Hello again, how are you.
I pray you are doing well, I pray you are
in good spirits
and you remain encouraged as we continue to
wait and watch for our Blessed Hope.
It's getting close, isn't it
Today is officially closer, isn't it.
Let's do a Bible study, shall we?
The outline for this is to recap the calendar
I want to share with you, what I hope to be
are some final thoughts.
And let's then get into a study that has very
little to do with the rapture.
But it has everything to do with the glorification
of Jesus Christ.
And if we do this right and properly, it is
edifying to His church.
Amen?
Let's get started.
Where we left this last time, is our timeline
showed the time that Pentecost should have
begun, with all of our delays we've studied
within scripture, would have been on the 1st
day of the 6th month.
One of the things I failed to take into consideration
with this is ... let's pull up the calendar.
So here we are in the 6th month.
If I am aligning the Word of God properly
to the calendar, then the Feast of Pentecost
should have begun on the 1st day of the 6th
month.
But I failed to recognize is that this day
is a sabbath.
In addition to a weekly sabbath, there is
a monthly sabbath.
Our Father is always trying to get us under
the training of resting, ok?
He is a big fan of rest!
There are people with differing opinions,
but I want to illustrate this with the Word
of God.
It doesn't matter what I think or what others
think, what matters is what the Bible teaches.
We we look at the word "new moon" in scripture
one of the things you will see as a pattern
is how a new moon is associated with the sabbath.
Our Father, in His Word, connects a new moon
and a sabbath.
Right?
Sabbath....new moon.
We know it is a sabbath because of what we
see in Amos 8:5.
Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that
we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we
may set forth wheat, making the ephor small,
and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances
of deceit?
This prophecy is to the wicked who want to
rob people.
Why can't they sell corn on the new moon?
Because it is a sabbath.
The new moon is associated with not doing
any labor.
Any work..
This is a day off.
So if we look at when the Feast of Weeks should
have begun,
It should have begun on this day, the day
of August 21st.
But it's a sabbath.
And the next day, is a sabbath.
It goes back to that one verse that Peter
tells me that keeps echoing in my mind how
our Father is "long suffering".
He's not eternally suffering.
These prophecies do have an expiration date.
And it is coming up, is it not?
When I read that, and that verse keeps echoing
in my mind, that's why I keep looking for
these elements create these pushbacks.
And where I've been led to is the Feast of
Weeks and we keep seeing these pushbacks.
And yet we see another day, and that would
have caused this day right here (3rd day of
the month), which is interesting that something
just came to me.
This marks the beginning of the Feast of Weeks.
If you remember, the Feast of Weeks is a two
week feast.
It is represented in Leviticus 23 verse 19,
which is the ceremonial procedure instructions
that cross references to Numbers 7.
And in Numbers 7, is when each tribe of the
12 tribes of Israel had a dedicated day to
bring their offering to the tabernacle which
is their dedication to the altar.
If we look at that in prophetic typology,
the kingdom of God is where the throne room
or tabernacle of God is at.
And the earth itself is the brazen altar.
So I know that the Feast of Weeks is not happening
right now because this planet is not yet on
fire.
We have a few pilot lights lit around the
world right now, but it is not on fire in
a Biblical manner.
So this would be for day 1, this would be
for the tribe of Judah.
This would have been for the tribe of Isaachar,
and this would be for Zebulin I believe, and
then Ruben, and it gets fuzzy for me at that
point.
Tribe 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6...and then the day
off.
Tribe 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, there's your 12
tribes
But then there's ....
This is the part that was always a head scratcher
for me.
The next day after is this day (Sept 6).
Would you just make a mental note of that
day for me?
That would be this Sunday / Monday time frame.
Again, make a mental note.
Lets go into Numbers 7.
There were two different ways I could have
been looking at this chapter.
This is the procedure that puts the weeks
in the Feast of Weeks.
And when you see Moses had fully set up the
tabernacle, everything is anointed, and then
you see here in verse 11,
They shall offer their offering, each prince
on his day for the dedicating of the altar.
There are two different ways I could have
looked at this.
I could look at this to say that Jesus being
the Lion of the tribe of Judah begin with
day 1.
That's one way to look at it.
If we are applying the calendar to scripture
properly, we are already in the middle of
the Feast of Weeks.
So this would not be true.
So this goes to my second theory, that we,
the body of Christ are grafted into Israel
according to Paul.
Our Apostle who was hand-picked by Jesus Christ
to prepare us for this particular time in
history.
So when does Jesus Christ...how do I rephrase
this?
If we are grafted into Israel, then who is
our Father who is His prince and when is His
day?
Does that make sense?
So our Father is the God of mercy.
His Son is the prince of peace, and his day
would be the day of the Lord, would it not?
That's how my head is going about this.
But what is interesting, is I was looking
at this from up here.
How the tabernacle was set and all the vessels
had been anointed.
But then we see, when we go down to the very
last bit.
I want to show you something that conjures
up a different picture.
Ok?
Go to the very end of this dedication.
These 12 days, the weeks in the Feast of Weeks.
Here in the last verse, And when Moses was
gone into the tabernacle of the congregation
to speak with him, then he heard the voice
of one speaking unto him from off the mercy
seat, ok? that was upon the ark of the testimony
from between the two cherubim's and he spake
unto him.
So we see this scene at the end of the feast
of weeks where we see the Lord off the mercy
seat.
Then what do we see the very next thing...
we see in Numbers 8 we see When you light
the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light
over against the candlesticks.
What we see here is the feast of weeks, the
feast of the 12 tribes, then you see the Lord
off the mercy seat, alright?
Followed by the lighting of the menorah.
the candlesticks.
What does that connect us to?
That connects us to Revelation chapter 4.
Where John sees the door open, come up hither,
and what does he see?
He sees the seven lamps burning with fire
before the throne.
That's up there.
So what am I looking at?
What am I getting at?
At the end of the 12 days, the 12 days of
Pentecost, which is actually 14 days...
2 weeks, the next day could be the day of
the Lord.
And what would Jesus...Let's think about what
He is doing in the throne room right now.
He is sitting at the right hand of the Father,
interceding for us as high priest.
He's going to get up from the mercy seat,
he is going to go the door, he is going to
open the door, and there is Revelation 4.
And what happens right after he gets up from
the seat, and the lighting of the candlesticks,
we see Revelation 4 filling in that gap.
When does that take place?
The first opportunity for that would be on
September 6th.
If you recall from another study, when we
go into Revelation 18, which is the chapter
that discusses the judgement of the great
whore, and remember, according to Peter, judgement
comes to the house of God first.
Babylon the Great is Roman Catholicism.
And if you see here, after these things I
saw another angel come down from heaven, having
great power, and the earth was lightened with
his glory.
This is Jesus Christ coming out of his habitation,
as a double portion of bread baked with leaven.
This is would be Leviticus 23 verse 17.
Ok?
When ye shall bring out of your habitation
two wave loaves, a double portion of bread.
Remember, at the end of the 6th day is when
there was a double portion of bread manna
from heaven.
And on the 7th day there was no bread.
This is where I'm seeing those dots being
connected.
And when that period is when Jesus Christ
says "Come up hither."
Remember, this chapter is about this subject
here.
That's why you don't see any other elements.
But, when He says come up hither, the dead
in Christ rise first, that would mean that
the martyrs of Christ, which is being communicated
in Revelation 18, that would be the catacombs
of Rome.
And all the skeletal remains that are serving
as relics throughout the world in the Catholic
cathedrals.
Because that is the great whore of Babylon.
She comes in the name of Jesus Christ but
she seduces everybody to do everything but
what the Word of God says.
Now she's not the only one that does it, she's
just the mother.
Remember, she's made babies.
So we have to be very very mindful and that
is why we stay within the Word of God at all
times, amen?
One of the things that has always been in
my mind....
I know there's a lot of people that say keep
your eyes on Jerusalem, right?
Which is wise.
I think it is a very wise thing.
But there's another angle that I'm looking
at which is right here.
And it says here And a might angel took up
a stone like a great millstone, and cast it
unto the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall
that great city Babylon be thrown down, and
shall be found no more at all.
A stone, singular.
One stone.
What is this stone?
That's a meteor, right?
And it's coming in hot.
And it's going to hit this planet.
That means that rock is in flight right now.
And I don't think it is a coincidence that
during this....
pandemic thing which is nothing more than
misdirection
keep everybody in their homes while the circus
act is changing acts.
This is a change of scenes.
And this rock is in flight.
And the astronomical observatories are shut
down.
They are completely shut down.
All private ones are shut down.
My conjecture, my belief is our enemy knows
exactly when this event takes place.
But he is contained.
He is on a leash.
That goes to show you that the restrainer
is still restraining.
When does this take place?
We've got a flying object that is inbound
right now.
Remember, that date ok?
I am about to leave scripture that is a warning
to us all.
But it is difficult not to observe the news
now days.
is it not?
Please understand what I'm saying.
I'm leaving scripture.
Ok?
This is me connecting dots from outside of
scripture.
Something I want to rarely rarely do.
But this news article came across my optics,
and there are some interesting choice of words.
NASA Tracks an Asteroid double the size of
the great pyramid of giza that will collide
with Earth's Orbit very soon.
How soon?
September 6th.
And it is classified as an Apollo asteroid.
Apollo means destroyer.
There's a whole lot of interesting stuff about
this news article.
Remember how Jesus says "Be as cunning as
a serpent, but as gentle as a dove."
Your second best teacher is the devil himself.
You're living in his world, you're playing
poker at his table every single day of your
life.
Learn to read his tells.
Here we see this asteroid that is "double".
Why does this intrigue me?
If we go back to scripture, ... We have here
"Reward her as she has rewarded you, and double
unto her double according to here works in
the cup which she hath filled fill to her
double.
And I cross reference that with the only other
time I see "double" in scripture three times
is in Leviticus 23:15-22 which is the Feast
of Weeks.
There is a double count of fifty days, a double
portion of bread, and a double count of weeks
within the feast of weeks.
A double, double, double.
And we just so happen to have a rock, a stone,
that is double the size of the great pyramid
of giza.
This reminds me of "I am the Lord your God
that brought you out of the land of Egypt"
Another interesting word is "collide" with
earth's orbit.
When I see that and think of something colliding,
I see an object in motion that is abruptly
and involuntarily stopped.
When I think of intersecting earth's orbit
it would go through it.
I'm wondering if we are not seeing our enemy
speak here.
That's all that I'm looking at.
It's not scripture.
I'm going outside of scripture.
I'm observing it, that's all that I'm doing.
My view of this, if we go back to our calendar
is that scripture reminded me of this being
a day off, this being a sabbath, so our time
for the 12 tribes of Israel coming into these
days, and the next available day would be
Sept 6, then I saw the news article.
That's the sequence of events, and that's
what I'm wanting to share with you.
There's another element to this, that is roughly
related.
It was a question I received from somebody
from an earlier comment, and I said I would
address the question on the next video, so
I'm going to address it now.
The question deals with the verse in Psalm
81:3.
If you've been studying this, you should be
familiar with this.
This is one of those verses that causes us
to scratch our head with this new moon / full
moon discussion.
This phrase here, "Blow the trumpet in the
new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn
feast day."
This word here, let's pull it up on Strongs
so you can see this.
The word is "key-seh".
Here is where the conundrum lie.
It is defined as "full moon".
That is a phrase that many people say "the
full moon is the new moon."
My conclusion is, that the word full moon
is never used within scripture but the word
"time appointed" is how it is used.
We see it only used in this Psalm and in Proverbs
7, where the woman; the strange woman in Proverbs
7....Lets go there so you can see it in context.
For the good man is not at home, he is gone
on a long journey.
He hath taken a bag of money with him and
will come home at the day appointed.
This is the "yom key-seh"; the day appointed.
So the word "key-seh" is associated with the
goodman coming home.
This is the second advent of Jesus Christ.
Because who is the goodman?
That's Jesus Christ.
The other thing about this word is if you
look at its root word, which is "ka-saw".
It means to cover, conceal, or hide.
That sounds like the opposite of what a full
moon would be, yet our dictionary that we
use refers to it as a full moon.
The head scratcher for me, and in a way vindicated
by this, when we look at the Hebrew lexicon,
an Israeli, a Hebrew, who knows far more about
the Hebrew language than I do, states "The
etymology is not clear to me, for it is not
satisfactory to say that it is so called from
the whole moon being then covered with light."
This is a mystery.
So what's my point?
The original question was, "What do I make
of this?"
What I make of it is there is no point of
resolution.
So you have to not go to a point of resolution
and then try to establish a logical construct
from it.
You have a 50/50 chance of being wrong.
So what I do in these situations is to look
at it as an enigma.
It is "interesting".
I'm not going to use it to establish doctrine.
I'm not going to use it to establish a position
to try to get a better understanding of the
Word of God.
So I leave it as a conundrum, leave it as
an enigma, and then let the Holy Spirit guide
me.
One of the things that I personally look at
this with is to look at the verse again.......
Blow the trumpet in the new moon, in the time
appointed, on our solemn feast day.
What is interesting about this is, is this
a mutually inclusive list, meaning I blow
the trumpet when all three of these elements
are being satisfied.
What is interesting, this is only an observation,
is "IF" the feast of weeks begin on the new
moon, it would be the only feast that would
begin on a new moon and end on a full moon.
Do you see it?
The only one where this and this are tied
together the "hemera", the day of Pentecost.
Does that make sense?
It's interesting.
Could it be a stretch?
Could be, I don't know.
These are the kind of things we all sit around
this puzzle, this eschatological puzzle on
these end times.
I have to tell you, if I were to tell you
my testimony, it would be my life.
How do I say this?
I can tell you that my Heavenly Father knew
me as son long before I knew Him as Father.
And I can look back in my life, long before
I came to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ,
I could see him there.
I was in college, I went to William Jewell
College.
A small liberal arts college, in Liberty...Kansas
City, MO.
And you had to take a Religion 101 class.
It was a Baptist school.
Affiliated with the...I don't know if it was
the Southern Baptist, I forget what it was.
I had a class that was on escatology.
And I had to do a paper on eschatology.
I had know idea...What the heck is this all
about.
And then, now!
Those are the kind of things that happen,
and I know you have so many stories that you
can look back and say, "Yeah, He was there.
And He was there."
We all have those stories.
Fascinating.
Lot of fun.
So there's the calendar.
There are my thoughts.
I'm looking right here.
From a conjecture perspective, and my understanding
of scripture, sort of filling in the gaps,
I'm honestly at a dead end scripturally.
I don't know if that's my Father saying, "You've
run your course, now look up."
That could very well be.
I am of the mindset that this event will take
place prior to the Feast of Trumpets.
Because the Word of God cannot invalidate
itself.
That's the way I'm looking at it.
I know there are people of differing opinions.
Which is fine.
This is not to be argumentative, or anything
less than, "Hmm.
This is what I see."
What I'm being very mindful as it pertains
to this week is this day right there (Sept
11).
I think we all have a story.
We all see that number.
I don't think seeing that number is from above.
I don't get into numerology, personally.
I stay in the Word.
I want to be a dog with a bone when it comes
to the Word of God.
Because, I don't want Jesus Christ to look
at me and say, "Why didn't you just keep my
Word?"
I would rather miss something in other things
than to miss His Word.
So that is me.
That is where my focus is at.
Like I said, I want to be a dog with a bone
when it comes to this.
I'm very mindful of this week and how it all
unfolds, we will see.
Could there be other elements that are in
flight that the Feast of Weeks could get pushed
all the way down to here?
Absolutely.
Is there something else?
Absolutely there could.
Do I see it happening on or after this time
frame?
I do not.
But, it's not up for our consensus, now is
it.
But we stay mindful, we stay watchful.
We keep our eyes up.
We do exactly what Jesus Christ tells us to
do.
Pray always to be accounted worthy and to
escape these things that shall come to pass
and to stand before the Son of man.
And, we encourage one another as we see the
day approaching.
So how about we get a little encouragement....
Let's get into a bible study.
Little off topic.
But one of the things about this study for
me and how it all manifested itself, is how
I started to see things in the Word of God
that is contrary to what we hear.
Or what is taught.
When Jude said, let's go there....Jude.
When Jude spoke, "For there are certain men
crept in unaware."
That's a huge warning.
How do certain men creep in aware?
They creep in in the name of Jesus Christ
and teach us things that aren't of God.
They leave things open ended so our vain imagination
fills in the gap, and it causes us to carry
burdens in our walk with Jesus Christ that
we were never designed or intended to carry.
Does that make sense?
What I want to share with you are some of
the things I've seen that what Jesus said,
what the Bible says, and how we go sideways
with it.
So let's get started.
We start here in Matthew 16.
This is a good jumping off point.
I've used this in the video on intercession.
The power of intercession.
But let's go back to this, and use this as
a launching point.
We see here when Jesus is talking to his disciples
saying, "who do people say that I am."
And Simon (Peter) answered, "You are the Christ,
the Son of the living God."
And Jesus answered, "Blessed art thou, Simon
Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed
it unto thee, but my Father which is in Heaven."
"And I say also unto you, that you are Peter,
and upon this rock, I will build my church,
and the gates of hell shall not prevail against
it."
"And I will give unto you the keys to the
kingdom of heaven."
Here's the thing.
If you build your church on Peter, you've
been duped.
Peter, the petros, the rock versus, THE ROCK,
petra, is Jesus Christ.
He is the rock of our salvation.
And Jesus says, "I will build my church."
You do not build his church.
I do not build his church.
HE build his church.
Because, what's the old cliche'?
When you want a job done right, you....do
it yourself.
Does Jesus do His job right?
Absolutely.
That means he is doing it himself.
He doesn't need you, ok?
But when we become a born again believer,
we feel that WE have to now work at building
his church.
But that's not what the word of God says,
does it.
It also talks how knowing that Jesus Christ
is the son of God is because the Father reveals
it.
What we do, is that we put it upon ourselves
to share the gospel with everybody that we
can.
And we are trying to convince others using
our flesh and blood to tell somebody else
about Jesus Christ when the Father hasn't
revealed it to them.
And one of the most frustrating and soul vexing
experiences that we all have is when we are
surrounded by the very people that we love
the most, and they don't see it.
They don't get it.
And we were all told that if you don't have
the testimony of Jesus Christ, you're going
to hell.
And these are all little nuggets that add
burdens to our life that we were never ever
meant to carry.
Yet we were led to believe it.
That's how certain men creep in unaware.
The key take-aways....
Here's another thing, notice how Jesus says
how he gives Peter the keys to the kingdom
of heaven?
One of the very first things to consider when
listening to others, is to determine if they
know the difference between the kingdom of
heaven and the kingdom of God.
If you don't know the difference between those
two kingdoms, your eschatology, your understanding
of scripture, your understanding of God's
program is all about the revelation of His
son Jesus Christ.
If you don't know that difference, you're
going to go sideways.
And if you are listening to somebody that
you can't discern if they know the difference
between the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom
of God, then the information that they are
providing is not going to be accurate.
It may be a blind squirrel finding the nut
every now and then, but it's not the right
thing.
So this is an area of discernment you should
always take into consideration.
What's the difference between the kingdom
of heaven, that's the Abrahamic covenant for
the Jews, and the kingdom of God, which is
in the tabernacle of God, that's the inheritance
plan for the Gentiles.
For those that have the spirit of adoption
whereby we cry out Abba, Father.
So these are two different kingdoms, specific,
physical, literal kingdoms that come together
at the end of the 7 year tribulation.
That's New Jerusalem coming out of heaven.
But the big burden that we have is that we
feel that we have to build His church.
The moment I realized that I'm not in the
architect committee and not in the selection
committee, my walk became so much more simplified.
And I started to get more joy.
I'm not in those two committees.
I'm in the welcoming committee.
Every now and them, I'm in the janitorial
business to make certain that the water fountains
are still clean.
But I'm not in his architect committee and
not in his selection committee.
And neither are you.
So that' a burden we need not carry.
Let's now take a look at Matthew 11.
This was a great verse for me.
It helped me understand what is going on.
We see here in verses 28, 29, and 30.
Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heave
laden, and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you and learn of me for
I am meek and lowly in heart and ye shall
find rest unto your souls.
For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.
When I read that verse, what I realized was
its a barometer.
It's like a thermostat in your car to tell
you if you're overheating or not.
If you are walking and you don't have a yoke
that is easy and you don't have a burden that
is light, that should be an indicator that
you are doing something wrong.
It's not that God is punishing you.
It is that you are fighting against Him.
You're not walking with him.
You haven't taken HIS yoke upon you.
Look at what this visual.
What is the visual that Jesus is trying to
establish?
This visual of a beast of burden.
Here is Jesus, and here is you.
And you are yoked together.
You are this close.
And the yoke is right around your neck and
shoulders.
And off you go.
You are side by side.
But there are words that we use, and they
are very powerful words.
We have to be very mindful of them.
such as, you've probably heard it.
Maybe you've even said it, I know I have.
When times get tough, and times are rough,
you would say, "The King is still on His throne."
It's something we like to remind ourselves
that He is still in charge.
And that's good, but what that conjures in
you image that He is not here.
He is here.
(Separated)
It makes you think He is distant and far from
you.
He is up there somewhere.
And we are down here.
But no.
Jesus Christ is right here with you.
I'm right here every single step of the way.
My yoke is easy.
My burden is light.
And if you are feeling something that is not
easy and not light, is because somebody has
convinced you of this (distance) or they are
convincing you to out pace him, or you are
trying to go in a direction that's not the
kingdom of God.
Those are the things that help us remind ourselves
when we are in lockstep with Jesus Christ.
Your walk is not my walk.
And my walk is not your walk.
One of the things that is challenging for
a lot of people that go to a church building,
is that this is not what the church is.
The church is not a building.
You're the church.
It's not an organization.
It's an organism.
You feel like when you go to a church, you
get into a mindset that we have to do something
for Jesus Christ that he didn't tell us to
do.
So this is a nice barometer, and keep in mind
this "yoke" concept.
I'm going back to that.
But let's move forward two chapters.
And show you another element of scripture
that gets us sideways.
And we lose sight of the imagery that Jesus
Christ is trying to teach us.
We see here the parable of the sower of seeds.
Let's look at this.
Behold a sower went forth to sow.
And when he sowed, some seeds fell tot he
way side, and fowls came and devoured them
up.
Some fell upon stony places, which had not
much earth, they sprung up and because they
had no depthless of earth, the sun came up,
scorched them and withered away.
I'm paraphrasing.
And some fell upon thorns and choked them
out.
But others fell upon good ground and brought
forth fruit, some an hundred fold, some sixty
fold, some thirty.
What happens when we as believer start reading
the word of God, we assume that's us (good
ground) because we are in the Word.
What we are led to believe that we need to
be doing for Jesus Christ and to build his
church, is to become the sower of seed.
We have to share our testimony with anybody
and everybody.
We need to treat this as if we are door-to-door
vacuum salesmen.
Or, we need to be preaching the word of God.
Some people in churches lead their flock to
a false conclusion that if you're not sowing
seeds, then you're not really working for
the kingdom.
That becomes a burden.
And the other thing we are left with is this
notion that bearing fruit has something to
do with winning souls.
So in these last days, you may be thinking
to yourselves, what soul have I led to Jesus
Christ?
You were never meant to lead a soul to Jesus
Christ.
Because your flesh and blood doesn't reveal
the truth to another person.
So bearing fruit is something completely different
and sowing seeds is something completely different.
Let me go down here.
Let's go where He says, this is the parable.
Oh....remember how he says, "let he that have
ears to hear, let them hear?"
What is he telling us in that parable?
He explains the parable here.
In verse 18 to 23.
He says how the one who hears the word and
does not understand it is when the wicked
one that catches away that which was sown
in their heart and this is he that receives
the seed by the way side.
An example of that would be somebody that
maybe you've personally wanted to tell them
about the rapture of the church.
But you know that that person is probably
the least knowledgeable person about scripture,
but for some reason they were able to repeat
"well, no man knows the day or the hour."
Like, automatic type of response.
You say rapture, I say no man knows.
That's an example of how whatever that person
heard about the word of God that the wicked
one would come by and pull every single seed
they ever heard, (whispering) except for that
one part.
And they left that one behind.
That might be an example.
Here, we see the seeds on the stony place.
Stone is a reference to laws.
The law, stumbling blocks.
The stone, the law, it brings forth death.
You get stoned to death.
These are people who think you have to do
something.
But when times get tough they get offended
and they walk away.
And then you see those who receive the seed
among the thorns.
This is the cares of this world and the deceitfulness
of riches and they become unfruitful.
Which is not saving souls.
But he that received seed into the good ground
hears the word, he understands the word, and
he bears fruit; which is not winning souls
by the way.
So what is he talking about?
Who has the ears to hear?
The thing about this agricultural example
is you just don't get good ground.
You work good ground.
And the work He wants you to work while being
yoked together is to go and get the stones
out of your field.
What are the stones?
They may also represent those people come
to you in the name of Jesus Christ and say,
"If you're not doing this, then you're not
a Christian."
Thunk.
"If you don't do this, you're not a Christian."
Thunk.
Not measuring up to their definition of what
they think Christianity is, they throw a stone
into your field.
Another example are your thistles, and thorns.
The cares of this world.
When you are down on your luck, and your money
is running short, then all of a sudden your
car breaks down.
That's getting your eyes back onto the cares
of this world.
How do those thorns come into your land?
Well, it happens when the evil one, the fowls,
the devils, go and eat the blossoms off of
thorns, fly over to your place and they poop
on your soil.
And what do you have to do?
You have to go into your soil and dig these
thorns out.
You don't just cut them down to the ground,
you have to dig them out by the roots.
And how else do you work your soil?
You work in cow manure.
That's bull crap!
So you have some bull crap in your life, and
you work that into your soil.
And that's what you're suppose to do.
So how is it that you bear fruit?
Oh...before I go there, one more little sneaky
thing.
Watch this.
He says down here....where?....It shows how
the Son of man is the sower.
Where is it?
Here it is.
He that soweth the good seed is the Son of
man.
So one thing the enemy tries to do is to get
you to sow the good seed.
But that's not your job.
That's not your swim lane.
The Son of man sows the good seed.
Why is it that he doesn't want you to sow?
The reason why he doesn't want you to sow
the seed is most of us can't tell the difference
between tares and wheat.
You see the tare here, not weeds like some
of our modern bible versions say, it is tares.
It has the outward appearance of wheat, but
there is no nutritional value.
So, you are not the sower of the good seed.
And you are not the builder of the church.
Your job is to work your soil, by getting
the rocks out, by getting the thorns out,
by working in your manure, and then you bear
fruit.
What does it mean to bear fruit?
Galatians 5:1.
Great study.
But lets get a running start.
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith
Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled
again with the yoke of bondage.
So what does it mean to be yoke to bondage?
Bondage is associated with religion.
Jesus didn't come to establish religion.
Jesus didn't come to die on a cross for your
sins to establish a religion.
He came to establish fellowship.
To reveal himself, slowly over time.
What Paul is mentioning with this yoke of
bondage is specifically with those who are
trying to be pulled back into Judaism.
The hebrew roots as it were.
What he is saying is, "if you want to be circumcized,
you're going to be a debtor to do the whole
law."
So don't act like a Jew.
That's what he is saying.
And the other fight he is dealing with is
that of Baal worship.
The temple worship of paganism, the heathens.
Which is manifested under what we would call
Roman Catholicism as the mother of harlots.
Remember, it's not just her.
She's had babies.
You've got to watch for them all.
The whole point is, you've got "this" style
of religion, and you have "this" style of
religion, and Jesus said, "I didn't come here
to give you another religion.
I've freed you from religion, so we can have
fellowship."
That's the end game.
So what Paul is saying, is you walk after
the Spirit.
He says that right here.
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye
shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
I've always been irritating to me when I would
listen to a preacher talk about your sin.
Your sin.
You've gotta get the sin out of your life.
It would be akin to me laying on the ground
and I'm bleeding out and a doctor comes by
and says, "Got a bleeder!"
And then walks off.
No, that's called malpractice.
You don't work the sin out of your life.
You walk in the Spirit, and you "shall not"
fulfill the lust of the flesh.
Paul talks about it right here.
Here are the works of the flesh.
What I had to do in my life is I went through
each of these words.
Every single one, and defined it.
And I said, "which one of these do I see in
my life."
And I had to get rid of them.
For me, that was a big one.
(Variance)
It means to argue or wrangle.
To have contention.
If I think I'm right, I'm going to make certain
you know I'm right, and I'm going to argue
the point and I don't care if I crush your
heart in the process.
I was wrong.
I was wrong on that, so I don't do that.
I stay away from that.
I don't argue about the Word of God anymore.
The Word of God speaks for itself.
And what brothers and sisters do within the
word of God is all we have to do is say, "what
do you see in this verse?
I'm seeing this, you're seeing something different.
What do you see?"
And that's how the brethren removes contention
and strife rather than arguing about the Word
of God.
So that was one of my biggies, right there.
But notice here, let's get to the fruit.
But the fruit of the Spirit, remember, you're
working your soil.
Jesus is right next to you, like so, and you're
working your soil.
You're getting your rocks out, these are your
rocks and these are your thorns.
You're working your soil.
And this is the fruit of the Spirit.
Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness,
goodness, faith, meekness, temprence, against
such there is no law.
If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk
in the Spirit.
Notice how Paul takes this list above and
encapsulates it with "and such like".
He's saying, if you do any of this, you shall
not inherit the kingdom of God.
Legally binding.
But what does the Bible NOT say?
If you do these things, you are damned to
hell fire damnation.
The Bible doesn't say that, does it.
It says, you shall not inherit.
To inherit you have to be a child.
You are either a child of obedience, or a
child of disobedience.
A child of disobedience does not get an inheritance.
A child of obedience does get an inheritance.
What Paul is saying is "get this stuff out
of your life so you can have an inheritance."
But the fruit is in this list.
And this list in legal terms would be referred
to as "mutually inclusive."
Meaning, it is complete.
Or in other words, you don't add anything
to it.
The fruit of the Spirit is this.
Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness,
goodness, faith, meekness, temperance.
That's it.
You don't add to it, you don't take away from
it.
Eve did that to the Word of God, didn't she?
She added to the word of God.
She took away from the word of God back in
Genesis 3.
Didn't fare well for Eve.
Don't be Eve.
So if you think, "I do this in the name of
Jesus" and whatever "this" is, and it is not
in this list, what that is is idolatry.
There is only one thing you are suppose to
covet in all of the word of God and that is
to covet "agape", charity, love, right there.
That is what you are to covet.
So that is the spirit.
So you are walking in the Spirit.
So how is it you bear fruit?
Bearing fruit means, when you are walking
with Jesus Christ, he gives you His fruit.
He gives you His love, He gives you His joy,
He gives you his peace, He gives you his long-suffering,
and your gentleness and goodness, and faith,
and meekness, and temperance.
And you're eating that fruit.
You are what you eat.
At the center of that fruit is the core where
the seeds are at.
And you chuck it in your soil.
And before you know it, you've got a fruit
tree.
Growing.
And you just walk with Jesus and you eat the
fruit and chuck the core in the soil.
And you start bearing fruit.
You just walk.
That's all you do.
You walk and you work your field.
And what will happen is you will find yourself
walking with somebody else.
Have you ever grown vegetables?
Every grown some tomato plants?
And you had a bountiful crop.
You had a bucket load of tomatoes and had
no idea what to do with them.
So you give them away to your neighbors.
For free.
That's what we do.
We walk in the Spirit, we let Jesus Christ
give us his fruit, right there.
And we eat it down to the core, and we chuck
it in the field.
And we bear a burden that we were never meant
to carry is to think that it is our job to
build his church or it's our job to sow the
seeds.
No.
He gets the job done right.
He does it himself.
What we do....the church grows not because
we share scripture, the church grows because
we sharing the fruit of the Spirit like nobody
else can.
In these last days, may I recommend that you
stay within the Pauline epistles, you listen
to the word of God.
And I want you to think about getting rid
of some of the spiritual baggage that you
may have been carrying all your life.
There is therefore now no condemnation for
those who are in Christ Jesus who walk not
after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
I know you are concerned about a lot of people
around you.
People you love dearly.
You intercede.
You intercede.
I want you to think about how awesome Jesus
is, as He builds His church.
You don't know the paths you have crossed
throughout your life.
There could have been a moment that you were
completely clueless about that you ran across
somebody in life, and they were in the worst
state of their life.
Ever.
And you didn't even know it.
They could have been ready to commit suicide.
And you gave them just a bite of the joy of
Jesus Christ.
You had some extra fruit and you gave it to
them.
And they ate it.
And they threw that core in their own soil.
And it may have been real rocky soil, really
crappy soil.
But they chucked it in there.
And the fruit grew.
And it may have been just enough for them
to open up a bible.
Right?
So, you never know what works and what doesn't
work.
Because I guarantee you when you get into
the kingdom of God, you're not going to be
looking around saying, "Yep.
I saved that person and I saved that person
and I saved that person."
No you will not.
All praise, all glory, all power, all dominion
goes to Jesus Christ.
So, I pray this has been edifying.
I pray that it lightens your load.
You've been invited to the wedding supper
of the Lamb.
We travel light.
And we don't show up with our green bean casserole.
That's the study.
I've talked long enough.
I'm starting to lose my voice.
If something else comes up, let me know.
If you want me go over something with you
offline, feel free.
In the meantime, we continue to look up.
Because we are getting close.
Peace and grace be unto you.
Amen.
