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00:12:03I think I've covered everything.
00:12:04We want to go into the Word of God.
00:12:06You've seen the title already.
00:12:07We're going to look at the Dead Sea Scrolls.
00:12:10What an interesting thing.
00:12:12I want to give you some insight on what's coming up.
00:12:15We start back to class on Wednesday night.
00:12:17And I'm so looking forward to our time together.
00:12:20Masterclass is moving forward.
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00:12:30doing in this time, in this generation.
00:12:32And so as we begin to look into this area, we want to begin to show you some things that
00:12:38probably you didn't know before.
00:12:40Probably you never even gave it any thought.
00:12:42And this is much of what was from years ago traveling to and fro the Holy Land and the places
00:12:50that we've gone.
00:12:51So let's pray and we'll go right into this realm of masterclass, the Dead Sea Scrolls.
00:12:57Spirit of the living God, we thank you for the opportunity to share your word.
00:13:01Thank you that your kingdom has arrived.
00:13:03And we thank you that we have the privilege and the honor to bring heaven into this earthly realm by
00:13:10way of your kingdom.
00:13:12So thank you, God, for revelation knowledge.
00:13:15Open the eyes of our understanding.
00:13:17In Jesus' name, amen and amen.
00:13:20So what are the Dead Sea Scrolls?
00:13:23Well, it's a really important archaeological find because they didn't have to dig for it.
00:13:29It was found in a cave.
00:13:31There's a place called Qumran, which is the area where the Dead Sea is located.
00:13:36Many of you who have traveled to and fro with us to the Holy Land, and I'm drawing from a
00:13:41lot of the knowledge that I received there.
00:13:43I mean, back and forth bringing groups over believers to the Holy Land to actually see the Bible come to
00:13:52life.
00:13:52I did that, I think, about 11, 12 years.
00:13:55Each year we would go and take different groups.
00:13:58And I would request that we go as students and not as tourists because when you go as students, you
00:14:05get more, much more out of it.
00:14:08They're apt to show you things that usually tourists don't get to see.
00:14:12Go places where tourists don't get to go because as a student, they understand that you're there to learn.
00:14:17And so we were so blessed to do that for a number of years and bringing God's people there.
00:14:24One of the most interesting places to me was, yes, to go out to Qumran, the area where the Dead
00:14:31Sea is.
00:14:32Yes, we swam in the Dead Sea.
00:14:35You can't, you know, you can only float in it.
00:14:38It's such a heavy salt content.
00:14:40And it's a very desert-like area, very, very desert-like.
00:14:47And the scriptures over and over speak of the Dead Sea.
00:14:51But the most important part is the scrolls were found in one of the caves there in that area called
00:14:59the Dead Sea.
00:15:00And this is where we bring up this subject because we're going to walk through that.
00:15:05Wednesday night, we're going to take you through a powerful orientation of understanding all the books of the Bible, okay?
00:15:12As we said before, many call them the lost books of the Bible.
00:15:17But these books were never lost.
00:15:19In fact, they were very much a part of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
00:15:25All of these were there.
00:15:27And so we'll look into why were they left out?
00:15:30Why weren't they there?
00:15:31And mostly because I'm exposing a spirit of religion that has blanketed itself over the body of Christ.
00:15:41And it causes people to think that's enough.
00:15:45That's all you need.
00:15:46You know, religion, it makes you think that you have found all you need.
00:15:51There's no more.
00:15:52I mean, I was told that many times.
00:15:54What there is, that's what it is.
00:15:56There is no more.
00:15:57And yet inside your spirit is crying out for more.
00:16:01Because there is more.
00:16:03We can never exhaust the knowledge of God Almighty and the things that he has for us, the things that
00:16:10he wants to reveal and show us.
00:16:12And so as we walk through this, I'm hoping that we can actually give you, again, good, truthful knowledge concerning
00:16:21these books of the Bible and show you that the spirit of religion will hold no bars back, nothing to
00:16:30keep you from knowing all that God has for you.
00:16:33I remember listening to a preacher and he said words such as everything that God wanted us to know is
00:16:40already in this one Bible.
00:16:42And I believe that God protects his word.
00:16:44No one can, you know, stop the word of God.
00:16:48I believe all of that.
00:16:49But that's where they would keep you because they didn't want you or didn't understand that they were under, you
00:16:56know, the influence of a spirit of religion that doesn't want God's people to grow.
00:17:01It's simply, that's what it is, to not know, to not learn.
00:17:05Remember, it's ignorance that causes all sorts of destruction.
00:17:10All right.
00:17:11And so then the book of Enoch is one of the books we'll be focusing on as we begin Wednesday
00:17:18night study and show you some things there that you probably never heard and you probably would not because you've
00:17:23been so there's been so much discouragement in, you know, the body of Christ to keep people from seeking more
00:17:30and looking to learn more.
00:17:34But that's my purpose is to show you that these books or lost books, the various books that and we'll
00:17:42go through some of them on Wednesday night.
00:17:44I won't go through all of them tonight, but we will do that on Wednesday night.
00:17:48So I hope you'll be able to join us on Wednesday because we're really going to give you some groundbreaking
00:17:52information.
00:17:53But one of the books, as we said, the book of Enoch, which is one of 22 so-called lost
00:18:00books of the Bible.
00:18:01Well, these were the very these were found right in the midst of the very Dead Sea Scrolls.
00:18:08And, you know, where we get the King James Version and all the different versions, these were all together in
00:18:17that find of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
00:18:20And they call them the Dead Sea Scrolls because that's the area they were found in.
00:18:24All right. And, you know, they are pretty much.
00:18:29As revealing as could be.
00:18:31And as I began to search and, you know, I like to search things out and be sure.
00:18:35And I remember visiting the area where they had, I guess, a similar to a museum where the Dead Sea
00:18:47Scrolls, the original ones were all laid out.
00:18:50They showed the entire book of Isaiah and Ezekiel.
00:18:53The difference is so interesting.
00:18:55Of course, it was written in Hebrew, very early Hebrew language.
00:18:59So but these were proofs of the word of God being preserved over many, many years.
00:19:06It was just so very interesting.
00:19:08And so, again, Enoch and the 21 other lost books of the Bible.
00:19:13They were in the very Dead Sea Scrolls of which are found in the King James Version of the Holy
00:19:20Bible that we read today.
00:19:22You'll see much of as we look in the book of Enoch, that it's such a continuation.
00:19:28In fact, the book of Enoch is a continuation of the book of Genesis.
00:19:32Your Bible will have a table of contents that will say Genesis, Exodus and Leviticus.
00:19:38But when you look into the Bibles that have the original chronological order, it would be Genesis, Enoch and then
00:19:49go on to the rest, because this book is a continuation.
00:19:54It picks up exactly where Genesis left off.
00:19:57You know, Genesis six and one where we read about the giants and what took place and how the flood
00:20:03came about.
00:20:05And it's also picks up in another book called The Giants.
00:20:12And so all of these were found amidst of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
00:20:16We'll get into why were they held out or not, you know, included.
00:20:20We'll get into that.
00:20:21But, you know, one of the reasons why these books were held out, because they were so violent.
00:20:28They were. And that's, again, someone else's opinion.
00:20:33When you read Revelations and all the other, the violence is there because that's what the enemy consists of.
00:20:39The Bible says he's a murderer.
00:20:41All right.
00:20:41And so but one of the things that the book of Enoch goes into, he begins to explain that the
00:20:47giants were consuming all the resources of mankind.
00:20:51And even though their fleshly bodies were destroyed during the great flood, that flood of Noah, their spirits lived on
00:21:02and are here today and to this very day.
00:21:06And they are the evil, demonic, falling spirits that we deal with, the demonic realm, the casting out of devils.
00:21:15All of this is coming from that under the these are all, again, under the rule and demise of Satan
00:21:21and part of that fall in the one third that was fallen from heaven, according to the Bible.
00:21:26And yes, these are the very spirits that afflict.
00:21:30They oppress.
00:21:32They seek to destroy.
00:21:35And this is a very real picture of it.
00:21:39And that some of that will go into because we want people to really understand the word of God.
00:21:44I want you to know it for yourself.
00:21:45When you know things for yourself, it's like you can really begin to be a real witness.
00:21:52OK.
00:21:53And so now another understanding is that Jude actually quotes many of the scriptures from the book of Enoch.
00:22:06Jude, who was the half brother of Jesus, quoted the very writings of Enoch in his book.
00:22:13And that one little chapter of the Bible of Jude is much more than that.
00:22:19And that's why I said when we look into these other books, you'll see that it really is a continuation.
00:22:24And we'll look at some of the reasons why these books were not included.
00:22:28You'd be so surprised.
00:22:29You say, you're kidding me?
00:22:31Is this is what?
00:22:31But this is also exposing the spirit of religion that does not want this and the enemy does not want
00:22:39you to come into areas of full information.
00:22:43It's why we keep exposing this religious spirit so that people can know beyond a shadow of a doubt that
00:22:50you are really on the right path.
00:22:53You know, the minute you start learning about kingdom.
00:22:56Remember, he immediately comes to try and stop and block that knowledge from growing and bringing you into the understanding
00:23:03of the word of God, a greater understanding.
00:23:06And so even Jesus, we're going to find that he quoted many of the scriptures that are found in the
00:23:13book of Enoch.
00:23:14And likewise, even Luke, the physician as well.
00:23:18He was quoting various scriptures from Enoch that are in the book of Luke.
00:23:23So we will show and prove that you don't have to be afraid to seek out and be understanding that
00:23:32there's something that your spirit is crying out for more.
00:23:36It's OK.
00:23:37You're not, you know, going off into error and all these things that, you know, the religious folk try to
00:23:44make you feel like because that's the enemy.
00:23:46That's that's exactly it's been effective.
00:23:48He's not going to stop.
00:23:49We're going to see in the scriptures where even after, you know, the great tribulation and he's cast into the
00:23:55pit.
00:23:55There goes another time where he's released and he does the exact same thing.
00:24:00But that's definitely ahead.
00:24:01We'll get to that in a minute.
00:24:02But the original King James version of the Bible had originally, OK, 80 books.
00:24:09All right.
00:24:10Well, we're going to look at the full 88 books that the scriptures talks about concerning these Dead Sea Scrolls
00:24:20that were found there in Qumran.
00:24:23All right.
00:24:24In 1826, under the rule of the great British Empire, who controlled much of the world at that time, they
00:24:33made a decision and printing for many different reasons of which, like I said, we'll go over when we begin
00:24:39on Wednesday night, our new classes.
00:24:42They decided to leave out certain books and the most documented reason is that these, quote unquote, lost books had
00:24:54not been fully translated at the time of the canonizing or the canonization of the scriptures.
00:25:00Now, what is that canonizing is full proofing the author, the authorization who wrote them at the time they were
00:25:08written?
00:25:08Who were they written?
00:25:09All of that had to be fully proven and before it could be canonized.
00:25:15And again, these Dead Sea Scrolls were in really ancient writings that would take quite some time to properly translate
00:25:23and full proof them so that they could be in the canon of scripture.
00:25:26So that's just one of the reasons why it said that these books were not included because they were not
00:25:33completely, you know, completed in the process of authenticating them to be original and to be real.
00:25:43That's just one of the reasons.
00:25:45All right.
00:25:46Now, in Catholicism, actually, the Catholics, their Bible, they have 73 books.
00:25:53In fact, you can look at most of a lot of the religions, and unfortunately, they are religions.
00:26:00They have, why are there so many different amounts?
00:26:04Why do the, you know, this group have a certain amount and this other group has another amount?
00:26:09And it shows that religion is just, it divides.
00:26:13It's why there's so many different denominations.
00:26:16It divides to divide and conquer.
00:26:19And so in Catholicism, they have like 73 books.
00:26:27And it was the Ethiopian descendants of the Ethiopian priests who was baptized by the disciples of Jesus, the disciple,
00:26:41the one particular one, Philip.
00:26:43And you'd read about that.
00:26:45We'll go into that.
00:26:46It's in the book of Acts.
00:26:47We won't go through that now, but again, I hope you'll join me on Wednesday night because we want to
00:26:51lay out a good foundation and give you some real understanding so that you won't be afraid, you know, to
00:26:58dig deeper.
00:27:01Your spirit is crying for deeper.
00:27:03And I know that this is going to help so many.
00:27:07It's groundbreaking.
00:27:09It really is.
00:27:10Casey, can you check my feed?
00:27:11It's not moving.
00:27:16And so moving forward, moving forward, understanding this Ethiopian, he was also a eunuch, but he was also a priest.
00:27:24And most priests, you know, during those times did, you know, become eunuchs.
00:27:30All right.
00:27:31And so, again, Philip, as after he baptized this Ethiopian priest, this person went on to grow and to flourish
00:27:43in the word of God.
00:27:46Philip did an excellent job of teaching him and helping him to learn what it was he needed to know.
00:27:51And this is amazing because then what happens?
00:27:57They maintain, the Ethiopians maintained, the Ethiopian Jews, okay, they maintain the original writings to this day.
00:28:10And that's what we want to do.
00:28:12It's kind of like rediscovering.
00:28:14It will be so enlightening.
00:28:17You just, it's going to be enlightening to you.
00:28:20You'll see as we walk through it.
00:28:22That's why I'm hoping that you'll tell somebody, bring as many people with you on Wednesday night to watch because
00:28:28it's going to be an eye opener.
00:28:29And then you'll see why the enemy, even the church, discouraged, you know, looking further into these writings.
00:28:38If they were not in the midst of the Dead Sea Scrolls that were found at the time, I wouldn't
00:28:44bother with it.
00:28:44But all my trips to the Holy Land, God didn't allow me to do that just to, you know, go
00:28:51on a vacation or just do some touristing.
00:28:53No, this was very foundational what God allowed me to do.
00:28:57All right.
00:28:58And so then as the Ethiopians maintained the original 88 books, because that's the original amount that was found in
00:29:07the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Ethiopian Jews, they, guess what?
00:29:12The Great Britain rule, look at the Roman Empire.
00:29:17All of these were very powerful empires.
00:29:19They're very destructive in empires.
00:29:23They were really much under the spirit of religion, under the spirit of the devil.
00:29:29It was a very serious time.
00:29:31And most would bow to these empires and their rule and what they decided would be supposedly the religion for
00:29:44that nation.
00:29:45And so many bowed to it, except the Ethiopians.
00:29:51Number one, the Ethiopian Jews, they did not bow to colonial rule of any empire of any times, because Ethiopian
00:30:00was one of the very few nations that were never conquered by these empires.
00:30:07Never.
00:30:07Okay.
00:30:08Not to this day.
00:30:09And so the Romans, they edited the books and they decided what parts.
00:30:14This is where you get the realm of Catholicism or Catholic.
00:30:18These books, the Emperor Constantine, you can Google that.
00:30:22It's right there at your disposal to read it and find out and learn for yourself.
00:30:26Okay.
00:30:27They set up the realm.
00:30:29His mother was a devout Christian, quote unquote, again, under the spirit of religion.
00:30:34And they began to legalize Christianity so that those who were believers on Christ could be free to, you know,
00:30:43exercise their faith.
00:30:45And this is how really it began to just kind of that snowball effect where it became global.
00:30:54And this is how the whole realm of Catholicism began to blossom because of the Empire of Constantine.
00:31:03Now, the Lutherans, they simply removed even the parts that had been canonized.
00:31:09The Lutheran Bible does not have certain chapters or certain books that are in your original King James Version.
00:31:16So it just shows you the spirit of religion dividing, dividing and conquer, dividing.
00:31:21That's why we have got one God and millions of religions.
00:31:25What is that?
00:31:26Come on.
00:31:27Think about that.
00:31:27And so the Lutherans, they removed the parts of the Bible that were even already canonized.
00:31:34And guess what?
00:31:35Our Western culture discontinued the books that had not been fully canonized.
00:31:43Not that they weren't authentic in the real deal.
00:31:45They just made a decision, you know, again, under a spirit of religion.
00:31:51I hope you're hearing me.
00:31:52This is why I'm exposing the spirit for what it is.
00:31:54It is absolutely destructive, and it's causing so many people to miss out on their purpose.
00:32:02Why God decided to have you in the earth for such a time as this.
00:32:06You need to hear this word today.
00:32:09So the Ethiopian Jews preserved the original Dead Sea Scrolls.
00:32:14The King James Version is not wrong.
00:32:18In fact, it's so funny to me because, I don't know, some of you may have heard this as well
00:32:25as I have over the years.
00:32:27You know, that that's the white man's Bible, and you're under the white man's rule and so on.
00:32:33You're still in slavery.
00:32:35You're still in bondage.
00:32:36That's white man's.
00:32:37And that couldn't be more wrong, more further from the truth.
00:32:43In fact, its original authenticity is actually proven through these Dead Sea Scrolls of the original writings of the King
00:32:56James Version.
00:32:57What you're going to see is when I read you certain parts of these lost books, they actually prove, they
00:33:07confirm the authenticity of your King James Version of your Bible.
00:33:14Whereas, you don't ever have to, you know, wonder if this is a white man's religion or white man's Bible.
00:33:23They can have all the religion they want to because none of that belongs to God.
00:33:27But, I mean, those are things I've heard over the years.
00:33:29I don't know what you've heard.
00:33:30I mean, you can check in if you have heard that before.
00:33:33But what you're going to find out is these books actually even confirm the Bible, the King James Version, which
00:33:40already is.
00:33:41So the books are a continuation.
00:33:45I want you to hear that.
00:33:46They are a continuation of the canonized scriptures.
00:33:49These 22 books that are not included in our King James Version are actual proof of the 66 books of
00:33:59the King James Version.
00:33:59I just want you to know that.
00:34:01What happened?
00:34:02The Reformers, there was a great reformation beginning with Luther and the Catholics and so on and so forth.
00:34:08What the Reformers of religions, that's what I want you to focus on, of religions.
00:34:15Somebody heard it beside me.
00:34:16Yes.
00:34:17We know there are specific religious groups that say that, you know, they speak against Christianity and they speak against
00:34:24the King James Version.
00:34:26But all it is, is division.
00:34:28It's just the enemy and that spirit of religion continue to divide.
00:34:31And for a while, I really would think, OK, yeah, you know, maybe that's what it is.
00:34:35So on and so forth.
00:34:36We don't know any better.
00:34:37You can't do better.
00:34:38But thank God we learn better.
00:34:39But again, the Reformers of religions, they left out these books.
00:34:45Not God.
00:34:46God never left them out.
00:34:47God allowed them to be found in a cave.
00:34:51Again, if you study any of the documentaries of the Dead Sea Scrolls, it was a young shepherd boy who
00:34:59was out, you know, grazing his sheep and bringing him to a, you know, taking him to a place of
00:35:04grazing or whatever.
00:35:05And many shepherds are out in those areas.
00:35:08And what you find out is that he threw a rock in a cave and he heard it, you know,
00:35:14crack and he hit something.
00:35:16And, of course, he went in and there they began to discover the Dead Sea Scrolls.
00:35:20And again, one of the main focuses is the book of Enoch.
00:35:24Why is that book so important?
00:35:26Because we read in Genesis one little thing that Enoch walked with God and God took him.
00:35:33Well, don't you understand there's much more to it than that?
00:35:36You know, what?
00:35:37Why?
00:35:38What is going on there?
00:35:39Well, this is what the book begins to describe.
00:35:42It's a continuation of what you read in your King James Version.
00:35:46So the book of, and guess what?
00:35:48The book of Enoch names specific angelic servants of mankind.
00:35:53Servants that are right here functioning in the earth, the angelic beings, and what they are assigned to do concerning
00:36:02the citizens of God's kingdom.
00:36:04This is very important information.
00:36:07That would be in Enoch chapter 20 in verse 7.
00:36:10You will see that these angels are named and they are on assignment for the kingdom of God's, you know,
00:36:18citizens.
00:36:18This is very important information to me.
00:36:20So when you understand who and what is fighting on your behalf, think of it now.
00:36:27You got these angelic beings that are assigned to fight on your behalf.
00:36:32When you understand that, you stop being afraid of who is fighting against you because you understand who is fighting
00:36:40for you.
00:36:41Kingdom citizenship is powerful.
00:36:43It's got power and authority.
00:36:45It's authorized.
00:36:46God has set up something that is foolproof.
00:36:51And the enemy does not want you to know that.
00:36:54So there are so many knockoff publishers of fake so-called Ethiopian Bibles.
00:37:00Ethiopian, the book of Enoch, there's a bunch of knockoffs because, of course, the enemy, he's all about, you know,
00:37:07the corruption of finances and the spirit of mammon.
00:37:12And so they're all, and this is one of the reasons why, you know, so many believers reject anything other
00:37:20than the King James version of, you know, Bible today.
00:37:24But I say, you know, don't let, you know, the negative ones cause you, what's the saying throughout the baby
00:37:31with the water?
00:37:32There is so much, you know, I've been studying these.
00:37:35I don't bring things to God's people until I have thoroughly looked into it myself.
00:37:42And there are a lot of things that I am still looking into, and I will not bring it to
00:37:45you until I am, you know, fully, you know, clear on it.
00:37:51But yes, absolutely, the Lord of hosts.
00:37:54And again, these things are already in your King James Bible.
00:37:58You're just going to see the confirmation of it.
00:38:01This is what they do.
00:38:02I don't know why they were so against these.
00:38:04Well, yes, I do.
00:38:05Again, the spirit of religion just doesn't want you to know certain things.
00:38:10And all from my reading and continuing to absolutely, because I will go through something thoroughly over and over again.
00:38:17Reminds me when I first got saved, I first received the Holy Ghost.
00:38:21I took the day off from work and sat and read that Bible from cover to cover.
00:38:26And I was not about to miss because I had been really, I mean, my life had been totally changed.
00:38:33And so this is what I'm saying unto you.
00:38:35That allow yourself.
00:38:39The promises of God are there.
00:38:41Don't let outside influences keep you from coming into what God has for you because it's so much more.
00:38:52All right.
00:38:53So in 1947, actually, that was the time that was the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
00:38:58And when they discovered those, it changed everything.
00:39:02The Book of Enoch, as well as the Book of Jubilees.
00:39:05That's another one we'll be looking at.
00:39:07These books, guess what?
00:39:09They are dated to be older than any of the ancient writings that were found.
00:39:14These books confirm the Bible of today.
00:39:18They do not come against it.
00:39:20And it is not something that you should actually shurn or stay away from or be afraid of.
00:39:26It's just, it's a spirit of religion.
00:39:29Okay.
00:39:30Spirit of religion.
00:39:31The greatest gift God ever sent to the earth was not a religion.
00:39:38It was not a denomination of different churches and different faiths and we this and we're that and so on
00:39:46and so forth.
00:39:47The greatest gift of God that was sent to the earth was the kingdom of God, the governing, the return
00:39:54of the government of God Almighty.
00:39:57His government shall be on his shoulders.
00:40:00He will bring the rule of heaven into earth through his citizens, through his people, the kingdom of God.
00:40:09If they say, come here, here's the kingdom or go there, there's the kingdom.
00:40:13He says, don't go there for the kingdom is within you.
00:40:17So what's he doing?
00:40:18He's teaching us the understanding.
00:40:20He's teaching us how to be healed.
00:40:22All of these things are good training.
00:40:24You have to learn how to heal yourself before you can lay hands and get someone else healed.
00:40:29You have to learn how to rebuke and cast out the devils yourself so that you will have the authority
00:40:35to cast out devils from someone else.
00:40:38This is not religion.
00:40:39Casting out devils is not a religion.
00:40:42It is the governing laws of God that spirits that don't have a body and are in the earth, they
00:40:49are illegal.
00:40:50This is why you must be born of a woman because that is your entrance into this natural realm of
00:40:58the earth.
00:40:58And when you become a citizen of the kingdom, you now come into the laws, the government of God.
00:41:06You now have the benefits and the rights.
00:41:08Healing is not religious.
00:41:10Healing is a citizenship right.
00:41:13It's your right to be healed.
00:41:14Financial stability, that is the governing laws of God's common wealth.
00:41:20You are legal and you have the right to have financial stability.
00:41:25You don't pray from a religious mindset.
00:41:29You pray from a kingdom mindset.
00:41:32Religion makes you beg and plead.
00:41:35Kingdom teaches you to decree and declare.
00:41:38It's just a total difference.
00:41:40But the enemy has deceived, as we've been teaching you for these past few weeks, by this spirit of religion
00:41:48and making people see.
00:41:50The one thing you need, learn this about a spirit of religion.
00:41:54Religion makes you think that you have found all you need.
00:42:00That's all there is.
00:42:01There is no more.
00:42:03You know, make self-content with this.
00:42:06You know, stay sick.
00:42:08Stay broke.
00:42:09Suffer.
00:42:10You know, that's the spirit of religion.
00:42:13And they don't mind saying that that's, you know, that's the way it's supposed.
00:42:17And the Holy Spirit is stirring you inside, letting you know, that's not it.
00:42:23That's not it.
00:42:23This is why so many don't have peace.
00:42:25They can't even get a good night's sleep because the Holy Spirit is stirring you.
00:42:28That's why certain things you just can't seem to fix it.
00:42:31You can't get rid of it.
00:42:32It won't go.
00:42:33You pray.
00:42:33You fast.
00:42:34You've done all these things.
00:42:35And you can't seem to break through because God wants to get your attention and say, get out of that.
00:42:41Get loose yourself from that spirit of religion.
00:42:44It's a spirit of bondage.
00:42:45When I researched it, I even Googled it.
00:42:47It says to be bound, to be bound up.
00:42:50Think of these things.
00:42:51All of this knowledge is available, but God's people have been taught to reject it, to not want anything other
00:42:58than what.
00:42:59And that is a spirit of religion because it makes you stop in your tracks, that you don't go any
00:43:04further.
00:43:04You don't seek anything else, that that's it.
00:43:07That's all it is.
00:43:08There is no more.
00:43:09God has given you all that you need.
00:43:11And that is alive from the spirit of hell, from the devil's religious spirit itself.
00:43:17And I want to break that spirit from over you so that you can understand the power that is invested
00:43:22in you, that you're supposed to have a good life, an abundant life.
00:43:26You're supposed to feel good and enjoy these beautiful days that God has given you on this earth.
00:43:31It is for you, and we will continue to come against it.
00:43:35And remember, just the minute you really start getting the revelation knowledge of this kingdom message that is going forth,
00:43:43remember, the Bible says immediately, okay?
00:43:46Immediately, Satan comes to snatch it away.
00:43:50He does not want, he will distract you.
00:43:53And again, sometimes a distraction feels like an attack, and an attack can feel like a distraction.
00:43:59But either way, he does not want you to get this knowledge.
00:44:02I believe that's why a lot of the books of the Bible were left out, that they did make some
00:44:07wrong decisions.
00:44:08Because, again, it simply enhances your knowledge of the kingdom of God so that you can begin to walk in
00:44:16the fullness of what you're reading and not be limited and minimized by a spirit of religion.
00:44:24All right, I continue.
00:44:26I continue.
00:44:26So, again, that discovery in 1947 of the Dead Sea Scrolls was a major breakthrough.
00:44:33And, again, it begins.
00:44:35So, you're going to see that all it's doing is confirming that it's all about the kingdom of God and
00:44:41not about a religion.
00:44:43Think of the mystery behind it.
00:44:46What did Enoch know that caused him to walk with God so that God would just take him?
00:44:53Come on now.
00:44:54Now, is that religious?
00:44:56It's got nothing to do with religion.
00:44:59That's something that, you know, Enoch begins to, oh, I'm getting ahead of myself.
00:45:03You better make sure you join me on Wednesday evening.
00:45:05Because he began to expose and reveal certain portals.
00:45:08No doubt he probably went into, God brought him through one of the portals that actually cuts the time, whereas
00:45:16it's not millions and eons of light years to travel into the realm of the third heaven and into this
00:45:23realm of the earth.
00:45:24It is so mind-boggling.
00:45:27That stuff is so powerful.
00:45:29I said, no wonder the enemy didn't want you to learn that.
00:45:32He don't want you to learn the portals that God uses to entrance and act for his will and his
00:45:39way to come into the earthly realm.
00:45:41These things are very powerful.
00:45:43Of course, the enemy would not want you to know these things.
00:45:46And so, again, as we travel through these, we want you to see it and you judge for yourself.
00:45:53Because, again, I say when you understand who and what is fighting for you, you're just not going to be
00:45:59afraid.
00:46:00Fear is going to leave you.
00:46:01And you're not going to have the, you know, the kind of mindset that the enemy wants you to have
00:46:07and be content with and expect no more, look for no more.
00:46:12Again, Jesus preached one message and one message only.
00:46:16Over and over, you would see in your scriptures, in your Bible, he would say the kingdom is likened on
00:46:21to this.
00:46:21The kingdom of heaven is likened on to that.
00:46:23It's likened on to a man who went on a far journey, who entered another country.
00:46:27He's talking about heaven.
00:46:29Heaven is like it's a planet.
00:46:30It's a place.
00:46:31It's a real, absolute, existing thing.
00:46:35And it's real.
00:46:36It's so far in the midst of the heavenlies that you won't need a body.
00:46:41A body would not be able.
00:46:42That's why you have to listen.
00:46:43You go on a flight.
00:46:44You have to have oxygen and everything.
00:46:46Your body is not designed to live that high into the spheres.
00:46:50But heaven, that's why we take on immortality.
00:46:53We take on a different body when we go to heaven because that's where it's a real place.
00:46:58It's not some oblivious.
00:46:59And these scriptures are going to prove it and show you so that you can have a real intelligent knowledge
00:47:06of your king.
00:47:07The Bible is about a king and his kingdom and his citizens.
00:47:13It's not a religion.
00:47:14Jesus over and over again.
00:47:16What did he do?
00:47:17He encountered and attacked the religious rulers.
00:47:21He was always in conflict with them.
00:47:24He would say, repent.
00:47:26He called them vipers.
00:47:27He called them hypocrites.
00:47:29He let them know that this is not it.
00:47:32Change your mind.
00:47:34Glory to God.
00:47:36Glory to God.
00:47:38Thank you for my shoes.
00:47:40Glory to God.
00:47:41The kingdom of God is what he preached.
00:47:45And when we get that message, the message of the kingdom, your struggles are going to stop.
00:47:52It's going to end.
00:47:54And you're going to stop struggling for the things that are already yours by law.
00:47:59It's by law.
00:47:59That's why I say it's your right.
00:48:01Healing is your right.
00:48:02Finances is your right.
00:48:03Increase is your right.
00:48:04Yes, God will train you, teach you how to be a better manager, a better steward, because our stewardship lacks.
00:48:11And that's, again, because of a spirit of religion.
00:48:13He doesn't want you to learn the things that really matter.
00:48:16Just a whole lot of religious routines and, you know, all sorts of rituals and formalities.
00:48:24I say, you know, we have programs and step by step we align what we want and don't even understand
00:48:32the true.
00:48:33I want to give you a quick definition, if you'll allow me.
00:48:37Because we talk about righteousness.
00:48:39And I've said many times, again, that religion has nothing to do with the righteousness of God.
00:48:48And see, again, like I said, this is in your Bible, too.
00:48:52When you understand the true righteousness of God, we were teaching that on understanding that it's a standard.
00:49:03It's a way of life.
00:49:04It's a way of living.
00:49:07And see, I was reading Revelations 3 and 10.
00:49:11And this, you don't have to write it down, but I'm just, I just wanted to show you something.
00:49:15He says, because you have guarded and kept my word of patient endurance.
00:49:21And have held fast the lesson of my patience.
00:49:25Meaning you've endured patiently before the Lord.
00:49:28Okay.
00:49:29And he goes on and says that because you have held fast the lesson of my patience with the expected
00:49:40endurance that I give you.
00:49:43I also will keep you safe from the hour of trial and testing, which is coming on the world, on
00:49:51the earth, on the whole world, to test them, to try those who dwell up on the earth.
00:49:59This is so important because, again, it's dealing with understanding that this is real.
00:50:07It's coming to everybody.
00:50:09Nobody is going to be exempt from this time of testing.
00:50:16And so I said, well, let me look at this word righteousness because I, you know, and this was why
00:50:22we were teaching you that righteousness has got nothing to do with religion.
00:50:26It's not a religion.
00:50:26And so I said, let me just Google it because you go into the secular world and see what they
00:50:31have to say.
00:50:33And it was, again, right on point because it is what it is.
00:50:37Righteousness, in the Bible, righteousness means being, and this one I Googled, I just Googled it.
00:50:43He says, righteousness means being in right relationship with God and living in a way that aligns.
00:50:50And we heard that word yesterday, praise God, how to align yourself.
00:50:54Remember, woman of God, how to align yourself with the things of God.
00:50:57And this is secular.
00:50:58This is not even a biblical.
00:51:00This is not my strong.
00:51:01This is, I just Googled it.
00:51:02And he goes on to say, you know, relationship and aligns with his character and justice and community standards.
00:51:12Okay.
00:51:13He said, it doesn't mean flawless or moral perfection.
00:51:18It's relational.
00:51:19It's practical.
00:51:21And I like the fact that he keeps it in a very simple word.
00:51:25None of it is religious.
00:51:27You know, it all deals with this realm of what God's standard is.
00:51:32For you and the calling that he has placed upon your life.
00:51:38I think that it's so important that you just begin to adjust yourself to understanding the kingdom mindset.
00:51:48Jesus kept saying, repent, repent.
00:51:50He wasn't even talking about sin.
00:51:53He was referring to the mindset, wrong thinking.
00:51:57Change the way you think.
00:52:00Okay.
00:52:00Righteousness is not about, you know, religious performance.
00:52:06This isn't, this is what I Googled.
00:52:08You know, in fact, Jesus regularly criticized people who relied on religious performance.
00:52:16Okay.
00:52:16Or some kind of moral superiority rather than genuine, humble relationship connection.
00:52:24Okay.
00:52:25And simply the very standards that he has set.
00:52:28And so, I mean, to me, this is, it's, it's not rocket science.
00:52:34This is something that you can begin to ask, ask the Lord.
00:52:40Remember the little prayer we had shared with you that you would want to, Lord, bring me up to your
00:52:47standard of living.
00:52:49Okay.
00:52:50Bring me to the way you have set it up for me to live.
00:52:54Because religion, you'll never reach the standard of living.
00:52:57So, I say this over and over again.
00:53:01I continue to say it.
00:53:02We have made the process of redemption.
00:53:05Okay.
00:53:05The process of being saved.
00:53:07We made this whole church thing more important than the purpose of our being saved.
00:53:13The purpose of our redemption.
00:53:17And again, because religion makes you stop.
00:53:20That's it.
00:53:20That's enough.
00:53:21You know, and you, your, your, your spirit is crying out for more.
00:53:25So, anyway, I do hope you'll join us on Wednesday evening when I walk you through some of these amazing
00:53:33writings that you've probably never heard before.
00:53:35As we revisit, I'm revisiting the Dead Sea Scrolls, some of my notes that I had from way back then,
00:53:42and begin to share with you something that, again, religion probably would never allow you, would not want you to
00:53:51read.
00:53:52And, again, it simply confirms what already is.
00:53:57Don't let that spirit of religion through folk who think they know so much.
00:54:01In most cases, they know nothing.
00:54:03Don't let them discourage you from the scriptures, from the word of God.
00:54:08God, again, if he didn't want it, those books would have never been preserved.
00:54:13And those Ethiopian Jews have preserved it.
00:54:16You know, they even claim, you know, the, the owning of the Ark of Covenant.
00:54:22I don't know about all of that.
00:54:24I just know that the Dead Sea Scrolls, that is a scientific, actual, archaeological find.
00:54:32It's documented.
00:54:33I've went to the Holy Land and saw those original scrolls many, many times.
00:54:38And I simply want to share, give you some enlightenment, help you to see the greater so that you can
00:54:45step into the fullness of who you are, the fullness of your power, the fullness of your gifts and your
00:54:52calling, and break free, you know, from this thing called religion.
00:54:59And the funny thing is, I remember my director, when I was in the Holy Land, I'm going to finish
00:55:05with this.
00:55:06He was telling a little joke.
00:55:08And he was talking about, you know, the various denominations had gotten, when they got to heaven, he was taking
00:55:16them on a tour and showing them all the different ones, you know.
00:55:21And when they, you know, got to, then they were praising and, you know, worshiping and having fun, blessing the
00:55:27Lord, as they were, you know, taking this tour of heaven.
00:55:31And then all of a sudden, the tour guide said, shh, you need to be quiet.
00:55:37And then, you know, they said, you know, we praise the Lord.
00:55:42Heaven is supposed to be a place of praise.
00:55:44And in the midst of them were all different denominations.
00:55:47You had, you know, the Catholics, the Baptists, you know, the AMEs and, you know, Church of God in Christ,
00:55:56Church of Lord, all of them together.
00:55:58And when they got to a certain section, the tour guide said, shh, you have to be quiet here.
00:56:04And they said, you know, they said, why?
00:56:07He said, well, this is where the Pentecostals live.
00:56:10And they said, well, why should we be quiet?
00:56:13They make noise more than everybody.
00:56:16And the tour guide said, yeah, but they don't believe nobody else is up here but them.
00:56:21So you have to be quiet.
00:56:23And religion does that.
00:56:24It makes it think, you know, these denominations, they're the only ones that go into heaven.
00:56:30Nobody else.
00:56:31And so this is why we must continue to assault and come against the spirit of religion.
00:56:40Expose it.
00:56:41As we talked before, renounce it.
00:56:46Denounce it.
00:56:47And if you don't get that, go back to our last live stream on last week.
00:56:51You'll read and see how to do that because it's critical to your well-being and what God has for
00:56:57you.
00:56:57Spirit of living God, we thank you now for your goodness and your mercy.
00:57:01It is ever enduring.
00:57:03Thank you for the word of God.
00:57:04We're looking so forward to a most powerful year of learning and coming into the word of God, the knowledge
00:57:11that you have for us.
00:57:12We thank you in advance for it.
00:57:15And we believe you for so much greater than what we've already seen.
00:57:20In Jesus' name, we thank you for it.
00:57:21We call it done.
00:57:22And it is so.
00:57:24Bless you, Darnese.
00:57:25Love seeing you, lady.
00:57:27Wednesday night, 7 p.m.
00:57:29It's going to bless you.
00:57:30I'm telling you, you're going to be so glad to hear some of these things that we're going to be
00:57:33sharing with you.
00:57:34And we look forward to seeing you then.
00:57:36Class is back in session.
00:57:37Welcome back to Masterclass.
00:57:39God bless you.
00:57:40We'll see you then.
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00:59:00For details, go to wordupinc.org and click on Speaking Engagement.
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