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That's how this thing works Hey, I want to share a couple of interesting things with you today um Let me read a couple of scriptures to you That uh, we're absolutely fascinating That jesus said says the disciple is not above his master Nor the servant above his lord That's matthew chapter 10 and the greek word for disciple there is methatase a methatase is someone who is a eager anxious learner somebody who learns and and um A greek word for master there is didosculus. It's the greek word for being a teacher So jesus is really staying saying here A student is really not above Their teacher Nor a servant above his lord greek word for servant there is doos. It means a slave A slave Okay A slave is not above his lord as you know back in The early church times, uh, it was common for people to have slaves All through civilization from day one practically um Slavery has been an unfortunate part of humanity Two types of slaves, of course physical slaves And the slavery of sin Either one of those satan is behind both of them And what he's saying here is that in as a christian It's not like the natural world in the natural world. This is not true Many times, uh, a teacher Is surpassed by their students It happens all the time You know, you've got a trainer at a gym Uh, training someone who later on becomes a professional athlete You can have, uh You could be a professor at a medical school training students Who'd later on go on to wear the Nobel prize or something But in the spirit world In the spirit world in christianity, it is not possible It is not possible for you and i as students To be greater than our teacher The lord jesus Matthew chapter 10 also says It is enough for the disciple that he is that he is as his master And it is it is enough if the servant is as his lord And jesus said if they have called the master Of the house deals above How much more shall they call them? Of his household And here you see the crux of christianity hitting us in the face here extremely hard extremely hard That if you're one if you want to be a servant And you want to be a disciple Your goal is to be as your master You'll never be greater than your master What was your master like? What was your teacher like? Well Being a disciple is At sometimes not a very pleasant thing for example jesus was the Least self-absorbed human being that ever lived His entire life was one of servanthood and He made major sacrifices To fulfill his mission in serving his heavenly father For example, he Got up early every morning And spent time in prayer He spent enormous time fasting before he faced satan in the wilderness Uh, he made enormous sacrifices as a servant of johova and To fulfill his mission that isaia outlined in numerous scriptures He had to be a non-absorbed self-absorbed person and You know as brother paul said in the latter times Parallelist times will come Where men will be lovers of them their own selves the greek word for perilous there In that verse is callipus and it means dangerous In the latter days Dangerous times are going to come and we're starting to see that here in america with admin of satanic wokeism Um, you can't just have an opinion anymore in america You have to be shut down You have to shut up And you have to be punished. You have to be taken out. You have to be removed. You have to be canceled Dangerous times are ahead of us here in the united states, believe it or not Our country's changing rapidly It's changing quickly And they're going to come after everything we have It's only a matter of time And with the advent of artificial intelligence you can see now clearly how In the book of revelation how the antichrist can take over the planet 50 years ago nobody had any idea how the antichrist could take over the planet. It didn't make any sense at all There was no concept of it. There was no way it could have happened But with the advent of the internet and social media And artificial intelligence You're kidding me. I mean, this is just right around the corner. It's there's no way to stop it There's no way to stop it Your job in life is to be as your master Someone who is not Focusing on self Luke chapter 6 says quote. Jesus said the disciple Is not above his master and everyone that is perfect Shall be as his master Now that greek word for perfect in that verse in luke 6 catartizzo means uh someone who uh Something that it's In the process of being developed It goes back to the potter's wheel You take the clay and clump of clay then you start molding it then you mold it some more Then you mold it more and once you mold it more and there you go and at the end catartizzo Voila perfection It's a process of Being groomed trained developed And that's that's the process you're in right now And in order to get in that process you have to be very patient with yourself and very patient with others and very very very patient with god Because the holy spirit um I hate to say it. I don't mean to be negative, but Kind of gets on our nerves because um, you and I would prefer that he speed it up And get to the point get it done Get it over with And move on to the next thing And uh, he won't do that He won't do that He just keeps moving forward And he doesn't rush What he needs to do with your life And so in order to fulfill your destiny And your call from god You got to be very patient You have to be very patient patience possesses your soul And the key to being a servant the greek the uh king james version uses the term perfect That's not a good term for that verse Catertizo is not You're not perfect your fully developed Is what that means Everyone that is fully developed will be as his teacher translation You will never be Superior to jesus In anything Will not will never be there Our goal in life Is to be there But it will never actually happen No one can be Equal to or greater than jesus But our goal is to be as Our teacher because we are disciples Methodist students and learners Of the living christ I had a verse that I read many many many years ago Not long after I had turned my life over to the lord This verse in john you probably haven't memorized it almost everybody does jesus said Barely barely I say to you he that believes on me the works that I do Shall he do also? and greater works Than these shall he do Because I go to my father and whatever you ask in my name That will I do That the father may be glorified in the sun If you ask anything in my name, I will do it that verse always bothered me You know what? Did it ever bother you? I mean I struggled with that verse for years and To be honest, I kind of dismissed it in a way I didn't even Think of it much Because I just just could not figure it out Make any sense and then I realized that I was taking verses out of context When I first learned to study the scriptures And I came out of the assemblies of god religion And I had a little I still had a little that word of faith stuff in me And the word of faith Teachings are very damaging at times because They pull a verse out and then you use the verse But unfortunately the verse in every instance Is is contextually valuable You have to take the verse in context And the context of that verse was that Jesus was explaining that He was in the father and the father was in him and that Everything he taught and everything he did Was not just from him It was the father working through him and that the works That he was doing all of his works were to demonstrate That he was in the father and the father was in him And that verse at John 14 So he that believeth on me the works that I do shall he do also The greek word for believe there is pistual And it's a greek verb Which means To have active faith It means to have faith which is the greek word pistas And it means to put your faith in action Like preachers say stepping out on your faith He that is stepping out on their faith on me He that believes on me he that is doing Faith activities He says the works that I do Shall he do also the greek word for do there is To practice And it's a greek verb in the present continuous tense That means that someone who is actively stepping out on their faith And is practicing The works of christ They will practice his works Because they're stepping out on their faith And it says greater works Than these shall he do Because I go to my father Whatever you ask in my name that will I do what he's talking about there is The greek word is my zone It means bigger larger more massive Works will they do and he wasn't saying that you and I Can Do greater personal miracles than jesus did That's not what what he's saying Okay, nobody can do greater miracles than The lord jesus nobody can do that you He was in a boat one day After he had been walking on the water in the middle of a storm and suddenly the boat was teleported to shore In the in the middle of a storm Okay Okay, that's that's a tough miracle to replicate Uh Lazarus had been in the tomb And had been Dead for four days And the reason that he had been dead for four days because there was a jewish tradition and a belief among jews That the spirit Stayed with or near the body for three days For three days the spirit would stay near the body And so jesus didn't go back to Raise lazareth for four days Because he wanted that testimony Because the jews knew that on the fourth day the person started to decompose And they believed their personal belief was That the spirit was gone now that he had gone to its Eternal home and so the miracle was far greater Far greater Than anybody imagined. Okay, nobody none of us are ever going to Uh be just like jesus that's not gonna happen Okay, it can't it can't happen It can't happen if you look at john chapter three Uh the great john the baptist the greatest preacher that ever lived Said that god gives him not the spirit by measure That means that jesus had the holy ghost Without measure without a limitation Okay, that's that's never happened Before jesus that's never happened after jesus. No one has ever had The holy ghost without measure without limitation that's Insane to have that kind of an anointing That's why you read through the four gospels And everybody that wanted to get healed got healed everybody got delivered Everybody got a miracle it was one after the other there was never a failure Of course people that didn't believe like the people in nazareth No, they didn't get any miracles But the point is everybody that wanted a miracle that came for a miracle went home with a miracle 10 out of 10 100 out of 100 10 000 out of 10 000 That's the holy ghost without measure you and I are never going to have that because We're not able to sacrifice our lives to be as exactly as our teacher Which jesus was he became just exactly as Jehovah and that's our goal. That's what he's saying here It is sufficient for you to become as your master But there's major sacrifices that have to be made there prayer servanthood persecution dedication self-denial jesus was the master teacher in all of these areas And if you're going to be a disciple it's everyone that is perfect Catertizo shall be as His master and that's our goal. We want to get as close as we can to being like jesus as we possibly can as close as we can Get to it. That's our goal And because the holy ghost power is so enormously ridiculously strong people who have only a small anointing from the spirit of god can accomplish enormously valuable and powerful things You don't have to have a truckload of the manifest presence of the holy ghost to see miracles No, he with his kind of power bang you're in Philippians chapter 2 says something real interesting About jesus. It was fascinating He said jesus made himself of no reputation and took upon him the form of a Servant the greek word there believe it or not is doulos. It means a slave It's The the miracle of christ's life was that he came from glory as god And became a human being says he was made in the likeness of men And being found in the fashion as a man He humbled himself and became obedient to death Even the death on the cross And because of that it says god has highly exalted him And given him a name above every name That process right there Is exactly what's going to happen to you And i if you choose to be a slave A doulos is a slave And slaves don't ask questions They know what to do. They were told what to do and they just obey They obey and that's what jesus did His entire life was spent Obeying father Sacrificing everything For father's will And you and i if we want to be a disciple Not just a christian but a disciple we got to do the same thing We have to Keep pressing toward The goal the mark the prize of the high calling of god in christ jesus Servant her slavery is your goal When you and i were living in sin, hey Sin was our slave master and we were the slave we were a slave to sin we sinned by nature we sinned Normally it was part of our nature You know we were leopards and we had spots why because we were leopards We kept sinning why because we were sinners that was our nature. That's who we were We were built to do that we did it naturally Like breathing we just kept sinning now Your goal is no longer To satisfy yourself or be a self-absorbed person your entire goal now Is to be a doulos a slave A slave like jesus he became a slave And if you do that in revelation the bible says And you become an overcomer revelation chapter two and chapter three You get a brand new name and glory You get enormous rewards in heaven You become a ruler on earth during the millennial After the second coming You become a leader In the new world order when christ comes back it's It's the same process jesus went through He sacrificed everything about his life and became a slave to father And then he said as my father sent me Now i am sending you As jesus did everything in the name of jehovah or yahweh Yehovah Now you and i do everything in the name of the lord jesus yashua yashua And so on And we are to make ourselves of no reputation and we are to take on ourselves The form of a doulos a slave That's our job to become a slave Slaves don't run the show slaves Take orders slaves follow orders And the key to losing an opportunity to be a slave is rebellion Like that movie gladiators, you know rebellion And when we get involved in rebellion as you know That draws in witchcraft spirits because which witchcraft demons are control freaks And they want to dominate everything that goes on And that's what happens when you're You lose your capacity to not To start living for yourself Because then you want to you're no longer a slave. You're no longer a servant You're now a so self-absorbed person And god cannot trust you With the anointing of the spirit and the power of the spirit and the gifts of the spirit And you start to lose the fruit of the spirit you start to grieve the holy spirit And then you start to quench the holy spirit in your life The greek word for quench there in that verse is subpoena me it means to extinguish like you would light a match and Put it out. That's what happens to your Fruit of the spirit. That's what happens to your anointing when you become a self-absorbed christian It's a disaster. That's hard to describe And it says in john chapter 12 Verily, I say to you except a corn of wheat fall Into the ground and die It will remain alone, but if it dies it brings forth much fruit Of course, he's talking about himself And by extension, he's talking about you Paul said it. I die daily This body of yours Is the biggest enemy you're ever going to face because your body is in rebellion Your body wants what it wants when it wants it I want it now. That's how you were raised as a child Children are born One year old two year old three year old. I want it now and jesus Would not allow that with his body Paul said I beat my body And bring it into subjection Lest having preached to others I would become a castaway A castaway is the greek word adakamas. It means a reprobate Unless I will I would become a reprobate That's a pretty serious statement that paul had a fear and a concept that that could happen If his body got out of control and started to control him And that's what your body does it gets out of control It falls into love with people you shouldn't fall in love with It has sexual desires for people you should not have desires for It wants food And lots of food that you should not be eating Your body is a problem It's a problem But slaves Dulos they sacrifice their bodies for their masters For the slave owners Their bodies are in service to others. That's why that Greek word dulos is used so often In the text about being a servant And jesus goes on and says If it dies it brings forth much fruit he that loves his life Will lose it translation A self-absorbed person Will lose Their destiny and their call from god Because a self-absorbed person cannot be a servant a dulos by definition Because a dulos is not By definition a self-absorbed person A slave Works for somebody else And jesus said how do you do that? How do you how do you accomplish what I just said? How do you die? How do you not love your life so you won't lose it? Well, he says it right here He that hates his life in this world Shall keep it unto life eternal And if any man wants to serve me jesus said let him follow me For where I am there shall also my servant be And if any man serve me Him or my father honor Now in this section of text it's really interesting because Dulos is not used in this section of text It's the greek word deaconess and Deaconess Is the term you would use if you were going to describe somebody who was a waiter in a restaurant Have you ever gone out for a nice meal? I used to do that all the time when I had a lot of money But now I don't don't have a lot of money anymore things changed for me in 2008 during the crash That's what I lost Lost all my money and I was a millionaire back then. I'm not now But I I had been out to nice restaurants and you know the wager comes and they're wearing a nice outfit and they're Taking your order and bringing drinks and so on everybody knows what that is. That's a deaconess You know what and that's what you're supposed to be doing You're supposed to be waiting on the lord That's your job in life That's your job in life You're supposed to be waiting on the lord If you get involved with witchcraft sorcery spiritualism or new age Familiar spirits are behind all of those things It's all run by familiar spirits And the real danger of familiar spirits is they are control freaks They want You to be their slave And they want you to think the way they think and do What they tell you to do period and if you don't do it You're going to pay a severe price for it You're going to take a whipping You're not going to believe You've seen these palm readers right psychics They're on tv. They're on You know the internet There's the association of psychics You call that association they'll Get you in touch with a psychic in your area These psychics don't understand that they're infected with familiar spirits and that the The demons are blessing them temporarily Have you ever followed an old psychic? Have you ever met an old one? Like in their 70s or something They are shot They are physically ill. They got all kinds of sicknesses They got massive joint problems They have chronic pain issues like you can't believe And the reason for that is familiar spirits turn you into a slave And they temporarily bless your work But then they want to get paid and the way they get paid Is through pain Pain is their pain Pain is their visa card Pain is master card They'll give you something They'll give you the ability to read palms Tarot cards predict the future But then they're they're going to want to get paid and they get paid With pain Okay, right now for example of Bethel church in california and several like it in the prophetic movement They're now starting to use Spiritualism to help people They've got their own brand of tarot cards now. They've got all kinds of strange spiritual Services they provide There's going to be Numerous people in the prophetic movement dying of cancer They're going to have prophetic ministers Coming down with terminal illnesses left and right And everybody in the world is going to be praying for them And they're not going to get healed. They're going to die sick Anytime you have anything to do with familiar spirits They will bless you temporarily. They'll give you power and then You're dead Then you've got to pay it back. Okay, if you look at the book of revelation the greatest Satanist in the history of the world Is the false prophet he has more power Than any man that's ever lived Even nimrod Satanic power He he dedicates his life to serving satan The bible says he he receives satan's power He sets the antichrist up He causes people to worship the antichrist He sets up the system where the antichrist Takes complete command. This is the most dangerous spiritual person That ever walked the face of the earth The most dangerous man that ever lived since the nimrod That's what happens to him He gets thrown in the lake of fire The familiar spirits always get paid Back when they give you something You have to be their slave Doulos you have to be their waiter. You have to wait on them deaconess and then after They give you the things that you want spiritual power spiritual knowledge spiritual wisdom divination whatever it is Then you got to pay it back. It's a credit system Familiar spirits work on a credit system You got to have your credit card to pay them back It's pain It's misery Serving satan serving familiar spirits Will give you a lifetime of pain In your later years You'll be just like one of these broken down busted up psychics In their 60s or 70s severe arthritis severe fibromyalgia terminal illnesses organ diseases It's awful. It is absolutely awful Familiar spirits are the worst demons of all Extremely bright and extremely powerful and extremely deadly Your job is to be a deaconess a waiter Yeah, you're to be a slave a doulos and a waiter for the lord jesus And we are to be as our master. That's our goal to be to be like jesus. That's our goal. We never Fully make that goal Okay, it's not possible It's not possible Years and years ago decades ago a man named bob beeman set a long jump record at the olympics That nobody could believe it was a day That bob beeman woke up and he was a freak The guy was a complete freak have you ever Heard you saying, you know I'm having a good day Everybody has heard that and that has happened to everybody, you know Some days you get up and you can't miss. I mean you're hitting on all cylinders. Everything's going right Could be anything athletics business family doesn't Some days doesn't happen often. Unfortunately, but some days You you can't lose You cannot lose well bob beeman woke up in 1968 and this guy Had one of those days a day of a lifetime a generational day This guy woke up a superhuman freak a superhuman freak And uh, he won the gold medal in the long jump With a with a jump Nobody could believe Nobody could believe it was similar in basketball To when wilt chamberlain came into the league After he had played basketball at the university of kansas he came into the nba And his skills were so much greater than everybody else's they had to change the league And the rules of the league to accommodate well bob beeman had a wilt chamberlain day Wilt used to have him almost every day of his life. This guy had it one day and he hit it Like nobody could believe and that record lasted for decades But that record was eventually broken Somebody decades later With better training better nutrition Probably better steroids Better everything than bob beeman had back in the 60s out jumping by a few inches It finally happened decades later. Well, you and I will never experience that that is never going to happen And god does not require you to be just like jesus That's not required by god You can't live a sinless life Okay, you can't do everything exactly right But that's not the purpose of it A slave is not a perfect person a diaconess a waiter is not a perfect person And that's where the grace of god and the love of god comes in to cover The things about you that are not like Exactly like jesus Okay, I can't pray like him I don't have A fraction of his anointing. I don't I can't love like him I can't do all these things but our goal is To have the mind of christ our goal is to think like him our goal is to be like him And that's what god wants you to do He wants you to continually press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of god in christ jesus our lord and you You do that already knowing like paul said I know I haven't arrived yet I know i'm not there yet. I know i'm not doing everything perfectly yet But this one thing I do I forget those things which are behind me and I reach for those things that are before me I reach for the prize The high calling of god now listen The apostle paul was the greatest christian ever lived Okay, there's nobody nobody greater than him. He was the number one apostle to this day 2000 years later. No one's ever come Close to the apostle paul if he wasn't exactly like jesus. What chance would you and I have? We would have none It's not going to happen Okay, but it doesn't have to happen It doesn't have to happen. You can be a slave You can have enormous anointings Enormous giftings you can be a powerhouse for god And not be perfect and god does not require you to be perfect See your goal is to be as your master You will never be above your master And I wanted that to be an encouraging message for you because that's what god is telling you you are to be A clump of play Gradually molded over time on your way to being Exactly like jesus but We'll never actually make it to be exactly like him and we are not required To be exactly like him because if we were No, no one would make it And You and I wouldn't be here today that's where grace and love and mercy Step in to make up that imperfection gap I'm here and perfections up here and there's a gap between us And that gap is filled with love grace mercy trust faith And above all patience You must have patience to make it because If you decide to become a doulos or a diaconess a slave and a waiter for christ The first person who's going to notice it Is the devil And you are going to have to have faith and love and patience to overcome The adversity you're going to get If you don't do anything for christ And you never get involved in the moving of the spirit Your adversity is going to be very low. Nobody's really going to care. You're not going to get attacked but did you happen to notice that everyone in the new testament Who ministered in the spirit starting with jesus The attacks didn't come until after The holy ghost started moving Do you happen to notice that? Paul Peter Peter never got attacked by the scribes and Pharisees when he was working as a fisherman John didn't either Jesus never got attacked while making tabletops Or chairs with his dad Getting trained on how to be a laborer and working and no nobody ever attacked him Do you know when hell came to breakfast for jesus? After he got filled with the holy ghost And he came back from the desert It says he returned in the power of the spirit to galilee And then When the holy ghost started moving That's when the devil ramped up his attacks So if you want to be a slave and you want to be a waiter and a servant For the lord You're going to get attacked. There isn't any way to get out of it It's going to happen You can avoid it by doing nothing and being self-absorbed and living for yourself No problem You're not going to get attacked doing natural human things, you know Going to work taking care of your family Eating dinner all the things we do as a regular person You're not going to have to face huge spiritual monstrous attacks Doing those normal things, but if you move over into the moving of the spirit And you start seeing people healed or delivered from demons Or you start preaching in the power of the holy ghost like john the baptist preaching a real truth against sin And against rebellion and against witchcraft and against sorcery If you start preaching those things Somebody's going to hear you do it And that somebody's going to be the devil And he's going to come looking for you And that's why as a slave and as waiter and as a servant You will have been patient He will have studied the word You will have renewed your mind And you will be an overcoming comer because of nothing the devil Can do or take from you Unless you allow it And so from this day forward I want you to remember That you are not not a self-absorbed person You don't wake up in the morning Looking to live for yourself and you don't go to bed at night looking for yourself You are a doulos. You are a diaconess. You are a servant of the most high god And uh In your next life In your next life Your rewards And your authority and your blessings are going to be so incomprehensible That Our minds now cannot comprehend that what's going to happen. It's going to be so great But if you sacrifice now your rewards are So great later It's amazing It happened to jesus. He lived the life of a servant and a slave to father and now Jesus said everything father has Is mine God gave jesus everything Everything he got everything all of it And in exchange for that jesus Gave father the only thing he ever really wanted And that is you And you know when he does it for the last time? At the marriage supper of the land that is the graduation ceremony where the lord jesus takes us And hands them formally and officially To father And that was the only thing father ever really wanted Was you And jesus said anyone who Serves me And is my slave and my deaconess my waiter Will him will my father honor Because father's greatest joy in life That warms his heart Is seeing you Serving the son and God did not have everything Biddy No He had almost everything university Universes galaxies everything, you know God is sovereign everything is his But he didn't have everything He didn't have you And that was the thing he really wanted You mean more to father than All the galaxies The web telescope sees now all those galaxies None of them are as important to father as you are And so your goal in life now is to become a slave Slavery Is wonderful used to be a slave to sin. That's not true anymore Now you're a slave to The holy ghost and the lord jesus And if you do that Him will my father honor You can't lose You're not gonna lose I love you