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00:07:33Okay, greetings. Word up, everybody. We greet you in the magnificent name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
00:07:39And the Word of God comes to you today in such a powerful way.
00:07:43You will definitely want to have a pen and paper on hand because we have so much we want to
00:07:47share with you
00:07:48as we step into the realm of the standards, Yahweh's standard.
00:07:53It's a powerful teaching.
00:07:55All right, shout out to all my On-Site Shepherds.
00:08:00Evangelist Melinda, Pastor Dorothy Gatlin, Evangelist Stephanie, and of course, Joe Hickey.
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00:11:10Let's pray and dig right in.
00:11:12In spirit of the living God, we thank you so much for the opportunity to share the word of God.
00:11:16We thank you that the kingdom has arrived, and we are so excited about what you're doing in our lives.
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00:11:25Those who are taking this word and listening to it and applying it are seeing the changes begin to take
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00:11:36Only you could have brought us to this wonderful knowledge of your kingdom.
00:11:42We call all things done, and it is so in Jesus' mighty name.
00:11:46All right.
00:11:46As you saw, today's title, Yahweh's Standard.
00:11:49We introduced to you Standard on last week, our last coming together, last time we came together.
00:11:55And we want you to understand how important this is.
00:11:59This is a life-changing message.
00:12:01People, God, what we're doing is life-changing.
00:12:04If you apply it, if you're listening and you're not just considering, oh, just another little Bible class or just
00:12:11another little, you know, study with a few scriptures, if you take it that away, then you're not going to
00:12:18see what is intended for you to see.
00:12:21But if you really are seriously taking this in, then you're going to see the kind of change that happens
00:12:29and how it was intended to be in the word of God.
00:12:34Now, last week, we shared with you that you wanted to simply start putting these words of the kingdom, put
00:12:42it to work, put it, apply it.
00:12:44OK, and we asked you to simply say, Lord, bring me up to your standard of living.
00:12:52Just just that simple little prayer of submission to the Lord, submitting that prayer, submits you to his power.
00:13:03It submits you to his grace and his mercy, his his power and his authority.
00:13:09And so when you simply say, Lord, bring me up to your standard of living, that's what you're doing.
00:13:15You're submitting. And it's very it's a very important.
00:13:19It's very simple, but it has a whole lot of power behind it.
00:13:24And as I began to receive that from the Lord, I did begin to apply it right away.
00:13:32And so and I pray thank you for those of you who thank you, those who are actually doing it.
00:13:37And I pray that you will continue. And I think the more that we share the word of God, it
00:13:42becomes natural.
00:13:43It becomes just a natural part and a way of living.
00:13:48Let's go to our first scripture as we again.
00:13:53Step into this realm of Yahweh's standard.
00:13:57Again, people of God, this is life changing.
00:14:01If you hear it and hear it for the first time, it may seem regular, normal.
00:14:06It seems like you'll think you had it before or you heard it before, because that's what religion does.
00:14:11Remember, we're actually exposing the spirit of religion.
00:14:18So remember that even as we're teaching, that's why we're introducing this word standard.
00:14:24It's been there all the time, but now it's coming to our full attention.
00:14:28All right. So Isaiah chapter 49 and we want to look at verse 22 and I'm in the King James
00:14:37version.
00:14:38There are many other versions that I've drawn for, but we'll start with this one and we'll go through some
00:14:43more as we go.
00:14:44Isaiah 49 and verse 22 simply says, thus saith the Lord God, behold, I will lift up my hand to
00:14:54the Gentiles.
00:14:55That's you, me, that's us, because anybody that wasn't a Jew in these writings, you considered a Gentile.
00:15:01All right. So he says, I will lift up my hand to the Gentiles and set up my standard.
00:15:07Notice, not set up my religion, but set up my standard to the people.
00:15:15And they shall bring thy sons in their arms.
00:15:20Thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.
00:15:23And it just goes on and begins to tell you all of the things that represent his standard.
00:15:31So you get a chance, you want to read the whole chapter.
00:15:33That'd be great.
00:15:34But we're taking the foundational scripture here concerning standard from Isaiah 49 and verse 22.
00:15:43So if you get a chance to write that down, that's very good, because we're going to be building from
00:15:46that.
00:15:47Now, I'm putting you to work today.
00:15:49OK, I want you to write down this statement.
00:15:53Ready? You got your pen and paper on hand.
00:15:56Write this statement down.
00:15:57See, as I get these, I want to share them with you.
00:15:59I want to give you something to meditate on, to think on.
00:16:03OK, something to grow from.
00:16:05All right.
00:16:05So I want you to write down darkness thrives where truth is absent.
00:16:13OK, darkness thrives where truth is absent.
00:16:22Thank you, Casey.
00:16:24Put that up for you.
00:16:25Because one of the things we have to realize and darkness, understand darkness.
00:16:30When the scripture, especially in the Hebrew realm, speaks of darkness, it's not just a literal darkness or blackout, the
00:16:38things that can mean that.
00:16:40But that's why it uses that.
00:16:41But it literally means ignorance.
00:16:43It means something that you need to know and you don't know.
00:16:48And when you don't realize that the greatest deception the enemy has, your enemy, your adversary, his greatest weapon is
00:16:57deception.
00:16:58And it is in full swing, especially now.
00:17:03And so, again, darkness thrives where truth is absent.
00:17:08And this is much of the problems that we're having because there's this spirit of religion, as you're going to
00:17:15see in the scripture, it has absolutely just covered the earth, which is, again, from Satan himself.
00:17:23You know, the prince of darkness, the prince of air, whatever you, he thrives on our ignorance.
00:17:31What we don't learn, what we don't take the time to find out and search and see is his advantage.
00:17:39All right.
00:17:40One other thing I want you to write down now.
00:17:46Deception thrives where discernment is ignored.
00:17:53Okay.
00:17:54I'm going to say it again.
00:17:56Deception thrives where discernment is ignored.
00:18:05And so, as we begin to teach you, you're going to find that your level of discernment becomes very heightened.
00:18:12You become very aware.
00:18:14Okay.
00:18:15This gives you such insight on what the adversary is doing.
00:18:19It goes right back to what we said from the very beginning when we started exposing the spirit of religion
00:18:26because it makes people comfortable, complacent.
00:18:33They don't feel like they need to go any further.
00:18:36There's not much more as long as I'm saved.
00:18:39Come on.
00:18:40You've heard those terms.
00:18:41If I can just make it in, not realizing this is God, the eternal realm of God is way beyond
00:18:51just your salvation, just making it in.
00:18:54You've got to think beyond that.
00:18:56But see, the spirit of religion makes people stop right there.
00:19:00They don't even consider the fact that your purpose is so much greater.
00:19:06Yes, thank God for salvation, but this has been one of the most serious problems that I find in the
00:19:14body of Christ.
00:19:17I've got to put you to work again.
00:19:22Keep your pen and paper ready.
00:19:24I want you to write this.
00:19:26We have made the process of redemption.
00:19:30And I didn't give this to Casey, but I just found this, so I want to add this.
00:19:35Sorry, Casey.
00:19:36We have made the process, and you might want to underline the word process.
00:19:42We have made the process of redemption more important than the purpose of redemption.
00:19:54Are you getting that?
00:19:55I'll do it again.
00:19:56We have made the process, and if you can, underline process.
00:20:03The process of redemption.
00:20:06Thank you so much, Casey.
00:20:08He is good.
00:20:09He's good.
00:20:10We have made the process of redemption more important than the purpose of redemption.
00:20:19And this is where the problem comes in, and so many don't realize.
00:20:23A lot of what you're going through is to push you into your purpose, further into, not to stop at
00:20:32salvation.
00:20:34Not to just only be glad to be saved.
00:20:38Your purpose is so much bigger than that.
00:20:43And this is what we want to point out as we go through this understanding, Yahweh's standard, that he has
00:20:51set up for you.
00:20:52Okay?
00:20:53That's why we read that scripture.
00:20:55He says, I will set up my standard.
00:20:59This is what he wants us to.
00:21:01Notice it has nothing to do with religion.
00:21:03We share with you, Matthew 6, 33.
00:21:07Again, that's foundational.
00:21:08You should always remember that.
00:21:10That, again, that seeking, that word, seek first the kingdom and his righteousness, which is the part a lot of
00:21:19people miss out.
00:21:20They go right to the realm of, you know, the word kingdom, and they miss out the word righteousness.
00:21:25And, again, we have confused righteousness with religion.
00:21:30And righteousness is not a religion.
00:21:33It's not religious.
00:21:34It's the standard.
00:21:35It's God's standard that he has set for us.
00:21:39And it brings us to the level of life that we're supposed to have while we're here in the earth.
00:21:45Amen?
00:21:46So we want you to get that in your spirit.
00:21:48Lord, bring me up to your standard of living.
00:21:53We all have standard.
00:21:55Everyone has their standards.
00:21:57And that's wonderful.
00:21:58That's good.
00:21:59But now you want to come up to God's standard of living.
00:22:04And that's what we want to kind of impose upon you, if we can, because we've been showing you that
00:22:11every struggle in your life is because of a spirit of religion.
00:22:16Every evil confrontation, every fallout, every breakup of relationships, every failure, you name it, it is traced back to the
00:22:29spirit of religion.
00:22:30And when we begin to understand God's righteousness, his standard, not religion, okay, because most people just see religion as
00:22:41a word.
00:22:42It's not just the word.
00:22:44It's a spirit.
00:22:45That thing is real and alive, and it is serious.
00:22:48And so as we, you know, venture into these areas, again, it's just if you could just keep that in
00:22:57your spirit, okay, Lord, bring me up to your standard of living so that you'll understand how you're supposed, what
00:23:11God has already set up and planned for you.
00:23:13See, what you're doing is invoking his Zoe.
00:23:17Zoe means God life, the God life.
00:23:21You're invoking his way that he has set up for you, not just ours, because our way is always much
00:23:31lower.
00:23:31Our standards are always bringing, they keep us beneath, you know, the privileges that have been given unto us, the
00:23:40benefits of the kingdom, and we're always below those benefits.
00:23:44And so when God put that in my spirit, right away, I began to invoke that prayer and just meditate,
00:23:53keep it in my spirit, keep it.
00:23:54Every time I would think of it, I would speak it, okay?
00:23:57And so this is to show you that God has much better living for you, you know, and when you
00:24:05understand that, listen, when I said what you need to be doing is what Corinthians said, pulling down strongholds, that
00:24:13religious spirit is a stronghold.
00:24:17And we're going to prove that to you in the scriptures.
00:24:19This is why Jesus, when he came, every confrontation he had was with religious rulers.
00:24:27And what did he do?
00:24:28He came against them absolutely and unequivocally.
00:24:33Did he make it clear that it was not about religion?
00:24:36Even when he was being brought from judgment hall to judgment hall, as they say, he was not really, and
00:24:43they say he said not a mumbling word.
00:24:45You're right.
00:24:46To the religious rulers, he had nothing to say because he was not about a religion.
00:24:51But when he became before Pilate, the different ones that were of that kingdom of Rome, he spoke and he
00:24:58told them what he needed to say.
00:25:00So we got to see ignorance when you don't know these things, you just buy that religious concept and we
00:25:08never get to what the real truth is.
00:25:12And that's what this is about so that you can understand truth will always produce better results.
00:25:19But you have to know it.
00:25:21You can't be ignorant of it.
00:25:23You have to be aware of it.
00:25:24And then you have to apply it.
00:25:27Amen and amen.
00:25:28So just some reviews of some of the things we've already said, because, first of all, like I said, you
00:25:34really need to come against that spirit of religion.
00:25:37It's a real spirit.
00:25:39It's something that we've not been aware of.
00:25:42We're going to show you that in the scriptures as well.
00:25:44He takes what God has given us and he weaponizes.
00:25:47He uses the very weapons that God gave us to fight him.
00:25:51He uses them against us.
00:25:53Remember, he is.
00:25:55Let's go.
00:25:55Genesis three and one.
00:25:57Genesis three and one makes it very clear.
00:25:59He is the most subtle of all.
00:26:03Now, when you read that, you're so used to it.
00:26:06You've heard it a hundred times.
00:26:08It doesn't really.
00:26:09But take that very serious.
00:26:11He is the most subtle of all of the beast of everything in this realm of animal kingdom,
00:26:18because he was reduced from an angelic being to an animalistic creature,
00:26:22which is why he's so angry and bitter.
00:26:24But yet he didn't lose.
00:26:27And we talked about his corrupted wisdom that Isaiah exposed as well as Ezekiel.
00:26:33His corrupted wisdom, meaning he still has the wisdom, but he is corrupted.
00:26:38He's using it in the wrong manner.
00:26:41All right.
00:26:42And so we want you to realize that he is so very subtle.
00:26:46And you're going to see that as we prove this in the scriptures as we go.
00:26:49So his what's it?
00:26:50His corrupted wisdom.
00:26:51What to do?
00:26:52It blends truth with a lie.
00:26:54So he'll approach Eve in the garden and say, you know, did God say that you may not eat of
00:27:03every tree?
00:27:04Now, you read the original where Eve says, where God says of every tree you may eat, except that one
00:27:14of good and evil.
00:27:16But the enemy just twists the words just a little bit and say, did God say of every tree you
00:27:22may not?
00:27:22Yeah. And of course, that's how the enemy works.
00:27:27OK. Corrupted blends truth with lies.
00:27:31And then he goes on to tell him, if you eat, he knows that you're going to be like God.
00:27:38You're going to be like him.
00:27:40Hello. We were created.
00:27:43You were already like him.
00:27:45See, this is what religion is doing to most believers right now.
00:27:48Got them acting out and trying to be something that God has already created you to be.
00:27:56Acting out, performance, all of these things.
00:28:01The religion, the spirit of religion, it comes from the devil himself.
00:28:06We showed you that in the scriptures.
00:28:07We'll continue to show so you can see it for yourself, that he wants you to really go against what
00:28:16really God has already done for you.
00:28:20So then, 2 Corinthians, chapter 11 and verse 14.
00:28:29Because this enemy, he's making so many people act out.
00:28:34OK. Act like something, trying to act like what you already are.
00:28:39This is where the whole business of holiness and, you know, modest, all those things.
00:28:44And, of course, you should address appropriately and accordingly.
00:28:48I'm not saying that.
00:28:49But it's something that people are actually thinking that that's what God is.
00:28:54And you already have these things because it was created within you.
00:29:01So what does Corinthians says?
00:29:03It says, Satan masquerades as an angel of light.
00:29:09His deception mimics divine insight, making harmful choices appear intellectually appealing and enlightened.
00:29:22What I want to do is I have a couple of different translations that really it kind of makes it
00:29:36clear.
00:29:37And I want to read some of these translations to you.
00:29:40I'll tell you what they are so that you can read them for yourself.
00:29:45I kind of like that.
00:29:47The first one that I read in the message.
00:29:50And these apps are right on your phone if you, you know, care to use them and look them up.
00:29:55So the message says, you know, because Paul starts out saying, I fear that you're going to be the same
00:30:01way.
00:30:02The same thing is going to happen to you.
00:30:04What happened to Eve?
00:30:05That's what he starts out saying.
00:30:07And it's so true because this is what the church is doing today.
00:30:10They're acting and performing and trying to be something that God has already made us to be.
00:30:16You don't have to act and be what you already are.
00:30:20OK.
00:30:21Anyway, the message says, I wonder, did I make a bad mistake in proclaiming God's message to you without asking
00:30:29for something in return?
00:30:30Serving you free of charge.
00:30:33So he starts out saying, I didn't charge you anything.
00:30:36You know, it's not about a lot of money and offerings and things of that.
00:30:40He's making it clear.
00:30:40I didn't do this.
00:30:42I didn't do that to you.
00:30:44He said, because I was so determined.
00:30:46And this is the very sentiments of my heart.
00:30:49You know, of course, we deal with offerings and giving.
00:30:52That's the word of God.
00:30:53But some, as many of us have seen, are quite, you know, above and beyond in terms of when it
00:31:02comes to offering and giving.
00:31:04And we don't do that.
00:31:06But we also know that it's necessary.
00:31:08But God has set up his economic system.
00:31:11His kingdom system works if you stick to it.
00:31:14But so Paul has to straighten that out with them first.
00:31:17So that's what you're going to read, first of all, when you get to verse 12 and read down to
00:31:21verse 15.
00:31:22Then he goes on, he says, and I'm not changing my position on this, meaning that not changing that.
00:31:29That's you're supposed to give.
00:31:30That's a part of how you begin to increase.
00:31:32He says, I'm giving nobody grounds for lumping me in with those money-grabbing preachers, vaunting themselves as something special.
00:31:42They're a sorry bunch, pseudo-apostals, lying preachers, crooked workers, posing as Christ's agents, but shams to the core.
00:31:52And no wonder Satan does it all the time, dressing up as a beautiful angel of light.
00:32:00So it shouldn't surprise us when his servants masquerade as servants of God, but they're not getting by with anything
00:32:11they will pay for in the end.
00:32:14Is that some rough stuff or what?
00:32:17I mean, the message, I mean, I have other translations.
00:32:23I'll read them as well.
00:32:25But I'm saying that this is some really powerful teaching when you understand what he is really trying to say
00:32:35in terms of understanding that this is a very serious, the kingdom message is a very serious message.
00:32:42And religion has distorted and tainted so much of the truth until I think people have become just kind of
00:32:52callous in their listening.
00:32:54They've heard it so much and it's been so destructive and it's been so wrong that people, you know, they
00:33:02just choose not to even be bothered with it.
00:33:05And this is not good.
00:33:09I look at the NLT and he says, you know, but I'm not surprised.
00:33:14Even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.
00:33:17So it's no wonder that his servants also disguised themselves as servants of righteousness.
00:33:23And in the end, they will get the punishment their wicked deeds deserve.
00:33:27And so each of the translations go in this direction, saying that the quote unquote leadership, I don't call it
00:33:36rulership.
00:33:37Rulership is divine, you know, appointments given to people by God.
00:33:43And but leadership, as I've said before, anybody can lead, a child can lead.
00:33:48And so and a lot of their immaturity is showing in that they are not preaching the gospel of the
00:33:55kingdom of God and the people have been so worn out until they don't listen to anything anymore.
00:34:01And so anytime you start out to try to, you know, begin to teach this word, people just they don't
00:34:10even they don't hear it.
00:34:12They've heard it so long and so much and so long that it just doesn't faze them anymore.
00:34:18So that that concerns me when I'm ministering this worth in truth, you know, in truth.
00:34:26And that's why we gave you those things.
00:34:28So those are important statements that we had you to, you know, to write down concerning, you know, deception thrives
00:34:37from where discernment is ignored.
00:34:41You have the discernment.
00:34:43You can discern what is being said because your spirit will absolutely, you know, align itself with the word of
00:34:54God.
00:34:55It can only your spirit aligns with the word of God and can hear it, can sense it.
00:35:00Know my sheep, know my voice.
00:35:02You can hear and know.
00:35:03Don't ignore your discernment when it comes to these areas.
00:35:08All right.
00:35:09So so we'll move forward.
00:35:13Second Corinthians 11 and three.
00:35:15And I'm bringing out these scriptures because it's so important that you write these down and in your spare time,
00:35:22read them, read them for yourself.
00:35:24Second Corinthians 11, verse three.
00:35:27And again, these different versions.
00:35:31They help me a lot.
00:35:33I hope that it helps you, too.
00:35:37Because.
00:35:38You want to take time and learn some things for yourself, not not just because someone said it, but because
00:35:45you've read it for yourself.
00:35:46All right.
00:35:47The King James Version says, but I fear less by any means as the serpent beguiled Eve.
00:35:53Through this, his subtlety, which Genesis brings out very first verse in that first third chapter.
00:36:02Lest by any means the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety.
00:36:08I pray for me because I get so frustrated with what's going on in the body of Christ.
00:36:16But his subtlety, his subtlety, he says, why?
00:36:20So your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
00:36:27It's so simple.
00:36:29The simplicity, Paul often talked about the simplicity of the gospel, that it was the kingdom message as we bring
00:36:39it out to you.
00:36:39It's so simple.
00:36:40It's not something complicated or hard.
00:36:43Let me let's take a look then at the NLT.
00:36:47Yes, the NLT says, but I fear that somehow your pure and undivided devotion to Christ will be corrupted just
00:36:59as Eve was deceived by the cunning ways of the serpent.
00:37:03You happily put up with whatever anyone tells you, even if they preach a different Jesus than the one we
00:37:14preach or a different kind of spirit than the one you received or a different kind of gospel than the
00:37:24one you believed.
00:37:26He's talking about the kingdom, gospel of the kingdom that has not been preached and people are going along with
00:37:35anything.
00:37:36You know what that anything is?
00:37:37It's anything that arouses the emotional realm of our flesh that stimulates our fret and we feel good for the
00:37:46instant or the moment.
00:37:47But God knows when you leave all of that and have to go home and face what you're dealing with,
00:37:53it's not enough.
00:37:55It will never be enough.
00:37:56But people will religion, a spirit religion will always keep people at that place of not enough and just enough
00:38:06to keep them holding on to something that will never be enough.
00:38:13I'm reading the passion translation now of that same Corinthians 11 and 3 says,
00:38:44How tolerant you have become of these impostors.
00:38:51And, you know, he's dealing with the preachers, those, you know, leaders, because they're not rulers.
00:38:58A ruler is under the divine inspiration and appointment of the Lord himself.
00:39:04And they make sure they only care for the people's, you know, prosperity, that you will prosper, that this word
00:39:16will bring you up to where you are supposed to be and where God has actually ordained for your life
00:39:23to be.
00:39:24And no preacher should be satisfied until they begin to see God's people.
00:39:29Yeah, they prosper.
00:39:30Let me tell you something.
00:39:31These mega churches, just think about it.
00:39:33They have thousands, 3,000, 5,000.
00:39:36Just think if those people only gave $1 at each service and you know it's way more than that.
00:39:43But if they only $1, then just one setting, you got thousands of dollars.
00:39:47And so they get content because they feel successful and they have these things.
00:39:54But the people, wait a minute.
00:39:56Okay, you're good to go, but you can't stop there.
00:40:01You got to, why aren't the people, you know, prospering and coming into what you have?
00:40:09Okay, God takes care of his, you know, leaders and preachers and so on and so forth, even though they're
00:40:16not doing what they're supposed to do.
00:40:18Because at the end, they do have to, as we read in scripture, they have to give an account for
00:40:22it.
00:40:22But my concern is that they got comfortable and now they're not as concerned about the people as they should.
00:40:31The people should be coming into the same healing, the same prosperity, the same relationship, all the benefits.
00:40:39But see, a spirit of religion will never produce that.
00:40:43It cannot.
00:40:43It doesn't have it.
00:40:44Anything that comes from the devil, you have to realize it's a lie.
00:40:49The Bible says he's the father of lies.
00:40:51He cannot tell the truth.
00:40:53Why?
00:40:54Because there's no truth in him.
00:40:55And so there's this place where it just all stops and it never goes any further because of a spirit
00:41:02of religion.
00:41:03And I'm saying, as you begin to embrace the message of the kingdom, your life has got to change.
00:41:08Your finances have got to begin to produce.
00:41:12There is what I call the turning of the tide.
00:41:15And we'll get to that because that's coming up.
00:41:17That's the turning of the tide.
00:41:19That's when you start beginning to see things where it's not such a struggle.
00:41:23It's not so hard.
00:41:25That you really can go forth.
00:41:28It'll start spiritually within you first.
00:41:30One of the first things the spirit of the Lord will do is, again, lift up a standard.
00:41:36We shared that scripture with you the last time we were together.
00:41:39We're going to do it again as we go through this.
00:41:41But right now we have to expose this spirit for what he is so that you can be wise as
00:41:48a serpent or wise as his evil wisdom is.
00:41:51But harmless and not use it against, you know, the word of God wisdom and his cunning, you know, wisdom
00:42:01and cunning.
00:42:02They're both the same.
00:42:04So you see those two coming up from time to time as we're reading about his corrupted wisdom.
00:42:08They mean the same fundamentally.
00:42:10They're together.
00:42:11They're about the same thing.
00:42:12They viewed as and we need to understand that there's the realm of wisdom that God gave him.
00:42:18And then he took that wisdom and he corrupted it, used it against the very standards that God has set.
00:42:27So unlike, you know, you don't have this one sided thinking.
00:42:31Don't be thinking one way.
00:42:32Wisdom is.
00:42:33No, this is why we said over 28 times, Jesus himself says, be not deceived.
00:42:39Let no man deceive you.
00:42:41He's trying to be very clear in terms of what is happening and what's going on.
00:42:46Now, we exposed the spirit of religion when we gave you Revelations 2 and 13,
00:42:51where Jesus actually in Revelation revealed the place, the throne, the seat of Satan.
00:42:57We told you that as we began to seek the realm of, you know, Revelations 2 and 13,
00:43:04it begins first verse 12 takes you to Pergamos.
00:43:08It says this church is located in Pergamos.
00:43:12Okay.
00:43:13And it goes on and instructs them.
00:43:15This is and says, I know your works.
00:43:16I know what's going on.
00:43:18I know that you are seated there.
00:43:20You're there where the seat of Satan actually is.
00:43:24Okay.
00:43:24That where, when he was kicked out, thrust out of heaven, and Jesus even said in Luke,
00:43:30I saw Satan cast down like a flash of lightning.
00:43:33So this is very real scripture.
00:43:35It's not some kind of, you know, Star Wars, you know, fakes.
00:43:39This is the real deal.
00:43:40He was cast down and that's where he set up his throne.
00:43:44All right.
00:43:44Well, we said modern day Turkey is where Pergamos is.
00:43:49It's called by a different name.
00:43:50I think it's Bergama, Turkey, which is, that's what it's called today.
00:43:58But it's still the place where he set up his evil throne and he began to just spread religion.
00:44:05That's why religion is so strong in those Middle Eastern countries.
00:44:09Very strong.
00:44:11It is a very, it doesn't yield for anything.
00:44:15Okay.
00:44:16And so when we gave you Acts, if some of you remember chapter 11 and verse 26, where it says
00:44:25they were first called Christians, which Christian represented a religion.
00:44:29They were first called Christians where in Antioch.
00:44:33Well, this, this is not shocking.
00:44:36Antioch is located in Turkey, the same area where Satan had set up his throne and spread out this spirit
00:44:46called religion.
00:44:48And so these pagans, because they were, I mean, you talk about this place of, of satanic worship and, and
00:44:58see some of the monumental altars and towers and the things that they have set up and they fall down
00:45:05and worship and cut themselves and do all, just like the Bible said.
00:45:09Um, these things were very serious and this is where the whole term of Christianity and religion.
00:45:17I'm talking about these words.
00:45:19This is where they came from.
00:45:21Words are real.
00:45:22We told you the technology of naming something is one of the oldest technologies in, in, in existence.
00:45:29And so naming something means you control it.
00:45:33This is why Genesis, Genesis starts out with God.
00:45:35What's he, he called it this, he called the world.
00:45:38He called the, the, the animals, the beast of, he called it, he named it.
00:45:43Okay.
00:45:44And then what he do, he brought them to Adam and gave him the authority to name the animal kingdom
00:45:51because what you name, you control, you control it, you can own it and so on and so forth.
00:45:57Well, that's the understanding of the naming realm of technology.
00:46:03Technology is a naming thing.
00:46:05It works because it has a name.
00:46:07I hope you get that because this is where this name Christianity came from out of the seat of Satan.
00:46:15Why this is not being taught is beyond me.
00:46:18It's so clear.
00:46:19It's there in the scripture.
00:46:20I told you, you can Google it and it will come up and show you the great, you know, phone
00:46:24of Zeus and all of these deities and false gods that are there right now to this day.
00:46:31And so when you don't understand this, it goes back to what we shared, darkness thrives, you know, where truth
00:46:39is absent.
00:46:40But when the truth comes forth, then people can actually begin to operate and be successful, be functional.
00:46:48It can show forth.
00:46:50So this term of Christianity, they were first called Christians in Antioch.
00:46:56Again, the word is only used three times in the Bible.
00:46:59And one time, you know, what most argue the point of Christianity is because Peter and some of his teachings,
00:47:08well, he was teaching these converted pagans.
00:47:12So that's all they knew in terms of, you know, Jesus was Christianity.
00:47:18They knew the term that they understood.
00:47:20So that's why he mentioned it.
00:47:22Never did the apostles call us Christians.
00:47:25Never did God call us Christians.
00:47:27This is what's causing your problems.
00:47:30Christianity is a religion.
00:47:32It's named with all the religions.
00:47:34I've often said, and I continue to say, this is why I read, I read Isaiah chapter 42, and I
00:47:41think I'll probably want to read that again because I don't understand.
00:47:45Now that I can really see and your eyes are open, when your eyes open, you're going to feel the
00:47:49same way.
00:47:50You're going to wonder how in the world can we take God Almighty and align him with a bunch of
00:47:59fake religions, false gods, as we were reading, you know, what Paul was talking about, these false pseudo teachings that
00:48:08are not of God.
00:48:10How do we align God, you know, that he doesn't even fit in, you know, with these pseudo religions, a
00:48:23bunch of false.
00:48:26I'm going to read, I'm not following because I want to read Isaiah 40.
00:48:35Thank you, Casey.
00:48:35He already got you.
00:48:36He got you.
00:48:37He got you.
00:48:39Isaiah 40, God gives his own, you know, repertoire, whatever you want to call.
00:48:48He makes it very clear, okay, that this is who he is, you know, and understand that when you understand
00:48:59God for who he is, Yahweh, El Elyon, what we've been teaching, you will never align him with a religion.
00:49:08All right, I'm skipping down because I want to call.
00:49:10Well, I hate skipping because I don't want you to miss nothing.
00:49:13The grass withers, verse 8.
00:49:15The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of God shall stand forever.
00:49:19O Zion, that brings good tidings.
00:49:22Get the up into the high mountain.
00:49:24Come up higher, okay?
00:49:26O Jerusalem, that brings good tidings.
00:49:28Lift up the voice.
00:49:29Your voice lifted up.
00:49:32Be not afraid.
00:49:33Say unto the cities of Judah, behold your God.
00:49:37That's the thing.
00:49:38Get a better picture of God.
00:49:41I'm skipping to verse 12.
00:49:42Who have measured the waters in the hollow of his hand.
00:49:46The earth is 70% water, okay?
00:49:51And it's a measure in his hand.
00:49:53Think about, this is God we're talking about, okay?
00:49:56And melted out heaven with a span and comprehend the dust of the earth.
00:50:02Can you comprehend the amount of dust, grain by grain?
00:50:07I mean, think about it.
00:50:09Grain by grain, it's impossible.
00:50:12But this is God.
00:50:13And weighed the mountains and the scales and the hills in the balance.
00:50:17Who have directed the spirit of the Lord?
00:50:20Or being his counselor has taught him with whom took he counsel and who instructed him and taught him in
00:50:27the path of judgment and taught him knowledge and showed to him the way of understanding.
00:50:33Behold, the nations are as a drop in the bucket and are counted as the small dust of the balance.
00:50:41Behold, he takes up the aisles as a very little thing.
00:50:46Verse 17, all nations before him are as nothing and they are counted to him less than nothing and vanity.
00:50:52To whom then will you liken God?
00:50:57Or what likeness will you compare unto him?
00:51:01How can we compare God with a religion?
00:51:06He does not fit in because God is not a religion.
00:51:09And when we come back, we're going to explore the greater scriptures that actually expose again this spirit of religion,
00:51:17how it came about.
00:51:18I'm going to leave you with Revelations chapter 12 and verse 9.
00:51:22Revelations chapter 12 and verse 9.
00:51:26It lets you really see again where this thing has come from so that you can come out from under
00:51:32it.
00:51:33Denounce it, denounce it, get out from under it and watch your life begin to change, literally.
00:51:40Verse 9 says, and the great dragon was cast out.
00:51:44That old serpent called the devil and Satan, which deceived, watch this, the whole world.
00:51:54He was cast out into the earth, cast out of eternity into the earth or into time.
00:52:05That's why you see the scripture says he knows his time is short.
00:52:08He is no longer an eternal being.
00:52:11He is no longer in the realm of eternity.
00:52:15He is in the realm of time and his time is short.
00:52:19And his angels were cast out with him.
00:52:22So they are not eternal beings.
00:52:24They are created beings, just as the scripture says.
00:52:28And this is why you need to think, think about it.
00:52:31What could actually deceive the whole world?
00:52:38Most would say sin.
00:52:41Sin is very obvious.
00:52:43It is not deceptive.
00:52:45We all can relate to the realm of sin.
00:52:48Again, the devil knows that.
00:52:49That's too obvious.
00:52:50He's not going to bring something so obvious to a bunch of intelligent believers and make it as it's something
00:52:58they don't know.
00:52:59It's not sin.
00:53:01It's religion.
00:53:02It is this spirit that has thrived for eons.
00:53:06And it continues to thrive because people have embraced it.
00:53:10It's global.
00:53:11It's worldwide.
00:53:13People don't see it for what it is.
00:53:15They don't realize how it is the very root of every struggle, of every hurt, of every disappointment, of everything
00:53:23that is taking place in your life.
00:53:26If you start denouncing it, cast it from you, come against it by the authority and the power that God
00:53:34has gave you as a ruler.
00:53:35Remember, again, Luke 10, 18, I've got to wrap it up, but I've got to read this for you.
00:53:41Luke chapter 10 and verse 18, 19 says,
00:53:43This is the standard of God that he has set up for you.
00:54:04And you need to walk in it.
00:54:06How do you tread upon certain?
00:54:07Denounce the spirit of religion.
00:54:09That's what is really the thing that is thriving, that's hurting and holding back growth and maturity and the whole
00:54:18realm of your purpose of even being here.
00:54:22That spirit of religion, you must denounce it.
00:54:25You must continue to ask the Holy Spirit to reveal it, expose it, show you how to come against it,
00:54:32get it out of your life.
00:54:33We've all been exposed and influenced under this spirit.
00:54:38But as you begin to denounce it and come out from it, then you begin to see the kind of
00:54:44increase that was supposed to be in your life from the beginning, the kind of relationships that you would do,
00:54:51the kind of increase, the kind of enlargement that was always set for you.
00:54:56He set a standard.
00:54:57It's already been set, but you have to come up to it.
00:55:01Lord, bring me up to your standard of living for my life.
00:55:07For what you have done for me, it's already done.
00:55:11I don't have to try and be what you've already created me to be.
00:55:16I just come up to it, come into it, and understand the power that has been invested in me.
00:55:23Listen, the whole world has been deceived by this spirit of religion.
00:55:29The world system, the church system, they all have been under this spirit, and they're not identifying it.
00:55:36They're not calling it what it is.
00:55:38Some actually think that this teaching is not right, that it's wrong, because that's how that spirit, it blinds the
00:55:45minds, which will come into that when we come back together.
00:55:47Whether you want to get this teaching in your spirit, like I said, you have the spirit of God, ask
00:55:54him for yourself.
00:55:57Ask him for yourself.
00:55:58Talk to the Lord.
00:55:59Lord, have I been under the influence of this spirit called religion?
00:56:03It's ruining my life.
00:56:05It's caused the breakdown of every area that I cherished and hoped for and lived for and believing for.
00:56:11The very things that I desire all this time, nothing has come the way.
00:56:16Prayers are not answered.
00:56:18Relationships are not resolved and reconciled.
00:56:21It's all due to a spirit of religion.
00:56:24Your problem with forgiveness, that's the spirit of religion.
00:56:28All the things that you are struggling with, have struggled with, and are struggling with, you can trace it to
00:56:36the spirit of religion.
00:56:37Denounce it.
00:56:38Come against it in the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
00:56:42Come against it.
00:56:44Come up to a standard, because as you come against it, he begins to raise you up, and you come
00:56:50into what you suppose, what is due you.
00:56:52You deserve this.
00:56:54It's due.
00:56:55You've been faithful.
00:56:56That's what he said to that church.
00:56:57He says, you have been faithful.
00:56:59I know your works.
00:57:00I know what you've been doing.
00:57:02I know what you've been under.
00:57:03You've been under that spirit of religion.
00:57:06Why?
00:57:07Because you've been placed right there where the throne and the seat of Satan is.
00:57:11He says, but I know.
00:57:13He knows what has happened to you.
00:57:15He knows what you've had to go through.
00:57:17He knows what you've had to endure.
00:57:19But that is all.
00:57:21The tide is turning, people of God.
00:57:25The tide is turning.
00:57:28And as you continue to announce it, get it out of the Lord.
00:57:33Get it out of me.
00:57:34And one of the first things should start to happen is, listen, all the virtues that God has told you,
00:57:41you need to forgive, you need to love.
00:57:44All those things start to come alive in you.
00:57:46You were created for that.
00:57:48Why should that be such a struggle?
00:57:50Why is that so hard?
00:57:52Of course, the memory is going to be there.
00:57:54But like Joseph, you're going to even actually name your child Manasseh that the Lord has caused me to forget.
00:58:01Because his spirit now is taking and filling the space that that spirit of religion took.
00:58:09Spirit of the Lord, we thank you that you're filling every space.
00:58:12Therefore, every time I denounce the spirit of religion and all the religious activities that have been in my life,
00:58:19Holy Spirit will rush in, hallelujah, like a flood, fill up those spaces and lift up a standard against it.
00:58:28In Jesus' mighty name, when we come back, we've got some serious ground to cover.
00:58:32But in the meantime, Lord, bring me up to your standard of living.
00:58:37You are going to absolutely see the change.
00:58:40And I want you to tell me about it.
00:58:42I want to hear about it.
00:58:43I believe there's going to be some great testimonies, finally, breakthroughs that God's people absolutely deserve.
00:58:50I look forward to our time together.
00:58:52We'll see you next time.
00:58:53God bless.
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