Unity and Perseverance in Our Faith Journey

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"The scripture says how good and how pleasant it is when brothers can dwell together, and that's where the Lord commands a blessing. And it's important for us that we remain unified in the spirit. We don't get in carnally minded and we are arguing in the flesh because of our pride. The satan comes to divide and conquer. His kingdom isn't divided, otherwise his kingdom wouldn't stand, and so it's important that we don't become divided, otherwise satan will win." [00:33:55]

"We have to endeavor to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace until we all come to the unity of the same faith. There's one faith, there's one baptism, and there's one Lord Jesus Christ, and we see in part brother sisters we see in part. We don't have the whole, the whole vision. We see what's in front of us we see what we what the Lord has allowed us to understand based on the journey." [00:01:44]

"Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many will seek to enter and will not be able. Many will try to enter will not be able, and they're going to say Lord we ate and drank in your presence, and we heard you preaching the gospel we were there among you and he's going to say I don't know you, I don't know you. So striving and contending for the faith is something that's a daily thing. It's a daily decision to renew your mind, to do self-assessment on your spiritual walk and your spiritual journey." [00:04:19]

"Moving on to maturity is far different than that we have to contend for the faith which was once delivered to us as the saints. The scripture says in Luke 13 it says strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many will seek to enter and will not be able. Many will try to enter will not be able, and they're going to say Lord we ate and drank in your presence, and we heard you preaching the gospel we were there among you and he's going to say I don't know you, I don't know you." [00:04:19]

"Jesus said I am the resurrection and the life, he who believes in me though he die yet shall he live, and do he live he shall never see death. Brothers sisters we have to enter into this radical life of the spirit. We'll become partakers of the divine nature, adding to virtue what knowledge, after you take a step of faith and you just reckless abandonment you push all in with Jesus then all of a sudden you go in your reading time and the Holy Spirit leads you to find out it is written." [00:13:46]

"I took this radical decision to go make amends with somebody because the Holy Spirit was leading me and I thought I might get a criminal record out of it because of the way that I dealt with things through extortion in my old life and all that, and I went into reconcile. I remember a time in my life I had God bitterness and it and unforgiveness and hatred and murder was in my heart way back in 1997 1998 because a friend had cheated me with money." [00:14:30]

"The Holy Spirit may ask you to deal with deal with things of your past to clean up your past. He's not going to bring you down I listen to brother Warnock he says you're not going to bring you down a notch or two so that he can use you, he's going to bring you down to zero it says of Christ that he was made of no reputation, being found in the likeness as a man he humbled himself to become obedient even to the point of death the death on the cross such a humiliating thing." [00:22:15]

"Jesus has to have given you his authority, we don't need authority from some guy who has a paper on the wall, we don't need authority from some some professor in a school who's going to give you a PhD, you don't need some high priest to put a caller on you and tell you that you're a man of God, you need the almighty God to appoint you for ministry, and when he speaks to you you obey if we are not faithful brothers sisters with unrighteous mammon which I'm sharing these testimonies about then he will not entrust you with the true riches that come from God because his saints and his souls are way more precious than the 70 bucks in your wallet or the check that you're about to write for restitution." [00:23:00]

"Brothers sisters we need to spend time among the brothers and just confessing our shortcomings and our weaknesses, bearing one another's burdens and praying for one another, just reaching out sometimes even if we can't get together we can get together in this modern age through telephone and through texting and say brother hey how's it going I'm just reaching out just to see how you're doing there to have more to care about the interests of others more than our own interests." [00:10:20]

"Brothers sisters you got to sit at Jesus street to learn his ways, you have to spend time as John did having your head on Jesus chest to to hear his secrets, he spoke of in Malachi of two brothers who spoke to one another, them that feared the Lord, and they were sharing with one another and it says the Lord hearkened in he listened in on what those brothers were saying about him, and the Lord made a a declaration he said they shall be mine on the day that I make them my jewels." [00:31:11]

"Brothers sisters we have to enter into this radical life of the spirit, we'll become partakers of the divine nature, adding to virtue what knowledge, after you take a step of faith and you just reckless abandonment you push all in with Jesus then all of a sudden you go in your reading time and the Holy Spirit leads you to find out it is written, wow, it was written all along." [00:13:46]

"Brothers sisters we need cleansing we read also a couple weeks ago from one Peter speaking about since you have purified your souls through obeying the truth through the word of God which lives and abides forever allow this to become a living word, a rhema word that man who does these things shall not just live by them but we might breathe in the breath of God and we might proclaim the oracles of God by the spirit through faith." [00:35:07]

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