, so I'm just going
Speaker 1: to sleep on the couch all day and then never
Speaker 1: you know, the job's not going to come to you.
Speaker 1: You need to make sure that you you know, you
Speaker 1: get up and you work for it. But do not worry.
Speaker 1: Says what you will eat or drink? Is talking about
Speaker 1: what's more important. Obviously the heavenly things are more important,
Speaker 1: and that God is going to feed you and God
Speaker 1: is going to take care of you. Right, So why
Speaker 1: do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field,
Speaker 1: how they grow. They neither toil nor spin. And yet
Speaker 1: I say to you that even Solomon, in his glory
Speaker 1: was not arrayed like one of these. Now, if God
Speaker 1: so close the grass of the field, which today is
Speaker 1: and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not
Speaker 1: much more clothe you or you of little faith? Therefore,
Speaker 1: do not worry saying what shall we eat, what shall
Speaker 1: we drink, or what shall we wear? For after all
Speaker 1: these things, the gentiles seek for your heavenly Father, knows
Speaker 1: that you need. That you need all these things, But
Speaker 1: seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and
Speaker 1: all these things shall be added to you. Therefore, not
Speaker 1: worry about tomorrow for tomorrow or worry about its own things. Sufficient,
Speaker 1: the day is its own trouble, so so do not
Speaker 1: worry about today, right, I mean, it's it's it's crazy
Speaker 1: because I know that people they worry about some things.
Speaker 1: It's called resilience. It's something that I learned in the
Speaker 1: United States Army to have resilience. Some people they have
Speaker 1: this little thing they're worrying about, and then it's snowballs
Speaker 1: and turns into this big thing, and then when actually
Speaker 1: the time comes when they have to deal with it,
Speaker 1: it actually is not even as big as they thought
Speaker 1: it was going to be. So they snowballed themselves, and
Speaker 1: they got their mind rushing and worrying and worrying and
Speaker 1: worrying about something when they when the thing that they
Speaker 1: actually had to get confronted with doesn't even end up
Speaker 1: being as big of a deal. Also, if something happened
Speaker 1: in the past, right, something happened to you in the past,
Speaker 1: there's no way you can go back and change the past.
Speaker 1: The only thing that you could change is the future. Right.
Speaker 1: The only thing that you could change is what happens
Speaker 1: to you in the future and how you handle stuff
Speaker 1: that's in the future. You can't change what happened in
Speaker 1: the past. Oh right, So you don't need to dwell
Speaker 1: on your whole life, you know, worrying or dwelling upon
Speaker 1: the past. What you need to do is because you
Speaker 1: can never change that. So if you can never change it,
Speaker 1: then why worry about it? So we need to make
Speaker 1: sure that we That is not the what this verse
Speaker 1: is talking about. But I'm just telling you that, Okay,
Speaker 1: But do not worry, right, It's not important the clothes,
Speaker 1: the food, the drink. What's more important is seeking first
Speaker 1: the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all the
Speaker 1: things will be added to you. Right. So therefore, do
Speaker 1: not worry about tomorrow. For tomorrow we'll worry about its own, right,
Speaker 1: So understand that. So that's Matthew six, and we are
Speaker 1: moving right along. I think we could probably get hold.
Speaker 1: I think I might have moved that a little bit over.
Speaker 1: Let me see how long seven is. Oh, we could
Speaker 1: do seven. Do not judge, judge, not that you be
Speaker 1: not judged for with what judgment you judge, you will
Speaker 1: be judged, and with the measure you use, it will
Speaker 1: be measured back to you. And why do you look
Speaker 1: at the speck in your brother's eye, but do not
Speaker 1: consider the plank in your own eye? Or how can
Speaker 1: you say to your brother, let me remove the speck
Speaker 1: in your eye, and look, a plank is in your
Speaker 1: own eye, hypocrite, First remove the plank from your own eye.
Speaker 1: Then you will see clearly to remove the speck from
Speaker 1: your brother's eye. Do not give what is holy to
Speaker 1: the dogs, nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they
Speaker 1: trample them under their feet and turn and tear you
Speaker 1: to pieces. So God is the only judge, right, So
Speaker 1: you need to make sure that you know the way
Speaker 1: you judge people is going to be measured to you. Right,
Speaker 1: It's going to be measured back to you, So God
Speaker 1: will judge you the same. So if you have something
Speaker 1: going on and you start judging somebody else, you need
Speaker 1: to take the plank out of your own eye before
Speaker 1: you try to take the speck out of your brother's eye. Right.
Speaker 1: So it's much better, it says hypocrite, like Jesus straight
Speaker 1: says you hypocrite, like you know, so we're over here
Speaker 1: trying to judge other people when we have this big
Speaker 1: old plank in our own eye. So yeah, we got
Speaker 1: to make sure that be expected to be judged by
Speaker 1: the way that a measured by the way that you
Speaker 1: are judging people. Scary, especially when he says hypocrite, Keep asking, seeking, knocking,
Speaker 1: Ask if it will be Ask and it will be
Speaker 1: given to you. Seek and you will find, Knock and
Speaker 1: it will be open to you. For everyone who asks receives,
Speaker 1: and he who seeks finds. To him who knocks, it
Speaker 1: will be open. Or what man is there among you
Speaker 1: who is his son asked for bread, will give him
Speaker 1: a stone, Or if he asks for a fish, he
Speaker 1: will give him a serpent. If, then, being evil, know
Speaker 1: how to give good gifts to your children, how much
Speaker 1: more will your father, who is in heaven give good
Speaker 1: things to those who ask him. Therefore, whatever you want
Speaker 1: men that to do, you do also to them, For
Speaker 1: this is the law of the prophets. For whatever you
Speaker 1: want men to do unto you, do also to them,
Speaker 1: for this is the law of the prophet So yeah,
Speaker 1: ask and you shall receive. Right Obviously, whatever is the
Speaker 1: will of God, you will receive, you know, I want
Speaker 1: to Mercedes Benz S five thousand, whatever an S six hundred,
Speaker 1: Mercedes tomorrow, I want it, Okay, Lord, thank you. No man,
Speaker 1: it's whatever God's will is, obviously, but it's saying he
Speaker 1: who asks it will be given to you. Seek and
Speaker 1: you shall find. So whatever God's will is, obviously, then
Speaker 1: that's what God will provide you, you know, And anything
Speaker 1: that you have give glory to the Father. Right, So
Speaker 1: that's that's what it's saying here. And uh, it's also
Speaker 1: saying that you know, if you ask your father for bread,
Speaker 1: would he give you a stone? It's like, dude, that's
Speaker 1: your earthly father. Can you imagine your heavenly father what
Speaker 1: he would do for you. He loves you more that
Speaker 1: a gope. Love is way more. So seek right, seek,
Speaker 1: knock the door shall be open. And yeah, when you knock,
Speaker 1: he'll kick the door open and he'll help you. The
Speaker 1: narrow way enter by the narrow gate. For wide is
Speaker 1: the gate, and broad is the way that leads to destruction,
Speaker 1: and there are many who go in by it, because
Speaker 1: narrow is the gate, and difficult is the way which
Speaker 1: leads to life. And there are a few who find it,
Speaker 1: So enter the narrow gate. For wide is the gate,
Speaker 1: and broad is the way that leads to destruction. So
Speaker 1: the so wide is the gate that leads to destruction.
Speaker 1: So that's where most people go. Narrow is the gate,
Speaker 1: and difficult is the way which leads to life. So
Speaker 1: it is difficult. It's a difficult path. What I told
Speaker 1: you is when you get saved, it's not easy. It's
Speaker 1: not prosper money, riches, fame. No, it is difficult because
Speaker 1: you are in a spiritual battle. You are fighting to
Speaker 1: be obedient, and your flesh wants you to do what
Speaker 1: it wants you to do, and your spirit wants you
Speaker 1: to follow God. So your flesh is like a pit
Speaker 1: bull sometimes and your spirit's like a little cocker spaniel.
Speaker 1: Your flesh is like no, no, no, no, no, you're
Speaker 1: not reading the Bible. You're not going to get up,
Speaker 1: you're not going to be disciplined, you're not going to
Speaker 1: be this. And your little spirit, because you never read
Speaker 1: the Bible, is just getting attacked by the flesh. You
Speaker 1: need to make that spirit the pit bull and your
Speaker 1: flesh the cocker spaniel. And the way you make that
Speaker 1: spirit the pit bull and the flesh the cocker spaniel
Speaker 1: is by reading the Word of God, studying the scriptures,
Speaker 1: by getting relationship with the Lord. Right, So that is
Speaker 1: how you do that. And you let that spirit be
Speaker 1: in control and walk in the spirit. We got one
Speaker 1: more verse right here before we end, and man, we
Speaker 1: are moving. Oh wait, sorry, a few more verses. You
Speaker 1: will know them by their fruits. Beware of false prophets
Speaker 1: who come to you in scheep's clothing, but inwardly they
Speaker 1: are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits.
Speaker 1: Do men gather grapes from thorn bristles thorn bushes, or
Speaker 1: figs from thistles? Even so, even a good tree bears
Speaker 1: good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A
Speaker 1: good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad
Speaker 1: tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear
Speaker 1: good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore,
Speaker 1: by their fruits you will know them. Yes, you gotta
Speaker 1: beware of false prophets. You will know them by their fruits.
Speaker 1: Like if they're trying to preach and they're trying to
Speaker 1: do certain things, Now, what's the fruit? Now what I
Speaker 1: would ask is like, what's the fruit of big bang.
Speaker 1: What's the fruit evolution? What's the fruit of you know, science,
Speaker 1: It's the fruit is atheism. It's like a separation of God.
Speaker 1: You see what I mean. That's just an example. Okay,
Speaker 1: So you know them by their fruits? So is it
Speaker 1: producing good fruit? Whatever you're doing, is your ministry producing
Speaker 1: good fruit? Like some people that listen to my show
Speaker 1: or you know, hopefully, like I know that good fruit
Speaker 1: is coming because you know what happens. To be honest,
Speaker 1: there's some people that come on my show for the
Speaker 1: first time and they end up becoming podcasters themselves. That's
Speaker 1: the fruit of podcasting, you know. And they end up
Speaker 1: doing a show themselves and they end up having a
Speaker 1: Christian show and conspiracy show or whatever they end up having.
Speaker 1: But I see that they're you know, they are still
Speaker 1: saved and they're still bringing people to the Lord. That
Speaker 1: is the fruit of some of the podcasting. Right. That's
Speaker 1: just an example. Know them by their fruits? Yes, very interesting.
Speaker 1: Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut
Speaker 1: down and thrown into the fire. Whoa man that is?
Speaker 1: That's a that's a very tough statement right there. By
Speaker 1: their fruits, you will know them. There's a podcast called
Speaker 1: by their fruits that I know. They're them, they're they're
Speaker 1: they're pretty awesome. I like them anyways, shout out to them.
Speaker 1: That was just a little plug. I never knew you.
Speaker 1: Not everyone who says to me, Lord Lord, shall enter
Speaker 1: the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will
Speaker 1: of my father in heaven but money. Many will say
Speaker 1: to me in that they, Lord Lord, have we not
Speaker 1: prophesized in your name, cast out demons in your name,
Speaker 1: and done many wonders in your name? And then I
Speaker 1: declared to them, I never knew you. Depart from me,
Speaker 1: you who practice lawlessness? Woo, that is, should send up
Speaker 1: and down your spine here in that. So what is
Speaker 1: there going to be? People that prophesies in Jesus's name?
Speaker 1: You shoe with the Machiak's name, cast out demons in
Speaker 1: Jesus's name, done wonders, signs in Jesus's name. But he
Speaker 1: will declare, I never knew you depart from me who
Speaker 1: practiced lawlessness. So if you are not obedient, and the
Speaker 1: way you love the Lord is by following his commandments,
Speaker 1: then you are practicing lawlessness. This says right here. Not
Speaker 1: everyone who says to me, Lord Lord, sa enter the
Speaker 1: Kingdom of heaven. But he who does the will of
Speaker 1: my Father in heaven. So we need to do God's will.
Speaker 1: That's why I've been telling you guys that we need
Speaker 1: to place the kingdom of Heaven first. We need to
Speaker 1: place God first. So this verse is super interesting, very interesting.
Speaker 1: You know, we need to take heave of this. And
Speaker 1: it behooves you to read this verse and understand it.
Speaker 1: You do not want to be the one that is
Speaker 1: being told depart from me. I never knew you never
Speaker 1: want to be that build on the rock. Therefore, whoever
Speaker 1: hears these sayings of mine and does them, I will
Speaker 1: liken them. I will liken him to a wise man
Speaker 1: who built his house on the rock, and the rain descended,
Speaker 1: the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on
Speaker 1: the house, and did not fall, but it was founded
Speaker 1: on the rock. But whoever hears these sayings of mine
Speaker 1: and does not do them, will be like a foolish
Speaker 1: man who builds his house on the sand, and the
Speaker 1: rain descends. The floods came, and the winds blew and
Speaker 1: beat on the house, and it fell, and great was
Speaker 1: its fall. Jesus is the rock you need to build
Speaker 1: everything on the rock, right, and when the floods came,
Speaker 1: the winds blue and beat on the house, it did
Speaker 1: not fall. But if you build your house in the sand,
Speaker 1: like let's say your foundation is weak, you know, like
Speaker 1: like then it's gonna obviously when the rains come or
Speaker 1: the or the temptations come or whatever, the floods come
Speaker 1: and blew and beat your house. Than the house wasn't
Speaker 1: great and it fell, right, So you got to understand that.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we are I'll read the very last person.
Speaker 1: And it was when Jesus had ended these sayings that
Speaker 1: the people were astonished at his teachings. And he taught
Speaker 1: them one having authority. He taught them as one having
Speaker 1: authority and not as the scribes. So he is teaching
Speaker 1: them as if he is God, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: that he knows what's really going on in the heavenly right.
Speaker 1: So all right, so next week we'll pick up at
Speaker 1: Matthew eight. So what an amazing show. Really appreciate you
Speaker 1: guys tuning in And it is now eleven fifteen here time,
Speaker 1: specific time, and I think this is a you know,
Speaker 1: very fruitful show. And we'll pick up at Matthew eight,
Speaker 1: I will definitely try to be as studied up as possible.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I might show you guys, like because I have
Speaker 1: some roundtables that I've done in the past on the
Speaker 1: Book of Daniel, on the Book of Revelation, and biblical cosmology,
Speaker 1: whatever some Sometimes on Wednesdays, I'm probably gonna preview those
Speaker 1: and show you guys those because I think it's important
Speaker 1: for you to know. And yeah, I think that. But
Speaker 1: Wednesdays are going to be mostly they're going over the
Speaker 1: New Testament. So Wednesday service, I think will be going
Speaker 1: over the New Testament, and I think it's vastly important.
Speaker 1: And on Spotify, if you could comment below, let me
Speaker 1: know what you like and what you liked about the
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Speaker 1: listen to my show, If you could comment and let
Speaker 1: me know what you like about it, and I'll try
Speaker 1: to bring some of that over here. So thank you
Speaker 1: guys so much. I really appreciate you listening, and like
Speaker 1: I always do, we end this in prayer, Father God,
Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus, and you Shoe of the
Speaker 1: Mischiak's name, we appreciate everything you do for us. Lord.
Speaker 1: Right now, we went over some very very amazing verses
Speaker 1: that you know that you want us to follow, and
Speaker 1: I just want to I just want to pray for
Speaker 1: people that they help me to teach how you want
Speaker 1: me to teach. Help the Holy Spirit to speak through
Speaker 1: me to the people that are listening. I know that
Speaker 1: a lot of people have a lot of things that
Speaker 1: they're dealing with at this very moment, you know, with
Speaker 1: depression or with any type of vices that they may have. Lord,
Speaker 1: we saw that when when Jesus was tempted on the mountain,
Speaker 1: when your son was tempted on the mountain, that he
Speaker 1: was the word of God against them. So help the
Speaker 1: people that are listening to remember the word that they
Speaker 1: need in that very time, and help them to pray,
Speaker 1: Help them to build their shield of faith, help them
Speaker 1: to build their spiritual armor, and when they go through
Speaker 1: spiritual battles, help them to use those weapons that you
Speaker 1: gave us, and no weapon formed against us shall prosper.
Speaker 1: So help people to do that, Lord, and help myself
Speaker 1: too whenever I'm in those situations. I appreciate everything you
Speaker 1: do for us, Lord, and I thank you in Jesus name. Amen.
Speaker 1: Thank you guys so much for listening. I really appreciate you,
Speaker 1: and thank you Cuolt Conspiracy Podcasts for allowing me to
Speaker 1: do this. We love you and God bless