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00:00 What's up family, Pastor Darius here. Listen, I want you to hear my heart with this message
00:05 because I need you sitting down and taking notes with this message, I'm telling you.
00:09 Some of the greatest missteps people have made, they blamed it on the master.
00:15 Some of their greatest failure, they blamed it on the father. God told me. And I don't think
00:19 we'll ever get hearing God's voice right perfectly. I think we have imperfect ears,
00:25 but we can be perfected. We can get better at it. And in this series, I'm going to the Bible
00:31 and showing you three ways in Acts chapter number eight, that God speaks to or leads us. Because if
00:37 we don't know the ways he leads us, we won't know where to actually look for his leadership. And so
00:44 this message is called Jesus take the wheel. And here's what I want you to do. If it adds any value
00:49 to you, I just want you to share it with somebody else. Take care of God. Let's go to the word of
00:54 God. I want to look at the book of Acts chapter number eight, verse number 26, beginning at verse
01:01 number 30, beginning at verse number 26, going to verse number 31. It says this now an angel of the
01:07 Lord said to Philip, go South to the road, the desert road that goes down from Jerusalem to
01:12 Gaza. So he started out and on his way, he met an Ethiopian eunuch, an important official in charge
01:18 of all the treasury of Candate, which means queen of the Ethiopians. This man had gone to Jerusalem
01:24 to worship and on his way home, he was sitting in his chariot, reading the book of Isaiah, the
01:28 prophet, the spirit told Philip, go to that chariot and stay near it. Then Philip ran up to the
01:34 chariot and heard the man reading Isaiah, the prophet said, do you understand what you're
01:38 reading? Philip asked, how can I? Philip acts. And the man said, how can I, unless someone explains
01:46 it to me. So he invited Philip to come and sit with him. I want to stop the reading of scripture
01:51 there and talk from this subject and our time together, family, Jesus, take the wheel, clap
01:57 your hands, 1130. If you're ready for God's word. Family, I want to leap into this lesson by
02:05 introducing an axiom that I think may not be extremely impressive, but I do believe it's
02:12 extremely important. And I want to know at the 1130 service, do you want to know what this axiom
02:19 is? Okay. Here it is for my note takers. If I want God to protect me, I must be willing to let him
02:27 direct me. Let's say it one more time for note takers. If I want God to protect me, I must be
02:35 willing to let him direct me because his protection is tied up in his direction. And many of this can
02:45 relate to this. Many of us can relate to this reality because we've experienced this in human
02:50 relationships. There are people who won't take your advice on the front end, but then we'll ask
02:56 for your help on the back end. They, they, they, they, they, they, they ask for your protection
03:04 because they didn't take your direction. You can't protect who you can't direct. You can't
03:11 insulate someone from adversity that keeps ignoring your advice. You can't look out for people long
03:18 term who refuse to listen to you. And if people keep ignoring your direction, then they're
03:26 jeopardizing their protection because direction often provides protection. I need somebody to say
03:34 yes. And this is why God has a deep desire to do more than just save our life. God actually wants
03:42 to lead our life. He wants to lead our life, not because it's in his best interest. He wants to
03:49 lead our life because it's in our best interest. He wants to lead it because he knows what we don't
03:55 know. He sees what we don't see. He can predict what we cannot predict. He knows if we lead it,
04:02 we'll end up someplace. But if he leads it, we'll end up at the right place. David captures this
04:09 beautifully in Psalms 23, when David says these words, the Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want
04:16 come on church. He makes me to lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside the still waters.
04:23 He restores my soul. He leads me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea, though I
04:30 walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for you are with me. Your rod
04:37 and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.
04:44 You anoint my head with oil and my cup runs over. Let your pastor be Baptist for just this one word,
04:53 surely, surely, not maybe, not possibly, but surely goodness and mercy will follow me. In
05:07 other words, David says, if I follow him, I don't have to follow it. It will follow me.
05:13 If I chase him, I don't have to chase it because it will chase me. And I want to know,
05:20 am I talking to anybody at the 1130 that's got a revelation in this season of what the chase
05:26 you've chased the wrong thing long enough to know what's worth chasing now and what's worth
05:36 leaving. But the Bible is very clear. If I seek ye first, the kingdom of God and his righteousness,
05:44 all these things shall be added unto me. Is there anybody that's believing for goodness and mercy
05:53 to chase you down? I want blessing to stop me. I want it to be waiting on me when I come out
05:59 of the grocery store. When I come out of the mall, when I pull up in my neighborhood,
06:05 I want it chasing me down. Come on, listen, listen to what David says.
06:15 He says, he says, he says, all of these things can be my experience if the Lord is my shepherd.
06:24 Did you hear what I just said? Come on, come on. Verse two says, he makes me to lie down.
06:31 That's David saying he knows how to force the right pit stops.
06:35 Did you hear what I just said? Yeah, he makes, he says, he makes me to lie down in green passage.
06:43 He leads me besides still waters. He restores my soul leads me in the path of righteousness for
06:48 his name's sake. He lets me go not to, but through the Valley of the shadow of death,
06:53 without fear of evil, because he's with me. He says his rod, which was a stick that was used to
07:01 ward off beast and animals and enemies. He says, and your staff protect me, comfort me, not just
07:08 the rod, but the staff, the rod is a straight stick. The staff was a stick with a hook on the
07:14 end of it. So the rod was for the enemy. The staff was for me. So when sheep started straying away
07:23 from the flock, the shepherd would use the staff and hook the sheep around the neck and pull that
07:30 sheep back in. And somebody ought to celebrate right there because there are times where we
07:36 strayed away. There were times where we stepped out of bounds. And when you didn't have enough
07:42 spiritual sense to come back to God, God knew how to hook you and bring you back in. Come on here.
07:49 Is there anybody here that can testify? There were seasons where God let you be with them,
07:55 but he wouldn't let you be like them. He says, I know you with them while they doing it. But when
08:01 you try to do it, I'm going to reel you back in because I put something different on you.
08:06 I've anointed you. I've called you. I've marked you. I've chosen you. And they can get away with
08:12 it and sleep at night. If you do it, I'm going to keep you up all night because I got something
08:17 different on your life. Come here. You've been called. But all of that is predicated on verse
08:30 one. He can't lead me to green pastures. He can't restore my soul if I won't let him be
08:39 my shepherd. Notice what David said. He didn't say the Lord is a shepherd.
08:45 He's my shepherd. See, see, just because he is a shepherd doesn't mean I made a decision
08:54 to make him my shepherd because to make him my shepherd means I got to be willing to give up
09:01 something we want to keep. And it's weird because we need to give up something that we want to keep
09:08 that we think we have that we really don't. So we hold it on to something because we think we have
09:14 it and because we think we have it, it gives us peace because we think having this keeps us in a
09:20 position. Are y'all following me? Yeah. We think having this is actually keeping us when the truth
09:26 of the matter is you have peace about an illusion of possessing something you really don't possess.
09:31 And God's like, I need you to give this to me because you think you got it, but you don't.
09:36 So you're feeling secure about something you think you have that you really don't have.
09:40 And because you have the illusion of it, you think you got the substance of it. And I need
09:44 you to give that to me so I can be your shepherd. And that is the illusion of control.
09:49 And some people say, I like to be in control, but you're not.
09:55 You have influence, but you don't have control. You have influence, but you don't. You can
10:01 contribute to an outcome, but you can't determine an outcome. You're not in control because you're
10:08 not sovereign. You don't have the final say. You can control whether or not you fill out the
10:13 application correctly. You cannot control whether or not the person that's making a decision
10:18 regarding your application looks at it objectively. Y'all aren't talking to me. You can control if you
10:25 stay on your side of the road. You can't control if somebody else stays on their side of the road.
10:31 You can control how you say it, when you say it, if you pray before you say it,
10:35 but you cannot control their past and their traumas and their filter and their interpretive
10:40 lens that determines how they receive what you have to say. You don't have control. So God's
10:47 like, go ahead and give me what you don't have that you think you have so I can give you what
10:50 you really need. You think you've been in control. I've been in control. You think you're alive
10:58 because you're in control. That was me. I was blocking stuff and blessing you in ways you
11:02 didn't even know about. You've been praising me for what you know about. You ought to be praising
11:07 me for what you don't know about. The stuff I stopped from even getting to you. The doors I
11:14 closed. The times I suffocated the activity of the enemy. We want the Savior, but we need the shepherd.
11:31 I need to give control instead of me leading and asking him to bless what I'm doing.
11:42 I need to ask him what he doing because that's already blessed.
11:49 Everybody all right? I feel like we need a little therapy right now because you're like,
11:57 I don't have control. I thought I,
12:00 and I want you to know he wants to be our shepherd. He is anxious to be our shepherd. He has,
12:10 he is anticipating an opportunity to be our shepherd. We need him to be our shepherd,
12:15 but it is one thing to know that we need him to lead us. It is another thing to know how he wants
12:21 to do it. Because if I don't know biblically how he wants to do it, I won't know where to look for
12:31 his leadership. So I'll be looking for his leadership in all the wrong places. And I'm
12:39 taking a day like today and I'm standing flat footed and teaching this because as a pastor,
12:45 what I've seen in almost two decades of pastoral ministry is many people's missteps are missteps.
12:51 They blame on the master. Many of their failures are failures. They blame on the father.
12:57 And it is not that they're not trying to follow him. They are trying to follow him
13:01 because they've been taught to follow, but they hadn't been taught how.
13:04 So they're operating with the sin of presumption and assumption and assuming
13:13 that I understand the ways he wants me to lead. But the text here in Acts chapter number eight
13:19 reveals to us not just that the Holy Spirit wants to lead, but how he leads us. Can I show it to you?
13:28 I said, can I show it to you? Who wants me to show it to you? All right, here it is. Here it is.
13:34 This is interesting. The book, the book of Acts here, the book of Acts is called Acts because
13:39 it's the Acts of the apostles. It is the Acts of the Holy Spirit through the apostles. This book
13:45 is real interesting. It's interesting because it's written by a man named Luke, the gospel writer.
13:50 It's written by Luke and Luke is the interesting writer for this book because Luke's not a
13:55 historian. Luke's a physician. Y'all missed that already. I said, Luke is not a historian family.
14:03 Luke is a physician. And it's interesting. He's not a theologian, but God used a physician
14:13 to write the gospel of Luke and also the book of Acts because God will use what you think is
14:18 irrelevant because you can't be a good physician without being good with details, without being
14:25 thorough, without being investigative, without being patient, without being meticulous. And could
14:31 it be that God used this aspect of Luke's existence to be an asset for the kingdom?
14:36 His detailed nature and meticulousness is revealed in the pages of this book. Pastor, what does Luke
14:44 have to do with me? It's got a lot to do with you and me because there may have been some seasons
14:49 where we were in roles that didn't make sense to us, where we got degrees that we are not using
14:55 and they seem irrelevant to us. But God, who is a good steward, wastes nothing and he will use
15:02 everything and take what you think is an irrelevant irritant and make it an asset. I want to tell you
15:08 that there may have been some bad seasons, some complex seasons, some confusing seasons, but there
15:14 are no wasted seasons. God will redeem what you feel like is irrelevant. I'm not using the degree,
15:21 but you're using what the degree taught you. You're using the character trait of resilience
15:26 that the degree taught you. Am I making sense here? Listen to this, family. Listen to this.
15:32 Luke writes here and in Acts chapter 8, he exposes us to an incident involving a gentleman named
15:43 Philip and his exchange with this Ethiopian eunuch. And I want you to catch what happens here.
15:51 Philip has just finished ministry in Samaria and God leads him to go down from Jerusalem,
15:59 says go south and go towards Gaza. I want you to see what happens. The spirit, God leads him,
16:08 he follows and as he's following God's leadership, his paths cross with this Ethiopian man
16:16 who's a civil leader overseeing the treasury of Queen Candace of Ethiopia.
16:25 Okay, 1130, let me say it again. God tells, leads Philip to go from Jerusalem down to Gaza. He said
16:37 go this way. And Philip has no explanation, but he obeys without an explanation.
16:42 And as he's, as he's obeying without an explanation, his paths cross with this man
16:50 from Ethiopia who had come to worship in Jerusalem. Okay. So God leads Philip to go this way.
17:02 He gives him instruction without explanation. And many of us would have missed this moment
17:08 because our obedience is contingent upon an explanation. Yeah. The time he spent walking,
17:18 we still would have been waiting on a why. Lord, now why this, now why? So Philip just starts
17:24 walking. And as he's walking, he bumps into the reason God put them on that path. So the
17:31 explanation comes through an experience. You missed what I just said.
17:36 The only way Philip was able to find out why God sent him in that direction was to keep walking
17:47 long enough for God to give him an experience. And the experience was the explanation because
17:53 sometimes God doesn't give you an explanation at all. And then there are other times he only
17:59 gives an explanation by an experience. And you're like, God, why'd you do that? He said, keep walking.
18:04 And when you keep walking, you're going to run into the reason that I sent you that way. You're
18:09 going to run into the reason that I took you through that. You're going to run into the reason
18:14 that I made that decision. If you're following me, say yes.
18:21 So he runs into this Ethiopian eunuch and the eunuch is reading the book of Isaiah.
18:27 And the Bible says he doesn't understand what he's reading. So Philip is close enough to see him,
18:34 but not close enough to know what's going on. And so the text says, the spirit says,
18:40 go to the chariot and stay there. So Philip walks up to the chariot and he say, what's going on?
18:48 The man said, I'm confused. He says, what you doing? I'm reading Isaiah. He says, do you understand
18:55 it? Nope. How can I understand it? Unless someone explained it to me. And Philip explains Isaiah
19:01 to this Ethiopian eunuch, shows him Christ and what he's reading.
19:09 The eunuch receives Jesus as savior gets baptized
19:14 and then proceeds to go back to Ethiopia. Let me tell you why I feel like shouting right now.
19:25 I feel like shouting right now because I know something. Maybe,
19:33 maybe, maybe, you know, maybe you don't, but I know something about the historical implications
19:39 of what happened here in Acts chapter number eight, that the text says he gets converted.
19:46 He gets baptized and goes back to Ethiopia. And there is a church in Ethiopia that credits
19:55 its existence to the conversion experience of this man here in Acts chapter eight.
20:02 It is the Ethiopian Orthodox church. So the Ethiopian Orthodox church links the spread
20:13 of Christianity in Ethiopia to this incident in Acts chapter eight. Y'all are missing this.
20:21 Y'all are missing this. Why is this important? This debunks and it dismisses the false fraudulent
20:29 uninformed ideology that Christianity was given as a slave religion, because the text is showing us
20:39 Christianity existed in Africa before it even existed in Europe.
20:49 It's in the text.
20:50 And the enemy wants to use that narrative to make us resistant to the only thing that can save us
21:03 and keep us and to make us whole. So don't you allow anybody to tell you you are deceived,
21:09 bamboozled, misinformed. The devil is a liar. Let God be true and every man be a liar.
21:17 This religion is for everybody. God has taken all people and made a people.
21:25 But this didn't happen this way, at least if it were not for Philip following the spirit's leading.
21:48 (congregation murmurs)
21:52 Because we don't know the implications of our obedience.
21:55 Sometimes the stakes are higher than we think. Philip had no idea that he was going to run
22:04 into someone who would be the catalyst for the spread of the Christian movement in one sector,
22:10 sector of the segment of the world. Did you hear what I just said? He wasn't even alive
22:15 to see the fruit of his labor because he was able to be directed. How many know this is important?
22:28 How many want God to use you like that? Lord, I'm sure. Okay. Well, here it is. This story in Acts
22:36 eight reveals to us the three biblical ways that the Holy Spirit directly or indirectly
22:43 chooses to lead his people. It's all in the text. Somebody say three ways. Come on, say it again. Say
22:48 three ways. Okay. Here's the first way we see it is this. It's right in the text. The Bible says
22:52 the eunuch is reading the Bible. Are y'all following me here? Okay. So this is, listen to
23:03 pastor, listen to him. Cause the first way the Holy Spirit leads you and I is through passages
23:11 of scripture. This is the primary way. This y'all follow me. This is the principle way.
23:21 It means that if I don't get this right, then it impacts my ability to determine and to discern
23:29 whether or not the other feelings I'm having or words I'm receiving are actually God.
23:37 Did you hear what I just said? I got to get this right because this is the filter that I got to put
23:44 all my feelings through because just because I feel like God's lead me to do something. My feelings
23:51 may be real, but that doesn't mean they're right. Come on here. Here's what the Bible says about
23:58 feelings. It says the heart is deceitful. Your heart will feel strong about something that's
24:05 wrong. Let me see if I can get some honest people today that will admit that our heart has felt
24:11 strong about a person that was wrong for us. Where's where's the honest, maybe it's online.
24:18 I just want to know where the honest section is. It's the honest section at the 1130. Is it going
24:23 to be at the 115? That's honest enough to say, you look back at your previous relational choices.
24:31 And sometimes you look in the mirror and say, I don't even know what I was thinking.
24:36 I was dealing with emotional, temporary insanity because I don't even see what I saw in them.
24:43 I don't see what I saw in that felt strong about something that's wrong.
24:59 Here's why this is important. Hebrews chapter four, verse number 12 says this. It says the
25:04 word of God is powerful and is quick is sharper than any two S or I want you to catch this now
25:12 penetrating to the dividing of the soul and the spirit. So it's the word that divides the soul
25:22 and the spirit. It's the word that divides the soul and the spirit is the word that divides
25:29 the soul and the spirit. And my soul is my mind, will, emotions, imaginations,
25:34 affections. It's my feelings. So sometimes it's difficult to determine if what I'm feeling
25:40 is actually the father. So what I need is the word to divide. So I got to put my feelings
25:50 through the filter of the word. And if my feelings don't make it through the filter of the word,
25:56 no matter how strong it is, it's wrong. Hi. Yeah. Yeah. And the Bible says, I don't walk by feelings.
26:03 Hi. Yeah. I walk by faith. Is there anybody here honest enough to know that your feelings can
26:11 steer your wrong, that your feelings can drive you to a dead end, that your feelings can get
26:17 you in a situation that it takes your faith to get you out of. I believe this is God. Well,
26:28 when you want something bad enough, it becomes difficult to differentiate
26:34 whether or not this is the soul or the spirit.
26:45 Are y'all following me? So this is why, this is why we use things like change tracks to teach you
26:56 the spiritual discipline of study. This is why, am I making sense? Yeah. This is why we talk to
27:02 you about daily devotion. This is why we talk to you about getting in the word for yourself,
27:06 because without a, a will that is filled with scripture, you don't have a filter for your
27:14 feelings. You don't have anything to put a so-called prophetic word to the test with.
27:21 You're just thinking, no, no. Does it line up with my spirit? But what if my spirit out of line?
27:27 Let me, I don't know where to go. I know what's, I was about to go to that side. I was like,
27:33 I don't know. I think I'm gonna go over here to the corner over here. Who's going to talk back
27:38 to me? It's no, no, that doesn't line up with my spirit. That don't mean it's wrong. You might be
27:42 wrong because the word might be telling you to correct something. You don't want to correct
27:47 or fix something. You don't want to fix or see something. You don't want to see
27:51 agreement. Isn't a criteria for authenticity. Some stuff you need to hear. You don't want to
27:57 hear and don't want to agree with. Sometimes I need to say you're stubborn and you don't
28:02 listen and you need to be more empathetic. You don't want to hear that, but it might be God.
28:07 Lord, how should I handle my enemy? He's going to lead me through a passage.
28:20 Am I making sense here? So if I'm unwilling to do what is written
28:27 visibly, I'm not, I'm not in position to demand that he speak verbally.
28:34 Lord, give me a word. He said, I did.
28:43 Lord, open my ears. He said, open your Bible.
28:51 I need, I need the 1130 to talk back better than me. Open your Bible.
29:01 I don't have time. Here it is. We got to wrap up here. It is family. Here it is. Listen to pastor.
29:05 Please listen to me here. There, there, there, there, there's something that I need you to
29:10 understand is this is not just ingesting the word. It's interpreting the word properly.
29:17 Let's listen to pastor here in Luke chapter number 20, Luke chapter number 10, verse 25.
29:24 This is what it says on one occasion, an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus teacher. He said,
29:29 what must I do to inherit eternal life? And here's what Jesus said, what is written in the law,
29:34 which is what is the Bible say? And then he says, how do you read it? Cause what you come away with
29:39 is not just going to be based on what it says, what you come away with is going to be based on
29:46 how you're reading it. So here's what I say. I trust the Bible. What I don't trust is people's
29:54 interpretation of it. Come on. So here is where we need the Holy spirit's help in second Timothy,
30:03 chapter two, verse 15, Paul tells Timothy, do your best to present yourself to God as one approved,
30:10 a worker who does not need to be ashamed, who correctly handles or rightly divides the word
30:18 of truth. I'm done. Tario here it is. Everybody listen to me. This is where I need the Holy
30:26 spirit. Holy spirit helped me interpret this. Right. Do you know how misinterpretation has been used?
30:37 Does that make sense? Has been used to hurt and to harm and to hinder people.
30:47 Yeah. How people have used the misinterpretation of scripture to justify all sorts of social
30:54 craziness. Pastor, what are one of the ways that I can do this? I'm done. Lord, I need,
31:05 I need three sermons just on this. Here it is. Here it is.
31:12 We all in the English language with me with word of God, that there are a few Greek words
31:20 and pastor, why are you saying Greek words? The new Testament was written in Greek.
31:24 Does that make sense? Old Testament is written in Hebrew. Some of an Aramaic. So I I'm trying to see,
31:32 Oh, this is 1130. So I can just say it. Okay. Here it is. When we first planted this church,
31:38 the name of church is called kingdom church. Cause there are three ways you can do anything
31:41 cultures way, churches way Kings way. So we say kingdom. We mean the, the creator's original
31:45 intent. So say kingdom church is like, I want, we want to do church the Kings way. Right. Make sense.
31:49 Kingdom marriage, marriage done the Kings way. All right. So I listed out when we first started
31:53 the church, some called 12 traits of a kingdom church, look throughout scripture, say, what are
31:57 some traits of church done God's way. And so one of them was based on act 1711. I think it says
32:01 when the people heard when the Bereans heard what Paul taught, they went home to study themselves
32:06 to see if those things, which he said are true. And so, so I would say it in a much more nice
32:11 way. Now I'd be way more tactful back then. I'm in my late twenties. I'm just gangster with it. So I
32:15 just, so, so when I'm writing it down, this is what I wrote. Our church would not be dancing dummies.
32:20 See, see y'all judging me. That was come on. I'm in my late twenties. Y'all give me a break.
32:27 Now I would say we will be spirit empowered and biblically informed. I would say it differently.
32:34 Now I said, but I said, we will not be a church that has zeal with no knowledge. Woo. We had church
32:41 today. What'd he talk about? I don't know, child, but I don't know, but it was good.
32:46 Here it is family. Y'all follow me. So, so the old Testament, new Testament, the Greek. And so when I
32:56 was doing doctoral work, one of the prerequisites for entry into the program is that you had to
33:00 learn one of those languages. And I chose Greek. And here's what I discovered that
33:05 there's a word in John one in the beginning was the word in the word was God and where it was
33:10 with God. That's a word called logos. And it refers to the mind, the reasoning, the rationale,
33:17 the wisdom of God. So he's saying the mind, the reason, the rationale, and the wisdom of God is
33:21 seen in Jesus. In the beginning was the word and the word was God and the word was with God and
33:25 the word became flesh. So if I want to know what God meant by thing, I need to look at Jesus.
33:32 Y'all missing this. If you don't get this, you're never going to interpret the Bible. Right.
33:38 And I, and I remember now, if I'm not challenging you to take a new look
33:43 at something you already know, I'm not doing my job.
33:46 So here's where a lot of misinterpretation of the Bible come from. People are reading
33:52 the, the graph, which is the written scripture without trying to interpret it through the lens
33:57 of the logos, which is Jesus. So they'll look at what the Bible says to do, and then they'll leave
34:03 and try to figure out how to do that on their own. As opposed to looking at what the Bible says to do
34:08 then looking at Jesus and saying, okay, that's the way you're supposed to do it.
34:12 And that's where some of us got holiness messed up.
34:20 That's where some of us have holiness messed up because we read scriptures like be holy for I am
34:26 holy. And then we leave and we start putting all these rules and regulations in place. It's dogma.
34:32 And we call it doctor. Instead of looking at Jesus and saying that is holiness right there.
34:37 And he had a life. Let me go to this side over here too. He didn't have a sinful life,
34:42 but he had a life, which means I can have a life and not be sinning.
34:47 He went to weddings. He went to dinner parties at people's houses. Y'all are not talking to me.
34:52 Zacharias, I'm coming to your house. Zachariah, I'm coming to your house tonight.
34:56 Zacharias, I'm coming tonight. Mary Martha, give me some fish. I'm coming.
35:03 That was holiness.
35:11 So we're misinterpreting the Bible when you're reading what the Bible say and what it tells you
35:16 to do without looking at what Jesus did, because that's how you're supposed to do it.
35:20 And so my question is, does your holiness resemble Jesus or the Pharisees?
35:25 Let me ask you a question. Does your holiness resemble Jesus?
35:36 Let's go, Tario. He leads through passages. Number two, God leads through people.
35:47 And I know there's a lot of talk about prophetic words, and I'm going to do a transformation lab
35:52 on that, on what the New Testament has to say about prophetic ministry, because a lot of that,
35:56 I think it's kind of weird because people feel called to prophetic ministry, but your temperament
36:01 and your framework is all Old Testament. You sound like Isaiah. Let me go to this side over here.
36:10 Yeah, yeah. It's like, so wait a minute. So how there is no change of expression
36:14 of prophetic ministry in the New Testament versus the Old?
36:16 So people's whole framework for it is Old Covenant. Time out.
36:21 There's nothing different post-Jesus than pre-Jesus. So I'm not talking about prophetic
36:28 words here. I'm talking about primarily prophetic preaching and preaching and teaching becomes
36:34 prophetic when God takes a timeless truth from scripture and delivers it to you in a timely way.
36:41 That is not just what you need to hear. You get it when you need to hear it.
36:47 It's like you're sitting in church and you're like, God, I needed this today.
36:56 So sometimes God will give you your answer through the sermon.
37:00 This is why it's important to know who your pastor is. Now I'm not saying your pastor
37:10 is your only voice. He shouldn't be, but he's going to be the dominant voice God uses.
37:13 He uses passages. He uses people. And number three, I'm done. He uses promptings.
37:24 What's a spiritual prompting? It's a divinely inspired, biblically based nudge, intuitive
37:34 hunches, inner impressions, inaudible messages that God believe us toward thoughts, actions,
37:39 or decisions that can be aligned with the will of God. It's not something I hear with these ears.
37:45 It's something to hear. Sometimes it's a hunch. And here's one of the ways God works with me.
37:53 I'm not saying this with you. I'm not saying this is doctrine. This is me. He works with me with
37:57 peace. There's a decision I had to make recently and I was stressing because I felt like I was
38:02 guessing. You ever been there? Lord, I want to do what's right, but I don't know what you want me to
38:08 do. So here's what happened. Every time I thought about doing it, I didn't get peace on it.
38:18 And because he's the prince of peace where he is, there's going to be peace.
38:23 So what did I do? I made a decision to walk away from what didn't give me peace.
38:32 I got my answer because I didn't have peace about it.
38:37 And today my prayer for us is that God opens our spiritual ears
38:47 because the most consequential decisions in your life deserve divine consultation.
38:52 We should be teaching our children. What do you think you feeling in your gut about school?
39:02 Because my protection is on the other end of his direction.
39:15 Well, pastor, I've gone away from his direction. He's still protecting me. Me too.
39:18 But please don't call grace a blessing. That was great. That was mercy.
39:25 I pray that God open our ears
39:32 and give us spiritual sensitivity to be led through passages, people and promptings.