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And we talked about revival and how revival is not God doing something new. It's God reorienting us to something that was original. You tracking with me. So we talked about these things, and this is important, because in order for us to be everything that God has called us to be, we're going to have to go through a process of transformation. And so last week, we talked about, as it relates to the original design, we looked at Ephesians 2:10 to get an understanding. And that's when he says, for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. In that simple text, we see original design. We have a deeper understanding of what it means to work, how we are designed to work, and what work is. We see the reality of things being predestined and predetermined. In other words, things have already been worked out if we align with the design and we see the command to walk in them. So there's a design, there is a way to work. We'll look at that in a moment. There is the reality that it has been prepared beforehand. And there is a command of for us to walk in. The whole purpose of the design is so that we will walk in them. So we looked at that word work, because it's easy to assume that when he says that we were created for good works, he's talking about philanthropy or good deeds. I can see how we could deduce that, but that's not what that word means. When we looked at that word, when we looked at that word, that word is the Greek Word Ergon, And. And it literally means enterprise. So we were not simply created to do good deeds. We were actually created for Enterprise to work. There is an idea of a product in there. There is an idea of an occupation in there. This is not about good deeds. Not in that context, of course. We're called to do good deeds. This is about understanding how we have been wired and. And designed in the image and likeness of the one who modeled Enterprise even at the beginning of the creation. Can I talk to you like this? And we talked about how if you look at God, there's no one that you will ever meet. There's. There's nothing that you will ever see that doesn't look more like an entrepreneur than God. He speaks what he clearly envisioned and it became. He sets up. Watch this systems and structures so that what he creates. Watch this. Doesn't even require him anymore. He puts the seed within itself. And after six days, on the seventh day, after he finished creating Watch this, his business, he sits down and he tells and he commands his heirs be fruitful and multiply. And this was not an unfair command, because he had already established the system. Are you tracking with me? And the system would produce in perpetuity. Because as a smart business person, let me just give you some business advice really quickly. If your whole business revolves around you, you're failing. Because when you fail, your business fails. And the Bible says that a good man is supposed to leave an inheritance for his children's children. Oh, I'm trying to help about a thousand people here today. No, a smart business person. Watch this. Works. And builds their business in such a way that it doesn't need them anymore because the systems are in place to ensure that it evolves in perpetuity. Maybe you'll go in, take a board meeting, make certain watches. But what are you checking? You're checking the system. Are you hearing me? So now it makes sense as to why he would say that we're called to be like him and have an entrepreneurial or an enterprise mentality is because it's like him. Hello, somebody? So we talked about that. We redefine work. And then that whole preordained part is amazing. So here's what it says. It says, we are his workmanship. Remember we talked about that. We are his poetic creation. You got to go back and listen to it. Created in Christ Jesus for Ergon, for good works, which he prepared before I feel the Holy Ghost right there, which he prepared beforehand. In other words, you're not looking for your enterprise. Your enterprise is Looking for you. You're not looking for your opportunity. Your opportunity is looking for you. But it won't find you unless you're thinking on this level. We're gonna have a good time today. Prepared beforehand. Watch this. This means that it's already ordained. And then we looked at Deuteronomy 8:18 to corroborate this truth. The promise of God in Deuteronomy 8:18 is, God says that I have. You shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth. That wealth is the Hebrew word chayel. And you know, we talked about last week. It means men, it means resources, and it means, means those are enterprise terms. People, money, wisdom, skills, gifts, talents. All of those things formulate to create enterprise. Right? So he's saying, I've given you the ability to do it. In other words, you got an anointing to do it. That's why you see in Scripture, Jesus frustrated with people because they wouldn't work what they had. Oh, I can't wait to unpack this. Because he's got to understand it. All you got to do is if you just would simply work will work, but you can't work it. Watch this. No. Or you will refuse to work it if you don't know how you were designed. That's why one of the writers said if a man doesn't work, he shouldn't eat. That is. Listen, that is serious. That's a serious judgment. You need to be working. And work is so important that it would be just for you to starve to death if you didn't do what you were created to do. Can I talk to you on this level? Because we were created to work, we've created to Ergon. Oh, hallelujah. So I'm just doing a little bit of recap. Is that okay? So Deuteronomy 8:18. I give you the power to create wealth, right? He gives you the power to make, to produce or to yield wealth. And he reframes wealth as not a one off, but as an ecosystem of productivity. That's what you have on the inside of you right now. You have an. You have an ecosystem of productivity. I just need 500 people to get it. And we'll, we'll bankroll the rest of y'. All. Just 500 of us. Don't worry about it. We got you inside of you right now. You have a divinely implanted. I'm going to get back to that word in a minute. You have a divinely implanted ecosystem of productivity on the Inside of you. And as long as you're breathing, it's still there. Right now. Right now. Now unto him, Watch this. Who is able to do exceedingly, abundantly, far above what you ask for or imagine, according to the power. Oh, the power that works in us. So when that ability connects with his timing, the exceedingly and abundantly happened. Oh, I can't wait to get into this, can I? Take my time. Walk this thing out. Teach this thing so. So if that is true, if God has given to us that divine agency, that divine faculty to create systems of ongoing heal from the very beginning, if this is so foundational, then why does it sound so unfamiliar? Two reasons. Reason number one. This, my brothers and sisters, is a revelation that the enemy does not want you to have. He don't want you to have this. Or if he, if he will allow you to have it, he'll pervert it and he will make the whole thing about money. Option A or option B, he'll pervert it and will lean all the way in. And the whole thing, that godliness itself will be about money. That's heresy. So he'll pervert it. But you got to remember, the only reason why a counterfeit is successful is because it's juxtaposed against a reality. In other words, the only reason why a fake $100 bill has value in the dark world is because there is a true $100 bill. And that's why you can't throw away the baby with the bath water. Are you hearing the words that are coming out of my mouth today? The enemy, my brothers and sisters, does not want you to have this revelation. He wants you to fall short of the glory of God. You're like, wait a minute, what? The Bible says all have sinned and fall short of glory. Yeah, that's true. But in the context of that, he's talking about how Jesus came, watch this. To become sin so that we might become the righteousness of God in him. That's the same book. So this is to help us to understand that we all sin and fell short of the glory of God. That is not to justify sin. It's to tell us what our condition is. But later on in the letter, he says, he made Jesus God made Jesus, who had no sin, to become my sin. What is my sin? Hermitia is the thing that makes me miss the mark. He causes Jesus to become my sin, the thing that makes me miss the mark, puts that on the cross, kills it, so that I might be the righteousness of God. In other words, I'M on my way back to my original design. So the enemy wants you to come short of everything that's in your covenant, There are things that are in your covenant that you don't know. That's why the Bible says in Psalm 25:14, I believe that's where it's at. It says, the secret of the Lord is with those who fear him, and he, God, will show them his covenant. In other words, there are things that are in the covenant, baby, that not everybody gets to see, either because the enemy has blinded them or. Or they're not sold out for Jesus in such a way that he can trust you with his secrets. That's why it says, and you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to create wealth. Why, that I might establish my covenant, which I swore to your fathers. So your success and your abundance and your breakthrough didn't even start with you. It was made to somebody. I feel the Holy Ghost. You just have to get awakened so that you can walk in them. So there's always going to be warfare over this earth revelation, right? And if it ain't from the enemy, it's going to be from religious people. Religious folk, they always got something to say, but it ain't the gospel. They just say, oh, just religion. Shut up. Too far. I need to move on. So reason number one, because there's always going to be warfare over this revelation. And if I was the enemy, I wouldn't want you to start businesses that will have influence and impact and change things. If I was the enemy, I would lie to you all day and just say you're supposed to be sitting on the corner doing nothing, waiting for one day. One day. One day. Let me tell you something. Let me just say this. I'm going to move on. There's a passage of scripture. I am. There's a passage of scripture where you know the story of Rich Young Ruler. Rich young ruler comes to the Lord, says, what must I do to inherit eternal life? Lord said, do these things. Boom. He says, oh, hallelujah, I do these things. The Lord looked at him deeply and said, that ain't. That ain't what this is about. He says, there's one thing you don't do, one thing you lack. What? Sell everything you have. Give to the poison. Jesus starts talking about how hard it is for those who trust in riches, trust in riches to make it into the kingdom of heaven. Peter says, man, I left everything, followed you. Jesus said, come here, let me talk to you. Come here, come here. Say I'm let you in on something, bro. He said, there is no one who has left houses, lands A, B, C, D, for my sake and the Gospels, who will not receive 100 fold all those things? Watch this. And then he says, now, in this time and afterwards eternal life, this is the whole counsel of God. And we're in a time in our world where we need the whole counsel of God. So reason number one is that there's warfare over our understanding of this truth, over our understanding of this revelation. Reason number two is there is a tension between faith and works. There's a tension between faith and works. And let's look at the tension. James and Paul model this tension. It's a tension between Ephesians 2 and 8, the James 2 passage that we just looked at. In Ephesians 2 and 8, Paul says, for by grace. Well, no, let's back up. Let's go to what James said in James 2. He says, what does it profit my brethren? If someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? Okay, then, Ephesians 2 and 8. So there's almost the notion that James is positing the idea that that would appear to suggest that faith alone may not be able to save you, but that works in. It looks like. Watch this. It looks like a little. Looks like a little sparring match, right? Paul says, for it's by grace that you've been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves. It is a gift of God. Watch this. And even specifically not of works, lest any man should boast. So the question is, do we see it? Almost. If you're not discerning enough or studied enough, then it could seem like there's a contradiction here. Could seem like they're saying two different things, but really they're talking about they're looking at the same diamond through different angles. Can I just talk. Can we walk this thing out a little bit? Right. It's not a contradiction, it's tension. And the reality of it is this type of subject, you need tension. Let me tell you something. The more that God increases me in business, and I'm so grateful. The more that He. Watch. This elevates me in business. The more I humble myself in my spirit and being. Did you catch it? The more. Watch this. The more he increases me in wisdom, stature, favor with God and man. The more he increases me, the more I decrease me. That's the tension. And God wants that tension because it's not either or, it's both. What Paul is saying is this is not of you. For by grace you didn't earn it, you don't deserve it, you didn't pay for it. It's by grace that you are saved through faith and not of works. What he is doing is he is confronting the religious spirit. He is confronting the self righteous. Look at the story in Luke 18 of the Sinner and the Pharisees standing in front of the temple. They're both standing there, he's a sinner, all sinned out. And here's the Pharisee, all sinned out. Covered by religious jargon, the Pharisee steps up to the plate and says, oh God, oh God, oh God. I thank you that I do this. I thank you that I'm in church every Sunday. I thank you that I pay my tithes. I thank you. I thank you. I thank you. And what I thank you for all the most is that I'm not like this sinner right here. Amen. The publican, the sinner. The Bible says he won't even look up to heaven and he starts beating on his chest, smoting himself. Didn't even feel worthy looking up. He says a short thing. He says, God, be merciful unto me, for I am a sinner. Jesus said, that guy went home more justified than the righteous. It says, for he who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted. Are you tracking with me? Let's get back to this argument that is really just attention. The thing is, they both are right. Paul is explaining the source of salvation. James is explaining the evidence and the expression of salvation. One is answering, how am I saved? The other answers the question, what does it look like when I am? Stay with me. They're looking at the same diamond from two different angles. Paul's addressing self righteousness, James is addressing self deception. Stay with me. Paul is talking about. He's talking to people who think that they earn salvation. James is talking to people who think faith excuses them from work. Stay with me. We gonna get it, gonna get it. Go get it. The word salvation is an interesting word. It's the Greek word sozo and it means wholeness, deliverance, restoration. Right? It means the same even though one is a Greek word and the other is a Hebrew word. Sozo is very connected to the Hebrew word shalom. Stay with me. Stay with me. Shalom means so Sozo means wholeness. To be rescued, to be healed, to be restored, to be delivered, to be made whole, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, physically. Shalom means nothing broken, nothing missing. I know we Say it. Peace. Yeah, peace. But there's a deeper meaning. Peace. Because nothing's missing. Nothing broken, nothing missing, nothing lacking spiritually, emotionally, mentally, relationally, physically, financially. So what we're seeing here is sozo is the New Testament manifestation of the Old Testament idea of shalom. Nothing missing, nothing broken. Spiritually, emotionally, relationally, physically, financially, nothing is missing. So in the text, James is talking about sozo. In other words, we're not just talking about your soul being saved. We're talking about everything that is yours being yours. Nothing missing. And that's why he says, can. Can faith alone save you? Look at the context of that James passage. He says, if you see somebody who's hungry and you go to them with your spiritual self and say, in the name of Jesus, be full. I command your stomach to stop growling right now. In the name of Jesus. He says, watch this. He says, what is that? Prophet. I love that he used the word prophet. So. So in other words, your assignment might require you doing something more than just pray. And you think that God is happy with you because you have a good prayer life, but he might only be partially happy with you because you're not ergoning, doing business. You can pray and give him a sandwich. You can pray and feed them. So James is leaning. He's leaning more into Sozo. He's leaning more into shalom. He's leaning more into wholeness because he knew that there would be some folk that think that all they have to do is speak in tongues, That God's going to be happy. No, God wants you to do business. Even if it's a ministry. A ministry is an enterprise. Systems, structures, all these things that take place. God, even as it relates to the tithes and the offerings, it's all a part of a divine ecosystem that advances the kingdom we tracking. So James, I like James. He's saying that if you're a believer who has faith for no works, you talk, but you don't build. He's saying that if you're truly saved, then something in you will want to work because you'll be tapping into the design. I'm not saved to just put a I love Jesus T shirt on. I'm saved to get back to the design. So if I'm truly saved and I'm truly filled with the Holy Spirit, then I'm going to start working, I'm going to start praying, I'm going to start building. We almost there. James is talking to people who confess, but they don't construct. That's why it drives me crazy. See, these ministries and leaders are just tearing other leaders down, not realizing. Fool, you are supposed to be a builder. Fool. God didn't supposed to be a builder. Shut up. That's what the scripture says. He says, let no corrupt communication. That word corrupt literally means devaluing. Let no devaluing communication proceed out of your mouth with that which is edifying. You're supposed to be building people, not breaking people. You don't know what spirit you are of. Got to move on. But they do it for a business. They got that business part perverted. Oh, that's too far. That's too far. Too far. Yeah. James, talking to people that confess but don't construct. They testify, but they don't transform. You're a change agent. Now. Let me just start leaning into landing this thing here. Now that wasn't the first time that that little tension was introduced actually in James. I'm talking about the tension between faith and works, right? Because there was another tension between two things before the tension between faith and works. It was the tension between hearing and doing. Come on. If you go back earlier in the book of James to James 21 and 25, you know, when it talks about now, don't just be hearers of the word, but be doers. James is a master. I love James. James is saying, I appreciate that you know how to hear, but I celebrate if you obey. I love James. People think that James is hard. He wasn't hard. He was just a good teacher. He was just passionate about people really walking into the fullness of what this thing was about because we can get all excited about him. I heard from God this morning. You know, we wrote that song. I get that. That's great. And I love that song. It's a wonderful song. Keep on listening to it. But the follow up question is, but did you obey? I wish I had about four hours with you. So we see this tension between faith and works. We see it start with the tension between hearing and doing, right? And James says that if you hear the word and you don't do it, you're deceiving yourself. Let's unpack it really quickly and then we'll move on and we'll be all done. So it starts the conversation that deals with the tension between hearing and doing. I'll button it all in together in a second. Begins in verse 21 where James says, therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness. Receive with meekness the implanted word. Here we go again. Which is able to sozos sozo your souls okay, let's stop right there. He says, therefore lay aside all filthiness. I want to stop right there. And why is he saying this is important? I had to look up that word filthiness because I wanted to understand it. That word filthiness literally means dirty. Or pay attention to this. Shabby or cheap. Shabby or cheap. So I'm on my way to becoming a doer, but. Which is my design, by the way, I'm designed to do. But on my way there, in order to get to the place. Watch this where I can hear. And then ultimately, do I have to lay aside this filthiness? And it says. And it talks about this being cheap or shabby. And in order to understand what I believe he's trying to articulate, he's saying that you were designed in royalty. And there's some things that we have the propensity to do that are beneath who we are. Cheap and shabby. A cheap copy of the real thing. So. So there's certain ways that we move, certain things that we say, certain behaviors that we flow in that are. A cheap carbon copy, a shabby carbon copy of God's original and divine design for your life. And there's some things. And I'll make it practical. There's some things that you got to see not as fun or not as pleasurable, but beneath me. Are you hearing me? Gossiping is beneath me. I was created in the image and the likeness of God. I use my words to build, not tear down. Gossiping is beneath me. Oh, it's quiet. Having multiple lovers, that's beneath me. I was created in the image of the light. This is my. This is my temple. This is the temple of the Holy Ghost. That's beneath me. You throwing. What you're throwing at me is beneath me. Get behind me, Satan. Oh, you're quiet today. I love it. You gotta see yourself, right? When you know who you are, you don't receive too low. See, the reason why we take anything that anybody throws at us is because we don't recognize who we truly are. If you knew who you. Next time the enemy tries to throw you something, that's beneath you. Say, I'm better than that. I ain't better than you, but I'm better than that. Where I'm from, we don't do that. Where I'm from, we speak life. Where I'm from. Where I'm from, we honor each other. Oh, God, I wish I had him. I need to move on. So he says. So he says, laying aside, it's cheap Stuff Cheap, cheap. Victory, cheap, thrill, Cheap, cheap. Laying at his side. The old flow of wickedness, it says, and receive with meekness. I'm almost there. I love it. It says the implanted word, which is able to say to Sozos to make whole your soul. I was looking at that. And that word implanted literally means to be implanted. The implanted word. Here's the revelation that God showed me. There, the implanted word. When you get a word from God, if it's truly a word, that word that you got, the Logos, something spoke, spoken. That word, when it speaks to you, is resonant with an implanted word that is in you. I gotta say this better. Calm down here. You gotta get this in Ecclesiastes, the great wise Solomon says that God places eternity in our hearts. So what is for you and what will be you is in you. Prophecy. Prophecy is not God speaking to you. What is not? Because his Word is settled in heaven. In the beginning was the Word. In the beginning was the Word. So he's not giving you a new word. He's giving you a word that will connect with the implanted word. And that's why there is a deep resonance. Because you realize that God is activating what he already put in you. That's why it hits you so deep. Because the Word knows who you are. The Word knows what you carry. And it has to be. Activate it. Stir up the gift of God. Receive with meekness. So we got the Word calling out the word, Deep, calling unto deep. Deep calling onto deep. Pulling it out. Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. I ordained you. I'm pulling out what I knew about you that you're still trying to figure out. I didn't start here. I started there. So I need prophecy to speak to what was placed there when I wasn't aware. That's why the Bible says, despise not prophecy. Why? If you despise prophecy, you despise your future. Because prophecy activates in. It resonates in order to activate so that you can walk in it. Are you hearing me? So he says. He says so. That's why I can't be cheap. I can't move in cheapness. I can't move in that. I got to move in intentionality. Shut up. I feel the Holy Ghost. I feel like revival is going to break out on me. I feel like I'm telling you, I can't wait until we pray. Almost there. I can't move in a cheap copy. I'm too special. I'm too royal. There ain't nobody like me. So if I am not me, then who's gonna be me? For me, I've got to be me. Therefore lay aside. We're almost there. Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word which is able to save your soul. But be doers of the Word and not hearers, only deceiving yourselves. Ooh, there's a lot there. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror. What. What is he saying there? He's saying that when. When the word connects with the implanted word. What I'm doing is I'm giving you an accurate mirror of yourself, because most of us can't see us, and I can only be what I see. Are you hearing me? So the word comes to. To erect a mirror so that you can finally see who you truly are and so that you can watch this begin to adjust to the. That image. Are you hearing me? I need you to tell me who I am. Because so many things in life tell me contrary to who I am, and most of the time it tells me who I'm not. So, God, I need your word to pop up and to become a mirror. But if God just show me who I truly am, then I've got to lean into that identity. Because if I hear it and I don't do it, I will be like a man who sees himself in the mirror but then goes away, says the scripture, and immediately forgets what kind of man he is. Which means that. Which means that while I am hearing, I am hearing with the intent to obey. Man, I got layers. See, most people say that they don't hear. And the reality of it is they can hear, but they're not postured to hear because their response to the hearing is conditional. And there's a word, literally is a Hebrew word that talks. It's translated here, and it doesn't mean like here. It literally means, watch this. Listening intently with the intent to obey. That's a different type of hearing. And God likes that type of hearing. Because there's no space between hearing and doing. Because you already halfway in the obedience, before you fully even get the revelation, are you hearing the words that are coming out of my mouth? So we obey swiftly because we have already purpose in our hearts that when I hear the instruction, I'm going to obey. I'm halfway there already. And those are the people that God can use, are we Tracking. And so he says, for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But, but, but he. I love this. Who looks. Watch this. Now we're talking about the word. Now all of a sudden, there is a new definition of the word that's introduced in the text. It says, but he who looks into the perfect law of liberty. Stop. The word just went from the word to this thing called the perfect law of liberty. You got to pay attention there. So law in this context literally means divine in ordinance. Divine ordinance. That's what a law is. That's not the Hebrew word. I'm telling you what a law is. The law. A law. When you talk about the perfect law of liberty, a law is a divine ordinary. What do we know about a divine orderness? It can't fail. Strike with me. And it's a divine law. Watch this. Of liberty. Now, where did this liberty thing come in? I'm trying to find out what, how all these new terms and concepts. What are we talking about? Well, what is liberty? Liberty is freedom. Here is one of the things that I'm coming to understand about what Jesus came to do. We see it in Isaiah 61, when the prophecy of Jesus is one of one of the early prophecies of Jesus, not the earliest, but one of the prophecies of Jesus. It says, he says, for the Spirit of the Lord is upon me. Watch this. First things he says, says he's going to do, to preach deliverance to the captives, the opening of the prison doors to those who are bound. And then it keeps going and it talks about, and they shall rebuild the ruined cities. So. So before anything can happen, before you and I can walk in our fullness, the first thing that has to take place is we have to be free. Which means that to not be free is not the design, but when we become free, we can actualize our all of the benefits and the blessings of the design. So he says, if you are committed to not just hearing, but doing, you're going to be looking into the perfect law, the divine ordinance, the unfailing ordinance of liberty. And it will free you in such a way that you will be able to be everything you've been trying to be and so much more. I feel the Holy Ghost so strong. There's not a person in this room that is not trying to be more than what they currently are. And I hear God saying, I got it covered. I am the one who put the desire for more in you in the first place. Watch this. I'm the one that made you hungry. Now am I an unjust God where I will make you hungry and not feed you? Philippians 2 and 13 says that he makes you desire what he wants to bring you into. It is God who causes us both to will and to do that which brings him good pleasure. This whole thing is a setup. It's a divine strategy to get you into alignment so that you can start moving according to the design. I promise I'm almost there. But you're going to get this word and then you're gonna work to study guide and we gonna be all right. Are you hearing the words that are coming out of my mouth? So. So let's get into it. So he says, but he who lacks, who looks into the perfect law of liberty. Watch this. And continues in it and is not a forgetful hearer. Watch this. But a doer, it doesn't say of the word, even though that's true, he switches it. But a doer of the what? Oh, of the work. Work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work. Can't you hear Jesus? I must work while it's day. For nighttime comes when no man can work. You know, I gotta say something real quick. We almost there? Look, I was on set working on some stuff, and I said out of nowhere, I just sprung this question on the crew. I said, hey. I said, when Jesus comes back, I said, what do you want him to find you doing? I said, A, B or C? A, B, C, multiple choice. I said, A, fasting and praying. I said, B, working, I said, or C, looking up into heaven in anticipation of his return. A trick question, because A sounds great. Wouldn't you think that if the Lord comes back, wouldn't you want him to find you in your. Or if he comes back, wouldn't you want him to find you in expectation of his return like this, Just standing there gazing, clue gazing. And they had a bunch of answers. I said, that's you. I said, when he comes back, I want him to find me working. I must work while it's day. For nighttime comes when no man can work. Jesus worked all the way to the end. He's on the cross, dying, working. Do other work. Let's wrap it up. If he's not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this one. Watch this. Will be blessed in what he does. Do other work. Do other work. I got more. What I'm going to do, furthermore, is I'm going to go in my office this week at some point and I'm going to record it and I'm going to make sure you get it. Put it up on YouTube or something. I'm going to make sure you get it. But here's what I want to do, because this is important. I really, really, really want to pray. I want to pray for you. I want to pray for you. Just because there is a divine design does not mean that there is not a glitch. The glitch is not in the design. When you think about tech, think about technology. In technology, a glitch doesn't mean that the blueprint is somehow broken. In technology, a glitch means usually that there's some sort of breakdown in the execution. Stay with me. Either some sort of user error, some sort of external variable, some sort of interference that creates an unexpected behavior for us, our glitch is sin. I call it the human glitch because you say, well, if we're designed that way, why, because of the glitch. The beautiful thing is Jesus came. To deal with the glitch. I'm just going to share these things with you so that this message can be closed for now. And I want you to take these things and I want you to write these things down. And these are they have to do with how to overcome the human glitch that keeps you from the design which will allow you to work and to be blessed in your work. Number one is ignorance. That's why I take my time and I teach and I study and I pray because I would that none of us be ignorant. That's why I read, that's why I study. That's why I pray. That's why I spend time in the presence of God, because I don't want to be ignorant. Now, ignorance is only a bad thing if you don't think you are. I have a whole chapter in the book knowing called the Catalyst of Ignorance. Ignorance is only a problem if you don't think you are. When you know that you lack knowledge or that you have gaps, it is humbling. It makes you two things. 2H is humble and hungry. That's why God causes you to hunger when he wants to feed you. It is to the glory of God to hide something. It is to the glory of a king to search it out, something in the tension. So ignorance. We've got to know the truth. We've got to know the truth so that the truth can set us free. We've got to get into the Word. All the principles are there, number one. That's one of the things that we have to overcome is ignorance. Number Two, limiting beliefs. Who told you you couldn't win? Who told you you weren't enough? Who told you that it won't work? Who produced what environment produced that limiting belief? I got to overcome that. Number three, I have to overcome fear. The lazy servant, the lazy is one too. I'll get there in a minute. But the lazy servant says I was afraid. And sometimes you have the fear of failure. I don't work because I'm afraid I might fail. And sometimes, conversely, you won't work because you have a fear of succeeding. Hello. I wish I had more time. Number four, Laziness. Flat out. Sometimes it's just, you're just flat out lazy. Back to that passage. If you don't work, you don't deserve to eat. That's a heavy handed thing. But it's true. That means that you're not. What are you doing? Number five, Immobility. I'm talking about things we have to overcome. The human glitches that we have to overcome. Immobility. Be agile. You're inflexible. What if what God has for you is in another state or another country or in another circle and because you are so set in your ways, you are immobile. And immobility. What if Abraham was settled on ur the land, you know what I'm saying? What if he was settled on the place that he came from? No, he moved. So immobility. I have to overcome immobility in order to overcome the human glitch that keeps me from being blessed in my deed. Six is disobedience. And I might also add delayed obedience. And they're equally, equally wrong. And sometimes we will tolerate delayed obedience because we feel like, well, at least I'll do it. But here's the problem. Most opportunities have a window. That's why they're called windows of opportunity. And so disobedience sometimes, or delayed obedience is a human glitch that we have to overcome. And number seven is inconsistency. In the passage that we looked at earlier in James, it talks about and continuing therein, inconsistency. You do well for a minute and then you fall off. So you do well for a moment, but then you fall off. But listen, consistency is taking a moment and taking a moment into and producing momentum from moments. I need to say that better momentum, you can either have a moment or you can have momentum. The difference is consistency. So a lot of people, we have a big moment and then we don't stay with it. And there's some things, some breakthroughs that require momentum to get through. So consistency is everything. Here's the last thing I'm going to do. There's something I saw in this passage that I thought was amazing. It said, tells us to be a doer. It's an interesting Greek word. It literally means a performer. Or better yet, a poet. A poet. Now remember we talked about last week? God says that we are his workmanship. That Greek word literally means we are his poem. And here James is calling us poets. What's the connection? If my life is a poem, we are his workmanship. We are his poem. Study it. Go back to last week if you need to. If my life is a poem, then of course I must become a poet. A performer. A poet who speaks. Speaks. Who works and produces according to the script. Are you hearing me? I have to have a relationship with the word of God. And that word tells me I must work. I want to pray. Stand with me real quick if you don't have to leave. This part right here is everything. This is impartation. If you're here. The study guide. Get the study guide. There's a QR code. Get the study guide working. If you're serious about flowing and moving in the design, download the study guide. It's right there for you. I created it. I put it together for you with you in mind. Actions, activities. Your journal. It's going to be amazing. Your journal, based on this study guide, is going to be prophecy. I prophesy this right now for those who are really serious about walking in everything that God has called them to walk into. So serious that you work the study guide. That you work it. You can download it right now. Work it. Get your journal. Those of you serious? You let the Holy Spirit lead you while we're on this 21 day fast. You let the Holy Ghost lead you and you start writing things down. You're going to be amazed what happens in 12 months. You're going to be amazed to see what takes place. Watch this. And you're not even. You're going to be not only amazed by what happens, but you're going to be amazed by what you see when you look in the mirror. Because God's going to build you, increase you, and make you more. Because you are more. You're built for more. I want to pray for some people. This word resonated with you really, really deeply and really, really strongly. I'm going to pray for everybody. But if you're here and you feel like you need to move out of where you are, I want you to meet me here at this altar. I want to pray for you. You want to lean all the way into this truth. I know when there's a message from heaven. And here is the thing I'm going to tell you right now. When God gives you a word, it is his goodness. But the executing of that word, the obeying of that word, should not be optional. There's mercy in prophecy. There's mercy in prophecy. I want to articulate this properly. I don't want to scare you, but there's a warning in the prophecy. I'm not. A prophecy isn't a good idea. It's a God idea. 2nd Chronicles 20:20 Believe in the Lord and you'll be established. Believe in his prophets and you will prosper. I like that. It's almost like being saved and getting into heaven or walking in the fullness. I got that. But walking in my fullness. The fullness of impact. The fullness of not watches. Not just me getting into heaven, but my great grandchildren getting into heaven because of what I built. James said, show you my faith by my works. I'll show you my faith by my works. You won't even have to question whether or not I have faith. Watch what I build. Watch me. I got a revelation of what God placed in me. I realize that I am his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, for Ergon, for enterprise. I feel the Holy Ghost. Oh God. This is too much. This is too much. This is too much. This is too much. I prophesied this. I want to articulate it the way I just saw it. It's going to come to you so quickly that it's going to keep you up at night. There's a flow of wisdom and revelation that's going to come to. God's going to give you the blueprints. The blueprints you watching via live stream. Don't let this go over your head. I know this not typical Sunday morning, but I didn't come here for that. This is a kingdom thing, baby. This is a kingdom conversation. And you can be church or you can be kingdom. I'll be kingdom. The Bible says that everything that can be shaken will be shaken. Church can be shaken. Not kingdom, not kingdom. Because the kingdom is in me. Wisdom and revelation is going to come so fast. Get your phone out, get your notepads out. God's going to show you things. It's going to be accelerated. It's going to be quick. And don't doubt it, just jot it and keep it in front of you. Keep look at it every day. And bet on yourself. Bet on yourself. This is why it's important. Don't be frivolous with your spending right now. Hear me clearly. Because you're going to need to make an investment in you. And don't sow your seed on some new shoes. Not now. You're gonna need a seed to sow into you, into your business. You're gonna need that. You're gonna need that $5,000, $10,000, $100,000, whatever it is. You'll need that $500. You're gonna need that. Be disciplined. Be disciplined. Put it to the side. Stop putting it to the side. Now, for some of you, a door is going to open where you don't need it. Somebody's just going to give it to you, sow it into you. Now, you got to be ready, though. You got a plan. If I said, hey, I want to sow $10,000 into your business, tell me in 30 seconds what it is, you better have it. It's going to be like that. Got to prepare for it. It's going to come so fast, so fast, so fast. Write it down. And it's not just going to be one thing. It's going to be a lot of things. Because remember, there's a whole ecosystem in. Your inheritance. It's not for them. It's not for those people. They have all the breaks. You got the break. The break is in you. The break is in you. It ain't got to do with your mama, your daddy, your relationships, what you've been through. Ain't got to do none of that because your daddy didn't give this to you. Your heavenly father built you with it. I gotta believe it. And I gotta watch this. And I gotta prove that I believe it by moving toward it. Faith without works is dead. I'll show you my faith by how I build. Watch me build. You ain't gotta question whether or not I trust God or I trust in what God said. You just watch me build and wait till I finish building. Then you'll believe me. You ain't got nothing to prove to nobody. But you have a calling and a mandate to fulfill your divine design. So I want to pray for you. Some of you need to put seed in the ground here, right into this word, right here at this altar. You forgot that you were on keyst. You feel apprehended, seized the presence of God. If I were you on your own level and in your own way. I put seed in the ground. In your own way. You watching via live stream. It's Not a game. It's not a game. God has a strong strategy, always. And the strategy is in you. So there instructions on the screen. However you do it, we're gonna pray. But I, I want to pray for you. But if it's in your heart to put seed in the ground. 8, 18. 8, 18. Deuteronomy. 8, 18. For God has given me the ability to create, create wealth. For some of you it's $18. For some of you is $8. For some of you it's $818. Something put seed in the ground. I believe you, God. I wouldn't be up here playing with you. I don't do that. I don't play that stuff. I could be doing anything, be anywhere. I love you. I love you. For real. For real. And I'm committed 10 toes down to make certain that everybody under the sound of my voice is equipped and prepared. I'm not going to see the evil coming, not warn you. Father, I thank you so much for these, your sons and daughters, both in the house and watching via live stream. God, we thank you for this rich meal, not because I served it, but because you said it. And I thank you, Lord God, that your word will not return unto you void. Oh, hallelujah. It will accomplish that for which it was sent. Hallelujah. God, your sons and daughters have come forward because they have sensed the deep resonance. Deep has called unto deep and the word and the word has gotten together and many it as if their babies leaped. Many thought that they were no longer pregnant, but they feel the fetus kicking again. Hallelujah. Many thought that they were barren, but now all of a sudden, they feel life again. They recognize that they're carrying something. Hallelujah. They're carrying promise and covenant and victory. Father, I pray, God in the name of Jesus, that those things that would hinder disbelief, lack of knowledge, being undisciplined, all those things, God, as they lean into you, you will begin to break those things. I thank you for the ideas, the witty ideas that are coming, the strategy that's coming, Lord, the consistency that's coming. I thank you for the relationship. I thank you for the chael that's coming, the relationship, the resources, the insights, the money, everything that's needed that you might establish your covenant with them, that you swore to their fathers. I thank you, God, that there would be a renewing of the mind that we might prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will for our lives. I just want you to repeat after me. Heavenly Father, I thank you for Your love, I feel it. Heavenly Father, I thank you for your word. I receive it. Heavenly Father, I thank you for Jesus. Thank you for making him who had no sin all of mine, all of my weakness, all of my limitations, all of my shortcomings you placed in his body, nailed it to the cross and put it to death that I might be the righteousness of God in him. And just as he was raised up free and victorious bondage free because I'm in him, I'm raised up too. Heavenly Father, I claim the covenant, I claim the promises. I will not come short. Any word spoken over my life, I'm forgetting what's behind me and I'm reaching for that which is before me. I press toward the mark of the upward call of God in Christ. Now Holy Spirit, fill me to the Holy Ghost, Ghost Spirit of wisdom, counsel, might and the fear of the Lord, fill me. I thank you for witty ideas, strategies and everything I need to be who you've called me to be. God, attract to me the right people, the right information, the right partnerships and God. Remove from me anything that would deceive me, hinder me, trick me. I'll lean on you. I'll trust in you, me and you. God will get her done. In Jesus name, Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Hallelujah. Just a couple of things and I'll do the benediction. If you are not officially a part of this movement, upon leaving you can do one or two things. There will be a QR code on the screen. Get tapped in. We've got pastors to our left, part of our staff that will pray with you, connect with you. They'll be there. If your purpose to sow seed in the corporation ground, you can do it via live, do it via screen or the text to get all that's there or you can put it here on the altar. Don't miss obedience. If that is what God has called you to do, I would do it in 818 or 818 increments. I love you. May the Lord bless and keep you. May he make his face to shine upon you and be gracious towards you. May he lift up his countenance over you and grant you shalom. Shalom in Jesus name. God bless you. Love you very much. God bless you. That's a wrap for today's episode of the Potter's House Podcast. Subscribe for more. Keep your fire lit and your faith immovable.
