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Foreign. Hey, good people, this is Torre Roberts. Blessings to you, and welcome to the ONE Podcast. I'm excited that you're here. ONE is a community of dynamic and vibrant thought leaders, preachers, teachers, and just a community of wonderful people all together. And we're excited to bring you this weekly podcast from our services from ONE in la. If you haven't been to one, I encourage you to check it out. You can go to one the Word one O N E online and find out all about the service times and all about the teachers and all the philanthropic things that we have going. I believe you're going to be blessed to be a part of it. And speaking of being blessed, we're getting ready to get into a teaching right now that I believe is going to bless you. So tune in, enjoy, and I'll be back with you at the end. I was at an event last night, and there were so many people at that event doing incredible things in all facets of life, many of which were in the entertainment industry, but some in law and some in business. And there was so many people that had come through one. It was like a whole. Like, some, like, it was, it was. It moved me, you know, and some I knew, some I didn't even know. They were like, hey, pt, I just want you to know, man, like, one changed my life and they're doing incredible things and they're getting awards and honors and various things, and it just blew me away. But anyway, the reason why I bring it up is there's a new wave. And one of the things that God was speaking to me as I just scanned the room is many of you are what God is doing next or really, quite frankly, now. And one is always. It's never been about building a big church, although we did become a big church. It was always about building big people. And with, you know, transitions, you know, Pastor Sarah and I moving to Denver for a while and then moving to Dallas and all that, you know, all that movement, you would think that the church would weaken, but it never weakens. It's always strong. It's always vibrant, it's always fresh. And I think it's because God is serious about this house. I think he's serious about this city, this region, and what comes out of this city. And so I'm just excited to be here. I'm excited to pour into the greatness that is before me. And I'm talking about you. Just do me a favor, just look at somebody and say, he talking about you. He's talking about you, right? He's talking about you now you gotta say it. That means if you don't say it, then somebody's gonna be left out. So you gotta. If everybody looks at somebody and says, he's talking about you, then everybody has been. Yeah, yeah. Great things. I'm going to tell you right now. And I know that we find ourselves in moments where we need, you know, some encouragement, a little bit encouragement, you know, and that's wonderful. We all fall in that place. But I can tell you right now that's not why you're here. You're here to have what God has placed on the inside of you unlocked and activated unlike ever before. So that the hidden glory that is in you, you will be awakened to. And you will walk in boldness, and you will walk in the spirit and you will do great exploits. The Bible says in the book of Daniel, those who know their God shall be strong and shall do great exploits. And so, yes, you know, you have a tough day. We want to see you through that tough day. But the only reason why we see you through that tough day is so that you can go and get in position, get in line, get in a revelation about who you are and do those great exploits that are assigned in your life. And so if you see great trouble, don't be afraid, because you're anointed to do great exploits. That means that you are alive during the time that you're supposed to be alive. God dog it, I feel like preaching tonight, but I'm sitting down and I want to teach. But that's why when you see cray cray, it's because you are the opposite of cray cray. You are lit. I'm telling you, there's a fire in you. There is a potential in you. That's crazy. And I'll be honest with you, it can't even come out unless things are crazy. Crazy is a magnet for what God put on the inside of you. Are you hearing me, crazy? Squeeze out your greatness. Options. Let me tell you something. I'm supposed to talk about obedience. I'll get there. I promise you. Comfort and options are not your friend. Cause they keep you stuck. I hate to say this, but I'm going to say you need a big, old, fat trial. You're like P.T. stop it. It's true. You don't want it. But guess what? We get them. Why? Because we need them. There's a pastor. Let me use some encouragement now. Because you're like, I came on the wrong night. Darn it. There's this passage In Psalm. I believe it's somewhere around Psalm 34 or 37. Regio, Old Bible. You're gonna find it. But you've heard it before. It says, many are the afflictions of the righteous. That's not very encouraging. Like, wait, it would make sense if it was many of the afflictions of the wicked. That would make sense. Right? You're reaping what you says. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but God delivers us out of them all. Which means that there is a strategy in the trouble. There's a strategy in it because we can't be who God has called us to be without a little bit of trouble. Trouble, when you don't quit, pulls the gorilla out of you. Come on, somebody. Can I just. Can I talk like that? That's how I talk, me and my guys, right? Pulls the beast out of you. And I ain't talking about a wicked beast. Trouble. It pulls that fight out of you, that type of trouble that backs you up against the wall in such a way that you perceive that if you don't whoop this thing, it's gonna whoop you. And I don't know about you, but if it's me or you, it ain't gonna be me. So I'm trying to help somebody that might be going through. Right. Notice I didn't say in a difficult thing. Might be going through a difficult thing. You're being developed because you are a beast in the spirit. And beasts must be developed and they must be called out. Sometimes I'm gonna say this and I gotta move on, but it's just coming to me and somebody needs it because there are too many distractions in your life. And when you get in the fight of your life, you don't have the luxury to be as distracted because your entire focus now is your survival. Are we tracking? All right. That ain't what I'm supposed to talk about tonight. I wanna be obedient because that's what we're talking about tonight. We're talking about obedience. I love the fact that we're in this discipleship series because there is a difference between being a Christian. Let's have some fun being a Christian, and being a disciple. A Christian means that you have just subscribed to Christian theology. And so you. You believe in some of the. The principles and the tenets of the faith. And. And it is Christ centric. And that is absolutely wonderful and amazing. And your whole experience is your religion. And it doesn't sound bad. I mean, there's nothing Wrong with it. You know what I mean? You're going to get to heaven and all that kind of stuff, right? But there's a difference between being a Christian and being a disciple. A disciple is someone who has decided to, simply put, follow Jesus wherever he may lead you. Disciple is someone who says, okay, I've come to faith through my belief. But my life is supposed to be perpetually transforming in such a way that when people are around me, they'll say about me, they must have been with Jesus. Where am I getting this from? I'm getting this from the Book of Acts. You study the Book of Acts. Jesus had come and gone, but he had made such an impact on the culture that his scent literally could be smelled on the disciples. Some of them had. They had never seen Jesus with these disciples, but they looked at them and because of their aura, their essence, how they moved, how they walked and talked, what they were motivated by, it was evidence. Jesus was evidence in their aura, in how they moved and how they flowed. So a disciple is someone who is in perpetual training. They're in Jesus school. Hello somebody. They're in Jesus school. They're looking at Jesus, they're focused on Jesus. You know, we used to have the little braces, I think, what would Jesus do? They are perpetually asking the question what would Jesus do? And they're not asking in, out in the abyss. They're asking Jesus what Jesus would do. They're yielded to the Holy Spirit, which those of us who believe receive. According to Ephesians, once we believe, we're sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, and now we have the Holy Spirit. So we literally have an inner Jesus in us that we can commune with that will not only inform us on what Jesus would do, but transform us so that we begin to do naturally through that nature what Jesus would do. Are we tracking? So the true mark of someone who has connected with Jesus in a really deep way is change. It's true change. And I'm not talking about mind over matter change. I'm not talking about behavior modification where you don't change but you're behaving behavior changes. So you have dissonance inside of you. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about you truly, honestly being who you were created to be. So anyway, so I love that we're talking about discipleship because all about building big people. That's always been the mission of the church and that will continue to be the mission church forever. We want to build, build you. We want to speak to you. We want to. To allow the Holy Spirit to aid us in shaping you for the greatness that is assigned to your life. So obedience. Let's talk about obedience tonight. That's what they gave me. The subject they gave me. And I'm glad that they. What? Yeah. What did I seem. I didn't seem too happy about that. No, I think it's. I think it. I think it's amazing, Maya. I think it's amazing because, you know, and let's just. Let's just go at it. Let's just go right after it. And I want to say this, but obedience is not. It's not a sexy term. Somebody's gonna get mad. That's you sexy. And I wish I could just be like, I'm at home, but let me. What can I say? Obedience is not. Give me another word. It's not attractive, right? Obedience is not attractive. No one, you know? No one, necessarily. Your first response to obedience is not joy. I'm called to obedience. So blessed. And that's because I think it takes a minute to really understand the beauty of obedience. The beauty. Oh, my God. The beauty of obedience. And so the thought. I want to talk about the philosophy of obedience. Right. Or the logic of obedience. I want us to. I want to reframe obedience in a way that makes you and I actually get excited about it. Huh? See, we're already there. I'm going home now. We got one person excited about. No, no, really, I want. I want. And we'll walk it out. We'll talk it out. But. But I want us to get to a place where we are so desperate. Watch this. For a divine instruction that we get to obey. We get to obey, right? It's not like just obedience for obedience sake. No, no, no, no. That if I have something to obey, that means that God has loved on me so much that he's given me an instruction, a directive whereby I might be blessed. Are you hearing me? So really, obedience is our response to the invitation to be blessed. That's what obedience is. It's our. We get to participate in God's good plan for our lives. Because God would never invite you to do something that's against you. In fact, obedience oftentimes, many times is inviting you out of what would harm you. Are we tracking? That's love. So let's look at some word. Let's look at some word. They gave me some scriptures, too. I hate. They just controlling me, you know, I like freedom. I guess that's what. Yeah, I guess I have to model it they just boss me right now. We're gonna be in James. Now. I did add a little bit more than they gave me. I'll be honest with you. It has its limits. Now, you know, and I added a couple more. But I'm gonna give you what they gave me and I'm gonna give you what I have. If you have questions, there's a QR code up there. And just use the QR code and put your questions up there and I'll try to get to two or three questions before we wrap things up tonight. Okay? So they made me. And I'm just such an obedient servant. John 14, 15. We'll look at that. I'm going to spend most of my time, I think, in the James 1. John 14 and 15 says, if you love me, keep my commandments. That's interesting, because if you don't look at that properly, it almost seems like manipulation. If you really love me, you would take me to dinner. If you love me, keep my command. I don't think that that's what he meant. I think it's if you love me and you thereby trust me. Come on. Keep my commandments. Because when you start looking at some of the reasons why we don't obey is because we don't trust. I'm not gonna obey. Because the reality of it is I don't know if it's worth it. We gonna have fun tonight. I don't know if it's worth it. I'm not yet convinced that your plan is better than my plan. You won't say it. Too spiritual, too religious, too churchy to actually say it. You just do it. Because I'm not. I. I haven't entered into this love relationship with you enough to trust the outcome of your invitation and to trust that it's better than the outcome of what I want to do. Hey. So trust plays a big part in obedience. And trust is established through relationship. That's why I'm going to be honest with you. If you're new to the faith, I already know that you only halfway obeying. Don't make me. I'll walk right down the aisle and just start prophesying if you. Because when. When. When you're. When you're. When you're new to the faith. Well, I guess you got kind of two responses. Some people go crazy. They just go. I mean. I mean. And not in a good way. They just go crazy. Just. You're blessing every meal, Every course of the meal. Every course. The salad comes in. Shava topa. Jesus. Oh, na mah na. Course number, number two comes. Just, just eat the food, you know, the bread comes. You got to bless everything, right? I mean, just everything. Hold on, wait, wait, wait, wait. I need to see what Jesus has. And that's wonderful, that's wonderful. It just gets real extreme. And I'll tell you right now, you're not very effective. But then we're going to have just a little bit of fun tonight. But you've had, you've had that person that just got saved and they just judge you for everything. Why are you eating that swine? I mean, every, everything. Dang. All right, man, don't burn the school just cause you graduated, you know? Anyway, the point, the point, I digress. But then you have those who are. You're on your journey, you got saved, you believe, but you haven't really developed a relationship with God through walking with God. That was me. I'm be honest with you. I got saved when I was nine years old. And for me, salvation was salvation. I believed on the Lord, right? I believe that he died on the cross for my sins and rose on the third day. And if I confess with my mouth the Lord Jesus and I believed in my heart that God has raised him from the dead, I'd be saved. That was it. That was the whole extent of my faith from 9 to 26. Oh, a couple other benefits if I did. If I sinned. Let me remix that. When I sinned, if I asked him for forgiveness, he would forgive me. And all of that is true. But that was my entire experience, God. So I didn't have the relationship that comes through walking with God. So obedience from 9 to 26, because I have my get out of jail card when I sin. And don't y' all look at me and judge me because I, you know, some of y' all using that card tonight. Well, not tonight, but earlier because we gonna figure it out tonight. But you know what I mean, you use it, you know, Lord, here I am. It's me again. Oh Lord, standing in the need of prayer. I've been there. I've been that guy too. But when you walk with the Lord and you truly begin to be in relationship with God and you walk with him, your trust goes up. And when your trust goes up, your quickness, your swiftness to obey increases because you have tasted and you have seen that the Lord is good. You recognize it. I remember my mom. So my mom, you know, we kind of got saved together at the same time. Kind of ish. But she started walking with The Lord. I was just. You know, I just knew where the church was. She was walking with the Lord. And my mom used to. You know, she used to quote the Bible. And I didn't necessarily appreciate what it had to say because it was in great conflict with how I was living my life. And my mom used to. She used to. You know, she used to say. And she would throw Proverbs 3, 4 through 6 on me. Trust in the Lord with all your heart. It was that part that really irritated me. And lean not into your own understanding. In all your ways, acknowledge him and he will direct you. I could not stand it. To lean not into your own understanding. Basically, that means that what you think is right ain't right. But guess what? She was always right. And so she would tell me not to do this, tell me not to do that. And I would think that I was smarter. I would think that my way was a little more guaranteed than her way. And then she's raising a young man like, mom, you're a woman. I am. I'm 16. I am a man. There are just some things that you don't know. But somehow she did, because she was putting that word on me. And every single time I didn't do what she said, I would fail. So after a while, at about 18, I got better. After a while, I realized, hmm, I need to trust what she's saying. Because I'm seeing this pattern. When I don't do what she said, I don't even get in trouble with her. Life will spank me. She didn't have to spank. Life will. Let me tell you something. Life will whoop your tail. So I would disobey. Life would spank me. She would spank me, too, sometimes. I ain't, like, let her off the hook, you know? That gentle parenting stuff is new. That's new. Well, Jimmy can't wait. Jimmy. Jimmy nothing. Jimmy, pull your pants down. Jimmy. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Go grab that switch. Jimmy. Make you pick your own switch. You just. Your own. You're forming your own weapon against. You just. Parents were cold, boy. Back in the day, anyway. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. The point that I'm making. The point that I'm making is that when I didn't listen, I failed. When I started listening and seeing the fruit of obedience, it became easier for me to obey. You gotta trust in order to obey. And God would love. Let me just tell you right now, those of you who struggle with obedience, and obedience is not just Right or wrong, obedience is, if I have a word from God, doing it. And we're going to look at that in a second. There's nothing that God wants more than for you to trust him, which means that I'm going to. I'm going to say the universe. But I'm not calling the universe God. I'm talking about what God created. Okay. The universe is bent toward building your trust. In other words, if you will put yourself in the position to grow in trust, God will help you. Raise your hand if you need your trust level up. You just. Let's just be honest, just need you. Yeah, that's okay. It's out there. But you just have to take the first step. Now, I want to go to James really quickly because I think that there's a lot of oil in here. James, chapter one. And we'll look at verses 21 through 26. One second here. Okay? So they gave me 22 and 22 only because I did not feel like it was sufficient. Kidding. I'm kidding. I want to back up a little bit. And then I want to go forward, sticking my approach. All right, so it says verse 21. This will seem harsh, but let's really get an understanding. It says, therefore, lay aside all filthiness. That's an interesting Greek word, means dirtiness. But the root word there means, I love this cheap or shabby. Ah, that ministered to me real good. It says, lay aside all filthiness. But again, you get down to the root of that Greek word, and it means cheap or shabby beneath you, unbecoming royalty. So a lot of times, you know, we're moving about and we're doing things that are cool in, you know, in certain cultures or certain subcultures. And it's. But the reality of it is, it's not that it's necessarily wicked. It's just beneath you. It's shabby and cheap. And you are not. You're the best thing that God ever made. You're valuable, you're rich. And so. And so there's some things that we partner with, align with, participate in that are actually beneath you. It is okay to be. I'm going to say this right. I'm going to get in trouble, but just go with me. Let's have a conversation. I'm like your uncle tonight. I don't mind you being spiritually snooty. Not snooty in the sense that you turn your nose up to people, but that you turn your nose up to things that are beneath you. Are you hearing Me. The Bible calls us a royal priesthood, a holy nation. There's some. There's some conversations that are beneath you. You. They're beneath you. You need to be moving and thinking and speaking on lofty things. Gossip. Gossip is delicious. Bible says it. It's in proverbs. Talks about goes down in the belly is sweet. It is. Child. Did you hear about child? What? The moment somebody say that that appetite kicks in, that sweet tooth kicks in. What, girl? What? What's it? What? What? What? Dog. I get it. I understand it. I'm not exempt from that. But it doesn't mean it's not beneath us. We are sons and daughters of the most high, God. Watch this on a time clock. And we have to get out of us everything that God put in us in the time. In the allotted time. Which, by the way, we do not have the specifics concerning. We don't know how much time we have. We don't know. But we do know that there's stuff in us that has to get out of us. Which means that our conversation ought to be such, our environments ought to be such, our actions and activities ought to be such that it at least gives what's in us a chance to come out. That's why relationships, relationships that bring out the worst in you are not relationships. Those are shabby and cheap relationships. Relationships need to be quality. I don't have any close friends that don't recognize what's on my life. Tell you something. I know a lot of people. I was shaking a lot of hands last night. Let me tell you something. If you can't see me, our relationship can only go so far. Because I need people that will be a mirror to me when I'm not feeling like me. And you can't be a mirror to me if you can't see me. Hello? Somebody? Child, Come on. We gotta see y'. All. See? Oh, gosh, look at the time. Okay, all right, all right. So therefore lay aside all filthiness. I broke that word down. And an overflow of wickedness. Let's look up that word. Wickedness. What is that? I didn't. Badness. And I just mean you tripping. Depravity. Let's go to root word of that. Worthless. Worthless. When we get down to it, all of it is about lesser value. So see, see God when you get in God, he will reframe your understanding about things because we struggle with that. But no one wants to feel like they're dabbling in worthlessness or they're dabbling in cheap stuff. Unless the enemy lied to them and told them that they're not worth what they're worth. I feel a pivot, but I'm trying to stay focused. My prayer tonight, One of my prayers tonight is that you would really, really, really get a revelation of how exquisite you are. Think about it. In any industry, the rarer the product, the higher the value. I mean, any space, the rarer if they're. If they've only made five of them. Oh, God. Globally, five of them, whatever that is, it's worth something. It's worth something. You are bespoke. There's nobody like you. God designed you. Unique and distinct, meaning you don't even have a price. You don't even have a price. That's how rich and valuable. That's how expensive. That's how exquisite you are. And my prayer tonight. We about to move in a minute. But my prayer tonight is that the Holy Spirit would open your eyes to perceive how priceless, valuable, and exquisite you are so that you will never receive lower ever again. You won't receive a low relationship. You won't receive a low remark because there's a connection between disobedience and your perception of your value. That's beneath me. That's beneath me. Are we tracking? Okay, so let's go through, because there's some stuff in here. All right, so therefore, lay aside all this worthlessness. This is worthless. And receive with meekness. Just want to look up that word. Oh, that's deep meekness. It means meekness, but humility is in there. But receive with humility. The implanted word. The implanted word. I just want to look at that word. So word is logos. So that is a thing said, by the way. It's the thing said that's important. Implanted. I just want to make sure that it's not something that I'm missing. Okay, Engrafted. That's interesting. Engrafted. Okay, so the Bible talks about in Ecclesiastes that God places eternity in our hearts, which means that. Watch this. Everything that you will ever come to know, become, and do is not outside of you. It's already in you. So when I see that and it's saying the engrafted word, that word, watch this is actually already in you. But when it comes to you, it connects with what is in you, and it activates you. That's what prophecy does. And so that's why when you're prophesying to someone, the Bible talks about how that is the greatest of all of the manifestations of the spirit prophecy. Why because it opens the person up. How did they know that? How did they know me? How did they. You ever been in a service and you're like, they're talking to me, and then it's over and over and over again. It's not necessarily what the. What the person is saying, but what you're dealing with is the resonance, the internal resonance that's taking place. Because the word that comes to you is actually already engrafted in you. Does that make sense? It's already in you. When God formed you, he formed you with the Word. He formed you with the word, which means you actually are a word. So when the word meets the word, powerful things happen. All right, all right. I gotta get this. All right. So receive with meekness, with humility, the engrafted word which is able to. To save your souls. I want to look at that word save real quick. So. So to save, to deliver or to protect, which is powerful. Right? He restores my soul. Too much there. But anyway, let's keep going. But be doers of the Word now. This is important. Get ready to have some fun, okay? Because if. If I don't bring my life into submission to that Word, then I cannot be profited or benefited by that Word. That's why to have a word is an amazing thing. And when you understand the good plans that God has for you, that you. That you understand that his word is only good towards you, and it is the only way to get you to you. I can't get to me. I can't get to be me without that word. Are you tracking? When you understand that there's no way around it, you start getting hungry for it. And when that trust level is raised because of relationships, you trust him in such a way that you will follow him wherever he tells you to go. I'm a Cali boy. Born in Cali, raised in Cali. I love me some Cali. When I. Oh, God. Cali, Cali. Cali. But I live in Texas, and I've grown to appreciate Texas. I have. I call it home. Okay, but it was not my idea, but it was God's strategy. So the word. When God gives you a word, it is a part of his strategy for you. Where are my business people? Yeah, business people understand nothing moves without a strategy. You can have a vision, but if you don't have a strategy to realize that vision, you don't have anything. You got a wish, you got a hope. And if you all you got is a wish and a hope, what's next is broke wish. Plus Hope equals broke. But when you have a strategy, people tell me their vision. That's wonderful. What's your strategy? You want me to invest in your company? Give me vision. Oh, that's great. Now let me see the strategy to manifest that vision. Oh. Oh. What had happened was. Yeah. What had happened was. I'm gone. I'm too much fun. I miss y'. All. I miss y', all, too. Oh. I'm getting the time. Okay, okay. All right, all right, all right, all right, all right. Gosh darn it. All right. Be doers of the word. I got to be a doer of it. I can't just hear it, can't just. It can't just resonate. I got to be a doer of it. What's interesting is that word there that was translated. Doer is a Greek word. I'm going to mispronounce it, but it is poitis. And it has, like a poet. Basically, it's being a poet or ultimately a performer. Performer. Okay, so I'm thinking about. Raise your hand if you're an actor. Okay, somebody. Actor in training. Speak it. Speak it out now. Because I'm a golfer, but I'm training, but I ain't killing it, but I'm a golfer now. I'd do it now. You've been playing for a while. You're gonna tear me up on the greens. That's all right. Playing tomorrow night. Tomorrow, anyway. If you're an actor, you know that the success of your performance is how well you can align with the lines or the word, Right? The script is the word. And so you have to embody that script, embody that word. So much so that you become it. You know, some people have to be snapped out of. You know, some people don't. They stay in character while they're shooting the whole time. Probably drives their spouse crazy. But just, you know. But you stay in it, right? So you perform it. You get that script. You get that word, you perform it. That's the word that's used there, right? So I can't just be a hearer of the word. Yes. Resonance is wonderful. Right? But I have to walk in it. I have to have to perform it. So God gives you the opportunity to participate in your miracle, in your blessing, in your journey, in your deliverance. That's wonderful. That's the partnership. That's the relationship building thing right there, man. 23 years ago, starting this movement. I know nothing about. No, nothing. God was just telling me stuff like, go, go there. Do this right? And I'll be Honest with you, I was pretty reluctant early on because I didn't know. I hadn't really experienced God coming through for me over and over and over and over again. And that's why I say, when you've been walking with him for a length of time, it actually gets better to obey. It gets easier to obey, and you actually get excited because if, you know you got a word, you got everything. See, when you first start, you think, oh, man, all I got is a word. I don't know how this person going to work out, but when you walk with it for a while, you're like, oh, shoot, all I need is a word. Just give me a word. Just let the crumb. What was the lady. Just let the crumb fall from the master. Just give me a crumb of the word. Obedience is everything. I'm going to get through this, and we're going to take some questions, and then we're going to pray, and it's going to be good. All right? But be doers of the word and not hearers only. Oh, here we go. Deceiving yourselves. Wow. See, I need to stay seated. Okay, so if I. So that means. So that means that. That must mean that being a hearer of the word is actually a big. Why are you saying that? Because if hearing the word can deceive you and make you think you're okay, then that connection, that resonance, I feel something here. The resonance is actually a really big deal. And it's so big, like, you could be sitting in the chairs, and a word hits your spirit, and you're like, yes. As if you getting the word was the end all be all. Oh, I gotta say this, right? Like, you're sitting there. I mean, and you've been in that position before where you heard a word and you're like, all of my problems are solved. You ever been there before? You're like, oh, I got it now. Right? And you're pumped up, and you're like, yes. That was. Oh, this is going to change. I forget all the time, Pastor. That word changed my life. We'll see. It has the power and the ability to change your life, without a doubt. That I know. But the onus now is on you to do it. So I can deceive myself if I stay locked in here mode. But it is a beautiful, powerful. Oh, my God. It's an amazing experience to have the word connect with the engrafted word. Whoo. Amazing, right? The internal word. The external hits the internal. Whoa. I come alive. There's conception. But if I Don't do it. There's a stillbirth, and I'm walking around and I'm deceived, thinking I'm still pregnant. Y' all tracking with me. So we're not going to just be hearers, we're going to be doers of the Word. But be doers of the Word and not hearers only deceiving yourselves. For if anyone. Verse 23. For if anyone is a hearer of the Word, not a doer, this is where we'll land. Here he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror. For he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. All right, so the Word, it is a mirror. It's showing you who you are, what you're called to do, and ultimately your future. If you do it, boom, it's you. It's boom. That which a mirror comes from you to you. Now you can see it. He says the person who is not a doer looks at it, gets excited. Yeah, hey, this looks pretty good. But then if I'm not committed to doing it, I walk away. And then, guess what? I walk away and I forget. And I think that ties into one of the parables in the Gospels, where the enemy comes and immediately he takes away the Word. So that's why I have to obey quick. I was listening to. I think that was a podcast or something, but there was a. She was multi. Million, multi, multimillion. I think she was nine figures. And she was being mentored by billionaires. And they asked her, you know, what is one of the. One of the main lessons that you've learned, one of the things that people wouldn't necessarily think about that you learn from the billionaire clients that you have. And she was like, to move quick. I said, wow. And then I thought about something like, you know, you got to get to a place of when you know it's God stopped delaying. It's God. I believe moves of God happen in windows, and windows open and they close. And I'm not saying that it won't come back around, because I've seen God. He knows how to restore the years that the locusts have Eden, right? He knows how to do that. He know he's a God of restoration. He knows how to do that. But. But I. I also know that God operates and he functions in windows. And so there's a reason. Watch this. While you're hearing the Word in the timing that you're hearing it, why did God speak it now and not five years ago? Why is he Saying it now. And why is he confirming it now? Right. Why is that urgency? When you start seeing confirmation on top of confirmation, that means that the timing is now. And he's. Because, again, he's committed to your trust. He's committed to your faith. You know, he's committed to you doing. Being a doer of the word. So. So God in his goodness will not just say it one time, but he'll also confirm it. And when God starts confirming a word, that's when you start moving. You got to start moving quickly and get through that thing. It is better to move and be wrong than to not move and let the window close on you. Are we tracking all right? We're almost there. I'm gonna take a couple questions. We'll pray out. I'm gonna give you some dinner. Hungry for the Word. I got issues. Pray for me. Pray for me. But it doesn't end on that note. It says, but he who looks into. I'm in verse 25. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty. I love it, right? So he continues to look at it. I love it. The fact that he calls it the law of liberty. God, first of all, he calls it a law. In other words, if you do it. See, there are spiritual laws, and a spiritual law that God gives says, if you do this, this will happen. And I'm not talking about our laws. We break laws and we make laws, and we're tricky with our laws, but these are divine laws. And he calls it the law of liberty. Oh, God, this is so good to me. Liberty. Freedom from what? Freedom for everything that ain't you. Freedom to be you. Freedom from. From everything that. That wars against your covenantal rights and promises. He calls it the law of liberty. Oh, God, I feel it right there. I'm thinking about Isaiah 61, where. And it was the prophecy about Jesus and what Jesus would come and do. And Jesus actually came and he fulfilled that. And he actually opened up this. This Luke 4 and Luke 4 talks about how he went into the synagogue, opened it up and started reading it. But what does it say? It says, the Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, for he's anointed me to preach deliverance to the captives, the opening of the prison doors to those who are bound. Right. Living liberty to the captives. Deliverance. Liberty. And then if you keep reading, study it when you get a chance, just read the whole 61st chapter. He starts talking about how these free people are going to be blessed and they're going to literally bring restoration to generations It's a powerful, powerful, powerful thing. So God, in his word, he is. When you move in obedience, you're walking out of chains, you're walking out of limitations, you're walking, walking out of lack. You're. You're walking out of bondage, and you're walking into what God has for you. That's why we get excited about the Word. God, just give me a word. You know, I'm thinking about the woman, the Syrophoenician woman in Scripture. And she was basically just saying, you know, she was trying to get the Word. She was trying to get to Jesus. And he was like, it's not meet for me to give the children's breasts dogs. And he wasn't being, you know, that's a whole nother thing. He wasn't being offensive, you know. But she said, but even the dogs can eat the crumbs that fall from the mass. She was so desperate, just give me a crumb of the Word. I don't even need the whole loaf of bread. I don't even need a slice. Just give me a little bit of your Word because I realize the potency of your Word. He says, he who looks into the perfect law of liberty. Again, law means that this is a contract, this is an agreement. God says, if you do this, I'll do that. If you do this, this will happen. The law divine. I feel the Holy Ghost. I got so much to teach y'. All. There are laws and principles. There are designs. God's laws are his designs. There is a blueprint to walking in fullness, to having dominion, to being fruitful and multiplying. If you're not being fruitful and not being multiplying, that means that somewhere, somehow, you're out of alignment with a law. So I am growing in my knowing and in my understanding of the divine laws and the divine promises from strength to strength and glory to glory. And even until the Lord comes back, things ought to start getting better. Although our outer man is perishing, our inner, inner man is being renewed day by day. I feel the Holy Ghost, God is going to change drastically and dramatically some of your lives. But I'm not even looking at you. I'm literally looking at your grandchildren right now. I'm looking at your grandchildren because you're going to get it right. And I believe that you're on a fast track. One of the reasons why I love. I think that God loves la, because raise your hand if you're not from la. I love it. I love it. You know what that means that you Are you are a nomad? I talked about that. Just Google. What did I call it? The nomadic life. I taught it on Sunday. You're a. No. God loves a nomad. Because every believer in the Bible, all of the figures in the Bible that figured it out and got it right, they were all nomads. They were willing to get out of their father's house and out of their country to a land that God will show them. There's some serious stuff on your life. And I'm seeing through you, and I'm seeing your grandkids and your great grandkids that you left an inheritance for. A spiritual inheritance, first and foremost, an inheritance of integrity, an inheritance of. Of resources, an inheritance of understanding. I see it happening through you to your children's children. That's the Bible. A good man leaves an inheritance for his children's children. All right, let me just. I just want to close that out. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty. Here we go. And continues in it. Stay there. Stay there through your disappointment. Come on. Stay there through your dark time. Stay there through seasons where people leave you because they don't get you. Stay there through the haters. Stay there through people who don't believe in the vision. Stay. Just stay Continuing it. Stay there. If you're in my word, I'm with you. Because me and my word are one. And at the end of the day, me and you will always be the majority. Stay in there. Continue in it. And if they continue it, and they're not a forgetful hearer. Look, watch this. But a doer of the work. Look at this. This one will be blessed in what he does. So the end of obedience is always a blessing. That's why I obey. I don't ask questions. You know why? Cause it ain't none of your business. Well, what if I. None of your business. Just trust me. All right, I want to take a couple questions real quick, then we'll pray, then we up out of here. Let's see. Oh, the QR code. Oh, homework. I'm supposed to give you all some homework. Yeah, I give you some homework. I give you some homework. I'm going to give you a good assignment, okay? One area, and this is an honest question. One area. At least one area that if you're honest, one thing. One area. If you're honest God has called you to do. I ain't got to finish that. God has called you to do that you are reluctant. That or you just flat out disobey. You're not doing it. Two, why? We're going to do an autopsy on it. We're going to break it down. We're going to. Why am I not? What is it? Why am I not? And let's see. And since we know now that obedience is not really optional, then what step am I going to take immediately towards obedience in that thing? What, why? And what step will I take? All right, let me, Let me check the questions real quick. Oh, okay. Okay. Oh, cool. Oh, you rank them. I see the thing that's ranking. Oh, okay. Oh, wow. This is so cool. Okay, cool. All right, all right. How can I be obedient when I am in so much pain? As a two parter, how can I still, excuse me, Help others when I'm hurting internally or feel inadequate for the task? First of all, I'm sorry you're in pain. It sucks to be in pain to hurt. Obviously I don't have the context for the pain, but. But life is painful at times and life will make you hurt. And there was another part. How can I still help others when I'm hurting internally or feel inadequate for the task? So my assumption, and it's just an assumption, is that your obedience has to do with being a blessing to others. When you feel like you need a blessing yourself or you feel inadequate for the task. I think that being in pain or hurting and feeling inadequate go hand in hand. Because a lot of times when we are hurting or when we are in pain, we do not feel we are blessed. We somehow, not somehow, it's understandably, we deduce that if I am in pain, if I'm hurting, then the blessing is not on me. And if the blessing is not on me, if I need a blessing, how can I be a blessing? And that's that I could totally get how you get there. What I've learned though, is that God has many ways to bless you. And one of the greatest ways that God blesses you is spiritually. And one of the greatest ways that God blesses us spiritually, unfortunately, unfortunately, is through painful moments. What you have to do in a moment of pain, in a moment of when you're hurting, is to recognize that even though you're hurting, you're surviving. I need to say that better because that felt insensitive. But it's not. That's not my heart. Sometimes the miracle of God is that you're actually surviving. What would kill a lesser person or a lesser developed person? You understand what I'm saying? Sometimes it's like, you know, you have the blessing of exiting the predicament and then you have the blessing of being sustained in the middle of it. And what I want you to do, particularly if you're beginning to believe that you're inadequate, that's the enemy, right? Anytime, you know, everyone who is called of God to do something significant will always have to wrestle with the lie of inadequacy. Because as a man thinks, so is he. As a man thinks, so is he. And enemy knows that. So if he can think that. Watch this. That you are worthless. Come on. If he can get you to think that you don't have value and sometimes the pain makes you believe that you have that. How can I be valuable to God if I'm in this pain? Not realizing that God oftentimes develops us, manifests. Watch this manifest our value through fire. Peter talks about that your faith being much more precious than the finest gold that perishes, must be tried by fire. So to. Not again. I don't have all the details and I don't want to be insensitive to your pain and your hurt because I get it. I know what it's like to have pain and to hurt. 2013 was 2012 and 2013 one of the darkest years of my life. Like dark, dark. Like there are moments in 2013 I didn't want to be here no more like just a moment. Not too long because I do love me, but long enough. And it was still. I'm sorry, it was still a dark season, but there was a. It was an exit. And to that person who's in pain and who is hurting, if God allows it, one, you're coming out of it. I promise you that no one is. You're still blessed. Two is you're coming out of it. And three, and this is crazy, and please forgive me for saying it, it's crazy. But when you see why and when you get on the other side of it and God wouldn't allow you to be in it unless he had already pre qualified you not to survive it, but to come out better. God doesn't waste a trial. A trial has purpose. So if you acknowledge and just continue to believe that you're blessed to know that you're coming out sometimes in your pain and you can reach someone because there's somebody out there lower than you. There's somebody out there in more pain than you. There's somebody out there that's hurting. And to be able to connect with that person. Oh man. If. See, Father, I just pray for that person right now because I perceive you're developing power, empathy and Power and Father, the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but they're mighty. Through you to the pulling down of strongholds, casting down arguments, imaginations, every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God. I'm praying right now, God, that the lie of inadequacy would be subdued and that it would be uprooted from that individual mind, heart, body, spirit scenario. And that they might, as they perceive their Savior, as they perceive Jesus in the garden, sweating, bleeding, desiring the cup to pass, but recognizing that if the cup was still there, not my will, but your will, give them supernatural strength that can only come from connection and identification with Jesus. Give them strength because I sensed this is the most powerful you have ever been in your life. If you'll see it right in Jesus name. All right. Literally 26 minutes over. I'm embarrassed by it. I'm sorry. I want to do one more. Okay. All right. I'm trying to be a good guest speaker. You know, how can I be sure that I'm being obedient to the right thing? Ooh. Ooh. Okay, so if we go back to that James 1 scripture. Okay, let me take a step back. I have a book coming out in April called By the Grace of God. I mean, it truly is the best thing that God has ever written through me. I mean, it's my fourth book, and I feel good about all of them, but this one is different. It's called Knowing the Journey to Certainty in an Uncertain World. And I'm telling you, God just. It's. I can't. I can't. I can't wait to start sharing it. But knowing. Knowing. One of our inherent endowments is the ability to know. And that endowment is activated fully when we get saved and when we receive the Holy Spirit. Scripture says in First Corinthians 2. I think it's 2. Yeah. 2 and 9. Eyes have not seen nor ear heard. Neither has it entered into the heart of man the things that God has prepared for those who love Him. Most people stop there. Keep reading. Verse 10, it says, but he has revealed them to us through his spirit. And then if you keep reading, the Bible talks about how God has given us the Spirit, that we might freely know things. Okay, so the ability to know is yours. You have that. Because the question is, how do I know? How do I come to believe that disobedience is so. So you have the ability to know. That coupled with the fact that that word that you are called to obey has a deep resonance within you because that word did not start when you received was there before you were born. The Bible says in Ephesians, it talks about how we were Ephesians 2 and 10, I believe it talks about how we were created in Christ Jesus before the world began for good works. So it's already there. So you have the resonance of the word when it hits you right. You have the Holy Spirit, which says yes and amen. That's truth. And then you have. You should have some confirmation somewhere, somehow. Once you have all that, that's all you need. And it should not violate the scripture. Once you have that do it. How will you know? You will know when you do it and you get blessed because you did it. Was this helpful? Hey, family. Well, I pray that you were just, just as blessed by this teaching as I was. I'm just so grateful again to be a part of a dynamic community full of love, full of revelation and wisdom. One has been a movement that's been blessing people for over two decades and I'm so glad that you got an opportunity to experience it. I also have a podcast called the called it's right here on wherever you're listening to this. It's by Spotify or Apple or wherever you're listening to this podcast, you can just look up the call T H E C A L L E D with myself, Terry Roberts. This is designed for entrepreneurs, leaders and business people. It's a weekly podcast and it will bless you. But hey, I enjoyed having you here. Meet us here next week. Check out the call. Much blessings to you. We'll catch you next time. Sa.