WEBVTT 00:00:00.970 --> 00:00:06.650 You are great my Lord Jesus. Hallelujah, hallelujah, 00:00:06.730 --> 00:00:14.390 hallelujah. Hallelujah Jesus. I thank you for 00:00:14.390 --> 00:00:18.309 your goodness. I thank you for the passion of 00:00:18.309 --> 00:00:22.570 your people my Lord Jesus. I thank you for the 00:00:22.570 --> 00:00:26.809 heart while you give us my Lord God. Hallelujah, 00:00:27.190 --> 00:00:40.740 hallelujah Jesus. I will raise our hands. It's 00:00:40.740 --> 00:00:43.600 not because I'm nervous. It's because I want 00:00:43.600 --> 00:01:53.400 to praise it. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord, church. 00:01:55.040 --> 00:01:59.579 I'm so thankful for being standing here in front 00:01:59.579 --> 00:02:03.480 of all of you. It's always a pleasure to be here. 00:02:04.200 --> 00:02:08.280 Me, I'm always here. But it is a pleasure to 00:02:08.280 --> 00:02:16.120 be in this place. And somehow I feel like when 00:02:16.120 --> 00:02:22.539 I stand here, I feel something different. You 00:02:22.539 --> 00:02:28.240 are in a special place. But this is an opportunity 00:02:28.240 --> 00:02:34.439 what our pastor gave me to be able to do. I'm 00:02:34.439 --> 00:02:38.599 very thankful to Sister Lisa Pastor Linder for 00:02:38.599 --> 00:02:44.139 the opportunity. I'm thankful for the leadership 00:02:44.139 --> 00:02:48.539 what we have. I'm very thankful. I'm thankful 00:02:48.539 --> 00:02:54.460 for the patient. what they have for our kids. 00:02:55.520 --> 00:03:00.020 Amen. What I would say for my own kids. Oh my, 00:03:00.620 --> 00:03:03.500 let's not talk about that. Let's go to the lesson. 00:03:06.900 --> 00:03:12.860 Well, I have a lesson here. I will say I'm not 00:03:12.860 --> 00:03:18.080 gonna, I will try not to raise my voice because 00:03:18.080 --> 00:03:21.860 it's a lesson. And always is a lesson, but somehow 00:03:21.860 --> 00:03:26.560 the spirit of God always gets in and let the 00:03:26.560 --> 00:03:31.139 spirit of God work. Amen. And that's what I'm 00:03:31.139 --> 00:03:34.520 here. I'm here to be used for, for the spirit 00:03:34.520 --> 00:03:38.000 of the Lord. Let the Lord do His will. Amen. 00:03:40.020 --> 00:03:43.620 Shall we open our Bibles? Those who have a paper. 00:03:44.599 --> 00:03:52.879 I'm opening my iPad here, which is a paper. John 00:03:52.879 --> 00:04:00.379 chapter one verse one. John chapter one verse 00:04:00.379 --> 00:04:06.360 one says, in the beginning was the word and the 00:04:06.360 --> 00:04:15.180 word was with God and the word was God. And the 00:04:15.180 --> 00:04:21.459 title is don't hide from the word. of God. Don't 00:04:21.459 --> 00:04:25.680 hide from the word of God. Shall we pray? Lord 00:04:25.680 --> 00:04:29.120 Jesus, we come unto you, my God, right now. Take, 00:04:29.180 --> 00:04:32.899 doctor, your Lord. Take everything, whatever 00:04:32.899 --> 00:04:36.019 is in our minds and our heart, my Lord Jesus. 00:04:36.899 --> 00:04:40.459 Remove it, my God. My Lord, we need your word. 00:04:41.339 --> 00:04:45.300 We need you, my Lord Jesus. Whatever it is, my 00:04:45.300 --> 00:04:48.410 God. We might bring so much in our minds and 00:04:48.410 --> 00:04:51.910 our heart right now at this moment. Bow your 00:04:51.910 --> 00:04:56.509 word, my Lord. Let it be your God, a light in 00:04:56.509 --> 00:05:01.509 our path right now. Hallelujah, hallelujah. I 00:05:01.509 --> 00:05:04.949 thank you, my Lord Jesus. I thank you, my Lord 00:05:04.949 --> 00:05:08.490 Jesus. Clap your hand, people. Clap your hands 00:05:08.490 --> 00:05:12.870 to Jesus. Clap your hand to Jesus. Hallelujah. 00:05:18.199 --> 00:05:24.959 Hallelujah, hallelujah, you may be seated. This 00:05:24.959 --> 00:05:30.420 goes like this. Number one, believers needs to 00:05:30.420 --> 00:05:36.420 know the Word of God. God has called us to a 00:05:36.420 --> 00:05:42.100 living, hard -working, functional, and purposeful. 00:05:42.800 --> 00:05:49.120 Sorry, I didn't learn it. Faith. simply put our 00:05:49.120 --> 00:05:54.680 faith in a faith with meaning. It is makes a 00:05:54.680 --> 00:06:00.139 different in our life and is in the life of those 00:06:00.139 --> 00:06:04.319 around us. Some people know a lot about the Bible, 00:06:04.879 --> 00:06:11.839 amen? But they are people without faith. However, 00:06:12.500 --> 00:06:18.279 there are no people of great faith who know the 00:06:18.279 --> 00:06:26.519 Bible a little bit about the Bible. Does our 00:06:26.519 --> 00:06:32.839 faith can be governed by our knowledge and commitment 00:06:32.839 --> 00:06:38.339 to the Word of God? Our faith will also grow 00:06:38.339 --> 00:06:43.560 as we increase our knowledge of the Word of God. 00:06:46.089 --> 00:06:52.589 The entire Bible is inspired. The Bible is presented 00:06:52.589 --> 00:07:00.189 to readers and divine inspired. Inspired from 00:07:00.189 --> 00:07:05.649 numbers of writers for many years. The scripture 00:07:05.649 --> 00:07:10.029 teaches that was inspired by the Holy Spirit. 00:07:11.069 --> 00:07:15.189 The inspiration of the Bible. is not something 00:07:15.189 --> 00:07:20.829 what the Bible pretends to debate or demonstrate. 00:07:22.029 --> 00:07:26.209 Instead, it's something based in faith. Amen? 00:07:27.589 --> 00:07:30.490 I'm trying to wake you up, church. I know you're 00:07:30.490 --> 00:07:36.350 tired. Believe me, I know. The Bible is the most 00:07:36.350 --> 00:07:39.930 historical document, particularly the New Testament, 00:07:40.649 --> 00:07:47.069 as it exists. the 6000 manuscripts, Greek manuscripts 00:07:47.069 --> 00:07:51.449 of the New Testament. It is important to have 00:07:51.449 --> 00:07:56.449 faith to read the Bible. And resume, without 00:07:56.449 --> 00:08:01.389 faith, the inspiration is impossible. But with 00:08:01.389 --> 00:08:06.649 faith, the inspiration is natural. Paul tells 00:08:06.649 --> 00:08:12.800 Timothy that the scripture is helpful for teaching, 00:08:13.079 --> 00:08:18.439 correcting, and training in righteousness. A 00:08:18.439 --> 00:08:21.319 personal testimony from me, I will tell you what 00:08:21.319 --> 00:08:25.660 is for me, the Bible personally. The Bible for 00:08:25.660 --> 00:08:29.759 me is a special book because that's the only 00:08:29.759 --> 00:08:34.179 book I can read, amen? Because if you ask me 00:08:34.179 --> 00:08:39.120 how many books I read in a year, there's only 00:08:39.120 --> 00:08:44.940 one, the Bible. Amen? Because if you put me to 00:08:44.940 --> 00:08:52.120 read a novel, story, first page, done, fall asleep. 00:08:53.320 --> 00:08:57.000 My wife can tell you. She read the book, she 00:08:57.000 --> 00:08:59.879 tells me this story, and I'm very thankful for 00:08:59.879 --> 00:09:03.200 that. Because she loved to read books. So I can 00:09:03.200 --> 00:09:06.240 know this story. And that's what I was doing 00:09:06.240 --> 00:09:11.429 when I was in the school. I had a help. to pass 00:09:11.429 --> 00:09:15.610 the test. Somebody read it, I got it, that's 00:09:15.610 --> 00:09:20.009 it, write it, pass it. But I was very, very lazy 00:09:20.009 --> 00:09:24.029 in reading books. Thank God, I'm not lazy to 00:09:24.029 --> 00:09:26.610 read the Word of God because I will not be here 00:09:26.610 --> 00:09:32.789 today. Amen. He's the light of my feet. Amen. 00:09:34.389 --> 00:09:40.600 Hallelujah Jesus. And also, What helped me, what 00:09:40.600 --> 00:09:46.980 the Word of God is helped me in the point to 00:09:46.980 --> 00:09:52.580 learn how to speak. Don't talk about English. 00:09:53.399 --> 00:09:57.820 Let's talk about speaking means now saying things 00:09:57.820 --> 00:10:01.059 what I used to say, dressing up like I used to 00:10:01.059 --> 00:10:05.360 dress up. I told you my testimony already, you 00:10:05.360 --> 00:10:08.399 know, but the Word of God helped me with all 00:10:08.399 --> 00:10:11.399 that. The Word of God helped me for my filthy 00:10:11.399 --> 00:10:15.259 mouth. The Word of God helped me how to dress 00:10:15.259 --> 00:10:18.240 up myself. Of course, with the help of my wife. 00:10:19.320 --> 00:10:23.259 But, I'm being honest, I used to dress up so 00:10:23.259 --> 00:10:32.539 loose. I used to speak normal words. But the 00:10:32.539 --> 00:10:38.340 Word of God is really personally my light. The 00:10:38.340 --> 00:10:40.960 word of God is the inspiration and the spirit 00:10:40.960 --> 00:10:46.200 for me because he shine. Every time I open those 00:10:46.200 --> 00:10:49.919 pages, every time like you just see in the picture 00:10:49.919 --> 00:10:53.440 what Daniel did, that's phenomenal job. Thank 00:10:53.440 --> 00:10:58.899 you, sir. You know, that can be one of us hiding 00:10:58.899 --> 00:11:03.440 from the word of God. Being afraid to open that 00:11:03.440 --> 00:11:07.480 wonderful book. That person, what is behind the 00:11:07.480 --> 00:11:11.580 tree right there, can be shown. See the lights, 00:11:11.799 --> 00:11:14.940 get scared. Because when we open the word of 00:11:14.940 --> 00:11:19.659 God, it's something special. Something why God 00:11:19.659 --> 00:11:23.460 can show you many ways, many things, many arrows 00:11:23.460 --> 00:11:25.519 while you're doing your own life personally. 00:11:26.639 --> 00:11:33.500 Amen. Isaiah 6 -7 says, and he touched my mouth. 00:11:34.090 --> 00:11:38.450 with it and says, behold, that has touched your 00:11:38.450 --> 00:11:43.649 lips, your iniquity is taken away and your sin 00:11:43.649 --> 00:11:49.750 purges. Let it be the Old Testament continue 00:11:49.750 --> 00:11:55.350 for today. Many people might say the Old Testament 00:11:55.350 --> 00:12:01.179 is for the people before us. The New Testament 00:12:01.179 --> 00:12:05.580 is for us today, but I can tell you, the New 00:12:05.580 --> 00:12:09.779 Testament is guess so poor from the Old Testament. 00:12:10.960 --> 00:12:14.919 Amen? From the Old Testament is the revelation 00:12:14.919 --> 00:12:20.000 that inspired the Holy Spirit. Peter writes to 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:24.200 the believers over the inspiration and the meaning 00:12:24.200 --> 00:12:29.799 of the revelation of the Old Testament. 2 Peter 00:12:29.799 --> 00:12:37.720 says, chapter one, verse 2021 says, knowing this 00:12:37.720 --> 00:12:44.220 verse, the no prophecy or scripture of any private 00:12:44.220 --> 00:12:49.580 interpretation. Verse 21, for prophecy never 00:12:49.580 --> 00:12:55.419 comes by the will of men, but holy men of God 00:12:55.419 --> 00:12:59.710 spoke as they were moved. by the Holy Spirit. 00:13:01.049 --> 00:13:05.009 The scripture was now the private thought of 00:13:05.009 --> 00:13:10.570 wise or educated men of Israel. On the contrary, 00:13:11.370 --> 00:13:15.509 it was a public revelation declared to all people 00:13:15.509 --> 00:13:20.090 through the stream of the Holy Ghost, Holy Spirit. 00:13:21.029 --> 00:13:27.149 The phrase were moved is the Greek verb phenomenon. 00:13:30.460 --> 00:13:34.519 Forgive me if I don't read it right. Which means 00:13:34.519 --> 00:13:41.700 to carry, to bear, to bring. Amen. Let it be, 00:13:41.879 --> 00:13:46.360 I will have hidden the word of God in my heart 00:13:46.360 --> 00:13:51.700 as six exist many reasons to study the word of 00:13:51.700 --> 00:13:56.340 God. We talk about the inspiration. The word 00:13:56.340 --> 00:14:00.799 of God. is the revelant of the Old Testament 00:14:00.799 --> 00:14:07.139 and the effectiveness of the New Testament for 00:14:07.139 --> 00:14:11.720 the growth of the Christianity. This is okay, 00:14:12.320 --> 00:14:17.159 but they may comprehend that the Word of God 00:14:17.159 --> 00:14:24.779 has a real benefit in our life. We need to hit 00:14:24.779 --> 00:14:31.309 it. in our hearts. Man, Psalms 119 -11. It's 00:14:31.309 --> 00:14:36.669 not enough just to know the Word of God. We had 00:14:36.669 --> 00:14:43.490 to apply the knowledge in our life to allow the 00:14:43.490 --> 00:14:46.269 Word of God to change our hearts, minds, and 00:14:46.269 --> 00:14:53.889 spirits. We will never be able to use what we 00:14:53.889 --> 00:14:59.080 don't know. There is the first steps in this 00:14:59.080 --> 00:15:02.799 process is to make sure that we are learning 00:15:02.799 --> 00:15:08.039 the Word of God and we are expecting and spending 00:15:08.039 --> 00:15:17.120 time every day. Amen? Number two, the Word of 00:15:17.120 --> 00:15:21.299 God teaches us how to live. The purpose of the 00:15:21.299 --> 00:15:25.519 Word of God is double, the first. is the revelation 00:15:25.519 --> 00:15:33.480 of God, relational of the narrative of the scripture. 00:15:34.740 --> 00:15:39.899 Second, reveal the life of faith for those who 00:15:39.899 --> 00:15:46.100 follow Jesus and help us to practice faith through 00:15:46.100 --> 00:15:51.139 our daily life. The scriptures focus revealing 00:15:51.139 --> 00:15:57.480 God's guidance. the believers to represent the 00:15:57.480 --> 00:16:02.879 interests of the kingdom of God. Everything what 00:16:02.879 --> 00:16:14.000 is written is obey, there is use, the Bible for 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:18.279 all the purposes. The result, it will be wrong. 00:16:19.059 --> 00:16:21.820 Because if you trying to use the word of God 00:16:21.820 --> 00:16:25.059 for your own convenience. You're doing wrong. 00:16:25.899 --> 00:16:29.980 Amen. Let us use the scriptures for our good 00:16:29.980 --> 00:16:36.200 purpose. Can be to fix our life and speak of 00:16:36.200 --> 00:16:42.360 speaking our way of dress. Our daily walk can 00:16:42.360 --> 00:16:45.779 be in our jobs and our homes. I'm preaching to 00:16:45.779 --> 00:16:49.620 myself. Amen. Before I preach somebody else, 00:16:49.740 --> 00:16:52.539 I'm gonna preach it to myself first. Because 00:16:52.539 --> 00:16:55.559 if I don't read the word of God, if I'm telling 00:16:55.559 --> 00:16:58.059 you, read the word of God, I'm not reading and 00:16:58.059 --> 00:17:01.399 I'm not doing nothing myself. I need to read 00:17:01.399 --> 00:17:05.160 it first before I preach it to you. Men, let 00:17:05.160 --> 00:17:09.099 us use the scripture for a good purpose. Letter 00:17:09.099 --> 00:17:14.839 A, the word of God teaches us how to please God. 00:17:15.980 --> 00:17:20.660 Deuteronomy chapter six, verse four and six. 00:17:21.200 --> 00:17:26.859 says, hero Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord 00:17:26.859 --> 00:17:32.200 is one. Verse five, you shall love the Lord, 00:17:32.660 --> 00:17:36.099 your God, with all your heart, with all your 00:17:36.099 --> 00:17:41.480 soul, with all your strength. Six, in these words 00:17:41.480 --> 00:17:46.680 which I commend you today shall be in your heart. 00:17:47.140 --> 00:17:52.019 Amen. These scriptures be in our heart and mind 00:17:52.019 --> 00:17:58.079 every day in our life. The way it says here, 00:17:59.359 --> 00:18:04.859 hear Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. 00:18:05.700 --> 00:18:10.460 These words, they have to be really written in 00:18:10.460 --> 00:18:15.079 our heart and our life. You know, if it's possible 00:18:15.079 --> 00:18:19.250 in every morning, Every morning when you have 00:18:19.250 --> 00:18:24.329 your daily prayer. Every morning when you, before 00:18:24.329 --> 00:18:26.690 you get out of your house, repeat those words. 00:18:27.710 --> 00:18:32.069 My God is one. His name is Jesus Christ. Amen? 00:18:34.089 --> 00:18:38.789 Our heart is the seat of our emotions or our 00:18:38.789 --> 00:18:44.130 feelings flow from the heart. There, therefore, 00:18:44.569 --> 00:18:48.329 all our emotions should reflect. the love of 00:18:48.329 --> 00:18:52.230 God. When the shema, I don't know if I say right 00:18:52.230 --> 00:18:57.710 that word in English, but shema, takes center 00:18:57.710 --> 00:19:02.890 stage in our lives. The shema called us to love 00:19:02.890 --> 00:19:07.809 God with our thinking, feeling we must pursue, 00:19:08.329 --> 00:19:13.779 pursue them with all our minds. Let it be, the 00:19:13.779 --> 00:19:17.559 Bible give us wisdom, understanding. The word 00:19:17.559 --> 00:19:22.599 of God give us greater understanding to us. And 00:19:22.599 --> 00:19:27.720 the word in the world is around us. The word 00:19:27.720 --> 00:19:32.519 of God give us wisdom, understanding. The wisdom 00:19:32.519 --> 00:19:38.079 of his knowledge is better for appropriate. Psalms 00:19:38.079 --> 00:19:44.819 119 says, How can a young man cleanse his way 00:19:44.819 --> 00:19:52.119 by taking it according to your word? The text 00:19:52.119 --> 00:19:57.960 teaches to follow the word of God. Amen? I know 00:19:57.960 --> 00:20:01.779 this lesson has a lot of word of God. It has 00:20:01.779 --> 00:20:04.599 to be a reason. It means we need it. We need 00:20:04.599 --> 00:20:09.319 to get in store on this little thing here. Amen? 00:20:11.759 --> 00:20:15.059 Let me get out for a moment, but I can tell you 00:20:15.059 --> 00:20:20.440 you know so many times I'm going to this many 00:20:20.440 --> 00:20:27.019 times we get in our personal prayer and We have 00:20:27.019 --> 00:20:31.220 this next to us Somebody texts. Let me check 00:20:31.220 --> 00:20:35.299 the text Somebody send your email. Let me check 00:20:35.299 --> 00:20:39.440 the email and use you are in your prayer You 00:20:39.440 --> 00:20:41.519 gotta respect that moment while you dedicate 00:20:41.519 --> 00:20:46.059 to God. Amen? If you're reading the Word, His 00:20:46.059 --> 00:20:51.539 Word, the Holy Word, respect that moment. Let's 00:20:51.539 --> 00:20:54.579 forget about this. Let's forget about everything 00:20:54.579 --> 00:20:59.259 else. You spend that moment with God. You spend 00:20:59.259 --> 00:21:02.559 that moment when you open the Word of God, dedicate 00:21:02.559 --> 00:21:06.309 it to it. Take advantage. because you don't know 00:21:06.309 --> 00:21:08.690 what can happen the second after you're done. 00:21:09.849 --> 00:21:15.990 Amen? The Bible teaches us to overcome sin. Psalms 00:21:15.990 --> 00:21:23.470 119 offered some help and guidance to avoid sin. 00:21:23.930 --> 00:21:29.869 By keeping God's word in our heart, we have protection 00:21:29.869 --> 00:21:37.089 against sin. God's word, protect us from traveling 00:21:37.089 --> 00:21:44.390 down to a bad path. Amen? Of them, we walk on 00:21:44.390 --> 00:21:48.910 the wrong path. It's already too late. When you're 00:21:48.910 --> 00:21:51.529 going down, you say, this is not going to hurt 00:21:51.529 --> 00:21:55.130 me. Nothing is going to happen to me. I can do 00:21:55.130 --> 00:22:00.329 this. Nobody's going to see me. I can still do 00:22:00.329 --> 00:22:05.369 this. Stuff like that. But when you go deeper 00:22:05.369 --> 00:22:09.470 little by little, little by little, you forget 00:22:09.470 --> 00:22:13.589 Him. You now open the Word of God anymore. You're 00:22:13.589 --> 00:22:17.569 not spending not even five minutes anymore talking 00:22:17.569 --> 00:22:20.829 with God. And the way I say talking with God 00:22:20.829 --> 00:22:24.869 because that's our prayer is speaking. It's having 00:22:24.869 --> 00:22:28.549 conversation with God. Amen? Like the way you 00:22:28.549 --> 00:22:33.730 have conversation with friends, relatives. Whatever 00:22:33.730 --> 00:22:37.569 you are speaking with. I speak like that. You 00:22:37.569 --> 00:22:40.470 know, I speak openly. So many times people might 00:22:40.470 --> 00:22:45.069 say I'm crazy. But oh my, there's a lot of crazy 00:22:45.069 --> 00:22:48.430 people outside. You know, they're bubbling their 00:22:48.430 --> 00:22:50.369 heads and you don't even know what they're doing, 00:22:50.490 --> 00:22:52.869 what's wrong with that guy. Sometime you go in 00:22:52.869 --> 00:22:55.529 the car and you see they're jumping and they're 00:22:55.529 --> 00:22:59.650 doing this and that. I mean, so who cares if 00:22:59.650 --> 00:23:01.759 you're doing the same thing? But I know for who 00:23:01.759 --> 00:23:05.680 I'm doing it. Am I that person? That person might 00:23:05.680 --> 00:23:09.099 be doing it for the same thing too, right? So 00:23:09.099 --> 00:23:14.000 be careful when you judge also. Amen? Psalms 00:23:14.000 --> 00:23:20.140 119, 101 says, I have restricting my feet from 00:23:20.140 --> 00:23:25.859 every evil way that I may keep your word. Let 00:23:25.859 --> 00:23:29.819 it be the word of God is a land to our feet. 00:23:30.440 --> 00:23:35.539 As possible, many of us grow in the urban section, 00:23:36.160 --> 00:23:42.700 which is you see a lot of lights, you know, you 00:23:42.700 --> 00:23:47.779 see signs, you have lights, right? So many times 00:23:47.779 --> 00:23:51.319 you might not have a light from the cars, but 00:23:51.319 --> 00:23:53.460 the signs give you lights where you're walking, 00:23:54.099 --> 00:24:02.200 right? So you ever... See, you ever see by yourself, 00:24:02.500 --> 00:24:06.440 being in the room, dark, really dark, you ever 00:24:06.440 --> 00:24:08.940 experienced that? You don't have to raise your 00:24:08.940 --> 00:24:13.500 hand, but I will tell you my soul. I did experience 00:24:13.500 --> 00:24:17.119 that. You know what it is to be in the real dark. 00:24:18.279 --> 00:24:21.000 I'm talking about physical dark, not spiritual 00:24:21.000 --> 00:24:23.380 because I was in the dark and spiritual too. 00:24:24.140 --> 00:24:27.079 Men, when I was in the world, that's when I was 00:24:27.079 --> 00:24:30.890 in darkness. I'm not in darkness anymore. Amen? 00:24:31.829 --> 00:24:36.569 I am in spirit. I am in the will of God. So I'm 00:24:36.569 --> 00:24:39.450 not in darkness anymore in the spirit. But what 00:24:39.450 --> 00:24:44.309 I'm saying is when I was a kid, it's a light 00:24:44.309 --> 00:24:49.009 what they use in my mom's town. They call it 00:24:49.009 --> 00:24:57.049 candil. So that lamp has a... You might see it. 00:24:57.109 --> 00:24:59.390 They have it here. I see it, but they are more 00:24:59.390 --> 00:25:03.410 modern. They have the cores and all that stuff. 00:25:03.509 --> 00:25:05.789 You don't see it. But over there, it's like a 00:25:05.789 --> 00:25:09.970 little cup, like this metal cup. And it has some 00:25:09.970 --> 00:25:15.069 kind of rope on the top. And you pull fuel in 00:25:15.069 --> 00:25:19.069 it. And you pull fire to that thing. And here 00:25:19.069 --> 00:25:22.730 we go. You have a light. But when you are in 00:25:22.730 --> 00:25:26.220 the town, You don't have no lights, city lights 00:25:26.220 --> 00:25:30.559 at all. And one time, you know, when you were 00:25:30.559 --> 00:25:34.640 a kid, the darkness spoke you. I mean, I don't 00:25:34.640 --> 00:25:36.339 know if you were like that, but I was like that, 00:25:37.119 --> 00:25:44.700 man. But one time, that went off, and you really, 00:25:44.799 --> 00:25:47.690 you cannot see it, not even your fingers. It 00:25:47.690 --> 00:25:49.970 was so dark. That's when I really experienced 00:25:49.970 --> 00:25:52.630 the dark for myself. And I say, I don't want 00:25:52.630 --> 00:25:55.609 to be in darkness anymore. I need the light. 00:25:56.210 --> 00:25:58.210 So when they bring the light, it's so much different. 00:25:58.869 --> 00:26:00.809 Thank God for the moon, thank God for the sun. 00:26:01.549 --> 00:26:03.849 Because if you go outside, you see the stars, 00:26:03.970 --> 00:26:06.349 you get light from the Lord. They still give 00:26:06.349 --> 00:26:17.059 you light. Amen. Let it be. I will leave. I believe 00:26:17.059 --> 00:26:23.480 God's Word daily. Autopilot is an excellent feature 00:26:23.480 --> 00:26:27.240 in the cars, right? I mean, how many love autopilots 00:26:27.240 --> 00:26:31.220 in the car? You know, I don't because I'm afraid 00:26:31.220 --> 00:26:35.000 of those things. But it's a lot of Christians. 00:26:35.779 --> 00:26:38.900 It's a lot of Christians, I'm speaking from my 00:26:38.900 --> 00:26:41.640 heart. It's a lot of Christians, they are living 00:26:41.640 --> 00:26:46.119 spiritual and autopilot. Because if somebody 00:26:46.119 --> 00:26:48.799 raised a hand, they raise a hand too. You know 00:26:48.799 --> 00:26:51.599 what I mean? Raise a hand, they just follow. 00:26:51.859 --> 00:26:55.599 I mean, and so they are in the autopilot mode, 00:26:55.880 --> 00:27:01.700 spiritual. They don't put their faith initiative 00:27:01.700 --> 00:27:08.559 way, you know, to really put God to put the word 00:27:08.559 --> 00:27:12.069 with faith. Amen? When you open the word of God, 00:27:12.349 --> 00:27:15.349 it's by faith. It says, is everything being done 00:27:15.349 --> 00:27:21.750 by faith? Amen? So when I, when somebody is leaving 00:27:21.750 --> 00:27:26.269 an autopilot, it's not good. It's not good at 00:27:26.269 --> 00:27:34.269 all. Let's take the automatic pilot out of our 00:27:34.269 --> 00:27:39.240 faith. Let's take him out. Let's have initiative 00:27:39.240 --> 00:27:45.900 in doing things when it has to be done. Amen. 00:27:47.700 --> 00:27:52.140 Hallelujah. It's our favor. We must be ready 00:27:52.140 --> 00:27:57.259 whatever is happening around us. Our Lord Jesus 00:27:57.259 --> 00:28:02.440 promised we will have problems in this world. 00:28:03.079 --> 00:28:07.559 When we focus our mind, our heart, our soul, 00:28:07.980 --> 00:28:12.319 our faith, and the Word of God, who cares what's 00:28:12.319 --> 00:28:16.480 happening? Who cares what's happening in this 00:28:16.480 --> 00:28:19.960 world, especially right now? We will be ready 00:28:19.960 --> 00:28:25.960 in faith, amen? Hallelujah, Jesus. I thank you. 00:28:26.700 --> 00:28:30.180 I'm about to be done. The musicians can come. 00:28:32.319 --> 00:28:39.599 I have two more scriptures. John 1633, these 00:28:39.599 --> 00:28:46.259 things I have spoken to you. What is, that it 00:28:46.259 --> 00:28:51.099 me, you may have peace in the world, you will 00:28:51.099 --> 00:28:56.220 have tribulations, but be a good cheer, I have 00:28:56.220 --> 00:29:02.740 overcome the world. Psalms 11911 says, your word 00:29:02.740 --> 00:29:09.700 I have hidden. in my heart, that I might not 00:29:09.700 --> 00:29:20.259 sin against you. Amen. Shall we stand? Church, 00:29:21.599 --> 00:29:28.200 these lessons here, you might, you might didn't 00:29:28.200 --> 00:29:33.730 understand much what I read. I don't want to 00:29:33.730 --> 00:29:38.289 put a doubt in my mind and my heart. But I tell 00:29:38.289 --> 00:29:41.910 you a spiritual spirit, I tell you a spirit is 00:29:41.910 --> 00:29:50.890 God is watching your steps. When you open his 00:29:50.890 --> 00:29:58.430 word, he's shining, you walk away. If you believe 00:29:58.430 --> 00:30:04.230 in those things, open his word more often. Do 00:30:04.230 --> 00:30:10.390 it every day. Have a daily devotion. Have a moment 00:30:10.390 --> 00:30:19.089 with God. Take him as it is. I don't know how 00:30:19.089 --> 00:30:22.230 to put it for you, but whatever is the most important 00:30:22.230 --> 00:30:28.109 thing for you in the day, take that first. Open 00:30:28.109 --> 00:30:33.640 his word first. Pray every day. Have that moment 00:30:33.640 --> 00:30:38.059 with him. Like I say to my kids, have at least 00:30:38.059 --> 00:30:42.660 five minutes with him. For him, those five minutes 00:30:42.660 --> 00:30:49.000 is very valuable because you are his. Amen, you 00:30:49.000 --> 00:30:51.680 put your heart and your mind in that moment for 00:30:51.680 --> 00:30:57.940 him. When you open his word, it's something valuable 00:30:57.940 --> 00:31:00.839 because that's the way he's gonna speak to you. 00:31:01.759 --> 00:31:05.650 Amen. He speak through his word. More you open 00:31:05.650 --> 00:31:09.289 it, more you're gonna hear about him. But more 00:31:09.289 --> 00:31:13.009 you pray, same thing. You're gonna hear his voice. 00:31:13.470 --> 00:31:15.849 If you allow him to speak, because so many times 00:31:15.849 --> 00:31:19.849 we are chatterbox. We speak too much. I give 00:31:19.849 --> 00:31:21.970 you this, I ask you this, I need this, I need 00:31:21.970 --> 00:31:25.509 that. You don't let God to speak. Give him a 00:31:25.509 --> 00:31:30.269 chance to correct you. Give him a chance to be 00:31:30.269 --> 00:31:35.140 you God. to be your Father, to be your Creator 00:31:35.140 --> 00:31:41.539 in every way, acknowledge Him. Let Him know who 00:31:41.539 --> 00:31:46.900 is Him. Let Him know who is your Creator. Amen? 00:31:47.640 --> 00:31:50.720 Because from the beginning that was Him. His 00:31:50.720 --> 00:31:55.829 Word and that's Him. Jesus Christ. mention his 00:31:55.829 --> 00:31:58.470 name in every moment in every circumstances, 00:31:58.470 --> 00:32:01.250 whatever you're going through right now. Whatever 00:32:01.250 --> 00:32:03.349 it is, whatever it is you're feeling, whatever 00:32:03.349 --> 00:32:06.109 is in your heart right now, you might come from 00:32:06.109 --> 00:32:10.049 work right now and you come full of stuff in 00:32:10.049 --> 00:32:13.990 your head. Full of stuff in your heart that somebody 00:32:13.990 --> 00:32:17.970 might be in your family hurt you. Maybe you have 00:32:17.970 --> 00:32:20.710 a chaos in your house right now and you don't 00:32:20.710 --> 00:32:25.190 even know how to do it, how to fix it. But if 00:32:25.190 --> 00:32:28.750 you open yourself to the Lord, He will respond 00:32:28.750 --> 00:32:33.650 to you through His word, through your prayer, 00:32:34.029 --> 00:32:38.089 because you have to pray. It's not just reading 00:32:38.089 --> 00:32:41.670 the book. Oh, I read the Bible whole year. That's 00:32:41.670 --> 00:32:45.269 it, I'm done. No, you're not done. If you don't 00:32:45.269 --> 00:32:49.049 talk to Him, you're not done. I'm sorry, you're 00:32:49.049 --> 00:32:52.309 not done. Because if you ask me how many times 00:32:52.309 --> 00:32:56.920 in the year I read the Bible, Once. And I'm being 00:32:56.920 --> 00:33:00.099 honest to you. I will not lie to you. This is 00:33:00.099 --> 00:33:02.880 not about how many times you read it and how 00:33:02.880 --> 00:33:07.279 you really take it. How serious you really take 00:33:07.279 --> 00:33:11.299 his word. Amen. Because if you take him very 00:33:11.299 --> 00:33:15.839 serious about paying your bills, about your personal 00:33:15.839 --> 00:33:19.099 life, why you don't take it serious that God 00:33:19.099 --> 00:33:22.990 will provide for everything for you. Amen. why 00:33:22.990 --> 00:33:25.650 you don't take it seriously, the one who give 00:33:25.650 --> 00:33:28.710 you what you have today. The knowledge and understanding 00:33:28.710 --> 00:33:30.890 what you have today. Don't think you're born 00:33:30.890 --> 00:33:34.410 with that. He give it to you. And the one of 00:33:34.410 --> 00:33:38.150 your mother. Man, my God, whatever I have today, 00:33:38.609 --> 00:33:41.990 he give it to me. I'm nothing without him. Man, 00:33:42.369 --> 00:33:45.029 I call this computer. If you trust in that computer, 00:33:45.190 --> 00:33:47.589 that brain, that thing, this thing here, if you 00:33:47.589 --> 00:33:51.750 trust in this, I'm sorry. This thing. It's a 00:33:51.750 --> 00:33:58.049 lot of brain of us. A man is a man who put this 00:33:58.049 --> 00:34:03.470 together, but he took all your knowledge and 00:34:03.470 --> 00:34:09.929 God give the knowledge to that man. I'm talking 00:34:09.929 --> 00:34:15.210 to you in spirit. God put this in my heart because 00:34:15.210 --> 00:34:21.710 we focus so much in this. And I go against these 00:34:21.710 --> 00:34:26.329 all the time. Believe me. I'm writing this. I 00:34:26.329 --> 00:34:29.050 have a notebook. I don't care if you have a notebook. 00:34:29.429 --> 00:34:32.289 I'm not against technology. I'm not. Believe 00:34:32.289 --> 00:34:34.550 me, I'm not. I'm not talking about against technology 00:34:34.550 --> 00:34:40.170 right now. I'm talking to you. How are you gonna 00:34:40.170 --> 00:34:44.010 use that technology? Because that technology 00:34:44.010 --> 00:34:48.920 can be used for our own things too. Amen? You 00:34:48.920 --> 00:34:52.579 can do a lot of things in that technology. But 00:34:52.579 --> 00:34:55.519 if you use it for the good, believe me, it's 00:34:55.519 --> 00:34:59.619 gonna be perfect. It's gonna be perfect. Use 00:34:59.619 --> 00:35:03.599 it for the kingdom. Use it for the Lord. Whatever 00:35:03.599 --> 00:35:07.219 you know to and everything, I'm not that good 00:35:07.219 --> 00:35:10.079 in technology. That's one reason I keep in notes. 00:35:11.019 --> 00:35:13.840 Men, and be honest to you, I'm not that good. 00:35:14.219 --> 00:35:17.190 I always have to bother my kids to help me. But 00:35:17.190 --> 00:35:20.070 it's okay. Thank God. Give me smart kids. They 00:35:20.070 --> 00:35:25.269 can do it. Man, I'm going to read you one more 00:35:25.269 --> 00:35:28.190 scripture. And I want to invite you to the front 00:35:28.190 --> 00:35:31.309 with this scripture. I closed my book. Who am 00:35:31.309 --> 00:35:40.429 I? And I want you to come with this. This is 00:35:40.429 --> 00:35:44.670 the word of God. This is Jesus speaking. Matthew 00:35:44.670 --> 00:35:52.960 11, 28. Come unto me, O ye, thy labor, in our 00:35:52.960 --> 00:35:57.659 heavy land, and I will give you rest. I invite 00:35:57.659 --> 00:36:02.360 you to the front with thy trust in you creator, 00:36:03.099 --> 00:36:07.800 trust in his word. He is speaking to your heart 00:36:07.800 --> 00:36:13.320 at this moment. Amen. Shall we pray? Lord Jesus, 00:36:13.900 --> 00:36:17.119 we come unto you, my God. For who you are, my 00:36:17.119 --> 00:36:23.119 Lord. You are good. You are great. I thank you 00:36:23.119 --> 00:36:26.360 for your goodness, my God. I thank you for this 00:36:26.360 --> 00:36:28.840 word while you give us today, my Lord Jesus. 00:36:29.519 --> 00:36:33.960 For this lesson, oh Lord, about your word. How 00:36:33.960 --> 00:36:36.019 might that be reading the way it's supposed to 00:36:36.019 --> 00:36:42.579 be? By my God, I pray, at least one word can 00:36:42.579 --> 00:36:46.250 be stole in every heart. And never mind, my Lord 00:36:46.250 --> 00:36:50.510 Jesus, because I am your vessel. You fill me 00:36:50.510 --> 00:36:53.590 with your holy ghost, my Lord God. And I speak 00:36:53.590 --> 00:36:56.969 whatever you put in my heart, whatever you put 00:36:56.969 --> 00:37:00.750 in my soul, my Lord Jesus. I pray, my Lord God, 00:37:00.829 --> 00:37:04.389 for each individual, my Lord Jesus. For family 00:37:04.389 --> 00:37:07.389 members, my Lord God, I pray right now, my Lord 00:37:07.389 --> 00:37:11.340 Jesus. Open the heart, open the mind, my Lord 00:37:11.340 --> 00:37:15.300 Jesus, understanding my Lord, your word, my God. 00:37:16.380 --> 00:37:22.420 Your word. My Lord Jesus, right now, let it be 00:37:22.420 --> 00:37:25.699 according to your will, my Lord God. We might 00:37:25.699 --> 00:37:28.179 go through things right now in our life, my Lord 00:37:28.179 --> 00:37:32.860 Jesus, but I pray, my Lord God, help us, my Lord 00:37:32.860 --> 00:37:35.679 Jesus, to understand your word, my God.