 Get it check check. Good evening Pace family. How we doing this evening? Oh, you knew better than that come on How we doing? All right, everybody stand up High-five your neighbor tell them what a joy it is to see you this evening The Bible says it's good when brothers and sisters to well together in unity. He commands a blessing We're a blessed people. Hey, can we give our online family a big hand? Let's give him a big Pace family warm welcome Thank You Jesus. Hallelujah Well, I just got back from Costa Rica at four in the morning. So if I say anything off tonight They're out that disclaimer just kidding But I wanted to thank everyone who prayed the affectionate fervent prayer of the righteous and veil of much and if you prayed for the trip I just want to say a big God bless you and thank you from the bottom of my heart We were able to minister to a family in the Sora who the child was battling cancer The living conditions were horrible There were 12 of us and we were able to put a roof on the house And we were able to put windows in and we were able to bring hope of the gospel to this family on Sunday We met there the actually the church came out and we actually had church service right on their property With all of us together Spanish English, and I didn't come back with much Spanish Puta Vita, that's all I got But it was so beautiful Seeing the family come together, and I'm telling you the Lord moved powerfully We were able to take a bunch of the the youth out to waterfalls And just spend the day ministering to them and we ended up at a BMX bike track where we had a big pizza party And we had 13 suitcases of giveaways and most importantly I was honored to preach the gospel that night were 17 17 youth raised their hands received Jesus Amen, and here's what a love about the Lord. It doesn't matter what position you play on the team We all get the same reward whether you're preaching or praying. We're all getting the same reward Amen, and I want to be honest with you for a minute. This was my first mission trip. I never went on I Supported many missionaries. I've done many local missions. I've been on many retreats But this was the first real mission trip that I ever stepped out into I just want to be honest with you I don't know where your mission field is. It may be across the street from your house. It may be at Walmart It doesn't necessarily have to be a third-world country But man, I'm telling you the one who in us is lives in us is greater Than the one who lives in the world take that step of faith. It's changed my life. The strip did I'll forever be changed by it Amen, do you believe God answers prayer tonight? Do you take your praise and prayer report? Let's go to the Lord in prayer Father, we thank you for your goodness tonight Lord. We thank you that you are a God that hears and answers prayers Lord We thank you Lord that there's nothing too hard for you Lord We lift up all the needs that are represented on this page and all the unspoken prayer requests that are here tonight and those online Lord people that are needing hope in this hour Lord people who are needing deliverance God They need you to come through Lord if you don't answer Lord We don't know what to do, but our eyes are on you Jesus Because you are the one who hears delivers and answers prayers God and we thank you that you are faithful God that you begin a good work in us and you complete it Lord. You're faithful. We can trust you with our family We can trust you with our finances We can trust you with our lives Lord because you are good and you have a good plan for us And we believe that tonight in Jesus name come on if you believe it give Jesus a hand tonight Hallelujah, thank you Jesus. You may be seated. Please. Don't forget about our offering buckets in the back Also, you can give online through our app or you can also mail it into the church as well But God rewards The faithful giver in fact the Bible says to test God twice Says taste and see that the Lord is good And it also says try him in your giving and he will prove himself faithful in your life Amen, I would encourage you that tonight. Hey, Wednesday is my favorite night to get into the word with Pastor Joey Who's ready to get into the word night? Can we give him a hand? Hallelujah, thank you Jesus. Praise the Lord Thank you Ben for that report. That's tremendous what God has used him to do this week And it's because of your faithful prayers and your support that's making that take place and helping missionaries around the world and locally and I'm excited about that You glad to be here this evening. Amen. Look at your neighbor smile at him because They need a good smile. If you've got your Bibles, I'd like for you to open them up to Matthew chapter 5 Matthew chapter number 5 and you have that handout this evening where you can download it on your app Or those of you that are watching online can be able to View it there and participate there. Let me just give you one Bit of information that I need you to be aware of I was gonna announce it this past weekend but the Lord had other plans If you weren't here that will be a service that has never reproduced just like that again The power of God swept through this place and and there are people that have been telling us of Miracle signs and wonders that have been happening for them and I want you to know that God is still in that kind of operation He's the same yesterday today and forever And so all he's looking for somebody who expects one Do you expect one? I Could just about guarantee you that the man who was laid by the gate beautifully if he did not have an expectation As Peter and John were walking into the synagogue into the temple that day He probably would not have received anything But because he had an anticipation he had an expectation expecting something from them Then that reach out that little bit of faith He had caused them to stop got their attention and the power of God Lifting him up and caused him to walk and leap and praise God right there in the temple So I just encourage you to come with expectation this coming weekend. The Lord allows me to be able to preach I've got the topic of all topics that I was gonna preach this past weekend But Jesus decided to preach it in a different way So and I want you all to know and all of you that are watching online. That's perfectly fine with me Now I'm almost shocked. I have to say this. I'm almost shocked that I would receive pushback and rhetoric online from this past weekend service That was absolutely unbelievable To hit against your pastor is as if I was exploiting people and so forth and so on So for those of you that are not aware of what a spirit filled Pentecostal church operates like That was it in normality That's normal. I don't know what they have anywhere else, but I know what happens right here I don't pastor those other churches. I pastor this one right here and that is the DNA of this house So if that's not something that you're looking for in a Pentecostal I mean a lot of people talk about Pentecostal spear filled and oh we want revival and all that but they want it to look through their lens and what it looks like and what it acts like and Suddenly when it doesn't look like or act like anything they've seen before suddenly they want to write it off or even attack and You know, whatever you you know, the only thing I don't get to have is you write it in crayon because now it comes in email or Whatever else, but you know, I do have a button that I have used very effectively over the years Delete Because when the power of God is moving I just like I said this this past Sunday I didn't start it and I'm not gonna stop it If I put my hands on the Ark, I'm a dead man You know what I'm saying so it's important for you to be able to Expect what God wants to do and come with pray prayerful hearts and all of that And so let me just mention to you one of the thing and I know and by the way You heard Ben taking up the offering receiving the offering here tonight. I was I got to the house when I realized on Sunday You know what we didn't do the announcements. We didn't receive an offering So I just want to say that we're gonna do it the Baptist way and the board is gonna come to your house and pick it up In your numbered envelope if you didn't get it in this past weekend anybody that's in that listen You know what that's the wonderful thing about the way we operate here at pace First of all, I'm not worried about it. I Hope you're not But if you're supposed to give it then you'll do that if you if you bought something at target with God's money Then it will deteriorate fall apart and you'll never see it again. That is my humble prayer for you. Praise the Lord All right, I want you to mark this down April the 14th April the 14th is going to be a What is called a freedom rally I Had the privilege of doing the invocation at the last one I believe or the first one that they had About a year and a half two years ago, I guess and that was more right in them in the middle of all that was taking place with COVID and the Vaccines and all that's going on I'm not gonna stand up here behind this pulpit and and get into the debates of all of that But what I am going to tell you is is that the more you're seeing the information coming out the more you're finding out that that the United States and the world has been lied to in multiple occasions Okay Now the other thing I know is that if you drink any deadly thing or take up a serpent according to scripture It will not harm you Okay, but there is serious harm that is coming to people and many people don't even realize that it's even connected And I will say to you that This rally will be an informative rally at the Wahoo Stadium There are a number of doctors and people that have written on this some that have actually Have been banned from the internet because of their opinions and information that they have given But I will say to you I believe it would be an important informational Meeting so on Friday night the 14th from 6 until 9 at the Blue Wahoo Stadium There's a free medical freedom and save our country event It's what it's called. There are a number of doctors and information and people that will be speaking to That particular issue and it's in the purpose of it is for information To help you just get the information and then you can do what you want to about it This is not some stand-up protests the rally or all that kind of stuff and walk down the street with placards This is informational so that you can decide at least you can have the other portion of a Genuine medical doctor's opinion. That's the other side of what's been going on so you can get information and information is power and And being able to have that knowledge can help you decide what you need to do with your own body That's very very important, especially in light of as you're getting ready for this lesson tonight especially in light of the fact that The Fed the Federal Reserve has now raised the interest rates again But More than importantly than that is what I told to you about probably a year and a half ago in a prophecy files update and it was dealing with the subject of In the in the acrostic of it the CB DC, which is the central bank digital currency I told you at the end of the year of President Biden's first term he said by December he wanted the Fed to be able to explore digital currency through the Fed and To see whether or not it would be a viable deal. Well, guess what? They announced that now the new program that is called Fed now is Going to come about and will be launched in fact many banks are already signing up to it That will be launched by July You should go and read on it yourself and get information yourself because it will affect your life and While there are people that are saying You know that the Fed now Is not the digital currency the bottom line is you're witnessing as banks are failing all over this country and More money is being printed And I don't have to be an economist smart guy to be able to know that that causes inflation and When the budget for President Biden was displayed? At over six trillion dollars My question is if you and I went out with a credit card and we started swiping our card and our credit limit was $10,000 and we just kept right on swiping it and we said okay. We want to raise the debt ceiling So we can keep on swiping it Bottom line is at some point. That's got to be paid for Okay, so now and this was a warning and you go back in into the historic record and you'll find out That our forefathers warned us of central banking and they said that if that takes place and If the leaders of America Figure out that they can issue to themselves usury or interest That it will be the demise of the United States of America and I'm summarizing a number of our forefathers who's put that out there This is a historical record. Well, ladies and gentlemen, we are there now It's not something that we were waiting on to happen. It is here now. They're already putting it in it's called Fed now so Just in brief I'm only going to take another 60 seconds to tell you that even as we speak today You've watched some banks that have gone down and then Miss Yellen got on there and said it's going to be all right We're going to sure them up now if you're around in 08, you know that the the collapse of housing and the collapse of banks and everything like that there was a panic and all that was going on and so they took your tax dollars and Bailed everybody that needed to be that in their opinion bailed out and that's basically what's taking place at this particular moment So just for those of you and again, I'm not an economist I'm just giving you some information that I believe is important for you in light of Bible prophecy Because this particular this particular thing of Fed now listen to what one particular financial expert said He's warned that the Fed now lays out the foundation for a central bank digital currency by centralizing all participating banks under the Federal Reserve Well friends, you know and I know that if Supposedly that if you have a deposits in there that you're insured by the FDIC FDIC. Well, who is that? Oh, it's all directly connected back to the Fed Bank The Federal Reserve Okay, up to two hundred fifty thousand dollars. Well, that's all well nice and fine and good But it's only been just a few weeks ago, and we haven't learned anything. There's two banks That's that well first of all the FTX debacle with with Cryptocurrency was the largest in the history of the United States bank failure When when this when the Silicon Valley Bank the second one collapsed just a few weeks ago a few days ago That was the second largest bank failure in the history stand that We're talking about the Great Depression when every bank went down in 29 these two events Surpassed that by billions and trillions Now what took place during that particular time, and there's some that are in this building who walked through that and lived through it Was a time that America had never seen before but I will tell you that on the horizon If we continue down this road and there is no stopping this train at this point So what happens? Just like what happened in OA just like what has happened recently with with the F F FXT FTX I forget FTX This guy who was sitting in the Caribbean in a penthouse suite Having sex with all of his people that were in there and his business partners and live in the high life And then the day after all the sudden the thing plummets and billions of dollars are evaporated overnight This my friend is what's going to take place. How easy is that? Well, I'll tell you in my Additional 30 seconds When you take your cash money down to the bank and you put it through the window and you say hey Here's my check deposited in my account or here's my cash deposit in my account You cease to be the owner of that money and the bank whether you like this or not This is the way it is the bank now becomes the owner of that money So then without asking you whether they can invest your money or not They take your money and invest it in treasuries and bonds and so forth and then when all of that which is taxpayer money When all of it Implodes like it has on these banks They start selling off and going upside down in the whole deal and using your money to bail out all these people and You become a liability To that bank because now they owe you What you deposited and so just like the people with SBB bank and signature bank and All of that they walked up the next day and they said hey, hey We want our money out of here and they said we ain't got no money for you. Okay There is a process every year that I that we the church this church Sends money by wire down to Guatemala to help children and and the ministry that's going on in missions like there There is a process that I have to go through in paperwork Literally to go down to the bank to make that take place and it is not only flag But it is seen of course anything over $10,000 and they're lowering that when it goes out of the country especially And hey, you know we I want you to understand the system the economic system of the Antichrist will not be one that people will resist They will applaud The Antichrist system which is upon us right now and I'm going to go on record here tonight to tell you That the Fed now is going to be part of that entire process which basically You say well, you know we have rights in in the constitution concerning our finances and and the making of money And only the federal government can print coins How many of you are trust in that? Only the federal government can print money We went into Multiple times we've gone into the treasury there in washington dc And I've seen the pallets of money pallets of hundred dollar bills pallets four feet deep Full of and the press was moving as fast as it could Putting it out more Because of what I've told you in modern monetary theory Modern monetary theory go look it up yourself. It's a fancy word that That congress women and men and so forth Will use and throw around That we are doing some new creative Way with money basically is this If we need more we print more I don't know. Can you do that? Can you do you know you'd be put in jail if you went over to the coffee machine and started doing it? Making you some monopoly money What happens with that? Well in order to bring in a new system You make your deposit in the bank If I ask how many of you if I said tonight, I'm going to take up a cash offering out of this group of people that's sitting here I doubt that there would be $3,000 cash that would come Because most people are operating by their debit card and so forth So this particular Now if you got more than that you want to give it to now tonight is now now's the time I'm watching this very carefully because this is going to be a control mechanism upon the united states that in a moment And if somebody says well, I don't believe that could happen. Please go back and read your history in o8 Did you have a 401k then what happened to it? Disappeared what happened with ftx and the crypto currency? disappeared Well, is there anybody going to court over that is the guy even brought up on charges? What's going on all we've seen him come and disappear What am I saying that you you should be prepared? Like I've been trying to prepare you for 16 years at this church right here And people wrote david wilkerson off whenever he wrote this book in 73 and said oh He's a crazy man conspiracy theorist. Don't you worry about people calling you conspiratorial You just read this bible right here. Listen to the power of the holy spirit Know what god wants you to do for you and your house and be a people that are prepared And if you'll do that god will preserve you during the coming storm because I think it's coming faster than what we think And now some happy news Which is the word of god tonight in matthew chapter 5 How many of you feeling good now? Amen six of you praise god rest of you are just Sad sack well the good part about it is is that this passage of scripture starts out blessed Blessed so let's look at it in chapter number five of the book of matthew. You ready to study the word of god say amen Father thank you for the word May it be a lamp to our feet a light to our path tonight And we give you glory for what you're going to do and use it to be in jesus name Amen blessed are the meak Well, let me go back blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven blessed Are they that mourn for they shall be comforted? Blessed tonight's lesson are the meek for they shall inherit the earth. Can you say a man to god's word? Praise god now whoever has my clicker or if you want to do it in the back feel free to do that I don't have it right here So we are living in a world that worships power and rejects any evidence of meekness The word meek in the bible Uh can be synonymous with the term gentle or gentleness So wherever you see gentle or gentleness taking place You also can correlate that with meekness because we don't use the world word meek very much We don't use that word very much, but uh It is it is better said I suppose and for us in gentle a person is gentle or there Are there you know, they may be soft in their attitude whatever But the point is is that power Today the world is worshiping power and rejecting any evidence of meekness And it seems that people are bent on revenge So the keys to living like the king Is the bible says blessed or the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven First thing we need to know is that we are bankrupt in our soul and in our spirit That is to say that we realize that we are empty without god and without Uh his son jesus christ living on the inside of our lives when we come to that place them The second blessing comes In mourning that is to say aren't we mourn over our own sin and over the sins of other people for that matter The sins of the world even But when we come to number three He says blessed are the meek now I want you to realize that these are not suggestions of jesus christ and matthew five These are the attitudes of christ character and nature that we are to take upon ourselves and apply into our lives and I just want to let you know that uh, I'm a pretty driven person and um when I started preparing this message for you The lord uh was taking me to the woodshed with it So I promise that since surgery is usually done in with your eyes closed and an anesthetic and tonight I'm having to do that on myself and upon you. I'm going to make this a quick lesson as fast as I can Blessed are the meek For they shall inherit the earth So what is god doing god is letting us know first of all and you can find this out through the word of god even jesus christ himself fashioned that whip and went in and uh drove out the money changers and so forth So god has given us the ability actually to get angry Righteously angry y'all all right out there? So if you're writing it down There is a godless anger That destroys and a godly anger that builds up So look what the bible says in proverbs 16 and 32 he that is slow to anger is better than the mighty And he that ruleeth his spirit than he that take of the city Are you in charge of your spirit? Or does Does your fuse get lit real easy? You don't have to say it out loud You don't have to say it out loud And I refuse to say it out loud Because i'm pretty intense with stuff. I'm pretty intense and And and that's a that's a challenge Because if you're intense about things You can find yourself on the wrong side of something having only heard one side of it And you get all bent out of shape or offended because of something you read on on social media That turned out not to even be true Well look look at proverbs 25 and 28 he that has no rule over his own spirit Is like a city that is broken down and without walls You're vulnerable to everything You become a person that's out of control Look straight at me. Do you know anybody that's out of control? Their spirit is out of control. They say well, I just speak my mind. Well, there are there is a time for you not to speak So this is not on your paper, but you just hear this weakness is used to describe or is actually kind of defined as In three three different ways as a soothing medicine actually for a patient who has been wrestling with a fever That literally is the definition behind the word meekness. It's also Identified and defined as a sailor's gentle breeze I like that But it is more defined in scripture in the greek and in the hebrou as a colt That has been broken or tamed Now the one thing we don't like is to be tamed y'all all right out there We don't like to be tamed We don't like to be broken But I promise you that it is in the breaking That god is going to get the glory out of your life Don't like it Anybody that says they do Is lying Or they haven't really been broken You know and I know and and and and this is what I find out. I this is an experiential type of definition Coming from me is I find out that the breaking I did not expect it to be this I could have dealt with the breaking if it was this Because that wouldn't have hurt me as much But david said it is you my friend In my house that has broken me down And it's really tough when you're when you're dealing with a brokenness that comes from someone you trusted So in the scripture and we use him kind of as a backdrop for this lesson as well Is what the bible identifies as the meekest man on earth Other than jesus and that was the man moses identified in scripture the meekest man on earth Listen to the look at the lifestyle of the meekest man on earth who was in the Ark in a bulrush and came into pharaoh's house and was trained for the first 40 years and then He saw an egyptian mistreating and beating down A hebrew brother And he looked around here's the meekest man on earth the bible says And he looked around and didn't see anybody doing anything And jumped on that egyptian and the meekest man on earth Didn't just beat down the egyptian But he beat him to death And dug a hole in the sand and covered him up at that moment As god already knew the lifestyle and what he was calling moses and actually Allowed moses to come into this earth to be I hear god say in the middle of these scriptures Apparently we're going to need to let you get out in Into the desert for 40 years to get some of this beatitude worked into you called meekness Because i can't have a killing machine going into pharaoh's house And then when you see this take place in the training of his life For the next 40 years on the back side of the desert when that happens and all that process takes place And it was a process and i want you to know it was 40 years Now i'm not talking about dog years and i'm not talking about short years. I'm talking about a full 40 So for all of you that are saying man, I wonder when this is going to be over moses It took a full 40 to get what was in him out of him. So he wouldn't kill somebody when he went back to pharaoh's house Because when he comes back to pharaoh's house He displays an attitude of strength That is under control In fact, that would be the definition if you look at it. Let me just say to you that meekness is not weakness And it is not timidity do not mistake meekness for weakness. Jesus was meek, but he wasn't weak Moses was meek, but he wasn't weak And meekness by definition is power under control. It is the principle of submission This is a challenge because today people don't want to be submissive to nobody But you will be You will be ultimately god He'll stand before him, but in the meantime he has his ministers And the bible says that they're ministers of god You know where their names are the police And they have a just sword Called a glock A nine millimeter that they are to use if necessary Because they are ministers of god in the earth ordain of god in the earth By the law and the rule of god I'm just going to let that see again for just a minute So we're not talking about a weakness. We're talking about power under control The principle of submission So the path to meekness is what it is Accepting god's dealing with us without resistance Accepting god's dealing with us without resistance When god tells you something to do how quick are you to do it? How quick do you respond to it? Do you debate? Do you argue? Do you discuss? Let's discuss this god I want you to go to costa rica and go preach to some kids down there Well god, I've never been out of the country. I didn't ask you that I said I want you to get your passport and get out of there Right Now I found this out that that you can resist God and after a while you won't have that push and that feeling that's on the inside of your heart to do it anymore But you will have missed the will of god Come on somebody So with that being said the beatitudes are really then a whole conglomeration of a process of conforming us to the yoke of christ And that is to say i'm satisfied jesus with whatever you tell me to do I'm ready to do it Now that's a process because that doesn't we're not your children are not born meek I wish I had a good amen I'm talking to the grandparents in here your grandchildren are not born meek No, no, no, no, they're not that resistance toward authority the resistance toward god That is what gets us in trouble all of the time In fact, the best test of meekness is found in the word attitude Watch what happens with this turn to your neighbor and say attitude Yeah So the best understanding of meekness really is is looking at an opposite This is not on your paper either, but you just listen to this and see if it isn't fit Because if you know the opposite of what meekness is it's going to help you to know what meekness is and what it is not So here's the opposite the opposite of meekness is arrogance pride conceit a cocky attitude vanity meekness that is perverted and is looked at by the world The world thinks meekness is wimpy cowered Weak and all of you christians out there are just weak Years ago. That's what ted turner said about christians. They're just weak-minded people one day every man And I was I've been listening just a little bit today to some of these guys and They're financial experts on what's going on and we saw the the market turned down and all that kind of stuff today And they're really smart and one of them was a billionaire and I said, can you talk without your hands? I mean if I tied his hands, he couldn't say anything But He was a billionaire. He made money off of making money in the market And they called him an expert Now you know what an expert is an x is zero And a spurt is a small drip of water So if somebody calls you an expert just tell them that no, I'm not an expert in anything See we get this mentality we get this mentality and and Sometimes when titles come on or whatever that it may be we lose our minds Come on somebody We're not we're not we're not gonna we're not gonna bow down and and watch somebody's feet so during the revolutionary war The soldiers were at a particular place and they were building up this wall of embankment this this wall to get behind and building it up getting everything ready and standing there over the top of all of these soldiers Was the corporal who was yelling at them and telling them what they needed to do and screaming and All that kind of thing and along came another soldier And when he walked up on the scene, he said what what are you doing? He said we're building this wall right here. He said why why What are you doing here? What's what's happening? And he said we got to get this wall built So the man that walked up on it knelt down and started helping the other soldiers Put the wall together And whenever he stood up he turned around and said why why were you yelling man? He said i'm the corporal here And the man told him he said now listen if you have any other projects like this you be sure to call me Because the person who gets down to help them that's that's the one that's supposed to be in charge That was said by george washington The guy who walked up and bent down and helped him build the wall instead of being a corporal standing over the top of him yelling at That's meekness When you have the power but resist using it that is the fruit of meekness I know i'm preaching right now Nobody's breathing So who is god in me? That's what we need to be asking not look at me But who is god in me who are people seeing jesus in me or are they seeing me in my raw form? That's what these beatitudes are all about now before somebody goes. Oh, i'm so Horrible i'm not doing this or i'm doing pretty good in this category I want you to know every one of us are in the same training of all of this right here Okay, and it actually has been a decade since i uh i taught this particular lesson of the beatitudes So write it down true meekness looks like this it looks like It what does it look like it frees god to guide us True meekness frees god to guide us. What does it say in song 24 25 and 9 the meek watch this the meek will he guide Talk about god the meek will he guide in judgment and the meek Will he teach his ways? That's exclusively for the meek the humble the person who submits themselves to god So here's the question who are you being led by? Who don't know the way if you're a person who is always Let me say it like this if you're the smartest person in the room with all the people you need to find a different room There needs to be an intimidation factor Are you hearing what i'm saying there needs to be a challenge put to you That you don't know everything and and if you get to the point where you know everything you better find a new room Because one person can walk in and change everything and and you not know anything that's going on Are you hearing me? This is so important for us to get a hold of here tonight Because it is a constant struggle a power struggle inside of our spirit Because we think we've always got to get ahead and how many times let me just ask you when you reflect back on What god was doing inside of your life and using some kind of situation to teach you something When you look back on it. Did you say oh that was why I went through that? It wasn't even about that it was about this I can tell you there's multiple times in my life when i've seen that take place I've had to and and you know what? The holy spirit knows that you need to be reminded about it So at the very most opportune time he will remind you Of why I took you through that In order for you to be prepared for this Otherwise you'd be elevating yourself up to think you're somebody but the only reason why you got to the dance is because I got you there Come on somebody This is the world we live in today where people step on people and use people to get to that next level And there's no meekness in that whatsoever. There's arrogance Can I can I put something out there for you the arrogance the arrogant of a vivid example of arrogance here today? When the district attorney of manhattan is holding secretly 600 Pages of documents that he did not turn over to the grand jury for the trial that he wanted to indict a former president on When congress does not want to turn over 44 000 hours of videotape Because they're afraid somebody might find out that it wasn't actually the way it was portrayed to be Those are just two examples and you could cite a whole lot more The spirit that is in our world today is directly against this And yet watch this and yet god requires us in the middle of all of this to be meek Requires us to pull back on the lever instead of punching somebody in the mouth Justifiably I know none of you have that feeling in your heart. That's the reason why I told you I'm making this a short lesson tonight Number two submits to god for instruction True meekness submits to god for instruction. Look at james one James 119 wherefore my beloved brother and let every man be swift to hear Slow to speak slow to wrath For the wrath of men or man worketh not the righteousness of god Look what's going on You are watching here. I go bible prophecy You are watching what I told you several years ago would take place is the shift of power From the west to the east And now china says We will make sure and be the uh in so many words will be the overseer of the new world order Well, guess what they are Because the clothes you wear and the ipad you have and the glasses on your face And the weave in your hair Made in china The bible says there would be a time that if we continued on this way, we would be the We are always the borer and never the lender Look what verse 21 says he says in light of all this the wrath the man working not the righteousness of god Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of Naughtiness and receive with meekness the ingrafted word of god in other words be teachable I listen There have been plenty of times when I've walked into the room and I may have known something that the other person didn't know Or maybe all about it But I held my tongue To let them say what they want to say about what they thought they knew Now that's a difficult thing Now the one thing i'm not going to do is let them leave me off into the ditch with their advice if I know what's going on Right and at the same time I might I might just learn something And please don't classify that by the person that you walk into the room and they look like they don't know What you know Are y'all with me out there? when I've gone to uh dc and sat in the office of of senator rick scott just this past year I didn't open up my mouth right away I wanted to hear what he had to say and what he wanted to know Because in in the 15 minute meeting that we had I'm sitting at the head of the table. I don't know how I got there I'm sitting at the head of the table. The senator is sitting here He starts asking questions of what's going on and why are we here and so forth and so on and I'm letting some of the other people speak and then all the sudden pastor haggie and and diana walk into the room And they sit down at the table. That was terribly unexpected and I knew at that moment Let me just hold my peace and listen really carefully Because they're probably going to learn something in this moment That's what the wise man solemn said there's a time to speak and a time to shut up now. He didn't say shut up That's the jiv version submit to the word of god until it becomes part of you What part of you is not submitted to the will of god into the word of god? I'm not talking about the bible says not just hearing the word but doing this is where we are today Most churches and people that are coming and gathering in crowds are hearing it and shouting amen But when they walk out the door, they don't take it and apply it into the situation They boxed it for sunday or wednesday or whenever that it may be and it doesn't become part of them This is the way it comes out. I know what the word says, but Well, you know what I say to that Get your butt out of it And obey the word of god Come on somebody I was in a meeting yesterday morning And as I speak tonight, you'll be glad to know as a missionary project to this church That we are currently supporting the efforts that are literally as I speak right now in the Pensacola area and center of the county area That are doing what they can to rescue more than 25 Abused and human traffic children even as I speak right now And every month we support them with missionary dollars. I was in the meeting yesterday A whole lot of smart people in the room I was one of only five pastors and I think I was the only assembly of god pastor I'm not beating my chest. I'm just saying that was what it was And the more that they talk the more the more I was able to glean But whenever it was all said and done the leaders of that came To me And so we know about pace assembly. We know what you're doing and your support and what you're doing in your area keep doing it Friends, I want you to know something God is wanting us to submit to his word today so he can use us For things that are larger and let me just tell you I was in the room with baptist I was in the room with heathens. I was in the room with Any number of people that were in that room And it made no difference the one thing was Are we going to get that nine-year-old that's being used as a pole dancer in that house over there? Or that 13-year-old that's that's being raped every friday night Are we going to get in our little box and do our little church thing? I'm telling you we need to be a people that are meek which is Which is what power under control Now ultimately you're going to know this Let's just let me put this on the on the top of it right now. Here's what you need to know ultimately Whatever injustice has taken place in your life. Whatever things happen To you around you or your family whatever it may be if you'll trust god what i'm teaching you here tonight in meekness God himself is what does he say? He said Vengeance is mine Notice the scripture. Vengeance is mine saith god period Oh, wait a minute. There's more. Oh, I know there's more to it I don't want you to read that all together and think vengeance is mine say of god. I will repay Because god's not going to do anything to anybody else just because you don't like them God said vengeance is mine But I will repay you for all of the injustices that have been done inside of your life And it may not be in this life, but thanks be to god It will be justice set right because god is the ultimate judge of all the universe That's a good place to say amen All right, so the lack of meekness meekness is a reason for failure in our lives. We don't think we need to help And sometimes people say that And they're acting like Oh, I don't I don't need your help. I don't need your help But wait a minute A yes, you do And b god's giving an opportunity for you to be ministered to So that you don't cop an attitude that says nobody cares about me Nobody ever called me nobody ever Really when we tried to you resisted it Are you hearing what i'm saying? That was just an insertion James four and one says One reason for the division that takes place in the church in this particular chapter was a stubborn attitude towards god's word number three exalted true true meekness Means being exalted by christ and not self So i'm 147 and 6 i love this scripture the lord lift up the meek the bible says the lord lift up the meek And he casteth the wicked down to the ground Listen if i won't seek my own in due season i will be exalted the bible says Y'all all right out there Meek people can be trusted because they're not worried about losing power or position or trying to manipulate the situation Because they know it's not their power or position to start with i'm not here to beat my chest If you don't know i'm the pastor of this church there ain't nothing for me to stand up here and beat my chest and say now i'm the pastor i'm the pastor You know i'm the pastor You don't run around your house to your kids and go hey, you know i'm the father here I'm your father. I am your father say it father They know it more by example And if they're not paying attention to that they will Moses here's a classic example When when you know who you are And you don't have to flaunt it you remember moses is out there and his sister mariam and his brother erin are out there and all of a sudden Mariam cops an attitude you find this in numbers chapter number 12 verse 3 Let's just look over there real quick. It's such a good passage of scripture. Let's just see it. I'll just read it out loud It's so good Y'all all right out there Anybody learn anything Anybody getting meek Three of you praise god Chapter 12 verse number 3 says now the man moses was very meek above all the men which were upon the face of the earth There's the verification So here here comes moses the meek man. He's been leading. He's the one who he's the one. This is what kills me about it He's the one who heard god from the burning bush Can I take you all the way back there? He he was the one They were all in slavery And couldn't do anything about it, but moaning groan and god heard them from heaven He said i got a man that i've had tucked away for 40 years. He's coming. He's a deliverer Moses hears the voice of god from the burning bush and turns around and goes To get the people his people out of egypt by the word of the lord He gets there and what does he do? All the plagues the 10 the 10 gods of egypt are face to face with the plagues of egypt And he takes them out with a mighty swoop of god's hand and Passover takes place and all that kind of things going And here's three million jews walking out in the middle of the wilderness and everything's going great They get out there and here's a pillar of fire and and you know a cloud by day and fire by night God opens up the red sea and it's all wonderful and mariam gets over there and oh Hey, it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood. We got over on the other side They walk out in the wilderness and all of a sudden mariam hops this attitude and says Who do you think tells her brother? Who do you think you are? We can hear from god too Now you're gonna see this watch this Here's erin his brother the hot what will be the high priest He's standing over here on the side going And mariam's looking at him going are you with me? Yeah, yeah, who do you think you are? You're not the only one I can hear from god Moses didn't defend himself. He didn't say did you understand who I am? I'm not just your brother I'm the deliverer who came in the name of the lord to bring you out Mariam had contempt after all those miracles had contempt for a brother So you know what god does He goes because god is god is awesome with that first finger with leprosy And gives her a seven day case of leprosy Now for lepers they had not to live in the camp they couldn't live with everybody else They had to go outside of the camp But the problem was it stopped the whole church. I mean it stopped the whole people all the people Out in the middle of the wilderness and they couldn't move forward because one woman Copped an attitude who happened to be supposed to be in a leadership position And she tried to take the leaders position instead of being submissive and meak Don't shout me down. Don't say nothing because I know it don't ever happen to you. And so all of a sudden She points at him and and she gets leprosy and there's moses And he says you're gonna have to go outside of the camp. You got leprosy and erin is over there going He's just as much a part of it Because he's afraid the leprosy is coming on him next That's erin's way you you follow him. He he's all you remember what they did You know moses comes back down the mountain and he says Hey, what's going on here and erin goes? Oh, no, this calf just jumped out of the fire and his all go Read the bible it's in there He never takes responsibility When his sons all get messed up, you know, okay, I won't go there So here's mariam outside of the camp and for seven days they can't move forward Wasting time energy All of that kind of stuff Grieving over it mariam's over there and she can't get herself out it watch this She can't get herself out Unless moses releases from his mouth her deliverance Now this is the meek part because because Because i'm moses over here in the hot sun i'm supposed to be taking you all here and i've been stopped because of my sister's big mouth My sister's watching tonight. I'm not talking about you I'm over I haven't had anything i'm i'm sweating I got complaining people on me because it's my sister look at you We can't trust that pastor. Look at him his own family. He ain't even got his family or can you hear it? The bible said they chided on moses And here's the meekest man now at that point how many of you had said let her rot Soon as her right arm falls off We'll see if we can work things out That's what leprosy did your nose falls off you It's kind of like the side effects of the medications that people are taking today your eyes bulge out your ear falls off You're fraught at the mouth leprosy leprosy leprosy She's over here with a good case of leprosy and for seven days the whole thing is shut down. We can't do nothing Moses could have said forget it. Let's go Stay in a desert you chided against me sick and tired of you Brought you out and this is the thanks I get Seven days they stopped and what happens? God speaks to moses and moses goes and releases his sister Wait a minute. He was completely justified. He was god's man. He was the pastor of the church He was the deliverer of the whole deal. She spoke against it, but it was moses to go and release it So she could get back in the camp How many you know that takes a little meekness on our parts? Uh six of you are ready to kill mariam right now. You ain't even seen her Do you know what in that passage of scripture describing what i've just talked to you about Mariam's attitude was One that is described in the hebrew here as disinterested. I know the words. It's god's ministry Not mine do whatever I want to do Wait a minute you got a call on your life You better be careful with that Write it down a test of meekness in your attitude Is your attitude toward a person who sins? This is a test of meekness Your attitude towards the person who sin. What's your attitude towards the person who sin? Let them die Well, if that was the case wait till you get been out of shape And somebody turns to you and says let them die Here's what Galatians six and one. I love this scripture brethren If a man be overtaken into fault you which are spiritual Y'all that are shouting around speaking in tongues falling out frothing at the mouth singing and worshiping And you read to bible more than anybody else. What's he say? What's the burden of proof? He says the burden is on you to restore such a one in the spirit of meekness considering yourself Less they'll also be tempted Restore in the spirit of meekness So what does that mean? That means you have the power to hurt and you have the power to heal Anybody getting anything out of this? You know what the word restore means it means to set the broken bone That's a painful situation initially, but if you don't set that bone You'll never be right True meekness number four prepares us to receive peace and and give peace and psalm 78 verse 7 through 9 Thou even thou talk about god here art to be feared and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven and the earth feared and it was still when god arose to judgment To save all the meek of the earth Selah God is preparing you in meekness To have peace And i'm going to just tell you right now friends The one ingredient that you can't you can do with a you you may be able to do without some things But if you don't have peace in your heart and mind and spirit in the time we're living in That is a that is a fruit of the spirit that you cannot buy off the shelf at walmart And the bible says when it is within your power to do that to make peace you better do it They may be going crazy, but i'm gonna have some peace over here at my house Come on somebody If you don't create peace at your house the devil will He'll get in there and rip it three ways from saturday How do you handle those who disagree with you? It's a test of meekness In the face of injustice is god the bible says will send it right because meekness is the long run Don't think about getting it today Think about the fact that in the long run If i will remain The way i'm supposed to be as a meek individual god is going to get it turned around for me Here's another thing a test of meekness is my attitude towards sinners What is that attitude first peter 3 and 15? But sanctify the lord god in your hearts and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asks you the reason Of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear He's telling you how to witness He's telling you how to talk to other people about jesus Don't be arrogant with it Don't look like you're holier than now Bring it to them Reminding yourself that at one time I was there Galatians 5 23 actually identifies meekness as a part of the fruit of the spirit He calls gentleness. It's gentleness in there. So here's what you need to know fruit is not something we manufacture Fruit is something we bear. We do not produce the fruit of the spirit the spirit Is the manufacturer of the fruit? All we do is allow that fruit to be in our lives through christ jesus and we bear that fruit You can't produce it So get this the meek own this is the meek now. What does he say? Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit right they shall inherit the earth They shall inherit the earth So the meek own everything Because the meek submit to god In everything you're gonna see this i'm gonna bring this puzzle piece together here in just a second So when you inherit something That means that something Or someone had to die and then left it to you in their will To inherit this not on your paper. You might want to write it down to inherit right here in this passage scripture means to have dominion over Means to have dominion over I'm gonna inherit what I'm gonna inherit the earth What is earth earth is dirt Blessed are the meek for they shall have dominion over the dirt The other word to describe dirt is dust Hello dust Every one of us in here nothing but a pile of dirt With the breath of god inside of us So what is he saying you shall have dominion over the dirt Another word that is used to describe that dirt is flesh So what does he say? Blessed are the meek For they shall have dominion Over the flesh Are y'all all right out there? That's the reason why i'm not waiting to inherit the earth sometime in the future in the millennial rain Or a plot of ground i'm gonna be over northwest florida He's saying you inherit the earth right now you get dominion if you're meek you get dominion over your Flesh right now. I think I just helped somebody right there This is what he's saying blessed are they that submit to the holy spirit for they shall have dominion over their flesh Right now Get this it is the death of self will my self will and attitudes and actions That's what brings about the inheritance. Remember somebody's got to die in order for you to inherit it Well, if you don't die To your own will and to your own attitudes and your own actions. You'll never See that inheritance that god says for you to have So what is meekness? I love this now i'm racing to the end meekness Means I submit to what the bible calls the yoke Of the lord it's found in matthew 11 verse 28 through 30 Here's what jesus said Here's what jesus said I love what jesus said Come on to me All ye that labor stop if you're not laboring Then there's no need for you to rest Thank you Why is that so important because in the time look at any everything that is first spiritual is manifest is manifest in the physical So I heard the 93 year old founder of hone depot today on the television say One of the reasons why we're in the mess we're in right now is because we can't find people to work So what does jesus say come on to me? All ye that labor And are and are heavy laden And I will give you rest Watch this take my yoke upon you And learn of me For I am meek and lowly in heart And ye shall find what? You shall find what? Rest for your soul You will find rest For your soul For my yoke is easy And my burden Is light Don't you love that? So I want them to put because we're talking about a yoke. I want to put this picture up here This man standing up here six Foot tall or so And this is a this is a real picture and a team of oxen Matter of fact on the back of this picture Just for your interest Next to the ox the cart where that's pulling logs. This is this is actually a picture that is um Uh was taken on Five mile bayou, which is now what you would call synco bayou in four walden beach And up next to it, uh, you can see each one of these each one of these oxen had names One of them the one next to it was spot. The other one was blue The next one What are called the swings there is darling and jerry And then there's bud and bill How do I know that? Because the the bible says jesus says take my yoke upon you and learn of me learn of me For my yoke is easy and my burden is light This is a team of oxen that have a yoke over the top of them Wooden yoke that fasten the two of them together It was unlawful in the scripture to put a donkey and an oxen together because they don't have the same pulling power So they team the oxen up together And they pull together But if you don't have them yoked They'll pull in any different direction And so this man was a logging man at that particular time And they're pulling these logs out of the woods. They didn't have tractors and all that stuff. They had oxen They're pulling these logs out of the woods And he taught these oxen how to do that And would take care of them and yoke them up and then they would learn And he didn't just put them in those three positions just because he wanted them there. That's where they learned how To do what was necessary in that particular position. Well, I don't want to be a swing. I want to be upfront Where you're not qualified to be up front, but you do a really good job right here Looking at me like you're looking at me and you do real good back here And you do real good back here So that's the position that i'm yoking you up and when I put two of you agreeing it's touching any one thing It shall be done And incidentally, I will tell you that the strongest pull of an oxen according to the According to the record Is not when they're walking with their feet the strongest way for oxen to pull is when they're on their knees They can pull massive loads of weight That man right there Is my grandfather that I was named after that's joseph andrew rogers Who was deaf But played a And loved to read louis lemore books I never knew that until I was on up in years But I cherish this Because it teaches me so much And I can I learn from it even now I'm joseph allen rogers. That's joseph andrew rogers and I heard a lot about him Growing up. I he I was born in 63. He died in 71. I think it was and I got one picture of me sitting in his lap I never knew he was deaf But he would play the fiddle out here For the dances and so forth that was going on in the community, but he couldn't hear a lick he could just feel the vibrations and He taught us how to work hard and that that location right there is a place they called it crowder's landing Uh in fort walton beach. That's where he was and they were pulling logs out To go haul them down so that they could haul them all the way to pennsycola to the turpentine plan to the to the sawmill to provide Housing or whatever that it might be Here's some points that I want to bring to you out of this as you're looking at it Being yoked together with christ Means this it means that you got to walk together You can't be out of step with one another Well, I don't like him. Well, I don't care you're yoked to him You got to walk together with jesus Secondly, you got to move together If you're on the if you're if your buddy is on there's knees pulling then you need to get on your knees pulling number three We actually because we're yoked together. We become one Are y'all getting the spiritual principle right here? Take my yoke upon you and learn of me for my yoke is easy. Why is it easy? Because we become one and quite frankly While i'm yoked up with him He's actually doing all the pulling himself. He just let me walk by We become one number four We have to wait when he waits If he stops if i'm just telling you my grandfather was not necessarily uh An easy guy that was hard times back then My dad tells me that he slipped up on him one time and because he couldn't hear anything Dad was supposed to go and do something as a boy when he slipped up on papa And grabbed a hold of his pants leg or whatever it was he came around with that whip That was handed down I am the ox. All right You have to wait when he waits you have to wait when christ waits when you're yoked up with him you have to wait when he waits If you keep pulling you're resisting the will Of the one you're yoked up with This is how you know if you can stand being yoked up together That's the reason why he says don't marry Someone that you be unequally yoked together Because one of these pulling this way and the other one's pulling this way and you got a mess Not only that but it's probably better Described it's the reason why that the bible says in the old testament god commanded them Don't you put an oxen and a donkey otherwise known as a jackass together yoked together So i don't know which one of you in the marriage thinks that the other one is the other one But i just want to let you know You got to wait You got to move together you got to walk together you got to become one you got to wait on the other one watch this Here's the next one You got to have patience when he stands still Now i'm going to tell you Papa didn't call these oxen one two three four five six Every one of these oxen Were named And whenever he wanted one of them to do something He called them by name spot G hall he could listen This is where when i when i sat at the table with dad I knew him enough that if he looked at the salt shaker I better be moving to the salt shaker And get it in his hands Now some of y'all don't know all that kind of submission, but i'm just telling you right there. That's that's where i learned it Okay So when papa didn't have to always call their names they knew him when he came up on them And he could just make noises And those oxen knew what to do Because they were tamed to the yoke You couldn't afford to have that kind of a load that you're having to pull A bunch of resistant oxen Put that picture up one more time. I just want to check something Can you do that? That's a really nice picture there Yep. Yep. That's what I thought That's what I thought Had that stick that stick wasn't just for walking if the oxen could talk They knew the name of that stick Are you hearing me? After a while after a while if you tame trained Things right children right the situation yourself right You don't have as much resistance anymore Now wait wait wait Those oxen were strong in fact those oxen were so strong they could run that man over in his overalls They could stomp him to death But there is power Under control For a purpose to get these great big logs to the destination that it needed to be And it's not your will But his will be done You might get this here tonight You received this word I did I'm still swallowing on it Because there's some things that I had to do today to make some decisions on some things that I had to say You know what I could go this way But I'm not going to do it I got the power to do It's not a matter of power It's a matter of me being submissive to the lord Are you hearing me? So I'm not teaching you something that I'm not Applying That sounds like I invited it didn't it we just want such a wonderful name to I applied the scripture Well actually the lord whipped you with that stick So that you wouldn't keep pulling in the direction that was going to cause destruction all over the forest And might kill the other oxen wound the other oxen me in the process and we never get the logs to the sawmill God wants you to get the logs to the sawmill He wants you to get the souls Don't make me preach this thing Everywhere you see wood in the scripture it denotes humanity So what does god want us to do he wants us to work together with christ yoked up together so that we can get the humanity under the watchful eye of our heavenly father Who loves us and carries a stick with him just in case we get off of the trail Because we only have a short amount of time to do it yet And if we don't do it his way We're going to wreck everything and maybe even lose the souls that we were reaching out for Give that to the lord would you do that? Come on give it to the lord tonight father. I prayed this evening that you would Help each and every one of us in the times that we want to resist and pull back Maybe push forward and run over the top of somebody just because we can I pray mighty god that you would help each and every one of us this very moment Not wait till later, but right now to submit ourselves to the very perfect will of god You are meek and lowly and heart You said lord that if we will submit ourselves to you and be meek like you We will inherit the earth we will see our flesh Brought under control very easy for us to let it get out of control We've seen it before we know it we've watched it in our own lives So tonight I humbly come before you and I say lord Teach us Don't take that yoke off of my neck Because I want to be tied to you in every way I don't want to miss you at this late hour And I don't want to throw power around just for the sake of power. I want you to get the glory out of my life So keep me yoked to you Keep me tied to you help me to walk with you and And and move when you move and stop when you stop and wait when you wait And be patient when you stand still You know The way that I take And I give you glory for it I want to end this service tonight by reading you this passage of scripture. That's probably on your paper, but this will be it Psalm 37 says fret not thyself because of evildoers Neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity For they shall soon be cut down like the grass and wither as the green herb trust in the lord and do good So shall thou dwell in the land and fairly thou shall be fed Delight thyself in the lord and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart commit thy ways into the lord and trust in him And he shall bring it to pass And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light and thy judgment as the noonday rest in the lord And wait patiently for him fret not thyself because of him who prospered in his way Because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass Seize from anger and forsake wrath fret not thyself in any wise to do evil For evildoers shall be cut off But those that wait upon the lord They shall inherit the earth So is the word of god tonight You receive this word tonight Amen, praise god. Let's give the lord glory for it tonight. He's worthy. Amen Hallelujah. Help us to be like you lord I give the lord glory and honor for it tonight. Amen I want you to shake hands with somebody around you. Let them know how glad you are to see him So glad to have our wonderful Snowbirds from washington who watch every week from spokane washington the crumbly's here with us tonight God bless you both for being here We love you and glad that you're in this place. Hey shake hands with a couple hundred people here tonight Let them know how much you love them all of you that are watching online We thank you for being with us. Don't miss sunday. I'm gonna talk about jesus big So be here sunday. It's gonna be a great day