Poor in Spirit— May 31, 2020: full transcript and answers

▶ 0:00 Okay you see a picture up there that 1000 of health care workers are in thousands not 1000 thousands of health care workers are infected with the virus and many have died and there is a typical. Protection eyes mouth I mean they’re covered from head to toe and they’re still getting the virus okay now we’re going to pray and we have a right to do this the Bible says that no.

▶ 0:34 Plague will come now you in the Old Testament none of these diseases we have a right to pray for God’s protection is that an amen now don’t get me wrong we got to do what we know to do or else we’ll be tempting God and you don’t want to tempt God or tesca you want to be practical but God’s the ones going to save us from these things so we want to pray that all of God’s followers are protected from the virus is that an amen and all diseases not just the virus secondly we’re going to pray for a very serious problem in our nation the socialists and communists are absolutely trying to take over this nation and it’s a shame that Christian people aren’t informed on this and this is our job as a church who is informed to get the message out they are trying to destroy our constitution get away from it and a Bible form of government they are also trying to prohibit the words of Jesus we’re not talking about the freedom of religion air we’re talking about the freedom to speak the words of Jesus remember in washington dc there is no muslim verses anywhere on in those buildings there is no engravings of muslim or hindus or so forth in our founding fathers buildings back there is not an amen it is

▶ 2:05 the Bible and it says endowed by their creator the creator is Jesus and God who is God and so we want God to protect the message of the words of Christ not the words of religion we don’t need any more religions we need the words of Jesus amen so we’re going to sing God bless America as a prayer and during this time just pray that God would put his hand of protection on us the church and American people. To.

▶ 3:31 Oh. Lifting up our voice in prayer father we come to you in the name of your son Jesus Christ we asked your protection hands upon your people Lord from this virus and all diseases show Lord Jesus that your people are separated from all the nations of the earth by your presence and your protection upon the followers of Christ Lord we ask you Jesus to turn our nation back to what is right Lord rutte is in America raise up a unified effort Lord to destroy the voices of the socialists and the communists in this nation to turn from our constitution and Bible moral values.

▶ 4:37 Father we just asked you Lord for your protection in these things. Come Lord come and put your hand of protection upon us and let your people have peace. Oh peace that passes understanding in the midst of turmoil. Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus we pray these things in your name amen and amen. Or Jesus or amaya the Old Testament God how in the Israelites came and gathered Jesus God Lord that you would protect their homes he would protect their land where they came from God lor when they assembled but use the priority in my life God you would go and Lord be a a hedge and a protection around all that they possess God Lord we pray for the church’s gathering this morning got law that you protected Lord you’re protected from this disease protecting from our God the enemy’s attacks Jesus court please we call him Jesus protect your

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▶ 17:22 You are. You are. You are true. Oh. Oh. Lord Jesus we thank you God for how great you are and how we can come together Lord after being gone for so long in one accord is seeking you and praising you and filling your presence as a body of Christ and we thank you God that you honor your word that says when two or more gather together that during the mitzvahs touching

▶ 18:54 us reviving us giving us counsel giving us wisdom Jesus we praise you [unclear] our hearts this morning in Jesus name and amen you may find your seats in his presence. Good morning again everyone.

▶ 19:54 We’re gonna start off by remembering Jesus said remember the word that I said unto you and that’s one of our problems we forget quickly what we learned. Just five minutes ago her that’s exaggerating of course but you know what I mean so we found in past lessons that God’s first plan was to save the nations not just the Jewish people to save all people we found that Israel was chosen to reach the nations and they felt they didn’t do it they. Became. Segregated they. Wouldn’t reach out to other people at all enclosed so Jesus took the kingdom from the Jews the Israelites the Hebrews and gave it to those bearing its fruit and the fruit of the kingdom is righteousness peace and joy and power in the Holy Ghost power the kingdom is in power not talk and we got to remember that.

▶ 21:00 We saw that Jesus did three things when he started ministering. He went to the Jewish synagogues and all the Jews had a different synagogue there was a synagogue of the libertines those who had gotten liberty. And gotten citizenship in the roman empire there was the synagogue of the Sadducees the Pharisees the zealots the grecians and so forth just like today we have all these denominations. Jesus taught in. The Jewish denominations. But he didn’t stop there the Jews wouldn’t even allow unbelievers in most of their synagogue he preached the kingdom of God to all people we saw and the third thing as he did signs and wonders healing all sicknesses.

▶ 21:54 This is totally. Proof. That God is supernatural. When he can do what humans can do it proves there is a God nothing else when God comes to you and saves your soul supernaturally by his spirit you know there’s a God from the day I got saved I knew there was a God I didn’t need anybody convincing me there was a God I knew there was one. So we found if we seek the Lord till he comes and that’s one of our problems we seek him in a rush we seek him to get on to the next thing but the Bible says seek him until he comes and reigns righteousness upon you you seek.

▶ 22:45 The rain falls. Then we also found in the Bible that a fountain shall be open in the house of David the house of God to cleanse from sin and impurity and folks being cleansed from sin and an impurity is not a human capability it is a supernatural. Work that God does and you have to have the rain to have the fountain. The rains gotta fall from heaven bring up the water table to the surface before you can have an artesian well a fountain a stream. Springs coming out of the ground amen so we need to seek the Lord first until he reigns his presence comes not just seek him to be going through the motions.

▶ 23:39 We also found that the kingdom of God is within us. You are where God rules. We also found he says to seek first the kingdom of God and all these other things will be added unto you if we keep the kingdom of God as priority these natural things your house your food your clothing your shelter everything you’re so worried about he’ll open the door for them for you to possess it we found that we enter the kingdom by righteousness.

▶ 24:13 Jesus is the gate he is the door of the kingdom his death his blood on the cross makes us righteous that is our position of righteousness by the blood of Christ he cleanse us from all past sin but you got to go through that door into the kingdom were Jesus the king of righteousness sits on the throne and he has laws and rules to follow and when you serve the king of righteousness in his kingdom which is within you your condition of righteousness is going to rise up to your position of righteousness you’re going to become a new creature that all things of sin a passed away all things have become new things of righteousness amen that’s what we found you also got to be reborn by the spirit and by the word to enter the kingdom this is a supernatural work it is not a mental thing is not something some ritual you go through God is involved in your salvation and he’s involved in your entry into the kingdom and he’s the one involved when you’re in the kingdom.

▶ 25:35 Then you got to be converted you got to change from sin and darkness to right and life and then you got to become like a child and a child obeys their parents where they understand why are not they just obey you don’t have to understand everything just do what God said to do could that be an amen why Lord. Just do it and then God will open the understanding so today we’re going to go out and continue talking about the kingdom of God which is within you we need to find it within you and the message of the kingdom is repent. Repent and bring forth the fruit of repentance don’t just feel sorry for being wrong change it is that an amen yes.

▶ 26:31 So we’re gonna go to Matthew 5:3 blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven now when you were in school as I’ve said before when you did a story problem the word is means equal what’s on the left side of that sentence equals what’s on the right side of that sentence for instance if I said the water between the shores of north and south America and europe and africa is the pacific atlantic ocean see so what is the atlantic ocean the water between the shores of the americas europe and africa and so forth see it’s the same terminology it’s the same synonym so God is saying here the kingdom of heaven is is equal to those that are poor in spirit that.

▶ 27:34 Is the kingdom that’s what the kingdom is equal to but when we go to Luke chapter 6 verse 20 Luke says blessed are you poor for yours is the kingdom of God but we got to remember. Everything in the Bible is hidden in parables allegories metaphors and it takes the spirit to open your understanding to these things that’s why the Holy Spirit God’s spirit is so important you can’t understand the Bible folks with an intellectual approach. So is Luke right or is Matthew right well let’s just look at it logically when Jesus chose his apostles they all had jobs.

▶ 28:28 None of them were poor. Some of them or most of them owned houses some of them had ships to fish with that takes money. Okay they had possessions. He never went and called any back. He didn’t go to the beggars and the streets to make them apostles and he did not go to the indebted servants which obama and president bush and oprah winfrey and all of them say the Bible approves of slavery it doesn’t approve of slavery. Nowhere in the Bible does it approve of slavery but if you got in debt or you were poor you could heart yourself to someone to pay your bills and seven years you could work it off and be free again he didn’t go to these kind of people he went to those people have had their act together in the natural hem you know the Bible says first the natural then the spiritual.

▶ 29:34 Are you out there first then that you got to get your natural act together before God is going to give you spiritual Revelations. Okay. Spiritual power especially. So we know that impartial Jesus invited all nationalities we studied that he invited the rich as well as the poor into his kingdom the sick as well as the healthy he invited the widows and the orphans the political or religious affiliations he didn’t care about him he invited them all into his kingdom. Soldiers slave owners slaves harlots male/female he had no impartiality whether you’re single whether you’re a heathen or you had a special doctrine like you can only walk so far on the Sabbath day didn’t bother Jesus at all is it Jesus can come any minute today didn’t bother Jesus at all tongues is the only sign of the baptism and hold ago didn’t bother Jesus at all once saved always safe didn’t bother Jesus at all he just went and preached the kingdom of God to them amen now if you experience that kingdom it’s going to affect your special doctor it’s going to affect your political and religious affiliation.

▶ 31:07 It’s going to change the way you see things but until you change and get by coming into the kingdom he’s inviting everyone into his kingdom so the poor or the rich or anyone has no special privilege to the kingdom except. The poor in spirit wow. Now. Let’s go to Isaiah to prove this all right Isaiah 57 verse 15 thus if the Lord are thus if the high and lofty one who inhabits eternity woo whose name is holy why would he open up a topic like that why would he say that.

▶ 32:00 I’d dwell in the high and holy place he replaces lofty with holy this is where I live I live in a high and holy place I live in eternity with the inhabitants of eternity wow. Are you following then see he’s he’s telling us how to understand what’s coming. Do you ever ask God why he ought to start trying it why went where how and why and what all right I dwell in a high and holy place with him now all throughout the Bible the translators have really used pronouns. Incorrectly. God is not interested in just a male he’s interested in mankind.

▶ 32:57 All right many places where God uses him it is mankind. All right everybody he’s interested in everybody he dwells. With those. Who have a contrite and humble spirit contrite means smitten shattered. But it’s not a physical thing it’s not a natural thing it’s what. Spiritual thing he dwells with those in eternity. In the holy place with those who have a smitten and humble spirit humble means low you don’t think yourself any better than anyone else and when you’re mistreated you don’t fight back because of their ignorance and mistreating you and talking to you about you all right that’s humble.

▶ 34:01 Why did he do all this to revive to make alive the spirit of the humble the lowly the meek to revive the heart the mind the inner man you have a spirit within you that has a mind it has a will and it has feelings and so he comes when there you are smitten and you’re broken into pieces by life. He wants to revive the contrite ones and get them living in. Eternity in his high and holy place amen you see that see it has nothing to do with being poor spiritually or or physically or anything it’s got to do with the spirit so let’s go to another verse as there’s 66:1.

▶ 35:03 Isaiah here says heaven is my throne and earth is my footstool where’s the house you’re gonna build me what not your house am I gonna be contained in can’t build a house that day and the Bible says he does not dwell in buildings made with him what we are the kingdom he lives in us so he asked this question where is the place of my rest where do I buy now up here we know his presence is in eternity he is holy with people of a broken and humble spirit amen now. He’s going to answer all these things was made by my hand I made the heavens I made the earth I made everything that you see for human beings to inhabit my footstool.

▶ 35:57 Is the earth where human beings are. See the sun may be the center of our universe but the earth is the center of gods and it’s not that globe it’s human beings amen so. All these things exist I made these things everything you see in the heavens and the earth I made them they exist so where do I dwell on. This and when you see it italicized it’s not in the scriptures and so they put in the word that they think will fit this is where you need a lexicon if you’re gonna study the Bible for real you got to be able to dissect these verses and know what he’s actually talking about on this will I look okay on.

▶ 37:00 Poor and of a contrite spirit. Who. Trembles at my work so people who are poor of spirit. Got it see he’s talking about the spiritual world not the natural world and crushed in spirit you can be crushed in your daily life by your bad choices you can be. Really hurt. But God is talking about the spirit. Allelujah he can change you from the inside out now. We know first comes the natural then the spiritual we know that people that are poor have need of food clothing shelter drink.

▶ 37:56 Medical attention and so forth don’t we they can’t provide it for themself so they need help that’s what poor and the natural world means we agree on that see first the natural then the spiritual so if I’m poor in spirit. Then what are my needs I need spiritual food the vaught word I need spiritual drink the spirit of God the presence of God I need. Spiritual medicine to heal my spirit you see I need spiritual shelter the body of Christ dissemble together and united see I need those things.

▶ 38:42 Hallelujah now the question is do you have to be impoverished to be poor no I ate a meal yesterday I still need what a meal today I drink yesterday but I still need to one drink for my physical body today amen and so when you recognize you have a need for spiritual things you don’t have to be lean in your soul you don’t have to be impoverished a bankrupt in the spiritual world you just know I need to eat of the word today I need to eat of the word this week it’s not yesterday that’s going to keep me going it’s today poor in spirit needy in spirit and this is the problem most Christians do not read their Bible or study the Bible they don’t get the lexicon out most Christians they get the Christian bookstore and just teach what the Christian books say.

▶ 39:58 Am I right I am right you know what most Christians don’t even go to a Christian bookstore they just believe what they hear on the radio and internet especially the internet is so full of junk but if it’s on the internet they believe it so porn spirit is needing spiritual things can I hear an amen can I hear a big amen so out there they can hear it amen yes I. Am shocked at how people don’t pray until a crisis comes see we need prayer we need worship we need these things in our life. It amazes me how we won’t pray and seek God to prevent catastrophes but when one happened man we get serious about prayer are you there and then we take credit for praying if God gets us through it ah we prayed or so and so pray folks it isn’t your prayer you are just doing what God asked you to do he is the provider of everything in that right.

▶ 41:16 There’s no magic in your prayer the magic is in God listening to us all right so. They tremble at my word what work the gospel of the kingdom of God this is what God is trying to get through to us miracles signs and wonders happened because Jesus taught the kingdom of God not finances. Not positive thinking not faith thinking he taught the kingdom of God repent and bring forth the fruits of repentance and God the father backed him up with signs following and if we want signs following today we gotta preach the gospel of the kingdom is that an amen. Now I. Want to try and show you how this works you can be contrite broken and natural life you choose drugs you choose prostitution with its venereal diseases and everything drugs with its physical problems and and eighty thousand died a year from it in America you know you’re gonna be smitten you’re making choices that’s going to just destroy and ruin your life okay.

▶ 42:39 You want to get greedy and you know you want to be violent and solve everything by violence and all that you’re gonna wind up being shattered in life somebody more violent than you is gonna come along and put you down on the ground amen. You want to get into witchcraft you’re gonna pay a price for it it’s going to shatter your life. And you’re gonna be smitten and this is what the Bible says see people say God did this to me God cannot do evil let’s get away from that mentality but he invented Satan he created Satan to do the bad step are you there and he does it well but here in Jeremiah 219 your own wickedness will correct you it’s not even Satan it’s your choices it’s your choices see when you choose not to read the Bible when you choose not the worship and praise when you choose to take the secular music over God’s music take secular stories over God’s stories moral things you’re gonna get lean the Bible says God will let you go your own way but you’re gonna have leanness in your soul in your spirit so he says there’s a place where your own wickedness will correct you your backslidings will rebuke you this is for the contrite ones but

▶ 44:11 down here we have contrite of spirit God can come along and take that ruin life and put it back together again. He can take that shattered spirit of a person and put it back together again and the outside results will show what happened on the inside. Powerful see that’s why Paul wrote the kingdom of God is not in talk it’s in power. So we have the other side of poverty here my soul thirsts for God the living God when I can quaint gonna go and meet with God I met with him yesterday I met with him last week but I need to meet with my God see spiritual poverty because you have need of spiritual things it’s a big difference are you with me I.

▶ 45:15 Have treasured the words of his mouth more than my necessary food Job put God’s word above is eating habits. Do we. Go. So. Let’s go to Luke 4:8 in closing this message the spirit of the Lord is upon me why why does God paired his spirit upon us because he’s anointed me anointed no no no I didn’t mean set apart that’s it set apart the spirit of the Lord set you apart for a purpose and what’s that purpose to preach the gospel to the poor what poor. The physical poor know the spiritual poor they that are looking for spiritual answers.

▶ 46:18 Amen. The preaching of the gospel to will heal the brokenhearted the preaching of the gospel will [unclear] the captive the Bible says if you. Sir if you commit sin you’re a slave of sin God can come along and deliver the attucks the prostitutes the greedy people there is no sin he can’t liberate you from and that includes the blasphemy of the Holy Ghost. Recovery of sight to the blind you read the Bible and you just don’t get anything God’s preaching of the word as you keep reading and hearing it he’s going to open your eyes to the truths of God’s word it’s going to set at liberty those oppressed Jesus went about doing good the Bible says and delivering those oppressed of the Devil you don’t have to be possessed by the Devil to have problems he troubles you he comes to temp you he comes to get you to stray away from the road of righteousness he’s also accuser you do any little thing wrong he’s gonna be there saying you’re no good you’re no good now there’s no hope for you you’re a phony chris and no I can repent I can get up and I can walk amen that’s why repentance and the fruit of repentance is so important in the plan of salvation not faith in grace.

▶ 47:50 Now. Here is a [unclear] machine all right. Here is a glass that didn’t make it through the process correctly it’s kind of sagging it’s worthless all right here’s the right glass here’s a deform glass you probably can’t see it but it dips here at the lip just. Sagged. Okay now what does the glass people do they don’t throw out that glass they put that glass in the contracting machine which pulverizes it smites it into tiny pieces. Then it goes to the master craftsman who puts it under the fire and makes.

▶ 48:49 Another vessel out of it you out there on the internet if your life is shattered. If you’ve done things that you’re just really broken your life is shattered God is not willing that you stay that way. He if you will reach out to him and admit your choices have been bad he will shape you back into a worthy vessel as though this never happened the new glass will come out perfect and you may have to go through his current rotting machine many times you understand but if you will let God come and shatter you.

▶ 49:47 He will put you back through his process and make you a worthy vessel under the Lord all things passed away this is God’s promise the old life passed away that old stuff passed away a new way of living. Hallelujah and for those of you Christians who don’t read your Bible and worship and pray consistently you need to understand that. That hunger for God’s word that need for prayer for his present for tithing for fellowshipping for healing of your spiritual man comes by you realizing you have a spiritual need. Amen. See we know in the natural world if I don’t not.

▶ 50:44 Eat certain vitamins certain diseases is going to come so in the spiritual world if I don’t eat and drink properly and follow God’s rules properly. Even though I’m a believer bad things are going to happen in my spiritual life. Now. So we cross over God’s mercy line you see when we cross over God’s mercy line he isn’t wanting to throw us in the pit it’s just he’s going to let our sins correct us. See nothing happens without God’s approval he just doesn’t do anything bad but he allows bad what to correct you. To turn you and the.

▶ 51:37 Thing you don’t want to do is cross over God’s mercy line and we’re going to pray this morning a song. That says this don’t let me cross over God’s mercy line well your bow your heads with me and pray with this prayer. Don’t let me. Don’t let yours. I’m prey.

▶ 52:42 This to me. Don’t let me cross. Lord I’m living. And I’m walking. I’ve tried to read me. Lord I can’t see.

▶ 53:37 Nietzsche. Oh say. Anees you. My body. Don’t let me cross. / God. Merci. What I know they. Should be. That. To. I know that.

▶ 54:39 My Lord. This way. But. The shackle. I promise to new. Sir Satan. I know. My fine.

▶ 55:34 I. Feel the bread. Of dance. Seizing pie. But no piece can I fire. So don’t let me cross. / God’s. Mercy. Don’t let me cross.

▶ 56:34 / God’s. Mercy. Don’t let your speech. I pray. This doorman. Just don’t let me cross. Over. Over God’s. Mercy. Whether you’re here or whether you’re out there on the internet.

▶ 57:40 If God is speaking to you today whether your life is just pulverized and crushed or whether you’ve just neglected the spiritual needs. By not reading a Bible by not praying but not having a daily line to feed your spiritual man. And you want Jesus to come the song said I promise to never serve Satan again Satan is the one that tries to distract us troubles us accuses us. If you’ll respond to God’s word today and admit. That you need spiritual food spiritual drink spiritual things and if.

▶ 58:34 You have been serving the kingdom of darkness and your life is just pulverized and smitten and shattered and you want Jesus to put you back together and make you a worthy vessel of him will you just stand whether you’re on the internet looking or hear in the congregation will you just stand and if you’re one that has a daily life will you just stand saying I’m gonna keep it up I need spiritual food I need spiritual things I don’t want to wait curve for catastrophe to come along I want to prevent it and let’s lift up our voice and let’s pray for ourselves and then let’s pray for others father we come to you again by the authority that you have given us in Jesus Christ and Lord we just asked you to forgive us for our neglect of your word neglect of your presence neglect of your house neglect Lord of spiritual healing in our life Lord we asked you to come to our lives that are smitten to these people’s lives that are smitten Lord and put them in your contracting machine your spiritual contracting machine and make them a new vessel the old thing passed away the new life may new for those of us Lord I’ve been neglecting

▶ 1:00:05 your word and haven’t been eating your word like we should Lord we asked you to come and give them Lord Jesus the power to seek you knowing that they have need of spiritual food spiritual drink spiritual healing spiritual things and Lord of be we acknowledge that that’s what the kingdom of heaven is all about God dwells with people who will recognize they need Jesus the living God that they need his word that they need his presence they need his medicine they need him Lord the kingdom of heaven is made of those people and you and habit those people and they inhabit eternity with you Lord we just pray your blessing upon everyone that’s heard this message today that they respond to your spirit knowing Lord that you will finish the good work you begun in their life and not only that father but we as people of God can share your word of the kingdom and you will use that word to bring many back and do you restore many back into you to revive Lord you come to revive you didn’t come to reject you come

▶ 1:01:35 to revive the heart the mind the will of the feelings of the contrite ones you come to revive Lord the the humble people’s spirit lucam Lord not to destroy us but to restore us and as a church Lord we proclaim your gospel and then power of g his name and the power that he has the heal and restore over everyone that’s listen to this message today. Thank you Lord that it’s so simple and we can possess it we asked you to open that fountain of cleansing inside of everyone today we asked you Lord Jesus to give us that desire in that commitment to seek you until your rain down upon us and pour.

▶ 1:02:27 Out of our innermost being those waters of life. Lord. We’re asking for a big revival there are so many out there that don’t know the right hand from the left and your church has the words of life that Jesus gave them Lord give us the fortitude to speak it for it’s in the speaking of the word that you will do great things. Thank you Lord for your healing today thank you for the restoration power that you’re doing right now in people’s lives and don’t ever let us cross over God’s mercy line on where we have to be corrected by sin corrected by Satan using us to where we finally come to our wits in and then cry out to God Lord let us stay on the other side of your mercy line and just keep drinking and eating and participating of spiritual things and Jesus name amen.

▶ 1:03:37 Hallelujah. We’re gonna close our service right now online. And we thank you for joining us. But for those that are here I’m gonna open it up to questions and answers all right you can find your seat. You.