Purging Out & Locking In

0:16 The name of the class tonight is purging out and locking in. Purging out and locking in. Now, it's kind of in a masculine context gear for the brothers. You know what I'm saying? From the mindset of a a man that's trying to elevate in his truth. But it applied to sisters, too. It applied to sisters, too. You had sisters that was locked in in the scriptures like Anna. She was locked in. All right. That's right. So, this who we are. This how we all need to strive to be in these last days. All right. We got to get that living up out of us so we can, you know, we can prosper in this truth until the end.

1:04 Let's open up with Job 28:28. The book of Job, chapter 28 and verse 28. And unto men he said, behold the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil. To do what? To depart from evil is understanding. God said to depart from evil is understanding. For you to make the conscious decision, you know you got some evil going on. You know you doing stuff you ain't got no business doing. For you to depart from it shows that you have understanding. What understanding do you have? You understand that those evil things are hindering you in your walk. That's right. is hindering the

1:50 Lord from blessing you how he want to message it's hindering your spiritual growth and causing pro you know the day-to-day problems we deal with whether we be afflicted in our body sickness just unnecessary things that come up out of nowhere tire blowout and stuff like that we like to think in a moment like stuff is just happening nothing is just happening hell no you understand but when you depart from me even you have understand you like this stuff could be because I'm BSing I'm being slothful I'm not giving my all in this truth and the Lord is trying to get my attention so let let me stop let me stop playing with this let me stop dealing with that let me leave

2:37 this alone and let me lock in that shows that you have understanding when you still meddle with your sins and you play around and you still be bsing or whatever it shows that you not taking his truth serious. And the Lord is merciful. He'll do, you know, little things here and there to try to get you to become fed up with your damn self. Yeah. For real. And then, you know, like I said, you come to that point where you like, let me depart from evil. That shows that you understand what's really going on. Spiritual. Get Mark 7 and 21 about the evil that we are to depart from. Mark 7 and 21. The book of Mark chapter 7 and verse 21. Come on. For

3:23 from within out of the hearts of men. And we all got hearts, brothers and sisters. So we all deal with these things. Bishop went over to class a year or two ago, right? Where he talked about the 13 demons. We all got that 13, right? Some got 23. It is what it is. But most of us got the 13. That's right. So read them. Proceed. Evil thoughts, adulteries. So adulteries, fornications, fornications, murders, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. Right? So these are the evil things that when we depart from them, we

4:08 show understanding. We show that we we desire growth in this truth because that's the only way growth comes. Give me that real quick. We going to come back to this cuz there's some some evils I want to emphasize out of that. But give me first Peter 2:1 real quick. Putting away evil, you showing an understanding that you desire to grow because the Bible says that that's required for growth. Read that. 1 Peter chapter 2 verse one. Wherefore laying aside all malice and gal and all g, right? Malice is evil intent. Gal is deceit. Go ahead. And hypocrisies and envys and all evil speakings, right? And hypocrisies. We going to deal with that

4:54 today too. Hypocrisies because that's um Solomon the Jew. Uh officer Solomon in Atlanta. He had he had a song. I forgot the name of the song, but one of the bars in his songs, he was like, uh, you getting your rank up. It's getting harder to confess now. I'm butchering it a little bit, right? But as you know, in leadership said all the time, it's a it's a common quote, new levels, new devils. Yeah. And once you become more and more mighty in his truth, you elevate, Satan attacks even harder. message, but to everybody else, you appear as a leader that has it all figured out.

5:41 Meanwhile, you you going through it just like everybody else. Damn. You understand? And many times, especially when you got to hold this mic and you got to teach the nation of Israel, you can be in the midst of hypocrisy. That's why you got to be hard on yourself. That goes back to what we read to depart from evil is understanding. You understand I can't afford to be found a hypocrite if the Lord to bless me and put me in a position to teach the nation cuz when my bluff get called, all my credibility as a teacher is out the window. I got to be on point, right? So God said you got to lay aside all of that. Don't be no damn hypocrite. Go

6:26 ahead. as newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby. That ye may what? Grow thereby. So you must put away evil and desire the sincere milk of the word. That's how you grow in this truth. That's how you grow. So go back to Mark 7 and 21. Mark 7 verse 21. So these are the things we must lay aside. Read. or from within out of the heart of men proceed evil thoughts, adulteries. Adulteries. Imagination. This is in your mind. This is before it's carried out in the physical. You got these imaginations, these fantasies, these lusts. They got they got to stop. Go ahead.

7:13 Fornications. Fornications. You know, when you when you locked in again, cuz we we got to cast these things down every single day. But when you locked in, when you praying, you fasting, you studying, you really in the spirit, this stuff is not it's not plaguing you. Adulteries and fornications ain't plaguing your mind when you really locked in. It's when you got the helmet of salvation like it say in Ephesians 6 a part of the armor of God is when you you know how in football when they uh when they score a touchdown or whatever and they go to the sideline and take that helmet off. You know what I'm saying? You done ran up to score a little bit on

7:58 Satan. You think you could take your helmet off? Damn. And then them evil thoughts start plaguing your mind. You be like, "Damn, what the why am I thinking like this? The hell the hell is going on? It's the evil don't rest. The hell? So, we got to Hey, we got to fight to get these things off us. Go ahead. Murders, thefts. Murders going into hatred. Go ahead. Thefts. Read. Covetousness. Wickedness. Wickedness. And this encompasses the the miscellaneous things quote unquote that we know that we deal with on a daily basis. Whether it be pornography, whether it be gambling, right? You got drunkenness, just certain issues that can be subtle, per se. We're

8:46 not cut and dry when it come to thou, shall not, or whatever the case may be, but it's, you know, you wouldn't do it at the school. You wouldn't do it in front of another brother or sister with fringes on. You wouldn't unless they was evil just like you. Y'all was in cahoots. The hell is this? Right. Wickedness. We got to depart from that. Go ahead. Deceit. Lasciviousness. An evil eye. Blasphemy. Pride. Pride. That's a heavy one. Pride. Pride. It It might It just might be the hardest evil thing, the hardest sin to overcome. It just might be. Pride is the devil. I think it got a hold on me.

9:34 Pride is what keep you from doing the things necessary to take it to the next level because you don't want to feel like you needed help or you needed guidance. I already know what you're going to tell me. I already know the scripture. Damn. You understand? I already know there's pride. Meanwhile, your sin eating away at you. That's like somebody, you know what I'm saying? Boxing in a boxing match. They went through training camp. They watched the film. They didn't practice all the combos or whatever. And the round over, they go and sit in the corner of the

10:20 ring. And the trainer trying to get them little pointers and you know what I'm saying, give him some water. He like, "Nope, shut up talking to me. I don't need no water. I'm straight." bug the hell out. No, just because you know the scriptures, just because you understand certain things does not mean that you won't need assistance in this truth. Remember Christ when he was tempted in Luke 4, it said the angels came and strengthened him. In Luke 22, when he was getting ready to be crucified, the angels came and strengthened him. You understand? Christ allowed himself to be

11:06 strengthened by his brothers. You understand? He did. So be mindful. Be mindful. Pride is a dangerous thing. Is that it? Foolishness. Foolishness. foolishness. We I'm telling you, bro, in Babylon, we surrounded by foolishness. It's easy to indulge in foolishness. Give you an example. Uh what's this called? Shade room. How you how the hell you caught up on what's going on on the shade room? You ain't reading your four chapters. You ain't caught up on your four chapters, but you caught up with the little dirt Rico. This ain't right. What the hell is this foolish? I'm telling

11:52 you foolishness. We got to Hey, if we want to take it to the next level, these things, we got to purge them out. We got to purge them out. Go to Joel 22 and 22. So, depart from these things. You know, you dealing with these things. You have to depart from them. It shows understanding. It shows that you you trying to cleave to the Lord. You understand what says stake? Job 22 and 22. Job chapter 22 22. Come on. Receive I pray thee the law from his mouth and lay up his words in thine heart. If thou return to the Almighty, if you return to the Almighty, now I know reading this. It's easy to apply this to people that's

12:38 in the world like y'all got to return to the Lord. But in this truth, you can go astray and you ain't got to commit adultery to go astray. You ain't got to go you ain't got to do something to get put out to go astray. You could be in a body attending the Sabbath class and you going the hell off. You disconnected from the truth for real. You on the verge of going back into the world, but just you and the Lord know, right? But God said, if you return to the Almighty, read, "Thou shalt be built up." Because that's the problem. We get weak in this

13:24 truth. Bishop didn't brought up battle fatigue a whole lot. A lot of us, and I'm telling you, you know what I'm saying? You can look, you can appear muscular, you understand, doing the work and all of that good stuff, but the Bible tells you explicitly, and we going to touch on some of the things. The Bible tells you what strengthens you. And Bishop put it in a good acronym for study, pray, apply. If you're not studying, you're not praying, you're not applying discipline in your life, trust and believe your your earthly tabernacle will press you down. Yeah. And your spirit will become weak.

14:09 You understand God? Like listen, just return to me and thou shalt what? If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up. It's okay. We all get weak in this truth. We all get weak points. We get distracted. We, you know what I'm saying? We, you know, God said, "Look, all you got to do is return unto me. Put that BS down. Pick the Bible back up." Yeah. You understand? Return unto me and you shall be built up. Read. Thou shalt put away iniquity. Far Thou shall what? Thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles. Right? You see that? It always involves putting away iniquity. It's no way you could truly lock in

14:54 without putting away iniquity. I've seen brothers try to do that over the years. They'll be in the midst of some serious stuff. We don't we don't be knowing yet, but brothers will be trying to travel and you know what I'm saying, come around and put in work and all of that. But it's like something is spiritually resisting them. And while it's happening, you be like, "Why? How come something something ain't right?" It's like the brother trying, but it's like he getting blocked in the spirit world. And then later on down the line, you find out brother had adultery under his belt. Damn. Brother had, you know what I'm saying? Brother had some serious stuff he was in the midst of

15:42 that was being hidden. It's no way you can be built up and become strengthened and take it to the next level until you put away iniquity from your tabernacle for real. All right. So from there, read Job 11 and 13. You got to put away iniquity. The book of Job 11 and verse 13. And notice it says, "Thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles." Watch this. "If thou prepare thine heart," If thou prepare thine heart, read, "and stretch out thine hands toward him." And do what? Stretch out thine hands toward him. I thought in Christianity.

16:31 And stretch out thine hands toward him. The Bible tell you how to pray. All right. You stretch out your hands to the Lord. Read. If iniquity be in thine hand. If what? If iniquity be in thine hand. If iniquity be in your hand. Pouring h. What's another one? What's another iniquity in your hand? Right. Weed. What's another iniquity in your hand? Right. Uh the triple cheeseburger. Oh, extra grease. Put it up. biscuits and dripping all down your I don't know I don't know what's wrong with me bro I can't eat right every time

17:17 I eat it just get all over my face all in my beard you know what I'm saying like I'm trying to save something for later and that it be with like little stuff I can't imagine like eating what lard asses eat for real big tomahawk steaks with extra sauce and you know what I'm saying the Davis burgers with all that extra cheese and you know people be getting all them extra condiments on their burger. I'm like that damn I would be screwed cuz for real though come on. But anyway really if iniquity be in thine hand if iniquity be in thine hand cuz everybody ain't got the same everybody

18:02 ain't dealing with the same sins. Hell no. If iniquity be in thine hand, read, put it far away. Put it far away. Read. And let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles. Don't let wickedness dwell. It can come. It can visit. And that ain't right. Don't let it end. But if it do come and do visit, kick it out. What say? Get to stepping. Message. Get to stepping. Yeah. For real. That's what you got to do, right? Whatever the hell you dealing with. For real. A lot of man tell in this social media age, if I know brothers, it's it's a

18:48 little different. We still deal with it, too. But I know sisters, man, sisters be spending a lot of time on social media. And a spirit that plague a lot of sisters is that compar comparative spirit. always comparing the selves and their lives and all of that. Y'all know that's that's wickedness. That's covetousness. You spending hours and hours looking at somebody else life wishing that you had it or had parts of it. Are you serious? That's consuming you. That's hindering you in the spirit. You got to cut that out. Message. Don't let that dwell in your tabernacles. Go ahead. For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot. This is what we all

19:34 want to get to. This is glorious. Your face without spot. That mean you flawless. That's right. That mean you can stand boldly confident in his truth. Yeah. You in the spirit. But the operative word, read it from the top. For then. For then. So the for then means after you prepare your heart, stretch out your hands toward him. Put iniquity far away and don't let iniquity dwell in your tabernacles for then shall what shalt thou lift up thy face without spots. Come on. Yay. Thou shalt be steadfast and shalt not fear. Because guess what's

20:20 in you when you know you got some some foolishness, some wickedness going on. You got fear. You know you ain't all the way right. But God give you He tell you what to do. That's right. For real. And you see you can see when people in a zone like that, you know, like damn, he he on fire. He really she really got it going on. Yeah. Yeah. Message cuz they locked in. I could tell when somebody locked in. For real though. All right. From there, go to Proverbs 3 verse 7. The book of Proverbs chapter 3 and verse 7. Come on. Be not wise in thine own eyes.

21:05 Right. They go back to pride. Wise in your own eyes. Can't nobody tell you nothing. Oh, I ain't got to I ain't got to go tell no I ain't got to talk to nobody about what I going what I got going on or whatever. I ain't got to seek counsel. I know what I'mma do. What God say? Be not wise in thine own eyes. Read. Fear the Lord and depart from evil. And do what? Depart from evil. Because that's understanding. Depart from evil. Why? Read. It shall be health to thy navl and marrow to thy bones. And you know, we didn't we didn't touched on it before, but even though this is more so in a spiritual sense, but like I said, a lot

21:52 of times we get sick, we be, you know, symptoms just popping up. You can't go to this, can't do that, you missing stuff. I'm tell you, you got to you need to check your spiritual inventory. You might have something in stock you need to get rid of. Yeah. For real though. You understand? Lord said, "You depart from evil, that'll be health to your navl, marrow to your bones, meaning thou shalt be built up." All right. Go to Sarak 17:26. The book of Ecclesiasticas chapter 17 and verse 26. Come on. Turn

22:38 again to the most high and turn away from iniquity. Turn again. That's what we read in Job. Return thou to the Almighty. Turn again to the Most High. Go ahead. And turn away from iniquity. Turn away from iniquity. Put away iniquity from thee. Read. For he will lead thee out of darkness into the light of health. Ain't that what we just read in Proverbs? It shall be health to thy neighbor. The Lord said, I will lead you into the light of health. That's right. Lift up your face without spot. Read and hate thou abomination vehematly. And here's the thing, and this is how you don't let wickedness return to your tabernacle. Once you put it out, you hate it. That's

23:26 right. kind of like and this is kind of bad analogy but you you know M9 his sister you know he he put her out and boed the dough after damn you ain't never coming back you know that that was some wick that was some evil stuff but treat sin like that that's righteous get out get out of my house. Go get out. Board the door shut and never come back. Stay the hell away from me. For real though, read it. Hate thou

24:12 abomination vehemently. Go to Sarak 37 and 27. That's a fire. that and that's that's the cheat code. But it's like it's something about that thing that it takes it takes work to truly achieve. You you really got to stay locked in to establish that mindset to hate your sin message because remember Hebrews 11, the pleasures of sin. Sin is pleasurable, right? It feel good. Especially thine iniquity, your sin,

25:00 what you what you be doing. It feel that's why you be doing it. It feels good. You got to you got to get to the point where you hate it. And and remember to depart from evil is understanding. You have to look at your sin in the scope of understanding the detriment it does to your life, to your spirit. You understand? Put things into perspective. Why am I not growing? Why am I not leveling up? Why are bad things constantly happening in my life? Why is time passing me by? That's right. I'm just I'm going

25:47 backwards. It's because of that damn sin. That feel good for a moment and then when I do it, I feel shame. I feel miserable. Yeah. I hate that damn sin. That's how you got to look at it. And that's how you'll keep it away. That's right. That's 37:27. The book of Ecclesiasticas 37 27. My son, prove thy soul and thy life. Right? And in context, when you keep reading, it's going into foods. Right? But think about it. Prove thy soul and life. Get to know yourself. Read. And see what is evil for it. See what's evil for your life. Read. And give not that unto it. and give not that unto it. So once you identify thine iniquity and you

26:37 put it away from thee, you have to learn how to resist it henceforth. You cannot continue to go back like it says 16, meddle no more with your sins forever. That's a hard scripture message. It sound good. For the first two or three months, you feel like, damn, uh, with the water boy, you can do it. That's right. I ain't never doing that again. And then, you know, four chapters turn to three. Three chapters turn to one. Damn. The morning, noon, evening prayer turn to just evening. Somebody help me. You

27:23 know what I'm saying? classes turn to podcast and then all of a sudden you like damn I'm right back to the sh what the hell I thought I was done with you see just creep right back on you cuz you done took the arm off damn took the arm off don't fall for it so you got to identify your sin and resist it now read verse 22 verse 22 Uh-huh. Huh? Another is wise to himself. Another is wise to himself. That like we just read, prove thy soul in life. People be acting like they don't know they self. And I think it's a act. I don't know. Some people

28:11 are just really naive. I think by choice. They don't want to know their self cuz then they got to deal with their self. But you know the brothers and sisters, you know, hey, um, leadership, like, what do you see in me? Like, I don't got to do that. I know what's in me. All I got to do is go to Mark 7:21. I'm like, "Yep, that that for them." So, yep, that pride. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's me with the uh on decisions. Hey, it's me. Damn. Yeah. Yeah. should pray for me. You understand? I ain't got to hate, man. Like, what what what is it that you see in me? What what

28:58 what does that tell you about you? Read that verse again. Another is wise to himself. You must not be wise to yourself. That's right. Because if you're wise to yourself, you know yourself. You know what's evil for you. Message. You know what iniquity you must put away and resist. Go ahead. And the fruits of understanding are commendable in his mouth. And that brother or sister that's wise to themselves, you see the fruits from it. The Lord deals with them in the spirit. They not they don't speak nonsense. You understand? The Lord deals with them because they know how to deal with themselves. They're not simple and not

29:45 playing stupid. All right, go to Psalms 32 and verse 5. Being wise to yourself. Look at King David. The book of Psalms chapter 32 and verse 5. I acknowledge my sin unto thee. I do what? I acknowledged my sin unto thee. I acknowledged my sin. Message my sin. And I know how it is, especially when you when you scared to face yourself. Your prayers be all generic. Lord, forgive me for sin. Damn. What's your sin? You understand? What's your name it? Put a name on it. That's

30:31 right. If it ain't directed, I don't respect it. How the Lord feel. You got to acknowledge your sin. Yeah. David said, "I acknowledge my sin unto thee." Read. "And mine iniquity have I not hid." Whoa. Mine iniquity have I not hid. I don't know why we think it's this. How you know the devil is on you. We be thinking we can hide our iniquities from God. Hell no. God know you slothful. I be thinking about that all time like what the Lord know I'm a lazy summer gun. You procrastinating

31:16 bastard. Damn Lord help me please. Damn. You can't hide that. He see you. He trying to put people and sounds in your life to bagg you think your kids just laugh for no reason. The Lord trying to make you get your ass up. Hell no. You just ignoring them. You know what I'm saying, bro? For real. You That's right. Don't hide your iniquity. You understand? You give glory to the Lord when you acknowledge your sin. Read. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord, and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Say lie. Go to Romans 7:7. So that mean David was wise to himself. He knew his

32:03 iniquity. He knew his sin and he acknowledged it. He wasn't simple. And what what sin am I in? Lord, whatever sin I'm in, Lord, forgive me for it. But you praying like that, you crazy as hell. Hell no. Whatever sin I'm in. People are stupid. You better acknowledge it. Romans 7 and 7. The book of Romans 7:7. Come on. What shall we say then? Is the law sin God forbid? Uhhuh. Nay, I had not known sin but by the law. And that's a sign of why you you wouldn't be praying like David in terms of acknowledging your sin. Cuz you ain't in the script. The Bible is the mirror. It's the looking glass. That's

32:48 right. You ain't looking in that looking glass. You don't see that big booger hanging out your left nostril. You don't see that the chap hanging off the side of your lip. You know what I'm saying? You don't see that crush. You know the crisp be in the crevices of your nose. You don't see the crust. You understand? Put some ointment on it. You don't even see it. Said, "I had not known sin but by the law." Meaning what? We got to read the law to see the sins within us. Read. For I had not known lust except the law had said, "Thou shalt not covet." So Paul was studying and he read thou shalt not covet and he felt convicted. Read. But sin taking occasion

33:37 by the commandment wrought in me all manner of concupence. Wrought in me all manner of concupisence. What is concupisence? Strong sexual lust. What is Paul doing? acknowledging his iniquity. That ain't everybody iniquity. I know with brothers, you know, we just think we just all it's just that's the ever so common one or whatever. It's some people, you know, it's something else. And it ain't better. It ain't less bad. Hell no. You understand? But Paul is acknowledging his iniquity. I was dealing with all manner

34:23 of concupisence. That's some heavy stuff. That's some heavy stuff. Go ahead. For without the law, sin was dead. So, whenever you not studying, whenever you're not reading, you could be having sin just lying dormant within you. And you, like I said, the day is going by, stuff happening, and you not putting two and two together. You just thinking like, damn, I'm just going through a rough season. No, you not acknowledging your sin. You're not studying. You not dealing with the sin within you. That's right. For real. Go to 2 Corinthians 12:8. So Paul dealing with this sin. You see, he

35:08 he acknowledges it. And guess what else he did behind that? 2 Corinthians 12:8. 2 Corinthians 12:8. Go ahead. For this thing I besought the Lord thrice. For my concupisence I besought the Lord thrice. I prayed and fasted for this thing to depart from me three times. What was Paul doing? He was fighting. He was fighting to get rid of that thing. To purge him. Excuse me. To purge himself. Read. That it might depart from me. That what? that it might depart from me. That shows you he had that understanding. To depart from evil is understanding. He like, look, I'm trying to, you know what I'm saying?

35:54 Look, I need this to depart from me. And which is a whole another class when you start up a little bit and read down a little bit. The Lord had to tell Paul like, "Look, bro, you got to fight with something to the end. You can't just walk around and jump perfect. the hell. My grace is sufficient for you. And that's what we should aspire to get to. You should be working so hard with self-examination and working on yourself and purging your iniquities that you got have one left. And the Lord like, "Nope, I ain't taking that away. You got to fight every day for real." But I Hey, it ain't just one for me. You understand?

36:40 And then that's for most of us. We got a lot a lot of work to do for real though in it. Go to uh Acts go to Acts 24. This why Paul was able to say this right here cuz the sin that he did deal with, he acknowledged it and he fought for it to depart from him to the point to where the Lord had to tell him, "Nah, bro. You have to fight that. You have to fight it to the bay of your death. That's why in his last epistle, second Timothy, he said what? I have fought the good fight and henceforth is a crown of righteousness laid up for me. Letting you know what Paul never gave in to that concupisence.

37:28 He never gave into it. He never folded. All right. Read what you got. Uh yep. The book of Acts chapter 24 and verse 16. Come on. And herein do I exercise myself to have always a conscience void of offense toward God and toward men. Let's go back to the scripture Job 11. Thou shalt lift up thy face without spot. Thou shalt be steadfast and not fear. The only way to not have fear is to have a conscience void of offense toward God. You know your sins you're dealing with, you've acknowledged them. That's right. study, you put them away from you, you resist them. You

38:14 understand? So, it's not nothing that you're trying to hide from the Lord that you feel guilty about. It's no, it's everything is out in the open. You understand? And the Lord is dealing with you. That's how we want to be, brothers and sisters. That's a verse we all got to aspire to. Go to Sarak 4 verse 26. The book of Ecclesiasticus chapter 4 and verse 26. Be not ashamed to confess thy sins. And this is where pride come in. This this is what keep us from getting that conscience void of offense cuz we be ashamed to confess our sins. It just ah man. I don't want them to know.

39:01 Somebody help. I don't want to be the butt of a joke with them. Do you want to die? You want to fry? The hell? That's right. Said, "Don't be ashamed to confess your sins. That thing is like getting released out of jail. It like walking out the joint." Like, ah. You understand? I got it off me. Hallelujah. Yeah. Don't be ashamed to confess your sins. Read. And for it's not the course of the river. Cuz that's what happens when you ashamed to confess your sins. You convince yourself. No. No. I'mma figure it out. I'mma get around that. I ain't, you know, I'm I'mma skip that step. Damn. You going, but that's not the

39:47 direction that God told you to go. You going You trying to swim against the current. What happen if you swim against the current in real life? You're going to drown. You're going down, pal. You understand? Message said, "Look, don't don't force the course of the river. You dealing with something. Confess for real." Go to James 5 and 16. It's why we need to confess. The book of James chapter 5 and verse 16. Confess your faults one to another and pray one for another that ye may be healed. Then they go back to what I mentioned about generic prayers

40:33 like you know you post on Telegram. Hey y'all send up prayers for me. Okay. Uh God I I pray for officer Zamar. Um ain't no way. What like what what do I need to say? What do I need to pray about? That takes for us to converse about and that ain't for everybody. You understand? Cuz we all just saying what the hell we got going. No. Everybody has one counselor or should have a counselor among a thousand. Somebody that you trust that you can go to about the

41:20 things you deal with so they can pray for you concerning those things. And what will happen? Read. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avaleth much. Do we believe that the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availth much? Meaning like Paul like I said he was fighting so hard he virtually had one joint left. I was like no bro can't you going to be exalted above measure. You got to deal with that. Meaning a lot of the sins that we deal with, the Lord can heal us from them, but we holding oursel back cuz we prideful. We ashamed to confess our

42:06 sin. You got righteous people that care about you that when they send up the prayers, they just pierce through the clouds. And the Lord has sent angels to remove things from you. know angels would take iniquity away from people in the scriptures, right? Yeah. But you but you it's like I I just I can't I can't do it. Can't do it. You're tweaking. That scripture telling you the power of doing it. You can be healed. That's right. Go to Hebrews

42:53 12:1. The book of Hebrews chapter 12 verse one. Come on. Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses. Talking about the forefathers and foremothers mentioned in chapter 11. Read. Let us lay aside every weight and the sin which dove so easily beset us. And let us run with patience the race that is set before us. Someone. Ooh, this man the scripture is heavy man. The the irony the scripture is heavy. Let us lay aside every weight. So it say let us lay aside every weight in the sin which does so easily beset us. Meaning you could be on track. You know what I'm saying?

43:39 That's right. But the se your sin easily reroute you throw you off course message he said let us lay that thing aside give me second 14-14 the book of second estrus 14:14 let go from thee mortal thoughts mortal thoughts it's Mark 7:21 read cast away the burdens of man the burdens Listen, man. This the weight that we read in Hebrews 12:1 because sin is one thing, but a lot of us have cornal things again, your corruptible body, things that don't have a damn thing to do with the spiritual

44:26 realm and the spiritual warfare that we fight that we allow to press our spirit down. Like what bills? You understand? Damn. um you know work drama. We be at work with just grown ass cryb babies. The hell is this? Are you crying? Yes. I just started. So I got to take heed to myself, you know, that the time could come where I get weary. But I'm like, damn. But this the easiest one of the easiest jobs I had in my life. Damn. If people come to work, the first thing they do in the thing they do all day just cry, complain, ain't no way, boy. Like, do you know I used to have to do this in a damn freezer with biod

45:15 sweaters on and two pair of socks all day. I'm numb. I can't feel myself, man. You in a cold the thing the room temp all day. I ain't seen nobody break a sweat yet. That's right. It's a wet. Where they do that at? You better not be crying, bro. You know what I'm saying, bro? For real. Message. But a lot of us, we got burdens of man, we got stuff in this world that take a toll on our spirit. Damn. And you you find yourself you see the fundraiser on the announcement page, you're like, [Music] you know what I'm saying? I'm

46:00 tired for real. What? You see an event, a damn uh you know, gathering at the school, you like I got work tomorrow. I don't want it. That's why you need to take your ass up there. The hell? Hit the bomb. For real. I'm telling you, the burdens of man, you got to cast them just away. That's right. Put off now. The weak nature. The what? The weak nature. The weak nature. Remember what we read in Job 22. Return to the Lord. Thou shalt be built up. Without the Lord, we got a weak nature. Stuff get to us. Stuff stops us. Yeah. You know what I'm

46:46 saying? Stuff hinders us. Stuff drives us backwards. We got to put that off. Go to Zechariah 3. Zechariah 3:1. This one of my favorite passages in the scriptures. Zechariah chapter 3 and verse one. Come on. And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord. So Joshua was the high priest. It's no higher office than that per se. Right. It's like it was like hand in hand with the governor or the king like you know Zerubbabel he was the governor. Joshua was the high priest. Whenever you read in the in the history of the kings it was like the high priest had a jurisdiction that the king

47:32 couldn't even you know what I'm saying them things always worked hand in hand. That's one of the highest offices you can have amongst the nation. So Joshua he was a mighty man. And he was a high priest. Read. And Satan standing at Wait, read again from the top. And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord. And Satan standing at his right hand to resist him. Damn message. You know that go that go for all of us especially us leaders. That thing is going on in the spirit realm. And I've been feeling it too. I'm like, damn, bro. Watch out.

48:18 For real, bro. Satan be right there. Yeah, Satan be right there. Read. And the Lord said unto Satan, the Lord rebuke thee, oh Satan, even the Lord that have chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee. Mhm. Is not this a brand plucked out of the fire? So, he's making reference to Joshua. Is not this man a brand plucked out of the fire? Brothers and sisters, I want y'all to to We be forgetting this. We be forgetting our value. And this go back to the burdens of men. You can sit up there and because when you ain't in the scriptures and you ain't locked

49:04 in, stuff will start to get to you. Them post, you know what I'm saying? The slander, the mockery of you being a black Hebrew Israelite. Bro, I hate that damn ter. That term do kind of get under my skin. I ain't I be blocking everybody that be calling me that in my comments. Damn. Bye. Get out of here. For real, I I despise that term. But like I said, you could let this stuff get to you to the point to where you forget which the fact that you in this truth means that you are excellent. That's right. You you are elect. You know what I'm saying? Like you called Yes, sir.

49:51 You hear his voice. Yeah. The majority of this stuff is more things shown unto us than men understand. You understand? Yeah. For real. But we we can forget that. Said this man is a brand plucked out of the fire. Give me that in Jeremiah 3 verse 14. Cuz all us got at least cousins. You might you might be the only child, but you got cousins. You got close family. You know what I'm saying? Man, you got a circle that you grew up with in the world familiars. But look at what God said about you. Jeremiah 3:14. Turn, oh backsliding children, saith the Lord.

50:37 For I am married unto you, and I will take you one of a city and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion. Meaning what? You in this room, man, you are a chosen few. He don't He don't choose whole He didn't choose the whole Johnson family reunion. Hell no. You know what I'm saying? He told you for real. You got to remember that we are brand plucked out of the fire. We was all walking charcoal at some point. Mongering, drinking, smoking, doing all manners of evil with the rest of them. message and the Lord Deuteronomy 28.

51:24 Damn. Oh, man. Okay. And you got it. And you came in. You know what I'm saying? But the rest of them, people that you thought thought just like you. You know, you got that one, you know what I'm saying? A cousin, a sibling. You like, we be we be here. We be here. Hey. Hey, bro. Look at this. Look. The Bible say [ __ ] bro. You see that? Uh, here you talking. You straight. You know what I'm saying? For real. The Lord put the spirit on you to understand his truth and come in it. That's not a that's not a, you know,

52:11 a light thing. You a brand plugged out of the fire. Understand that. And that was Joshua. All right. Go back. Zechariah 3. Read verse three. Yes, sir. The book of Zechariah chapter 3 and verse three. Come on. Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments and stood before the angel. Man, this stuff Joshua the high priest, the leader of the people, he had filthy garments. That's right. Meaning what? Like we read earlier in first Peter 2 about hypocrisies. He was not perfect. He was the leader. The people looked up to him. He was the instructor

52:57 of many. But yet he had issues he had iniquity in his tabernacle. Message. Give me that real quick. Isaiah 1. It's a precept about filthy garments. Isaiah 1 verse 18. Isaiah 1:18. Come now and let us reason together, sayaeth the Lord. Though your sins be as scarlet, they be as what? As scarlet. Scarlet, like a blood stain. Your sin is a stain on your garments. Read. They shall be as white as snow. But the Lord is going to purify it with the spiritual bleach. This right? You can't swallow it and die. Bleach. I'm telling you, man. Bleach can get

53:44 stuff clean, but it's hazardous as hell. You can have on a $500 black shirt and touch a bleach bottle and forget and accidentally wipe something and try to swat off a fly and bam, you got a bleach thing. You ruined the game shirt, man. Bleach. The Lord said I'm going to make me tripping. Y'all got to pull me back in. Lord said, "I'mma make your sins white. I'mma purify you, cleanse you." Go ahead. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. Right. So, how did Zechar I mean, how did Joshua in context you

54:29 crazy? Joshua in context have filthy garments. See, go back to what we read about the burdens of man. Watch. Go to Ezra 4. Ezra 4:4. The book of Ezra chapter 4 and verse 24. Come on. Then cease the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem. Right? So in context, our haters, our heathen haters went to the king and slandered us the same way, you know, friends publishing them articles and stuff about us. They're cold, they're a hate group, so on and so forth. Read Ezra Fo, they did the same

55:15 thing. And the king hearkened to it. So he stopped the funding and stopped allowing us to freely build. Go ahead. Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem. So it ceased until the second year of the reign of Darius, king of Persia. So it went on for years to the point where kings had one king died and the next king rose up and we still wasn't doing the work message. So read chapter 5 verse one. Ezra chapter 5 verse one. Come on. Then the prophet Hagi the prophet and Zachchariah the son of idol did prophesy unto the Jews that were in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel even unto them. Based on their

56:00 scripture, brothers should know what when whenever the question come up. What captivity was Haggi in? What captivity was Zechariah in? That was in a Persian captivity. Look who they dealing with. Right? So, Haggi and Zachchariah prophesied unto the Jews that were in Judah in Jerusalem at this time. Read. Then rose up Zerubbabel the son. So after Hagi and Zachchariah prophesied to them. Then rose up who? Zerubbabel the son of Shalatiel. Uhhuh. And Jesua the son of Josec. That Joshua is Joshua in Zechariah 3. So for Haggi and Zechariah to prophesy

56:48 unto them and then they rose up meaning for years they set their ass down. You understand? They gave up and began to build the house of God which is at Jerusalem. And with them were the prophets of God helping them. Yeah, that's a whole scripture right there. Now go to uh Hagi 101. So this is the prophecy in which Hagar prophesied unto them that got them stirred up to return to the work of the Lord. So this is insight into what we read in Ezra 5 and1. Read that. Hag guy chapter 1 verse one. Come on. The second year of Darius the king in the sixth month, the first day of remember it said the work ceased unto the what? Second year of Darius,

57:36 king of Persia. Y'all follow. So this is making reference to what we just read. This is where Haggi prophesied. Go ahead. Came the word of the Lord by Haggi the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shalatiel governor of Judah. And to Joshua to Joshua the son of Josec the high priest saying thus speaketh the Lord of hosts saying his people say the time is not come the time that the Lord's house should be built. Cuz when you read the history, when Cyrus first gave a decree, we was ecstatic. And then time went by and the heathens, you know what I'm saying? Apply pressure to stop us and hinder us. And what happened? Hope deferred, make the heart sick. We got the

58:22 questioning. Well, nah, maybe it's not time. Isaiah, the prophet Isaiah prophesied Cyrus by name 150 years before that man was born and he came and did exactly what Isaiah said he was going to did going to do. Message gave us liberty to go and rebuild. But due to the burdens of man, the hindrance of the heathen, we got discouraged. We was giving up. This ain't right. And obviously the leaders wasn't doing enough to stop the people from having that attitude if not acquired that same attitude. Read. Then came the word of the Lord by high God the prophet saying, watch this. Is it

59:09 time for you, oh ye, to dwell in your sealed houses, and this house lie waste? So what was Zerubbabel and Joshua? What was they doing over them years? They was in the crib. Being slothful, being idol, that's some evil. And what do idleness do, it teach you much evil. So don't it ain't no telling what the filthy go. Now it couldn't have been, you know, just extravagant sin, right? Nevertheless, Joshua had filthy garments. He was idle. He had some stuff going on that was hindering the building message. He stopped giving a damn. Read. Now

59:55 therefore, thus sayaith the Lord of hosts, consider your ways. So here got a prophet just like us as prophets got to do with each other as brothers. He checked them. He Hey, y'all need to consider y'all ways. Consider your ways. Go back to Zechariah 3. Zechariah chapter 3 and verse three. Verse four. Now verse four. And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, "Take away the filthy garments from him." So what happened? The Lord commanded, "Take away the filthy garments from Joshua. That slothfulness, that idleness, the neglect, you understand it. Him BS, take that from him." Read.

1:00:42 And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee. I have caused what? thine iniquity. I have caused thine iniquity. Joshua himself personally, he had iniquity. Lord said, I have caused thine iniquity, go ahead, to pass from thee. Uhhuh. And I will clothe thee with change of rain. That's Isaiah 1:18. See as we escorted, I'mma make them white as snow. You understand? The Lord took that iniquity away from him so he could do what? Lock in. Read. And I said, "Let them set a fair meat tree upon his head." A crown. Read. So

1:01:27 they set a fair meri upon his head and clothe him with garments. And the angel of the Lord stood by. Uhhuh. And the angel of the Lord protested unto Joshua, saying, Thus sayaith the Lord of hosts, if thou will walk in my ways, and if thou will keep my charge. This is some This is some heavy stuff. So remember verse one, Satan was at his right hand. That's why he had them filthy garments who was telling him, "Man, it ain't time to build." That was Satan. Damn. You understand? And that that's what be happening, man. Look, we are new creatures in Christ,

1:02:13 right? Yes, sir. That's right. Our mind is different when we come into this truth. We transformed in the spirit of our mind. So, whenever we think contrary and we, you know what I'm saying? We slack off from the work and we make excuses and things of that nature. That's not true. You let the devil in you. You letting him dwell in your tabernacles message. Does everyone understand that? You're like, you know, I would be like, bro, you got the devil on you. It's if devil devil will be in you. And like I said, as a leader, you got to

1:02:59 thank Joshua to the people cuz they was on the same type of time. So they wasn't like Joshua, bro, you wicked as hell. What's up, inspire us? No. They like, man, Joshua the high priest, you know, when he say go, it's go time. But hell, hell. You know what I'm saying? But they still looked at him as who he was, the high priest. But he had to get them filthy garments up off of him. And that's when he rose up. Now look at what the angel said. Verse 7. Thus sayaith the Lord of hosts, if thou will walk in my ways, and if thou wil keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge my house, and shalt also keep

1:03:45 my courts, and I will give thee places to walk among these that stand by. Hell no. Basically, if thou will lock in, if you become locked in, Joshua, your position, and it ain't about position, but how I'm utilizing you, you understand your your purpose in me will remain locked in. Cuz remember, he said, "See, Abraham, I can raise up stones to be that." Don't think you just don't think you locked in just because you made it, you know what I'm saying? This far. You have to become locked in. You got to get your mind right to keep the charge of the

1:04:32 Lord. That's right. And that's how the Lord will preserve you. All right. Go back to Hebrews 12 and 1. The book of Hebrews 12 and verse one. Uhhuh. Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, every weight, the burdens of man, the different distractions and commotions and popular persuasions and stress. Lay that aside. Read and the sin which do so easily beset us and thine iniquity which easily beset you. Read. And let us run with patience the race that is set before us. Let us run. Let us run. What are what are we running

1:05:20 to? Go to Proverbs 18. And that's some heavy stuff. Let us run. Now it says run with patience cuz what happen when you sprint them lungs go out after about 100 meters. You understand? Nevertheless, we must run. A lot of us slow all the way down. We start, you know, jogging. Start pacing. Some of us, you know what I'm saying? We slow down to the point where we just sit down, crisscross applesauce. Damn. In the truth. Damn. Imagine you

1:06:07 see the finish line, you take a seat. That means it is true. That's what sin will do to you for real. That's right. Proverbs 18 and 10. The book of Proverbsap 18:10. Come on. The name of the Lord is a strong tower. The righteous runth into it and is safe. So we read we got to put off the weak nature. Right? It says the name of the Lord is a strong tower. What is that talking about? Give me uh Revelation 19:13. The name of the Lord is a strong tower. Yeah, brother. Run to the name. Yeah.

1:06:54 Well, Buster Rhymes must be strong in. Damn. Soldier was strong in the hell. Revelation chapter 19 and verse 13. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood. Come on. And his name is called his name is called the word of God. So what is the Lord telling us to run to the word of God? That is our strong tower. Whosoever run. Go back to that scripture. Proverbs 18. Read again. Proverbsap 18:10. The name of the Lord is a strong tower. The righteous runth

1:07:41 into it and is safe. And is safe because you got to think strong tower. It sound like warfare. You know what I'm saying? I be in a stronghold or army base. Yeah. You run into that thing, you safe. You good. When you in your little hut, your little tent in the middle of nowhere, that's when Satan, you know what I'm saying? He come bearing gifts. Hey man, you look like you, you know, like somebody to join in in dinner with you. I got some rolls. What? Don't fall for you in that strong tower. He know not to even approach. That's right. He waiting on you to come

1:08:26 out for real. Psalms 91 and1. Psalm 91 and1. We got to run to this strong tower, y'all. For real, though. The book of Psalms, chapter 91 verse1. Come on. He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the almighty. Right? And it's a secret place, meaning it's exclusive. What is exclusive to us that only we can run to? Give me that Deuteronomy 29:29. Read that real quick. Deuteronomy chapter 29 29. The secret things belong unto the Lord our God. But those things which are revealed belong

1:09:12 unto us and to our children forever that we may do all the words of this law. Right? This book, this holy Bible, that's the secret place of the Lord only for the children of Israel. But it's up to us to run to it if we want to be protected from the demons that plague us. All right, go to Matthew 6 and 6. Still dealing with the secret place, but in a different note. Matthew 6:6. Matthew chapter 6 verse 6. But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou has shut thy door, pray to thy father which is in secret. and thy father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. So I'm still

1:09:59 dealing with locking in because you got to think when you run when you run into a strong tower, you can't leave it open. You got to lock in. You know what I'm saying? You got to lock yourself in there. So we acknowledge that, you know what I'm saying? that the name of the Lord is the word of God, but also calling upon the name of the Lord is involved with that, which is what prayer. You got to have an intimate prayer life with the Lord. It's It's good to It's great to pray with your family. You know what I'm saying? Y'all praying. you praying for

1:10:44 the nation for for healing and you know send forth more laborers, the destruction of the enemy, so on and so forth. But you going to be with your wife and kids declaring thine iniquity. You know what I'm saying? Message. No, you got to you got to enter into thy closet. And you can have a a literal prayer closet, but it ain't just talking about just a closet. You understand? No, it's talking about in private. Give me that in Matthew 14. Matthew 14:23. Yes, sir. The book of Matthew chapter 14 and verse 23. Come on. And when he had sent the

1:11:30 multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray. He went up into a what? Into a mountain apart to pray. Cuz you know Christ, he always had the disciples with him and then the multitude of people that followed. He had to branch off to be able to pray to his father message. You understand? So he could lock in. For real is me. We got a hat. Everybody ain't got enough money to have a man cave. I ain't got one. Guess what I got? I got a patio. like go outside them slide them sliding door and you know with the season of winter just passed that was Satan cuz I fell off cuz it was getting cold

1:12:16 but it's heating back up so I better I got to get back to it. Yeah. You go outside on that patio them kids they get the bang cuz they want to come on the patio too. You hey give them that mean face. If they scramble away, you can meditate. You know what I'm saying? Get in the scripts. That's right. Real send up them them good prayers. You know what I'm saying? You the nature, you feel just really intertwined with the Lord. You feel me? Yeah. For real. That's what Christ is. We had to branch off to pray. You understand? You can't just do that. It's We in the

1:13:01 Sabbath. Oh, we sent up. It was three classes, three prayers. Chill out. Hell no. For real. All right. Give me uh second five. So, I went over this before in a class I did a while back, but this is a part of locking in. You really want to take it to the next level. That's right. You're going to you're going to study. You're going to pray, but you're also going to fast. Second Ezras 5:13. The book of 2 Ezras chapter 5 verse 13. Come on. To show thee such tokens I have leave. And if thou would pray again and weep as now and fast seven days, thou shalt hear yet greater things. So that's what the angel

1:13:48 instructed. Go ahead. Then I awake and in extreme fearfulness went through all my body and my mind was troubled. so that it fainted. So the angel that was come to talk with me held me, comforted me, and set me up upon my feet. And in the second night, it came to pass that Salatiel, the captain of the people, came unto me, saying, Where hast thou been? And why is thy countenance so heavy? Right? So Salatiel came looking for Ezra. Like, bro, where you been at? Why you looking like that? Go ahead. Knowest thou not that Israel is committed unto thee in the land of their captivity, right? So he slick rebuking him like, bro, everybody, you know what I'm saying? We we waiting on you. We

1:14:34 dependent on you and you just went MIA. Damn. Read up then and eat bread and forsake us not as the shepherd that leaveth his flock in the hand of cruel wolves. Right. So like I said, he kind he lowkey going in on Ezra. Come on, bro. You leaving us out here to the wolves? Damn. But look at what Israel responded. Read then said I unto him, "Go thy ways from me and come not nigh me." Bro, get on. Get on somewhere. For real. Why? Because he understood the instructions that was given by the Lord. In order for him to receive more understanding, he had to branch off. He had to lock in. Yeah. He had to fast. He

1:15:20 couldn't deal with the people. Go ahead. And he heard what I said and and went from me. Right. He like, "Yes, sir. Go ahead." And so I fasted seven days, mourning and weeping like as Uriel the angel commanded. I mean, shout out to Salat. Some brothers get offended. You go thy ways from me and come not me, brothers. Just be ready to cry. SP bro get away from me, bro. What kind of leader are you? It's not the end. Yes, sir. But anyway, verse verse 20. Verse 20. And so I fasted seven days, mourning and weeping, like as Uriel the angel commanded me.

1:16:07 Uh-huh. And after seven days, so it was that the thoughts of my heart were very grievous unto me again. And my soul recovered the spirit of understanding. The what? And my soul recovered the spirit of understanding. And I began to talk with the Most High again. See that? That's right. To be able to do that, you I'm you got to you got to lock in. Yeah. You can't just be eating fried chicken and having dup benevolence and all of that and just wake up and talk to the Lord. You burping. Yeah, Lord. Yeah. The So the the revelation like the Lord really going to impart some heavy stuff unto you. You

1:16:54 you burp. You got hot sauce on your breath. You know what I'm saying? Man, you got whiskey on your breath. Come on, man. For real. Locking in. It requires fasting. All right. Give me uh Daniel 10. Daniel 10 and three. And we'll do fast and also do it builds discipline. That's the name of the game. It's right 3727. Give not thyself unto it. You practicing that in all on all levels, all aspects. Read that. The book of Daniel chapter 10 and verse three. Uhhuh. I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth. Two, my bad. Verse two. In those days I, Daniel,

1:17:40 was mourning three full weeks. 21 days. Three. I ate no pleasant bread. Neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth. Remember uh when our co-workers was asking because you know the confusion about the Daniel fast and Daniel one about the pulse and no this was when Daniel was fasting. Daniel one was a diet. Daniel 10 is fasting. He ain't no pleasant bread. Neither did I anoint myself at all till three whole weeks were fulfilled. Come on. And in the four and 20th day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hedel, then I lifted up mine eyes and looked, and behold, a certain

1:18:25 man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of Eu. So Daniel fasted for 21 days, and looked up, and the Lord appeared. Now jump down to verse 21. verse 21. But I will show thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth. So think about it. When you when you lock in fasting, you know what I'm saying? It's it's one thing for, you know, you listen to a class and the dots connect and you get it. You feel like spark plug. You know what I'm saying? Message. But imagine you in a zone. You separated from social media.

1:19:12 You ain't scrolling up and down looking at random stuff. You understand? You locked in. You fasting. You You focused on the word of God. And the Lord say, "I will show thee which is noted in the scripture truth." Hey, let me show you this real quick. That's right. Damn. Imagine that. Hey, look. Watch this. Look. Look right there. Ain't none of that right there. You see that? You see that right there? For real. That's what happen when you when you lock in, brother. Yeah. Job 23:12.

1:19:57 Yeah. The book of Job, chapter 23, verse 12. Come on. Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food. Brothers, we got to we got to get to that. Some brothers is some especially when you new. That's right. That's why Revelation 2 would say what it say. It's a common thing. It's a common thing in this race. When you get a little distance, you be like, "All right, I need a break. Don't fall for it." When you locked in, this is your mindset. Matthew 5 and 6. The book of Matthew chapter 5 verse 6.

1:20:45 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled. When you got their spirit when you esteem the words of his mouth more than your necessary food the Lord fe the Lord gives you a spiritual buffet all you can eat. That's right. You understand? He see you got to build up your appetite for it. When you satisfying your flesh so much, you it takes away from your spiritual appetite. Message. That's why fasting is important. You understand from there? Second Ezra 14:38. That's what happened when Ezra thirsted for righteousness. Read that. 2

1:21:31 Ezra chapter 14 and verse 38. And the next day, behold, a voice called me, saying, Ezras, open thy mouth, and drink that I give thee to drink. Then open I my mouth, and behold, you reach me a full cup, which was full as it were with water. Right. It was as it were with water. Go ahead. But the color of it was like fire. It wasn't water. Go ahead. And I took it and drank. Come on. And when I had drunk of it, my heart uttered understanding and wisdom grew in my breast. For my spirit strengthened my memory. Damn. Hit the bomb. Yeah. See, you got to be

1:22:18 locked in for such things, brothers. Freedom. Verse 41. And my mouth was opened and shut no more. And he just started prophesying. Watch this. 39:5. Everybody, like the scripture say, covet to prophesy. Everybody want to be able to bring it out. Yeah. But you can't bring out nothing other than what you fill yourself with. Can't be an empty vessel. You understand? If you full of the word of God, guess what? You going to bring out the word of God with fire. Just read. Read what you got. Ecclesiasticus 39 and:e 5. He will give his heart to resort early to the Lord that made him

1:23:04 and will pray before the most high. Right? Like we read earlier like King David did. Read and will open his mouth in prayer and make supplication for his sins. Meaning what? Cuz what we read in Psalms 32, that was King David. And the next verse said, "This is the prayer that everyone that is godly shall pray unto thee." Meaning just like Joshua, we all got stuff we dealing with. You understand? But you got to make that conscious decision to put away your iniquity. And it starts with acknowledging it. That's what a godly man going to do. He going to acknowledge his iniquity. Go ahead. When the great Lord will, he shall be filled with the

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