Teaching Your Children In The Last Days Pt.2

The danger of the last days is not persecution, the danger is spiritual distraction. We think it's persecution. Oh, what if the what if the oh, we didn't attack you as a nation, we we've attacked Iran and and they got all these. We got Hezbollah, they got Hamash, they got, you know, they got now ISIS has got sleeper cells and all this kind of stuff and and oh my goodness, we're we're we're in a we're in a mess and they're gonna start persecuting us, we got to watch out. That's not the danger, the danger is spiritual distraction, getting distraction on what's going on in the world today. I believe with all my heart the one thing that God is causing the church to do is to get focused like never before. [00:11:50] (40 seconds)  #FocusNotDistraction

Okay, pastor. I'm gonna leave I'm not gonna be like the world. I'm gonna like the world. I don't wanna talk like the world. I ain't gonna do the things of the world. I'm gonna march out here and do it. Honey, that's not how you do it. You will not do it. You won't do it because you can't do it. Living holy on the outside is an outgrowth of the holiness that you have on the inside. And only Holy Spirit can make you holy. And the more of him that you have, then the more of him will be an outgrowth of what you have on the inside, it's gonna be on the outside. [00:32:00] (33 seconds)  #HolinessFromWithin

And no matter what the doctor says, no matter what someone texts you and say, no matter what happens when you get to work and find out what happened, it doesn't matter, yes. Does it defend you, yes. But guess what? You're gonna be okay. Wanna know why? Because your spiritual gauge is not only empty, your spiritual gauge is on full. And you look into your spiritual tank, and you go in the bathroom and try to get yourself together on your job, and once you and once you get once you quit reacting, then you start going into a response mode and realize, well, I can't do anything about it. I didn't cause this, I didn't I didn't control this, but all I know is is I'm ready for this because greater is he that is in me than he that is after me, and we're gonna be alright. Wanna know why? Because I'm ready, because I live full of the spirit of God. [00:41:56] (48 seconds)  #SpiritFilledAndReady

We have things going on. The the news, you see things happen in Jewish synagogue, you see things happening on on college campuses, you see all these things happening, the seeker sales and and all the anti this and anti church this, anti America that. We need to teach our families the signs of the times. We can't just ignore it. Jesus did not tell believers to ignore the last days, he told us to watch. Watch. [00:06:33] (26 seconds)  #TeachTheSigns

This means teaching us how to pray, how to seek God, how to hear his voice, how to walk in holiness, teach them how to live ready. The purpose of teaching about the last days is not curiosity, it's readiness. I've always been curious. I I I love history in school, mean, rest of it, not so much. Hey man, give me some history. Let's talk about history. Know you know history, world history, let's talk history. I mean I'm take me in a museum and the whole class is already on the bus. I'm in there still still reading it. Cool man, that's pretty that's pretty awesome. It's curiosity, we're not living in a time now that we need to be curious about what's going on in the world today, we need to make sure we're living in a lifestyle of readiness. [00:17:41] (51 seconds)  #LiveInReadiness

Let me tell you something, he's he's not just talking about I mean we we read that scriptures in Genesis, sin, just sin. Okay. There's there's there's sin, there's some sin. No. To lie and wait, the actual the actual Hebrew words he used literally the way we would read it, we would literally transliterate it as a monster. A monster lies and waits for you at the door. Be spiritually awake. Now we know it ain't monsters, we don't believe in monster. No. So what so so what's a monster spiritually? Demons. [00:16:32] (35 seconds)  #BeSpirituallyAwake

So what's the point? The whole point is that the enemy waited. I don't know how long he waited. He waited. He waited. We're dealing with a patient enemy that will wait. He will wait you out. And if you're spiritually distracted, if you're if you're running with fear, then he'll catch you when you least expect it. We need to make sure that we don't allow we don't allow the enemy to have that kind of access to us. Our children must learn because the enemy will lie and wait. The bible says in Genesis that sin lies and waits at the door. [00:15:56] (34 seconds)  #DontBeCaughtOffGuard

Let me help you. It'd be the same thing that would've happened to me yesterday. I wouldn't have made it to my destination. When you're being filled with the spirit or being full with the spirit means that you always have a gaze full so that no matter what comes your way, you're prepared, you're ready. Most of us don't make it and most of it never make it. And the reason why you don't make it and you fall off the wagon and everything else is because you were never going to make it. Because you're full of everything else but the Holy Spirit of God. Make sure your gauge is full of the spirit of God. [00:41:07] (38 seconds)  #KeepYourSpiritGaugeFull