How to Use Faith to Fulfill Your Destiny

0:00 two. In this video, you're going to learn exactly what it takes to fulfill your dreams and your destiny because I'm going to be talking to you about this concept, the science of faith. The science of faith. Well, and we're going to read, we're going to start reading in the place you suspect we're going to start reading, but we're going to take a different kind of look at this. It says in Hebrews chap 11 starting with verse one it says now faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen for by it that is faith the elders obtained a good report through faith we understand that the worlds plural were framed by the word of God so that things

0:46 which are seen were not made of things which do appear by faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain pain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts, and by it he being dead yet speaketh. By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death and was not found because God had translated him. For before his translation, he had this testimony that he pleased God. But without faith, it is impossible to please him. For he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek

1:33 him. Now, I don't know if you've ever thought about this or not, but I have. What is the difference between faith and belief? Because we think of faith and belief. We think of them as the same thing. And they are related to the same thing but they are not the same thing because faith faith is the noun and the Greek word for faith is the word pistus which means it is a conviction or a persuasion based on a conviction about a truth. That's what that's what faith is. Belief is more intellectual. It's something you do

2:19 based on something that you have. Are y'all with me so far? Yes. So, if we're going to understand faith, we have to look at what God says about it first. And here's what it says. It says faith is what? The substance of what? Things hoped for. The evidence of things not seen. And trick question for you. What's the first word in that verse? Now. Now. The first word is not faith. The first word in the definition of faith is the word now. I think I think when we read now we kind of act like it's a placeholder. Now faith is a sub like we're just saying okay like like when you say something to your little brother and you think you told him off and you say now right okay it's not like that it's not a placeholder faith the word now I really believe describes the kind of faith. What if you

3:05 thought of now as an adjective that describes the faith? What do you mean? Well, now faith is a kind of faith. Now faith, now faith is the kind of faith that you can only have when you allow yourself to enter a now that requires that you have faith. If you face a now that doesn't have any temptation for doubt, then it also has no opportunity for faith. Did you did I say that too fast? Okay, let me say it again. If you face a now that has no temptation for doubt, then there is no opportunity for faith. Because faith is the abil ability to

3:51 believe in the face of seeming evidence that you ought not believe. Wow. Are y'all tracking? See now faith is the kind of faith that Noah had when he spent 120 years working on a boat and he started when he was 400 when he was 480 years old starts building a boat in the desert because water's going to fall out of the sky and in 480 years he had never seen water fall out of the sky. He had only seen water come up from the ground. Wow. So now God is telling him the exact opposite of your whole experience of 480 years is about to happen. and I want you to spend the next 120 years doing something about it. And by the way, Noah wasn't the only one who never saw water fall out of the sky.

4:37 Nobody who was alive during that time ever saw water fall out of the sky. So when they came and saw Noah building this ginormous wooden structure in the desert and they said, "What are you doing?" I'm building a boat. Well, there's no water around here, Noah. What are you doing? That's okay. God's going to make it rain. God's going to make it what? He's going to make it rain. Well, what's rain, Noah? I don't know. I'll get back with you. Let me ask God. God, what's rain? Water's going to fall out of the sky. Okay, so water's going to fall out of the sky. Can you imagine how they made fun of him? Water's going to fall out of the sky. And when water starts falling out of the sky, you better make sure you're on this boat I'm building that you don't believe in. Wow. Now, faith is the kind of faith that caused Noah to build a boat in the desert because water was enough water was going to fall out of the sky to flood the entire earth, including the desert. And Noah believed it not for a

5:26 day, not for a week, not for a month, not for a year, but for 120 years. 12 decades. He worked on what he believed in for 12 decades. And we're all been out of shape because we started a business and didn't get rich in 15 minutes. [Applause] Now, faith, now faith is the kind of faith that causes you to keep working when it seems like it's not working. But all works. There's nothing you've ever worked on that didn't work. You say, "No, I worked on something that didn't work." No, you didn't. No, it worked. It either worked for on you or it worked for you. But all works. And see, here's most people's problem. They think things don't work because they're unwilling to let the work work on them

6:11 long enough for them to become the person for whom it can work. Now, faith is the substance. See, when we get the faith piece right, then everything else falls in place. See? See, people think they believe stuff because they told themselves they believe it. They think they believe stuff because they're around other people who believe it. They think they believe stuff because they've read stuff about it. They think they believe stuff because they went to a seminar about it. But until you do something you've not yet believed, when you're faced with the opportunity to sink or swim and you don't get in the water, you do not have now faith. When you're faced with the opportunity to invest in yourself to take advantage of an opportunity and you're so afraid

6:57 of your inability that you decide, I'm going to wait. You don't have faith. You don't have now faith. And we spend our whole life hesitating and wondering why. Where the reason we're hesitating is because we we believe more in our obstacles than we do our opportunities. We believe more in in the the the dangers than we do the destiny. And what has to happen in us? We have to be willing to sink in order to learn how to swim. Just like we had to be willing to fall down a bunch of times before we learned how to walk. It doesn't change that. That whole experience of becoming more doesn't ever change. We want to get to the place where it's easy. Well, we only get to

7:43 the place where it's easy after we spend enough time in the place where it's hard. And that's where most people give up. They never get to like they come to an like, "Yeah, I'm almost." And they turn now into almost. They turn now into getting ready to. They turn now into I'm going to think about it. Now faith is the substance. Substance. I'm So I'm Now faith is the substance. What's sub mean? It means under. So faith is something that's under me. It's a foundation. Faith is foundational. The reason you feel so wobbly is because you don't really believe. People who don't have a reason to believe, they don't have any physical apparent result reasons to believe and

8:29 yet they believe in the face of it. And everybody thinks they're crazy until the thing they believed in shows up for everybody else to see it. In fact, everything that we see, the reason we see it is because somebody believed in it before it was there. This building existed in somebody's mind before it existed on a blueprint, before construction workers could ever put the first nail in the first board. Everything in life works like that. It's not going to change just cuz you showed up. Is what I'm saying making any sense at all? Absolutely. So now faith is the substance of things. So faith is something that's under me. Stance that I'm standing

9:15 on. Faith is the substance of things. I love the word things. This is one of my favorite words. A lot of people don't like the word things. I like the word things because in Hebrew, the word things is the Hebrew word. It's the Hebrew word debar. Now, Dar Dar is a Dar is a word that means to speak, but it also means thing. To speak, but it also means thing. What does that mean? So, so it's really interesting that in um the book of Proverbs, it says it says that the um I'm going to look it up cuz it it

10:02 left me. Deuter uh Proverbs 27. It tells us Proverbs is in the Old Testament right after Psalms 27 is after 26. There it is. Okay. I think it's 272. Nope, it's not. It'll come back to me. So, so the word thing and the word de bar are the same thing, which by the way, uh John 1:1 proves out. In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. All things were made by him, and without him was not anything made that was made. So, here's the verse I was thinking about, but but I couldn't find it cuz I remembered it in the wrong place. It says, "It is the glory of God

10:49 to conceal a thing." This is so powerful. But it is the honor of kings to search out a matter. Now, in English, the word thing and the word matter are two different words. But in Hebrew, the word thing and the word matter are the same word. And guess what the word is? Dar. Dar is the spoken word. Dar is to speak. So it literally says it's the glory of God to hide a thing. Where does he hide it at? He hides it in his word. It's the glory of God to It's the glory of the kings to search out a matter, a debar. Where does it where does he search it out? In his word. Because the job of the king, when you read Deuteronomy chapter 17, beginning with

11:34 verse number 14, it sells us the job of the king. He has to get a notebook. He is to get the Torah, the law, and he is to get a pen and he is to copy out his own version of the law word by word, word for word. Why? Because the king's job was to be able to discern righteous judgment. And righteous judgment is the kind of judgment God has. And so, in order for me to judge how God judges, I have to have God's word hidden in my heart. Amen. And the reason we don't know anything, the reason we we don't we don't know how to make it is because you're struggling in an area. You're struggling in an area because you don't know what God says about that area or you're not doing it. I'm telling you, that's the whole thing. That's why Jesus said to the to the believing Jews, he said in John chapter 8, he said um he said, "If if you continue on my words,

12:20 then are you my disciples indeed, and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." any area of our lives in which we are not free. It is an area of our lives in which we are not familiar with and practicing truth. So now faith is where I stand. It's under me. I'm standing on it on things hoped for. Now the word hope is not wish. It's not like man I hope I get this for my birthday. It's not that kind of hope. But the word hope is a wellfounded well-grounded expectation for the future. So now faith is where I stand on what I expect. And then it says evidence. Somebody tell me what the word evidence means. Proof. And prove the things. There's

13:07 that word again. I cannot see. So, so now faith is where I stand on the things I expect while I prove the things I can't see. I'm going to tell you something like I could spend the rest of this hour talking about this because you're so addicted to being myopic. As human beings, we get so distracted by the deception of the eyes. We're we're so deceived. We believe that because we see something, it's real. But invisibility is more real than visibility. We're going to find that out in a couple of verses. Like the

13:54 invisible realm is not as real as the visible realm. The invisible realm is more real than the visible realm. Spirit is more real than flesh. And so now faith, what kind of faith? What? Now, faith is where I stand on the things I expect while I prove the things I cannot see. In fact, the fact that you can't see it and the fact that it seems like it's not going to work. And your ability to work then on the thing is the difference maker. The people who are accomplishing the kinds of things you'd like to accomplish, the reason they're accomplishing them is because they have been willing to do something you've been avoiding. And that is doing the thing when it looks like, sounds like, feels like, it ain't going to work.

14:43 That's why I don't set goals. That's why when I decided 3 years ago to start posting a YouTube video every week, I didn't say, "I'm going to go post a YouTube video a week and I'm going to see if I can get 100,000 subscribers or a million subscribers or I'm going to see if I can get a whole bunch of people to comment or I'm going to see if I can get a whole bunch of people like my videos." I said, I am going to do a YouTube video every week for the next 10 years to see if I can get good at what? Posting YouTube videos that people want to watch. Wow. See, you want you want the outcome instead of the become. I want the become because when you get the become, the outcome takes care of itself. I wish I had some help in here. All right. See, I mean, this is why goals like

15:28 goals say focus on the outcome. Focus on the outcome. Focus on the outcome in a certain period of time. No, focus on the become over time, not the outcome in a certain period of time. It changes everything. It changes you. It changes how life responds to you. Changes how people respond to you. It changes how you respond to life. It changes how you respond to people. Now, faith is where I stand on the things I expect. And if I'm expecting them, that means they're not here yet. So, my greatest my my best chance at accomplishing the most impact for good and for God is for me to strengthen my resolve and my ability to expect the things that I don't see yet.

16:21 So now faith is where I stand. So we talked about what faith is. But as we're we're we're looking at, okay, how can faith help me like accomplish my dreams? How can faith help you reach your destiny? Because that's what it starts talking about. As soon as it tells us what faith is, it goes into what faith has done for people. Here's what it says. Um, I got to go back to Hebrews chapter 11. Um, and so it says, "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it, that is by faith, by what? By standing on what they expect while they prove they cannot what they cannot see, the elders obtained a good report." Okay, see, I'm telling you, I just got chills. The the Bible God keeps saying the same

17:07 thing in different ways, and he's like, "Well, one of these days you're going to get it. He said, "By faith, the elders obtained a good report." A report is a reputation. A your report is your name. Think about it. Your report is your name. What do people think of when they hear your name? That's your report. And what does the scripture tell us about a good name and a good report? A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches. But we ch rather choose the great riches because building a good name requires some work. Becoming the person who is known for the good thing. Becoming the person

17:52 that is known for impact to the degree that when people hear your name, they can't wait to hear from you because of what they believe about your name. When the Queen of Sheba heard about Solomon in her own country, in her own land, she didn't believe it until she came and saw it. And here's what she said. Behold, the half has not been told. The experience of Solomon was at least twice as good as the expectation of him. That's what a good name is. A good name is your reputation precedes you but it does not exceed you.

18:39 When somebody meets you, they hear about you and then they meet you. Is it antilimactic? And see, here's what makes here's what makes meeting you not anticlimactic. Actually being the person you purport yourself to be. Because in any interaction with anybody, you're never with them long enough to reveal your entire self. So that when they are exposed to you in real time in real life, there's more there than they've experienced before they got there. It It's just like the whole concept of planting a seed in the ground and the seed grows in two

19:24 directions. It grows down and it grows up, but it has to grow down before it can grow up. And when it's growing down, it's pushing against dirt and it's pushing against dampness and it's pushing against darkness and it's pushing against gravity. And the work that the seed is doing when nobody can see it is what makes it worth looking at when everybody can. And see what the big problem we have today is social media. All these people posting these fake lives. It's going to get worse now that they have fake avatars that can be fake lives. It's about to get worse. And so authenticity is about to become the most valuable characteristic that anybody can have. Because if you use artificial intelligence for all of your content, when people show up to meet you and see you, they are going to see that you are as artificial as the intelligence you use to create all of your

20:14 content. It's the stuff you do when nobody's around that makes that's the becoming. The becoming is what happens in the days and weeks and months and years and decades where you're not yet revealed. When you're in the pit like Joseph and in Potterer's house like Joseph and you do the right thing even though you could have gotten away with doing the wrong thing and you're in the prison for some like you're going through something for no apparent reason of your own but you stay faithful. That's what causes your elevation when your season of preparation is done. Stop desiring the elevation more

21:01 than you desire the preparation. A reporter asked Tom Landry about Tony Dorset when he got when he got uh Tony Dorset in the in the in the draft. He said, "How does it feel to have gotten a young man with such a burning desire to win?" Tom Landry said, "Not near as good as it feels to have a young man that has such a burning desire to prepare." So it says, "Faith, now faith is substant, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtain good good report. Your reputation exists because of the things that you believe. Because the things that you believe have created the way that you behave. And the way that you behave and have behaved is what you're known

21:49 for. It's in the Bible. Then it says, "Through faith, we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God." This is so good. It didn't say world, by the way. It said worlds. And the word worlds, I'm like, when I first memorized this, I was a teenager. And so I memorized it as world. By faith, we understand that the world was framed by the word of God. I was literally I was I was probably 40ome years old. I'm sitting at church. My brother's preaching, my brother Mike's preaching. He reads this passage and I'm quoting it with him in my mind while he's reading it. By faith, we understand that the world was framed by the word of God. And he said the worlds were framed by the word of God. And I said, "It doesn't say worlds were. It says world was." And I looked at it and lo and behold, somebody changed it. [Laughter]

22:36 They they didn't change it. It said worlds were the whole time. Now I'm confused cuz for decades I've thought of it as world was. And now all of a sudden for the first time in decades I'm seeing it as worlds were. I don't know what somebody put the heat on or air conditioner on but it needs to be colder in here. I am about to melt. So if somebody can help me with that that's beautiful. Okay. Who is messing with my air condition? Okay. Anyway, we ain't going to go there. Uh, I'll deal with that later. Um, so, so I'm thinking, what are these worlds? The worlds were. And all you have to do, guess what? The best commentary on the Bible is the Bible. All you had to do is keep reading, Myin, and you'll know what the

23:22 worlds were. By faith, we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God. So that things which are seen one world that's world two were not made of things which do appear that's world one. So the worlds that were framed by the word of God were the invisible world and the visible world. And here's what it says. So what do we do as a result of faith? Well the first thing we develop a good reputation because we believe the things about life that God said to believe about life. If you believe the things about life that God says to believe about life and you start living those things, it's virtually impossible for you not to have a good reputation unless somebody lies on you. And then if you have a bad reputation like Joseph did for a while when Piper's wife lied on him, eventually the truth will come out.

24:09 Are y'all with me? Yes. Okay. Imagine how scared Piper and his wife must have been when Joseph got promoted to the prime minister. Oh snap. But it says that by faith we understand. It did not say by understanding we have faith. And so many people say well as soon as I understand then I will believe. God said wrong answer but we do have some nice consolation prize for you in the back. It doesn't work like that. You don't believe once you understand. You understand once you believe by faith we understand. In fact,

24:54 in the book of Proverbs, it says, it says, "They that seek the Lord understand all things. Isn't this Bible so awesome?" But we have to do it. We have to stop looking at the Bible as something that we do to get a grade on our report card. Well, I read my Bible today. Check. and start looking at it as instructions for how to go through my day, for how to interact with my family and my friends and my enemies and my business partners and my customers and collaborative part all of that. I let the Bible be the guide. And when I do that, the only the only possible result is

25:41 fruitfulness by faith. We understand that the frames see here's what happens. If if you want to understand first or you want to you say well you want to see it. So you want it to make sense. I want this thing to make sense. So they say you you've heard the phrase seeing. Wow. Y'all finished it before I did. Is what? What's the word? Believing. That's a horrible way to live. You know why it's a horrible way to live? I mean besides the fact that it's the opposite of what the Bible says. Because if you live your life from a seeing is believing perspective, you never get any success momentum. What does that mean? In or if you have to see it in order for you to believe it. So

26:26 something happens, you stumble upon it and you see it. Now you believe. And so now if you're going to believe something new, you got to go back over here and start over. And you got to see it again. You got to see something new. And then you believe it. And then you got to go start over again. And you see it. And then I believe it. And then when I see if I see something else, then I'll believe that. And now if I see something else, I believe that I'm glad that the way to last through the learning curve, the way you can work on a project for 120 years like Noah, even based on something you've never seen before, is because you don't operate from seeing is believing, but you operate from believing is seeing. What does that mean? Well, here's what David said in Psalm 27. I had fainted unless I had believed to see

27:13 the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. So if I start with believing, if I start here, I'm going to believe it. Eventually I will see it. When I see it, does that help me believe it more or less? More. So now I've got even more belief. Boom. And I come back over here and I start with belief again and I go and I start here again and I start here again. And I start here again and it just keeps going around and now I have momentum. And this is one of the reasons why people of faith who are faithful to the things that God has said everything that you like when people are looking at them everything looks they do looks so effortless and easy because they have momentum. They have success momentum that started with believing. Okay. So we see faith. What

28:01 does it do? It caused you to have a good reputation. By the way, um, like there's nothing that you have like there's nothing that you have that's more valuable than your reputation. That's that's your first place to build wealth. But you're who you are is not going to be wealthy. If you like if you don't believe yourself and you don't trust yourself because you've broken your word to yourself so many times in the past, you can't believe the words you say. And because you don't believe you and everybody looks at you through your eyes and not their eyes, then they don't believe you. So now, nobody wants to partner with somebody they don't believe in, somebody they don't trust. Nobody wants to loan money to somebody they don't believe. Nobody wants to work now for less for something they're going to build later and hopefully have some equity be. Why? Because it it's there's no they have no you've given them no reason to believe you. And then it says by faith we understand. The people who

28:46 have the greatest understanding are the people of faith. I I love the fact that the scripture tells me that I don't have to have a degree from the same places my teachers have a degree from in order for me to outthink my teachers. Cuz here's what it says. I have more understanding than my teachers because thy testimonies are my meditation. So when I meditate on how God see God is the ultimate creator of first principles. So when I study his principles, I have an advantage over anybody who doesn't in that particular arena. Okay, y'all are with me. I can tell. I can tell by that look in your eye. Then it says, "By faith, Abel offered unto God a

29:34 more excellent sacrifice than Cain." Huh, that's interesting. So faith will cause you to give the best kinds of sacrifice. What's a sacrifice biblically? A sacrifice is letting go of something of a lower nature so you can take a hold of something of a higher nature. I let go of less than so that I can have room to receive more than. I let I sacrifice on the front end. I let go of short-term thinking so I can latch on to long-term thinking. I let go of living for temporal time so that I can hold on to living for eternity. And when I say living for eternity, I'm not talking about

30:19 salvation. I don't hold on to salvation. I'm not saved because I'm holding on to God. I'm saved because God's holding on to me. But the work that I do is based on the things that I believe that God has said about the work I'm supposed to do. Do you see how beautiful this is? So now I'm going to By the way, even even the story of Cain and Abel like why was Cain's sacrifice? I mean less like it was less desire. God didn't desire Cain. Why did he why did he disregard Cain's satis sacrifice and accept Abel's? Because Cain's sacrifice was very similar to Adam and Eve seowing fig leaves together and attempting to cover their sin. It's a picture of an attempt at work salvation. Cain brought the works of his own hands to God. God does not accept the works of anybody's hands. That's why religion doesn't save you.

31:07 And when I say religion, this is what I mean. Anything you think you're going to do to appease God is a waste of energy because God can only be appeased by God. Notice the scripture says the Lord made them coats of skin. God sacrificed an animal. Why? Because a blood sacrifice was a picture of the coming Messiah who would give his life as a blood sacrifice. And you have to trust in the work that God did in sacrificing his son or your sacrifice of religion is rejected. Okay. So then it says, this is so good. Then it says, "By faith Enoch was

31:52 translated that he should not see death." So Enoch didn't die. And and why didn't he die? Because the scripture says Enoch walked with God and he was not for God translated with him. What does that mean? So God allow God ordained. He didn't allow because God doesn't allow. In order to allow you have to learn something you didn't know and God already knows everything. So he didn't allow it. He ordained it. Okay? I just want to make sure I said that the right way. God ordained that Enoch would not die. He would cross over from time to eternity without dying. That's what it means to be translated. Okay. Why do you do that? Because he walked with God. I believe the picture that this illustrates or a picture that this illustrates for us is our

32:38 best experience our best chance at experiencing eternity with God in time in the realm of time our because because in time it's very very it's virtually almost impossible to experience now because soon as I say now it becomes Then, so now then, now then. I I can't even finish the word now before it becomes then. Right? But the closest we come to experiencing eternity is when we are in communion with God. When we are praying and communing with God and God's spirit through God's word is speaking to our hearts. That's as close as we come in the realm of time to experiencing eternity, walking with

33:25 God. How does that happen? by faith and it says and Enoch wasn't found because he was translate he God translated him for before his translation he had this testimony that pleased God and then it says something amazing without faith it is impossible to please God why is it impossible to please God without faith it's impossible to please God without faith Because your unconscious mind when you don't believe is accusing God of lying. Did I say that too fast? What does that mean? God has sworn on his own

34:12 existence to keep his word. God refers to himself not as the God who does not lie, not the God who did not lie, not the God who will not lie, but the God who cannot lie. Why can't he lie? Well, because the word Hebrew word for truth is the word I'm going to use a different color because I can't see that. Um, I use that the Hebrew word for truth. I can't really see that either, but I'll just pretend I can. Okay. Is a is Hebrew words. Let me let me say this because this may be your first time ever watching. So Hebrew words are not just spelled spelled, they are built. So when you write a Hebrew word, you're not

34:58 just writing it so people can know what the word is, but you're actually describing a concept. So if I put this on the board, as I often do, what did I write? Water. I didn't write w a t e r, but when I wrote the components, two part hydrogen, one part oxygen, you know that's water. Well, just like the chemical language tells us the element we're dealing with, the Hebrew language tells us the components of anything that we are dealing with as in this life. So this is the first letter of the Hebrew alfate. This is the middle letter. This is the last letter which shows us something about truth. And the thing it shows us about truth is that that we can't know the truth

35:44 about anything unless we see the beginning, the middle, and the end. That's why it's it's why it's so dangerous to look at a small sliver of a conversation and think that you've concluded the truth because you don't know the truth because you haven't looked at you haven't evaluated enough of the context. Well, not only that, this is each Hebrew letter is a number. Alf bait gimmel dalade 1 2 3 4 5 and and you can count all the way to 400 with 22 letters because once you get to 10 you count by tens 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 once you get to 100 you count by hundreds 200 300 400 you count to 400 with 22 letters okay so this is this number here is the number um one it's the number one this is the number 40 this is the number

36:29 400 this letter represents God. The word Elohim begins with the olive. The olive is made of two yods and above. Yods are a hand. Above is a nail. The letter that represents God is made of two hands and a nail. This is mem. It's the might of the ocean. So this is something like when you see the the mem, it always represents like might and power. And then tav is a cross or a covenant. And so when we see the word truth, the Hebrew word truth or a we know it's talking about God's mighty covenant. What is a covenant? A covenant is an agreement between two or more individuals based upon a mutual love and trust. A covenant is the opposite of a contract. A contract is an agreement

37:15 between two or more individuals based upon a mutual distrust which says if you don't give me if I enter a contract with you and you don't give me what I promised you then I can take you to court and the law make you give it to me or vice versa if I don't give you what I promised you the law make me give it to you. A covenant doesn't work like that. A covenant is an exchange based upon a mutual love and trust. And when I come into covenant with somebody, I'm saying I'm going to give everything I have, my time, my effort, my energy, my resources, and everything I have to protect you and yours. If I don't keep my word to you, may what happened, they killed two animals. May what happened to these mutilated animals happen to me? The word covenant means to cut. So God is saying if he doesn't keep his word, then he has to die the death of a mutilated animal. In fact, when you separate the olaf from the memab, this represents God. This is literally the Hebrew word for death. So if God doesn't

38:02 keep his word, God himself has to die. And if God dies, everything ceases to exist. So the reason not having faith, not believing God, you the reason you can't please him is because in your unconscious mind, you are accusing God of lying because you didn't believe what he said? Are is what I'm saying making some sense? And so even even if you look at the numbers, 400 + 40 + 1, that's 441. If you add 4 + 4, that's 8 + 1, that equals 9. 9 is the number for truth. Why is 9 the number for truth, you ask? That's a great question. Because all of the numbers in the number system, 0 through 9, 0 through whatever, they all have to answer to the number 9. If I take um 1 * 9, 1 * 9 = 9. 2 * 9, 3

38:54 * 9, 4 * 9, 5 * 9, 6 * 9, 7 * 9. The cool thing you can do with a digital board that you can't do with a physical one. Okay. Time 8 * 9 * 9. I can do 10 * 9 as well, but I'll do 10. I won't do 10 * 9. Okay. Equals equals equals equals equals equals equals equals this. Equals. Don't tell me. I know it. I know it. I know it. I know it. Eight. This equals 7. This equals 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. Done. Oh, I forgot something. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

39:42 8. Oh, 2 * 9. 1 * 9 equ= 9. But 2 * 9 equ= 18. 1 + 8 = 9. 2 + 7 = 9. 3 + 6 = 9. 4 + 5 = 9. 5 + 4 = 9. 6 + 3 = 9. 7 + 2 = 9. 8 + 1 = 9. They all equal 9. Barry, how you doing, brother? Good. Barry, what is your age? 62. Barry 62. Somebody tell me what's 6 plus two. Eight. Eight. What's 62us 8? What is it? 56. No. Yeah. 6 * 62 - 8 12 - 8 is 4. So it's

40:27 54. What's 5 + 4? 9. Have I ever asked you your age before? Once. Once. I did. Okay. So I'm going to ask somebody else. Somebody else. Pastor Cole. Have I ever asked you your age? And what's your age? 53. Okay. Surely it's not going to work this time. What's 5 plus 3? 8. What's 53 - 8? 53 - 8 45. What's 4 plus 5? 9. You say, my what's the point? Here's the point. Because this is not just a math trick. Everything, the scripture tells us that everything in the universe gives testimony to God. You say, well, what what's the testimony? You might as well start with the truth and stick with the truth because at the end of the day, you're stuck with the truth. And all of

41:14 us, whether we know it or not, whether we like it or not, one day we will answer to the truth. Start believing God. Trust his word. Because when you don't, in your unconscious mind, you're accusing God of lying. How could you possibly go forth and conquer with believing God won't keep his word as your foundation? Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen, and without it, it is impossible to please God. For they that come to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek

41:59 him. Why will we diligently seek him? Because we know that his word is not just true, but his word is truth. I trust that this video blesses you. Stay blessed by the best and we'll look forward to seeing you on the next video. Bye for now. [Music]