The True Nature of God – Andrew’s Classics – Season 2, Ep.10

Your thinking will either release the power of God in your life or block it.

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well welcome to Andrew’s Classics we are

so excited this is actually one of the

last episodes in this particular Series

where Andrew has been going through and

just really coaching us on this topic of

true nature of God so I hope that you

have enjoyed it there’s powerful things

we’re going to say today kind of in

conclusion and I wouldn’t even say

conclusion uh introduction to go farther

with us in this and you know Andrew I’m

sure that we’ll be covering this topic

again in the future at some point but uh

in the meantime we really encourage you

there’s so many different resources

we’re going to be talking about at the

end of our time together that we’re

really going to make you aware of and we

encourage you to grab a hold of those

different principles because the word of

God is so rich and just to try to go

through it even in in 10 hours is not

nearly enough we we found that same

thing um if you watch this previous

series of Andrew’s Classics where we

talked about Spirit soul and body yeah

like how do you cover Spirit soul and

Body in 10 episodes It’s just so deep

the word is just absolutely the

revelation of who we are now in the

spirit but that’s why we we have all

these amazing resources but then based

on that getting into true nature of God

totally makes sense because if the

spirit of God Lives within us we need to

know who that spirit is we need to know

the nature of the god almighty who has

made his dwelling place within our

hearts now that is why we are now in

this and we’re getting ready to

introduce some more powerful principles

so they all they all go together but not

just one time then then they need to

continue to grow and grow and even

Andrew said he’s doing that absolutely

and as you

again as you discover who God truly is

on the inside of you you realize what

you’re made to be you realize that um

that the fruit of the spirit is exactly

that it’s a fruit that’s meant to come

out of you as you continue to transform

your mind as you continue to walk in

fellowship and relationship with the

Lord it just becomes an overflow God’s

passion becoming our passion God’s

desires becoming our desires why because

we’re in relationship with him you can’t

spend any time with anybody and not get

to know them better and then also begin

to develop common interest it just

naturally happens so when you’re in

relationship with God you will begin to

get the common interest you’ll begin to

to want the same things that he wants to

think the same thoughts that he thinks

to really be as you’re in communion with

him to really be satisfied in that

relationship above all the relationships

and that’s what I’ve seen again through

our time together with Andrew is that

satisfaction that Andrew has not to be

distracted from the real understanding

of his calling in his life but to be

focused and firmly focused on his

relationship with God what I’ve Loved

about this series is that um we’re not

just sitting God is good God loves you

God doesn’t do harm he does it well

that’s true but we’re not just saying

that as a lot of sometimes true nature

of God teaching us oh you know he’s good

God and but we actually are going into

the old Covenant talking about what’s

been fulfilled the reason of the law

where people Andrew’s been so good about

where people maybe misinterpret certain

parts of that well if God was so loving

then what about this and he’s gone in

and he’s been sharing these and I’ll

just tell you in this series he even

goes into it more the clips that you’re

seeing on TV he goes into it in such

depth so I love that we’re getting into

the meat of this so that it’s equipping

you um with the understanding of how the

word works and what has been completed

and fulfilled but why things are in the

old Covenant the way they are and why

Jesus coming is so powerful and so I

love it that this hasn’t just been this

little Sunday school teaching and God is

good God is love God is kindness God is

Joy God is peace but okay God is a god

of the old Covenant fulfilled now

released fulfilled law saying it is

finished in Christ because of the Cross

so we’re going to go ahead we’re going

to go ahead and we’re going to jump into

this next clip so we invite you to join

us and we we’ll be right back with

Andrew

Amen in Romans chapter 6 when it says

how shall we that are dead to sin live

any longer therein in other words his

argument here ish why do we live holy

then if God isn’t holding our sin

against us why do you live holy well the

first reason is it’s your nature to live

holy now some of you might take issue

with that because you say well boy it

doesn’t seem like it’s my nature you

know I’ve talked to a lot of people a

lot of Christian men who still have lust

in their heart and they just can’t

understand why they’re struggling with

lust there’s people who still LIE

there’s people who still tend to cheat

there are people who still desire

ungodly things and they they they have

just embraced this saying well after all

that’s my nature I am an old sinner

saved by grace but that’s not accurate

according to these verses it is not your

nature in verse three it says know ye

not that so many of us as were baptized

into Jesus Christ were baptized into his

death therefore we are buried with him

by baptism into death that like as

Christ was raised up from the dead by

the glory of the father even so we also

should walk in newness of Life man those

are powerful statements and I hadn’t got

time to explain this in its totality but

this isn’t talking about water baptism

this is talking about when you get born

again you are baptized into the body of

Christ 1 Corinthians chap 12 I believe

in verse 13 talks about that in verse 5

it says for if we have been planted

together in the likeness of his death we

shall be also in in the likeness of his

resurrection verse 6 knowing this now

this is an important point right here we

have been planted together in the

likeness of his death that was revealed

in verses three and four but it says we

shall be also in the likeness of his

resurrection if we know this what is it

that you have to know now the the death

the being baptized into the death when

you get a new born again Spirit your

spirit is dead un sin incapable of sin

it cannot sin as it says over in 1 John

3:9 so that part is already accomplished

but whether you start living that out

and walk free from sin walk a

resurrected life where you have the

power of God is dependent upon you

knowing something it says in verse six

you have to know this that our old man

is crucified with him that the body of

sin might be destroyed that henceforth

we should not serve sin you have to know

that your old man is crucified most

Christians today are taught that their

old man or old sin nature is still alive

and functioning and is what is driving

you towards sin and so they don’t know

this there they don’t have the

Resurrection Life Of God flowing in

them and some of you might be saying but

what about my tendency to sin if you’re

saying that I don’t have a sin nature

anymore what is it driving me to sin

it’s an unrenewed

mind it’s your mind is similar to a

computer you can program a computer and

then it’ll just continue to function the

way it was programmed and it can’t

operate any differently unless you put

new programming into it your old sin

nature when you were separated from God

when you were dead to God separate from

God your lost nature your sin nature

taught you how to be selfish how to

operate in lust how to think only about

yourself how to hate God how to hate

people how to lie cheat steal do all

this stuff and that’s what you’ve been

programmed with now you’re born again

you got a new nature it’s like get you

got now all of this new hardware you’ve

got new capabilities you can do things

that you never could have done before

but if you still got the same old

programming did you know you’re going to

get the same results that you had before

if you got new hardware on a computer

but if you didn’t get new software to go

along with it you would still be limited

by that software you wouldn’t be able to

take advantage of all of the

improvements we have now been born again

you don’t have that old dead sin nature

in you compelling you to sin anymore but

we haven’t been reprogrammed and so we

still are lusting and struggling and

being defeated not because we have a

nature that is driving us to it but

because you haven’t renewed your mind to

who you are in Christ if if you were to

reprogram yourself you could experience

new results and this is what Romans 12:2

says be not conformed to this world but

be transformed by the renewing of your

mind that’s talking about the

reprogramming of your mind if you would

renew your mind there is nothing any

longer that compels you to act like the

devil the only reason we still act like

the devil is because we haven’t renewed

our mind and changed our thinking

proverbs 23:7 says for as he thinks in

his heart that’s the way that he is you

are going to act the way you think if

you think I’m an old sinner saved by

grace but at my core I am still an

unworthy sinner well then you might

resist sin to a point but when it just

keeps knocking and keeps persisting and

the devil puts pressure on you you know

what you’re going to give in because

after all you are an old sinner that’s

who you think you are but if you were to

say no I was an old siner but I’ve been

saved by grace and now I’m the

righteousness of God and if you could

see that this is who I am I’m clean I’m

pure I’m not going to act like this

anymore it had change you you know I

heard Kenneth Hagen one time give his

testimony that he got born again very

miraculous circumstances but the very

next day he had his friends come to him

and want him to go pick a lock he said

that if he ever had a natural Talent it

was an ability to pick locks and so

every time his friends wanted to steal

something and break in and they would

have him pick the locks so they came and

got him asked him to pick a lock so they

could break in and steal something the

way that they’ had done many times

before and he said I can’t do

it okay so we’re in a true nature of God

this is our last episode and I like how

you’re ending this because um in our

last one you said that all all

Revelation comes through a knowledge of

him and in this one you’re talking about

truly why we need to renew our mind so

you said you’re still learning these

things about true nature of God what

would you say to someone who’s trying to

renew their mind in these truths they

just need to keep at it because it’s a

lot to it uh one of the things that I

talked about on this clip was uh Romans

chapter 6 that we don’t have an old

manen and I don’t think very many

Christians understand that most

Christians believe that we still have an

old nature that is compelling us to sin

but when you get born again that old

nature natur is taken out and you are

completely brand new and the law was

given to re restrict to uh I don’t know

what do you call it a limiter on a car

or something you know you Governor it

was to govern this old nature and stuff

and to hold it in check now that you’re

a brand new person the law isn’t made

for a righteous man is what it says in 1

Timothy chapter 1 and we are now

righteous through Jesus so if you could

understand that your old sinful nature

is gone you were born again and the only

reason your flesh still has a propensity

to sin is because you haven’t renewed

your mind yeah that’s a big deal that’s

so good because if you think about it

these two Revelations are really key so

here this revelation of you don’t have

this old man you’re an old sinner saved

by grace and then well God’s a harsh and

Sovereign God and punishing God you put

those both of those bad mentalities

together it’s a lethal combination

because well God’s against me and I’m

never going to be good enough and which

then there’s no Victory well again that

goes back to what you had shared about

that being the purpose of love for that

to drive men to God to the mercy of God

and with recognition that they need a

savior not not using the law to to uh to

show that they’re righteous absolutely

so you combine the Old Testament law

that gives you a misunderstanding of who

God is and stuff and then you combine

that with a misunderstanding of Who We

Are

yeah it’s a lethal which totally makes

sense why so many Believers struggle

with identity yes because they don’t

know who he is and so when they get born

again who is he inside of them and so

then the way they they think God sees

them he I’ve disappointed God then they

live their life disappointing with

themselves versus this whole absolutely

Victorious identity as I can do all

things through Christ you said something

in Germany when we were there that boy

has stuck with me and and you were

talking about when it comes to like

praying for somebody to be raised from

the dead and you think how do I do this

I’ve never done this never done this and

then oh yeah so we uh we we’re talking

about spiritual own body and that when

the Same Spirit of Christ it’s the it’s

not a spirit it’s the spirit of God

lives inside of us and so we’re saying

God I’ve never done this he’s like

that’s okay I have and you think well

the the the spirit of God inside of me

has raised the dead and heals the sick

and and cleanse lepers and cast out

demons so when you come to those

situations you can come to it with this

confidence saying the spirit in me has

so I just got to be bold and release the

spirit see the beauty part about

beautiful part about that is that it’s

not relying more upon your abilities

it’s relying less upon yourself and more

upon the spirit of God on the inside of

you because he’s already been there he’s

already done it he’s already done

everything that will ever need including

walking in the victory in every area of

our lives here and so these things look

opposite but they’re both true at the

same time I’ve never done this my flesh

has never done this but my Born Again

Spirit has done this now are you going

to identify who you are in Christ is

that who you are or is it this fleshly

person and the truth is very few

Christians live out of their Spirit most

Christians are trying to improve their

flesh and get it to where it’s able to

function and do all these things and

it’s never going yeah so so how do you

Andrew how do you change that mindset

how do you begin truly just relying more

upon your spirit and less upon your

flesh the only way I’ve ever been able

to do it and I certainly don’t do it

perfectly is through through the word of

God Jesus said John 663 the words that I

speak unto you they are spirit and they

are life and you shall know the truth

and the truth shall make you free John

8:32 and Hebrews 4:12 the word of God is

quick alive powerful and sharper than

any two-edged sword piercing even to the

dividing the ther of Soul and Spirit and

Joint Mars so anyway the word of God if

you continue in the

word and it needs to be said this is

more than just reading the word you have

to read it not just with your head you

have to read it with your heart but if

you truly approach the word and say God

speak to me reveal to me take this life

that’s in the word and you continue in

that God’s word will teach you all of

these things that we’re talking about

well you just think the Holy Spirit

rejoices when he can reveal the word of

God that’s the whole role of the teacher

the guide the comforter to to lead us

and guide us into all truth and

understanding

now before we did true nature of God

this series we talked about spiritual

and body and so you think about this

what we were just talking about with the

spirit uh who we are in the spirit and

the true nature of God they are

absolutely vital truths one to another

because if you know who he really is the

goodness the grace the might the power

the Forgiveness of God and you pair that

with the revelation of that same God is

now living within me

that changes everything versus if if he

is Harsh and punishing and I’m always

guilty before him and that lives within

me then you you don’t lean into the

spirit because you you think he’s

schizophrenic and so I I think how even

how we’ve been doing this these series

together of spirit soul and body and

true nature of God they’re absolutely

critical Revelations to each other yeah

so in my own personal experience I got a

revelation of spirit soul and body who I

am in Christ before I fully

understood the true nature of God and so

I kind of as we’ve discussed already it

made me think well this is who he is now

but he must have been schizophrenic in

the Old Cant and and until I got to

where I could harmonize all of these

things and put it together did I really

get a full impression of who God is and

I’m still learning I don’t think any of

us have got I think when we get to

heaven we’re going to be shocked I agree

at how good he was and we just we

understand just a tiny bit of it like we

you said before as well that when we get

to heaven that we’re not going to be

walking up to Jesus and giving him a

high five that’s right we’re going to

beay flat on our face in reverence and

see seeing his nature come to life and

you know I think that’s why uh the word

the word says in John chapter one two

different times the well the word was

with God and then the word became flesh

and dwelt among us and that’s when we

saw the grace and the truth it wasn’t

before Jesus became flesh that we saw

yeah and people think what are we going

to do in heaven are we going to be

sitting there just sitting on a cloud

strumming a harp off and they want to

have something to do that’s because man

you’ve never seen the glory of God once

you see the glory of God and recognize

how undeserving of anything and the

great price that Jesus Paid for us I

think that probably a hundred million

years in heaven saying thank you is not

going to be enough amen but people that

are worried about what are we going to

do am I going to be bored

they’ve never they’ve never understood

these guess and probably shows that that

kind of person probably also shows that

they’ve just gotten so used to just

working for God that they can’t imagine

not working for God in heaven yeah would

you say that that’s impacted how

grateful you are to the Lord even right

now here on in this absolutely and how

is that how is how have you seen that

change your ministry in terms of how you

connect with people well for one thing I

recognize that I am not the source of

any of the success that we’ve seen and

it just makes me constantly thankful you

know this last weekend I had the whole

weekend off and man I spent the whole

weekend just thanking God and thinking

about all the things he did I woke up

this morning and I bet you I went from

1968 through probably

76 wow uh just rehearsing in my mind all

of the things that God has been amen

doing for me and I spent a lot of time

thinking back back about Vietnam and how

I survived that and how that in many

ways I shouldn’t have I had so many

opportunities to die just thinking about

how God protected me so anyway to answer

your question it makes you really

thankful once you understand that it’s

not you that’s done you know one of the

signs of the end time is that people are

going to be unthankful in second Timothy

chapter 3 and the reason they’re

unthankful is because they think they

are the ones that are producing all of

the stuff if you think you are the

source of all of your blessings then you

are unthankful but if you ever

understand that it’s not you you can’t

help but be thankful to think that God

is the source of all of the good things

happening in your life you know the the

dynamic of living in the

humility of his goodness and when you’re

focused on your own works and your own

performance and your own what you earn

have a right to have a right to see God

do within your life you just cut off the

blessings because you’re in Pride versus

humility and people don’t realize that

that’s that’s the whole that’s that’s

one of those hooks and and poisonous

things of religion it makes you prideful

in yourself not humble and dependent

upon God the law makes you focus on

yourself and your actions uh Grace makes

you focus on Jesus and it makes you

thankful amen I think that Grace you

know matter of fact there’s this

connection made over in First Peter

chapter 5 where God resists the proud

but gives grace to the grace uh causes

humility yeah U and pride is just where

Pride isn’t only thinking you’re better

than everybody else it’s just being

dependent upon yourself matter of fact

most people disconnect First Peter

chapter 5 where it says that he resists

pride and gives grace to the humble and

then the next verse says humble

yourselves therefore under the mighty

hand of God and then verse 7 says

casting all of your care upon him

because he cares for you and they

disconnect the things think it’s talking

about something different but if you are

a person who is taking care if you’re

worried if you’ve got a problem and

you’re feeling like what am I going to

do to solve this problem how can I deal

with this you aren’t humble yeah you

still think it’s up to you to solve this

problem instead you haven’t cast your

care over on the Lord yeah so this is

one way you can truly tell whether

you’re humble or not is by your degree

of frustration your degree of

discouragement and depression and things

like that a person who is doing that has

not cast their care over on the Lord

they are looking to themselves trying to

solve all of life’s problems and that’ll

drive you crazy amen well we’re going to

go ahead and we’re going to jump into

this next clip as well Andrew then we

come back and I’m sure we’ll have a

whole lot more oh goodness so

good I had been brought up under a

legalistic mindset that God demanded

Perfection and if I prayed for something

and didn’t see the answer it was because

I wasn’t good enough I wasn’t holy

enough and so I was on this treadmill

just trying to be perfect so that I

could earn God’s favor and regardless of

how hard I tried there was always

something I was falling short in and it

was just disappointing I believe that if

the Lord hadn’t given me the Revelation

that I’m sharing in this teaching I

probably would have despaired of just

ever getting things right and I might

have gone the other direction not

because I didn’t believe in God but

because I just felt like how could I

ever appease this angry God this

demanding God and it would have ruined

my relationship with him but the things

that the Lord has shown me the things

that I’m teaching here on television has

just transformed my life to understand

that God is a good god that God is love

that God is full of grace and when I saw

that you know I actually experienced

this grace before I understood it I’ve

mentioned this in the past but on March

the 23rd 1968 I got born again in

58 and I was truly saved but I went to

church I became a religious Pharisee and

I began to start thinking that I had to

do everything just right in order to get

God to move in my life and I was proud

of my goodness I was better than anybody

else I knew I’m not saying that in a

prideful way I’m just saying saying that

I was giving it everything I had I never

missed church I never went without

reading my Bible every single day and I

was living as holy as I knew how and the

Lord showed up in one of my prayer

meetings and showed me that my

self-righteousness was like filthy rags

and that I was trusting in myself

instead of trusting in Him and so I

repented and when I did I thought maybe

God was going to kill me but instead of

killing me I mean the love of God the

thing that I’d been trying to earn for

10 years of being a Christian the love

of God just came flooding through me so

I experienced God and his love by

Grace but even though I had felt that in

my heart my head was educated with this

performance-based

mentality and so even though I had

experienced the love and the grace of

God completely independent of anything I

deserved I was still trying to earn it

because that’s what I’d been taught did

you know you have to renew your mind the

scripture says in Proverbs 23:7 as he

thinketh in his heart so is he your life

is going to go the way of your dominant

thought and if you don’t renew your

thoughts and if you don’t get your

thoughts lined up with the word of God

and if you’re thinking wrong about

things then you will eventually

experience the results of that wrong

thinking let me say it this way that you

know God is who he is regardless of what

you think but as far as your experience

goes you will never experience God

beyond what you

think if your Doctrine is wrong your

experience is going to be wrong for

instance if you don’t believe that God

does Miracles today if you if you are

part of one of those churches that

teaches that all of the Miracles ceased

with the last Apostle which in the first

place is ludicrous because they’re still

apostles today there is no last apostle

Barnabas was called an apostle in the

book of Acts and stuff and so it wasn’t

just the 12 apostles and stuff so anyway

if you believe that Miracles have passed

away guess what you won’t receive a

miracle you don’t have Miracles come

upon you and just attack you like a

seizure you don’t just get Miracles you

have to pursue the things of God you

have to believe in order to receive and

so if you were taught that the baptism

of the Holy Spirit and the gifts of the

holy spirit aren’t for today guess what

you won’t have those things function in

you if you were taught that you don’t

people don’t get healed today you know I

just had somebody in the paper criticize

me and say that a person that would say

that he saw a person raised from the

dead if he’ll lie about that he’ll lie

about anything because they just don’t

believe that miracles happen today and

so they call me a liar about everything

I

say if you don’t believe that guess what

you’ll never see people raised from the

dead you’ll never see people healed God

is who he is regardless of what you

think but your thinking will either

release the power of God in your life if

you have correct thinking or it will

block the flow of God’s power in your

life and so you’ve got to get your mind

renewed so I had experienced the grace

of God and to a degree I had embraced it

but if I hadn’t got my thinking

straightened out I would have eventually

gone back into that same legalistic

mindset and I would have lost the

benefit of that so this teaching right

here on the true nature of God is one of

the things that just literally set my

life on a different course because I saw

the Wrath I saw the performance-based

relationship under the old Covenant and

it looked contrary to the grace that was

given out in the New Covenant like on

our program yesterday I mentioned the

woman taken in the act of adultery and

God forgave her instead of enforcing the

Old Testament law it looked like a

contradiction I saw Elijah call fire

down out of heaven and killed 102 Men 2

Kings chapter 1 and in the New Testament

his disciples tried to emulate Elijah

and Jesus rebuked them and said no

that’s not the spirit that you are of so

which was it and it was conflicting to

me and if I hadn’t gotten some answers I

believe that I probably would have lost

the benefit of of that encounter I had

with the Lord as a man thinks in his

heart so is he so you’ve got to get your

thinking renewed and that’s what this

whole series is about so let me go to

Romans chapter 5 and in verse eight this

is a familiar passage of scripture to

people that have been in the church for

a while but it says but God commendeth

his love toward us in that while we were

yet sinners Christ died for us first of

all let me say that the ver begins with

the word but that’s a conjunction that

means it ties it to what was just preed

previously said and there is not uh an

ending to that uh point that he was

making the real Point that he’s trying

to make is in verse n it says much more

then being now justified by his blood we

shall be saved from wrath through him so

we often take Romans chapter 5:8 out of

context and we just say that God

commended his love toward us and that

while we were yet sinners Christ died

for us and we use that to tell tell

people about the love of God for Sinners

and that’s true but the point that’s

being made is that if God loved us

enough to die for us while we were a

sinner verse n now much more that we

have been saved by his blood we shall be

saved uh through him and so that it’s

making a comparison and many times

people will sit there and accept the

love of God for a sinner but man the

moment you get born again you got to

start living under a stricter rule than

what Sinners do I’ve heard people phrase

it this way that you know you don’t

correct your neighbor’s children you

correct your children you might let your

neighbor’s children get by with things

but the people under your Authority men

you are you tow the line on them and

what they mean is that as long as you’re

a sinner God May wink at your sin and

and Overlook some things but the moment

you become uh born again man you’re

going to have to start performing or you

won’t get anything from God you know if

I really believe that then the moment

you got born again I’d kill you I might

go to hell but that’d be the only way

you’d ever get to heaven if you had to

live perfect and do all of these kind of

things it says in Colossians chapter 2

verse 6 as you have therefore received

Christ Jesus the Lord so walk ye in him

that means how did you receive

salvation did you receive it when you

had been doing everything perfectly when

you’ve been going to church and paying

your tie and and doing everything right

and reading your Bible with the vast

majority of you you hadn’t been reading

the Bible at all you hadn’t been going

to church you were living like a sinner

lives and yet somehow or another God

reached you you receive salvation as a

gift when you had no goodness to offer

God whatsoever all you had was your

sin so you get born again totally by

Grace we sing that song Just As I Am

with Without One Plea in other words I

don’t have anything to offer you God I

don’t have any righteousness I just oh

Lamb of God here I come and you receive

salvation as a gift and that’s the way

that you should continue to receive

healing and prosperity and joy and peace

and your marriage being healed and

everything else is just as a gift but

the sad fact is you get Born Again by

Grace but then most people go to church

and get taught law and legalism and told

that if you don’t go to church and if

you don’t do these things God won’t

bless you let me give an illustration

that you know if a drunk was com into

your church service most people who are

truly born again and who have

experienced any of the grace of God

would go to a drunk who came to church

and tell them about the love of God and

say God can change your life God loves

you and they’ll say but I’m drunk well

it doesn’t matter God loves you he can

forgive you of your

sins and you would Minister Mercy

towards a person who is lost but let

that person make a profession of his

faith get born again and come back next

Sunday drunk again and did you know that

the average person who would Minister

mercy and Grace towards the Lost person

would Minister law towards a Christian

and say how dare you come here like this

and say man now if you don’t quit this

drinking God’s not going to answer your

prayer God’s going to get you God’s

going to judge you see that’s not

walking by the same rule again

Colossians 2:6 as you have therefore

received Christ Jesus the Lord so walk

ye in him you receive Grace you receive

salvation by grace but now somehow or

another you are maintained in your

relationship by law that’s what the

average person believes the average

Christian and that’s wrong that is not

accurate this verse right here is saying

that if God loved us so much that while

we were yet sinners Christ died for us

much more now

does he love us that we’ve been saved by

his blood not much less but much more

and then it’s summarized in the 10th

verse These two thoughts are put in one

verse it says for if when we were

enemies we were reconciled to God by the

death of his son much more being

reconciled we shall be saved by his

life man that’s

awesome but you know most people are

saved by grace

and then they are trying to maintain

their relationship with God by

performance by Old Testament law that

was only a temporary measure that is not

how you are supposed to live with God

you supposed to relate to God by grace

and I’m going to get to this later in

more detail but let me just interject

this right here that this is not saying

that this frees us to just go live in

sin because sin is an inroad of Satan

into our life and we don’t want to do

that and so you do need need to resist

sin and stop sin but you don’t need to

relate to God based on your performance

and as you actually access God and

receive this Grace the grace of God will

teach you to live holy this is what it

says over in Titus Chapter 2: 11 and 12

it says the grace of God that brings

salvation hath appeared unto all men

teaching us to deny ungodliness and

worldly lust that we are supposed to

live soberly and right righteously in

this present age God’s grace teaches you

to live holy Grace doesn’t set you free

to sin but it sets you free from sin a

person who says that they understand the

grace of God and the way they interpret

that is that just means I can go live in

sin I can do anything because after all

God Loves Me by Grace you haven’t

received the true grace of God because

the grace of God teaches you to deny

ungodliness and worldly

lust but you do it now out of the

motivation of love for what you have not

debt trying to obtain something from God

that you don’t have there is a huge

difference between those two let me jump

jump down here to verse uh

12 I mentioned this earlier you know in

a sense what I’ve done is I’ve paint

painted this huge outline of something

about who God is now I want to just go

back and fill in some of the details

so this will fit within some of the

things I’ve already said but it’s going

to amplify and give greater

clarification on this in Romans chapter

5:2 it says wherefore as by one man sin

entered into the world and death by sin

and so death passed upon all men for

that all have sinned and then there’s a

parenthetical phrase that goes down here

through verse 17 but let me just say

some things about this verse 12 it says

by one man sin entered into the world

who was that one man it’s talking about

Adam when Adam sinned his nature was

changed in Genesis chapter 2 says in the

day that you eat of the fruit of the

knowledge of Good and Evil you shall

surely die Did you know in the original

Hebrew that’s the same Hebrew word

repeated twice it it literally says in

the day you eat of the fruit you will

die die is what it says in the Hebrews

some people interpret that that dying

you will die you will start dying and

eventually there will be physical death

but it could also mean that you will

surely die the way that is translated in

the King James because it’s just

repeated twice and so God said in the

day you eat of that fruit you will die

now he didn’t die physically until 930

years later but his Spirit was instantly

separated from God

I like this clip because you share a lot

on how this revelation of true nature of

God um really changed the way you

related to God that even though you had

come back from Vietnam and yes you had

gotten a revelation of spirit soul and

body but how this radically changed the

way you started relating to God because

you talked about you know the way you

were raised but you said something that

I thought was really powerful and I

wanted to ask you about it you said that

you believe if God hadn’t given you this

Revelation you would have probably

despaired of ever getting right and

would have probably gone the other

direction you said not that not that you

didn’t love God but you how could you

ever appease an Angry God so we were

talking about this this morning what

does that mean if you would have gone

the other direction well here’s another

way of saying that is that you can’t

live off of an experience as a man

thinks in his heart so is he so even

though I had experienced the grace of

God and it impacted me and I knew it

gave me

concept that there was something Way

Beyond what I was experiencing you

ultimately cannot live beyond what you

think and understand as a man thinks in

his heart so is he so if I hadn’t have

renewed my mind and if I have kept

thinking that God was this harsh God he

was a perfectionist unless I do

everything right he won’t use me I

wouldn’t have been used of God the only

way that God has ever been able to use

me is because because uh of what I

understood about how his nature and that

he placed all of his wrath against my

sin upon J and so if I if I hadn’t have

gotten hold of this Truth uh one of two

things would have happened I would have

either felt so

condemned that I would have never have

let God bless me and used me or I would

have been so trying to get back to

something and EXP experienced something

that it would have frustrated me and I

probably would have just given up so I

would have either been condemned and

unusable or I would have just out of

frustration gone the other direction and

I’ve talked to a lot of people that have

actually had a miraculous encounter with

the Lord where somehow or another God

showed them that he loved them but

because they didn’t get hold of the word

they got just frustrated and went the

other direction like well they didn’t

doubt that God existed but they just

thought God I can’t live this way and so

went the other direction yeah if I can

never please you then why try you you

said like car said you said some

powerful things during this whole time

but uh you said God is who he is God he

is good but if your Doctrine is wrong

your experience is going to be wrong as

well he will be to you the way you

believe him to be that’s the that’s so

against so the way so many Believers

think but you can’t change who God is

God is who he is regardless of what you

think but as far as your experience goes

as a man thinks in his heart so is he so

if you think that God is the one who’s

killing people and doing things Satan

will oblige that and you know I’ve used

this example before that back during

this time U there was a girl that I was

unofficially engaged to and we had a

person teach that God is the one who put

sickness on you and this is how he uses

you and because of that she listened to

a teaching that I gave her and she

actually prayed and asked God for a

cancer so that she could glorify God

through not being afraid of death and

she died as a result cuz you cuz she

believed she believe and the enemy was

right there was God that put this

leukemia on her it was the devil but he

will take advantage of as we think

that’s the way it is so if you think God

is one who’s doing things to you well

then Satan will come along and oblige it

because he he can basically he loves to

transform himself into an angel of Light

is what the scripture says and if you

think God’s the one that’s killing your

baby then he’ll come along kill the baby

and get by with it cuz you think it was

God and you can see that just the the

destructiveness of lies that that people

believe how that really can drive them

down the wrong road absolutely in terms

of their relationship with God you also

said um God but you will never

experience God beyond the way you think

you have to think properly so good and

this girl that I was talking about did

you know that her parents uh and brother

and sister all believe that God is the

one that killed her that it was God’s

will that’s how they begin to start

coping with it and uh her sister has

since uh heard me on television and

we’ve reconnected and so we’re good

friends and she comes to some of our

meetings and stuff like this but the

brother wound up being an alcoholic died

an alcoholic a younger brother he

probably died in his 40s or something

the father and mother um man their

relationship was terrible and and it

destroyed the family believing that God

is the one that give it’s like when you

think about it it’s like this mental

picture that for every lie for

every place of our of our hearts our

brains literally our brains that aren’t

renewed it’s just like an open door that

you’re telling the devil just come on in

and he’s just like well because you

believe that lie and you’re willing to

blame God for it then he’s ready to

throw in all the junk and uh so I think

that’s why this lesson is so powerful

because he talked about if we do not

renew our minds we’re not going to

experience the say it this way that

Satan can’t do anything to us without

our consent and cooperation and the way

we consent and cooperate is through

believing a lie it’s not that you’re

saying devil please come destroy my life

but if you believe that God is the

source of your sickness your poverty

your depression oppression well then you

won’t resist it because you would be

fighting against God and the scripture

makes it very clear you have to submit

to the things that are God James 4:7 and

resist the devil there are things that

are from God there are things that are

from the devil you submit to God you

resist the devil and if you get that me

mixed up well then you wind up

submitting to the devil and resisting

God W yeah you had said you release or

block the power of God in your life

absolutely and that’s that’s that’s a

responsibility that each one of us have

we we understand that God is always good

he always wants the best from us but are

we going to be coming come to line with

his will yeah Jeremiah 29:11 I know the

thoughts I think towards you said the

Lord thoughts of peace and not of evil

he has no bad plans for a single person

watching this and yet the majority of

people watching this are living with

sickness poverty disease depression

discouragement not because God willed it

but because somewhere they’ve believed a

lie and what we’ve been talking about

about the true nature of God is one of

those huge areas where people have been

lied to about who God really is because

you said you said this about thinking

you said you’re think thinking will

either release the power of God in your

life because of correct thinking or it

will block the flow of God in your life

meaning God’s not sitting there going

like hey I’m not going to do it your

thinking is What’s blocking God God’s

good but he doesn’t force himself within

our lives and that’s Absolut that means

that there’s no

excuse to see God work in our life we

just have to get into the word of God

and change I think you of our minds what

it says in Romans 12:2 don’t be

conformed to this world but be trans

trans formed by the renewing of your

mind that you may prove what is the good

acceptable and perfect will of God if

we’ll renew our mind we can see the

perfect will of God come to pass amen

and you know I I often use this when I’m

talking about spirit and soul body like

if you could imagine a pipe up here

above my head and over on this side of

the pipe is all this lifegiving water

it’s everything that Jesus is over here

is the spout and that’s where you want

to see the water come out but in between

is a valve and that’s your mind it’s the

way you think and if you are thinking

wrong about God it will wind up have

causing you to submit to the devil and

it will shut that valve and and hinder

are completely shut off the flow of God

through that’s good and and and this can

become so offensive to people because

you’re you’re saying that I’m the one

who’s causing God not to work that’s

what I’m saying yeah no no it’s easier

to blame God’s character it’s so much

easier to say no it’s God’s teaching me

a lesson rather than no I take

responsibility for it if it’s a failure

in my life is because Miss God’s and you

think of this too where a lot of people

um they want signs and wonders they want

God to use them in signs and wonders and

miracles but again going back to the

flow of the spirit and to the true

nature of God if you do not believe that

God is good and he’s wanting to release

those things if you think he’s saying oh

no no no why would we ever pray for

somebody because we’d always be

wondering well maybe they’ve

disappointed God maybe they haven’t been

good enough maybe God put this on him so

if that’s our thought about God towards

ourselves then it’s the same kind kind

of concept we have that God has about

other people so we don’t pray with power

or conviction or boldness and rebuke the

enemy and lay our hands on the sick

because we’re kind of still wondering

well maybe it’s God’s will that they’re

healed sick I mean that’s that that will

change people’s lives another thing that

this does is back before I got a real

revelation of this I was trying to make

God move by all night prayer meetings

and just grabbing hold of God and we

would get people together trying to

force God to do stuffff and it’s because

we thought God really was like with his

arms folded like this like nope you guys

are so bad that I’m going to let you

stew in your own juice I’m not going to

send my power and stuff and so we had to

do something to make him move now I

understand that God is always a good God

and it’s not us doing something to make

him move it’s just us getting out of the

way yeah so that he can flow through and

you look at the warnings that Paul gives

us like in Colossians chap 2:s

where he actually says to beware

actually says beware lest any man spoil

you through the philosophy and vain

deceit after the Traditions traditions

of men after the rudiments of of this

world and not after Christ that really

is a way me spoil you spoil taken

captive or or make you rot yeah either

way whatever whatever those things might

be because you’re thinking like the rest

of this world you’re thinking that you

get what you deserve rather than you get

what Jesus deserves y yeah and praise

God for Jesus praise God you said in

this kind of towards the end here you

said if you if after you had experienced

this moment of the grace of God and the

love of God if you hadn’t have gotten

your thinking correct you would have

eventually gone back into that

legalistic mindset absolutely and would

have lost the benefit again you are

going to function longterm based on what

you think not what you’ve experienced or

anything like that experiences are not

what controls you it’s the way it’s your

Doctrine it’s the way you think so even

if you have a dramatic in experience

with the Lord and your heart gets

inspired and touched eventually it will

be overwhelmed by what you think so

unless you get your thinking

straightened out you’ll lose it and I

would have lost the benefit of that

relationship I can guarantee you I’m not

living yeah off of a relationship or an

experience that I had 56 years ago yeah

I am living off of the truth that God

has given me Chang so you also shared on

Colossians 2:6 where you talked about as

you received Christ so you walk ye in

him was that something that hit you all

at once there was something that also

was Progressive and gradual work no

that’s one of those verses that as I was

trying to understand God how can you

love me because I haven’t done all of

this right he remind he showed me that

verse Colossians 2:6 and when I got born

again I was eight years old I hadn’t

done anything right I wasn’t doing all

of this stuff and I got born again

totally by Grace we sing that song Just

As I Am Without One Plea but then when

you get saved you go to church and they

tell you that now it was by Grace you

got saved but now you got to perform

yeah and it just showed me the hypocrisy

the

inconsistency of you get saved totally

by Grace you hadn’t been fasting praying

doing anything right and you get you

receive the greatest gift which is

salvation but now that you’re born again

now you got to do all these things it’s

inconsistent amen you need to walk in in

the same way that you got saved you got

saved totally by putting faith in God’s

grace not Faith In Yourself amen well

what would you say as we as we close

this series to someone um if they’re

saying I’m starting to get this they got

Revelation even as they were listening

um what would you say to them what would

you say to us to continue to walk and

understand in these Revelations so you

need to get my

teaching because and that’s not to say

that that’s the only way you can get it

but it took me I don’t know 15 or 20

years to get to where I could connect

these dots and say the things that we’re

saying and I could just save you a lot

of trouble if you would just take

advantage of it ultimately you’re going

to have to get it from the word of God

you aren’t going to be able to say well

Andrew says it has to be that this is

what God told me but the word of God’s

answer amen thank you for giving us a

boost in that process really do

appreciate learning from uh all the

things that you’ve gone through as well

amen and uh our next series is going to

be super powerful and we’re going to

build on that so we’ll start that next

series next

okay we took so many notes I have like

pages and pages of notes of of things

that Andrew not only said in the old

clip new clip but in our interaction

with him and really this I think this is

a great way to end this series of you

got to renew your mind

to these Revelations because if you

don’t and he said something if your

Doctrine is wrong your experience is

going to be wrong so we don’t understand

if you don’t understand who God really

is then your experience with him if

you’re and again Doctrine what the word

of God says is true is wrong then your

experience with God’s going to be off

and so I think this is this is why this

lesson was so important even as we’re

ending this series and getting ready to

build on it with the next one mind

renewal I like how Andrew really

affirmed what he had communicated in the

clip there in the clip he had talked he

said

um uh I’m sorry I just Lo if if I hadn’t

gotten some answers he would have lost

the experience that he had and he talked

about how you cannot live off of that

experience yes you just can’t you have

to be it has to be based in the word of

God as Carri had just mentioned there we

have to be renewing our minds

consistently after the word of God so

that we’re not we’re not we’re not

dependent upon anything that’s external

it all comes back to that Rel Rel that

we with the Lord we have a confidence in

him we have an understanding that his

nature is alive on the inside of us that

we have a way that we can approach him

that’s through Christ Jesus and I like

what he he said there as well he said

you will never experience be go God

beyond the way you think yes you stole

my life I underlined and highlighted

that I mean that that just blew me away

I mean you think about that it’s like we

think oh God’s going to be God and no

matter what he’s in control he he’s this

he’s that no we have to we experience

God based upon our expectations and the

way we think yeah and well let me let me

then say what the other thing that he

said kind of in our in our conversation

time with him he says you’re going to

function long term based on what you

think yeah and so your relationship with

God the the

Vitality of that in fact um I know we’re

going back a little bit but I I he said

something um in yesterday’s clip that we

did um he said you cannot have a vibrant

Victor relationship with God if you

misunderstand his nature and that’s why

renewing our minds and getting these

truths of who he really is Stop

Believing the lies that religion has

tried to warp us to separate us from God

um if we can get this vibrant

relationship with God because we know

his character then long term you’ll be

operating in the Supernatural life of

God and this goes back to something that

Andrew has consistently said throughout

several of the the different categories

we’ve been talking about in sessions we

we’ve had with him you know he has

founded his growth and his relationship

with the Lord off Romans 12: 1 and 2 how

he’s a Living Sacrifice and he’s he’s

being transformed by the renewing of his

mind proving that which is the good and

acceptable and perfect will of God you

know he’s walking out that process he’s

discovering God greater and greater as

much as as much as we know God there’s

still so much further to really get to

know in his nature in his character and

understanding his love for us understand

his plans that he has for us you know

the word talks about how if we were to

count the number of times that God

thinks about us it would outnumber the

sand of the sea and those thoughts are

not frustrated irritated annoyed worried

mad thoughts amen no matter what we

think sometimes they’re good thoughts

towards Jeremiah 29:11 understanding

that God knows the thoughts that he

thinks towards us we need to know those

thoughts as well a this is so good you

know when I when I look at why we are

talking about this why we’re building

this foundation not only a spiritual and

Body in the last uh series but now true

nature of God is because and we we kind

of mentioned this a little bit in one of

our last episodes is if you do not know

the true nature of God you do not know

the beauty of Grace am and that is

something that he talked about it’s a

huge difference between the two of of of

trying to feel like you got to earn

maintain to get God to answer you or you

start uh living a life a relationship

with God through the grace of God so so

I’m so excited that you’ve been a part

of this series it’s just been absolutely

awesome so I believe that um there is

more there’s so much more that um we

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