Speaker 1: Welcome to Pinoy Tagalog Sermon Podcast, your daily dose of inspiring,
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Speaker 1: say this together. Are you ready? This is my Bible.
Speaker 1: It is a standard I lived my life by. I
Speaker 1: am a spirit filled believer, sustained by my personal relationship
Speaker 1: with the Lord, empowered by my commitment to community and
Speaker 1: express throughout reach to others. Therefore, I can say and
Speaker 1: don't forget it. All right, turn your bulletin over a
Speaker 1: lot of scripture, a lot of things I need you
Speaker 1: to look at. This whole year, we're going to be
Speaker 1: looking at the blessed life. What that means. We used
Speaker 1: January to kind of look at our fine answers and
Speaker 1: get them in biblical order. All that's on our victory
Speaker 1: app Any messages you missed go and you can listen
Speaker 1: to it or actually watch it. Then we transition this
Speaker 1: month into being free. Indeed, there's no way to be
Speaker 1: blessed and live a blessed life if we're dealing with bondage. Amen,
Speaker 1: just things lingering or things that we've opened the doors.
Speaker 1: So last week I really tried to get the point across.
Speaker 1: Satan does not want you free. Ay, don't want you
Speaker 1: to hear this because listen, if you really hear what
Speaker 1: I have to say today, it's very important and you
Speaker 1: apply this, it can lead to a life of being free.
Speaker 1: And I don't know about you. I don't want to
Speaker 1: be in bondage. And we've got to understand this. Believers
Speaker 1: can choose to be in bondage. Did you hear me, Oh,
Speaker 1: I've been saved. I can't be in bondage. Get over that.
Speaker 1: Yes you can. I'm gonna sure's a lot of scripture today.
Speaker 1: You don't have to be and you don't need to
Speaker 1: be fearful of that. But just because you got saved,
Speaker 1: or just because you've got filled with the Holy Spirit,
Speaker 1: the devil's not rolling out the red carpet in front
Speaker 1: of you going to make life easy, and he's wanting
Speaker 1: to make life very difficult in heart. Think about this.
Speaker 1: Here's a couple of questions we're gonna look at today.
Speaker 1: We're gonna look at the question, does God ever grant
Speaker 1: Satan permission to attempt to bring us into bondage. Does
Speaker 1: God ever grant Satan permission? Okay? Think about that in
Speaker 1: regard to the o halt all the Old Testament. Okay,
Speaker 1: God's people would sin, God would grant the enemy permission
Speaker 1: to take the people into bondage. They would repent. There's
Speaker 1: the key, and then God would deliver them. Repentance is
Speaker 1: the cure. By say repentance. So last week we talked
Speaker 1: about Satan is a thief, and Jesus said in John ten,
Speaker 1: he's always looking to climb into the sheepfold. By the way,
Speaker 1: he can't come through me. I'm the door. But he's
Speaker 1: trying to get in in your life, in your family,
Speaker 1: believers' lives and all of that. Joel said, he comes
Speaker 1: in through windows or open doors. So we'll look at
Speaker 1: one major door today. We're just going to look at
Speaker 1: one and kind of discuss it and look at it.
Speaker 1: So I need you to pay attention. I want you
Speaker 1: to study these scriptures. Don't take anything from me. I
Speaker 1: want you to look at the word amen. Okay, And
Speaker 1: the door that even very mature believers can open there
Speaker 1: in your notes where permission is granted is the word pride. Pride.
Speaker 1: Everybody say pride and it's amazing how you can go
Speaker 1: into an arena. And when you talk about, say, pride,
Speaker 1: how many people are proud that they don't deal with pride? Yeah,
Speaker 1: we all deal with it. Come on, let's just be honest.
Speaker 1: So we're going to look at three definitions of it.
Speaker 1: Are three examples of it in scripture, And don't be
Speaker 1: thinking about cousin so and so or the boss served
Speaker 1: the neighbor. Okay, let me look at this for my
Speaker 1: own life. Are you with me? Because I love you, man,
Speaker 1: I want to see you the Lord Terry five years
Speaker 1: from out, ten years from now, running free and full
Speaker 1: of life. Why do some people they have life? And
Speaker 1: then they don't. They've opened the door, They've opened a door,
Speaker 1: And we want to be sure we keep all the
Speaker 1: wrong doors closed and the right doors open. So number one,
Speaker 1: if you want to turn to Luke chapter twenty two,
Speaker 1: turn there, Luke twenty two. Pride is trusting in your
Speaker 1: own strength, your own strength, Luke twenty two, Verse thirty one.
Speaker 1: Let's look at Peter for just a little bit. And
Speaker 1: the Lord said Simon, Simon. Indeed, Satan has asked, okay,
Speaker 1: you're seeing this. Satan has asked for you that he
Speaker 1: may stifft you as wheat. This is an amazing passage
Speaker 1: of scripture. New Testament. Jesus is saying to a believer,
Speaker 1: Satan has asked permission to try to sift you next verse,
Speaker 1: but I have prayed for you, aren't you glad? Jesus
Speaker 1: is seated at the right hand of the Father. He's
Speaker 1: praying for us when we face test that we choose
Speaker 1: to be an overcomer. I pray for you that your
Speaker 1: faith should not fail. Look at this, and when you
Speaker 1: have returned. In other words, you're gonna fall flat on
Speaker 1: your face. You are going to fall, You're going to
Speaker 1: mess up because you're gonna try to do something in
Speaker 1: your own strength. When you have returned to me, you're
Speaker 1: able to strengthen your brethren. I want you to see
Speaker 1: something here. When something happens and we return back to
Speaker 1: God mightily repent, then that even becomes a testimony. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm not excited. Being hurt his knee skiing all those
Speaker 1: skin sounds pretty fun right now, especially if you're watching
Speaker 1: the Olympics at all looks fun. They make all those
Speaker 1: slips look so easy. You'd be calling nine to one
Speaker 1: one if I try one of those. But you know,
Speaker 1: look what God does with that. And he could have
Speaker 1: sucked this on for the rest of his life. Why God,
Speaker 1: did I blow my knee? I thought you loved me.
Speaker 1: Come on, but no, wait wait, we're gonna turn this around.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get healing and I'm going to use this
Speaker 1: as an opportunity to help minister other people. Okay, so
Speaker 1: he's been strengthened and now, but he's able to help
Speaker 1: other people with it now. In other words, here in
Speaker 1: verse thirty two, the new tested word for ask. Very
Speaker 1: often the Greek, their language is so powerful. We might
Speaker 1: have one word ask, and they've got three or four
Speaker 1: flavors of that word that helps get the point across better.
Speaker 1: Are you with me? So that word asking the Greek
Speaker 1: means to ask forcefully and you get it, not like
Speaker 1: could I may I, but like I'm saying I want it,
Speaker 1: and they get it. So Satan asked and they receive
Speaker 1: permission to sift Peter. The new American standard says that
Speaker 1: this way, Satan has demanded permission. Wow, so could there
Speaker 1: be an open door some type of life assignment to
Speaker 1: try to sift you? Look, I'm not preaching doom in gloomy.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to just get you aware. I just want
Speaker 1: you free, I want you serving God with you. I
Speaker 1: want you to be able to see the different things
Speaker 1: when they come at you and just have the understanding
Speaker 1: and the wisdom to walk in humility and brokenness before God.
Speaker 1: So you come up with Andrew was talking about man.
Speaker 1: Just life happens, and I've got to align myself with
Speaker 1: his presence. And really that's what we need to do
Speaker 1: every day with these things, align ourselves. And I personally
Speaker 1: think this door is pride, just like Satan who trusted
Speaker 1: in his own strength. Okay, And I think Peter is
Speaker 1: dealing with that because look at the conversation before this.
Speaker 1: Luke doesn't actually record the conversation. That's why if you
Speaker 1: read a chronological Bible, especially when you get to the
Speaker 1: New Testament, all these stories come in line. But the
Speaker 1: other three gospels do record the conversation right before this. Matthew, Mark,
Speaker 1: and John, let me read it to you out of Mark,
Speaker 1: the conversation that's going on right before this. So are
Speaker 1: you still with me? Okay? Mark, it'd be good if
Speaker 1: I turn there, Okay, Mark, Chapter fourteen, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: start in verse twenty seven. This is a conversation right
Speaker 1: before then, Jesus said to them, the disciples, all of you,
Speaker 1: every by say, all will be made to stumble because
Speaker 1: of me this night. For it is written now Jesus
Speaker 1: is going to quote one of the things that would
Speaker 1: happen out of the Old Testament. It is written, I
Speaker 1: will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered
Speaker 1: verse twenty eight. But after I have been raised, referring
Speaker 1: to his death, burreau and resurrection, I will go before
Speaker 1: you to Galilee. Then Peter said to him, even if
Speaker 1: all are made to stumble, yeah, not me. Won't be me.
Speaker 1: Jesus said to him assuredly. I say to you that
Speaker 1: today we know Jesus didn't wear glasses, But how many
Speaker 1: of you have watched the person when they want to
Speaker 1: get something across they'd lower their glasses and they look
Speaker 1: over them, actually real sternly, Jesus saying assuredly, even this night,
Speaker 1: before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me how
Speaker 1: many times? Three times? Wow? But he spoke, here's Peter
Speaker 1: more vehemently. I meant arrogantly. Can I use the word pridefully?
Speaker 1: Because of his own strength. He's thinking, can of himself,
Speaker 1: even if I have to die with you, I will
Speaker 1: not deny you. And everybody else said the same thing. Now,
Speaker 1: I think Jesus was just trying to tell Peter, Hey, guy,
Speaker 1: what part of all do you not understand? All of
Speaker 1: you are going to deny me, not me. They're weaklings,
Speaker 1: they're little sissies. But I'm not going to do that. Well,
Speaker 1: let me tell you. You're going to do it three times,
Speaker 1: and it's written in the word. Oh no, no, the
Speaker 1: Bible is wrong. All right, Matthew turned there, Matthew sixteen.
Speaker 1: We're still on this first point about pride through sixteen,
Speaker 1: verse twenty one. From that time, Jesus began to show
Speaker 1: to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and
Speaker 1: suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes,
Speaker 1: and be killed and be raised from the dead. Then
Speaker 1: Peter took him aside, and he began to rebuke him. Look,
Speaker 1: you gotta be pretty bold and think mighty good of
Speaker 1: yourself if you're going to rebuke Jesus, are you with me?
Speaker 1: Everybody here began to rebuke him, saying, far be it
Speaker 1: from you, Lord. This should not happen to you. But
Speaker 1: he turned to him. Jesus did said, Peter, get behind me. What,
Speaker 1: oh my, you are an offense to me, for you
Speaker 1: are not mindful of the things of God. How God
Speaker 1: is going to work this out. You're just thinking like
Speaker 1: a man, just thinking about how you could do with
Speaker 1: your own strength. Now, if this doesn't help you, open
Speaker 1: your eyes to something. Jesus looked right at them in
Speaker 1: and said, get behind me, Satan. He addresses Satan in
Speaker 1: the man again, I don't know in him on him
Speaker 1: near him, as I said, it's too close. It's too
Speaker 1: close of an agreement with the wrong spirit, and this
Speaker 1: spirit is pride right here. You have to deal with
Speaker 1: this scripture. You got to get behind me, Satan. In
Speaker 1: the story before this, Jesus had promoted Peter. Jesus had
Speaker 1: changed his name from Simon to Peter. Now he calls
Speaker 1: him Satan. He's probably scratching his head and said, I
Speaker 1: like Peter better than Satan. Come on making fun there.
Speaker 1: It's arrogance, it's pride, it's trusting in your own strength.
Speaker 1: So when they came to arrest Jesus, one of disciples
Speaker 1: cut off one of the soldier's ear. Who was that?
Speaker 1: You know why he cut off his ear. He missed
Speaker 1: his head trying to split his head wide open. He's
Speaker 1: coming against a whole garrison of soldiers, and Peter was
Speaker 1: going to be Indiana Jones and take control of the
Speaker 1: situation with his own strength and rescue the lore. That's
Speaker 1: trusting in your strength. But because of this, Jesus said,
Speaker 1: because you're doing it, Satan has got a right an
Speaker 1: open door. He's coming because you have opened a door
Speaker 1: to him. And then Peter does something that totally is
Speaker 1: out of character. He does deny the Lord three times,
Speaker 1: which he said he wouldn't one time, even cursing just
Speaker 1: talking to a waitress girl. I don't know him. So
Speaker 1: hear me what I'm going to share today, Many mature
Speaker 1: believers can even fall trap. Examine our life. Lets me
Speaker 1: an example of the Lord's work where we just choose
Speaker 1: humility and brokenness, just aligning ourselves back in his presence
Speaker 1: on a daily or even hourly basis. Is it possible?
Speaker 1: Think with me? Is this why King David fell? He
Speaker 1: was a very strong, strong, principled man. Pride is trusting
Speaker 1: in your own strength. One Corinthians ten, verse twelve. Now
Speaker 1: I quote verse thirteen often, but let me read verse twelve. Therefore,
Speaker 1: let him who thinks he stands take heed lest default.
Speaker 1: What would cause him to fault? I think pride then
Speaker 1: verse thirteen, which I love, because Jesus, even if he
Speaker 1: allows Satan to attack in some way, he's going to
Speaker 1: make a way of escape. I said, he will make
Speaker 1: a way of escape. No temptation overtaking you, such as
Speaker 1: is coming to man. But God is faithful. He'll not
Speaker 1: allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able.
Speaker 1: But with that temptation, with that open door, with that
Speaker 1: issue going on, we'll also make the way of escape
Speaker 1: that you may be able to bear it. Amen. So
Speaker 1: pride is trusting in your own strength. Number two, it's
Speaker 1: trusting in your own righteousness, your own righteousness. Now, I'm
Speaker 1: going to make the book of Job come alive for
Speaker 1: you today. I'm going to show you why Job took
Speaker 1: so long to get straight because there was an issue
Speaker 1: in his life. Are you with me? Because I need
Speaker 1: you to pay I need you to pay attention. Turn
Speaker 1: to Job Job Chapter one. You're going to see it,
Speaker 1: and this book is going to come alive to you, hopefully,
Speaker 1: like never before. Job one, it'd be good if I
Speaker 1: get to the first chapter. There we go, and we're
Speaker 1: going to begin here. Let's see, let me start. Where
Speaker 1: do I have it coming up? Miss Carrol? One through six? Okay,
Speaker 1: let's read just six and seven. Okay. Now, there was
Speaker 1: a day when the sons of God came to present
Speaker 1: themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them.
Speaker 1: I don't understand all this. All I know is Satan
Speaker 1: made it up and presented himself before the Lord. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna show you another verse that fallen angels even had
Speaker 1: that ability, and we're able to do that. Verse seven.
Speaker 1: And the Lord said to Satan, from where do you come?
Speaker 1: So Satan answered the Lord and said, from going to
Speaker 1: and from the earth, and from walking back and forth
Speaker 1: on it. This is what we said last week. He
Speaker 1: just goes around like a roaring line, seeking whom he
Speaker 1: made devour. So what is he looking for? Open doors?
Speaker 1: He's looking for opportunity. This is what we talked about.
Speaker 1: Verse eight. Then the Lord said to Satan, have you
Speaker 1: considered my servant Joe, that there's none like him on
Speaker 1: the earth, A blameless and upright man. He was walking
Speaker 1: in this but something happened, and I'll show you who
Speaker 1: fears God shuns evil. So Satan answered the Lord and said,
Speaker 1: does job fear God for nothing? Have you not made
Speaker 1: a hedge of protection around him? I meant claim that
Speaker 1: hedge every day, folks, Amen, claim it, believe art. But
Speaker 1: then you still have to submit to the Lord properly.
Speaker 1: I can't claim a hedge of protection and live like
Speaker 1: the devil and expect that hedge to protect me. I
Speaker 1: can't claim a hedge of protection and open doors. I
Speaker 1: love you, you love me, okay, just checking quiet on me. See.
Speaker 1: I want you to just go and far in God,
Speaker 1: so far in God. This is not feared the Lord. Friend,
Speaker 1: You've put a hedge of protection around him on every side.
Speaker 1: You have blessed the work of his hands, and his
Speaker 1: possessions eve increased in the land verse eleven. But now
Speaker 1: stretch out your hand and touch all that he has,
Speaker 1: and he will surely curse you to his face. Verse twelve,
Speaker 1: the Lord said to Satan, behold all that he has
Speaker 1: is in your power. Listen, Satan was granted permission. You
Speaker 1: just have to see that he was permanded. He was
Speaker 1: granted permission, But do not lay handle on this person,
Speaker 1: so Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.
Speaker 1: Then for thirty chapters, Job has three friends who try
Speaker 1: to comfort him. And by the way, you really don't
Speaker 1: want these three type of friends if you read it.
Speaker 1: But in essence, though some of what they said was truth,
Speaker 1: it just always had a dig and it just wasn't
Speaker 1: done right. Amen, over and over. Are you sure there's
Speaker 1: no open door of your life? I'm paraphrasing it because
Speaker 1: the enemy sure has come against you mighty hard. Job
Speaker 1: says nope, nope, and hess the things he has done
Speaker 1: and the things he hasn't done. And then in chapter
Speaker 1: thirty two, I want you to turn there, Job thirty two.
Speaker 1: See this in your bible, please underline it, mark it,
Speaker 1: or if you don't have the market with you today
Speaker 1: or anything, please do this later on because this two
Speaker 1: verses will make this book come alive. Are you excited
Speaker 1: to see what will make this come alive? Okay, there's
Speaker 1: a young man named Elihu and he's been sitting there
Speaker 1: the whole time, listening to the three friends and all that.
Speaker 1: In essence, this is what this young man says. I've
Speaker 1: heard it all and I can't hold it back any longer. Nope,
Speaker 1: you haven't figured out. So I'm going to tell you
Speaker 1: what the problem is. So we're going to pick up
Speaker 1: right there with this guy speaking. Chapter thirty two, verse one.
Speaker 1: So these three men ceased answering Job. Here we go
Speaker 1: underline it because he was righteous in his own eyes.
Speaker 1: He was righteous in his own eyes. What's point number two?
Speaker 1: Pride is trusting in your own righteousness. I've done this,
Speaker 1: I haven't done that. I do do do do do.
Speaker 1: We're gonna see it. It's gonna keep coming alive. Do
Speaker 1: you see that? Though? Right there? Next verse? Then the
Speaker 1: wrath of Ali, who the son of a hard name person. There, Sorry,
Speaker 1: what's aroused against Job? His wrath was aroused here we
Speaker 1: go because he justified himself rather than God. Trusting in
Speaker 1: your own righteousness, your own righteous business. He goes on
Speaker 1: for several chapters. Chapter thirty three, verse eight. Surely you
Speaker 1: have spoken in my hearing. I heard this come out
Speaker 1: of your own mouth, and I've heard the sound of
Speaker 1: your words saying if I am pure, I am excuse me,
Speaker 1: I am pure without transgression, I am innocent, and there
Speaker 1: is no iniquity in me. Man, he'd have to be Jesus.
Speaker 1: For that to be true, folks, Are you with me?
Speaker 1: He'd have to be Jesus. In part of his conclusion,
Speaker 1: he says, this chapter thirty six, I'm just jumping it
Speaker 1: and you run with it. Verse three, the end of
Speaker 1: the part. And this is Eli who the young man speaking.
Speaker 1: I will ascribe righteousness to my Maker. Now you're ascribing
Speaker 1: it to your works, what you've done and haven't done,
Speaker 1: I'm going to ascribe it to my maker. Oh, it's
Speaker 1: so crucial that we see this in the book of Job.
Speaker 1: I mean Job. I know if you called it job. Hey, look,
Speaker 1: everybody's done that at some point. Here's a sinner the
Speaker 1: open door. He was righteous because of what he did,
Speaker 1: not because of who he knew. Even though he did
Speaker 1: the right things, and he would worship and offer the
Speaker 1: sacrifices appropriately, he would kind of brownie point God, why
Speaker 1: I did this and I didn't do this? And do
Speaker 1: do do do? And he was a good man. He
Speaker 1: was a good man. Are you with me? Hear me again?
Speaker 1: Mature believers can fall into this area. See when you
Speaker 1: get saved, you're so thankful. You know, you're just a
Speaker 1: Obama la law going to hell and you're so grateful
Speaker 1: when Jesus saved you. How many remember that day? Yes,
Speaker 1: you know, it has nothing new with you. It's all
Speaker 1: because of Him and his righteousness and his blood and
Speaker 1: his sacrifices, and man, he's making that available to me,
Speaker 1: and it's so exciting. But ten twenty thirty years ago,
Speaker 1: by okay, and we've improved, Lord willing, and we're not
Speaker 1: doing some of the things that we know that are
Speaker 1: detrimental to our walk, and we are doing the things
Speaker 1: that are beneficial for our walk. And you can kind
Speaker 1: of start saying, hmm, I got this thing together now.
Speaker 1: And we're not righteous because of what we do. We're
Speaker 1: righteous because of the blood of Jesus, folks only only,
Speaker 1: And that revelation, really, that would encourage you every day,
Speaker 1: you know, Andrew talking about aligning, aligning yourself to his love,
Speaker 1: to his heart, to his righteousness, to him, aligning yourself
Speaker 1: up to him. It's only the reason we're righteous. And
Speaker 1: anytime we begin to believe in our own righteousness, it's pride.
Speaker 1: Jesus talked about the Pharisee in the church praying thus
Speaker 1: with himself, because God sure wouldn't paying attention. I thank
Speaker 1: you I do this, and I do that, and then
Speaker 1: I'm not like that scum over there. I'man pointing at
Speaker 1: the guy. And that guy said, Lord, be merciful to me.
Speaker 1: I'm a sinner. Jesus watching said, that's the one that
Speaker 1: went home forgiven because the other guy was boasting and
Speaker 1: trusting in his own righteousness. Well let me show you
Speaker 1: something here. Okay, remember what we talked about. Well we've exposed.
Speaker 1: God showed up yep. So God says, okay, you want
Speaker 1: to do some comparisons. We're going to compare yourself to
Speaker 1: me for a while. Little man, here we go, and
Speaker 1: here's just a few things God said to Job. See
Speaker 1: if you'd like to be Job on this day. So
Speaker 1: turn to chapter thirty eight. See, maybe you've wondered why God,
Speaker 1: why did he come up at him like this? Because
Speaker 1: he trusted in his own righteousness and all his good works.
Speaker 1: Then the Lord answered Job, out of the whirl win
Speaker 1: and say, who is this? He darkens counsel by words
Speaker 1: without knowledge. Let me put in, good old Kentucky lingo,
Speaker 1: what idiot is talking to me? Right now? Come on,
Speaker 1: let's just be real, okay, Now, prepare yourself like a
Speaker 1: man I'm gonna question you. Wow, you're gonna be able
Speaker 1: to answer me. Verse four? Where were you when I
Speaker 1: laid the foundations of the earth? Tell me, if you
Speaker 1: have such great understanding, who determined its measurements? I mean
Speaker 1: I can see God almost being lovingly sarcastic. There, okay,
Speaker 1: surely you know? Or who stretched out the light upon it?
Speaker 1: To what where it's foundations fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone?
Speaker 1: Verse twelve? Jump there? Have you commanded the morning since
Speaker 1: your day's begun? And cause the dawn to know its place?
Speaker 1: One version? Have you ever told the sun when to
Speaker 1: come up? Verse twenty two? Have you the treasury of snow?
Speaker 1: Or have you seen the treasury of hell? Man? Can
Speaker 1: you make it snow and rain and all this stuff
Speaker 1: when you want to? Verse thirty four. Can you lift
Speaker 1: up your voice to the clouds? Then an abundance of
Speaker 1: water may cover you? Verse thirty five. Can you send
Speaker 1: out lightnings that they may go and say to you
Speaker 1: here we are? I mean, does lightning come to you
Speaker 1: and say where do you want us to strike? Come on?
Speaker 1: I'm talking God speaking here? And then he ends in
Speaker 1: chapter forty verse eight, would you indeed and now my judgment.
Speaker 1: Would you condemn me that you may be what m
Speaker 1: because you're so righteous? Can you imagine God's saying that,
Speaker 1: here's the great part, this is what you got to see.
Speaker 1: He repented. He said, you're right. I blew it. I'm sorry. God,
Speaker 1: what so hard about that? Why is it so hard? Sometimes?
Speaker 1: He said, I can't do this. It's wrong. God's pointing
Speaker 1: this out to me. There is freedom in repentance. I said,
Speaker 1: there's freedom in repentance. It's just you know, Andrew, he
Speaker 1: knows about It's like, okay, everything's going wrong. I got
Speaker 1: to go to my back God. I'm sorry. I realigned
Speaker 1: and to forgive. And that's what it is. It's realigning yourself.
Speaker 1: And it's not about me. It's about your righteousness. It's
Speaker 1: about your strength. Be important to me, just someone in need,
Speaker 1: because we're all very needful. So never get satisfied in
Speaker 1: your own righteousness. Yes, strive to live a righteous life.
Speaker 1: I think that's a good thing. But it's because of him.
Speaker 1: I believe in righteous living. A righteous living opens the
Speaker 1: door to the demonic Amen. But living righteously in your
Speaker 1: own strength doesn't make us righteous. It's only the blood
Speaker 1: of Jesus, and I've heard it before. Maybe you have
Speaker 1: different ones suddenly upset it whatever in life or a situation,
Speaker 1: and I don't get it. I've done this, and I've
Speaker 1: done that, and I've served this, and I don't understand.
Speaker 1: I cringe when I hear that. I just cringe in
Speaker 1: my spirit because I can't even address it. I just
Speaker 1: cringe for that person. They've opened themselves up to the demonic. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they got offended at God or whoever or whatever. It's
Speaker 1: quiet Job said, I'm righteous because of what I've done.
Speaker 1: So pride is trusting in your own strength and your
Speaker 1: own righteousness. One more, can you hang with me? Say
Speaker 1: we're gonna by by time serious, We're gonna be so free.
Speaker 1: We're just gonna say or whatever you want, your God,
Speaker 1: your Lord, I love you, I'm gonna love everybody. I'm
Speaker 1: a minister, i'ma do I'm give because that's what he wants.
Speaker 1: We're to be loyal subjects to the king because it's
Speaker 1: the kingdom. Number Three, Pride is trusting in our own wisdom.
Speaker 1: In other words, we can figure it out. We don't
Speaker 1: need God. Now, this is a very difficult passage of scripture,
Speaker 1: but I want you to turn to it and you
Speaker 1: might have to study it some. I'm just going to
Speaker 1: hit it and we'll run. But one kings twenty two.
Speaker 1: It's really amazing. I'll give you a little bit of background.
Speaker 1: So listen to this. This is talking about Aheb. Everybody
Speaker 1: say Ahib. He was the king of Israel and he
Speaker 1: married Jezebel. He was a very wicked king. Jezebel had
Speaker 1: eight hundred and fifty bad profits, wrong profits. They lost
Speaker 1: their heads to Elijah. Go get them, Elijah, that's great.
Speaker 1: Elijah showed up and call down fire. I'm Mount Carmel.
Speaker 1: Ahab he had four hundred profits. Ahab, the king of Israel,
Speaker 1: ask Jehosaphat, the King of Judah, to come see him.
Speaker 1: So the two kingdoms A haveb bad. Josephat was good,
Speaker 1: He's a good king. Ahab was a wicked king. So
Speaker 1: Ahab says to Jehosepha, let's team up and go attack
Speaker 1: the king of Assyria. We need to get back a
Speaker 1: particular city Raymond Gilead. It should be ours, it shouldn't
Speaker 1: be theirs. So King Jehosaphat says, let's ask a prophet.
Speaker 1: We need some wisdom in this, This is what they
Speaker 1: would do in that time. We need wisdom and decisions
Speaker 1: we make. Let's get wisdom. So Ahab calls his prophetsi
Speaker 1: and they all say, yeah, go do it, because they
Speaker 1: knew that's what he wanted to hear. Okay, Jehospah kind
Speaker 1: of crosses. Let's get a real prophet in here, and
Speaker 1: let's hear someone who maybe would tell us the truth.
Speaker 1: So verse seven of First Kings twenty two, let's start
Speaker 1: right there brought you to speed. Jehos Fat said, is
Speaker 1: there still not a prophet of the Lord here that
Speaker 1: we may inquire him? A prophet of the Lord, not
Speaker 1: one of yours. So the King of Israel said to
Speaker 1: jehoas Fat, there is one man, Mackaya, the son of
Speaker 1: under the hard name, by whom we may inquire The
Speaker 1: Lord love this, but I hate him. He doesn't prophesy
Speaker 1: good concern me. It's always evil. And jehos Fat said,
Speaker 1: let not the king say such things. Let's get him now.
Speaker 1: They had to go get him in prison and get
Speaker 1: him out of prison because Ahab put him in prison
Speaker 1: because he would never tell him what he wanted to hear.
Speaker 1: So he's in prison for telling truth and saying the
Speaker 1: right thing. Now watch this because he's being taken out
Speaker 1: of prison. I don't know if he did this under
Speaker 1: the Lord word's unction or he just wanted to satisfy
Speaker 1: Ahab at first. I don't know. But then he came
Speaker 1: to the king, and the king said to him, Machaya,
Speaker 1: shall we go war against Raymuth Gilead, or shall we refrain?
Speaker 1: And he answered, oh, go, I prosper for the Lord.
Speaker 1: We'll deliver it to the hand of the king. So
Speaker 1: the King said to him, how many times shall I
Speaker 1: make you swear that you tell me nothing but the
Speaker 1: truth in the name of the Lord. In other words, well, look,
Speaker 1: you know he's probably think you're gonna do it anyway,
Speaker 1: So just go do it. Now comes truth, everybody saying
Speaker 1: I need to speak truth. Then he said, here comes
Speaker 1: Michaya saying truth. Well, I saw Israel lee scattered on
Speaker 1: the mountains as sheep that don't have a shepherd. Remember
Speaker 1: no shepherd. What comes the wolves they attacked? The Lord said,
Speaker 1: these have no master. Let each return to his house
Speaker 1: in peace. Don't go to war. Just go home in peace.
Speaker 1: If you go to war, it's not good. Don't do
Speaker 1: it because it's not going to work out like you want.
Speaker 1: Verse eighteen, And the King of Israel, Ahab, the bad King,
Speaker 1: said to jehotes Fat, the good King, did not, I
Speaker 1: tell you, he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.
Speaker 1: Then Michaea has said, therefore, hear the word of the Lord.
Speaker 1: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, and all
Speaker 1: the hosts of heaven standing by. Now get this, on
Speaker 1: his right hand and on his left. Do you see
Speaker 1: that in the word of God, hosts of heaven are angels?
Speaker 1: Could it be not only the host of the heavenly angels,
Speaker 1: but some of the fallen angels? Note they're standing on
Speaker 1: the Lord's right and the left. Amen. Remember Jesus said,
Speaker 1: when the sun of Man in his kingdom, he'll put
Speaker 1: the sheep on his right, and they'll put the goats
Speaker 1: on his left. Stay here with me. Then Machai said, therefore, look, sorry, Yeah,
Speaker 1: hear the word of the Lord. I saw the Lord
Speaker 1: standing on his throne, and all the host of heaven
Speaker 1: standing by him, on his right and on his left.
Speaker 1: It's important to see the right here. We just read
Speaker 1: in Job that Satan presented himself before the Lord Verse
Speaker 1: twenty and the Lord said, look at this. The Lord said,
Speaker 1: who will persuade Ahab to go on? Up? Now Machaya
Speaker 1: had spoken the truth. But the Lord said, all right,
Speaker 1: this guy is evil, this guy is in deception. He'll
Speaker 1: not repent. Maybe I can set something up for him
Speaker 1: to repent. If he doesn't repent, he's going to get destroyed.
Speaker 1: The Lord is never out to destroy us. He's out
Speaker 1: to bring us to a place of brokenness to repent.
Speaker 1: That's important that you see that. Are you with me? Okay?
Speaker 1: I know I keep saying that phrase, but you've got
Speaker 1: to hear it. The Lord said, who will say ahep
Speaker 1: to go that he may fall at raymuth Gilead? So
Speaker 1: one spoke in this manner, and another spoken of that
Speaker 1: manner who the heavenly hosts. Then a spirit came forward
Speaker 1: instead before the Lord said, I'll persuade him. I'll do
Speaker 1: it Verse twenty two. The Lord said to him, in
Speaker 1: what way? He said, I will go out and be
Speaker 1: a lying spirit in the mouth of the prophets. That's
Speaker 1: not the Holy Spirit. By the way, the Holy Spirit
Speaker 1: does not lie. Are you with me? And the Lord said,
Speaker 1: you shall persuade him? And also prevail, go out and
Speaker 1: do so. Therefore, Look, the Lord has put a lying
Speaker 1: spirit in the mouth of all these prophets of yours,
Speaker 1: and the Lord has declared disaster upon you. It's amazing.
Speaker 1: Understand first, who's in control? Who's in control God? There's
Speaker 1: not a battle between God and the devil. The devil
Speaker 1: is a creative being. God is a creator. God is
Speaker 1: in charge, and God will. He'll allow the enemy sometimes
Speaker 1: to help fulfill his purpose. Now, Ahab could have repented
Speaker 1: at any time Joe did. What if he hadn't repented,
Speaker 1: I don't think his outcome at the end would have
Speaker 1: been doubled Back. What if Peter hadn't repented, he wouldn't
Speaker 1: be the most amazing New Testament figure besides Paul. You
Speaker 1: just think about it. God is completely and totally in charge.
Speaker 1: Let me lovingly challenge say this. I believe a Christian
Speaker 1: can be influenced by a demon. A demon can affect
Speaker 1: like we talked about last week, and believe can say
Speaker 1: DEMI can't influence me, or I can't be attacked. Well,
Speaker 1: let's think, is God omnipresent? He lives where everywhere. If
Speaker 1: a demon can't live where God lives, A demon can't live.
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to get us to think we're in
Speaker 1: a battle. Well, I'm not talking about the omnipresidents of God.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the manifest prisons of God. So demon
Speaker 1: can't be around the manifest persons of God. Well, he
Speaker 1: presented himself before the throne. That's got to be the
Speaker 1: most manifest presence of God. Do I want to sin fear? No,
Speaker 1: I want us free. Indeed, I want us free, free, free,
Speaker 1: recognizing anything of an open door. Don't go around and
Speaker 1: analyze everything you do and beat yourself up. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: just be aware. So here's my point. God is in control.
Speaker 1: And when we sin, we open a door to the enemy,
Speaker 1: and God may grant the enemy to come to sift
Speaker 1: you like, wait, why hang with me. I'm going to
Speaker 1: tell you a minute. Ahab trusted in his own wisdom.
Speaker 1: Don't trust your own wisdom. And when a believer who
Speaker 1: loves you says, wait, wait, wait, I love you too much.
Speaker 1: We're in too close a relationship. You're trusting yourself instead
Speaker 1: of going to the Lord. And we see that in
Speaker 1: James Chapter three, verse fourteen and fifteen. You have bitter
Speaker 1: envy and selfish seeking in your heart. Do not boast
Speaker 1: in lie against the truth. This wisdom, that type of
Speaker 1: wisdom does not descend from above. It's earthly, sensual and
Speaker 1: what demonic. Let me see it this way. There is
Speaker 1: a demon who doesn't want you to think like God
Speaker 1: wants you to think. He doesn't want you to do
Speaker 1: it because if you trust your wisdom and not the Lord's,
Speaker 1: then you can mess up, and I can mess up.
Speaker 1: It's just pride. When you have pride, that can open
Speaker 1: the door. And when doors open, wolves come in. So
Speaker 1: would God ever grabb permission for Satan to attack? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Does he want to? No, we just saw it with Peter.
Speaker 1: Satan has asked, I'm gonna let him do it. He
Speaker 1: wants to sift you, but you're gonna return and then
Speaker 1: you're gonna strengthen others. That's why testimony. When we've gone
Speaker 1: through something and we turn to God or we run
Speaker 1: to God and there's breakthrough, God wants to use to
Speaker 1: help someone else because Satan is always wanting to trip
Speaker 1: somebody up. Yes, Church is in our relationships is not
Speaker 1: to come and sit and be a silent, and that's
Speaker 1: our Christian No, let me tell you what I walked through.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you what. Let me tell you. Then
Speaker 1: God got a hold of me in this area and
Speaker 1: I and I found what the scripture said. I repented,
Speaker 1: I turn whatever, and the Lord showed up. Boom boom.
Speaker 1: That's Christian walk. That's what it's about. It's always always
Speaker 1: for our good. Did you ever spank your children when
Speaker 1: they were little? I hope you did. Scripture tells us, dude,
Speaker 1: you don't beat them, but you know what I'm talking about,
Speaker 1: why you don't want them to go the wrong way.
Speaker 1: One last scripture. You're still with me? Actually too, sorry
Speaker 1: I lied there. Forgive me lords too. I thought it
Speaker 1: was just one. Now let me show you a scripture
Speaker 1: that's often misquoted. Go to Proverbs chapter sixteen, Proverb sixteen.
Speaker 1: Can you bring that scripture up? Probably sixteen eighteen. It's
Speaker 1: often misquoted. Let me read if pride goes before destruction
Speaker 1: and a haughty spirit before a fall. It's often quoted
Speaker 1: pride goes before fall. I probably have said it myself,
Speaker 1: but it says a haughty spirit goes before the fall.
Speaker 1: Haughty spirit goes before the fall. What caused it? Pride
Speaker 1: which led to destruction? So when there's pride in a
Speaker 1: life and it's not repented, it will be destroyed. So God,
Speaker 1: in his grace, listen, and his grace will allow the
Speaker 1: enemy to tack, bondage whatever he wants to try to do,
Speaker 1: so that in our despair we run to him just
Speaker 1: like they did in the Old Testament, like Peter did,
Speaker 1: just like disciples did, just like anyone in the Bible,
Speaker 1: and say, God, forgive me. You know, when I got saved,
Speaker 1: I didn't get it all right. And I've been saved
Speaker 1: a long time. I still don't get it all right.
Speaker 1: And I have to say all the time, Lord, forgive me.
Speaker 1: What a wrong thought, what a wrong action? That was
Speaker 1: not right? You've got to forgive me. Yes, yes, thank you.
Speaker 1: My wife? What did I do? Know? Okay, she'll thank
Speaker 1: us up. This is like life. Listen here, it's further
Speaker 1: moment thought. Life is just a series of love and
Speaker 1: forgiving and loving God and asking for forgiveness and then
Speaker 1: helping others. So grace, So God, in his grace, he
Speaker 1: will allow something. And God sets you free if you
Speaker 1: cry out to Him and let's be there for one another.
Speaker 1: My class on Wednesday night, we've been on this series
Speaker 1: by John Beavie. You know, a guy's blind and he's
Speaker 1: walking to a cliff. He can't see miss the trails
Speaker 1: on the cliff, and one guy's trying to tell him,
Speaker 1: but the other guy won't let him tell me. You
Speaker 1: don't want to tell him the truth. He maybe this
Speaker 1: is what he wants to goes on on it. It's
Speaker 1: hilarious and you might hit the person and they might
Speaker 1: fall and skin their knee or cut their near their arm,
Speaker 1: but you saved their life. Now, you only can do
Speaker 1: that when you're in true relationship with people. I mean,
Speaker 1: but you do that for someone's protection. They do it
Speaker 1: for you for your protection when you're sharing with them
Speaker 1: and you want to share true or they open up.
Speaker 1: Don't run from truth. Yes, yes, celebrate truth. Run to
Speaker 1: relationships that are going to be strength. I know I've
Speaker 1: gone over hold on just for a few moments. I remember.
Speaker 1: I think it was the first year we did Heaven's
Speaker 1: Gates and hell Slams Down in the lower building where
Speaker 1: it just went on for those two weeks. It was wonderful,
Speaker 1: and I would instruct people every night when the lights
Speaker 1: are down, don't get up, don't move if you have
Speaker 1: to go to the restroom with something to do. When
Speaker 1: it's bright and heaven and you can see where you go,
Speaker 1: but when it's dark, cast members are going to be
Speaker 1: running and you will get run over. I'd say to everybody, repeat,
Speaker 1: don't move, don't move. Well, a lady I had no
Speaker 1: clue who she was. She decided during the dark scene,
Speaker 1: why I'm gonna get up and go to the bathroom now.
Speaker 1: And she got up and I could see it coming.
Speaker 1: She was getting ready to get mowed over by about
Speaker 1: five or six people I'm talking about. It was gonna
Speaker 1: be seerios. So I saw it and I'm on the side.
Speaker 1: I jumped up and I just t boned her bow
Speaker 1: and I mean I knocked her down between seats and
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I'm trying to save your life, you know,
Speaker 1: because if here came the cast, I know one day
Speaker 1: I'm gonna run into that lady somewhere in town. I
Speaker 1: don't know who she is, but I did that because
Speaker 1: she needed protection. Could it be God allows us to
Speaker 1: be t boned because he knows we're getting ready to
Speaker 1: be run over. It's not to destroy us. I did
Speaker 1: that to save her. God loves us, and we get
Speaker 1: all caught up in the t bone. We get all
Speaker 1: caught up in why and how, and instead of saying hallelujah,
Speaker 1: God trusts me and we're gonna work through this. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be stronger, and he's good and he's for me. Amen.
Speaker 1: That's what God wants to do for all of this.
Speaker 1: Peter and Joe. Satan attacks them, but they repent it.
Speaker 1: Wow aheb did not and you can read it. We
Speaker 1: won't read the scripture in One Kings twenty two thirty four.
Speaker 1: But he went to battle, and he tried to disguise himself.
Speaker 1: He took off his kingly robes, he put on just
Speaker 1: a regular type of armor. He stayed in the back
Speaker 1: because he knew maybe this wasn't good, and still an
Speaker 1: arrow somehow made it an attack and hid him and
Speaker 1: he died in the battle. Okay, okay. So pride is
Speaker 1: trusting in our own strength and our own righteousness, our
Speaker 1: own wisdom. Pride is a trap that the strong, the righteous,
Speaker 1: and the wise can fall into if we don't trust
Speaker 1: the Lord's strength, the Lord's righteousness, in the Lord's wisdom.
Speaker 1: Let's stand. Just bow your head Andrew, come on up,
Speaker 1: Thank you Lord, Thank you, for listening. I hope that
Speaker 1: you enjoy today's episode. Don't forget to share and subscribe
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