Stay In The Wall

See, a stone by itself, it can be moved. You can kick it around. You can throw it. You can do whatever you want with it. But when it's in the wall, it can't move. You're not getting kicked. You're not getting thrown. And in fact, you're not being you're not getting stumbled over or being a stumbling block. The Bible says, hey, you can do these things, and you can add to your faith these eight things, and when you do that, you will never stumble. It says it very clear. You will never stumble. The only way I know how not to stumble is stay in the wall. [00:43:52] (35 seconds)  #StayInTheWall

How many times you think someone's like, man, I just I just I gotta get all the knowledge. I gotta get the knowledge. You got to do the process. By wisdom, a house is built. You don't go get all the knowledge before you get the wisdom, and you don't go get all the wisdom. You just don't get the wisdom and stop there. You get the wisdom. You get the the faith that starts the house, And then it says, what? Through understanding, it is established. What's that understanding? Understanding the virtues. That virtue strengthens the structure, and then the knowledge fills the room. [00:45:16] (39 seconds)  #WisdomBuildsTheHouse

The world says, get more. Get more. God says, develop what I already have given you. We see that even in in the story in the parable when he gave the guys three three the the bags of talents. One, five, and 10 or one, three, and five, whichever way you wanna say it. One took it, worked it, doubled it. Other one worked it, doubled it. Planned, get the other one buried it. He buried it. He didn't develop it. He didn't work it. And then what happened? He just took it from them and get up to the one that was working it. See, God says develop what I have already given you. [01:33:58] (40 seconds)  #DevelopWhatYouHave

The building process is faith that you what? Believe in God. Say, I believe in God. And then there's a virtue, which is I want to become like Christ. Then there's a knowledge of teach me how your kingdom works. And then you get into the self control, the perseverance, the godliness, brotherly kindness, and love. But there's a true order all begin from the cornerstone, which is Jesus Christ. The beginning starts with the cornerstone of Jesus Christ. And then with the cornerstone, we see in second Peter right here that we are the what? The living stones that are placed in the wall. [00:43:06] (41 seconds)  #CornerstoneFirst

So many times people wanna go get everything of all the knowledge that fills the rooms, and they have no house. And but then they have a house, but there's no structure. There's no strength. There's no virtue that will be able to hold the knowledge. And the first storm, the first big heat wave or tornado or whatever comes, it blows the house down because there's no, what, understanding. There's no virtue that has established it. Faith, it starts the house. Jesus faith in Jesus Christ is that cornerstone. That virtue strengthens the structure. [00:45:55] (46 seconds)  #VirtueStrengthensStructure

The enemy the enemy wants to get you out of the wall. He wants to get you out of the fellowship. He wants to get you out of the word, out of the prayer, out of faith, out of praise, out from the blessing, out from the favor of God. Because when you get disconnected from the cornerstone, it's all about you. It's all about you. It's all about that, that one. But it's not about us. But when you stay in the wall, connected to Christ, you become part of what God is building. We see that he's building it unto completion. [00:47:30] (36 seconds)  #StayInTheFellowship

Knowledge without godly virtue becomes controlling, manipulating religion. It becomes legalism. It becomes arrogance. Why did I say that? First Corinthians eight one shows me knowledge puff up up. Knowledge puffs you up, but charity edifies you. So if you'd only have knowledge, you will be prideful. You will be puffed up. But if you have love, true virtue, the god virtue, because faith worketh by love and love conquers all. Love doesn't keep a record of and I I'm I'm a show you this. Virtue keeps knowledge humble. It keeps it humble. [01:02:51] (45 seconds)  #VirtueKeepsKnowledgeHumble

How do you stay in the wall? It's your choice. Peter tells us to add to your, what, your faith virtue. You got to add to your faith virtue. How do you how do we develop virtue? I want you to think about that. How do you develop virtue? Do you understand what virtue is? What is your understanding of virtue? Why? We stay connected to this cornerstone is how you develop virtue. You want to develop like Christ. You wanna develop his ways, be like him. You've got to stay connected. Not connected to your phone, not connected to the Internet, not connected to all that other stuff. [00:50:31] (35 seconds)  #AddVirtueStayConnected