Living in the Now Part 3

Born Again Podcast
Episode Title: Living in the Now – Part 3
Speaker: Pastor Jesse Marshall

In Part 3 of Living in the Now, Pastor Jesse Marshall continues his powerful teaching on the importance of walking with God in the present moment. Too often, people become trapped by the mistakes of the past or consumed with worry about the future, causing them to miss what God is doing today.

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Transcript

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Hello, and welcome to the Born Again Podcast, where we believe in the truth and that the truth comes from the Word of God. Thanks for tuning in. We pray that you will receive all that God has for you.

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And I'm gonna tell you uh to be willing and obedient or to come into the things of God, uh, there is a process of doing things that builds that up. When we're talking about living in the now, right? The uh the uh growing into the life, the lifestyle that God has given unto us is a process and it takes development. And uh we're developing and we are growing in Christ. And you have to look at yourself and you have to uh examine to see am I developing, am I growing in the things of God? Am I or or am I or am I just still kind of stagnated and I'm hung on something that I just can't seem to get by or seem to get past. One of the ways that you develop and you grow in the word of God, and you can and we can begin to live in the now is uh taking in the word of God. Taking in, taking in and receiving in large doses of the word of God. Brenda here, she's a uh she's a nurse, so uh uh and medication is is rendered out, and they they tell you on some medications, take these three times a day, take these four times a day. If if you don't take them three times a day, like it says, it can't get in your system as fast as it needs to get in your system to render out whatever it's supposed to be rendering out. So they say, take it three times a day. Now we come over to the spiritual side of things. Uh uh the levels of dosage of the word that you take will begin to render out stuff, right? Three doses, four doses. The Bible says the word is a medicine. Uh-huh. That it is a medicine, and a medicine heals. It's a medicine for the what? The soul. And it heals the soul, and it roots out all kind of stuff that's in there that can keep us from uh walking uh in what God has for us. Uh and we have to have it also because there are there are trials and there are tribulations that show up in our lives, unwelcome and unwanted. And we have to have the spiritual capacity or the spiritual ability to be able to deal with those things in a spiritual way. And when we can deal with things in a spiritual way, we can get results faster. Amen. And get results, get results faster. Hey, amen. When you can just say that word and say that word and talk as your body is talking to you in sickness or pain, you can say that word, I'm talking to you too. I'm talking to you too, knee. I'm talking to you too, shoulder. I'm talking to you too, man. You're talking to me, but I'm talking to you too. And you learn how to talk to stuff. Because that's what we do. We talk to stuff just like it talks to us. And the believer, when the believer can talk to stuff, like stuff talks to them. I have a I have an occasion where I look at my checkbook, and my checkbook is talking to me. Well, ain't enough in there to do what you want to do. I talk to it and say, Yes, it's gonna be. I might not be in there right now, but it's gonna be in there. Now I know they say you shouldn't talk to items, but people talk to their plants. Right? Go around and oh, you looking good. Oh, oh, I see this one blooming over here. Oh, yeah, and then people go so far they done gave them names. Right? They done gave them names. So if you can talk to a plant, Jesus talked to a tree. He's giving us revelation and insight of the power and authority that we have in our speaking and our saying. So you can you don't have to you don't have to agree with everybody if they say something about you. You can just say, I don't know. That ain't me. So talking and living in the now has a great deal to do what's what you what you say and what has a great deal to do with what you say and what you believe. What you say and what you believe. Y'all know we've heard me say this right here before. Is that uh, is that uh if you don't believe it, if it if it's not in you enough that you believe it, then it will never be released out of your mouth. Now, some people got good at they they heart just completely disconnected from their mouth. They say all kind of stuff. But when you come over to the kingdom, in order for faith to work, faith has to have the heart and the mouth connection. So that's why I don't release stuff out of my mouth because uh I don't want to say anything, I don't, I don't want to say anything uh that I don't want to have. So I'm careful about my speaking. All right, just be careful about your speaking and what you say. All right, and so we live just say living in living in the now. And so we're living in the now. That means presidents. When we were, we we kind of got added on too here a little bit. Because when we were unsaved, we were living in time. Now we still living in time, so don't think I'm losing it here. Right? We still live in that, but when we got saved, we had a transition over to living into the now, the present day, because I do stuff in my present day that tomorrow or the next day or the next year, however it's set up, God brings things about. But we are really a time people, we do things by time. Our society has trained us to do things by time. Sometimes young ladies say, I want to be married by 25, I want to be married by 30. And so we're setting timelines and time schedules and time, and and and uh without us even thinking about it, those times are kind of what we're operating by. So when the Bible says that you can be healed immediately, like Jesus said to him, he healed them all immediately. That's something stretches our mind because we're used to time.

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That's that's stretched for our mind.

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Because we used to operating in time. I'm not saying time is a bad thing. You know, you have to go through the process. You know, you go into school and they say it's gonna take you four years. Well, you can you can get out of there before four years, but you're gonna have to do some work. So when we talk when we talk about uh certain things, then we can say that time is involved in it, but then there are certain supernatural aspects that exist that I can get this thing moving faster than what they say normal time is. Okay, they say it takes three to seven years for a bill for a business to gain a pro start gaining a profit. Not for the believer. You can say, Well, I ain't taking that one.

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I need a profit this year.

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You can say, I need a profit this year. I don't want to come out this year in the red. And because they say that in business, if you're not careful, you you know they got all these business loans you go. Oh, I'm talking now, that they want to give you because they saying that you you're not gonna be able to make it without a business loan until three to five years, but you can say, No, I'm not gonna do that. I think the Lord is giving me this. I'm gonna take this and run with it, and I'm gonna I'm gonna make a profit the first year. Amen. And so your thinking has to evolve into the way of the kingdom. If it don't evolve into the way of the kingdom, I'll be waiting for things that kind of sort I might, some things I might not have to wait for, or at least not as long as I think I might have to wait for. Oh, I don't know why I'm going here. But and so when I'm living in the kingdom, well, I don't know why I'm going here. So when I'm living in the kingdom, I want to start taking on supernatural thinking.

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Just had a fast, right?

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God give you anything in the fast that that you can't produce yourself.

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What's he trying to do? Get you over in the supernatural.

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And then I believe he could do it. Well, he hit me with about three things. I'm like, I say, but Lord, I believe, I'm receiving because now I'm starting to think supernatural and not just natural. So you have to get over into that supernatural mindset, which has to do with renewing my mind, the way I think. Oh, glory, man, time. Okay, I ain't even got no scripture yet. All right, and so the the living living in the now, uh, we we read all of Hebrews 11th chapter, and and y'all got 18 things that we read off, and so we look, we looked at that. And so uh um uh and so now I want to talk about today, just just briefly, probably won't get any farther than this. I want to talk about living in the now means being fully aware of your born-again spirit. Living in the now means being fully aware of your born again spirit. Now, the born-again spirit he comes in us to rule. So if we can, we'll go look in into uh John the third chapter, three verses three through six. Technicians back there, some scriptures, but I didn't give them these on stuff. John John three, and this is a very, very familiar scripture uh to all of us with Nicodemus. All right, and so in John 3, 3 through 6, this is Jesus. He's he's going through, he's been doing some preaching and some teaching, he's he's done some miracles, he's done some different things, and uh uh his his ministry uh at this point now is starting to take off. There's been a lot of talk uh around town about this man Jesus. And uh a lot of the the Sadducees, the Pharisees, they they were they were they were questioning, and Jesus was really starting to kind of uh rub on them uh the wrong way because the people were talking about Jesus and weren't talking about them. The people were not starting, the people were beginning not to lean on the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and and so Nicodemus came to came to Jesus. And so he says, Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. So Jesus said, Except he be born again, right? So that means we have to be born again. We have to have the new spirit of the spirit of Christ on the inside of us, except a man be born again, that's accepting Jesus as our personal series. He said, He cannot see the kingdom of God, he cannot have revelation, or he cannot understand what goes on in the kingdom of God because he doesn't have the spirit of God on the inside of him. When you get the spirit of God on the inside of, when we get the spirit of God on the inside of us, we can begin to see, right, different things because now we have another entity working on the inside of us, okay? Uh verse number um, verse number four there. Nicodemus said unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? Huh? How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb and be born? Right? All right, all of us know the answer to that one, so we'll go to verse number five. Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say it unto thee, except a man be born of water and of the spirit, of the spirit, the spirit of Christ, then he's saying, You have to be born again. He cannot enter into the kingdom of God. He cannot begin to operate into the in the into the kingdom of God kind of things, right? He cannot enter into the kingdom of God. So he's saying that we have to enter into God's kingdom. We enter, we come in. Come in. When you get saved, you come in. Then you have to realize, uh sometimes we don't realize it right off, but we have to realize that we came into now a different way of operating and a different way of doing things, right? And so if we if that click doesn't click in our soul or in our mind, if that doesn't click, we'll still operate soulishly while we're in the kingdom of God. Or our soulish realm will be more dominant than the spiritual realm in our lives. We'll always look for the the the uh uh natural way or the soulish way, then we'll look for the spiritual way. And if we don't look for the spiritual way, right, it's our way to look at the natural way, uh, but we don't look at the spiritual way, then we can possibly miss out on what needs to happen and what needs to go on, right? And so I want to look at that spiritual side. I want to take an examination of the spiritual side so that I am able not only to be in the kingdom, but uh to enter into the kingdom. Entering into the kingdom means starting to operate in kingdom of God principles. See the kingdom means that uh you can't see the kingdom, means that you're saved, but now the things of the kingdom, because you don't apply application to things of the kingdom, then you kind of you, even though you're in the kingdom, you're not benefiting from the kingdom. Right? So he says cannot enter into the kingdom of God. And we all want to enter in. Now we were probably most sometimes when we got saved, you know. When I got saved, I wasn't too thrilled about you know entering in no kingdom. I was just more concerned about something happened to me, I can still go to heaven. So I wasn't all that interested in the things of the kingdom until I actually begin to read and begin to study, and I begin to see things, and God begin to uh uh stuff just begin to uh, as you read, pop out, and you're just wondering, you know, what's going on here. So, but you have to enter in, okay? And then verse number six that which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the spirit is spirit. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the spirit is spirit. And Jesus uses uh somewhat this concept. You know, when they were asking Jesus about uh, they asked Jesus, they said, Jesus, uh hey, wait, hey, Jesus, uh, are we to pay taxes? Same concept here, that which is fleshly, you do, and that which is spiritual, you do. So he he told them, give me a corn, whose head is on this corn? They said, Caesar's head is on the corn. Then you render unto Caesar's what's Caesar. And you render unto God what is God. So that which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the flesh, what does he say is flesh. In other words, he's saying that you can't change it from being flesh. And flesh can never be spiritual. That which is born of flesh is flesh. It can never be spiritual, it can be brought under the confines of the word of God, but it can never really be spiritual. Right? And you bring that bring flesh under subjection. That's what Paul said. I buffet my body and I keep it and I bring it under subjection. To what is he bringing under subjection of? The word of God. Huh? So he said, flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the spirit is spirit. Right? And we've been born of the spirit. He uses this, this, this, this uh capitalized S as being the Spirit of God, and then he uses the spirit by which uh we have our spirit, that the Holy Spirit, when comes into our body, infuses our human spirit. Ah, glory to God. You see, humans, I think God, through his wisdom, he said that before the foundation of the world, everything he did, he did. Right? And God said, I gotta give a man a spirit. Even I gotta give him a human spirit. Because God is thinking, if he messes up, I need to have something to be able to connect back with him with him with. And the soulish realm said, I'll take charge now. So he had to operate now from the not from the perspective of the supernatural now, he had to operate from the perspective of his soulish realm, which is his mind, his will, his imagination, his emotion, uh, and his intellect, which all of that passed on to us. All of that passed on to us because we were all conceived by a daddy, right? And a mama, right? And so he says, born of spirit, uh, that which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the spirit is spirit. All right, and so when we look at uh the born-again spirit, we don't too much talk about the born-again spirit no more. But Jesus said, you know, he said, you must be born again. In other words, he said you must take on uh uh uh the spiritual life of Christ on the inside you in order for you to be able to connect and to walk into the things of the kingdom. And walk into the things of the kingdom. Uh living now means being fully aware of the born-again spirit. He is your entrance way into supernatural and operating in the kingdom of God. There's no other way. I know, I know a lot of people say that's more than one way to God. I mean, that's that's hopeful. She says that there's more than one way, and she got a lot of people to believe her. There's many ways to God, there's only one way to God, and that's through Jesus. The Bible only gives one way. Now, if you done wrote another book, then you might say there's another way, but according to the Bible, the word of God, there's only one way, and that way is through Jesus. That way is through Jesus, no matter what somebody, no matter what somebody tells you. Uh, he is the entrance way unto the supernatural and operating in the kingdom of God, the born again. In spirit puts everyone on an evil playing field. That means it does not matter about your background. It does not matter if you live on the wrong side of the track or the right side of the track. It does not matter your height, your weight, your color, your this, your that. It does not matter because the Holy Spirit of God puts every person on an even playing field when we can operate and function in the thing that He's given us to function in. Put everybody on the even playing field. Can't nobody really can't nobody take you from because it got to come against God to be able to do it. And no matter where you at, you get they got to come against God. Glory to God. Glory to God. And if that's why if you got God, you got really all you need if you can listen to Him and hear Him. If you can listen to Him, if you can listen to and hear God when He speaks to you, He can have you make decisions and do things. Well, this is happening more and more in my life, especially when I wake up. The Lord will say, Now you need to do this about this. Because I say, Lord, you can have access to me. And when you when you say that, you gotta be willing that when He gives you something, you're gonna do it. Oh Lord, that right there is uh okay, but I gotta go do it. How I'm gonna do it. Howma how I'm gonna do it, Lord. Y'all ever did one of those things? Uh somebody might say, Well, uh, well, Lord, if I uh well if I if I see him again if I see him again today, I'll I'll talk to them. Y'all ever had one of those things? Man, God got me in those. I said, Lord, you just catch folk up, you just have to watch what we say. Yes, and so and so when he operates with us, oh glory to God. He wants relationship. Just as just as I can trust him to do what his words say, he wants me to be able, he wants to be able to trust me to do what he says. Just as he I trust him to do what his word says, he wants me to be able to trust him to do what he says. The trust ain't work both ways. Because why? He cannot make me do anything, he has to wait till I succumb to his will. Cannot make you do anything. I know sometimes we write like my just like God just make me do it, make me do it, Lord. But he won't make you do it. He wants us to be willing and obedient unto him to do what he has called uh for us to do. So there's only one way to God, and that's through Jesus Christ. That's the only path. The road, the the path to Jesus is one path. It ain't a path going that way, that way, that way, that way. Road to God is one path, and that's the path he said we have to be on. And so in in uh John 3, uh three through six, uh uh John uh John three, three through six must be born again. That's the avenue. That's the avenue. Sometimes I talk to talk to people sometimes, and and I ask them, are they been born again? Uh uh or are they are they been saved, or however you might want to ask them, and they they response is I've been baptized.

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Baptism don't save you.

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Baptism is a part of it's not a part of the process of salvation, but it's a part of the articles that God left for us to do. So baptism don't save. Baptism is an outward show or an inward conviction to others when you get baptized. But in order to come into the kingdom, you can get baptized and not be in the kingdom at all. So baptism don't save you. It is it is my confession in Christ Jesus by using his faith that's that that's presently there, that I accept Christ as my Savior. And so I had to go to scripture most time on my phone. You see this right here, this right here is what how you get saved.

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You mean I've been thinking I've been saved all this time, and I haven't been. That's why the gospel has to get out, and the truth of the gospel has to get out.

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Okay, I'm gonna go I can go further on that, but I ain't gonna go no farther. So John 3, 3, 6 must be born again. Uh let's look at uh 1 Peter chapter 1, verses 21 through 24. We're gonna close up here in a little bit.

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Amen. Hallelujah. Glory to God. 1 Peter 1 22 through 24.

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In these scriptures. Amen. Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth. Purifying your souls in obeying the truth. That means that in in Christ, we accepted him, so we obeyed the truth. When we don't accept him, we obey a lie. Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the spirit unto unfrayed love of the brethren. See that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently. Love one another with a pure heart fervently, a compassionate heart uh fervently. Why why are we able to do this? We're able to do this because we we are in Christ, right? Uh, next verse, please. Being born again, being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible seed, by the word of God which liveth and abideth forever. So we've been born again by incorruptible seed. Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible. That means that the seed of Christ, when I got born again, that means the seed of Christ that's in me cannot be pollinated. I cannot mix it with another seed. Because he says, any other seed, that seed is incorruptible, or that's a corruptible seed. You know how sometimes they cross through vegetables, or not vegetables, uh fruit, cross-pollinated, uh, you know, you see all that cranberry apple stuff, different kinds of things. But in Christ, the seed of Christ in you cannot be affected, not even by my sin. It is an incorruptible seed that rejects everything that's not like God. We ought to be thankful for that. The spirit of Christ in you, the seed of Christ in us, don't get sick. The speed of Christ in us don't get confused. The seed of Christ in us always has direction and guidance. That's why when I ask him for it, he can give it to me. He said that that's what we are born of. Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible seed by the word of God which liveth and abideth forever. Now I have the knowledge when stuff comes up. I'm born of an incorruptible seed. I'm born of an incorruptible seed. I'm born of an incorruptible seed. I am born of an incorruptible seed. And when I understand what that incorruptible means, I mean that also if we get over into Ephesians, he said that I have been, it has been sealed in Ephesians 1, I think round about uh maybe 12, 13 verse, somewhere in there in Ephesians first chapter. Um yeah, Ephesians first chapter, he said that I have been sealed with this promise. Right? That means that when something is sealed, nothing can get in, but he can get out.

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Huh?

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When they seal up some canned goods, can't nothing get in that can? Well, ain't nothing supposed to get in it. Ain't nothing supposed to get in that jar. Why? Because it's sealed. In other words, the incorruptible seed, it means that we have been branded by Christ. It's like a brand. I have been branded by Christ. The whole God of heaven and earth and of the universe has said, has placed himself within me and said to me that whatever it is, I can I can I can walk in it, I can live in it, I can have it according to his purpose and according to his will. According to his purpose and according to his will. Right? Don't be ashamed of trying to get to get around people and you know, and uh they talking, and you know, I you know, I can I can hold my peace a little bit.

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But sometimes when it goes on too long, I have to go ahead and say something. But I can hold it for a little while. But see, the born-again spirit is in us. Now we have to rely on him.

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We have to rely on him, and that's part of uh sometimes in the in the Christian walk, that's part of the uh sometimes the issues that we can have is because we've already placed dependency on something else. We've already placed dependency on, and you have to acknowledge, you know, I already didn't place some dependency on this. Whatever it might be, you have you have to acknowledge. I I have to acknowledge it. I said, Well, I done got some dependency on this right here. I mean, I got some got some dependency. I mean way back in the day, man, I had some I had some dependence on coke. Man, I wouldn't, I wouldn't, I wouldn't go to the house if it wasn't no coke there. And if I wasn't sure that none were there, that some was not there, if I wasn't sure and didn't know, I was stopping at the store.

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Dependency. Right? Dependency. If I wasn't sure, gonna do it.

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And I realized that I have a level of dependency in that. Right? I kind of broke it a little bit now. Well, I've broken a lot bit. And so that's how you have to determine and being honest with yourself, where is my dependency at? I mean, all of us can possibly have something we depend on. It ain't it ain't gotta be drugs or alcohol or this, that, and the other, but all of us got some dependency.

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Don't mess with me until I get that first cup of coffee in the morning. Don't mess with me until I but there's a level of dependency there.

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In all levels of dependency, I need to make an attempt to break. I ain't saying you gotta stop doing it, you know. Uh, but I gotta, but I do want to make sure when it when this thing starts affecting me, I don't get it, and it starts affecting my mood. That's a problem. I don't care what it is, it's a problem. Come in that house, boy, thought some sodas was there, and wasn't none there. Oh my. Oh my, who drunk my sodas?

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Because it affects your attitude.

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It affects your attitude. And so when the attitude gets affected, that means that there's some level of dependency. And all levels of dependency I need to try to break. I ain't gotta stop doing them. I mean, you know, you might some of them you might have stopped, some of them you might have to. I had to wing myself off of them things.

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Well, I would I would kind of get a little nervous. I'm serious, I'm serious. I would get a little nervous. Ain't nothing. How am I how am I gonna manage dependency?

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And we have to be careful that when I was born-again spirit, we want to only be dependent on God. If something caused my mood to change, my smooth to swing, my my that's dependency. And you might call it something else, but it's dependency. You dependent on whatever it is. Okay, I didn't mean to go into that that far. Huh? Huh? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. We have so many, so many. I'm I guess I'm gonna get ready to close right here. And we have so many things in this earth today that people are dependent on. Some people can't set their cell phone down.

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They can't put it on silence. If it beeps, if it gloops, if it if it if it makes any kind of sign. Amen. It's dependency.

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You can't hardly study and read the word. And you set your phone in another room and and you can't take it while you're reading the word, and you gotta go get it.

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It's dependency.

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And we hang we hanging out sometimes on these things that you know we we classify it as a as addiction and different things like that. But man, there's a lot of other dependency going on. There are some people that are dependent. Not saying this is wrong, good, or bad, but append it dependent. And sometimes the stuff you have is just it's just you realizing you don't have it, and you just you just kind of man, you mean I'm gonna have to wait till tomorrow to watch? Because you missed it today, something had to, you mean, and and now we got devices where we record it. Dependency. And all of my dependency, if I'm gonna live in the now, has to be in God, has to be in God.

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If if my dependency is on something else, that's an issue, and so I wanna I wanna fix that.

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Okay, I'm gonna throw this out there. We're gonna close, but it's probably a bad thing. It's probably uh, I don't know. The born-again spirit is the only true way you can overcome Satan tactics and strategies. Living in the now. The born-again spirit is the only way you can overcome Satan tactics and strategies if you would use the biblical process. It's the only way you can overcome. There ain't no other way that you can overcome the weapon and tactics and strategies of Satan without the born-again spirit living alive, activated in you, in me. You can't, you can't, there's no other way you can do it. And come out on top on every deal, living in success. It's the born-again spirit. Because some people say, Well, I don't care. I don't, I don't care about that. I think I'll do out of here. Okay, all right. Some we know something in life is is possibly gonna happen. Something that we can't handle, something that we don't know how to deal with, whether it's with us, whether it's with our child, whether it's with our parents, whether it's with some. Uh in all of these different avenues, we know some could possibly happen. And we have to have, the believer has to have the spiritual capacity to deal with things that happen when life happens.

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Because you know he said, you know he said in this world. He said, What?

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In this world you will have tribulation. First John 5 and 4. But be of good cheer. He said, For I have overcome the world. So by if you believe the Bible is true and his words are right, you gotta take that and say, Oh, he said, You didn't get, I didn't get, we didn't get excluded because we became Christians. We didn't get excluded, but there are some things that we can do and we can uh we can we can cause things to veer off to keep some things from happening, but there are gonna be some occasions where things are gonna happen. Right? Right? So the living in the now and operating in the born-again spirit, it prepares me for life situations and life circumstances that I have what I need when I need it, when something shows up. That I have what I need. Because he already said he has met all my needs according to what? His riches and glory. I got the clothes. Now, when I'm gonna when I'm when when do I begin to depend on what he said?

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Oh boy, you can say to yourself, uh, I can't be B. I can't be B. I can't be B.

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You can say to yourself, I can't be B. I don't know the set the solution to this problem, but I can get the suit. I know the one that has the solution. Right? I'm in contact with the one that has a solution. Sometimes I'm looking for a solution up here. I know there's a lot of stuff up here, but there's a whole lot of stuff that's not up here. I don't care who you think you is. There's a lot of stuff that's up here, but there's a whole lot of stuff not up here. And pertaining to my life and pertaining to your life, the seed of Christ that's in you has everything in you that you need when it's not up here. Huh? He has everything you need, and all you have to do is push on it, pull on it, and call on it. Fella had a business and uh he was looking for some paperwork in his business, and he had a and he had looked through his drawer and his little uh uh drawers, uh cabinets on the side of his desk, and he was looking for the paper. And then he went over to his file cabinet and he was looking for what he was looking for and he couldn't find it. Trying to find a solution to his problem or solution that he thought he had to his problem. And then it some some something, something said to him, it's not in the file cabinet. Your and your solution is not in the cabinet. He said, Huh? My solution ain't in the cabinet. He said, No, your loose, your solution's not in the cabinet. And then Spirit of the Lord said to him, Your solution is on the inside of me. Pull on it and get it out. And sometimes we're looking for solutions from parents, cheering, from people, and God wants you to pull it out from the inside. Sometimes people can't have you, even though the pastor might preach good, even though the praise team might sing good, some things God wants to bring through you. See, some things He wants you to hear in your spirit and acknowledge it in your spirit, and then He'll bring someone. Pass along to confirm what's in your spirit. He don't really want you. The pastor's responsibility is to teach and the train and the preaching. But he really wants you. He really don't want you going to the pastor for every word. I hope nobody takes that the wrong way. Don't take that wrong way. Ain't saying you can't come to the pastor. But but what I am saying is take that, take that thing for God. Because I'm going to do the same thing that you're going to have to do. I'm going to have to go pray. I ain't trying to put down the pastor, nothing, but I'm going to have to do the same thing. You go do, because I'm going to have to go pray and say, Lord, what's what's up with this? I can't find this in any of my cabinets. And then you go hear that, you go hear that word, and then he speaks to you. Then somebody else comes along and confirm it. And boy, it'd be like Elizabeth Belly were jumping when Mary showed up. That thing on the inside of you leap. Why? See, God never, God never expected us to depend on people. That was never his intention. For us to depend on people. That's why he said, put not your trust in man. Because he just expected for us to depend on him, and that's as a corporate body, we come together, someone speaks a word that you've already heard. I've rarely heard somebody speak into my life something I didn't know. Rarely. I've had it happen. But what he wants to do is talk to you about you. Talk to me about me. And then what he does, bring somebody else along to confirm. That's it. Is that it, Janet? That's what he wants to do. Because he wants your dependency and my relationship to be more with him. Right? More with him. And not such much. I mean, you have to trust people. We're not, we're not saying that. We're not saying don't trust people. I'm just saying your dependence. Y'all understand? Right. I'm just saying your dependence, my dependence.

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Hallelujah. Yes.

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So the born-again spirit is the only way you can overcome every strategy and every tactic. And Satan working behind the scenes in people. And so with the born-again spirit, you can even have people maybe treat you well. But in the born-again spirit, you still walk in the born-again spirit rejects offense. Because he doesn't hang out in the emotional realm. He hangs out in the spiritual realm. Now that part always tries to come up, right? But when it tries to come up, you say no. No? We're not going to be offended. We're not going to be in unforgiveness. Well, you know, because well, you know, they say so-and-so and so-and-so. I'm not going to be offended. I'm not going to be offended. I'm going to forgive. Because when you're walking in love, and when you're walking in these these areas and components, when you're walking in these things, God is able to continually work in my life. He's continually able to do exceedingly and abundantly above all I can ask for. And then you don't want that to stop if it's going on. If you didn't got it started, you don't want it to stop. Because you got offended. Because something happened and you didn't want to forgive. He's able to do exceedingly, abundantly above all we can ask or think, according to the power that's working within us.

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