WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.000 Greetings from Bishop Aubrey Shines and G2G Ministries 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:06.480 in Tampa, Florida. We pray that you would be 00:00:06.480 --> 00:00:08.519 blessed and encouraged by the biblical message 00:00:08.519 --> 00:00:17.280 you are about to hear. Today's classic sermon 00:00:17.280 --> 00:00:21.079 by Bishop shines is part seven of Jehovah's Witnesses 00:00:21.079 --> 00:00:23.800 from the comparative religion series with reference 00:00:23.800 --> 00:00:26.879 scriptures Acts chapter 5 verses 1 through 4 00:00:26.879 --> 00:00:30.379 and Acts chapter 13 verses 1 through 4 in the 00:00:30.379 --> 00:00:38.060 King James translation But I think it's been 00:00:38.060 --> 00:00:41.320 worth it if you know Jehovah's Witness you should 00:00:41.320 --> 00:00:46.030 be well equipped by now to Be able to witness 00:00:46.030 --> 00:00:48.890 to them one thing that I won't do and that is 00:00:48.890 --> 00:00:52.229 I won't take time to give a total Synopsis or 00:00:52.229 --> 00:00:54.890 go over the synopsis of what we've given in the 00:00:54.890 --> 00:00:57.710 past But I do want to just emphasize just a couple 00:00:57.710 --> 00:01:01.109 of things here all the notes all the things that 00:01:01.109 --> 00:01:05.090 we've taught on this are in the CD series and 00:01:05.090 --> 00:01:08.030 we'll sell it as a package So you should feel 00:01:08.030 --> 00:01:10.629 your library with notes and with things like 00:01:10.629 --> 00:01:13.670 this. Can you imagine? If when we were younger 00:01:13.670 --> 00:01:16.409 in church, had we known all the things that we 00:01:16.409 --> 00:01:18.730 know? Can you imagine, I'm not throwing off on 00:01:18.730 --> 00:01:22.150 my old pastor or anybody else, but if, you know, 00:01:22.290 --> 00:01:24.129 and a lot of you all didn't experience this because 00:01:24.129 --> 00:01:26.290 you didn't come up in a Pentecostal church, but 00:01:26.290 --> 00:01:28.489 they were so busy worrying about what we were 00:01:28.489 --> 00:01:30.870 wearing, they forgot to teach us and put anything 00:01:30.870 --> 00:01:33.590 in our brains. Anybody know what I'm talking 00:01:33.590 --> 00:01:36.370 about? If you were Baptist or Methodist, I'm 00:01:36.370 --> 00:01:38.209 serious, you wouldn't be able to relate to this. 00:01:38.250 --> 00:01:39.890 You would look at us and think, wow, that was 00:01:39.890 --> 00:01:42.299 really silly of you all. y 'all had y 'all own 00:01:42.299 --> 00:01:45.799 moments as well, and I just thank God that we're 00:01:45.799 --> 00:01:48.819 at a place now that we're beginning to learn 00:01:48.819 --> 00:01:50.459 some things, and I think when we finish with 00:01:50.459 --> 00:01:53.700 this tonight, I think you'll have grasped the 00:01:53.700 --> 00:01:56.219 whole of the Jehovah's Witness. Okay, what I 00:01:56.219 --> 00:01:58.799 want to do is give you a couple notes. First 00:01:58.799 --> 00:02:01.540 of all, on your notes that you have, I am going 00:02:01.540 --> 00:02:04.040 to ask you to write a few things out in just 00:02:04.040 --> 00:02:06.540 a few moments here, but if you look at the very 00:02:06.540 --> 00:02:08.939 top, it says Jehovah's Witness and the Holy Spirit. 00:02:09.400 --> 00:02:12.199 One of the reasons that I entitled this part 00:02:12.199 --> 00:02:15.960 is because one of the things that one of the 00:02:15.960 --> 00:02:18.080 many things that I've already shared with you 00:02:18.080 --> 00:02:22.919 is Several of the things that the JWs teach and 00:02:22.919 --> 00:02:25.240 the way that it is polluted in what's called 00:02:25.240 --> 00:02:28.180 the NWT Which you'll see in just a few moments 00:02:28.180 --> 00:02:31.500 here I've already given you a list of the various 00:02:31.500 --> 00:02:35.180 doctrines that they adhere to where they come 00:02:35.180 --> 00:02:38.900 from pardon me, and what's more important is 00:02:38.900 --> 00:02:42.759 that you understand their founder. If you remember 00:02:42.759 --> 00:02:46.340 that one piece of argument, and remember this 00:02:46.340 --> 00:02:50.099 in everything that you do, whenever you are confronting 00:02:50.099 --> 00:02:54.050 any occult, Hear me well, saints of God. Whenever 00:02:54.050 --> 00:02:58.189 you are confronting, whether it is a known occult 00:02:58.189 --> 00:03:01.069 or cult, whether you are confronting a certain 00:03:01.069 --> 00:03:04.949 type of ideology, whether you are confronting 00:03:04.949 --> 00:03:08.150 or battling against a certain type of philosophy, 00:03:08.509 --> 00:03:11.590 whatever it is that you encounter as a believer. 00:03:11.849 --> 00:03:14.770 Some of us have brothers and sisters and sons 00:03:14.770 --> 00:03:17.710 and daughters and moms and dads that are caught 00:03:17.710 --> 00:03:21.789 up in a whole lot of things outside of Christianity 00:03:21.789 --> 00:03:24.250 and what they try to do is they want to clump 00:03:24.250 --> 00:03:27.590 it all together and make it sound as if though 00:03:27.590 --> 00:03:30.789 it's all the same thing and and we all serve 00:03:30.789 --> 00:03:32.569 the same God how many have ever heard somebody 00:03:32.569 --> 00:03:36.009 tell you well we all serve the same God we just 00:03:36.009 --> 00:03:38.550 serve him in different ways the devil is a liar 00:03:38.550 --> 00:03:41.849 we don't all serve the same God just like everybody's 00:03:41.849 --> 00:03:44.150 last name ain't Williams everybody's last name 00:03:44.150 --> 00:03:46.710 ain't Jones everybody's last name is not shines 00:03:46.710 --> 00:03:49.889 we are different we are different people and 00:03:49.889 --> 00:03:52.550 and Often, even as Hindus, and I'm not gonna 00:03:52.550 --> 00:03:54.789 get into a lot of Hinduism when we teach it, 00:03:54.969 --> 00:03:57.789 but even as Hindus, they have over two million 00:03:57.789 --> 00:04:00.969 separate gods. So if you know people that are 00:04:00.969 --> 00:04:04.110 usually, not always, but usually from a Indian 00:04:04.110 --> 00:04:07.550 descent, if they live either in Pakistan or in 00:04:07.550 --> 00:04:11.550 Istanbul or places of that magnitude, Karachi 00:04:11.550 --> 00:04:16.449 or Kashmir, you will find that the majority of 00:04:16.449 --> 00:04:20.240 those individuals come from what's called Hinduism 00:04:20.240 --> 00:04:23.740 and in under the umbrella of Hinduism there two 00:04:23.740 --> 00:04:26.100 million plus gods. I mean they got some gods 00:04:26.100 --> 00:04:29.339 over there I mean, you know them some folk over 00:04:29.339 --> 00:04:32.899 there starving to death and won't eat that big 00:04:32.899 --> 00:04:36.600 old piece of beef walking across the field because 00:04:36.600 --> 00:04:39.540 they believe that's grandma jones or grandma 00:04:39.540 --> 00:04:42.620 ali kraman or whatever their name is they won't 00:04:42.620 --> 00:04:44.879 touch it they won't eat it because they believe 00:04:44.879 --> 00:04:48.000 they've reincarnated in that cow and they don't 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:50.720 want to eat that cow them folk dying and going 00:04:50.720 --> 00:04:53.019 on being wherever they're going and being while 00:04:53.019 --> 00:04:55.379 their bellies are swollen and hungry don't you 00:04:55.379 --> 00:04:59.019 know i would get me a knife What you talking 00:04:59.019 --> 00:05:02.540 about build me a little fire And when I finish 00:05:02.540 --> 00:05:05.060 I'd be bloated. I would have eaten so much for 00:05:05.060 --> 00:05:08.860 let me young you I would just be just loaded 00:05:08.860 --> 00:05:12.120 off of steak all day long and they won't eat 00:05:12.120 --> 00:05:14.519 a lot of various things because you know again 00:05:14.519 --> 00:05:16.939 They see it as God's well the same principle 00:05:16.939 --> 00:05:20.319 and please commit this to memory The same principle 00:05:20.319 --> 00:05:24.360 is true as it relates to dealing with any behavior 00:05:24.360 --> 00:05:28.560 any cult any occult any personality any religion, 00:05:29.100 --> 00:05:31.379 anybody's thoughts process. Remember what I taught 00:05:31.379 --> 00:05:34.180 you even here in the Jehovah's Witness and that 00:05:34.180 --> 00:05:38.779 is you must always go to the head. Never, ever 00:05:38.779 --> 00:05:41.060 forget that. So if you're dealing with someone 00:05:41.060 --> 00:05:44.560 that doesn't believe in what's called a pluralistic 00:05:44.560 --> 00:05:48.639 God or a motor or certain type of entities, even 00:05:48.639 --> 00:05:51.120 if they just have a certain thought process, 00:05:51.439 --> 00:05:54.980 always go for their head. And I don't mean hit 00:05:54.980 --> 00:05:58.199 the head, but go for the head. And and and and 00:05:58.199 --> 00:06:00.199 always go after the head. Well, this is what 00:06:00.199 --> 00:06:02.720 I taught you concerning Jehovah's Witness And 00:06:02.720 --> 00:06:06.439 that is go straight to who? To the head go to 00:06:06.439 --> 00:06:09.860 Russell Russell is his name go to him exploit 00:06:09.860 --> 00:06:13.139 all of his weaknesses and guess what when you 00:06:13.139 --> 00:06:16.439 kill the foundation everything else is gonna 00:06:16.439 --> 00:06:19.779 fall. Jesus said it this way. He said if a man 00:06:19.779 --> 00:06:23.379 builds anything on anything other than that which 00:06:23.379 --> 00:06:26.180 he has established, he said it's going to fall. 00:06:26.399 --> 00:06:30.379 So if a man builds a great building on a sandy 00:06:30.379 --> 00:06:32.339 foundation, I don't care how great that building 00:06:32.339 --> 00:06:35.399 is, Jesus says not only will it fall, but I quote 00:06:35.399 --> 00:06:39.300 the master, he says great will be its fall. Well 00:06:39.300 --> 00:06:42.060 the same principle is true here with the Jehovah's 00:06:42.060 --> 00:06:44.519 Witness. Now we've gotten into some of the other 00:06:44.519 --> 00:06:47.480 but I want to get into the Holy Spirit part quickly 00:06:47.480 --> 00:06:50.199 here. If you will look with me, if you will, 00:06:51.139 --> 00:06:54.720 underneath they deny his personality as well 00:06:54.720 --> 00:06:58.000 as his deity. Now this is important to note because 00:06:58.000 --> 00:07:00.959 in understanding this, what you're going to find 00:07:00.959 --> 00:07:04.279 is that when you deal with a personality, you 00:07:04.279 --> 00:07:06.839 know that you're dealing with what? A person. 00:07:07.069 --> 00:07:10.050 When you deal with a personality, it has to be 00:07:10.050 --> 00:07:13.029 personal. So you can't deal with a personality 00:07:13.029 --> 00:07:15.490 and not deal with some sort of person. And the 00:07:15.490 --> 00:07:17.430 same thing is true, obviously, with the deity 00:07:17.430 --> 00:07:20.529 or with the God. They don't believe that that 00:07:20.529 --> 00:07:23.689 God was manifested in the flesh as we call or 00:07:23.689 --> 00:07:26.689 as we say, the Holy Spirit. They believe the 00:07:26.689 --> 00:07:31.089 Holy Spirit is not a he or a personality, but 00:07:31.089 --> 00:07:35.040 they believe the Holy Spirit is a it. It's a 00:07:35.040 --> 00:07:37.000 big difference. Let's look at the word of the 00:07:37.000 --> 00:07:39.240 Lord and see now what the word of the Lord has 00:07:39.240 --> 00:07:41.699 to say. Go with me, if you will, to the book 00:07:41.699 --> 00:07:45.519 of Acts. Go to the book of Acts, the fifth chapter. 00:07:45.600 --> 00:07:50.920 I listed it there on your paper. Boy, Tuesday 00:07:50.920 --> 00:07:52.600 nights are very different than Sundays, aren't 00:07:52.600 --> 00:07:55.759 they? I love Tuesday nights. Y 'all can keep 00:07:55.759 --> 00:07:57.660 the crowd on Sunday. Give me Tuesday nights. 00:07:58.079 --> 00:08:00.560 This is where you learn, right here. Tuesday 00:08:00.560 --> 00:08:04.259 night service. All right, Acts five. Verse number 00:08:04.259 --> 00:08:08.240 three, if you have it, say man. Pardon me. Let's 00:08:08.240 --> 00:08:10.220 go all the way back up to verse number one. It'll 00:08:10.220 --> 00:08:12.980 give us clarity. It says, but a certain man named 00:08:12.980 --> 00:08:17.819 Ananias with Sapphira, his wife, they sold a 00:08:17.819 --> 00:08:20.939 possession, which was really a piece of land. 00:08:21.319 --> 00:08:25.100 However, verse two, they kept and they kept back 00:08:25.100 --> 00:08:29.129 part. of the price his wife also being privileged 00:08:29.129 --> 00:08:32.350 or privy i think your king james says to it or 00:08:32.350 --> 00:08:35.909 in other words to the scheme and brought a certain 00:08:35.909 --> 00:08:39.830 part or a only a portion of the funds note what 00:08:39.830 --> 00:08:44.090 they did and they laid it at the apostle's feet 00:08:44.090 --> 00:08:50.570 verse three but peter said ananias why has satan 00:08:50.570 --> 00:08:56.039 filled thine heart to lie to The Holy Ghost. 00:08:56.139 --> 00:09:00.039 Stop right there. If the Holy Ghost wasn't it, 00:09:00.779 --> 00:09:04.639 you couldn't lie to it. Are you following? These 00:09:04.639 --> 00:09:07.919 are basic English. I should have my wife teaching 00:09:07.919 --> 00:09:11.100 part of this English part. She's much sharper 00:09:11.100 --> 00:09:13.860 understanding the law. There are laws in English. 00:09:14.100 --> 00:09:17.139 She shared one with me today. I told her, I don't 00:09:17.139 --> 00:09:19.279 remember remembering any of that in school. Maybe 00:09:19.279 --> 00:09:21.779 I went to the wrong school. What was that? That 00:09:21.779 --> 00:09:24.820 an I, that an E can't follow I except for by 00:09:24.820 --> 00:09:28.840 C? Y 'all know it, see, I'm sorry. I've forgotten 00:09:28.840 --> 00:09:30.580 all. How many have forgotten some of these laws 00:09:30.580 --> 00:09:33.879 in English? How many of y 'all didn't forget 00:09:33.879 --> 00:09:35.759 it? Let me see you smart people. We don't like 00:09:35.759 --> 00:09:37.320 you, we don't like you, we don't like you, we 00:09:37.320 --> 00:09:42.759 don't like. We don't like you smart people. We 00:09:42.759 --> 00:09:46.100 can't remember these laws. But note what the 00:09:46.100 --> 00:09:49.279 scripture here says. It says, but Peter said, 00:09:49.679 --> 00:09:52.919 Ananias, why has Satan filled their heart to 00:09:52.919 --> 00:09:56.240 lie to the Holy Ghost? You can't be talking about 00:09:56.240 --> 00:09:59.830 an it. it must be a personality and to keep back 00:09:59.830 --> 00:10:02.370 part of the price of the land. While it remained, 00:10:02.669 --> 00:10:04.169 he's still talking, Peter's still talking to 00:10:04.169 --> 00:10:07.169 Ananias, he said, while it remained yours, was 00:10:07.169 --> 00:10:11.090 it not thine own? And after, even after you sold 00:10:11.090 --> 00:10:14.899 it, man, was it not in your own power? In other 00:10:14.899 --> 00:10:16.940 words, you could've still did what you wanted 00:10:16.940 --> 00:10:20.299 to do. Why would you agree with the rest of us 00:10:20.299 --> 00:10:23.159 that you were going to be part of what we were 00:10:23.159 --> 00:10:25.539 doing? Now, note something, you gotta catch this, 00:10:25.860 --> 00:10:28.559 because this was something that the apostles 00:10:28.559 --> 00:10:31.360 had said to the people that they had a right 00:10:31.360 --> 00:10:33.659 to participate in. And one of the things, and 00:10:33.659 --> 00:10:35.759 you can go back and read the rest of it for yourself 00:10:35.759 --> 00:10:38.799 in chapter two, I mean in chapter four as well, 00:10:39.019 --> 00:10:41.799 what you will find out is, is that when the apostles 00:10:41.799 --> 00:10:44.470 or the leaders gave a declaration, they simply 00:10:44.470 --> 00:10:47.289 gave the option to the people to say how many 00:10:47.289 --> 00:10:49.350 want to be a part of it and they said we want 00:10:49.350 --> 00:10:51.809 to be a part of it and and the Bible says they 00:10:51.809 --> 00:10:54.549 all had one mind they were on one accord and 00:10:54.549 --> 00:10:56.610 they were going to do a lot of great great things 00:10:56.610 --> 00:10:59.470 with this and yet when him and his wife bore 00:10:59.470 --> 00:11:02.500 greed is a horrible thing ain't it Mean him and 00:11:02.500 --> 00:11:04.539 his wife agreed. I mean you got folk like that 00:11:04.539 --> 00:11:06.659 in church. They get mad in the church and stop 00:11:06.659 --> 00:11:09.000 giving time I ain't giving my time this week. 00:11:09.000 --> 00:11:11.879 I'm doing my whole thing Oh y 'all just got set 00:11:11.879 --> 00:11:13.820 up didn't even know you gotten set up with that 00:11:13.820 --> 00:11:16.120 one Don't you know you're not lying. You're not 00:11:16.120 --> 00:11:19.360 lying to glory to glory ministry You're tricking 00:11:19.360 --> 00:11:22.259 yourself because the moment that you say that 00:11:22.259 --> 00:11:24.840 you're bought with a price and that you belong 00:11:24.840 --> 00:11:28.139 to God What we do whether it's tithing whether 00:11:28.139 --> 00:11:30.440 it's giving offerings whether it's prayer whether 00:11:30.440 --> 00:11:33.000 it's stuff the word whether it's just being kind 00:11:33.000 --> 00:11:35.940 one to another we are commanded by the word of 00:11:35.940 --> 00:11:38.799 God to do these things and so when we don't do 00:11:38.799 --> 00:11:41.539 what we said we're going to do you're not who 00:11:41.539 --> 00:11:43.240 do you think you're tricking how many know that 00:11:43.240 --> 00:11:46.039 God has a record book and he's keeping record 00:11:46.039 --> 00:11:48.220 and at some point you're gonna have to divvy 00:11:48.220 --> 00:11:50.779 up some in some kind of way and God is a wonder 00:11:50.779 --> 00:11:53.580 God has a way of getting folk attention I've 00:11:53.580 --> 00:11:56.639 seen people hold back and and hold on and give 00:11:56.639 --> 00:11:58.960 part and I say go ahead Lord do what you want 00:11:58.960 --> 00:12:01.059 to with them I'm turning them over to you and 00:12:01.059 --> 00:12:04.600 you know what God does? Blow on a job. Blow on 00:12:04.600 --> 00:12:07.419 the house blow on the car and you can never seem 00:12:07.419 --> 00:12:10.059 to get that thing together and you spend more 00:12:10.059 --> 00:12:13.500 money Trying to fix and trying to keep and trying 00:12:13.500 --> 00:12:15.980 to do if you would have just given god what belongs 00:12:15.980 --> 00:12:18.340 to him You would at least had his favor and then 00:12:18.340 --> 00:12:20.620 when things began to happen you could have said 00:12:20.620 --> 00:12:23.419 you know What i'm all right with you god, so 00:12:23.419 --> 00:12:25.139 work this thing out for me I didn't look for 00:12:25.139 --> 00:12:26.899 a lot of amens out of that one because I got 00:12:26.899 --> 00:12:29.279 two people three five Okay, all of y 'all are 00:12:29.279 --> 00:12:31.179 on one accord. Let's go a little further. Let's 00:12:31.179 --> 00:12:33.460 see what the rest of the word here says again 00:12:33.419 --> 00:12:36.340 Verse number three says but Peter said Ananias 00:12:36.340 --> 00:12:38.419 Why has Satan filled my heart to lie to the Holy 00:12:38.419 --> 00:12:40.519 Ghost and to keep back part of the price of the 00:12:40.519 --> 00:12:43.039 land? While it remained it was it not your own 00:12:43.039 --> 00:12:45.740 and after it was so was it not in your own power? 00:12:46.159 --> 00:12:49.860 Why has thou conceived this thing in my heart 00:12:49.860 --> 00:12:54.220 that thou has not watched this you've not lied 00:12:54.220 --> 00:12:58.440 unto men But unto God, I hope you caught the 00:12:58.440 --> 00:13:01.100 deity right there. Did anybody catch it? Let's 00:13:01.100 --> 00:13:03.159 go back somebody said I didn't catch it what 00:13:03.159 --> 00:13:06.000 deity you're showing where god and the spirit 00:13:06.000 --> 00:13:08.700 He likened the same again. You can see it right 00:13:08.700 --> 00:13:11.940 here in verse number three Pardon me. Look at 00:13:11.940 --> 00:13:14.679 hear the word of the lord, but peter said ananias 00:13:14.679 --> 00:13:18.139 Why has satan filled my heart to lie to who say 00:13:18.139 --> 00:13:21.059 it again to who? Come on one more time to who 00:13:21.059 --> 00:13:24.059 look at verse number four go to the last paragraph 00:13:24.059 --> 00:13:27.860 Thou has not lied unto men but unto who unto 00:13:27.860 --> 00:13:30.620 who? He says you've lied unto the Holy Ghost 00:13:30.620 --> 00:13:35.580 you lied unto God not only is Jehovah's Witness 00:13:35.580 --> 00:13:39.419 murdered right there, but when I taught you about 00:13:39.419 --> 00:13:42.759 Their understanding or lack thereof and you'll 00:13:42.759 --> 00:13:45.000 understand it as we go down this sheet Not only 00:13:45.000 --> 00:13:48.000 do we see God in the person of the spirit God 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:50.360 the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, 00:13:50.620 --> 00:13:54.039 but we also know that this is talking about a 00:13:54.039 --> 00:13:56.820 personality. This is why when, and let me help 00:13:56.820 --> 00:13:59.779 some of you. If you've ever been in a situation 00:13:59.779 --> 00:14:02.580 where you've said, you know, I was gonna do such 00:14:02.580 --> 00:14:04.840 and something and I don't know what came over 00:14:04.840 --> 00:14:09.019 me. I just felt something said. Stop saying something 00:14:09.019 --> 00:14:12.049 said. let me tell you who said it if it's good 00:14:12.049 --> 00:14:14.330 that's the holy spirit speaking in your life 00:14:14.330 --> 00:14:17.250 that's the spirit saying don't go that way go 00:14:17.250 --> 00:14:19.769 that way oh i don't know why i went that way 00:14:19.769 --> 00:14:22.690 some just came something just came to my mind 00:14:22.690 --> 00:14:26.730 stop saying something know what can if it's if 00:14:26.730 --> 00:14:30.669 it's if it's good guess what it ain't satan Satan 00:14:30.669 --> 00:14:33.330 came to my mind and told me to go over and bless 00:14:33.330 --> 00:14:35.330 somebody. How many know that don't even sound 00:14:35.330 --> 00:14:39.070 right? Satan ain't gonna tell you to be nice 00:14:39.070 --> 00:14:42.649 to anybody. Satan would cuss them out. The dog, 00:14:42.710 --> 00:14:47.149 look at him. Now if that something comes, you'll 00:14:47.149 --> 00:14:49.470 know who that something is. Come on, let me give 00:14:49.470 --> 00:14:51.629 you another few scriptures and the reason I always 00:14:51.629 --> 00:14:54.330 give you more than one. Number one, remember 00:14:54.330 --> 00:14:58.200 the law. The law is that out of the mouth of 00:14:58.200 --> 00:15:02.000 two to three witnesses, every word is established. 00:15:02.360 --> 00:15:04.620 That is how you create doctrine, or that rather, 00:15:04.879 --> 00:15:06.559 it's not how you create doctrine, that is how 00:15:06.559 --> 00:15:10.519 doctrine is justified. God would never just speak 00:15:10.519 --> 00:15:14.720 one word for us to interpret it to mean one thing 00:15:14.720 --> 00:15:18.840 and nobody else understands. God is clear. God 00:15:18.840 --> 00:15:21.840 always brings a witness. So let me give you a 00:15:21.840 --> 00:15:24.320 few more witnesses. Go with me over to Acts the 00:15:24.320 --> 00:15:26.940 13th chapter. Let me start at verse number one 00:15:26.940 --> 00:15:29.620 and we'll end at verse number four, Acts 13. 00:15:30.159 --> 00:15:32.759 If you have it, say amen. If you still turn and 00:15:32.759 --> 00:15:36.169 say, give me a few more moments. I'll give you 00:15:36.169 --> 00:15:38.590 the few moments while I drink water. I'll give 00:15:38.590 --> 00:15:42.769 you the moment All right acts 13 and oh and remember 00:15:42.769 --> 00:15:45.090 to do this as well If you if you've forgotten 00:15:45.090 --> 00:15:47.669 if you were not here if you want to learn how 00:15:47.669 --> 00:15:51.690 to take footnotes in your own Bible After we 00:15:51.690 --> 00:15:54.309 give you this let's say that you're doing a study 00:15:54.309 --> 00:15:57.019 as we're doing on Jehovah's Witness Go through 00:15:57.019 --> 00:15:58.860 all the scriptures that I've given you during 00:15:58.860 --> 00:16:02.419 some off time and just write JW and also write 00:16:02.419 --> 00:16:05.379 where else that scripture is listed. So for instance, 00:16:05.440 --> 00:16:07.820 when I gave you Acts five, three and four, and 00:16:07.820 --> 00:16:12.299 now I'm giving you Acts. 13 to 1 through 4 you 00:16:12.299 --> 00:16:16.080 can actually write over on acts 5 3 & 4 all of 00:16:16.080 --> 00:16:18.440 these scriptures and it's just lining up your 00:16:18.440 --> 00:16:21.059 Bible and that way if you're ever out if you 00:16:21.059 --> 00:16:23.000 have the Word of God and you don't want to go 00:16:23.000 --> 00:16:25.559 back and pull up a whole bunch of notes or download 00:16:25.559 --> 00:16:28.059 something on your computer your Bible will have 00:16:28.059 --> 00:16:30.379 all of your footnotes and this is no different 00:16:30.379 --> 00:16:32.740 than what any other scholar does this is what 00:16:32.740 --> 00:16:35.620 scholars do they simply go and cross reference 00:16:35.620 --> 00:16:38.039 and cross reference and cross reference and I 00:16:38.039 --> 00:16:40.500 recommend get a Bible that has some room to write. 00:16:41.340 --> 00:16:43.100 Don't be like that lady. I think I told you all 00:16:43.100 --> 00:16:45.200 the story when I was up in Connecticut. I was 00:16:45.200 --> 00:16:47.620 doing that conference, that prophetic conference, 00:16:47.879 --> 00:16:49.779 and I was telling the people in the day session 00:16:49.779 --> 00:16:51.740 to write in their scripture, and I could tell 00:16:51.740 --> 00:16:54.620 she was being bothered by what I said, and I 00:16:54.620 --> 00:16:56.460 just went over to her. I said, mother, what's 00:16:56.460 --> 00:16:58.879 wrong? I said, you seem to be a little agitated. 00:16:59.100 --> 00:17:02.429 Well. Nah, man of God, I respect you, but you 00:17:02.429 --> 00:17:04.730 telling us to do the wrong thing. I said, what 00:17:04.730 --> 00:17:06.910 am I asking you to do that's wrong? Were you 00:17:06.910 --> 00:17:09.509 telling us to write in our Bible? I said, what's 00:17:09.509 --> 00:17:12.190 wrong with that? The book of Revelation says 00:17:12.190 --> 00:17:15.789 don't add nothing to the word. So she thought. 00:17:18.720 --> 00:17:22.259 She thought writing in her Bible and you know 00:17:22.259 --> 00:17:24.819 what I did. I I didn't say anything I said mama, 00:17:24.819 --> 00:17:27.400 please forgive me y 'all don't write in the word 00:17:27.400 --> 00:17:30.039 She said cuz the Bible says if you add to the 00:17:30.039 --> 00:17:32.339 word Jesus gonna take your name out the book 00:17:32.339 --> 00:17:35.059 of life I said mama We ain't writing no more 00:17:35.059 --> 00:17:37.599 in the scripture and I just let mama have her 00:17:37.599 --> 00:17:39.799 way. So she thought bless her heart Alright, 00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:42.759 come on. Let me go here. Acts the 13th chapter. 00:17:42.759 --> 00:17:46.000 Look at verse number one Now, there was in the 00:17:46.000 --> 00:17:49.960 church, now there were in the church that was 00:17:49.960 --> 00:17:53.700 Antioch, certain prophets and teachers, as Barnabas 00:17:53.700 --> 00:17:56.380 and Simeon, that was called Niger, and Lucius 00:17:56.380 --> 00:17:59.299 of Cyrene and Manan, which had been brought up 00:17:59.299 --> 00:18:04.140 with Herod, the Tetraic, and Saul. And they ministered 00:18:04.140 --> 00:18:08.759 to the Lord and fasted. Watch this, the Holy 00:18:08.759 --> 00:18:13.089 Ghost said, is that in your scripture? Now, If 00:18:13.089 --> 00:18:17.029 the holy ghost said something how many know and 00:18:17.029 --> 00:18:21.990 it can't speak If you go home and and your curtains 00:18:21.990 --> 00:18:26.029 begin to talk You better have some oil in your 00:18:26.029 --> 00:18:28.630 body to cast the devil out of them curds because 00:18:28.630 --> 00:18:31.109 ain't no demon in those curds Satan come out 00:18:31.109 --> 00:18:33.950 to curtains You better have some power to be 00:18:33.950 --> 00:18:36.589 able to deal with this the bible here says that 00:18:36.589 --> 00:18:40.059 the holy ghost says now not only do we see In 00:18:40.059 --> 00:18:43.140 Acts the third chapter that the Holy Spirit as 00:18:43.140 --> 00:18:47.200 a person also had Feelings and the way we know 00:18:47.200 --> 00:18:49.140 it is because I'll give you that in a moment 00:18:49.140 --> 00:18:51.720 because he was grief But it lets us know even 00:18:51.720 --> 00:18:54.640 in Acts 5 During the first passage of scripture 00:18:54.640 --> 00:18:58.000 that I gave you that that he could be in other 00:18:58.000 --> 00:19:00.539 words Entreat or else you could never lie to 00:19:00.539 --> 00:19:03.279 look at what it says again in verse number two 00:19:03.279 --> 00:19:06.119 and as they ministered unto the Lord and Fasted 00:19:06.119 --> 00:19:09.579 the Holy Ghost did what? Listen at what he said 00:19:09.579 --> 00:19:13.259 Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto 00:19:13.259 --> 00:19:19.059 I have called Them and when they had fasted and 00:19:19.059 --> 00:19:23.180 prayed and laid their hands on them They sent 00:19:23.180 --> 00:19:27.680 them away verse number four. So they being sent 00:19:27.680 --> 00:19:32.279 forth by who? Who sent them forth come on say 00:19:32.279 --> 00:19:35.509 it with me who sent them forth? The Holy Ghost 00:19:35.509 --> 00:19:38.049 sent them forth. Let's go to another one Acts 00:19:38.049 --> 00:19:41.109 the 21st chapter. I hope you're catching this 00:19:41.109 --> 00:19:44.309 this again Dispels what the Jehovah's Witness 00:19:44.309 --> 00:19:47.910 teach they teach that the Holy Spirit is an it 00:19:47.910 --> 00:19:51.750 That's what they teach. It's an invisible force 00:19:51.750 --> 00:19:55.309 Anything that is invisible that cannot speak 00:19:55.309 --> 00:19:59.769 and has no feelings Cannot be what the Bible 00:19:59.769 --> 00:20:02.759 teaches Impossible according to the word of the 00:20:02.759 --> 00:20:06.799 Lord. All right acts to 21st chapter acts 21 00:20:06.799 --> 00:20:09.759 verse number 10 if you have it say man Listen 00:20:09.759 --> 00:20:12.420 at the word of the Lord here acts 21 and 10 It 00:20:12.420 --> 00:20:15.319 says and as we tarry there many days the word 00:20:15.319 --> 00:20:18.450 tarry just means to wait And as we waited there 00:20:18.450 --> 00:20:22.130 many days, there came down from Judea a certain 00:20:22.130 --> 00:20:26.609 prophet named Agabus. And when he was come unto 00:20:26.609 --> 00:20:29.970 us, he took Paul's girdle. In other words, now 00:20:29.970 --> 00:20:32.009 remember, and this is not part of the message, 00:20:32.069 --> 00:20:34.609 but just for your information, when they talked 00:20:34.609 --> 00:20:37.089 about girdles during that time, they were talking 00:20:37.089 --> 00:20:40.349 about the sash that went around that held up. 00:20:40.299 --> 00:20:43.640 The garments of of the usually men that wore 00:20:43.640 --> 00:20:46.259 these particular garments that girdle held it 00:20:46.259 --> 00:20:48.619 up And and so it's not talking about the girdle 00:20:48.619 --> 00:20:51.900 that you go out and you lace up and okay I just 00:20:51.900 --> 00:20:53.960 wanted to make sure that y 'all understood that 00:20:53.960 --> 00:20:57.819 that's all Acts 21 verse number 10 one more time 00:20:57.819 --> 00:21:00.279 verse number 11 rather and when he was come unto 00:21:00.279 --> 00:21:03.519 us He took Paul's girdle watch this the prophet 00:21:03.519 --> 00:21:06.720 did this he took Paul's girdle and he bound his 00:21:06.720 --> 00:21:11.759 own hands and feet and he said thus Seth the 00:21:11.759 --> 00:21:15.819 Holy Ghost So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind 00:21:15.819 --> 00:21:18.619 the man that owns his girdle and shall deliver 00:21:18.619 --> 00:21:22.099 him into the hands of the Gentiles Who said it? 00:21:22.440 --> 00:21:25.819 How did the Holy Ghost say it through the prophet 00:21:25.819 --> 00:21:31.000 Agabus? So we know that the spirit speaks he 00:21:31.019 --> 00:21:34.099 Speaks as he wills when we get into gifts. You'll 00:21:34.099 --> 00:21:36.119 really see it very clear Let me give you one 00:21:36.119 --> 00:21:38.279 more and this would be just the clincher and 00:21:38.279 --> 00:21:40.140 we'll leave this and we'll move on quickly here 00:21:40.140 --> 00:21:44.039 Go to John st. John the gospel of st. John the 00:21:44.039 --> 00:21:50.299 14th the 14th chapter st. John 14 St. John the 00:21:50.299 --> 00:21:54.619 14th chapter When you get it say man, I still 00:21:54.619 --> 00:21:59.059 hear some pages turning st. John the 14th chapter 00:21:59.059 --> 00:22:02.920 st. John 14 Look with me quickly at verse number 00:22:02.920 --> 00:22:05.660 16 and 17 as a matter of fact go all the way 00:22:05.660 --> 00:22:09.900 back up to 15 Saint john 14 and we'll start at 00:22:09.900 --> 00:22:12.799 15 and i'll i'll skip around here a little bit 00:22:12.799 --> 00:22:15.440 look with me if you will at verse number 15 jesus 00:22:15.440 --> 00:22:18.619 is speaking if you love me keep my commandments 00:22:18.619 --> 00:22:22.480 and i will pray the father And he shall give 00:22:22.480 --> 00:22:25.240 you another comforter now remember the context 00:22:25.240 --> 00:22:27.759 of this particular word the reason this comes 00:22:27.759 --> 00:22:30.680 up like this is because Jesus was about to leave 00:22:30.680 --> 00:22:33.480 the scene and the men were afraid that he was 00:22:33.480 --> 00:22:36.140 leaving what was gonna happen to us and Jesus 00:22:36.140 --> 00:22:38.240 said if you love me keep my commandments and 00:22:38.240 --> 00:22:40.539 I'll pray the father and he shall give you another 00:22:40.539 --> 00:22:45.539 comforter that he he Everyone say he please underline 00:22:45.539 --> 00:22:47.920 that word even in your scripture note what it 00:22:47.920 --> 00:22:52.640 doesn't say it doesn't say It says he. How many 00:22:52.640 --> 00:22:57.099 know he is a personal pronoun? How many also 00:22:57.099 --> 00:23:02.089 know that he describes the gender? I thought 00:23:02.089 --> 00:23:04.049 I'd throw that one in that's a free part won't 00:23:04.049 --> 00:23:06.410 cost you anything all right look at what it says 00:23:06.410 --> 00:23:08.650 one more time and I will pray the father and 00:23:08.650 --> 00:23:11.890 he shall give you another comforter that he may 00:23:11.890 --> 00:23:16.829 abide with you forever verse 17 even the spirit 00:23:16.829 --> 00:23:19.710 now note something please note this in your scripture 00:23:19.710 --> 00:23:23.970 the word spirit there is capitalized That's not 00:23:23.970 --> 00:23:27.990 in small cap. Anytime you see in small cap, in 00:23:27.990 --> 00:23:31.049 your Bible, anywhere, the word spirit, whenever 00:23:31.049 --> 00:23:33.849 it is in small cap, that's dealing with your 00:23:33.849 --> 00:23:37.309 spirit. But when you see it capitalize, that's 00:23:37.309 --> 00:23:40.509 dealing with the Holy Spirit. How many know you 00:23:40.509 --> 00:23:43.230 only capitalize when you're dealing with, well, 00:23:43.230 --> 00:23:45.390 when you deal with a name, a name should be what? 00:23:45.740 --> 00:23:49.700 Capitalized so it's speaking of a deity right 00:23:49.700 --> 00:23:53.480 here and that deity is God 17 even the spirit 00:23:53.480 --> 00:23:58.599 capital of truth whom the world Cannot receive 00:23:58.599 --> 00:24:03.279 because it seeeth him not neither knoweth him, 00:24:03.279 --> 00:24:10.579 but you know him for he dwelleth with you and 00:24:10.579 --> 00:24:15.420 shall be in you Go to chapter 26, same book, 00:24:15.519 --> 00:24:20.940 stay in the same book. Not 26, verse 26. Verse 00:24:20.940 --> 00:24:25.279 26. Same book, St. John 14. Go with me to verse 00:24:25.279 --> 00:24:28.519 number 26. Are you there? Listen. We'll go all 00:24:28.519 --> 00:24:30.839 the way up to 25. These things have I spoken 00:24:30.839 --> 00:24:34.859 unto you, being yet present with you, but the 00:24:34.859 --> 00:24:37.140 comforter, note what's happening there again. 00:24:37.259 --> 00:24:40.410 What is it? It's capitalize. The comforter. Why? 00:24:40.670 --> 00:24:44.490 Because this is another name for the Holy Spirit. 00:24:44.710 --> 00:24:49.690 He is the comforter. And in the Greek word. Oh, 00:24:49.690 --> 00:24:51.230 God, I hope my Greek don't fail me now. I think 00:24:51.230 --> 00:24:54.789 it's paracletus. It means that he that is stuck 00:24:54.789 --> 00:24:59.569 to your side as well as in the center of you. 00:24:59.750 --> 00:25:01.230 For all of you that have been to Bible school, 00:25:01.349 --> 00:25:03.470 you'll enjoy this one here. I don't know if they 00:25:03.470 --> 00:25:06.869 taught you, but it's also part of the Hebrew 00:25:06.869 --> 00:25:12.509 word Yasha. That's Y -A -S -H -A. Yasha means, 00:25:13.029 --> 00:25:16.750 it's where we get the, yasha is part of the word 00:25:16.750 --> 00:25:20.349 salvation that is within you. You'll find that 00:25:20.349 --> 00:25:24.269 word yasha in Zephaniah, the third chapter, the 00:25:24.269 --> 00:25:27.799 10th verse, where the great. Prophet Zephaniah 00:25:27.799 --> 00:25:30.779 was speaking and he was saying that what God 00:25:30.779 --> 00:25:33.180 was speaking through him and he was saying for 00:25:33.180 --> 00:25:36.259 out of Ethiopia will I call my supplicants to 00:25:36.259 --> 00:25:39.319 bring unto me an offering and I will deliver 00:25:39.319 --> 00:25:42.599 them from all that have oppressed them for I 00:25:42.599 --> 00:25:46.000 am their God and I will give them or I will be 00:25:46.000 --> 00:25:49.319 in the midst of them and that word midst is the 00:25:49.319 --> 00:25:52.220 Hebrew word Yasha will we get the same word right 00:25:52.220 --> 00:25:55.720 here and it means to be so centered on the inside 00:25:55.529 --> 00:25:57.789 of you I wish I could preach that one right now 00:25:57.789 --> 00:26:01.170 it means to be so centered on the inside of you 00:26:01.170 --> 00:26:03.789 that even though you may think he's far away 00:26:03.789 --> 00:26:07.210 he's only right in your midst that's and it gives 00:26:07.210 --> 00:26:11.109 the idea in the Hebrew it means he that has so 00:26:11.109 --> 00:26:14.450 much power that he moves like a whirlwind or 00:26:14.450 --> 00:26:16.730 what you and I would call a hurricane now let 00:26:16.730 --> 00:26:19.150 me tell you the significance when you have the 00:26:19.150 --> 00:26:22.509 comforter you have so much power it's like a 00:26:22.509 --> 00:26:25.869 whirlwind on the inside turn for what purpose 00:26:25.869 --> 00:26:28.130 not just to give you goosebumps and to make you 00:26:28.130 --> 00:26:31.069 run around the church but it gives the idea that 00:26:31.069 --> 00:26:33.869 when the enemy is fighting against you when you 00:26:33.869 --> 00:26:37.009 understand who you are you walk in knowing that 00:26:37.009 --> 00:26:39.789 the spirit is on the inside and every time you 00:26:39.789 --> 00:26:43.289 take a step that whirlwind begins to move everything 00:26:43.289 --> 00:26:46.710 around you and it'll move stuff right out of 00:26:46.710 --> 00:26:49.269 your way somebody open up your mouth and shout 00:26:49.269 --> 00:26:54.160 glory in here Oh God is a powerful God. That's 00:26:54.160 --> 00:26:56.339 why when you really understand this you won't 00:26:56.339 --> 00:26:58.240 want I don't care I know all of us go through 00:26:58.240 --> 00:27:00.839 stuff But when you really get this and understand 00:27:00.839 --> 00:27:03.299 you have the comforter working up you ain't gotta 00:27:03.299 --> 00:27:05.880 walk around I don't know if the Lord gonna answer 00:27:05.880 --> 00:27:08.960 me if it be his will honey You can know what 00:27:08.960 --> 00:27:12.539 his will is and his will is that you would overcome 00:27:12.539 --> 00:27:15.819 His will is that you would abound his will is 00:27:15.819 --> 00:27:18.119 that you would not just have a little but you 00:27:18.119 --> 00:27:21.660 would be blessed and being an overflow Will is 00:27:21.660 --> 00:27:25.299 for you to win and not to lose why because when 00:27:25.299 --> 00:27:27.619 you have the comforter on the inside now What 00:27:27.619 --> 00:27:30.559 is comfort for comfort is because you and I are 00:27:30.559 --> 00:27:32.480 going to go through something You would need 00:27:32.480 --> 00:27:34.440 to be comforted if you weren't gonna go through 00:27:34.440 --> 00:27:37.220 anything, but God already knew he said I'm leaving 00:27:37.220 --> 00:27:39.660 and if Satan have tried me He's certainly gonna 00:27:39.660 --> 00:27:42.660 try you but he was telling us telling the disciples, 00:27:42.660 --> 00:27:45.700 but don't worry Don't get all in a tizzy. Don't 00:27:45.700 --> 00:27:48.339 have to go and take riddling and lose your mind. 00:27:48.339 --> 00:27:51.380 Don't have to fire up up a blunt and over drink 00:27:51.380 --> 00:27:54.440 your drinks because you gotta take the edge off. 00:27:54.680 --> 00:27:58.099 Don't go out like that. He says if the comforter 00:27:58.099 --> 00:28:01.640 is in you, he will give you power to over. That 00:28:01.640 --> 00:28:03.640 means when your kids are acting crazy, when your 00:28:03.640 --> 00:28:06.279 mama, your dog, your cat, your goldfish, everybody 00:28:06.279 --> 00:28:08.660 cursing you out, you ain't gotta curse them back 00:28:08.660 --> 00:28:10.920 out. You can just stand and know one thing for 00:28:10.920 --> 00:28:13.680 sure, the comforter's on the inside and wherever 00:28:13.680 --> 00:28:17.039 I go, he's already there and I'm going to be 00:28:17.039 --> 00:28:21.140 victorious whether the devil I dare you to give 00:28:21.140 --> 00:28:23.460 two people a high five and tell them you better 00:28:23.460 --> 00:28:29.759 get the comforter. I gotta keep going because 00:28:29.759 --> 00:28:32.339 we're gonna get caught up. I don't know if it's 00:28:32.339 --> 00:28:35.380 rapture time yet. All right, come on. Let's go 00:28:35.380 --> 00:28:37.299 over to one more chapter I want to finish this 00:28:37.299 --> 00:28:39.960 part of the Holy Spirit here and see what he 00:28:39.960 --> 00:28:42.799 says the 16th chapter stay in the same book But 00:28:42.799 --> 00:28:45.099 go with me if you will over to the 16th chapter 00:28:45.099 --> 00:28:47.960 This is important to take note of this here the 00:28:47.960 --> 00:28:51.240 16th chapter Look with me if you will at verse 00:28:51.240 --> 00:28:53.980 number seven is a matter of fact go all the way 00:28:53.980 --> 00:28:56.059 up stay in 16 But go all the way up to verse 00:28:56.059 --> 00:28:58.859 number five We'll we'll walk our way all the 00:28:58.859 --> 00:29:01.839 way down to 14 listen listen to the word of the 00:29:01.839 --> 00:29:06.319 Lord But now I go my way to him that sent me 00:29:06.319 --> 00:29:09.240 and none of you asketh me whither goeth thou 00:29:09.240 --> 00:29:12.099 But because I have said these things unto you 00:29:12.099 --> 00:29:15.400 sorrow has filled your heart Jesus was about 00:29:15.400 --> 00:29:17.640 to go out. You know, what can I read something? 00:29:17.720 --> 00:29:19.440 Well, I better leave that alone I get cited when 00:29:19.440 --> 00:29:21.599 I get into the word like this here look with 00:29:21.599 --> 00:29:24.140 me if you will at verse number six But because 00:29:24.140 --> 00:29:26.500 I have said these things unto you, Saul has filled 00:29:26.500 --> 00:29:29.359 your heart. Nevertheless, I tell you the truth. 00:29:29.559 --> 00:29:33.740 It is expedient for you that I go away. For if 00:29:33.740 --> 00:29:37.400 I go not away, the comforter will not come unto 00:29:37.400 --> 00:29:41.079 you. But if I depart, I will send, look at that 00:29:41.079 --> 00:29:45.779 word, him unto you. And when he is come, he will, 00:29:46.019 --> 00:29:49.420 look at what his function is, a it, hear me, 00:29:49.779 --> 00:29:53.390 an it cannot have a function. When you have a 00:29:53.390 --> 00:29:57.849 glass it only has a function that you set for 00:29:57.849 --> 00:30:01.569 it No pun intended, but you get it when you have 00:30:01.569 --> 00:30:03.970 a glass how many know a glass has a function 00:30:03.970 --> 00:30:06.970 I mean you can use it for a few things But primarily 00:30:06.970 --> 00:30:09.470 instead of throwing it at somebody who you upset 00:30:09.470 --> 00:30:13.970 with you usually put drink in it Amen, so but 00:30:13.970 --> 00:30:17.289 watch watch the wisdom of that It's your job 00:30:17.289 --> 00:30:20.430 to work the glass you got that but now go with 00:30:20.430 --> 00:30:23.049 me in the word here go back down to verse number 00:30:23.049 --> 00:30:27.130 five and verse number seven rather and I'm sorry 00:30:27.130 --> 00:30:30.109 verse number eight and see how this works different 00:30:30.109 --> 00:30:32.329 now again with the glass we make the function 00:30:32.329 --> 00:30:35.809 but watch this and when he has come he will reprove 00:30:35.809 --> 00:30:38.990 in other words he has his own function you can't 00:30:38.990 --> 00:30:42.480 have your own function and being it Are you catching 00:30:42.480 --> 00:30:45.799 that to have your own purpose? You have to have 00:30:45.799 --> 00:30:49.119 a plan if you have a plan that means you have 00:30:49.119 --> 00:30:52.700 to have a Prescription if you have a prescription 00:30:52.700 --> 00:30:55.200 Oh, I hope you're catching this if you have a 00:30:55.200 --> 00:30:57.220 prescription then that means you have to have 00:30:57.220 --> 00:31:00.940 someone that prescribes the prescription You 00:31:00.940 --> 00:31:04.119 can't take medicine. I'm going to Walgreens or 00:31:04.119 --> 00:31:06.640 to Eckers. Give me some of your drugs. No, what 00:31:06.640 --> 00:31:09.779 do you need? You need a doctor's Prescription 00:31:09.779 --> 00:31:12.119 I hope you're catching this now look what what 00:31:12.119 --> 00:31:15.460 he does verse 8 and when he has come he will 00:31:15.460 --> 00:31:18.700 Reprove the world of sin in other words. He's 00:31:18.700 --> 00:31:22.000 going to deal with the world about sin and of 00:31:22.000 --> 00:31:27.500 righteousness and of judgment of sin because 00:31:27.500 --> 00:31:32.039 they believe not on me of Righteousness because 00:31:32.039 --> 00:31:34.880 I go to my father and you will see me no more 00:31:34.880 --> 00:31:40.049 of judgment because the prince This world is 00:31:40.049 --> 00:31:45.690 judged. Oh Father verse number 12 I have yet 00:31:45.690 --> 00:31:48.410 many things to say unto you, but you can't bear 00:31:48.410 --> 00:31:51.710 them right now How be it when he there's that 00:31:51.710 --> 00:31:55.809 he again the spirit of truth is calm He will 00:31:55.809 --> 00:32:00.390 guide you into Some truth. I just want to make 00:32:00.390 --> 00:32:03.049 sure y 'all paying attention into all truth for 00:32:03.049 --> 00:32:07.680 he shall not speak of himself But whosoever he 00:32:07.680 --> 00:32:12.460 shall hear that shall he speak and he will show 00:32:12.460 --> 00:32:19.319 you things to come He shall glorify Me for he 00:32:19.319 --> 00:32:23.420 shall receive of mine and I and shall show it 00:32:23.420 --> 00:32:27.859 rather Unto you is this clear or is this clear? 00:32:28.119 --> 00:32:30.839 So again, when the Jehovah's Witness tell you, 00:32:31.180 --> 00:32:34.640 well, the Holy Spirit, it's just an it. You have, 00:32:34.779 --> 00:32:37.259 oh, a kazillion, if there was such numeric, you 00:32:37.259 --> 00:32:39.839 have a whole bunch of scripture to just be able 00:32:39.839 --> 00:32:41.779 to rattle off and go, wait a minute, it can't 00:32:41.779 --> 00:32:44.579 be an it because, and you can then speak of what 00:32:44.579 --> 00:32:49.180 his job is. All right. Now, some of this is self 00:32:49.180 --> 00:32:52.940 -explanatory to you. If you look at the New World 00:32:52.940 --> 00:32:55.180 Translation, let's go to that. I only have a 00:32:55.180 --> 00:32:56.720 few more minutes here, and I want to wrap this 00:32:56.720 --> 00:32:59.900 up. Note what it says, and I gave you these notes 00:32:59.900 --> 00:33:05.940 here. The New World's Translation. That's the 00:33:05.940 --> 00:33:09.680 Jehovah's Witness Bible. And this is gonna blow 00:33:09.680 --> 00:33:12.420 you away. And this is another way, if you remember 00:33:12.420 --> 00:33:14.319 how I told you and taught you to deal with the 00:33:14.319 --> 00:33:16.440 head, you'll win this one every single time. 00:33:16.839 --> 00:33:20.400 Note, it was first published, I mean, here's, 00:33:20.420 --> 00:33:22.579 I mean, I don't even know if I need to go any 00:33:22.579 --> 00:33:25.740 further. It was first published in 1950. Can 00:33:25.740 --> 00:33:30.039 we stop and talk? Now, help me. Maybe I'm missing 00:33:30.039 --> 00:33:34.319 something. How many believe that somebody knows 00:33:34.319 --> 00:33:36.859 more than you? I don't see all the hands raised. 00:33:37.039 --> 00:33:38.920 I mean, ain't nobody know more than me, honey. 00:33:39.000 --> 00:33:41.279 I know everything. You just come to the altar. 00:33:41.339 --> 00:33:43.079 We're going to cast that devil out of you. That 00:33:43.079 --> 00:33:46.640 devil will lie to you. Somebody knows more than 00:33:46.640 --> 00:33:50.839 us. Usually people that have been here longer 00:33:50.839 --> 00:33:54.509 have had more experiences. no more than us. One 00:33:54.509 --> 00:33:57.769 of the reasons I take counsel from older leaders 00:33:57.769 --> 00:34:00.690 is because I don't want to repeat something they've 00:34:00.690 --> 00:34:03.730 already been through. Why should I go through 00:34:03.730 --> 00:34:04.990 something that they've already been through? 00:34:05.190 --> 00:34:08.769 Teach me the pitfalls, that way I can avoid them. 00:34:08.989 --> 00:34:12.590 Amen? Well, think about it this way. The Jehovah's 00:34:12.590 --> 00:34:17.250 Witness, they published their Bible in 1950. 00:34:17.889 --> 00:34:22.469 54 years ago, they came up with a revelation. 00:34:24.139 --> 00:34:29.699 That means all these thousands of years God's 00:34:29.699 --> 00:34:33.460 been speaking and over 66 your Bible is called 00:34:33.460 --> 00:34:39.119 the Canon 66 different separate books by tons 00:34:39.119 --> 00:34:43.519 of writers that lived in various places Didn't 00:34:43.519 --> 00:34:47.260 know each other over several thousand years and 00:34:47.260 --> 00:34:50.500 not one of their words contradict their words 00:34:50.500 --> 00:34:53.300 But yet the Jehovah's Witness come up with something 00:34:53.300 --> 00:34:56.800 54 years ago Look at your neighbor say that is 00:34:56.800 --> 00:35:00.360 crazy, you know All right. Now I want you to 00:35:00.360 --> 00:35:03.639 follow the train of logic if they came up with 00:35:03.639 --> 00:35:07.610 it 54 years ago, how many can figure out? they 00:35:07.610 --> 00:35:13.210 had to use some sort of an example to get to 00:35:13.210 --> 00:35:15.530 their 1950 translation. Let me say it again. 00:35:16.070 --> 00:35:19.570 If they used a Bible or if they created their 00:35:19.570 --> 00:35:22.670 own Bible, how many know there had to be some 00:35:22.670 --> 00:35:25.750 stories that were already told for them to at 00:35:25.750 --> 00:35:29.070 least try to mimic? Well, if some stories were 00:35:29.070 --> 00:35:31.449 already told for them to mimic, it would seem 00:35:31.449 --> 00:35:34.730 to me that You know, you wouldn't take the story 00:35:34.730 --> 00:35:37.929 and turn it into your story Why not go with the 00:35:37.929 --> 00:35:40.730 story that already exists since that's the record 00:35:40.730 --> 00:35:43.050 and that's the story that's already on record 00:35:43.050 --> 00:35:46.469 That's like me coming to your house That you 00:35:46.469 --> 00:35:49.550 own that you pay what's the electric people here 00:35:49.550 --> 00:35:52.610 tico? I'm trying to learn this thing you pay 00:35:52.610 --> 00:35:56.250 these things and and and I come in I I don't 00:35:56.250 --> 00:35:59.449 knock on your door. I come in and kick your door 00:35:59.449 --> 00:36:04.989 open Open your refrigerator. I eat your food 00:36:04.989 --> 00:36:08.869 while you're there and I take myself Dirty as 00:36:08.869 --> 00:36:12.349 I am and I go get in the center of your bed with 00:36:12.349 --> 00:36:15.969 my shoes on and you come in the room and you 00:36:15.969 --> 00:36:19.130 You wouldn't just sit there and go Oh praise 00:36:19.130 --> 00:36:24.329 the Lord How many know I ain't going there? How 00:36:24.329 --> 00:36:29.010 many know if I could survive Either your bat 00:36:29.010 --> 00:36:33.519 your guns or something I'm a bold bold bold fellow 00:36:33.519 --> 00:36:36.019 well the fact of the matter is pardon me the 00:36:36.019 --> 00:36:38.500 fact of the matter is this is exactly what they've 00:36:38.500 --> 00:36:40.920 done they've gone and they created something 00:36:40.920 --> 00:36:44.260 54 years ago and you think about it like this 00:36:44.260 --> 00:36:48.139 it's pure arrogance to take what has already 00:36:48.139 --> 00:36:51.480 existed for thousands of years understand something 00:36:51.480 --> 00:36:55.500 this has existed for thousands and thousands 00:36:55.500 --> 00:36:58.599 of years and all of a sudden I know how to do 00:36:58.599 --> 00:37:01.340 it better How are you going to be better than 00:37:01.340 --> 00:37:06.239 God? So you see another way to argue the point 00:37:06.239 --> 00:37:09.440 with them. Note what it says. Later, they didn't 00:37:09.440 --> 00:37:13.780 stop there, they revised it in 1951, a year later. 00:37:14.619 --> 00:37:18.099 They had to make some changes. I guess God forgot 00:37:18.099 --> 00:37:19.940 something and he had to go back and tell them 00:37:19.940 --> 00:37:21.699 something he forgot. How many know God doesn't 00:37:21.699 --> 00:37:25.480 forget? And then 9 more years, 10 more years, 00:37:25.579 --> 00:37:30.079 1961, they finished talking to God. And they 00:37:30.079 --> 00:37:34.119 revised it one more time Their committee now 00:37:34.119 --> 00:37:36.079 here's what you need to know and please underscore 00:37:36.079 --> 00:37:38.659 this on your paper This is very paramount for 00:37:38.659 --> 00:37:40.599 your success in dealing with the Jehovah's Witness 00:37:40.599 --> 00:37:43.159 look at what it says it says their committee 00:37:43.159 --> 00:37:49.480 had no known translators with with recognized 00:37:49.480 --> 00:37:55.340 degrees in Hebrew Greek Latin Aramaic or any 00:37:55.340 --> 00:37:59.989 other translated text They had no scholars. So 00:37:59.989 --> 00:38:02.789 that's like me getting my boys together in my 00:38:02.789 --> 00:38:04.909 house. Teach them a little Hebrew and a little 00:38:04.909 --> 00:38:07.369 Greek and we sit and we make us up a new Bible. 00:38:07.889 --> 00:38:10.989 How many know? Bad idea. How many know bad idea? 00:38:11.210 --> 00:38:13.429 Alright, come on. Let's go further. Alright, 00:38:13.769 --> 00:38:15.670 important note. Now this is important and this 00:38:15.670 --> 00:38:18.530 is why I gave you the history here. Frank Franz, 00:38:19.030 --> 00:38:21.829 who represented the translating committee, also 00:38:21.829 --> 00:38:25.349 the fourth watchtower or Jehovah's Witness Society's 00:38:25.349 --> 00:38:30.480 president, admitted Under oath, his inability 00:38:30.480 --> 00:38:34.019 to translate language. Pastor, where you get 00:38:34.019 --> 00:38:35.980 all this stuff from? Honey, it's in the court 00:38:35.980 --> 00:38:39.679 records. It's called research. Seek and you'll 00:38:39.679 --> 00:38:42.380 find. Under cross examination held on Wednesday, 00:38:42.780 --> 00:38:48.059 November 24th, 1954. Paragraph A through B. While 00:38:48.059 --> 00:38:50.539 being examined, Mr. Franz stated the following. 00:38:50.820 --> 00:38:53.659 Question. Now remember, he was being questioned 00:38:53.659 --> 00:38:57.630 regarding his ability to translate, understand 00:38:57.630 --> 00:38:59.650 languages. It's very, very clear you can pull 00:38:59.650 --> 00:39:02.449 these records up yourself as well. Note, question, 00:39:02.750 --> 00:39:06.230 have you ever made yourself, have you also made 00:39:06.230 --> 00:39:08.909 yourself familiar with Hebrew? Note what he says, 00:39:09.469 --> 00:39:13.449 yes. How many know yes is yes? How many know 00:39:13.449 --> 00:39:18.269 yes is not? It depends on what is is. When yes 00:39:18.269 --> 00:39:21.090 is yes, that's all it is. It's an absolute word. 00:39:21.289 --> 00:39:23.570 So you can't get away from this. Now watch this. 00:39:23.610 --> 00:39:27.530 Follow the logic. Question, so you have a substantial 00:39:27.530 --> 00:39:31.030 linguistic apparatus at your command? He answers, 00:39:31.210 --> 00:39:35.250 yes, for use in my biblical work. Question, I 00:39:35.250 --> 00:39:40.250 think you are able to read the Bible in Hebrew, 00:39:40.389 --> 00:39:42.369 Greek, Latin, Spanish, Portuguese, German, and 00:39:42.369 --> 00:39:45.730 French. Note what he answers under oath, yes. 00:39:45.980 --> 00:39:50.340 Later during the same cross examination question, 00:39:50.780 --> 00:39:55.500 you yourself read and speak Hebrew, do you? I 00:39:55.500 --> 00:39:59.940 don't speak Hebrew. You do not? No. Can you yourself 00:39:59.940 --> 00:40:04.059 translate into Hebrew, Genesis 2 and 4? Which 00:40:04.059 --> 00:40:07.800 one? How many see him squirming already in the 00:40:07.800 --> 00:40:10.559 translation? Now, and they're pointing to it, 00:40:10.559 --> 00:40:13.179 that fourth verse of the second chapter of Genesis. 00:40:13.619 --> 00:40:17.789 You mean here? Yes. Look at what his answer was. 00:40:18.030 --> 00:40:23.989 No. Now note what I put. Any basic Bible school 00:40:23.989 --> 00:40:27.210 professor would never pass a first year Hebrew 00:40:27.210 --> 00:40:31.409 student who could not translate the verse. Can 00:40:31.409 --> 00:40:36.070 you imagine? He's the president of translation, 00:40:37.110 --> 00:40:40.110 but he has no scholarship. How many of you all 00:40:40.110 --> 00:40:43.500 have jobs? How many know that there are rules 00:40:43.500 --> 00:40:47.179 and regulations to your job? When you went to 00:40:47.179 --> 00:40:51.860 your job to apply, I'm assuming you had some 00:40:51.860 --> 00:40:55.119 foreknowledge of something. Either you went to 00:40:55.119 --> 00:40:57.460 school, you were trained in another department, 00:40:57.860 --> 00:41:02.579 you had to acquire something, or they would teach 00:41:02.579 --> 00:41:08.099 you that job on the job. Amen? When you, however, 00:41:09.230 --> 00:41:13.690 As Frank province is, you go to the Bible, you 00:41:13.690 --> 00:41:18.389 go to a printing press, and you create your own 00:41:18.389 --> 00:41:22.090 Bible. How is it that you have no scholarship, 00:41:22.929 --> 00:41:27.969 no academic prowess to be able to translate, 00:41:28.289 --> 00:41:31.650 but in order to write a Bible, you have to translate 00:41:31.650 --> 00:41:33.730 in several languages, but you don't know how 00:41:33.730 --> 00:41:38.650 to translate? Are you all hearing me? The Jehovah's 00:41:38.650 --> 00:41:42.469 Witness are flawed from their beginning leader, 00:41:42.969 --> 00:41:46.210 Russell, even through their translations. Let 00:41:46.210 --> 00:41:48.409 me finish this up. This is important to note. 00:41:49.150 --> 00:41:51.590 I put you on the back some suggested reading 00:41:51.590 --> 00:41:53.690 material. Please read this book. Now, saints, 00:41:53.710 --> 00:41:56.550 let me say this to you. I know I always throw 00:41:56.550 --> 00:41:59.130 a lot of books out at you to read. I beg you 00:41:59.130 --> 00:42:01.750 become avid readers in this church. Don't just 00:42:01.750 --> 00:42:05.079 go home and watch TV. Pick up a book. Let me 00:42:05.079 --> 00:42:07.079 give you, let me give you a little history, a 00:42:07.079 --> 00:42:09.920 statistic. If you want to become a ferocious 00:42:09.920 --> 00:42:13.280 reader, an avid reader, buy a book and it need 00:42:13.280 --> 00:42:16.260 one chapter a day. I don't care how big or small 00:42:16.260 --> 00:42:18.800 it is. What it would do, it would develop a habit 00:42:18.800 --> 00:42:21.480 of reading and you'll be able to begin to catch, 00:42:21.619 --> 00:42:23.760 catch, catch. Now, on this particular topic, 00:42:23.960 --> 00:42:26.380 it's just suggested you don't have to, but I 00:42:26.380 --> 00:42:28.400 suggest to you if you want to read it, suggest 00:42:28.400 --> 00:42:31.019 a reading material, 30 years, here's the book, 00:42:31.039 --> 00:42:35.460 30 years, a watchtower slave. published in 56. 00:42:35.739 --> 00:42:38.219 This individual, listen at what they state concerning 00:42:38.219 --> 00:42:40.440 the Watchtower. Now this is a person who spent 00:42:40.440 --> 00:42:43.380 30 years as a Jehovah's Witness. Hear the quote. 00:42:43.980 --> 00:42:46.199 The Watchtower leadership, this is on page 2, 00:42:46.199 --> 00:42:49.119 the last paragraph there. The Watchtower leadership 00:42:49.119 --> 00:42:52.039 sense, and here's an indictment against us, the 00:42:52.039 --> 00:42:54.320 church. The Watchtower leadership sense that 00:42:54.320 --> 00:42:57.059 within the midst of Christendom were millions 00:42:57.059 --> 00:43:01.400 of professing Christians who were not well grounded 00:43:01.400 --> 00:43:05.019 in the truths once delivered unto the saints. 00:43:05.159 --> 00:43:08.000 Stop right there. Note something. Note how they 00:43:08.000 --> 00:43:11.940 began to be strong. They took a survey and realized 00:43:11.940 --> 00:43:16.539 that most people that go to church were not grounded 00:43:16.539 --> 00:43:20.360 in the book. They could shout, they could sing, 00:43:20.960 --> 00:43:24.019 they could dance, but didn't know the word of 00:43:24.019 --> 00:43:26.860 God. And you know what they did? They were like 00:43:26.860 --> 00:43:31.860 a lion looking at a sick animal. That lion is 00:43:31.860 --> 00:43:34.400 looking at his next meal. Listen at what this 00:43:34.400 --> 00:43:37.360 individual who was in this organization stated. 00:43:37.940 --> 00:43:41.679 It says, and who would rather easily be pried 00:43:41.679 --> 00:43:43.719 loose. Let me start from the top of the Watchtower 00:43:43.719 --> 00:43:46.480 leadership sentence, that within the midst of 00:43:46.480 --> 00:43:48.480 Christendom were millions of professing Christians 00:43:48.480 --> 00:43:51.480 who were not well grounded in the truths once 00:43:51.480 --> 00:43:54.360 delivered to the saints, and who would rather 00:43:54.360 --> 00:43:59.079 easily be pried loose from the churches and led 00:43:59.079 --> 00:44:03.369 into a new idolized watchtower organization. 00:44:03.630 --> 00:44:05.510 Where do you think they got all their converts 00:44:05.510 --> 00:44:09.469 from? Church. Because people will not talk the 00:44:09.469 --> 00:44:12.389 word of God. The society calculated. Note what 00:44:12.389 --> 00:44:14.550 they're talking, the watchtower. The Jehovah's 00:44:14.550 --> 00:44:19.369 Witness, they calculated, and that rightly, that 00:44:19.369 --> 00:44:22.949 this lack of proper knowledge of God and the 00:44:22.949 --> 00:44:27.110 widespread acceptance of hand of truth in Christendom 00:44:27.110 --> 00:44:32.909 would yield of men and women if the whole matter 00:44:32.909 --> 00:44:36.469 were wisely attacked. Look at that devil working. 00:44:37.489 --> 00:44:41.650 The attack sustained and the results contained 00:44:41.650 --> 00:44:46.889 and then reused in an ever widening circle. In 00:44:46.889 --> 00:44:50.909 other words, they stood back and they realized 00:44:50.909 --> 00:44:53.590 one thing about Christianity. Most folk that 00:44:53.590 --> 00:44:56.650 go to church don't know their Bible and ain't 00:44:56.650 --> 00:44:59.230 that like the devil? The devil says they don't 00:44:59.230 --> 00:45:01.869 know the word. Please hear me saints of God as 00:45:01.869 --> 00:45:03.769 your shepherd. When you don't know the word and 00:45:03.769 --> 00:45:06.170 the enemy comes after you, you have no clue how 00:45:06.170 --> 00:45:08.989 to fight him because you can't shout him out. 00:45:09.369 --> 00:45:12.090 You can't put on your favorite CD and Hulk and 00:45:12.090 --> 00:45:14.829 Buck and Honda, Honda, Toyota, Toyota real fast 00:45:14.829 --> 00:45:18.289 and the devil gonna come out. The enemy understands 00:45:18.289 --> 00:45:20.909 one thing and one thing only and that's what 00:45:20.909 --> 00:45:23.980 Jesus defeated him with. The Bible says when 00:45:23.980 --> 00:45:26.400 Satan came to Jesus to defeat him, let him up. 00:45:26.519 --> 00:45:28.739 What did Jesus do? He didn't say, wait, let me 00:45:28.739 --> 00:45:30.360 go get my tape series. Let me go get something. 00:45:30.699 --> 00:45:33.920 He said, Satan is written. He knew the Word because 00:45:33.920 --> 00:45:37.039 He was the Word. And if we're going to have success, 00:45:37.360 --> 00:45:39.159 you need to know the Word. If you're going to 00:45:39.159 --> 00:45:41.579 have success not just in understanding how to 00:45:41.579 --> 00:45:43.820 deal with a Jehovah's Witness, but understanding 00:45:43.820 --> 00:45:47.059 any attack of the enemy and as well as promises. 00:45:47.360 --> 00:45:50.820 You can't even grab promises that are yours unless 00:45:50.820 --> 00:45:53.860 you understand the Word that's attached to your 00:45:53.860 --> 00:45:57.380 promise. The Word, the Word of God is like a 00:45:57.380 --> 00:46:00.969 key. And if you don't have the right key to open 00:46:00.969 --> 00:46:03.829 what's yours, you'll never get what God has for 00:46:03.829 --> 00:46:07.909 you, even though He's given it to you. No different 00:46:07.909 --> 00:46:10.510 than those of us that have children. You have 00:46:10.510 --> 00:46:13.750 a child, you give that child a promise, but the 00:46:13.750 --> 00:46:17.469 promise is predicated upon their act of obedience. 00:46:17.969 --> 00:46:23.289 They don't obey, they don't get it. God has given 00:46:23.289 --> 00:46:26.530 us everything that we have need of, but it's 00:46:26.530 --> 00:46:29.230 in the Word. And if you don't know, you know 00:46:29.230 --> 00:46:31.090 what, let me say this to you, I'm closing right 00:46:31.090 --> 00:46:34.110 here. The fact of the matter is, and I mean this 00:46:34.110 --> 00:46:35.769 with all of my heart, this never discourages 00:46:35.769 --> 00:46:37.989 me. I've been doing this for too long to be discouraged 00:46:37.989 --> 00:46:40.449 by simple things. Have you ever noticed that 00:46:40.449 --> 00:46:45.110 I said this before? Most people, most believers, 00:46:45.750 --> 00:46:49.389 never take time to become students of the word. 00:46:50.389 --> 00:46:53.409 And they never get the things that God has for 00:46:53.409 --> 00:46:56.000 them. The reason that most, and you can take 00:46:56.000 --> 00:46:57.840 a mental note of this, never forget this, what 00:46:57.840 --> 00:47:00.780 I'm about to teach you right now. Any time you 00:47:00.780 --> 00:47:03.219 begin to become a student of the word, and please 00:47:03.219 --> 00:47:05.639 hear me carefully, it means that you're going 00:47:05.639 --> 00:47:11.179 to have to labor to get into it. Hear me, the 00:47:11.179 --> 00:47:14.699 devil will fight you every, he'll do whatever 00:47:14.699 --> 00:47:17.679 he can as long as he can keep you away from the 00:47:17.679 --> 00:47:20.639 word. Everything will come up. Your head will 00:47:20.639 --> 00:47:22.679 hurt, your nose will hurt, the hairs in your 00:47:22.679 --> 00:47:27.570 nose will hurt. Everything. If something can 00:47:27.570 --> 00:47:30.550 go wrong, it'll go wrong. And then he won't stop 00:47:30.550 --> 00:47:33.929 there. When he can't get you with you, he'll 00:47:33.929 --> 00:47:38.250 use somebody close to you. Family members, dog, 00:47:38.349 --> 00:47:43.409 old fighter would get sick. Are you hearing me? 00:47:43.530 --> 00:47:46.150 I'm putting that you do. You know why? He wants 00:47:46.150 --> 00:47:48.150 to keep you away from understanding the Word. 00:47:48.510 --> 00:47:51.030 Because in the Word is where your breakthrough 00:47:51.030 --> 00:47:55.570 is. In the Word is where whatever is empty on 00:47:55.570 --> 00:47:57.869 the inside of you. See, too many of us think, 00:47:58.309 --> 00:48:00.269 well, uh -uh, if I could just get my relationship 00:48:00.269 --> 00:48:01.769 right, let me tell you something. You can get 00:48:01.769 --> 00:48:04.010 your relationship right and still be empty on 00:48:04.010 --> 00:48:07.230 the inside. I counsel millionaires. I've been 00:48:07.230 --> 00:48:09.369 counseling them for years. I know people rich 00:48:09.369 --> 00:48:12.050 enough to buy all of us homes, just wherever 00:48:12.050 --> 00:48:14.070 they want to buy them. But you know what? Many 00:48:14.070 --> 00:48:17.110 of them are still empty on the inside. It's not 00:48:17.110 --> 00:48:20.250 what fulfills you. We are created in the image 00:48:20.250 --> 00:48:23.289 of God. And because we are, there is a part of 00:48:23.289 --> 00:48:27.510 us that identify with God. As a result of that, 00:48:27.750 --> 00:48:30.949 we should be hungry, or hungering rather, after 00:48:30.949 --> 00:48:33.550 the things of God. But if you notice, whenever 00:48:33.550 --> 00:48:35.929 it's time, whether it's in church or in your 00:48:35.929 --> 00:48:39.449 private time, the enemy will fight you as it 00:48:39.449 --> 00:48:42.449 relates to getting into the Word. I dare you 00:48:42.449 --> 00:48:45.349 to make up in your mind that some portion of 00:48:45.349 --> 00:48:47.190 the day you're going to study. I don't care if 00:48:47.190 --> 00:48:49.800 it's for five minutes. You know what? All of 00:48:49.800 --> 00:48:52.199 a sudden, five minutes, you can't even find it 00:48:52.199 --> 00:48:55.019 in the day. You'll be like, I don't know where 00:48:55.019 --> 00:48:58.980 all the time went. I've been so busy, I didn't 00:48:58.980 --> 00:49:03.539 even get a chance to get in my world. Five minutes. 00:49:04.659 --> 00:49:08.920 That enemy doesn't want you to be in the world. 00:49:09.440 --> 00:49:11.780 You know why? Because you're going to defeat 00:49:11.780 --> 00:49:14.460 them. When you're in the world, your spirit will 00:49:14.460 --> 00:49:17.619 be caught. And when the enemy comes against you, 00:49:17.719 --> 00:49:20.860 you'll see him come. You can defeat him in the 00:49:20.860 --> 00:49:24.280 Word. Amen? 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