Living in the Balance of Grace & Faith – Andrew’s Classics – Season 3, Ep. 10
Living in the Balance of Grace & Faith – Andrew’s Classics – Season 3, Ep. 10
[Music]
well hello everyone and welcome back to
this episode of of Andrews Classics
where we’re talking about living in the
balance of Grace and Faith and I’ll tell
you it has already been just an
incredible time really of sitting down
with Andrew pulling some different
things out of him getting some
Revelation and and just uh seeing how
this has progressively been impactful
upon his life and really causing him to
think differently to grow to to expand
the vision that God has given him and I
think it’s been challenging to me
personally yeah you know it’s not only
about seeing what how this can impact
other people and the word of God in at
work in other people is how do we begin
to make this personalize this and make
this part of our own testimony to see
the greater things that God has in store
for us yeah we were just in the dressing
room unchanging which maybe you didn’t
need to know but you
were just talking this stuff is so good
I mean we just get so
excited talking about these things
because um even in the last episode
there just I honestly I was just looking
through it just pages and pages and
pages of notes and comments and just
nuggets for all of us just to just to
talk about as far as you know the both
sides and so we’re really and if you’ve
been noticing if you’ve been following
along with us in these episodes really
talking about Grace and then faith and
he says oh but what if people say this
well then and he jumps right into these
key topics and then over here in Grace
again over here in faith and I just love
even in that last episode like the
aspect of then applying our faith is we
do got to we do have to get into the
word which people on the outside may say
oh you’re so religious and you’re doing
so many works but it’s all about our
resp our our attitude like I’m not doing
this to get God I’m getting this to
understand God you know and Andrew
really jumped into Hebrews chapter 4 in
our last episode where he talked about
just the aspect of entering how how the
children of Israel never had never
entered into the rest that God had
provided for them and it’s amazing
because he went through all went through
verses 1- 11 and it it talks about that
rest and talks about that progression
that we’re called into but then also in
verse number 12 the word almost it
almost seems to be disconnected but it’s
not it fits perfectly in where it
actually focuses upon the word it says
for the word of God is quick and
powerful and sharper than any two-edged
sword piercing even to the dividing
aunder of the soul and the spirit the
joints of the marrow and and and is a
discerner of the thoughts and the
intents of the heart what’s incredible
about that is that it identifies what
the word of God is so powerful in doing
yeah is it draws us out to a place where
we we have the opportunity to truly
trust in what God is speaking in his
word more than what we see around us
amen and and you know when we talk about
again going back to the Hebrews 4 which
we talked about the last laboring to
enter into that rest it’s like the rest
is what Grace provided yes and the
accomplished it is finished work of
Jesus and then I’m going to give you the
Holy Spirit is’s going to lead you in
guide you into all truth and all
understanding and he’s going to show you
right the things to come the things that
belong to you and then this this
activity then a faith of what we’re
getting ready to come into so I like um
when Andrew was talking about uh just
his journey of just being in the word to
get to a place yeah of peace with God
and just of I’m not going to worry I’m
just if God said it I’m going to do it
and I’m like he said and I wrote it down
he said uh he says just hide and watch
because he’s talking about the the
campus build down says just hide and
watch because sometimes people will look
at your faith and be like uh yeah okay
whatever and they they don’t get to say
whether you’re right or wrong the word
says whether you’re right or wrong God’s
voice to you and so um sometimes you can
get then this confidence not arrogance
but confidence of just all right hide
and watch yeah he just okay all right
you if you don’t want to believe and you
don’t want to join my faith that’s okay
I’m going to rest in what God’s told me
and then he says um he says so you can
get on board in faith and rest with him
talking about Andrew’s talking about
this with the campus and the things and
the network and all the things we’re
believing God for he said or not and
stand in disbelief and wait to see what
God does yeah and I think I I I love
this because when you are resting in God
and you have this assurance in God it
does create this boldness well and I
think that you know Andrew has talked
about before how you know when you you
conceive something in your heart it’s
actually more exciting to him than when
he actually sees it with his physical
eyes because he says he talks often
times how the time of conception is even
more fun than the time of birth well
yeah cuz we have to do the
birthing well the thing about it is is
that that’s for him he’s already seeing
with his spiritual eyes the things that
God has birthed in the vision that God
has given him that’s what Grace does it
just it ignites that’s why he can say
you just you sit back and you watch you
or you hide and you watch you just wait
to see what God’s going to do because
for him it’s already done it’s already
complete and that’s that’s the same
confidence that we can have in the word
of God that we don’t wait to see it no
when the word of when we see in the word
that’s when it becomes our reality and
then later on other people can see it
too and they can Rejoice with us over
something that we’ve we’ve seen maybe 9
months 6 months 3 months ago because we
got that principle from the and it just
it takes off this pressure off of you
and I and then that’s what faith does
now as do we push do we labor yes but
it’s not this pressure it’s like the the
the the labor is that I’m going to
continue to speak to my flesh I’m going
to continue to trust in God I’m going to
continue to speak to my emotions but if
God said it then it’s mine Amen period
Well we have some more principles we’re
going to go through with Andrew during
in this next clip so um sit back relax
enjoy this time we’re going to jump into
next clip and then we’ll be back again
afterwards to discuss it even
further but you know what you have to
respond in faith to what God does
through his grace through his goodness
it’s not going to automatically
happen and let me just make some
applications here that there are some of
you watching this program and you may
think it’s a total mistake that you’ve
watched but you know what God is
speaking through me to you you’re doing
things that you know are
wrong you know I had a woman come to one
of my meetings recently and she was she
wanted me to pray for something and she
whispered in my ear and there was a lot
of noise around I said I can’t hear you
and she had to say it two or three times
and finally she says uh I’m living I
forgot the exact wording but I’m I’m
living in sin and would you pray for me
and I said I want to know specifically
what you’re doing well she was shacking
up with the guy she was just living with
him she was a young girl she was
attractive looking she was shacked up
with a guy and I said you’re wanting me
to pray for you you’re wanting God’s
benefit in your life but you are just
throwing open a door to the devil to
come in and to destroy you and to kill
you and I said if you want God’s
goodness it’s not that God demands that
you be worthy of it and earn his favor
that’s not it but you can’t have one
hand out to God and the other hand out
to the devil it’s like God will bless
you and the devil will just take it from
you as soon as God blesses you and gives
it to you I said if you want to
experience God’s goodness you need to
quit this you need to get out and she
says but I’m I I’ve got all my stuff
there I’m living with I don’t have a job
I couldn’t make it on my own and I said
live in the street do whatever you’ve
got to do but quit living in sin I said
the very fact that you’re coming to me
and asking for prayer shows that you’re
convicted about this God’s been speaking
to you and I said you need to yield
yourself to God and resist the devil
again I’ve used this verse every day
this week James 4:7 submit yourselves
therefore unto God God is telling her
get out God was convicting her that’s
the reason that she came and wanted me
to pray so here’s God you she needs to
submit to that and then resist the devil
it’s the devil that would have her just
shack up with a guy and not make a
commitment and not be married to him and
so I said yield to God resist the devil
and he’ll flee from you and this girl
just started crying and I don’t know
what the final result of it was but I
prayed that God had just help her to do
what’s right and that she’d stand up and
you know we we weave these webs and we
get ourselves entangled in things and
dependent upon other people and stuff
but I tell you for my myself if I was in
a situation and I came to realize that
this is sin I’d get out of it
immediately I mean I wouldn’t let the
door hit me on my way out I’d be gone
and I know that many of you don’t look
at things that way and that’s the reason
that you hadn’t got some of the benefits
and the testimony that I’ve got is
because I am quick I don’t do it
perfectly but I’m quick to try and
submit myself to God and resist the
devil God is a good god the Devil is a
bad devil if it’s good it’s God if it’s
bad it’s the devil if you will yield to
God you’ll get good if you yield to the
devil you’re going to get
bad God is not the one that’s doing all
of this evil God does not just control
everything these verses that I’ve used
Romans 8:28 do not say that God will
make anything even you shacking up with
some person work together for good oh
you could get AIDS you could be on the
brink of death all of a sudden come to
yourself turn to God and start having
faith in God and it could work out for
good but I can guarantee you as often as
not you’re going to die from that you
don’t have to have that tragic situation
in order to learn that you should have
been serving God and seeking God the
whole time you can do that you can let
the word of God correct you you know
parents are commanded to correct their
children but there’s a right and a wrong
way to correct if a parent was to take a
tube before to their kid and just beat
their brains out and cause brain damage
that’s wrong I guarantee you there’s not
a Civilized Nation that wouldn’t
prosecute the parents that is not
correction that’s
abuse God gave kids extra padding on a
certain part of their body so that you
could correct them there there’s a right
and a wrong way to do it likewise God
doesn’t correct you with cancer and with
disease and with divorce and with
failure there is a right and a wrong way
to correct and God corrects through the
word all scripture is given by
inspiration of God and is profitable for
Doctrine for Repro for correction so
that you might be made perfect
thoroughly furnished unto all good works
you don’t need
life’s hardships to teach you things you
can learn it through the word of God and
see if you if you start blaming God for
all of these hardships yes you could
learn through them but if you start
blaming god well then that would make
God in a sense guilty of child abuse God
doesn’t do that there is a certain way
that God has a correct in you and that’s
through the
word so we are talking about balance of
Grace and Faith and we just finished um
this old clip where you’re talking about
saying no to sin and why what is so key
about Sin and talking about Grace and
Faith and why is it important well
because anytime you go to talking about
Grace and saying it’s not based on your
performance the people who criticize
that are going to come out and say well
so you’re encouraging people to sin
you’re saying it doesn’t matter because
the only reason that the average person
resists sin is because of a fear that
God is going to punish them so if you
take away the punishment and say that no
you’re accepted by Grace and it’s not
based on your performance their question
is well then why I live holy yeah
because the only reason they were living
holy is so that they wouldn’t be punish
punish him yeah but the answer to that
is that the love of Christ will compel
you to live Holier accidentally than you
ever have on purpose before so
um most people are actually uh they’re
manipulated motivated to do the right
thing by fear of punishment and when you
start uh using a love motivation they
just think that people won’t respond to
that yeah so I would say this
that fear is a more common motivation
everybody understands fear but love is a
stronger motivation and if a person ever
really understands what God has done for
them through Grace they will wind up
serving the lord and so uh it doesn’t
lead you to live in sin matter of fact
over in 1 John chapter 3 it says behold
what manner of love the father has ha
bestowed upon us that we should be
called the sons of God therefore the
world knows us not because it knew him
not beloved now are we the sons of God
and it does not yet appear what we shall
be but we know that when he shall appear
we shall be like him for we shall see
him as he is and then the third verse
says and every man that has this hope in
him purifies himself even as he is pure
so if you really see the love of God it
will cause you to purify yourself any
person who says oh I’m I’ve accepted the
grace of God and it encourages them to
go live in sin that’s not the grace of
God Amen because God’s grace teaches us
to deny ungodliness and worldly lust
second yeah second chapter of Titus
Chapter 2: 11 it’s the whole it’s that
whole aspect of the goodness of God
draws you to repentance and there and
that you said there are
um people that are wanting God’s
goodness but they’re still wanting to
live for the devil over in 1 John
Chapter 2 I believe it’s verse four says
he that saith I knoweth him and keepeth
not his Commandments is a liar and the
truth is not in him mhm so anybody who
says that oh I I know him and yet
they’re out just living in sin now
there’s a difference between failing all
of us fail but a person who is living in
sin promoting sin and defying openly
what God’s standards are they’re a liar
yeah yeah a person could fail but they
will be convicted of it and they
wouldn’t be promoted
they wouldn’t be like for instance they
wouldn’t say that God made me a
homosexual and this is the way God wants
me to be and start trying to twist
scripture to justify it that’s um those
people that say those kind of things do
not know God noen no I remember when I
first um I had been obviously legalistic
in in religion for 22 years before I
ever really heard the grace message when
I first heard of car and I would were
having conversations and I said uh
really Grace is a great revealer it
shows you what’s already in your heart
if you feel a license to go out or
freedom to go out and sin then that was
already in your heart to do you you just
didn’t do it because uh you were afraid
of the the the circumstances the
repercussions but if you feel free now
to go out and love the Lord that was
always in your heart to do but you’ve
been given freedom to do that yeah but
you know there’s I’d say that most
Christians when they’re trying to talk
somebody out of like being an alcoholic
or something like that they’ll sit there
and say don’t you realize that this is
ruining your health you could get
therosis of the liver you realize it’s
uh costing you a lot of money don’t you
realize that you could wind up having a
car wreck and killing yourself or
killing somebody else yeah and they will
talk about these things that are all
true and those are good enough reasons
not to be a drunk but what if they came
up with something that you could drink
and get high and yet never get therosis
of the Le liver if if it was free if
somehow or another they could guarantee
You’ never hurt yourself or somebody
else does that now make it okay see it’s
still wrong even though these
consequences are there if if somebody
could come up with a drug or something
that could eliminate all the
consequences it’s still wrong because
the number one reason that it’s wrong is
because you are turning to a bottle or
to drugs to cope with your hurt and your
discouragement and stuff instead of
turning to the Lord that’s good God
wants to be that source so so the real
motivation for living holy should be
because God is the source of everything
God God loves you God wants to help you
to deal with your problems instead of
turning to a bottle or turning to a drug
buten again most people have been
conditioned that the reason I need to do
what’s right is because I’m going to be
punished by God or punished by Society
if I do these things and that’s the
wrong motivation yeah and love will will
set them free from the condemnation and
at the same time set them free from
depending on something besides God
that’s that’s so good and you used in
here again the scripture where we talked
about submit yourself to God and resist
the devil and so and that was episodes
back we talked about that uh if if you
think God’s in uh the you know the cause
of everything you never resist the devil
in the same way if you take that same
thought well then all temptation and
every difficulty it’s you just might as
well submit to it and then you find
yourself hardened and captured by sin
and so um and you said this you said um
for yourself you came to realize um that
you would that that that was something
you’re going to flee no matter what the
cost you were going to flee it um and
this was this was a clip again 20 years
ago um you said you no matter what and
you said even at that time that’s that’s
the reason you’re seeing all the
Miracles in your life at that time
because you had decided I’m splending to
God and I’m resisting the devil on every
possible occasion and I think anybody
who’s Born Again has a desire to do that
but you know the scripture says that the
law is the strength of sin that the law
made sin come alive and revive the first
quote was from 1 Corinthians 15:56 the
second one’s uh Romans chapter 7 the law
uh made sin come alive it deceived me by
it slew me it condemned us and on and on
so a person who is truly Born Again
wants to live for God but if they
haven’t heard the truth and if they’re
still under a legalistic mentality
they may be dominated by sin it says in
Romans 6:14 sin shall not have dominion
over you for you are not under the law
but under grace yeah but if you are
under a law well then sin will have
dominion over you so a person could be
born again and still really struggling
with some sin or addiction or something
like that because they haven’t heard the
truth they’ve been living under religion
but if you are truly born again your
heart has been changed you have a desire
to live for God and so anybody who would
take Grace and sit there and use it for
a justification for going out and living
in sin and living in morally and yeah
doing stuff they’re a liar y they are a
liar now again you could fail and
struggle because you haven’t heard the
truth but any person who would promote
sin has not yeah had their hardship
because like I think you’ve even said it
too that some people just they can
perish because there’s a lack of
knowledge they’ve never learned their
Authority or their identity and so they
still believe those lies even though
they’ve received the Lord but what
happens if they don’t change then the
sin’s going to harden their hearts and
they could eventually just turn away
from the Lord yeah that’s another thing
I got a whole series on that Hardness of
Heart but it says that your heart
becomes hardened through the
deceitfulness of sin Hebrews chapter 3
and it’s not that sin changes God’s
heart towards you but it changes your
heart towards God it makes you cow
insensitive and you don’t want to do
that God is speaking to all of the time
amen but if our heart is hardened it
says in Mark chapter 8 that you can’t
perceive you can’t understand you can’t
hear it makes you dull of hearing yeah
so it’s not that God quits speaking to
you but you quit listening because your
heart has become hardened through sin I
mean and then this also goes back to the
aspect of the sovereignty of God because
sometimes people think that God will use
sickness or different things to teach
people lessons if they are in sin to try
to get them out of sin and you did
address that you talked about how God
doesn’t God doesn’t correct us that way
he corrects us a better way through the
word through it says in 2 Timothy 3:16
that all scripture is given by
inspiration of God and is profitable for
Doctrine for reprove for correction for
instruction and righteousness that the
man of God might be perfect thoroughly
furnished un all good work so good so
that says that the word of God is what
corrects you and reproves you and it
makes you perfect that means complete or
mature yeah so you don’t have to have
sickness and disease and poverty and
hard ship to make you better amen God is
a better God than that so good now you
can learn by hardship I’m not I’ve
learned by hardship I’ve made mistakes
and boy you go beat your head against a
wall you’re going to say that hurt I’m
not going to do that again but you don’t
blame God for that that’s you that learn
by your Hard Knocks so you can learn by
Hard Knocks but that is not God’s method
yeah he doesn’t use tragedy to teach you
something although he can turn around
tragedy if we run to can use anything
but he doesn’t do that absolutely all
right well we’re going to watch the new
clip or the new one uh talking about the
same subject and then we’ll be back to
talk and ask you more
questions if you really knew God you
would live holy therefore you can look
at people who are living Unholy and say
these people don’t know God now it’s
possible that they could know him as
Savior and still not live holy because
the Bible says faith comes by hearing
and hearing by the word of God and maybe
all they heard was just you can believe
and get forgiven of your sins and they
that’s all the faith that they have and
they haven’t heard the rest of it and so
they’re living a substandard life and
getting substandard results because they
haven’t heard the truth but to a large
degree or majority you could say that
people who are living an Unholy
life are living that way because they
don’t truly know God if you knew God
knowing God will make you live holy it’s
not the other way around living holy
doesn’t make you know God and then in
the next verse it says he that saith I
know him and keepeth not his
Commandments is a liar and the truth is
not in him well nobody wants to be a
liar nobody wants to be totally void of
the truth we want to know God so what do
we have to do people would read this and
say well man it I just keep his
Commandments and then I’ll know him
again no that’s
dyslexic that’s the opposite of what
this is saying keeping the Commandments
doesn’t cause you to know him but
knowing him will cause you to keep the
Commandments
that’s really awesome it says in verse 5
but whoo keepeth his word in him verily
is a love of God perfected hereby know
we that we are in him well people read
this and say well I want the love of God
perfected in me so what do I have to do
well I got to keep his word and then the
love of God will be perfected no this is
saying that when the love of God is
perfected in you the results will be
that you will keep his word keeping the
word does not cause the love to be
perfected you have to receive the love
and then that will cause you to act out
his word and to live holy as a
byproduct man I hope that you see what
I’m saying many people probably watching
this program are saying I don’t see any
difference what’s the difference it’s
huge difference it’s a huge difference
if I am doing things in order to gain
your acceptance that is completely
different than me just accepting your
acceptance and you loving me
unconditionally and then I’m so touched
that in response I am doing things for
you but I’m not doing it to gain your
acceptance I’m doing it in Thanksgiving
and appreciation for your
acceptance and I don’t know if you can
understand that but that’s different if
you could translate this to a marriage
relationship if you just have to con you
know if you have to remember every
birthday every anniversary
every little thing and you’ve got to
give a present and it’s demanded and
it’s commanded of you and you do it in
order to keep peace that is totally
different than a person who just loves
you unconditionally and whether you
acknowledge their birthday or
anniversary or anything it doesn’t
matter and then you give some and it’s
just totally a free gift and then they
appreciate it because it was voluntary
that is completely different than having
it demanded of you you know I remember
when we first got married that Jim’s
family was into all of these things you
you had to observe birthdays and stuff
my family was the opposite I mean if you
got a gift on a birthday it was unusual
we didn’t give birth Day gifts we didn’t
we might have a cake sometimes sometimes
we didn’t I mean it just wasn’t a big
thing we didn’t observe certain days but
in Jim’s Family boy you did and so it
was uh I think Jamie ‘s father’s
birthday I can’t remember the occasion
but anyway it was some occasion birthday
or or Christmas or something
special and anyway I came over and gave
Jim’s dad a gift but it was late I
didn’t do it early I didn’t rush over
early in the morning I gave it to him
but it was later in the day and he just
well I wondered if you were going to get
me anything and he was really put out
and stuff and you know what that did to
me it made me want to say well take it
back amen I’m not I’m not going to give
this to you if that’s the attitude that
you had it was like you owed me this and
you’re late you nearly missed it see
that’s that takes all of the joy out of
it and there’s many people that they
look at their serving God as a duty as
an obligation something they have to do
to appease an Angry God and to keep him
blessing them I’m telling you totally
changes your relationship when you
understand that God is good that God is
never going to reject you he’ll never
leave you his gifts and his callings
he’ll never take away even when you mess
up God is going to be faithful to you
and then you serve him not in order to
get his blessings but in Thanksgiving
and gratitude for what he’s already done
for you it changes
everything I know that this is going
right over the head of a lot of people
but for those of you who can receive it
man this would just totally transform
your relationship if you would start
serving God out of love and not in order
to be
loved that is huge let me just share
this with you out of Romans chapter 6
here’s another passage of scripture that
kind of you know shows this spiritual
dyslexia but in Romans chapter 6 and
again if you were to take the entire
book of Romans in context it’s all
talking about the grace of God that’s
what the gospel is and in Romans chapter
6 and in verse 20 it says for when you
were the Servants of sin you were free
from righteousness now I’m going to read
on down through verse 22 but before I
get there I’ve just got to Define some
of these things what’s it talking about
when it says when you were the Servants
of
sin well this is talking about before
you got born again we were servants the
word servants here is a Slave
we were enslaved by sin so before we
were born again we were a slave of sin
and we were free from righteousness what
does it mean when it says you’re free
from righteousness does this mean that a
person who’s not born again can’t do
anything that’s right anything that’s
good certainly not there’s people that
don’t know the Lord that they are kind
to their family they’re kind to certain
people people who treat them good
they’ll treat them good there’s people
that go out and do good things they come
up with inventions they help people
people who don’t know the Lord can do
good things but what this is saying is
those good things don’t change your
nature you could be a good person you
could be doing good things you can go to
church you can pay your ties but if you
haven’t been changed in your heart your
goodness doesn’t change your evil nature
we were all born separated from God and
we must be born again and so your
goodness can’t change your Badness you
are at your core before you get born
again a child of the devil is what it
says in Ephesians chap 2 veres 1
through3 we were by Nature a child of
the devil that was our core and you have
to be born again your goodness can’t
change that core in the Old Testament it
says can a leopard change his spots and
the obvious answer is no you are by
Nature a sinner and you have to be born
again you can’t just improve and work
your way out of it that’s what that’s
talking about so it says when you were
the Servants of sin you were free from
righteousness you could do right things
but it didn’t make you righteous you
were still a sinner by nature in verse
21 it says what fruit had ye then in
those things whereof you are now ashamed
for the end of those things is death but
now being made free from sin and and
become servants to God you have your
fruit unto Holiness and the end
everlasting life now in verse 22 it’s
using the exact same terminology but in
applying it in the opposite direction in
verse 20 it says you were Servants of
sin that’s talking about before you’re
born again verse 22 says now you are
servants to God so if servants to sin
was talking about before you got born
again servants to God is talking about
after you’re born again in verse 20 it
says you were free from righteousness
that didn’t mean that you couldn’t do
anything right but that righteousness
didn’t change your nature you were still
a sinner by nature in verse 22 it says
you are now made free from
sin does this mean that once you get
born again you can’t sin obviously not
now I just did a radio interview with a
guy and he was telling me that he cannot
sin that he is absolutely holy and it’s
impossible for him to sin ever since he
got born again and anyway it was just
hard for me to talk to him that’s the
only person I’ve ever heard say stuff
like that most of us are very aware that
even though we’re born again we can
still sin matter of fact those verses
that I was using 1 John chapter 2 verse
one it says my little children these
things right I unto you that you sin not
and if any man sin you have an advocate
with the father so right there in
context it’s talking to Believers and
yet it’s saying if you sin we have an
advocate with the father Jesus Christ
the righteous so most people are well
aware that as Christians we can still
sin but this says we are free from sin
this doesn’t mean you can’t sin but it
means that the sin you commit doesn’t
change your Born Again righteous nature
any more than the goodness you commit
before you got born again changed your
sinful
nature that is a powerful truth right
there it’s like a coin if you’re going
to accept that one side of it is real
well then the flip side is real if that
is a genuine
coin there’s a heads and the tails to it
you can’t just sit here and say accept
one side of it and say well I believe
that my goodness doesn’t change my
sinful nature I have to be born again if
you’re going to accept that you have to
accept the other side that once you get
born again your Badness doesn’t change
your righteous
nature you were Born Again created in
righteousness and true Holiness
Ephesians
4:24 and it’s because of the grace of
God that all of this
works it’s not your goodness that
produced salvation and once you are
saved your Badness can’t change your
salvation now your Badness your lack of
godliness and seeking the Lord can cause
you to take your attention away from the
Lord and like Peter you can begin to
sink but God hasn’t sunk God didn’t
change God didn’t change anything it’s
just that you are no longer focused on
the Lord and that’s the reason you
aren’t kept in perfect peace and so it
is important that we live holy it is
important that we seek God but not from
God’s standpoint God commended his love
toward us in the while we were yet
sinners your goodness did not occasion
God loving you your Badness doesn’t make
him turn away from you God loves you
period but there’s things you can do
that will make you sensitive to God’s
love that will make you understand it
and receive it when you live in sin
here’s another way of putting it but sin
just makes you stupid sin makes you
spiritually dull and non perceptive sin
hardens your heart towards God and so if
you’re living in sin quit it but not so
that God can love you God loves you
independent of of your performance and
if you ever knew that just like those
verses I was using over in 1 John
Chapter 2 if you really knew God and
knew how much he loved you you would
keep his Commandments you would live
holy okay so um we just went into the
new clip and we uh talked about this
some more and you talked about I I like
to use a phrase you said many people
have a spiritual spiritual dyslexia
where they’re taking things and they’re
turning it around so what is what does
that mean especially when you’re talking
about Grace well a person with dyslexia
sees everything backwards so the word uh
God g o to a dyslexic person is dog do
there’s a huge difference between God
and dog yeah and if you have spiritual
dyslexia it usually comes by close
contact to religion it’s communicable
through religion and you just see
everything backwards so that those
verses like in first John
uh let me just read this he that saith I
know him and keepeth not his
Commandments is a liar and the truth is
not in him and so people say well I
don’t want to be a liar and I want the
truth to be in me so what have I got to
do I got to keep his Commandments yeah
no this is not what that’s saying this
is saying that if you know him and
that’s talking about more than
intellectual knowledge if you really
know him have a relationship it results
in you keeping the Commandments and a
person who says that they know him and
doesn’t keep the Commandments it’s just
an evident token that they don’t really
know God because it would reproduce in
their life so instead of saying that
keeping the Commandments will cause me
to know him it’s just the opposite
knowing him will cause you to keep the
Commandments that’s right and this is
what religion misses when you start
talking about Grace and Faith they think
that but you you’ve got to do these
things to really know God no it’s just
the opposite knowing God will change
your heart and you will live a holy Life
as a fruit and not the root of Salvation
and it also causes you to dream more to
have greater Vision to just to see see
see with God eyes rather than looking
through your own natural physical eyes
and you look at the things that the
Lord’s speaking to you right now in
vision and and uh for everything for the
campus for everything that’s being built
out these are all visions that God has
given you he’s entrusted them to you
absolutely I guarantee you when you
start understanding that God doesn’t
love you based on your performance it
just takes all the limits off because
it’s not based on me amen you know my
mother you guys have heard me say this
but right before she died she was asking
me to tell her about what the ministry
what was happening because she was a big
part of it and then she looked at me and
she says auny you know that you aren’t
smart enough to do this and I said yes
ma’am I know and so anyway my point is
see that when you know that it’s not
based on you well if it’s not based on
you why not base it on Jesus and and
he’s able to do anything he’s able to do
the these things that are way way way
Beyond me amen it’s really liberating
when you get out of yourself and quit
basing everything that God is going to
do in your life upon your own goodness
it’s really liberating amen because it
just allows you to go beyond yourself
amen you said this there’s a huge
difference in working in order to accept
and gain acceptance versus just
accepting acceptance and that being that
that being a revolutionary thing that
happened within your life because if you
have to work to do it first of all
you’ll most people will wind up becoming
so far short that they’ll just despair
and they’ll think what’s the use I
can’t but if for some reason you perform
well enough that things do go good and
you start taking uh pride in it well
then Pride goes before destruction and a
Hy spirit before fall Proverbs 16:18 God
resists the proud first Peter 5: 5 and
then the moment you get into Pride
you’re headed for a crash yeah yeah so
uh you just can’t do that no that’s so
good I like what you shared about Romans
5:8 understand that God’s the initiator
he says that God commanded his love
towards us in that while we were sinners
Christ died for us I mean it’s it’s
really putting us in the proper place
that we’re the responders from what God
is God has already the love that God has
already shed abroad in our hearts and
when we understand that then it’s not
there’s no pressure on us then we just
continue to follow after God and and
like you have said several times
throughout all these teachings we’re
just accessing something God has already
provided for us and see this is really
reflected in prayer uh I mentioned this
earlier in one of the other episodes but
I honestly felt like it was my
responsibility to get God to pour out
his spirit and that if it wasn’t for me
or other great intercessors God had let
the world just go to hell in a hand
basket he doesn’t care it’s us that and
and you start feeling like you’ve got to
make things happen you know I don’t know
how many people will relate to this but
I used to study a lot of revivals back
when I first got really turned onto the
Lord and I studied the new habes Revival
did y’all ever hear that anyway that’s
up in Northern Scotland and the new
habes Revival was awesome and Duncan
Campbell is a guy who preached the new
heres Revival and I heard Duncan
Campbell speak when I was uh about 18 or
something like that and anyway he was at
mildale Louisiana and I heard him speak
and he basically talked about how that
there were these two little women that
had been praying for Revival for 20
years and just beseeching God and then
the power of the Holy Spirit fell and
when Duncan Campbell was there he was an
old man back when I heard him probably
man this would have been in the late 60s
or early 70s and he was an old man and
he said that when he went and preached
that Revival that uh he gave an
invitation one person came forward
that’s it out of this whole church there
might have been 100 150 people in the
church and so one person came
forward and uh it was no big deal and
they dismissed the service and everybody
walked outside and they were just
Milling around and all of a sudden this
one guy who fell uh came forward he just
fell on his face and started crying out
oh God and I mean the power of God hit
everybody went back in the church they
stayed there nearly all night long and
people started coming out of their homes
and uh hiding under bridges and
Screaming God have mercy on me they went
to the police station and started
begging them to tell them how to get
saved and nearly the entire Village
hundreds of people got born again and
this went on for over a hundred years
that they they had prayer every single
day and so anyway he was talking about
all the new habes Revival and attributed
it all to those two ladies praying and
just not letting go until
God sent the power and you know that
night this was in Louisiana I got so
convicted that I spent all night long
walking the BIOS I mean until sun came
up praying and begging God to pour out
his P power because I wanted to see that
kind of thing happen and so I did that
not only that night but I did that lots
of times and then it was many many years
later that I heard another guy talk
about this and he said that yes those
ladies had prayed for years and they had
this prayer meeting every Saturday night
before the Sunday service but he added
this one detail that they were doing
their all night prayer meeting which
they had done for 20 years but that
night a guy came in and about 2:00 in
the morning this young guy says Hey
we’ve been standing on 2 Chronicles 7:14
If my people which are called by my name
will pray humble themselves seek my face
I’ll hear from Heaven to forgive their
land says we’ve done this why don’t we
believe that God’s answered our prayers
and he says going home and so they
canceled and they all went home and it
was when they quit praying and started
believing that God had done it that the
power of God fa now see Duncan Campbell
left that out wow and it made it made
people feel like I’ve got to get in and
plead with God and do this yeah but God
wants to pour out his Spirit more than
we want to receive it he just needs
somebody to respond in faith that’s good
so here’s these two women praying for 20
years begging but then some young buck
comes just believes God and the power of
God is poured out wow there’s a big
difference yeah and you and you talked
about this that that instead of trying
to serve God as a duty and try to
appease him and try to you know make
things happen it’s when you understand
his goodness that it changes your
relationship with him and that’s when
the power of God is released yeah again
if you think that God is a distant God
that is so ticked off that America has
done all this woke stuff and Tak prayer
out of schools and we’ve aborted so many
babies and God is just dangling America
over hell with a thread that’s on fire
and if if you have that impression of
God and we got to beg oh God turn from
your Fierce wrath which is exactly what
Moses said and people will go back and
quote Moses and they’ll say but that’s
scriptural well yeah it was an Old
Testament scripture before Jesus came
and reconciled us to God and if you
think that God is like that well then
that puts all of burden upon you that in
a sense you have to become the Savior
you have to be the one to turn God but
it says in 1 Timothy 2: 5 there is only
uh one God and one mediator between God
and man the man Christ Jesus Moses Was
An Old Testament mediator uh Abraham Was
An Old Testament mediator Daniel and
other people but in the New Covenant
Jesus has reconciled us unto God and if
you take on the attitude that Moses and
and Abraham had then you are actually
Antichrist yeah you are against Christ
you’re saying Jesus didn’t satisfy God’s
demands I’ve got to get in and beg and
repent and do all of these things wow
big difference you know it’s amazing
because it it really is by the Covenant
by what Jesus accomplished at everything
he so and you brought that out so well
and I thought it was a radical idea what
it says in Romans chap 6: 20 and 20
through 22 where you said um for when we
were Servants of sin you were free from
righteousness so even we were under a
different Covenant we were slaves of sin
we are we’re completely free from
righteousness going down to verse number
22 but now being made free from sin not
that you’re perfect not that you don’t
make mistakes but you’ve been made free
from sin because of the Covenant
relationship by what Jesus did for us
and become servants to God you are you
have your fruit unto Holiness and the
end is everlasting life so that’s saying
that your goodness before before you get
born again didn’t make make you right
with God you have to be born again and
likewise once you’re born again your sin
doesn’t make you unrighteous that makes
my religious mind explode really I mean
you still have any Rel my former
religious mind explode but that’s that’s
a radical statement it is but that’s
straight straight scripture exactly I
mean that’s that’s really showing the
finished work of the Cross where it’s no
longer about us it’s no longer about our
Deeds it’s about the finished work and
putting our faith in what Jesus but see
this again when people that are watching
this will think so you’re saying that
you can just go live in sin what we’re
saying is that your sin doesn’t separate
you from God if it did which sin is it
that’s going to separate you well you’d
have to say well the big ones and yet
James chapter 2:1 says if you keep the
whole law and yet offend in one point
you become guilty of all if sin
separated you from God well then any sin
would do it yeah so people will sit
there and say so you’re saying that it’s
okay for you to go out and live in sin
I’m saying that sin doesn’t separate us
from God because Jesus has purchased
that but sin opens up a door to the
devil Romans chapter 6:1 16 know ye not
that to whom ye yield yourself servants
to obey his servants you are to whom you
obey whether of sin unto death or of
obedience unto righteousness so if you
go live in sin God’s not going to turn
away from you because he’s already
placed your sin Upon Jesus yeah and he’s
not going to punish you he punished
Jesus for it but you have just invited
the devil in you’ve invited all kinds of
problems again you and I were just
recently in a prison yeah where people
now love God and they’re they’re
rejoicing in the Lord and they’re
they’re going to take their time and
minister to people but they’re still in
prison because they gave Satan an inroad
into their life and they’ll be paying
forth the rest of and I love for SEL 16
God looks on the heart man looks on the
outside but here I like how you do it
because it’s like yes we shouldn’t be S
we shouldn’t open the door and um and
but that and talking about Grace that
doesn’t disqualify you from God’s grace
but I also love the fact that you talked
about but all your goodness does not
bring you into right standing with God
because so many people are like you know
I’ve been good all my life I’ve never
been a criminal I’ve never done this and
they’ll rely on their goodness so same
with that they need to have faith you
know and where other people will say oh
it’s the grace of God I can just sin and
other people like so I think this is so
important we’re talking talking about
both sides of your goodness is not good
enough and your sin is
not sinful enough I guess way the same
people who get offended by saying God
doesn’t reject you because of your sin
the same people will get offended when
you say that God doesn’t approve of you
because of your
goodness because basically that’s what
most people believe like you have this
fulcrum here and these scales over here
and if you’re good outweighs your bad
then God will answer your prayers and
accept you but the truth is God doesn’t
have a scale where he balances your sin
against your goodness only through
Christ Jes only through Jesus everything
is based on what Jesus this is so good
well we could we could talk about this
so much more we’re going to uh go into
another episode where we’re going
continue to talk about living in the
balance of Grace and Faith so thank you
so much for this time thank you you’re
welcome well these were very important
Clips yeah I really think because like
we said at the beginning we’ve been
talking about faith we talking about
Grace he really delve into these aspects
of what Grace does but it doesn’t it
doesn’t just give us a license to sin
just as we’ve been talking about faith
not this whole works mentality and law
and being worn out um and the balance of
what it means to work and to labor but
now we’re getting into that that people
again try to go to the other side of the
ditch yeah and like oh well this Grace
thing this is going to be awesome and
then they they’re not living holy they
don’t understand the
consequences of still living by the
things of this world rather than on
Christ well you know I think uh people
need to understand we’re talking about
Grace we’re talking about a brand new
covenant yeah that God has established
between us and him so that now it’s no
longer about what we do for God it’s
about our ability to approach him it’s
about our righteousness and the state of
us being in relationship with him and
that was something that I always
struggled with because that was exactly
what you just said there my mentality
was uh oh greasy Grace you know it just
gives you a license to do whatever you
want to do and in a way that is true but
what it actually does is that
relationship with the Lord changes your
desires it changes what you want to do
exactly that’s that’s the beauty because
it’s not just this um spiritual concept
that you just wield yeah but it becomes
this revelation of
relationship and it starts to change you
from the inside out and uh you know
Andrew he just he talks about this
process as far as there’s only one
mediator and he and he said this in 1
Timothy 2:5 he just he he talked about
that how you have only one mediator and
that’s Christ Jesus I’m not the mediator
uh my righteousness is not the mediator
it’s what it’s what Jesus did for me and
so now I approach God based upon that
state of being not based upon my good
works and now what that has given me the
ability to do is actually be transformed
through that relationship with God and
as I walk out that transformation I
realize that I’m getting all these
things my my ability to to trust the
Lord for them is is greater and it’s not
based upon my good works it’s now based
upon what Jesus has accomplished for me
it changes everything oh my goodness and
uh it’s it goes from a religious mindset
to where you’re just you just are
looking for a license to sin well people
were sinning long before they ever had a
license to do that but the reality is it
changes your desires it changes your
wants it it transforms you from the
inside out and that’s real
transformation because it brings us back
into relationship with God and that is
so exciting to me yeah and having the
correct understanding of Grace and what
it is then is the correct then response
to Grace yeah amen right and that what
Grace has empowered you to
become not releases you to do yeah right
you know what I mean yes it’s empowered
you to become a child of God empowered
you to have the spirit of God living
inside of you empowered you with the
ability to say no to ungodliness and to
to live righteously and soberly and
godly in this present age and in this
present age being able to then shine and
have power and and and release and
demonstrate the life of the kingdom of
God that when we understand what Grace
is and is not then our relationship with
it is totally different and when you
understand understand it then your faith
and how you do it I like how he said in
it was in the old clip he talks about
many people have spiritual dyslexia and
he said this he says then you start he
said when you realize that and he even
said a lot of this is going over some of
your heads he said but for those of you
who are getting it it will transform
your relationship with God he says then
you will start serving God out of
love not in order to be loved and he
said if you can understand that then
you’re then then it changes everything
but again a lot of people people have
spiritual dyslexia what I do and then
God responds and so if they don’t
understand again the correct
understanding of Grace then if God’s
done this well then that releases me
outside of all of the godliness of the
word and that’s not what Grace is and
you know it it’s taking me a long time
and I’m I’m definitely not the sharpest
knife in the drawer but the cutest knife
well as long as you think so sweetheart
but um you know it’s taken me a long
time to really get this but most of us
still operate by a a human sense of
Faith you know I don’t know if I believe
it was in the the uh series of spirit
soul and body where Andrew talked about
when you look at a chair if it has three
good sturdy legs and you think oh yeah
I’m going to have faith and I’m going to
sit on that chair and I’m going to
believe it’s going to hold me well
you’ve already examined it with your
senses so therefore you’ve identified
that it probably can hold you so
therefore your it’s not faith in the
sense of from God it’s it’s your own
physical Faith well sometimes because of
our own good works that’s we base our
relationship with God on it becomes our
own physical faith not not the faith
that comes in Christ Jesus it actually
takes a greater understanding and a
greater trust to put your trust in God
even when you do the wrong things even
when you mess up even when you make
mistakes and say Lord I Thank you that
you don’t choose the the the the wise
things and the and the uh the beautiful
things of this world but you confound
the wise uh because you choose that
which has made mistakes that which is in
its own right unworthy but you have made
it worthy Andrew says this all the time
that God’s not looking for a silver
vessel he’s looking for a surrendered
vessel and if you and I will just be
that we’ll just surrender our own
abilities and walk in that Supernatural
faith that is greater than any physical
faith we can possibly have we’ll see
Great and Mighty Things Great and Mighty
Works being manifested through us and it
was interesting because as we’re talking
about this saying no to sin I mean
that’s the the title of this is that
Grace truly does empower us to say no
yeah and so we can start seeing this
activity of righteousness and Holiness
within our lives and I I
just excuse me I like what he says and
he said he used to think it was his
responsibility to convince God for
Revival and like his Holiness and his
righteousness and all of the things you
know that he was going to you know push
God into this kind of thing but that’s
not what it was and and then we talked
about um we talked about this idea of
how do you stay passionate right so that
you know you have a a greater passion
for the word than for sin yeah you
you’re you’re again going back to what
you said earlier our desires have
changed that’s what’s the power of this
Grace message is that it so fills you
with a a picture of what the kingdom of
God is in you and what it can be through
you that it starts to change what you
want to be in this world for God and
what you just said there in terms of
Andrew used to think that he was the one
that was motivating God for Revival when
you and then he talked about how God
wants to pour out his Spirit or already
has poured out his Spirit even more than
it’s our desire to see it that’s his
desire that’s his heart and when we
realize that it changes the way that we
approach God we start seeing him as a
loving caring father and start trusting
him and as you do that more and more you
know I love my wife I I would never ever
want to do anything to hurt her and
because she loves me and accepts me does
not make me want to go out and and
disappoint her or hurt her it makes me
want to love her and and harbor this
relationship even more it’s the same
exact thing that happens in our
relationship with God Amen well there’s
so many powerful principles we’ve been
going into and I believe that this is
just setting you free from just subtle
just subtle things that the enemy has
been trying to lie to you about or maybe
Decades of lying to you about and just
because we are we’re covering so much
but you need to listen again to these
things faith comes by hearing and
hearing the word of God so these
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