[Music] in in Hebrews chapter 2 uh beginning at verse 9 reading through and including Verse 18 and as I meditated on what we talked about last week this came in to view but we see Jesus who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death crowned with Glory and Honor that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man now remember when we talk about God raising Jesus from the dead that the power that raised Jesus from the dead the kattus that raised him from the dead was a
enormous power because Jesus tasted death for every man if anybody should have stayed dead it should have been Jesus then he turns around and he tells us that that same power that raised him from the dead that same power is what he used to Quicken you and I who were once dead in trespasses and in sin so imagine then the amount of power that's moving through you for it became him for whom are all things and by whom are all things and bringing many sons unto glory to make the captain of their salvation perfect through
sufferings for both he that s stifi and they who are Sanctified are all of one for which cause he is not ashamed to call them Brethren saying I will declare thy name unto my brethren in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee and again I will put my trust in him and again behold I and the children which God hath given me now the writer is going to be very subtle in his presentation here for as much then as the children are partakers of Flesh and Blood he also himself likewise took
part of the same that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death that is the devil and deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage for verily he took not on him the nature of angels but he took on him the Seed of Abraham wherefore in all things it behoved him to be like unto his Brethren that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God to make reconciliation for the sins of the people for in that he himself had suffered
being tempted it he is able to sore them that are tempted can you say Amen uh just look at somebody and say you know God is with you God is with you we dealt a little bit with deah last week and deah deals with fear but it's the kind of fear that is you he hate to use the word innate but I would I think we would agree that in many instances that there's a timidity in some [Music] people that is not learned and so there's innate fear and I believe to a great extent the
very conditions of the world and satanic moving as the prince of the power of the air I think in many instances he wants to produce fearful people uh so because we were shapen in iniquity we were born in sin shapen in iniquity then it wouldn't be difficult to say that fear which is totally antithetical to Faith is a part of of the innate makeup of many many many many people and so that timidity I think I tried to express that that you have kids raised in the same house and yet one or two of them
are bold as they can be and then you have this little quiet timid one that sits in the corner and and doesn't get in the middle of everything so I would say then that fear can be both innate and learned now imagine just how intense it gets when you are timid by nature and then fearful by circumstance so now you're dealing with a two-fold attitude of fear and it expresses itself in many ways I'm not trying to be a psychologist today but it expresses itself in many ways sometimes it expresses itself in feeling inferior to
other people and you have a tendency a proclivity not to even voice what you're believing because you're afraid that you might not be accepted and I did use the word afraid I remember uh going with somebody to pick out a dress and the person who was selling the dress took the dress right off the The Mannequin and set it on the individual and the individual uh looked you know quite wholesome and quite beautiful in the in the Garment that was given and and he said would you model for us and she looked at him and
said oh oh oh oh no no and I think this dress is too much and she went and got a dress that was less exciting you know I know a little bit about clothes my sister is Grace Jones so she got a dress that was less significant and I said now why would would you do that why are you backing up like that and she said well you know a lot of people don't like me and so I just don't want to come out looking like this and I and I said to her now you
got to listen to what you just said that you will not be the best that you can be so that you can please some people who don't like you anyway uh and I since learned that you want to be around people who don't mind you being the best that you can be and you should never never dummy down for anybody if they can't come up to where you are then bye-bye it's it's it's it's an expression of fear and and and many times we we back up when we should move forward and we're cowardly when
we should be bold simply because there is an innate fear and also there is fear that Satan produces in his environment uh consider with me the kids if you can just think for a moment of the children in ul valdi and the kids that understand or interact with the television and and have to go to school I don't know how many of our children are suffering from just the fear of going into a classroom predicated on the fact that anything can happen at any time in that school and to um even intensify the fear is
when the people who should be protecting you aren't protecting you and uh I don't even want to get into that because then I start a whole another thing uh that you there's an active shooter inside the building he's in the building and the kids are three and four years old and they're facing an AR-15 and you've been trained to take people out and yet you stay for 70 minutes before you can go in with an active shooter taking kids out who were three and four and yet your same group can shoot 60 times and shoot
somebody in the back 30 30 times who's running away from you uhhuh I don't I told you I didn't want to get there but I I did it anyway uh the point is that fear is not only for those who are helpless but it seems as if feir even occupies the minds of those who are protected see one of the difficult things in growing up is when you have to to forgive the individual who should be protecting you who is the culprit uh yeah that you're having to forgive somebody who should be watching over you
and they are the ones who are doing you damage and this is how Satan operates and then of course when you deal with a group of people who were constantly in battle the Pres or the absence of fear can be the difference between survival and death because what fear does it eliminates God's involvement on your side why because fear is a symptom of unbelief uh I hope you're still with me uh it's it's a symptom of unbelief because uh what God is saying is I need you to trust me and if you look at the
Old Testament word for trust uh it is now in the New Testament the ethologist has now made the word pisto so the atmology of the word trust in the Old Testament becomes faith in the New Testament and fear is a symptom of unbelief and what God is saying is I am whatever you want me to be I am can I can I take a little time I don't want to get too philosophical but uh when you consider how individual our concept of God is and your concept of God my concept of God is not the
same nobody can duplicate or imitate your conceptualization of God uh that's a fact everybody in here and and here's the Qui part because he leaves himself outside of our sensual perception nobody has touched him nobody has smelled him nobody has tasted him uh nobody has heard him audibly I have been uh preaching for 50s something years and I have never heard Noel I've never heard him audibly uh this that still voice that operates Within Me forces me to have to believe it's God uh I hope you're still with me that that conceptualization of God and
none of us have the same conceptualization of God even if we're taught by the same teachers stayed in the same church we have individual situations that we Face we have attitudes and dispositions that we have that makes each one of us different and each one has a concept of God uh I would stretch you a little bit I will pull you real far and say to you that each one of us literally creates a concept of God ah are you with me there uh that it is created by all that you have and all that
you have experienced causes you to have a concept of God that nobody else has now here's the wonderful part if you decide that you want to have a God who can't get things done then that's up to you you see but now I'm so glad that you can't impose your concept of God on me uhhuh which means if I want a gigantic God then I can make him as big big as I want him to be and if you want a little bitty God that you're going to sit around worrying about everything well that's on
you but don't you get mad with me when I step out with power and decide that Satan is not going to mess with me and he's not going to mess up my day all my time I'm going to live until God says stop living and I'm going to enjoy my life oh I feel like shouting here I'm I'm not backing off I'm not dummying down for nobody if you coming up here come on up now I'll come down to help you but I ain't going down there to stay now and if you don't hurry up
and get up from down there uh you're going to see me going back to where I belong ah fear fear fear will make you live in situations that are way beneath you simply because you're afraid to stand up on who God hath made you and what God is saying is you have to trust me because I have allowed you to create in your thinking who I am here's what I told you I told you I'm omnipotent I have all power I told you I'm omn ient I have all knowledge and somebody told me that knowledge
is power so if he's all powerful then he has to have all knowledge I am immutable that means I don't have mood swings I don't change so no matter how you come to me I will always be the same way that when you met me I wish I could say that about some people I wish I could say say that uh I'm the same all the time and not only that I'm omnipresent which means I'm everywhere so you can't go anywhere and I'm not there you have the limitation is only you because what he's saying
is I am walking with you and I am unlimited so who is going to limit me you are going to limit me the way you think about me and if you think the devil can outdo me then you're going to express that but when you know that I am almighty God and beside me there is no other and when you learn how to operate within that fear then you lose all your fear and when you find out how much I love you you will understand that perfect love casteth out fear oh I'm talking to somebody
in here uh what am I preaching what am I preaching uh uh yeah God is with you look at your neighbor and say that won't stop anything uhhuh whatever you're going through it won't stop anything whatever they said about you it won't stop anything no matter who doesn't like you it won't stop anything because you're not inside me you're outside of me and until you can get inside me you can't think for me you can't talk for me you can't act for me you can't behave for me because he is inside uh I feel like
shouting here uh how much time do I have uh he's saying you better believe me because in believing me you will believe in me c can I go over that again you see Faith cometh by hearing hearing by the word of God so if I believe him then I believe in him and this is why he expresses himself so explicitly and so succinctly that I can have a clear vision of who he is and once I have a vision of who he is I understand what relationship with him means to me when you're fearful you
end up getting exactly what you are afraid of I feel like preaching because you literally bring it into your space ah how might I put this how might I put this how may I put this you see many times because of previous experiences you approach a new experience with old data you you didn't delete it from the computer you know that there's a delete button and sometimes before you get into a new relationship you ought to delete the old [Music] one so so here I am on this side of the table and you're on the
other side and uh and uh you're looking at me uh out of the clouded eyes of your past experience so you're looking at me and there's certain things that I might say or do that triggers some of your past experience because you didn't delete it you see it's still there in front of your eyes so uh so consequently you're over here and and you're saying well you know men ain't no good no way so uh you know you know I'm going be real careful with this fell in fact uh you know I don't trust him
anyway I'm going to start this without trusting him I ain't going to believe with half of what he says anyhow now now you're over here as a defense mechanism trying to protect yourself from something you previously experienced now I'm over here just as happy I had your problems I'm just I'm just ready to do everything you're looking good I'm feeling good I'm ready just to be the nicest human being in the world but while I'm listening to you I feel a Vibe and what's coming across here to me is suspicion and so now I'm saying
to myself you don't know me well enough to make judgments and be suspicious and begin to equate me uh to whoever it was that broke your heart and all of a sudden now I'm in the same boat and now you're scared and so you're scared but it's suspicion to me so here's what I say I said well I better start holding back so now I would have been free but now your suspicion has locked me up so now you're getting exactly what you were afraid of isn't it interesting when I read job and I see
job in all of that trouble and job says the thing I feared the most has come upon me in the same way that when you speak boldly and you operate in boldness wonderful things happen it's the same way when you operate in fear and then you project your fear into the the future we call that worry you get exactly what you're worried about what God Said is simply live because I came that they might have life and have it more abundantly you got to think your way out of the negative into the positive and you
got to walk your way into the blessings that God has ordained for you ah I'm going to take a little more time fear then is not to have God with you and that is the only thing to be afraid of should I say that again the only thing that you need to be afraid of is not having god with you this is why he says and fear not them which kill the body but rather fear Him which is able to destroy both Body and Soul the word here now is phobus and we use it in
English for all kinds of phobia and originally it means flight theological roote is flight and that which caus being scared that which may cause flight and so many times we run away from things we run away from things in our mind we are not confrontational we do not step up and take our position and we don't have the communication that is necessary to resolve difficulties because we're afraid we're afraid and so consequently we are intimidated all the time and that's what the adversary wants he knows how powerful God is but he knows that you control
the valve that either closes God off or releases him in your circumstance and what he does is he raises you in a fearful environment so that you are reticent about releasing God in your situation this is why prayer becomes so important because it is communicating to God confessing how you feel so that God can eliminate through his word how you feel why does he tell me I was chosen in him before the foundation of the world why is he telling me that he's telling me that so I can understand that I have always been in
his mind uh can I go deep with it I'm going to go deep with it you see he is Everlasting and he is omnicient which means from his beginning and he has none because he always is the always is God always has all knowledge which means he didn't learn I was coming when he knew himself he knew me so before he created Satan who was then Lucifer I was already in his mind so whatever comes up in my life is not a surprise to God that's why when I go to him I don't go to
him crying about my situation I go to him asking for a solution because you already knew I'd be in this mess before I got in this mess and you already made a way out of the mess before I got in the mess so Lord just show me how to get out and out I will get out oh I feel like preaching now I feel like lifting him up it's important now then for me to be bold and my boldness is predicated on the word of God simply because I believe him I believe in him and
I'm not running from any devil uh can I preach like I feel it you see when you notice the fortification or the Armament that God gives you he gives you the breastplate of righteousness he gives you the helmet of salvation he shots your feet with the preparation of the Gospel G of Truth around your waist he gives you the shield of Faith but have you noticed there is nothing for your back he didn't give you anything for your back which means he does not intend for his children to turn their back to the enemy I
feel like preaching in here oh devil you ain't going to shoot me in my back you got to face me and I've got a name above every name that when I call that name you got to back up do you know what the Lord told me devil he said if I resist you you will flee from me because I've got the spirit of God in Me Do I have anybody in here that's filled with the Holy Ghost ah I feel the power of God in here it's a matter of your spirit look at your neighbor
say you can't break my spirit oh yeah you can hurt me f physically you can take my money from me you can steal from me you can burn my house down but you can't do anything with my spirit because no matter how rough it gets I'm coming up again you going to get sick and tired of pushing me down because every time you walk away and think it's over you better look back I'm coming like the Terminator I'm coming back again H feel the Holy Ghost uh one writer says as a controlling motive of life
in matters spiritual and moral not a mere fear of his power and righteous retribution but a wholesome dread of displeasing him this is why the writer says that you don't fear anybody but God and if you've got God on your side then there's nobody to fear I told you in a previous experience and I thought the doctor said I had a heart attack and he fed me that until I was believing it and finally they did the catherization and all of my capillaries were open and uh everything was fine but it was in my mind
and you see that's the problem is when it gets in your mind and you can't get it out of your mind until you keep on cycling the word of God you got to keep on I'm I'm learning now to defeat certain things in my life I I've got to repeat what the word of God says until it becomes a part of my mind and that's what the devil wants he wants to keep my mind but I heard the Lord say I'll keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on me ah you got to
think think think whatsoever things are pure whatsoever things are wonderful whatsoever things are true whatsoever things are good whatsoever things he he he just tells you think on these things you can't think on what they B out on social media you can't think on what people are saying about you after you let them in your business you the one let them in now they going for your throat you can't allow that to mess with you this is why 87% of Americans have mental issues it didn't come from God the devil is alive it came from
Satan and the people he uses to try to get your mind but if I elevate my mind place it on the throne then my mind will be in peace and when I have peace with myself I have peace with whoever comes in my space and I follow peace with all men I feel like preaching here and Holiness wherein no man shall see God I feel a breakthrough coming look at your neighbor and say I ain't breaking down I'm breaking through I'm coming through it this has been a rough year it's been a rough time but
we're fortified through the word of God there is no more needed lesson today than for us to fear God and the Hebrews put it the fear or the Yar of God is the beginning of wisdom it's smart to reverence God and reverence and proper living is associated because if I'm reverencing God I admire him then I'm trying to walk as he walks it's sensible then to give him preeminence awesome suggests fear trust includes God fear excludes God should be afraid to fear cannot afford to fear anything but God uh that's why the Hebrews were instructed
here o Israel ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies let not your heart faint fear not and do not treble neither be terrified uh why because don't be terrified for the Lord your God is he that goeth with you to fight for you against your enemies to save you H don't faint which is raan which means don't be soft or Tender but walk in the power of who you are the word tremble is chapas and it means don't to start up Suddenly to hasten away God isn't expecting us to run from anything but
walk into it with the power of God knowing that he is with you and that's why every enemy has got to back up I feel like lifting him up I feel a church coming on he said I am your Elohim I am the mighty one and when you have me and you're in the presence in the presence of God all problems are solved he fights for you I feel like preaching here this is why in the text he says the children here refer to human beings and what he's saying in the text is they are
subject to the Redemption that is in Christ Jesus he said because of that he became a partaker and that is to have something in common with someone else so he took on part of the same the Greek puts blood and flesh in the rabinal writers and this is a technical phrase it means he took on human nature in contrast with his divinity that's why the text says likewise which is parus which means par alongside and pleus nearby so what he has done for us is he's saying I am and I know how you feel I
feel like preaching today I just do he took his place alongside and nearby the human race and what he did further was he took part which is Meo he took part of the same so that means one writer says and I quote he says he took hold of human nature without it sin in the Incarnation and held to himself as an additional nature unquote so then he took to himself something with which by Nature he had nothing in common so the reason the Lord did that was in order for him to die you see we
have a problem with death but for the human race death is a blessing why because if human beings couldn't die then Jesus couldn't die and if Jesus didn't die there would be no remission of sins so when God put the Judgment of death on Adam in the garden he was foreseeing the death of Jesus Christ one man comes in and he brings chaos the other man comes in and he brings Redemption I feel like preaching in here this is why you're filled with the Holy Spirit the devil brought chaos to our community but spirit filled
folks are going to bring Redemption to the same Community when you walk in the boldness of Jesus Christ you redeem me people who are living in fear because when they look at you and see where you're coming from and see how you're standing in the middle of all of the abuse you can look the devil in the face and say I've come to redeem some people out of your hand I feel like preaching the reason you're attacked like you're attacked is because the devil knows that there is something about you that is going to upset
his kingdom and many times when you walk on a job and people look at you and you say they don't like you I want you to rephrase that it ain't that they don't like you they don't know you but it's something about your spirit that scares the hell out of them I feel like lifting him up uh uh y'all excuse me I got a little carried away but I think I made the point uh look at your neighbor and say I know you're going through something but it ain't going to stop anything because the power
of God that's moving in you is more powerful than anything the devil can throw at you and that's why the Bible declares uh I will bless the Lord at times his praise shall continually be in my mouth I'm almost there but I feel like giving God some glory in the house we're going through a lot the reason why he needed to die is that through dying and raising himself out from under death he would break the power of death and the power of the one who has the power of death he's broken I wish I
could get somebody to tell your neighbor The Devil Is Broken Not only is he broken his power is broken I come to cancel every appointment that the devil has set up for you you ain't got to go you can tell him I ain't coming what's the or else cuz you can't do a thing to me until God says so we might as well have church P I feel like giving God some glory in his house I feel like telling the Lord come on back in the city Lord we don't want you outside we need you
on the inside we've got mouths to feed we've got homeless to cover we've got violence to get rid of H we've got bad boys to change uh we've got Wayward girls to bring home uh we got a job to do we don't need your outside Lord we need you on the inside I feel like giving God a little bit of Praise in this house if you want to praise him don't let anybody stop you if you want to lift him up don't let anybody stop you if you want to call call his name don't let
anybody stop you if you want to dance don't let anybody stop you cuz when I think of his goodness and all he's done for me I can't help myself I can't help but praise him I can't help but lift him up I feel the Holy Ghost in here get somebody high five and say neighbor I'm I'm tired of being intimidated I'm tired of taking a backseat I'm tired of letting other folk decide my life I'm tired of crying all the time I'm tired of not making it but I decided I decided I'm going to get
up from here and look the devil in the face say you lied on me but that ain't going to stop nothing you made a way hard for me but that ain't going to stop nothing I was abused growing up that ain't going to sound nothing I was talked about put out divorced walked on mistreated but that ain't going to stop h [Music] give some money high five for the last time say neighbor you're too gifted to be on a back seat you're too gifted to be walked on you're too gifted to be looked over you're
too gifted to be talked about get up sh
