Brian Guerin emphasizes the necessity of being doers of the Word, explaining that the Word of God is a seed that requires time, consistency, and the presence of the Holy Spirit to bear fruit in our lives. He highlights that faith comes by hearing the Word, but it must be accompanied by action to be effective; without works, faith is dead. Guerin warns against the distractions of worldly cares and the importance of maintaining a deep relationship with God to ensure that the Word takes root in our hearts. He encourages believers to hold fast to the Word, allowing it to transform their lives and produce lasting fruit. Ultimately, he calls for a commitment to live out the Word actively, as it is essential for spiritual growth and maturity.

So recap session five, recap from up till now. When the beginning was the Word, capital W. The Word was with God, Jesus Christ. All scripture is God breathed. Second Timothy three, infallible. No question, you can go ahead and just check that off your list. He puts his Word above his name, all thy names. Psalm 138.2, heaven and earth will pass away but never his Word. What does the Word inherently do? Heal our bodies, restores, resets, rebuilds our soul, makes and keeps us clean. Praise God. Brings supernatural blessing. We learned of the abiding key from John 15. We must have his presence and his Word enabling us to abide in his love, unlocking our joy being complete. The Word is a lamp unto our feet but also a light unto our path. We learned about victorious living through the Word and it being our only offensive weapon. Last week it was just imperative. We learned we're in a battle while yet that's not even close to our focal point but we must have the Word within us. Okay, so this week I want to hit one more kind of byproduct of the Word and then land it with what I was telling you guys is it's so vital and pray with you guys and we'll do dreams, communion, words of knowledge, all that fun stuff. And go from there. So listen to this. I want to talk about how the Word, the Word of God builds our faith. And this is like absolutely imperative, vital, just a non-negotiable in the life of the believer. I'm gonna expound. I think we're like, yeah, no, I know. Builds our faith and I just think far too often this point's kind of looked over and not dug into very deeply on its validity and just need in the life of a believer. But watch this, Romans 10, 17, if you're taking notes. Whoa, that's blazing. Let that tone down a bit. Anyway, Romans 10, 17. So then faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. We all know this verse, but listen how it really applies. And I'm growing in my knowing. Listen, this is huge. This is big. Romans 10, 17. So then faith comes by hearing. And what else does the living, energy-filled Word of God do, God-breathed? Hearing by the Word of God brings faith. That's how faith comes, basically. The Bible's crystal clear that how do we gain faith? How do we increase in our faith? We've been given a measure of faith, but also how can we grow and increase in it? By hearing the Word of God. The Word of God produces faith. So I have here, this is absolutely vital in the life of every believer as number one, listen to this, you can't even please God in anything you do without faith. Listen, I was just talking to my children about this last night. I forget on what topic even. But I was letting them know, like, look, more and more we've got to conform to His world, His ways, His mind, His heart. We do things His way. He loves us unconditionally more than we could ever compute, understand. But He has His ways, and they're gonna be done His way. And we've got to more and more renew to His reality, to His way of doing things. And listen, faith is like the number one lane that God intends for believers to not only drive in, but stay in. I don't know about you guys, I love to switch to the left lane, because it's a little faster at times. Atlanta's got, I'm loving Atlanta, they've got so many lanes, it's glorious. It's like the promised land. It's not the narrow gate, it's the broad one, but I feel like it still leads to life, because there's like seven lanes. And so somebody wants to be lethargic one day, I can just let them be lethargic in that lane, and I just pick another one. But we stay, we try and stay in respect of law, but you know what I mean. Anyway, so the lane though, listen, a believer, if you want to do anything for God, but that's what I just said. Number one, you can't even please God in anything you do without faith. Hebrews 11, six, without faith, it is impossible to please God. If you're taking notes and it's like, okay, faith, man, I need this, where'd I get this from? Oh, hearing and hearing by the word of God. This is the number one source that will infuse you with abounding faith. How does faith come? Oh, by hearing and hearing of the word of God, hearing directly, which obviously to read and meditate is to resound sometimes even meditating on the word of God, hearing it through others as well, but the word of God is the source for building faith. Numero uno, the word. And so Romans 14, 23, and we're quoting a lot of word tonight, obviously. Anything not done in faith is sin. This is how God sees things, okay, the scriptural lens and God's take on it. Anything not done in faith is sin, even if it's not inherently bad or anything, it's just not done in faith. So the more you start mulling through the word slowly and digging through it, you're gonna be like, oh my gosh, faith is like one of the big three. There's the big three, you see them in 1 Corinthians 13, I'm getting ahead of myself, but faith, hope, and love. And those three bad boys right there are like pillars in the life of the believer. And it just so happens that faith, if you want that pillar strong, it comes through this, hearing and hearing by the word of God. So I have here, none of us, if we're honest, enjoy doing things by faith. Our flesh runs from the word of faith, and this is where I'm trying to, again, break down worldly mindsets, transform our soul into the renewing of our mind, not to be conformed by the world, because just by default, humanity's nature is to run away from the faith walk and the faith realm and the faith lane that God ever so loves and pleases him. I said it, I have here, none of us, if we're honest, enjoy doing things by faith. Our flesh runs from the word faith, because you are now talking about the invisible realm that the flesh is not inherently familiar with. Faith, flesh loves what it can see and touch. Faith is not in that realm, ever. It unlocks the tangible realm, but it's the most powerful substance in the spirit realm. And how do you build it? Here. If you have a faith problem, it's a dead giveaway. There's a low diet, there's a low amount of the word in your spiritual diet. You know, just like if, I don't know, say you were lacking muscle density or something, I don't know, you realize your proteins are low or whatever it may be, this is a dead, if you sense your faith is constantly low and you're struggling in the area of faith, this is not a condemning thing at all. It just shows you that, how do I increase it? How do I, how does faith come? Oh, yeah, I forgot, Romans 10, 17. By hearing and hearing of the word of God, you start overdosing on this here, going deep, letting his words abide deep, faith comes and not only will it come, it'll come so strong that it, I'm getting ahead of myself, but it's what unlocks the invisible realm and takes it into the natural, the visible realm. It overlaps that world into this one and it is possibly the most powerful substance in the spirit, it's the currency of heaven, period, faith. And I feel like it's far too often overlooked. And it's just how God set it up. Again, it's not, our flesh is like, no thanks. You know, if you guys are honest, I know me, things done by faith are like not fun to the flesh, while yet it's God's world of pleasure is that. Without faith, it's impossible to please God. But the flesh and soul love to operate in the visible, tangible realm, what we can already see, touch, and have figured out. But God is spirit and he set this whole thing up to properly function through the invisible realm, keeping our dependency and reliability upon him through intimacy. That's what's so beautiful about it. It's the invisible realm that keeps you dependent upon him through intimacy. It's so brilliant. I have here, and faith is the only source that makes the two worlds overlap. Faith is the currency of heaven. And I'm gonna further explain, but listen, this one's big, and it just so happens that the word, thank God, is how you produce it. It's how it comes, it's how it increases. And people with a lot of faith tangible, I'm talking about real, not head faith, because I'm about to explain there's a big difference, not you think you have faith, you know how to quote it. I'm talking about the real substance in the spirit are a dangerous folk. They're a dangerous breed, and the enemy can see it. Faith in the spirit is seen. It's a real substance. It's just not seen here, and that's why our flesh is like, yeah, let me walk by sight. Not a big fan of walking by faith, you know, and God does not like that realm. He knows we enjoy sight and tangible and already knowing and figured out what we can see and touch, you know, but that's not what pleases him. Ephesians 2, eight, Ephesians chapter two, verse eight. For it is by grace, it is by grace you have been saved through faith. You can't even be saved without faith. So if that tells you anything, faith is so vital that it is the very substance that unlocks and sustains salvation for you, which is the doorway just to begin knowing God. Salvation, that's why we must make disciples. Praise God we win the loss, but then what do you do with them? They just got through the threshold and the doorway of salvation, and now they gotta be taught, trained, discipled, brought into a deep knowing, growing in their knowing of God. You guys remember from the school of knowing him. And faith, without faith, you can't even be, become saved or sustain a salvation. So faith is the most imperative substance, one of the, in the top realm of the spirit that is produced by this, it's just huge. So I have here, you can't even be saved without faith. Ephesians 2, eight, if you've already taken notes, now watch this, Hebrews 11, one, you say, what kind of, what is faith, further expound. The best definition biblically of what faith is is Hebrews 11, one. And again, I know a lot of us already know these verses, but what I'm trying to do is kind of pull back the layers a little bit and go deeper and slower with you guys to where it hopefully, not only reminds, but actually illuminates and takes us a little deeper and like, oh my gosh, yeah, like I knew that, but I didn't know it like that, you know, for all of us, hopefully. But Hebrews 11, one, now faith is the substance. Faith is a real substance. It's just not real in this world. That's why our flesh, we don't like walking by faith. We wanna know, we wanna wait, and you will miss God 100 times out of 101 doing that. I'm telling you, you've gotta hear his voice, pay the price to know him intimately, hear his word clearly, and do it, do it. Listen, delayed obedience is disobedience. What he tells you is what you do. Well, but it may cost me that, I don't know this figured out and all that. Go ahead and start walking by your own understanding. The Bible says, lean not upon your own understanding, but trust God in all your ways, and your plans will succeed. You hear that, faith in there, trust. Faith, it pleases him, it's the way. It's the highway you stay in. You hit cruise control and the faith lane, and never come out of it. And one of the most productive ways of doing that is being stuck deep in this thing, just dive deep into it, stay in it, because faith comes by the word, hearing the word, word of God. So, so anyway, listen, now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. So, like, I'm trying to think, let's say, I was trying to think through, like, let's say this coffee, and I probably won't draw tonight, so let's give you some visuals. Let's say this coffee mug is worth $100, okay? And I don't own it yet, so I don't have it. So it's not technically seen in my world with the reality, because I don't own it. I just know of it, and I know it's worth, but I have a $100 bill that I know can overlap that world and make it available to me, okay? So if you can imagine a $100 bill, I wish I had something. Remember, I got my snazzy Kleenexes. We'll say one of these is $100, which, let's be honest, they kind of are worth that sometimes. I'm teasing. $100. So, because faith is a substance. It is tangible and real, and look, those that walk with the real faith, I'm talking about the biblical faith, in the spirit, oh, they're known. Oh, they're known by God, and guess what God's cheesing ear to ear, why? Because faith is how you please him. Why did he set it up this way? I don't have all the answers, but I can promise you it's in the word, and without it, you're not gonna please him. You can beat on your chest all you want. You can do all the works, preach profoundly, cry out emotions. Listen, and God, he gave us emotions. He's a very loving God. He's the creator of them, but they won't move him. I'm about to explain. I'm getting ahead of myself, but God is moved by what he's moved by and what he set up. Listen, the only things that wowed Jesus were faith. One was the great amount of and the lack thereof, that's it. He's not stoic and non-emotional and just like some zombie, because you guys have heard of me, Hebrews 1, nine, Psalm 45, seven, he was anointed with the oil of gladness, giddy, laughter, and joy. He's the most humorous, life-filled glory bomb that the earth has ever seen. But I'm talking about on a real spirit level and a deep unto deep level, faith is what moves God. And how does it come? Here. So if our faith is low, that excites me. I'm like, oh my gosh. Yeah, Jesus, let me walk in what pleases you. We say we love him, then let's walk in what pleases him, faith. So Jesus, he was astounded by faith and astounded by the lack thereof. That's what he was watching in the earth, if you look. Anyway, faith, Hebrews 11, one says, is a substance, meaning it's tangible, just not in our world. But it builds up really like a bank account in the spirit. You dive into this right here and it builds in the spirit and then you have it to draw from and it works. But it's more powerful than anything because now you're tapping the power switch of the spirit realm that is more dominant to the natural. You are now overriding every natural limitation by that which is possible. The possibility of the spirit dominates the impossibilities of the natural, just totally obliterates and blows all the limits off. The Jericho walls fall, you name it. And that's what faith does. This is massive for the life of a believer. So faith, back to our $100 bill, our fake one. I know that this substance, faith is a substance, of things hoped for. I'm hoping for this, but this is not only a substance of things hoped for, but also the evidence of things not yet seen. Okay, healing, prosperity, blessing, authority, destiny, God's voice in a deeper way, relational breakthrough, victory, the chapter to turn, all things good that God intends, they're definitely for you. You can see it in the word of God, there's prophetic promises and something or other, but they can't be tapped outside of faith, which is the substance and evidence, substance sort of things hoped for, evidence of things not yet seen. And so what happens is faith comes into the scenario and then it's done with one more factor I'm gonna build into and land it tonight. If I can, I think I can. But in the spirit, what happens is see the $100, you know, it will cover the value of this in the natural and bring it no longer from being hoped or not yet seen, but bring it into seen in yours now. And it accesses that which is invisible. Listen to this, we went over it in session one where Jesus was the capital W word, Hebrews three, you go two verses later, watch this. By faith, we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, Jesus Christ, so that what is seen was made, sorry, was not made out of things visible. So even how God kicked the whole thing off with you and I, we were created through faith by God. He loves this realm. This is his realm and we need to learn it quick and get into it deeper and yield to it more through scripture. And again, transforming our mind into his ways and not being conformed to the world because the world wants to clamp you so far out of faith. They always want you to operate in logic, what you can figure out, what you can touch and see, what plans work for you. And this is how I'm gonna plan this, that and the other and your own understanding. All of this world does not please God, number one. Number two, it will not unlock what's intended for the life of a believer. The unbeliever, again, they don't have the covenant made available. There is no faith in their deck of cards. They can't pull that one, so they better figure it out. They better have understanding. But with us, thank God, we don't have to operate by that. It doesn't mean go around and be naive and not use practical wisdom, but you know what I mean? So faith, but faith, that's what this does. And this is powerful because, listen to this, I'll read it again, Hebrews 11, three. By faith, we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is now seen was not made out of things visible. So faith brings what is not seen, and it turns the invisible around, it overlaps the spirit world into the natural, it pulls it into. That's why you have keys to unlock, loose the heavens, so it'll be loosed in the earth, and bind in the heavens, so it'll be bound in the earth. So faith is a substance in the spirit realm that unlocks the invisible to bring it into the visible. It's so powerful, and this is what God's, this is the mode, this is the MO. It's what he operates out of. This is how you heal the sick. This is how you stay saved. This is how you become saved and stay saved. By grace, through faith, through this realm, that is a real substance, the Bible says. It's not some Christian, yeah, I'm just walking by faith. It's a real substance that you can build up in your spiritual account by the word. I'm gonna stay here too long. Anyway. Yeah, let me skip that. Listen, there's another, this is vital. If the Bible took out an entire chapter for this thing called faith, you better believe it means something. Hebrews 11, there's an entire chapter dedicated to faith. This is, I'm telling you, this is God's mascot topic. It's massive. Then we might wanna pay attention to it. I have here, the Bible very seldomly takes up entire chapters for one word or topic alone. One of the only other places you see it is on love that we all know is 1 Corinthians 13, the love chapter. It's called, and it's actually a pretty short chapter. Hebrews 11 is on faith, which again, I told you guys, the big three. Some of you guys that follow sports, you have usually the big three in basketball. Anyway, if you go back to major teams and stuff like this. But in 1 Corinthians 13, it says, I'll just have it right here, known as the love chapter. And even at this chapter, you see the big three at the end, faith, hope, and love. With love, of course, is the greatest because anything not done in love is completely counterintuitive in every way as God is the very substance of love. And nothing transpires in a true eternal fruit that is not done in love, but they all work together. And you guys remember the biggest chapter in the entire Bible is on the word, Psalm 119. But when you start seeing whole chapters dedicated to one topic or word like this, you better know God's like, this is big. Listen, he's like, hello, this is very, very meaningful. And this is faith that, thank God, it's not like just delegated to some. We're all given a measure of faith, but also how does it come? Right here. I've got other examples. Just trying to time this thing right. Yeah, no, let me skip the examples, but hopefully you guys got the substance. This is big, it's the devil sees faith. It's big, anyway, in the spirit. Let me skip that. Romans 10, Paul's talking about, it's in the context of the lost being saved. And that's what he's saying. He's like, listen, how are they gonna hear? How are they gonna be saved? Nobody preaches because faith, which leads to salvation, comes by hearing and hearing of the word of God. But also that's a dead giveaway verse unto our personal life of how faith, we can increase it from the word. But this is what I now want to point out and camp out on for the remainder of this school. Wowzers, I'm gonna move a little fast. So right here, which brings us to our last and final point with, and again, the word. I mean, my gosh, it's a life school. You guys know I was trying to mostly hit the pillars of the word, stir hunger, fresh, just, yeah, fresh hunger in depth in the word of life of sustaining it. And also you can see in this hour, I feel like now more than ever, we gotta get back to the foundation of this thing. Stuff's starting to get really shallow and mixed and deception, doctrines of demons, things like this. We've gotta plant our feet in this thing now more than ever. So watch this, but which brings us to our last and final point with faith and the word. Because faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. I love, I was listening to a Kenneth Hagin senior recently. Love him. I'll listen to anything, man. Anything that's got anointing, teaching, preaching, prophetic, I don't care. Just give me Jesus. And I would encourage you guys to do the same. Just have a healthy, well diet. I teach my kids, it's like pull from the prophets, the apostles, teachers, pastors, just make sure they got the anointing and the spirit, because we don't want religion that'll kill you every time and you don't know it. Even though it's truth coming at you, it's not moistened by the spirit, which we'll see in a second. But anyway, Kenneth Hagin is so good. He was talking about Romans 10, 17. He says, it was either, I think it was him in dialogue with somebody saying how it's just ironic that it says, so then faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Hearing and hearing. He said, why did he put it twice? Hearing and hearing by the word of God. And he was making the point that God was even emphasizing how the word must continue to be heard over and over. Hearing and hearing the word of God. Hearing and hearing. It's gotta constantly go deep and get in you and stay in it and it goes deeper and deeper and transform our world. But I have here, I'll bring this to our last and final point with faith and the word, as both have a prerequisite switch on off built into each of them. And if this switch is not turned on, they both absolutely will not work or function or produce the due results needed. So let this really anchor and hit home with everything else we've built in the school up to this point. But this right here is big and I feel like we're often most of us miss it as believers in why sometimes the word and faith that comes by the word don't work. It is so clear in scripture. Thank God he didn't make this thing complicated, but sometimes just again in our natural makeup and through time and just sometimes sheer habit, choices we make, we're creatures of habit. We aren't hitting these switches that are absolutely prerequisites, meaning they have to be applied. They're on off switches with the word and on off switches with that substance I'm telling you about that will either let them work or not. And this is really, really key. We've heard these before, but again, I just wanna take them a bit deeper and hopefully they land and kind of light bulbs go off in an impartation way. Holy Spirit, yeah, make the word land in a transforming way. We wanna go past the head deep into deep. James chapter one, verses 22 through 25. If you're taking notes. Thank you Lord for your word and your presence. James chapter one, verses 22 through 25. Listen to this. This is so good. We know this passage, but may it resonate deeper. But be doers of the word. And not hearers only deceiving yourselves. James was a gunner. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself, goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty and preserves, preserves, sorry. Being not a hearer who forgets, but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing. Remember how the word blesses your life inherently? You'll see in Deuteronomy 28, there's the meditate day and night in obeying everything, all the commandments. There's obedience. Listen, everything in this Christian walk, you're going to see a conditional accountability or reliability factor on us in it because it's a relationship. It's a two-way deal. It's how God set it up. And this is touchy sometimes to go down this path because people, they start to throw up these make-believe red flags of watch out, you're getting into works and it's just, but it's not biblical because the Bible's full of works. You'll be rewarded according to what you've done. Your work will be tested by fire, the Bible says. Whether it be wood, hay and stubble and burned up or silver, gold and precious stones. Jesus says, I come with my reward in my hands. I'm about to show you faith without works is completely dead. Of course, in the love of God, birth from intimacy by grace, my goodness. But I think far too often, we love to ride on the sovereignty of God topic alone. He's sovereign, but it just so happens in his sovereignty, he set up this whole dynamic of relationship with a dependency and a reliability upon us. You can't even be saved without faith. Guess what? Faith relies on us. Well, wait brother, you're starting to take the kind of limelight off of Jesus by no means. It's a relationship. Everything, the limelight is always fixed upon, in and through Jesus. He's done it all. There's no thing you can add to it. Hear me, I'm not saying you can work for salvation, but your faith has to be applied, which he's not gonna do faith for you. So you understand that there's always a reliability and thank God he did it this way. He did it on purpose because he wants lovers. He wants sons and daughters. It's a relationship. He didn't want robots. That's why the angels, they look in and peer into our, they don't understand the realm of the gospel. But listen to this, but the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty and perseveres, being not here who forgets, but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing. You're gonna see this accountability, reliability factor that he totally empowers, that he totally gives grace for. It's all done through him, but yet we have a will and there's that yielding factor. So watch this, Jesus hits it another angle. James hits it, be doers of the word. You're gonna start seeing like, hold on, the word, yeah, it's gotta get in me, but I've gotta do it. It has to be done. The word is null and void when not done, which is a similar to faith and I'm gonna explain, but watch Jesus hits it so beautifully in Matthew seven, verses 24 through 27 in this parable. Matthew chapter seven, verses 24 through 27. Jesus, listen to this, man. I love this one. I was in it the other day. Jesus says, everyone then who hears these words of mine, the word, and does them, that's it. You're gonna see the only difference in this parable from the successful and the unsuccessful or he who does the word or doesn't. It's the doing of the word. It must be done. Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain fell, floods came, and the winds blew. Beat on that house, but it didn't fall because it had been founded on the rock. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. Rain fell, floods came, winds blew, beat against that house and it fell. And great was the fall of it. So quick reader's digest version on this passage is, listen, you've got, I love this one too because it's another one of those parables that hones in on the believer. Just like the bridesmaids, it laser focus hones in on you and I, giving us no excuses because it's two companies, and they all hear his words, which that's the believer. It's just who does them or not. And listen, this, I'm telling you, especially in this last hour, is gonna separate the men from the boys, the women from the girls, however you wanna look at it, but you're going to start to really see, an increased shaking, because the shaking's gonna come. Listen, the scenario for both sides of each team here, nothing changed. Everything was the exact same. Rain fell, floods came, wind blew. His words still came in. Everybody heard his words. Nothing was different out of each one. Everyone who hears these words of mine and does them is wise. Everyone who hears these words and does not do them is foolish. You remember the wise and foolish virgins? Same scenario in this parable. You have wise and foolish, but they're only wise because everybody heard the word, and rain, floods, and wind blew on everybody. Everybody had a house built. Everything's the exact same in this scenario, and this is how it's gonna be in the life of the church in modern-day Christianity, and when shaking comes, you're gonna start seeing real quick. This is what happened in 2020, and I'm telling you, it's gonna increase, not doom and gloom, just Bible. You're gonna see real quick when the shaking comes, oh, I see who did the word. Everybody heard the word. The rain hit everybody. The shaking, it's gonna touch every facet of life. If you think you are smart enough to build up something so untouchable, that's comical. I'm telling you, the shaking that the Bible talks about that's coming, it will touch, but the problem is it cannot touch those who hear his words, but they heard his words too. You have to do them. It has to be done. Lean not upon your own understanding. When God speaks, listen to me, you pay the price to hear his words, and when he speaks, you do them. Don't listen to any other voice. I don't know why I just feel, man, God right now. We've gotta do his word. When he speaks, do. I don't really feel the presence, but this word, you gotta do it, or it's not gonna work. You do what it says. His spoken word, you do. Many people are really excited to hear, and everybody heard and hear. Everybody hears in the Christian life, more or less. A lot of people are excited to, God spoke and shared this revelation, and I am too, and let's go for it and dig deep, and it's amazing, but nothing's going to ever gain traction and produce success and bring you into destiny until it's done. Has to be done. We've gotta be doers of the word. So the rain, the Bible here is saying, look, rain's gonna fall, floods are gonna come, wind's gonna blow, period. It hit both camps. That's not up for grabs. That's not an if. That's when and how, and look, I know these weather patterns. That's South Louisiana all day. That's a hurricane right there. Rain fell, floods came, and winds blew. That's hurricanes. I know those real well, my whole life. September, get the water jugs, flashlights ready. That's hurricane, you know, in all you, down Texas, Florida, we all know that. It's wild, because now living up in Atlanta, I don't, I forgot, we don't even have petitions anymore, but I'm teasing, but that's definitely a progression of like a hurricane-type situation. The problem is rains fall, moisten the ground. Floods come, erode your foundation. Then the winds blow, and down it goes, you understand? And right here, if you look closely, it says both camps had enough time to build their house. It didn't say they were still building. It said they built, and when the one fell, great was the fall of it, meaning it had plenty of time to build. This wasn't a little hut. This was probably a mansion. It built, so that's another thing. This is a real big key to watch. You can build for years on what you think you're doing, and this is another thing, let me backtrack. Your life is building something, whether you like to think it or not, it's happening. The only problem is if you're not building according to what he's telling you in his word, whatever's being built right now, the shaking's gonna come. The rain's gonna fall, floods will come. This isn't a scary thing. It's like a thank God thing, like, wow, I can set my life up in a way to where the shaking that's inevitable is coming, period, and going to increase, and it just happens in life, but I can build in such a way that nothing will fall, that it's like the rain's just a peaceful sound while you're sipping your lemonade. The floods are just pretty rivers that you never had in your backyard, you know? The wind blowing's just like, man, that breeze felt good. But to those, I'm telling you, this is what happened in 2020, shaking, you can call it whatever you want. The Lord will use the evil and turn it around for good. I'm not saying this stuff was of the Lord either, but he'll use the devil's plans, and nevertheless, shaking touched the globe. And again, not to point fingers where it looked like things fell either, you know what I'm saying, but I'm just, like, those type seasons with shaking, they start to show you where houses look like everybody was living in, and everything was fine. But when shaking comes, that which was not done, that when his words weren't done, that's what sets your life up on a rock, okay? And many people, they've built houses that they think I've got it figured out on their own understanding, and setting up things and planning for years and retirement, that, or whatever it may be, and again, I'm not against all these things, I'm just telling you, the rain, flood, and wind scenario, when it comes, if we weren't doing his word, it says, and the house not only fell, but great was the fall of it, and listen, I've built houses for years. As many of you know, my father, he still is, finished a monster recently, it was beautiful, send me pictures of it, but sometimes, and great was the fall of it, this is a compound, this is a mansion. A hut, it just tips over, that's not great was the fall, meaning, and houses take a long time to build, the big ones can take a year and a half, whatever it may be, and when they fall, though, great is their fall, and so anyway, listen to me, doing the word, we gotta come off of the figuring it out first, and you pay the price to hear him clearly, also, you guys know I'm not into just going off of a whim and producing ishmaels, but we gotta do the work, okay, I'm falling down too much time here. But in this scenario, Matthew 7, everybody heard the word, rain, floods, wind came on everybody, everybody had houses built, the only factor that came in that made somebody wise or foolish here, was one did the word, and one did not, they just heard them, and they still applied some of their understanding, in their timing, listen to me, this is big, you can thwart your whole destiny this way, and we're all guilty of it, we can relate it, that's why I built here, our flesh does not like this realm of faith, but you want your life built this way, I'm telling you, you want it built on doing what he tells you to do, because that's the rock, then the rain will fall, and all your understanding and safeguarding and padding this, and it was built all that long anyway, it's gonna be all for naught when you miss God's will, because in the shaking comes, anyway, I'm not trying to scare people, you know what I'm saying, it's just the word, but I love that, Jesus, James hammers it, doers of the word, Jesus in Matthew 7, doers of the word, we've gotta be doers of it, James 2, verses 18 through 26, I'm about to show you the prerequisite switch for faith, but someone will say, James 2, verses 18 through 26, but someone will say, you have faith and I have works, show me your faith apart from the works, I'll show you my faith by my works, this is James, look, he gets a little chippy right here, he was kind of a straight shooter, you believe that God is one, you do well, even the demons believe in shudder, do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless, not a whole lot of tact, but just bringing it, do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless? So you start seeing these connectors, right? Wow, pray God, faith comes by hearing and hearing in the word of God, but wait a minute, I can hear the word of God and not do it, and James says, that's a major no-no, so did Jesus, because it would have been different if they said, yeah, the second camp didn't hear my words, so they couldn't do them, and so they built a house, and when the rains fell, floods came, wind blew, the house fell, no, everybody heard the word, but it has to be done, you're like, oh, well, okay, but praise God, so hearing the word and doing it is what sets my life up on a rock, got it, but thank you, Lord, that hearing and hearing by the word of God is how faith comes, but wait a minute, James says, faith without works is dead, useless, so you see these connector switches to the word and faith that are absolutely vital to make them work, and again, I didn't have the instruction manual on this thing to set it up, this is the way God set it up, and again, our flesh doesn't like it, but that's why we have to find that compressed way, a narrow gate, and who cares what our flesh likes, we do what this says, this is above everything, everything's gonna pass away anyway, let's go out like, you know what I'm saying, let's go out blazing for glory in Jesus Christ, for his glory, sorry, but, and these are the ways you do it, and you just start to, no, I'm not gonna lean on my understanding, I'm gonna pay the price, lock up, hear the Lord, whatever, I need his words, and you do them, you don't ask questions, you can, he's a loving father, he'll answer sometimes, sometimes he won't, sometimes he'll say, Abraham, just leave, I'm not telling you where you're going, just go, he loves faith, and anyway, show me your faith, yep, got that, read that, was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works, you're seeing what's happening here? Faith is completely useless without works, it has to be worked, so the word has to be done, and faith has to be worked, works have to apply into faith, whoa, you're going into works, brother, we're saved by grace, you know, don't, I'm telling you, the religion always goes here, and it keeps the body of believers dormant, it's the way Jesus worked faith, you heal the sick with faith, but faith has works, that's why Jesus would heal the sick, but there would be works often, you'd notice, not always, but often, mud in the eyes, spit, Peter would grab them and pull them, and then healing would enter, and you work, I'm telling you, and the more I'm learning this, I'm like light bulb, thank God, and it pleases God, number one, that's first and foremost, but this is how the Bible works, this is how God set it up, and he's not going to overwrite his word. Healing, you can constantly walk in healing by faith with works, but faith without works, you just name it, you know, and then go crawl in bed because you feel sick, you know the verses, you're claiming them, but you're submitting your works, and you're yielding to the reality of sickness over faith, which faith in the words says you're completely healed, there's a new covenant, remember it's a substance of things hoped for, and so more and more, again, not to condemn us, but just to show us there's a higher way in covenant, a higher way of faith that keeps potent in that realm of the supernatural overlapping and just flooding into our natural world, and keeps us walking in how Jesus walked, but anyway, I just want to encourage you guys, more and more, you have to work faith, you work it, so anyway, was not Abraham our father justified by works? You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works, faith is completed by works. I'll never forget, I was locked up years ago, houses ago in Baton Rouge, and was not trying to see this, that's for sure, I was loving Jesus, locked up for like a weekend, going to a vision, I actually saw the scene, prophetically, we're like Abraham's, the knife's in the air, and I should have known, it was probably a season where I was even coming into, but his hand was shaking, it was wild to see, from the prophetic scene I was shown into, his hand was shaking with the knife in the air, got that close to bringing it down and killing his son, even to the point of such faith, that he knew God would resurrect Isaac, the long awaited promise, and a lot of us want to think, well I have faith, because I know the verses I quoted it, I walked halfway up the hill, but I'm telling you, the way God sees it, read chapter Hebrews 11, it's all on faith, faith with works is what's alive and very, very potent, not works in the flesh, works led by the spirit, works in grace, you guys hear me, but faith without works is dead, this is the Bible, and I think far too often we're getting a little too far, the pendulum's swinging to where we're like, if God will do it, it's sovereign and supernatural, and he will, but he's sitting back there going, I told you crystal clear in the word, faith pleases me, number one, but also, you gotta know this about faith, it's dead without works, so pray for him, but pull him up, pray for him, but make him run, like I remember the guy, motorcycle accident, brain damage, equilibrium shot, praying for him, nothing, I had him sort of running in place, and then all of a sudden, he's about to fall over, he was gonna be in a total embarrassment, I had to work him into the faith of healing, and hadn't been able to play soccer, you could see the scar on his brain, brain damage, I mean, that's a miracle, down his leg, he was hobbling, he couldn't even play soccer, equilibrium shot because of brain damage, power of God hit him though, as soon as we worked faith, fogu, I'm praying in Portuguese over his leg, he starts running in place, and it lies, he gets healed right before our eyes, he looks at his mom, because it sinks in, he starts crying, running up and down, but again, sometimes it'll happen sovereignly, but I'm also telling you, there's a switch with faith called works, it is how it operates, and so God often is like, yeah, no, no, I know you're full of the word, but you're not doing it, and so there's still sand under you, that's why nothing's working, oh no, you're full of faith, because you've been reading the word, and the faith comes by hearing, you hear another word, but you're not working your faith, so it's dead, hope you guys are hearing this, this is big, listen, just recently, bullseye, we just apply this, I'm just telling you guys, don't walk in what grace you're in and what season you're in, I'm just going for more, man, I'm like, find me another gear, I just, man, I want this thing, man, I want all of Jesus, all of his word, all of what he died for, and that he gets most glory, that I know him to the highest intimate place, Jesus, God, sorry, slaughtered his son for this covenant to be made available, who are we to think we should walk in less than what it paid for? Like, nah, anyway, so, in an amazing way, I'm not, it's just, man, he's everything, and so help us, Lord, to, especially in this hour, we need some real, you know, Bible-believing, Holy Ghost-filled glory bombs, man, that's what's gonna shake the earth, and so, anyway, just to tell you, again, where we're at, I'm only going further, and I don't care, I'm like, whatever, people think we're crazy, let me see your fruit, your fruit better back, what you think's real, because if it doesn't, I'm for sure not listening to you, if I have better fruit, why am I gonna listen to, you know, and not in an arrogant way, because my goodness, I'm useless without Jesus and his presence and his word, it's all him anyway, it's just us aligning into him, but just so you know, we don't do sickness, none of that stuff, we don't do that, that's not in the covenant, like, we start to feel, which, honestly, I was thinking earlier, I don't remember the last time Zoe and Judah and myself were sick, we don't play that game, and again, not to minimize, not to condemn, I'm just trying to say there's a realm that's made available that you can lean into with this and work and do and crack it, like, but even if we start to feel something, we work, we hit the gym harder, we're like, no, I'm going to the gym today, we don't yield to, that's not reality, this is reality, it's above every name, it's above cold, it's above flu, you know, whatever name you wanna pick, it's above a symptom, and you work it, and it becomes a reality, and that savings account on the spirit of faith becomes, that substance builds up so strong, it starts to overlap and overrun everything in your world. Last time I remember, I was, I think I felt something mostly was, I think you guys were in a class with me, or maybe the academy, maybe a year ago, I was locked, I was out in the woods all day in prayer, waiting on the Lord, and the wind was whipping, it was cold, and so it made my throat sound a little funny, but I felt great, but we just don't, you know, for the most part, I mean, we're not perfect, but we're striving for what he paid for, I'll say that, like recently, bullseye, our dog, okay, we just, we just don't, you know, anyway, and I wanna raise faith and respect, see, not condemning, you guys hear me, but I'm telling you, why settle for less of what this thing's made available for us? This, if it's in here, it overrides everything, it's above his name, and it, you know what I'm saying? It never passes away, but so-and-so said, who are they? But science, what is science? This is the reality, this is the plumb line, it's God breathes, you know what I mean, I'm not trying to be disrespectful, but I'm just saying, I think the $100 Kleenex is prophetic, I didn't know I'd be tearing up and stuff. But anyway, bullseye, recently, don't know what happened, we just broke that Daniel fest corporately, I feel like it was a demonic, I don't, I don't say, you know, say there's a devil under every rock, but it was weird, he's just, he's a tree trunk, strong, never really, you know, he's always healthy and whatever, but whatever, like right when we broke it, that day, he started limping out of nowhere, totally, like wouldn't even walk on his foot, three legs, I had to carry his chunky self, little roly polies, 50 pounds, I'd carry him, and I'm talking about limping, like wouldn't even step on his, wouldn't even put pressure on his foot, so he would just lay there all day, cause he was in such, I guess, pain. And so right there, you have a choice, and I'm telling you, we've seen many that they wanna come, but you have a choice to tap into faith, which is a real substance of things hoped for, evidence maybe not quite seen, or submit to what is seen, that's a lesser reality, and adhere to it, and hold on to it, and trust me, you do that, it will become your reality, and again, and again, and again, it'll become, every time you grab it, and welcome it, and claim it, and say, oh well, this, and it becomes a reality, and it now has a doorway, and it keeps a place in your life, which again, we've all done, no condemnation, no worries, but I'm saying there's this doorway, made available through the blood of Jesus Christ, through the word, faith, and so we're like, be healed, and so immediately, you think, oh my gosh, something's really wrong, this is a bulldozer of a dog, that, and he doesn't feel pain, like he'll pop his jaw and something be bleeding, he doesn't even know he's bleeding, he's just tough, he's that bully breed, you know? I remember in my BC days, before Christ, I lived with some friends in an apartment, we had a pit bull, his name was King, and he chewed up a ballpoint pen, I don't know if I ever told you guys this, I'm sure I didn't, I don't remember, we were gone, came back, my roommates, he chewed up a ballpoint pen with his paws, and then walked all over the carpet of the condo, paw prints and ink, ballpoint ink, all over the carpet, and my friend went ballistic, again, we weren't born again, he got this pit bull, threw him into the wall, he crunched in the sheet rock, like dented in a big, big segment of the sheet rock in the wall, and the pit bull King came out, he's wagging his tail like wanting to play, this is how these breeds are, they just don't, sweet as can be, but then, you know, so right away, you're thinking, oh, call the vet, or something's wrong, or he needs something, I'm like, nah, we don't, nah, nah, be healed in the name of Jesus, period. I know some of you think, oh my gosh, that's inconsiderate, that's fine, but again, when fruit through time matches, that's cool, but, and I'm not trying to go there, anyway. So, lasted that whole day, and it looked like, those type things, you don't come out of quickly, I didn't know, something embedded into his paw, he wouldn't even put pressure on it, so things like that, let's say he rolled an ankle, or something was going on bad, or something embedded into his paw, whatever, definitely, if you can't even walk on it, it usually takes time to slowly ease up and get out of it, whether it's a twisted ankle, or whatever, put him to bed that night, be healed, and this is what we do, we just don't, we don't buy into what may seem real, because this is more real, and it's not being in denial, like I said this last week, you know, it's truth is superior to facts. Wake up the next morning, he's sprinting around like nothing ever happened, no progression, nothing, totally healed, instantly, and I'm telling you, sometimes the devil will throw real facts at you, and symptoms, to see if you'll bite, and you just don't bite, you're not in denial, you see them, we're not dumb, I picked him up, carried him, but this is more real, this is what we adhere to, we don't welcome that, I've told you guys, there's been times where a mission field, you know, I'm about to preach, our whole team's there, team of 40, we got souls on the line, you know, this is gospel, crusades, and we have a meeting that morning, or something like that, there's been times where the fact came real, real, nauseated, it was about to puke, and all these things came and felt real, but faith has to be worked, and right at that moment, you can submit, put somebody else up to go preach, oh my gosh, I gotta wait for the fever to come, and it'd break, and there's all these things we've been taught that are not the word, or, you say, no way, I'm gonna work my faith, and so, jump on the bus, don't say a thing, no need to, why highlight a lesser reality? You're kinda in denial, I'm like, okay, well then, you know, again, check the path, and see how the fruit's matched up over time, I'm just telling you what I'm trying to work towards, and what I see clear in scripture, sure enough, get behind the pulpit, anointing comes, bam, all of these seemingly facts, or cards the enemy's trying to play, loose you forever, and the problem is, when you do that, and you gain victory, you gain ground, more in the spirit, you gain greater authority, and these things have less of a doorway, or even a place to sit in, I didn't mean to eat up all that time, anyway, and the scripture was fulfilled, it says, Abraham believed God, yeah, but remember the knife in the air, God let him get all, God totally acknowledges works as completing faith, so you gotta look at, what was it, Hebrews 11, six, yeah, without faith, it's impossible to please God, but also, the scripture completes the puzzle by putting in their faith, without works is dead, though, so you can't please God without faith, but what we need to know is, the faith that pleases God, and the real faith that's completed, is justified and completed by works, so this has to come into play to make these things come alive, and I think far too often, we stay back with the word, and we won't do it, because we wanna lean on our own understanding, we hear it, we just don't do the word, we have faith, we don't work it, and we've gotta start, you know, but you see that a person is justified by works, and not by faith alone, this is James pinning by the spirit, how God sees it in his realm, you see that a person is justified by works, and not by faith alone, and in the same way, was not also Rahab the prostitute justified by works, when she received the messages, and sent them out by another way, for as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from the works is dead, listen, this applies to everything finances, lack wants to become like, look like it's a fact, so what we do, because we don't work our faith, we go to the natural, and become less generous, come off of tithes and offerings, and that's the worst thing you can do, in a provision, I was just talking about healing earlier, but all of them are cracked open, and kept open through faith, it's just the highway and lane of the spirit, that pleases God, and how he set it up again, you can't even be saved without faith, well same thing, it works through healing, keeping abundance and blessing unlocked, and so what we do is, we dial back our generosity, that we're supposed to walk in as believers, crystal clear in scripture, tithes and offerings are giving to God, because we lean on our own understanding, and what you start doing is, you take works out of faith, and it goes dormant, and you empower poverty, and again it just applies to everything, healing, salvation, faith is applied, but faith has to be worked, so when you see lack, that's for a believer, that's all the more time to sow stronger, that's what you do, you work your faith, you work it, in any way we could spend it, it just applies to everything, in the same way, was not also we have the prostitute justified by works alone, yep, read all that, so I have here, and this is where so many of us fail, this side of heaven, in this journey called life, we don't truly do the word, and we don't accompany our faith with works, again the Bible type of works, hope you guys hear me, the kind Jesus condones, and God sees justified, where Abraham went up, and lifted the knife, and then he's like, yep now that's true faith, he's justified now, you understand it could have been like dude, like this one, we got the firewood together, that's plenty, he waited to Abraham, got all the knife in the air, and then got it, it says Rahab, same way was not also, we have the prostitute justified by works, when she received the messages, and sent them out by another way, when all that was completed, I'm telling you that look, I don't like it as much as many of us do, but this is where the rubber meets the road, and the spirit, when people start putting works to faith, listen, you start unlocking the spirit realm, you start making tangible, that substance of things hoped for, because faith without works is dead, so we love the Hebrews 11 one, faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen, but when we talk about putting works with our faith, that really empowers, then you know it's the crowd thins a little bit, I have here again, you must work faith, and do the word, neither will come alive, without these two cooperating factors coming into play, faith without works is the exact same, as if you were to take the batteries, out of your TV controller, you know the controller works, it should, buttons are brand new, you kept good care of it, but you take the batteries out, and that's how faith is without works, it's dead, it's completely dead, you know what I'm telling you, I feel like often as believers, we have a ton of believers with plenty of faith, they read the word, but we get into habits, where we don't work it, you understand, you believe God can heal the sick, but if we don't pray for the sick, that the works have to be there, we don't believe for ourself, to be healed and pray, and yield ourself, in a works manner unto faith, it doesn't unlock it and make it alive, it's dead, hope you guys are, hope this isn't getting to you guys, I mean it in love, I really do, I'm preaching to myself and all of us, hope you guys hear it, but this stuff excites me, because it's like, thank you God that you made it so clear, and man I want us to grow up, be a mature bunch, that build our house on the rock, that we're working faith, and that's where people are like, hold on a second, how is that, how was that justified, oh yeah no big deal, I had the same faith you did, I just, the only difference between us is, I worked my, I actually cut the firewood, went up the hill, brought my son, tied him up, it was very costly, oh the works side of it, I wish I could have just claimed the verse, and believed it in my heart, but no the works I put to it, when God said there it is, he lifted the hand in the air, done, done, make a covenant with him, his offspring will be as many as the stars, I'll change his name, he'll be blessed, and this is I'm telling you, where the camps usually split, as you see in Matthew seven, those that do the word, or just hear it, hearers only James said, this is a big deal, if both of them are talking about it, if James had to take out a whole passage, and say look don't be like a hearer, because you just keep reading the word, and then forgetting what it looks like, reading it again, and this is how people go around mountains, and obviously honestly, I feel like your heart can become callous, because you keep hearing the same preaching, same prophetic words, but we're not doing it, which doesn't enable it to come to life, and we keep building our faith, but we don't work it, and we believe and read the healing scriptures, yet we again, hear me I love, I'm not trying to step on toes, but yeah, just he that has ears to hear the spirit I guess, but man may we work it, and yep, so I'll listen to this one's really good, it doesn't matter even how dire your situation is, and I know we don't like this, but again I'm just telling you the Bible, or how desperate you may be, or if your entire destiny, and directional purpose is on the line, God is not even moved by emotions, we need to know this as humans, I think sometimes we think, that if we cry enough, and he'll listen to me, God is the most loving father, far beyond what our minds could ever conceive, so don't mishear me please, but he has his ways, and he set them up way before you and I came around, and he won't override his word for anything, he has a certain way he does things, and you're not going to approach him, or get through him or to him any other way, and I'm telling you he will let life get super dire, and often we just start to our theology gets warped, because we start saying, well God that's where God just wants to teach me this, and oh well it's just I'm still battling through, he's preparing me for stuff, and it's like okay, I hope that keeps working for you, because I just don't see that, it warps me, it warps our theology, that's why we got to go so deep in this word, and understand it, and then do it and work it, and God's up there loving you okay, he sees the emotions he gave you them, so it's just they don't move him, like we think they all, we think if our situation gets just dire enough, or we cry just loud enough, and again he loves us, it hurts his heart, he created us in his image, okay he's a loving father, but it doesn't mean all of a sudden, he's going to start changing the mechanics, of how he operates and set things up, he's not going to, I'm telling you, listen to this, the Bible even says this, in Hebrews 5.7, you can look it up when you have more time, the Bible even says that Jesus even prayed, with loud cries and tears, God's very own son, was crying out from the humanity standpoint, with loud cries and tears, but listen if you read closely, you know what had God hear him, it says, but he was heard because of his reverence, that's what caught God's ear, the word that became flesh, the Lamb of God who came to take away the sin of the world, his flawless son, loud cries and tears, he listened to me, it hurts him, he loves us, he never intends us for that, his will is that we prosper in all things, be in good health, even as our soul prospers, but he's not going to change the way he functions, and he can never override his word, and his word has these ways about it, don't get me wrong, he hears the cries of the righteous, he does, you know what I mean, but I'm just saying, if we want to not walk in faith, and work faith, and be doers of the word, yet we feel like our situation alone is going to get desperate enough, that we'll get breakthrough, good luck, waiting for that train to come around and pick you up, I'm just being honest, and I've seen it, or we're just lazy, we don't want to go deep in the word, and then press in to know his voice clearly, to then do it as well, or be so full of faith, and then work the faith, it excites me, like he's like man, he gave us the cheat code to life in him, and it's in here, or if we think we emotional, or things are just whatever, it's still, it's got to be done his way, you're not going to please God without faith, anything not done in faith is sin, the wages of sin is death, but watch this, Bible says that, but why Jesus was heard, is because of his reverence, his fear of the Lord in honor, which does what, watch this Psalm 112, a one, Psalm 112 one, how blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who greatly delights in his commandments, or his word, you could put there, you see who does the word, that there's, again he's not stoic, it's not emotional God, he's actually way more emotional, than we could ever conjure up, and he is love, he's perfected, he's the substance of the very thing that's perfect, love, but also again, I just want us to hear like, oh my gosh, like, because I feel like many of us go around mountains, and keep thinking, and all of a sudden we start just, we don't mean to, but through time our theology gets warped, we check it off too well, God's just still doing stuff, and we're going around mountains, and he's sitting back there going, not really, I love you, and I mean for you to be way up here, but it's okay, I still love you the same, and I'm still right here, and my destiny is still there for you, we're going to get there, but please come, please, please get into the lane I've been, that pleases me, and that is my only way, I set this up before time, I spoke the world into existence by faith, that just so happens to not work, unless to be dead without works, and my word you have to do it, it has to be done, so please he's just out of mercy, and love, and patience, long-suffering, and sometimes that disconnect is there, and destiny just keeps staying stagnant, and on delay, and dormant, and so anyway, faith is dead without works, and the word either written or current to you from God, will not work unless it's done, you saw it in Matthew seven, they were heroes of the word, they just didn't do it, and they still their house fell down, anyway, I have here God will not violate his word, under any circumstances, we must know that this is the only way he will operate, alongside our destiny and storyline, he is sovereign, I said a lot of this already, but his sovereignty will never by any means, override his word, and you will not get to him or through him, in any other way than through faith, which without works is dead, or by actually doing his word, both written and spoken, many times God speaks, and we want to see it come into fruition before we do it, he does not work this way, okay, faith calls things as though they, that aren't as though they are, it works in reverse, and again our flesh does not like that, we're like, it's like a cuss word to us faith, our flesh does not like, you guys have heard me say the Indiana Jones bridge, but that bridge is what pleases God, he pleases it, listen, he actually, the supernatural visible realm, was giving to the believers really, if you look at it from this lens, when they were immature in the wilderness, there was a pillar of fire that guided them, okay, this is walking by sight, okay, pillar of fire by night is visible, it's there, pillar of cloud by day, it's visible, it's there, manna, supernatural, bread of angels, I believe angels delivered it, Psalm 78, bread of angels being fed every day, divine clothes never wearing out, shoes never wearing out, walking by sight more or less, grumbling, complaining, more of an immature breed, hit the promised land, which is a deeper company, only Joshua and Caleb could enter in, Moses and most of them couldn't even, and they hit the promised land, and it says, as soon as they crossed over, which speaks of a deeper maturity in God, it says, the manna ceased to exist from that day forward, no more pillar of cloud, no more pillar of fire, you understand, I feel like often, sometimes we miss the tangible seeing, and the encounter, the supernatural, which my goodness, I'm all for, we walk in it, and love it, and condone it, you know what I'm saying, but I think figuratively speaking, sometimes the mature walk even more by faith, in a more comfortable way, and this pleases God, it's that Indiana Jones bridge, it's the Abraham, it's Joshua and Caleb like, whoa, we don't have manna anymore, like where's the, okay, this thing is a little bit more by faith, you know, and so I think it should encourage some of you guys, if it felt so wow, in your early years, and now it's like kind of, seems like it dried up, sometimes it's the goodness of God, taking you into walking by faith, not by sight, not the religious kind, sometimes religion gets in there, and I don't like that at all, it really points away from an encounter, and the supernatural, that's not God at all, you guys know that, but you know what I'm saying, I'm trying to bring it in a healthy balance, so watch this, second Corinthians 5, seven, for we walk by faith, not by sight, that's what the believers do, Genesis 3, 11, Romans 1, 17, the righteous shall live by faith, you can't live any other way, this faith thing, it's the way of God, so listen to me, start working your faith, start doing the word, both written and what he's spoken to you, work and do, do and work, both faith and the word are powerless without these two accompanying ingredients, the word and faith are dead without works and doing, and it's like, oh brother, you're putting a lot on us, I feel like we're gonna take the glory away from Jesus, this is the word, it's just how he set it up, I wish it was all him, and we just could sit back and sip lemonade, but then it wouldn't be a relationship, it wouldn't be the most profound love story ever written, by he who has love, he set it up so perfect, and it's beautiful, okay, I'm gonna land it here, whoa, I'm gonna have to do this, let me go over, but I wanna talk out of Luke chapter eight, four through 15 on the word, as a seed, again, we all know this passage, I just wanna kind of hit it home a little more thorough, and land it here, but to kind of preface it, this passage is all about the word in the context of being a seed, that ultimately bears fruit, again this is red letters, Jesus talking, this is beautiful, about the word, the word, any fruit bearing tree, cause this whole, you're about to see in Luke chapter eight, verses four through 15, Jesus does this beautiful breakdown of a parable, all about the word, and it being a seed, that bears fruit, actually fruit through patience, and right away, that's a dead giveaway, when you hear a seed, that has to bear fruit, and not only that bear fruit through patience, that anybody that knows, from a seed form to fruit, fruit trees take at least three to five years, some five to 15, and again our flesh doesn't like this, but I'm excited, cause I love, we gotta go God's way, we gotta do his world, his timing, his methods, his ways are higher than ours, his world excites me, his voice, his presence, we need to get out of our quick microwave, cause our stuff that build, it doesn't last anyway, his ways are anyway, it's so good, but longevity, sustainability, patience, all these are involved, when you're talking about the word, and walking with God, but even let's say, it says a seed bears fruit, and fruit through patience, but let's just, so fruit with tree, three to five years, even up to five to 15, let's just say a seed, that produces fruit through a plant, let's dial it back a little bit for ease sake, strawberries, whatever maybe forget, I get all those confused with vegetables and fruits, but let's say a plant, so it's quicker in growth still, and this is what God compared the word to, a seed that bears fruit through patience, and we're gonna read it here in a second, but I wanna mainly highlight this point here, when he compares the word in this way, it shows you it needs time, but the seed, let's just go, the trees take time, plant even takes weeks, if not months to actually get fruit, a seed planted even takes a week to two weeks, to even sprout and be seen, and break ground, and actually see you have something there, and start gaining roots, much less fruits not even born yet, so I have here, we must know this in dealing with the word of God, and God's way of doing things, it takes time, consistency and time, God is the one who creates the acorn, to ultimately turn into the great oak tree, that then outlives the very human that planted it, listen, start slowing down and looking at everything God does, everything he does, it takes time, but it sustains through way more time, than what humans typically build, I love his ways, and that's what we wanna conform to, and that's what we wanna yield our life to, and we're not trying to do this world system at all, get me out, like I'm off that train years ago, and trying to get further away from it, popular or not, I'm good, give me God's ways, you know Jesus is talking about seeds, that need to bear fruit through patience, and that's the word, so be it, how do I find that track? But God's, he's the little acorn, but once it turns into that oak tree, it lives through generations, he's into longevity, sustainability, we're typically the ones that start a business, that catches fire in a space of time, but then fades out in no time, because some new fat hits the scene, okay not always, but that's typically, can be how a human works, you know, play out, God deals with the workings of longevity, sustainability, and quality through time, he builds for the long haul, and this is exactly how the word of God, is meant to function within our lives, listen this is what I'm after, I bet you guys, I'm not into, the older I get, 43 last week I'm teasing, but just the more I'm in this thing, that's what excites me, planting according, building on doing his word, so when the rains come, because they're coming, it didn't say in case that, no they're coming, in whatever scenario you're in, and God have mercy on the unbelievers, that was in the context of believers, that hear his word, but if you do them, rains come, floods come, wind comes, and your house is still there, stability, longevity, building in that manner, and according to his word, being the seed that bears fruit through patience, but watch this, I have here, we must make it up in our minds, that there are a few non-negotiables, actually there's many, but let's just say a few of the main ones, in this Christian life, the word of God being one of those obviously, first and foremost, and his presence, his voice, and we are to never come off of it, stay steady, consistent, constant, give it time, let it abide deep, it's a seed, this is what I'm really wanting to land it with, and when we hit the parable, it'll come to life more, but hopefully, but I want to encourage you guys, like we got to realize as believers, like there's some non-negotiables in life, this is one of them, and we got to stay steady here, you just don't ever come off of this stuff, you don't ever come off of the presence, his voice, his word, generosity, kindness, walking in the character, where there's certain ones, they're just, you just don't, they're immovable, you just don't budge there, or you by default, come out of line with God's highest purpose, of what a believer should be, and so, I have here, let the moisture of the spirit and the sun, S-U-N slash S-O-N, of God saturate the seed of the word, within the soul of your life, and watch it work, watch it work, again it's got to be done though, because you can see the word, only heard and not done, makes it null and void, and faith without works is dead, but that being said, it's also a seed, and it will work, we've got to give it time to plant it, you guys remember, we planted something last year, jalapenos, those were a disaster, those did not do the word at all, those were heroes only, for sure, they broke ground, but we never saw one single thing, I don't think, yeah, okras, major doers of the word, bountiful, beautiful, okra and tomatoes, Bob made it, he made it through, we planted too late, that was the big problem, we've got to get something this year, but boy I learned a lot, you've got to water them, sit them in the sun, just give them time, and this generation, my goodness, we want everything quick and now, and that's where the enemy's like, I got them, you'll see it in this parable here in a second, he can just throw a few cares in the world, and we need to just come off that channel, I guess we've got to come off that frequency, and realize that's not how God works, he's into, he loves to plant the seed, let it sit on the ground for a while, keep watering it, keep it in the sun, weeks later, oh my gosh, a little bitty sprout sprouted forth, keep watering, give it time, and we want the quick now, if it doesn't come our way, and that's where a lot of us miss destiny's opportunities, the enemy's sharp, if he can't get you to just full out backslide, he'll hurry up and throw opportunities at you, to get you off of loyalty and faithfulness, into what God told you originally, that's a whole nother teaching, I was in the talent center the other day on the plane, and he said my good and faithful servant, you've got to be good, at what he told you, but also faithful, because it says he went away on a long trip, you know I'm getting off on a whole nother parable, but, the enemy he just, this quick generation, microwave, quick pop, everything we want now now now, which again I'm about efficiency, don't get me wrong, we do things, I don't like wasting time, but when it comes to his presence and word, that's where we abide, you just hunker down and go deep, put your feet in the concrete, let it harden and don't go nowhere, that's what we do with the seed and his presence, but everything else like quick, boom stuff that doesn't matter, like efficiency, yep good, relationships, take time, you know the things that matter, loving God, loving your neighbor, anyway, yep we get too impatient and inconsistent as humans, never letting the seed of God's word, get actual roots of any sort, and sprout forth to work for us, in this thing called destiny, we'll stay on it for some time, and then just get distracted, move on to something else, and if the enemy can just keep doing that in your life, instead of you just making up your mind, you know what from this day forward, I'm immovable on this, this is a non-negotiable, I am useless without this deep within me always, consistently in his presence, like I shouldn't even be here, let's go ahead and just call this life over, if this, as a believer, if this is what I'm doing, there's no point, and the enemy sees those people as oh great, the John 15 key, they're going to abide deep in the presence, let the words abide deep in them consistently, oh it's over, it's over, they're going to sit there and wait for the seed of the word to come forth, and be planted in good soil, oh man I know that kind, nations will be shaken, may take a little bit for that acorn, to become an oak of righteousness, but boy once it's up, nothing's taking that down, and wait till the legacy it leaves, because it drops more acorns, and we got a big problem on our hands, big big problem, and the ax is not laid to the roots of that oak, oak of righteousness, because it produces fruit, you understand, you start seeing that, and it's like that's what we want, listen even young ones, I don't know if we have many in this class, but hear me, you come off the quick fix fast now, I want it, you know all this stuff, again in life, cool I'm all about super being, being super efficient with time, but the seed, the word we've got to let it anyway, Luke eight four through 15, Luke chapter eight four through 15, Jesus says, and when a great crowd was gathering, and people from town after town came to him, he said a parable, this is where Jesus said, a sower went out to sow his seed, love this one, love this, let me just read the word over you, and you guys will remember the passage of course, a sower went out to sow his seed, and as he sowed, some fell along the path, and was trampled underfoot, and the birds of the air devoured it, real quick, let's say this is where he's going to sow his seed, that the sower went to sow his seed, and that's what I really want to hit it, from that angle in our life, we want to sow this seed of the word in our life, and this is really in the context of, sowing seed amongst unbelievers in the world, because he goes to sow his seed, but in sowing it says some fell, into other places, so when you, but we want to sow the seed in our life, and also the next, after this passage, Jesus goes straight into, a lamp can't be hidden, you know light into the world, so it's in the context of sowing our seeds, also outside of our life into others, which we should, but you're going to see the same working dynamics, of sowing the word in our life, but you see right there, a sower went to sow his seed, and in doing so some fell in different areas, and some fell along the path, trampled underfoot, birds of the air devoured it, some fell on the rock, you know what I was thinking about this, let me get, yeah so we eat, we got three plants back here, this is going to be glorious, so I'm not going to draw, but at least I'll get us some different, we'll do the different paths right, these things are totally fake, but they look cool am I right, I'm teasing, so watch these will be our paths okay, which one do you guys like the best, that'll be the good good soil, maybe this one because it looks a little different, and it's more bountiful and beautiful, yeah you'll go, we'll go good soil here, these kind of janky things will be the, you know what I'm saying, so watch this, some fell along the path, trampled underfoot, birds of the air came, devoured the seed, some fell on the rock or the rocky path, and as it grew up it withered away, because it had no moisture, some fell among thorns, grew up with it, choked it out, oh sorry there's three no no's, and then our fourth one is going to be good soil, sorry you had a good chance, but this will be the good soil, the word, some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, with it choked it out, praise God this next company is you and I, in the name of Jesus, some fell into good soil, and grew and yielded a hundred fold, then Jesus says, you guys ears are here, let them hear, disciples came up, disciples were like yo help us out, talking in parables again, we don't have a clue what you mean, Jesus says, luck is hidden from many, but to you I'll tell you what it is, this is what the parable is, Jesus says in verse 11, the seed is the word of God, okay he compares, Jesus compares the word of God to a seed, that ultimately you'll see bears fruit through patience, the ones along the path, are those who have heard, then the devil comes, and takes away the word from their hearts, that's the dirty Ravens, the birds that come in and steal the seeds, the devil, when you ever see Ravens and birds, coming through the sky like that, remember Abraham, had to fight off Ravens coming in, trying to take away a sacrifice before the Lord, he had to sit there and fight them off, to protect this sacrifice before God, that God then came in and made a covenant with him, it's demonic realm, trying to come in and steal the seed, this basically is when the seed, is not given any type of consistency, you notice it fell along the path, just some business of life, again this is in the context of sowing seed to unbelievers, but there's no discipleship, there's no abiding, it never gets to take deep root, it stays very surface level, and that's what happens, when we just kind of read the word here and there, quickly on our way to work on the path, along the path of seed fell, and so it stays at a surface level, the devil can just steal it, the birds come in, it doesn't ever get underground, get deep within us, this is why discipleship is key, you can preach to somebody in a moment, sow the seed, but if you don't give it time and consistency, like a seed to get deep into the soil of their heart, and gain roots and grow, the devil can come, it's where the words at a very surface level, and watch what happens, it says the ones along the path, those who have heard, then the devil comes and takes away the word, from their hearts, listen to this, so that they may not believe and be saved, because why? You're saved by grace through faith, you see the connection with the word and faith, if he can steal it, he can take away your faith, and if he can take away your faith, he can take away your salvation, remember last week I was telling you guys, if he can get the sword of the word out of your hand, he can then knock down the shield of faith, if he can knock down the shield of faith, he can knock off the helmet of salvation, and you're done, that's why the word's so vital, it's the only offensive weapon, but here in a different lens and context, it's the same thing, the devil's like, oh my gosh, get the word out quick, get that sword off of him, because then from doing that, I can take it away, the word from their hearts, so that they won't believe, I can remove faith, and you have to be saved through faith, anyway that's that company, the ones on the rock, are those who when they hear the word, receive it with joy, but they have no root, they believe for a while, and in times of testing fall away, if you back up into the parable, it says this seed fell, but there was no moisture, that's the presence, that's the abide in me, it's gotta be with the word, otherwise the soil of our heart is rocky, it doesn't receive the roots, sorry the seed of the word, and gain roots, and then grow to be strong in times of testing, so these type people too, if they're word only, and there's no moisture earlier, meaning that the soil is rocky, there's no softness there, the moisture of the spirit, that's why abide in me, abide in me, abide in me, he said five times, let my words abide in you, the seed must have accompanied moisture of the spirit, the presence of God, and the son, you can even look at the moisture as the spirit, and the son of the son of Jesus Christ's face, the intimate realm, that allows the soil to no longer be rocky, to be good soil to receive that seed, then take root, and when you have roots, you're strong and testing comes, and it can't pull you down, and as for what fell among the thorns, they are those who hear, you notice all of them heard the word, the seed fell on all of them, but they're different scenarios, in the enemy listen to me, he's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, let me, they can be believers, let me just let seed fall, but by no means can I have it fall here, I can work with any of these three companies here, and I'll keep them dormant all the days of their life, and maybe even ultimately take away their salvation, but I can run this camp, but here, the acorn lovers that turn into oaks of righteousness, bad day, for me and mine, but watch this, and as for what fell among the thorns, they are those who hear, but as they go on their way, they are choked out by the cares, and riches, and pleasures of this life, and their fruit never matures, this is big, and this is why lately I've been hammering this, and feeling it, this set apart, this coming out of this world system, I'm gonna hit some verses here in a second, but the cares, and riches, and pleasures of this life, if the enemy can keep those in, to your life just long enough, it creates these thorns, that fight the word from becoming, coming into maturity, the fruit can never really come into full growth, and good soil, these are those who hearing the word, hold it fast, listen to the Greek word, well I'll do that in a second, and in an honest and good heart, bear fruit with what? Patience, we gotta realize this thing, be in this for the long haul, go ahead and just make up your mind like this word, and tell your spouse, look this is what we do, do we wanna do this thing God's way? Okay, this is a seed, and we want it moist, we need presence, we need word, when your body is love, and this is just non-negotiable for me and mine, as for me and my house, we're gonna serve the Lord, and this is what we do, mega, mega word, mega, mega presence, and we just don't ever come, no days off, why? You know what I mean? This is the compressed way, that leads to ultimate life, there is nothing else for us, there'll be plenty other fun things, that come around, but this is what we do, we wanna bear fruit with patience, well it's not as illuminated now, I just feel like I was, there was a season where I was hungry for the word, and again I can relate, we all can, we get it, but I'm just saying here moving forward, just make up your mind, seasons of battle, victory, distractions or not, if you're busy or not, let busyness never overtake this, right here, but listen to hold fast, this is the good soul company, those that hold it fast, in Greek this is what it means, hold fast, bind to arrest, basically put handcuffs on this thing, arrested, he's going nowhere, detained to restrain, to hold back from going away, this is serious, this is the people where the word, bears fruit through patience, and this is what causes the soul to be good, they literally handcuff this thing, detain it, restrain it, hold it back from going away, this is what it looks like, to have his words abide, and you hang on to it with your life, but let me break down those three, real quick with the word, and then we'll land it, yep again, the seed fell on the path, no consistency in the word, is never allowed to be planted into the heart, it lands at a very shallow level, never gets deep, this is why it's absolutely vital, that we make disciples, I've touched on all that, part two, it takes on us verse 12, part two, the seed fell among rocky ground, this is where we hear his voice, but there's no real abiding in him, there's no moisture, the soil of our heart is rocky, his presence and his spirit, and his presence are not there, in a real deep abiding way, and this is what religion is really, and that's why you're going to see, when resistance comes, religious ones are gone, they're gonna be uprooted real fast, theology is gonna twist quick, persecution, they'll fail in the middle of it, that's why love, is the most powerful substance, is the abiding of his presence and word, but it's word only, with no moisture, you've got rocky ground, and that's why the spirit, there's no supernatural, there's no presence, there's no illumination, by revelation of the word, and the supernatural gifts flowing, how God intended it to be, and so the word doesn't really take roots, thereby not only producing much fruit, but when resistance comes, it will fall, that's why in this last hour, we've got to be a people, full of the Holy Ghost, full of the supernatural, full of the spirit, the gifts, a supernatural company, because the enemy will make a heyday, with religion alone, with just word only, with no moisture, yep, third one, and this one will quote some verses, and we'll land it, this is the seed that fell among thorns, I feel like this is a big one often, if we're not careful, this is clearly when the word is planted, in the midst of sustained cares, of this world, the riches and pleasures of this life, this is why these must be rooted out, the cares of this world, the riches and pleasures of this life, the cares of this life must be uprooted, and kept at a minimal, if kept at all, this is why you have been hearing me say, a lot lately to simplify, that's what I'm talking about, cut out anything that hinders, or brings delay or obscurity, in hearing and knowing his voice, we've got to simplify, cut out, you name it, the things of this world, the world will absolutely not mix, with the desires of this earth, the word sorry, the word will absolutely not mix, or commingle with the desires of this earth, the desires of this earth, by default will produce thorns, that will wrap the word, and never let it come into full maturity and growth, well we don't want to be legal brother, we want to be relevant in this generation, and stay with the up and up of whatever, no we don't, no you do not, trust me, it's crystal clear in the word, I don't care what anybody else is, the new hip, I don't care, you understand I want to know the newsreel of heaven, what's making Jesus' heart beat, where his glory is moving, his manifest presence, and that's all I need to be, you know while I win the loss, and that's how you win them, if you're so much like them, what are you winning them to, you understand that we've got to come out of this, and you guys know what I mean, I'm not trying to say go off and be monks, and live in a cave, but you know what I'm saying, we just can't have any place within us, because it will for sure, quench the cares of this world, okay let's not even talk about pleasures of this life, the cares of this world, is a killer in this hour, politics, and what's the latest, who's doing what, the cares of this world, we should not care, again I'm not saying be naive, I vote, or that's just one of the hot topics of the day, there's so many in the enemy, we'll always make sure there's a fresh one up, just keep the cares of the world in there, so I keep thorns in there, so this word cannot bring fruit to maturity, in the life of a believer, but as soon as you cut the umbilical cord, to the cares of this world, watch the word skyrocket, you have the biggest strawberries in the bundle, or I love watermelon, watermelon let's go with that one, seedless is preferable, anyway, but you guys know what I mean, the fruit on your life, and people are gonna ask you, like did you hear about so and so, no sorry I'm kinda out of the loop, but did you know what Jesus is doing man, oh my gosh, but so and so, okay man sorry to hear that, I just didn't even know, but man Jesus, his life, his glory, his power, like him, and the word just takes on fruit, and you may look a little, I mean, but listen to these verses I'm about to quote, anyway, John, 1st John chapter two verse 15, do not love the world, or anything in the world, if anyone loves the world, the love of the father is not in them, this is the good old B-I-B-L-E, James four four, do you not know that friendship with the world, is enmity with God, therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world, makes himself an enemy of God, I have to be very careful how close you let your life, get to the things of this world, I say detach as much as possible, so the word can grow to full stature, unhindered without any thorns in sight, to choke it out, soon as you start cracking little doorways, to the cares of this world, or the riches of this life, or the pleasures of life, thorns start coming in, and they just choke out the word, from coming into full maturity, no thanks, I'm good, I'm good, and so that your light will not shine, like the new day sun, so that the glory of God will not rest upon you, shine in and through you, like this generation has never seen, last one, oh we did good, 1st Peter chapter two verse 11, you just heard John James and Peter, gunners watch what they all say, dear friends I warn you, this is Peter, as temporary residents and foreigners, basically of this world, meaning you don't really belong here, soon as you got born again, you're temporary residents and foreigners here, you don't mix here, you're in it but not of it, you hear all the verses, but to keep away from worldly desires, that wage war against your very souls, so the worldly desires cares of this world, they just do it, that's just what they do, they wage war against your souls, and they allow thorns to come in, and there's a battle, you know and I say just get them all out, but awesome we did good, I just wanted to land that last one, with this so absolutely vital of doing the word, faith must be worked, which comes by hearing the word and the word of God, and then just building according to that, and then obviously the seeds, letting staying constant, consistent, steady, and the word let it go deep, we don't want to be in any of these paths, you know, ah the pear would have worked great, because it's patience, yeah the fruit of patience, why don't I think about that before, you know kind of stuff we can do here, anyway let me know if you want to pick something up, but yeah so good Aurelia the narrow path, but see look what the good good soil company though, it says for that in the good soil, they are those who hearing the word, hold it fast, arrest it, bind it, retain it, keep it from going or hold to it, what was it to hold back from going away, meaning you're not getting away from me for nothing, you know when you love something dear, you just hang over it, you're not getting away from me, that's how we do with the word, and in doing so in an honest and good heart, bear fruit with patience, I think it's helpful to know in talking about the word, sorry we got so much stuff up here, that it's a seed meant to also bear fruit within our lives, through patience, and it just takes time, and you want to stay on it, don't come off of it for anything, and the enemy especially in this quick, give me now generation, he's like oh yeah I can just get him to hurry up, and be the seed on the path, it just doesn't go deep, keep them busy going on the path doing things, or just keep enough of the cares of the world in their life, to where that word never produces real maturity and fruit, thereby negating them from tapping into full destiny, or the second one, yeah the rocky ground, my goodness, no presence, no abiding, just word only, that's typically religion, rocky heart, very hard, because if you back up, Jesus says when he explained it to the disciples, he said the ones on the rock, are those who when they hear the word receive it with joy, but these have no root, they believe for a while, but in times of testing they fall away, if you back up to the parable, he says there was no moisture, meaning the soil was rocky, that's why the seed could not take root, and that's why there's no intimacy, without intimacy, testing you're gone, you'll deny him before the father any day, pre Holy Spirit, see the Spirit's that moisture, pre Holy Spirit being poured out, Peter denied Jesus, trials came and he was gone, which we all would have been, I don't know why when people are like those, I can't believe the other disciples, like good luck walking in their shoes, but anyway, post Holy Ghost moisture came on the word, oh my gosh martyred him, martyr, he was crucified upside down, baddest voice in the land, soon as the Holy Ghost fell, he's the spokesman, the Bible often says Peter and the 11, it highlights Peter, it's like a little bit different, and the 11, didn't even say the 12, it says Peter and the 11, that's post Holy Ghost, that's post moisture, presence, abide in me, let my words abide in you, and so that's what we wanna be.