 Hello everyone and welcome to Prophecy Files Briefing. We're glad that you've joined us today. I have been talking to you over the past few weeks about the Rapture Ready indicators, the setup for the take-up. And we described about three or four things the last time we were together in this briefing concerning the signs that are showing us that we're Rapture Ready. One is the vacuum of leadership that we talked to you about. Two was the global system that's taking place with the gathering of the UN and the World Economic Forum and other entities and elites across the globe to make one government, one structure, that certainly will be used by the Antichrist. And then we also talked to you about the absolute power that is being taken by the governments of this world instead of the Almighty God. And now on the horizon we're watching as the potential climate lockdowns much like the pandemic. Now it's about the climate and all that is taking place in the environment that will potentially be something used for locking down society much like the pandemic. Today I want to share with you and this is something that you're hearing a lot about in the news right now and that is the artificial intelligence deception, AI, and how that is reaching the ability to have the intelligence of humans according to the article. And there is one that is out there now that has literally put together the AI Jesus that you can consult with for your problems, your situations so you can feed it into the AI and it will return back to you what AI says Jesus would say. Well I don't have to look to AI, I can take the Bible and find out very clearly what it's all about and many people are dealing with the issues and talking about the issues of AI on the horizon some in just the past 24 hours that I was watching a program that was describing AI I can assure you that is far more advanced than what the average human being is really understanding. It is reaching to such a level of human reasoning and human calculations that are far beyond the human's ability to do and to process. In the coming weeks from now you're going to see more and more advertisement on a brand new movie coming out all designed around AI and the taking over of the world but what was intriguing to me was the title. It is called The Creator. My friends we are seeing the actual conflagration that is coming together between God and man's human ability and knowledge in AI that is wanting to take over and much like Lucifer in the beginning rising and saying I will ascend the throne, I will take over, I will be seated in that position where God is and I'm telling you my friends there is still a sovereign God in heaven who is already outlined for this world the end and what it's going to be. I want to take you to the book of Luc very quickly where Luc says in Luke 21 and 8 take heed that you be not deceived. This is what AI is bringing upon our society and while there may be good things that comes out of it I can assure you that the Antichrist will certainly tap into the power of AI globally and all the way down to individuals like you and me. The recent unveiling of the chat GPT is absolutely stunning and it is now has the ability to write the thesis and whatever that it may be for a sermon that was delivered in churches it is being consulted and information is being asked of chat GPT and others just like it concerning world issues and world peace and about countries and alignments and borders and so forth and AI is very much involved in the decision-making process in our world today in every way both economically and our banking system financially of course all the way down to your personal bank accounts globally in the interest of the elites global elites that are trying to decide what to do with society with the climate change that's going on every aspect of our life is being fed into AI for these decisions. That's the reason why Jesus said in Luke 21 and 8 take heed that you be not deceived for many shall come in my name saying I am Christ and the time draweth near go ye not therefore after them according to the book of 2 Timothy 3 verse 13 but evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived according to Matthew 24 11 and 12 and many false prophets shall rise and shall deceive many and because iniquity the very intense of the heart of man iniquity shall abound the love of many shall wax cold. Matthew 24 24 says this too for there shall rise false Christ false anointings and false prophets and shall show great signs and wonders in so much if it were possible that it should deceive the very elect my friends we're on the edge of the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ and as I show you from the articles today and there are so many I don't have time to show you them all dealing with AI with artificial intelligence I want to let you know that you need to bypass the artificial intelligence and go straight to divine intelligence God and the mind of God can be known through the word of God and direct your path according to the power of the Holy Spirit today's a day to lift up your eyes towards God and recognize that our redemption is drawing nine the signs are all around us for a rapture ready group of people called the bride of Christ are you ready if you're not today's the day of salvation give your life to Jesus Christ and be ready because I believe Jesus Christ is coming soon amen hallelujah let's give Jesus a big hand are you thankful for Wednesday night Bible study you know David said he was glad when they said unto me let us go into the house of the Lord this wasn't a casual thing he was desperate for the Lord's presence and we come desperate tonight ready to receive hallelujah I know I need it can we stand for a word of prayer hallelujah Father we thank you right now that God you said we're two or three are gathered Jesus you are in our midst and God we need you like never before God we've come in here with so much on our hearts and minds so much spinning out of control in our world but you said to be still and know that you are God and we declare that tonight you are God over over sickness God you're God over all of our worries and anxieties God all of the things that come against our mind throughout the day God we choose tonight to cast all of our cares on you because we believe you care for us tonight Lord we lift up all these needs that are represented on the prayer and praise tonight right now just bring healing God into that living room where that person's watching right now touch them father we thank you that prayer knows no distance God there's nothing you can't do bring salvation to the families God bring healing in restoration Lord we need you in this hour Jesus God we pray that you would come and have your way in our lives tonight Lord we long to hear from you in Jesus name amen can we give the Lord another hand as you cross the Nile shake a hand greet a brother and sister we want to welcome you all there online we're so honored that you would be here tonight let us know where you're watching and how we can pray for you and we're just honored we know that the presence that's in this house is passed right along to you prayer knows no distance so we're honored that you would be with here with us this evening hallelujah God bless you thank you Jesus thank you Lord hallelujah can we give our online family a big round of applause thank you Lord now let's give it up for Jesus he's worthy he's in our midst tonight one announcement I want to make you aware of July senior in touch lunching is canceled this week but we'll meet again in August so I want to make you aware of that how many joyful givers do we have in the house hallelujah and it honored to give into the kingdom best investment I've ever made I'll tell you that right now well you can we have our buckets in the back you can put a check in on the way out you can go online we have a QR code or go to our website or you can mail in and check if you'd like but let's just bless you offering father we thank you right now for the gift and the giver God you said that you love a cheerful giver whose heart is in their giving Lord and God we ask that you would bless it tonight to meet the needs Lord in Jesus name amen praise God thank you Ben good to see you in the house of the Lord tonight you glad to be here I would I would say that it's the driest place in center Rosa County but I don't want to say that God forbid that the church is dry but what a wonderful group of folks that are here tonight amen we're glad that you're here pray that God will just bless your life and I know that he will want you to get your Bibles and open them up please to the book of first Samuel first Samuel chapter number 15 is the point text this evening and let's study the word of God together shall we praise God I'm glad for Wednesday night I like Wednesday night don't you and I'm apparently you do you're here right and I just want to mention real quick while we're while you're looking that up don't forget please mark on your calendar for the upcoming prophecy files bible conference or the prophecy files conference I should say and there's information that's online now there will be registration that will be forthcoming more information about that in this coming week and we will be serving lunch on that Saturday but you do have to register for that and there's a nominal cost for that so that you don't have to leave the campus and and then turn around and get back I believe that you will find extremely interesting what our speakers are going to have to say and that will be happening all that weekend and so I just encourage you to market and those of you that may be watching now are coming from out of town there are hotels in Pensacola that you can be able to come to we've got some host hotels and we'll have some information for you as well and we look forward to what God is going to do with the bible the prophecy files bible prophecy conference and I am excited about it there is so much that's going on in our world today that I'm just amazed at the speed of things that are taking place I've got two other prophecy conferences that I'm going to be doing in the in the few weeks from now for some folks and it is impossible years ago they would write books about what's taking place in bible prophecy and then you come and read it and then there'd be you know you were you were you were on track with it you were staying with it now you can't write books and articles fast enough because of the changing times that we're in and the rapid deployment of bible prophecy that is being fulfilled on a daily basis hey just in case that you may not know that Jesus who died on the cross who forgave you of your sins was buried rosy in on the third day and performed miracles and signs and wonders while he was on this earth and ascended back to the father and ever living to make intercession for a city that's right hand just in case you don't know that one uh ai now has ai jesus artificial intelligence jesus you can ask whatever question that you want and he'll give you your answer back isn't that convenient there's more to come you won't want to miss it so mark your calendars down tonight we come to study the word of god you come to do that amen i know that your minds have uh been going on all day long and and your work or whatever that you may have been doing but i want you to just arrest them right now and bring them into the house and let's engage the word of god for the last thing that i want you to do is just walk out with information i want you to walk out with a life change and uh and the knowledge of the word of god that is imperative for you to be able to have amen so let's ask the holy spirit to do what only he can do and illuminate the word father in the name of jesus we thank you for your word that is the lamp and the light for us and we pray that you would just uh lord expose that word to our understanding bring knowledge bring understanding bring wisdom to us from the volume of the book and all that is done tonight may you get the glory honor and praise in jesus mighty name everybody said a good amen amen just a quick question before i start this lesson tonight i just want to ask you uh when my heart is overwhelmed where do i go there's a few of you picked up the rest of you uh go back and watch the message this past weekend it's one you'll want to have again and again i don't know if some of you were answering if you were even clear about what you're answering but the bible says in Psalm 61 when my heart is overwhelmed lead me to a rock that is higher than i i want to encourage you to keep that one in your spirit because that's what's going to happen in the days that are ahead the lord is going to make sure that you're in the right place at the right time with the right ear and the right god amen first samuel chapter 15 let's study our bibles tonight you bring your bible hey let me see it i don't know about you that's good all of you that are watching online you got one in fake bibles i want you to get a real one you can get in your hand amen get one that you can underline and write on and and get it in your spirit praise god i you know i'm just messing around with you i've got i think 16 bibles on this little but i like it tangible don't you i like to hold it i like to i like to smell the pages that's just the way it is bible says that we should eat the word it's good it's like honey and the honeycomb praise god in the book of first samuel chapter 15 uh i will forego reading the entirety of the chapter you can do that there's we're dealing with verses one through 35 but i want you to look at verse number 20 and this will give you the overview and then we're going to walk through it a little bit uh and hopefully god helping us uh bring your understanding here tonight verse 20 and saul said unto samuel yay i have obeyed the voice of the lord and i have gone the way which the lord sent me he's talking to samuel here the prophet and have brought agag the king of the amalek uh and have utterly destroyed the amalekites but the people took the spoil sheep and oxen and the chief thing chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed to sacrifice unto the lord thy god in gilgall and samuel said have the lord as great delight in burn offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the lord behold if you don't have anything to mark you need to mark this behold to obey is better than sacrifice and do hearken than the fat of ramps verse 23 gives us a little deeper explanation into how god feels about our obedience and uh and definition there it for rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry because thou has rejected the word of the lord he hath also rejected thee from being king what a powerful passage of scripture this is especially in being able to teach it for you god helping me and for you to receive it in the term that we're using tonight is the theme of obedience um say that with me obedience see that's hard to get out of some people's mouth so here we go friends let's study obedience tonight because it is the one thing that god requires of us uh more than what most people think and it is the one thing that by and large is not being done uh some people feel like that their half obedience is good enough but god requires total obedience y'all all right out there so here we go write this down the most important knowledge on earth is the knowledge of god's law the law of god the word of god how what does god say about it how does the scripture uh enlighten us on this well let me give you a few verses and you can just write them down and study them later proverbs 1815 says the heart of the prudent gith knowledge and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge proverbs 1 7 says and you're familiar with it perhaps the fear of the lord is the beginning of knowledge but fools despise wisdom and instruction so there you are you're either wise or you're a fool depending on whether or not you receive the instruction of god's word and the knowledge of it proverbs 210 when wisdom enter into the heart and knowledge is pleasant to the soul here's what the bible says in hosea 4 you're familiar with this one my people are destroyed for the lack of knowledge a little bit more here proverbs 24 5 a wise man is strong yeah a man of knowledge increases strength so the more knowledge that you have not just and we're not talking about gaining the knowledge of the world and that's good and your education all that kind of thing understanding realize that the bible says that the more knowledge you have the more you're responsible for you all right out there i mean like when they find out that you know how to repair the engine guess who they're gonna call right because the more knowledge you have the more responsibility more is required and you shouldn't despise that because god's gifted that and given it to you but we're talking about the knowledge of the law of god or the word of god here tonight that causes you to increase so here's what the book of proverbs chapter 15 verse 14 says the heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness some of you are thinking some friends that you know right now that fall into that category i want to give this one to you in proverbs three my son forget not my law but let thine heart keep my commandments when you look well let me give you one more here's from the book of psalm chapter 19 verse 7 this summarizes it in three different points right here psalm 19 7 the law of the lord is perfect converting the soul that's what the law of the lord does the testimony of the lord is sure making wise the simple the statutes of the lord are right rejoicing the heart it goes on there you can read it for yourself so there's three different things that are happening right there as a result of the gaining of knowledge and and that knowledge dealing with obedience so let me say this to you because many people go to their bible those that do read it go to their bible for what they call a devotion and you may read devotions and so forth but i want to let you know we're not going to the bible and studying the bible for a devotion or some devotional thought we are going to the bible and studying the bible to read the bible understand it and discover and have the knowledge of the laws of god this is important for you to get a hold of because some people would just go back to the same passage of scripture they read all the time and that happens to me might go to you know feel good scripture and i get it and there's nothing wrong with that but the knowledge of god's law helps us to understand how we are to obey him and what we should do and we define and discover his attributes and how god is going to respond how much we need that in the time that we're in because whenever tragedies happen or whenever blessings happen or whatever that it may be so many times people want to attribute something or take away from god for instance the first one they blamed on 9 11 was god and then when the then we turn around and ask god to bless the united states of america on and on we want that in that mindset that is a god of convenience in fact it's an idol that have been that has been created in the mind of people to be a god that fits my world and my pattern but unless you know him as paul said knowing him in the fellowship of his sufferings and in the power of his resurrection then you won't know how god's going to respond or or people make it up all the time uh or make up scriptures all the time and insert it and say god said well if you don't know what god said then you'll be deceived by the person who's making it up or twisting it twisting it that's the reason why the knowledge of the law of god the knowledge of the word of god causes you to increase obedience to god and his word is where we get true success from in our life it's very clear you find that in joshua 1 where god told him that if you'll meditate in this word day and night if you'll follow what i'm telling you and then he goes down the list of statutes and uh testaments and judgments and so forth in other words getting the knowledge of the law knowledge of the word of god you're going to have an understanding of who god is and how i am to respond in the time that we're living so let me say it like this to take it a little bit further praying over a seed and i like using the the the the illustration of the seed praying over a seed does not make it grow you can put a seed uh you know on the table and oh god bless this seed causes it increase and blah blah blah blah blah but until you obey what it takes in the law of god and let me say the law of the seed then nothing is going to happen are you following what i'm saying until you obey what that seed is now the bible is referred to and his word is referred to as his seed so i want to just say this to you this is where every one of us and i'm using this terminology universally even though we know men can't get pregnant but the bottom line is is that the seed is meant to infuse you and to bring something into your life that you will produce or bear as a result of the word of god that is alive inside of us i don't care how long a seed as a matter of fact every sunday morning uh in fact uh housekeeping was telling me this week pastor we are still finding corn seeds and if you you weren't here several years ago i did an illustrated sermon and i tossed corn all over corn seed all over this kernels all over this place uh they're still finding these seeds around here they said even after all those years i've got one that they brought me from in here and i tucked it inside of my little folder that i bring my sermons to this pulpit every week to remind me that the seed of god is about to react it's about to go into the hearts of people some oh god i'm feeling the help now some is going to fall on good ground some is going to be some fallow ground hard ground some is going to be some thorny ground but there is going to be some seed that i distribute out here tonight and online that's going to hit good soil and then you don't have to pray over the seed you don't have to convince yourself about it you don't have to pump it up or say oh i've got faith the law of the seed goes into effect the moment you put it into the soil good soil you don't have to pray over it it's going to do what god already put inside of the seed to do are you hearing what i'm saying the law of the seed is in the seed let me say it like this not on your paper you might want to write it down i don't know the law of the seed is already in the seed and the glory of the seed comes by way of obedience the glory of the seed is waiting i should say it waiting for your obedience well what is what's the glory pastor i don't know it could be any number of things i would say the glory of the bird is to fly that's what he was created to do so when a bird is flying when an eagle is flying he is manifesting his god-given glory all right amen because it is put inside of him to do that as a matter of fact the eagle is so unique that the eagles do not flock eagles are isolated many times to themselves if there is another bird that high in the atmosphere it has to be an eagle so let me say it to you like this if you're flying and you're running into pigeons if you're flying and you're running into buzzards if you're flying and you're running into chickens you're flying too low come on somebody i just said something right there i think why is that important because all that is all this word has already been spoken god said my word is forever settled in heaven i watch over my word to perform it so so it's not a matter of you having to twist god's arm or oh i believe you god listen god is more ready to make this seed happen in your life than you're ready for it to happen what is he waiting on he's waiting on our obedience i knew he got quite right then write this down because the seed will diff the seed let me hit this a little bit more the seed will absolutely because of the power that's in the seed i know this to be true because i recently took the weed eater and tried to get where green stuff was coming up through the concrete and in the cracks and everywhere else the seed will defy the hardest concrete come on somebody because it will push oh my god it will push past every barrier and every blockade and will manifest the glory of god because it's in the seed to do it no blockages will stop the seed from performing what it's meant to do when we obey all what was our part we don't have to stand over a seed and go come on seed you can do it every day all we got to do is go out there the bible says some plant some water but god gives the increase so the moment we obey and plant the seed into good soil at that point look at somebody tell them it's just a matter of time it's just a matter of time are you hearing what i'm saying god and his word is so powerful that there is no obstacle that will stop i'm trying to get on with the lesson here there is no obstacle that can stop the seed from manifesting itself let me put this one on you when i planted mom and dad planted i didn't bury him i planted them there to see i planted them in the ground and before i left there i watched the i watched the funeral home they brought in the the people and they took the concrete sledge and and slate and put it over the top they put the casket in and then they put that concrete down on there did what they did and i want to let you know on resurrection morning when the voice of the archangel begins to shout out in the trump of god there'll be no concrete no casket lid or anything else that will stop that seed from coming up out of the ground and what happens when it gets out of the ground it changes form in the air and we shared this old mortality in this old shell of that seed and we put on a brand new body like that it is of christ because obedience has brought us to that place i obeyed him sown in weakness the bible says raised in power i obeyed him before i went down in the grave and now he will watch over his word obedience is hard because it goes against our nature because we wanted our way breathe in breathe out we want our way don't we come on and in the world that we're in right now burger king says you can have it your way what you want you don't want no pickles on no onions on there okay we'll give it to you your way and that's what we're waiting on but god says you're not having it your way you got to learn the laws and the knowledge of god because it's going to be god's way let me throw another passage of scripture from the book of matthew the bible says you either fall on the rock or the rock will fall on you and grind you to powder why does he say that in other words you know sometimes we use the terminology we broke the law of god i promise you you will never break the law of god the hardest sledge that has ever been used against the word of god has never broken the law of god god's law cannot be broken it is forever settled you'll break yourself on the law but you'll never break it i think this is good teaching so write this down because disobedience then if obedience brings the manifestation of the glory of god in our life if obedience and the knowledge of god's word and his law opens up and increases our life and we'll see that even more in a few moments then disobedience is the disrespect of god's law in other words i and it is the known let me say this it is the known will and word of god that you're responsible for so the worst thing you could do is get in a church like this where it's word word word coming at you all the time because the more that word comes your way the more you're responsible for it are you hearing what i'm saying you can get in a shallow place where some shallow teaching or preaching and it's all about self-improvement come on somebody what is god going to do for me what is in it for me i can assure you god is not looking for you to be improved as a matter of fact he says crucify you take up your cross and follow me come on somebody this is important for you to get ahold of because obedience requires us to say no to our ideas and thoughts and yes to jesus christ now the more knowledge you have of him i don't have to let me give you an example the more knowledge you have of the love of god the less you'll doubt the love of god the less you'll hear somebody tell you god don't love you the devil jump on your shoulder god don't love you well the devils a liar and so are they because the book says god is not only loving me and he'll never stop loving me and i can never be separated from the love of god no matter where how high how low how wide how far i get god always will love me watch this even while we were yet sinners christ died for me you tell me how much does god love us so i can't resist that because that's the word of god now whether i believe it or not or have enough knowledge to carry me through to a place of obedience is entirely then up to me the word has already been written did you hear what i said the word has already been written do you realize you have inside of your lap right now right there the bible that is the mind of god the will of god the thoughts of god the the the very expression of god what a foolish thing to have that much of god that close to us and we don't get the knowledge of god's word or we diss the word of god and that's happening so much today that it that it's beyond our imagination even from pulpits that are supposed to be preaching the word of god twisting the scripture or disrespecting the word of god how do i disrespect the word of god when i do not obey the word of god the known word of god once i come into the knowledge of it i'm responsible to obey it wait a minute i didn't say i felt like obeying it come on somebody well that's a good promise i feel like obeying that one he didn't say whether you felt it or not he said obedience is what's required this is a reason why that you must teach your children obedience when they're small because you can't get it most of the time after all these adults and people that are watching right now they're in this room it's hard to be able to retrain somebody after all these years there has to be a serious serious amount of application put into our lives and obedience because we have learned and had the knowledge of so much stuff that by the time that that we get older in our ways we're already set sometimes people have wrong theology and wrong doctrine in there and grafted into their head but you couldn't talk them out of it for nothing in the world because they've had that in their head and they haven't found out what the knowledge of the word of god is and so they're bound by their own ideology and stronghold what does the bible say in second coran second Corinthians he says he says casting down see we're not wrestling with flesh and blood but with principalities and powers all that kind of stuff going on to try to change our mind about who god is and how we should respond so what are we supposed to do he says casting down imaginations and every high thing watch this that exalts itself against the what against the knowledge of god and bringing into captivity the bible says every thought to the obedience of christ so anything that exalts itself against the knowledge of god's word must be brought down subservient to it because it is a wrong idea it is a wrong thought in fact it becomes an idol and it becomes satanic inside of our life are you hearing what i'm saying so this is important for you to get a hold of because the disobedience to the law of god or the absence of the law of god brings destruction the bible says what does the bible say there god created the law the law of life to function according to the law of god's word according to his word so Psalm 198 says the knowledge of the law of god makes me wiser than my enemies and my teachers so some of you get offended because you're working on a job you've been there for 25 years and next thing you know they hire this young whipper snapper to come in who suddenly has knowledge of the computer and so forth that you may not have and then you get upset because he's got more knowledge let me just tell you something first of all never stop learning no matter how old you are if calum in the scripture could take the mountain at 80 years old you better keep on reading you better keep on gaining the knowledge you better keep on study in the word of god somehow well pastor i don't understand it then get it on get it on your phone and listen to it well i you know my eyes are okay listen to it then get it in your spirit because the more you're getting that word in there that seed that's going to come up and listen to me your obedience with the seed coming into your life is and it is not about the past you're not the seed is a promise for the future man i'm fixing to get all excited here and none of this is in my notes it's just coming down load straight down do you understand the seed is a promise for the future and my obedience is the difference in me seeing the future that god has planned for me or being stuck in my past or in my present because i refuse to obey the word of god so i don't have to be taught about ties and offerings anymore because it's not about money it's about my heart what what is god going to do with your money all you preachers want is money no i don't want your money if you're in love with it keep on it just hold it hold it but i can assure you god's gonna get it sooner or later so you never put those puzzle pieces together that because you didn't give in your ties and your offering which means you're giving your heart towards god not because you have money in your pocket suddenly now all four of your tires went out on the car at the same time and god said i told you i was gonna get it come on somebody why is that because you will never break the law of god you'll only break yourself on it the seed is about your future obedience is what makes it come to pass man if y'all don't stop so get this right here this is just this is one this is not the totality of a definition it's just one for this particular lesson obedience responding to knowledge and i would say the knowledge of god by following his instruction obedience responding to the knowledge of god if god said to you hey um i want you to know since i know where all the silver and all the gold is i'm gonna let you know where that's at and all you've got to do is this would you do it some of y'all are still reasoning your Pharisees and Sadducees the bible said Pharisees and Sadducees reasoned in their heart and god perceived that reason he said that's the reason why you won't get anything is because you won't obey are y'all with me when we obey god he blesses us come on say amen on this side right here so you won't be left out okay i'm just wondering so what happened let me give you a few examples very quickly noah obeyed god built an ark to the saving of his house and what took place he was saved from the flood after today's rain coming through here i've considered it myself abraham obeyed and the result of that he became the father of many nations especially the chosen of god of israel moses obeyed god and went into an adverse situation went into an absolute uh conflict straight up into uh pharaoh's house and demanded let my people go and what took place he led all of the jews all the hebrus out joshua won the battle at jericho and what did god say he said this is what i want you to do i want you to march around it one time for seven days and on the seventh day i want you to march seven times around now when you hear that in the natural you go that's dumb see y'all you're afraid to say it but i'm just telling you the truth in the natural reasoning of your mind what we're supposed to go in and take the city and you want us not only to be silent but march around it seven times and on the seventh day march around at seven and god's going to give you the city why how in the world did they get to the point where they were willing it's not my lesson i'm just flying how were they willing to march around three million jews in the desert silent i can't keep some of y'all silent in here for nothing unless i'm talking about obedience what kept them silent i'll tell you what god had to get their attention and had to have them obey the previous the previous requirement before they were prepared to take the city well well i may be excited about okay i can do that none of you okay so what was the previous requirement you're gonna love this you're gonna love especially all the men at gilgale which is defined as the cutting of the flesh all of the men were circumcised and you wonder why they were all quiet walking around nobody wanted to fight a battle come on i'm just telling you the truth nobody wanted to fight the battle nobody even wanted to talk to one another how you feeling shut up god said be quiet walking around here seven can we rest now moses yeah yeah we only had to do it one time today praise the lord why in the grand scheme of things what was the obedience factor that took place he said i don't want you to say nothing i don't want you to attack anything i don't even want you to raise up your bows and your spears i just want you to obey me because i'm gonna show you that i can take this city down without you now jericho was the first fruit i'm not preaching on jericho tonight but jericho was the first fruits of the of the promised land god said i want to show you i'm gonna i'm gonna take this city i'm gonna give you this city not because you earned it but because you were willing to obey me back here at gilgale and you you became my people through the act and obedience of circumcision can you imagine excuse me y'all they didn't have stainless steel knives abraham took his boy out in the woods with a sharp rock now why am i saying that to you because obedience never fits and feels good our human nature repels in fact the mere fact that i would tell you obey me there's a resistance that comes up in you if you don't understand what i'm talking about go tell your children i said get up from there and put your shoes on i said take the garbage out no now you've got a choice you can either let the little buzzard keep on rebelling and then he gets 30 years old and wants to take over your house absalom or you can teach that little beggar at at that age right there i said put your shoes on oh pastor are you kidding me well again spare the rod spoil the child it's up to you but if you're going to teach them obedience you better start while they're young otherwise they'll get old and you'll be locking yourself in your bedroom because you're afraid of them that was all completely free shall we continue peter obeyed jesus to the commandment of going fishing in the heat of the day don't make no sense paul followed god's word and obeyed it and took the gospel to the Gentiles when he was saying are you kidding me these guys are the outcast they're the they're alienated from this they don't they don't deserve this god said don't you he told peter he said don't you call don't you call common don't you call it uncommon what i call common god's gifts are aren't always apparent and obvious when you obey him but i just want to let you know very quickly it's not on your paper whenever you obey god there will come in saying this is what you say all the time i've just got a piece about it you know why because you obeyed god well i feel joy i feel you know i'm i'm glad i'm happy about this decision because you obeyed god you get peace and joy and contentment the bible says you get spiritual growth what does that mean i obeyed him this time and it built me up so for the next level that he wants to take me to he's not going to have to twist my arm for that one i'm going to be more ready to obey him there are eternal blessings that come because when we stand before god on judgment day the beam of seed of christ he's going to hand out those rewards because we've obeyed him in his word so taking you to this passage of scripture that is the infamous one concerning obedience the lord gave king sol at the time a unique opportunity to fulfill bible prophecy that was given by moses in the book of genesis our book of exodus to say to them exodus 17 as a matter of fact here's what's going to happen the prophecy read like this the amalekites would face the judgment of god and be erased from the face of the earth that's the ezekiel or rather exodus 17 and 14 and so now was the time in first samuel 15 that god was going to do that through the hands of king sol and take out the amalekites because these amalekites were horrible people to the children of israel so it would be king sol that would do that but sol and you read about it here he disobeyed god and failed god miserably this was his moment of faith there was a lot of things that sol did that helped the children of israel but when he got to this point right here he failed miserably on this one thing this is very important for you to understand i'm not talking about in the future your salvation i'm talking about your willingness to be able to obey god and be used of god in the hour that we're in so the lord's rejection of king sol was over the fact that he disobeyed god's word now i won't read all of it you can read it for yourself but the bible says that the command was given i want you to go in uh sol and this is something we don't understand when people read the scripture today especially those that don't have any background in the scripture they look at this right here and say your god is a slaughtering hateful horrible god because he required king sol to go in and destroy all of the amalekites not just the people all the way down to the smallest seed but destroy their cattle and everything else that they had the amalekites were a picture of sin inside of our life and so god is saying if you don't destroy it there's another seed that's going to come up and we've got to make sure that that is exterminated so this physical this physical act of obedience was to fulfill the prophecy that the amalekites would be destroyed so sol didn't do it and sol was the one to do it because god had anointed sol to be anointed sol to be king over israel his obedience or disobedience had an effect in all of the nation of israel and all of the nations around them let me say it like this the obedience to god's law and his word in leadership of a nation or disobedience to god's word will have an effect in the rank and file all the way to the smallest child and the nations around the world that are even remotely connected to it it will affect them as well so here's some principles i want to give to you number one here's the principles of obedience from this story and we'll go along and tell you the stories we go along if you don't know it so when god tells me to do something i must obey and here's the word immediately somebody say immediately so whenever let me say it like this whenever god if god doesn't give you a specific time then that time is now if god says i'm going to do this in a month from now on the 30th day of whatever then that's when god's going to do it but if he doesn't give you a specific time then the timing is now so when is my obedience to happen once i the bible says this today if you will harden not your heart in other words respond immediately to what i tell you the moment you come into the knowledge of god's word and his law is the time to obey it right then are you with me so here's what he says samuel also said to Saul the lord sent me to anoint the king over the israel over the people over israel now therefore hearken unto the voice of the lord thy god the lord said i remembered what amalek did to israel how he laid weight for him and in the way when he came up from egypt verse three he says now go and smite amalek and utterly destroy them here's what he says and spare them not but slay both man and woman infant and suckling sheep camel and ass he said take them all out because it's a type of sin you don't let sin be coddled inside of your life once you have the knowledge of it once god says what he says it's time to obey it and let me say this there is a greater weight based upon the scripture that is upon those who are in positions of authority whether it be the head of your house or the head of the state or the head of the federal government there is a greater weight of responsibility of obedience to god that is resting upon as a pastor you're not responsible for all these people in here but i am and i will have to give an account for you the bible says that's the reason why you should pray for me the bible says you should pray for your leaders because they will give an account for your souls how many of you want me to give a good report to the lord when i get there on you well then you better give me something to say that's what i tell people i say if you if you want me to say something good at your funeral you better leave me something good references otherwise i might have to say they live and they died i will not stand up at your funeral and watch the faces of your loved ones look up at me and say who are you talking about i knew that joker he was a rascal i don't know who you're preaching about there's too much at risk for you and your house i hope you understand that pastor don't lay that responsibility on me it's already on you all i'm doing is bringing you into the knowledge of it here's the second thing you need to know i must be a god-pleaser not a people pleaser you better get over pleasing people because i'm gonna just tell you you'll never do it you will never please them people cannot be pleased watch this illustration how many of you are too hot in the room too too warm look at y'all so afraid you don't even want to be this how many of you are too cold in here right now how many of you are just right how many of you don't care okay i just want to let you know we got one thermostat and the guy who knows how to run it is not even here tonight so welcome come on now i'm going to tell you to my to my great demise when i first started in ministry i tried to please people and you want to and in the world we're in right now you're waiting for them to like your post because if they don't you think maybe they don't like so i heard that here's what the bible says in first samuel chapter 15 verse 9 but solemn the people spared agag the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the family and of the lambs and all that was good they called it good and would not utterly destroy them but everything that was vile and refuse that they destroyed utterly well isn't that nice sol said what do y'all think we should do it'd be like the pastor standing up and saying hey i know that i've read this scripture right here that calls this a sin whatever but you know what let's take a poll how many of you feel like we shouldn't even preach about that teach about that in fact we just ripped that part out of the bible and we just leave that alone are you hear what i'm saying they're rewriting the bible right now so that we can please men with god's word the devil is alive god's not asking to conform to your thoughts he's saying you must conform and be transformed by the renewing of your own mind to this book so let's take up this portion because we interrupt these principles to bring you the disobedience brought by sol about destruction because of his disobedience first of all is a sin of pride here's what took place and i'm gonna i'm gonna have to paraphrase some of this tonight so we can move through but right here the bible says that sol set him up a place before samuel got there sol set him up a place what was this place it was literally a monument that he built to his honor because he had quote destroyed the amylochites and sol was taking credit by setting up a monument to himself that everybody would say oh look at sol and took credit for the victory over the amylochites and did not give credit to god the sin of pride friends this sin is prevalent in our day and if you don't think it's inside of the church please don't say that you have no sin the bible says here's what the bible says says pride proverbs 16 18 you know this pride goeth before destruction but before you even get to that level he says a haughty spirit comes before a fall so the fall comes and then destruction so if you want to know whether or not that you are in a position of pride which no one i have ever asked in my entire ministry and life have ever admitted to having pride but isn't it interesting that the whole month of june has been pride what are you saying i'm saying we're looking at the very picture of what's taking place here of disobedience but before you point a finger to somebody the bible says whosoever exalted himself shall be abased and he that humble himself shall be exalted proverbs 11 and 2 says when pride comes then comes shame but with the lowly is wisdom are you hearing what i'm saying here's another thing that happened the sin of boasting took place we don't have any boasting whatsoever in the time we're in right now no boasting is happening in our world whatsoever i mean social media is not even boasting anything because you can believe everything on there i have never seen so much so many spiritual people on facebook quote so much scripture and not even show up to the house of god that boggles my mind but you know i'm not god thank you for that one right i don't know the sin of boasting what did he say verse 13 bless be the lord i have performed the commandments of the lord king saul said well la ti da now let me just give you a little something a little insight right here watch this when samuel reached saul king saul here's what happened saul spoke up first when he saw him he didn't wait for samuel to respond he immediately started boasting of his obedience and then proudly declared to him and everybody around that i've carried out the lord's instruction which was not true but what was he doing watch this he was using it to divert attention from his disobedience this might be a two-parter y'all this is way too much casserole for one service so what was taking place he started listen how many of you know how many of you mamas know that when your kids get to you and you just walked into the house and the first thing they do is run up and say mama i did this and i did that what are you been doing for real right they come to oh i've been right here where have you been and don't lie to me let me make it spiritual i was warned and learned this sometimes the hard way that whenever i've come to a new church that the first people they get to you are not your friends they come boasting of what they do and what they did and blah blah blah blah and i'm the you know i've always been close to my pastor now i understand sometimes people's hearts but i'm just going to tell you my dear friends you don't have to be it when you know you've done wrong oh god help me you know all that's the reason why i said all the mamas out here they got like serious esp that whenever that takes place and your little kid comes running up to you and immediate you can't even get in the door and put the groceries down before they're already explaining to you everything that i clean my room i did this i did that you walk in there in that room hadn't been touched this is exactly what was going on he was boasting and i'm seeing samuel stand there just letting him talk because you know and i know don't you that if you let them talk they're gonna hung by the tongue that's what's gonna happen so he's boasting and it wasn't even true here's what the bible says for you all therefore let him that think if he stand to take heed lest he fall in recent days i've had to deal with this kind of a situation where i had to say to this person hey wait a minute you're judging this individual over here do you not realize that by the measure you judge by you will be judged before you kick somebody you better hold your foot in the air because it could be that you might be the next one to fall well pastor not me then you for sure are the next one to fall if you say that can we go a little deeper here i know you love this stuff the sin of self-justification and lying look what saul did now this is it really this is this is crazy to me because he's king saul right he's the one who's supposed to be in charge he's the one who's anointed to be in charge he's the one who's supposed to take responsibility for the entirety of the nation of israel and what does he do the first thing he does is lay blame on the people it was the people they brought the people spared but we destroyed all that you told us to well you're lying and you're trying to justify yourself you're trying to justify your disobedience and then you're putting a lie on top of it so saul followed what was human nature to every one of us blaming other people it wasn't him it wasn't me that was disobedient it was the it was the people friends are we seeing that today we absolutely are nobody wants to take responsibility for that all the way from the top to the bottom i mean excuse me do you know where the cocaine came from i mean i'm just telling you right now i'm just telling you right pastor come on no no this is the real life world that we're in right here where people will look at you in the face and on the camera and lie and make no big deal out of it when everybody in the world listen my wife and i have been in the white house twice we've had the privilege of being able to tour the white house twice you can't even hardly get in there anymore at all but we've had the privilege of going through the east wing where they take the tour and go through the rooms and so forth and i promise you i promise you by the time they got through running us through the ringer frisking us down checking everything we had take this back to the car you're not getting in there hardly with a shoelace are you going to lie to me and tell me that somebody just happened by the situation room and dropped off their dime bag of cocaine i don't think so why am i telling you this because we're living in a society where many hundreds and millions of people just take it in don't mess with my money don't mess with my vacation and my days off and you can lie to me all you want to the consequences of this lie is that this nation is going to lose its leadership and lose its way because your leader lied to you y'all just sit there that ain't for us i got so much scripture i can wear you out with it but i'm not going to i'm just going to tell you right now here's what the bible says here's what the bible says there in psalm 101 and verse number seven he that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight i'm just going to tell you god says i not only hate a liar that that lying spirit that lie but i hate a proud look read the scripture it's in there number four the sin of arrogance here's the arrogance samuel the prophet starts talking to him about what he was supposed to do and how he was supposed to do it and what god is saying to him and the arrogance of king sol says samu says listen i'm about to tell you i'm paraphrasing i'm about to tell you what the problem is right here and the arrogance have you ever been in this situation the arrogance of the person the arrogance of king sol said go ahead say what you want to say already guilty about to lose the kingdom but the arrogance said go ahead and say what you want to say really are we looking at that in our land today we most certainly are and here's the problem friends we can cloak it and we can dismiss it and and go to bed and take a melatonin and sleep all night but here's the problem the consequences of what we're seeing right now is affecting the economy it's affecting uh families it's affecting our children it's affecting every measure of life and if there is not righteousness that rises to the occasion in the leadership of it the rest of us will suffer because of it righteous and unrighteous at that moment bible says lying lips are an abomination to the lord y'all with me out there here's what number five is it's the sin of disobedience and covetousness even i'm sorry to make the references but here it is i mean it's too obvious for me to not make the reference for for what we're seeing right now okay injustice and so forth verse 1819 saw or samuel tells king sol hey you said you said you obeyed god but what is that i'm hearing the bleeding of these sheep in other words that little lamb is telling me the truth and you did not obey god and in the middle of all of that sol is still holding on to his position this is the edge of destruction right here in fact with just what i've given to you there's been enough time for him to say stop wait a minute you're right samuel come on let's get down here before god and let me repent kept hitting him with a word his own mouth condemned him come on somebody and ultimately ultimately the prophet of god had to say you're disobedient you did not do you said you did but you did not do what god told you to do that's a difficult thing you did not obey the voice of the lord here's what luke 1215 says and he said unto them take heed and beware of covetousness for a man's life consists of not any abundance of things which he possesses what he do he blamed it on the soldiers he blamed it on everybody else and ultimately his disobedience and coveted he wanted the stuff come on go back to jericho or go back yeah go back to jericho where they won the battle and everybody was celebrating and and then they said you know what we can take little ai and they sent a few people over there and got slaughtered why because one guy stuck something inside of the tent and brought judgment upon the whole nation did y'all hear what i just said in fact he was so arrogant and pride filled that god told joshua you're gonna have to go to every tribe then to every family and then to every man and even through all that process when he knew judgment was coming he never repented until he got to him and said what are you having and what have you got inside of that tent this is what was going on right here this is what's going on in our land the obvious truth of disobedience is taking place and in the face of that people are still saying it ain't me i'm gonna tell you something i i don't know i i read an article just a few days ago i've got a hurry but i read an article a few days ago and the question was asked of this author are we on the edge of god saying to america i've had enough what a sobering line that was let's go to number six real quick the center rebellion and false repentance he said i have obeyed when he knew he didn't come on folks this is this is pediatric right here when your own heart is condemning you and now it takes the prophet to come and tell you you have an obeyed and then you're saying well i have i have obeyed but i pray pardon my sin in other words i did it give me a little give me a little uh absolvance right cut me some slack i i mean didn't i do something good over here i mean i kept the king i kept the good stuff we killed all and did away with all the bad stuff but we kept the good stuff god says your goodness your righteousness is no good in my sight are you hearing what i'm saying proverbs 28 14 happy is the man that feareth always but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief so let's go back to these principles very quickly number number three obeying god is always right but it doesn't mean it's easy to do here's what he declares them in the most use line for obedience in all of the bible to obey is better than sacrifice let me say it like this different little version to obey god is better than all and more important than all of your worship in other words if you come in here trying to lift your hands up and and praising god your own heart will condemn you if you have an obeyed god that's the reason why you should prep yourself before you come to church because you don't think that you're going to walk in here and lift up a sacrifice god said i don't want you sacrifice you haven't obeyed me your sacrifices mean nothing in fact he got very adamant about that with the old testament prophets whenever uh and in malachi he said what are you doing bringing to me these polluted sacrifices he said i'm not ill up in your sacrifices i'm not accepting any of it and you're acting like i'm you're burning animals and doing everything to try to cover up all of your nonsense he said i'm away away with all your oblations away with all your sacrifices you're not obeying me now watch this friends because i know i know we think somehow well i'm obeying but watch this if you love me keep my commandments we're not talking about your salvation here we're talking about i've received jesus christ my personal lord and savior but i'm going to go do what i want to do are you hearing what i'm saying and god said that's not going that that's not going to fly now from god's perspective here's the deal here's john 316 for god so love the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever would believe in him would not perish but have everlasting life who is going to carry the gospel to somebody besides the church and if the church is doing its own thing and not following the law and the commandment of god then who else can be able to be brought into the kingdom are you following what i'm saying that's the that's the mindset of god right here he said i saved you i delivered you from your sins now you owe this world the gospel obey me keep my commandments walk with me in the statutes the judgment know me learn of me learn me know me share me with everybody you know you know what god i appreciate you saving me but i got some things to do and some lottery tickets to buy and some people to con and some lies that i've yet to tell and come on somebody y'all all right out there why am i telling you this why am i teaching you this because in the days that are ahead if you don't have a utter absolute obedience to god's word you'll be taught right out of your faith you you will have an opportunity to compromise the word of god and that one compromise could flow down to your children to the third and fourth generation come on somebody heber's 12 and two says this looking under jesus the author and the finisher of our faith he obeyed his father to the will of the father of the bible say he went into the garden of testimony prayed three times hey listen god listen god is not going to struggle over the fact that you have difficulty between this and human nature and sin nature and the obedience to work out to the word of god that's the process of sanctification are you hearing me in other words you get saved and all of a sudden go oh well you know what i think i'll just obey everything and then here's what god does he puts the one thing on you that your spirit and your sin nature repels against let me give you one forgive them you kidding me all right forgive them god did you know you know what they did to me forgive them forgive them okay let me pray about it god come on search i wait a minute wait a minute god if i forgive them that means they're off the hook right besides that i was calling for some fire and brimstone to fall on their heads been waiting for that see i'm just saying what you're thinking i'm just not i'm not making this up i'm saying what you're thinking because because to forgive them goes against every part of who you are because it's a god principle it's a command of god and i'm going to tell you i haven't always felt like obeying god now i'm just talking about me i know all of you are saints from the cloud nine and i get it i understand your halo is bigger than anybody else but i just want to let you know most all of the commandments that god has ever laid in my lap and told me to do my spirit resisted them straight up thank you for all those that are making me feel better why because god listen if the command is i want you to skip through the tulips and bring somebody some flowers okay but it's never that is it it's never that is it i want you to stop what you're doing i want you to go down and buy a bag of groceries and i want you to take it over to their house and i know they're 30 miles away but i want you to drive it over there because they need god i don't have time to do that oh you just told the god who made the time and gave it to you that you don't have time to do what god said oh yeah i say hallelujah too praise the lord hallelujah that's good teaching right there that's god teaching oh yeah no because as long as it's convenient we're good long as it doesn't ruffle the feathers or rub the cat hair backwards but i'm just telling you right now most of the commands of god most all the commands of god are not going to be something that you're going to readily jump to what is that all about it's all about crucifying my own self and saying lord not my will man oh man not my will come on somebody come on look at your neighbor and tell him you know you got a will go ahead since you already made a man go ahead and tell him you are a strong will person i know who you are strong will strong will strong will yeah no i'm not a strong will person oh put you in the right position and you will resist everything about it no we can't kill all of that we can't kill all of that that's some good stuff i mean when you're good i'm gonna need some help to the car tonight i can see that here's number four real quick i'm gonna run out of time my obedience is more important than my image in front of others you've heard me say this before if you'll take care of your character god will take care of your reputation if you don't take care of your character your reputation is already shot they're talking about me they talked about jesus i mean you can't run around with a ectus on your car and a you know jesus saves bro t shirt and not get mocked in the time that we're in come on somebody and if you're more concerned with your image then you are obeying god you haven't arrived yet you better bring it to the altar come on somebody isn't that what it's all about today it's all about image isn't it it's all about image what we want people to perceive that we know ourselves is not and there's an app for that there's an app for that y'all don't hear what i'm saying i saw somebody post this the other day they posted the picture of themselves and said i just found this app and it makes me look 30 years younger i looked at them i know what they look like i've seen them in person they were able to scrub stuff off of their face come on somebody all that all that third chin was all gone it was amazing because they want to present an image of themselves that's the reason why come on y'all here let me just tell you something when i became when read and i became the pastors of this church the one thing i was not going to do when we went online was to give somebody who was watching something different than what they would get in real person right here okay there's very few things that we edit and most of that is things that i say out of my mouth like bad wrong words or something that i've done here before what's the point i want people to know when they walk through the door yes we are a holy ghost tongue talking church where we worship god and spirit and in truth somebody's lobby to get up and shout somebody's lobby to cry and fall at the altar come on somebody away with all this falseness and we've had all of that during the covid pandemic and all that and everybody now all we got to save our image no no my dear friend god's not saving your image in fact he's killing your image he's gonna kill your image and then he wants his image to rise in its place oh my god anybody with me right here anybody with me right here i'm gonna move fast i'm gonna move fast are you still with me okay don't hurt my feelings i've only got one principle number five disobedience affects more than just me oh nobody's gonna be affected by my sin oh yeah they are you'd be shocked to know how much ripple effect it does i don't nobody cares about me oh they don't care about you until you do that and then suddenly everybody comes out did you hear about did you know this your disobedience affects more than just you and your obedience affects more than just me the bible says in the book of deuteronomy choose between the two life and death he said you can take blessing or you can take cursing it's up to you whatever you want to obey so here's god's reward of obedience and i give you these last three and i'm out of your way number one the bible says if you'll obey god you'll have success in your work anybody want a successful work and a successful working environment and all that the bible says that you can have that you can have that if you'll obey god's word proverbs 22 29 there see us thou a man diligent in his business he shall stand before kings he shall not stand before mean men i like that what else if you'll obey god you'll have success in your family do you really think now i'm not saying that there's not the children are not going to rise up at some point and they're going to want to go do their own thing but one thing's for sure if you train them in the way that they should go when they're old they will not depart from it what do you think this whole movie the jesus movement the jesus revolution was all about now you're seeing an influx of people that at one time had a relationship with the lord they may have fallen away and all of a sudden they're realizing i was reading about it just today one person said you know i couldn't believe where i've been and what i've done but i'm so glad that i've come back to the saving knowledge of jesus christ and now he's on up in i think the article said he was on up in his 80s i'm just going to tell you something it is the mercy of god that gives to us an opportunity once again that no matter where we are he's going to give us an opportunity and you know what i've been thinking about this lately i'm going to drop this on you get out of your way my grandmother has been deceased for a long long time my granddad my granddad was born in the year of the outpouring of the azusa street uh uh holy spirit at azusa street that year and they prayed for their family they were godly holy righteous people not a spot or a wrinkle as far as i could see and the bible says in the book of revelation five that god takes the prayers and i've been thinking about this lately because there's some people that's been running really really hard and the only reason why they haven't run off the cliff is because their grandmother prayed prayers into the future that god took their tears and put them into a golden vial and bottled them all up in there and all of you that think you're going to run away from god disobey god and all that kind of stuff i'm telling you that the prayers of your mother your grandfather your father your grandfather to thirds and fourth generation way back there have been bottled up in the heaven and god said at the right time i'm going to pour them things out upon the earth and i came to tell you and i prophesied to you you are coming home because god has not forgotten you nor has he forgotten the prayers of your forefathers well somebody will lift your hand right now and claim that promise right there in the name of jesus christ that's a word from the lord for you tonight if i obey the lord god said he'll give me a blessed family if well if a just man walks in and his integrity his children will be a blessing after him thank god here's the last thing you'll have success in your finances anybody interested four of you praise god the rest of you just stay broke as joe's turkey i'm telling you it's a hard crowd tonight jesus don't kill him give me another opportunity praise god psalm 112 blessed is the man that feareth the lord that delighteth greatly in his commandments his seed shall be mighty upon the earth there's that seed the generation of the upright shall be blessed wealth and riches shall be in his house and his righteousness endureth forever my god church all you gotta do is obey the word of god and he said i'm gonna bless you going in coming out rising out sitting down the blessings of the lord are connected to your obedience the book of joshua go back to it here tonight he said joshua i'm telling you like i told moses about you joshua be of good strong courage be strong and very courageous and make sure that this book this is what he says in verse eight chapter one this book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth but thou shall meditate therein day and night thou shall that you may observe to do according to all that is written therein for then thou shall have make thy way prosperous and then thou shall have good success and as if we weren't joshua wasn't listening to him he repeats it and says have I not commanded thee be strong and of good courage don't be afraid neither be thou dismayed for the lord thy god is with you whether so ever you go i just choose to believe based upon the word of god and i know this to be backed up by all that book right there that god is more interested and determined to get blessings to us all he's waiting on is our obedience to his word it's not just oh i believe you god it's the act of faith on my part to step out and obey the commands of the lord when that happens look for something to come busting up out of the concrete in your behalf how many of you need the lord to do something in your life here's a question what is the last command that he gave to you that you have yet to obey whatever that is search yourself god's not condemning you he's just what he's got this blessing hanging over your head it's hanging it's right there if you could reach up you could grab it but he said you're not gonna get access to it until you do what i said if you'll do what i said i'm gonna do this i'm gonna open up the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing you won't have room enough to receive that's the promise of god if you receive that promise throw a hand up in the airs right now father in the name of jesus for every person here and those that are watching who are willing and obedient your word declare they will eat the good of the land i declare over this congregation and those that are watching right now no matter if the world goes into recession no matter if the world tips upside down no matter if the stock market rises or falls your people will be blessed and highly favored and the hand of the lord will be upon your obedient people to lord forever and forever because it is your word that declares it we pronounce this blessing upon this house and upon this people that are watching tonight in the mighty name of jesus and everybody believes it say a good amen now get up and go do the work of the lord amen obey god i want you to be here sunday at 10 o'clock don't miss it all of you that are watching online god bless you for being with us tonight