Family Life ChurchTorah in Our Heartsby Family Life Church
Saturday Sermon · October 17, 2026

God Is Spirit—So Are We (Part 1)1

John 4:24 · Genesis 1–2 · Romans 8 · Romans 12

The Nature of the Spirit, the Inner Man, and the Restoration of God's Character

A full-length English blog adaptation of the teaching and the conversation that followed—on worship in spirit and truth, wounds of the inward life, the renewing of the mind, freedom from religious performance, and learning to express the character of Messiah.

Contents
About this edition. This is an extensive narrative adaptation rather than a short summary. It preserves the sermon's argument, illustrations, pastoral appeals, closing prayers, and the full post-sermon discussion, while smoothing the disjointed phrasing of speech-to-text captions. Names and theological terms such as Yahweh, Yeshua, Ruach, and Messiah are retained. Uncertain interpretations and personal testimony are identified as such. The verbatim English captions, including awkward or unclear automatic-transcription wording, remain accessible in the complete record at the end.

Opening worship and prayer · approximately 00:06–00:16

Before the Teaching: A Prayer for Light, Faithfulness, and the Narrow Way

We began with prayer for a world in which wickedness is seen day by day, and with the conviction that the Lord is coming. The prayer was not only for ourselves. It was for those who are blind, those who are lost, and those who are seeking but cannot find the way. “Lord, let Your salvation come into their lives.” On the way to worship, there had been people protesting. The prayer reflected on how easy it is for people to think they are fighting for what is right, to think they are on the righteous side. Yet righteousness does not come from our own claim to be righteous. Yahweh is righteous. The prayer was that those seeking righteousness would seek Him, because He is the way, the life, and the truth.

We asked for boldness not to be ashamed to carry and glorify His name in public, however challenging the days may become. Strengthen our faith. Help us stand in the gap, worship wherever we are, and remain faithful regardless of what life throws at us. The path is narrow. It will be difficult—more difficult even than the descent from Mount Monadnock that had become a vivid memory among us. The Lord is our strength and the lamp for our feet. For those who have found the narrow path and narrow gate, we prayed: keep us from becoming lost; continue to show us the way; feed us with Your Word, wisdom, and knowledge.

And for the people still in darkness, we asked for light. The prayer remembered coming out into an open space on the mountain and looking up at stars shining so brightly in the darkness. That became a picture of our desire for those who cannot yet see: let them find the light. Guard our hearts, minds, and souls; help us worship with all that we have. We prayed in the name of Yeshua, and for those who enter the Father's house to come to know His desire and learn to trust in Him rather than in their own works or the things of this world.

After worship, the beauty of the congregation's harmony brought another reflection. The beauty was not simply the sound, or how easily the voices flowed together. It was the gratitude of hearts responding to the beauty of God's presence among His people. We wanted to engage with Him—not just know about Him, but touch Him, draw near to Him. Moses had that desire. He had seen the fire, the miraculous works, and the extraordinary evidence of God, yet he wanted more: to see God Himself. Because no human being can see His face and live, God mercifully allowed Moses a glimpse of His passing glory from behind the rock. Even there, the longing was for God's presence, not merely the things He could do.

And consider the privilege given to the church. In earlier times, the anointing was especially upon priests, prophets, and kings. Through Yeshua, we are invited into the presence of the Father; the Holy Spirit dwells within His people and connects us to Him. We can say, “Abba, Father,” and thank Him for the victory given through His Son. Before beginning the message, we prayed again: Lord, let us lay down our own desires, surrender our will, and allow Your Spirit to move freely in our hearts, minds, and inner being. Shape us; chisel away what we still have not learned to release; reveal the Word and the deeper understanding You have for us. This community, gathered in this particular century for a purpose, exists to manifest Yeshua, not to glorify itself.

The central declaration · approximately 00:16–00:22

“God Is Spirit”—and Why That Changes How We Understand Ourselves

Beloved, we have all read the account of the Samaritan woman at the well. We could spend a long time inside that conversation. Yeshua was revealing something profound there, something that can awaken the inner man. It is possible to travel through Christianity and gradually become comfortable with religious patterns while missing the life that He was showing this woman. I encourage you to go back and read the whole account at home. Today I want to draw out one particular declaration.

“God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

John 4:24 · the declaration at the heart of the message

The title of this message is God Is Spirit—So Are We: The Nature of the Spirit, the Inner Man, and the Restoration of God's Character. Let those words settle in your heart: God is Spirit. Yeshua did not begin by telling the Samaritan woman what God possesses, or listing what He made, or describing how mighty His works have been. He revealed something about God's very nature. And then He spoke of worship—worship in spirit and in truth. These are three essential parts of the declaration: God is Spirit; He is to be worshiped in spirit; and worship must be in truth. We cannot reduce worship to eloquent words that do not connect to Him. The woman had many words and categories to work with, but Yeshua was pointing her beyond those categories into the reality of who God is.

Beloved, we must go beyond what our eyes can see. The carnal mind cannot simply examine a physical object, turn on a light, touch something, and say it has captured the Spirit. Yahweh cannot be reduced to the limitations of the material world. We can look at creation and recognize that Someone greater than creation stands behind it. But observing creation is not the same as knowing the fullness of the Creator's nature. A deeper encounter, revelation, and the work of His Spirit are necessary. When the Spirit dwells in us, our spirit can bear witness to what He reveals. This matters because understanding that God is Spirit opens the question of who we are and what it means to be made in His image.

The temptation to make God manageable · approximately 00:22–00:28

The Golden Calf and the Box of Religion

Think about Israel in Exodus 32:1. The people had witnessed the plagues, the sea opening, the fire, and the cloud. They had seen the mighty works of God, though they had not seen God Himself. When Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and demanded gods to go before them. Here were people who had experienced astonishing demonstrations of Yahweh's power, and yet, suddenly, they wanted something physical, something shaped and formed, something they could hold and point to: “That is my god.”

Beloved, do we not do the same thing in Christian society? We take God from the place where He belongs and try to fit Him into a box of religion—something we can manage, carry, measure, and control. But the presence of God cannot be contained in that kind of box. The astonishing blessing is that His Spirit lives in His people. Throughout the earlier Scriptures we see His presence manifested at the mountain and the tabernacle. He wanted to dwell among His creation, His people, His family. He wanted relationship.

Israel's calf turned a journey into freedom back toward slavery. Yahweh was leading them out of Egypt; He is not a God who delights in bondage. Yet human beings repeatedly turn back toward enslavement, even through religious practices and outward works. The sermon gave the cross as a deliberately challenging illustration: we can cling to a religious image while forgetting that the Messiah is no longer hanging on the cross—He has risen. The deeper issue was not simply an object in anyone's hand. It was how we sometimes reduce God to what we can possess, display, and govern.

We cannot measure the Creator by the same standards with which we measure created things. Physical sight is valuable, but it does not disclose everything about the One who is Spirit. Nor should we confuse seeing a miraculous act with truly knowing His character. That is why we must be willing to go further than the surface of the English word spirit.

Word, context, and revelation · approximately 00:28–00:33

Spirit, Breath, and Wind: Let Scripture Interpret Scripture

The Greek term used in John 4:24 is pneuma, Strong's G4151. According to context, the word may mean spirit, breath, or wind. But beloved, knowing a dictionary definition does not mean that we have received the full revelation Scripture is communicating. The disciples themselves had experiences that exposed their fear of what they thought might be a spirit—for instance, when Yeshua walked on the water. Merely knowing a term is not the same as understanding God's intention behind it.

We must read words in their biblical context and let Scripture interpret Scripture. Here is the question I want you to consider: If Yahweh is Spirit, and He created humanity in His image and likeness, what does that reveal about the human being? To answer, we go back to the beginning. The coming message in this series will deal further with the mind, wounds, and renewal; today lays the foundation for that deeper exploration. There are capacities within us that God formed for a reason, places where our thoughts and desires become the expression of our inward life. We must learn how His Spirit works there.

Genesis 1:26 and 2:7 · approximately 00:32–00:39

Formed from Dust, Given Life, Created for Relationship

Genesis 1:26 records God saying, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” Genesis 2:7 tells us how Yahweh formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, so that he became a living soul. Notice the distinction. The physical body was formed from the earth; then there was the divine act of giving life. Dust alone was not a living soul. The breath of life matters. And this creation carries a meaning that goes beyond the appearance of the physical body.

Why did God create humanity at all? He could have created something else, something that would mechanically do a job and never sin. If all He wanted was a form of entertainment, He could have made beings incapable of relationship. But He wanted something far more profound. He wanted sons and daughters who would know Him as Father. He wanted communication, love, growth, and a living relationship with His creation. “God wanted to be known as a Father,” the message insisted, returning to the sentence with palpable gratitude and worship.

Humanity was made in His image and likeness. We must understand that image in light of Yahweh's nature, character, and purpose. Scripture reveals wisdom, will, righteousness, love, holiness, the ability to establish purpose, and judgment. The point is not to claim that every human faculty is itself divine. It is that human beings were created with a unique capacity to know God, represent Him, and respond to Him. The inner life is the place where those capacities can become visible in a person's conduct.

Consider Adam. The preacher emphasized that Adam was not portrayed as a baby with no understanding of what was happening. God brought the animals to Adam and allowed him to name them. Think about what that implies in the sermon's reading: discernment, responsibility, and an ability to respond to what God placed before him. Parents teach their children the names of animals because the children must grow into that understanding. The account presents Adam as entrusted with real responsibility from the beginning. His purpose was to continue growing in his relationship with God and expressing the character of the One who formed him.

The inner man: mind, will, and emotions · approximately 00:39–00:53

The Inner Man: Where Our Character Becomes Visible

Beloved, now we arrive at the inner man. We are speaking about the inward dimension of our existence—the place of our thoughts, intentions, desires, decisions, attitudes, and emotional responses. Consider the mind: we think, understand, reason, and discern. Consider the will: we choose, intend, decide, and direct our actions. Consider our emotions: we experience joy, sorrow, compassion, anger, affection, and the pain of suffering. These are not unimportant details of being human. They help explain how the inward person is expressed in ordinary life.

God made us capable of feeling. He did not create robots to work in the garden. A machine may perform work without affection, sorrow, or the capacity for relationship. Humanity was made differently. God created us with a mind and a life that could know His greatness and love and respond to Him. But sin has affected the way those capacities function. The same mind that could discern truth can be shaped by destructive patterns. The same emotions that can express compassion can become governed by fear, bitterness, or anger. The same will that can choose obedience can repeatedly surrender to impulses that lead away from the Father.

Look at how the inward life appears outwardly. A person can have great physical strength, education, wealth, or influence and still be governed by pride, selfishness, bitterness, or lack of self-control. What someone possesses does not necessarily reveal the condition of the inner person. Our character becomes visible through how we think, choose, feel, speak, and act. By fruit we recognize what kind of life is being expressed.

Sometimes we see compassion so extraordinary that we call someone a hero. The preacher described a person jumping into the water to save a child and losing his own life in the attempt. People look at the act and say, “What a hero!” But the sermon asked us to consider the inward compassion behind the outward deed. Why would someone give up his own life for another person, even one outside his own family? The message located what is truly good in the goodness of God. When the Word of the kingdom fills us, love, righteousness, truth, and compassion should increasingly come out of us.

At the same time, having a mind, a will, and emotions is not itself a guarantee that we are expressing God's character. These faculties are dimensions through which character is revealed; they are not an excuse to declare every feeling holy or every preference righteous. The preacher returned to four marks repeatedly: righteousness, love, truth, and holiness. Righteousness directs us toward what is right. Love moves us toward another person's need. Truth refuses to use a lie to mislead another. Holiness means being set apart for God—not simply locking ourselves away from other human beings. Our separation to Him is a work of His Spirit in us. Yahweh chose us for a purpose, and His Ruach, His Holy Spirit, shapes us.

So the question is not merely whether we have these inward faculties. The question is: What governs them? Whose character are we expressing?

Wounds, patterns, and healing · approximately 00:39–00:46; developed throughout the message

Why We React the Way We Do: Wounds Hidden in the Inner Life

This is where the message became intensely personal. There are wounds and traumas that can shape the inward person long after the event that caused them. The preacher spoke of abuse, violence, suffering in childhood, and pain within families, including the suffering of a mother and the way it may affect a child. He described the enemy as taking advantage of these wounds, planting seeds of fear, anger, frustration, or bitterness that may later appear in our decisions and relationships. He also spoke of family patterns that seem to pass from one generation to the next. These were pastoral illustrations within the teaching, not a clinical explanation of every cause of trauma.

Think about the moments when somebody says something small and we react with anger far beyond the situation. Why did I respond that way? Why did that comment wound me so deeply? Why do I feel that I must protect myself or blame someone else? The message challenged us to look behind the reaction. Sometimes a person tries to justify the response, or covers the vulnerable place with more anger because nobody wants to feel hurt. But the Holy Spirit can bring the hidden place into the light.

“Holy Spirit, show me. Where is this anger coming from? Why is this frustration here? Why do I always react this way?” The preacher emphasized that not every immediate reaction should be explained away by saying “the devil made me do it.” The destructive pattern may already have been formed; now it operates almost automatically. Instead of denying the pattern, we must acknowledge it. Awareness is the beginning of restoration.

Adam's response after the fall later returned as an example. When God asked, “Where are you?” Adam spoke of being naked and afraid. Then he shifted blame toward the woman—indeed, toward the God who had given her to him. The preacher saw in this response a pattern still visible today: when pain is threatened, we protect ourselves by transferring fault to someone else. Why do I blame my spouse? Why am I defending this old place in my heart? There may be a fear, wound, or learned behavior beneath the accusation. The point is to invite God's truth into the inward place where the reaction begins.

Romans 12:2 calls us not to conform to the patterns of this world, but to be transformed through the renewal of our minds. Those patterns are not only the obvious activities other people can see; they can be inward habits that have become familiar. The preacher described the Word of God as a light, even a magnifying glass, through which the Spirit exposes what we have hidden or no longer notice. The Lord did not come merely to improve the appearance of the outside. He came to restore what was lost—to heal, renew, and free the inner man.

There is an important difference between ignoring a wound and bringing it to God for transformation. It is easy to say, “That is just the way I am,” and keep walking. But if that pattern is hurting other people—especially the people we love—then the consequences can spread. The preacher warned that an unattended seed can grow deep roots and affect our children and those closest to us. This is why he spoke with such urgency about the mind, the will, the emotions, and the need to yield them to the Spirit.

Romans 8:1–14 · approximately 00:53–01:14

Romans 8: The Flesh Does Not Have to Rule Us

To understand how Yahweh works within us, we turned to Romans 8. The congregation read aloud while the preacher stopped repeatedly to draw attention to the language. “There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.” Beloved, notice whom Paul is addressing: those who are in Messiah. It is not simply a label or a claim to be Christian; the life described is one that belongs to Him and is led by His Spirit.

Paul speaks of the law of the Spirit of life in Messiah Yeshua setting us free from the law of sin and death. The sermon contrasted the former bondage, human attempts to secure righteousness through works, and the freedom given through Messiah. It also reflected on the Torah's role in Israel's earlier journey and the continued challenge of the sinful nature. The preacher's main purpose in this reading was to show that the believer has received a different governing power: not slavery to fear or to the flesh, but the Spirit of life working within us.

Romans 8:3–4 speaks of what the law could not accomplish because of the weakness of the flesh, and of God sending His own Son so that righteousness might be fulfilled in those who walk according to the Spirit. The preacher saw Paul distinguishing two ways of life—one ruled by fleshly desire, the other governed by the Spirit. To walk according to the flesh is not merely to have a physical body. It is to allow a rebellious, self-gratifying pattern to govern the mind and conduct. To walk according to the Spirit is to come under the life, truth, and direction of God.

Romans 8:5–8 makes the contrast sharper. Those who live according to the flesh set their minds on fleshly things; those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. The carnal mind is hostile to God and cannot submit to His law. The sermon cautioned against hearing this as a simple statement that one wrong thought instantly causes physical death. The concern is a settled direction of the mind—a repeated giving over of one's life to evil desires. Beloved, what occupies and governs the mind matters.

In Romans 8:9 the language turns to the indwelling Spirit. Paul speaks of the Spirit of God and the Spirit of Messiah. The preacher paused here to emphasize that our foundation is Messiah's life in us. Yeshua Himself said that He did not come to do His own will but the Father's. His life was one of complete obedience and unity of purpose with the Father. The sermon also reflected on Job, who moved from having heard about God to a deeper revelation of Him through suffering. Knowing something of God and encountering His life are not the same thing.

Romans 8:10–11 describes the body as subject to death because of sin while the Spirit gives life because of righteousness, and promises life even to mortal bodies through the indwelling Spirit of the One who raised Yeshua. The preacher underlined this hope: God is not only concerned with some invisible dimension that has nothing to do with our actual lives. There is life for our mortal bodies and a final transformation still ahead. In the meantime, the inner person is to be built up in faith, righteousness, and hope. Even where there are old wounds and destructive desires, the Spirit can deal with what binds us.

Romans 8:12–13 says we are not debtors to the flesh to live according to it, and that by the Spirit we put to death the deeds of the body. This led to a practical challenge. If we cannot govern ourselves, how will we steward responsibility in the kingdom? Discipline is not the same as merely replacing one bad habit with another habit. That may change a pattern on the surface, and replacing a harmful act with a good one is valuable, but the deeper question remains: has the inner person been brought under the truth and direction of the Holy Spirit?

Our natural impulses do not have to govern our lives. Our desires do not have to determine our decisions. Our emotions do not have to dictate our conduct. The preacher returned to these sentences more than once because they are practical. We can feel something and still refuse to let it rule us. We can be wounded and still seek truth. We can be tempted and still choose to walk by the Spirit. The point is not that we achieve self-mastery by mere fleshly effort. It is that the Spirit of God leads us into a different kind of life.

“For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God” (Romans 8:14). Beloved, notice that word: led. Being led by the Spirit is not simply saying spiritual things, knowing religious phrases, carrying a large Bible, attending services, or demonstrating that we have studied in a seminary. Those things can have their value, but outward signs can also become a performance. It is the intimate relationship with Messiah, and the Word made visible in our conduct, that matters. Our thoughts must come under His truth, our decisions under His will, and our behavior under His righteousness.

An everyday illustration · approximately 01:09–01:12 and 01:26–01:29

A Beautiful House with a Hidden, Dirty Closet

Here is one of the strongest pictures from the sermon. We can keep the living room beautiful. We can clean the kitchen and prepare the rooms everyone is going to see. But there is a bathroom at the back of the house with cobwebs, or a closet stuffed with things we do not want anybody to find. When a visitor comes, the house looks wonderful. We simply make sure that nobody opens that door.

Beloved, that happens in our spiritual lives. We have learned how to appear clean. We know how to speak and how to act in front of the congregation. But we have placed something painful under the rug or behind the closet door. We tell ourselves nobody will go there. The preacher's warning was that ignoring the hidden mess is not the same as putting it to death. The enemy knows where the unresolved wound remains, and he can exploit our fear of exposure.

The preacher spoke of having seen ministers preach powerfully while still wrestling with private bondage—for example, stepping away to smoke a cigarette because of a compulsion they had not yet understood or overcome. His point was not that one example defines a person's spiritual condition. His point was that visible ministry and genuine unresolved struggles can coexist. We must ask, in humility, “Why am I doing this? What is this trying to satisfy? Why is this response controlling me?”

There is another picture from the world of real estate. You walk into a beautiful home. Everything is arranged perfectly. But when someone opens a closet, all the clutter is hidden inside. We can laugh, because we have seen the same thing in ordinary life. But the spiritual truth is serious. We need to say, “Father, this thing dominates me. I do not know where it started. Maybe it came through something that happened when I was a child. Maybe it is bound up with pain in my family. I do not understand it. But You know. Show me. Help me. I need to be free.”

It is not shame that heals the hidden place. Nor does pretending the problem is not there. Healing begins when we stop guarding the closet and allow the truth of Yahweh to reach it. That picture would return powerfully in the discussion after the closing prayer.

Galatians 2:20 · approximately 01:14–01:19

Not Becoming God, but Letting Messiah Live in Us

The preacher paused to make an essential distinction. Humanity bears God's image, and the Spirit of God works within believers, but that does not mean human beings become God or that our minds, wills, and emotions become divine in themselves. The Spirit of God bears witness with our spirit; those are not simply the same thing. We are called into fellowship with the Father and made representatives, ambassadors, of His kingdom. The character we display is meant to point to Him, not to make ourselves objects of worship.

In Galatians 2:20, Paul declares that he has been crucified with Messiah and that Messiah lives in him. As the passage was read aloud from a translation that spoke of the Messiah being executed on a stake, it emphasized Paul's “proud ego” no longer living. The preacher reflected on the transformation of a man who had known so much religion and possessed so much learning, yet came to speak not of himself but of Messiah living within him.

“I no longer live, but Messiah lives in me.” We must not treat this merely as a beautiful sentence. It points to the old self losing its claim to govern the person. Yet we may still carry wounds and patterns that need to be sifted out by the Spirit and the Word. We may refuse to look at them, and when we refuse, painful consequences can grow. The message urged believers to consider how their own character and choices are influencing the next generation. Our children, loved ones, and communities do not just hear what we say; they experience who we are becoming.

Here is the good news: we do not have to remain under the rule of what wounded us. Through Yeshua, we can surrender the old person and increasingly express the life of Messiah. The aim is not to perform a more religious personality, but for His love, truth, righteousness, and holiness to become real in our thoughts and actions.

Romans 8:15–16 · approximately 01:19–01:23

From Bondage to Adoption: The Spirit Bears Witness with Our Spirit

Romans 8 does not end with a command to resist the flesh. Paul speaks of our new relationship with the Father. “You did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear,” he says, but the Spirit of adoption, through whom we cry, “Abba, Father.” This is not merely a new religious status. It is a new relationship—a change of identity, loyalty, direction, and belonging.

Then verse 16 says that the Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God. The preacher returned to that distinction carefully. Paul does not say that our human spirit is identical to the Spirit of God. He describes a relationship between the Holy Spirit and the human spirit of the believer. The Spirit leads us, assures us of our adoption, and helps us recognize when our responses are not aligned with the Father's character.

Beloved, this matters when we become aware of an old anger, fear, or compulsion. We do not need to say, “I am beyond help,” nor should we say, “Whatever I feel must be God's will.” Instead, the child of God can acknowledge the problem and bring it to the Father. “I do not know why this happened in me. Holy Spirit, help me.” The preacher called that acknowledgment the beginning of restoration.

Romans 12:2 and the renewing of the mind · approximately 01:23–01:29

The Fall Distorted the Expression of God's Character; Renewal Restores It

If Yahweh made humanity in His image and likeness, what happened to the expression of His character when Adam sinned? The fall broke humanity's relationship with Yahweh and brought sin and death into human experience. The sermon recalled the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and the way sinful experience affects our desires, our reasoning, and our relationships. The issue is not simply whether humans continue to bear some sense of God's image. It is how that image is expressed when the mind, will, emotions, and desires have been wounded and distorted.

We should not assume that every thought we think, every desire we feel, or every decision we make reflects God. This is why renewal is necessary. Romans 12:2 moves the focus beyond outward behavior to the renewing of the mind. The way we think, discern, understand, choose, and respond must come under the truth of Yahweh again. Through Yeshua we are reconciled to the Father, and through the Spirit we are empowered to walk in newness of life.

Beloved, every day can be a new beginning. A new day. A new season. A fresh opportunity to surrender the mind and let the Word sanctify us. Why should we let the enemy beat us down with shame? And when he is not beating us down, why do we do the same thing to ourselves—“I am not worthy; I will never change”? The preacher urged the congregation not to give that accusation the last word. Yahweh has called His people; we did not appoint ourselves. The invitation is to allow His Word to reach the deepest places of our lives and to shape the character that emerges from them.

Putting off the old way of life is more than learning religious vocabulary or improving the outer appearance. It means allowing truth into the inward places we would prefer to protect. If an old pattern dominates us, we can confess that honestly and ask God to disclose what we have not yet understood. His purpose is freedom, not a carefully maintained illusion of spiritual perfection.

The danger of religious comfort · approximately 01:29–01:34

Religion Can Become Comfortable While the Inner Man Remains Unchanged

Beloved, there is a real danger in becoming comfortable with religion. We can attend services, take part in spiritual activities, know the right language, and settle into a routine that looks faithful without letting the truth penetrate our character. A life of religious activity is not necessarily a life surrendered to the Holy Spirit. The preacher recalled the Pharisees, who were regarded as holy and followed by others, yet were confronted by Yeshua Himself.

He also recalled the sobering words spoken to people who appeal to the mighty works they performed in the Lord's name but hear, “I never knew you.” And he remembered the disciples returning with excitement over extraordinary spiritual authority, while Yeshua directed them to rejoice that their names were written in heaven. The warning was not against serving or ministering. It was against measuring our relationship with Yahweh only by performance, appearance, or spectacular gifts.

There is a difference between knowing about Yahweh and allowing His truth to govern our lives. There is a difference between participating in religious practice and experiencing real transformation. And there is a difference between claiming to reflect His image and allowing our daily conduct to demonstrate His righteousness, love, holiness, truth, and obedience.

The preacher asked a difficult set of questions: Do I live the message I preach? Am I practicing it? Does the Word actually measure my own conduct? Can the power of that Word bear witness in my life as a testimony? Or am I asking people to admire my spirituality while leaving the deeper rooms of my soul untouched?

Yahweh calls us further: toward a renewed mind, a transformed heart, a surrendered will, and a life increasingly governed by His Spirit and truth. The question is not just whether we know Scripture. It is whether Scripture is transforming the person we are becoming.

Seeing with the eyes of the Spirit · approximately 01:34–01:41

Learning to See Beyond Outward Appearance

To seek truth through the eyes of the Spirit is to look beyond outward appearance, religious performance, and our own assumptions. Job became an example again: through his experience with Yahweh, he encountered a depth of revelation that information alone could not give. The preacher prayed to be examined and measured by God, to stand in true fear of the Lord—the beginning of wisdom—rather than in a comfortable assumption of his own maturity.

We must let Yahweh examine our motives. What governs the way we think? How do we make decisions? How do we treat people? How do we respond to adversity? How do we walk in truth and righteousness when nobody is watching? Spiritual maturity is not measured only by what we claim to possess. It is revealed by what our lives demonstrate. As we behold the glory of the Lord and are transformed from glory to glory, renewal in the inner man should become visible in our choices, speech, compassion, and conduct.

That brings the teaching back to its beginning. Yahweh is Spirit. Humanity was created in His image and likeness. Sin damaged our relationship with Him and distorted how His character is expressed in us. Through Yeshua, and through the work of the Holy Spirit, we are called to reconciliation, renewal, and transformation. The question we carry home is this:

If someone could look beyond our religious activities and examine the condition of our inner man, would they see a life being transformed by the truth and the Spirit of Yahweh—or merely a life that has become comfortable with religion?

Ask Yahweh to renew your mind, transform your heart, bring your will under His truth, and teach you to walk by the Spirit. Understanding that God is Spirit is only the beginning. The deeper revelation is discovering how relationship with Him transforms the life within us and makes His character visible in who we are becoming in Yeshua.

Our inner lives are not supposed to be mechanical. God could have made us robots without feelings. Instead, He gave us the ability to think, feel, love, grieve, respond, and testify. The preacher returned to the words about a spirit not of fear but of power and a sound mind. We are to use that sound mind for God's glory, not remain controlled by wounds and fear. We are instruments in His hand, chosen to express His kingdom.

A personal appeal and closing prayer · approximately 01:41–01:49

“I Am Human Just Like You”: Vulnerability Before Yahweh

Before praying, the preacher made himself vulnerable. “Just because I stand behind the pulpit does not mean I am the holy of holies.” He described himself as a man still striving toward holiness, with weaknesses, challenges, wounds, and giants he was still learning to face. The tools for overcoming those giants come from the Spirit of God. To pretend that we have no weaknesses is to leave those giants unchallenged. We need courage to say, “Lord, I know I am weak here. I am tempted here. I do not understand why I react this way. Show me.”

Beloved, vulnerability is not something to despise. It is a place where the Spirit can work. The preacher pointed to God's strength in our weakness and to the childlike openness Yeshua calls for. He reminded the community that they must not let their weaknesses convince them they are unworthy of God's love. Yahweh called them. They did not call themselves. The purpose of that calling is not to preserve a religious history but to grow into the life He desires, expressing Messiah through every aspect of the person.

The closing prayer returned to gratitude for the Father's holiness and righteousness and for the victory of Yeshua. We surrendered soul, life, mind, and will. We thanked Him that through Messiah we are made able to stand in His presence without shame, and that His righteousness and holiness are gifts we are called to live out. The preacher prayed for each brother and sister, for the seed of the Word to grow, and for fire to be kindled within them as the journey of transformation continues.

He prayed against the lies, deceptions, hidden wounds, and sorrow that we try to cover so nobody else will see. The Father sees it all. In His presence, like Adam, we are exposed. Yet we need not run from Him. “Father, thank You that You are showing us who we are and shaping us into the image of Christ.” He asked that the Word and Spirit bear witness in the inner person and lift believers above their battles, that they might see the promised land through Yeshua and experience a joy that surpasses understanding. The community answered, “Amen.”

Discussion after the message · approximately 01:49–02:07

After the Sermon: The Conversation Continues

The gathering did not end with the “Amen.” What followed was a meaningful conversation in which another participant, the preacher, and then another participant returned to the images of Adam, the hidden closet, inward renewal, and spiritual sight. These exchanges were not an unrelated appendix. They deepened the teaching and brought personal experience into it.

1. Adam's Nakedness, Shame, and the Dead Body We Keep Trying to Dress

One participant began by reflecting on God's question to Adam: “Where are you?” Adam had always been physically naked. The change after the fall was that nakedness had become associated with shame. For the first time, Adam was ashamed of what he had been. The participant connected that insight to Romans 8 and to the message's language about the body being dead because of sin. So much of our effort, he suggested, is spent dressing up the dead body, making it look good, and protecting its appearance, while neglecting the new spiritual life given to us by the Father.

He spoke from personal experience and the experience of friends. What happens when someone finally opens the closet and tells the truth about the hidden sins, wounds, and things nobody wants to reveal? He remembered a brother opening that closet in the presence of others, including a pastor. Rather than seeing a person condemned by exposure, those present experienced a person speaking as someone made new. The one telling the truth was not simply the old dead life attempting to defend itself. It was a person who could speak honestly about that old life without being ruled by shame.

The participant put the insight sharply: when you take that step of faith, you may discover there is no need to be ashamed of what has been put to death. The old life does not need to be dressed and protected. It needs to be brought into the light. Freedom and peace follow when you stop defending it.

2. The Preacher's Response: Exposure, Healing, and True Freedom

The preacher immediately agreed with the essential point: shame keeps growing when we try to protect the old life. A dead body is not something to preserve behind a locked door. It needs to be exposed so the hidden place can be healed. “Healing only comes when things are exposed,” he said, pressing the image again. The struggle often begins with the desire to protect ourselves, to keep people from knowing, or to maintain an outwardly acceptable image.

He then shared a personal testimony. He had gone through different programs and had sought help through psychology and psychiatry, but in his experience he still felt bound; he felt that the inward spiritual issue had not been reached. When he encountered Messiah, he described a decisive moment of exposure before God and a freedom and joy that he said he experienced immediately. He spoke with great intensity about the peace of God overcoming even fear of death, and connected that courage to the disciples who suffered and died rather than abandon their calling. This was his personal testimony about the kind of freedom he experienced, not a claim that professional mental health care is without value for others.

From there he returned to a concern about Christian culture. Much of the world teaches us to care about the outside—how we appear, how we behave, how others see us. Even religious systems can teach us routines that restrain behavior while leaving the inward person untouched. There is a place for structure and for teaching people not to practice sin, he said, but it is not sufficient. Sin is more than its outward expression; the mind, will, and emotions require transformation. The flesh is what others can see. The inward roots must be brought before Yahweh.

The preacher emphasized Romans 12:2 again: do not conform to this world's patterns; be transformed by the renewing of the mind. The character and personality of God are to take shape where the inward life is formed, until people can actually see Christ reflected in us. The world needs to see His character. People are wounded by religion when it becomes merely a psychological routine of outward appearances and familiar religious emotions.

He confessed that he too still had patterns that needed transformation. He was willing to admit them because freedom mattered more than appearing perfect. “I want to enjoy the peace. I want to be free to express the Messiah every day of my life.” That, for him, was the practical meaning of the renewal of the mind.

3. “The Apple of His Eye”: Seeing Ourselves as Precious to the Father

In the conversation the preacher also responded to something someone had shared earlier that morning about perseverance and personal testimony, though the captions do not clearly preserve the whole earlier account. He returned to the question of how we see ourselves in God's eyes. Scripture calls His people precious—“the apple of His eye.” What would happen if we truly received that? If the Creator calls us precious, beloved, that should awaken gratitude, joy, and worship. We come from a world marked by sin, yet He chose to show us His honor and love. We should ask the Holy Spirit to open the eyes of our inner man, so that we can recognize both the value He places on us and the calling He has given us.

4. A Participant Shares a Testimony About Spiritual Sight

Another participant offered a personal reflection and introduced it with an important qualification: this was not presented as “thus says the Lord.” It was an insight that had come to her as she reflected on something she had heard, and she wanted the group to pray and seek more understanding.

She described watching a video about a man who said that he had been dedicated to Satanism before birth and raised apart from ordinary society within a deeply destructive spiritual environment. According to the man's account as she related it, he had been taught to perceive spiritual beings and had described demonic figures that appeared to him as exceptionally tall, humanlike beings. She found his account striking because he had later come to Messiah and spoken about being transformed from that life. The gathering was hearing her report of a video testimony, not independently verified evidence of the details in that video.

Several days later, while praying and thinking about healing, the memory of that man's description returned to her. She began to consider the Gospel account in Mark 8:22–26, where Yeshua heals a blind man and the man initially reports seeing people who look like trees walking, before his sight becomes clear. She had previously wondered why the healing seemed to take two stages: had Yeshua not healed him completely the first time? Was there something more in the account?

As she prayed, she wondered whether the initial stage might depict the opening of the man's spiritual sight before the restoration of his natural sight. She connected “men like trees” with the earlier man's description of tall, humanlike spiritual beings. She presented this as a possible insight she believed had come while praying, and said she had immediately shared it with Ismael, who was preparing the message. They discussed it and considered it potentially connected to the teaching on the inner man and spiritual vision. Both wanted to seek further understanding.

5. The Preacher Reflects on Mark 8 and the Meaning of Seeing

The preacher responded by noting that some teachings treat the two-stage account as a model of healing that must always be progressive. He did not agree that the passage should be used to imply that Yeshua had failed at first and succeeded on a second try. He urged the group to consider whether the event could be revealing something deeper than an incomplete first attempt. The proposed reading—that the man's first sight had involved a spiritual perception before ordinary physical clarity—was discussed enthusiastically as something to explore, not established by the text alone.

He lingered over the words “I see men like trees” and asked how the man identified them as men. He reflected that our natural senses and our capacity to discern spiritual realities are not identical, and that opening the inner person is central to receiving the truth of Yeshua. When someone comes to Messiah, he argued, something inward is opened before faith becomes more than simply observing an attractive religious idea. The Spirit enables the person to receive.

The conversation returned once more to purpose. We were called to express Messiah. Messiah is King of His kingdom. What we do as His people is bring the life of His kingdom into the world by allowing Him to be expressed through us. The speaker compared the deliberate training described in the video testimony—training said to be set apart for darkness—with the believer's calling to be set apart for Yahweh. The final words did not resolve every question. They pointed toward further study, discernment, and the continuation of the conversation.

Reading note: The interpretation of Mark 8:22–26 involving an initial view into the spiritual realm is an interpretation proposed during the discussion, not a statement explicitly made by the Gospel passage. It is presented here as part of the speakers' actual exchange, in the spirit in which they offered it: an insight to explore and test, not an established biblical fact.

Questions to carry into prayer

What Will the Spirit Find When He Opens the Door?

Beloved, the heart of this message is not that we have mastered every answer. It is that Yahweh is Spirit, and we were created to know Him and reflect His character. The physical world and the outward religious life cannot contain the fullness of that calling. He wants the truth to reach our minds, wills, emotions, motivations, and hidden places. He wants to expose what is wounded, free what is bound, and restore us from the inside out.

Do not be satisfied with a beautiful front room and a locked closet. Do not spend your life trying to dress the old dead body in respectable clothes. Do not conclude that the wounds and patterns of the past must rule your future. Bring the whole person into the presence of the Father: the mind that still needs renewing, the will that needs surrendering, the emotions that still need healing, and the love that needs to grow.

And remember the question we began with: if Yahweh is Spirit, and humanity was made in His image and likeness, what does it mean to live as His child? It means more than saying that we are spiritual. It means learning, day by day, to be led by the Spirit so that the character of Messiah is visible in the person we are becoming.

May the Holy Spirit open our understanding, lead us into truth, and make us free to express Yeshua—no longer governed by fear or shame, but growing in the love, righteousness, holiness, and life of our Father. Amen.

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Opening prayer

  1. 00:00:11Test test
  2. 00:06:03Some wicked and wicked day by day, and we know that you are coming
  3. 00:06:13but Lord y'all shall washan is here I pray for those that who are blind I pray for those who are lost.
  4. 00:06:19I pray for those, Lord, that are seeking, but they couldn't find a way.
  5. 00:06:33I pray your salvation come you come to our to their lives, Lord as on our way to worship you today, Lord
  6. 00:06:41I saw so many that are protesting they don't know what they're protesting about
  7. 00:06:47they think that they're fighting for the righteous that
  8. 00:06:53they think they're on the right side, but Lord, whoever's on your side are on the right side not on the righteous
  9. 00:06:57, not that they think that they're righteous, Lord, you are righteous
  10. 00:07:01so I pray for those that sick righteous did they come to seek you because you're the way you're alive
  11. 00:07:07and you're the truth, but let us not to shame to bring your name and glorify your name in front of the people in front of the public
  12. 00:07:15Lord no matter how challenges how challenging
  13. 00:07:27the days it seems help us help us to string our faith help us to stand in the gap help us to worship you no matter where
  14. 00:07:29we are help us to carry out your name no matter how big the challenges it seems no matter how life throw at us help us to remain faithful
  15. 00:07:41because the path, the way to the place where you are now it will be tough it will be narrow it will be tougher than that
  16. 00:07:52our way to climb down to the Mount Man enough it will be much tougher
  17. 00:08:03but help us, Lord, because you are our strength you are our Lamb of our feet
  18. 00:08:09so I pray, Lord strengthen us for those Lord that found the right way
  19. 00:08:16and that narrow path to that narrow gate continue to hold us
  20. 00:08:22in your lane, Lord, help us not get lost continue to show us the way, Lord keep us the wisdom, continue to feed us your words and your knowledge
  21. 00:08:26and I continue to pray for those that are lost, Lord. I truly feel for them, Lord that they are lost
  22. 00:08:35they're in the darkness they couldn't see the light help up help them to find that light
  23. 00:08:44just as we climb up to that open space that opening that we look up
  24. 00:08:56we see those stars are so bright and so shining in the darkness Lord us define help those that are lost
  25. 00:08:59find you so we we feel for them Lord we continue to pray for them we also pray for ourselves
  26. 00:09:06protect our God, our heart, our mind and our soul, help us to worship you with everything that we have.
  27. 00:09:18So we pray in your Son Yeshua's name. Amending us what you care for thank you for reminding.
  28. 00:09:29For what you can increase your house that we may serve your people
  29. 00:09:36Bring them into the understanding of your desire so that they come to trust in you not in their works none of the things of the world cutting you are a major.
  30. 00:10:20Oh my so awesome awesome father okay okay

Worship reflection and prayer before the message

  1. 00:11:31God is awesome, awesome worship as we were worshipping I gave us I gave you some thoughts I said wow you know it's beautiful
  2. 00:11:52As we were worshiping, I was thinking wow how beautiful the harmony of the body when it comes together but not only just to hear the harmony kind of flow easy
  3. 00:12:07it's not that it's how the heart is expressing the gratitude the beauty of God's presence in the midst of His people
  4. 00:12:22and us wanting to engage with Him in a way that we want to touch Him
  5. 00:12:31sometimes Moses had that desire Moses he had a powerful strong desire in him that he wanted to see God he wanted to see God
  6. 00:12:36it was not enough to see just the fire and just to see the miraculous taking place
  7. 00:12:45no he wanted to see the face of God to that extent
  8. 00:12:50that said Moses you know I can't show you my face because if I show you my face there's there
  9. 00:12:53hasn't been a human being that will be able to see my face and live
  10. 00:13:05you know so God was so merciful, so loving with Moses that He developed a way to symbolically show his figure to Moses
  11. 00:13:08he said go behind the rock and threw that little crack you just look through them
  12. 00:13:18you'll be able to see at least the back of my face and that was just only a manifestation of God's presence
  13. 00:13:22belove it in the beauty of all this as we pray is the Holy Spirit that dwells
  14. 00:13:34in our life as to connect us to connect us in a way with the Father before the church started
  15. 00:13:42it was just only the priest the prophets and the kings carried that blessing of the anointing upon them, not in them beloved
  16. 00:13:50and now that we as a church have given the privilege that we could stand in the presence of our Father
  17. 00:14:00and say Abba Father thank you for the victory that you have given us to your son Yeshua that is very profound and very deep
  18. 00:14:06and we're going to go into some specific topics below it but before this I start to kind of dive into it
  19. 00:14:19I want to pray I want to pray as let the Lord lead every one of our hearts, our desires
  20. 00:14:30that will be laid down and allow the Spirit to move freely in our hearts, in our mind, in our Spirit in the inner man
  21. 00:14:37in which God has shaped and form in us by the word of life love it
  22. 00:14:48because each and every one of us here have the Spirit of life and the Word feeds that Spirit constantly
  23. 00:14:53so that our Spirit and the Spirit of God itself could bear witness together and understand God's purpose and plan.
  24. 00:15:03Amen. So let's pray heavily Father we humble our hearts our mind, our will, our desire to please you, Father is not about us it's about Father the victory
  25. 00:15:14and the manifestation of your Son Yeshua through us, the church this more community that you have formed for a reason
  26. 00:15:24and for the time that we're living, you could inform this Father in the time of the disciples, but you gave us the privilege that we live in this century
  27. 00:15:32we give you praise and glory because it's about you, not about us we humble ourselves
  28. 00:15:41to serve you let your precious Holy Spirit that is in each and every one of us,
  29. 00:15:48Father, it rises up to the understanding, rises up to the deepest revelation
  30. 00:15:54in which you want to reveal every day to us shape us, inform us
  31. 00:16:01chisel from us, God the things that we haven't learned
  32. 00:16:06how to release or be able to see or understand, Lord, that we will be able to grasp and partake of that understanding
  33. 00:16:10of that revelation of your word let this word of God that you bring today, your Spirit reveal it
  34. 00:16:21to us, God in the mighty precious name of your Son who Father You have given us to stand in that name through His victory in Jesus' mighty name.
  35. 00:16:32Amen, Amen praise God. God is awesome beloved

The declaration: God is Spirit

  1. 00:16:43it's I was reading we all have read the story about the woman of the well.
  2. 00:16:46I'm not going to go into the story of the woman of the well
  3. 00:16:54, but there's a deep revelation in that conversation that Jesus had that Jesus had with the woman of the will
  4. 00:17:01that story, beloved, has a deep light in which we have to go back some time
  5. 00:17:10and review exactly the conversation that Jesus had with the woman of the well.
  6. 00:17:16There is a profound, very deep profound revelation there, beloved that reveals our life
  7. 00:17:24that reveals not only just our life, but the inner man aspect that God is trying to awaken in us there's some time through the journey of Christianity
  8. 00:17:32we miss understanding of it and we live a journey of religion and we easily fall into patterns and comfort of religion's life
  9. 00:17:45but that's why Jesus had that conversation with that woman very, very clear to awaking the truth in their life.
  10. 00:17:54Love it's very profound, very profound but I'm not going to go into the story.
  11. 00:18:01I want you to take that story and read it at home. I'm going to go into a specific clue that Jesus have brought forward, beloved.
  12. 00:18:05And the title that I gave my message beloved as I was reading this, it says God is Spirit
  13. 00:18:27so are we God is Spirit so are we the nature of the Spirit the inner man and the restoration of God's character
  14. 00:18:40I'll say this again God's Spirit so are we the nature of the Spirit the inner man and the restoration of God's character
  15. 00:18:50God is Spirit Beloved. Understand this that was one of the key factors that Jesus brought to the Samaritan woman
  16. 00:19:04, and then sometimes when we read it just it flies right over us and it is very profound
  17. 00:19:09Going beyond what the eyes can see going beyond what eyes can see
  18. 00:19:26I'm going to bring you to understanding, my beloved, today I want us to go deeper into the declaration.
  19. 00:19:30This is a declaration that Yeshua made in John four twenty four, and we're going to read that piece right there
  20. 00:19:40along, and this is what the word of God said very clear to this woman through Joshua God is Spirit
  21. 00:19:52and they that worship him must worship him and in spirit
  22. 00:20:00and in truth three key factors very important three key
  23. 00:20:05factor one that God is Spirit, which is the most important thing, beloved the most important thing
  24. 00:20:11in they that worship we're talking about worship worship him must worship him in Spirit
  25. 00:20:19and truth. There's an aspect of worship there's an aspect of being in the Spirit and there's an aspect of truth
  26. 00:20:31and these are very three factors that could only be dealt with the Spirit
  27. 00:20:41it's very clear notice that Yeshua does not begin by describing what God possesses
  28. 00:20:46oh God is mighty God no no we have that we tend
  29. 00:20:54to elaborate too many words beloved too many words but in reality wis the connection of those words that woman had too many words there was no
  30. 00:21:02connection this is very important to understand
  31. 00:21:16you see it says notice that Joshua does not begin by describing what God possessed what he has created or what he has done
  32. 00:21:24he reveals something about the very nature of God. God is Spirit it didn't say okay
  33. 00:21:31you know our father's sitting on the throne he's up there and then you know I'm going to go see him
  34. 00:21:36we could be able to see him no he didn't lever no God is Spirit
  35. 00:21:48He's talking to this woman about something that human eyes cannot see and that a mind or carnal mind cannot comprehend
  36. 00:21:50beloved it's something that you could say okay there's a spirit I'll turn a light and I'm going to burn the spirit no
  37. 00:21:58it's something that you cannot fathom you cannot touch beloved and this is the beauty
  38. 00:22:08because when we get to understand the aspect of God is Spirit then you get to understand who you are
  39. 00:22:17and that's very important if Yahweh is spirit his nature cannot be reduced to the limitations of this material world.
  40. 00:22:27Please, we know this happen in Exodus. And this is where things start
  41. 00:22:39in Exodus thirty two verse one if you could look this up here
  42. 00:22:45we see God's people here we see God's people walking with God
  43. 00:22:53they didn't see God they saw the fire they didn't see God they saw the cloud they didn't see God they saw the sea open beloved they didn't see God
  44. 00:22:58but they saw the ten plagues I want you to understand this
  45. 00:23:13but all of a suddenly beloved coming to an end of their destiny about to enter into a promised land to continue the journey
  46. 00:23:16look what it says please somebody read it Exodus thirty two one right Exodus thirty two verse one
  47. 00:23:31Now the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain the people gathered together
  48. 00:23:41to Aaron and said to him, come make us gods that shall go before us. For as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt
  49. 00:23:49we do not know what has become of him, beloved
  50. 00:23:59, these are people that have seen the power and the mighty works of God in action not seeing God,
  51. 00:24:01but seeing the power and the mighty works of God in front of their eyes
  52. 00:24:11so there's something there in which they could be able to relate to, and while a suddenly they turn around
  53. 00:24:14and they need something more shaped and formed that there could be tangible to hold on and say that's my God
  54. 00:24:25I want you to understand that happens within Christian society, beloved
  55. 00:24:37we bring God from where He is and where He belongs and how God moves and who is God into a box of religion into a box of religion beloved
  56. 00:24:43you cannot contain the presence of God in a box the only one that contains the presence of God is in you by the Spirit beloved
  57. 00:24:56nothing else could contain God and we know the stories in the Old Testament how
  58. 00:25:07God moved He was in the mountain then he became of the tabernacle beloved for his people
  59. 00:25:13God wanted to live with His creation God wanted to have a deeper relationship with His people with His family who he created for purpose
  60. 00:25:21See.
  61. 00:25:23We cannot examine a physical object and conclude that we have discovered the nature of Yahweh. That's what they did
  62. 00:25:41they made the calf that calf is going to take us they broke
  63. 00:25:51God from the place that God belongs into an actual natural place where they can easily manage and be able to carry on become slave
  64. 00:25:55to it, beloved, God doesn't want us to be slave God wants to be free. That's why
  65. 00:26:04He was taking us out of the out of the Egypt into a promised land
  66. 00:26:11freedom God always God is a God of freedom God is not a god of slavery we bring them back into slavery
  67. 00:26:17again by doing works, religious practices, and so many different things, including crosses we put Christ back into the cross
  68. 00:26:23beloved it is totally wrong. Oh I'm carrying the cross. Hey, he's no long in the cross.
  69. 00:26:31He has resurrected beloved and we carry cross there's something wrong with the cross.
  70. 00:26:37I'm not only speaking about the cross I'm speaking about our actions
  71. 00:26:45how do we change God from His place into a place that we could easily manage and control
  72. 00:26:51beloved and once you to understand this we cannot measure him as we measure material things
  73. 00:27:01or contain him within the boundaries of creation our nature our natural eyes can observe the physical world
  74. 00:27:11but the physical world alone cannot be revealed the fullness of God's nature everything we see okay
  75. 00:27:19we say like the Bible say the heavens and the earth was created
  76. 00:27:24so that we could be able to say oh there's somebody greater than that beloved
  77. 00:27:29that is just in general where people could be able to observe and understand
  78. 00:27:33wow but nobody will get to know the real nature of God unless they have an encounter unless they have a revelation unless the Spirit of God dwells in them
  79. 00:27:39so they be able to bear witness in this spirit who you really are in Christ beloved sharing with you
  80. 00:27:54therefore if we are going to understand what Jesua is revealing, we must look beyond the surface of the English word
  81. 00:28:04spirit, beloved. We have to go beyond that. We say spirit oh and wow this is what we understand about Spirit
  82. 00:28:12the disciples themselves walked, saw the experience when Jesus walked over the water
  83. 00:28:22what was bothering them, what disturbed their heart fear oh there's a spirit there were fear to see a spirit
  84. 00:28:25and they knew and understand much deeper than what we understand what is this spirit beloved they knew
  85. 00:28:32but I'm not going to go in that that's a different topic but look at this
  86. 00:28:40the Greek word used in John four twenty four is pilma. You'll find that in G forty one fifty one beloved
  87. 00:28:47depending on the context, it can mean spirit, breath, or wind depending on the context, these three things you can look it up.
  88. 00:28:57It's right there but knowing the definition of word is not the same as understanding the full revelation communicated through the scripture
  89. 00:29:08that's the key. Remember the Scripture itself interpret scripture and we're going to go through this
  90. 00:29:20we must examine the word in its biblical context and allow scripture to reveal what it teaches about Yahweh aches about Yahweh
  91. 00:29:36here is the question I want you to consider if Yahweh is spirit and created humanity in his image
  92. 00:29:48and likeness what does that reveal about human being? What does that reveal about human being
  93. 00:29:58if God is a spirit and he created man to his image and likeness what's the first thing that comes to your mind now?
  94. 00:30:06Look at this to answer that question we must go back into the beginning beloved and it's there sometimes we say, wow, wait a minute, it's there in the beginning it's
  95. 00:30:16Created at his image of likeness, we have to understand this very clever of it.
  96. 00:30:26The reason why I'm sharing this message because this message have the two part series that I've been working on, and this the second part is

Genesis, human nature, and the inner man

  1. 00:30:34what's going to review deeper now I want you to bring up for a moment that slide. And that's part of my second message
  2. 00:30:44if you could you could just open in the other player, beloved, this here, this here you don't need okay
  3. 00:30:58the mine the wounds and the renewal it's very, very vital, very important beloved, very, very important
  4. 00:31:10we don't know exactly how powerful God made us for a reason how God developed us for a reason, beloved
  5. 00:31:19where it shaped in form the Spirit of God and where how He operates by dimensional in within our soul, our inner man, beloved.
  6. 00:31:24This is very, very powerful. We're going to talk about this because this is very powerful for the next week
  7. 00:31:30and it has its own topics and things but this message today is going to walk you step by step, beloved I want you to understand
  8. 00:31:40But knowing the definition of the word is not the same
  9. 00:31:52as understanding the full revelation communicated through the scripture, we must examine the word in his biblical context
  10. 00:31:57and allow Scripture to reveal what it teaches about Yahweh.
  11. 00:32:07Here the question I want you to consider if Yahweh is spirit and created humanity in his image
  12. 00:32:12and likeness, what does that reveal about human being?
  13. 00:32:18To the answer to the question, we must go back to Genesis, and this is where we're at in Genesis one verse twenty six one verse twenty six
  14. 00:32:21And I'll read it it says, and God said I want you to understand
  15. 00:32:47no one else said is God the Creator God Himself our Father, the Creator
  16. 00:32:54Set let us make man in our image after our likeness after our likeness, beloved my beloved Yahweh created humanity in his image and likeness
  17. 00:33:01but what does that mean? In the scripture describing only the physical appearance
  18. 00:33:17or is there a deeper dimension to this declaration that we must examine? It's very deep of it.
  19. 00:33:25Let us consider Genesis two seven and I'll read it and the Lord God form man.
  20. 00:33:35This is where it comes into place, and the Lord God formed men of the dust of the ground and breathed into His nostrils the breath of life
  21. 00:33:44and man became a living soul before God doing this, what was a man
  22. 00:33:57thus that's it that's it unto God breathe into the man and then it became a living soul
  23. 00:34:03life took form and shape in this person here is being developed the fullness of God's character
  24. 00:34:08and I want to walk you through that's why I show you that picture that God forms in a way
  25. 00:34:13so with perfect and excellence so that God could manifest himself throughout life.
  26. 00:34:19That's why the enemy brings sickness and bring devastation and chaos and traumas and things because
  27. 00:34:26he doesn't want you to be healing and understanding how to operate beloved
  28. 00:34:35spiritually. God gave us that nature and we die in that place in that connection beloved in that place in those dimensionals
  29. 00:34:40areas that we were connected with our Heavenly Father we died
  30. 00:34:46and I'll bring you more into this because I'm getting ahead of myself
  31. 00:34:50and I'll read this again and the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life
  32. 00:34:56and men became a living soul. Here we see the formation of human body
  33. 00:35:08from the dust of the ground followed by the divine act of breathing the breath of life into man okay
  34. 00:35:15man is from the earth God himself breathes life which is God's life into humanity, beloved
  35. 00:35:23we must recognize the distinction between the physical formation of the man and the spiritual significance of his creation
  36. 00:35:32the spiritual significance of His creation why what purpose for what purpose beloved it has deeper significance why
  37. 00:35:39God created us God could have created another thing and live with another thing
  38. 00:35:44and then He said, well they're not going to sin they're not going to do this just don't understand I create it
  39. 00:35:48and if God wanted to have fun that way, he wouldn't have fun a long time ago, but God didn't want to have fun that way God wanted to have relationship
  40. 00:35:55a deeper understanding, communication with His people with his sons and daughters and childs.
  41. 00:36:10God wanted to be known as a father. I feel God's presence. Praise God God wanted to be known as a father as our Creator as our God praise God
  42. 00:36:24the body of Adam was formed from the dust of the ground by Yahweh's declaration that humanity was created
  43. 00:36:38in his image and likeness. I said humanity said Adam I said humanity because it went on to every human being
  44. 00:36:47invite us to look beyond the physical body and discover the deeper spiritual meaning of what it means to bear his image and likeness beloved
  45. 00:36:58because it's not what we see it's God's character and personality that God has given us.
  46. 00:37:07You could bring that picture up belah I'm going to show you some things that God gave us a mind of dimensional characteristic of God's Himself.
  47. 00:37:15It talks and this is a place where Satan wants to destroy confused and bring so many calamities
  48. 00:37:27and that he's the place where he has his imbondage beloved that is the place where he has his imbondage
  49. 00:37:29The image and likeness of Yahweh must be understood in light of his nature in light of his nature,
  50. 00:37:48in light of his character and in light of his purpose for humanity, I'll say this
  51. 00:37:57again, beloved the image of likeness of Yahweh must be understood in light of his nature, his character and his purpose for humanity, beloved.
  52. 00:38:08Scripture reveals Jaguar's wisdom will righteous, love, holiness, incapability to establish purpose and exercise judgment, beloved
  53. 00:38:23, that is the characteristic of our Father I'll read this again
  54. 00:38:37Scripture reveals Jaguars wisdom, will righteous righteousness, love, holiness, capacity to establish purpose and exercise judgment.
  55. 00:38:42Humanity was created in his image and was judged a unique capacity to know to represent and respond to him
  56. 00:39:01that's what he's all about beloving is the capacity to know to represent and respond to him
  57. 00:39:10he did that with Adam That's what he did with Adam, but he wanted just to continue Adam to grow and understand his divine nature and his purpose
  58. 00:39:20praise God this lead us to the inner man dimensions of the human being
  59. 00:39:38this here leads us to the inner dimension of the human being, the place where our thoughts, intentions, desires, decision and attitude are expressed.
  60. 00:39:45This is profound. That's where the enemy hinders and destroys
  61. 00:39:58when he comes and have and rapes a woman and that woman is obligated by the laws of this nature have to definitely give birth
  62. 00:40:03, not knowing that what is being sold in there has been sold in wounds and pain and frustration and anger in so many ways
  63. 00:40:13that it was caused by the enemy to cause this
  64. 00:40:20and the only one that could heal this is the Spirit of God
  65. 00:40:21in the word, beloved bring restoration where emotional and all the aspects beloved, this is deep what I'm telling you it's going
  66. 00:40:25we're going to go into a deeper place that you will be able to say I need the Holy Spirit and God to help me in these areas
  67. 00:40:34that I have as wounds and traumas Xabel was talking about that today wounds and traumas and situation, beloved, that's where the enemy has a hold of us.
  68. 00:40:42Why do I react this way sometime when someone tells me something
  69. 00:40:53and I'm with anger look back the Holy Spirit to show you where this anger comes from or where this frustration comes from God show me not
  70. 00:40:56everything's from the devil no the devil already did his job he cost a boom or is it coming from?
  71. 00:41:09Why is manifesting because it's easy has a hold of us and the thing is this beloved God has said, listen, I came to restore or was lost
  72. 00:41:16that's why he called us his sons and daughters into the kingdom.
  73. 00:41:27That's why we're here for a reason because he's restoring our inner man
  74. 00:41:31constantly beloved, constantly this is the beauty of God's healing, beloved. This is the beauty of God's healing
  75. 00:41:34because His Spirit is constantly restoring the errors and mistake that the enemy has causes to do
  76. 00:41:43go through or maybe experiencing a trauma when we were a baby in the body while a mother is going through a trauma beloved is deep
  77. 00:41:52because that's how the enemy works he works with wounds
  78. 00:42:05he sows seeds of wickedness to be able to fish in the future the outcome the fish that he sold as a seed beloved
  79. 00:42:09we're going to go deeper the inner man where our character is expressed that's where God is dealing
  80. 00:42:16that's why the Bible talks about and we're going to go to this the next week again
  81. 00:42:22I said don't be conformed to the patterns of this world why because of the back of the mind is where it's manifested and projected
  82. 00:42:29the life okay it's very clear don't be confirmed to the patent of the war but be transformed by the renewal of your mind
  83. 00:42:37that place where the wounds are hidden and we can't see the only one that reveals is the Holy Spirit Himself to us
  84. 00:42:43and that's what he wants to do He wants to heal His beloved
  85. 00:42:51That's why the Apostle came to a place and said I no longer live but life lives in me
  86. 00:42:54and then he's talks deeper about it why because you said it's not about me
  87. 00:43:02no longer I don't care about the old man I care about him
  88. 00:43:08and me and I want to expand accelerate it and just display the Christ in me beloved moving forward
  89. 00:43:13when we speak about the inner man, we are speaking about the inward dimension of our existence.
  90. 00:43:27Consider the mind consider the mind we think we understand we reason and discern. I want you to understand this is very very important
  91. 00:43:32consider the mind that's what I was showing you consider the mind
  92. 00:43:45we think we understand we reason and discern didn't that God do the same thing with Adam when He brought into Adam
  93. 00:43:50and we I want you to understand Adam was not a baby oh an innocent
  94. 00:43:58mind Adam had the fullness capacity of God understanding to be able to judge everything that God was given him the right way
  95. 00:44:03that's why God burnt him the animals to see. And then he says see what name He was going to give them.
  96. 00:44:11That's maturity, beloved that is maturity. God burnt unto him, okay Adam, put the names why
  97. 00:44:19if he was a babe in his whatever status of his life he wouldn't say know Adam this is a horse, know Adam this is a lion
  98. 00:44:25we do that with our kids and we try to teach them and that's important
  99. 00:44:33yes but God did not have to do that with Adam
  100. 00:44:41because Adam had the fullness in understanding of who God is beloved, he had the characteristics of God moving forward because it's a lot of praise
  101. 00:44:49God consider the will the will we choose we intend we decide and we direct our actions and we direct our actions
  102. 00:45:09that's where in those dimensions consider our emotions we experience joy and the only time we experience sadness is when pain comes
  103. 00:45:21and how we tend to sometimes beloved justify because we try to protect where there's pain nobody likes to feel painful and hurt
  104. 00:45:35I want you to understand because that pain was caused
  105. 00:45:48it's the outcome of the evil works that the enemy has caused
  106. 00:45:52in us consider our emotions we experience joy, sorrow, compassion, anger and affection
  107. 00:45:58that is in those dimensional areas that God has given us in the one that corrupted it was sin the wickedness of the enemy.
  108. 00:46:06These dimensions of human experience help us understand how our life becomes visible through our conduct.
  109. 00:46:17I'll say this again listen to this these dimensions of human experience help us understand how our inward life becomes visible through our conduct
  110. 00:46:35and understand it's the way the man thinks what so is he the way the men thinks so is he why
  111. 00:46:47because that's his expression beloved it's very powerful when the gospel of the kingdom the word of God is dwelling constantly
  112. 00:46:52in your life you're going to express the righteousness you're going to express the love you're going to why
  113. 00:47:00because that is of the Spirit of God beloved the characteristics in the character of God has been shaping and forming in us
  114. 00:47:07and then we express we find compassion and suffer for another person and where we see that he's suffering
  115. 00:47:15we want to help in a way that's of God himself why because of the brokenness of humanity because of sin moving forward
  116. 00:47:25beloved a person may possess physical strength, education, wealth, influence
  117. 00:47:36yet still struggle with pride, bitterness, selfishness, or lack of self control, beloved or lack of self control. Why?
  118. 00:47:45Because beloved that is a manifestation of the flesh places where the enemy has hindered
  119. 00:47:50a lot of that's why when someone is born again, beloved, when someone is born again, beloved, the flesh
  120. 00:47:58the apostles say very clear Don't let the flesh what's don't let the flesh what
  121. 00:48:05rule right said walk in the Spirit and don't don't give any desires to the flesh is very clear he said walk in the Spirit
  122. 00:48:13because you are capable and be able to do what he said because he lived it
  123. 00:48:20you know the apostle was beating up so many times and they just brush off the dirt and everything
  124. 00:48:23he kept on moving heading to the purpose and the mission that God has placed in his life.
  125. 00:48:33What was it the kingdom to portray and express the kingdom beloved why?
  126. 00:48:39Because outward appearance does not necessarily reveal the condition of the inner person.
  127. 00:48:46I want you to understand this why because the outward appearance does not necessarily reveal the condition of the inner person
  128. 00:48:54our character is expressed through the way we think we choose we feel we speak and we act.
  129. 00:48:59By the works and the expression of that person, you'll be able to see.
  130. 00:49:09Doesn't the Bible say by the fruits you shall know them? That's where it comes from.
  131. 00:49:14Oh wow, that person is so humble that person wow look what he did! Wow why?
  132. 00:49:22Because of the person that does not have light and understanding of that it becomes shocking to them!
  133. 00:49:27Wow, that person has love! Wow! Look what he did! He gave his life for a person that is not even his family or whatever
  134. 00:49:33it's how many times I read that a man have jumped into the water just to save a child or something
  135. 00:49:40and he loses his life, but he saved the care and people say, wow, he's a hero
  136. 00:49:46that's just the words they could say or he's a hero, of course, but they don't understand the meaning of that passion and desire
  137. 00:49:51that only comes from God everything good comes from where from God love it nothing comes from man and everything evil comes from Satan from the day
  138. 00:50:02that was found evil and wickedness in him of it.
  139. 00:50:04However, we must make an important distinction
  140. 00:50:21possessing the mind, the will, and the emotion does not mean that these faculties by themselves constitute the image of God
  141. 00:50:25I want you to understand this very clear because sometime we can see people expressing religiously expression as being good
  142. 00:50:39and serving you that's good that is of God of doing good works but's not what God is looking for.
  143. 00:50:48God is looking for his completely divine characteristics in His nature being expressed that works hand by hand with your works, beloved.
  144. 00:50:54That's why we know that faith without works are dead why because it does not please God at all
  145. 00:51:03see yeah it works but works is not going to take us to heaven or it's going to take us to heaven is intimacy and relationship
  146. 00:51:09and the character of God allowing us to walk by the rule of the Holy Spirit to walk the nature of Christ, beloved and moving forward
  147. 00:51:19nor does it mean that every human thought or feeling reflects his character.
  148. 00:51:32Rather our inward faculties are dimensions through which our character is expressed
  149. 00:51:38I want you to understand this rather our inward faculty, our inward faculty are dimensions through which our character is expressed.
  150. 00:51:48Our life are called to reflect the righteousness love true and holiness of Yahweh beloved
  151. 00:51:59those are the key that people will be able to try to discern. Wow, why that person so beautiful, so good
  152. 00:52:06because righteousness is moving that person in the right direction beloved love is moving that person in the right direction beloved
  153. 00:52:13, I want you to understand truth when we speak truth we're just bound to the reality of the truth of the gospel
  154. 00:52:23and to Christ Himself. I'm not going to let lie mislead or mislead another person
  155. 00:52:33the wrong path truth and holiness of Yahweh is because we've been set apart, beloved.
  156. 00:52:38I don't need to lock myself in a room and try to be holy and keep myself away from humanity and live my life like that.
  157. 00:52:43No, that was done with the prophets that were set apart, sent into the desert and keep themselves away.
  158. 00:52:51So when they come across with the people that are living are unrighteous and unholy
  159. 00:52:55life he would have definitely minister into their life with power and authority why
  160. 00:52:59because you would set apart now we don't need to do that we live set apart
  161. 00:53:06already by the Spirit God chose us we did not choose him God we have been set apart
  162. 00:53:12He chose us for reason is for us to be holy in His presence as the ruh are the Holy Spirit leads us to be shaped and formed
  163. 00:53:19beloved once you've in the stand so the question is not merely whether we possess these faculties the question is what governs them and whose character do we express that's important

Romans 8, walking by the Spirit, and adoption

  1. 00:53:33The question is what governs them and whose character do we express to understand how Yahweh works within us we must turn to Romans eight beloved let's go to Romans eight
  2. 00:53:53Romans eight I need somebody to read Romans eight beloved because I want I'm going to break Romans down so we understand Romans eight very clear
  3. 00:54:04beloved because I'm telling you the apostle speaks about it very clear it's there but again it's the Spirit of God is bringing
  4. 00:54:15and he's and he's constantly knocking in the doors of our hearts and everything
  5. 00:54:21no I need to cast this down I need to change this from you I need to definitely bring an appearance of me
  6. 00:54:26I need to do this this and this beloved and that is so beautiful so profound so beautiful why
  7. 00:54:38because he loves you because he wants to shape the sun through
  8. 00:54:44you so people will see his sun and not see you he wants the people he wants the people to see his son because he is in us beloved
  9. 00:54:56I will be with you until unto what the end beloved the end did you reach your end
  10. 00:55:07our journey is until he comes but is in us in the only way we could reach there beloved is fulfilling every step of the way
  11. 00:55:14and people will see the Christ in you and that hope of glory that they don't know about it's very powerful
  12. 00:55:24beloved I'm telling you now listen to this I need someone to read Romans eight I need someone to read Romans eight please I'm going to stop you
  13. 00:55:31I need you to listen and hear what the apostle is saying the entire thing yes I'll tell you when to stop
  14. 00:55:48Romans eight one there is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus the beginning stage of that alone who he's talking to
  15. 00:55:56Those who are in Christ he's not talking to someone else
  16. 00:56:13and to the people in the in the community no those he separated those
  17. 00:56:17darn Christ there's a lot of Christian are they're in Christ
  18. 00:56:24I want you to understand are they in Christ continue who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit it's very clear
  19. 00:56:29continue for the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin
  20. 00:56:42death beloved there is a law there is a law and that law was marked from the beginning okay before Christ there was a law but it was a law of works
  21. 00:56:52it was about fulfilling a living doctor either right or death beloved remember death reign from Adam
  22. 00:57:09to where that's it that's it rain death rain from Adam to Moses from here on death doesn't no longer rain beloved
  23. 00:57:18because when they start to work and do the things right
  24. 00:57:26by the law death had no possession, no control, no domination at all something had to dominate and control death
  25. 00:57:28and it was the Torah those that were walking according to the Torah, the law of God
  26. 00:57:40then what happened the sinful nature always interfere because it's being stimulated and brought with iniquity
  27. 00:57:45and bath thoughts by the enemy so they was supposed to be something different
  28. 00:57:52that gave us the ability to continue walking in that journey
  29. 00:57:59without any type of interruption we cost the interruption below we cost the stop of our journey in so many occasions
  30. 00:58:04because we either allow the enemy to hinder our life or we have lack of knowledge that we still have wounds that we have never be able to discover
  31. 00:58:12and that's what happens in the Holy Spirit is the only one that could reveal it
  32. 00:58:21says we no longer have a problem beloved we no longer have a problem
  33. 00:58:30like they have to either do it this or do it that way that's it
  34. 00:58:35but now beloved we control what we put in our minds in our hearts obeying our Heavenly Father through Yeshua through His victory through his blessing now look at this
  35. 00:58:42beloved continue three for what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh
  36. 00:58:57God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh on account of sin he condemned sin in the flesh four
  37. 00:59:06that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled
  38. 00:59:14in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit beloved is
  39. 00:59:17explaining there is a nature there is a nature and he's explaining separating it's very close separating
  40. 00:59:20listen this is what the flesh is all about and this is what the Spirit is all about it's the nature that we have
  41. 00:59:28now it's a divine profound and beautiful nature the thing is that have we discovered it
  42. 00:59:40and sometimes we have come to a place of knowing of it but not knowing
  43. 00:59:47the revelation is the same thing that happened to Job knew of God
  44. 00:59:55and then when he went through his journey, his trauma and everything he said from ears I knew of you not my eyes will see you
  45. 00:59:58he's not talking about literally he's talking about the aspect of the Spirit of how God revealed himself to him and then he understood who God was in his life, beloved
  46. 01:00:06we'll continue moving forward because if not I will never come out of this
  47. 01:00:16passage continue five for those who live according
  48. 01:00:24to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh
  49. 01:00:27but those who live according to Spirit, the things of the Spirit Six for to be cornally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
  50. 01:00:33Hold on there, beloved kindly minded. It doesn't mean that oh just because you become thinking carnali, you're gonna die.
  51. 01:00:43No belove it carnally minded. I want you to understand it's fulfilling and desiring and giving in to constantly a practice of evil and wickedness
  52. 01:00:52that's not our nature that's the nature of the flesh that the enemy uses
  53. 01:01:02and he's separating the spiritual aspect of your true inner man characteristics of God working
  54. 01:01:09in you constantly developing the Christ in you, beloved continue seven
  55. 01:01:16because the carnal mind is enmity against God completely against God
  56. 01:01:21for it is not subject to the law of God will never be able cannot comprehend the things of God
  57. 01:01:28it's always rebellious continue nor indeed can be eight
  58. 01:01:37so then those who are in the flesh cannot please God nine but you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you
  59. 01:01:43now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ he is not
  60. 01:01:56his did you hear what he said did he say the Spirit of God or the Spirit of who
  61. 01:01:59Christ he's not talking to the Spirit of God which in the Old Testament He's talking about the Spirit of Christ below
  62. 01:02:05that's our foundation that is our shape that is our that's the character of God Himself that's why God's why
  63. 01:02:13Jesus always when he spoke the Father and I won I did not come to do my will I came to do the will of the Father
  64. 01:02:20He was one in the Spirit, beloved. He was one in the Spirit. And Jesus did what he did. Why?
  65. 01:02:28Because of the Fathers of the Father was operating through him. That's another topic we want to talk about now
  66. 01:02:36I want you to understand that Jesus came as a figure of a sacrifice so we could be able to walk in that grace.
  67. 01:02:41Continue ten and if Christ is in you the body is dead because of sin but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
  68. 01:02:57Did you hear that you see if the Spirit read that again I want you to understand if the Spirit of who it's in you
  69. 01:03:07it's in you the body's dead what is it but if this is your body's dead really dead can I walk or I'm just laying no belove
  70. 01:03:16he's talking about the pleasures the passions the feeling those aspect the dimensional emotional areas
  71. 01:03:27it's completely debt that the enemy has caused in your life
  72. 01:03:31and sometimes God allows those still there because he needs to reveal some things
  73. 01:03:38and sometime the enemy uses him because it doesn't come from you
  74. 01:03:44sometimes it comes from generational curses and evil things that happen from to your mother, his mother and is expressed down a lineage
  75. 01:03:46and the enemy knows because he cost it from the beginning and that's the beloved
  76. 01:04:00we'll talk more about this continued answer to start at ten again no no continue at eleven
  77. 01:04:08but if the spirits of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you he who raised Christ from the dead
  78. 01:04:16will also give life to your model bodies there he goes to what did he say to your spirit mortal bodies to the mortal body beloved
  79. 01:04:26so we there is a hope there for us why then we need to keep the faith inside first and keeping the inner man being built constantly
  80. 01:04:35so that when we reach the final destiny that moral body will be completely transformed beloved completely transformed just continue
  81. 01:04:46to read up to just thirteen through his spirit who dwells in you
  82. 01:04:59therefore brethren we are adapters not to the flesh to live according to the flesh for if you live according to the flesh you will die
  83. 01:05:04but if by this spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live it's it's very it's very very clear
  84. 01:05:14beloved the apostle Paul takes us deeper into the relationship between the human being, the Spirit of God, and the life Yahweh desire to produce within us, Beloved
  85. 01:05:24I want you to understand that that's very important
  86. 01:05:37Romans eight ten explains that even when the body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit is alive because of righteousness.
  87. 01:05:42The Spirit is alive because of righteousness and that was given to us not that we earned it, not that we gained it it was given to us. Why?
  88. 01:05:54Because our desires and will has been surrender, and I acknowledge our Lord Yeshua as Savior of my life
  89. 01:06:06so that I can be able to stand in the presence of the Father
  90. 01:06:17verse eleven Paul speaks about the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead
  91. 01:06:20dwell dead dwelling in believers. Paul is not merely speaking about knowing that God exists.
  92. 01:06:25He's not talking about that, beloved. He is speaking about the Spirit of God dwelling within those who belong to Him
  93. 01:06:34the life of faith is not simply an attempt to imitate the outward actions of our righteous person
  94. 01:06:42I want you to understand this very clear because I see this a lot I use a lot of Christians out there all
  95. 01:06:46they may just well they don't carry the Bible anymore
  96. 01:06:51they carry phones and everything in the past it was Bible and others and they just walk with the Bible
  97. 01:06:54and they say they see more holy than anybody else
  98. 01:06:59sometimes it depends of the size of the Bible this size or the big size an evangelist big Bible they think they're more holy than anybody else
  99. 01:07:04beloved that is appearance appearance of righteousness God detects that if that does not follow beloved with truth
  100. 01:07:20it's all about you it's all about you not about God it's about the people will honor you and give you glory
  101. 01:07:26as a religious person we got to be very careful beloved it because sometimes we want to demonstrate that
  102. 01:07:31I know more Bible than you do yeah or I went to a seminary, went to his beloved it's not the seminary it's the foundation, the relationship
  103. 01:07:38who Christ is in your life where is it if that's there listen I don't care the seminaries I don't care they're good
  104. 01:07:45but the intimacy and the life of the word needs to be manifested through us beloved
  105. 01:07:54saying that he's speaking about the Spirit of God dwelling within those who belong to him
  106. 01:08:03the life of faith is not simply an attempt to imitate the outward actions of righteousness people righteous person
  107. 01:08:11it is a life which the Spirit of God works within us transform the way we live beloved
  108. 01:08:20Romans eight twelve to thirteen teaches that we are not obligated to live according to the flesh so that means beloved you have control
  109. 01:08:31you have these giftings of the Spirit to be able to rule if you can't rule on this flesh
  110. 01:08:41how can you be able to rule of the things of the kingdom beloved
  111. 01:08:47if you can't rule a master your flesh who will tell you that you will be ruling in the kingdom of God?
  112. 01:08:51It's just the same way the apostles tells you, Listen, if you can't roll your house, how can you rule the things of the kingdom?
  113. 01:08:58It's about discipline it's about dominate it's about having control in the Spirit that's why
  114. 01:09:05we have the Holy Spirit you cannot do that in the flesh we might have some times of control
  115. 01:09:11and some patterns you could only replace with another pattern but is that pattern righteous no
  116. 01:09:17If it's good amen there's nothing wrong replacing one thing with something good why
  117. 01:09:25because everything that is good come from above but the nature is still there it's in the flesh moving forward
  118. 01:09:33beloved as I read Romans eight twelve to thirteen teaches that we are not obligated to live according to the flesh through the Spirit
  119. 01:09:44we are called to put to death the deeds of the body to put to death
  120. 01:09:55I don't want to go into deep because when you when it say to put to death
  121. 01:09:59it's not only just you know ignoring it that's not putting it to death that is just ignoring it
  122. 01:10:04that is just putting it to the sigh that is just putting a little rug on top of the the situation so nobody can see it that's just putting it under the carpet
  123. 01:10:09so the trash when people come in they won't see it
  124. 01:10:19you see it's the house looks beautiful and clean
  125. 01:10:24but the enemy knows that there's trash under the rug and when there's trash under the rug he's going to expose it for his use for his purpose for his plan
  126. 01:10:27those are wounds could be that the enemy has caused
  127. 01:10:37he knows where our trash is at he knows when the house is clean
  128. 01:10:40but there's some cobwebs in the bathroom and he doesn't want to open the bathroom door
  129. 01:10:44because you know he haven't gotten given that attention to that bathroom to clean that bathroom because everything is clean but that bathroom is all
  130. 01:10:48way in the back nobody's going to go back there beloved sometime that happens to our spiritual life oh no leave it there
  131. 01:11:00I've seen pastors beloved pastors ministers of God full of the Spirit anointed great message and despered they go outside
  132. 01:11:13needed to smoke a cigarette why they're bound they're hurt why they're trying to satisfy the flesh
  133. 01:11:22something is bringing them to that place it happens with anything beloved that's why
  134. 01:11:30we got to be very careful and diligently discern why do I react this way? Why is this manifest in this way?
  135. 01:11:37Belove it Holy Spirit show me that's why He's in us to teach us to our truth
  136. 01:11:50moving forward beloved our natural impulse does not have to govern our lives.
  137. 01:11:59Our natural impulse does not have to govern our lives
  138. 01:12:06our desires do not have to determine our decision our desires, beloved, I'm telling you do not have to determine our decision
  139. 01:12:14and our emotions do not have to dictate our conduct our emotions do not have to dictate our conduct
  140. 01:12:27because if we do beloved, your ruling and not letting the Holy Spirit to lead you
  141. 01:12:35and rule we are called to live under the directions of the Holy Spirit of God.
  142. 01:12:41Then Paul declares in Romans eight fourteen, Beloved, look at this
  143. 01:12:46for as many are what for as many are led by the Spirit of God you see here's the difference as many are led by the Spirit of God
  144. 01:12:59they are the sons of God. I'll say this again for as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God, beloved
  145. 01:13:10being led by the Spirit is not merely speaking spiritual words
  146. 01:13:20beloved. All you know today you know it's God is holy God is His all
  147. 01:13:26no we got to worship God say beloved that's nice that's nice
  148. 01:13:32but that's not being led by this Spirit I love it being led by this
  149. 01:13:42Spirit is not merely speaking spiritual words or participating in religious activities.
  150. 01:13:48It involves allowing the Spirit of God to direct our life, our thinking must be brought under His truth
  151. 01:14:02our thinking must be brought under His truth our decision submitted to His will in our conduct increasingly shaped by His righteousness
  152. 01:14:15beloved, this is very important. I'll say it again our thinking must be brought under
  153. 01:14:30His truth. Our decision must be submitted under His will in our conduct increasingly shaped by His righteousness.
  154. 01:14:36This does not mean that we become God or that our human faculties become divine.
  155. 01:14:50I want you to understand this those dimensional in our mind, beloved
  156. 01:14:58, that is where the character of God develop an atom, and that's where the separation beloved the separation took place.
  157. 01:15:03What did Adam tell God? I want you to see this what did Adam tell God when he sinned and God said Adam where are you? What did Adam tell God?
  158. 01:15:16You see oh I was naked and he said who told you you were naked I want you to understand this who told you you were naked there is even wickedness
  159. 01:15:30oh the woman here he goes he's blaming God God if you didn't ever gave me that woman
  160. 01:15:41I will never sin against you want you to understand the woman beloved this is what happened
  161. 01:15:49this is where the first wound took place of his death the blaming the blaming we do that a lot
  162. 01:15:57beloved we blame so and so the blaming sometimes why because and it goes deeper beloved I'm just giving you a little bit
  163. 01:16:06it goes deeper why do I blame my wife for this I'm protecting something subconsciously something that it might be from my past okay
  164. 01:16:20I want you to understand blaming does not come from God
  165. 01:16:32it comes from wickedness always trying to either impose a fault on someone or either have a lock of where is it coming from and it's just to come and protect you moving forward beloved
  166. 01:16:44This does not mean that we become God or that our human faculties become divine.
  167. 01:16:58It means that we are called to live in relationship with Yahweh, allowing His Spirit to lead us into life that reflects His character when we walk
  168. 01:17:07we're reflecting the character of God. The Apostle Paul understood this very clear
  169. 01:17:16someone looked up in Galatians two twenty Galatians two twenty beloved, please read it or try to speed up because I'm behind.
  170. 01:17:26When the Messiah Galatians two verse twenty yeah okay when the Messiah was executed on the state
  171. 01:17:43as a criminal, I was two so that my proud ego no longer lives
  172. 01:17:48, but the Messiah lives in me and the life I now live
  173. 01:17:52in my body, I live by the same trusting faithfulness that the Son of God had who loved me and gave Himself up for me, beloved
  174. 01:17:58to come to a place like that the apostle He had a lot of wisdom he knew he was a religious guy he knew a lot
  175. 01:18:06you going to say, you know it'sI have so many wisdom I have so many knowledge
  176. 01:18:15and no but he's talked about the Messiah he didn't talk about himself when the Messiah what he says was executed executed
  177. 01:18:23and look how he sees again on a stake as a criminal so that my proud ego no longer lives belove it
  178. 01:18:31we have been crucified the problem is that we still have wounds from a past that needs to be sift out by the spirit in his word it needs to be sift out
  179. 01:18:43and sometimes we see it and we don't want to be sift out we don't want to see it we ignore it and out of that ignorance chaos happen because out of that
  180. 01:19:00bad seed grows a evil tree that caused deep roots that is projecting in the life of others especially
  181. 01:19:12in our small loved ones belove it and these are things that we have to see because they are inheriting our character and our personalities beloved
  182. 01:19:19it's very important to understand I don't want to go deeper
  183. 01:19:30we're going to talk about that next week from the bondage to adoption this is important
  184. 01:19:35this is the key a relationship that transform us
  185. 01:19:43and again Romans eight fifteen declares for thee have not received the spirit of a bondage
  186. 01:19:48again to fear to fear but they have received the spirit of adoption hereby we cry our father
  187. 01:19:56Paul is describing a change in our relationship with God through the Spirit of adoption.
  188. 01:20:02Believers are brought into a relationship with Him as a Father
  189. 01:20:14in verse sixteen continues the Spirit himself bear witness with our Spirit
  190. 01:20:22that we are what children of God, beloved childrens of God
  191. 01:20:27so your spirit and the Holy Spirit bear witness to you that you are called as the children of God beloved and that's why
  192. 01:20:31what's happening in our minds and heart and we intend to discern because we have the capability to discern and say, wait a minute, this is not of God help me on this
  193. 01:20:41anger I don't know why this took place beloved beloved the beauty of it is acknowledging it that's the beginning of restoration the beauty of it is an acknowledgement continue
  194. 01:20:56For ye have not received the Spirit of our bondage against to fear but they have received the Spirit of adoption
  195. 01:21:06hereby we cry of a Father Paul is describing a change in our relationship with God through the Spirit of adoption.
  196. 01:21:13Believers are brought into a relationship with Him as a father
  197. 01:21:23sixteen says the Spirit Himself on birth within a witness with our Spirit that we are children of God.
  198. 01:21:27Notice that distinction this is the key notice the distinction that Paul speaks of the Spirit of God bearing witness with our Spirit.
  199. 01:21:37He does not identify our human spirit as the Spirit of God He doesn't identify that he says He doesn't say oh this is the Spirit of God
  200. 01:21:47no he describes it's very clear Paul say the Spirit of God bearing witness with our Spirit
  201. 01:21:59He describes a relationship between God's Spirit and the human spirit of the believer.
  202. 01:22:08Through the Spirit we receive the assurance that we belong to Yahweh
  203. 01:22:15we call into the relationship that transformed our identity, our loyalty in the directions of our life.
  204. 01:22:22The Spirit of God does not come to make us God beloved. Oh, I've heard that a lot.
  205. 01:22:29Oh no, you're God just because it says we are as gods no listen don't take that passage out of content
  206. 01:22:37we represent the image of God through Christ you see and we are just representatives we are ambassadors
  207. 01:22:45just like the Apostle said, beloved, he leads us into fellowship with the Father
  208. 01:22:53and forms within us a life that increasingly reflects His character that brings us to a deeper question

Renewal, religion, and the concluding questions

  1. 01:22:59, beloved if humanity was created in the image in likeness of Yahweh, what happened to the expression of his character
  2. 01:23:11think about this in humanity when Adam sinned. I'll say this again
  3. 01:23:20If humanity was created in the image and likeness of Yahweh, what happened to the expression of his character in humanity when Adam
  4. 01:23:27Sin that brings us to the place that the fall, the mind and the need for restoration of heaven
  5. 01:23:42, and this is when Adam's sinn, humanity's relationship with Yahweh was broken death, and sin entered human experience
  6. 01:23:56. I want you to understand sin enter into human experience why the tree of what
  7. 01:24:02Knowledge and evil beloved that's good and evil. I want you to understand this this is very important.
  8. 01:24:14I'll read this again when Adam's sin, humanity's relationship with Yahweh was broken and sin entry and human experience.
  9. 01:24:21The question is not simply whether humanity continues to bear God's image.
  10. 01:24:33It is how sin, damage our relationship with Him and distorted the way we think and distorted the way we think desire and live
  11. 01:24:45our minds will an emotions and desire needs to be brought under the truth of Yahweh again
  12. 01:24:58we must not assume that every thought we think, every desire we feel or every decision we make reflects his character.
  13. 01:25:07The inner man needs restoration the inner man needs restoration. Romans twelve two
  14. 01:25:15and I'm getting to my finals beloved teaches that we are transformed by the renewing of our mind, right?
  15. 01:25:24Transformation involves more than changing outward behavior is not changing outward behavior outward behavior comes from within the things that you don't see
  16. 01:25:37look at this it reaches into the way we think, understand, discern, desire and makes decision through
  17. 01:25:51Joshua we are brought into reconciliation with Yeshua with Yahweh
  18. 01:25:59and the transforming works of the Spirit enable us to walk in the newness of life.
  19. 01:26:07Beloved is a new walk it's a new beginning it's a new season it's a new journey it's a new
  20. 01:26:12start in every day is a new start every day is a new beginning God has a new beginning every day. Do you know that God has a new beginning every day
  21. 01:26:20for us beloved, why we allow the enemy to whip us? And then if the eat doesn't whip us, we whip ourselves
  22. 01:26:35I'm not worthy I'm this beloved stop it stop it why because he knows your weak spot loves you so much.
  23. 01:26:43That's why he called you. We did not call ourselves
  24. 01:26:53and the power and the potential that is only on the word and the Spirit is to redeem us daily, beloved the Word of God sanctifies us day by day, beloved.
  25. 01:26:59We are called to put off the old ways of living and be renewed inwardly, allowing the truth of Yahweh word to shape our character.
  26. 01:27:12This is not merely a matter of learning more religious languages or improving our outward appearance, beloved.
  27. 01:27:24This is not about that is the work of allowing Yahweh's truth I say this again it's allowing Yahweh's truth to reach the deepest place of our inner man
  28. 01:27:34that cob web that I didn't want them to see in the bathroom that closet that
  29. 01:27:44I just have something there the whole house is clean but that closet I cannot show the closet is like when someone is doing a showing
  30. 01:27:46enson you know better than this and someone got to go into a nice house and how many times you've been David to see homes
  31. 01:27:54but they don't want you to see the closet and know everything stuff in the closet
  32. 01:28:00they have the door closed or see everything it's beautiful you love the house
  33. 01:28:07and when you see the closet there's a monster in there beloved it's real it's true we laugh but it's true it's true it happens in our life
  34. 01:28:12and that's why it's important to surrender to God I surrender this I don't know how to deal with it
  35. 01:28:20but I need your help I need your help father because it dominates me
  36. 01:28:26and I don't know where it comes from it might come from my parents it might come something that I was a child I was abused
  37. 01:28:33and I don't know but you know you saw this before I was created
  38. 01:28:42and I need you to reveal it to me so that it could be free he wants you to be free beloved he wants you to be free continue beloved
  39. 01:28:47through Yeshua we are brought into reconciliation with Yahweh in the transforming work of the Spirit enable us to walk in the newness of life.
  40. 01:28:59We are called to put off the old way of living and be renewed inwardly, allowing the truth of Yahweh's word to shape our character.
  41. 01:29:09This is not merely a matter of learning more religious languages or improving our outward appearance
  42. 01:29:19it is the work of allowing Yahweh's truth to reach the deepest place of our innem.
  43. 01:29:28The danger of becoming comfortable beloved with religion. There's a huge danger
  44. 01:29:37and religiously out there there's a lot of brothers and sisters deceive waiting waiting and living
  45. 01:29:41a life that does not align up with God's word does not align up with God's purpose
  46. 01:29:50living alive satisfy comfortable waiting for the Messiah to come and will be shocked and amazed and surprised and say I don't know
  47. 01:30:00I never knew you depart from me evils of iniquity brother evils of iniquity why
  48. 01:30:09in your name I did this and you know the word of God will always will be fulfilled
  49. 01:30:16but there's evil of iniquity there beloved moving forward my beloved
  50. 01:30:22we can attend service participate in religious activities speak the language of faith and become comfortable with religious routines
  51. 01:30:30yet and never allow the truth of the word to penetrate the deepest place of our character to penetrate the deepest place of our character
  52. 01:30:40we can learn how to look spiritual that's why
  53. 01:30:51the Pharisees oh they were holy everyone follow everyone understood until Christ came until Christ came beloved everyone
  54. 01:30:55follow without allowing the Spirit to transform the way we live the danger is not simply that we may fall into sin
  55. 01:31:05it is that we may become comfortable with a religious life while remaining outwardly of the condition of our inner man.
  56. 01:31:13I'll say this again below this is very profound the danger is not simply that we may fall into sin
  57. 01:31:24it is that we may become comfortable with the religious life while remaining outward outward of the condition of our inner man
  58. 01:31:30and that is very profound. I could be holy oh my beloved I can speak to you the word and give words of comfort
  59. 01:31:40but am I living that? Am I practicing that? Am I being driven by that?
  60. 01:31:47Am I being measured accountable to that level of that word where the power of that word
  61. 01:31:52bear witness in my life as a testimony or bear witness the power of God have to manifest? Why?
  62. 01:32:00Because I live it I experienced it's a testimony in my life. It has to happen it's real God made it to happen.
  63. 01:32:06That's why He commissioned the disciples and they were excited
  64. 01:32:15wow and Jesus said, don't go by that. Make sure that your name is written in the heavens don't go by that
  65. 01:32:19because those were common saying, Lord, in your name I did this depart from me
  66. 01:32:27I never knew you works of iniquity beloved, that's important.
  67. 01:32:35There is a difference between knowing about Yahweh and allowing his truth to govern our life
  68. 01:32:41there is a difference between participating and religious practice and experience the transformation.
  69. 01:32:47I'll read this again I wrote there is a difference between practicing religion and experiencing the transformation
  70. 01:32:57that produce the character of a life surrender to him that's very different
  71. 01:33:07beloved and there is a difference between claiming to reflect his image that'sI want you to claiming to reflect his image
  72. 01:33:14it is millions of Christians millions of Christians they reflect the image of Christ right
  73. 01:33:25I want you to understand that's what they believe in allowing our daily life to this
  74. 01:33:35demonstrate his righteousness love, holiness, true, and obedience.
  75. 01:33:45Yahweh has called us to something deeper a renewed mind, a transform heart, a surrender will, and a life increasingly governed by his spirit
  76. 01:33:50and his truth. That's it, beloved. The question is no longer
  77. 01:34:03merely whether we know the scripture the question is whether the truth of the scripture is actively transforming the person
  78. 01:34:12we are becoming that's the truth and I close very quickly
  79. 01:34:18beloved I'm sorry but I needed to share this because if not
  80. 01:34:25we will not understand the next message seeking the truth through the eyes of the Spirit and this is important
  81. 01:34:31seeing the truth through the eyes of the Spirit mean to see through the eyes of the Spirit
  82. 01:34:42it means learning to look beyond outward appearance beyond religious performance and beyond our own assumptions
  83. 01:34:52Job understood this very clear after his experience with Yahweh he understood this very clever beloved
  84. 01:35:03I'm telling you I was reading this and saying oh Lord please measure me
  85. 01:35:11I want to feel being measured and being shaken I want to be in a place that a fear starts take possess fear of the Lord
  86. 01:35:18that's the beginning of wisdom beloved. It means allowing the truth of Yahweh to examine our motives
  87. 01:35:32and help us discern whether his character is truly being expressed in our life.
  88. 01:35:41We must examine the way we think, the way we make decisions, the way we treat others, and the way we respond to adversity in the way we walk in
  89. 01:35:48truth in the righteousness. Spiritual maturity is not measured merely by what we claim to possess, beloved
  90. 01:36:06it is also revealed by what our life demonstrate.
  91. 01:36:14The purpose is not merely to appear spiritually before others, but to become inwardly transformed
  92. 01:36:19so that the character of Yahweh is increasingly visible through the way
  93. 01:36:29we think, choose, speak and live as the scripture teaches us, we are being transformed from glory to glory as we behold the glory of the Lord.
  94. 01:36:35The renewal of our inner man should become visible in our daily conduct in closing with his number nine beloved
  95. 01:36:52the question we must carry with us is this My beloved, we have examined several essential truth. Yahweh is Spirit.
  96. 01:37:04Humanity was created in His image and likeness sin damage humanity's relationship with Yahweh and affected the expression of his character in our lives
  97. 01:37:16through Joshua and by the work of the Spirit we're called to reconciliation, renewal and transformation.
  98. 01:37:32So let us live with this question if someone could look beyond our religious activities and examine the condition of our inner man
  99. 01:37:39would they see a life being transformed by the truth and the spirit of Yahweh
  100. 01:37:51or merely a life that has become comfortable with religion
  101. 01:38:00we have to ask ourselves let us ask Yahweh to renew our mind, transform our hearts, surrender our will to his truth, and teaches us how to walk by
  102. 01:38:06the Spirit may his character be increasingly evident
  103. 01:38:21in the way we think, choose speak and live understanding that Yahweh is spirit is only the beginning
  104. 01:38:23the deeper revelation is discovering how our relationship with him transformed the life within us and makes his character visible through the person
  105. 01:38:33we are becoming in Yeshua beloved and the thing is beloved the enemy has made everything possible
  106. 01:38:49in our life why because of the hidden wounds and the expressions and patterns that we have learn in the growing in this life that we cannot identify
  107. 01:38:58because it's a pattern and is familiar sometime and we just can't know of it unless we add the light of the word to it.
  108. 01:39:09Oh wait a minute, this does not come from God at all.
  109. 01:39:18Beloved, it's allowing the word of God sing deep as a magnifying glass of the Spirit and be able to point things out to us daily
  110. 01:39:21because beloved, we've been chosen for purpose we are instruments and tools of the mighty hand of God to shape the things of the kingdom within what we live.
  111. 01:39:30Beloved, and the enemy has made everything possible to wound us.
  112. 01:39:42We're going to talk beloved about this are the dimensions that where the characteristics of God is manifest and moves in our life
  113. 01:39:47why did He gave you a brain? God going to give you a body and not a brain.
  114. 01:39:56Why did God gave Adam his spirit so that he could operate in that understanding a little bit?
  115. 01:40:01I want you to understand is why God could have just made him a robot
  116. 01:40:05and work in the garden like we're doing today we're having robots just to work for us we're loving and it doesn't cost any affliction
  117. 01:40:07you could do anything to the robot in the robon have any feelings
  118. 01:40:19but no God no my brother we have feelings because God made us for that purpose feelings
  119. 01:40:24God is a God of feelings emotions God is a God of emotions I love it
  120. 01:40:30and He made us to His image and likeness in that place so that we could experience his greatness
  121. 01:40:35and His love, but also to exercise in that place by the Spirit
  122. 01:40:44because it becomes my testimony, my life, my own experience, and by that testimony the power of the Spirit of God will move
  123. 01:40:49freely beloved is not bound to the wounds by fear of this holding me back. That's why
  124. 01:41:05he said I did not give you what of spirit of fear, but of power and sound mind sound mind is deep to understand you have a sound mind
  125. 01:41:13, so use it for the glory of God. Amen. So let's pray, let's stand up for a moment.
  126. 01:41:26I'm sorry I took you a little long a bit of it, but it's important

Final exhortation and closing prayer

  1. 01:41:40I needed to bring you through this because next week it's it's a deeper aspect and the thing is this belove
  2. 01:41:46I want you to understand I'm open to it myself and vulnerable to it I'm human just like you
  3. 01:41:54I experience my ups and downs just like you okay and I want you to understand just because I'm standing behind the port
  4. 01:42:01it doesn't mean I'm considered holy of holies I'm striving into holiness constant
  5. 01:42:13I have my wounds I have my moments of challenge just like you
  6. 01:42:18and I have also giants in my life that I'm discovering
  7. 01:42:22and the only way I can knock those giants downs is allowing the Spirit to equip me with the weapons of how to knock those giants down
  8. 01:42:25beloved and if we do not acknowledge that you're always going to be defeated you're always going to be defeated
  9. 01:42:33and the thing is it's being vulnerable it's good to be vulnerable it's good to be open
  10. 01:42:43that's where the Spirit of God shaped us and makes us to His image
  11. 01:42:52that's what he said in your weakest I am strong it in that weakness
  12. 01:42:56space oh my god half of me everything I know I am weak in this I know I'm weak in my temptations
  13. 01:43:00Lord and this is coming from somewhere that I just can't felt them I don't understand it why
  14. 01:43:07I react that way did I did this way God show me Holy Spirit show me
  15. 01:43:13you're there to lead me and guide me I want to be what God call me to be
  16. 01:43:18I want to please him in every areas that he wants to be pleased
  17. 01:43:25he doesn't want a life of a history no he wants you to be what he called you to be
  18. 01:43:33That's what God wants of us God wants from us
  19. 01:43:42like a child like a child before he grows up to be innocent to be pure where he shapes us and forms us every day
  20. 01:43:46that's why who earns the heavens the Bible say it says Jesus presently say you need to be like a child beloved
  21. 01:43:55and that's what he wants us to be a child he wants his fullness of his grace and love to flow beloved to flow in our life
  22. 01:44:04and I'm going to pray for you I'm open I need prayer I have my weakness and I have my strength like every one of us
  23. 01:44:12but don't let the enemy bring you down through your weakness saying that you're not worthy
  24. 01:44:20no that's a lie and that's a lie that has been preaching in so many different ways
  25. 01:44:24no if God called you all we are blessed he called you we did not call ourselves
  26. 01:44:30and that's the thing is that if he called you is because he wants to do greater things for us that's what God wants to do greater things
  27. 01:44:35the apostle acknowledged the apostle acknowledged it very clear he says I no longer live why
  28. 01:44:45because he bury that man he buried it I no longer live but Christ lives in me okay
  29. 01:44:54and then he speaks about that the things I do now listen I do it to please
  30. 01:45:00him amen let's pray Heavenly Father we give you thanks Oh Father we give you praise and glory
  31. 01:45:05You are holy and righteous who deserve more than our praise we humble ourselves
  32. 01:45:14acknowledging you as our God and Father of our Lord Yeshua giving you thanks that by that name we could stand in the victory of Yeshua Father
  33. 01:45:18and that blood has covered us so that we could stand in your presence
  34. 01:45:27Father without shame coming against every work of the enemy that has caused wounds and hurts in our life
  35. 01:45:32father in the name of your beloved son Yeshua we give you thanks we worship you we praise you because you deserve more than my praise you deserve
  36. 01:45:39Father that my heart be in a humble place to please you
  37. 01:45:52I surrender my soul, my life, my mind, my will, everything to please
  38. 01:45:55you God your Holy Father, you are holy and if you are holy you call me to be holy Father if you are holy and righteous you have made us righteous
  39. 01:45:58through your sun Yeshua Father God I give you praise and glory I am not worthy in my own way of thinking
  40. 01:46:08but you made it happen through Christ so God thank you for the righteousness thank you for the holiness thank you for your love and thank you that
  41. 01:46:14you're making that possible in my life so I can share it with others
  42. 01:46:23father in the name of Jesus I give you praise and glory I give you thanks
  43. 01:46:28I pray for each and every one of my beloved brothers and sisters
  44. 01:46:31I pray God that the seed of the life of this word Father will take shape and form Father it will bring them to another level
  45. 01:46:36that you will continue to burn this fire in them, Lord
  46. 01:46:43that as we continue to bring the message of the transformation
  47. 01:46:47, Father where the enemy has wooled us we no longer be bound to the lies of the enemy we no longer be given in to the deception
  48. 01:46:51and the wounds that father stirs up pain and sorrow that we try to cover, that we try to hide, that we try to father put away so that Father no
  49. 01:47:00one will see it but you see it all you see everything Father and we're naked in your presence just like Adam where are you where are you?
  50. 01:47:12Look at yourself where you have got into God we're naked in your presence
  51. 01:47:21and we acknowledge that we are Father Oh God I give you
  52. 01:47:26praise and glory thank you, Father, because you made us understand that we're naked Father and we're proud because you making us in shape
  53. 01:47:29and as to the image of Christ so I'm not shamed for what I am Lord
  54. 01:47:38I am Father so pleased with your love and mercy I am so pleased
  55. 01:47:43that you exposing the things of our heart and you're making us to see ourselves the way you want us to see us through
  56. 01:47:48Christ Jesus Almighty God I give you thanks, Almighty God let your blessing Oh Father let your blessing permate the Spirit the inner man
  57. 01:47:58so when the Spirit of the Word comes into them about witness to them God about witness to them, O Father,
  58. 01:48:07and it will take them to a higher place of joy Father higher place that will overcome the battles in the wounds
  59. 01:48:13a higher place where they could be able to see the promised land through
  60. 01:48:22Christ just your Father in the joy Father that you give him Father supersedes all
  61. 01:48:28understanding God Father in the name of your Son our Lord Yeshua we give you thanks in the mighty name of your son Yeshua.
  62. 01:48:35Thank you, Father. Amen, amen in God's people say Amen, praise God.
  63. 01:48:40Amen, God is awesome, beloved. God is awesome.

Post-sermon discussion: shame, openness, and restoration

  1. 01:48:53Yes.
  2. 01:49:06I think this is very powerful because when God asked Adam like where are you?
  3. 01:49:21And Adam said because I'm naked, I think it's not because he knows he's naked
  4. 01:49:27it's because for the first time he realized that being naked is a shame you forgot it definitely knows
  5. 01:49:32he was naked but that was the time after he fell to sin he realized that being naked was changed
  6. 01:49:42yeah but I think today people struggle is that like a Romans eight says like the body's dead right
  7. 01:49:49I think people's struggle is that we want to dress up the dead body we want to make the dead body look good
  8. 01:49:56without realizing that there was a spiritual body over there which was given to us bother
  9. 01:50:02we just hold on very fast to the dead body we want to make it look good
  10. 01:50:10I think I have experienced this and my friends have experienced this
  11. 01:50:16that when we finally open the the closed the closet yeah we finally show to God that this is like this is what's the hidden saints
  12. 01:50:21what are the wounds what are the things we don't want to show people over there when it's finally open
  13. 01:50:30actually I experienced that a brother he opened his closet right in front of me in front of the pastor and I think everybody at presence
  14. 01:50:38we were feeling that that was he was talking about a dead body over there and there was no
  15. 01:50:49shame on him and the one who was speaking he was a newborn person so he was being naked
  16. 01:50:57but without shame so really I think the moment when you really like take faith and go into that step
  17. 01:51:03you will realize actually there was no shame talking about a dead body
  18. 01:51:09because the one who's talking is a newborn person is a spiritual body yeah
  19. 01:51:15I think if you reali if you experience that you will feel the freedom and you feel the peace
  20. 01:51:21the shame is no longer in North Deal few only starts
  21. 01:51:28when you try to protect fuse only is there when you're trying to protect protect lock
  22. 01:51:33a dead body Yeah a dead body the thing is this a dead body is enough to be protected is to be exposed
  23. 01:51:41so that it heals in a sense within ourself because of it you see healing only comes with things are exposed healing always always they love it
  24. 01:51:50I'm going to tell you something I went through so many programs
  25. 01:52:08A I was bound I went to psychology psychiatry I was bound because they only touch
  26. 01:52:11they didn't touch the soul and the spirits because there's no
  27. 01:52:22what it happens is the moment that Christ came beloved in a second. That was completely exposed
  28. 01:52:29in His presence and freedom and joy took place in seconds that is what you call the true freedom of the spirit is very profound.
  29. 01:52:38I'm telling you it's something that you will die forever you will die for that I'm telling you you will die why
  30. 01:52:48because to join the peace supersede of the fear of death you will die
  31. 01:52:59that's why the disciples they all die they supersede the fear of death there was no control
  32. 01:53:05back nothing holds them back but the problem that we have in this well in this system is that even when we come to Christ the message is all at work
  33. 01:53:14you know it's just to take care of what he's at and never addressing the inner men
  34. 01:53:27so therefore we are giving more more understanding more care to our aqua
  35. 01:53:33and even every system in the world is gift to that
  36. 01:53:37everything that you see in the internet and whatever place you are is everything here
  37. 01:53:40to protect the artwork even the medicine everything and never the inward so therefore we grow up in Christ
  38. 01:53:46you know thinking all the time in how we have to look how we have to behave how we have to do this
  39. 01:53:55but not you know what is our enemy what our inn man are supposed to walk because we don't even give in life to the inner men
  40. 01:54:00you know it's like very deceitful that's why the apostle said it very called Romans hey don't be conformed to the patterns of this world
  41. 01:54:07he's speaking about it very clear but be transformed by the renew
  42. 01:54:18your mind your mind is where the character and the personality of God moves and shape us where the expression of who we become takes place
  43. 01:54:22and people will see it wow that is a Christian person
  44. 01:54:37and that's what we want to show the crisis people are lacking seeing from seeing Christ they need to see Christ
  45. 01:54:41they need to see God's character and that's what I'm telling you it's huge
  46. 01:54:47and then we see a lot of religion and a lot of people are hurt with religion and a lot of people just fall into a psychopattern psychopattern
  47. 01:54:53comfortable and religion don't get me wrong religions have his rules and ways of how to keep people away from practicing other sin
  48. 01:55:02, but the problem is the sin is not the outwork of it
  49. 01:55:14the sin is within the soul and that is where God deals with the soul where your mind, your will and your motions is looking.
  50. 01:55:19I'm telling you the flesh is just the product which you see that's why it said God deals with that's why
  51. 01:55:26I said that a carnal mind cannot perceive the things at this world, and God is only please
  52. 01:55:35how without faith that is what drives us you will please
  53. 01:55:41God so you're not walking the Spirit of this with no faith into it you're walking
  54. 01:55:47and your sense is religious emotions and the outward it becomes rag filthy rags for God filthy rags beloven and that's why
  55. 01:55:54we need to ask the Holy Spirit and God God help me beloved I still have patterns in my life.
  56. 01:56:01That's what I said and I don't care say them I just want to be free and I want to enjoy the peace and I want to be free to be able to express the Christ
  57. 01:56:08every day in my life. That's the renewing of our mind.
  58. 01:56:16Pray the Lord, he said something early this morning as I was sharing with yes perseverance so you said something this morning
  59. 01:56:35that add a light to some things you were talking about the at home about the person testimony, the testimony you were sharing.
  60. 01:56:47Oh I don't know this would be for now but it was something five puts in the spot that's fine that's okay
  61. 01:56:57but I'm telling you beloved the thing is this you will see yourself
  62. 01:57:06your pressure in the eyes of God you see when God himself God himself that man God himself say this very clear
  63. 01:57:10that we are the precious of we are the apple of His eye
  64. 01:57:20that's the closest we could get that's the closest we could get to God as Him saying they're where the Apple of Zeh
  65. 01:57:22I'm going to tell you forgot to tell me I'm the apples of eye I should definitely wow
  66. 01:57:32I should jump scream shout be so excited knowing that I've been chosen by God which I am not worthy
  67. 01:57:36because you would live in a sinful nature we came to this world with a sinful nature
  68. 01:57:49and God chose to express His honor that's the beauty so we have to ask the Lord to open our inner man ice yes yes
  69. 01:57:56and so then we can speed that's why the Holy Spirit is there absolutely

Post-sermon discussion: a personal testimony and Mark 8

  1. 01:58:13I think Jademp persevering in like that's what we are I think that I'm going to share but this is not does
  2. 01:58:21said the Lord this is something that happened
  3. 01:58:31as a result of I was washing like a week ago I was watching a video of this man that came to the Lord but before he came to the Lord since he was
  4. 01:58:36in the wound of the mom he was dedicated to Satan and he was born in this religion of Satanism and dedicated to that
  5. 01:58:57and the pèremen sent him to a place that was completely away from society from anything like to say like John the Baptist right like
  6. 01:59:06he was away from from life of the cities whatever
  7. 01:59:16and in there the weakeness the spirit will come and put in his mind everything that he needs to believe
  8. 01:59:19so he doesn't understand and know what was Ave no moon feeling he doesn't understand anything about love for mommy for daddy for people nothing
  9. 01:59:29because he was raised by this wicked spirit and Isa powerful testimony
  10. 01:59:41and now he is a Christian you know revealing what is in this you know type of you know services or whatever for Satanism
  11. 01:59:48and he said that he experienced so much that it was unbelievable
  12. 01:59:58now when he wanted to get out you know it had been that the Holy Spirit the Lord have to deal with His mind
  13. 02:00:04because he was too much into the wrong but one thing he said that
  14. 02:00:14he could see because he had the faculty to see in the spiritual realm and through the faculty he could see the demons
  15. 02:00:19and he described them as people they are not like you know like wings or whatever no
  16. 02:00:30they are people but they are really really tall that you know they are like very tall
  17. 02:00:37and I was like listening to all that and all the experience
  18. 02:00:43they were told like you know me you know like not like us that we are told by like you are how many feed
  19. 02:00:51no they were like a mirror like like belong people and they were walking everywhere
  20. 02:00:59and he could have he was like not afraid of them because he grew up in that environment spiritually okay
  21. 02:01:06so i i heard all that all the experience how he came back to Christ or for the first time to Christ and how you know he was cleansed by all that and transformed whatever
  22. 02:01:15and I thought I didn't even was thinking about that but then this morning I woke up
  23. 02:01:26and usually on Saturdays we don't go back to prayer to pray at six
  24. 02:01:31because he's gonna have to be preparing so for the message
  25. 02:01:37so I stayed on bed you know praying and I was praying on my bed and meditating about healing you know all the things you know about healing that
  26. 02:01:40I have learned or whatever and all of this sudden all of this sudden
  27. 02:01:56the mind came this testimony of this men talking about how tall the demons were and all of a sudden
  28. 02:02:03I was thinking wow why does that hold that relevance
  29. 02:02:14and then all of the sudden there was like a thought that invaded meat
  30. 02:02:20and said remember the experience of the blind man that the Lord Jesus you know was putting more in his eyes and healing in saliva
  31. 02:02:31and when he saw he saw means like trees and the Holy Spirit journey that was the spiritual eyes that were open
  32. 02:02:42first it was not that Jesus made a mistake in the healing that we stand typing why
  33. 02:02:51he didn't heal well he just so pray for him and he didn't have you know the rivation he so means like trees
  34. 02:02:58it was that Jesus opened his spiritual eyes first and he said I see men's like three
  35. 02:03:05he was looking in the spiritual realm looking of these spirits, these demons, and then now the Lord restore his side to natural to normal to see no more
  36. 02:03:14and I call his mel is merg with the living room preparing the missing
  37. 02:03:21Ismael I have to tell you something that I just receive I don't say this don't set a low but this is huge
  38. 02:03:27I never understood this and I splayed to Ismael and Ismael said wow that is a confirmation of what the Lord is teaching me right now
  39. 02:03:34and we were discussing it that we were like I have never heard anybody saying this so I never heard it from a preacher or whatever I heard from the Holy Spirit
  40. 02:03:44so we have to pray that Lord give us more understanding about that but that was huge
  41. 02:03:57because some you know sometime I question that that miracle of Jesus
  42. 02:04:03I said the guy didn't was healed immediately when Jesus put his hands and he's Jesus had to go back to put his hands again and really bring the true healing
  43. 02:04:07that's what my thinking and the thing is this I want you to understand one thing is that out of that specific passage
  44. 02:04:18they have taken doctrines out of context and they have said well it says healing is progressively slowly
  45. 02:04:30no no no that's a lie so you're making you're making Jesus that he fell on intense and now the second time he did it and that's not true
  46. 02:04:37every miracle that Jesus did the Bible said that that could not be contained in the Bible will not be a book that will contain everything in the world
  47. 02:04:45I want you to understand that that was a manifestation much higher and Jesus needed to bring him to a place.
  48. 02:04:57Remember understand that Jesus healed this person and his eyes was open
  49. 02:05:03to see the realm of the Spirit so that he could be able to see whatever it was in front of him but he see how he identify
  50. 02:05:11I see three the identification I see man as tree how do we know those are man he never saw a man in his life so the thing is he sees men as a tree
  51. 02:05:23so he was seeing the realm of the spirit and Jesus prayed so he could come into the natural senses and be able to see beloved oh yeah
  52. 02:05:33it's it to come into the natural our ability of seeing spiritually is hidden in this place
  53. 02:05:44and that's what the Lord usually open to us first when we come to Jesus our understanding is like open
  54. 02:05:50and then we can receive the truth of Jesus right it's not like something like oh that looks good
  55. 02:05:56that's something good let me let me spray my hand no he say something in our inner being is open
  56. 02:06:05and then we can receive no it's very profound beloved
  57. 02:06:14we would call for a purpose that purpose is about expressing Christ and Christ is the King of His kingdom
  58. 02:06:17so what we do we expand the Christ in us in His kingdom what by bringing the kingdom through Him
  59. 02:06:25and this this man when he was a boy you know that was in the Satanism he could see them
  60. 02:06:35he said they were training very well and set apart
  61. 02:06:44but for evil wickedness set apart not involved with society and humanity but with evil and wicked darkness
  62. 02:06:50so that he understand so he understands so he understand the spiritual aspect of it profound
  63. 02:07:03so there's something that we have to just study more about it's interesting that they are so happy going here we go so David
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References

  1. God Is Spirit—So Are We (Part 1)
    Family Life Church · Saturday sermon · October 17, 2026
    John 4:24; Genesis 1:26–27; 2:7; Romans 8; 12:2.
    Subtitle record: approximately 00:16–00:22 for John 4:24.
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