Episode Transcript
[00:00:01] Good morning. Good morning. How are you on this fine, fine, beautiful day? I hope you're having a great day today. I hope you are excited today because today is the day the Lord hath made. We will be glad. We will rejoice in it. Rejoice in every single moment that you have under the sun in this cosmos, in this arrangement. Be thankful, be happy. Continually give God that sacrifice. Praise. Praise him and thank him. So this morning, I don't know why, I was just kind of in the mood to just read some words from Christ.
[00:00:32] That's what I did.
[00:00:34] But I'm going to start with this. You know, if you. If you're sitting there beating yourself up and, I don't know, just this is where this, this, this came from. I do this men's teaching or this men's group on Mondays. And we were going through it and they were talking about praying. And the, the people that we were. That I was working with or that we in the group, they came from a Catholic background, so they beat themselves up when they pray. They pray themselves into condemnation. And one of my buddies was talking to me about this, and it ended up that once he realized that, like, you don't, you are freed from the law, like Christ died in order to fulfill and accomplish the law, you now live in this freedom, the freedom to go where one wants. Your seed that's in you, the new seed that's in you is incorruptible. You might sin or do things, whatever in your body, but it's. It doesn't change your standing with God. You are righteous the minute you believe in the name of Jesus Christ.
[00:01:33] So what ended up happening was, is now when he was talking about how he prays now, and he's like, you know, I'd gotten in my mind where it was a little monotonous, where I would just sit down and I pretty much, you know, ask God to forgive me for everything that I had done that day. And then he'd pray about whatever. Well, now he's starting to build the relationship with God because he doesn't have to sit there and condemn himself.
[00:01:52] It's about your relationship with God now. And instead of saying, like, for instance, if you talk smack on someone, instead of sitting down and praying that you feel bad about it, like, I'm so wrong. I'm so. I always sit down and pray and ask God to just don't let that get back to that person.
[00:02:07] I thank you for the position I'm in. I thank you that it's not based on acts or works anymore. And I just pray that you take care of that person and it doesn't get back to him. So it changes and shifts the, the prayers. But I wanted to go over this and the reason why, for some reason this reminded me of him. Today you go to Matthew, chapter 5, verse 43. It says, ye have heard that it hath been said, thou shalt love thy neighbor and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, love your enemies and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you.
[00:02:44] If Christ is telling us to love our enemies, you don't think that God loves you regardless of what you do, Regardless of what you do. This isn't talking about people that are believers.
[00:02:58] This isn't talking about brethren. This is love. Everybody. Love them, pray for them.
[00:03:04] Our God is bigger than that as well.
[00:03:08] He doesn't look at you through the eyes of condemnation. He looks at you through the eyes of, of his Son, Christ. You are an aroma of Christ to him.
[00:03:17] And I think that's just wonderful.
[00:03:20] If you jump to Romans, chapter 5, verse 1. Therefore, being justified out from faith, we have peace with God. And the dividing line is our Lord Jesus Christ.
[00:03:32] You are at peace with God, and it's. It's hard to kind of renew and renovate your mind to that. There's so many times in life that I went through and thought about being a servant to God.
[00:03:45] We are no longer servants, we are sons.
[00:03:49] That's what Christ did. That's what Christ allowed for. He died in order that you and I could be called the sons of God and walk boldly. Therefore, knowing that we have the sonship rights, you have the Holy Spirit. Once you confess in the name. Well, it's Romans 10, 9, 10. That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth, say it. If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, that Jesus Christ is the Lord, not you, that Christ is the Lord in your life, that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in thine heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. Period.
[00:04:25] You're not saved through works.
[00:04:28] You're saved by believing in the name of Jesus Christ.
[00:04:32] You don't have to walk your life in condemnation. It's not about that with God anymore. That's why it talks about standing at liberty. Actually. I'll go to that really quick. Ephesians or. I think it's actually Galatians, chapter 5, verse 1. It says, Stand forth in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made you. What hath made you free.
[00:04:54] That's the freedom to go where one wants. Stand firm in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free. And be not entangled with the weight or the yoke of bondage which is servitude to the law.
[00:05:07] That was the previous administration. They had to sit down and they had to do everything in God's eyes, right in order to be.
[00:05:15] In order to be looked at as righteous.
[00:05:19] They could have the spirit taken away from them. The spirit was upon, not in. You have the spirit in you the moment you confess and believe. In the name of Jesus Christ.
[00:05:29] We live in a different administration and I'm just thankful for it. Pray the big prayers today. Lift everything up in the name of Jesus Christ. When you pray, the word prayer is actually praying and uttering out loud. When you pray, you pray to God, never to Jesus Christ. And you lift it up in the name of Jesus Christ with thanksgiving. Have a great day. God bless you and your family. I'll talk to you tomorrow.
[00:05:53] Let your soul and spirit fly into the misty.
[00:06:03] Well, Heavenly Father, thank you so much for today. I pray for everything that's going on, that the meeting that we have goes well and that we can arrange the schedule and get everything done that needs to get done and that it's a blessing to everyone. Me, my brother, my sister in law, we can just knock this thing out. I thank you for the gym. I'm very, very grateful for how that thing's coming out, even though it was expensive and took a while. I'm thankful that that's getting done and I'm grateful for the opportunity to have everybody we work with work out and just for Rob and that you take care of him and bless him and grateful that he's in our life. And again, I thank you for your believers, that you take care of them, that you bless them and yeah, just for a great day and for continual abundance. I lift everything up to you in the name of my Lord and Savior Christ Jesus.
