S3E3. The Image of God in You – 3

Speaker A 00:00:00 Our Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus, we come before your word today expectantly. Speaker A 00:00:05 For it is the sovereign word of the living God. Speaker A 00:00:08 We thank you for it in Jesus name. Speaker A 00:00:11 I'm asking you, sir, that the wisdom of God flow in these services today unhindered in any way. Speaker A 00:00:18 And that not one single person leave here untouched by the power of the living Christ. Speaker A 00:00:23 In the name of Jesus, rise and live big within us. Speaker A 00:00:27 We thank you for it and we praise you for it. Speaker A 00:00:30 Manifest your presence among us, sir, any way that you please. Speaker A 00:00:34 In Jesus name. Speaker A 00:00:36 Amen. Speaker A 00:00:37 You can be seated and open your Bibles again to the Gospel of John. Speaker A 00:00:45 We'll read scripture from the Gospel of John, Chapter one. Speaker A 00:00:51 We read this scripture last night and began studying on the image of God and the inner image. Speaker A 00:01:02 John, chapter one, verse one. Speaker A 00:01:04 In the beginning was the Word. Speaker A 00:01:06 The Word was with God, and the Word was God. Speaker A 00:01:09 The same was in the beginning with God. Speaker A 00:01:12 All things were made by him, and without him was not anything made that was made. Speaker A 00:01:17 In him was life, and the life was the light of men. Speaker A 00:01:21 The light shineth in darkness and darkness comprehended it not. Speaker A 00:01:26 Now we found out from the 11th chapter of Hebrews. Speaker A 00:01:28 You remember the first three verses of Hebrews 11. Speaker A 00:01:33 Now, faith is the substance of things hoped for and it is the evidence of things not yet seen. Speaker A 00:01:39 And then it goes ahead and says, we understand that the worlds were framed by faith. Speaker A 00:01:45 So that things which appear created out of things which do not appear. Speaker A 00:01:51 The Word of God. Speaker A 00:01:55 The Bible says in that third verse that it was that the worlds were framed by faith, by the word of God. Speaker A 00:02:04 Now, just to catch you up a little bit on what we talked about last night, we talked about the fact that the image of everything that exists, the. Speaker A 00:02:17 The picture of it, the image of it in its absolute perfection. Speaker A 00:02:22 Sometime you ought to read the 40th chapter of Isaiah. Speaker A 00:02:25 The verses 12 and 13 particularly. Speaker A 00:02:28 It says that God took a drop of water and by measuring a drop of water weighed. Speaker A 00:02:39 He measured and weighed all of the moisture content and change and shift of this planet. Speaker A 00:02:50 Now, from a drop of water. Speaker A 00:02:53 Well, now you see, he took a drop of water. Speaker A 00:02:55 He already had an inner image of what that all was going to be like. Speaker A 00:02:59 Now, can you imagine what the Pacific Ocean weighs? Speaker A 00:03:03 Water weighs somewhere in the neighborhood of roughly £7 to the gallon. Speaker A 00:03:09 Now, you add to one side of the earth the Pacific Ocean. Speaker A 00:03:12 You add the other side of it, the Atlantic. Speaker A 00:03:14 Now, what do you suppose the moisture on this planet weighs? Speaker A 00:03:20 Now, not only the moisture that is in liquid form on the face of the Earth. Speaker A 00:03:25 But there's also moisture in the form of gas in the air around the Earth. Speaker A 00:03:30 And it isn't all even. Speaker A 00:03:33 And the Earth is not round. Speaker A 00:03:35 It squashed in the top like a pumpkin. Speaker A 00:03:40 It isn't round. Speaker A 00:03:43 And you take the magnetic pull between the sun and the moon and pulls the water on the. Speaker A 00:03:51 On the Earth's surface up in heaps. Speaker A 00:03:53 If you could stand off and look at the globe like this, and if you had God's vantage point, if you could see the Earth like this, you could see the water in the oceans of the world. Speaker A 00:04:05 When the tide goes out, the magnetic pull pulls that water up into heaps. Speaker A 00:04:10 It looked like mountains. Speaker A 00:04:11 The water heaps up like that. Speaker A 00:04:14 And then when the magnetic pull changes, it flattens back out and displaces it again. Speaker A 00:04:19 You see, you're moving that water around on this planet. Speaker A 00:04:24 Well, the Bible said, then he took a piece of dust, comprehended. Speaker A 00:04:28 Now, that word is in Isaiah 40, 12 and 13 that he comprehended the weight of the mountains and he scaled it with a piece of dust. Speaker A 00:04:46 Now, you talk about an inner image. Speaker A 00:04:53 God had an inner image and then calculated the whole thing, you see? Speaker A 00:04:58 Well, say, why would he do a thing like that? Speaker A 00:05:00 Well, folks, this planet rotates in two different directions simultaneously. Speaker A 00:05:07 It rotates in one direction a thousand miles an hour, and it rotates in another direction 10,000 miles an hour at the same time. Speaker A 00:05:17 Now, if this thing got out of balance, there would be problems, some kind of problems. Speaker A 00:05:25 You get a tire going 10,000 miles an hour in this direction, and then you take the whole car and rotate it 1,000 miles an hour in the other direction and get a lump on the side of that thing, and it'll tear the whole system apart. Speaker A 00:05:41 Well, this globe's not even round. Speaker A 00:05:44 And God's got a bunch of folks living on this thing that don't have sense enough to let it alone. Speaker A 00:05:49 We blow holes in it, you know. Speaker A 00:05:53 Now you stop and think about the weight of the bombs and so forth. Speaker A 00:05:58 We dropped 600,000 tons on Iwo Jima. Speaker A 00:06:05 Little old island, right out in the middle of the water. Speaker A 00:06:07 Don't mean nothing. Speaker A 00:06:08 We dropped almost as much weight on it that it weighed to start with in World War II. Speaker A 00:06:16 How much dirt and weight do you suppose we displaced? Speaker A 00:06:23 Exploding nuclear weapons? Speaker A 00:06:30 One of the things that's always puzzled me. Speaker A 00:06:32 I was on the Queen Mary a few days ago. Speaker A 00:06:35 We preached a convention that they held aboard that ship. Speaker A 00:06:38 You know what that thing weighs? Speaker A 00:06:40 Ain't no way that thing will float. Speaker A 00:06:45 That thing weighs 88,000 tons, that's 88,000 times 2000. Speaker A 00:06:53 That'll almost pop your head, you know it. Speaker A 00:06:56 And the thing floats, okay? Speaker A 00:07:00 You go out to the airport and you see a 747 taxi out to the end of the Runway. Speaker A 00:07:06 Now, it's no problem for me to believe that thing will fly, but I can't believe that boat will float. Speaker A 00:07:12 I mean, to see it float by, you know, something wrong there. Speaker A 00:07:17 You can't float that much steel. Speaker A 00:07:18 There's just not anything. Speaker A 00:07:19 Anyway, that thing stands above the water line 119ft. Speaker A 00:07:24 Now, that's something else, isn't it? Speaker A 00:07:27 Well, can you imagine the physics problems that you get into? Speaker A 00:07:32 Not only, not just from man's standpoint, but you take all those ships floating around in different directions at one time, and you got a 747 taking off from Dallas, going to Honolulu with full passenger load aboard and the fuel load aboard. Speaker A 00:07:50 And you know what his gross weight is right at £800,000. Speaker A 00:07:56 And he's fixing to roll down that Runway and he's fixing to lift that dude off at 145kn, get that thing in the air and fly it to 40,000ft, well, a little less than that, and head off toward Honolulu and go over there and land that nearly, oh, better than three quarters of a million pounds on a Runway over there and shifting all that weight around. Speaker A 00:08:22 Now, God had a physics problem when he first put this thing together, and it was going to have to last more than a week or two. Speaker A 00:08:31 Amen. Speaker A 00:08:32 Well, see, he took a little piece of dust and comprehended all that gracious sake before you could see it with the physical eye, before you could see it, before it ever happened. Speaker A 00:08:50 Now, there was an inner image of all that. Speaker A 00:08:55 Then God planned it, framed that inner image with words, then loaded the words with the substance or the energy that would cause it to come to pass and released those words with his mouth. Speaker A 00:09:17 And that is that substance is faith, the force of faith. Speaker A 00:09:24 Now, there is a Bible secret of words. Speaker A 00:09:27 And as we get this, then we're going to go directly into our lesson today. Speaker A 00:09:31 There is a Bible secret of words. Speaker A 00:09:33 Actually, it isn't a secret, but the Bible is the only place you're going to find it. Speaker A 00:09:36 Because Satan would not have you know it if he could keep you from it, because he'll use it against you if he can. Speaker A 00:09:41 One of the major tools that he uses against people are words. Speaker A 00:09:48 Now, you know that words have the ability to carry. Speaker A 00:09:51 And if you'll stop and think about it a minute, you'll find why God put Such a high premium on words. Speaker A 00:09:57 Jesus said, it's not what goes in a man that defiles him, it's what comes out. Speaker A 00:10:02 It's what comes out of him that will actually defile him. Speaker A 00:10:05 Well, if words have the ability to defile the flesh, the mind and the spirit, and they do. Speaker A 00:10:15 You know as well as I know that words have the ability to carry fear. Speaker A 00:10:20 Well, fear is a spiritual force. Speaker A 00:10:23 Words have the ability to carry hate. Speaker A 00:10:28 In fact, words can actually injure and cause a type of pain that is worse than physical pain and will go down on the inside of a man's heart and hurt him so bad that it'll take the power of God to heal it. Speaker A 00:10:43 And if you're not careful, you can injure a man for life with words. Speaker A 00:10:48 You can get a man to a point to where he'll beg you to kill him with words. Speaker A 00:10:54 Words are containers. Speaker A 00:10:57 Now, they'll contain either one of three things. Speaker A 00:11:02 Fear and hate, faith and love. Speaker A 00:11:07 Or nothing. Speaker A 00:11:11 Now, Jesus said men will stand judgment for every word that proceeds out of your mouth. Speaker A 00:11:20 That's quite a premium to put on words, isn't it? Speaker A 00:11:26 Thank God for forgiveness. Speaker A 00:11:28 Thank God for the blood of the Lamb. Speaker A 00:11:30 Whoo. Speaker A 00:11:31 Glory be to Jesus. Speaker A 00:11:33 Think what you've done with that thing right beneath your nose. Speaker A 00:11:38 Oh, my Lord God have mercy. Speaker A 00:11:41 Oh, you've sinned a million to one with your mouth over your body. Speaker A 00:11:50 That's the truth. Speaker A 00:11:51 You know it. Speaker A 00:11:52 That's the truth. Speaker A 00:11:53 That's a staggering thought, really, when you think about it. Speaker A 00:11:55 Now, why would God put that kind of premium on words? Speaker A 00:12:00 You are created in the likeness of God. Speaker A 00:12:03 Now, the Bible says in the image of God created he, him, them. Speaker A 00:12:07 Now, where was that image? Speaker A 00:12:10 Inside God. Speaker A 00:12:13 Inside God. Speaker A 00:12:15 How did God get it out? Speaker A 00:12:18 With words. Speaker A 00:12:22 Now, the likeness, Let me change that a minute. Speaker A 00:12:28 The uniqueness of the human creation, the part of you that is unique and like God, the thing that you have that no other creation of God has, is the privilege and the godlike ability to choose and speak at your own will whatever words you please, you can go to hell if you want to and you'll do it with the words of your mouth. Speaker A 00:13:12 For with your words, you choose your eternal destiny. Speaker A 00:13:17 The Bible says if a man will confess with his mouth Jesus as Lord and believe in his heart that he's been raised from the dead, thou shalt be saved. Speaker A 00:13:28 Oh, glory to God. Speaker A 00:13:30 The spiritual ability say, well, angels talk, yeah, but they don't have the right to choose their words. Speaker A 00:13:36 They speak whatever they're told to speak. Speaker A 00:13:39 Now, Satan did It. Speaker A 00:13:40 And it doomed him. Speaker A 00:13:42 He chose his own words and he said, I'll be like the most High, and I'll exalt my throne above the clouds, and I'll sit at the sides of the north. Speaker A 00:13:49 And it doomed him. Speaker A 00:13:52 He didn't have the right to do that. Speaker A 00:13:54 Angels don't have the right to do that. Speaker A 00:13:56 Only a man did. Speaker A 00:13:58 Now, why would God create a thing like that? Speaker A 00:14:02 Why would he make something like that? Speaker A 00:14:04 All right, let me put it to you this way, particularly in the light of that question that was asked about love before we even started the thing today. Speaker A 00:14:10 Now, love did this. Speaker A 00:14:12 Love is the motivation behind it. Speaker A 00:14:13 Love is a person. Speaker A 00:14:14 God is love. Speaker A 00:14:16 And now here's what he did. Speaker A 00:14:21 Say you had a robot. Speaker A 00:14:24 And this robot was. Speaker A 00:14:28 Well, I'll just direct this conversation to Ron Adams. Speaker A 00:14:31 Now, Ron, you had a Robot that's about 5 foot 4, weighed about 102, and it was a good looking thing. Speaker A 00:14:40 I mean, you know, Max factor, put the face on it, nice looking thing. Speaker A 00:14:46 But you see, in the circuitry that you engineered and designed and you put inside that. Speaker A 00:14:54 In that circuitry was programmed to where every time you smiled, that thing would say, stick out its hand and say, I love you. Speaker A 00:15:08 And you knew the thing couldn't do any different because it was in its circuitry to say that every time you smile that thing and say, I love you. Speaker A 00:15:19 Wouldn't that be a lot of fun? Speaker A 00:15:22 You know, in the middle of the night, that thing, I love you. Speaker A 00:15:30 Finally you get to shut up and just unplug it and kick it over in the corner. Speaker A 00:15:37 You get tired of hearing that I love you. Speaker A 00:15:43 And you knew it had no choice because it was wired into its circuitry to say that. Speaker A 00:15:50 You don't get anything any more out of that than you would an old parrot when you come home. Speaker A 00:15:54 You know what? Speaker A 00:15:56 It wouldn't make you very mad if the parrot cussed you. Speaker A 00:16:01 You know why? Speaker A 00:16:02 Because a dumb bird can't choose its words. Speaker A 00:16:06 All it is just mocking somebody. Speaker A 00:16:09 But now you come walking in the house and a human being cuss you, boy. Speaker A 00:16:12 I mean, the deal's on now. Speaker A 00:16:14 You know why? Speaker A 00:16:15 Because that creature had the right to choose those words and decide to throw them at you and decide to attack you with them, right? Speaker A 00:16:24 On the other hand, a human being can choose words and walk up to you and when you smile say, I love you. Speaker A 00:16:30 And when you praise God, you knew she didn't have to. Speaker A 00:16:34 That makes another deal, doesn't it? Speaker A 00:16:36 Whoo. Speaker A 00:16:37 Glory to God. Speaker A 00:16:40 That's the way your heavenly Father is And you can curse him if you want to. Speaker A 00:16:47 It don't get you very far with him. Speaker A 00:16:50 He is love. Speaker A 00:16:53 But you have exactly the same right to turn to him and say, I love you because you first loved me. Speaker A 00:17:00 I am not a robot. Speaker A 00:17:02 I have the will and the right and the privilege to choose my words and thereby choose my destiny. Speaker A 00:17:11 Are you following that? Speaker A 00:17:13 Do you see why words are so important? Speaker A 00:17:14 They carry. Speaker A 00:17:15 They're actually spiritual containers. Speaker A 00:17:18 Now, we are in exactly the same. Speaker A 00:17:20 We are a replica of God. Speaker A 00:17:23 You see, he had in him, in his spirit man was. Speaker A 00:17:28 Was the dynamo of spiritual power, faith. Speaker A 00:17:32 That faith is the name that has been put on and placed on the spiritual force of life. Speaker A 00:17:42 In God's word is his faith. Speaker A 00:17:44 He's released his faith. Speaker A 00:17:46 Actually, you see, this Bible is a copy of the words that God has used to release his faith here in the earth. Speaker A 00:17:54 Now, this is not the only place he's released his faith. Speaker A 00:17:57 Heaven's full of it. Speaker A 00:17:59 In fact, it's lit by it. Speaker A 00:18:04 He's never spoken a void word in his life. Speaker A 00:18:09 And this book is a copy of every word that he's used to release his faith with here in the earth. Speaker A 00:18:17 Now, no wonder the Bible said faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Speaker A 00:18:24 When you allow God's word to get inside your heart and then dump his faith in your heart, when you made Jesus Christ the Lord of your life, he placed that faith dynamo inside you, just like him. Speaker A 00:18:39 In fact, the Bible does not say that God hath given every man a measure of faith. Speaker A 00:18:45 In Romans 12:3, it said, God hath dealt unto every man the measure of faith. Speaker A 00:18:52 That dynamo's in you. Speaker A 00:18:54 It's in there. Speaker A 00:18:55 Not only that, but the spirit of God himself dwell in you. Speaker A 00:18:59 Then you got two Dynamos in you. Speaker A 00:19:01 Not just yours, but his also. Speaker A 00:19:04 And you can operate over in there the gift of faith. Speaker A 00:19:06 You can put both Dynamos together. Speaker A 00:19:08 If one of them goes to running down, hook it into that other one. Speaker A 00:19:13 Praise the Lord. Speaker A 00:19:14 Are you following what I'm saying to you? Speaker A 00:19:17 All right. Speaker A 00:19:18 How do you do it? Speaker A 00:19:21 There has to be an inner image inside the spirit man that matches the one that's inside God. Speaker A 00:19:31 Concerning salvation, concerning healing. Speaker A 00:19:36 Now, if your inner image is distorted, that's the only way it can produce. Speaker A 00:19:43 You can get holes in your cup till you go to pulling that out of there and it won't come out. Speaker A 00:19:47 Or you can get to a place to where the force of faith is absolutely not working on the inside. Speaker A 00:19:54 It's there, but it isn't working. Speaker A 00:19:56 And when you get to that place, the doubt and the unbelief that's in there will begin to fill the word containers that come out of your mouth and you're getting just what you say. Speaker A 00:20:07 I've had people say that faith stuff don't work for me. Speaker A 00:20:10 And it just did. Speaker A 00:20:15 And it isn't working. Speaker A 00:20:17 He's getting what he says, see. Speaker A 00:20:19 In fact, Satan's using it on him, working it in reverse. Speaker A 00:20:23 Turn over to the fourth chapter of Mark, the 14th verse. Speaker A 00:20:28 The sower soweth the Word. Speaker A 00:20:31 These are they by the wayside where the Word is sown. Speaker A 00:20:36 When they have heard, Satan cometh immediately and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts. Speaker A 00:20:43 Now, before we go any further, let's take what we have already learned from the Word of God and let's inject it in here so that it will produce in the light and in relation to what we've already learned. Speaker A 00:20:56 Now, you see, the sower soweth the Word. Speaker A 00:20:59 In explanation of the parables that Jesus had already preached, he begins with those words, the sower soweth the Word. Speaker A 00:21:07 Now, the Word of God is the subject of this parable, and the Word of God is the subject upon which Jesus is preaching the Word of God. Speaker A 00:21:19 That is the key and the subject to this teaching here. Speaker A 00:21:23 Now, God's Word was originally, before it was put into words, was an image inside God. Speaker A 00:21:32 The Bible says that Jesus is the express image of God. Speaker A 00:21:37 The Bible also states very clearly, very plainly in more ways than word than one, that the Word of God and God are the same. Speaker A 00:21:47 In fact, we read that there in John. Speaker A 00:21:49 You know, it said in the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, the Word was God. Speaker A 00:21:54 Those words came out of the center of God. Speaker A 00:21:58 Whatever God was on the inside, praise God. Speaker A 00:22:01 That's what these words are that came out of there. Speaker A 00:22:04 These words of God paint the image that was on the inside of God. Speaker A 00:22:09 Now he. Speaker A 00:22:10 He speaks those words, the Bible said. Speaker A 00:22:12 He speaks of things that are not as though they were. Speaker A 00:22:15 Well, they are on the inside of him. Speaker A 00:22:17 He said to Abraham, he said, I have made you the Father of many nations. Speaker A 00:22:21 Well, where did he make him that? Speaker A 00:22:22 Off somewhere on Mars or something? Speaker A 00:22:24 No, on inside of his own heart. Speaker A 00:22:27 And when he decided that this is right and this is good and he had designed it to perfection, then he spoke it. Speaker A 00:22:33 And the only thing that was left then was for old Abraham to agree to it, because it's already happened as far as God's concerned, because he decided and made up his mind and Made up his heart, praise God, going to be that way. Speaker A 00:22:44 And then he spoke it and said, I've made you the Father of many nations. Speaker A 00:22:48 Well, you can just write that off as done. Speaker A 00:22:51 Isn't that right? Speaker A 00:22:52 Because no word of God is void of the power to cause itself to come to pass. Speaker A 00:22:58 Now, that power, or the life or the energy in that word is the force of faith. Speaker A 00:23:04 In His Word was life. Speaker A 00:23:07 Isn't that right? Speaker A 00:23:08 I don't know what the Word said. Speaker A 00:23:08 Jesus said, my words are life. Speaker A 00:23:11 They're spirit and they are life. Speaker A 00:23:13 They are spirit and they are life. Speaker A 00:23:16 See, these words came out of the center of God. Speaker A 00:23:19 God is a spirit. Speaker A 00:23:21 Those that worship him must worship him in spirit and in what? Speaker A 00:23:25 In truth or in the Word. Speaker A 00:23:29 My mind's not big enough to understand God through my feelings or through my five physical sense gates. Speaker A 00:23:36 Even if I could walk up in the presence of God and look at him with my own physical eyes, how in the world would you ever understand that, huh? Speaker A 00:23:43 You couldn't. Speaker A 00:23:45 You won't be able to understand Heaven, not with just your head. Speaker A 00:23:49 You could take an unborn again man and set him up in front of the throne of God and kill him. Speaker A 00:23:55 Just the heavenly. Speaker A 00:23:56 I mean, just the earthly holy of holies with just the ark of the covenant. Speaker A 00:24:00 And it was so dazzling and so powerful and so energized with life that that old dead spirit couldn't handle it. Speaker A 00:24:07 A man get in the presence of the thing and kill him. Speaker A 00:24:09 He had to protect himself and veil himself, you see, with sacrifice and everything else before he could ever get into that holy of holies and be able to withstand it. Speaker A 00:24:17 But thank God you're not bound anymore to what you can get in your mind. Speaker A 00:24:21 You've been born again in your spirit. Speaker A 00:24:23 And you know what? Speaker A 00:24:24 If we'll allow God, he'll open our spiritual eyes with his word by His Spirit. Speaker A 00:24:30 To the point that we can see his utmost glory from His Word. Speaker A 00:24:35 For it has been revealed to us by His Spirit. Speaker A 00:24:37 The apostle Paul said that's what he said in First Corinthians, the second chapter said, eye hath not seen, ear has not heard. Speaker A 00:24:44 Neither has it entered into the heart of man what God has in store for those that love him. Speaker A 00:24:49 But he hath revealed them to us by His Spirit. Speaker A 00:24:54 Why, you can get to a place where heaven's not even any shock to you by getting in the Word of God and allowing God to reveal Himself in His glory in His Word before you ever get there. Speaker A 00:25:07 You can get that here and now. Speaker A 00:25:08 Do you know that now your head may stagger at it, but your heart won't. Speaker A 00:25:14 Your heart won't praise the Lord. Speaker A 00:25:17 I've learned a lot of things about heaven. Speaker A 00:25:18 I've never been there. Speaker A 00:25:20 Got them out of the Word. Speaker A 00:25:22 There's a picture in me now that is mature of Heaven. Speaker A 00:25:25 I know a lot of things going on there. Speaker A 00:25:27 Some of the things I know I don't even tell you about. Speaker A 00:25:30 I can't. Speaker A 00:25:32 Some of you cry like babies when I do. Speaker A 00:25:35 Well, bless God, I never heard of that. Speaker A 00:25:38 I don't see high. Speaker A 00:25:39 That's just it. Speaker A 00:25:40 You don't see you're looking through the wrong eyes. Speaker A 00:25:45 You don't know anything about the Bible. Speaker A 00:25:47 Most Christians know very little about the Bible. Speaker A 00:25:48 They read little old snatches and grabs of it on the way to church some morning, read that stupid quarterly and in the light of spiritual things, most of them are stupid. Speaker A 00:26:02 Now, I'm not running down you quarterly. Speaker A 00:26:03 I'm just telling you the truth. Speaker A 00:26:06 I've read, you know, most of them and most of them absolutely. Speaker A 00:26:14 If they were teaching in school the level that most of those quarterlies are written on, if you were operating in the natural that those things operate on in the spirit, you wouldn't even know your ABCs. Speaker A 00:26:32 They're not written most of them to teach you anything. Speaker A 00:26:34 Most of them are written to satisfy you so you'll come back and get in the building program. Speaker A 00:26:41 And whatever else we happen to be involved in at the time, whether or not you've got a material image of God is. Speaker A 00:26:48 I don't even count. Speaker A 00:26:49 Because sometimes we know things that we don't preach because if we did, everybody'd run off. Speaker A 00:26:55 Well, Jesus preached the word and everybody got up and left. Speaker A 00:27:00 And he didn't stop and say, wait a minute fellas, wait a minute. Speaker A 00:27:02 Y'all misunderstood me. Speaker A 00:27:04 He just turned around to the only 12 that is left and said, you boys want to go too? Speaker A 00:27:09 Look, em, he wasn't about to come off of it. Speaker A 00:27:14 And just. Speaker A 00:27:14 Cause didn't anybody understand it? Speaker A 00:27:15 He wasn't going to come off of it. Speaker A 00:27:17 He said later on he said it's for you to understand these parables. Speaker A 00:27:20 But none of them will ever understand it. Speaker A 00:27:22 Yet he preached it to them anyway. Speaker A 00:27:24 You know why? Speaker A 00:27:25 Because God said do it. Speaker A 00:27:27 Cause God said do it. Speaker A 00:27:28 You know what he was doing? Speaker A 00:27:29 Releasing the word of God in the earth. Speaker A 00:27:31 And there wasn't any way anybody could ever get it out. Speaker A 00:27:34 And some of the things that those people fussed at and balked at and didn't understand are some of the very things that are causing you and I to grow today. Speaker A 00:27:42 Isn't that true? Speaker A 00:27:44 All right. Speaker A 00:27:44 Now, realizing that. Speaker A 00:27:46 Realizing that this inner image has to be created by the word of God. Speaker A 00:27:50 And it's not something that you can create with a mental power. Speaker A 00:27:53 It's something the Holy Spirit has to do with his anointing. Speaker A 00:27:57 You know this as well as I do. Speaker A 00:27:58 You can be reading along in the Bible and the spirit of God will open a verse of scripture to you. Speaker A 00:28:02 And you'll see it there after you've been meditating. Speaker A 00:28:04 And there's a whole new light. Speaker A 00:28:07 You called it. Speaker A 00:28:08 Well, the psalmist said, the entrance of his word bringeth light. Speaker A 00:28:13 Praise the Lord. Speaker A 00:28:14 And you said, whoo hoo hoo hoo. Speaker A 00:28:16 Where was that yesterday when I was reading that? Speaker A 00:28:21 Well, you see, the artist added a little more to the picture and it came up on the inside of it. Speaker A 00:28:26 And you'll never forget it. Speaker A 00:28:28 You'll never forget it. Speaker A 00:28:29 And some other fellow, you'll say, man, did you see that? Speaker A 00:28:33 He'll say, I didn't see that. Speaker A 00:28:36 What's all the excitement about? Speaker A 00:28:38 You know, I didn't see anything. Speaker A 00:28:40 And other men can read the Bible for years and be atheists and teach Bible in Bible schools. Speaker A 00:28:46 I know where it's going on today. Speaker A 00:28:48 And somebody said, well, I don't care if he is an atheist. Speaker A 00:28:51 He knows the word of God. Speaker A 00:28:52 No, he doesn't. Speaker A 00:28:55 He knows some words, but they're not the words of God. Speaker A 00:29:00 It takes God to paint that inner image. Speaker A 00:29:03 Now, when the inner image begins to be a reality, that thing will grow to a place to where it will become so powerful that when words that frame the image are released, there's enough power in the words to cause it to come to pass. Speaker A 00:29:17 And the Holy Spirit will back it. Speaker A 00:29:18 And whether the world likes it or not, he says that Jesus is the guarantee of the what? Speaker A 00:29:23 The new covenant, the agreement between Jesus and God that you and I are dealing with. Speaker A 00:29:28 And when that covenant builds a picture inside you, that faith picture begins to grow. Speaker A 00:29:33 It'll come to pass. Speaker A 00:29:34 There's no devil in hell big enough to keep it from coming to pass. Speaker A 00:29:37 Isn't that right? Speaker A 00:29:38 You know that's true. Speaker A 00:29:40 You made the decision to be born again and all. Speaker A 00:29:43 Hell couldn't stop the new birth from taking place. Speaker A 00:29:46 Isn't that right? Speaker A 00:29:48 You know, he would have if he could have, but he couldn't. Speaker A 00:29:54 Hell could not make the decision that would overpower what happened to you when you made a decision to act on that inner picture of God's word that sprung up inside you. Speaker A 00:30:03 When Somebody told you about Jesus. Speaker A 00:30:08 Well, I found out the same thing happened with your healing and everything else. Speaker A 00:30:11 You make the decision that it's going to happen. Speaker A 00:30:13 Praise God. Speaker A 00:30:14 Ain't no devil in hell big enough to keep you sick. Speaker A 00:30:17 But some of you don't have any inner image of you being healed. Speaker A 00:30:20 You've got an inner image of everybody in the world being healed, but you. Speaker A 00:30:24 And you stand up there and say, well, God doesn't heal everybody. Speaker A 00:30:27 As long as you got that in you, you will never be one of those that he does heal. Speaker A 00:30:31 I never did hear anybody say this, you know, God doesn't heal everybody, but he's blessed. Speaker A 00:30:35 God going to heal me. Speaker A 00:30:37 They're not ever the ones that he will heal. Speaker A 00:30:39 They're always the ones that he doesn't. Speaker A 00:30:42 Now that proves that to be unbelief instead of faith. Speaker A 00:30:48 Now then Jesus said, the sower sows the word. Speaker A 00:30:53 These are they by the wayside where the Word is sown. Speaker A 00:30:57 But when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately and taketh away the word that was sown in their heart. Speaker A 00:31:03 Well, he's obligated to. Speaker A 00:31:06 He knows that if you allow the Word to create that inner image on the inside of you to come to pass. Speaker A 00:31:13 He's obligated. Speaker A 00:31:14 Got to scramble the picture before it ever has an opportunity to build. Speaker A 00:31:18 Now with that in your mind, slip right down, you see, to the 26th verse. Speaker A 00:31:25 And Jesus said, so is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground. Speaker A 00:31:33 Now, what was the seed? Speaker A 00:31:35 The Word? Speaker A 00:31:37 Where's the ground, the heart? Speaker A 00:31:40 If seed was cast into the ground and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow up, he knoweth not how. Speaker A 00:31:54 There is a time of growth that takes place. Speaker A 00:31:59 There is a time when the Word is sown. Speaker A 00:32:03 There is a growing time in there now, a great deal of the time, particularly in people that are young people as far as faith is concerned. Speaker A 00:32:11 There's a lot of Christians been Christians years and years, never used their faith, a dime's worth in their daily life, little of it sprinkled here and there. Speaker A 00:32:20 When you get your back up again the wall and just know the way out, you kind of have a faith accident every once in a while. Speaker A 00:32:27 But ever doing anything on purpose with your faith. Speaker A 00:32:29 A lot of Christians like you know that's true. Speaker A 00:32:31 I lived that way. Speaker A 00:32:32 First five years I was saved and filled with the Holy Spirit. Speaker A 00:32:34 The only difference in me was I was still sinning. Speaker A 00:32:37 I just didn't like it anymore. Speaker A 00:32:40 I got just sick as I Ever did. Speaker A 00:32:42 Just broke as ever. Speaker A 00:32:43 Was just as deep in debt. Speaker A 00:32:46 I didn't talk ugly like I used to, really. Speaker A 00:32:50 Truth, that's about all the difference. Speaker A 00:32:52 I was going to heaven by the eternal. Speaker A 00:32:55 I knew that I was going to heaven. Speaker A 00:32:58 And I told God one day, that thing got so big on the inside of me, you know, I told the Lord, I said, I go to hell. Speaker A 00:33:04 It's your fault, not mine, because I've done what your word said. Speaker A 00:33:08 But I know I'm going. Speaker A 00:33:09 I had no doubt in me, have had no doubt since. Speaker A 00:33:12 And Satan never has had any success telling me that I'm not really going to heaven, that I'm not really saved. Speaker A 00:33:20 He just can't get away with that with me. Speaker A 00:33:22 Because I found in the Word where I am. Speaker A 00:33:25 I knew I was going to heaven. Speaker A 00:33:26 But between here and heaven, I figured, well, you know, get what you can. Speaker A 00:33:34 Failure going somewhere to happen. Speaker A 00:33:37 And God showed me a vision up over here at Ardmore one time. Speaker A 00:33:44 Show you how this thing works. Speaker A 00:33:46 I had a vision there. Speaker A 00:33:47 I was praying about this. Speaker A 00:33:49 I couldn't figure out why. Speaker A 00:33:50 I couldn't figure out how come I failed everything I did. Speaker A 00:33:53 No word says that we're created to bear good fruit. Speaker A 00:33:58 That every fruit we get into ought to prosper. Speaker A 00:34:00 You can read that in the first two chapters of Colossians just as plain. Speaker A 00:34:03 And I thought, boy, if that's me, I tell you what. Speaker A 00:34:07 I don't know how in the world ever get to where it works that way. Speaker A 00:34:09 Because I never had borne any fruit. Speaker A 00:34:12 Failed everything I did. Speaker A 00:34:14 And God showed me a vision that afternoon. Speaker A 00:34:16 I was praying, and right then I didn't realize I'd had a vision until sometime later. Speaker A 00:34:20 But it just hit me so hardest. Speaker A 00:34:22 All of a sudden, I saw it. Speaker A 00:34:23 I saw a man's hand. Speaker A 00:34:25 It looked like it was on a television set. Speaker A 00:34:27 Well, now, you see, sometimes God has to butt in on what's going on with you on the inside and change the channel. Speaker A 00:34:36 But now there's a better way of doing it than that. Speaker A 00:34:38 Did you know that? Speaker A 00:34:40 There's a better way than that. Speaker A 00:34:42 There's a way to get that intervision with the word of God and then talk and visit with God on a much higher level than these elementary things he's having. Speaker A 00:34:50 Just butt in to try to get your attention with. Speaker A 00:34:53 Praise the Lord. Speaker A 00:34:55 I was sitting there and I saw a man's hand about from the end of the sleeve forward. Speaker A 00:35:00 And I saw the biggest banana I ever saw in all my life. Speaker A 00:35:04 That thing looked like it was 2ft tall, at least. Speaker A 00:35:09 Great big thing and I like bananas. Speaker A 00:35:14 And in fact, when I was smaller, I was accused of being of an African descent, living in trees or something. Speaker A 00:35:23 Cause I like bananas so well. Speaker A 00:35:25 And that banana, best looking banana I believe I've sown in my life. Speaker A 00:35:27 That thing is a good 2 foot tall, you know. Speaker A 00:35:33 But then I saw a man's other hand begin to peel that thing and got it all peeled and wasn't nothing in it. Speaker A 00:35:43 And I got to looking at it and then, you know, it's like a close up. Speaker A 00:35:47 I saw down in the bottom of the very bottom of the peeling of that huge banana, this tall, right down in the bottom of that thing, about this tall, about an inch and a half tall in the bottom of a two foot banana was me. Speaker A 00:36:07 And God said, now that is your inner concept. Speaker A 00:36:11 You, you put forth a front of confidence and extreme boldness. Speaker A 00:36:19 And when all the peelings peeled away, that's what you actually think of yourself. Speaker A 00:36:27 I looked at that, I said, you know, you're right. Speaker A 00:36:30 You're right on the inside. Speaker A 00:36:32 I never did even plan to succeed at anything except I was going to heaven. Speaker A 00:36:38 I had that planned out, I had that made. Speaker A 00:36:41 I was gonna make that. Speaker A 00:36:42 I like to miss that. Speaker A 00:36:45 God said, now you pray. Speaker A 00:36:47 And see, I didn't know anything about what I'm teaching you today. Speaker A 00:36:51 For goodness sakes, if anybody taught me this back there, then I wouldn't have had banana trouble. Speaker A 00:36:54 But I, you know, and God said, God said, you called Tommy Tyson, he was staying down the hall there and he said, you have him lay hands on you and have him pray, change your inner concept of yourself. Speaker A 00:37:13 Well, you see, I still had an inner concept of that old sinner saved by grace. Speaker A 00:37:19 I'd heard that all my life. Speaker A 00:37:21 I'm just an old sinner saved by grace. Speaker A 00:37:24 You are not. Speaker A 00:37:25 You were an old sinner and got saved by grace, but you no longer, in the eyes of God, an old sinner. Speaker A 00:37:30 Now you may miss it and sin, but you know, he even has a way to stop that. Speaker A 00:37:34 He said that if we'll confess our sins, he's faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us of all unrighteousness. Speaker A 00:37:41 See, he's even got an escape for that, praise God. Speaker A 00:37:43 There's no use in you going on with that sin in you. Speaker A 00:37:46 Don't turn away from God when you sin. Speaker A 00:37:48 Turn to him. Speaker A 00:37:49 He's your father. Speaker A 00:37:50 Ain't none of the devil's business if you do sin. Speaker A 00:37:53 He's not your God, is he? Speaker A 00:37:57 Oh, I hope not. Speaker A 00:38:02 Now that preacher laid his hands on me and prayed what I told him, pray. Speaker A 00:38:07 And it happened instantly. Speaker A 00:38:10 Now, God stepped in and did me a big favor, if you want to know the truth, because I wasn't getting it out of the Word. Speaker A 00:38:16 I'd never put the Word first place in my life. Speaker A 00:38:18 At that time, I didn't even know any of this existed. Speaker A 00:38:20 But by a supernatural act of his own power, he picked me up and got me started on my way, you see, by changing the inner image of me. Speaker A 00:38:29 Now, as you get in the Word and as you begin to believe God, for instance, let's take healing. Speaker A 00:38:34 That's where everybody seems to stumble. Speaker A 00:38:35 Healing and finances. Speaker A 00:38:36 That's where most full gospel people fumble around. Speaker A 00:38:41 If you go to the Word and believe God for your healing, you plant the seed. Speaker A 00:38:47 There can, and very often is a period there, I don't know any other way to put it where you readily understand it than this. Speaker A 00:38:57 There is an incubation period of that seed, and it's in a growing stage and it's not in a productive stage. Speaker A 00:39:06 And I've seen some people, in 10 minutes after the seed was planted, jerk their glasses off and break them and throw them in the floor and stomp them and go through all that, and the seed's not even in a productive state yet. Speaker A 00:39:17 And then call me the next morning and gripe and cry because they can't see the drive to work. Speaker A 00:39:25 And then go off saying, well, it don't work. Speaker A 00:39:27 Well, you just allowed the devil to distort that image of healing in you before it ever got to come out of the ground. Speaker A 00:39:32 Wouldn't it be a dumb. Speaker A 00:39:33 Some kind of a farmer to go plant and then go out there every day and dig that seed up? Speaker A 00:39:39 I wonder how come it ain't grow it. Speaker A 00:39:43 That'd be the dumbest thing a fellow could do. Speaker A 00:39:45 When I was used to growing up, my grandpa taught me how to fish and hunt. Speaker A 00:39:49 And, well, he and my dad. Speaker A 00:39:51 My dad taught me more about fishing than he did hunting. Speaker A 00:39:54 My granddad taught me more about hunting and living outside like that. Speaker A 00:39:58 He's Indian. Speaker A 00:39:59 He knew all that stuff. Speaker A 00:40:00 And I'd sit up there and I'd throw that hook over there in the water and just couldn't stand it if something didn't bite it by the time it got wet, I'd pull it back up and look at it, you know, see what he'd say. Speaker A 00:40:11 Son, ain't no way you're gonna catch any fish without the bait in the water. Speaker A 00:40:15 Leave it in there. Speaker A 00:40:19 We got any fishermen in here today? Speaker A 00:40:23 Raise Your hand. Speaker A 00:40:23 If you're a fisherman, you want me to tell you how to catch Mr. Speaker A 00:40:27 Bass, huh? Speaker A 00:40:30 I can never learn this. Speaker A 00:40:32 I come home with more empty sacks you wouldn't believe. Speaker A 00:40:38 Get an inner image of that fish following every bait you throw in the water. Speaker A 00:40:44 You get to. Speaker A 00:40:45 I get to a point sometime when I throw a bait out there, I gets excited about it because I can just see. Speaker A 00:40:48 I can almost see through that water. Speaker A 00:40:50 I can see the biggest bass the world ever known following that thing and looking at it, following it around. Speaker A 00:40:55 And I get to messing with him and get to playing with him, you know, And I don't care if there's anything on there or not. Speaker A 00:40:59 I have fun every time I throw it out there. Speaker A 00:41:03 Learned this and got to praying about it when I got to seeking God on it. Speaker A 00:41:08 And I got so excited about it. Speaker A 00:41:11 And you know what is less than a week's time? Speaker A 00:41:14 Now, you may think this is foolish, but it isn't. Speaker A 00:41:16 Jesus taught some boys how to fish like that. Speaker A 00:41:18 He said, throw your net over on the other side. Speaker A 00:41:23 He said, well, at your word, I'll do it. Speaker A 00:41:26 Broke his nets less than a week's time. Speaker A 00:41:29 A fellow called me and said. Speaker A 00:41:31 Called my dad and said, boy, you would like to fish. Speaker A 00:41:34 Yeah. Speaker A 00:41:35 He said, I got some lakes out here that nobody fishes in. Speaker A 00:41:41 Now, that was the first thing God did see. Speaker A 00:41:44 I wasn't even at the lake and I was already seeing me catching fish. Speaker A 00:41:48 So God did that for me. Speaker A 00:41:49 And I went out there. Speaker A 00:41:52 Oh, oh. Speaker A 00:41:55 What I didn't catch out of the lake, that guy gave me out of his deep freeze. Speaker A 00:41:59 Before I could leave the place, I went home with boxes full of fish. Speaker A 00:42:05 The first five fish I caught weighed around 30 pounds. Speaker A 00:42:14 I've gone out and hung fish all day long and catch 1% of them and thought I was doing good. Speaker A 00:42:19 I didn't miss a one. Speaker A 00:42:22 Them fish got to where there's minding me. Speaker A 00:42:26 I never had so much fun fishing in all my life. Speaker A 00:42:28 Now, the rest of you people can just set in on this. Speaker A 00:42:30 I'm talking to the fisherman. Speaker A 00:42:32 They know what I'm talking about. Speaker A 00:42:34 Now listen to me. Speaker A 00:42:36 God will make you fishers of men if you'll get the inner image changed and get rid of that old religious image that says, everybody you talk to about Jesus will slap you in the face. Speaker A 00:42:46 Cause that's a lie. Speaker A 00:42:48 That's not. Speaker A 00:42:48 So they're out there ready to hear. Speaker A 00:42:51 They're hoping to God somebody knows the truth. Speaker A 00:42:53 He could even argue with you a little bit. Speaker A 00:42:55 And every word or argument comes out of his mouth on the inside. Speaker A 00:42:58 He's saying, come on man, prove to me it's so. Speaker A 00:43:01 I want in on this thing. Speaker A 00:43:03 That's what he's saying in his heart. Speaker A 00:43:05 Get an inner image of it. Speaker A 00:43:07 Praise God. Speaker A 00:43:07 I'll tell you what I haven't witnessed to anybody that's turned me down in nearly four years. Speaker A 00:43:13 Praise. Speaker A 00:43:14 It's the most beautiful time in your life. Speaker A 00:43:16 But I began to realize wasn't anybody but a demon possessed man that would resist. Speaker A 00:43:21 I had it built up in me that they would. Speaker A 00:43:23 So I just didn't go. Speaker A 00:43:24 And that's what most of you been doing. Speaker A 00:43:26 I got to witness into a young black man that I heard him tell somebody he was been studying psychology and he was working in a department store. Speaker A 00:43:34 And I stand there listening last night. Speaker A 00:43:36 And so I just thought, well, I'll throw him some stuff, just see how what he does with it. Speaker A 00:43:41 So the anointing of God came on me and I began to talk to him and began to witness to him. Speaker A 00:43:47 And he said, come on, let's walk down here. Speaker A 00:43:50 And we walked down and got in between two racks of clothes and I still preaching to him and saying some things to him. Speaker A 00:43:56 And he's standing here like this and directly he leaned over to me and he said, I'm trying to keep my composure. Speaker A 00:44:04 And I grinned a little bit. Speaker A 00:44:05 I said, you'll have to forgive me, I can't. Speaker A 00:44:07 He said, we better hush now cause I'm getting turned on. Speaker A 00:44:11 I'm fixing to lose my job if you don't get out of here. Speaker A 00:44:16 Praise God. Speaker A 00:44:17 You see, the image that is on the inside of me was getting over to him. Speaker A 00:44:25 Yeah, you can catch fish, boy. Speaker A 00:44:28 You got to have an inner image of them hitting that bait. Speaker A 00:44:31 I don't care what you throw the bait of the word of God out there and he'll hit it like a bass hitting a fly. Speaker A 00:44:38 Amen. Speaker A 00:44:39 Now here it is in black and white in the word of God. Speaker A 00:44:44 He said, so is the kingdom of God. Speaker A 00:44:46 As if a man should cast seed into the ground. Speaker A 00:44:48 And should sleep and rise night and day. Speaker A 00:44:50 And the seed should spring and grow up, he knows not how. Speaker A 00:44:53 For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself. Speaker A 00:44:56 First the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. Speaker A 00:45:01 See, that thing's a growing in him. Speaker A 00:45:02 It's not yet to a production state, it's just growing in there. Speaker A 00:45:06 Some of you need to relax and come to these meetings and come back and come back and come back. Speaker A 00:45:11 Give us an opportunity to feed that seed that's been Planted in there instead of going off and turning on the television and killing it. Speaker A 00:45:20 That's also in here. Speaker A 00:45:22 And then he said unto them, take heed what ye hear, with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you. Speaker A 00:45:34 Unto you that hear shall be more given. Speaker A 00:45:39 You see that in the 25th verse, 24th, 25th verses. Speaker A 00:45:43 For he that hath to him should be given, and to he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he has. Speaker A 00:45:49 Now, see, there's a lot of you that'll hear a little bit of the word of God. Speaker A 00:45:52 But then you go turn on the TV or something. Speaker A 00:45:54 He said, watch what you hear. Speaker A 00:45:56 Watch what you put in there if you want. Speaker A 00:45:58 He said, the way you measure it, that's the way it'll come back at you. Speaker A 00:46:01 The way you cultivate the ground, that's exactly the kind of crop you're going to get. Speaker A 00:46:05 You can have two farmers living side by side and start them off with the same equipment and the same seed. Speaker A 00:46:10 And they certainly both got the same kind of weather. Speaker A 00:46:12 It don't rain on one, not rain on the other. Speaker A 00:46:14 And one of them's crop be twice what the other ends. Speaker A 00:46:17 What is it? Speaker A 00:46:17 One of them is a better farmer than the other one only because he cultivates what he has. Speaker A 00:46:23 And he says, if you don't put the word in you and give this seed an opportunity to grow, then the things that you have will be taken away from you. Speaker A 00:46:31 Even though you have healing, even though you have a right to see to the things of the kingdom of God. Speaker A 00:46:36 If you don't build that inner image to it, Satan will take it away from you. Speaker A 00:46:40 Even though it belongs to you. Speaker A 00:46:42 If you don't know you have a deed to your home, anybody in town move in there and talk you out of the place? Speaker A 00:46:47 But, brother, when you know you got a deed and you know what drawer it's in, and somebody comes up there and says, this is my house, you. Speaker A 00:46:53 You go get that drawer and jerk that deed out. Speaker A 00:46:56 Say, bless God. Speaker A 00:46:56 It ain't either. Speaker A 00:46:57 And you get off my property. Speaker A 00:46:58 You see this deed? Speaker A 00:47:01 This is mine. Speaker A 00:47:03 When you get to where the word of God becomes your deed to healing, and it's down in there and Satan comes along, so I'm going to take it away from you. Speaker A 00:47:11 Shake the deed in his face. Speaker A 00:47:12 No, you don't. Speaker A 00:47:13 You don't welcome here. Speaker A 00:47:14 You trespassing on God's property. Speaker A 00:47:16 You get yourself off this place. Speaker A 00:47:18 You don't belong here. Speaker A 00:47:19 This thing's mine. Speaker A 00:47:20 I got a deed to it. Speaker A 00:47:22 Well, the New Testament is your deed. Speaker A 00:47:24 Now back down to where we were reading there at first. Speaker A 00:47:28 28th verse. Speaker A 00:47:31 For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself. Speaker A 00:47:33 First the blade, then the ear. Speaker A 00:47:36 After that, the full corn in the ear. Speaker A 00:47:38 But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle. Speaker A 00:47:43 Because the harvest is come. Speaker A 00:47:46 You see, as a man listens to the Word and meditates in it and allows it to build that inner image of what he's after on inside of him, it will come to a place where. Speaker A 00:47:55 And it. Speaker A 00:47:56 I've never seen it fail. Speaker A 00:47:57 It always comes instantly. Speaker A 00:47:59 You may have been meditating on the Word of God for six months, but there'll be one morning when you get up, and it'll happen instantly. Speaker A 00:48:05 It's time for harvest. Speaker A 00:48:07 That thing bloomed, and all of a sudden, on the inside of you, you just know. Speaker A 00:48:11 Because you know, because you know, you just know it has happened. Speaker A 00:48:16 Praise God. Speaker A 00:48:17 And the thing all of a sudden looks simple to you? Speaker A 00:48:20 God began to deal with me on. Speaker A 00:48:23 On a thing that he wanted me to do. Speaker A 00:48:24 And I kept getting little pieces of it and little parts here and little parts there. Speaker A 00:48:28 And I couldn't see the whole thing. Speaker A 00:48:30 And I've learned since not to get all disturbed about it. Speaker A 00:48:33 Just stay before God and meditate in the Word and let him paint the picture. Speaker A 00:48:36 And. Speaker A 00:48:37 And a couple of three years have gone by, and. Speaker A 00:48:40 And I began to see it. Speaker A 00:48:41 I knew he was teaching me on things that would do things in evangelism. Speaker A 00:48:45 And here, just a week or 10 days ago, I was standing out in the woods out on a piece of property out north of Fort Worth. Speaker A 00:48:52 And as I was standing there, the spirit of God finished off the picture. Speaker A 00:48:56 And I saw it. Speaker A 00:48:56 I saw all the pieces that I'd been seeing for nearly three years. Speaker A 00:49:00 And the thing manifested on the inside of me. Speaker A 00:49:03 And I have it in the name of Jesus. Speaker A 00:49:04 And it cost 25 times the amount of money I ever even dreamed about having in my hands. Speaker A 00:49:09 But I'm not even worried about it. Speaker A 00:49:10 I don't even know. Speaker A 00:49:11 That's not my part. Speaker A 00:49:12 I'm just the believer. Speaker A 00:49:13 He's the getter. Speaker A 00:49:15 But I saw the whole thing. Speaker A 00:49:17 And we'll take the thing, even in its infancy and win a million people a year to Jesus with it. Speaker A 00:49:23 And it'll grow to a place. Speaker A 00:49:25 It'll grow to a place where it'll affect the lives of a quarter of a million people a month. Speaker A 00:49:31 Now, that's something else. Speaker A 00:49:33 The picture came together like a jigsaw. Speaker A 00:49:35 It finally came up, and there was A leaf on the stalk. Speaker A 00:49:39 And then there was an ear. Speaker A 00:49:40 And then there was fruit inside the ear. Speaker A 00:49:42 But it's still green. Speaker A 00:49:43 It's still green. Speaker A 00:49:45 I just kept feeding it and praising God and thanking the Lord. Speaker A 00:49:48 And I walked out there that morning and I want you to know, bless God. Speaker A 00:49:50 I mean, it went. Speaker A 00:49:52 I'm. Speaker A 00:49:52 Whoo, man. Speaker A 00:49:53 The corn started popping. Speaker A 00:49:55 I could see the whole picture. Speaker A 00:49:57 I saw the whole thing. Speaker A 00:49:58 And it's mine. Speaker A 00:49:59 It's mine just as well as I'm standing here before you. Speaker A 00:50:02 It's more real on the inside of me than anything I see on the outside. Speaker A 00:50:06 Now, the harvest you see is immediate. Speaker A 00:50:09 The harvest is immediate, he said. Speaker A 00:50:11 Immediately puts forth the sickle. Speaker A 00:50:13 Well, man, when the thing comes about, you just stand up and say, well, blessed be God, I'm healed. Speaker A 00:50:18 That did it. Speaker A 00:50:18 I've got it. Speaker A 00:50:19 And you know, nobody ever take it away from you then. Speaker A 00:50:21 Cause it's yours. Speaker A 00:50:22 Go put it in the barn. Speaker A 00:50:24 Now, where you kill this thing is before you ever get to the hardest, Satan cometh immediately to take out the word which was sown. Speaker A 00:50:35 And we're going to study this again. Speaker A 00:50:36 Tomorrow we'll go into the rest of it where he said, persecution and affliction ariseth for the Word's sake, Cares of this world and lusts of other things and deceitfulness of riches. Speaker A 00:50:47 Get in and choke the word. Speaker A 00:50:49 Choke off that inner image where you can't see it anymore. Speaker A 00:50:52 Throws a veil up in front of it. Speaker A 00:50:55 Can you see that? Speaker A 00:50:56 Can you understand what I'm saying to you? Speaker A 00:50:58 Huh? Speaker A 00:50:59 Let's stand on our feet and we'll receive it in faith. Speaker A 00:51:03 Praise the Lord. Speaker A 00:51:06 Oh, heavenly Father, thank you for your word. Speaker A 00:51:10 We bless you and we thank you in Jesus name. Speaker A 00:51:14 Father, I'm asking you to use this word that's been put forth today to create an inner image of exactly the need answered and met for every person in this place. Speaker A 00:51:24 The answer to it. Speaker A 00:51:25 In the name of Jesus. Speaker A 00:51:27 Oh, hallelujah. Speaker A 00:51:29 Praise the name of the blessed Lord. Speaker A 00:51:31 We believe that we receive it and we've watered it, thank God. Speaker A 00:51:34 And we expect somebody else to come along behind us to plant and seed and water and cultivate. Speaker A 00:51:38 Thank God. Speaker A 00:51:39 And we'll be all be involved in a great harvest of the word of God. Speaker A 00:51:43 We praise you and we thank you for it. Speaker A 00:51:46 Now I want you again to lift your hand before God and let's make some confessions out loud. Speaker A 00:51:50 This is an integral part of building the inner image on the inside of you that matches the heart of God. Speaker A 00:51:56 And just say this. Speaker A 00:51:57 I'm a believer, not a doubter. Speaker A 00:52:00 Say it out loud. Speaker A 00:52:01 Loud enough where you can hear yourself. Speaker A 00:52:02 I'm a believer, not a doubter. Speaker A 00:52:04 He that is within me is greater than he that's in the world. Speaker A 00:52:12 He's in there. Speaker A 00:52:14 My hope of glory. Speaker A 00:52:17 I have the victory. Speaker A 00:52:19 I have it now. Speaker A 00:52:22 I can see it through the eye of my faith. Speaker A 00:52:27 I am a believer and not a doubter. Speaker A 00:52:32 Now lift your hands and praise God for it. Speaker A 00:52:36 Now, see, that's the way you water and cultivate that inner image till it gets to a point that it will harvest whatever it is that you're using your faith for. Speaker A 00:52:44 Praise the Lord. Speaker A 00:52:45 Praise the Lord. Speaker A 00:52:49 Praise the Lord. Speaker A 00:52:51 Oh, glory to God.