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The glory of God refers to his beauties, his excellencies, his perfections, his virtues. These are in your spirit. Can you believe this? Can you accept this? If you can accept this, you'll be amazed how it'll work for you. It's working for many already. Say this. I don't believe in failure. Does anybody here you believe in failure? If you believe in failure, you're in the wrong place because we will make you succeed and that may be against what you believe. Are you hearing me? If you don't want to be a success in life, you better not come here. Don't stay here for too long because we will make you succeed and um that may be trouble for you.
[Music] Sure. Yeah. You can't listen to this for long enough without it transforming and transfiguring your life. It's not possible. No. No. No. It's not possible. No, it's not [Music] possible. It's not possible. It'll rub off on you. Hallelujah. Sure. You'd be a success even if you shut your eyes. [Applause] Yeah. Sure. Just keep listening. Sooner or later, it'll change your talk. And something about the the life of faith. Did you notice that definition of faith? The confident assurance that what we hope for is there. Did you hear that? Says giving substance to what we hope for. So faith is calling real what you haven't seen as of yet. You give it substance. You act as though it is there. And that's why others think you're stupid. because you're acting as though something that they can't see is there. But that's what faith is all about. That's what faith is. Faith is not believing. Faith and believing are two different things. The Bible says demons believe and they so believe that they tremble. Are you hearing me? So you can believe. It's like um look at this faith. You got to give substance to your faith. In other words, you've got to voice your faith. That's where it begins. And you got to act your faith. You see, you voice your faith, you act your faith. Because if you can't voice your faith, you cannot act your faith. Your life will go in the way of your mouth. Hallelujah.
Beloved, Pastor Chris, the man of God, reveals that no matter how dark, difficult, or impossible a situation may seem, you are never without help and never without hope. Why? Because you have the living word of God and the power of the Holy Spirit inside you. When these two come together, God's unchanging truth and his unlimited power change is inevitable. Whether you're facing sickness, financial lack, broken relationships, or confusion, know this. You are not a victim. You are a victor through Christ Jesus. By declaring God's word in faith and yielding to the guidance of the Holy Spirit, you can turn any circumstance around for his glory. Amen.
We're born in that [Music] family, the family of faith. That's where we belong. Did you know if a child grew up among apes, he would believe he's an ape? If he grew up among monkeys, even without a tail, he'll believe he's a monkey. If you grow up among negative thinkers, negative talkers, you'd be that way. Negativism is acquired and we acquire it from our environment from those with whom we deal on daily [Music] basis. So it matters where your spiritual environment is. You know we talked about how that Moses did send out 12 spies and 10 of them said we cannot take the place. We cannot take the land. It's full of giants. We can't. He said, "The giants are so big and we were before them as grasshoppers. And even when we looked at ourselves, we were as graspers before them." So they said, "So let let's get out of here. We can't take it." But only two of them stood out and said, "Look, we can. The giants will be bred for us." They said, "Let's go up at once." Oh, I like the communication. Let's go up at once. Let's go.
Now, in most families, children are brought [Music] up with the mentality of failure. They're told all the time they can't. They're told all the time how bad they are, how foolish they are, how stupid they are because, you know, it's easier to learn the curses than the blessings. It's just the way people are. They learn the negative life first. So, we respond to fear first before we ever hear anything about faith because most of us didn't grow up in an environment of faith. So even sometimes some of the things I share are even hard for many pastors, ministers hard because they grew up in an environment of unbelief and fear and doubt and poverty and negativism. such that even those who grew up in wellto-do families were so negative and fearful in their lives, they eventually lost everything they had. Well, well, well. Glory to God. Are you still here? Thank you, Lord Jesus. Glory. Hallelujah.
Just for the moment, let's define faith again. Let's look at the word faith again. Um the Bible gives us the best definition of that word in Hebrews, book of Hebrews the 11th chapter and the first verse. [Music] He says, "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Say it with me. Faith is what? He says, "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Faith is giving substance to things hoped for. It is the [Music] evidence of the unseen. Now the amplified version gives it this way. What we just quoted together was mostly from the King James version. I know most of you have the King James version. All right. from the amplified that says, "Now faith is the assurance, the confirmation, the tidal deed of the things we hope for being the proof of things we do not see and the conviction of their reality. faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses a conviction of their reality. Hallelujah. That's remarkable. Remarkable. Another version. Now faith is a well-grounded assurance of that for which we hope and a conviction of the reality of things we do not see. It is the confident assurance that what we hope for is there. The confident assurance that what we hope for is there. and the conviction that what we do not see is real.
You know, it's easy for people to believe in the past and believe in the future and have problems with today. All right? Jesus died for me. Praise the Lord. They believe that. I mean, there are people who are ready to die for that. They'll stick their lives on that. I believe, I know, I am confident Jesus died for me when almost 2,000 years ago. Yes, he does. Yes, he does. He does believe that. He's confident of that. He's assured of that knowledge. And then they go to the next one. He's coming again. I know he's coming again. That's the future. They'll stake their lives on that Jesus will surely come back. All right. Between the past and the future is the present. So what is he doing now? What about today? What does Jesus mean to me today? [Music] Glory to God. See our our communication locates us. Praise the Lord. Our communication locates us. You know what? In the past and in the future and we live out today.
Now, here's another thought that may not be so much problem for many of you here really. But here's another thought. Um, how simply we can be affected by semantics. Okay, we say um, the glory of the Lord is upon me. the glory of the Lord is upon you. And so we are carried away by that thought where we try to imagine that the glory of God surrounds us and um with the hope that there's some light that somebody sees or something sees maybe spirits see or whatever it is. So we are surrounded by this glory upon us. Okay? And because we do not see that glory, we are tempted to think might not be real after all. Are you still there? Okay. The glory of God is upon me. What does that mean? These are spiritual terminologies. What when you say the the glory of God is upon you, what do you mean? What are you saying? We might all mean different things when we say that. And what we mean is actually all we get. That's all you get. You can't get more than what you mean. You can't get more than what you know. So when you say the glory of God is upon me, what do you mean? The glory of God is upon you. Is upon do you mean on your head? When you say how many of you ever said the glory of God was upon you? Yeah. We even have a song we sing like that. Okay. So the glory of God you say is upon you. What do you mean that the glory of God is upon you? Where is it? The glory of God is only upon you as to say he's bestowed his grace upon your life. But if you're talking about the excellencies, the perfections, the virtues of God, they are not on your head, they are in your spirit. So the glory of God is actually in your [Music] spirit. The glory of God is in your spirit. The glory of God refers to his beauties, his excellencies, his perfections, his virtues. These are in your spirit. Can you believe this? Can you accept this? If you can accept this, you'll be amazed how it'll work for you. It's working for many already. Say this. I don't believe in failure. I don't believe in failure. Does anybody here you believe in failure? If you if you believe in failure, you're in the wrong place because we will make you succeed and that may be against what you believe. Are you hearing me? If you don't want to be a success in life, you better not come here. Don't stay here for too long because we will make you succeed and um that may be trouble for you. Sure. Yeah. You can't listen to this for long enough without it transforming and transfiguring your life. It's not possible. No. No. No. It's not possible. No, it's not [Music] possible. It's not possible. It'll rub off on you. Hallelujah. Sure. You'd be a success even if you shut your eyes. Yeah, sure. Just keep listening. Sooner or later, it'll change your talk. And something about the the life of faith. Did you notice that definition of faith? The confident assurance that what we hope for is there. Did you hear that? says, "Giving substance to what we hope for." So faith is calling real what you haven't seen as of yet. You give it substance. You act as though it is there. And that's why others think you're stupid because you're acting as though something that they can't see is there. But that's what faith is all about. That's what faith is. [Music] Faith is not believing. Faith and believing are two different things. The Bible says demons believe and they so believe that they tremble. Are you hearing me? So you can believe. It's like um look at this faith. You got to give substance to your faith. In other words, you've got to voice your faith. That's where it begins. And you got to act your faith. You see, you voice your faith. You act your faith. Because if you can't voice your faith, you cannot act your faith. Your life will go in the way of your mouth.
All right. Turn to the book of Romans, chapter number 10 for a moment. You there? Romans chapter 10. Have you seen it? Glory to God. You see, faith is a law. Faith is a law. The Bible says that the law of Moses was given as the school master. And um that's old King James translation. Um it actually means school guide. doesn't mean the school teacher. It means a school guide, meaning one who took the children to school, not one who actually taught the children. Okay? It was a school guide. So he says the law was our school master to bring us to Christ. All right? Talking about those who were under the law. Then he says, "Now that faith has come, we are no longer under a school master." Now that faith has come. Now the kind of faith that is given to us, communicated to us in the New Testament is different from the kind of faith that was back in the Old Testament. Now you say, "What's the difference?" Oh, very simple. The faith in the Old Testament was more of what you call trust. It was trust. And that's why trust is synonymous with faith. Trust. They trusted God. They trusted his character. They trusted what he said and followed what he said. trust. So Abraham's called a father of faith because he trusted God. He trusted God's character. He trusted God's declarations, God's word. He trusted. Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness. He [Music] trusted over in the New Testament. The difference [Music] is faith is not the version of trust that you have in the Old Testament. It is a law. It is a law. of what we call the mirror principle. There's a there's a beautiful term in the living Bible. That's another version. Okay. The living Bible that's used in expressing a thought when you study in book of James chapter number one and verse 25. And uh the expression is so beautiful. He says he calls the word of God the the word of God which in the King James is called God's perfect love liberty. The living Bible puts it this way. God's love for free [Music] men. God's love for free men. Some others say God's law that makes men free. They're wrong. You see it. They're looking at it from two different sides. God's law that makes men free. You see that? And that helps you understand the mentality of the communicators. God's law of liberty. Some view it as God's law that makes men free. That is the thinking from the Old Testament idea of faith. God's law that makes men free. So they are freedom conscious. They need deliverance for one thing or the other. You know their business needs deliverance. You see it their their finances requires deliverance. They need deliverance. Their family needs deliverance. And this deliverance has to go on from time to time, you know. So always having demons cast out of them um periodically. You see that? So the word of God is for their deliverance. Okay? But then you have this other group that sees it differently like the declaration you have in the Living Bible. God's love for free man that is the real one that is correct. You see, how do we know when we study the Bible? How do we know what is right? Oh, very simple. Very simple. Very simple. What you need is the knowledge of the gospel, the understanding of the gospel of Jesus Christ. The gospel of the Lord Jesus. Good news on every page. It brings victory and deliverance. Setting captives free from cage. No more bandages or confusion. No more hiding in the lies. Freedoms come to every heart. Where grace is opened eyes. He whispers hope into our ashes. Breathes new life where sorrow lay. In the darkest night, his promise shines, turning night to brightest day. Beauty for ashes, he restores our soul. Oh, joyful morning we forever belong. Garden of praise for heaviness of soul. Every day is a miracle when his grace makes power flow. Once I walked in chains of judgement, lost in rituals and fear. Now his love is broken every chain. His freedom draws me near. No more shrouding. No more burning. No more stumbling in the night. By the cross I stand victorious, bathed in mercy's life. He turns our tears, delivers our rejoicing all our days. Every step is marked by miracles. Guided by a [Music] sol [Music] forever praise for he every day is a miracle with his grace makes power Heat. [Music] Heat. Yeah. Heat. [Music] every mercy [Music] showing for us. He restores our soul. [Music] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Let it [Music] go. [Applause] Amen. Oh, come [Music] near your power in my face.