We're talking about spiritual understanding, spiritual understanding. In these last days as we coming down to the end times, there's a different approach to church and to the gospel and to the people within the church because the church been infiltrated by false prophets, false teachers, false professors. Along with that infiltration is that Christ had infiltrated the world. First, if we see in the book of Daniel, the stone that had smoked a mountain, a stone that was made, that was carved out without hands. So as the church is in the war as the people of the church of God comes out of the world they in the world and God's calling them out of the world into the church but with that Exodus out of the church as John the Baptist noticed that the Pharisees also was coming to be baptized the Pharisees was trying to buy fire insurance and people are buying fire insurance and we noticed that casualties and the raging fire that's going on in Los Angeles and we need to pray for them and pray that the firemen get that under control and that it resolve itself soon, you know, because it's a lot of devastation and people work for all that they are losing all that they work for all of their lives. And there's an understanding to be wrought out of that. It's a raw understanding that those with a spiritual understanding is Judging they say he that is spiritual judge at all things so God's people are in a strengthened and invigorated by the things that It's invigorating to Read God's Word and see God's Word coming to pass but you have to have an understanding of God's Word and to understand the times that we're in and to operate in that time because, let's say, especially in this nation, as it was in Israel, it was a hypocritical nation, a nation that would look at a prophet such as Isaiah, the 28th chapter and the ninth verse, it says, whom shall he teach knowledge and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? And who shall he make to understand doctrine, them that are weaned from the milk and drawn from the breast? For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little and there a little. For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people." They were criticizing Isaiah. They were talking about his redundancy and teaching and the Simplicity in which he was trying to offer it same thing we do today with simplicity We try to teach God's Word and there's a milk stage. There's a stage when you enter into the church That's a growing and and if we notice that any mother wouldn't feed a baby steak meat some sort of tough something that they would choke on and Just as a lot of people are choking and twisting God's word as they come into church and to the gospel and we have social media. We have a problem. We have a technical problem because Satan has taken over the secular airways. He controls all of the social media outlets. I see where he's trying to, the people that are misleading and misinformation and disinformation. one of them are trying to purchase tiktok or whatever so the whole world is being deceived in that deception and we see that the steps deception here in the nation in which we living in People are thinking they understand but they don't understand and they don't see and as we preached in one sermon the car is going over the cliff and Everybody's in the car. No one gets out of the car. That's going over the cliff They're going down the broad way to destruction And as Jesus says as be as the days of Noah, they'll be married and given in marriage eating and drinking as in the book of Ezekiel they said the people would filled with satiety, as in the times of Sodom and Gomorrah. He even called Israel Sodom and Gomorrah. And this nation is Sodom and Gomorrah because that's what they're given, to pleasure and satiety. And it's the destruction that we see Babylon, that it's fallen in a fallen condition. He says, to whom he said this is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest. And this is the refreshing yet they would not hear. But the word of the Lord was unto them, precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, here a little and there a little, that they might go and fall backward and be broken and snared and taken. That word snared and taken and falling backwards, they're tripping over the word of God, they're tripping over religion. taken is destruction. I heard years ago there was a movie or some kind of book or something out about the rapture or being taken or whatever. And they had it exactly backwards because taken, the ones that are taken are the ones that destroy. The word taken means given to destruction in biblical language. The ones left, the movie I think, the book was left behind. Well, if we look in the Bible, the ones that are left is the remnant. Those are the ones that inherit the earth. These are going along with the false Satan, the Antichrist, or whatever. They're taking the destruction. If you read where the city was taken, that means it was destroyed or whatever. It's exactly backwards. It's exactly backwards, and that's what the world is. God's opposite to the world, and so pride, the world is proud, arrogant, and that's what this nation is, a prideful and arrogant, but God's people are humble. They are based themselves. They're not looking for the spotlight. They says, who does Isaiah think he is, people say, to speak to us like this? Are we little children, barely old enough to talk? He tells us everything over and over again, a line at a time and in such simple words, but they won't listen. Only they can understand is punishment. So God would punish them by sending against them foreigners who speak strange gibberish. Only then will they listen to him. They could have rest in their own land if they would obey him, if they were kind and good. He told them that, but they wouldn't listen to him, so the Lord would spell it out for them again, repeating it over and over in simple words whenever he can. Yet over this simple, straightforward message, they will stumble and fall and be broken, trapped, and stared over the gospel. over the gospel message. A lot of the immigrants that they are talking about deporting or whatever, we'll see that God had sent those very immigrants. He says with another tongue, stammering lips, will he talk to these people? We notice that the foreigners that he sent in, other people to displace his people. We see that they'll be displaced in the kingdom of God. We'll talk about it hopefully for Saturday, where it says the children of the kingdom shall be cast out. The Gentiles, another people shall come in and sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob because This is a hypocritical people, a people that have God's word, but they don't understand it. There's no understanding in the land. The word is being preached or taught. They even have their ministers which are transformed into angels of life. But the word without understanding is utter darkness. And we'll see that Jesus preached to them in darkness. He preaches. He was the spirit that came back to preach to the spirits in darkness by that same spirit that he preached to those in Old Testament time. That is the Holy Spirit. That they would see the light and come to the light, but it's a light in darkness that won't be able to come to the light. They won't be able to hear because of their rejection of God's Word and God's way. This is very similar to Jesus' explanation of the parables. And a parable is dark sins. And he said he would speak to them in dark sins. And he began to talk to the people in parables because the people had rejected him. The Pharisees, and just like the multitude of people today, they reject the things of God. They reject the true ways of God and the preachers and teachers of God. God says he scatters understanding on any given subject throughout the Bible, and our job is to put it all together and see the amazing truth that results. So we have to look all over the whole Bible. It's almost like a, you know how you put together, the Bible is a tapestry. It looks on the backside of a rug as confusion and all jumbled up, but that's what God did. It was chaos in the world. It was darkness on the face of the earth, but the spirit of God moved upon the earth. It brooded upon the earth. It brought organization to the earth. It brought the Garden of Eden. That's what God does to our lives. He brings organization. He brings life. He brings the fruit of the Spirit. That's what's happening now to those where the seed, the Word of God, is being sown. We're like farmers going out sowing seed all over the world, scattering that seed, and some of that seed is falling on good soil. some on thorny ground, some by the wayside, some the birds are eating up, the vipers of the air. Satan has taken a lot of this and distorted it. Some he's taken from the very lips of a lot of people who've had the word. Satan comes and steals that very word away. Therefore, parables cannot be interpreted alone. They rely on the revelation of the rest of the scriptures. Some people try to interpret parables and how to lead. The pastor that taught one of the pastors of this church was talking about a parable makes things more plain and simple. Well, parable is an illustration of earthly things, but it has a heavenly interpretation. It has a point to it, and we try to dissect it down to four and break every point of it down and exposition it, exposit it, and we bless up, because it may be heightened toward, it's showing one point, as the rich man that died, and he said, send Lazarus to preach to my brothers, and he says, if they didn't, if they have Moses and the prophets, if they don't believe them, they won't believe one that rose from the dead. The point is the rejection of God's word. The rejection, that same word that's in the law, that same word that the law shows us, it's a mirror. And that's what we're washed by. We're washed by the word. So instructions, if we would be doers of God's word, we would know that it is from God and that we would grow in faith. If we believe God, we believe the word. Because he's sent an object of that faith, Jesus Christ, and a lot of people don't believe upon Jesus Christ, thus they don't get eternal life because they don't receive the spirit, the Holy Spirit that comes in Jesus' name, who guides and leads us in all truth. And those that are being guided and led by that truth Jesus Christ reveals the mystery of the scriptures to us. He unravels it. He shows it to us. He gives us understanding of that. That's why, you remember, I started out saying that we must pray for wisdom. In our prayers for wisdom, we have to get knowledge and understanding, and wisdom gives us the practical application, the skillful use of knowledge and understanding. Matthew 9 and 29 where he says, then he touched the eye saying, according to your faith, be it unto you. According to your faith. Now you have to have to have faith. You must receive faith by the hearing of the word. Faith cometh by the hearing of the word. Right? So then he touched their eyes saying, according to your faith, that is your trust and confidence in my power and my ability. Whose power and whose ability? Jesus Christ. In Christ, everything's in Christ. The faith of Christ, the faith in Christ, the faith to do the works that he did and that even we would do greater works. And if you have, if you believe it would, if you believe it would be done to you according to your faith, he said, you could speak to that mountain. In other words, your problems, all of the things in life that be are overcome in life and it shall be given unto you because we as children of Abraham, that's, that's also covers all men, any man, because that name Abraham meant father of many nations. That's why he told us to go into all the world and preach the gospel. It crosses all boundaries. It brings all men unto salvation. So we have to be sons of Abraham, in other words, the father of faith, Abraham, okay? Then he touched the eyes and because of your faith it will happen. The Living Bible says because of your faith it will happen. And he goes on and we see Jesus granting most of us several miraculous miracles throughout the New Testament according to someone's faith. He says that be unto you. He told them that of all of the people in the Old Testament, he talked about Elijah and them being sent the Gentiles. You remember, Naaman was the only leper that was healed. He had leprosy. He was the only leper healed in the Old Testament. So we see the marvelous workings and we see the promises of God being fulfilled in Jesus Christ. In the book of Romans, the eighth chapter of Luke, Matthew, the 13th verse, the Roman centurion, he said, greater faith he hadn't found in all of Israel. Now this was a Roman centurion. That a man, he says, I have men under me and I'm a man under authority myself. And I know you don't have to go to my son. All you have to do is speak the word. So he understood the workings of faith. He understood Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ says he hadn't found greater faith in all of Israel. So faith and believing and trusting in Jesus Christ, there's an understanding there. See, the wisdom and the knowledge that comes, but there's an understanding there. The book of Matthew, the ninth chapter, about the woman with the issue of blood, that pressed through the What did he say? He says, your faith has made you old. So here, the catalyst, the mechanism in healing, according to Mark 5 and 34, Luke 17 and 19, 18 and 14, the 42, the deaf, the blind men that were healed, it's their faith that had made them old. It's faith, that's the operational. And years ago, a few years back, and I don't know how the fad's still going with it, you had the Word of Faith movement, the Word of Faith. But the Baptist Church, Methodist Church, and all churches, all people of God, that's the only way that we can, without faith, it's impossible to please God. So any of those that had pleased God were men of faith. That's nothing new. Without faith, it's impossible. And we know that faith has to have words. So there's an understanding of the mechanism of religion that drives God's people, their belief system. That process is taking God's yoke upon us and learning of him. Learning of him, we have to learn. With that learning is the dissimilation of understanding and knowledge of God. But we pray for the wisdom to make that applicable in our lives. The skill to live each and every day obeying God. In all cases, the condition, let's see, faith opens the door for divine blessing. It lacks of faith closes the door. Remember, in even the town when Jesus was from, the people knew Jesus in Nazareth. And it says that Christ could do only a few mighty works due to the people's lack of faith. That was Matthew 13 chapter four. 57 through the 58 first it's what say that those that have that has that born-again experience That that faith to believe but like I said We're saved by grace through faith and faith the mechanism that drives this The spirit is the preaching of the Word of God Hearing of the Word of God the gospel The gospel, because what? If we're in bondage, it's the anointing that breaks the yoke. The Word of God, the Spirit, comes in and relieves us from bondage. It opens our eyes. It places us in a place of salvation. In being physical and carnal and deceptive, hypocritical. A lot of us think we're out of bondage, that we're not in bondage, and we can't see. But they're blind. They're like the Laodiceans, that they had a lot of material stuff. They were rich. They had all types of merchandise, and they were churchgoing people. He said, but you're poor, wretched, and negative. They were lacking because a lack of understanding of how the Holy Works. Similarly, salvation is a great work, but unbelief prevents it. Unbelief presents, it's like a block. It's that stumbling block. Remember I told you that stumbling block? So you can't come to God by intellect. You could be the richest man in the world and all kinds of genius, intellect, IQ or whatever, but without faith, without a belief in Jesus Christ, that you're depraved and like everybody else, you may lack an understanding of God. That doesn't give you an understanding of God. As a matter of fact, God kind of normally hides that from the wisdom, from the wise of this world. He hadn't chosen very many of them. He hadn't chosen very many. It is important to study the word of God to increase faith as it comes by hearing and reading God's Word, Romans 10, 17. It says their eyes were opened is more than a description of a literal action. It is also a Hebrew figure of speech for one's eyes to be opened. So we may use a simile, we may use metaphors, we may use parables that he was healing the blind. And a lot of people saying that this is metaphorical about the healing and about all of these other things. Well, there is a metaphorical applications to it, but there's figurative and literal in the Bible and nothing prevents the other. One doesn't prevent the other. The Jews thought of blind eyes as shut and seeing eyes as being open. So this is a Hebrew book. It's Greek. It came along when the time Jesus came along. Greek and Aramaic was the language that it was written in. The whole Testament was written in the Hebrew language. But it was a culture where we must understand the figures of speech and what they were talking about, the insinuations that are being made. When Jesus removes the blindness from the two men, they can now see and comprehend what was once close to them. So it's a physical work of removing the blindness from him, but it had other implications. That's why one of the men, he says, do you really want to be healed? Do you really want to be? Because if he was healed of his sight, if he was able to see, wouldn't that encompass not being able to beg anymore, that he would have to go out and work and get a job? he would have to earn a living a different way at that time. They wouldn't give unto him at that time. Jesus' opening eyes we see, as I just said, about the lay of the sins in the book of Revelations that all of the material things that they had that they were following. They might have been in a Word of Faith church or whatever. They was confessing or professing of something that they didn't have. They wasn't clothed with Christ. They hadn't put on Christ. So, thus they didn't have an understanding or working relationship with Jesus, thus they were negative. Just as the word negative in the Garden of Eden talking about Adam and Eve was negative, and then they put on fig leaves, which wasn't appropriate covering, and God gave them appropriate covering. God's Word, Jesus Christ, is our covering. We have to put on Christ. We have to be covered by the blood. We have to be covered by His Word. His Word is what heals us. His Word is how we live. That's our life's blood, assimilating the Word of God. Thus the opening of the eyes suggests spiritual understanding. It suggests spiritual understanding. And I want to tie, skip where I'm at, and go try to tie it in to Isaiah. You remember in the book of Isaiah, he was telling them about that the ears was closed and the eyes, and that they were blind, that they couldn't see. And there was a spiritual implications to that. because he told Isaiah to go and preach, but the people would be destroyed. It would be desolation, Isaiah 6 and 10. He says, make the heart of this people dull and their ears heavy and shut their eyes lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and return and be healed. So that's something to go tell the preacher to go preach. but that he was, the preaching was going to close some of them's eyes. It was going to be dull. A lot of people hear the word of God. It's not life blood to them. They're not a doer of that word. That word doesn't give them life, but to people that are hungry and thirsty for truth, for God, just as these days, we see the world going in a different direction. They're going the broad way. We see the nation is falling. But they're not seeing it. They're walking with hope and they're thinking of peace and prosperity and all of these things while they're plunging off into the abyss. They're plunging off to their destruction. Apollyon has gotten them and blinded them. The god of this world has blinded them. They love lies. They love darkness rather than light. So we see that most people do not grasp the value of the meaning of scripture, but Christ can open a person's eyes to enable him to understand his word, just as he did for his disciples after the resurrection in the book of Luke, where he says, he told them, and he opened up their eyes in the understanding that they may understand the Scriptures. I see a few churches on Wednesday nights and different nights at Bible study or whatever, but without a study of the Word. And that's what's lacking a lot of time, to think they could study it by themselves. But like I said, he set up the church as a mechanism. organization, the call-out one, that we would assemble together. And he gave gifts to the church. He sent apostles, prophets, teachers. He set an organization, administration in place for the perfecting of the saints. But the world is do-it-yourselfers and pull yourselves up by your own bootstraps and being independent. and having social media, and they're 15 minutes in the sun, and like I said, the world is corrupted, and we can see that destruction, and the people are plunging off, but we see God, wherever His word is preached, we see that His people are coming through the highway of holiness, and coming into the house of the Lord, so they won't violate the rule of law, saying, don't forsake the assembling together of yourselves. So the church is that authorized representative. And throughout the Old Testament, we see where he was develop a central meeting place, a place where you would bring all of the tithes into the storehouse, a place where ruling would go out. That's Jerusalem. He talks about the New Jerusalem in the New Testament. Just like the old Jerusalem, well, the new Jerusalem is the ruling place of the New Testament. But see, we're dealing with a people without understanding, and they have to come to Christ to get that understanding, but that's gonna require repentance. But first of all, it's gonna require hearing of the word of God. The psalmist says and prays, open my eyes that I may see wondrous things from your law, Psalms 119 and 18. When he's saying I might see wondrous things from your law, that meant that the mystery, that the scales of the veil be removed from his eyes so that he could understand spiritual things. He could understand his purposes in the Lord. He would be, then, a sheep of the Lord. He says, the Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He leads me by still waters. So this leading and guiding by the Spirit of the Lord is learning the things of God. It's a transformation of the mind, a transforming of the mind. That's how the kingdom of God is coming, thy will being done on earth. But if we're not converted, because it's necessary to be born again. That's a definite, it's a given. He says, you must be born again. He set himself up as the way, I'm the truth, the light and the way, and my man coming under the father, but this is the only way, it's through him. It's with the mind of Christ, because you have to have that same mind in you that Christ has. So there's an understanding that he gives his people. He said he was going to come to you then. He says, you have no need of any man to teach you, for the spirit itself shall teach you. But in that teaching, it's just like the law was given to be a mirror. Well, that spirit causes you to humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God and by grace to follow his commandments through faith. By faith, we help establish the laws of God. Matthew 13 chapter 9 through the 17th verse biblical symbolism. He says he who has ears to hear let him hear and heed my voice. Now, herein again, we're not talking physicality. Anybody can get the Bible and read and study the Bible. There are many churches where preachers sound good. You have different women that can preach and teach the gospel and have an eloquent way and words of wisdom and intellect that you can have intellectual understanding. But without the spirit given the wisdom of God to make that applicable in your life. It's not practical wisdom. It's like the wisdom that Solomon had, and Solomon fell from grace. Solomon turned against God. Solomon, in the end of his life, he says, all vanity and vexation of spirit. Solomon turned to evilness and wickedness. Now listen, he explains this Then the disciples came to him and asked, why do you speak to the crowds in parables? Jesus replied to them, to you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not granted. For whoever has spiritual wisdom, because he is receptive of God's word, to him more shall be given, but He will be richly and abundantly supplied. But whoever does not have spiritual wisdom, because he has devalued God's word, even what he has will be taken away from him. This is the reason I speak to the crowds in parables. It's because while having the power of it, seeing they do not see. And while having the power of it, hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand and grasp spiritual things. They've had the Word, and I've seen throughout this nation, this Word has been carried by missionaries throughout the world. It's all in China, Russia, different places, all throughout the world. But the very people who carried the Word of God, are lost. They're not converted. You see, a prophet, a preacher, a teacher, a false prophet has to preach the word of God, but it's God that opens the understanding. See, just like Paul says, we're just words, but one planet, one water, God give it the increase. In other words, God must cause that seed to germinate because all of it's sown into the ground and we see the earth, the ground has no effect, but it's the place, in other words. He says, those that fell between the thorns, as that seed grew, the cares of this world, and the riches and the things of this world choke the word out of them. So he says they had it, and now a lot of people that once heard the gospel, like Debus, that know the word of God, like that false prophet in the Old Testament that knew the things of God, become conniving And he tricked the other prophet that God had spoke to, to come and dine with him, and he got him killed. We have to beware, the word of God tells us in the New Testament, if a brother's a fornicator, an idolater, don't fellowship, don't eat with that brother. So there's wickedness in the church, there's wickedness in the world. This nation is the most dangerous place to live. Why? Because they know the Word of God. They know, and that's dangerous to be in a fallen condition and hateful and love darkness rather than light. See, Satan's people are very, it says, the children of this world is wiser than the children of the kingdom. That's why more of God's people are falling and we see in the book of Daniel where it says in the latter days that he's going to turn them over to the power to be destroyed and persecuted. We see the persecution has begun in this nation and the oppressed. This is one of the worst places to live if you're trying to preach or teach the truth. Because what happens, you have to take heed unto yourself and constantly examine yourself. As Paul says, buffet yourself. Because Satan comes along and draws you away with vanities. He's come and offered you the things of the world to preach a false gospel. To just kind of twist the word of God just a little bit. So he says, in them the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled. Which says, you will hear and keep on hearing, but never understanding. So they will build cathedrals and churches and mega, mega, mega coliseums and all of this, hearing the word of God and so many people listening at the word of God and following the word of God. But they don't understand it. And you will look and keep on looking but never comprehend. God has to give you comprehension of his word. He have to give you an understanding So that's why he was talking to them in parables you can hear what the preaching and teaching says but privately God reveals the mystery unto you a Mystery is something that you can't figure out by intellect. You can't work this thing out. It has to be shown to you and God, at the revelation of Jesus Christ, shows us the way. That's why we have to ask for wisdom to walk, wisdom to talk. We have to be dependent upon God each and every day, even for our daily bread. That daily word, see, because a lot of preaching and teaching you could be studying, and a lot of times you read your Bible, you don't get nothing out of it, and God could take you to a simple two or three verses, and you get more out of it than your whole week's worth of reading. So you have to have a total dependency upon God. He says, And you will look and keep on looking but never comprehend for this nation's heart has grown hard and with their ears they hardly hear and they have tightly closed their eyes. Otherwise, they would see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn to me and I would heal them spiritually. But blessed, spiritually aware, and favored by God are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear. I assure you and most solemnly say to you, many prophets and righteous men who were honorable and in right standing with God long to see what you see and did not see it, and to hear what you hear and did not hear. Remember he told Daniel to close that up, to seal up that book? He didn't give Daniel the understanding of those things. When Daniel prayed to him for wisdom and understanding to reveal Nebuchadnezzar's dream to him and tell him what it meant, he explained that to Daniel. He explained the Iran writing on the wall to Daniel. God is, he don't send manna out so we could store up manna. Manna comes fresh daily. He says, give us this day our daily bread. That manna spoils if you try to stockpile it. this day our daily bread. From the very beginning, God has supervised the writing of the Bible so that it cannot be understood without outside help. In other words, it has to be understood by the spirit. The church is the place where God dissimulates his word unto his people. Peter, if you love me, feed my sheep. If you love me, feed my lambs. If you love me, feed my sheep. So the emphasis was on continually feeding the sheep because sheep get hungry. Sheep are constantly eating. But it's sheep food that you feed them. Don't feed them goat food. Don't feed them any other thing. You must feed them sheep food. A goat eat anything. But he says, my people hear my voice and they won't listen to another. So the reason some people reject and are not following the churches of the people, they're not hearing the voice of the true shepherd. They're not hearing, it's like a dog. If you're not feeding him, he's gonna leave and go somewhere else. So if a sheep's being fed and that sheep is hungry and thirsting for righteousness, he's gonna be content and be full. Now there are those that are in the churches that are not following God that are being fattened for the day of slaughter. that are eating other sheep's food and are getting riches and wealth, but they're only fattening themselves for the day of slaughter, as my uncle would say, fattening frogs for snakes. Even prophets and righteous men of old didn't understand, nor did the multitudes who heard the parables of Christ. They says, eat of his flesh and drink of his blood. They know that was against Jewish law. Cannibalism and all these things you couldn't drink eat flesh with the blood in it because the blood is symbiotic of the life They misunderstood what G that was a hard saying of Jesus See, that's what's hard about the Word of God But if you come to him and walk in his way, he'll dissimulate that word to you. It could be hundreds of others, and so many sitting in a church, and that preacher preaching, and a lot of times, somebody go, oh, Red Rep, you really preached to me this time? And it opened up my eyes, and he going, look at it, what did I say? I don't know what he got off on. God is a person of God. He can get to you in the midst of a crowd and nobody else understood. I told you last week about in the book of Acts when he spoke to Paul and he talked and they thought it thundered. They didn't hear the voice. They said, we heard a voice, but we didn't understand it. He was talking and speaking to Paul in an audible voice and Paul was understanding, but the rest of them wasn't understanding. You don't have to hide to hear God's word. Like a lot of people say, when he said, Lazarus come forth, God talks to who he wants. He possesses life and death. We're not talking to some generic God here. According to Romans 11, the meaning is bail for most of mankind until the day God offers them salvation. That common salvation have appeared unto all men, but then God specifically calls one out. specifically calls those out. Some are relegated to unbelief until a later time. Some won't understand to the white throne judgment until a millennium, and they may rebel, as Solomon said, there's a time and a season for all things. So that's why a preacher, that's how we learn patience, that we learn this is all in God's control. That's why we don't stress and we don't suffer from anxiety or whatever, because God is giving us rest from the cares of this world and the cares of this life. And we can't control everything, and that we can't control anything, and that God is in control. He's sovereign. Other parts of the Bible tells us that it takes the Holy Spirit to give us ears to hear. 1 Corinthians 2, 6-14. It says, yet we do speak wisdom among those spiritually mature believers who have teachable hearts and a great understanding. So we're talking, that's why I said the church is the place where you're taught at and you have to come into the house of God. And there's something about a union of believers assembled together. in which God's word is dissimulated, that it gives you an understanding and spirit to go about, that this flows through you. It says, believers who have teachable hearts and a great understanding, but it is a higher wisdom, not the wisdom of this present age, nor the rulers and the leaders of this age who are passing away. It says, but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, The wisdom once hidden from man, but now revealed to us by God, that wisdom there is what God's offered. We have to ask for it. When we get hungry or thirsty for it, come and ask for it, and he liberally gives it to you, but you have to ask in faith. Ask it in believing that you received it. But you're asking because you need it in your day-to-day battle. You need it in the confrontations of the things that you go through, the work and through the commissioning of helping establish the kingdom of God. Because you're not working for yourself, you're working for God. And this is for Christ's sake. So you come and say, well, Jesus wants me to have this so I can do this. Anything that you ask the Father in Christ's name, the father gives to you because he's given the son a job to do. and he had given us to the sun for good works. We were created for good works and purpose for good works. And as we do those good works and God works through us, he tears the world down. The carnal battle is that we are reconstructing, we are re-inhabiting the earth. We're making the earth anew. The old earth is passing away. The foundations are being destroyed. That which is being built is being built by faith. He says, but now is revealed to us which God predestined before the ages to our glory to lift us into the glory of his presence. None of the rulers of this age recognize and understood this wisdom. For if they had they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But just as it is written in scripture, things which the eye has not seen and the ear has not heard and which have not entered the hearts of man, all that God has prepared for those who love him, who hold him in affectionate reverence, who obey him and gratefully recognize the benefits that he had bestowed. So this is being unveiled in God. He's unveiling all of this and showing it to us. As we grow and started to personally understand this, we take it and dissimilate it to others. And this spirit, as he's being lifted up, there's like a timing mechanism that now is the time that you go to this person and do that. He's not the author of confusion. The other day when I was talking, my nephew said he was gonna come out this Saturday or whatever. I don't know if he will or not. But I've laid that seed. It is time. It's a fervent, effectual call. We're to do that not knowing what God's gonna do because it's all in the Lord's hand, but we've done our job by faith. through faith in Christ, we've done those things. It says, for God has unveiled them and revealed them to us through the Holy Spirit. That's why we have to walk by faith and what the Spirit leads us to do. If the Spirit prompts you to say something or do something, don't be afraid. He says he doesn't Reward cowards you have to be of a good courage. You can't be Cowardly you have to be able to approach people you have to be able to do things for God You have to have the right spirit. He says for the spirit searching all things diligently even sounding and measuring the profound depths of God the divine councils and things far beyond human understanding and For what person knows the thoughts and motives of a man except the man's spirit within him? God tells us of the inner workings of a person. So if we go to that person that God has us that we, through praying in his word, develop compassion for, that compassion or that spirit connects with that man. It becomes effectual because of the fervency that God gives of the Spirit. He says, not by power, not by might, but by His Spirit. So as we humbly go through the world, God leads us and guides us, and that's what we're determining, is that God gives us an understanding to show us. That's why Job said he understood better now. So through his faults, failures, and suffering, Job came to a clearer understanding of God. What was the faults or the failures? If you notice the conversation with Job, it turned a little bit hostile or bitter toward God. The more Job went in and talked with his friends and talked to others, it seemed as a restless spirit in there and that God had to sand and fine tune that. God's gonna knock off all of our rough edges. God's gonna give us, we have to keep going deeper and deeper in God. So that, that we thought we knew. Job said he thought he knew, but now he understands clearly. But look how Job starts off. He says, Job was an upright man, blameless. He was a perfect and upright man, blameless. But notice that God deepens Job's knowledge and understanding of him through suffering, through losing, through lost health, through lost children, through all of the circumstances and the conversation with his friends, that God taught Job and never answered Job's question. He only questioned Job when Job came, but Job's final words was, now I understand better. I put my hand over my mouth. He's not giving the talk. He has a teachable spirit. So are we looking at every situation and circumstances? What is God trying to tell me? What is he trying to show me? Ask God for wisdom to you bringing understanding that he clarifies that understanding. He gives you wisdom to apply that understanding and knowledge. That's what wisdom is. It gives you skill in those things. He says, now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Holy Spirit who is from God, so that we may know and understand the wonderful things freely given to us by God. We also speak these things, not in words that are taught or supplied by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining and interpreting spiritual thoughts with spiritual words for those being guided by the Holy Spirit. Now we're getting a spiritual understanding. That's human understanding. We had a human understanding. We don't discard that. But wisdom gives us common sense. It gives us, it opens up that which we had. It turns vices into virtues. But where we may have been strong, He makes us stronger in those areas. He knews us. It's a regenerating. It's like a broken bone that you come and plaster, normally where a bone heals that is stronger than the rest of the bone. Where that fracture takes place at is stronger than the areas around that break. So God breaks our heart, he gives us a new heart. That's why he says we must come to him with a broken, a contrite heart. As we come with that broken and contrite heart, He heals us. He gives us a new heart, a stronger heart, a heart made of flesh. So the understanding that we get from God is genuine. He says, I don't want to leave that, but Spiritual comprehension, can we see God? Yes, you can see God and God says only the pure at heart shall see God. And Jesus says, if you've seen me, you've seen the Father. So he's bringing us to a place where all of this is seen to us. Notice that in John 7 and 5, it says, for not even his brothers believed in him. These were his flesh and blood brothers that grew up with him and didn't believe in Jesus because it hadn't been shown to them. Just a flesh and blood in the same house, they're not knowing who Jesus was. A lot of people call him the God man, but I say that Jesus was a man like everybody else that had faith and God had put the spirit up on him without measure. So it was Jesus in his manhood. It was Jesus as Jesus. He overcome as a man because if he'd overcome as a man, I mean, as God, his brothers couldn't have did that. We couldn't have did that because he was using the power of God to overcome, but he believed God. He had faith in God. We have to have that same faith that he has. Jesus grew tired. Jesus did all of these things because just like he was born, he was born of the spirit, but he was born through a earthly, a fleshly abomination through the seed of the woman. So it wasn't man's contaminated blood. So that's why the book of 1 John says, whoever have this hope, purify himself. What do we do? We put the old man to death. We put that which is enmity against God because flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. We put that to death. We'll bear it with Christ. We're a new man. We're a new creation in Christ Jesus. We're spiritual. We have eternal life. He's given us that what is necessary. We have to believe the same way Jesus did. He didn't have any doubt in Him. Just like the man that came to Jesus, he said, I believe in you. I believe, but help my unbelief. That's what we have to do. Those portions are areas in our life that we had learned unbelief. We had learned the world. That's why I say, as you grow in God, as you come to understanding of God, you hate the world, the things of the world. Man, this administration that's coming in, this is an evil and a wicked thing that's coming to pass. We hate that. The only way that you can have that hatred is that you're becoming like God. You see this and say, it can't survive. Nothing that comes of it, this is a cockatrice. Nothing could come of good from this. That's why when you say make the nation good again and make America great, no, it has to fall because God's kingdom has to come. This kingdom that's being grounded, that's being made from without man's hand, I'm a part of that kingdom. I'm saying thy kingdom come, that means your kingdom has to fall. And I truly believe this. I truly believe that Jesus Christ is coming back and he may come back in the very time that I live before I die. That I'll see him for myself. Joe believed that he would see him for himself. He says in my body, that he is in the body that he in his flesh and body. There's gonna be some that's gonna be converted, a change from a mortal body to an immortal body. The incorruptible will be, I mean, the corruptible will be changed to incorruptible. So when does that change come? It has to come at a time when we are in our flesh and blood body. when we're like we is that God comes in through Jesus Christ and he changes us in a twinkling in an eye. We have to, if we believe Christ, if we believe the teachings of the Bible, these are the things that we believe. But man talks you in against that belief. He talks you out of believing that you will be changed. He tells you about the rapture, you believing, and all of this, and it's a twisted Christianity. john eight chapter forty-third forty-seven freezes it why do you want not why do you misunderstand what i'm saying it is because you're spiritual ears are death and you are unable to hear the truth of my word you are of your father the devil and it is your will to practice the desires which are characteristics of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning. So why does Jesus bring Satan or the devil into it? Just like I said, the things of this world, the wealth and the people, we see that they are of Satan, that they are of devil. The origins, the things that's going on in the nation, we see this is of Satan. This political system, this has become Babylon. It's the things of the world. But people can't understand it. They say, well, why you don't understand? Because they don't have ears to hear. God is not changing them. They don't have ears to, they don't, can't get an understanding because they're not part of the process and you will let your, this thing that's going on in you, this process, this regeneration that's going on in you. You have to hate mother, father, sister, brother, anybody else that's hindering this. You have to lay aside every weight and every sin that's besetting you from running. You have to get a spiritual understanding here. this is revealed to you by the Spirit of God and it's not revealed he says Peter flesh and blood had not revealed that unto you when Peter says that ought the Christ but notice that Peter was in a flesh and blood body because in the very next moment The flesh took over and said, that shall not become of you. That competitive nature, that nature of pulling yourself up by the bootstrap, of not going against, of not going with the words and the instructions of God. And Jesus says, you savor the things that be not of God. You're not willing to die to self. You're not willing, the flesh and blood had revealed who I was. But in the very next moment, you've turned on these things. That's why he didn't fault Peter when Peter denied who he was. Because he had already told him Satan has a desire. He says he's gonna sift you as wheat. Satan has desired to sift you. He's asked me for permission to sift you. I've given him that permission, Peter. I've given him that permission to sift you. But he says, I have prayed. And God always answers Christ's prayer. He said, I've prayed that your faith not fail. The bottom line that we started with is faith, your faith not fail. When you come around, when you overcome, go back and strengthen your brother. You go back and pull them up people. Heavenly Father, as we come before you,