And during these last days, the end time, knowledge that comes to power, and the name of this, I'm teaching this morning, is knowledge brings truth to power. Because we read, and I told you about it last week in the book of Romans, where Paul said that the Jews, Israel had a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. Doesn't want us to be ignorant of his devices and been talking about Daniel if you want to study for next week We'll be in chapter 3 the next couple of weeks but in the second chapter of Daniel that we were reading about the dream that Nebuchadnezzar had and that the difference in Daniel will see it in the second chapter in the 20 through the 21st verse something he said after you know, coming to God about Nebuchadnezzar's dream. It says Daniel answered, Blessed of praise be the name of God forever and ever. Wisdom and power belong to him. It is he who changes the times and seasons. He removes kings and established kings. He gives wisdom to the wise and of greater knowledge to those who have understanding. of greater knowledge to those who have understanding. The Living Bible in that verse says, he deposes kings and raises up others. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning. Now, that what we're looking at is discerning. And that's what Daniel survives from God showing him the king's dream and with his life lived before God. And we have to live life before God each and every day. a belief system that carries us only on the Sabbath day or only on Sunday or whatever day we worship the Lord. That belief system is not very strong because that belief system and God that we foster, he fosters in us, is every day, every minute of the day, every hour of the day that we need him. We're talking about knowledge. Knowledge is not a fruit of the spirit. Knowledge is a gift of the Spirit. That's why we see where Paul tells us, and throughout the Bible, it says that Solomon tells us, pray for wisdom. Pray for knowledge and understanding. All of these things we ask God for, and Jesus said, anything that we lack, we ask the Father in his name, that he'll do for us. The Holy Spirit prophesied about Jesus before he came to earth, and in many a places, the Messiah. And we see in the 11th chapter of Isaiah where it says, a shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse, from his roots a branch will bear fruit. The spirit of the Lord will rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the spirit of counsel and of might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of God. Different spirits that's abiding upon him, they would abide upon each and every one of us. that are spiritually born again. That's why the necessity of being born again, it may not be to the measure that it was in Christ Jesus and in each and every one of us, but God had purposed in each and every one of us for a purpose and the ability to increase in grace, knowledge, truth, understanding, and all of these other areas of virtues that we look unto God through Jesus Christ to supplement us with. The living says the wrong line of David would be cut off chopped down like a tree, but the stump will grow a shoot It's a new branch from the old root and the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him That's talking about Jesus Christ and another in the same Chapter of Isaiah, but it's when it says the spiritual line And we know that we can inherit that promise because we're joint heirs with Christ. We heirs of God through Jesus Christ. So he had grafted all of us into that tree. The Gentiles also are grafted into that tree. Just as Jeconiah was cut out the tree, that line was cursed. That portion of the Davidic line was cursed away. And he gives it to a spiritual seed, just like the promise that God gave to Abraham was of a spiritual seed. And that's why we must be born again, becoming spiritual members of the family of God, adopted into the family of God. Now in the book of Romans, it primarily, about knowledge, primarily refers to understanding of God's grace and righteousness through faith in Jesus Christ. That's where the Jews fail in their knowledge of God. They had a zeal for God, but now they call it according to knowledge because everything has to come through Christ. As being the way, the truth, and the life, there's no other way to receive any of this. The righteousness through faith in Christ particularly emphasizing that his knowledge is accessible to all people, regardless of their background, creed, nationality. He had commissioners go into all of the world and preach the gospel. So wherever that gospel reach, it has an effect, the word preached. It brings about, it sows a seed, the sower that's sowing the seed. Christ works through us as we preach the gospel and others by hearing of the word. Faith cometh by hearing of the word, so that's the sound that go throughout the whole earth, the gospel through his chosen, his elect people. Sometime that gospel goes through vessels that are not clean vessels that gospel goes out Because his word will not return into him void. So within the church we have heralds of in other words people proclaim in the gospel that uh... maybe fallen vessels of vessels that a false professors that there'd be many in the church that's the way that when that's so on that swept that sold the good seed as he slept the enemy came in and sold tears among that good seeded the the promises will look just let it all grow up together And the angels will separate him when he comes. So the messages of God in this last days will bring the knowledge of God, which is Jesus Christ, the truth of God. That stone that was shewed out of a rock without hands, that stone, that foundational stone, the truth. The truth prevails. That's what sets men free from the captivity of bondage to see it, bondage to this old world. That's the seed, that's the one that bring it light, Jesus Christ bring it light into the world. And we're portions and we're little lights and we have to let that light so shine that men would see our light and give God the glory and he'd be lifted up. And so we see that's accessible to all men, no matter what walk of life. And that true knowledge leads to salvation and a transformed life. A key version highlighting this is Romans 1 and 20, where Paul states that God's invisible attributes are clearly seen through creation. making humanity without excuse for not knowing him. So everybody has known of the Lord, maybe not through a saving knowledge of God, but through the common grace of God. It rains on the just and the unjust. But the ones that profit from this, the seeds of God that profit from this are the children of God. As this seed is sown, we had a parable of the soil where seed fell on different types of ground. But it was one ground that was very particular, that was very, not necessarily a more fertile ground, but it was on good ground. In other words, it was a ground that was prepared, a fertile ground that produced 30, 40, 60, 70 fold. It produced much more than was sown. And when Peter tells us, and Peter, 318, it says, growing the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. There are people in the church that God has chosen, and these are vessels of that hunger and thirst for God's word. We see some people in God's church that maybe are not as hungry as other people. They may not be there at the church every time or all the time. They may not being in every service, their lives may not replicate what it should be. It's not a very pleasant sight, but we do know that there's different manifestations, there's different gifts, differing or variation parts of the body. Everybody's got a head, nose, eyes, feet, fingers, but there's different portions of the body. But we know knowledge is what's key. The universal acceptability of accessibility to knowledge is available to all. That's why when we preach the gospel, he says to whoever will, let him come. Romans argues that everyone has access to basic knowledge about God through creation, making all people accountable to him so that no one can say that they didn't know. It's revealing creation that there is a God. Even the atheists know, even though their minds may not bring them to the point of worshiping that God and acknowledging that God. But when push come to shove, they do know that they will admit to that. just to suggest that they're born of the wicked ones, they're children of the devil. And we have some in the church that deny God in their works. Paul talks about them in Romans, those who suppress the truth and unrighteousness. And that's what we have in this nation. That's why those of us that are in light, that are walking in this nation, I was looking at Bernie Sanders. talking to our representative from Louisiana, Mike Johnson, the other day. I don't know what religion Bernie Sanders is or whatever, but I saw him shining a light onto our so-called Christian representative that he suppresses the truth in darkness. Brother Johnson expresses, suppresses the truth in darkness. I don't know, I think he's from Caddo Parish or somewhere, maybe a Pentecostal faith or whatever, but he's one that suppresses the truth. And they're twisted, true. Peter speaks of those that twist the truth. So we have a religious falling away from the truth that love darkness rather than light. And that's what's happening here in Babylon, our Babylonian nation that's falling because it loves darkness rather than light. But there are true lights in the nation. I was looking at Adam Kinziker the other day. It might have been Adam Kinziker that was talking to Johnson also and said that that they are misquoting the Bible and they're not living up to this and people like him that's very strong I Look at him and that what gives me strength people like Kinzinger and Liz Cheney and all of those that stand for the truth and That has to come out in the secular world your spiritual life is shown in the secular world It's just what side you are justification by faith. True knowledge is not attained through the works of personal merit. but through faith in Christ, which brings about justification. So that's why I say I don't know what religion or what their politics, prayer or whatever, but through their works, you're not justified by works, it's faith in God. So their belief structure, these people's belief structure is what brings them, I think, into being children of God. There will be some that say, well, Lord, when did we do this for you? Or when did we feed you? Or when, he said, when you did it for these, the least of these, you did it unto me. So there are those, there's a, thank Jesus. a Presbyterian, Episcopalian bishop that told the president the other day to show mercy and compassion and not stereotype people and group them all into one bundle because they are weak and there are terrors out there. And when you don't show mercy, when you're not compassionate, there is a problem. And like I said, The problem that we have is that we have a beast world system here in the United States where religion and government has melded together, but it's a beast system, it's a fallen system, it's a system where they worship man, they worship one another, they worship the creation, the creature rather than God. So that's where knowledge brings about a separation. That's where the knowledge of God comes in. It has a transformation of life. It says, having knowledge of God's grace should lead to a changed life, reflected love and obedience. But we see that this is a rebellious nation. The government is a rebellious government. It's a government that loves darkness. It's a government that confuses our children. How can we teach our children and our children could say, well, that's a hypocrite. That's doing this because God says your enemies could be those of your own household. So we can't train up a child in the way he should go and then manipulate that child's life all along. God prevents that. God chooses our family just like Ruth didn't go back with Oprah because Ruth says, your God will be my God, your people will be my people. Sometimes God causes us to make a choice. We have to choose to learn of Christ and walk in His way, but it requires being powerful enough to stand against the status quo, stand against popularity, stand against what the crowd is saying. The depth of God's wisdom, Romans 11.33 famously expresses the vastness and unsearchable nature of God's knowledge, emphasizing that human understanding is limited compared to God. So the wise secular people of the world, the wisdom of this world is just that. Wisdom of this world is earthly and it's devilish. We see Solomon exercise some of this wisdom. He came to the conclusion all is vanity and vexation of spirit because he had a propensity for walking in the dark side. He had a propensity for enjoying the world and the things of the world and disobeying God. His disobedience brought about the division of the twelve tribes of Israel into ten tribes against the two southern tribes. That's the curse line. Solomon is part of the curse line. When we read in the book of Luke, the genealogy, we see that that line, that's the line which Joseph is in, that inherited the biological rights. But we see that Mary's line, the seed of the woman, that line, it was hid in Mary's line. And that's the seed that unites with the Holy Spirit. That's what was in Mary, was of the Holy Ghost, so that is what births us again, the Holy Spirit. We're born of the Spirit, we're not in that lineage. Remember I told you about that royal lineage, the royal lineage, the seed of the woman, we're birthed of that seed. That's the good seed. But the other seed, that biological seed, is one that loves the earth, that are earthly, love the things of the world. They love darkness rather than light, because Satan is their father. The characteristics of their father they bear. And we see this nation, it has a dark characteristic to those of this nation. And without the knowledge of God setting us free, walking in the truth, we remain in bondage. The love of the world and the things of the world, they love mammon. they love. It's just a vice that we can see and God gives us the discernment. That's what we have to pray for daily to deliver us to our daily bread, which is the word of God, which you have to be a doer of God's word for this practical experiential knowledge and wisdom to come to us, that God increases that Peter says, grow in grace and knowledge of our Lord. So each day he provides his grace as we ask for it. Give us our daily breath this day The meaning of knowledge it knowledge represents a deeper on this deeper understanding of Jesus Christ his teachings and his work on the cross and They didn't understand the cross and talked about that first Corinthians that the world do not understood the cross if they hadn't known they'd have never crucified Jesus and have bands knowledge relating that way they would never would have crucified jesus they didn't have a hundred standing in a matter you need to get understanding you could have a lot of knowledge in a lot of the world today a lot of them babylonians in and this nation and throughout the world have a lot of knowledge but they don't have the wisdom of god that means they can apply the knowledge they have it's like the people that come on jeopardy they have a lot of knowledge of different trivia matters a lot of knowledge but it's just that just knowledge they can recall things secularly a lot of people can quote the bible and know what the scriptures are jesus was quoted the scriptures by satan satan quoted the scriptures but He didn't understand the practical applications of the scriptures. So we have to beware and grow. The implications of this Peter tells us and that's why we have to grow in grace and knowledge means to actively seek to experience God's grace more fully while also actively studying and learning about Jesus. The two are inseparable. That's why anybody with a religion without Jesus, they don't have the father, they don't have the father, they don't have the son. Without the combination of the two, it is the spirit that actively birthed by the two. Jesus gives us his spirit in his name to lead us and guide us in all truth. That's the one that leads us in the truth. It's our inner man, that conscious. We have to have a new conscious. Our conscious must be educated. We have a new heart. That's the circumcision that gives us a new heart. Whereas the heart is the seed of knowledge, of understanding, of discernment, of feeling, of emotion. It encompasses all what a man is. That's the heart of man, not the muscle of man, but a different mind. We have to have the mind of Christ. We have to have a transformed mind. And this is a process that comes about. That's why it says renewing your mind. It's a regeneration. It's making man anew. It's crucifying the old man. It's putting the old man to death. This is a daily process. It's a learning process. It's a process where we ask God for the wisdom that we get understanding and knowledge from the Word of God that he presents us to, to where we could assimilate it to practical applications in our everyday life. Proverbs 23, 6-8 says, Don't associate with evil men. Don't long for their favors and gifts. Their kindness is a trick. They want to use you as their pawn. The delicious food they serve you will turn sour in your stomach and you will vomit it out. And this nation has become a nation. A lot of people in the news talk about oligarchy. In other words, it's nothing but billionaires. The government is consisting of nothing but wealthy and rich people. And these are the ones that he say, I thank you, Father, that you have hidden this from them. It's not the access of what you have. Life does not consist in the abundance of the possessions that you have. Life is in Christ. It's in Jesus Christ. He has abundant life. He has eternal life. And those other material things you have is temporary. He says, as a man thinks in his heart, so is he. It applies both to the righteous and evil, because whatever you're thinking about, that's what comes to the forefront. That's what comes about, whether you're righteous or evil. Your meditations, the meditations of your heart, we see this in Genesis, where it says, the thoughts of man was evil continually. God also judges us on our intent, the intent of what we're doing. That's why we have to be careful. We have to bring every thought into the captivity and obedience of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, casting down imaginations. In the book of Jude, it talks about filthy dreamers. We have to watch the daydreams. We have to watch our imaginations and the things that we covet after, that we meditate upon. And the Proverbs, as he's litigating this, the subject is evil. That these people have calculating souls, and that's what we've come into. And that's why I say, beware of your associations and who you vote for, who you're associated with, because Corinthians tells us, if a brother be a fornicator or adulterer of covetous, no not to eat. In other words, lack of fellowship is going to get far away from him because the consequences of associating with evil. There are consequences, and we have a calculating and cruel world that we are in, and this really is an evil world. That's why Jesus had come to deliver us from this present age, from this present time. Solomon warns against exploitative people. against those who are slick controllers, who manipulate others through charm or beguiling words. God is telling us that we need to have enough discernment to look on the heart, as the proverb says, as he thinks in his heart, so is he. Because that's what defiles a man. That's why Daniel, we see that Daniel chose not to defile himself with the king's table. In other words, the things that the world participate in, the things of the world, the things of this government, of this nation, watch it. They can defile you. They are very defiling. I was watching the vote for the Secretary of Defense and some of the ones that was bringing out what this man was because they're not in darkness, they're in light in the fact that they know what they're voting for, they know what they're getting, they know the character of these people that we're putting as leading our institution. So when the trial of fire comes, we can't stand for somebody because it's politically expedient and says the prudent to keep silence. You have to ask God to help you make the right decision because you may give power to the beast. You power that, that's why when you take the mark of the beast. And you're not mourning and sighing for what's going on, the injustices that are going on in our nation. Whether it be social, civil, government, however the oppression, however the wickedness come about. God says it's a time when you were ignorant, he went, but he calls us all now to knowledge. We will suffer for the things we don't know. There's an inseparable connection between teaching and practice. That's why it says, be not many masters and many teachers, because a lot of us are under false prophets and false teachers. We cannot practice the truth until we are taught the truth. And if you have someone that doesn't understand the word of God, you have a false teacher, all he's gonna do is the blind leading the blind. You just could be reinforced in darkness. That means that Satan has blinded the minds of those who don't believe you'll receive a love of that truth. You'll be turned over to a reprobate mind. In Romans 2, Paul writes about the conscience of the unconverted. Study Romans 2 and you'll see about the conscience of the unconverted. That's an awful place to be. There may be little or much in a given culture and harmony with God and his way and we see here, he says, they honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. And just as Isaiah was saying that he was living in a hypocritical nation, that goes from the beginning of time to the end of time, that man has always been evil and depraved. God has always had just a remnant in each and every time of life So no time is maybe not evil, but there is an end time that Paul and Peter speaks about. It's perilous times, and the wickedness shall wax worse, and darkness shall get greater. And you'll have those that kill or haunt you, thinking they're doing God a favor. These are the ones whose conscience has been seared. These are the people that kill you in the name of Jesus. To show you how to reinforce this was Paul was of this ilk. He was a Pharisee. We noticed that the Pharisees are the worst hypocrites that they are, but they're very religious. They're very religious, but they don't have a conversion. They hadn't been converted, so they don't understand what they're doing, and that's a very dangerous person. The person with a little knowledge is the most dangerous person there is to just have a little knowledge. It's sufficient to lead many astray, especially without the understanding and wisdom of God having not the new birth. So as a person thinks in his heart, as he has been educated to think, it is the way he really is. Doctrine, teaching becomes important because with the framework of his purpose, we really cannot walk in the way of God until he teaches us the truth. That's what makes us free. How can two walk together unless they agree? And that's why it says, take my yoke upon you and learn of me, learn of me. So he must feed the mind with the right knowledge if the person is going to do right as a way of life. He must practice this and that's a fruit bearing tree. We're able to see their fruit. Those that can't see the fruit of unrighteousness are those who hadn't had their eyes or their spiritual eyes open as the lair of the sins was. The lair of the sins is a church that was poor, wretched, and negative. It didn't know it. They had all of the world's material goods. It's the latter-day church that we see now that has everything materially Successful. It's like the word of faith. It's prosperity and everything because that's what they're preaching and thinking that godliness is game But they're poor wretched and negative. God is outside the church. He says he's beating on the church door He's beating on the hearts and asking them to let him in and But God can't penetrate this heart. They're like Pharaoh, they know not God. This is what God is after, and which is why doctrine is so important. We have to be aware of doctrine, of doctrinal issues, as they lead us and guide us in the churches that we're in. We need the doctrines put together in the correct way so that they lead in the right direction. that is towards God's purpose, and that's why in one of the books of 1 John 2, maybe 3 John, where it says, if they bring not this doctrine, don't let them into your house, don't bless them, don't be part of what they're saying or doing. There are a lot of people out there that name the name of Christ. They were fighting against the Gnostics and the Agnostics and different doctrinal creeds during their time. It is waxed even worse during this time, the New Age movement and certain other movements that had came about with social media and all of the ways in which the very welfare of the presidents, the CEOs of the ones that's leading these misdirection and misinformation and disinformation. They're leading the massive, this is Babylon. This is a Babylonian system. It says, be careful what we meditate and study. It is what you become. You remember Proverbs 2, 3, 23 and 7, as a man thinketh, so is he. So if we let those advertisements, if we let those commercials and sports, a lot of people are talking about Kansas City Chiefs, how the games are fixed and what's going on or whatever. I came away from sports years ago because it is the biggest satanic ritual that goes about. Now, the most time consuming it is because it's not about sportsmanship, it's about idolatry. It's about worshiping at the heart of Satan. So I wouldn't waste my time. If it's entertainment to you, I'm not against entertaining entertainment, but beware that it's only entertainment. Don't let it incorporate into your life. I wouldn't waste 15 minutes on the Super Bowl. I wouldn't waste money on the playoffs or the championships or all of these things unless you look at it just as you would a cartoon or just as you would any other form of entertainment. When gambling becomes more than entertainment, you've lost the province of living here on this earth. You can't get out of the earth. You could go with some of those people that's wanting to go to Mars or somewhere, but evil will be right there because evil travels. You're bringing the evil with you because it dwells within you. Acts 8, 1-3, we see where Paul was consenting unto Stephen's death, he was consenting, he held the coat, he was all a part of this. So we see the pre-conversion zeal of Paul as a Pharisee against those of the way and he's just like they are today is a genuine threat and we see now what a threat that this government that they are to democracy the government that we have and has chosen and that they're talking about invading Greenland and taking over Canada and Mexico and changing the names. But as we read earlier, as they want to do all of these changes, we see blessed be the name of God forever and ever. It is he who changes times and seasons and remove kings and sets up kings. But as we see, this is what this nation was birthed at and born on. religion and dispersing the natural inhabitants of the land of the Native Americans that were here. And it's created on greed of covetousness, and we will be tried, we will be tried by fire. And the ones of us that are of God, that are standing for God, will increase in knowledge and understanding during this time. We should be aware of the continued existence of this unrighteous threat to our emotional and even our physical well-being. Be very careful with even just preaching and teaching what I'm teaching now, it's very dangerous. It's people that'll kill you over these things. And right now, there are Pentecostals, Baptists, Methodists, Catholics, all types of religion, Islam, all the different people that would destroy you for preaching the truth, for telling them what's true. That's the reason they killed Jesus. And Jesus says, if they did it to me, if they did it to the master, they would do it to the disciples. What befalls the green tree happens to the dry tree. What happens to the dry tree happens to the green tree. We will suffer to the end. But what he does, he gives us of his spirit to be able to stay. That's why he says, pray ye for one another. In the book of John, the second through the third verse, Jesus warns those who follow him that persecutors will believe in good conscience that they are doing God a good service. Acts 5, 32-33, 23-12-14, that these religious people, that's why they're the ones that have a Bible in one hand and a pistol in the other hand. They'll murder you, they'll kill you, they'll bomb abortion clinics, they'll destroy you and think that they're doing God's bidding. Because Satan has blinded the minds because they had not received the love of the truth. And they have twist the scriptures to their own understanding. The religious zealous, and we have to be careful of these. The elements of motivation. These people are the ones I was telling you about, 1 Corinthians 2, 9 through 10. It says, none of the rulers of this age recognized and understood this wisdom. For if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But just as it is written in scriptures, these things which the eye had not seen and the ear had not heard and which have not entered the hearts of men, God had not showed it to these. He's unveiled and showed it to his people during these last times. and that is what scripture means is when they say no be a man has seen it the natural minded man these people that is in these apostate churches who have left the upright these are the ones that the seed was sown and they received the seed on good ground They received the good seed. I didn't mean to say good ground, but they received the good seed. But it fell on people. It fell to people that wasn't prepared to receive it in areas that they... When persecution comes, some draw back. The things of this life chokes it out of it. Some the devil takes away from them. It says, the source of the vision, most of us received it through the Spirit by our calling. God gives it just as surely as he gave Paul, but it is gradually accumulating, one in which the pieces that complete the puzzle are added through the normal processes of studying the Word, comparing, analyzing, and applying what we have learned. In other words, it comes to work as we seek in the kingdom of God. We have to come through an analytical approach sometimes. In other words, he puts us in a church. We shouldn't forsake the assembling together of the church. Sometimes it's with people that we're not so happy with. We have to learn to humble ourselves. God is working on us. He's taking sandpaper, he's taking his tool, and he's shaping and molding us into his image and likeness. And so there's a lot that goes into making us truly into a pair in the ground. He says, dig up your fallow ground. We have to let the word soak in. So how many times do you take that word of God, take those scriptures home and meditate on them, think on them? How many times do you just pray over, pray over the word of God? Paul tells us that because of God's gracious action in giving us his spirit, He has predisposed or enabled or granted us the foresight of vision to make right choices in spiritual matters. He had chosen us. There's a people that he chosen from the foundations of the world. That's why I say he's hungry and thirsting. It's like there's something trying to get out of you. The spirit creates that spirit that's in you. It creates a hunger. And only the word of God can feed that hunger for eternal life. Only the spirit of God can saturate that spirit to make it feel at peace, to make it feel at rest. It's the word of God, it's the things of God. That's why we mourn, we sigh. It's a complex process that the children of God goes through. It's an agonizing process. It's a process into which we can look at others and feel compassion and empathy for others. We fall from oppressing others. That no longer becomes part of our nature. That dies in us. That's part of what's killing us. That's part of what dies. The works of the flesh, the villainous, the evil mind, what we once were. What we once were. We can see the transition. We can see the regenerating effect. We can see that God has done something to us. That's why I say you have to have a religion that's a reflective religion, that you be able to walk circumspectly, that you be able to see yourself years ago. As I call it deja vu sometime, you see what roads you once take and you take in different roads and you take different stances because that's how God is growing you. He didn't grow Abraham overnight. It was some 35 years, 30 some years before he sent the ultimate test to Abraham to kill his only son, Isaac. But he didn't send that test at the beginning of Abraham's life because Abraham didn't have enough faith to believe God would protect him from a heathen or a pagan king to preserve his wife. Abraham was afraid. Fear filled Abraham's heart and he said, perhaps they'll want to lay down and have sex with my wife and they'll kill me. That was evil thinking, evil surmising. It shows in the fact that the king says, what do you need to come in here and pull this on us? Get out of here. God told me that you was a liar. Here, he doesn't have the discernment, but God gives the king discernment to see what Abraham had done to him and was doing to his people. They couldn't reproduce, they wasn't being blessed because why? You had a liar in your midst until the church purged out all of the liars and the evil doers. This nation can't prosper in godliness. We're prospering in wickedness and in darkness, but all of that has to be rooted out. God removes all this, all of the kingdoms of God that he established is by righteousness. Because if we go all the way back to the end of Revelation, we see where he said, he that is unrighteous, let him remain unrighteous. He that is unjust, let him remain unjust. There are some that could be in this fixed and fitted position because you can't change a goat into a sheep. You have to see that there are evil seeds, there are evil and wicked men out there. God's Holy Spirit gives us discernment as to where spiritual and moral choices will lead us. This wonderful but something further of being misunderstood is that if you can't see that this nation is on a wrong road, maybe your Christianity is not a true Christianity. Maybe you're worshiping another Jesus. We're not on the right path here. We have to be on the narrow road, and we are on the narrow road, but we have to see that Babylon has to fall. That we're believing in the promises of God, and literally, not figuratively, but a literal kingdom of God will come and will sit down. The kingdom of God will be here on this earth. The Davidic kingdom will rule and reign with God here. The preparations is being done now. We have to do this now. We have to walk in this now. And the only way we can do this is to continue to grow in grace. and the knowledge of our Lord and Savior. But the only way to do that is to exercise each little point of life that comes into our life to stand up on it. Don't be equivocatable, don't compromise, don't tolerate these things, stand. This quality, ability, or skill must be developed. We grow into this, we grow into it. It's a walk, it's a slow walk sometimes. It's a waiting sometime. It's a patience. It does not instantly and miraculously appear upon conversions. And this is what happened to some of the seed that fell on stoning ground. They didn't take deep root. They didn't take deep root. They didn't, they had knowledge, but they wasn't prepared. And you'd seen trees or something that's not very deep-rooted. When the sun comes, they're like red oak trees. Red oak trees grow very tall. They grow very big. But they're some of the first to fall when the storm comes. That's because they don't spread out deep roots as a live oak. You don't see live oaks turning over. Even tornadoes and things come along and you don't see the live oaks disrooted or uprooted because their roots grow wide and the feeder roots, the tap roots grow deep. So I said we could be trees of righteousness planted where our roots grow deep. It's tapping into the water of life, the springs of life. It grows wide and deep, it's like cedar trees. God strengthens us. But some of the trees, I have a tree like that in the back of my yard that was there when my father had gotten the house. Over the years, that's the tallest tree it is. I don't have enough money to get that tree moved out of my yard. But it's a weed. But it's the tallest and the biggest tree back there now. One of these days, I pray to God that I have the money to get it removed, because it's not a good tree. It's not good for anything, but it has grown tall. It's pretty big. In Christian theology, the gift of knowledge from the Holy Spirit refers to a supernatural ability to understand and discern the truth of God's will and purpose in a particular situation, allowing one to see how earthly things relate to God's divine plan. essentially giving a deeper understanding of faith beyond just basic knowledge. This comes from God to give us a discernment as Paul Solomon asks to discern good and evil, to discern how to lead people. In other words, it's a knowledge of God, it's wisdom. We pray for wisdom of God to apply knowledge and understanding. But now notice that we have to be in an acquired knowledge and understanding first to be able to apply this knowledge and understanding. But it is God that gives us a deeper spiritual knowledge, a deeper knowledge and understanding the repercussions of everything that goes into that. They were talking about extending tariffs to some other nations or whatever. But these leaders of these other nations were saying, some of our economists were saying, you better beware of the repercussions that happen when you do this. That's why they say this group MAGA or whatever is that it's dividing upon itself. But Jesus that gave us that because it's Satan's house and Satan's house cannot stand because it's divided it against itself. There's no unity. So they'll devour one another because it's full of narcissists. It's full of disobedience. It's full of haters. It's full of the works of the flesh. So we can see the end of this, even though it's like that tree in my backyard, it's flourishing big and strong right now. But it's gonna come a time when God shoots that tree down. It's gonna come a time when all kingdoms of this world is gonna be tried by fire. That's when Babylon, that's why he tells us Babylon is falling, is falling. So if we're not natural men, if we're spiritual minded, we get out of Babylon right now because if you wait too late, you'll lose. Some of us may end up with sicknesses and consequences. As I said, we may be saved as first Corinthians, saved as by fire, but we're gonna lose all our rewards. We will lose all of these things. Your soul will be saved. You'll be saved. But there's no treasures that are laid up because you were investing in the things of the world and the people of the world. And we have to ask God to help us to build up his kingdom. We have to invest. We have to be like Warren Buffett to know the right investments to make. A name like that, you know, it's more of a character to his name that any of the wealthiest four families today don't have a name as Warren Buffett has. Because they're lacking. We have to be able to see those that lack. It is considered one of the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, often listed alongside wisdom and understanding and counsel, and that's why in Proverbs, Solomon always tell you, when getting wisdom, make sure you get understanding, and when you get understanding, make sure you get knowledge. But you be able to counsel. You need good counsel, and that's why it's good to have the elders of the church. That's why, you know, there's wisdom in a multitude of counselors. So I say, the cabinet that's being formed today, with their character, we building a bad nation. This nation's being, it's a flawed reason, just like the Supreme Court. When Mitch McConnell said that he wasn't gonna put garlic Maryland, end because it was too close to the end of the Obama administration to put a sitting judge on the Supreme Court. But during the Trump administration, when Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, less than six months before his term ended, President Trump's term ended, It was less than six months, whereas with garlic marrow, it was nine months to 12 months within that. But hypocritically, he moved on this rude beta thing and put someone else in. And I said, well, no, this can't be. We had already seen that. But this was the ultimate in hypocrisy. just like you hadn't heard from Jeff Sessions anymore. And at one time seemed as though he was had a little, maybe a little value to him or whatever. But you remember I told you Satan's kingdom is divided. He was the first Senator to go along with the Trump administration. But his church wanted to, I don't know if he's still within his church or whatever, because his character, the church said his character was lacking. because of some of the choices and decision he was making in government because what you are, I told you, reflects on everything that you do. You can't just be in government if you're in this church and doing the wrong thing. It shows the wrong character. It's about character. So as we see these things happen, we have to take the secular. We're in the world, but not of the world. So all of these things happening before our eyes, we are part of those things. That's one thing about having dual citizenship. We're in the world, but not of the world. We're ambassadors of Christ for this kingdom that's coming. But the kingdom that's here, we can say we didn't help build that kingdom. And as the ravages of Babylon burns, we understand and see these things. Key points about the gift of the knowledge gift. Distinct from wisdom, while related, knowledge is often seen as ability to grasp the truth. While wisdom is the application of that knowledge to make good decisions in complex situations. The distinction from wisdom is knowledge is often seen as the ability to grasp the truth, while wisdom is the application of that knowledge to make good decisions in complex situations. So I say, when getting pray for wisdom, But you need knowledge and understanding to apply wisdom. Wisdom applies that. It's the applicator. In other words, these are the ingredients and now you need a brush to apply these ingredients. impact upon daily life. This gift can manifest as a clear insight into any situation. That's why I say, as it was applicable to Jesus in his everyday life, it was applicable to Paul in his everyday life. It's applicable to Peter just as it was to Joel, Isaiah, to Noah. It's applicable to you on your job working for the state. Working as a lawyer a doctor or whatever because when each man's gift we're serving a personal God and that God Services each and every one of us and he hears each and every one of our prayers With prayer and supplication let your requests be known to God. So no one is more than the other We're joined ears with Christ. He loves us with that same love So he's he's not He's impartial. He's not partial. He'll do the same for each and every one of us. We just have to know his purpose and what is our calling in life. Allowing someone to accurately interpret events and respond in any way aligned with God's will and he sends us to do his will and as we do his will and working in that way. Now, I still have a good ways to go, but I don't have time to Open up Ephesians 5 14 through 7 it starts off as I said the truth sets us free Ephesians 5 14 through 17 he says Wherefore he says await thou sleep whose sleepers arise from the dead and Christ shall give thee light See that you walk circumspectively not as fools, but as wise redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Wherefore, be ye not unwise, but understanding." So this is to us that he wakes us up. In other words, woke. And the conservatives talk about that when the liberals talk about being woke. But we need to be awoken. We need to be awakened. We need to be quickened, made alive, made aware of what's going on because you do have the revisionists that try to rewrite history, rewrite things how they were, but God shines this light so we can understand the past. We must understand our history or we destined to repeat it. It says, And the Amplified version says, for this reason, he says, awake, sleeper, and arise from the dead. In other words, let's take this figuratively. In other words, you were dead in trespasses and sin. God quickens us. He births us. He makes us alive. He regenerates us. He brings us to life. Now we've been transformed and brought to life. He says, Christ will shine as dawn upon you and give you light. So when that light comes into your life, it says, therefore, see that you walk carefully, living life with honor, purpose, and courage, shunning those who tolerate and enable evil. Shun them. Don't have anything to do with it because it brings you down. It's an abstraction from your character. Watch the people you associate with. Watch all of these things because it steals power from you. We're not like Jesus Christ. When Jesus says he felt faith or virtue go from him, but his faith and virtue is infinite. In other words, as the woman's faith healed her, it was already a part of what or who Jesus is. It is faith. He is faith. So it couldn't take anything. Nothing we do can take away from God. It cannot take away from Christ. But it says, not as unwise, but as wise, sensible, intelligent, discerning people. And that's wisdom we get from God. Common sense also is included in that. That's why I say it's for the everyday man. It's not just for the elite. It's not for kings. The scriptures are to us who are born again. They are our life. That's why man should live by every word. And these are words, so it's not accessible by any of us. Paul said in Romans, it's accessible to anyone and by anyone through faith, through the grace of God. That's why we grow in grace, grow in knowledge. What is knowledge? The study of the word of God, assimilating the word of God to ourselves. It says, making the very most of your time on earth, recognizing and taking advantage of each opportunity and using it with wisdom and diligence. Because the days are filled with evil, therefore do not be foolish and thoughtless, but understand and firmly grasp what the will of the Lord is. because he works in us both to will and to do. So don't be afraid to step out on faith. Whatever's pure, whatever, and these thoughts that are coming in our mind, if they're coming from God, have enough faith to step out on. Ask God for the grace that humbles you, but to be able to step out in faith. Notice the encouraging reason Paul gives to wake up and carefully mind how we live. It says, Christ will give you light. The interest of God's word gives light. Truth is what sets you free. As this word comes into you, it releases you under freedom. The bondage of truth comes under us, we are bound to Christ Jesus. We are his bond servants. And now we yield our members unto righteousness and not unto unrighteousness. We are freed from that. We mortify the deeds of the body, those lusted with passions we used to have. This is an outright promise that he will give us the help to do what we must do. Backed by the promise, we are to redeem the time because the days are evil. So God backs up these promises. This passage reveals how the early church regarded time as it applies to a Christian. For us, all days, every period in which God's people have had to live, their lives by their God-giving understanding, thus by faith we're even, and are even. As it was during the time of Daniel, as it was during the time of Noah, so it is today. But this is the time of the great tribulation, the time of Jacob's trouble. God's truth has always run counter to the course of this world. We're not to follow this world. In other words, this government, these systems, that's of the world. We're to divorce ourselves, be separate, come out from among them. Thus the truth adds a particular stressful difficulty to life, regardless of when it was lived. Just as difficult as it was for Abraham, it was just as difficult for Noah. Just as difficult for Daniel to not eat at the king's table, it is difficult for us to not partake of this world. Moreover, since each called out individual has only one opportunity to lay hold on eternal life and must overcome, Grow and prove his loyalty to god during that time in which he lived he must make use of every experience That's why when he tells us in the book of revelations be ye overcomers in every situation That little spot with your spouse that little spot with the guy on the job. We're not being argumentative But those things came about for a reason we need to be victorious in all of those things Every pursuit we need to let christ prevail. We don't need to keep losing battles But we must pick and choose our bowels. We must ask for God's discernment in everything to make sure it's the will of God in this. Christianity involves every aspect of our lives. Galatians 1, 3 through 4 confirms this perspective. Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil age. Listen to that, that he might deliver us from this present evil age according to the will of our God and our Father. He wants to deliver us from this present age. That's why I said, we are delivered and we are being delivered, but we shouldn't let any situation take us captive. Daniel didn't let it take him captive. When you are a sign of God, you said, turn me loose. When he turns you loose on the world, you have the power of God. Jesus was turned loose on the world. He was fearless, Paul and Peter. When Peter was filled with the Spirit, they say they can tell this man would have been with Jesus because of his boldness. The Spirit gives us a boldness. In terms of growing and overcoming, living in a particular period in history gives a Christian no particular advantage, but we must take Christ and show the world Christ. Let him prevail. Every era, every age, is against us and has been against us. But within it, we must make the most of our calling. We must be victorious during these times. We must win this battle. So my father fought his battles, my mother fought her battles. Each and every one of us fight the battle that God brings to us. And we're victorious during that time and we'll stand. But I think in this latter day, We will see Jesus Christ come back as this battle. He says he wished the fire be kindled, and we must keep killing that fire and fighting that fight. Heavenly Father, as we come.