He Breaks Down Salvation So Clearly w/ Enrique Pascal

It's still once saved, always saved. And if you end up in hell, you were never saved. This passage almost contradicts that those who have trampled the Son of God and who have treated the blood of the covenant which made us holy. But we are not like those who turn away from God to their own destruction. Based on that, once saved, always saved goes out the window. That each person should work out their salvation with fear and trembling. Working is functioning. If there's any branch that does not bear fruit, it will be salvation is simply this. When you said yes to Jesus, you took his life. And the transaction supposed to be that he takes yours. There it is. But we got too many people taking his life and not giving him ours. And we can close. Even though they said yes, the contract is not signed because you said yes and you took his life and you never gave him yours. You didn't finish the deal. So, you can't be saved and live. What does it look like to not live? Absolute surrender. Then he says, "Pick up your cross. Now follow me." That's a work. Now you're working. That's not working. That's making sure you die. 'Cause you won't follow him unless you're dead. What is water baptism? It's going under. Heaven is not for people who live. It's for dead people. And the Lord reveals himself to me. This is not a podcast. This is a deliverance ministry. God is going to deliver just as many, if not more, here than he does inside of church buildings. Not only you got to keep giving yourself over to it. It's proving it to you over and over. And the weightiness of your anointing. The Lord says thousands will be delivered. Will you keep watching? Click the subscribe button. I'll wait. And seriously, subscribe right now. Also, like and share this video. The more you like, share, comment, and engage with this video, the more we're able to produce content just like this. And also, we got this merch. Got this merch. The link is in the description. If you want to support the channel, you can also donate. That's also in the description. The more you guys support, the more we're able to produce content just like this. Thank you again. Peace.

Man, I know y'all not ready for this one. Once again, I have my brother. Y'all seen the testimony, man. Little do you know that I've been I stay locked in with this man of God. And, um, he's been such an inspiration and made such an impact in my life. From people are calling about deliverance, I just send, I just sent us straight to him. This is the demon slayer himself. Yes, sir. But, uh, God is using him mightily and today he's here and he's going to be sharing. He's going deep and so I just want to open the floor for him. Welcome back again, Apostle Enrique Pascal. Man, you're welcome here. We need to talk, my brother. Thank you so much. Yes, sir. It is truly a blessing to be here. I'm watching how God is moving in your life supernaturally. This podcast, this channel is doing just, oh my God, reaching the globe and I just love, man, the, uh, the quality, oh brother, of the work, man, that God is doing through you and I thank God because you are opening up eyes and ears and, and you're bringing people closer to God. You know, I, I called you John the Baptist. You know, you, uh, to me, this platform and what you're doing is, uh, preparing the way of the Lord because the day of the Lord is close. For you. And for and for people who, who think they have more time, they're not really looking at the time. The day of the Messiah is close and we don't have that much time. And so this, this podcast and, uh, even today is of the essence because, um, I believe the Lord is designing all of these guests that you're bringing to open up the eyes of people to understand that we don't have the time that we think that we have. Yeah. And also shout out to you for this hot shirt. Hey, let's go. Idols, man. That's custom made for you, man. No idols. Hey, look. This is a shameless plug. If you want to know idols too, you can go to the website. But if you want that shirt in particular, this is the Enrique Enrique Pascal version. Praise God. Message me directly and we could try to get them made ASAP. I got the, I, I got the hat on 'cause I knew you was wearing the shirt. Love it. Love it, man.

Man, well, you, you're talking, man. My son on the on the ride to school today said, "Daddy, if Jesus is coming back so soon, that's not really that fair because I haven't really lived life. Is Jesus gonna come back soon before I get to experience life?" And I told him, I was like, "You haven't. And you will never experience life outside of Jesus Christ." And what you think you're going to miss in this world, oh man, is such a short change to what you're going to experience with him." And he was like, "Okay, that makes me feel better." So, let's talk about it. Let's talk about the times that we're in. Why are you so convinced? Everybody has been saying we are in the last days for centuries. Why do you believe that this is a unique time?

Well, let me just say this too. When it comes to earth time and heaven time is not the same, right? In 2 Peter 3:8, it tells us that with the Lord, a day is a thousand years, right? And so, and a thousand years is a day. And so our time clock isn't the same. Like we would, we would think it's been a long time. It's a long time according to the earth, but not according to heaven. Right? So for example, 6,000 years on the earth is only six days in heaven. And so we're not on the same time clock. So if we are truly on heaven's time clock, it's only six days. It's only four days. Right? And so we're missing that. And so because the time seems long, many of us are rocked to sleep, right? Like the days of Noah. Let's talk about the days of Noah. Genesis chapter 6, right? Noah begins to build an ark. Now, the people of the time thought they had time because it took Noah 120 years to build the ark. So for 120 years, these people had the opportunity to repent, to ask forgiveness, to stop doing what they were doing. But because they looked at time and didn't discern the time, they died. And so many of us are looking at the time, but we're not discerning the time, right? And so the sons of Issachar were unique people and they were unique because they discerned the times. When they saw when they saw the heavens, when they studied the heavens, they knew what the time was. So these guys were skilled because they studied time, right? And so the body of Christ and, and the teachers and the, the evangelists and prophets and the five-fold ministry, if we're still talking and still doing the things that we did five years ago, 10 years ago, 15 years ago, then we don't, we're not studying the time. And so the problem with that is, Ezekiel, is that when you don't study the time and you're a leader, the people who are following you will be late. You see what I'm saying? Because if you're talk, if you're talking to people about all this prosperity, and I'm not, I'm not knocking prosperity because God wants us to prosper and see in health even as our soul prospers. So, I understand prosperity. I'm all for that. Yes. But if the teaching now is not repentance, right? If the teaching is now about getting a person to get their souls right, you're not preparing a person for eternity. You're not preparing the person for what's to come. If Jesus was here today, what message would he bring? It's good. Right now, based on the time, based on all that's happening in the earth, what would be the message of Jesus? Because that's the message that the five-fold ministry should be giving to the body, right? But when you have people being selfish, when you have people not in tune, when you have people thinking about their own desires, they're not even praying to hear from God regarding what are you saying today? I know what you said last year. Whoa. I know what you said 10 years ago. Are you saying the same thing? So very few people are in position for the coming. When you look at the book of Revelation, the apostle, uh, John is writing to the seven churches in Asia in the area of Turkey and only two churches were in position at that time. Smyrna and Philadelphia. The other five churches were being rebuked. Right? When you do the math, that's 28.57% of the churches during that time were in position. If you were to take that same model and slap it right now in 2025, that means that if the Messiah came in the next minute, the next day, the next month, only 28.57% of the church is ready for the coming of the Lord. That means that 71.43% of the church is not in position. That's just the church. That's not the world. That's just the church. We know the world, they're not ready. But the church, that means out of a hundred people, 28 is in position and, uh, that's being 72 isn't. Mhm. So now you have people thinking, I'm saved. You have people thinking, I'm good to go. Right. And so, let me start off by saying this, that, um, we know that the time is near because of the level of deception that's in the earth. Ezekiel, if there's ever been a time that deception is running rampant, it's today. We have deception all over the place to the point where we have the people leaders in the body of Christ going at each other. Come on. Right. And the reason why is because people have doctrines that's not in the book. Right? And so when you have doctrines that's not in the book, now you're making up as you go, right? And so you have this person calling this person out and you having all of this, right? But if there was really a conviction of the Lord, would it be done that way? Right? If we had the, the connection to the Lord in this day and time that we ought to have, would we not be all talking the same message? It'll be the same message. Come on. If we were really in tune with God, come on. During this day, it'll be the same message. It wouldn't be all of these different messages that's conflicting and and causing confusion and division in the body, right? And so in Matthew chapter 24, the disciples come to Jesus and they have a private conversation. And whenever the disciples or Jesus talks privately, pay attention. There's a lot to, to what he's going to teach. And they say to him, "Lord, how do we know when the end would be?" Four times in that scripture, in that chapter, he says deception. Four times. Four times he mentions deception. So we know that the formula in this day and time that the enemy is using to cause division, separation, confusion, distraction is deception, right? And so because of deception, we have people, this is, man, the Lord gave me this the other day and this is powerful. God never told us to think for him. He told us to think like him. Oh, right. Philippians chapter 2, let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus. Right? So he says that the saints of God should have the mind of God because honestly speaking, Jesus did not have his own mind. Jesus had the mind of the Father. Yes. So if Jesus has or had when he was in the earth the mind of his Father, how can you and I have our own mind? So the body of Christ should be operating under the, the thought process of God. Isaiah 55, my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are my ways, your ways, sayeth God. Right? So he's telling you that in order for us to operate the same way and function the same way, we should be thinking the same. Okay? Now, God, the, our very, our very first inter, introduction, our very first introduction of God comes in Genesis chapter one, right? In the beginning, God created. So, so he's known as the creator. Yes. So before he's love, before his compassion, before his peace, before his wisdom, he's creator, creator. Right? So that's our first interaction or introduction of the character of God. Yes. So he's the creator, creator, and we are the creation. Now, no product ever thinks independent from the manufacturer. Only humans do that. When you build the car, the car thinks like the person who built it. The TV has the thoughts of the creator. Your cell phone. Everything in existence has the mind of the creator except for humans. Humans have been given the ability to think independent from the creator. This, this is powerful. Absolutely. Right. And so the iPhone is not ignorant. The airplane is not ignorant. The car, the TV is not ignorant because it doesn't think. It just has the mind of the creator, right? And so God has given us the right, the empowerment to think, but he's hoping that our thoughts are his. So we find many people praying, hoping, wishing that all of these things happen. But you are not thinking like the one who made you. Well, so how can he make it happen for you? When Adam sinned, Adam lost the mind of God. Okay? When God said, "Adam, where are you?" He wasn't talking about, you know, his location. He's God. He knows where he was. In other words, what were you thinking? Oh, Adam, where are you? You done lost your mind. You had my mind. Now you lost it. What were you thinking? Wow. And so the enemy knows that creation has the ability to think independent from the creator. So what he does is he brings things and puts things into the atmosphere, into the culture, into the system because if, if he can capture our thoughts, then he reigns and rules in our lives. Wow. That's what it says. The ruler of this world has blinded the minds. There you go. Blinded the what? The mind, not the eye, the mind. Because we don't think like him. Right. So, because deception is the sign of the end times and deception is at an all-time high. What's the most valuable thing in the earth today? One thing, truth. Truth is the most valuable thing in the earth because people don't want it. People are running from it. In Proverbs chapter 23 verse 23, the Bible says to buy the truth and don't sell it. So that means that in this day and time, people who live truth, walk truth, breathe truth, sleep truth, right? Eat truth. That means that it's going to cost you because truth is unpopular. It's not popular to walk in truth. It's popular to have truth and mix it. Right? So here's wisdom. When you have truth and mix it, 99.9% of a truth, it's an absolute lie. Because that .1% messes the whole thing up. The Bible tells us in Galatians, a little bit of leaven spoils what? The entire thing. A pin drop of cyanide in a tub of a 100 gallons of water contaminates the whole thing. Right? So now we have people contaminating truth, even people in the body. We have the five-fold ministry contaminating truth because several reasons, selfish reasons, ignorance, manipulation, fear, my platform. And here's the big reason here also. If I tell the people the truth, I may lose them. And if I lose them, I lose my budget for the years. Oh, I don't care. I'mma talk about it. I got you. Because see, souls are, see, people's souls are being lost right now. Yeah. Right. And it's because God has entrusted the five-fold ministry, the teacher, the pastor, the evangelist, the prophet, and the apostle. He has trusted us to perfect the saints. But if we're not in tune with God, if we're not discerning the time, then the saints are not being perfected. Right? And so for that reason, h people are not taking advantage of salvation. Many people don't even know what salvation means. Many people don't even appreciate salvation. Right? The Bible is clear. Hosea 4:6, it says this. Now, he didn't say all people. He said, "My people, my people are destroyed." Why? For a lack of knowledge. Watch this. Because they rejected it. So it's not that knowledge is not available. It's that knowledge is available but not respected. It's rejected. So this is prophecy back in the book of Isaiah that he would say that people in 2025 is going to reject the truth, right? And that's going to destroy them. But let's go further. He says, "Because you reject knowledge, I am going to reject your children." In the same scripture. Now, when I saw that, I said, "Lord, that's kind of tough right there." Yeah. I understand if you reject me, but you're going to reject my children. He said, "Yes, you know why?" I said, "Tell me, Lord." He said, "Because ignorance is transferable. So my ignorance, I am going to give it to my children. So by default, they're rejected also." Oh, have mercy. The most powerful thing in the earth today is truth. Let me go a step further. Well, truth is not a thing. That's why when people say, "I am going to tell my truth." When I hear someone say, "I am going to tell my truth," I don't listen because we don't have a truth. Here's the reality. If I have a truth and you have a truth, our truth can be two totally different things. Absolutely. Yeah. Right. And so if I live based on my truth, right? And you live based on your truth. That produces lawlessness. That produces an insurrection. Yeah. That produces, that produces idolatry. Right. And so I don't want to hear your truth. I want to hear the truth. There you go. John 14:6, Jesus says, "I am the way." Yeah. "I am the truth." So let's stop right now. Okay. Truth is not a thing. It's a person. His name is Jesus. Wow. Okay. And so your, the truth that a person shares will always. So how do you know when the truth is being told? The truth will always line up with scripture. It would never deviate from scripture. Right? That's why when people are saying, you know, well, that was biblical times then and, and, you know, if God was here, he would do things differently. I've hear, I've heard people say that that God would function differently because that was old times and, you know, the way things are today. Well, the Bible tells us that I am the Lord thy God. I change, I change not. So either, either the Bible is the absolute truth or it isn't. Right. Right. So now we have people choosing what truth is. Yes. To fit their life. That's it. Okay. Jesus says, or the Apostle Paul wrote, wrote us in, uh, in Hebrews. He says that Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forevermore. Right? So if God, here's wisdom. If God was to change, that means that God is unstable. Now, if God is unstable, that means that people can manipulate him. Wow. God's ways are perfect. It tells us in scripture, God's ways are perfect. He knows that if I change based on time, then I'm not God. Time is, I'm not God. The culture is. Dang, that's crazy. This is where we're at today. And the reason why we're talking about this is because, and this is, you know, this may not be popular for people, right? Because Christians, we, we know God already. Like, we know we're saved, right? We know we are saved. And we know that, you know, I said yes to Jesus, so I'm going to heaven. That may not be the truth. That may not be the truth. And I, I, I'll go a step further. I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm going to go a step further than that. Jesus made it clear that in order to take advantage of salvation and, and have a home that's locked in, he made it clear of of parameters and, and the lifestyle that we should live. Mhm. My question to a lot of people would be this way. If the Lord, if the Lord was to be in your house, come on, looking at you, does your lifestyle show that you're ready to go if he came the way the way we are living now? I'm not talking about being perfect, right? Because there's only one perfect, right? Yeah. Come on. I'm not talking about, you know, not making mistakes and stuff like, right? And I'm teaching this at my church. This is a powerful thing. Jesus took care of the sin issue. Okay. The sin, the sin issue is taken care of. Sin, our past sins, Mhm, our current sins and future sins are handled. Come on. That's handled. Wow. The Bible is clear. Tells us in the book of Romans, it tells us that everyone has sinned. Past tense, s-i-n-n-e-d. All men have sinned. So Jesus taking care of it made sin a past tense thing. Wow. Right. All men have sinned. So the -ed means that sin is past tense. When Jesus died on the cross, he made sin past tense. However, sinning is not. Jesus took care of the sin issue. He did not take care of the sinning issue. Wait, I don't understand. If he took care of the sin from the past, the present, and the future, why isn't, hasn't he taken care of the sinning issue? Sinning is a lifestyle. It's premeditated. The Lord tells me, "You're married, Enrique. You shouldn't go over that woman's house at midnight tonight. You shouldn't go sleep with that woman. She's not your wife and you're married." Boom. I go do it. Night one, night two, night three, night four. That's not sin. That's sinning. It's a difference. Sinning is a lifestyle. It's a lifestyle where your heart is so hardened that you won't listen to what God says. I can prove it to you. You got your phone with you? Yes. All right. Do me a favor. Let's do this together. Yes. Pull up for me. Pull up for me Hebrews chapter 10 and let's go in the New Living Translation. Okay. Okay. And let's read verses 26-39. Hebrews chapter 10, please. Verse 26-39. Hebrews chapter 10. It says, "Dear friends, if we deliberately continue sinning after we have received knowledge of the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice that will cover these sins." Whoa, wait a minute. Did you see that? Dear, it's right in scripture. Dear friends, if we deliberately, premeditated, ignoring the voice, ignoring the correction, ignoring the conviction, dear friends, if we deliberately, hear me, continue, watch this, sinning after we have received knowledge of the truth, which is who? Jesus. There is no longer, watch me on this, any sacrifice that will cover. There is no longer any sacrifice. So basically the sinning removes the sacrifice that he paid. It's right in scripture. Let's keep going. Okay. Verse 27. There is only terrible expectation of God's judgment and the raging fire that will consume his enemies. Wait a second. Wait a second. Hold up. There is only terrible expectation of God's judgment and the raging fire that will consume his enemies. So watch me. A person who continues to willfully sin, God considers that person an enemy. Oh my gosh. Let's go. Verse 28. For anyone who refused to obey the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. Verse 29. Just think how much worse the punishment will be for those who have trampled the Son, trampled on the Son of God and have treated the blood of the covenant which made us holy as if it were common and unholy and have insulted and disdained the Holy Spirit who brings God's mercy to us. Wait a second. Hold on. Hold on. Just think how much worse the punishment would be for those who have trampled on the Son of God and have treated the blood of the covenant which made us holy as if it were common and unholy. Watch me. And have insulted Jesus and disdained the Holy Spirit who brings mercy to us. Now, I understand I'm going to sin, huh? You know, I'm not perfect. I'm going to sin, but I don't, I don't like sinning. Like, I don't try to be perfect, right? And try to walk around sin-conscious. I don't know how to live my life where I'm dotting every 'i' and crossing every 't'. But because I understand what this covenant means, even though I sin, I don't like sinning. And so when I sin, I understand that I have the blood and all of that makes me righteous and all of that. But many people are using the blood the wrong way. Look what it says here. They keep thinking that there are some people, Ezekiel, who believe that when I sin, I'm just going to call on the blood. I'm going to call on the blood. Right? I don't want to call on the blood. I don't want to do that. I don't want to think, okay, let me sin and call on the blood. Right? See, that's premeditated. Yes. So, I can say, okay, I understand the power of the blood, so let me go smash shorty. Let me go, let me go smash shorty. You want me to get home? Let me get my homegirl. Yeah. Right. Because I can call on the blood. That's premeditated. That's deliberately deliberate. So now if you're doing that premeditated and deliberately, the Bible says that no blood can take care of that. Not even his. So are you really saved? Because if one saved, always saved, then this is saying something different. Because hold up, we, we'll get back to it. People are saying that once you're saved, you're always saved. Right? So, a lot of us have taken that and not really respected what the Lord has done. There it is. Right? And so, if it's telling you here that if you're sinning and you are an enemy to God, how can you be saved? Talk to me, man. Because you said yes to Jesus with your mouth, you never believed in your heart. See, salvation is a two-part process. Number one, Romans chapter 10:9, if you confess with your mouth, Yes. and you believe in your heart, come on. So you can have a mouth confession and a heart disbelief. Yes. You follow what I'm saying? Yeah. And so for that reason, and stop at belief because I think sometimes English limits us, man. And so when I think of belief, it's almost just like, yeah, I, I believe, and it's this mental assent that says, yeah, I believe, but that's not what it meant. No, you said belief in your heart. It's almost a conviction, a conviction that causes and compels me to obedience of that belief. So now my life is now compelled and in submission to this thing that I believe, which is why you have the martyrs of, of, of the early church. They, that's what belief looks like. It looks like living for and dying for whatever this thing is that I believe. Whatever he says, well, I'm going to live and I'm going to die for that. Absolutely. That, see, see, your belief keeps you in alignment. Ooh. Right. Your belief keeps you in relationship. There you go. Right. Your belief is conviction and correction. Ooh. You see what I'm saying? And so, even though I am a pastor, I do deliverance. I am a teacher and all of these things. I have a sinful nature still, but I'm not a sinner. Even though I sin, I'm not a sinner. I am saved by grace. I am no longer a sinner. Yes. Saved by grace. Because when I said yes to Jesus, Yes. he removed me from that title. Wow. Right. Now, because I'm not sinning, I'm not a sinner, nerd. Wow. You follow me? Yes. When I sin and I quickly repent, right? And I go to God and say, "Forgive me." Yes. I may, I may even say, "Lord, I, I have a weakness in this area." Yes. Can you help me with this? Can you strengthen me in this area? Yes. See, God can work with that 'cause I'm not. The Bible tells us, we just read, people who are doing this, they're trampling on the blood. Now, see, the reason why you are an enemy according to this scripture here is what you're telling God is that his sacrifice wasn't good enough for you. That's it. So Christ being on the cross, Christ being beaten, Christ being ridiculed and being, uh, uh, crucified naked, his, his veins and all of his insides are falling and all of these things are happening. That wasn't enough for you. So on top of all of that, you're going to say, "Let me run him over some more. Let me just run him over a little bit more because that sacrifice that he paid won't enough." That's why you're an enemy to God because God has taken crucifixion very seriously. Well, someone said, someone, uh, in the comments, I made a post about this. They were like, "Well, Jesus is not, I mean, not Jesus, Paul or the writer of Hebrews is not talking about believers who truly believe. It's this idea that anybody who continues sinning or anybody who lives a life of sin, all these scriptures does not refer to true believers 'cause true believers will never do that. And so it, it's still once saved, always saved. And if you end up in hell, you were never saved. You never knew." But I think this passage almost contradicts that in verse 28. It says this. It says, "For anyone who refused to obey, obey the law of Moses was put to death without, without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. Just think about how much worse punishment will be for those who have trampled the Son of God and who have treated the blood of the covenant which made us, including the writer and the people that he's speaking to, holy, the blood of the covenant which made us, this is the blood of Jesus, holy. These are those who have received the covenant, it made us holy, yet we, those, the people who have treated, ed that blood as if it were common and unholy, have insulted and disdained the Holy Spirit, which brings God's mercy to us. Not only insult, but insult and disdained. Oh, that's tough right there. Rough. Isn't that tough, man?

Man, that's so heavy, bro. So, this is what I'm teaching, right? And it's because we really don't understand salvation. But let's finish this and then I'll go, I go deeper into this. Right. So we are, we on verse what? Uh, verse 30. Yes. Okay. Oh, you want to keep going? Yeah. Okay. Uh, for we know the one who said, "I will take revenge. I will pay them back." He also said, "The Lord will judge his own people." Verse 31. It is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of a living God. My God. Keep going. Yeah. Think back on those early days when you first learned about Christ. Remember how you remained faithful even though it meant terrible suffering? See, see, in the beginning, when people said yes to the Lord, they were hot. You were on fire and this and that. But the cultures, right? Sin, okay? And ignorance now, it removes, it removes the faithfulness. Jesus, it's no longer there. All right. Okay. My goodness. Uh, sometimes you were exposed to public ridicule and were beaten, and sometimes you helped others who were suffering the same things. You suffered along with those who were thrown into jail. And when you all owned, and when you all owned what's taken from you, you accepted it with joy. You knew there were better things waiting for you that would last forever. So do not throw away this confident trust in the Lord. Remember the great reward it brings you. Patient endurance is what you need now so that you will continue to do God's will. Then you will receive all that he has promised. Continue. Continue to do God's will. Continue to do, then you will receive all he has promised. Continue to do God's will. Then you will receive. My God, is this scripture just lighting you up, bro? It is. Come on, man. That is so fire. It's right here. It's and it's self-explanatory. And then the last thing it says right after that, it just says for, and just, I never really connected all this. I love how you brought context. For in just a little while, the coming one will come and not delay. And my, for a little while, he will come. A little while. Oo, for a little while, he will come and not delay. And not delay. He's coming soon. Oh my gosh. And my righteous ones will live by faith. But I will take no pleasure in anyone who turns away. Meaning it's possible. So listen. So when he comes, he's going to know who belongs to him by faith. Oh my. Those who live according to faith. Right. Now, I'm going to break this thing down some more. Right. Jesus, man. Go ahead. But we are not like those who turn away from God to their own destruction. We are the faithful ones whose souls will be saved. So based on that, once saved, always saved goes out the window. It's not that his blood didn't do it. It's that you didn't trust the blood to do it. His blood can do anything. You didn't trust the blood to do it. Now, can I go deeper? Go ahead. In John chapter 1 verse 29, John the Baptist is in the river Jordan and Jesus comes and John the Baptist says, "Here is the Lamb of God." Mhm. Who takes away the sin, singular sin, from the world. He didn't say sins. Now, there are many sins. There's lying, there's murder, there's adultery, there's abortions, there's, you know, jealousy and rage. And we can just, we can list a thousand sins. But John says something interesting. Come on. He says Jesus came to remove sin. H So when I looked, when I saw that, I said, "Wait a minute. There's a million sins. What do you mean he came to remove sin?" So I got the wisdom. One sin impacts all sins. And if you don't know what that one sin is, then you're living a sinful and a sinning life. So I would look at murder and say that's a sin, but that's not the sin he came to take away. I would look at adultery or you would look at adultery and fornication and say that's the sin, but that's not the sin he came to take away. So here's the problem with the body of Christ. We have made sin something that's alocart. That's crazy. And we're taking sin and we have given sin different position. Yeah. Okay. For example, I lied. Mhm. But you committed murder. So your sin is higher than mine. Mhm. So, isn't that being self-righteous for me to think that I did wrong, but your wrong holds more weight than mine, so I'm not as bad off as you are? Absolutely. I am more saved than you. Yes. Because my problem is lying. Your problem is murder. This is, this is, this is what's going on. Absolutely. And has go on, has gone on forever. And the murderer says, "I only killed one person. He killed three." You, you follow what I'm saying? And so this is what the, this is the deception that's in the body of Christ that's going on and people aren't even, the five-fold ministry are not doing their job to educate the saints of God. Wow. Today I was in the, getting ready to come here and while I came here, I heard the Lord say that in the end time, the teacher would be, would hold a lot of weight in the five-fold ministry. The reason is this. The teacher is the front line to the five-fold ministry. Because the teachers are the ones that's going to give you the absolute truth, straight, no chaser, uncompromised. And the teacher who is moved by God is unpopular. They're going to say things and do things that's going to question and even crush your theology because theology has been given wrong and it's been mixed with witchcraft and all that type of stuff because Satan has infiltrated the church. The teacher is the one that impacts your hearing. That's why the pinky is the smallest finger on the hand. It goes into your ears. The teacher on, on the hand impacts the hearing of the people, right? And so if my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge, then God is putting the weight on the teacher to remove the deception. Okay? And so deception is at a, is at an all-time high. So in order for God to, to, uh, to defeat deception, he must release a higher level of wisdom. So the Lord gives me insight. I have deep insight. Right. Yes. But God would give you deep insight. Not to be deep when you give it, but to take it and then chew on it and then allow the Holy Spirit to help you to break it down where you're in a room with a scholar and a person who's uneducated, and they both understand it. There it is. You, you follow what I'm saying? That's what's necessary. So this is necessary. So now here's the wisdom back to John. So John the Baptist says that the Lamb of God has come to remove the sin. Right? So I'm looking at this and I'm saying, "Okay, God, what is the sin?" Yeah. Right. And if you go to Romans chapter 14 verse 23, it says that anything that is not of faith is sin. So that's the one sin that the Lamb came to remove. He did not come to remove murder. Hear me. He came so that the murderer would have faith in him to take that murdering desire out of him. So because you don't, you didn't have faith for it, that's the sin that he's judging. Oh, if you have faith for it, he can take it from you. Let me give you an example. I used to be an adulterer. Come on, talk. I was a womanizer. I slept with four women in one day. When God took that from me, I did not do it within my own strength. Jesus. I came to God with a broken spirit. I came to God and said, "Please remove this." Now, he didn't remove it without my involvement. I was involved in the removing. Mhm. I came to him and said, "Lord, I don't like this. This don't feel good. Help me with this." And through that process, he removed it. But he removed it based on my faith that he can do it. So my faith that he can do it helped him to help me. You follow me? And so the sin that Jesus came to remove is the sin of unbelief. That's the sin that impacts all sins. Wow. Many people believe God, believe Jesus for heaven, but don't believe God or Jesus or Holy Spirit to take them out of hell while they're here. That's so big that I don't think people are have caught what you just said. Explain that. We believe that we're going to die one day. We believe that the Lord is going to give us a home in heaven. And yet, we don't believe for God to allow us to experience heaven while we're here. So, what we're doing is we're thinking for God, "God knows my heart. Nobody's perfect. I am only human." Right? And so what we do is we say, "God, accept this," instead of, "God, remove this." That's it. Can he not remove it? Can he not? M. What he simply tells us in scripture in 2 Corinthians 5:17, he says, "Anyone who is in Christ, anyone who is in Christ is a new creature." So it tells me that when I get saved, that's not the end of it. I must now work with the Holy Spirit to get in Christ. Because you being saved is not the end all. There's work. If, if work wasn't required, then why would he tell us in Philippians that each person should work out their salvation? Come on now. With fear and, and trembling. Now, I'm not working to be accepted. I'm not working to be pleasing to God, or I'm not working with sin. I'm working to, to be an imitator of Christ. I'm working to, to, to transform to what the book says. I'm working to be more like the one I believe. I am working, the product is working with the help of God to be more and more like him, to get his mind. That's my desire. Salvation. That's my desire. Salvation is safety. That's what it means. It means to be safe. Yes. Okay. So, what makes me safe? Okay. What makes me safe is to get back onto the assembly line and have the creator fix those things in me that are, that are messed up. Can you fix it? When your phone is messed up, you, you send it to Apple or Samsung and you say, "Can you fix it?" Okay. Can you fix it, Lord? Can you fix me? That's salvation. Salvation is saying, "Can you fix me?" Why? Because I don't want to die to experience heaven. I can experience heaven while I'm alive if I truly understand salvation. Your, your metaphor on this is blowing my mind because you keep on going creator, assembly line, product, and I'm starting to think like, dang, we think that the Lord, um, when, when the Lord tells us that we need to work out our salvation, or we're talking about good works, it doesn't earn approval. In fact, the reason why we're on the assembly line is because it was fashioned and approved. The approval came because it was made a particular way and now it's on the assembly line. Now, when it's packaged and sent out and a customer begins to work on it and it's like, "Hey, this is not working," it never gets fixed until the product is returned to the manufacturer. Now, what does working look like? Working doesn't look like anything apart from it doing what it was supposed to do. So, it's not out of its capacity for use. It's just being, it's working. It's functioning. Just like in John chapter 15, it says, "If there's any branch that does not bear fruit, it will be rooted up." He's going to pluck it up. But it also says, "But those that bear fruit, I'll prune it so that it bears more." So these are the products that were willing to stay in the manufacturer's hands. Come on, man. That means that the, the manufacturer saw that it was yet to do, it could do more. So there are things that had to come off. Yes. Things that had to be shoveled around so that it can be closer and closer work and function the way that God designed. So, so just like you said, it doesn't mean that there's perfection. It just means that it's submitted. It means that it's returning. And that's why like the, the, you brought up repentance and I think sometimes somebody was like, "Well, if, you know, the repentance, that just seems like we're adding works and stuff like that." It just seems like, no, repentance is just the true term of repentance. It means the chaining of the mind, but also it means this return to the Father. In the Old Testament, we see, "Return unto me." In Joel, it's this, "Return unto me." Return to the Father. Return to the Father. There is nothing that we can do. So repentance is not, "I'm sorry." Right? Right. It's not that. No, because you can say, "I'm sorry," and still not repent. Many people, and I'm glad you brought that up, right? Many people are saying, "I'm sorry," and it's said, "I repented." No. Repentance simply means that you change your mind. Yes. Okay? And it means that you make a 180, not a 360. You go in a different direction. Right? But here's the powerful thing that I want people to understand. Okay? The change won't happen if you do it by yourself. There it is. It is the Holy Spirit working in you that does the change. That's it. Right. If your, your phone can't fix itself. There it is. Like you just stated, you send your phone off. Right. And so every time you truly repent, you're going back to the manufacturer saying, "Fix it." And it's okay. Listen, there's nothing wrong with sin. Okay? There's nothing wrong with sin. However, there's a lot wrong with sinning, and that's the difference. It's the difference from sin to sinning. Sinning is an ongoing. It's a lifestyle, right? Sin is taken care of, right? And here's the thing about this, man. That's, that's confusing to a lot of people, right? We don't really understand what we said yes to. Well, okay. We got many people, and we have to do, as, as ministers of the gospel, better jobs. We have to do a better job of explaining to people what you're saying yes to. That's it. Because some people probably won't say yes to it. Say that. Say that. If you really knew what you were saying yes to, some people probably would say, "No, I don't want to do that." Right? Because what is salvation? Come on. Okay. When you look at Calvary, Calvary is the place of the great exchange. Right? That's when that's when God signed the check for all of humanity to come into the salvation or safety that he provided. Yes. Okay. Because you see in scripture, Jesus said the first time ever and the only time ever in scripture, Jesus changes the identity or even how he talks about God. For the very first time in scripture and the last time in scripture, he says, "My God, my God." Throughout all of the scriptures, you see Jesus saying, "He's my Father. I am the Father are one." If you see me, you see the Father. He was Father, Father.

father. On the cross, he was no longer father. He was God. Right? So that shows a transaction. Jesus became an orphan so that all of humanity could be adopted into the family. So he calls him God so that you and I now have the ability to call him father. Oh, that's good. Okay.

And so, let's explain that a little further. All right. When you said yes to Jesus, it is and would always be a transaction. Now, God does not do anything just because he doesn't do it. God is the ultimate planner. Yes. Okay. Everything he does, he does because of something else. All right. So salvation is simply this. When you said yes to Jesus, right? You took his life. Say it. You took his life. Say it. And the transaction supposed to be that he takes yours. There it is. It's supposed to be that. Come on. But we got too many people taking his life and not giving him ours. We can close. We I'm about to go, man. This is this is a drop the mic situation because so many people have taken this thing and not completed it. So for that reason, even though they said yes, the contract is not signed. This is why salvation is something that people need to understand. Because you said yes and you took his life and you never gave him yours. You didn't finish the deal. See now, come on, man. I I came to mess with people, man. But this is this is all scripture. This is not doctrine that I'm making up. It's the book. I can prove it. I can give you I can give you scriptures to back this thing up. God did not allow you to take his life and not expect for you to give him yours. That's why it says if anyone be in Christ, he's a new creation. What makes it new? You gave him your old life.

Let's go to my favorite scripture in all the Bible. Galatians 2:20. I have been crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, it's not I that live, but it's Christ who lives in me. It's not I that live, but it's Christ who lives in me. The life I live in this body, I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and gave his life for me. Come on, man. Man, it's not I that live. See, here's the thing. He died so that we may live. The transaction is supposed to be that we die so that now he can live in and through us. So you can't be saved and live. You can't be saved and live. What does it look like to not live? Absolute surrender. Absolute. And I'm not talking about being a robot and all of that. No, no, no. Here's my surrender. I want your will. And what part of what part of our lives do we have to accept his will? I want your will in every area of my life. This is this is my surrender. I'm Listen, bro. I I listen. I used to be a sinner of sinners. I sinned. I sinned. I done I done I sold drugs, dude. I lied. I stole. I I I I committed adultery. I fornicated. Bro, my my rap sheet is crazy. I don't qualify. Jesus, I don't qualify. Bro, I know. Listen, the reason why I'm passionate about this is I can't believe that God has entrusted me with this because I don't qualify. When I look at my life, I know I don't qualify. And I know that I belong. If it wasn't for the blood and the grace of God, I belong in hell. Straight up and down. I know it. That's where I belong. The stuff that I done with my life through people and God still entrusted me with this. All of this has been in me from the beginning of time. From conception, this wisdom, this insight was always there. But sin covered it up. And it took years and years and years of surrender and submission. Not guilt, not shame, not condemnation, but surrender and submission and living a life of repentance to get to this point where I can say, "Wow, I hate sin. I don't want to sin." Man, I live a life of absolute conviction. Not perfect. Not perfect in the sense of not doing anything wrong. And and and and uh and also in the Greek text when the Bible tells us in Matthew chapter 5, be perfect, for I am perfect. That word perfect means mature. Jesus, that's what it means. Be mature. It says, "When I was a child, I thought like a child. I taught like a child. I reasoned like a child. But when I became a man, I put away childish things." And so, being a child will keep you in a sinful state. And so, so the Lord is saying, "Grow up so that you can think different and be different. Don't be a child. Grow up. Let me help you to grow." And if you if you allow me to help you to grow, then we can put away this sinful lifestyle. So people who sin, even though you've been saved for 45 years, and if you live a sinful life, you a babe. You don't you don't you see Christians all the time? You can't tell me nothing. I've been saved for 35 years. You a kid. You a kid. Years don't mean nothing. It's not in the length of time. It's in the quality of the relationship. Yeah.

That's why Matthew 7 existed. What you said blows my mind. You said you took his life, but you didn't give him yours. I think there are people that have taken his gifts and not given him their lives and their surrender, right? That's why he says, "I never knew you because I don't have your life." And so it just makes me think of like what you're saying, bro. I I hope people are really really getting this, man. I I feel like for many of us, salvation, you said we've done a bad job of presenting salvation. So we need to be teaching it rightly that it looks like when you give your life to Christ, no, when you get when you say yes to Jesus, you're not just accepting his blood, his cleansing, you're also giving him you, which goes you your rap sheet is attached to you. So you no longer have that. And I realized that it is God's mo is God's emmo that anytime he gives, he always finds something to take away. Like he promised Joseph, okay, I'm going to give you this and that. All right, here's prison. Let me take away your freedom. Uh he he said, "Okay, Abraham, I'm going to give you Isaac. Now, give me Isaac back." Okay, Paul, I'mma save your I'mma save your soul. Give me your eyesight. Every time he was like, "I'm going to launch you in a ministry." Even his own son, Jesus Christ, I'm launching you into ministry now. Give me your consecration for 40 days and 40 nights. No food, no water. God never does anything and not ask for something back in return. That's why this gospel of blabbing and grabbing and confessing and all of that stuff, I don't understand it. It doesn't it it's not scriptural. It doesn't line up. And so what we have done is we have watered down the gospel to the point where when somebody gets the truth, they don't want it. So they would look at me and say, "Yo, he's radical. He he don't really know that word. He he making up stuff." Well, I can back it up with scripture, and I'm not giving you my interpretation. I'm giving you truth. Right? That's the reason why many people are going in the wrong direction. Come on. That's the reason why Jesus was rejected because people didn't want the truth. They wanted a truth but not the the truth. And that's something different. A truth and the truth is two different things, man. You see?

And so, look, Jesus says that if you want to follow me, the very first thing he says to do is to deny yourself. Well, he says, "Look, if you want, if you desire to follow me, number one, deny yourself." Wow. Sacrifice. Man, I'm going deny myself. That's sacrifice. Sacrifice. Then he says, "Pick up your c." So, as if denying isn't enough, then he says, "Pick up your cross. Now follow me." So it comes denial and then a cross to bear to follow the one who carried a cross. And so we're saying that we don't have to carry a cross because he carried it. Well, that's not scriptural. That's not scriptural. That's a work. Now you're working. You're working for your salvation. That's not working. That's making sure you die. Because you won't follow him unless you're dead. You won't follow him unless you're dead. You can't follow him unless you're dead. The way to salvation is death. He died for salvation. You receive it. You hold on to it. You take advantage of it by death. You don't take advantage and receive salvation by living. What is baptism? What is water baptism? It is going under. That's a that's a symbolic sign of a person dying, and you come back up. When Jesus went under the water, that's when the Holy Spirit, you know, came and fell through his death before Jesus started his ministry. It was 40 days of death, of sacrifice. You think it was a breeze walk for 40 days of no food and no water? He felt all of that pain. He felt all the frustration. His his body was off. Everything that comes with that. I've been to the place of fasting to that dimension. I know what it's like. I know I'm not working, but I'm making sure that I die because I understand I can only take advantage of this relationship if I die. Heaven is not for people who live. It's for dead people. That's That's a crazy metaphor because I used to rap. That That's crazy. Heaven is for dead people. Dead people. Now, now, now hell is for those who chose to live. Everybody in hell chose to live. That's why I said very few people would ever make it to heaven based on based on scripture. Too many people are busy living and not busy dying. Unless a seed go into the ground, unless a seed go into the ground, it abides by itself. The seed is only multiplied when it goes into the ground, dies, and then a tree comes from it. So a seed lying on concrete, a seed on the table, a seed in your pocket has no life. It must die to germinate and then grow. We benefit from death every single day. And yet we don't want to die. That's salvation. This teaching, this understanding has to be embraced. Bro, I'm telling you that many people who should go to heaven won't make it. Because heaven is for dead people. People are too busy living. They're too busy doing their own thing. In order for Adam not to be the only human on earth, he had to die. The Bible says that God put Adam into a deep sleep. When you read the Hebrew text and you study that, it means that God killed him. It means that Adam, he wasn't asleep, he was dead. So Adam died, and through his death, Eve came, and he was resurrected. No relationship benefits if one person in the relationship is alive. Wow. If you have a marriage and you have a husband or wife, and either party does not decide to die, that marriage won't last. It won't last because relationships are for dead people. If I don't die to my pride and my ego and my emotions and my fear, and my lovely wife Katrina doesn't die to her fears and her ego, her her emotions, and all of that, and she's not dead, and I am not dead, God can't be in it. And so if God is not in that relationship, then Satan is in it. That's why it won't last. In order for us to function in the kingdom, you must die. God does the most with dead people. And revival won't come without a dead church. It won't happen. It won't happen because when you are alive, you're missing on the key ingredient of safety of salvation. You don't need God if you're alive. You are your own God. Your pride, your fear, that sinful nature, that sinning lifestyle continues in people who refuse to understand what true salvation is. True salvation is not you taking his life and holding on to yours. That's called that's called being a thief. If you take his life and you held on to yours, you stole. So it's like going into a store, taking an item off the shelf, and never giving my side of the never paid for it. See, salvation is free, but it costs. In other words, I can't pay for salvation. I can't buy it. There's nothing I can do to earn it. There's nothing I can do to to to to have the edge over someone else. It's a free gift that Jesus paid for. It tells us in 1 Corinthians chapter 6 right here, uh, it says here, verse 20, it says, "For you were bought at a at at a price." 1 Corinthians chapter 6, verse 20, "For you were bought at a price. Therefore, glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's. Glorify God. Listen to me now. In your body, in your spirit, which are God's. Because he paid for you. He owns you. Well, your body is not your body. And your spirit is not yours. It belongs to him. And so if you're holding his stuff, then you stole. Come on. If you never surrendered to God's will, if you never submitted to his purpose, his assignment that he had for you, you're a thief. Because what he had for you is for you now to change your life so that you can impact the world and bring souls in. And so because those souls were not impacted, you stole because you took his life. You took his body and did not allow him to work through you to bring those people in. You're a thief, and thieves are not in heaven. So when you're using this body and disobeying the call of God on your life, oh my gosh, you're shutting out the voice of God. Shutting out the voice of God. You're shutting out the assignment, the purpose, the cause, the reason, everything. Imagine this. Imagine if I never answered the call. Imagine if I would have told God, "Man, look, just leave me alone." He would have left me alone. But the assignment that I would have missed out on, the deliverances, the families, the the the wisdom, the insight, the revelation, all of this, I would have died with it. And there were people that he attached to me that he wanted to give this to. But because of my selfishness and not understanding uh uh uh um salvation and thinking because I said yes, I'm good. I'm going to tell you something. I'm going to tell you this, bro. There are many people who think they're going to the pearly gates and they're going in the other direction. They're going they're not going. Now, I'm not the guy to send no one nowhere. But based on scripture, when he says, "Depart from me. I never knew you." Look, he says, "In this day, Matthew chapter 7, many would say, you know, in your name, I cast out demons. In your name, I prophesied. In your name, I did this, I did that." Who who did that? It wasn't the unbeliever. Nope. It was the believer. Yes. Who used his name? Yes. He says that in that day I'm going to tell the believer, "Depart from me. I never knew you, you ignorant one." That's what the word iniquity means. You worker of iniquity. In the text, when you look at the meaning of it in the Greek text, one of the definitions of iniquity is ignorance. So, because you you see me working through you, you see me allowing you to use my name. See, the gift and the callings are without repentance. I'm going to let you use I gave you the gift. I'm not going to take it back from you. It doesn't mean you're going to heaven. We're confusing that. Oh, he's casting out demons. So what? Oh, he lays hands on the sick. So what? You're doing all of that. You're casting out demons, laying hands on the sick, and you don't allow the same God to heal you and to cast out the demons out of your own life. You're so busy casting out demons and healing the sick, and you've got a heart that needs to be healed. Oh my gosh. And you're being demonized. And the very God that's using you, you won't let that same God touch you. Well, that's why depart from me. You've seen the work. You've experienced the work. You've felt the anointing. And yet I could not do for you what I allowed you to do for me, for many others. You sinful nature. You You sinner. Because you're choosing this because you think one saved always saved. "I said yes to God. I'm good." Listen, bro. Hear me on this. You will always lose what you don't respect and protect. You'll lose it every single time. You will always lose. God gave me that wisdom. God gave me this quotation. You will always lose what you don't respect and protect. If you don't respect it and protect it, you'll lose it. It's not that the blood can't do it. It's not that you need to work for the blood. It's none of that. The blood is perfect. It's that based on Hebrews chapter 10, you're trampling on the blood that is holy. And because you're doing that, you're making it unholy. For you, for you.

I think sometimes when people think about sin, I think we have a really small view and we diminish sin. Like, okay, I mean, I wouldn't hurt nobody. I was in my room when I did that. It was just me and that person, or I just did that. I explained it to my daughter this way because she was asking me like, "Daddy, like, isn't hell unfair? Like, how can people go to hell for millions and billions of years for, you know, sin that you know, a minute of sin or five minutes of sin?" And I told her, I was just like, "Well, one, you got to recognize God's immense holiness is beyond what we could imagine. And two, because of that, sin is such a grievous act that he had to come in the form of flesh to to intervene on that behalf. But I also helped her understand that we don't realize that as much as God's goodness has this perpetual nature, so does sin. And so one sin, just like you just said, like imagine if I said no to God. What you well, I'll tell you, your yes to God has blessed and transformed and delivered many, as in as much as your no to God would have infected millions. Even apart from your knowing, every woman that you slept with infected a family. And this is why when we repent, we're not just saying, Lord, I'm sorry I did that to them. I'm sorry for the generations that could be implicated by my decision. So that one sin, people think, well, I'm spending eternity because I did this. No, there was someone that could have got my face that because of the way that you chose you, now they couldn't see me like they like you robbed my you robbed my breath. You robbed my heartbeat. You you robbed my grace. You robbed my name. And then you misrepresented me to the masses. A a a man that took what you experienced was so turned away that his entire family was now infected by the abuse that came from the offense that came from your disobedience. And so don't think that your sin was so isolated and incubated to your room or your decision to say no. Like your no infected a generation. Yes, man. Just like your yes in a infects affects a generation. It's it's a cancer, bro. And it, like you said, man, it's a cancer that just don't stop at you. That's why he says, "Because you rejected knowledge, I will reject your children." Because you took that cancer, bro, and you spread it family to your children. And unless you find someone who would take the the yes seriously, that can go down 15, 10, 12, 30 generations. So man, I was the curse breaker. I am the curse breaker in my family. Hallelujah. I can trace back sin so deep in my bloodline. And the reason why I've been going I've been through hell is because the Lord has blessed me with the real yes and the real no. And so I paid the price for this, man. Bro, let me tell you something, man. Some of these decisions, man, I know I'm good, right? I know I'm safe, man. And I know that the Lord has forgiven me. And this is not guilt or shame, man. This is me saying if I can just turn back the hand of time. If the Lord came to me right now, right? If the Lord came to me right now, Zeke, and said to me, "What is the one thing I can do for you?" I already have the answer. I would tell him, "Allow me to meet you sooner." Forget me, bro. H there's some things, bro, that I've done, man, against the Lord, against people, man, that uh it's tough, man. And you know, I'm not again, this is not guilt or shame or condemnation, right? But man, the decisions that I can't take back. And I know that God has used those things to make me who I am and where I am and to build the fire and compassion. But my question to the Lord always is, why didn't you allow me to meet you sooner, man? Because see, by doing that, man, I I would not have done some things. Oh my gosh. I would not have went that way. And so, man, God used it, man. Sacrificial. And I have to live with it. Yes. You know, so I'm not mad at him because I look, man, I don't understand everything and how he does it. But man, I wish he would have done a little differently in that aspect. Yes. You know, that's my only thing. I I I I would say to him is if he came to me, I wouldn't ask for riches. I'm going to ask for nothing. I would just say, allow me to meet you sooner. I've heard people say that, "I met the Lord when I was, you know, five, and I've been walking with God." And man, they don't have the memories that I have. You You know what I'm saying? They didn't they didn't make the decisions. They didn't do the stuff that I did. I was a professional sinner, man. And so now, man, you know, when I look at my life and I look at where it is today, I always been here. I was just covered up in sin. And nobody around me. I was around so much sin in my family in ignorance that nobody saw it and fixed it. And so I got here by by sacrifice, man. Oh my gosh. And I literally had to die to get here. And to be honest with you, I have to die to stay here. Now that's the part that we don't talk about enough. You got to die to get here. You got to die to stay here. Because you said we got to carry our cross. But at what point, what point does Jesus give us the allowance to put it down? You got to die to stay here. So even after you get the ministry, even after the marriage is successful, even after you have the children, even after he's delivered you, you still got to die. Dude, every day, man, heavy is the call, man, to be a believer. Not a pastor. I'm not talking to you as a pastor, man. I'm talking to you as a believer. I'm talking to you like anyone else. This ain't this ain't a call of a pastor. This is a call of anyone who says yes to the Lord. Heavy is the crown. It's a sacrificial life. God does not God does not move in the life of people who are not sacrificial. We're missing it. We believe that we can blab and grab and do all of this stuff and all of that, and we're missing the price. Salvation comes with a price on both ends. It's his life, but it's yours, too. And that's the part that we miss. And so, that's the thing, man, that that really that's the one thing I would say to him, and I say it all the time. Why have I Why didn't you allow me to meet you sooner, man? Take take me back in time. Take me back. I don't care about nothing else. See, now I understand the true riches, Jesus. Right. And I understand that and and and being in true relationship that the riches come. I don't I don't pursue money. Wow. I don't pursue money. I don't I don't think about money. And it's not because I'm a billionaire or millionaire. That's not that's not what I'm saying. I don't pursue money because when you are in relationship with God, money pursues you. Imagine waking up and not having a money issue. Not because you're wealthy, but because you have relationship. I don't care about this world. I don't care about clothes and cars. And before I did. So if you're your your so your house, you have a family. If you're you lost your house and you lost your cars and you lost all that stuff, who are you? What would you do? You know what you described? What? You described what happened to me when I said yes. You described what happened to me when I said yes. When I said yes to the to to the Lord and I was in in the music industry and I walked away. He did that what you just described. I went from having all of this to nothing. I went from having luxury vehicles, having three or four luxury cars at one time to nothing. To nothing. He he he stripped me to nothing. Sacrifice. You think I came to this and everything I had that they that made me me in the world, I still had it when I said yes to him. No, man. It was a stripping away. He took everything to teach me, to humble me, to break me. And through all of that, he built me back up. And so now I don't pursue anything. I'm too busy consumed in him. It tells us in Matthew chapter 6, but seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all of these things will be added unto you. We are pursuing the things and not pursuing the person who holds the things. Greater is God than the things. Jesus. So my whole life is one of sacrifice. I don't mind be I embrace the sacrifice. I love the sacrifice. I just wish he would have he would have allowed me to meet him sooner. I wish he would have put me in a bubble and had me escape some decisions that caused some pain. Jesus, I pained him. I did. So you're worried about the fact that you hurt him and and others. Yeah. Yeah. That's why I go so hard. I I mean, he can have it. Whatever. I don't care. Like he I He can have it all. What do you want from me? You want my life? I give it to you. I don't have one. I'm I'm okay with that. I'm okay with saying I don't live. What do you want me to do? What is it you want? What What are you requiring of me? I'll do it. That's salvation. I'm safe with that. I'm safe in in in total surrender. That's one of the things that the body of Christ is missing. Salvation means total surrender. Think about this. Jesus is the example of salvation. He totally surrendered to God to offer it. So we must totally surrender to God to receive it. Oh my gosh. Look, he is the example. Ezekiel, Jesus is the model. We're not following the model. We're thinking that that's what he did, right? But he is the mirror to what we are supposed to do. You got to say that again because people say, "But I'm not Jesus and I'm not perfect." He lived a perfect life so I don't have to. He lived it. He did it. He paid the price so I don't have to pay a price. I don't have to do what he did because he did it. And only he had the supernatural perfection and divinity to do all these impossible things. God can't use someone who isn't dead. People saying, "God used me. God used me. God bless me." He can't trust you to use you. Because if God was to use you in that state, then ego and pride and self-righteousness will come in. "I'm dope. I'm that good." You can tell people who are not walking in their salvation. Oh, I there's big pastors and big name ministers. You can tell the likes mean more than the humility. The stadium means more than than the humility. Can you can you can you preach that hard to one? Oh, the way you preach to that 10,000, or are you too big for one right now? Are you so consumed in the light that you forgot you started in a barn, or you started in your living room? Are you too big? You big old bishop, you big old pastor, you big old apostle. Are you too big to get on a corner and tell the people, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand"? Or do you need a big conference to do that? Have mercy. Are you too big to get on the bus and tell people, "Listen, if today is your last day, are you ready?" Or do you need to get paid to do that? Uh-oh. Are you the same at home, your first ministry, as you are in front of the 10,000 people that you want to impress? How much time are you spending in your closet? Well, how much time are you spending fasting? Not because you're trying to move God, but it's it's ensuring that you die. I ensure that I die, man. I have to. God can't use me. When I was alive, I went against God. I rebelled. I sinned. I did a lot of bad things living. I love being dead, man. I embrace it. I wish I would have had this concept sooner, man.

You um you just changed everything. Everything has changed. um for the person that's watching this because I think we've been taught the type of Jesus that comes to collaborate with our lives, to come alongside of us, to be our cheerleaders, to put a little anointing oil on it, you know, good job, to approve. But you're saying that he's calling us to God. You're saying he wants my life. And you're saying that even when we teach salvation, when we teach it, we got to tell people that from the gate that there's a transaction and it's not one-sided. It's one-sided initiated, but the complete transaction requires total surrender. Let let me just hold that for one second. Okay? God could have brought Eve out without the blood being shed. Eve could have came out of Eve could have Eve could have been created without this man's side being cut. Yes, that's symbolic of the church. The church came out of his side. Just as the woman came out of Adam's side, the church is the bride. The church came out of his side. The church, the body of Christ, came out of a sacrifice. If his side won't cut, the church would not be. If his side won't cut, Eve won't be. Would not be. So everything came out by blood. God is moved by blood, man. If you're not bleeding, you're not taking advantage of salvation. See, we talk about his blood, but he wants to know where's yours. Oh, again, if he's the example, you got to have skin in the game, bro. If you don't have skin in the game, people are praying a miss because they thinking I'm supposed to live and this that and whatever. God does the most with dead people. God does the most. That's why you could be saved for 40 years and see somebody who got saved last week, and they just take off, and you're like, man, wait a minute. How is this happening? It's because you know God, you're too comfortable with God. That person's ready to die. The martyrs, when you look at the apostles, they died gruesome deaths, heads being chopped off. Come on, man. Being crucified upside down. The the death of the martyrs were gruesome. Do you not know that Peter escaped initial death? Yeah, it's in the book. These this is this is going into the teaching of the customs of Jewish teachings in the book of martyrs. Peter escaped death. He was at the gate, and Jesus showed up, and he says, "What are you doing?" to Peter. Told Jesus, "What are you doing?" Then Jesus says, "I'm going back to die again." Peter knew what that meant. Peter escaped death initially. And when Jesus came and told him that, he went back and told him, "Crucify me, but do it upside down." This is the God that we're talking about that this is the pie in the sky stuff that we've been teaching people. Huh? Right? And it, listen, the Bible tells us that if anyone is in Christ, it says that they will first, they will face persecution. We don't want the persecution. We we want the throne. We want the crown. We want the glitched in glory. But we don't that's why people don't get saved because they don't see the fire. Wow. People don't get saved. That's why the witch and the warlock get more people to come see them because they see fire. They see stuff like that. They don't see that in the church. Why? Because Jesus got it all. Jesus got it all. And they don't even see they don't even see him in you. The only reason why the only reason, the one of the main reasons rather, that a lot of people don't get saved is they don't see that Christ that they read about in you. Gandhi said this. Gandhi said, "I love Jesus." This is what Gandhi said. "I love Jesus. I love the Bible." Gandhi said, "I would have become a Christian if I met one." This is a man that moved a billion people. Imagine if Gandhi would have said yes to Christ. A billion Hindus would have came in the fold. And yet he couldn't find the example of what he read. We have mistaught and misunderstood salvation. And even the gifting some of people, you know, God blessed them with a voice. It blessed them with a podcast. Blessed them with a church. Blessed them with a family. And sometimes it was just like, okay, well, God, I'll die, but you know, you know, you know, you gave me the voice. I need to do this. I need to be on a grind. And I realize, you know, there are certain families that they name all the kids. Every everybody got their last name, and even a dog got their last name. They put their last name on everything. The same way when we die, everything that we have also needs to go under the same knife. That's why Abraham had to submit Isaac in the same way. Like you said, to continue to die looks like everything I get, everything that I have, I'm willing to put under your knife to say, God, if because if this gift ain't dead, then it can't live for your glory. Even my gifts, even this channel, even the church, if I can't give this and say, Lord, I don't have an agenda. Like to have a church to say I don't have a personal vision and agenda apart from what the Lord says, that's what death looks like. Family, I know I love you and personally I would have an agenda, but I have submitted my family to the Lord, and I no longer have an agenda for my family apart from what is in this book. I have a podcast. There are a lot of ideas that I have, but if I can't submit this podcast and say, God, I will not do I will not make another episode without you. That's it. That's it. And see, someone may hear this, saved or unsaved, and they would say, you know, you're not thinking for yourself. This is slavery. Yep. This is bondage. In all reality, I am. Whoa. I am thinking for myself with his mind. This is I have a will so I don't have to be here. I wasn't here before. So being here is optional. I wake up every day deciding to be here, and I have to decide every day to be here because without the decision, I won't be here. So I wake up deciding to be here, understanding that he is my creator. I am his product, and no product is supposed to think and act independent from the manufacturer. They're not supposed to do that. Anything else that's called malfunctioning. That's a malfunction in the system, man. And so for those geniuses and those those people who don't understand this, understand this. If you have a car and your car starts to act different, like you just stated, it's a malfunction. What do you do when your car has a malfunction? You take it to the manufacturer, and they fix it, and now you can drive again. If your phone has a malfunction, do you keep it? No, you send it. So, when you have a malfunction, why don't you go back to where you came from? That's what salvation is. It means that in my life, I am going to have, as long as I live, I am going to have times of malfunction. I'm not confused about that. I'm alive, you know, I'm still working my salvation. I'm not perfect, but I have been connected to the perfect one. And in even in my imperfection, it brings me closer to the one who I can call on when I need. See, that's what I'm saying. I don't take advantage of salvation. I use it for emergency purposes only. I just use it for emergency. In other words, I don't want to keep having to say, "Well, I'm saved. Well, I'm saved. Well, I'm saved." No. Listen, live the life under submission. And what you'll find is that you would have so much peace, so much joy, so much wealth, so much prosperity that it'll be actually heaven invading the earth. I live that way now. But it's because of my decision to salvation. It's my decision to submit. I I cry out every day. I do. I cry out every day and tell him, "Please make sure I'm in your will, Jesus." I do. I cry out and tell him, "Please talk to me so I know what your agenda is." And I tell him all day, every day. I I promise you, every day, I tell the Lord, "If it's not what you have for me, I don't want it. Order my steps." Every day. I do it every day because I understand the importance of the connection because I understand that when I did not have it, what my life was. So now that I do have it, I need the connection. I need to know I'm in his good grace. I need to know that I'm being maximized in this life to touch souls and touch lives and be an example. I understand the weight that I carry being the curse breaker in my bloodline. M I can't play with this. I got children and and grandchildren and children's children. If the Lord doesn't carry what I'm doing today, it's going to touch generations. I I have I have short-circuited with the help of the Holy Spirit. I have short-circuited the wiring that Satan put in my bloodline. Wow. It is short-circuited. That thing came to a total stop, a glitch. It fried up, and God says, "Let me rewire you. Come on. Let me go ahead and operate in this fuse box and let me change how you think and let me give you insight." I'm unlearned. I don't have day one of theology. Day one. I don't have day this. I am an unlearned person. So, what you're hearing from me came through salvation. I never been to no Bible school or none of that stuff. I never been to I never I never had a a a leader who actually sat me down and gave me this. This came through salvation. This came through the Holy Spirit. I understand what this is. I understand the anointing. I understand the gifting. This ain't me. This is him. I understand what he's doing in my life. I understand all of this stuff, man. And I know why it's here. It's not here for me. It's here for those who he has for me. Wow. And through my surrender, he gives me more. Wow. I get stuff and I say stuff and I see stuff that's that unless God gave it to me, ain't no way in the world. Ain't no way in the world. But I understand what this is. It's through my surrender. He couldn't give me this. He can funnel and filter and and allow me to be the the the gift for his glory. It's not for me. And so the more I surrender, the more he gives me. Wow. You want to get something from God. Where's the right there? This is how you get something from God. The more you surrender, the more God will give you. Because God never gives you what you pray for. He never gives you what you pray for. Never. God does not give because many people are praying for something that they're not ready for. God never gives you what you pray for. God gives you what you can handle or manage. So you'll be praying for something that you're not ready for. So he'll give you what you can handle, give you what you can manage, never what you prayed for. So many people are praying for something they're not ready for because they have not taken the step to cash that salvation check because they're still holding on to their lives. Jesus, not giving it to Jesus. There are so many people who owe him. There are there are billions of people who owe him because it was a one-sided transaction. Come on. And they did not complete the deal. So it's the grace of God that people are living through, not the salvation. Oh, say that again. What you living through the grace and mercy, not the salvation. That's the reason why many will come on that day thinking they have access and he'll tell them, "Depart from me. I never knew you." I came here today to tell people Jesus is coming. And until you really get that right and give him what's due to him, you won't go. This is not me. This is scripture. Out of seven churches in the book of Revelations, only two were in position for the opening of the doors. Smyrna and Philadelphia. The other five got rebuked. Huh? Man, you said if if this wasn't as clear as day, I would definitely want you to pray for people watching, man. Yeah, this is necessary. This is necessary because if you heard this today, that this is the good news. Here's the hard part about that. The blood is no longer on his head because he shared it. But now that you know the truth, you are without excuse. There's a reason why you heard what you heard today. You said there are millions of people on this earth that owe God. And you're living off of his grace. And you think because he allowed you to defy him, to disrespect him, and he didn't take you out early. He just gave you room to repent, room to say, "One day by chance, she may say, he may say, Lord, take my life, Jesus. Do as you see fit." But you used his grace like you pressed that. You kicked the vending machine of his grace open without submitting anything. And now you're going to stand before him in debt. Jesus. Lord have mercy. Amen. That is I've never heard you lived on his grace. You charged up his you swiped on his grace every day you woke up in the morning. Jesus. And he said you never the the bill is not even that's why we say it's not a work and it's not something. It is literally take me. Have me. And the beautiful part of saying have me is when he takes you, he also takes the debt. He takes, you talked about the track record. He takes the track record. All of that. And he says, "Huh, now that goes to the cross. All of that." He mailed it to the cross. Think about this. Here's the powerful picture. Think about this. When you said yes to Jesus, you were a prostitute. You were a murderer. Yes. You were a You were a drug dealer. You were You were a liar. You was a a thief. You were all of these things. Come on. Right. And he took that. He He took that. So now you're no longer that. M because when when somebody comes to you and say, "Hey, you were a drug dealer," you can tell them that wasn't me. Didn't didn't the Apostle Paul say in scripture, "I've done man no wrong." Paul said that. Paul, Paul, the guy who was who was locking up Christians, the guy who was going at the Christians and working against God. When Paul truly got saved and understood Jesus, Paul says, "I have done man no wrong." Wow. The audacity. That's what salvation is. That you can look at who you used to be and say, "That's who I used to be." But he took that, so I am no longer that. What do you think sin is? When he was on the cross, he took the murder, he took the drugs, he took the prostitution, he took the abortion, he took all of that on the cross. So when you said yes, he took Yes, Lord. He took that. So, so that's why

That's why not giving him you is robbery. He took anything, he took anything that will keep you away from him. Oh my gosh. He took anything that would separate you from him. That's why it says in in in uh in in Romans 8, "What can separate me from the love of God?" Nothing. And then it says, "Through all of these things, I am more than a conqueror." So he took anything. This is what, thank you, Holy Spirit. I give you praise. I give you glory. I'm seeing this for the first time. Okay. I'm seeing the picture. Okay. What happened at Calvary when you said yes to Jesus? What he did was he took everything from you that stood in the way of you and him being in relationship. He took it. So you're no longer a drug dealer. You used to be a drug dealer. You're no longer a prostitute. You used to be a pro. Your yes allowed him to take what was in the way of you and him, you and God, you and Holy Spirit. That's a great deal that your yes and your belief took what stands between you and the best relationship that you can ever have. He took it. He took it, man. He took it. That's ministering to me. He took it. You had a buffer, and the buffer is gone. Oh, thank you, Lord. Hallelujah. Jesus, I give you praise. Yes, God. Yes, Lord. Thank you. Took the buffer. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Glory. There was a buffer, a beef, or something that was between, that was in the way, man. And he, he removed it. And now all you see is him standing there because he took it. That's what Calvary was about, was taking the thing that stood in the middle. Jesus, he put it on him. That's why trampling on the blood makes you an enemy. 'Cause he removed any reasons why you should not be in relationship. That's why "depart from me" is a hard thing, but it's a reality because you have no excuses. He took it. You can't say you got it any longer. He took it. That's why he can say, "Anyone who's in me, they're new." Why? He took the old. He takes the old and makes you new. That's the God we serve. He'll take old. No matter how bad it is, no matter how foul it smells, no matter how messed up. Glory be. No matter how much things are in the old, he'll take it. Thank you, Jesus. Because he's obsessed with new. That's why in Lamentations chapter 3, God is obsessed with new. That's why he says, "My mercies are new." How often? Every morning. That's the reason why he's obsessed with new. Glory to God. Bless the name of Jesus. Oh God. Hallelujah, man. Jesus. Hallelujah. Jesus. Glory to God. Lord. Woo. He's a cleanup man. Hallelujah. Jesus have mercy. Glory be to your holy name. I, I could see this episode being shared in prisons. I don't know if that's possible. Jesus, pray for that man in the name of Jesus. Father, touch the to for them to hear that he took it. I don't care what the judge has on their record book. He took it. He's the only one who can and the only one who will. Oh my gosh. Oh, glory be to you. There's nothing that's on you that he won't take if you let him. That's salvation. He'll take it. That's it. Oh, God. If you can, there are people that are listening right now that are just primed for the Lord and this transaction. But we're praying for complete transactions tonight. Complete transactions tonight in the mighty name of Jesus. Go ahead, my brother. Father, Jesus, we sense your presence here, Lord. Father, you allowed us to to just share your wisdom, and we just thank you, Lord, for this is not our insight, our wisdom. This is all you through your Holy Spirit. We bless you for it, God. Thank you. Thank you. We thank you for trusting us, Lord God, with such insight to change your people. Father, may this message, this reality touch the globe through your voice, Father, for those who don't understand salvation, Father, may this seed that was sown be planted on good ground. Yes, God. And bring a return, Father God, that would bring you honor and glory. Father, the person who's being played with guilt and shame and condemnation. Jesus, we bind the enemy, that lying spirit. We bind that spirit in Jesus name. Father, let your children know that there is no guilt and no shame and no condemnation in you. Father, you paid the price for our freedom, Jesus. And today, Lord God, we just, we cash, yes, this salvation check by saying this. Say, "Jesus, I see Jesus. I believe you are the Son of God." Yeah. I believe you are God in the flesh. You died for me and you rose on the third day. Thank you, Jesus, for wiping the record clean. Thank you for removing this sin. Thank you for taking the sin. Thank you for removing the buffer, the boundaries, the limitation, the thing that stands between us. Thank you for removing the curse from my life. Thank you, Jesus. Now, Jesus, help me to understand full surrender. Help me to understand that dying is truly living. Help me to to be a better imitator. Partner with me, Jesus. Partner with me. Help me, Lord. And I promise you, as you help me, thank you, Jesus. That I would do everything needed to bring glory and honor to your name. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus, for strengthening me. Thank you, Jesus, for empowering me. And I repent. Ask God. I repent from anything or anyone, Lord God, that's in the way of our relationship. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you for wiping. Thank you, Jesus. The record clean. Yes, Lord. I am spotless. Yes, Lord. Because of what you have done. Thank you for doing it, and I've received it by faith. Thank you, Jesus. Strengthen my faith. Thank you, Jesus. For your glory in Jesus' mighty name. In the name. Amen. Jesus. And I just pray that this episode reaches wherever it needs to reach. If I saw it in the prison, Lord, I pray that you make, allow it to make its way into prisons all over this nation and even across the globe. I pray that it makes its way, oh God, Father, into the hands of those who, who follow after Islam, oh God, who follow after Buddha, who follow after witchcraft, our God, I, I just pray, oh God, that they will see this, oh Lord, and grab a hold to the offer of such precious blood and in exchange surrender their lives to you, God. I don't believe that this will fall on deaf ears. I believe that this is coming at this hour and that you're lacing it with another level of impact that we haven't seen. I'm thanking you, oh King of Glory, that just, I, I just feel like there's a potency, that's the word, potency on this episode that you just lace it with your spirit that it will reach and impact in ways that other episodes may not have ever reached. I pray that this podcast not be a podcast, but be a seed sown into the lives of those, oh God, that you arrange and engineer to hear it. We thank you for this man of God's life. I thank you that his life, oh King of Glory, is just a living sacrifice to you. I pray that as he surrenders to you, continue to bless him, increase him, show him more, grant him more insight, oh God. Continue to keep him, oh God, and bless his ministry. We thank you, oh King of Glory, for the teaching that has come from your throne tonight in Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen. Hallelujah. Praise God. Imagine one weekend where men from all over the country come together to gather and be their true selves. No egos, no titles. All of that is left at the door, just souls hungry for God to do something transformational in them. Welcome to Restored Men's Retreat. Men from all over the country will gather to experience God move in a mighty way. Not just spiritual impartation, but practical tools so that we can walk away more equipped to lead our families, lead our communities, and lead ministries with the divine mantle of God. 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