Brian Guerin emphasizes that Jesus is the perfect sacrifice and our exceedingly great reward, drawing parallels between Abram's covenant with God in Genesis 15 and the New Covenant through Christ. He highlights the importance of driving away the 'vultures'—distractions and negative thoughts—that hinder our relationship with God and our ability to access His promises. Guerin encourages believers to engage in sustained prayer and to take every thought captive, aligning them with the obedience of Christ to experience the fullness of God's inheritance. He also addresses the significance of faith in healing and the necessity of rejecting fear and doubt that can undermine our trust in God's word.

Okay, Genesis 15, picked back up from last week, if that's okay, and hit it from a different angle. Man, so proud of our students that graduated, the graduates, oh man, just so proud of you guys. And look, man, when my daughter crossed the stage and my mom, I was like, you can see me in the picture holding the certificate with him, like the contorted ugly face, you know, I didn't do too well on that one, but I'm so grateful, I'm proud of you guys, and I'm excited to see what we step into next trimester. Okay, quick recap, you all remember, I think it was two weeks ago now, I touched on the sacrifice from Abram, the whole deal that you see in Genesis 15, where God's basically in dialogue with Abram, and Abram's like, and I'm excited this morning, man, I hope I have time, I just want to, I hope the Lord obliterates strongholds and things in our mind and sets us up for his purpose, you know, that gives him glory more than ever before, myself included. But Genesis 15, Abram's left his homeland, he's out in the middle of nowhere, and God's like, look, fear not, I am your shield and your exceedingly great reward. And I want to sit there for a second to, I touched on it last week, but to where you always just hear our heart and know what the underlying reality and foundation of everything is, he is the exceedingly great reward, he's the purpose, the prize of all things always. And so when we're talking about inheritance, and I alluded to it last week, it's super key as well, it's just always the byproduct of the exceedingly great reward, him. Because sometimes you can get top-heavy in the reward, and you don't know it starts to set in, but you really are going after God to get what he can give you. And we never want to become a people like that, but sometimes you can get so top-heavy in the other ditch, and it's all about intimacy, the Lord, but you don't know how to access the inheritance which doesn't give him glory, and you're in disobedience. Does that make sense? So we want the fullness of Abrams in this dialogue with God, he's like, that's amazing, okay, thank you God, but I know that's supposed to play out as like a literal inheritance in the earth. How is that supposed to look? I don't want any children, anything like this. God says, I'm glad you asked, get me a three-year-old heifer, female goat, and a ram, turtle dove, young pigeon, we all went through this, the sacrifice that represents the Lord, I believe. It's a very mysterious passage, scholars debate on it to this day, but I believe you see one of the first kind of Old Testament blueprints of the Lord in it. Cut him in two, it's a sin offering and burnt offering all in one, so it's the Lord. And we're hitting it from a new covenant lens, and I saw something even fresh again, I want to hopefully rabbit trail to and come back in prayer, it applies the same. But Jesus is the prize, God is our exceedingly great reward, but then that looks like walking it out in the earth and getting into the promised land and fulfilling it, and giving him glory. Because how many of you like, how many of you have children in here? Okay, and if you didn't raise your hand, you are a children, so you got parents, so you get it. But you'd never, I have two children, and you would never want your children to not fully walk out what you intended for them to, because then that doesn't fulfill your heart as a father. And so God's like greatest desire is that we love him first and foremost, he is our exceedingly great reward, but from that walk in the fullness of the inheritance and give him glory, it's all one in the same. And so he's like, I'm glad you asked, look at my son, three-year-old split down the middle, three-year-old ministry, the broken body shed blood, and then you go through what we'll read and we'll pick up in verse nine. We've been talking about the vultures that come down, which by the way, I almost ran over three crows, they were kind of vulture wannabes this morning. Somebody dropped some bread on the road or something, I was like, look at y'all. Do y'all speed up trying to hit vultures? That's what I do, I don't know, my kids will tell you, I've never got one yet, but when they're on the road, just kind of, you know, make them feel it. Sorry, sorry, that's your pastor. I just, I'm certain none of those are gonna be in heaven, man, they just, they don't even look right. So anyway, but verse nine, he said to him, bring me a three-year-old heifer, that's a female cow, a three-year-old female goat, three-year-old ram, turtledove, young pigeon. Then he brought all these to him, cut them in two down the middle, placed each opposite the other, but didn't cut the birds in two. Right here, verse 11, and when the vultures came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away. This is so vital, we kind of started last week on it, want to pick up this week. But watch this, verse 12, now when the sun was going down, hadn't gone down yet, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and behold, horror and great darkness fell upon him, and if you just fast forward, summarize, God speaks to him. It's powerful, this is where God speaks about his now, his future to come, all the way to the end, actually. He says you'll die at a good old age. You know, this, that, and the other, he basically speaks, and when God speaks, something happens, you're transformed. His very being seals you and comes into you. When he says, let there be light, it happens. It's experiential. Then if you read further, in verse 17, and it came to pass when the sun went down and it was dark, that behold, the smoke and fire came, sealed the sacrifice, and that's where it turned into a potential promise to accessible. And so we've been building all these weeks, and these last two, but I saw something fresh. Prayer is similar, super important, like prayer is similar. So when the sun is up, it's broad daylight, that's when the sacrifice happens. This is the image of Jesus, imagery of Jesus, crucified, born of a virgin, died, rose again, the new covenant. But vultures come in the day. Have you ever been driving at night, you see vultures on the road? They're never at night. Actually, I read up on them. They can't see well at night, and they perch in trees overnight and conserve their energy for the next day. So they're never at night, and you notice when the sun started going down, he didn't have to fight off vultures anymore. Well, prayer is similar. Again, this is our rabbit trail, but I think it's key to intimately just being with him. Sometimes prayer is this way. You engage in the daylight initially through prayer. It's real key that we stay sometimes in prayer, longevity and time in him. I get it. You know, he's in us. We have the kingdom of heaven within us. We practice the presence throughout our day. I get that. But there's something to do with sustained time in him that brings fire and smoke later. Those people are different. They're different. So where's that in the Bible? Jesus prayed all night, went up on the mountaintop. There's something to do with sustained time in prayer. You hit fire and smoke at a level you don't through the short spurts. So the vultures of our soul are our thoughts and prayer. The sacrifice is there. You're focusing on the Lord, but the vultures are coming in the daytime. And that's how prayer is often initially. Step one, you're having to battle thoughts. And you guys ever been there? And you're fighting, you're driving away the vultures. But then as the sun begins to set, this is your soul. It gets still. The vultures leave. The thoughts, the distractions, they start to just vanish. Sacrifice gets more real. Jesus. And then when the sun fully sets and it's totally dark, that's when the fire and smoke come and illuminate him and him alone. He's fully illuminated in prayer. Hope this is giving you a picture, but I want to encourage you guys just sometimes we don't battle enough through the vultures in prayer and get to the fire and smoke. And the experience, or the lack thereof really, reflects through our call. But those people that wait and they just keep driving them away, just drive them away. Actually, if you read closely, it says they came down on the sacrifice. They came on it. They actually got their claws. They were on the sacrifice. He drove them away. So they come. You feel them. You sense them. But stay the course. Drive them away. Drive them away. I remember when I was first learning to wait upon the Lord. Psalm 46.10. Be still and know that he is God. You know, I attended Bible College and we shakalaka, grabbing flags to nations, praying, worship, all that which do, do more of. But silence, I didn't have a grid for. It's like, oh, six. Came across a teaching. I said, oh my gosh, man. I saw the verses for it. It was over. So I began waiting. Some of you heard this before. And so I'm waiting in stillness. And I mean, I'm two minutes in. And I hear like a cross rocket motorcycle flying outside of my house. And I'm like, oh, that definitely was a cross rocket. That's not a cruiser. That's not a Harley. And I'm like, yeah, my brother actually used to have some of those. He was really good. He could do wheelies. And I'm just I'm like gone. Vultures, my thoughts, you know, sometimes the vultures are the thoughts of the enemy. Sometimes it's your own soul. And I'm kidding. Not 20 minutes later, I'm on motorcycles, you know, and the sacrifice is sitting over here and I'm just like watching the vultures fly through the air. And so it takes time, but I don't encourage you stay the course because that's a separate thing. You can apply this passage to prayer because when the soul gets still, the vultures stop and then stay even longer yet, yet still. Then when it totally goes blank, the only thing you see is him. The fire comes. It doesn't hover around you. You're off in the dark. You just see it illuminate him and everything changes there. Empowerment, encounter, destiny, things just come alive. So but back to what we're going to this this week is the sun up is where Jesus paid it all. It is finished. This is the place where we must focus on Jesus and simultaneously better our thoughts. Sun going down. We rest now at this point. See, Jesus, Abraham, sorry, fell asleep and God could speak. That's where God speaks. God won't speak while the noise is loud of the soul. He'll try to. He can't get through it. You won't hear it. I love a powerful man of God once told me, he says, the Holy Spirit rests upon that which he is. He doesn't rest upon turmoil and anxiousness and thoughts. He'll just wait. And when you drive the vultures away, he comes and speaks. Sun goes down completely. It goes pitch black. This is where the sacrifice seals and activates. More or less bringing God's promise from a mere potential into an accessible reality. And so I want to. Oh, this is when faith that starts off as the substance of things hoped for not yet seen, turn into that which is seeing tangible, accessible and real. So that first part where it's potential, see, because we're going new covenant now, and I'm going to hit another verse this morning on the renewal of the mind, but it cooperates with driving the vultures away and making faith from that which is not seen into the scene. Remember before all this, he talks to Abraham. He says, look, this is my intention for you more or less. But after the fire and smoke hits the sacrifice, he goes, it is your, your inheritance. Like it is to your people. Um, let me just blow through all this. I had some notes and everything, but, um, third, John, you don't need to turn them to move quick. Uh, verse one, uh, chapter one, verse two. We kind of opened this count up last week and it's where he says, beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things, be in good health, even as your soul prospers. I'm just using this one verse as a springboard for the context of the inheritance of God, right? That we all should walk in and really more or less you can use this verse and just about all of God's inheritance in some form or fashion or the streams will run back through this river of this verse, prospering in all things, being in good health, even as your soul prospers, they'll connect in one form or fashion, but it can look like so many things throughout the world. I'm just using this one to springboard from. It can look like destiny, inheritance, whatever you're calling. And so last week, you remember we talked on prospering in all things and, um, sat on that a bit this week. I want to talk about being in good health, probably won't touch on the natural side to it much. Although I think there's something to be said there. It's good. I don't think it's awesome, but I'm talking more of the supernatural, what the sacrifice has done in keeping the vultures off of that. Do I think you should eat healthy, you know, exercise? Yeah. You know, just whatever grace is upon you. I mean, I've just seen some extreme faith the other way that I wouldn't advise. That's all, but whatever grace you have, we're pretty easy on all that. Um, you know, you're, I would just remember there's some camps have crossed. I kid you not. They're like, they, they put faith into, they think they can eat whatever. And by faith it'll turn into something healthy. I'm not kidding. No, no. By faith, I can eat this bag of chips and it's going to turn into a protein bar. It's like, no, no, it doesn't work like that. You know, you're not going to be pounding a pack of cigarettes every day and thinking you can run a block and not get lung cancer. I'm just being honest with you. And that's just sin anyway. It's not anything not done in faith is sin. And you can't buy faith. Tell me the Lord is the Holy Spirit's like, yeah, keep that up. Just, just trying to tell you the word. Will you go to hell over it? I hope not. But sin is still sin and anything not done in faith is sin. I didn't mean to go there. Sorry, but we'll pray for you. If you need to be free, I'm serious. But you know, you hear me. Um, so the natural love it, go for it. You know, we, we try and do our best to eat well, stay healthy, just take care of the temple. But this morning I'm more hitting the supernatural side that the enemy's really been after in a strong way. And so, um, let's turn to second Corinthians 10. We all know this passage. We're going to sit on this a little bit. Second Corinthians 10 verses three through six. And hopefully I won't step on toes. You know, if I do, you know, I mean, well, and I love you. And, and I'm hopefully you'll see, I'm always just coming out of the word anyway. So it's not really my opinion. It's nothing personal. And I sure haven't arrived to know that my gosh, I'm trying to get myself more into this book and yield to it. So we're kind of all in this thing together. But, um, but watch this second Corinthian 10 versus three through six for Paul's right to the church of Corinth for though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds. See, this is similar to the vultures. I'm just giving you new Testament. There's plenty of them. We'll probably do another one next week if we continue to go here, but this is a new Testament kind of depiction of what Abram was doing, pulling down strongholds, um, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled. So look, I want to do just sit on a few of these words studies with you and hopefully they'll hit home and then talk to you from my heart. Listen to what pulling down is. First off, I think it's key. Again, we have a part to play in it. The sovereignty of God's real, but you better never think he does it all. And it's all, it is finished by the Lord, but we have to drive vultures away. You see in here, we have to pull down, cast down and bring every nowhere. Do you see the Lord doing this? And this is what I'm talking about. There's people that song of Solomon it up deep intimacy and do more, but vultures come and ain't pulling nothing down, casting no thing down. I've seen it. I'm telling you the, the intimate talk is so deep and true. And please again, go another gear in it. That's what we do. Wise virgins, extra oil. But if you can't pull down strongholds, Paul is a command in scripture. This is what we do. Cast down arguments, bring into captivity. That means put in prison, the Greek, every thought, every not, not some, the ones you like, or no, everyone that's not in obedience to Christ. I'm telling you how to get vigilant with this thing. This is where the champions are made right here. And I want us to be both, both Mary's that sit at the feet, lamp, slam full of oil, bucket loads around us. But a vulture dares come near the property, not a chance, pull it down, cast it down. This is what Paul and Paul's like, bang, bang, bang. And you see there, nobody does that, but you and I, and I think far too often, we're just, you know, going about things nonchalant, not realizing like we've got a, we've got a part to play in it. That's all. And you see it with Abram. I love that the Lord did that and put that verse in there because Jesus paid it all. But if we don't pull down, cast down, bring every, you know, it can take that application of the sacrifice. It, it, it, it reduces the power from it and it can't be made manifest. So pulling down strongholds, it means to pull down, take down, destroy. Let's see what casting down is the same exact thing. Just a different Greek word. Take down, pull down, destroy, destroy. Don't leave anything standing. I'm telling you, and I'm trying to get better at it, to be honest with you. But over the years, my children will tell you, we just don't play games with it. You can't, you can't. If you want to walk in what Abram's talking to God about the inheritance, the promised land, everybody wants milk and honey, but when it comes to pulling down, you know, it's like the crowd starts to get thin. And, uh, and so anyway, bringing every thought into captivity means to put into prison. But look what I love. If you read, it says, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ. So any thought that comes, it's out of line. Not only do you put it in prison, you don't just leave it there and walk off. No, you put it in prison and force it to the obedience of Christ. And it's not getting out until otherwise this is what you do with thoughts. And I think a lot of times I've seen it, you know, um, and we've all been there and it's okay. So please hear my heart. But there's just a lot of stuff out there with like warfare. That's like not biblical at all. And people do a lot of stuff. And they, I think to themselves, they feel like they're getting a lot done. And I'm like the fruit will tell in time, putting up firewalls and binding and all this stuff and do it. But I'm telling you right now, if you cannot take a thought captive, put it in prison and force it into the obedience of Christ, nothing's going to change upstairs. I've seen it for years, seen it in the true biblical standard is fruit. Jesus says, you'll know them by their fruit. And you got all these warfare masters and the fruits, the same 10 years later. Sorry. Again, I told you guys, I went, hopefully you're in my heart. I love you. You know, uh, I mean it in a, you guys know, know me, you know my heart. Yeah. I really, I just, you can feel it. Um, I pray that even talking to myself, we just go further in this thing and walk it out as the apostle Paul and these guys did and say, look, do all that. I mean, I'm cool, but again, there better be fruit because the biblical way is it's in the thought realm. It's the renewal of the mind. That's where the vultures are. And so the enemy's having a heyday in the thought realm, but we're doing all kinds of prayer circles and firewalls and all this. And you give me one guy that does this well, and he didn't need prayer circles. He's destroying the enemy on every front. Any thought that comes in that's not biblical off with the head of the vultures in a, in a instant, no, no chance, no chance on my watch, nowhere near the Bible. It says this, this is all we do. I don't understand anything else. I don't even want to hear it. And, um, sorry, you feel that aggressive coming against cause it's, it's not God and he's just having a heyday with the bride. And, um, so anyway, um, but force them into prison. These are thoughts, you know, this is what I love. He says, look, although we walk in the flesh, meaning you're not going to get around that. That's just life. Look, I just stepped. I felt the stage. I feel the pulpit. I can see Rachel. I can smell my coffee. What's up dude. Rachel's son. Is it Adrian? What's up man? With a stud muffin mustache. Man. Rachel's sons are amazing. Listen, I was getting to chat with them and, uh, I'm like, you know what? Do you guys need a reality show? I'd watch like every episode. They're so funny, man. They're not meaning to be there. Just means that we were like, Oh my gosh. Anyway, so at life, but you know, although we walk according to the flesh, meaning this is gonna seem real all the time. I know when the AC is coming on, I can smell fragrances. I feel my coffee. This is real. And so the enemy, he plays on that so strong because it is real. It seems real and tangible. But Paul's like, look, although he's basically saying, look, although you walk there and that seems like reality, that's not reality. Don't war there. We never wore there. And so what the enemy is like, no, I need you to war there because that's where you're not mighty in God anymore. That's where you're not. I don't, I, you know, he keeps us distracted from strongholds and thoughts and arguments. He wants us in here, but we do not war here. Unbelievers have to war here. They don't have the new covenant. You must be born again. Must be. You must repent and put faith in Jesus Christ. Then this covenant I'm talking about this new covenant successful until then you have to warn the flesh and good luck. Um, but so watch what a stronghold is that we pull down and you notice they're all down, cast down, bring every it's the high places. It's the vultures. It's the thought life. It's this realm. He didn't say like, you know, dig up and find underneath, you know, whatever. Uh, it's, it's the high places that the thought realm that the enemy works with. So pull down, which means take down, pull down, destroy a stronghold. Listen to what this is in Greek, a fortress or castle in the mind, a belief pattern that is locked up like a fortress and hard to penetrate in this, this week we're talking about, um, being in good health. And so it looks like all of us have dealt with them. You know, you don't always have the choice of how they were put there. It's the way you were raised, what you were taught, what they said in school, what the news is telling you. That's why I don't listen to none of it. You have no, I didn't pick up on last week, but that was the part where Wigglesworth, many of you have heard where the newspaper was under his arm and he's like, what's under your arm? Lester Summerall. He goes, the daily news, he goes, lies. Those do not come on my house. He made him put in like a potted plant outside and then he could come in. And, um, but they form, that's why we've got Romans 12, you know, not to be conformed the fortress that sets up. It's a stronghold. And I'm telling you, a lot of us, I don't think we realize it, but we have them. We've got to be honest. We really have them. You can see when COVID hit, people thought they didn't have them, but they were there big time. And they, they are, they're constantly trying to build and be there from the enemy. The vultures come in. I may tell you some fun stories. If we have time, just, uh, stuff, we've gone through examples, but they're going to come. Although you walk according to the flesh, the vultures come, they have a loud voice. They land on the sacrifice. You see them. They're but if we don't drive them away, you know, so these strongholds they're, they're fortresses that build up in the mind and they're hard to penetrate. And this is what Paul's saying. We, our weapons are mighty in God. First off, that's the key in God. If you're not in him, you can't pull nothing down. You might be a believer, but we must stay in him. Abide in me. You'll, you'll bear much fruit. Abide in his word. You're my disciples. If you abide in my word, uh, the presence of the word. So when we're in God, our weapons are mighty for pulling down strongholds. So you can imagine this strong fortress in your mind. It must be pulled down, destroyed, taken down. And often the enemy, especially in the physical realm, all he's got to do is throw one more symptom on somebody to build it back up again. And we've got to go to the word and it takes time. Sometimes that's okay, but we've got to pull them down arguments. Listen to what this is that we cast down arguments. It's not like people arguing. It's again in the, in the, uh, mind reasoning, thinking conception, which is the place where a belief system is beginning to form by way of conception through the means of thought. And they just formed there in regards to prospering on all things. If the enemy can get one in there and just short circuit the power of the sacrifice, he'll do it. If you let him in, if he lets one in on being in good health always, and you'll see biblically, it's intended for us to walk in complete health. Always. Jesus is the perfect model. Always. Did you ever see anything touch him? Never. Um, being whole in our soul, all of these, but reasoning, thinking conception, Isaiah 55, we all know God says, um, you know, my ways, my thoughts are higher than yours as high as the heavens are from the earth. So our thoughts, like we can't be so quick to believe our thoughts. Like I want to encourage us to not trust our thoughts. A lot of people like, yeah, just say what you think. No, no, no. Like, I don't care what you think. Not trying to be rude, but if it's not the word, what God thinks, I don't want to hear it. And you don't want to either. You want to tear that down. If the thoughts that are coming do not align with this book, I don't care how real it feels. That's not reality. And then people like, well, you're kind of in denial. We'll show me your fruit because it's not looking too hot. It's not been working for you for the last decade. When you think I'm in denial, just check the fruit, which has nothing to do with me as a sacrifice. It's him. He is the full power. It's all in him. That's why I was hit that first. He said, Abram, look, I'm glad you asked inheritance. You ask the promises, everything that gives me most glory. If you walk in, it's all in him. It's all there. But as soon as vultures are allowed to take them away, he may take off just the heifer. Let's say that has to do with the prospering and all things. Then all you have is access and being in good health and soul, but there's lack constantly because you just bought into something, a fortress set up and you're not going to get to heaven one day and him be like, Jesus didn't do enough. It could be in good health and you can see it. We're often areas of our life. We've allowed vultures to set up shop there, but we were walking in truth and freedom and other areas. Do you guys know what I'm talking about? I've seen it in my own life. And the Lord's like, yeah, no, but that's not my word. But so-and-so he's like, where's that ever something you gauge off of? My word says this, but so-and-so is a doc. Whoever it is, it's the word. And, um, so listen to thoughts. These are the ones we put in prison and force them into the obedience of Christ. Sometimes it takes time, you know, uh, thoughts is thought purpose design of the mind feelings. This is a big one, you know, uh, feelings. These are things that we often don't put into prison and force into the obedience of Christ. You never want to walk the Christian life off of feelings, especially in the prophetic, which we teach, encourage big time, condone. But there's often this like, well, I don't feel, you know, I just sense it. I feel if you start going to top heavy in the feelings, I'm telling you train wreck waiting to happen. If the feelings don't align our feelings are only meant to compliment and supplement what God's doing. You guys tracking with me? You don't ever, they never are meant to lead the way ever. They come alongside and support what God's doing and, but we're led by our feelings. Often we won't put them in prison. We just, whatever we feel that day or I don't feel, you know, it's like, that's a train wreck waiting to happen. Uh, Proverbs three, lean not upon your own understanding. And so we'll get into some verses, see where we go. Uh, this is being in good health. First Peter two 24. We all know this one who himself bore our sins in his own body on the tree that we having died to sins might live for righteousness by whose stripes you were healed. This is one thing you will always see sins and sickness were all nailed on the tree. Some somewhere along the way, we separate the two and we think sins, of course we've got to be repent and be forgiven for, but sicknesses we've got all kinds of swirl around that. And we separate the two, but biblically you always see in one in the same, all nailed to the tree, all of them. First Peter, Isaiah and a second James. It says, look, anybody's sick call for the elders. Oh yeah. And also if you have sins, confess them and repent their sins and sickness, they're all to be gone. You're not meant to a lot of people like, oh yeah, no, I know. I know I'm not supposed to live in sin, but this sickness has been, and again, please hear me if you're sick today or dealing with stuff, we want to pray. I'm just trying to get us further to the word. You guys know my heart. I look, we're good. And we hear it all in ministry, get the emails. We, you know, we battle through things that that's life. I mean, we're all love and in it together, but we don't want to settle for less either. And so you were healed. Isaiah 53, four through five, listen to this. Surely he has born our griefs. The Hebrew word for a, for grief study is sickness, illness, disease. He has born them. You say, yeah, but what about this sickness? All of them? This is the word all sickness, illness, disease, all of it, but I've had it for so long. It doesn't matter. It doesn't make the word lesser. The word of God is above every name. It's the only thing unshakable. Heaven and earth will pass away, but not this world. We've got to go to the word. And, and again, if it's starting to touch on toes, let's just maybe say, Lord, have I allowed possible fortresses and vultures to set up in my life? And he's like, you sure have. And we're all like, yep, right there with you done that. Nobody cares. Cause I think sometimes we don't like to discover that we've been wrong, but Hey, newsflash. If Jesus isn't wrong, the covenant has done enough. And to me, it's, it's freeing. It's like, oh my gosh, that's the problem. Me very freeing. And then we've got a perfect God whose plan is perfect. His word will never fade away ever unshakable. If we can just go to it and all you mean this fortress that's been set up for 30 years can be moved. Oh yeah. In a, in a heartbeat, it's gotta be pulled down though. That empowers the sacrifice that was already done. That's what's beautiful about, let me continue and carried our sorrows. A word study on sorrows is pain, both emotional and physical, all of it, all pain. What about this? This was caused by this. It doesn't matter how customized your situation is all, all sickness and disease. That's the Bible. Super encouraging all pain, but this was self inflicted all pain. He's good yet. We esteemed him stricken smitten by God and afflicted, but he was wounded for our transgressions. That's our sin. See the sickness and sin. They're all nailed there. They're like peanut butter and jelly always nailed to the tree transgressions is sin. He was bruised for our iniquities, which is guilt. That starts to hit the soul chastisement for our peace was upon him by his stripes. We are healed. So look, Isaiah is prophesying. Let's say this pulpit's the point in time where Jesus is crucified. Isaiah is prophesying for seeing it saying by his stripes, we are healed. That's where we're healed crucified before the foundations of the earth. What's amazing is even the old covenant could tap into it from the future. Although he's been crucified before the foundations of the earth, but he's saying we are, this is where we're healed. Peter new covenant, which we're in now, he takes Isaiah's word, but he twisted a little bit. He says by his stripes, we were healed past tense. It's all been done. That's why the sacrifice with Abram, God's like, look, before you even make your first mistake, let's just lay it all out in the Lord. And it will already all been done, have been done. But if you let vultures come and land on it, it causes a disconnect and the power is not there. And it'll be on your fault. It'll be on the fault will be on your end. And so, but Peter's like by his stripes, we were healed. You guys hearing that meaning is, so then you're like, Oh my gosh, are you kidding me? All these years of vulture. I have allowed it by a belief pattern. That's the only way they come. They don't come through some big swirly and demons are real. We cast them out. But I'm telling you, it's in the thought realm. That's where he starts. He has to come and say, did God say, and then he sets up a fortress in your mind and it disconnects the power of the sacrifice. It's the unrenewed mind. But when we figure that out and drive them away, all of a sudden the power flows again. It's kind of like when a circuit is not connected from the light switch and the light bulb. And so it's super important. A couple of verses again, real quick. Psalm one Oh seven 20. He sent out his word and healed them. Acts 10 38. Jesus went about doing good healing all that were oppressed of the devil. All he wasn't like, let me see, what is your case though? Is your, did you send too much though? Was that really, did you keep self inflicting that? How? No, he doesn't. It doesn't matter that the covenant covers it for all time for all people. And then here's some of the vultures, what they sound like in this day and age. And again, we're talking in the context of being in good health. How many of you want to walk in complete healing? Yeah, me too. So whatever it is, I don't care how long it's been there. Let's just keep going to the word together. Look, and if you've got it, we've man, no condemnation. We're like, yeah, I've been dealing with it. We don't care. We just want him in the fullness of everything. And, um, but one of them that comes is, Oh, that's generational though. This is a big one. Just on a call the other day, it comes so often and we don't, we, I think often we know the verses to quote. We want to admit it, but deep when it's quiet within our soul, we believe it. But so-and-so had, had heart problems at a young age and you're kind of built just like them. Genetics are the same. You're going to deal with the same problem live from hell. I'm telling you, they come and they're real and they're loud and all they are allowed and they need to lose their head on our watch. I'm telling you, sorry, that's a little blunt, but I think like that, uh, you know, Oh, well, man, seeing that same issue, see that was on your grandparents, generational, find the verse where the generational, whatever it is, is more powerful than the blood of Jesus. It's not in there. When anybody aligns to the split body and shed blood of the Lord Jesus, it obliterates anything you ever thought. It is super natural. It overrides everything. No thing generational can remain where the covenant has happened. It's not possible. It's not possible. I'm gonna start getting into some stuff where, um, again, if we get there in time, but I just want to just obliterate these strongholds. I'm telling you, like, I know my name, this book is real. It's so real. Just try it. Just try it. Don't buy into it. Um, well, so-and-so said, who are they? This is above every name, but they've got all these letters behind their name and check their fruit. Why are their kids always sick? I'm just saying again, I'm not stepping on toes, but if the fruit is not there of a life yielded to this, don't buy into it. Let's go with this book. And so, um, that's one of them. Or lately you hear all the time like, oh, that's a new strand or that strand. I don't care about a strand has nothing to do with me. Another one. I was joking with our, uh, okay. And again, please hear my heart, man. I love you. You know, we're good now, but I was teasing with our students recently before we close out the trimester. Like the new thing. Now, everywhere you go is a be safe. And I'm like, I don't like that. I'm like, I don't even understand you right now. I have the kingdom of heaven within me. And you're telling me to be safe. Like, you know, and again, well, you don't understand you're not being considered. No, no. I'm just doing the word like beat because there's fear under it is why I don't like it. There's fear there be safe. And I won't say you two back. I don't like that. It's awkward, but I'm like, uh, you know, I just don't answer him. I don't like that. My kids will tell you. I don't like that. And I'm, I'm not that way. I just don't like, not truth. I don't like vultures at all. I'm very like, man, like to keep it flowing. No awkward. But that I'm like, no, that's not God. That's not the word. Be safe to a believer is like telling us several silverback gorilla. Who's walking through a path and a Caterpillar is going across to be safe. That's hilarious. It's not, I'm telling you, it's not right. And, but what's what you've seen happen is see, I'm trying to, I'm trying to go faith and word and just obliterate lies, man, that have come into the earth fast. You saw, and it's like warped the mind of humanity and conformed them. It conformed and boxed them in and built fortresses up. And we don't do those. We don't do those. So, um, but anyway, this new and that did you hear? And I, you know, I don't care. It doesn't matter to me. Um, I remember we were in, and again, while no, my heart, I consider I hear the stories. We probably hear more than most. We get the emails and we're in ministry. I mean, that's what we do. I travel the nation. We're all over and I hear all the stories, but again, when your story or your experience becomes more real than this book, a vulture set in that's that you can take it to the bank. That's what happened. And don't believe me now, but we'll get to heaven one day and you'll see that's what happened. Jesus did enough. And so I remember we were, um, in Milwaukee, me and Judah preaching up there. And, uh, some of you heard this. And so when COVID was at its height or whatever, and I never stopped traveling. Thank the Lord that the preachers, I guess, who had me and didn't care. So we just kept rolling. So, um, the night before we had a meeting miracles breaking out one lady, she, her foot was all messed up. A surgeon had cut some wrong tendon and jacked her foot up bad. She was on one of those rolling things, pain constantly, completely healed miracle in the back. She's totally crying, took her thing off. She's walking, stomping her feet, totally healed deafness in the ear popped up with some miracles are happening next day. Me and Judah go into a gym and I travel so much. I don't know the rules and government regulations everywhere I go. So I don't really care to abide by them a whole lot either. Um, unless they, they force you to. So we go in this gym and hold on that you hear me abide by the laws. Okay. But, but I meant the, yeah, sorry, people were going to get all the hate emails. So we go in this gym and, uh, I didn't notice. I saw a few young ladies with no mask on. I was like, I think we're good. We didn't have any, and we're working out. And this is just because it's recent current people. It makes sense to us right now, but there's just so many that come, you know, recent thing I went through vultures got loud, but you don't, you don't, you don't do it. And our, they tried to come. And, uh, so we go in there and, uh, Judah was sharp. We had on our ear things and, uh, some older man comes up to him and Judah, he knew what he was doing. I didn't even catch it. Judah just looked straight and just ignored him. And, uh, which is not like Judah. He's super, uh, teach him respect and honor and all this, but he knew what the guy was after. So then he comes to me. I didn't know. I thought I stole his machine. So I was like, Oh, so sorry. I took my thing out and he goes, you need to have a mass and started giving it to me and all this. And then I put my thing back in. I just kept working. And, uh, and so, but then he went and ratted us out and into the manager and they come to kick us out or whatever. So I said, Oh, sorry, we don't have them. You know, we're about to leave anyway. So sorry about that. Cause I want to be mindful and I get it. And not everybody has the new covenant, but I was like, I got to catch that man on the way out, man. He's, you know, he needs some bolsters removed. So I did good this time. I wasn't so good on some of the earlier, but I got better. So on the way out, I went to him and said, Hey, I'm so sorry about that. I travel a lot. I don't know the regulations from state to state. Um, but I do want to tell you, his wife's sitting right there. She comes up, interrupts me. She goes, so sorry, we lost a so-and-so to COVID or whatever. I understand. But, but I'm telling you right now. And so I'm telling him, I said, just last night in Milwaukee, your own city, I'm from not even from here, uh, by the power of God in the name of Jesus Christ lady, totally healed deafness and ears popping. I'll start telling miracles, but what the Lord does, and it got real awkward, quick. He wasn't trying to hear it. He starts messing with the machine. He was ignoring me. I'm letting him have it. And then she came up. So I started telling her in love, but I'm thinking now he's got to go home and juggle that, you know, with what's real or what's not. And my thing is that we've got to come more in line with the word and, uh, and, and many more, but another one watches, um, or you've had that so long, just give up. You'll never be healed. That's another one. That's not the Bible. Um, this'll just be your lot in life. Again, generational, whatever. It's just, you've got to accept it. Or God's teaching me something. That's another big one. God does not use that to teach anybody anything. That's, that's a mockery to the cross. Not acceptable. Um, or it's not his will to heal all the time. This is another big one. This rampant throughout churches. And again, if go for it, but you'll start to wonder why there's a doorway open and the full power of the sacrifice is not accessible to you. I'm telling you the fruit will, will tell all people that believe that way. The fruit gives them away through time and with where the days are heading. These are training wheels of what we're going into. So I'm 91 where we're heading. Um, but to, to say it's not God's will to heal all the time is to say it's not his will to save all, all the time. Cause in Isaiah 53, they're all nailed to the tree, all sin, all inequity, guilt, all sin, sickness and disease, all of them. And so to pick and choose, it's just not biblical. Um, so I was going to tell you, um, uh, sin and sickness are one in the same. They, they were both all nailed to the tree. You shouldn't be sick any more than you should live in sin. That's just Bible. Now, if you are, we don't care. Come on, come all. We love you. Let's just be healed together and go to the word. But you got, I'm trying to attack something here. We shouldn't accept, you know what I mean? We shouldn't, we don't do that. That's not normal. Like these things that have come in. Um, so watch this. I want to touch on something from, uh, John G Lake. We've got an image up of him. We can put it. It's pretty cool. I love just visuals and seeing him general. Look at this quote. Um, he says, when I saw for the first time by the word of God, that sickness was not the will of God. Everything in my nature rose up to defeat the will of the devil. So, um, this is, uh, back in like the early 1900s, John G Lake, we named Zoe's middle name after him, Lake general. Listen, they said he would get up in the morning, put on his suit like this, look in the mirror and he'd tell himself, he'd say, God lives in that man. That's in that suit. And everywhere that suit goes, God goes. He was brainwashed. Listen to this one account in 1910, in the midst of a worldwide pandemic known as the bubonic plague, the government was offering large sums of money for anyone who could help. So many were dying and there were not enough people to remove the bodies of the dead of the few that were well enough. Most were too fearful to enter people's homes. John G Lake found himself in this highly contagious region and he offered to help, but asked for no payment. He would go into houses where the stench of sickness sickness, sorry, hung in the air and carried out the bodies, often having to bear them in mass graves. There were so many, but he had no fear of catching the disease. Um, man, this guy was, listen, he was ahead of his time. They said the reality he had of God in him was like no other. And he just walked in power. One time a guy came in, uh, he was in Johannesburg, South Africa, rocked it. They got called to Spokane, Washington. It was the healthiest city of their day. Uh, the mayor, it was like recorded the healthiest city because of their healing rooms. Raised the dead. One time the press of the people on the mission field got so strong to touch him to be healed. He prayed for a tree stump like acts 19 handkerchiefs that touched Paul and then, uh, you know, the, or the, the, um, robe of Jesus released the anointing on the tree stump left cause there were so many people and anybody that touched the tree stump was healed. But watch as a doctor sent for Lake and asked, what have you been doing to protect yourself? Like replied, I believe that as long as I keep my soul in contact with the living God, so that his spirit is flowing into my soul and body, that no germ will ever attach itself to me for the spirit of God will kill it. I mean, just monster. And that that's who we are like biblically. But the enemy, if he can let a vulture set in and let you think otherwise and put more faith in something else, the power gets, gets disconnected. But it says amazingly late. And again, some of us may not be there yet. That's okay. Let's just keep taking baby steps. You know what I'm saying? Let's just keep going this way. And when a thought comes, put it in prison, force it into the obedience of Christ. And we're just talking and being in good health next week. Hopefully the soul of the Lord allows and all of it for the glory of the Lord while he is our exceedingly great reward. Like asked the doctor to experiment by taking the foam from the lungs of a dead plague victim. So listen, amazingly, Lake asked the doctor to experiment by taking the foam from the lungs of a dead plague victim and putting it under a microscope. At lakes insistence, lakes like tell him No, you got to do this. He's commanding the doctor. The doctor spread the deadly foam on lakes hand and observing the results under the microscope. He was astonished to discover that all the germs died instantly. Like told him that is the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus. When a man's spirit and body are filled with the presence of God, it oozes out of the flesh and the pores and it kills the germs, the kingdom of heaven within, you know, and listen to some quotes. And I was going to tell you like, again, we go off of the word, we honor Jesus, but sometimes people follow the Lord real well. And we follow them as they follow Christ. Like Paul said, and John J. Lake did it well. He says, when a Christian tries to live by reason, he is moving out of God's country into the enemy's land. We belong in the, in the miraculous and the supernatural realm. Another quote by John J. Lake in those early centuries of Christianity, Christianity did not go into the world, apologizing. It went to slay the powers of darkness and undo the works of the devil. And it lived in holy triumph. This is the Bible fear of the devil is another one. Fear of the devil is nonsense. Fear of demons is foolish. The spirit of God anointing the Christian heart makes the soul impregnable to the powers of darkness. One more healing is not always obtained by saying a prayer. It is obtained by obeying God. So you need both. Again, I touched on that earlier, a secret place and faith in God, but, um, just want to encourage us as you know, whatever it is in life, when the things come, the voices, the noise, the thoughts, the end God, mighty end God is key to as much as your end God is the equivalent to the ability you'll have to pull down strongholds and cast down arguments and take every thought captive. You'll notice this when you're not in God, you are warring in the flesh, but when you're in God, you don't war there. You don't war there. And so I just want to encourage you guys, like anything that's not biblical. And if we don't know the Bible well enough, chew on it, meditate day and night. The Bible says meditate on it day and night, get brainwashed by this thing. And, um, so I'll tell you, this is just a funny one, and it's not really a big deal, but it, but it's just vultures happen in life. They come and go and whatever. And there's been plenty over the years. And you guys could tell the same story, but a recent one, I'll tell you, this is, uh, we were one too long ago. We're having church service already. We've only been a church for about four months. And so I'm working at the house. Uh, kids are up here working, um, doing things. So I'm home alone and I'm working like heavy stuff, like working a jackhammer, I'm busting up the blocks and doing stuff and just stuff we do. And, and, and how many of those good to work? You know, you don't wanna be lazy. And so I'm working, but I made a careless mistake, totally my fault, repented to the Lord. And so I was rushing heavy jackhammer, busted up these heavy blocks, all this. And, uh, out for the sake of trying to be efficient time, I didn't put down the jackhammer. And, um, and I went to get the heavy block at the same time, cause I don't want to pick it back up. I was rushing. It was just careless mistake. And I, this heavy block with a sharp edge slips, cuts my leg wide open. So I'm like down to the muscle. I'm like, great. That had nobody drive me anywhere. And so, uh, um, it's down. I didn't know the muscles like bluish gray. And when I started seeing bluish gray, I was like, that's deep. I was like, that ain't good. And, uh, so I hurry up, found a towel and cause see, I wish my faith was like, okay, wound come back together. My faith is not there. I'm being honest. I was like, I need stitches. That ain't going to close up anytime soon. So I heard I've got a towel found, tied a tot, a tight knot around my leg, kind of slow the bleeding down, found a, uh, emergency room, close bottling know where those are. We don't do that. We don't anyway, just do the word. So, but I had to get some stitches, which thank goodness I found out later, you only have 24 hours before something. So that was at least good. So I go there and, uh, go up in there and, um, they stopped me on the way and need a mask. And I'm like, you gotta be kidding me. So, but no, but so we, we go in the room and, uh, well, no, first they sit me down. I wanted to see, cause I knew it was for real. I mean, this was, this is, this is bad. And so, but I want to see from their experience, I figure emergency room, this is pretty bad stuff. So I'll go, have you ever seen one this bad? One lady just didn't say much. I was like, that ain't good. But when other guy was like, yeah, I saw someone was lose his leg. I was like, well, that's not good. So, um, but the sweet lady, she offered to give me the towel back full of blood. I'm like, nah, I don't want that thing. Keep it. So they throw me in a room and, uh, and I'm sitting back there, about an hour back there and, uh, got some good presence though, man. There's always a good time to wait on the Lord. So I'm sitting there waiting anyway. And, uh, and Oh, first I'm like, Lord, please forgive me. I repent. I messed up. I was careless. I know this was not your will for me. And then I turned right into, I love you. Thank you for your presence. They had one squeaky door down the hallway, but it was good. I got past it. And, uh, you know, and then it got some real sweet presence. They come in and, uh, stitch me up or whatever. And, um, 29, 29, I was like, give me one more, make it 30. Let's go. And, you know, and, uh, but so I didn't realize you have two layers. Yeah. There's like a deep fascia, fascia, then skin. I went through all of it. And so he goes eight, first layer, eight, second layer, 13 on the top. And his, uh, his apprentice she's new. He's like, can she try? She's getting good on your leg. I'm like, Oh yeah, let's just let her experiment on my, you know, but I don't want to hurt her feelings. So I said, yeah, no worries. And so she, she did good, but it's funny. Uh, Judah FaceTimes me. I'm up in there. They're up here. I've got a mask hanging around my ear. Cause you know, I ain't wearing it once they put me in the room and, he's like, yo, where are you at? I was like, dude, got my leg wide open, man. Anyway, what's going on? He's like, Oh man. So sorry to hear that. You're good. I'm like, yeah. He's like, okay. So we're, we're starting to talk about whatever, um, get home. But what I was going to tell you is, uh, so, Oh, but I've told the nurses today, I got to preach and do it two days. I did it on a Friday. Can I walk? She goes, yeah, you're probably good. It was a little tough getting up these and, but it was on a Sunday, Friday, two days later. So, um, I'm good. But what I was going to say is when I got to had to wait weeks to get the stitches out, um, on the, on the thing, there was a blunt night, nice lump. I knew it was there and there was still pain there, but I didn't know what it was. And, uh, and right away, just a recent example. I know we've all had these doctor goes, Oh no, that's something you got to go check out a surgeon on that. Something's for real going on there. Right away. Vulture comes. Foam. He missed something. There's a ligament, a muscle. You're going to have problems for your whole life. Again, you walk on what faith you have. But what I do right then, I'm like, nah, now we do to sacrifice. I don't do this. I got stitches. I don't do, and I got to know some of you're gonna think I'm crazy and all this, but we'll see fruit through time. I'm on the treadmill. One thing I messed up. I forgot. Tommy will appreciate this. I was traveling. Judo was with me and, um, I didn't think about it. I just had the stitches out and we go to, we had a long wait before our flight and we found a batting cage place on the way home. I was like, man, let's go in there and, and really let Judah do popping shot stuff. But he found a batting cage. I was like, yeah, let's do that. Just spending time with my son. But I forgot how much weight you put on that back, you know, and I was flexing it in, uh, so probably not smart. So I'm not saying take some of my practical wisdom tips, but, but biblically, you know, and so then what you do is though, again, it's just a recent one that comes to mind visibly in the flesh. I can see there's pain. I can feel that that's real. There's like a lump something. And, uh, and he's telling me fear vulture comes up, but that's not for me. That's not in the covenant. Well, but you, that's not sickness or disease. This is what comes. That's self inflicted. I don't know that it causes all pain, all illness in front, whatever it may be. So I'm just daily. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Jesus. That in your cross and all of and totally gone. I'm working out where a hundred percent now got me a nice little pretty scar, but, um, but like, but I can, and we'll know in heaven one day on that, but what can happen often is that that fork in the road, if you go, Oh yeah, you let the vulture come set in. You can really start having problems. This is what happens. A symptom will come and like, that sounds like that's what COVID was. I'm telling you, I see it time and time again, sickness will come. There's been plenty of times where I'm preaching on the mission field and, uh, I'll feel something. There's been one morning I remember, um, where I was about to, I felt like I was going to puke and I got to preach in like 30 minutes. We're going to jump on the bus and go preach to the church or whole team all of a sudden. I know that I could feel it. That's walking in the flesh. You could feel it, but it's not what the Bible says. And again, I know somebody like, well, you're kind of being naive and in denial. No, I'm going to the word because if you start to bend your life around symptoms and feelings and thoughts and this, you'll lose every time there'll be a point in time where you'll lose. And so it just, my children, I'm just telling you to live it. We don't, you know, like for instance, if you feel something that day and your stomach feels queasy and whatever we eat on purpose, because if you're healed, you eat, right? We don't submit to anything. I'm just telling you, we work out twice that day. I'll grab the heavier boxes. We go against it. You go to the word faith works. And so, um, but I will get up. Nobody knows. I'll go step in the pulpit. The anointing come totally healed and you actually gain authority in it in the new covenant. And the Lord's like, that's a good boy. He believed the sacrifice over symptoms or whatever it may be. And I think far too often we'll buy into what you have that fork on the road where the vulture comes and are you going to drive it away or are you going to let it set? Does that make sense to you guys? And I think far too often we look over our past, which again, I've done, we've all done no condemnation, but we're trying to get better going this way. Um, is it'll come in the voices come and whatever you put your faith in, you empower. Um, a lot of people don't realize that fear is total faith. It's just belief in the wrong thing. You guys know what I mean? I know I'm picking on COVID is sorry, but it's just recent and real. But if it shows me, if you have more faith and in a mask, which is okay, if you wear them, I love you, but I'm just trying to really be honest on some things. If you have more faith in that, that shows me like meaning, if you wear a mask, you're scared to get something. You have more belief in the power of the sickness over faith in what the Lord has done. Does that make sense? And, uh, and it's okay. Uh, man, I'm trying, I'm telling my stories. We're just trying to go better. That's all. So no worries, wherever we're at, we're all at a different journey and I've got so far to go, but the Bible, you know, is the way and we want to keep going that way. And when we find loopholes that aren't healthy, that the vultures are getting through, let's shift it and renew, you know, renew our mind. And so, um, I'm telling you, it just works. Faith works. The Bible works. It's eternal, unshakable. And, but the symptom was real or so-and-so died. That's not, it's not the Bible though. This is over everything. You know, you never let, cause experience, that's what it takes. He just lets a vulture or two come in and you feel it and sense it and you heard it, you learned about it. And then we start to conform back to the world and the world system that takes us out of the power of the sacrifice. Okay. You guys want to stand? Oh, if the prayer team wants to come, we want to pray. And please don't send us the hate emails. We love you. You know, you know my heart, but, but I really do want us to walk like Jesus did walk, like the apostles did walk and all that he intends for us. And sometimes it takes, you know, driving vultures away, not yielding to them. So Jesus, thank you so much for your presence, your word. We love you, Lord. I pray even now, um, uh, online across the world and in the house. Why don't you just lay hands on your, your heart? I want to pray a corporately for healing and bodies. You got to thank you even for the renewed mind this morning on all of us from last week that they prosper in all things, but this would be in good health. All in fact, infirmity, lose your body in Jesus name. Be healed. All of it left. All those, um, strongholds of the mind that have, have been set up over the years for various reasons, reasons be pulled down right now by the word of God. There is no, no thing generational that can touch you. No thing that's more powerful than the blood of Jesus. No sign or symptom. All pain must leave and go. Thank you God that you are exceedingly great reward. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. You are exceedingly great reward. Help us walk in the fullness of all that you intended. Help us to drive the vultures away. Walk in a renewed mind, just as Jesus did. Perfect and whole walking in the flesh, but not warring here. Renewed mind in Jesus name. Amen.