Embracing Spiritual Growth Through Letting Go

The Holy Ghost is looking for some serious people in the name of Jesus of Nazareth that will follow through, that will receive the Holy Ghost, that will obey God, and get the fear out of the way.

We need to depend on God, of course, and God isn't against being successful or having good times or nostalgia or friends or whatever the case might be. In Jesus' name, He just wants to take the bride of Christ to another dimension.

There are levels within those dimensions, and there's a new paradigm of thought. God has to remove—please let Him remove some things. Are we holding on to dear life to the things that God said to let go of? In the name of Jesus, it ultimately opens the door to witchcraft.

If Paul would have refused the road to Damascus experience and Nero's chopping block, it would have been rebellion. You need to open the doors just like some of us have in this generation. It's serious business; it really is. He means what He says in the book.

We live in a culture that considers most of it an option, and I've got my own thoughts on that, preacher, and so does the denomination. I'm sorry, but we have never done it like that before. If I'd preached that, they'd vote me out of here in a New York minute.

In the name of Jesus, the Pharisees—listen, Israeli leadership heard Jesus's sermons many times, saw His miracles, saw His crowds, and watched Him fulfill the law. They were not ignorant of what He was telling them.

Great God, in the name of Jesus, all He had to do was mention eating His flesh and drinking His blood. Now, that sounds gross and crass, and yes, it is, but what He was referring to there was spiritually, in the spirit world, letting His joy be our strength as we carry our cross and take His burden and obey Him in the will of God for our lives individually and particularly.

That's what He was saying, and of course, you know the result: many of His disciples, running 15,000 in Sunday School on the mount, walked away and walked no more with Him. You've heard that preached here; you've heard that before. You know that.

And what was the sin of Jesus Christ? What was the great sin? Because, you know, when they left, they blamed the preacher. Of course, they did. Well, I take it by saying that He isn't going to be a crowned Regent or a monarch in this land over us and remove deadly political oppression.

God's got something greater than overthrowing the Biden Administration, and that's you and me learning how to experience removal so we can have regeneration and our city can have revival. I mean, they wanted nothing to do with Him. They walked no more; they didn't come back.

And that may imply even on the day of Pentecost, and they missed it. They missed the whole thing because the preacher gave them a word, and they got their feelings hurt and offended. That's it, man, I'm out of here. Don't you know I can find a church down the road? Sure, I do. I have recommendations. Thank God, in the name of Jesus.

No, Jesus Christ wasn't being unfair. No, Jesus Christ wasn't carnal. No, Jesus Christ didn't miss it. No, Jesus Christ was not trying to hold them back; He was trying to push them up. But it had to be their way.

Removal precedes revival. Please don't forget about this in 72 hours. Just remember, oh, there are a lot of "r" words. I'll take it.

Hey, God, in the name of Jesus, so I heard all of it. They didn't want it. Now, they had good intentions. They had good intentions; they meant well. They were concerned about the kingdom to Israel because that was spoken of in the word. They wanted what was best for Israel; they wanted what was best for the people in their heart. They really did.

But the danger with that is they never allowed removal. Thank God. And this gentleman today is writing that he died daily. Daily, what was it he had to die daily of? All the regrets of the good times, all the nostalgia of the honor and the temple, certainly in a life of ease compared to what he was living at the time he wrote this.

But he counted it all joy, and the joy of the Lord is our strength.

Where do we find the joy of the Lord and the fruit of the Spirit? Where is the fruit of the Spirit? The textbook or a Bible somewhere? It's in our hearts. It's right here; it fuses into your soul and spirit as a human being. That's where it is.

Great God, in the name of Jesus, I think the joy of the Lord is when we receive a great blessing. That can be a part of it, but it is in here, whether you're up or down or having a good day or a bad day.

In you resides the fruit of the Spirit, regardless, and that joy is in there somewhere. And peace that passes all understanding, knowing you're in the will of God, doing right, is latent, but it comes to the surface when we yield to it.

And there is removal. Removal for the Christian just happens to be, brothers and sisters, I can't figure this thing out myself. Jesus said, "Without me, you can do nothing."

In me, in my flesh—that is, in my flesh dwelleth no good thing. Why callest thou me good? It's been said recently by somebody that no one preaches repentance anymore. We have congregations in a culture that joy pop for Jesus but understand nothing of Jesus's cross.