Breaking Lust That Masquerades as Love

Jesus, we love you so much. We thank you for your presence in here tonight, allowing us into your house, Lord. This is your home where we come together, Lord, and experience you. Thank you, Father, that you're alive, Jesus, that we can experience you by the power and the presence of the Holy Spirit, that our father is not far away. Our father is not in a different galaxy. Our father lives inside of us. Thank you, Holy Spirit. We get to experience God, the highest power, the Almighty, Jehovah Elohim. We love you so much, and we bless your precious, holy, magnificent name. In Jesus' name, and the church says together, amen. Hallelujah. Oh, God, it's so good. We were just in Miami. We were in South Beach Ocean Drive. You guys know where that's at, Ocean Drive? So it's arguably one of the most worldly strips in America. People actually come from all over the world to party, drugs, and all the types of wild stuff. I grew up in Fort Lauderdale, so as a kid, when I was a teenager, I used to go out to Ocean Drive, and when I was 16, 15, 17, I would sneak out of my house and go down there thinking I was living the Miami dream and all this stuff. So to go back there for the gospel was powerful. And as I was praying right now, the Lord just put it on my heart to just give a testimony. It was these girls that they were in this rental, a Tahoe, and we're on the streets evangelizing powerful encounters, powerful encounters, people getting baptized and just touched by the Holy Spirit, healed, delivered, all that. It was powerful. But these girls that were partying there in the Tahoe, they're like, hey, because they see us walking by like, you know, trying to pull, like they wanted to pull over to talk

to us. And I thought, man, you know, this is a great opportunity where someone's about to get touched, you know, and they're in the back taking shots of, you know, whatever they were drinking and they're on the live and the girls driving and swerving. You know, I used to live that lifestyle. So, you know, it wasn't something unfamiliar, but it was something that definitely brought back memories of how I used to live, went straight to the vehicle. They thought I was some worldly influencer or whatever it was, and I just began to preach the gospel because I was asking them questions. And they said, what question is that? We have a question for you. What is this interview about? And I said, it's about Jesus. I'm a pastor. Start going in there receiving. But one girl, she was just so locked in. You know, obviously she was intoxicated, the one that was taking shots, but she's locked in. And then she goes, what name do you use? Do you use the name of Jesus? And I said, yeah. She goes, well, I'm a Hebrew-Israelite. And I use the name of Yahoshua or whatever. I don't know how to even say how they say it, Yahoshua out of tongues. I just start speaking in tongues when I do it sometimes because I don't know. Whatever it is. Right. And, you know, she's going back and forth, and I said, look, I said, why does the Bible say that? He's Jehovah Jireh.

He's Jehovah Nissi. He's Jehovah Shalom. He's Jehovah Sabaoth. He's Jehovah. I mean, there's so many names for God, right? So and I always explain this, like when we talk about the name of Jesus, we're not talking about Jesus or Jesus. We're talking about his, his nature, his character, his will, his essence, who he is. Because I told him, I said, my name is Richard. How many Richards do you know? And they said many. I said, I'm Richard from Broward County, and there's probably a lot of Richards in Broward County, which I know there are. So then how do you how can you identify if you're describing who I am to somebody? How can you identify me? You have to describe who I am. You have to say, you know, he's six foot tall, you know, Puerto Rican, whatever you know, he's a nice guy, whatever it is, you start describing me and then people will start understanding who I am. So when we say the name of Jesus and we pray in the name of Jesus, we're praying according to who he is. And when we know who he is intimately and we get to know him more and more, there's more authority that comes behind that name. Jesus, when he walks in the place, demons bow down, they flee, they tremble. Amen. Right. Like we know this. And in the name of Jesus, we can cast out demons and heal the sick. Then why don't we see so many people in the church operating in this power is because

only certain people are supposed to. The Bible says these signs shall follow those who believe. So it's for every believer. Every every pastor should be casting devils out, healing the sick. Every worship leader should be casting out demons, healing the sick. Every. Greeter at the front door should be casting out demons. That's elementary. The reason that we don't see a lot of it is because people don't know the name of Jesus. You can use the name but not know the name. Sons of Sceva understood that Jesus had power, but they didn't know Jesus. They used his name, but when it got to a certain point, they didn't have the authority to cast out that demon and got stripped naked and kicked out the place. When we go to evangelize, we have to know who he is intimately so we have authority in regions. When we have authority in certain places, things have to shift and move and things have to happen. The name of Jesus is able to move throughout the mist. Amen. How do we know the name of Jesus? By knowing him, spending time with him, seeking him. He could be an armor bearer. He could be a greeter. You could say Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, all you want, but if you don't know him, your heart is far from him. But in here at the rock, we know Jesus. Amen. Hallelujah. All right. Hallelujah. How many people came from outside of the state to come visit us tonight? Cool, man. Our last Saturday service. Welcome. Welcome. Oh, wow. Where'd you guys come from? Oklahoma. Welcome from Oklahoma. Amen. Where'd y'all come from over there? Houston, Texas. H-Town. Amen. Do I know you? Oh, oh, what's up? I was like, wait, they look familiar. You got the glasses on. Okay. What's up, man? Anybody else from out of town? Where'd you come from? Philly. Cool. Yeah. We want to go out to, uh, to Kensington really soon, really soon. We're going to go to Kensington real soon, really soon. But yeah, God moved in, in Miami. It was powerful. We went to a bunch of, uh, voodoo shops, exposing darkness, people getting set free. I mean, we saw miracle healings. It was wild. It was wild. We went to little Haiti. It's one of the, um, used to be, it still is, but it used to be one of the worst areas of Miami, but everything's being gentrified now, but it's still bad out there. And we just, we just, we just, we just, we just, we just, we just saw people in the streets, in the hood getting touched by God. It was powerful. We're

going to be dropping a video pretty soon. We didn't live stream it. We just, we recorded the video footage and we're going to put it together documentary style for it to be spread around the world. So people that they would know that the power of God is real. And now we can go into these dark places and have no worries. As long as we know the name of Jesus, man. All right. I want to talk about the difference between lust and love earlier. Yeah. We're going to talk about that tonight. Wow. That was a reaction. Hey man. All right. I was in prayer earlier this week and the Lord put this, this, he downloaded this revelation, this, this, um, topic in my spirit, just been preparing for it all week and, um, just praying on it. And I believe it's going to touch a lot of you. A lot of you will be blessed, encouraged, healed, convicted, built up everything and change and not leave the same. Amen. So open up your heart and receive the message. All right. It's going to bless you. All right. Some of you have learned to recognize lust before you were even taught how to love or how to even receive love trauma, train, trained your nervous system before truth trained your spirit. So now you're saved, you're washed, you're filled, transformed, but your, your soul is still learning the language that God speaks, the language of love. Here's the grace though. God is patient with your transformation process. Everyone say God is patient. He's not mad at you. He's very patient. And just like learning a new language, your soul still thinks in its old dialect and translates it into real time. So when God says, I love you, for some of you, your soul hears, what do I need to do to keep this love? Love is not earned. Lust is trained to negotiate. Love is not earned, but lust is trained to negotiate. When God says rest, some of you might hear I'm about to be replaced. Trauma thinks rest is abandonment. When God says, be still and know some of you might hear I'm falling behind performance. Anxiety is just fear wearing spiritual clothes. You're not broken. You're not, you're, you're, you're, you're not terrible. You're just bilingual and language. And God is retraining your soul to think in his language. First, the language of love. And tonight you're going to recognize love. Without chaos, strongholds are going to break. Love doesn't spike adrenaline. Love doesn't demand proof. Love that doesn't manipulate through intensity. Look at this.

Not every strong feeling that we have is God. Sometimes it's just familiarity. Light, clarity is your breakthrough. The difference between development and use, between intimacy and intensity, between love and lust. First John chapter 2 verse 15. Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, look at this, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life is not of the Father, but is of the world. Three categories. The lust of the flesh. I need to feel something to feel alive. That's the lust of the flesh. You got to feel something to feel like you're doing something right. The lust of the eyes. I need to possess something to feel valuable. And the pride of life. I need to be seen as something to feel worthy. Lust doesn't want relationship. It wants resource. Stay with me. Lust always asks, what can I take? Love operates on a different system. Love gives without calculating return. We know first Corinthians 13, let's get, let's pull it out. Verse four, love suffers long and is kind. Love does not envy. Love does not parade itself, is not puffed up, does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil, does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices

in the truth, bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail. Whether there are tongues, they will cease. Whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away with. When I was a child, I spoke as a child. I understood as a child. I thought as a child. But when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. And now abide, faith, hope, love, these three, but the greatest of these is love. This is the line that changes everything. Love does not seek its own. The moment love stops seeking itself, freedom starts. Listen, the moment love stops seeking itself, freedom starts. Again, lust says, if you leave, I'll collapse. Love says, I'm complete in Christ, so I can love freely. Lust says, prove that you love me or prove it. Love says, it's already been proven. Lust clings out of fear. Love releases out of faith. And here's the maturity test. Y'all ready? When you lose something and you're still whole, you've learned love. When you lose something and you're still whole and you can't be affected by the thing you lost, you know love and you're complete in Christ.

But if losing a person, an opportunity, a job destroys you, they were actually your source and it wasn't love. Some of you have learned dependency and called it commitment. You've learned obsession and called it devotion, but tonight God is redefining all those things. Hallelujah. Real covenant doesn't suffocate. It stabilizes. So here's where it gets real. Spiritual passion can borrow patterns from old addictions. Spiritual passion, being charismatic, it's not a problem to be passionate, not a problem to be charismatic. things sometimes can borrow patterns from old addictions. So you used to be addicted to the things in the world, but now you brought that same addiction into Christianity. And now, instead of the weed, alcohol and sex, now it might be ministry opportunities, the husband and wife. Being on the worship team, having a microphone, casting out demons, and you've switched from addictions that you used to be in the world, the things you used to be clinging to, to now in Christ, looking for something to cling on to because you're not complete in love. Some chase valid, used to chase validation. How many people chase validation in the world? Be honest. And I've noticed that a lot of people who have not been made whole in love in Christ that used to chase validation, begin to chase prophecy. Some in the world chased attention, and now you chase platform. Some of you in the world chased escape, and now you chase encounters. If the source changes, but the pattern doesn't, freedom hasn't finished. You can call it hunger, but God calls it misdirected desire. James chapter 1 verse 14. But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. Then, when desire has conceived like a child, it gives birth to sin, and sin, when it is fully grown, brings forth death. So this pattern from desire to conception to sin and to death, the beginning of this pattern is what? Desires. So desire for a platform, desire for

a wife, desire for, and you could desire a wife, but an unhealthy desire, a lustful desire. Or you're not waiting on the Lord to reveal who your spouses are, waiting for the Lord to process you, or not going through the process, but instead trying to skip the process because in the name of spiritual hunger, or I need this. And I'm talking about things that we've all been through, my brothers and my sisters. There's nobody in here that's just exempt from this. We've all been through this. And tonight there's breakthrough, there's healing, there's deliverance in the room, right? Amen. And like I said, desire isn't evil, but it must be governed. Unchecked desire, even spiritual, can lead to burnout. God never anoints addiction, he anoints alignment. Galatians 5.16. I say then walk in the spirit. Everyone say walk in the spirit. And what happens when you walk in the spirit and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh? It doesn't say walk in the spirit and then don't fulfill the lust of the flesh. It says, if you walk in the spirit, you will not because you're walking in the spirit. You will not fulfill the lust of the flesh. That's the byproduct. That's what you conceive. That's what happens because you're walking in the spirit. The lust of the flesh is beat down. It's gone. It can't manifest. Walking in the spirit means your identity doesn't need applause to be valid. If worship fills you and leaves you satisfied, that's hunger. If worship leaves you needing more and more, that's addiction. Are you guys with me? God satisfies hunger. Addiction is never full. It's never full. And I see it a lot. I see people come to the altar, they want hands laid on them, and they want deliverance back over and over and over, or a prophetic word, or they think that, oh, my life's going to change. And I'm telling you, God, God does not anoint that. He does not want that for your life. He wants you to be satisfied and whole in Him. As He begins to rewrite, amen, as your identity, like, it begins to become real in your life and is imparted into your heart and starts changing your nature, He becomes everything to you. Seeking the Lord does not become a job or a duty. It becomes everything to you. In the beginning, it might be like, okay, my pastor's telling me I got to seek God and I got to do it. Okay, amen. It's good to have structure. It's good to have fundamentals. It's good to go through boot camp in Christ. It's good to have pastors who push you to go deeper. But

eventually, you realize, man, this was all about you anyways. He was directing me to you, or she was directing me to you, and now I understand why. It's not a job. It's my life. You're my source. You're my nutrients. You're my food. You're my water. Like I literally can't do this without Jesus. A few days ago. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. We love you, father. A few days ago, I was, I was, I was, I was just, man, I was in prayer and the shower and I was just talking to God like, man, like, I don't even know how I'm here right now. It's, it's, it's, it's only by you. I've learned that I don't know what I'm doing and it has to be revealed. I don't, I don't figure out systems in my head and sit there and strategize all day and night. And when I have done that, it never works. It's the more I abide. And the more I submit to him that he reveals more things that I couldn't have thought of anyways. And I learned more and more that it really is Jesus. But when I start creating systems and trying to start figuring out and overthinking that's lust, that's me trying to do it on my own because I'm, there's a desire in me. There's something in me that's trying to conceive sin and it's trying to bring death on my life. But in the presence of God, these desires that I don't even recognize are unhealthy are revealed and uprooted. And this is why intimacy with God is not even questionable. It's not even optional. We don't even know that we're desiring. Like, yes, I get in the beginning of our walk, the things that we used to do in the world, like the obvious things, right? Like, like the lust for, for the, you know, a person or, you know, drugs. Yeah. You, you, God delivers you. You break, you know, you break the strongholds with the word of God and his presence. Hallelujah. Everything's good. But then the devil and the flesh try to start translating those things into Christian things. Like, yeah, you might've been an alcohol addict and God freed you, but now if you're given a platform too early and you're given a microphone on a worship team, this is your new alcohol. And now when you're up here and everyone's clapping and you're worshiping, you feel that same high you did when you were drunk. And then the minute it gets taken away from you, you freak out and now your whole life is ending. That's when you know it's unhealthy. You should be able to lose that for a week or two or permanently and be like, you know what? It's okay. Maybe God's transitioning me into something else. I'm going to go seek him. I'm complete and I'm whole. You know, you know what we do as humans, we plan and that's okay to plan. Am I saying don't plan?

Yes. Plan. But I've realized that when I plan too much without God and my dialogue is with me and me and not the Holy ghost, I start getting into this crazy, like I don't, like I start going and I start thinking, this is it, this is it. And then God shows me, no, it's not. And then again, I realized this is why you're God and you're sovereign. And I'm just, I'm just a human and I legit need you like God. I want to say this for somebody and baby in the back or the front. I don't know. God is not a figment of our imagination. He's not imaginary. He's really alive. You get to experience him. And we, he wants, it was so amazing about God is he actually wants to teach us. He wants to guide us. He wants to help us. He wants us to rest in him. He wants us to know that, Hey, I got you. But when we start trying to, there's always an unhealthy desire that's driving us without him driving the vehicle. If it's something that he's never told us to do. And you know, we all go through that. And I always say this, we're children of God. You're either God's son or daughter, and God loves you. And as long as you seek the Lord, he'll always help you out. And I've learned that, that there's been times man, a time recently, it just happened when we were in harvest time, who was with us when we were in harvest time, right? In Sanford, you know, God bless him. It was a beautiful sanctuary. It was smaller than this. And you know, we, it was, it was, it was a crazy time. We used to have, we asked, we used to have to unpack the pack, the box truck, every service pack it back up. It was wild, but man, it was people, God, God moved, God moved. But I remember, um, during that season, I thought in my mind, we're going to buy a church, it's time. And I'm telling you, wait, don't clap yet. Cause that wasn't the Lord. And we went, me and my wife, and we looked at a bunch of places and, and I mean, by the grace of God, we've been stewarding the finances of the church by the, you know, we've been, we've been on point. So we knew, man, this is, we're about to hit our two-year mark where we, I think we can, we can, we can get this loan. And, and we got a, a commercial real estate agent and a broker. And they were like, yeah, we actually can help you out. And we thought we had everything on lock and we were moving and grooving. We're growing. We got to get out of here. It's overflow. And I'm going to all these places and, and all these opportunities. And I remember just not feeling peace. sense on paper but in my heart I didn't have peace. And I just remember going to the Lord saying God show me like I need you to show me something. Please I don't want to make the wrong

decision. You know what ended up happening? I'm not going to get into detail but we ended up having to leave harvest time abruptly. I'll just put it that way. And I'm like God what's going to happen? And the same church that he told me four or five months or maybe six months that my wife had a dream about. The same church he told me about was the only option we literally had. We had to be at a harvest time within a few weeks or I think it was a month. It was a quick quick notice you got to get out. Like and I'm talking about this like night and day like I'm just like what is going this is crazy what do we do? And the same church this church that was presented to us six months before that was still was still available. And then we come here and you know we transition and obviously you guys could see the the fruit of it. It's a beautiful sanctuary right? But I thought it was time to buy a building. I thought in my mind it's time to buy a building. It's time to go rich. We got everything on lock and I'm thinking man this is what God wants but I didn't ask God what he wants. I didn't spend time in prayer. Even I was praying but my prayers wasn't directed towards God what's your what's your will. It was like God thank you that it's time to get a church. God thank you Lord. It's time. We got the finances in order. We have the CPA. Every month has been stamped. We got everything the 501c3. We have the board. We're super legit on point like clean like snow white like snow. It's time to execute. And God's like nah I want you to go to another church and thank God for this church. But I learned through many processes. That's not the only time this has happened but I've learned and I'm learning more and more that we have to really wait on the Lord and we have to take things to God because we can be in unnecessary wilderness seasons for no reason and I've also learned that even when you when you don't know that what you're planning is enough God as long as you're abiding and staying in his presence he's going to work everything out. Romans 8 28 right? All things work for for what type of people? Those who love him. You can't use that scripture over someone who's in rebellion. You can't use that scripture over someone who's being stubborn. If you love God meaning you seek him and you want to be obedient and you cry out and say God I don't know in my finite mind what's going on right now. I think this is it and I believe you're revealing this to me but it is if there's and I pray this all the time I say God I start I cry about this weekly daily. God I want to be obedient so if there's any area where I'm not being obedient show me. I'm moving in faith. I'm not moving in fear double-minded. I'm going to move in faith. I commit all these works onto you establish my thoughts but Lord I want to be

radically obedient so if you show me I'm doing it but I need you to show me because without you showing me I can't do it. Does this make sense? Some of you learned authority through pain right? Parents maybe you were you were you were raised by people who you know authority was pain, verbal, physical abuse. I believe a lot of people have been through that. So now in Christ how many people were abused as a child? It's and you know there's a lot of people and but I'll tell you this we come to Christ we've been delivered but as we're growing correction might feel like rejection because of what you went through when you were a child. So now that you have a pastor or a leader when they correct you instead of like the Bible says to take rebuke like honey it stings too much and now you either want to fight or you want to isolate. Boundaries feel like control. You know we have a hierarchical structure here in this church. I mean the Bible is clear about about order. The God is a God of order and and I've seen it. I've seen people that are they get offended by structure and call it religion call it control even though our God the nature of our God is order. He's a very orderly God from Genesis to Revelation. He's very orderly but if in your life you were controlled before coming to Christ the minute that that boundaries or structures come it might scare you a little bit and it might be a familiar thing that God wants to heal. Amen. Standards might feel like abuse but tonight discernment is going to return in those areas. Hallelujah. Look at this. Hebrews chapter 12 Twelve or six for whom the Lord loves, he chastens and scourges every son whom he receives. If you endure chastening, and by the way, guys, chastening means training. God deals with you as with sons for what son is there whom a father does not chasten. But if you are without chastening of which all have been become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the father of spirits and live? For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but he for our prophet that we may be partakers of his holiness. Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those whom who have been trained by it. The key phrase trained by it.

God disciplines sons, not strangers. So correction isn't punishment, it's preparation. Boundaries aren't abandonment, they're proof of care. 1 Corinthians 13, 6 says love does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth. So love that never confronts is not love, it's neglect. And I was meditating on this today. If you have a friend that's willing to keep it real with you, do everything you can to keep that friend. You don't want people around you who are yes men, who will always say yes, yes, yes, but never say no, that's not what I believe. Whenever you have somebody around you who's willing to tell you the truth and give you a different angle, honor that, cherish that. I know as humans, we want everyone to just agree with what we believe. That's why the Bible says in the multitude of counselors, there's safety. And a counselor is supposed to be able to keep it real with you. That's why being plugged into a local church where you have leadership is safety. For those that are part of the rock, you know, you guys have in your revival teams, leaders, assistant leaders, you have pastors, you have, you have, I'm talking about like, oh, what is it over 60 leaders we have, right? That's 50, 60, 70 leaders. That's the multitude of counselors. Is the Holy Spirit inside every one of those believers and their leaders. So if you go to one, okay, you write that down, go to the next. I recommend you go to multiple leaders and ask the same question and jot it down for your own safety and then take it to the presence of God. I promise you, the Holy Spirit will show you what he wants to do through his children. That's why the body of Christ is so important. But if we, in the world, we're hurt by people, we're misdirected or misled by people, abused by people, sexually assaulted by people, hurt by the people that we love the most, trained up by people who only wanted to destroy us.

It's going to be different now in Christ and, and we need to, we need to let God heal that area of our heart so we see even God's children rightly. God's children are not perfect. He's perfect and he lives inside of them. I never, I never say just, just trust someone a hundred percent, no doubt in your mind and just believe what they say. No, take everything to prayer. But in the multitude of counselors, there's safety, but we're so quick to be like, no, they don't believe in what I'm saying. They're against me. You ever seen someone like that? You tell them the truth and then they think you're against me. You're jealous of me. You're envious of me. You don't want me to succeed. If you have somebody in your life that's willing to keep it real with you and not agree with you on everything, cherish that, honor that, amen. Because in that, with those type of people, there's safety. Proverbs 27 five, look at this. Open rebuke is better than love carefully concealed. Open rebuke is better than secret love. The wound of a friend is faithful, but the kiss of an enemy is deceitful. Doesn't it feel worse when you're, when you're believing for something and then you got people around you who say, yeah, we believe for it too. And then you find out later, oh wow, that wasn't what it was. And you realize these people just said yes to me because they don't, they don't want to tell me the truth. You've all experienced that, right? You're pouring out your heart to someone. They're barely listening.

and they just agree with you. I know people are busy, people are thinking about other things themselves, and we've all done that on both sides, but what I'm saying is, if someone's willing to rebuke you, meaning not like, not like, yeah, rebuke you in the name of Jesus, I'm talking about someone who's willing to say, nah, I don't agree with that, I don't think that's true. My brother, my sister, I think you should take it to prayer, I'm gonna take it to prayer, but I don't, I don't agree with that. If someone's willing to put their foot down and not budge, cherish that. Amen. Correction means investment. Ignoring means disengagement. Growth hurts less than staying stuck. Growth hurts less than staying stuck. When you're growing, it's gonna hurt, but you know what hurts worse? Being stuck. Wouldn't you rather go through the fire, and it's painful, but you grow than going through a fire, and you're not getting out of it, you're staying in it, because you're not growing. Meshach, Shirach, and Abednego, the three Hebrew boys in the book of Daniel, they came out of the fire, because Jesus was guiding them, but if Jesus ain't guiding us, we can stay in that fire and burn to death. Everyone say, we follow Jesus. Peace feels boring to trauma, but powerful to the healed. Peace feels boring to trauma, meaning when God gives you peace and rest, and everything's actually just coasting and good, can you receive that peace, or is it boring to you where you got to go start doing more things? Peace feels boring to those who have trauma, but powerful to the healed. Y'all with me on this? First John 4 13. Jesus answered and said to her, this is the woman at the well, the Samaritan woman, whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give them, or give him, will never thirst, but the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water, springing up into an into everlasting life. So what was this woman doing? She kept drinking relationships, water for soul thirst. She had many husbands, but none of them were even her husband. She was going from relationship to relationship to relationship for her soul, but she was still thirsty. In Christ, are we still going from relationship to relationship to relationship? Can you have peace being alone with Jesus and not being in a relationship with a person until God reveals it? Or does your soul still thirst for the things that you thirst for in the world? Do you feel like you're not doing the right things in Christ, or you're not loved by God because you don't have that person that that you think you're supposed to have? Like God's not all powerful? We're looking

for people instead of looking for God, and then you stay stuck and wonder why the person hasn't come yet. It's not because God doesn't want somebody for you, it's because you're not prepared for that person. You're too busy looking for the person instead of preparing for the person to come, and because he's a good father, he will not bring that person until you're prepared, because he loves you and loves them. And God's not a God of disorder, he's a God of order. Amen. I'm trying to help you guys for real. And this woman at the well, Jesus didn't shame her, he redirected her. God doesn't indulge patterns, he heals the roots. Psalm 34 18. The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart and save such as have a contrite spirit. Closeness without chaos feels unfamiliar, but it's real. Deliverance clears the house, but discipleship fills it. Okay, listen. From deliverance to discipleship. Matthew 12 uh 12 43. When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places seeking rest and finds them. This is talking about a demon that leaves a person. Then he says, I will return to my home from which I came. And when he comes, he finds it empty, swept and put in order. Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there. And the last state of that man is worse than the first. So shall it be, or so shall it also be with this wicked generation. Empty houses get reoccupied. Freedom without formation is temporary. So, when you're freed, the Spirit of God now needs to fill not only that home, but every room in that home. And when the Holy Ghost takes ownership of that home, because your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, and lives inside, he's going to start cleaning everything up, because there's a lot of mess in your home. Strongholds, patterns, trauma. But the only way he can enter one of your rooms, because he's a gentleman, is if you let him in. And some of these rooms have been messy for a long time, infested with a lot of dirt. You know, we went from witchcraft store to witchcraft store in Miami. You guys are going to see it again, like I said. And these are like deep voodoo witchcraft stores, right? And one thing we noticed about every witchcraft store, you know what we noticed? They stunk. They smelt like doo-doo. Every single one of them. Nasty. Disgusting. Almost feels like a...

We walked into like a dirty restroom. I'm serious. And I was teaching the young man, I said, look, that's what you know when witchcraft's around. There's chaos and there's disorder. And the person doesn't even understand that they need to clean the place, or they don't have the mental capacity to even do it. It's not just a witchcraft store, it's even our own homes. You ever go to someone's home that's dirty and you realize they're going all over the place in their mind? It's witchcraft. They're being controlled by a spirit, not focused on what's in front of them. Clean your house. Clean your room. I'm serious. That's just a symptom, I'm being honest. Demons love filth, they love dirt. They love sin, they love, they love, they love, they love, they love the disgusting things. That's where they can dwell comfortably. You ever go to somebody's house who's going through a whole bunch of stuff in their life, trauma and chaos? Their house is not clean and swept and ready to go. They haven't washed their clothes in weeks. Probably haven't bathed in two or three days. Haven't brushed their teeth. Haven't cleaned their toilet in months. And they're just going through it, right? I'm just going through it, I'm just going through it. They can't, because they're under witchcraft. Just trying to help y'all out. And that's not every time. Okay, don't go into people's houses saying, Oh, your house is dirty, there's a witchcraft spirit. Don't do that. I feel like some of y'all are like, I'm about to go rebuke demons. No, stop. Don't do that.

Use wisdom, discernment. Ephesians 4.22 That you put off concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lust, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness. Look at this. You don't just stop old behavior, you replace it with new nature. We learned about this, right? You don't just stop old behavior. You don't just look at the sin issue and say, I'm just going to stop it. No, your heart, your nature needs to change by the grace or the empowerment of the Holy Spirit. It is a supernatural healing. It is a supernatural transformation. It is a supernatural breakthrough. It is not carnal, where in our own might and strength we can stop this thing that's been happening for generations. If your mother or father was super angry all the time, and now you're super angry all the time, you probably need deliverance or healing, and your nature needs to change. Instead of denying it,

running from it, or acting like it's not there, why not address it? Why not address it and let the Holy Spirit clean you up? I went through this too. I was two years saved at the time in the faith, and I thought I was good. And I remember a man of God laid hands on me, and I started getting deliverance from the spirit of rage. And I got delivered, and I was sitting there like, I didn't even know I had this. And then I realized after that, I started realizing it's true. The anger, the rage in these areas, and I started going to the Holy Spirit for more healing. More healing, and I realized, man, this is what my father had, and probably my grandfather, who I never met, and it probably went down the bloodline. And it's something that needs to be stopped. And it's not easy when you've been dealing with it for so long and you were born into it. And that nature changing is a process. The deliverance part is easy. But when the spirit

leaves, now the room needs to be cleaned up. That's your heart. It's the rooms in your heart. So now God's going to allow situations to happen to show you, hey, we need to address this together. Hey, you saw this. This wasn't me. Come seek me so I can change you. And then when you get in that secret place and you're crying out to God, saying, God, this is not what you want. You did not give me a spirit of anger or fear or perversion. You gave me power, love, and a sound mind. You don't want it. I don't want it. Holy ghost have your way. And then you begin to weep and cry like a child profusely and you feel that you feel that release. And then all of a sudden the situation happens a few days later where you would have got super angry or lustful or fearful and it doesn't happen. And then you realize I've been changed. Deliverance is the first thing. The transformation is the process. It's very easy in a church where the power of God is, it should be every church to come to the altar and get delivered. Amen. Praise God. I believe in deliverance.

I believe that Christians can and need and will continue to receive deliverance. But then after you get deliverance, you have to let God change your heart, your nature. And that only comes from intimacy with him. You can't, you can't, you can't expect your nature to be changed in a corporate setting. So you can't expect, God, you're going to change my heart and my nature. When I come to church and worship, is it, is it amazing to worship together amongst the saints? Yes. It's that nature, that transformative changing thing. It's conception. It's, it's, it's, it's what's conceived through intimacy with God. It's when you're with him alone. That's why I preach this so much because you cannot catch breakthrough transformation or grow in the image of God unless you're in the garden of Eden with God, tending the garden of your heart. That's the only way that you're going to be able to change and look different. I love when I hear people that I haven't seen in years and I go get some food with them or whatever, say, wow, you've changed that right there is the fruit. And this, the honor that comes to intimacy with God, I get no glory. He gets it all, but I know I'm doing something right, amen. So again, a lot of us learned lustful patterns that need to be cleaned up and it's, and it's okay. God is not mad at you. He's actually ready to go to war. We think going to war is going to the dark places. Is it? Yes. There's a lot of warfare that comes from, that comes through that kingship, that evangelism, you know, going out to the field and yes, amen. Hallelujah.

But for me, the greatest war is inside. That's what God is trying to clean up in me and change me in. Because for me, going out to win a soul, pray, preach the gospel, that's, that's honestly icing on top of the cake kingship, but first priesthood intimacy with God. That to me is the most, I would say the most battle thing in my life. That's what the enemy wants to take me out of the most. He wants to get me so caught up and doing things for God that I never get changed by the one I'm doing things for. And I know that my father who loves me, wants me to change more than he wants me to do things for him. Because when I change, I can do more things. When I change my, my authority increases. When I change, my love increases. When I change my, my peace increases. When I change, he can bless me more. God will not put glory anointing or blessings or on a person or given to a person that can't hold it within their nature. He gives you what you can hold in your heart. Imagine a God who gives you things that your heart's not ready for and you get destroyed and go back to the world. That's it. I'm telling you, we think the devil is only attacking people in the streets in the, in the world. No, the biggest attacks is actually inside the churches. A pastor who gives you a platform to earlier, a pastor who says, you know what, you're gifted. So I want you to go do this for, for, for God, because they don't care about your soul. That's a big attack because then you're, you're, you're operating in a gifting and, and maybe you are anointed, but you're not ready for it. And now you're, yeah, you become lustful over that thing. You become addicted.

And then when the thing gets taken from you, cause that's what the enemy is going to do. However it is now you freak out and you go back to the world. I've met, which is like that, which is who are, who are used to be Christians that are now, which is because their intimacy was works. Their intimacy was in a corporate setting. The only time they experienced the presence of God was when they were with other Christians. If that's the only time you experienced the presence of God, you're not going to change. It's like saying you only eat food one time a week. You'd end up. starving to death. We have to grow in that communion with God, that sitting at the table where our hearts burn within us, where we start to just see life differently. You ever come out the secret place and now you see everything differently that you were, right? Your perspective changes. You know, that's the greatest weapon. For me, my greatest worry or fear is not having the right perspective going through this life, because that's how people fall. I don't want to be a person who's leading God's people, working for God, but my perspective is off. Because then if I'm out of alignment, because I'm not in God's presence and in God's word, I can lead a whole thing to destruction. And how many times have we seen that happen in the church? And then people get church hurt, and then people go to the world, and then people are pointing the finger at Jesus like he's not real or he's not a good God, because of what they experienced from someone who wasn't intimate with God, but only working for God. That desire conceives sin and then death. We think death is you being killed. What if death is adultery? What if death is those crazy scandals that we see online, of all these people going through things? You know, it started from an unhealthy desire that wasn't recognized, that was not dealt with. And what if it was an unhealthy desire, a simple one, just to have a microphone and be known? And I'm saying something that I'm also held accountable to. And the only thing that gives me assurance is the fact that I know that I am intimate with the Lord. My assurance is not in how I preach. Imagine if me feeling satisfaction was knowing that people got saved at the altar. Whoa, I'm a preacher, man. People got saved tonight. I'm doing the right thing, God. Is it powerful to see souls saved, delivered? It is, praise God. I've been seeing it since I was saved. But that does not give me assurance. What gives me assurance is being in the secret place with God, spending time with Him, leaving that prayer room

like, oh, it was so amazing with you. And I know, Lord, because your word says, if I abide in the vine, I'm going to bear fruit. And all these days, the scriptures just start popping up. I'm like, I'm good. I'm safe under the shadow of the Almighty. Oh, my goodness, it gives me so much peace. The Lord is my shepherd, right? You know, He leads us on the path of righteousness for His namesake. Psalm 23, right? He leads us on the path of righteousness for His namesake. We just talked about it because of His character, His nature, who He is. For His reputation, He leads us on the path of righteousness. But is that everybody body of Christ? Who is it for? For those who are with Him. Was David a man after God's own heart? So David is a pattern. David is a pattern of someone who messed up a lot, but was protected by God because of intimacy. Did David mess up? But what's one thing he had a lot? Intimacy, a man after God's own heart or God's own nature. Nature. So he led him on the path of righteousness for his namesake. Psalm 91. Is that applied to every single person? No, it's applied to those who abide under the shadow of the directional guide. You can't just pray. You can't just say it and think, oh, it's going to happen now. No, it's a directional guide of what to do. It's like getting an IKEA desk. You get the directions and you just start reading it out loud, waiting for it to be built. No, you got to listen to what it says or or follow what it's what you're reading and do it. And it's not just the scriptures I was talking to. Listen to this. I was talking to a young lady on Ocean Drive, two of them. We just walking by there at one of if you ever been there, they have all these restaurants, overpriced restaurants, and we're walking by garbage food and they charge like a million dollars. But people think, oh, I got my drink on Ocean Drive. Take a picture. I look like you look boozy. You look popping. You could put it on social media and you look like, man, it's great. But so they are there. They're right there. And I'm talking to her and she starts going in. She goes and she's like, so Jesus, like, like, why does he all these things happen to me then? Why do all these things happen to people overseas? Why are kids in Congolese and Congo? She's Congolese. And she said in Congo, like being killed. And you don't even know about my mother and my father. And she's going in. And I said, you know what? Stop. My brother right there, Pat is from Congo.

Congo says, yeah, my mom and dad were saved at a Billy Graham crusade 30, 40 years ago. They were able to to get to America by dad was actually put in a concentration camp where he was supposed to be killed. And out of nowhere, right when it was his time to be killed, an American government government official came in. He got freed, was able to transfer to the concentration camp of my mother. She gets impregnated, has their first child there, and then they're able to come to America. To Orlando and then get a get a free house from Habitat, from humanity. And she's over there telling me, why has my mom been praying 20 years for a house and hasn't got it yet? And I said, let me show you. You have your example. Let me show you my example. And I said, you know, we could sit there and point the finger all day. But God gives us direction on what to do. We got to follow it. And yes, it's the scriptures, but we can't apply what scripture we want to the situation if it's not the will of God. I always say this. You can't say if what you if what I ask, I receive because your word says it. And you're asking God, like I said earlier, for a new church, but it's not the will of God. So then how do we know what his will is? Through intimacy. And sometimes he doesn't always answer right away. Is that OK? What if he, what if him answering away stops the process he wants you to go through? Is that OK? Can we wait on the Lord? Does this make sense? God is personal. He's relational. He has a personality and he wants us to seek him and we will find him. Spend time with him diligently, the scripture says. And if we do, we will be rewarded openly. What are the three things that people hate to do about it? Of course, as I was up, Holy Spirit was ministering to me. He said the three things that people don't want to do. What is it? And Jesus identified it. Praying in private, fasting in private and giving in private. Did Jesus know that over 2000 years ago? He did. It was a real time by the father. He knew even 2000 years later that still would be a struggle in his church. And you know, he said, if you do these things, you'll be rewarded publicly. Isn't that crazy? But those are three things that people fight against the most.

I don't have time to pray. Fasting hurts too much. And why would I give my money to a church? I don't know what they're doing with it. And those are the three things that he said you will be rewarded publicly for. He's all knowing. We don't look at people. We look at him, his word, his word, spoken and written. The Raymond Logos word, the graphic word. And we get we get the direction. And once God reveals it and he won't know when it's time, he'll put assurance in our heart. But then again, like I said, even before the fact that we seek him intimately daily, we know we cannot be led astray. I can make decisions that I believe is the Lord. But do I know that there might be a time where the attack is so great that I'm not even seeing what's going on like a sheep amongst wolves? Yes, I am a sheep amongst wolves. But I know that if I'm connected to the great shepherd, even if the decision I'm making is not the will of God, he is going to direct my steps. He's going to change me to pivot. He will give me a dream. He will give me a vision. He will have somebody tell me what needs to be done. And that's not just for me, it's for everybody. But I would say diligently. But we have to seek him diligently if we want God to clean up. As I was addressing these areas of lust, I know a lot of you were like, man, that's me. Or you felt convicted. How many of you felt convicted? Come on, be honest. OK, that's good. Now, God needs to change your nature. So how is he going to change your nature? Say it out loud. Antimacy. Everyone say the secret place. You go in and saying, God, this preacher man preached this and this convicted me. So this season, this is what we're addressing, not going and doing a whole bunch of things for God, but taking a step back. And as you take a step back, you go higher and higher and higher in him. And as you go higher in him, he changes your nature more and more. And then now you're at a different level than what you would have been if you were stagnant, wandering. Does this make sense? And this is why it's important to see God. deliver you tonight. If you need deliverance, if it's a spirit, he's going to deliver you tonight. Hallelujah. God is a delivering God, but he wants you to not only get deliverance, but also get true nature transformation. And that only comes through intimacy. How many of y'all been in your word? Praise God. How many of y'all been in the secret place? Come on. How many of y'all have

not been in the secret place, but you're going to get in the secret place. Amen. Come on. And how many of you guys just don't care? You just don't care at all. Anybody? I pray for your deliverance. You just don't care. All right. Maybe somebody brought you and you just, you know, coming to check it out and not ready. If you just don't care, you know, it's, it's fine. Like when I was evangelizing in South beach, there's a lot of people who just didn't care. I was talking to a brother. Yeah. I'm gonna talk about it. The foe, he kept throwing up foes, kept throwing up foes. He was like, bro, you gotta believe in them. He said, throw up your foes, the four elements. I believe in the four elements. I don't believe in God. And bro, he had all this knowledge, but it was like, man, you just don't know. And the minute I began to give words of knowledge to him, this man's his whole confidence has started changing. He started smiling and it's like everything, he came combative, ready to fight me. But then at the end, he's hugging me, thanking me saying, man, I'm video may follow this guy. If I was a Christian, I'd follow this guy. He's like, and it's like, and I'm sitting there like, bro, and I'm telling him like, bro, you'd be such a powerful preacher, bro evangelist. Like you really believe in these four elements, right? And it got combative. My brothers in Christ, they're like, Hey, Hey, Rich, Rich, we got to end this interview. Cause it was getting, it was getting a little hostile. I just, I just knew I was like, bro, he's just, he's just like how I was like, he just really believes in what he doesn't even know. And it's really convicting him that everything he's saying, I have a response for, and he doesn't need love, bro. And the minute I started speaking life over him, the atmosphere started shifting. He started getting convicted. He started receiving because the man doesn't have love. He just has lust. So if you just don't care, maybe right now you just don't care. I think that's even a lie. There's nobody who just doesn't care about what we're doing here. There's nobody who doesn't care about God or doesn't care about what the truth is. Everybody cares. That's why everybody defends what they believe, whether it's a lie, Buddha, Jesus, whether it's the four elements, Scientology, it's wild what people will defend. And you know what I told him? I said, bro, you were raised in church. He was like, he was admitting everything. I said, you know what? I said, bro, the one thing I know is that what I read, I experienced, and that just kept breaking him.

And I just kept saying experience, experience, experience. And he had no rebuttal for it. I kept telling him, I said, I said, bro, if you go to chemistry class right now, and you have a chemistry teacher who tells you that red and blue, if you put it together equals what? Purple. I remember the first time I think I was in kindergarten or first grade when I was told that I have the teacher who tells me, who gives me the testimony of what she did, but I still have to have enough faith to actually do it myself to see the purple. And what happens when you see purple, you now believe, and you don't have to have faith for it anymore because it's a fact. And people will say, well, the Bible is written by man. So is your biology book. So is your chemistry book. So is your history book. So is your, your phone. So is your, your encyclopedia. So is your dictionary. Okay. Let's, let's settle that fact that every book has to be written by a man. Okay, cool. Does that destroy that idiotic, idiotic, like there's that, that idiocy, that logic, but just like chemistry, if I'm going to believe in this chemistry book, what I read, what I read about these two substances being put together, create this combustion. I remember when I was in 10th grade or ninth grade, I forgot what grade I was in. When I was doing chemistry, I used to, I used to get excited because we actually used to do physical projects. And I used to see reactions. It's cool to see something you read about you do, and then it happens, right? That's the thing about the gospel. The minute you believe it, the power and presence of the Holy spirit fills you. The blinders come off your eye, and then you go from not caring to actually believing. But if you don't want to believe it because out of the stubbornness in your heart or because it's Scary that I don't know what if I do what if I believe it and it's not real You're gonna believe other things and the other things are gonna are dead. There are dead idols The four elements he can't talk to him Allah, I've never met a Muslim who says they have a personal relationship with Allah When I talk to Muslims, I used to debate him like crazy. I used to love it I used to cry and I still do sometimes I get into my my David Lynn bag I love David Lynn and I and probably some of y'all don't know who that is He's a mighty man of God a friend of mine. I get it. I like it Sometimes it's needed apologetics, but what I've done what I do a lot recently is like when I talk to a Muslim We're not gonna go book for book. We're gonna go experience for experience

What's your experience with Allah you read a book you bow down six five whatever times a day You go wash yourself I've been to these mosque you wash yourself in this room and you do all these rituals and you bow down get up Okay Now do you know who your God is Do you have an intimate relationship with Allah where he reveals himself to you daily or reveals himself to you period and they'll tell you No, that doesn't make any sense That's the difference between religion and relationship Buddhism you are God that's crazy Did it for years Was the stretching and yoga good yeah, it was good stretching not gonna lie. There's a workout. It's hard But then when they would tell me I'm God I'd say how am I God I don't even know what I'm doing here It pissed me off I'm being honest And I remember after yoga classes I would sit down with the yogi We leave the we leave it the yoga spot and it was a super woke older You know the guys would I wear the orange and all that I'd be look like he was The guy right and he was super wise and all these things and I would sit down with him and I'd ask him all these Questions and he would not have answers He would always redirect the questions with like these Trying to be deep answers that have no answer It just redirects you so you don't ask it anymore and you feel dumb Being honest But when I met Jesus It wasn't just philosophy or reading something the God of the Bible that I was reading came alive in my life and I experienced him and Not not in a way where I'm like, maybe that was real Huh? No, I'm talking about I encountered before coming to Christ. I had sleep paralysis Before coming to Christ I had sleep. I had spiritual experiences where I saw demons and I still didn't give my life to God

So encountering demons didn't even get it didn't cause me to give my life to Jesus is when I encountered Jesus Because when I encountered Jesus When I encountered the God of the Bible Alive in my little apartment. I realized oh my god, this is it and it wasn't just one time I encounter him whenever I want because now I'm in relationship with him Yeah, I'm gonna say it whenever I want Whenever I desire to encounter Jesus, I can seek him and encounter him like this Do I know what's gonna happen? I don't it might just be his presence. It might just be revelation It just might be his man him a simple word a rainbow word It might be God sending somebody to my house randomly. It might be just me in the streets it might I don't know and that's what makes it exciting and that's what allows me to know that he's the bridegroom and I'm the Bride, he's a leader. I'm the assistant He does what he wants I follow when he reveals I Don't lead my own life. I wait for him to show up and show out Can we surrender and die to that? Can we say God I've been trying come on I've been trying to lead my own life eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil I've been trying to do my own thing God, but I want you to lead my life in this area Why am I being fearful? Why am I having anxiety? Why am I freaking out because you might be dealing with trauma or lust and Instead of the situation being solved focus on why you're not allowing God to handle the situation Listen to me instead of trying to solve the situation. Why not say God You're revealing to me my heart in this trial. I Already know you're gonna solve it. But why don't I trust you? Are you listening Why don't I trust you God? Why do I feel fear anxiety? the fruit of the enemy Why don't I feel love joy? Peace kindness. Why don't I feel what I'm supposed to be feeling? It's because whatever you're partnering within your heart is

Not God and the Holy Ghost is out there door, come on, let me in. And the minute you, you open the door to your heart, he comes in and he cleans it up. And then you'll, you'll realize the trial was never about it getting solved. It was about what you were going to experience through the trial. That's why the Bible says rejoice when you go through various, because when you come out of the trial, what's produced perseverance, character, hope. So it's never about the trial. It's about what's produced through the trial. Amen. Are you with me? So guys, the first step to intimacy with God is to give your life to him. It's the first step is just surrender to the gospel, this gospel message that I'm going to preach right now. The gospel means good news. I speak to a lot of people who claim to be Christians and I say gospel. They say, what I say, you, you ever heard the gospel? They say, yeah, I've been to church. You ever heard the gospel? Yeah. I've been baptized. You ever heard the gospel? Yeah. I've read the Bible. You ever heard the gospel? Yeah. My mom's a prayer warrior. Look, the gospel has nothing to do with those things. The gospel just means good news. And there's many, there's many gospels. There's a gospel of deliverance, good news that you can be freed. There's the gospel of healing good news that Jehovah, Jehovah, Rafa can heal you. Gospel just means good news, but there's only one gospel of Jesus Christ. Okay. Everyone say gospel of Jesus Christ. I say gospel means good news. Okay. So the gospel of Jesus Christ, the good news of Jesus, it is written in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and it can be revelatory revealed revelatory to you throughout the entire Bible, but the gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John reveal the life of Jesus Christ and what he came to this earth for and the garden without him and Eve, y'all listening and the garden without him and Eve, the first two humans, there was really two humans in the garden. The first two humans, Adam was created and an Eve came from his rib. God had a plan with humanity. Everyone say plan. And that plan was good. There was no evil in it. There was no evil in it. There was not even an understanding of evil in it. God never even intended for us as his creation to even understand what evil is. You ever had somebody you love a lot that you don't even want to reveal something to because you know it will break their heart. God didn't want evil revealed to us because he knew it would destroy us. All he wanted was good and gave us instruction on how to tend the garden. It was a revelation of God leading and it's the truth. God was leading Adam and Eve's life,

humanity leading the human race, humanity leading our life so that we can have everything that he intended and still intends for, which is all good. There's no sorrow in it. There's no depression in it. There's no death in it. But because love is not controlled, he gave us free will. Everyone say free will. Imagine if my wife, I controlled her to love me. I did not give her a choice to want to marry me. If I did that, is that even love? Imagine if I locked her in a basement and said, you will be my wife and you will stay here no matter what. That's not love. That's control. God didn't want to do that with us. So he created us. And when he created us, did he know our personality? Yes. When he created us, did God even know the decision that we were going to make in our lifetime? Yes. And that bothers people. Sovereignty and free will. God gave us free will so that God predestined us to go to heaven or hell. He did not. He gave everyone a predestined path of goodness, of him, a relationship with him. So what are we living in right now? What is this reality? If God already knows the beginning to the end, what is going on? Is this life for him or is it for us? Is this life for him or is it for us? See, now we're getting deep. It's for us. This life is to learn about who he is. God sits outside of time and space, looks inside. He already knows the beginning to the end. Does he love every single person he's created? He does. Does he know all those who will go to heaven and hell? He does. But we are now playing out what he already knows with our own free will. He still loves every single person. He wishes that none would perish, but all would come to. But does he know those who will not come to repentance? Yes. It's called sovereignty. Everyone say sovereignty. I spoke up for you. I spoke up for you. this last week, my son Richard who's five years old and my son Jeremiah who's four if right now me and my wife sat down with them and told them everything we do daily all the intricate details of what we do to take care of our family this church everything and I said okay Richard I've been training you for a month at five years old now you know everything take over my job position would my five-year-old be able to do it because he could not understand it even if I spoke to him about it he would not be able to understand it and this is something that you're gonna have to I feel like this is this is for some people in this place this is something that bothers people that the things that

of God can only be understood if he reveals it and he conceals what he reveals for his glory and it's the glory of a king to search it out so as we seek God he reveals more and more to us and what looked like it was fictitious or almost like fake becomes more real because it's revealed and the blinders are taking off our eyes in that area just like my five-year-old becoming six seven as we grow in the faith what used to be almost doubtful or unbelieving becomes such a reality because it's revealed to us by the highest power and that is hard for people to submit to because we want to have everything at once we don't want to go through a process and that's why the gospel is offensive to those who perish it's offensive to those who are perishing but to us who believe it's everything the gospel message of Jesus Christ is that God came to restore us humanity back into that relationship with him that we lost in the garden Adam and Eve were given free will and they decided to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil does that mean that it is they just ate from a tree and they just like like it's a cartoon movie no that sure the knowledge of good and evil represents a life system they ate from a tree that they weren't supposed to eat from knowing good and evil now being able to judge themselves self-conscious they're their own God they want to be equal to God because Satan deceived even said you can eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and be like God so now they're like God and they know good and evil but because now they are like God but they are not God they fell humanity fell an expiration date was put on Adam and Eve's body they have to die now there was curses put on them is that mean guys no it's actually preservation the angels who abode in heaven and homes who were cast out a third of the angels was there a redemptive plan for them nope do they have a chance to repent nope but we because God loves us he kicked us out of the garden it's now secured and gives us a chance to be rescued this is why it's good news the proof is in the pudding we live a life and we die and nothing we do in this life can be taken with us to the next that is depressing if you don't know the purpose of your life and I live my life depressed because of that reason

what are we doing here what is the purpose of all this and it only could be revealed to me by the Almighty the highest power no matter how much information no matter how many religions and spiritual practices I dabbled in nothing gave me the answer until Jesus Christ revealed himself to me and Jesus first loved me before I even knew him and came to this earth God the Son of God equal to God the only begotten Son for God so loved the world is he said it's only begotten that word begotten means the same character nature and essence of the Father and the Spirit that's why he's the only begotten Son he's the only Son it was equal to him that was birthed into this world Jesus is not a prophet he's not lower than the Father he's not a consciousness he is Emmanuel God with us Conceived of a virgin, fulfilling messianic prophecies, living a life just like us, even though he's God in a body, he still had to learn like us, eat like us, drink like us, go through all the life things that we've been through, all the temptations and backstabbing and everything that we go through. But what did Eve get deceived by Satan in the garden? How does she get deceived? Satan said that she could be like God, knowing good and evil. And what happened when they ate from that tree? They fell. How many of y'all know the difference between good and evil in here? Raise your hand. Everybody does. Does even an unbeliever know what good and evil is? They do. You know why? Because when people talk about reincarnation and I say, OK, so then reincarnation, you come back from how good karma, right? Cool. All right. So good karma. What if you believe smoking weed is good and I believe it's bad, who gets the bad karma? Oh, nobody, because it's OK. That's your opinion, though. I thought it's based off the person. So what if you think murder is OK and I think it's wrong? Oh, it's wrong. OK, you see, you're showing me that you have morality. Where did you learn this morality from? Did you go to law school? Well, my parents taught me, OK, well, I have a two year old daughter who knows things are bad and good that I never even taught her. And where's your system in karma? Where's your rules that show you what's good and bad? How do they get confused, mad or they give their life to Jesus? Because there is no rules, there is no laws. It's just believe whatever you want is good and believe whatever you want is bad. Who do you think wants you to think

like that? The devil. Because now you'll go off your feelings. Well, I feel this is good. Smoking weed. Well, I feel like selling weed is OK. Well, I feel like selling cocaine is OK. Well, I feel like doing all this. Now you're in a hole. You get locked up or killed because you are going off your feelings. But because we have morality in our heart, we also have law, the laws, 613 Mosaic laws that were given to Moses to reveal to us the will of God. What's right and what's wrong? Could any of us keep the law 100 percent perfectly? No. But there's one who did, and that's Jesus. And he had to because he knew good and evil, but never sinned. Who's the only one who can know good and evil, but never sin? God. That's why Jesus is God. Emmanuel, God with us. God didn't come to judge us or to condemn the world. That's what Satan thought. Satan thought that that Jesus was coming to condemn the world with the angels. That's why when Jesus was casting the demons out of that man, that legion, they said, it's not our time yet. It's not our time yet. What are these demons think in their mind? That Jesus was about to cast them to the lake of fire and judge them. And they said, just cast us into the pigs. You ever wonder why Jesus actually did it? Because Jesus was finessing them. Jesus was finessing. Why do you think every time he healed and delivered somebody, he would say, don't go tell anybody. It's not time yet. The devil did not know that Jesus was coming to rescue us. He thought Jesus was coming to condemn the world, just like the angels. The devil thought that Jesus was coming to cast everything, everybody to the lake of fire. That's why the devil thought in his prideful mind, if we kill them, we beat them. But little did they know that by killing them, they would be destroyed and we would be rescued because the world, the cosmos, everything is built off of the word of God. The word of God is a system. It's what, it's, it's God's will. And even God will not go against his word. That's why God is he all powerful. Is God all powerful? Then why are people in certain countries like, like, like, like Pakistan, why are little girls being, being, being, being used in the wrong way or being killed? And God doesn't do anything about it. You ever think about that? Because people, people love to say that when we evangelize. I'll tell you why it's because of collective sin. There's regional sin. There's, there's individual sin. And when we sin, even regionally, we welcome demonic principalities over that region who have the legal right to cause havoc and mayhem in that area. This is why I was explaining this to

the men of God. I was teaching them this. This is why revival is so important. Because when we start going winning souls, the Bible says the Holy spirit is the restrainer. He begins to restrain. the region. Principalities begin to get knocked down. Not only do people start getting saved, the region starts getting saved. Things start getting cleaned up. If you ever go to a Christian town or a Christian area, it's a lot cleaner than areas where there's not a lot of Christians. Look at New York City. Look at Orlando. You ever been to Texas? Oklahoma? The Bible Belt? It's a lot cleaner than Orlando. It's a lot cleaner than New York City. And it's because of God. He's in that area. And the Bible says that one day the restrainer will be lifted. That's a whole nother sermon. So Jesus came and he lived the perfect life for us. He gave himself in to be killed. He gave himself in. And before he did that for three and a half years, he proved his deity. Fulfilling messianic prophecies, moving in supernatural power, casting devils out, healing the sick, preaching the kingdom, repent. The kingdom of God is at hand. Proving to the people that he's the Messiah. The multitudes following him. And when it was time, he gave himself in to be physically tortured. Because he knew that the only way the devil would lose that the devil went against the word of God. The only way a man could die is if he sins. Sin produces death. Sin equals death. Did Jesus sin? The devil went against God's word. And when you go against God's word, you're destroyed by the very word you go against. He was judged by the word of God. Even Satan has to abide by the word of God. So when Jesus, the word, hallelujah, made flesh. Finesse the devil and live the life sinless. Came to rescue us. He didn't come to condemn the world. He came to rescue us. And the Bible says he was beaten. Why do you think he was quiet the entire time? All these Jews, the same ones he loves, the same ones he's delivering and healing and helping. He was quiet the entire time. They were torturing him and mocking him and scoffing him and scourging him. Because he knew that it wasn't these Jews. It was the demons in him. That's why he said, God forgive them for they don't know what they do. And he went on the cross as a perfect sacrifice, the lamb of God, because the only way that sins,

the sins of the world could be wiped clean so we could be restored back into that system of eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the garden, as if there was one who knew good and evil, but never sinned. Yeshua, Jesus. Yeshua, Jesus. He took the sins of the world in his body and said, it's finished. And as soon as he gave up the ghost, he gave it up. He gave it up. Every principality in power was disarmed and made a public spectacle of, embarrassed because saying at that moment and the entire demonic kingdom realized in the cosmos and the second heaven, first heaven, even the third heaven, everybody knew the devil lost. He went against the word the entire time in his prideful mind. He thought, if I kill him, I won't be judged. And little did he know that by killing him, we have a door away into salvation. The first time that Jesus came, he came to rescue us. The second time he comes back, he is coming to judge the world. The first time he came, he came as the lamb of God who takes the sins of the world away by his blood, perfect blood. But the next time he comes back, it's the lion of Judah bringing judgment. And he will come back. He will. It's not going to be a good time to be on the dark side. I've had, I had a dream of this before I came to Christ where God showed me the end of times. I woke up and I was in fear. I didn't even know what, I didn't even know what it was. So I came to Christ. I seen it. It is going to be scary. It is not fictitious. It is not anything you could think or can draw up in your mind. It's something that's galactic. It's crazy. It's just wild. It's something that we can't even. Understand when when it happens is gonna be a very scary time for those who are not in Christ But thank God for all for us because we love Jesus. Amen So he died on the cross shed his blood for our sins we could be wiped clean He was buried and because he never sinned again. He beat the devil He he descended the Spirit of Christ Descended to the lower parts and he went and he took the keys the authority that we lost in the garden He took it from Satan Let me rephrase that I'm so sorry Satan had to give it to him

Because he had to abide by the word It wasn't it wasn't a fight He had to give it up because just like in the garden we gave up our authority We had to give it up because we went against the word Satan had to give it up Just Jesus freed the Saints out of Abraham's bosom rose up So we see the Ephesians gave gifts on to men fivefold ministry There's a lot of people that were seen there was a lot of Saints that were seen that day when he resurrected He revealed himself on to his disciples. He breathed on them. They received the Holy Spirit. He walked with them for 40 days Letting him know about what was to come the Great Commission and Then when it was time he ascended meaning in his glorified body But there's no longer death where we will one day be in a glorified body all of us He rose past the clouds and he told his disciples before that to wait for the Holy Spirit to come in and do them with power from high And then a ten days later on the day of Pentecost the Holy Spirit came like a mighty Russian wind Baptized them and cloven tongue. It's divided cloven tongues of fire. They were in do with power They went out won 3,000 souls and that's the that's the whole Joel prophecy That's the whole axe prophecy about the spirit being poured on all flesh It happened in the day of Pentecost and we're still living in it. That was the beginning of the end of times the day of Pentecost So the gospel again, I just gave you a full message But I'm gonna give you the simplified one you believe he's Lord meaning he's high at the highest power. Everyone's the highest power To believe someone's Lord. That's the highest power. That's he's God It's not it's not a religious term that you just say he's Lord and then you think you're saved No, you need to in your heart believe that he is God. There's no other way It's not a lot. Not Buddha. You need to believe that Jesus Christ is the highest power. He's Lord You must believe that he rose from the dead so to believe he rose from the dead You got to believe he died on the cross for your sins this whole that's why I gave the whole gospel message And you must repent

And you're inside and you're the Bible says you repent right at the metanoa. We think it's just the mind It doesn't mean just having a thought where you change that word metanoa is talking about your whole inner man your soul changing You changing inside and directionally where you say God I'm done. I'm changing sides and I'm going to your side I believe your Lord. I believe you rose from the dead and when you and you when you realize I have sinned I fell short have so many sins and I'm if I don't if I don't get saved by your blood I am gonna go to hell God. I need you He gives you life It gives you resurrection It gives you abundant life if you get filled with the Holy Spirit and Then your actual life begins so like people think this they think oh when I come to Christ, my life's gonna get better No, your life actually dies And then you're born again, right? You're born again. So that means you are it's a new birth The old things have passed away Hold you become new new That's what that's what that's what it means to be born again you're born again you become new so if you were raised in religion Where you just told come to church and you'll be I and that is so many people in America, bro That's why America needs revival I'm telling you right now if America does not get revival. You'll see America fall I'm telling you the restrainer if how or how is how is America restrained by God is by the Holy Spirit Where does the Holy Spirit live? So if a bunch of people don't have the Holy Spirit in them, what spirits do they have? Demonic spirits and then what happens that whole area gets taken over by Satan That's why revival is necessary because if revival breaks out not if it's going to it's already happening It's already prophesied but as it breaks out in America, we're gonna see a massive influx of souls We're gonna see changes and everything, right? But then after that guess what's gonna happen Tribulation and all that stuff So now is the day to give your life to Jesus if you're raised in religion But you thought going to do it to go in the church is gonna save you. Yeah, that's not saving you

Your mom can't save you You saying that you you oh, yeah, I went to church. My whole life can't save you It's actually you surrendering to the gospel message. You can be in a church your whole life and still go to hell The only way you'll make it to heaven and be is if you actually surrender to this gospel message that I need a Savior He is Lord. He really rose from the dead. I repent and I'm giving my entire life to him You cannot give half of your life to God You have to die You have to recognize that I need you It's not about religion. If you've been in rebellion, where maybe at one point you did give your life to Jesus, but you've just been far off, you come back onto the narrow, that's still a soul being saved. A soul being saved is not just when someone comes to Christ for the first time. A soul being saved is someone being redirected on the path of the narrow, the path of righteousness too. So, whether it's the first time or you're coming back, that's a soul being saved, and that's extremely important to God. The angels rejoice in heaven when one sinner comes to repentance. Can you be saved and still begin sinning again and be a sinner? Yes. You can be saved on fire for two years and go back to the world, and now you're practicing sin. You're a sinner. That's what a sinner means. Are those who are in Christ sinners? No. A sinner is someone who practices sin. When you're in Christ, do you fall short? Yes. Is that falling short of sin?

Yes. But you're not practicing it. You're repenting of it. You're changing. You're growing from it. You care about it. But if you're living in sin, meaning you're practicing sin, and you don't care, and you don't have conviction, you need to repent, meaning change direction and come back to Jesus. There's only one salvation, and it's when you surrender to this gospel message. So according to that, and before I get into that, I want to talk about baptism because it's very important. Baptism, again, is when you die under that water, and I've preached this a million times, but I'm going to say it again. It's when you die under that water, and your old life is dead, and you rise a new creation in Christ. It's a prophetic act. It's an anti-type, the Bible says. It's you physically doing something that already happened in your heart, and because you're making that act of obedience, a spiritual reality is birthed. Your conscious will be cleansed. How many of y'all were baptized, and you felt your conscious cleansed, literally? I did. Through obedience, a spiritual reality is birthed. You go into that water, you rise a new creation. If you got baptized as a baby, that was not baptism. At most, you were dedicated to God. That was not baptism. If you got baptized because you just wanted to get out of a bad situation, that's not baptism, that's fear.

You got baptized because your parents told you to get baptized. Again, I don't care if you were 14 or 4, you were dedicated to the Lord at most. Just a bath. You didn't have to even go in that water. You could've just had someone pray over you. But true baptism is when you believe this gospel, surrender to it, and you come to Jesus, and you go into that water, you die to yourself, you rise up a new creation, you divorce the world, you divorce Satan under that water, and you rise married to Christ, a new creation, conscious cleansed, robe of righteousness, as a child of God, walking in that sanctification process, fully sanctified, hallelujah. So, according to the message I just preached, if you need to give your life to Jesus, or back to Jesus, meaning coming back on that narrow world, I want you to stand up and come to this altar right now. We're going to pray for you. And if you're online, you can put a one in the chat. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. Come on. Hallelujah, come to the altar. Amen. This is powerful, man. Come on up. Here's a time to rejoice. Come on, let's stand up. Let's rejoice. Let's praise the King. We praise you, Jesus, and we thank you, Lord. We don't take this lightly, Lord. It's amazing, Father. We thank you, Lord, for saving your children, Lord.

We thank you, Lord, for your message of the gospel, Lord. The power of God unto salvation, Lord, thank you. Thank you, Lord. Man, God is so good. Wow. That's a lot of people saved tonight. Amen. It's our last Saturday service, so this is a special moment for me. It's a very special moment. How many of y'all were raised seven-day Adventists? Anybody else? Okay. Saturday is not the Sabbath day. It's now Jesus, right? What does that mean? So the Sabbath day was a foreshadowing of Christ. It was a day of rest under Jewish culture, foreshadowing Jesus who would give us the ultimate rest. so now our rest is not a day it's Jesus and it's every day hallelujah every day is a restful day in Christ every day is a restful day in his presence every day is a restful day standing on our identity of who we are that gives me rest to know who I am in him so for all you at this altar giving your life back to Jesus and for the first time I want to say that God is not mad at you he is elated he is excited more than we could ever know he's happy and yeah you can't see God right now just like you can't see the air but trust me he's here right now I'm not God nobody in this place is God we're just all vessels that the Lord wants to dwell in and spend time with and transform and teach so again God is not mad at you the fact that you came up to this altar physically just like Jesus died publicly for you you came up to this altar publicly because of your

your obedience because of your your prophetic act your anti type of coming to this altar saying God I'm giving everything up the altar of your heart is gonna be filled with the Holy Spirit the Bible says if you believe in your heart and you confess from your mouth Romans 10 9 you'll be saved confess the Lord Jesus believe in your heart he rose from the dead I want everyone at the front and everyone online giving your life to Christ if you online put a 1 in the chat I want everyone to close your eyes I want you to focus your heart and your mind on Jesus precious Jesus we love you so much thank you that you're in here right now touching your people filling your people you're here right now Holy Spirit have your way Holy Spirit I ask that you just encounter every single person at this altar tonight in the way that they need it even the people online in the way that they need it I don't know details and specifics I just know that if I ask according to your will I receive it and this is your will you want your people to know you intimately Jesus name I want everyone to say Jesus we believe you are Lord the highest power God and you entered a body born of a virgin to live a perfect life to rescue us you gave yourself in to take the consequences from my sins physically and spiritually you shed perfect blood that wipes away the sins of the world I'm forgiven you died on that cross you were buried and rose from the dead on the third day you resurrected to give me power I repent I change direction completely right now to follow you you're the way the truth and life and no one comes to the father but through you Jesus so thank you Holy Spirit for filling me I'm a child of God fully forgiven fully righteous fully loved fully holy say Jesus heal me deliver me and transform me into your image Jesus

name amen hallelujah