Pastor West: [00:00:00] Do that three, four, 500 times. Amen. Praise God, let's just give a good shout this morning. Praise God. Glory to God.
Speaker2: [00:00:11] Thank you Lord.
Pastor West: [00:00:12] Make the devil or your neighbor nervous. Hallelujah. You ever embarrass yourself? Amen. Well, give a go at it. Amen. You may be seated. Good morning. Welcome. How are y'all? Everyone happy? Amen. Well, if you're happy, notify your face. They tell me. Hallelujah. Went to Bible school. That one of the first things they covered, they said they took us to the scripture I read that says in the old covenant, it says he told the minister. He says, don't look at their faces. And I thought, that just sounds, you know, I mean, it's a scripture, but it's like, that just sounds so wrong. And then jump forward a few years, I knew what they were talking about, But not here. Amen. Amen, man. We're you're you're the happy bunch. We have more reasons to be happy than anyone that you could ever imagine in the entire world. Wow. On your worst day. On your worst day. As a believer in Christ, on your worst, most absolute worst day is way over tops. Over the nonbelievers. Best day? Yes, sir. If you never get anything from here to the end till we go into Jesus comes.
Pastor West: [00:01:31] If nothing ever happens. If no ever. No miracles, no more breakthroughs, nothing. I'm telling you, you have more hope. You have more reason to rejoice. Amen. And when the enemy sees you rejoicing, you puzzle him. Because sometimes what you don't realize is he's effectively waged a campaign against you. And of course, that's why you sense what's going on. And what is he doing? He's watching. He's waiting to see your response. It's the only way he knows his effectiveness is by your response. And when you just sit there like nothing's going on, nothing's happening, and you don't give voice to it. He's like, it's not working. It worked with him two years ago. It worked six months ago. It works everywhere. How come this doesn't work? Are they too ignorant to even know they have issues or problems? Now you know about it. But you just don't take the care. Amen. It doesn't mean that you don't care. It just means that you're not taking it. Why? Because you gave it to him.
Speaker2: [00:02:44] That's right.
Pastor West: [00:02:45] And if you actually gave it to him and you actually believe that you gave it to him, why would you be talking about it?
Speaker2: [00:02:51] Amen. Amen.
Pastor West: [00:02:53] You say, well, I have all these feelings. Well. He was easily touched with the feeling of your infirmities. Sad to say, I think that's the theme of the church. The old song. Feelings. Nothing more than you remember that song. Feelings from years and years gone by. Amen. We'll go. Glory to God. Let's get on. Are we? We're on. Well, good morning and welcome. We're. We're alive and well. We're out here in Jemison, Alabama. If you don't know that, we're we're right next to the Galleria right here. I mean, just just almost right next to it. Just almost just walk in the door, close your eyes. Walk out one door. You. You'd be at the Galleria with a little translation working for you. It's a great place to be. It's a great place to be from. Chilton County is a great. A great place to be at.
Speaker2: [00:03:49] Amen.
Pastor West: [00:03:50] Thank you. The only one who said amen is someone who doesn't live in Chilton County. Everyone else sat there and said it is. But he said he's been there. He's done all that. That is funny. We're going to continue this morning on a lesson that we started last week and I. And I'm just I'm just trying to I'm just trying to nail down one point. Y'all, if I could just nail down one point really good. And I and I know that you know this, but do we actually know it until we manifest it? See, we can know it. We can have head knowledge of something. You know, we we have head knowledge of a lot of things and maybe even people's trades, what they do. And we have a general consensus of how they do it, but that doesn't mean we know how to do it. I mean, you've had a dentist work on you before. Maybe he cleaned your teeth or even extracted one. So you're, you know, but But have you ever extracted one from someone? I wouldn't want to do that. I mean, you might have had some type of surgery, but have you ever performed surgery on someone? No. So we have a general knowledge of things, but maybe not always an experience. So if I can get this one point across. And last week we were talking about a number of things, but we were talking about the humanity of Jesus. You remember that that Jesus was 100% the Son of God, but he's also a 100% the Son of Man.
Speaker2: [00:05:26] Amen.
Pastor West: [00:05:28] So I'm going to ask you to check me this morning to make sure that I stay scriptural. And the reason I'm going to do that is because as you who are believers in the word, we know that if it's scriptural, then we don't really have any excuses, do we? I mean, if it's really the truth. I mean, if you're going to fly a kite and there's only two things that you need to have a successful kite flying episode today, and that would be the wind. I mean, other than yourself or whoever's flying the kite, you need wind, right? And you need a kite. But. But what do you actually need for elevation other than the wind? You need string, right? So how much string that you have, if you have plenty of wind, will determine how. How high that you can go. Now, if you have string and you don't have wind and you still don't have a successful day, you have plenty of string to let out, but you got nothing to carry it. Well, how many of the Holy Spirit is the wind? That's not the problem. And we're the holder and we got the kite. How much string are you willing to let out?
Speaker2: [00:06:37] Oh, good.
Pastor West: [00:06:39] Now I'm asking these questions to myself as much as anybody in the room. Maybe more than anybody in the room. And here's some of the questions. If Jesus paid for it and I don't have it. Why?
Pastor West: [00:06:50] What if he paid for it. And I know it belongs to me. New covenant. And I don't have the experience of it. Why.
Pastor West: [00:07:01] See I'm asking all these questions. Why. And I know we could just preach about the other and we could say amen and shout and you know, go have some chicken and have a great day. But if we don't have the experience of it then. I need to know you may not need to know, but I need to know why. Why is it that I read it here? But I don't see it in my life. And until we're willing to say what I'm doing or or believing or whatever it is, either it's not true or it's not, or at least it's not working in my life. Then we don't really come to the place to where we can have the conversation. And so many times through the years when I've had this thought process, I would just go back and I'd say, Lord, I, I don't know. I mean, it's I can see it here, but I don't really see this happening in my life. And so I'm going to come to you. I'm going to come to you as a clean blank sheet of paper. I'm going to take my preconceived ideas and notions and all the things that I could say and may be true, but I'm going to take that and just say I know nothing. And then someone would tell me, asked me, did I know Jesus? And I would say, who's that? Just like I was out in, you know, some third world country had never heard of him. And I just say all that just to say this is that at least when I come to that place, I can have the conversation.
Pastor West: [00:08:25] So check me today, if you will, and then let me know. You let me know after the service, or you can stop me if it gets too bad during the service and we'll correct it. But you need some scriptures before you stop you. Okay. Okay. I'm just kind of messing with you. So we're going to talk about we're going to talk about the first Adam and the last Adam, because you have to have this conversation to go forward. If you have your Bible, go to First Corinthians chapter 15, if you will. And we've talked about the subject before, but there's two atoms. The Bible talks about the first and the last. Doesn't really use the word second, but uses the word last because sometimes you say second. Someone might think they might be a third, and there are because you're the third and the fourth. But in the covenant talks about two atoms. And I like to say it this way. Either you're in the first Adam or you're in the last Adam. Either you're in Adam or you're in Christ. Either you're in sin or you're in righteousness. Either you're in the spirit or you're in the flesh. It's I'm just making the contrast of the two atoms. Either. Either. Either your sins is reign or Christ reigns. Either you're walking by the flesh or you're walking in the power of the spirit. But you're not. You're not doing both. Either you're in sin consciousness or you're in righteousness consciousness. Either your thoughts are all about you and what you did or didn't do, or you're thinking about what Jesus did for you.
Pastor West: [00:10:00] And it takes faith. Listen, it takes faith. It really takes faith. I mean now we we've we've been around faith. We don't know it all, but we've learned 2 or 3 things over the years about faith. But it takes faith to accept who you really are.
Pastor West: [00:10:19] Because everything that can bring evidence to your life is to the contrary of faith. Right. Faith is the substance of what things? What hope for the evidence of things that you don't see with your physical eyes. So it takes faith to accept who you really are. So we're going to fly the kite today. The winds here. And now we're going to let the string out. And if you don't want, let the string out. Just if you want to let two foot out or just a foot over your head, you're still flying the kite, but I'm going to go just to. I'm going to unwind a little bit more of the string. Okay. Now the whole chapter is talking about, you know, if the resurrection is happened or it hasn't happened, and Paul tells you in verse ten that he he is who he is by the grace of God.
Pastor West: [00:11:03] Now where did he learn that? Well, his lesson started on the road to Damascus. That's where he went to school and he was schooled. He was royally school when he left there. He knew at least some things that weren't true. He did not yet know what he would know, but he knew he knew this Jesus that he heard about was not the problem. And Saul knew he had a problem. God hit him so hard. We all say it this way. God hit him so hard on the road to Damascus that he knocked his first, the first letter of his name. He slapped the s out of his name and put a P right there where the S was, and he became Paul the Apostle. But he didn't go preaching. The next day he was out in Damascus and he was in the desert. He was seeking he was getting these revelation truths not from any man, because no man on the earth knew it.
Pastor West: [00:12:01] The Bible said that God had concealed it until a certain time. He couldn't go back to the I mean, he eventually went and saw Peter and John, and just a few of the disciples spent a little time with him later down the road. But he spent himself in the desert. He said, no man gave me this revelation. No man has taught this to me. He said, I received it directly from Jesus Christ himself. Well, he'd already met him, so he knew he when he met him again, right?
Speaker2: [00:12:31] Amen.
Pastor West: [00:12:32] So Paul says, he said in verse ten, by the grace of God, I am what I am. And his grace was bestowed upon me was not in vain, but I labored more abundantly broadly than than you all. Yet it wasn't I who labored more than all but the grace of God which was in me. Then we're going to skip forward because you're talking about the resurrection here. And he's just saying, if there is no resurrection, we're the most miserable people on the planet because we have no future. But let's just skip all the way to verse 21. It says, for since. For, since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. So we're contrasting two atoms now. So he tells you, by a man came death, and also by a man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die. Even so in Christ shall all be made alive. Contrasting life and death, isn't he? Look at verse 23. But every man in his own order. Christ the first fruits afterwards they that are Christ's at His coming. Then cometh the end, when we shall have delivered up the kingdom of God, even the father, whom he shall have put down all rule and authority and power. That's amazing. For he must reign till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
Pastor West: [00:14:01] And the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. The whole chapter is amazing, but we're just contrasting the Adam and in Christ here. So you're either once again, you're either in Adam or you're in Christ. I will I'll go as far as to say you're either in Christ or you're in church. Now you are the church, but I'm talking about the way people think about church. We went to church. We had a good service. It was a good singing. We had a wonderful time. All this wonderful. But did you go to church? Are you in church or are you in Christ? You know, it'd be funny if the building just disappeared right now. Even your chair and we were sitting out here on dirt and people would say something. We've. We lost our church if the building just disappeared. It may be a shock. Win it for a little while, and then we could be saying all before then, we'd all agree that we're the church and it's not the building. But if the building just disappeared, we'd like. And can we now function? Oh we can't. We're not a church because we don't have a building. No, you're a church. If you're in the park, whether you're in Walmart or a Dollar General. If you could find one of those.
Speaker2: [00:15:20] Amen.
Pastor West: [00:15:22] Right. So from the beginning of creation, God's plan was for man to walk in dominion and authority.
Speaker2: [00:15:32] That's right.
Pastor West: [00:15:33] That's God's plan for you to walk in dominion. Authority. Jesus reconciled us at his death to restore dominion.
Speaker2: [00:15:43] Amen.
Pastor West: [00:15:45] Brought us back into fellowship with God. But to restore the dominion that was lost in the garden. It was through Adam's disobedience of sin and death that entered the world, wasn't it? But through Jesus Christ, the last Adam, I will say, the last Adam, God restored all that was lost. Not most of.
Speaker2: [00:16:06] It.
Pastor West: [00:16:07] All of it. We'll let the cart out a little bit more.
Speaker2: [00:16:10] Amen.
Pastor West: [00:16:10] Okay. Jesus, though fully the Son of God operated as a son of man. How did he do it? He was empowered by the Spirit of God, wasn't he, to demonstrate God's kingdom? Now, this is really, really simple and I'm going to make it so simple. You have to have help to mess it up. In through the years, the pulpit has given you a lot of help to mess it mess it up. But anyway, I'll try not to do that today. And Jesus reveals that we as the church are called to walk in the same authority.
Pastor West: [00:16:45] Y'all still checking me, right? Same power and same victory over the enemy.
Speaker2: [00:16:51] Amen.
Pastor West: [00:16:53] Now don't answer me. Are you walking in that.
Pastor West: [00:16:57] Something's wrong there. So let's find out what's wrong.
Speaker2: [00:17:01] Amen.
Pastor West: [00:17:03] Now there's a contrast between the first Adam and the last Adam. And the first Adam brought death. And the last Adam brought life, didn't he? It says we read verse 22. It says, For in Adam all die. Even so, all in Christ all shall be made alive. I mean, imagine like a disease, you know, and it's spreading through a bloodline, and the disease is just rampant. And it goes to every descendant affected. And that's what Adam's sin did when he sinned. He was. He was considered the federal head of all mankind. So you weren't here to sin. But you're connected to Adam in the lineage of Adam. And it just it went through every descendant because of Adam's transgression. But Jesus is your last Adam.
Pastor West: [00:17:55] And I'm just trying to say one. Adam got us into a lot of hurt in the last. Adam got us out of it.
Speaker2: [00:18:00] Amen.
Pastor West: [00:18:01] The last Adam became the cure that was running rampant through the family.
Pastor West: [00:18:07] And he brought to us eternal life. He brought to us eternal Zoe Z Strong's number two two, two, two, if you like, which is 111111. Anyway, brought us Zoe. Life was which is God's nature. Zoe is God's nature, God's godlike attributes. And he put that in you at the new birth. You have the life of God. But what I'm trying to say is you really have the life of God. You you have a part of what makes God God in you.
Speaker2: [00:18:47] Amen. Yeah.
Pastor West: [00:18:50] So you can't just say, well, you know, we're just human beings. No. You you are a human being. We get that. But you can't tell me you're just human being because you're supernatural.
Pastor West: [00:19:01] See? Well, let me pull the string back down a little bit. We are human beings right. But are you just a human being.
Speaker2: [00:19:10] No.
Pastor West: [00:19:12] Is God a human being? Is God supernatural? Does God live in you?
Speaker2: [00:19:18] Yeah.
Pastor West: [00:19:20] Then how could you just be a human being if God lives in you?
Pastor West: [00:19:27] So you got sometimes you got to hear where something's not. And then he's like well you say, well, you know. Yeah, but you know, God's foot don't hurt and God's back don't hurt and God's knee don't hurt.
Speaker2: [00:19:38] And.
Pastor West: [00:19:39] You know it doesn't. And you're the temple of God. You're the temple of the Holy Spirit who lives in you. The reason why sometimes that we don't effectively walk in what we have is because we're not effectively resisting the devil. That's what it means to, you know, in James chapter four, he says, submit yourselves therefore to God and resist the devil. Now we know all the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds. And that pulling down and the weapons of our warfare is is us actively resisting. It doesn't mean if you have an experience you're dealing with something that something's wrong with you, but if it just keeps on going, there's something wrong.
Pastor West: [00:20:24] If it keeps on going then you're not effectively resisting. Now don't call me. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. I can't do the whole library of your life. Just. I'm trying to give you what you might call some bullet points to think about. So we all can say, well, I got this situation, this, this, this and this has been going on for years, so, I mean, I'm in major trouble. Well, no, you're not in major trouble. You're in major trouble if you don't want to hear and you don't want to adhere to the truth. It doesn't matter how long that you've been off course. I mean, as soon as you. If you're driving a car and you and you get off course and you go 45 miles out of the way, but you realize it. Well, you're going to be 45 miles out, of course, but you're on the right path. As soon as you turn around.
Pastor West: [00:21:20] So we're going to get on the right path. So so is God human. No. Did God create humans. Yes. Does God live in us? Yes. So we can't be just human because greater, greater is he that's in me. Who's the greater one? He's talking about you that was born to those two people. But who's the greater one? He's talking about the mighty Holy Spirit who lives in us, breathes through us, thinks through us, performs miracles through us. You're not just human. You're super natural. You are natural. But the gravy one came in who's super and you put them together. We have the natural, the natural part of human. But then you got the super part. So you are super natural. And all I'm trying to say is this have have you ever prayed for someone? And they were healed? I have did did Eric Westhuizen, born January 9th, 1962, in Wayne County to Detroit, Michigan. Did I heal them by myself? No, I've seen the deaf, hear the blind, see the dead raised to life. Right. Surgical parts in a body pray and they be removed. Even the parts and the scars go away. I didn't learn that chump County high school. I didn't learn it at the trade school. I didn't do it on my own. But it was the greater one who's in me. So the human part of me had no part of that. But the one who's effectively working against you is the human part. So you're saying I'm human. And the more you talk about your humanness, the more you remain in defeat, because the human part of you wasn't born again.
Pastor West: [00:23:13] Just the spirit, right? The spirit was dead, and now he has life. So what's fighting against you is not so much the devil. It's your own mind. And you're. Because it gives. It gives sway to the senses. Because the senses are your experiences. They're the receptors. It's when you touch something, it's hot or it's cold. You know, you didn't get that by the spirit. You got that through your own flesh. You got it through the senses of touch or smell. You smell something that doesn't smell well. You feel something that smells like something died. I mean, then you look for the what? The smell. You know what the smell is. You go to the refrigerator and you check the date or something. You check the milk, and it's like it's about a day. Or it might be, but, you know, if it's a day or two over, you might use it. If you just don't have time to run a store and you really need a little bit of milk, but before you're willing to maybe chance it, what do you do? You smell it. You do, don't you? Do you put it up to your ear and say, okay, it's two days expired. Seemed like it's going to be okay. Do you let your foot check it out? Do you pull some hair and you put it down in Poland? No, you put it to the sniffer. Right? Because that's what it was designed to do. So how many believe the Bible is true? How many believe there is a rapture? How many believe that you're going in the rapture?
Speaker2: [00:24:48] Amen. Amen.
Pastor West: [00:24:52] But did you know. Let me ask you this. I mean, because, you know. Give me my moment. So you believe in the rapture, right? Okay. But I was on the interstate just this morning, and someone came by me going speeding. They was going over 85 miles an hour. So how could there be a rapture? What's your question to me? What's that got to do with the rapture? Right. Nothing. No more. Does any pain in your body got anything to do with whether or not you're healed? Why would you doubt the rapture? Because someone was speeding or there was a there was a. F whatever. Tornadoes somewhere or a hurricane. Would you, would you would you doubt the rapture because a hurricane was brewing in the whatever ocean? Would you doubt the rapture? But then why would you doubt anything of the truth? Because your body doesn't feel like.
Speaker2: [00:26:06] It.
Pastor West: [00:26:07] Or your emotions doesn't.
Speaker2: [00:26:09] Line up.
Pastor West: [00:26:10] You said the two have nothing to do with each other. You are correct. So why do we go there? That would be foolish, right? But how can we do it all the time? Because we're giving way to our humanness. We pull the rope back, the string back in. We're not elevating. Did Jesus start off with a poof ministry? He's the son of God. He gets out of the crib, and for the first time, he walks a little bit. He goes bam! And just shoots the miracle here and there. Does he do that? Did you ever read what? Jesus walking on the water at 18 months. Was he multiplying of fish and stone or fish and bread? No, he wasn't doing anything. There was no miracles whatsoever until he was 30 years of age. Because he was born as a son of man, so that he could redeem man by fulfilling all the law he could. Now he could now be the perfect substitute, because he had to be man right to redeem man. But he couldn't have a man's blood in him. He had his father's blood in him, which made him royalty divine. But he couldn't come as a man. If he'd come as a man, he couldn't redeem you. He had to be a man. Man. Look. What the. Look what a divine God gave up forever. Jesus, the Son of God, just as is God, divine in every way, but gave up that part of himself to become a human being.
Pastor West: [00:27:44] You see, otherwise he's making statements that just sound great, but they're not that great when he says, the works that I do shall you do? How does Jesus, the Son of God, he is? He said, but I didn't do a miracle as the Son of God. I did him as a son of man. Did Jesus walk on water while he was on the earth? How did he do it? Did he do it as God? As man? Did he multiply food as God or man. Man. Well, that's a lot of questions. So Luke chapter two, we see that Jesus said Jesus. He grew in stature and wisdom. Now, if you're just God, you don't. You're not growing. How do you think our God is is growing in wisdom today? We thank you, Lord. We just hope you're having a great day and you're learning things that you can help us with later on. And maybe you'll you'll see more of how to help us in the future as you're growing. We just worship you and that you're a little bit smarter than we are, just a little bit. And, you know, we just agreed here that you're, you know, that your future will be great. You said that's just foolishness. It is. But Jesus had to grow in wisdom. The Bible said he learned things through things that he suffered. He learned obedience by the things that he suffered. I wasn't talking about disease or stuff like that.
Pastor West: [00:29:21] Do you think Jesus ever had? I mean, do I have to answer out loud? Do you think Jesus ever not felt good in his body? I believe there was plenty of times he didn't feel good in his body. Could he ever did he ever maybe have a cold. He may have. It didn't say that. It didn't did it. He was just a human. He was working with tools all the time with his father, earthly father Joseph. You think maybe ever. He slipped and he cut himself and bled a little bit. Could have happened, right? In all those years of working with carpentry tools. Do you think he ever stubbed his toe? No. You ever think you ever had a bruise? He was in all points, tempted just like you were. Yet he did it without what? Sin. So you mean a man could be tempted to not sin, so it's sin. He didn't say God. He was man, the Son of Man, tempted in every way, just like you are. Which means he was tempted to whatever, but also means he was tempted to doubt. He could have doubted him. He could have doubted. But he just couldn't see himself doing it. So he didn't doubt. He let the string out. Shh. Now let's get back to our lesson. Is this simple enough? Pretty simple, isn't it? Now, the first Adam opened the door to sin. And the last Adam became the door to salvation. Adam opened the door to sin for all mankind.
Pastor West: [00:31:04] But Jesus became the door. John ten says, John ten nine he said, I'm the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be Will be saved from Adam's disobedience. You might say, unlock the, you know, the prison of sin. And through Jesus obedience, he became the key that opens the door to freedom and eternal life. You know God has the ability. I love this. God has the ability of picking up and nobody to be a somebody in front of everybody without consulting anybody. Amen. He's the door. Man. You know, we're the. We are. The Scripture says the sons of God for the purpose of manifesting Christ. Romans 819 said, for the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. And their sons and daughters of God were not merely believers, just, you know, waiting for heaven, but were called to manifest Christ on earth. The world's not waiting for another religion. It's waiting, actually, for the revelation of Jesus Christ in you. Amen. I love this little story about and I believe this is what's happening today, and this is what I like to think that we're doing every time we come together. And I know that you do this with other people, but says there was a little boy watching a sculptor carve a massive block of marble, and after days of chiseling, the boy gasped in amazement as the figure of a lion emerged.
Pastor West: [00:32:59] And he asked. The young boy said, sir, how did you know? And that massive marble was used chiseling on it. How did you know there was a lion inside? And the sculptor smiled and said, I just removed everything that wasn't the lion. Amen. Today I'm not trying to plant a lion. The lion of Judah is already in there. I'm just chiseling away that everything is not. Come on. Amen. Amen. Think about the parable of the sower. How come it didn't have one? How come it didn't have mass? How come every time it was sown, it didn't reap. Because something did take. Came to choke the life out of it. Choke the word. It wasn't something that needed else to do. The seed was. The seed was the answer. What was the problem? What caused the seed to suffocate? The thorns, the thistles. The. The lack of depth of soil. So that sometimes your answer is not something that you don't have. You just need to take away something because of what is already there. The lion's already in there. We're just chiseling away and get rid of all the garbage. So the sculptor smiled, said, yeah, I just move. Everything was into the lion. I would say this. Likewise, the Holy Spirit has come to remove everything that is not Christ in you, revealing his nature through our lives. So you actually can see Jesus in you. Now. The church's authority works through Christ, and we see this we see the same Holy Spirit that empowered Jesus in Acts one verse eight.
Pastor West: [00:34:41] It says, and you shall receive power when the Holy Ghost is come upon you. So Jesus did miracles as the Son of Man anointed by the Holy Ghost. When you read Luke, the fourth chapter, 18 verse tells you that. And if Jesus Christ needed the Holy Spirit himself, do we not need him? Absolutely we need him. But he did the miracles as the Son of Man. You know, a lamp without a lamp, without electricity is is is powerless. I don't care what the lamp cost. I don't care how nice it is. I don't care how old or how modern it is. If it doesn't have a power source, if it doesn't have electricity, there'll be no illumination. And so we have authority over all Satan's power. How do we know that? Luke 1019 he said, behold, I give you power or authority over all the power of the enemy. Notice he didn't say most of it, or half of it. Notice Jesus didn't say, I send you out by 43%. Stay within your boundaries. Now he let the string out. In the same way, Jesus cast out demons and he rebuked storms, and he healed the sick, and he gave us authority over Satan's kingdom. Just like a police officer carries a badge and he can go like this to a 4,000 pound car. Does he physically have the ability to stop a 4,000 pound car? The answer is no.
Pastor West: [00:36:14] Why does it stop? Because of the badge, not the size of the man. It's what the badge represents. It's what's behind that badge. Why does Satan stop to a believer who says you go no further in the name of Jesus? See, people say, well, we have authority. No, you. Well, you say, well, I have authority. Actually you don't. Actually, Jesus has authority and you're using his right? Alright, I'll say it this way. If it's your if it's your if it's really your authority, why aren't you praying in your name? You're praying in his name. Why? Because it's his authority. Amen. It. It didn't say Satan succumbs to your name. It says it comes to the name of Jesus. So when you say in the name of Jesus. The first time that I got to experience this life, not the first time, but I remember, I remember putting my hand inside of a man's ears who was completely deaf, almost. I mean, when I say when I say couldn't hear, I mean, I'm right here, he's right here. And I'm talking, like, really loud, and he's trying to read my lips. Bill, using that service, some of you using that service, you fixed the man's car and his name was Bill. Remember him? You fixed. Had to have a belt or something that didn't he? Just. His belt just broke and he just coasted into the church that day. A homeless man trying to get. Where was he going? Florida or somewhere? Been homeless for 25 years.
Pastor West: [00:37:56] Became a wife, died and got all out of kilter. And He just I mean, he was I think he he used to work for IBM. His wife died, and he just couldn't he couldn't do life the way he did it. And he just became homeless, been living in his car. He said for 25 years now, he was in his 70s and he was a I mean, he kind of a tall guy. Of course he was said he had white hair but looked real, really looked pretty distinguished. And I mean, I guess he worked, you know, odd jobs here and there. And but he said he just, you know, wash his clothes. He told me, he said if I had money, I washed them in the laundry mat. If I didn't, I washed them in the creek somewhere, slept in his car for 25 years, but now he's in his 70s and his family said, you can't do this. You're not. Come on home. We got a place for you to stay. He was trying to get home and he got he was coming through. Clanton headed home. His car broke down, and it just he just drifted into the church. Just happened. Just happened to drift into the church. And I'm preaching and I'm preaching about the life of God. The holy life of God. No. Enough about it to be dangerous. And so he he comes up and and I had an altar call.
Pastor West: [00:39:20] We had some visitors, and there was 2 or 3 people came up and got saved. And and this guy, a gentleman, he comes up with him. So I'm just assuming, wouldn't you, that he's responding to the salvation call, but he's not responding to the salvation call. He's not responding to anything because he hasn't heard anything. So I'm trying to get him down. What you might call the Romans Road. He has to hear this and repeat every word of it. And he kept saying, and I'm trying to get him to repeat every word of it. And he's he's not getting every word of it. And I know this has to be, you know, a line upon line. That's just where my thinking was. He has to understand this and this, know this, and say it just right. Then he'll be saved. And the Lord rebuked me. He said, stop it. So I realized he hadn't heard anything I said, and he was actually was just coming up for help. And so I just started talking to him. I got the other two saved, you know, and they went and sat down and I'm talking with this gentleman, and he's and he's giving me a brief synopsis of what's happened to him. And, and so I'm, I'm trying to get him saved. And he wasn't sure if he was saved or not. I think he actually was. But just because of how his life had been, you know, he had all kind of remorse.
Pastor West: [00:40:32] He wasn't sure if he was saved or not. And so I can't get him to hear me well enough to repeat after me. And that's when the that's when the Lord, you know, he kind of rebuked me. He said, stop this. He said, rebuke that foul spirit and command it to go. And when he told me that, I just saw, I just saw in a mini picture mini vision, I saw myself putting my hands in his ears and I said these words. I said, you foul filed death demon. I rebuke you in Jesus name. Come out! And I did, and it did. And that's the end of the story. But what I didn't know, what he didn't tell me was what he didn't tell me was he was born without an eardrum in one. So all of a sudden he started hearing things and he could hear people talking. And he was he was like, wow. He was so happy. And and, I mean, I didn't have to ask him how he's doing because his face told me how he was doing. I mean, and it happened just instantly. And so he's he took his watch off and he put it next to his ear and he, he started all his tears was coming down. And I said I said do the other ear. He said, oh no, I mean, no, that's okay. I said, no, do the other ear.
Pastor West: [00:41:44] And I don't know, but he knows. And and so I was kind of adamant. And so he took the watch and, you know, just to make me feel good, he put it next to his other ear year and then he just lost it. He said, it's a tick, tick. Tick tick tick tick tick. I said, well, you wasn't that happy on the other side. I mean, you was happy, but like, you've lost it over here. He says, oh, you don't understand. I don't have an eardrum on this side. I said, tick, tick, tick. How dare the Holy Ghost put a hole? I didn't even tell him he could do that. I mean, I'm supposed to know about these things and then give the Holy Ghost the right to do things? But what happened was the life of God would end to him. And it knew everything that was wrong. And it attacked everything that was not life. Amen. Think about that. The life of God works in two ways. The life of God will flow into you, and it will here. He'll cure and set free what is wrong? But it will destroy what is wrong. That's not of God. That's not of life. That's not of good. And so he. He was set free. And brother Bill fixed his car. And we fed him that day and we had one come out. We they were stuffing money in his pocket everywhere. Help get him home. And that was during the days of those commercials.
Pastor West: [00:43:13] I don't know if it was AT&T or. What was that? Can you hear me now? Yeah. Verizon. It was way back then. They still got that problem sometimes. I have three drop calls this week. But you know, here I am screaming at him. You know, an hour before that and his car's ready to go. It's all gassed up. He's got money in his pocket. He's going to get he's going to go back home. And then you've heard me tell this part of the story. So when that happened to him living outside for 25 years. I mean, his, his knuckles were he had so much arthritis. I mean, he couldn't get his knuckles. He couldn't get his fingers to open up, and the knuckles were just huge from living outside for 25 years. So when that happened, he said, he said son, he said he says does he do arthritis? I didn't ask God, does he do arthritis? And so I just said, I said actually I said that's his actually his specialty. I'll never forget it. So I grabbed I grabbed his hands. Now he's got good hearing, right? He has a new eardrum. I grabbed his hands and then you could physically hear. And the knuckles began to pop and the joints became normal. And he said he jerked his hand. He says, what's that? What's that? I said, what's the matter? He says, my hands are so hot. I said, well, that's just the power of God.
Pastor West: [00:44:44] That's just the anointing. He said, the who? What? I said, it's just the it's just the power of God, his presence in you, healing your for this arthritis. And and I watched I it's amazing to get to watch these things. I got to watch the power of God go into his hands. You know some things people get healed, but it's internal. You can't see it. But it's fun to get to see the external things. And so I watched the knuckles, you know, straighten out. And he and he, he said, they're so hot. They're so hot. And it lasted, you know, about 5 or 6 minutes. And then he looked at his hands and this was the happiest man. And I said, I said, good thing your car broke down right here. So anyway, he's leaving, you know, he's getting ready to go home. And so we're out on the outside of the parking lot, at the front door at the church. And and he walked a few feet and I said, hey, Mister Bill. He turned around. He I said, can you hear me now? He said, oh, I can hear you. I let him get about ten more feet. And I said, hey, Mister Bill, he said. He turned around and said, I said, can you hear me now? He says, I can hear you fine. He got 60 foot away. He said, I can hear you now. Amen. How many of you think that car might have broke down just at the right place? Amen.
Pastor West: [00:45:57] Glory. God knows every little detail of your life. And so he's in the manifestation business. Amen. The church is in the preaching business. The church wants to preach about what he did. And become satisfied to do that. So they pulled the string in and because they're not seeing signs, one of his manifestations, we've come up with other things to do and programs and things to talk about. Instead of asking the question why Lord. Until you ask the question you can't get the answer. Amen. You say, well, I don't know if I want to hear the answer. Well, until you get ready to answer that question, you're probably not going to get the answer. Now we only have An hour and a half less. We gotta hurry up. Nah. Just kidding. So we do the same works as Jesus. Because he said, if you believe in me, the works that I do shall you do also. And that's what the Great Commission told us to do. It says to make disciples. Heal the sick. Raise the dead, cast out demons. They will speak with new tongues. But notice he said. He said heal the sick. He didn't say, pray for them. You can't find anywhere where Jesus said, pray for the sick. You see? Was that wrong? No, but you can't find anywhere that Jesus told you to go. Pray for the sick. All you can find is he told you to heal them.
Pastor West: [00:47:35] Now, I grew up in a church and probably you grew up in a church or you or you know, someone, but the church that I grew up in, we prayed for the sick, but we had a little tag to the end of it. Y'all remember what it is? Lord, if it's your Lord. If it's your will heal so and so. What were we indicating? We don't know what your will is. You determine to heal people on a case by case basis. Although the same people knew that Jesus went to the whipping post and it tells you that the whipping post, this was the penalty. This was the reason why the people who are going to be healed was because by his stripes you were healed. But we still put it on a case by case basis. Then they would, then they would go to James and they would try to pray the prayer of faith, and they would take the anointing of oil in James chapter five with the oil itself has no healing properties whatsoever. Soever I could put peanut butter on you. Mayonnaise. Mustard, ketchup. There's nothing in the oil other than that. It symbolizes the anointing of the Holy Spirit. And so if you want oil, we'll find some oil. But we could actually go out there and say, Bill, would you go pull your dipstick out real quick and bring I need, I need a little bit of oil.
Pastor West: [00:49:04] Hope it's a little bit fresh. That has no healing properties to it. But James chapter five said if anyone is sick, you know sick beyond. He PC. Nelson, a Greek scholar, said he's not indicating somebody with a small with a with a cold or a little cough. Someone who's sick. Beyond being able to help themselves, let them. Let them call for the elders of the church and let them pray over him. The what? The prayer of what? Faith. My. My only point to bringing that up is this. How can you pray the prayer of faith when you don't even know if know if it's God's will to heal someone or not. You can't. You can't pray the prayer of faith. Faith requires believing, doesn't it? Well, if you don't know if it's God's will to heal George or Frank or Susan or Anita or whatever, then you're having to go case by case basis. And that's why you go into a church sometimes. And you would say they would pray for everyone, but to cover themselves, why people didn't get healed, they would say, Lord, if it's your if it's your will. And they would tell you all kinds of reasons why people can't get healed. I mean, there's a whole gamut of reasons why people can't be healed. Number one is you have sin in your life. So does everyone sitting out there who you wouldn't say they are. Sin is not what you do wrong, only it's what you're not doing right.
Pastor West: [00:50:29] Maybe enough of it. You say, well, I didn't smoke any marijuana last week. Did you get anyone saved? Well, not this week. Well, you're. You're saying he told you to. Well, only. Well, I got to say. Well, how come you didn't get 15 steaks? So you eat enough of it. So you. It's a requirement. You're never going to you're never going to meet the requirement. So, so this salvation that belonged to everyone who believes it does. Right. The same penalty is for healing. It's not a different one. It's the same. So you you you wouldn't doubt would you. Would you doubt your salvation. If it ends up thunderstorming today and there's a thunderstorm. The rain in a thunderstorm. I mean, I mean the thunderstorm. I mean, just cracking. Pam. You know, just like, whatever. It's like, I don't know if I'm saved. He said, well, what would that have to do? Anything. Nothing. Then why would you doubt? By your stripes, he's healed? Well, because I still hurt. But you don't. You don't doubt. You don't doubt the rapture. If a thunderstorm comes up. Why? Why would you doubt your heel? Because you got a boo boo. See, that's where fate sets in. That's where faith determines. It reads this book and it settles it. Well, I believe I'm here. And I'm waiting on the manifestation. Now you're just waiting. Yeah. That was one word of faith adopted years ago. I know I'm healed.
Pastor West: [00:52:02] I'm waiting on the manifestation. Well, what would be the manifestation? Y'all help me here. If you need to be healed, then what would. What would be the manifestation or what healing? Well, what is your evidence as a believer that you know that you're healed? Simply what? By his stripes, you were healed. Where did you get that from? From the book or from your body? From the book. So you're waiting on what now? The manifestation of what? Oh, you're waiting on some on some physical evidence to show up in your body. Then you'll know that you're healed. But Psalms 107 20 says he sent his word and healed them. Better translation said he sent the word and it the word healed them. So that makes you the word. You're all your evidence. You're your proof. The word is your evidence. So if faith doesn't get to the place where it says, I got it. See, faith has to get to the place to say, I got it. Yeah, but the X-ray said X-ray is not a scripture. String in, string out. Which one? Which one do. See, these are the things we have to answer. String yarn or string out. So Jesus grew and he elevated as he grew in wisdom. Now I can't prove this is how it happened, but it's just interesting to think about. It there seems to be a progression to Jesus's ministry in the area of signs and wonders and miracles. He prayed for someone who had a fever.
Pastor West: [00:53:58] And even raising the dead, he prayed for someone who'd been dead an hour or two. He didn't start with Lazarus. And then he. Then he prayed for someone who'd been dead for a day or so. A day before we ever got to Lazarus. He walked things out in the spirit. I mean, if you think about how the Holy Ghost led you, he didn't start you with calculus when you hadn't been to kindergarten. Or you started believing God for $5. Not not $105,000. But there's things that you've mastered in the spirit that you don't even think about anymore. Your faith just walks all over it. But a year or two ago, it would. It would trip you up, trample you, and you'd be up day and night thinking about it, right? Yeah. Why? Because you have. You have elevated in your thinking. You've come to know more who you are in Christ. You've conquered areas that the enemy has placed in front of you. And now you don't give place to those things. Instead, you give place to other things. We all do. But if we're going to elevate, I mean, I can remember in 1990, going back to the church for the first time in years, when they used the word tithe, they wasn't the first time I heard it. I grew up in church, but I ain't heard it in a minute because I ain't been nowhere to hear it for ten years.
Pastor West: [00:55:31] And I'd like to say I jumped in the first week, but I But I didn't. I waited about a half a year and every week I went. I gave God a tip, which means I gave him 3 or 4 or $5. It wasn't a tithe. I was tipping God. But I knew better. And I kept on hearing the word, and it'd build faith in me and build faith in me. And I kept on hearing the word. It'd build faith in me. And I remember the first time that, you know that we tithe after, you know, she was kind of waiting on me. I wasn't waiting on her, but she didn't want to cause a problem. So I told her, I said, go ahead. I said, well, we're going to give the. I'll never forget said, we're going to give the tithe today. She look she said, well, thank God. I said, I said go ahead and give the whole 50. I mean like in one meeting, I mean like, what could a church do with a whole $50? Can you imagine? I hope the church don't go into sin over $50. I mean, does this pastor need needed $50. What are you going to do with it, pastor? He knows what to do with 50. He knows what to do with 50,000. He knows what to do with 500,000. Amen. I mean, you could even buy this building and fix it up for 500,000. So I don't, you know, today's economy.
Pastor West: [00:56:48] It don't it don't do much. Right. So I didn't lose my salvation over it. But I'd like to say I passed that test because, you know, and it wasn't a problem, but it was a problem. I put the 50 in there, and I'd just be honest. God, I was worried and I was scared because I needed that 50 and more just like it. And then I watched them take it in the plate and they were walking off with it. And you heard me tell it, but I'm not. I'm telling you the truth. I guess I was emotional and Miss Glenda came over to me afterwards after church, and she she was watching me, and she said she said, I just want to tell you this. She said during during this morning, during the tithe and offering, I said, yes, ma'am. She says, I couldn't help but see your face, she said. To know that someone loves Jesus so much, even during a time of of giving. She said, I just saw the tears go down your face. And I said, yes, yes, yes ma'am, yes ma'am, I said, I love Jesus. The tears was because I knew I was in more trouble and I watched. I wanted my $50 back. And the Lord was so kind and gracious to me because I had a car, you know, that hadn't worked for three weeks. That mercury sable or the chip in it, you know, the they call it the tech. We call it.
Speaker3: [00:58:14] Our our.
Pastor West: [00:58:16] The idol. Yeah. But on the what do you call the tachometer was showing. You know, it'd go up to 7 or 8000, which is a little bit too much when you put it in drive or reverse. I thought, oh, I knew I'd have a bigger problem. I wasn't much a mechanic, but I just thought this could be a bigger problem. So I just. I'd got it to the Ford place and they said, well, that's what it is. And, and I had a, I had bought it at the old McKinnon and not from you, but. Or did I buy it? No. Thank you. Jesus. Amen. I knew I still liked you for some reason. I bought the extended warranty, but it didn't cover it.
Speaker3: [00:58:53] Yeah.
Pastor West: [00:58:54] And And I didn't have the money to fix it. It was going to be over $1,000 thing. So he just sat out in the yard for three weeks, and here I am. Revelation comes and I act upon the word and going home that day. Believe this or not, I believe I actually heard the voice of God. And this will sound legalistic, but this is where I was at the time. He said he said we were going home and I went over to a railroad track, headed back to Clanton, and he says I would like to help you today. He said, you gave and is giving back to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together. And I thought, Lord, if that's you. Did. My pastor knows that too. He mentioned it this morning. He said, sound to me like in what I believe he said to me was, what would you what would you like me to do? And man, when he said and I said, and I said, that's about 30 years old. I said, do you fix cars? And he said, son, I fix anything. And I said, could you, could you fix that Mercury? We sure could use it. I don't have the $1,000. Nothing else. I said nothing, I said. And so this is probably my first conversation that I'd ever had with the Lord. I felt like he was speaking to me like that.
Pastor West: [01:00:23] And I was just sitting here thinking about, Did God come inside this car? I mean, and not only that, but God even did talk to me in church was over. He's working overtime. So I was got half scared to try that car, you know. I wanted to believe, you know, anyone ever tried to believe? I believe, I believe, I believe, I believe, I believe, I believe, I believe, I believe, I believe, I believe, I believe. But when we crank it, we going to know whether I believe or not. That's where I was at. Next morning I got in. Sure didn't need to use that car. And I got in and cranked it and the tachometer went to 1000 rpms, 900 to 1000, and never moved off of it ever again. And I don't know how the Lord knows how to fix a computer issue in a mercury. And I didn't scarcely. And I didn't have no grease on me. And I don't know if the Holy Ghost had grease on him. I don't, I don't know, but he absolutely fixed it. And I began to watch him do supernatural things like that all along, to where you get to the place where you expect the supernatural. You expect it. And when you expect it, you have to let the string out.
Speaker3: [01:01:43] Amen.
Pastor West: [01:01:44] Let the string keep going forward. So let me finish here this morning. And. Remind you of Jesus is 100% the Son of God, but he's 100% man. And he. We know that Jesus performed no miracles before the age of 30 years. 30 years of age. And that's when he began his public ministry. You know, when he was baptized in the River Jordan and the Holy Ghost told about the the dove came down. A voice from heaven said, this is my beloved son, who I am well pleased. There have been no miracles. He didn't heal a fever. He didn't heal a heart swing, but he was anointed of the Holy Ghost is when everything began to change. And so Paul gives us an insight in the book of Philippians, chapter two, verses five through eight. It says, let this mind be in you. That's a big statement.
Pastor West: [01:02:54] I had a minister tell me, I guess it was 2 or 3 years ago. He said you can't. He said y'all, you know y'all say stuff like this, but you, you can't have the mind of Christ. Not the mind of Christ. He said you can have the thought patterns and some reflections of the mind of Christ, but you can't have the mind of Christ. He said, don't you know that? And I said, well I said, do you believe that the Word of God is anointed? The Bible said that God moved upon holy men of old, and what they what they wrote down was inspired of the Holy Ghost. He said, well, yeah, I know that's true. And I said, well, then I quoted this verse right here in Philippians, and I said, well, don't tell that. Don't tell the Holy Ghost, because he doesn't know what you're talking about, because he said, let this mind be in you. Is that possible that you could actually have the mind of Christ? If you do and choose to go that way. You're going to be letting the string out.
Speaker3: [01:04:03] Amen. Amen.
Pastor West: [01:04:07] See some of you, if I were to ask you privately tell me two things that you want the Holy Ghost to do for you today. Or tell me two things that if you know, it almost sounds like people granting wishes. You know, like the genie on the on the bottle? No. If there was 1 or 2 things that the Holy Ghost would do for you, what would be those things? And would they be scriptural? I mean, would it be something in your relationships? Would it be something in your physical body? Would it be your finances? Does the word cover it? I would have to ask you. And if the word covers it. And if it belongs to you. And if we're not walking in it. Let me be nice as I can. I'm trying to find a very nice way to say this. If we're not walking in what we know belongs to us. We're not submitted under the Lord's leadership. We're submitted under the devil's leadership.
Pastor West: [01:05:15] Because Satan is the God of this present world system and all these things that we're talking about is under his jurisdiction.
Pastor West: [01:05:26] And we don't want to be under his jurisdiction. The Satan who's the God of this world hath blinded the what the minds of those lest they believe the glorious light of the gospel.
Pastor West: [01:05:38] The Bible says when you look in the word, the words of mirror, what does the word, what does the mirror do? Only thing it does is what it gives you a, a reflected image. How many looked in the mirror this morning to do your makeup, do your hair, brush your teeth, whatever.
Speaker3: [01:05:54] Yeah.
Pastor West: [01:05:55] I did, but I noticed this morning the mirror would not brush my teeth for me. I'm sorry. Mirror you ladies, you put on makeup. Did you use a mirror?
Pastor West: [01:06:08] Did the mirror help you put on your makeup physically.
Speaker3: [01:06:11] Yes.
Pastor West: [01:06:12] Did the mirror have arms on it and put makeup on for you. Did it do the eyebrows. Did it. Did it do the Rouge? Did it do all the. No. And during the day, when you're out and about and you're out. And if it's a windy day, you know, you get back in your car and you. What do you do? You look in the mirror. You're like, oh, man, what are you doing? You're making adjustments, right? You're making adjustments. You comb your hair, you're making adjustments.
Pastor West: [01:06:42] When you live life sometimes you got to make adjustments. So you look in the mirror to find out what man or man you're supposed to be. Because this is the mirror so that you look just like him.
Speaker3: [01:06:54] Amen. Amen.
Pastor West: [01:06:55] And whatever you look at long enough you'll look like.
Speaker3: [01:06:59] Amen. Glory.
Pastor West: [01:07:01] The question is, what are you looking at? What have you succumbed to? What have you said? I'm adjusting my life around this problem now.
Pastor West: [01:07:13] Why don't you push back a little bit and push back a little bit more this afternoon and push back just a little bit more tomorrow. Push back for 30 days. I'm not talking about an average of your flesh. I'm just talking about putting truth in and let and let the string out. And as you begin to reflect on these truths, Jesus said, then you shall know the truth. And the truth. What? What set you free? The truth does. He just said, the truth will set you free. You don't have to understand all of it. I mean, there's things I do all the time. I don't I have no full understanding of it. I get in my vehicle every day and drive it. I couldn't tell you if I had to sit there and tell you what actually happened. From the time I go like this. I mean, I'd be lost forever. I could just tell you a couple of things that happened, but I don't have to know how mechanically the engine works. As long as Mr. Beale does. If he knows we're in good shape. Right. Mr. Carroll, do you know how the engine in your car operates? No. Do you care to know? No. See, she don't even care to know. I don't. I'm her. Not only does she and I not know, we don't even want to know.
Pastor West: [01:08:39] So don't keep us at the service and explain it to us, okay? We just. But we will call you if it doesn't. And that gives you cause something called job security. So let this mind closing right here. Be in you, which was in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God. Godly. But made himself of no reputation. He took the form of a servant coming into the likeness of men became man see, and being found in appearance as a what? You not looking at, are you? And being found in appearance as a man. He humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death, even to the death of the cross. So what did Jesus will to do these five things? He made himself of no reputation. He took the form of a servant. He came in the likeness of man. He humbled himself and became obedient to the death. And since he went so low, God raised him up and exalted him and gave him a name that's above every name. And that name was recognized in three worlds heaven, earth, and beneath the earth. And you're made in his likeness, and you're made in his image.
Speaker3: [01:10:01] Amen.
Pastor West: [01:10:02] You have to believe that, you know, there's no way that I can recreate an eardrum. When I didn't even know there needed to be one Right. You had to say it was Christ working through me. You can't say it was me. I don't care whether you like me or you don't like me. You know, I didn't create no eardrum, so you can't tell me I'm just human. If God through me can create an eardrum or cause, you know, parts to be made in body or take parts out after a surgery. When you begin to see some of these things you want, you want to let the string out and see more and do more. So. He emptied himself. Maybe that's what we need to do this morning, is we have some things that maybe we're not even aware of, that we need to empty. Some thinking, some doctrine. Some things that we give place to. If all things are possible, then what will the next week look like? What are you going to do with your all things are possible. What are you going to do with the faith that you have? Because the faith that you have is his faith. These are simple things, but they're not. But they're very complicated if you want to in one sense, not not complicated. I'm just saying they're very when I say you have faith and you have his faith, that's a huge statement. You have his faith. So what will you do next week with his faith?
Speaker3: [01:11:43] Amen.
Pastor West: [01:11:44] Will you succumb or will you elevate? You say, well, I have problems with fear. Okay. Then God didn't give you a spirit of fear. Yeah, but I still have it. See? So you're arguing with the Bible is what you're doing. You're arguing with God. But why do I say that? It's not to belittle you because we've all had those things that we've dealt with, but we've had to come to the decision and say, but, but the Bible says so and so and give the devil and what? No place. If you have to resist him 15 times in the next hour, then you resist him. Look here. Either you're submitted to him or he submitted to you.
Speaker3: [01:12:38] Amen.
Pastor West: [01:12:38] He just comes down to those two things.
Speaker3: [01:12:40] Yeah.
Pastor West: [01:12:42] Either the devil is in charge of your life or you are. Either Jesus paid for you. Either Jesus paid the price for you, and you're his. Or the devil paid the price for you. And you're here. There's only two. You're either in light or darkness. The kingdom of darkness. The kingdom of God. Which one is it? Proverbs 814 says 1814 says the strong spirit of a person will sustain you in time of bodily pain or trouble. I've walked in that scripture many times. Physically, it didn't feel like doing a lot of things. Didn't physically feel the strength to do it. Sometimes felt absolutely the opposite. On the other side. Then I just read the scripture and said, well, there we go. So there it is. I'm strong in the Lord and power is might, and everything on them is like air. Everything on the inside like, no it's not. You're a liar. I was like, no, the strong spirit will sustain me in times of bodily pain and trouble. I'm strong in the Lord in the power of his might. That's what he said. Be strong in the what? In the Lord, in the power of his might I just live. I have the might. I have the spirit of might have the spirit of counsel, the spirit of wisdom. All that's working on the inside of me. Greater is he that sent me. He's in the world.
Speaker3: [01:13:57] Amen.
Pastor West: [01:13:57] And the more I talked about it, the more I began to renew my mind. The more I voiced it, the more I believed it. I said God didn't give me a spirit of fear. Shut up! Fear. Shut your face! Get out of this place! I'm a child of God. You have no place to me. And those feelings are like, you're like this, and you're like this and all that, and you're going to die. It's like, no. If I die, I'm going to go to Paradise. Where are you going to go? Back to hell. I mean, you have no future. Just shut up. So you have to silence those voices. You have to bring those things to naught. And then those things will begin to translate into your body. And into your emotions. Your emotions are there to help you, to serve you, not to master you.
Pastor West: [01:14:43] Don't succumb. Either you're going to be the master or they're going to be the master.
Speaker3: [01:14:49] Amen.
Pastor West: [01:14:50] And I'm just telling you, release your release things into your life and your body. That will be amazing. You know, when the Scripture talks about we have this, it says in Romans eight was it 14? Not 14. Let's talk about the same spirit that raised Jesus Christ from the dead. 811 thank you. The same spirit. Think about that. The same spirit, which means the identical spirit, the same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead. Now where was Jesus dead at? He'd need to be raised from. Where was he.
Speaker3: [01:15:27] At?
Pastor West: [01:15:28] Oh, hell. Oh. Have you ever been there? Anyone ever been to hell?
Speaker3: [01:15:33] No.
Pastor West: [01:15:35] Okay. You didn't go for three days. Who been there for two? One hour, 20 minutes. Okay. Jesus is dead in hell, right? And the same spirit that raised him from the dead, he said dwells in you.
Speaker3: [01:15:53] Wow.
Pastor West: [01:15:55] Now, I will say this to be accurate. He's talking about there's a time coming when there's going to be a full resurrection, and your body is going to go through a full manifestation, and it will receive the fullness of the earnest. And you'll be a spirit body. But he's telling you there's already a down payment on the inside of you today.
Speaker3: [01:16:12] Amen.
Pastor West: [01:16:13] Come on, get your giddyup!
Speaker3: [01:16:14] Going!
Pastor West: [01:16:15] Glory to God! Hallelujah! He said there's a measure of the fullness of what's going to come. But it's already in you. If you're born again. And what's in you is the same thing that raised him from the dead when he was in hell and everything was against him. He said, now if you got a measure of what raised him from the from the dead in hell, he said that that measure will begin to quicken.
Speaker3: [01:16:37] Amen.
Pastor West: [01:16:37] Which means make alive your mortal body before then. One day you won't be mortal.
Speaker3: [01:16:45] Hallelujah.
Pastor West: [01:16:46] But how many know your body right now is mortal? If you have any aches and pains ever, you know it's a mortal body. It's like that's. Where's the problem? I got some mortality right there. Could y'all get rid of that mortality? Well, he said it said it will quicken your mortal body. That means right here on this earth, in the nasty, here and now. If you belong to Christ, then you have a measure of the quickening.
Speaker3: [01:17:13] Amen. Yeah.
Pastor West: [01:17:15] So what do you do? Where's it at? Where is this measure at right now? Where could it be? It's in your spirit, right? It could be nowhere else but your spirit. How do I. How do I access it? You release.
Speaker3: [01:17:32] It.
Pastor West: [01:17:33] You release from your spirit with words. That quickening spirit that raised Christ from the dead. And it will go just. Just like when you take a ibuprofen or a Tylenol and you swallow it somehow. I don't know how they make that stuff. You can swallow that right there. And if your foot hurts somehow, it knows to get down to your foot. It just looks to me like you would take a Tylenol like idea and say, hey, my left foot hurts like rip. Well, let me show you. It hurts right there.
Speaker3: [01:18:08] See it?
Pastor West: [01:18:09] Now I'm going to swallow you and I'm gonna drink a lot of water. But I need you to get. Let me show you one more time. Right there. Has anyone ever done that? Thank God you have.
Speaker3: [01:18:22] It.
Pastor West: [01:18:23] Now. Carol, do you know how the motor works? I don't. Tell us how. Tell us now. How medically? How? When you swallow that, it knows how to get there. Do you know how that works? I don't.
Speaker4: [01:18:34] Do you know your bloodstream?
Pastor West: [01:18:37] You're supposed to say. I don't know either.
Speaker3: [01:18:38] It's.
Pastor West: [01:18:42] Got to be smart. People hear the bluster, okay? You didn't hear what she said, was she? She said she didn't know.
Speaker3: [01:18:49] Like me.
Pastor West: [01:18:51] But. But it does, doesn't it? It knows where to go. If it's a headache or if it's a backache or if it's a toe ache. Whatever's in that chemical that's in there, it goes to bring aid to it.
Speaker3: [01:19:04] Amen.
Pastor West: [01:19:04] You know what the life of God does? It knows where to go without you having talked to her.
Speaker3: [01:19:09] Amen.
Pastor West: [01:19:12] So you release it out of your spirit, and you just see. Now, if that if you learn something today. When I just said that, that's what happened to Jesus. He grew in wisdom and stature. And then he began to what? Elevate. If you forget that, it will be to no avail to you. Then you begin to master what you haven't mastered before. Then, six months from now, when that happened, you think, no, no, wait a minute, wait a minute. Instead of me just saying, I got this and I got that, and it's going to be like this. And so I'm gonna go get me 40 more aides to help me with my problem. I'm gonna let the rope out a little bit, and I'm not going to say, well, thank you, Jesus, I believe I'm healed. Okay, but see, But that hasn't worked for you. But why hasn't that worked for you? Because it is true. But why hasn't that worked for you? Because I promise you something in here.
Speaker3: [01:20:04] Sabotaging it. Yeah.
Pastor West: [01:20:06] You're repeating it. And you believe it in your heart. But something in here that you also believe. And that is what's choking the word. It's not that Jesus hasn't done it. It's something in here is sabotaging the just about. When the money's almost about to come in, it doesn't quite get there. That's because you can't see yourself making what you're making. You have to elevate the image on the inside so that. So that the Holy Spirit can feel the room.
Speaker3: [01:20:36] Amen. Glory.
Pastor West: [01:20:37] You have to remove the boundaries so he can fill the house up.
Speaker3: [01:20:41] Amen.
Pastor West: [01:20:44] If you're going to sell the house, do they move your furniture out so they can move theirs in? Make room for the supernatural. Make room for the supernatural.
Pastor West: [01:20:53] Come to the place to say you know I'm. There's some things I must be conformed to that I have not yet been transformed to. I believe I'm healed. I do, I do believe in healing. I know I believe in him. That's not the problem. You're right. It's not the problem. It's the other stuff. It's the other stuff. It's the things that come to choke the word and always know this. You say, well, what are those things? Well, there's a lot of things, but you can make it like this. If you can touch it, taste it, feel it, hear it or see it, it's coming that way. It ain't coming no other way. The devil only has one way to come to you. Through the flesh, through your five senses.
Pastor West: [01:21:39] He can't work in your spirit. He has no access to your spirit. So he brings it into the realm of the seen and of the mind. And if he can subvert the mind and he'll do that always by telling you who you aren't. In other words, you are not a Christ. Adam. You're more Adam conscious than Christ conscious. Which means you're more. Which means you're always so. Sin consciousness. There's. There's inferiority within you. In inside you somewhere. Because of that sin consciousness mind. But the sun eradicates sin. So either in Adam or you're in Christ, you're either lost or you're saved. You're either walking by the spirit or you're walking by the flesh. You're either in the first Adam or the last Adam.
Speaker3: [01:22:43] Amen.
Pastor West: [01:22:44] Which Adam do you want to be in? First or last? Last. So tell me how this man. Tell me how that Adam thinks. Tell me what he did. Tell me how he elevated. Tell me how he refused. What the devil brought to him in the wilderness. And then you'll elevate. And then you will not come under his dominion. Because either you're under submitted to the Lord or you're submitted to the enemy.
Speaker3: [01:23:11] That's right. That's right.
Pastor West: [01:23:17] I remember this. I think these things are. We're we're past our time. I understand that. No, this. People say, well, what about genes and DNA? See, that's wanting to have a bunch of conversations. That's. That's no different than the church saying, well, I'm going to go to the doctor and get an x ray and tell me what it is. So we'll say we'll know how to pray about it. Well, really? That's really. Yeah, I remember Jesus doing that. That's right. That woman came up to him and he knocked and she told me she had this problem. And he said, well, I'll tell you what I'm going to come back here tomorrow. Why don't you go to the doctor, Jesus said, and find out what the doctor says. And tomorrow when I come back through, we'll know how to pray about this. Do you have to know anything medical at all? No, because it's just the life of God is what it is, you see. You say, well, you don't believe in DNA. Yeah, I understand there's DNA and all that kind of stuff. But here's my last and final closing. You may have DNA. We all do. Here's the higher truth. You ready? You have a. You have a natural mom and dad, and you may have some of that DNA in your life. We all do, right? Okay. You've been re fathered.
Speaker5: [01:24:39] Amen, Lord. Amen. Hallelujah.
Pastor West: [01:24:43] Check his DNA.
Speaker5: [01:24:44] That's right. Amen.
Pastor West: [01:24:46] More than a conqueror. Amen. God bless you.
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