Turn Your Heart To God - 3:10:24, 2.04 PM === Ethan: [00:00:00] You are now listening to Turn Your Heart To God, taught by Pastor Randall Crawford Senior. Please visit our website at bethel house of truth dot org, to listen to more messages like this one. Again, that is bethel house of truth dot org. If you're thinking about giving your life to Jesus Christ, or if you've already made the decision, and would like to get baptized, send us an email at info at good fig dot TV. Again that is info at good fig dot TV. Enjoy the message and God Bless You! Randall Crawford Sr.: Good afternoon. I want to welcome you all to Bethel House of Truth this Sunday service. Praise be to Yahveh and Yah'shua in the highest. Amen. As we approach Passover, the holiest time of the year, we thank God for that time. We thank God for allowing us to understand the times and to understand, um, in this latter, latter time, because it's a serious, serious thing to understand who your father is, who our Lord and Savior is, Why [00:01:00] he died and how he became our Passover a couple more weeks, and we are there a Couple more weeks we're there. Turn your hearts to God and before I even because I want to thank All the new listeners across the world in those countries. I want to thank you for being there for your support Continue to listen. God bless you all Turn your hearts to God turn your hearts to God Turn your hearts To God. What does it mean to turn your heart to God? What exactly does it mean to turn your heart to God? We're gonna find out today. Definitely gonna find out today. Ezekiel 18 is where we're gonna start Ezekiel 18. Turning your hearts to God basically means that you can have no stubbornness, okay. You can only be stubborn towards evil. God ain't evil. So why would you be stubborn towards him? Amen? [00:02:00] Um, you can only be stubborn towards unrighteousness. God ain't unrighteous. So why would you be stubborn towards him? You can only be stubborn towards what's wrong And what God does not approve of Meaning that you have want nothing to do with what God does not approve of So you turn your heart to God You turn from your old ways To his ways, you turn your heart to God and I'll tell you right now, those who don't turn their heart to God, they're going to have a very hard time in this life when the antichrist is let loose on this earth, because they've been playing games all the way up to antichrist and you're going to lose when he, when he's here, if you have not turned your heart to God, some people think that they could just get ready instantly, be on point instantly, that ain't how it works, I don't know how long you've been in this flesh? Okay, but the flesh takes some beating down. It takes some serious beating down Okay, [00:03:00] a lot of beating down and you can't just instantly Be a new person that how I work. It takes time. It takes training. It takes skill It takes the wisdom of God. It takes the knowledge of God. It takes the Holy Spirit It takes turning your heart to God. It takes repentance pure repentance so Ezekiel 18:1 Everyone will suffer for his own sins.. That's what we're talking about here. Turning your heart to God. 1 The word of the LORD YHVH came unto me again, saying, 2 ~ ~What mean ye, that ye used a proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge? The proverb clearly states that. If a father does something wrong, or a mother does something wrong, the son or the daughter, the son or the daughter, okay? Automatically fall under the trap of the mother and the father and God's telling [00:04:00] you that is not true. That's a proverb someone else made. Back in the day, even now today, you have people who would say, Oh my God, I'm suffering in life because of what my parents did. No, you're suffering in life because of what you did. Nothing to do with your parents. Okay, your parents, on Judgment Day, your parents will be judged by themselves and you will be judged by yourself. Simple as that. There's no one who is judged with the same judgment as their parent. Unless they took on the ways of their parents. Then you got a problem. Then you're gonna be judged the same way your parents are judged. The soul that sinned is the soul that offends God. The soul that sinned is the soul that will be dealt with by God. You're gonna learn that. Watch this. 3 _As_ I live, saith the Lord God, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel [or anywhere]. If you know God. 4 Behold, all souls are [00:05:00] mine; [because he created them] as the soul of the father, So also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die. Period. Hands down. Simple as that. The soul that sins, it will die. God said all souls belong to me. Nephesh in the Hebrew tongue. They belong to me. God saying, I could do whatever I choose with each soul. For I created every Nephesh, every soul. So it's never what mankind says is what Yahveh says or deems fit for each soul. Nephash, it's what he sees fit and he knows what you've been doing and what you have not turned to him for, meaning pure repentance. Understand [00:06:00] it's a good way to start, right? All souls belong to God. Oh my God, I have to give my soul to the Lord. He already owns it. He already owns it. You could take as long as you want to. You could take, you could take eternity. He already owns it. You could be lazy and be like i'm gonna get right one of these days. He already owns it. He owns your soul because he created your soul. Your soul is what's being judged. Not your flesh. Not your flesh. 5 But if a man be just [meaning does what's right in the eyes of God] and do that which is lawful and right, 6 _and_ have not eaten upon the mountains, neither have lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither have the foul his neighbor's wife, [that's foul] neither hath come near to a menstruous woman, (that means a woman on her period) [00:07:00] That means you got a problem Okay. Now listen, thank God for Jesus Christ. Amen. Thank God for Jesus Christ for repentance. Thank God for Jesus Christ. Yahveh is saying, partaking, um, in idol worship, in idol feast. Now, this year, it just so happened that Passover, Passover. Okay, it's going to land on the same day as Easter. Okay, now Easter is a pagan Goddess. Okay, and we don't celebrate Easter. We celebrate Paschal. Okay, which is Passover. And what he means by these idolatrous feasts like Easter. Okay, [00:08:00] it is not of God at all. It is not of God. It's unholy to God. Okay, it is, it is, um, So unclean, it takes away from the greatness of our Father. It tries to anyway, it tries to, and the whole world all the way down to the capital of America, which is the White House. Okay. Celebrates a national Easter roll on Easter. Okay. It is a heathenistic, lustful, demonic, festival. It really is It's really really bad like the rest of the world Will be doing at the end of this month Worshipping a heathen Goddess. Do you they some some of them don't even know what they're doing But most [00:09:00] of them been indoctrinated that they do know what they're doing. Okay, and they get it. They think that's right That's a pretty ignorant sin Isn't that so real ignorant sin, but then you have The pastors the preachers the teachers the the false teachers, which I would like to call them all these false teachers that teach this stuff When the word of God is clear and it says What it says So, why do they implement Easter to get more people in the church You hurting for people that bad that you Implement A heathenistic Goddess and call it holy Think about that for a second and think about Your direct connection with that as a child growing up And then [00:10:00] think about how God took you out of that and brought you to where he needs you to be because christ became our passover first corinthians 5 6 and 8 first corinthians 5 6 and 8 Let me just read it hold your place here. First Corinthians 5:6 and 8. Just read it. Watch this. 6 Your glorying _is_ not good. Know ye not that a little leaven [which is sin] leaveneth the whole lump? If you allow that sin to get through the church, everyone's going to be infected. If you allow that sin of Estar to get through the church, to get through the world everyone's infected and people in America are affected by that. They are, people across the world are affected by that because they don't know, it's too much leaven in the yeast in the bread. Supposed to be unleavened. [00:11:00] No yeast, no rising Okay, I'm making this quick. I'm condensing it for you. 6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? 7 Purge out thereof the old leaven, [get rid of that foolishness, that sin] that ye may be new, a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ, our Passover, Paschal, is sacrificed for us: 8 therefore let us keep the feast, [what feast? The feast of tabernacles, the feast of Pentecost, and the holiest feast of them all. The Feast of Passover] now, let's keep the feast not with old leaven, neither with leaven of malice and wickedness, but with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. [00:12:00] Glory to God. It's just that simple. It really is that simple. I gave you truth. I always give you truth, but some people still gonna go home and bite off a hollow chocolate bunny, because that's what they do. They still gonna go home and in their 30s and 20s and expect that basket. And wait up at night to look for that bunny like he's really coming through with baskets. You know why they use the bunny? Because a rabbit is one of the most fertile animals there is. Okay, freak of nature. Okay, just a freak of nature a rabbit. Okay, just let you know. Very heathenistic there's nothing holy or Godly about it. Not one thing back to [00:13:00] Ezekiel verse 7 this is why God's upset 7 and hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, You you don't you don't make a pledge you don't borrow money and not give it back But you do give it back. This is a good person in God's eyes. Watch this. 7 hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with the garment; [with the spirit of God] Always thinking about the needy always thinking about how you can help instead of how you can help yourself. Okay, that's a person of God. It's a man or a woman or a child of God. Watch this: 8 he that have not given forth upon usury, Now what is usury? [00:14:00] Usury is getting something that you cannot afford something that makes you struggle. God hates usury. He hates it. Yahveh's saying I do not want my people in usury. If you serve me, if you do what you're supposed to do, I know what you have need of, I will bless you to the point where you don't have to worry about usury ever. You will be blessed. And usury is not even in your cards. That's the truth. I know exactly what I'm talking about. He's happy with those people who are not in usury. 8 neither hath taken any increase, [no bribes] that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, [stays away from iniquity stays away from sin, that means this person's a repenter] hath executed true judgment between man and man, 9 hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments to deal truly; he _is_ just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord God. This person's pleasing in God's eyes [00:15:00] This person makes God happy. Watch this 10 If this person begat a son [ or a daughter] if he [[or she]] begat a son [or a daughter] that is a robber (a thief), a shedder of blood, a [murderer or that kills people like a drug dealer]. You know how many people know their child's a drug dealer and they're okay with it. You know how many people know their kid's a drug dealer and they're okay with it? Do you realize the mama and the papa of that child, that little bear? Okay? Gotta answer on Judgment Day? They're like, it ain't me, but I'm reaping the benefits of it. What benefit comes with selling drugs? Except that person's a murderer and poisoning people slowly. And if [00:16:00] you accept anything from that person, you become a partaker his [or her] evil deeds, and that's on you. If you have not repented for it, it is on you. If you dated a drug dealer or you're married to one, okay and you have not repented for being with that drug dealer and you knew and you know is wrong. I don't care, everyone knows drug dealing is wrong right or wrong? Everyone knows, from a little age to a big age. From when you're thin and when you get wide, everyone knows that drug dealing is wrong. If you partake of what the drug dealer does, you become a partaker of their evil deeds. It's not good. Think about what we got to repent for. Think about what you have to repent for. Amen. Think about it. And make sure your, your, your body, your, um, your body work, your spiritual, [00:17:00] it's clean. Make sure it's clean. Make sure you turn your heart to God on these things. Because if you're doing the will of God, you're blessed by God. 10 If he [or she] begat a son [or a daughter] that is a robber, a shedder of blood [a murderer, a murderer] and that doeth the like to any one of these things, 11 and that doth not any of those _duties,_ but even hath eaten upon the mountains, [that's the high places where the high churches, okay] and defiled his neighbor's wife, Don't care about marriage at all. Don't, don't care about marriage at all. Marriage is not a holy thing to this, to this person, to him or her. Okay. They'll just go right in and they'll just sneak right in and just take whoever they can get. That's unholy. You got an answer for that. 12 hath oppressed the poor and the needy, If you have an [00:18:00] abundance and you don't give to the poor and the needy, you are oppressing them. If you're, if they're working for you and you know that they're middle class or lower and you don't raise their wages, you are oppressing them. Now, if I have employees, me and my wife always make sure that they're not oppressed, that they are, that they have more than enough. Okay, that they have just enough to want to come back the next day. Okay, because sometimes we're like, W_ell, it's a good check. I'm sick_. Okay. No, I need you to come back to work. So you can continue getting a good check. 12 hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, They don't do what's right. They don't make their wrongs right and have lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination, This is a bad person. This is a horrible human. 13 [00:19:00] hath given forth upon usury, [that's got car on top of car on top of car] Why, why do you have Um three cars and each car has a payment? Why do you have a credit card that you can't pay off? Why do you have store credit cards that you can't pay off? Why do you have a home that you can't afford? Why do you have things that's not good? Because I like things, I want things. Okay, so be a usury or get your life right with God. He'll make sure you have everything, like you said, that you need and then some, and then some. 13 and have taken increase: shall he then live? He shall not live [or she shall not live:] he [or she] have done [00:20:00] all these abominations; he [or she] shall surely die; his [or her] blood shall be upon him. Not upon mama and not upon daddy. On their self, cause they're the ones doing it. Now, when does mama and daddy get involved? Well, mama and daddy don't tell them wrong. If they don't tell them that they're wrong, you're in the same way as them. But if you tell them that they're doing right, and you agree with it, you're in the same way with them. If you tell them that they're wrong, you're not in the same way with them. You saved yourself. But this is my child. Who cares? Who cares? If your kid's wrong, your kid's wrong. Amen. You gonna be a punk and not say anything? He's gonna sit there and let your kid draw the path to hell. What type of person are you Christian? [00:21:00] I want a good relationship. Forget that. Forget a good relationship. If my child was a drug dealer, do you not think that I'm slopping the heck out of him over and over every day all day? He will not be living with me. I'm gonna find where he's selling his drugs and slinging them. I'm gonna pull right up on him and pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. Do a slap by. No, for real. A whole slap by. Because what are you doing? That came out of me. What are you doing? If my child is a cheater on his girlfriend, on his wife. I'm telling. I don't play that. You gonna be right! Gonna be right! Because I care about the soul. I don't care about how much fun you're having. I don't care about how much how how happy you are, I care about the soul. The soul is [00:22:00] what matters if your child goes to hell, you are horrible parent. Horrible parent and you allow that you allow your child to go to hell? What? What? Well, they're their own person. They're old enough now, no, to still get slapped. To still get slapped. It doesn't matter. To still get slapped. Well, I,_ I don't really want to serve _God_. That, no, that ain't what I want to do. Okay. Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop._ Oh, is, is my child working today? Oh, yeah. Hi. How you doing, Mr. Crawford? He's right, he's right over there. Oh, okay. Thank you. Hey, come here for a second. You're gonna serve God? We talked about this already, I'm not in serving God, pop! Did he just not get slapped in front of all his employees? Right. Yeah. He [or she] did. Okay. Because it's the soul. It's the soul. How soft are you?. Listen. Listen. Oh, you one of them parents who only care about where they going. [00:23:00] _That's them. They good. That's them. I know where I'm going._ That's a horrible human. It's a horrible human. 14. Now lo, _if_ he [or she] begat his son, that seeth all his father [or his mother's sins], which he [or she] have done, and considereth, I mean they think long and hard on it, and doeth not such like, It's a smart kid. Okay? 15 that hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither have lifted up his eyes [or her eyes] to the idols of the house of Israel, hath not defiled his neighbor's wife [or husband] 16 neither have oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge, Listen now. Listen now. Listen now. Do you keep the promises? Do you keep your promises to God and to [00:24:00] others? Do you give your 10 percent to God the way you're supposed to or you only give eight or five? Or do you hold back? Do you give grace? When someone needs it? Or you just go for a throttle on them. Do you love God's way? Or do you love your own ways? Mmm, that's mmm. Come on now. All valid ?S, right? Neither have spoiled by violence, but have given You know what's spoiled by violence? It's, it's when you have one of them kids who are just running the street and causing all types of trouble. Breaking in homes, breaking in people's homes, breaking in cars. [00:25:00] Finding a way how to go online to drain people's bank account. Causing all types of trouble in the world. They're a beast. They need to be executed. It's not good. 16 neither have spoiled by violence, _but_ have given his bread to the hungry, and have covered the naked with a garment, [listen now] 17 that have taken off his hand from the poor,_ that_ have not received usury nor increase, [no bribes, no usury] Humble enough to drive what they got, humble enough to live where they are until their life gets better. How many people can do that? Or would they rather be in usury? 17 hath executed my judgments, have walked in my statues; he [or she] shall not die for the iniquity of his [or her [00:26:00] mother's] sins, he shall surely live. Shall surely live. This person will live. This person will live a good life, a probably that won't end. Really, they have a relationship with their parents, but they're like, when someone's trying to serve God in the goodness and the righteousness of God, and they have parents who are not trying to serve God in the goodness and the righteousness of God. They're literally, there's going to be a divider, there's going to be a divider, there's going to be, it just is, but there should also be a grace, lots of grace. Because you know how that person is and you want to continuously give grace, no matter what, no matter what. 18 _As_ for his father, [or mother] becuase he [or she] cruelly oppressed, [00:27:00] spoiled his brother by violence, and did that which is not good among his people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity, [in his or her sin]. I love God because he's fair and just and he's not going to, um, pass the blame. Okay? That's not who God is. He don't pass the blame. What sticks to you, sticks to you. Okay? What sticks to your children, sticks to your children. But are we not sent here if you have children to guide your children? No matter how old they are, no matter how, um, ignorant they get, no matter how rude they are, no matter how smelly they get, you're there to guide them. It doesn't matter the age, you're there to guide them. Amen? And you have a responsibility to guide them the correct way and to love them the correct way and to correct them the [00:28:00] correct way. The correct way. Will I turn my child in if they did something illegal and bad? Yes, I would. Will I allow them to hide out in my basement or in my home? No, I would not because then I become an evil partaker of their deeds. I will beat them then call the FBI. Simple as that. Simple as that. What pastor beats their kids? I believe I believe, I believe, I believe, I believe, I believe. Okay, I believe in what God said, you spare the rod, you spoil the child. Okay? It's a fact. 19 Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? We know the answers. No, he does not she does not. 19 When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept [00:29:00] all my statutes, and hath done them, he [or she] shall surely live. 20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him. Do you understand? 21 But if the wicked will turn from all his [or her ways: their] sins, that he hath committed and keep all my statues, (meaning if the wicked person turns their heart to God) Here's the turning. If a wicked human turns their heart to God. Now I'm not talking about someone who committed fonyonce. You can't have forgiveness for that in the flesh. I'm not talking about someone who's um, a rape, a raper. Um, someone who rapes people. No, you can't have forgiveness for that in the flesh. I'm not talking about someone who kidnaps people. Okay, you [00:30:00] can't have forgiveness for that in the flesh. God says this is the law those three categories Fonyance, premeditated murder, rape, kidnapping all those things that person's supposed to be caught, executed sent to him for judgment immediately. But they sit in cages and in big buildings called prisons instead. But everything else that's not those things You can turn from your wicked ways You can turn from your wicked ways And you can serve God And come to him Watch this: 22 All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned (it will be blotted out. What a God we serve) unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live. 23 Have I any pleasure at all in the wicked that the wicked should die? (He does not, God loves his children. It makes him sad when he [00:31:00] has to destroy one of them) saith the Lord God: _and_ not that he should return from his way and live, but when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, So you got righteous people who turn wicked. So when the righteous person turns wicked, they go from right to left, when they turn wicked God's not gonna hold them accountable. He is. He truly truly is Probably even more so because they know better. They know better Watch this: 24 and that according to all the abominations of the wicked _man_ doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he have done shall not be mentioned: (they won't be remembered) in his trespass that he have trespassed, [his sins] and in his sin that he have sinned and them [00:32:00] shall he die. All because he won't turn his heart back to God. Repentance is real and it's a good thing. It's a great thing 25 Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? [It is. God is just and God is fair] are not your ways unequal? [Yeah, man's ways are unequal] 26 When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die. 27 Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. Repentance is real, friend. If a wicked person turns his heart to God. If a righteous person turns his heart away from [00:33:00] God. God is just and fair, understand that. That's a problem. It's a huge problem. The righteous should not, should never turn their heart away from God. But the wicked should turn their hearts to God. But how could you turn your heart to God if you don't know what you're doing? How could you turn your heart to God if you won't accept what you're doing? How could you turn your heart to God if nobody's telling you anything? They just want to reap the benefits. That's a problem. 28 Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he have committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die. Because he thought about it. He repented. He turned his heart to God. He's going to live. 29 Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal ? Are not your [00:34:00] ways unequal? Amen. Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord God. Repent, and turn _yourselves_ from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. You want sin to be your ruin? Something that you can repent for and get rid of? To be your ruin? I don't think so. I don't think so. 31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, [all your sins] whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore, turn _yourselves,_ [turn your hearts to God] and ye shall live. I'm going to end it with this, turn your hearts to God and ye shall live. That's a fact. [00:35:00] That's a fact. Listen up. Listen up God's people. God's saying, I take no pleasure in the death of someone who won't repent. No matter how wicked that person is, that person is still God's child. He's still God's child. Why do you think Jesus Christ came in the flesh? Because eventhough Tyrus screwed up and did what he did. Okay, and messed up the whole first earth age Even though he did what he did. God said that's still my child. I created him. I created the soul That's still my child and God's a loving God He says so I must come in the flesh as Jesus Christ, Emmanuel God with us and die on the cross and have his own children, the Kenites kill me in the flesh. So when I destroy Satan, Antichrist, Tyrus, the Devil, [00:36:00] I won't feel bad about it because he destroyed me on the cross. Glory to God. So repent and turn your hearts to God. Repent and turn your hearts to God. You got to remember, there is a judgment day and there is a lake, there's a place called hell or the lake of fire. The wicked can't live forever, but if they repent, they will. If they turn their hearts to God, they will. Everything you don't repent for and turn your heart to God for, it will be held against you. Everything. Every thought, every emotion, every, everything you've ever done that you have not repented for will be held against you. [00:37:00] Everything. Who are you? Let pride go and serve God simple as that turn your hearts to God Romans 12. Romans 12 verse 1 Romans 12 :1 and it reads, 1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. Meaning is what you're supposed to do. If you love God if you claim to love God if you're a Christian if you claim to be a Christian, that's what you're supposed to do. It's your service to God period That's what it is Um, this is an interesting thing though. Um, [00:38:00] to present yourself, your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable. Holy and acceptable, meaning you do things that's pleasing to God. That are acceptable to God. Most people like to live a double life. You can't do that around these parts. That's You just can't. Verse 2 And be not conformed to this world: Don't, don't go as the world goes, cause the world's going to hell. Don't go as the world goes. Just go as the world turns. But don't go as the world goes. Okay? I used to love that soap opera. Just go as the world goes, okay? And don't conform to the world. Because God is against the world. His [00:39:00] wrath is coming for the world, but it's not coming for the people who turn their hearts to God who live in the world. 2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, [this is such a beautiful verse, transforming your mind] by the renewing of your mind that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. Do you know? Do you know what that, that perfect will of God is? Renewing of your mind means to, um, listen close now. Write this down if you want to. I think you should. Okay. Renewing of your mind means to interpretating life through the lenses of Yahveh's holy word. Okay. And the inspiration of the Holy spirit in the [00:40:00] name of Jesus Christ. Let me say that one more time. Okay. So one more time, renewing your mind means to have the interpreting of life through the lenses of Yahveh's holy word. And the inspiration of the Holy Spirit that lives within you from God in Jesus Christ's name rather than through the lens of your own eyes or your own experience or your own wounds or your own trauma or your own opinions or the opinions of others, but through He who gives life, Jesus Christ. That's the renewing of mind, of your mind in [00:41:00] Christ. That's a beautiful verse. Verse 3,or I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God have dealt to every man the measure of faith. Be humble. Be humble. Be very humble. Why is that hard for some people to be humble? I have no clue. I have no clue. I do, because they don't have God. Because they got things on them. Let me tell you something, if you leave a pile of something anywhere for a long period of time, it's going to stink. Okay, it could be anything it could be a pile of socks. They could be brand new if you leave it there for a long period of time. Okay, and you never [00:42:00] washed it. Okay? If you leave a pile of dirty laundry, you know, that's gonna stink. If you leave food somewhere for a long time, okay, and you never take care of it, it's going to stink. If you leave sin and you never take care of it, It's going to stink. It really is, it's going to stink. You have to understand that. Watch this 4 For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: No one shares the same office. No, we all have different jobs. 5 so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. 6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith; 7 or [00:43:00] ministry, let us _wait_ on _our_ ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching; or he that exhorteth on exhortation: he that giveth_ let him do it_ with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; [wisdom] he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness. You ever you ever notice when if I gotta come talk to you about something that you're doing wrong and God brought it to my attention There's gonna be a sense of laughter, but a sense of I'm not joking. You understand what I'm saying to you, right? That's that cheerfulness that God speaks of It's not a game. It's really not a game It really isn't. It's your soul. It's literally your soul. And the reason he's sending his servant, his wife to you, his elect, his priest, is because you're starting to stink. [00:44:00] You're starting to smell bad. And when you start to smell bad, it works its way inside and then it comes out. It's a problem. It's a huge problem. If you ever listen, you to someone who's, um, ruling. They rule with wisdom and they always have a smile on their face. Even when things aren't good, you're going to put a smile on your face. I don't know how many people could understand what I'm saying to you. Okay. But word to the wise, 9 Let love be without dissimulation. [Let love be without dissimulation. It's a beautiful verse there] 9 Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. [hate what Yahveh hates, love what He loves] Simple as that. But let love be without dissimulation. Let your love be [00:45:00] without concealment of one's thoughts or feelings or character towards someone who you're supposed to truly love. Meaning, you act like you love that person, but deep down the side, you truly don't love that person. You're unhappy with that person. You don't like that person. You're saying bad things about that person in your head and in your conversations. That's the dissimulation God speaks of. Shouldn't be. Amen. Should not be at all. Verse 10. Be kindly affectionate one to another What's wrong with that? What's wrong with being kindly affectionate to one another? Nothing, right? If you love somebody, you check on them, right? If you love [00:46:00] somebody, you see how they're doing, right? You ask about how they're doing in their life. You say, _Hey, how you doing?_ _How's it going?_ That's that's affection. That's love. Most people don't have that. Think about that. Most people don't have that. 10 Be kindly affectionate one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another; not hating on each other or talking bad about each other, but preferring one another. 11 not slothful in business; [don't be lazy] fervent in spirit; serving the Lord; In obedience and in truth and in the spirit of love. That's how you do things. That's how you do things. 12 rejoicing in hope; When someone has a dream, you rejoice with them. Okay, when someone feels like something's going good in their life, you rejoice with them. [00:47:00] Don't hate, rejoice with them. Do you know God watches everything? Do you know he hears everything? And do you know that the thing that you think he can't hear he can hear because he's the heart reader. So when you say I'm a Christian, be a Christian. Be a Christian. And if you got a problem with another Christian turn your heart to God with that problem and let it go, because it will be held. It will be held against you. It will be held against you. It absolutely will be held against you In God's court not man's in God's court because the man's court they're gonna think that's okay because that's what everyone does. Are you like everyone? That's the way the world is today. Are you like everyone else in the world? He said don't conform to the world. One of the first things he said here. Don't conform to the world. Verse 2. [00:48:00] Watch this. 12 rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer; Stay in prayer. Patient in tribulation. Listen, it ain't gonna last all day. Amen. Whatever you're going through is not going to last all day. Amen. Especially if you have faith, I guarantee you gonna lift you up 13 distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality. Share the love and the blessings that you have with the Saints and with other people that love God. Be a good host Don't be a bad host. If someone comes to you [00:49:00] be a good host. Amen Be a good host. 14 Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not. Don't worry about if someone persecutes you. Don't worry about someone's talking bad about you. Don't worry about... I mean if you can discern what they're actually doing here, if you can discern why Why they're actually around, why they're calling, if you can discern all these things, you know what I mean? Ain't no big deal. You know, God got this. Just have fun with it. I like to have fun with it. I like to have fun with it. I know everyone's intentions aren't right and I know that I can discern that. Okay, I can discern that someone who's truly have the spirit of God. You can discern people's intentions. You literally can. And they keep trying they come every different way: bang bang, bang, bang, but you just [blocking motion]. It's not a big deal right they're gonna keep trying though. It's not a big deal [00:50:00] Trust me because can someone hurt you? The only way someone can hurt you is if you allow them to hurt you, right? That's the only way. But if you're not discerning their intentions on why they're there, right? You may get hurt. You might. That means you need to work on yourself. 14 Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not. Don't, no tit for tat. No tit for tat. No tit for tat. That's for kids. 15 Rejoice with them that do rejoice, [be happy for them] and weep with them that weep. Show love to all that need it. If someone's rejoicing rejoice, if someone's on weeping weep with them. Allow them to know that you love them and that you're there for them. It's just that simple. Why would you turn it any other [00:51:00] way? That means you got something in your heart that's not right. That means you got something in your heart that's not working out. God's not pleased with it. That means you need to turn your heart to God before it's too late. 16 Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Not people of lowly state to the point where, um, they have nothing or they're just nobody. Okay? Cause who wants to be around a nobody? I don't. Right? He's speaking of people who are humble. People who are humble in spirit. 16 Be not wise in your own conceit. Be around people with a humble spirit. Not people who won't serve God with a prideful [00:52:00] spirit. Do you know what it, do you know what it takes to say? _I'm not going to serve _God_._ Do you know what that takes? Huh? And do you know when when God when you said when the person says, _I'm not going to serve _God_._ And God takes his beautiful pen and writes it down in a book of life. Okay, by that person's name and then you'd be like, _Oh, let's go have a beer. Hey, let's go do this Hey, let's go do that. Hey, let's go do this_. _Hey, let's go do that._ You got a problem, because now you partake of them. You're partaking of their ways. Of their ways. Nobody ain't got time for that. You shouldn't conform. God just said don't conform to the world. That person's of the world. Anyone who will not serve God is of the world. Why are you conforming to someone of the world? He just told you not to do that. Don't be a hypocrite. 17 Recompense to no man [00:53:00] evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men. Can you do that? Can you be honest in the sight of all men whether they like it or not? You got to be honest. Amen. Whether they like it or not, you gotta be honest because if you're dishonest God's not in that Amen, he's not in that. If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, meaning if you tried with all your heart with all your strength with all your might, with all your faith, with every prayer that you could possibly think of. Okay? Don't get it twisted here. Watch this: 18 If it be possible, as many as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men [and women]. Live peaceably, if it's possible. That means you, that means you have exhausted every resource that you have to make things work. Every resource. [00:54:00] Amen. Every resource. Now, if you're a Christian, who's your resource? I would think God is, right? And if it still ain't working, does that mean that God can't make something work? Or does that mean that you don't want to make it work? Which one? I think it's the latter. That you don't want to make it work, and if you don't want to make it work in the eyes of God, Hmm. You're gonna have another problem on your hands. Watch this: 19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. This is this is my life. Okay, I learn not to avenge everything, okay. You could try to use me, misuse me, um, talk bad about me, you could try whatever you want to do. It ain't gonna work [00:55:00] because God got my back, He's watching. So therefore, even though I know what you're doing, I still have to be around you, or I don't. But I still choose to be around you. Cause maybe, just maybe, you'll get right. But if you don't get right, if you never turn your hearts to God because of what you're doing secretly, God's going to deal with you. As a Christian, you don't have to deal with anyone. And this is a physical thing. But other than that, no, you don't have to deal with anyone. Words are words, right? Words are just words, right? The way someone thinks, you can't stop the way someone thinks. You just can't. You just can't. God can though. Okay. You can't stop what someone wants to do to you. God can though. Okay. Vengeance belongs to God Remember that so never take an act in your own hand. It all belongs to the Father. And I [00:56:00] laugh at people when they try to um, when they think that they could try to possibly take advantage of me. I crack up in my mind when I feel their intention. I'd be like, oh, this is funny Okay, let's see how long this lasts. Let's see how long this person lasts. Let's just see until this person is gone, or injured, or something bad happens to them. Okay, or their life just breaks, just falls apart like a gingerbread house after christmas. Okay. That makes sense, here we go 20 20 Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. Listen now, that's important. You don't you don't think that's true? [00:57:00] If your enemy's thirsty give him something to drink. Do you give when when the delivery person comes to your house and it's hot or it's cold, right? If a delivery person comes to my house, they got a whole bunch of stuff in me or they just have anything in general. It could be a hot day a cold day a wet day a stressful day. Okay, I know and they're like, _here you go. Here's your here's your package, sir._ I'd be like, thank you. Like, you thirsty? They go,_ I could use a drink. I'm really hot._ Want ice in it? _Yeah, that'd be nice_. All right, you hungry? You want a granola bar? You want, what you want? Sandwich? You want something? They're like, _Sure. All right, sure._ I'm like, _I got you._ Come on in, you know? Most people don't think to feed those people. They're humans. They, they're not AI robots. They're, they're human beings, okay? They're human beings. They're human beings. They're human beings. I don't know if this person is a good person or a bad person, but I'm offering them something because they did a service for me. [00:58:00] They carried my heavy desk or something up to my house. Okay, so they're doing a service for me. I'm going to bless them. I'm going to bless them. That's just the way it is. That's the way it is. If someone's doing something for you, and you don't tip them, Who are you? You don't tip somebody if you're if you're at the um the airport and someone takes your bag. Okay, I don't care if it's a big if it's a big bag is a $50 tip, if it's a small bag, it's a $25 tip. It doesn't matter. You don't tip the bag person? That's their livelihood. That's how they make their money through tips. Because they they should they're not getting paid anything. But their tips is how they eat. That's how they eat. I know I used to do that job. Their tips is how they eat. That's how they eat. You don't tip the person at the restaurant? You give them a little [00:59:00] tip. Do you not have you dealt with yourself? How picky you are with food at a restaurant? Hmm? _You gotta take that back. No. No, like that. Did I order that? I didn't think I ordered that. I think you brought me the wrong thing. Can I get this for free?_ Mmm, kind of playing games now. Okay. Kind of playing. You kinda playing games now. Okay._ Mmm. You gotta take that back. Okay. Take that back._ Be good, be perfect. Be right in the eyes of God. Just because someone's serving you don't mean you gotta be a, a, um You know what? You fill in the blank any way you want. Okay Anyway, you want to. You don't have to be that person. You could be a Christian though, right? You could be a Christian. 21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. By doing Yahveh's will will not your own. This is a there's a saying where it says If someone [01:00:00] don't like you kill him with kindness I ain't killing nobody with kindness. Okay, I'm gonna do the will of God and if that ain't enough, that's your problem Okay, I'm gonna be pleasing to God and if that ain't enough, that's your problem. Okay? Simple as that. I'm going to do good. Good will always outweigh bad. Understand that. Know that. Listen, as Christians, it's your responsibility to turn your hearts to Yahveh in Jesus Christ's name. The sins you don't repent for they will be held against you. It will be held against you when we turn our hearts to Yahveh. We look at the sin differently Your heart's not in that sin any longer Because you're truly you truly gave your heart to God in Jesus Christ name That's why most fall over and over and over again to the same [01:01:00] sin because they did not turn their hearts truly to Yahveh. Understand the facts of life or the ABCs of Christianity. Okay. This is what it is. You fall over and over again to the same sin because you truly didn't, you don't look at the sin differently and you have not turned your heart to God according to that sin. To that sin. You turn your heart to God according to a sin, God's gonna remove that sin and you're gonna take it out your mouth and take it out your spirit. That's who God is. That's who he is. He's a loving God. Psalms 51 almost done one more place after this and we're done. Psalms 51 if you have it say glory to God. 1 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: According unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Blot out all that I've done wrong, Lord, [01:02:00] please. David, He knows the only way the only way to be clean Is to have your transgressions blotted out, blotted out. Okay, to have the mercy of God in your life. And you can't, you can't, um, hold the mercy of God. And not have the mercy of God do what the mercy of God does. Okay, if you're trying to hold it hostage, that's sacrilege. Okay, that means you want you want to sin and then repent. You want to sin and then repent meaning you know exactly what you're doing meaning your sin is not a mistake it's on purpose. That's sacrilege. That's not of God. There is no repentance for someone who's repenting who's sinning on purpose just because grace Is there that's sacrilege? And you're [01:03:00] a sacrilegious person. Watch this. 2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, And cleanse me from my sins. The only way to do that is to confess your sins. Watch this. 3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: And my sin is ever before me. This word acknowledge here is interesting because it means I confess. A confession is ever the condition of forgiveness. It shows you, it shows your arm turning your heart to Yahveh and to his ways. Without it, no grace, no forgiveness. Confession must be made. So, is it something you forgot? I don't think you forgot it because it's a sin. If it's a sin, I'm quite sure you know you did it, when you did it, how you did it. Because you committed it. So therefore, there's a confession. You can't say, well Lord, I don't remember. _Just forgive me for everything._ No, that's not how it works. God says, I need confession. [01:04:00] I need it. You want grace? I need confession. You ever teach a dog to not make a mess on the floor or whatever. There's an old way that they used to take their dog, right? There's an old way. It's old school right here. Um, they would say to their dog, Don't pee. Don't poop in the house, right? And the dog would go, Right? Womp womp womp. An hour will go by. The lazy owner don't take the dog out. So the dog's just jumpin up and down like this, makin noise. And the person's tryin to watch TV, so he says, Shut up! And the dog's like, OK You not hearin me? Here we go [dog pees on the floor] SSSSSSS Whiz Right? Right on the carpet, right on the rug, right on the floor, whatever. Right? So then the owner takes the dog [01:05:00] And says, Oh, you bad dog! He tried to tell ya. You bad dog. He takes the dog and puts the dog face in the piss and says, no, no, no, no, no. What's wrong with that picture? Well, first of all, you shouldn't do that to a dog. Okay. Second of all, the dog tried to tell you. And third of all, it's a sin to mistreat your animals. When the owner doesn't listen. Okay. How can he acknowledge his sin? Do you listen? Hmm. Do you need God to take your face and put it in the mess you make all over every place? This is what you did. This is what you did. This is what you did. [01:06:00] This is what you did. Rub your face right in. This is what you did. This is what you did. He doesn't do that. He gives grace, right? God gives grace, but he needs you to acknowledge it. He needs you to acknowledge it. There is a way to communicate with God and it is in honesty. Okay. It is an honesty and purity. Anything else is fraud. Anything else is fraud. So in order to have forgiveness, you must confess. It is the condition for forgiveness. Without confession, there is no forgiveness at all. At all. Don't be like that dog owner who's really mean to their pet. Be nice. Be nice. I'm gotta be nice to you. 4 [01:07:00] Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: That thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. Yes, I'm gonna understand. Because I know what I've done and I know what I deserve. 5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; And in sin did my mother conceive me. 6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: [here we go] And in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. Do you know wisdom? Do you understand it? 7 Purgee me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Snow was the first snow was the purest snow. There is so pure. I mean, it's good snow. It's good snow. That's how clean you want [01:08:00] to be. I'm going to be that pure. And when you repent, when you turn your heart to God, you are that pure and the side of God until you screw up again until you screw up again. But the only difference between God And you, God not gonna put your face in it. Okay. He's not gonna put your face in it. But you will put someone else's face in their sin. You would. That's what people, that's what human beings do. That's what humans do. They want the royal treatment from God, but they don't give no one else the royal treatment. That's a shame, right? It really is a shame, right? Watch this: Make me to hear joy and gladness; Can you hear it? Some people can't hear joy and gladness if it was right in their face. They couldn't hear it and was right there be like this [unamused face] and it can be something really, really, funny. It [01:09:00] can be something really funny. I know I make everyone in here laugh, everyone. Okay, I can be everyone here in this room laugh right now everyone. But that's because you don't have a problem with me. Okay? But if you got a problem with me, nothing I say is funny. Okay, like if my wife got a problem with me. I got a problem with her, she makes me laugh all the time. I make her laugh, but if she has a problem with me and I and I try to make her laugh and my stupidity. She'll be like: _Yeah, okay Not today, clown._ Right? Oh, she's trying to make me laugh because she did something wrong. And I'll just look and be like,_ I'm out. I'm gone. I'm going the other way. Left. Exit stage left. I'm going the other way._ But who are you though? [01:10:00] 8 Make me hear joy and gladness; When can you hear joy and gladness? Joy is a fruit of the spirit. When could you hear joy and gladness? When you turned your heart to the Lord. When you're, when you're, you're, you're not piled up in sin. When you're not piled up in bitterness. Watch this. 8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; That the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. 9 Hide thy face from my sins, And blot out mine iniquities. Blot them out, Lord. I don't want them, David's saying. I don't need to have them, David's saying. I want to be close to you. Is that how you feel? Do you want to be close to God? Do you want a relationship with God that he just purges you completely of all iniquity? I hope so. 10 Create in me a [01:11:00] clean heart, O God; And renew a right spirit within me. Beautiful verse. 11 Cast me not away from thy presence; And take not thy holy spirit from me. 12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; And uphold me _with thy _free spirit. Praise God. What a beautiful verse.* Free spirit:* watch this, that's what it means: with a spirit of willingness Some people don't have this. Watch this with a lot of Christians don't have this spirit. Watch this, free spirit with a spirit of willingness and unforced obedience to do your will and way Father. To do what's right in your eyes, not mine. To turn my heart to you without my handout. Hmm. [01:12:00] Let me read that again. Okay. Free spirit, with a spirit of willingness and unforced obedience to the will of God, to God's way, to do what's right in your eyes and not what's right in mine eyes. To turn my heart to you and not to expect anything with my hands out. Humans have good expectations, don't they? No they don't. Human beings have expectations. They want what they want. How about you give God what he wants first? How does that work? Does that make sense? How do you, how about you give God what he desires first? 13 _Then _will I teach transgressors thy ways; And sinners shall be converted unto thee. You wonder why you can't plant a seed correctly? Let me tell you why. You wonder why you have [01:13:00] trouble planting seeds? Because you haven't turned your heart to God. That's why. Because David's clear about it. I have that spirit now. 13 Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; And sinners shall be converted unto thee. Because why should a sinner listen to a hypocrite? Why? Somebody please ask me somebody please tell me why should a sinner listen to a hypocrite Someone who's play acting someone who's pretending to be a child of God. Why? Anybody know? Even the devil know when somebody lying, right? Even a demon can tell when someone's not of God And when someone is of God because if they're of God, they're going the other way if they're not of God. _Hey, buddy Hey pal, how are ya? You want to share a milkshake?_ [01:14:00] That's how weird Satan is. Two straws you and him, okay? Two straws, Friendly's, here you go. Two straws, okay? Strawberry bubbles shirley temples, cherries Do you realize what cup you drinking from if you ain't right? Do you realize what cup you're drinking from? If you're not... if you're not right, you and Satan are sharing a strawberry fribble, chocolate, whatever you want to call it, vanilla. The point is you ain't right. That's why you can't teach transgressors about God's ways and sinners won't convert unto you because you ain't converted. Here we go, 15 O Lord, open thou my lips; And my mouth shall shew [01:15:00] forth thy praise.. Yeah Yes, lord The first thing that come with your mouth should be praise to God The last thing that come with your mouth should be praise to God And everything else in between should be praise to God That'll stop on a lot of gossip, that'll stop on a lot of foolishness, that will stop on a lot of untruths, that will stop on a lot of hate and jealousy and envy, if you're just praising God. Make sense? Watch this. 16. For thou desirest not sacrifice, else would I have given it to thee. Thou delightest not in burnt offering. I don't want that garbage God said. I don't want burnt offerings that stink, stinking up heaven. I don't want burnt offerings. I want your love. I want you to know of me. I want us to have a relationship, right? And I want you to be right and I want you to pull all men unto you. [01:16:00] I want you to be a fisherman or a fisherwoman of men and women. That's what I want you to do. I'll be your bait, but I want you I need you to love me 17 the sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: [listen close] A broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. This is this is beauty. Oh, watch this. 17 the sacrifices of God (alright, this this is what makes God happy a humble spirit) and a heart that turns towards his love and his way to be pleasing to him in all ways. And when you do that, that's when Yahveh goes above and beyond what you can think or even ask. [01:17:00] This is from the manuscripts. Even think or ask. But how many people can do that? How many people desire the now? The right now. The now moment. 18 Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: Build thou the walls of Jerusalem. 19 Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar. Only then will God accept you. When you do what's right, when you turn your heart to the to God. In closing, Isaiah 2, I'm gonna zoom-zoom through Isaiah 2. Isaiah two verse one. Here we go. Watch this.[01:18:00] In closing, 1 The word of Isaiah, the son of Amos, saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 2 And it shall come to pass at the last days, that's this generation, right now. Shall come to pass in the last days, okay. 2 _that_ the mountain of the LORD YHVH'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. Now, let's let's x some things out here. God's mountain is in Jerusalem, Mount Zion his favorite place in the whole universe, okay. And Mount Zion is pretty much under attack right now. Okay. There's a war going on over there right now. Okay. And nobody ain't flowing to that right now. Okay. So this is a little bit past us. Okay. [01:19:00] This is, this is even after the millennium. Okay. But we ain't too far from that. This is after the millennium. We're not too far from that. What's this? 3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD YHVH, to the house of the God of the Jacob; and he shall teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD YHVH from Jerusalem. Yes, we will be teaching during the millennium. We absolutely will be, God's elect, his wife. Who will be teaching though? Will you be teaching? Watch this: 4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: Why is he going to rebuke [01:20:00] people? _Away from me I never knew you._ I never got to know you because you never turned your heart to me. You never got right, you\ never turned your heart to me. You wanted to play the role of Christian you whole life. So away from me, I never got to know you. Sit your behind down in the millennium. And learn something. Learn right and wrong. Learn what you would not learn when you were in the flesh. Now that you're in the spirit, you gotta learn right and wrong. You gotta learn how to treat people. You gotta learn how to love people. You gotta learn how to be loved. How to give love. You gotta learn how to give discipline. And truth. 4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, no more war. And their spears into pruninghooks: [no more war] nations shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore. [01:21:00] [no more war, it's over] 5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD YHVH. Let us walk in the light of the LORD YHVH 6 Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east and are s_oothsayers_ like the Philistines, and they pleased themselves in the children of strangers. Watch this, 7 Their land also was full of silver and gold, neither_ is there any_ end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots: 8 their land also was full of idols; they worship the works of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made. Now you got all these things God's saying [01:22:00] here. Does this not sure paint a picture of what's going on, today? Hmm. It really does, paints a huge picture of what's going on today. You got people creating idols, you got people... Anything that takes you away from God is a what? Idol. It's an idol Anything that removes you from God is a what? Idol. Anything, and there's so many things today that can remove you from God, so many things. Watch this, and the mean men [that's Israel] boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: the [great man is _esh_, okay?], this is this is not is not Israel in a sense the first ones is the mean man's Israel. Okay, the great man humbleth himself [01:23:00] that person is e_sh_ that is without the particle in the article. Okay, there's a difference here. Okay, so you got Mankind and then you have Israel as well as worshiping idols. Okay, watch this let me show you something, watch this. 9 and the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not. Forgive them not. What are they doing? What are they doing? They're worshiping idols. They're going to worship the first Christ that come. All mankind: _Esh_ and Israel, will worship the false Christ that come. And then they're gonna try and hide themselves in rocks and have rocks and boulders fall on them. Hold your place here. Let's go to Revelation 6 15 real quick. Revelation 6. I'm gonna read where he, Isaiah is speaking of here. Revelation 6:15. [01:24:00] It's exactly what he's saying right here. This is right before the day of the Lord. Watch this, Randall Crawford Sr.: 15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; 16 and said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: 17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand? I'll tell you who will be able to stand. God's elect. Those who know the truth. Those who turn their hearts to God. When they hear God's elect delivered up before the synagogue of Satan. That false Christ. When they hear him and the Holy Spirit speaks through them. Those people who turn their heart to God Will be able to stand those people who will not turn their heart to God will [01:25:00] be sitting during the millennium and Maybe even going to the lake of fire back in Isaiah. Verse 10 Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, [there you go I just read that] for fear of the LORD YHVH, and for the glory of his majesty. The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of man shall be bowed down, and the LORD YHVH alone shall be exalted in that day. (What day? The day of the Lord. The day he returns. 7th trump) For the day of the LORD YHVH of hosts_ shall _be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon everyone that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low, [or she shall be brought low]. Let me explain something to you. The day of the Lord is going to affect everyone, but in a different way. If you're prideful, it's going to affect you differently. If you [01:26:00] haven't changed, it's going to affect you differently. If you're a hypocrite, it's going to affect you differently. It's going to affect you differently, but either way, it's going to affect you. Either way, if you're one who turns their hearts to God when God's elect and the Holy Spirit speaks through God's elect, you're going to deliver that? You're going to be blessed by God when he sees you. If you're not that one, you're going to have a problem on the day of the Lord. Watch this. 13. and upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan, Now these trees, incidentally these trees. The cedars of lebanon are one of the tallest trees on this earth today. And then you have the oaks of bashan very strong it doesn't matter how strong you think you are how tall you think you are, [01:27:00] how grand you think you are? You will answer to your Father on this day. 14 and upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills _that are_ lifted up and upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall, 16 and upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all the pleasant pictures. 17 And the lostness of man shall be bowed down, [made humble] and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD YHVH alone shall be exalted in that day. [what day? The day of the Lord] 18 And the idols shall be utterly abolished. Meaning no more. They're gonna get rid of them because they can't face God. They can't face the true Christ. 19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks. [I just read this to you. Revelation 6:15] And into the caves of the earth for fear of the LORD YHVH, and for the glory of his majesty, when he arise to shake terribly the earth. 20 In that day a man shall cast [01:28:00] his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made _each_ one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats; I'm gonna try to hide them. God already knows He already knows moles live underground bats live in caves Trying to hide them. You can't hide anything from God. The soul that sinneth and does not repent by turning their heart to God is the soul that will pay. Listen close. 21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD YHVH, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. 22 Cease ye from man, [here's the kicker] 22 Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: Now everyone on [01:29:00] this earth who walks on two feet breathe through their nostrils. Do they not? Do they not? Okay. 22 for wherein do Is he or her to be accounted of? So listen to what God's saying He's saying let go of man. This word cease ye from man. It means in Hebrew to let go of mankind That means women as well Mankind will lead you right to Antichrist Satan himself I don't care how Um, wonderful. These churches look, I don't care how wonderful your uncle or your aunt or your grandma or your grandpa is, or your close friend, it does not matter if they're not teaching truth, they're going to lead you to the antichrist. And God is saying, let go of mankind and its ways. Mankind will lead you right to answer [01:30:00] Christ satan himself and remember Yahveh said in Ezekiel 18:4 all souls belong to me the soul that sinneth and Does not turn their heart by repenting to me in Jesus name his or her soul will be punished and that sin cannot go on someone else unless they're doing the same exact sin. You answer for your own sins. Turn your hearts to Yahveh and Jesus Christ's and live. For why would you die? Why would you die? Why in the world would you die? See there's a third earth age coming in the third heaven age and God's not allowing anything that's unclean unholy, disobedient to live in that next earth age, in that next heaven age. [01:31:00] Because he got children that actually love him and turn their hearts to him and obey him and not care for him. And that's all that he wants around him is those who care and love him. Anything else is null and void. Remember to stay in the grace of God because that's what He wants you. God bless you all. I love you all. All glory and praise to the Father and the Son. I take credit for nothing. In Jesus precious name. If we helped you today, help us keep coming to you. In Jesus name, Amen. Ethan: Were you moved by today's message? Help us sow a seed of truth around the world. Donate to the ministry at bethel house of truth dot org backslash, donate. Again, that is bethel house of truth dot org backslash, donate. 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