Sunday Feb 25

Last Sunday we talked about love we talked about God's love.

We talked about a lot about how his love for us and what it takes. What is love looks like and we talked about him.

It is unconditional love and ways to express his love and how to shift yourself out of a state of fear and into a state of love. It's a lot of people like well, how do we actually shift ourselves a lot of fear and into love? Well, let me tell you this. You've been reborn love.

we make statements like God is

the status on this side God is God is love. Then what do we become more born of them? like literally when you're saying you're a child of God, you're saying you're a child of

well, they call it didn't they? And we don't listen to what it actually meant for. What does it look like for God to be loved and we looked at Corinthians love is patient. Love is kind. Don't mention that to my question to use a how do you stay in the state of love? How do you shift in that place and reason and function out of love? Because everything God does is out of

Put your hands up with me this morning. Repeat after me say Jesus I want with you got.

I guess that's good. Yeah.

What's so you been reborn love? Like we need to understand what we become we got to understand where we came from.

The only reason that I know that my name is Paul where you guys are. None of my name is fall where you got told me faster time. I came from my parents and then and Gerald where do they came from their parents? John and Annie child's on my mom's side and on my dad side really really dude. I love it. Willie and Julia where

that's why I know I can trace back parts of my origin now a little bit further back. I think Grandma has Granny's Demopolis buffini and puffiness. Dad was an Indian.

Who's the Cherokee Indian? As much as I know so I kind of get to know my where I came from when you understand where you came from now, you know people that have a better understand that probably the Amish.

But I'm telling you what when they want to talk to you about your family. You're always going to stay starts off. Do you know and John's? Junior and you're just like who?

Do you like three generations back? If you've been all this time, even though I'm telling the truth? I married into the army. So I know it's true.

A Black Amish. Yeah. Beavis

I drove a buggy to man. You have no idea.

I even got a little Peter going so no mustache either.

And what that means is we don't understand our place of origin, which is God so we came from God. We're called the function reason and think just like he does cuz were made in His image. But when we got born again He restored his likeness back to us. That's a lot of times. We don't catch that man was created in the image and likeness of God, but when a man fell he didn't lose the image. He lost the likeness its ability to be like think like reason like move like he lost his life just he lost the identity of who he was because he became disconnected from God then when they got when you received the like this fact, how do I know? It's true because you receive his spirit inside of you. Last week we learned that love isn't a feeling. It's a person. You guys remember that loves a person like when you think about love I want you to think differently love is a person and that person's name is God. If you want to get a little more technical that person in human forms name is Jesus if you want to get spiritual person hovering over you is Holy Spirit.

And you've been created and reborn love.

I'm going to look at it scripture in 2nd Corinthians 5:17. Is there for if anyone is in Christ that is grafted enjoying to him by faith in him as Savior. He is a new creature reborn and renewed by the Holy Spirit. The only thing the previous moral spiritual condition have passed away behold new things have come because Spiritual Awakening brings new life. I'm hoping to give you guys some puzzle pieces for your life today to the first puzzle piece. Is this you become before you live in It may sound like a riddle.

That may sound like a real this time. You guys would have not the first puzzle piece I want you to have is that you become before you live it and understand you've become something waiting for you ever move out for Jesus in Walking the fruits of the spirit. You have to become love again. So what happens if you believe in Christ you receive and you become something, but the problem is you don't know what you've become yet. Call me. If you haven't realized we can become yet. You have to learn what it what have I become in Christ scripture says if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature. Let's look at it again. He's new your new what does it mean? Question, I would ask you what have you become your new creature with wouldn't work out of creature. Are you?

Could you imagine like me and the girl you think I need your creature, aren't you?

What do you mean? I'm a creature.

Put the thing about that. You're a new creature. What does it mean to be and you create creatures were born and renewed of the Holy Spirit by God against that literally means you've become something and the only way that you understand how to think and reason is stay in this place of what you become the minute. You change your view of what you become you're going to go out securing your think is going to get blurred. Your Visions going to give pleasure think he's going to give blur the way you live is going to be plural. Like what it would have to have you become.

A lot of us say that we can come Christians ride. I am a Christian. I'm Christian means I have I follow Christ for or I believe in Jesus and so we have a thing called the Christian religion. And Jesus didn't die to start another religion.

Jesus did not die to start a religion.

We do we do become a child of the Kingdom.

We become a child of the king. Yes.

So what does any of that have to do with religion absolutely, nothing. Do you wanted you to become something and it only way that you can discover what you become is by knowing him? And the more you know him the more you can begin to see yourself the way he sees you. But religion will twist your thinking to say that you haven't become. Know how to conversation with someone earlier and I and I told them I said bro, you know, I was going you strong words and be real with you guys okay with you guys. All right.

I told him did you not me times? I've been called a heretic.

No, the heretic is. It's a hair that has a tick on it.

I said you let me explain and Susan for this simple statement. They called me if you called me crazy. I said if I've been born from God and I'm a new creature. That means that I am now send list.

That also means that I'm no longer what I once was cuz if I'm still what I once was that means I'm still be fighting to not be it. And if God says when you believe in me, you become new then either became new or God's a liar.

No, I don't know if you want to thank God the ladder. I'm not going to I don't think I'd like that all. So I'm either new or I'm not and so I said if I ever knew that I make me a new creation and that makes me a song that makes me a child of God a child of the Kingdom that makes me feel brand new and it says old things.

All the that's not the word I want to use.

Call the food stamp. / thank you, Jim. All the flash all the junk all the trash. Do you understand Paul wrote about it in Scripture? Under your socks on your socks off you guys ready? There was a shock me. Tupac Runnin scripture. He said I count everything as loss to know Christ and if you actually understand that Greek word lost he didn't he doesn't mean lost. It doesn't mean poop. It doesn't mean crap. The Greek word that Paul used was the sh.

Are you following me? That is the word that Paul using scripture. Now you guys are looking at me like that's rough it literally translate to Schoo Bula Bula to know Christ and what he saying is I count it all as to know Christ. My old life is all new and I become something new and I want to know him in the power of his resurrection.

That's what he says. I'm new so I told him to do my other new like Jesus is our mold like you're saying. You can't preach that I say what do you mean? I can't priests said you're no longer send her things. But if you do something stupid you want me to call you stupid.

Stupid is as stupid does right now do you think about this for a second? We have the ability to steal. Are you defined by what you do or you define but what Jesus did?

I'll come on yeah.

Come on.

And if you don't understand you become something new you'll still fight with all the old stuff you want struggled with you don't live in that in that would be your identity. You'll say I don't know about you. I would talk to you guys and say my name is Todd and I'm a drug addict even though I haven't had drugs in a very long time, but I'm still a drug addict. I Still Know Myself according to the drugs I once used out of my system. That's weird. So the speak thing is true in the Kingdom with God says you could come new you got to step into the truth and say I have become new until you do you can't live it.

You're going to be trying to achieve it. How come on dude you're going to be trying to become a new you know, how silly that looks for believers or try to achieve them or something. I'm trying I'm trying too hard. You just working in your flesh. You trying too hard to get somewhere when God is already placed you somewhere.

placed you in Heavenly places He has placed you in him. Has you been accepted in his beloved you are in Christ? You're in him and Grafton. Why not just accept it. They told me I was crazy for saying hey telling people do not centers anymore. I mean, what's the worst case the what's the worst thing that can happen? Huh? You're not a sinner anymore and you believe it and I wonder if send this wild life. that the man thinks so is so you still think like you're a sinner gets what you're going to do.

But if you start thinking like your son guess what you're going to do something.

Let's do that. Again. If you think like a sinner you're going to said if you think like the sun you're going to shine.

The problem comes in at the is that once we become something, we don't actually believe it fully we questioned how we really become how many you guys question. Are you really saying? Put your head up high? Don't be scared. I'm not mad at you guys. See we questioned. You know why we questioned those things. Listen, I've been there the reason why we questioned those things because we live with ourselves, don't we We live with ourselves. We see our insecurities. We know what we fear. And so because of all that reasoning we're still reasoning according to how we see ourselves and our reasoning according to how God sees us. I just want to help you guys if you would reason how God sees you things change. imagine that

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That's right.

Price is trying to see if you are focused on what you wants were what you wants done who you used to be. You'll never step in fully to who you are.

You can't step into it. You're actually creating a belief system within yourself that keeps you stuck where you once were and then that belief system you're going to actually invite these things called demonic spirits and then power the lie that you believe. Nothing. Don't Empower truth cuz they can't they have no truth in them.

That's why you don't Integrity one interrogate one to try to get information because their father of Lies when you think they're going to do to you why?

Yeah. So the opposite is true. Did you hear this? How old are you, dude? What is 11 ft in depth? He said well, it says going to speed live can't you just reverse psychology and everything you said is you live exactly the opposite. So sitting since you're good for nothing you just respond off of something great. Autumn about to paint

I'm so glad people get to talk during this term because we would have missed that Revelation dude. We would have missed it. Just that simple. He's the father of Lies. So don't believe that so why not just believe what Jesus says is true and step into it with all your heart.

The question is how do you know you're becoming and how do you know it's true? Cuz if you struggle I've been there. I used to stroke it like dude even after I came back from the next time I die on my really going to be with you. I mean $50 and he'll it was terrifying. That sounds like a crap. I don't want to go back. There is no good. No good for me. I love myself enough not to do that.

so

scripture says this so Faith come by hearing. Romans 10:17 look at the Amplified version of it.

It's it's it's in the Amplified version. It said so faith comes by hearing what is told and what is heard comes by preaching of the message concerning Christ's and so I want to break down a puzzle piece for you. If faith comes by hearing how does face cost? how to say scum

I really want to know how old is FaZe Tom? Hearing so what you hear is what you believe. Let me do this again. Do what you hear is what you believe. So if your whole life you're told you're worthless. You're no good. Guess what's happening?

All of a sudden those words are seeds and no seeds go into the soil being your heart and you start feeling. Those words and the minute you feel those words in your heart. You start believing them and when you believe them if he gets the change the way you think and live.

But I want to bring some more down to you that word. If you look in the King James that says fill Faith come by hearing and hearing by the word of God. I love you will take only caused by God's word. The scripture tells me that every man every human being is given a Measure of Faith. Each one of us is born with the measure of faith. And that faith is looking to attach itself to a word.

It's a what image is man-made in?

The reason why I want you guys grab it if you're made in God's image. Then the words you speak have the ability to shape world around you.

Yeah. It's just the word is actually looking forward to this one. That's like you're okay. You're okay with checking you and your minions image so you can words can skate world be like, I don't believe that. All right. Well, dude, let me tell you something. My little buddy Jack's is he in here? Just right there my son.

Show me the things that I say I watch him tell his other brothers the same things I say.

Where'd you get that learned that from? For Better or For Worse heard from Dad

and I'm saving my son's world right now. I'm saving this world view. When you get around people you can help shape the worldview. So your words say people's world. You got to follow me, dude. Maybe you don't understand that in and let me help a little more. That's why God says in scripture every word that comes out of your mouth your going to give an account for so if they weren't that important than Powerball, I don't think I would care. The guy says he washes away but your words he's going to say let's talk about it.

A lot of time we're focused on our external dialogue, but what about the words of our internal dialogue? Unborn do you want to do want to go there? Let's go there afterwards. But that meditation the words of my mouth and the meditation of my be acceptable in your Allure. So what about the meditation of your heart? I'm a Believer is what you meditate on what you speak.

If I said whatever is in your heart comes out. Is that in your words?

So God says if you want to change your heart change what you're speaking and change what your hearing? How many planes are two types of words in the scripture? 2 * there's a Rhema word which is spoken word and logos word, which is written words and let me explain that. So when you when you have a Bible

I know you can like him, but I want to make sure I got the Bible not to handle. Can I have nothing against if you like him I like the hum?

This represents the logos. It's the written word that the logos word can be prophetic. It is God's word is truth. Has faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. It didn't say the logos that word in the original Greek is Rhema is his faith comes by hearing and hearing Raymond me the spoken word. It's an honor and something that is declared and they know so it says in scripture faith comes by hearing Sophia. Grace comes by Rhema. It has to be spoken in order to be received and begin to believe upon in the heart. I don't know about that tap. I don't I don't know about that which was back at the scripture then so faith comes from hearing what it's told faith comes by hearing. What is towed? I listen. I'm all for you reading. I'm all for you reading listen to me. I'm off for you reading.

Where I can write something on a piece of paper and tell you Jesus loves you, or I can talk to you and say Jesus really loves you.

Are you following me? I can I can say that like if I told my wife honey, I wrote you a love letter, and that's the only time you're going to hear. I love you.

Are you women are like?

I love you. Just read the letter.

I know it's Valentine's Day, but I wrote you a letter 10 years ago.

What the heck? No, it hasn't changed one. But when you got roaches just look at the letter.

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That's really good in there. You can got to go well for you to Zack if you did that to Lisa we go really well.

He said yeah, be headed to the train station. I love you, honey. Yeah.

Yeah, absolutely. Yes.

Hold on stop stop dude. Listen, man. He's getting us a he's giving us the cheat code. Give me the cheat code. Jim would leave notes everywhere. I had him in the bathroom. I had in my bedroom my hat wherever I want. There's a note this is tonight tell you I love you today where it says Jesus loves you as much as I love you too. I mean it was all over they got so much that I couldn't see in the mirror anymore area and every once in awhile, I'll pull them out and just look at him and think how sweet that is and he's just he's underneath this hard shell. He's a romantic and it's a beautiful to do that to my son started doing that at his house or you're just doing that cuz your dad did it and that hurt that hurt him because he did it out of his own love for her so he didn't continue but I have many of them from this man man on the mirror. You didn't try to see yourself in the mirror.

Yes.

Yes. That's part of it, but she could hear those words that were written when she read them. She could hear his voice right show and isn't that isn't that what happens with the word of God in the Bible? When we begin to read it. I lived for 20 some years and went to church almost every Sunday and we were taught the scripture. We read the Bible. We had the bible to read and it didn't get through to my heart. Until I started to surrender to God and the Holy Spirit came in and he started to illumine those words and now those written words jumped off the page and went into my heart and I heard Jesus telling me those words through the power of the spirit.

It really it really is.

Okay, this is really part of my personal testimony. But as a counselor, I've seen it over and over again people who have been really broken in their lives and treated as though they were nothing they're worthless piece of whatever. The words just don't cut it they have to have an experience and one of the ways other than the Holy Spirit actually bringing you one. But even after that you're going to need this is a person who the Lord uses to love you and accept you for exactly who you are and so in tablets talk in a little bit ago about the word and a person some people need that personal interaction with a human being the other thing. I just want to share his recently. The Lord reminded me that when I'm reading scripture read it out loud, so I hear it. That's absolutely true. I mean guys ever read the scripture out loud to yourself.

It is when I learned that faith comes by hearing and hearing by God's word or preaching this has Rob listening. I listen to audio Bible. Do you understand original way that they are taught the Bible was auditorial they would they would they would.

What's a what is? Auditorial they would know they didn't have books but it was broken and it get it we talked and it was about the way that they spoken that went to your heart's could you imagine you would come home and Randy would be getting to say okay guys. It's time for me to teach you this this chapter in the Bible and you begin to say it over and over for a month to you until it's stuck and you were able to say it back. Zacks Zacks, like exactly help me. Give me a call and give me an engine. Like you said it got passed down through the generations because Jim did it his son saw it and then he did it.

Yes.

Yes, they do.

Yes.

That's absolutely true. Absolutely true.

I may not sin against you in the heart not on the book in the heart.

Maybe you know better than me but Rhema isn't there a component of that that it's a word that's a live. So we believe that this is a live. Yes, but then also what he speaks constantly is alive. If so faith comes from hearing and what is heard comes by what he speaks. Yes from him constantly speaking not I mean through this yes, but also hearing him

When does the logos what is written become Remo?

How many you guys ever had a life scripture in that scripture that spoke volumes to you and the season of your life?

You know from me now, you got to realize that's written down right that's logos, but it's when the swing your reading the scripture and the Holy Spirit highlights a word to you a scripture to you if he comes rainbow because he's he's breathing on it. He speaking on it and you may say for you in a season where you're feeling afraid. trust in the Lord with all your heart Don't lean to your own understanding acknowledge Him in all your ways. He'll direct your path. And that might be so highlighted where you're hearing it and seeing it over and over it because God's trying to make his logos. What is written to become Rhema in your heart that you would begin to speak it out that you wouldn't hear it and you'll begin to live by it.

The same is true. When you got born again? You received of his spirit and until you begin to speak it out until you begin to declare it out. So you can't be afraid that you've been born again. You got to understand what I'm saying? You can't be afraid. Hey, man, I'm born again. Dude. I'm a living witness of who Jesus is and you can't shut it down. You can't make me be silent about it. I'm going to tell people about it dude. I've been at the bar a couple times and people got wrecked on new wine. Don't matter.

That's right. Is it a scripture would come you need both? Turn me out for not saying only Rhema but sometimes you need both and you need to understand the previous conversation. And how you understand the previous conversation is by looking in the Bible.

Cuz if you don't know what was said before you don't know what the saying right now. But if you understand what was said before you can stand right now, so what gives me the authority to say, I'm not a sinner what was said before? And when I do that all the sudden there comes an experience, right? There's an experience that comes weather is through Christ or someone else saying, hey, man, I don't know if you believe I really feel God has to you and it's a confirm me words to what I heard in my heart from the Lord or something. He's revealed to me personally.

never The rain thank you absolutely will just use those two words from God doesn't counter counter counter deck, right if it contradicts. It's a counterfeit.

Yeah, that's not God. Like you know, you know, I mean, it sounds crazy. You have no idea how big that is in the church, so How crazy that you were going to the Lord told me that man he's married because it be my husband. No, no. No, that wasn't the Lord the Lord. I had an extensive trust me. It's not just read your word. Where's it? Say Do not covet thy neighbor's wife. Right? And if you do that, I'm going to read the King James to you and say are you identifying with the last part of it?

If you if you read the King James, you would understand that joke.

Yes. Yes, we did before we started the sermon to hold your hands off and I say Jesus would you got I want because I want you to hear what his word for you today. But you know, what matters more to me is that I can still talk and you feel God speak to you beyond me talkin. You understand. Tell me Pastor what you said today was excellent. You said this is not like I didn't say that.

That's not what I said, but it's good. That's from God. Keep it. I've seen that happen so many times. finally Is listening Lisa believe me then why do we need to understand that what you believe what you did Claire you declare what you become? You understand there has to be some type of Declaration made of what you've become. What's one way that we declare that we're children of God. We talked about it. We share our faith. We we we do you got but there's one big thing that he says, once you become you I want you to do this open decoration not in privacy if you can but it's great to do it in public.

One of the easiest ways to declare when you become is by simply getting baptized. It's an open decorate that you what are you doing? So You owe me it is signify what has taken place in heaven and Heaven. You got to realize if I became new and old things are passed away. Jesus told me the first thing I need to do is do this thing called get baptized. Now you don't get baptized at all. You do not get baptized to join a church.

I'm just going to a couple baptism lies. I don't know why.

When I said it makes me mad it makes me mad. It makes me so mad. angry like it rises up in me, and it's it's very

Yeah. You don't get baptized to join the church.

You do not do that. You don't get baptized because it's the cool thing to do. Are you following me? You don't get baptized because they make your spouse happy.

You don't do that. I'm not getting baptized to make you happy. You get what I'm saying? You don't think I'm just being real. I'm seeing people will I'm getting baptized because she wants me to come like when you grow a let me know. You like that. That was a very nice well. biggest thots

I know sometimes I should do growing like you like what you mean. How about you grow a pair for God and actually do it because you want God instead of her.

You don't get baptized for that reason. The only reason you get baptized it to make a declaration that I am following Jesus with my life and I want to follow him and say the first command is his daddy gave us was be baptized in my name you do it because you became a member not overcharge put of the body of Christ. Understand that you do it because you're a member of the body of Christ. You become part of the body. Welcome to the family. Not welcome to the church.

Do I have to talk to so many people they said well in order to go to this church to get baptized.

What's up do with you knowing god more? Well do this church I can do, why don't you just exclude that nonsense and actually just know God by yourself.

Who's your hands? I think two years ago how many you got baptized a year ago? I mean if you got baptized two years ago. And none of that was ever for is going to church was it? No, it was never meant to be that way ever. It was always meant to be because of your relationship with him. Best one baptism why I'm hoping I'm killing. The next one is this.

I do not care how many times you get baptized?

I'm sorry again, I do not care how many times you get baptized? I find it to be one this. blunt One of the most ridiculous Christian arguments that you can constant that you can make. Would you only to be baptized again if I want to do it for God what does that to do with you?

I'll give you guys a married right married people. Call me. If you guys have renewed your vows put your hands up. You did a vow renewal looking at married one time like you need to do it. Why do about renewal?

It's the relationship. And if we want to do a renewal every year that were married, what is that to you?

Yeah.

Come on.

Come on. Could you imagine doing a baptism getting baptized every month if you want to you can write and it's so under to understand that it's between you and the Lord man, but if you want, I don't know but I feels kind of still in my relationship and it's between you and me anyway, so I just going to I just want to refresh my memory of how it was when I first got born again, and I remember going to the water at my in-laws house and my parents came in to get me. Are you a little fishes nibbling at my toes?

Is it okay if I got baptized 10 times and it's between me and the Lord who cares between you and the Lord that's the second time when they killed the first time did it but if you want to be refreshed and do it again, so be it. Between you and the Lord everything about you and our opinions and I'm going to are going to have an opinion about it. And last time I heard opinions are like knows they sometimes run.

That's the second thing about baptism third third thing. Yes.

If you were getting re-baptized so you ready for this. Hey, we have been baptized of your jobs baptism Falls. Like hi. Have you heard of Jesus baptism. Baptized right? If you got to realize that you're right, so we'll just it's okay because we like I was about ritualistic cleaning. I'm getting baptized.

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Do we do we do baptisms like it was you wanted to get back to her. I've been I've never seen someone who says I have been way worse for the last three years. I'm going to get right with God. I want to refresh my you ever seen someone do that to you ever have someone do that to them. And then they ate they said I just Lord I give you my life and you redone come home if you ever done that I have You seen it. I've done it plenty of times and it's cool with doing that with people. Go to Dunkin myself. I need my wife talked me wants to.

He wasn't mad at me that day either.

But these are reason why these are the reasons why we get baptized. We we can get baptized to show your appreciation for what God has done. We shall wait. Jesus has done for us. I'm going to take this off. I'mma put this over here.

you can't bring those balloons over like a lot of times when we do baptisms people would like you to do a baptism in like people like Yoda said Heaven celebrates. How do you understand Heaven celebrates? I think it's weird when Heaven never knows when Heaven celebrate Christian. Sometimes you irritate.

I noticed that religion gets irritated. Yes, but Heaven celebrates baptisms. It celebrates people find since Heaven has a party.

We're trying to do a control balloon thing this time. That's how we had kids with balloons and they were just popping everywhere.

But we're going to be able to celebrate people who want to start following Jesus with their lives heart and strength. So real quickly mad. You're getting baptized want you to come up front?

Do you want you to share why you getting baptized today? Well, cuz the last time I did it I did it because everybody else did right? And this time I'm actually on fire. So that's why I'm getting dipped.

When did you come to Christ? Last summer what happened? I was in Missouri at one of them places where they they bring in the spirit pray for you and everything. So that's when I encountered the fire. I'll never forget that feeling stayed with me all the time.

Easy went to a place that brought in the spirit nowadays. They would literally you go to the altar you pray. You you give your things to the like you to Jesus your sins and repent Inspire will come on you come on.

That's literally what you do when you come fast, you can fax you some everything doesn't have to be you. Just let it go matter how old you are nothing. In the fire god came on. So now you're getting baptized.

I like that.

Austin you getting baptized today why? Like I told Moses the same reason.

When I was in the Mennonite culture, I guess it was like I felt like I had to do it like it was just a thing to do, you know and I feel like it's the same way as most like I just I feel like I'm on fire for the Lord and I feel like it's I'm nervous but yes. All right.

Since we're going to do most were going to baptize you first.

We said we were going to leave for fire on the water for mosrite.

if you guys want to stay seated in your seat, so you can

if you guys want to gather up here you can. Whatever you guys want to do.

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I got somebody.

How do you know what go ahead and head for yourself?