WEBVTT 00:12.370 --> 00:16.994 [SPEAKER_01]: Galatians chapter five, we're going to reverse the sixteen through eighteen, then we're going to jump down to verse twenty five. 00:17.014 --> 00:17.715 [SPEAKER_01]: Look at what it says. 00:17.775 --> 00:19.357 [SPEAKER_01]: I'll be on the screen if you want to follow that way. 00:19.957 --> 00:26.483 [SPEAKER_01]: As I say then, walk by the spirit and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh. 00:27.204 --> 00:31.888 [SPEAKER_01]: For the flesh desires, what is against the spirit? 00:32.629 --> 00:35.492 [SPEAKER_01]: And the spirit desires, what is against the flesh? 00:36.757 --> 00:42.978 [SPEAKER_01]: These are opposed to each other so that you don't do what you want. 00:45.178 --> 00:52.900 [SPEAKER_01]: But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. 00:53.460 --> 00:54.900 [SPEAKER_01]: Jump down at verse twenty five. 00:54.980 --> 00:56.320 [SPEAKER_01]: Here's the key verse for today. 00:57.100 --> 01:00.301 [SPEAKER_01]: Since we live by the Spirit, everybody say live by the Spirit. 01:01.901 --> 01:04.742 [SPEAKER_01]: We must also follow the Spirit. 01:04.782 --> 01:06.262 [SPEAKER_01]: Everybody say follow the Spirit. 01:07.435 --> 01:13.898 [SPEAKER_01]: All right, so if you're taking notes this morning, the title of today's message is follow the spirit. 01:15.859 --> 01:18.361 [SPEAKER_01]: Follow the spirit. 01:21.782 --> 01:24.684 [SPEAKER_01]: You remember that old song when you were growing up? 01:25.464 --> 01:28.226 [SPEAKER_01]: Follow the leader, the leader, the leader. 01:28.666 --> 01:30.987 [SPEAKER_01]: Follow the leader wherever he may go. 01:31.007 --> 01:32.348 [SPEAKER_01]: Anybody remember that? 01:33.809 --> 01:35.549 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, all right, well, it's a real thing. 01:35.609 --> 01:36.310 [SPEAKER_01]: I didn't make it up. 01:37.338 --> 01:44.041 [SPEAKER_01]: All right, but we say follow the spirit wherever he may go, amen. 01:44.882 --> 01:46.923 [SPEAKER_01]: Father, we thank you Lord for your word this morning. 01:46.963 --> 01:52.505 [SPEAKER_01]: We thank you Father for bringing us revelation wisdom insight knowledge today from your word. 01:52.566 --> 01:55.427 [SPEAKER_01]: We receive it now in Jesus name, everybody said, amen. 01:56.447 --> 02:03.291 [SPEAKER_01]: All right, so last week I taught you on the subject of spiritual things, according to John chapter sixteen, spiritual things. 02:03.851 --> 02:08.173 [SPEAKER_01]: And I gave you three ways that the Holy Spirit operates within us. 02:08.614 --> 02:13.256 [SPEAKER_01]: The first thing according to John chapter sixteen is that he guides us from number into all truth. 02:13.516 --> 02:13.817 [SPEAKER_01]: All right. 02:14.057 --> 02:15.197 [SPEAKER_01]: Let's talk about the Holy Spirit. 02:15.538 --> 02:16.218 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, tell him about God. 02:16.238 --> 02:16.998 [SPEAKER_01]: Some of the Holy Spirit. 02:17.038 --> 02:17.859 [SPEAKER_01]: He guides us. 02:17.899 --> 02:20.000 [SPEAKER_01]: The Holy Spirit does into all truth. 02:20.687 --> 02:26.490 [SPEAKER_01]: And remember, we talked about the truth when you dive down into it, meaning the deep things of God. 02:27.271 --> 02:31.473 [SPEAKER_01]: It's that Greek word Bethos, which means the deepest depths of God. 02:32.013 --> 02:40.958 [SPEAKER_01]: So when the Holy Spirit guides us into all truth, he's guiding us, remember, like as a tour guide, into the deep things of God. 02:41.398 --> 02:41.699 [SPEAKER_01]: Amen. 02:42.419 --> 02:47.602 [SPEAKER_01]: The second thing that the Holy Spirit does is that he speaks what he hears. 02:49.665 --> 02:52.669 [SPEAKER_01]: So I'm a version saying the Bible that he speaks what the Father says. 02:54.100 --> 02:58.702 [SPEAKER_01]: And so he speaks what God, what he's speaking based on what God is saying. 02:59.602 --> 03:06.025 [SPEAKER_01]: And I told you that oftentimes before God shows you a thing, he will often speak a thing, amen. 03:06.625 --> 03:11.767 [SPEAKER_01]: And that's why you must have ears to hear what the Spirit is speaking. 03:11.807 --> 03:13.788 [SPEAKER_01]: That's scripture right there, right? 03:14.048 --> 03:17.289 [SPEAKER_01]: Why do you have to have ears to hear what the Spirit of God is speaking? 03:17.349 --> 03:19.630 [SPEAKER_01]: Because the Spirit of God is going to talk. 03:20.647 --> 03:23.088 [SPEAKER_01]: And he wants to talk to you before he wants to show you. 03:23.929 --> 03:25.450 [SPEAKER_01]: And he's going to begin to speak to you. 03:25.630 --> 03:26.470 [SPEAKER_01]: Speak utterances. 03:26.530 --> 03:27.691 [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe it's through somebody else. 03:27.731 --> 03:31.313 [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe it's through just a whisper or whatever it may be. 03:32.053 --> 03:33.434 [SPEAKER_01]: So he guides us into all truth. 03:33.454 --> 03:34.555 [SPEAKER_01]: He speaks what he hears. 03:34.955 --> 03:38.497 [SPEAKER_01]: And number three that I taught you last week is that he declares what is to come. 03:39.902 --> 03:41.503 [SPEAKER_01]: You want to know what your purpose is. 03:41.543 --> 03:42.763 [SPEAKER_01]: You want to know what your future is. 03:42.783 --> 03:44.504 [SPEAKER_01]: You want to know what's to come in your life. 03:44.864 --> 03:49.746 [SPEAKER_01]: Then you have got to be in sync and in tune with the Holy Spirit because He declares what is to come. 03:50.506 --> 03:51.146 [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah. 03:51.867 --> 03:57.809 [SPEAKER_01]: And that word declares is the Greek word and in Jello, which means to make an announcement. 03:59.330 --> 04:05.432 [SPEAKER_01]: So the Holy Spirit doesn't just come and whisper this bright future yet. 04:05.492 --> 04:07.353 [SPEAKER_01]: No, no, he comes and he makes an announcement. 04:08.907 --> 04:12.928 [SPEAKER_01]: He comes to make an announcement about you, about your purpose, about your destiny. 04:12.988 --> 04:13.589 [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah. 04:14.109 --> 04:15.429 [SPEAKER_01]: He wants to make it very known. 04:15.449 --> 04:17.730 [SPEAKER_01]: He wants to make it loud and clear so you can hear it. 04:18.350 --> 04:18.971 [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah. 04:20.111 --> 04:25.373 [SPEAKER_01]: So the Holy Spirit will literally announce to you what God has for you. 04:26.293 --> 04:26.973 [SPEAKER_01]: And what does he do? 04:27.013 --> 04:30.915 [SPEAKER_01]: I believe that's how excited the Holy Spirit gets about your future in your purpose. 04:32.012 --> 04:35.235 [SPEAKER_01]: The Holy Spirit is just excited about your purpose as you are. 04:36.115 --> 04:37.997 [SPEAKER_01]: So he wants to announce it to you. 04:38.437 --> 04:40.399 [SPEAKER_01]: He wants to shout it from the rooftops. 04:40.939 --> 04:41.280 [SPEAKER_01]: Amen. 04:41.780 --> 04:45.843 [SPEAKER_01]: And that's why I believe, remember we talked about it's a prophetic declaration. 04:46.604 --> 04:50.928 [SPEAKER_01]: When he says he declares what is to come, it's a prophetic utterance, what is to come for your life. 04:51.808 --> 04:52.149 [SPEAKER_01]: Amen. 04:52.849 --> 05:00.535 [SPEAKER_01]: And so you already have a prophetic word that has been spoken over your life by the Holy Spirit that came from God. 05:01.512 --> 05:01.752 [SPEAKER_01]: Whoo! 05:02.553 --> 05:04.133 [SPEAKER_01]: That should get you excited! 05:04.894 --> 05:08.756 [SPEAKER_01]: That God has your destiny, your future, your purpose mapped out. 05:09.116 --> 05:19.221 [SPEAKER_01]: He speaks it to the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit announces it to you, and then you get to walk out that prophetic utterance that prophetic declaration over your life. 05:19.981 --> 05:20.942 [SPEAKER_01]: Glory to God. 05:21.662 --> 05:22.302 [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah. 05:22.782 --> 05:25.464 [SPEAKER_01]: I want to read first Timothy chapter four, verse one. 05:26.076 --> 05:28.737 [SPEAKER_01]: First Timothy chapter four verse one, look at what it says. 05:29.297 --> 05:43.642 [SPEAKER_01]: Now the Spirit explicitly says that in later times, some will depart from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons. 05:45.283 --> 06:04.742 [SPEAKER_01]: I wanted to bring this scripture to you before I dive in deep into this today as kind of awareness for you because while at the same time, the Holy Spirit is speaking, you need to understand that there are demonic spirits and powers of darkness that are trying to speak to you at the same time that the Spirit is speaking. 06:06.950 --> 06:21.296 [SPEAKER_01]: So unfortunately, some will buy that deceitful voice that those lies, those words from the enemy, some people will buy that, they'll depart from the faith and they'll start being led by a different kind of spirit. 06:22.997 --> 06:24.938 [SPEAKER_01]: Not us, right? 06:25.638 --> 06:26.939 [SPEAKER_01]: Hello, come on, not us. 06:27.659 --> 06:29.440 [SPEAKER_01]: That ain't gonna say, somebody say that ain't gonna be me. 06:32.131 --> 06:47.337 [SPEAKER_01]: And hear me, this is why you can't trust every bishop, every prophet, every apostle, every teacher or whatever that's out there because not everyone is speaking sound, biblical, holy spirit truth. 06:48.618 --> 06:49.458 [SPEAKER_01]: Not everybody is. 06:50.719 --> 06:54.180 [SPEAKER_01]: Some have drifted away from the faith, like the scripture says. 06:55.301 --> 06:59.182 [SPEAKER_01]: Some have drifted away from the faith and they're literally being led by demons. 06:59.882 --> 07:00.783 [SPEAKER_01]: They might not even know it. 07:01.710 --> 07:05.291 [SPEAKER_01]: But they're being deceived and are teaching demonic things. 07:06.092 --> 07:10.073 [SPEAKER_01]: So we got to begin to increase our spiritual awareness in the days that we're living in. 07:10.934 --> 07:13.094 [SPEAKER_01]: And we got to increase our spiritual senses. 07:13.414 --> 07:21.958 [SPEAKER_01]: This is why supernatural living in these days is so important because we want to hear the tickling words. 07:23.475 --> 07:26.757 [SPEAKER_01]: We can so easily be caught up in deceitful things. 07:27.358 --> 07:28.919 [SPEAKER_01]: And we cannot afford to do so. 07:29.399 --> 07:34.183 [SPEAKER_01]: So living a supernatural lifestyle really is beyond being spirit-led. 07:34.884 --> 07:37.325 [SPEAKER_01]: It's beyond being able to pray in the spirit. 07:38.606 --> 07:41.929 [SPEAKER_01]: It's also having spiritual IQ. 07:41.949 --> 07:45.712 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, we gotta have some spiritual IQ. 07:45.772 --> 07:49.295 [SPEAKER_01]: We can't be dummies when it comes to the things of the spirit. 07:50.070 --> 07:55.872 [SPEAKER_01]: in the spiritual realm because there are demonic spirits of darkness that are speaking at the same time. 07:56.973 --> 07:59.014 [SPEAKER_01]: And we got to be able to learn and discern. 08:00.094 --> 08:05.816 [SPEAKER_01]: We got to be able to clearly identify what kind of voice that is that speaking, right? 08:07.477 --> 08:09.578 [SPEAKER_01]: So you better know the truth in this hour. 08:11.232 --> 08:21.998 [SPEAKER_01]: Because while they may be dressed up in a suit and holding a Bible in their hand, that does not justify ungodly demonic doctrine that has been unleashed upon the earth. 08:24.340 --> 08:30.763 [SPEAKER_01]: They may look the part, sound the part, but that doesn't mean it's the spirit of God speaking. 08:32.344 --> 08:38.108 [SPEAKER_01]: So when you get that feeling and you're good, it's the Holy Spirit speaking to you. 08:39.379 --> 08:47.063 [SPEAKER_01]: don't listen to that person or don't watch this or stay away from that kind of teaching or stay away from that kind of doctrine. 08:47.804 --> 08:53.067 [SPEAKER_01]: You got to be obedient to those kind of things because you don't want to get caught up in some junk later on. 08:53.687 --> 08:58.970 [SPEAKER_01]: And then all of a sudden we're having to do some deep deliverance to pull all that stuff out of you. 09:00.931 --> 09:08.296 [SPEAKER_01]: So we need to be really centered and focused on what the Holy Spirit is speaking and what the Holy Spirit is leading us to do. 09:09.318 --> 09:13.641 [SPEAKER_01]: especially how we feed our spirit man, that we don't get caught up in stuff. 09:14.361 --> 09:14.641 [SPEAKER_01]: Amen. 09:14.661 --> 09:15.942 [SPEAKER_01]: Amen. 09:15.962 --> 09:21.086 [SPEAKER_01]: And this is why it's so important for us to know and live and follow the Holy Spirit. 09:21.126 --> 09:21.386 [SPEAKER_01]: Why? 09:21.886 --> 09:33.814 [SPEAKER_01]: Because if demons can teach their own lesson and have a way figured out to deceive the people of God, well then we must be living by the spirit of God so we don't get caught up in it. 09:35.458 --> 09:39.080 [SPEAKER_01]: So I want to ask you this question today, who's classroom are you sitting in? 09:41.322 --> 09:42.202 [SPEAKER_01]: Who is teaching you? 09:44.024 --> 09:46.005 [SPEAKER_01]: What kind of voices are you listening to? 09:47.586 --> 10:01.635 [SPEAKER_01]: Because Jesus said, in John chapter fourteen verse twenty six, look at it, it says that the Holy Spirit is coming and it says he will teach you all things, or some of your phrases may say, all truth. 10:03.568 --> 10:14.632 [SPEAKER_01]: The Holy Spirit is the one that teaches you all things, especially when it comes to God, good things that are good, lovely, good report, the godliness, okay? 10:16.392 --> 10:25.075 [SPEAKER_01]: And so if you're being taught something that's not teaching you all things about the Lord, it's not pointing back to the Father, then you gotta get away from that. 10:26.756 --> 10:29.397 [SPEAKER_01]: So I wanna encourage you today to get more dependent on the Holy Spirit. 10:30.842 --> 10:47.149 [SPEAKER_01]: more dependent on the Holy Spirit, not more dependent on me or another preacher or someone else that has a platform or a microphone or you know, you know, I find myself wanting to obviously listen to a podcast or listen to this or listen, but at the end of the day, we got to be so careful. 10:50.451 --> 10:52.812 [SPEAKER_01]: Just because they have a mic, doesn't mean they're from the Lord. 10:54.433 --> 11:03.995 [SPEAKER_01]: Just because they have a platform, they have a YouTube channel, or they have a television show, or a podcast, or whatever, does not mean that you listen to the voice. 11:06.115 --> 11:11.276 [SPEAKER_01]: Because if you let this crazy culture teach you, then let me tell you, you'll end up going crazy. 11:15.337 --> 11:19.757 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, pastor, do you have to preach another old-fashioned kind of teaching to me today? 11:20.538 --> 11:22.638 [SPEAKER_01]: This is just old-fashioned stuff, I already know. 11:23.953 --> 11:25.254 [SPEAKER_01]: Let me just tell you right now. 11:26.475 --> 11:32.038 [SPEAKER_01]: You can call me old fashioned, an old fashioned preacher, a dinosaur preacher all you want. 11:32.098 --> 11:34.860 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't believe in dinosaurs, but that's another subject for another day. 11:36.081 --> 11:38.482 [SPEAKER_01]: You can call me old fashioned dinosaur, whatever. 11:38.883 --> 11:42.165 [SPEAKER_01]: But the Bible, let me tell you, is still holy, hallelujah. 11:42.445 --> 11:46.868 [SPEAKER_01]: And it was breath upon by the Holy Spirit of God Himself. 11:48.483 --> 11:53.467 [SPEAKER_01]: So if you can't receive the word I'm teaching you today, then you can't receive the breath upon Word of God. 11:53.948 --> 11:55.309 [SPEAKER_01]: Because this is just straight Bible. 11:56.050 --> 11:57.771 [SPEAKER_01]: Notice I've already given you like four scriptures. 11:58.792 --> 11:59.773 [SPEAKER_01]: It's just straight Bible. 11:59.833 --> 12:00.353 [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah. 12:01.074 --> 12:10.162 [SPEAKER_01]: So in Galatians chapter five, verse twenty five, Paul says, Hey, listen, if you're going to live by the Spirit, then you got to follow the Spirit. 12:11.754 --> 12:15.398 [SPEAKER_01]: In other words, you can't just say, I'm a Spirit-filled believer. 12:15.559 --> 12:18.923 [SPEAKER_01]: I live by the Spirit of God and not follow Him. 12:21.326 --> 12:23.208 [SPEAKER_01]: How is the Holy Spirit following you? 12:25.572 --> 12:42.004 [SPEAKER_01]: When we were really just kind of caught up in a bunch of disappointment and pressure and worry and all this this weekend and Eric came over to the house and he prayed over us and all this kind of stuff and I'm like, I gotta get to a plane again, you know. 12:42.784 --> 12:46.447 [SPEAKER_01]: I got to start doing all this stuff and Eric said stop. 12:47.848 --> 12:49.929 [SPEAKER_01]: What is the spirit of God leading you to do? 12:51.150 --> 12:53.752 [SPEAKER_01]: Have you took time to just step away? 12:55.435 --> 13:00.079 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, listen to the voice of God so that you can get direction. 13:02.460 --> 13:04.702 [SPEAKER_01]: See, it's easy for no matter who you are. 13:05.563 --> 13:10.286 [SPEAKER_01]: When something happens, I mean, you're either going to follow the Spirit or you're not. 13:12.027 --> 13:18.572 [SPEAKER_01]: And it was in that moment where the Lord used someone else in my life to say, okay, get it together. 13:19.420 --> 13:23.181 [SPEAKER_01]: Don't follow what you know and what you see that happened today. 13:24.661 --> 13:25.482 [SPEAKER_01]: Follow the spirit. 13:27.502 --> 13:28.242 [SPEAKER_01]: Follow the spirit. 13:30.163 --> 13:34.884 [SPEAKER_01]: So thank you Eric because this message really came from you. 13:34.904 --> 13:37.785 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, it came from God, but you understand. 13:39.925 --> 13:45.947 [SPEAKER_01]: So in order for us to follow him, we got to know how he communicates to us, right? 13:47.500 --> 13:51.963 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, I can say all day, follow the Holy Spirit, follow the Holy Spirit, and you're like, how? 13:53.525 --> 13:54.365 [SPEAKER_01]: How do I follow him? 13:55.326 --> 13:58.728 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, then you gotta know how he communicates, right? 13:59.449 --> 14:01.611 [SPEAKER_01]: So if you're taking notes this morning, that's what I want to teach you. 14:03.612 --> 14:07.335 [SPEAKER_01]: There's three ways that the Holy Spirit communicates to us, okay? 14:08.436 --> 14:10.957 [SPEAKER_01]: And the first one is this, is through the word. 14:12.839 --> 14:14.520 [SPEAKER_01]: The Holy Spirit will communicate a... 14:16.193 --> 14:20.317 [SPEAKER_01]: all jumbled up, communicate to us by the word, by the word of God. 14:21.438 --> 14:27.563 [SPEAKER_01]: The word as we know is active, alive, right? 14:28.384 --> 14:35.650 [SPEAKER_01]: This thing is full of power, full of truth, and it's the right revelation for the right day. 14:37.111 --> 14:37.652 [SPEAKER_01]: You could 14:38.516 --> 14:49.222 [SPEAKER_01]: be going through the most random thing and the Spirit of God can speak to you by opening up one scripture that just so happens to do with what you're going through. 14:50.223 --> 14:51.223 [SPEAKER_01]: It's because it's alive. 14:52.524 --> 14:53.125 [SPEAKER_01]: It's alive. 14:54.625 --> 14:58.428 [SPEAKER_01]: Says the word became flesh and dweltamongas. 14:59.508 --> 15:00.149 [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah. 15:00.909 --> 15:02.590 [SPEAKER_01]: And so the word is alive. 15:02.650 --> 15:07.333 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, these are the very God-breathed, Holy Spirit-inspired scriptures, amen? 15:09.020 --> 15:15.381 [SPEAKER_01]: So the Holy Spirit shows you and I, what God wants and desires for our lives by the Word of God. 15:17.081 --> 15:18.842 [SPEAKER_01]: And the Word is the truth. 15:19.822 --> 15:23.343 [SPEAKER_01]: So we gotta know the truth in order for us to live out the truth, right? 15:24.263 --> 15:30.864 [SPEAKER_01]: And the truth comes by being knowledgeable and filled with the Word. 15:31.084 --> 15:32.744 [SPEAKER_01]: Now that doesn't mean you gotta know all of it. 15:33.584 --> 15:36.145 [SPEAKER_01]: And it certainly doesn't mean that you gotta understand all of it either. 15:37.733 --> 15:41.116 [SPEAKER_01]: Some people will read scripture, no idea what's being said. 15:41.997 --> 15:42.657 [SPEAKER_01]: That's okay. 15:44.379 --> 15:47.541 [SPEAKER_01]: It's because it's not for you to try to know and understand. 15:47.622 --> 15:49.263 [SPEAKER_01]: It's for your spirit to receive. 15:50.704 --> 15:54.267 [SPEAKER_01]: As long as your spirits receiving it, that's what matters. 15:55.829 --> 16:00.112 [SPEAKER_01]: So you can read something here and it could be a bunch of gibberish to you and not make any sense. 16:00.152 --> 16:05.096 [SPEAKER_01]: And what does that have to do with anything or what does that have to do with my life or God or whatever? 16:06.097 --> 16:10.078 [SPEAKER_01]: but it's not you trying to understand it's actually you're feeding your spirit man. 16:13.619 --> 16:17.520 [SPEAKER_01]: So the word of God is the living word. 16:18.540 --> 16:19.120 [SPEAKER_01]: It's alive. 16:19.160 --> 16:21.981 [SPEAKER_01]: So this is why many times. 16:22.081 --> 16:23.141 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I'm not kidding you. 16:23.181 --> 16:25.701 [SPEAKER_01]: Many times people have been lying in the hospital. 16:27.882 --> 16:32.163 [SPEAKER_01]: Sick is a dogger on their way out, basically, on death's door. 16:33.377 --> 16:34.618 [SPEAKER_01]: And I've taken my Bible. 16:34.658 --> 16:35.798 [SPEAKER_01]: This is very one right here. 16:36.339 --> 16:38.200 [SPEAKER_01]: And I have laid it on a lot of people. 16:40.241 --> 16:43.263 [SPEAKER_01]: And I saw them get up out of that hospital. 16:45.584 --> 16:47.045 [SPEAKER_01]: Not because of my prayer. 16:50.207 --> 16:52.708 [SPEAKER_01]: I could even venture to say maybe not even because of my faith. 16:54.489 --> 17:00.473 [SPEAKER_01]: But because the word was alive and the word began to work something in their bodies. 17:02.608 --> 17:04.728 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, you mean, I think, well, that's just crazy. 17:04.768 --> 17:05.729 [SPEAKER_01]: That's foolishness. 17:05.789 --> 17:07.409 [SPEAKER_01]: It's a book. 17:07.429 --> 17:07.469 [SPEAKER_01]: No. 17:08.949 --> 17:11.690 [SPEAKER_01]: If your mind is going crazy, I dare you. 17:11.710 --> 17:15.551 [SPEAKER_01]: Put your Bible on your head and speak the word and watch what happens. 17:15.931 --> 17:17.871 [SPEAKER_01]: Your mind will get real clear real quickly. 17:19.431 --> 17:22.172 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, there's, there's some power in this word. 17:23.892 --> 17:24.732 [SPEAKER_01]: Glory to God. 17:25.993 --> 17:28.053 [SPEAKER_01]: And so you might not know all the scripture. 17:29.774 --> 17:37.759 [SPEAKER_01]: But as long as you know a little something, and you begin to speak it and declare it and apply the word I'm telling you, you'll see something happen and change. 17:38.299 --> 17:41.481 [SPEAKER_01]: And that will lead you to a supernatural lifestyle. 17:42.401 --> 17:52.487 [SPEAKER_01]: When you understand that the Holy Spirit speaks by His word, He's speaking to all of us right now because of the word that's already been spoken right out of this word. 17:53.348 --> 17:54.008 [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah. 17:55.769 --> 17:56.790 [SPEAKER_01]: He's speaking to us. 17:59.069 --> 18:13.341 [SPEAKER_01]: Because while we may not have the words to speak, and while the truth of the word, we have to understand it's going to come to life, and the power of the word when we don't have the words to speak has the power to revive. 18:14.322 --> 18:15.923 [SPEAKER_01]: It has the power to restore. 18:15.943 --> 18:19.686 [SPEAKER_01]: It has the power to rejuvenate anything, amen? 18:20.767 --> 18:21.447 [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah. 18:22.400 --> 18:30.567 [SPEAKER_01]: And so you can lay your fully alive living Word of God on something that's dead and it's going to come to life again. 18:30.587 --> 18:45.619 [SPEAKER_01]: I work a little bit on the side on Monday nights for flashpoint, still conservative political Christian show. 18:47.056 --> 18:55.860 [SPEAKER_01]: And they always have, you know, guests on there talking about what's happening, you know, in the political side of things and, you know, prophetic side of things as well. 18:57.000 --> 18:59.541 [SPEAKER_01]: And so I work for them every Monday night. 18:59.601 --> 19:03.463 [SPEAKER_01]: And so, you know, I'm involved in what's happening in the show and listening and all that kind of stuff. 19:03.503 --> 19:06.984 [SPEAKER_01]: And there's a gentleman that's been on the show a lot lately. 19:07.024 --> 19:09.245 [SPEAKER_01]: His name's Ed Rush. 19:09.745 --> 19:10.966 [SPEAKER_01]: And he's on there. 19:11.306 --> 19:13.447 [SPEAKER_01]: And he had a plant 19:13.868 --> 19:20.633 [SPEAKER_01]: that was behind him and his studio set up, that just slowly just began to die. 19:21.694 --> 19:28.359 [SPEAKER_01]: And so viewers were sending messages into Flashpoint saying, Ed's plant is dying. 19:29.139 --> 19:33.463 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, just people just, you know, they noticed all kinds of stuff on TV. 19:33.583 --> 19:36.485 [SPEAKER_01]: They're not even watching the program, they're paying attention to the plant. 19:37.997 --> 19:40.078 [SPEAKER_01]: the plant, you can barely see behind the guy. 19:40.878 --> 19:49.843 [SPEAKER_01]: All these people start riding into flashpoint, that the plant is dying, that Ed needs to do something about the plant, and he's the water of the plant, you know, hello, revived the plant, right? 19:50.383 --> 19:55.766 [SPEAKER_01]: So they start getting all these letters, and so, Gene, the flashpoint, he finally won the night. 19:56.726 --> 19:58.147 [SPEAKER_01]: It was a night that I was working the show. 19:58.759 --> 20:00.880 [SPEAKER_01]: He goes, he goes, Ed, well, I got you on the show. 20:00.900 --> 20:01.840 [SPEAKER_01]: I got to tell you something. 20:01.880 --> 20:03.440 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to read some of these letters to you. 20:03.960 --> 20:05.421 [SPEAKER_01]: And Ed just starts going hysterical. 20:05.461 --> 20:06.481 [SPEAKER_01]: And he looks back at the plan. 20:06.501 --> 20:09.522 [SPEAKER_01]: The poor puny plants, like, just, you know, right? 20:10.582 --> 20:14.323 [SPEAKER_01]: And so Ed's like, I don't have a green thumb at all. 20:14.743 --> 20:15.483 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what to do. 20:16.023 --> 20:18.764 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, this is a house plant, you know, sitting in my studio. 20:19.744 --> 20:27.966 [SPEAKER_01]: And so anyways, so, you know, kind of through the course of the show, you know, some stuff happens and then 20:28.503 --> 20:34.405 [SPEAKER_01]: Hank Kuniman, you know, gets on there and he says, you know, I want to say something before I answer your question, Gene. 20:35.006 --> 20:38.447 [SPEAKER_01]: He says, he says, I want to say something to Ed about his plan. 20:39.908 --> 20:42.749 [SPEAKER_01]: He says, I'm going to tell you exactly how to take care of your plan Ed. 20:43.189 --> 20:49.572 [SPEAKER_01]: He said, all you got to do is turn to that plan and tell the plant you shall live and not die to Claire's the Lord. 20:51.515 --> 20:53.156 [SPEAKER_01]: He said, because that's in Psalms, that's the word. 20:53.897 --> 20:59.861 [SPEAKER_01]: And he said, if you'll just speak that to your plant, I promise you your plant will live again. 20:59.881 --> 21:02.443 [SPEAKER_01]: So that says, okay. 21:03.144 --> 21:06.706 [SPEAKER_01]: So he says, you shall live and not die to clears the word of God. 21:08.467 --> 21:10.129 [SPEAKER_01]: And he gets on the show the next week. 21:10.169 --> 21:12.590 [SPEAKER_01]: He says, guys, I never watered it. 21:13.451 --> 21:18.475 [SPEAKER_01]: I never did anything, but look how green and vibrant and alive this plant is. 21:21.470 --> 21:26.991 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so what I'm saying is, is that the word works when you speak the word, okay? 21:27.331 --> 21:32.993 [SPEAKER_01]: And so then he came on the show and he was wearing a shirt that says, I shall live and not die with the picture of the plant. 21:36.073 --> 21:37.014 [SPEAKER_01]: And they're selling them now. 21:37.074 --> 21:39.674 [SPEAKER_01]: They're selling them like, I mean, they already ran out of stock. 21:39.714 --> 21:40.474 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it's crazy. 21:40.514 --> 21:41.735 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, they're selling them like hotcakes. 21:42.155 --> 21:42.895 [SPEAKER_01]: It's just crazy. 21:44.370 --> 21:47.553 [SPEAKER_01]: people are buying the shirts that come in green and pink and white and all that. 21:47.573 --> 21:51.816 [SPEAKER_01]: So if you want one, just go to flashpoints website and buy you one. 21:52.557 --> 21:53.758 [SPEAKER_01]: It's a really nice shirt actually. 21:55.259 --> 22:02.685 [SPEAKER_01]: And so I say that to say it's like, man, when you speak and you declare the word, it works. 22:03.908 --> 22:12.212 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, when you're going through something, when you're dealing with a situation, I mean, Abby texted us this week, she said, I'm believing for this new job that I'm going to apply for, will you all pray for us? 22:12.672 --> 22:14.072 [SPEAKER_01]: Are we pray for me right now? 22:14.472 --> 22:15.153 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, we'll stop. 22:15.173 --> 22:15.973 [SPEAKER_01]: We'll pray for you right now. 22:16.013 --> 22:16.894 [SPEAKER_01]: Melissa and I are texting her. 22:17.114 --> 22:19.415 [SPEAKER_01]: We apply the word, okay? 22:19.735 --> 22:22.076 [SPEAKER_01]: It's not our own words, the word of God speaks. 22:22.136 --> 22:22.996 [SPEAKER_01]: And I said, guess what? 22:23.056 --> 22:24.017 [SPEAKER_01]: Jobs and better jobs. 22:24.057 --> 22:24.577 [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah. 22:25.346 --> 22:25.606 [SPEAKER_01]: Right? 22:26.086 --> 22:29.347 [SPEAKER_01]: And so we gotta apply the word because it's gonna work. 22:29.887 --> 22:30.547 [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah. 22:30.987 --> 22:33.988 [SPEAKER_01]: So God has revealed, let me tell you, by his word. 22:34.508 --> 22:36.529 [SPEAKER_01]: But how do we receive the word? 22:36.949 --> 22:39.490 [SPEAKER_01]: Not with our flesh, but with our spirit. 22:40.350 --> 22:41.150 [SPEAKER_01]: With our spirit. 22:41.590 --> 22:44.951 [SPEAKER_01]: The living word goes into our spirit man. 22:45.951 --> 22:52.913 [SPEAKER_01]: We read it last week, first Corinthians chapter two, we get nothing by God through the flesh we get it by the spirit. 22:54.348 --> 22:55.609 [SPEAKER_01]: We get it by the spirit. 22:56.429 --> 22:58.970 [SPEAKER_01]: So we get the word by the spirit. 23:00.311 --> 23:04.793 [SPEAKER_01]: And I like to say then, it's a word to spirit transfer. 23:06.794 --> 23:08.055 [SPEAKER_01]: It's a word to spirit transfer. 23:09.268 --> 23:33.353 [SPEAKER_01]: When we're dealing with stuff, when all hell's breaking loose, when we're going through a bunch of junk, and we start declaring the word of God, it's a word to spirit transfer, and all of a sudden your spirit gets restored, rejuvenated, uplifted, and as a result of that, then your mind does, your heart does, and you start feeling a whole lot better, because your spirit man got alive again, all because of the word that was applied. 23:34.333 --> 23:38.474 [SPEAKER_01]: So the first one, three ways that the spirit communicates, the first one is the word, 23:38.972 --> 23:44.434 [SPEAKER_01]: The second one is this, I love this, is through a vessel, not a boat, but a person. 23:47.375 --> 23:47.955 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, that's all. 23:48.435 --> 23:49.896 [SPEAKER_01]: That was a boat half to do with anything. 23:49.936 --> 23:52.656 [SPEAKER_01]: No, no, God calls us vessels. 23:53.897 --> 23:54.157 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay? 23:55.177 --> 23:57.218 [SPEAKER_01]: So it's through people, through a vessel. 23:58.818 --> 24:01.639 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, this can get a little hairy. 24:01.659 --> 24:02.880 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay? 24:04.120 --> 24:06.541 [SPEAKER_01]: But listen, church, God loves to use vessels. 24:08.013 --> 24:14.618 [SPEAKER_01]: But you need to know right off the bat that not every vessel is a good vessel. 24:15.919 --> 24:18.080 [SPEAKER_01]: Not every vessel is a perfect vessel. 24:18.981 --> 24:20.702 [SPEAKER_01]: We're a bunch of imperfect people. 24:21.403 --> 24:24.105 [SPEAKER_01]: And we miss it and we get it wrong a lot of times. 24:24.325 --> 24:24.905 [SPEAKER_01]: We just do. 24:25.086 --> 24:26.206 [SPEAKER_01]: It's a learning process. 24:27.007 --> 24:28.648 [SPEAKER_01]: Now here's the cool thing about this. 24:28.708 --> 24:37.115 [SPEAKER_01]: Those that ninety nine point nine percent of the time at the Holy Spirit sends someone to speak something into my spirit, man. 24:37.983 --> 24:45.048 [SPEAKER_01]: It's almost always what the Holy Spirit has already been speaking or has already been trying to say. 24:47.569 --> 24:52.693 [SPEAKER_01]: So the Holy Spirit sends Eric as a vessel to come into my home 24:53.593 --> 25:01.938 [SPEAKER_01]: to get us back on track, spiritually speaking, to awaken us to speak something into us, and send that Moses. 25:02.098 --> 25:03.339 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, yeah, that's exactly right. 25:03.399 --> 25:08.502 [SPEAKER_01]: What you said is exactly what I knew to do, but I didn't do it. 25:09.563 --> 25:14.226 [SPEAKER_01]: You see, so he speaks through his word, but he also will speak through a vessel. 25:15.426 --> 25:22.531 [SPEAKER_01]: So maybe, you know, you ignored it or you weren't listening to what the Holy Spirit said the first time. 25:23.833 --> 25:26.354 [SPEAKER_01]: So he'll send someone else to speak to you. 25:28.054 --> 25:29.135 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, let me say this. 25:30.015 --> 25:32.376 [SPEAKER_01]: Let me just say this in love to you today. 25:33.236 --> 25:35.037 [SPEAKER_01]: In all love and honesty, I promise you. 25:36.157 --> 25:44.120 [SPEAKER_01]: Just because you might not like the vessel he chooses, doesn't mean you write off what's being spoken. 25:46.651 --> 25:59.338 [SPEAKER_01]: Many people have, in the body of Christ, the Lord has sent somebody across their path, and because they didn't like them, they ignored the word that was spoken, and God was trying to get their attention. 26:05.221 --> 26:08.863 [SPEAKER_01]: Because oftentimes more than not, the Holy Spirit will use the least likely. 26:10.267 --> 26:12.688 [SPEAKER_01]: He'll use someone that you would rather ignore. 26:13.409 --> 26:18.351 [SPEAKER_01]: Someone that you've judged, and they'll speak exactly what you need to hear. 26:19.332 --> 26:20.112 [SPEAKER_01]: And that's something. 26:20.833 --> 26:26.316 [SPEAKER_01]: The person that you despise the most, God will use to speak to you and to get your attention. 26:26.336 --> 26:30.638 [SPEAKER_01]: Ah, interesting. 26:32.219 --> 26:36.161 [SPEAKER_01]: Just like we say, don't judge a book by its cover, right? 26:36.661 --> 26:38.022 [SPEAKER_01]: We're taught that when we're little kids. 26:38.322 --> 26:39.623 [SPEAKER_01]: Don't judge a book by its cover, right? 26:40.392 --> 26:56.381 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, hear me, don't judge a vessel by what your flesh thinks or what your flesh knows or what your flesh sees about them because maybe what they're about to tell you could be the very thing that's going to keep you alive. 27:01.144 --> 27:06.987 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, while all that's true, I have a disclaimer attached to this. 27:10.207 --> 27:15.609 [SPEAKER_01]: Because while you shouldn't judge the vessel, you need to still judge the word. 27:18.550 --> 27:21.611 [SPEAKER_01]: You don't judge the vessel, but you judge the word. 27:23.051 --> 27:25.152 [SPEAKER_01]: You still need to filter it through the Lord. 27:26.773 --> 27:36.876 [SPEAKER_01]: You cannot take everything that somebody has said to you and it automatically be a truth in your life and you apply it because you could get in trouble that way. 27:38.293 --> 27:42.515 [SPEAKER_01]: And so while you don't judge the person, you still need a judge the word that's being spoken. 27:43.976 --> 27:46.157 [SPEAKER_01]: God, was this you? 27:47.958 --> 27:50.640 [SPEAKER_01]: And if it was, what are you trying to tell me? 27:51.280 --> 27:52.400 [SPEAKER_01]: What are you trying to teach me? 27:52.841 --> 27:53.961 [SPEAKER_01]: What are you trying to show me? 27:54.001 --> 27:55.302 [SPEAKER_01]: What are you trying to reveal to me? 27:55.762 --> 27:58.904 [SPEAKER_01]: So that I can receive the truth that was spoken. 28:00.487 --> 28:06.030 [SPEAKER_01]: And so while we have made have heard it, now we take it back before the Lord. 28:06.050 --> 28:11.413 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, I know you try to get my attention the first time I wasn't listening, so you sent that person. 28:12.914 --> 28:15.275 [SPEAKER_01]: But instead of me judging them, I'm going to judge the word. 28:16.336 --> 28:19.138 [SPEAKER_01]: So God, is this what I needed to hear? 28:19.738 --> 28:20.178 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, it was. 28:20.338 --> 28:20.839 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, great. 28:21.019 --> 28:23.060 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, what are you trying to teach me through this? 28:24.257 --> 28:26.439 [SPEAKER_01]: And so we got to judge the word that's being spoken. 28:27.040 --> 28:32.566 [SPEAKER_01]: People have died, literally, because they listened to someone that they thought had a word from the Lord. 28:34.969 --> 28:35.569 [SPEAKER_01]: People have died. 28:36.691 --> 28:37.511 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, serious. 28:38.653 --> 28:42.377 [SPEAKER_01]: So we have to be careful and make sure that we filter the word. 28:44.032 --> 28:50.453 [SPEAKER_01]: There have been people that have spoken to sick people and say, come off all your medications to clear as the Lord. 28:51.173 --> 28:54.814 [SPEAKER_01]: They came off all their medications in two weeks later, they were dead and we're having a funeral. 28:57.915 --> 29:00.375 [SPEAKER_01]: Just because somebody says it doesn't mean it's accurate. 29:01.376 --> 29:04.496 [SPEAKER_01]: So we have to judge the word, okay? 29:05.336 --> 29:09.377 [SPEAKER_01]: And I've seen it go really right, but I've seen it go really south at the same time. 29:10.317 --> 29:12.918 [SPEAKER_01]: So we got to really be led by the spirit. 29:13.465 --> 29:15.966 [SPEAKER_01]: That's what we're talking about here, the supernatural lifestyle. 29:17.246 --> 29:20.767 [SPEAKER_01]: Because we have to be able to filter these things that are spoken to us, amen. 29:22.768 --> 29:23.688 [SPEAKER_01]: And the third way is this. 29:25.089 --> 29:25.989 [SPEAKER_01]: It's spirit to spirit. 29:27.229 --> 29:28.710 [SPEAKER_01]: So he speaks to us by his word. 29:29.030 --> 29:31.311 [SPEAKER_01]: He speaks to us through vessels, through people. 29:32.191 --> 29:34.732 [SPEAKER_01]: And then he speaks to us spirit to spirit. 29:38.373 --> 29:42.434 [SPEAKER_01]: You are made up part of who you are is also your spirit. 29:44.838 --> 29:49.883 [SPEAKER_01]: So we have a triumph God whose father son and Holy Spirit, right? 29:51.084 --> 29:53.646 [SPEAKER_01]: And then he's made us as triumph beings. 29:56.168 --> 29:58.671 [SPEAKER_01]: And part of that is our spirit, man. 30:00.472 --> 30:01.433 [SPEAKER_01]: We have a spirit, man. 30:03.335 --> 30:09.361 [SPEAKER_01]: And people have argued and said that, well, the only way that the Holy Spirit can speak to you is through His Word 30:11.427 --> 30:12.768 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, he speaks to us through his word. 30:12.908 --> 30:15.090 [SPEAKER_01]: I just taught you that, but that's not the only way. 30:15.931 --> 30:16.791 [SPEAKER_01]: So it's inaccurate. 30:17.892 --> 30:20.034 [SPEAKER_01]: Because the Holy Spirit will speak to your Spirit. 30:22.376 --> 30:23.277 [SPEAKER_01]: He'll speak to your Spirit. 30:23.877 --> 30:29.262 [SPEAKER_01]: You may be driving down the road and you get a word that comes to you by the Holy Spirit. 30:32.524 --> 30:36.428 [SPEAKER_01]: Telling you to go this way or go this different direction or whatever. 30:37.328 --> 30:38.950 [SPEAKER_01]: That's the Spirit speaking to your Spirit. 30:41.403 --> 30:47.568 [SPEAKER_01]: And you need to understand that the Holy Spirit doesn't just talk to you when you're feeling spiritual in Sunday mornings. 30:48.748 --> 30:54.293 [SPEAKER_01]: When you're in church, but the Holy Spirit wants to speak to you all the time, all the time. 30:55.293 --> 31:01.318 [SPEAKER_01]: And listen, he's just as vocal in the church as he is when you're sitting in traffic. 31:03.253 --> 31:04.694 [SPEAKER_01]: The Holy Spirit is just as vocal. 31:05.335 --> 31:14.243 [SPEAKER_01]: He's just as vocal as when you're sitting there after, you know, you're driving home after a long day at work and some demon possess person comes Hawk and next to you. 31:16.725 --> 31:20.388 [SPEAKER_01]: He's just as vocal then as he is on Sunday mornings. 31:22.230 --> 31:29.677 [SPEAKER_01]: When they come and, you know, give you the unholy finger and they're yelling at you as if you can hear what they're even saying. 31:31.080 --> 31:36.423 [SPEAKER_01]: And it's the Spirit of God that will come over you and speak to your Spirit and say, don't you dare word? 31:37.203 --> 31:38.964 [SPEAKER_01]: Don't you lift up your hand back? 31:40.325 --> 31:42.606 [SPEAKER_01]: Don't you swear, don't you hunk your horn either? 31:42.626 --> 31:45.068 [SPEAKER_01]: And it's the Spirit that will do that. 31:46.368 --> 31:47.009 [SPEAKER_01]: It's the Spirit. 31:48.830 --> 31:49.690 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I'm telling you. 31:49.710 --> 31:56.194 [SPEAKER_01]: I think about a year and a half to years ago, I'm coming home from work. 31:57.327 --> 32:02.417 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, and I'm driving on the freeway, and I'm going down thirty-five. 32:03.703 --> 32:09.528 [SPEAKER_01]: And I get on to the ramp to come, eight, twenty, right to go towards my house. 32:09.988 --> 32:12.370 [SPEAKER_01]: And this guy comes right up on my butt. 32:12.610 --> 32:15.313 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he's just right there tailgating me. 32:15.373 --> 32:17.194 [SPEAKER_01]: And there's only one lane. 32:17.274 --> 32:18.215 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, this is a ramp. 32:19.216 --> 32:20.297 [SPEAKER_01]: I can't go anywhere. 32:20.837 --> 32:28.684 [SPEAKER_01]: And he's trying to push up on me and honk, and he's doing all this number or whatever, and going crazy. 32:28.704 --> 32:30.846 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, I didn't do anything. 32:32.103 --> 32:33.463 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm just a guy in front of you. 32:34.623 --> 32:36.484 [SPEAKER_01]: And we get to where it's two lanes. 32:37.264 --> 32:43.265 [SPEAKER_01]: He comes right up next to me, rolls down the window, and pulls out a gun, and points it like this to me. 32:43.525 --> 32:45.325 [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm driving, I'm just trying to get home. 32:46.746 --> 32:49.286 [SPEAKER_01]: And he's like this, and he's going like this, and he is screaming. 32:49.386 --> 32:50.266 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what he's saying. 32:51.366 --> 32:57.628 [SPEAKER_01]: I looked at him the first time, and I noticed, I'm like, oh, Lord, he's... But the Holy Spirit, and that moment said, don't look. 32:58.348 --> 32:59.948 [SPEAKER_01]: Just keep looking straight, just don't look at him. 33:01.274 --> 33:01.874 [SPEAKER_01]: And that's what I did. 33:02.495 --> 33:03.456 [SPEAKER_01]: And then he just took off. 33:03.476 --> 33:06.158 [SPEAKER_01]: It's like the devil tried to kill me. 33:07.419 --> 33:12.142 [SPEAKER_01]: But if I wasn't spirit-led, if I would have reacted back, I would have had bullets coming at my head. 33:16.666 --> 33:19.868 [SPEAKER_01]: We were up the four of us a few weeks ago. 33:20.528 --> 33:23.631 [SPEAKER_01]: We were sitting at a traffic light up in Alliance. 33:25.645 --> 33:30.888 [SPEAKER_01]: We just spent some time with some friends of ours at their house, and we're leaving their house, and we're going back home. 33:30.908 --> 33:32.069 [SPEAKER_01]: We're sitting at the traffic light. 33:32.409 --> 33:34.350 [SPEAKER_01]: And this guy, no shirt on. 33:34.590 --> 33:36.011 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it's late at night. 33:36.111 --> 33:37.152 [SPEAKER_01]: Leaven a clock or something. 33:37.452 --> 33:39.213 [SPEAKER_01]: He is completely out of his mind. 33:40.274 --> 33:44.216 [SPEAKER_01]: And we're sitting there at the light, and he comes walking up to the car, and he is yelling. 33:44.857 --> 33:48.098 [SPEAKER_01]: And he's saying all this stuff, and the kids start freaking out in the back seat, right? 33:48.659 --> 33:53.922 [SPEAKER_01]: They're like, oh my god, you know, GS starts crying, and you know, all this stuff, and you know, Melissa's like, you know, 33:54.604 --> 34:02.811 [SPEAKER_01]: And he comes right up to the side of the car by Melissa's window and he's yelling and all this kind of stuff and he goes in front and then he walks away. 34:03.111 --> 34:07.674 [SPEAKER_01]: And my guys just don't look at him as soon as this light turns green, we're gone. 34:09.736 --> 34:10.777 [SPEAKER_01]: And I said, 34:11.430 --> 34:18.611 [SPEAKER_01]: And if he comes and touches the car or whatever, I'm just gonna, you know, I mean, I'll move him out of the way with my car if I have to, okay? 34:18.671 --> 34:22.152 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna defend myself and my family, I don't care, you know? 34:22.572 --> 34:29.794 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not gonna get hurt over some idiot who's just picking me tonight to be the one that he targets or whatever, right? 34:30.454 --> 34:37.595 [SPEAKER_01]: And so, so anyway, so he walks off and I'm like, okay, guys, he's, you know, we're good, we're okay. 34:38.216 --> 34:40.356 [SPEAKER_01]: And this light seemed like an eternity, my Lord. 34:42.550 --> 34:43.930 [SPEAKER_01]: And I look over at him. 34:46.231 --> 34:47.451 [SPEAKER_01]: And he turns around. 34:47.491 --> 34:48.151 [SPEAKER_01]: He looks at me. 34:48.191 --> 34:49.191 [SPEAKER_01]: We make eye contact. 34:49.211 --> 34:50.051 [SPEAKER_01]: And he starts coming back. 34:50.111 --> 34:50.771 [SPEAKER_01]: And he starts yelling. 34:50.791 --> 34:53.272 [SPEAKER_01]: And he starts saying, oh, my gosh, I've never looked at him. 34:54.932 --> 34:57.313 [SPEAKER_01]: And then the light turns green. 34:57.333 --> 34:58.293 [SPEAKER_01]: See ya. 35:00.493 --> 35:00.733 [SPEAKER_01]: Right? 35:01.973 --> 35:11.075 [SPEAKER_01]: But it's in all of those kind of moments as crazy as those kind of things are to the littlest things of life. 35:11.994 --> 35:14.615 [SPEAKER_01]: that we have got to be led by the Spirit. 35:15.236 --> 35:17.737 [SPEAKER_01]: And the Spirit will speak to your Spirit. 35:18.537 --> 35:19.558 [SPEAKER_01]: He'll speak to you. 35:20.478 --> 35:24.721 [SPEAKER_01]: And the reality is, is that the Holy Spirit is speaking all the time to your Spirit. 35:25.521 --> 35:35.266 [SPEAKER_01]: And if you've ever had a voice that tried to talk you out of something dumb, that you were about to do, that was a Holy Spirit. 35:36.067 --> 35:40.089 [SPEAKER_01]: If you ever had a voice that tried to talk you into something godly, 35:41.103 --> 35:42.063 [SPEAKER_01]: That's the Holy Spirit. 35:43.004 --> 35:44.124 [SPEAKER_01]: That was not your flesh. 35:45.205 --> 35:50.247 [SPEAKER_01]: That was not the person that you think you have made up in your head, okay? 35:51.028 --> 35:52.068 [SPEAKER_01]: It's the Holy Ghost. 35:53.829 --> 35:56.410 [SPEAKER_01]: And the bottom line is this that the Spirit of God talks to us. 35:57.951 --> 35:59.412 [SPEAKER_01]: If you want to come play. 36:00.763 --> 36:02.306 [SPEAKER_01]: The Spirit of God he talks to us. 36:03.669 --> 36:11.986 [SPEAKER_01]: And so I want to encourage you today to develop such a beautiful friendship with the Holy Spirit. 36:13.448 --> 36:33.234 [SPEAKER_01]: As much as, let me just say, as much as you're maybe pursuing, you know, your spouse or your in love with your spouse or your, you know, you love your family or, you know, whatever it may be, you should be just as much so in love and becoming a friend with the Holy Spirit. 36:35.055 --> 36:39.596 [SPEAKER_01]: The Holy Spirit should be your best friend when you think about it. 36:40.996 --> 36:42.477 [SPEAKER_01]: Allow him to be your best friend. 36:44.073 --> 36:50.715 [SPEAKER_01]: Allow the Holy Spirit to be the one that you call on first, that you depend on most. 36:53.916 --> 36:59.358 [SPEAKER_01]: Before your best friend here on earth, allow the Holy Spirit to be the one. 37:01.038 --> 37:04.940 [SPEAKER_01]: Because after all, we know that the Holy Spirit is our comforter. 37:07.180 --> 37:08.140 [SPEAKER_01]: He's that guide. 37:09.481 --> 37:12.762 [SPEAKER_01]: And he's the one that wants to lead us, anyways, into all truth. 37:14.264 --> 37:23.201 [SPEAKER_01]: If you don't know the truth about the situation, if you don't know the truth about your life or the circumstance that you're in, maybe the person that you've tried to call or text, they might not have it either. 37:23.902 --> 37:26.768 [SPEAKER_01]: They might not have the answer either, but the Holy Spirit always will. 37:29.373 --> 37:31.195 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for listening to today's message. 37:31.515 --> 37:34.878 [SPEAKER_00]: We pray you were inspired, challenged, and marked by the word you heard. 37:35.498 --> 37:40.142 [SPEAKER_00]: If this message blessed you today, we encourage you to subscribe to the Church of the City podcast. 37:40.763 --> 37:45.426 [SPEAKER_00]: There you can find more faith-filled messages to uplift you and help you on your journey of faith. 37:46.267 --> 37:54.796 [SPEAKER_00]: For more information about Church of the City, head on over to www.cotcdfw.com. 37:55.537 --> 37:59.461 [SPEAKER_00]: And until next time, remember this, the best is yet to come.