good morning church family and ministry friends i'm pastor stephen brooks welcome today to our online internet around the world church service i'm so happy that you're here today and i believe that god's word is able to build you up to do what he has called you to do and to become the person that he has called you to become which is the child of god in the mature image of the lord jesus christ praise god today we are in second thessalonians chapter 1 we're going to receive the tithes and offerings but first let's look at this one verse verse 3. we are bound to thank god always for you brethren as it is fitting because your faith grows exceedingly now we use our faith initially to receive jesus christ as our lord and savior that is the initial usage of our faith the salvation experience we're saved by grace through faith then after salvation as we mature in our knowledge of god and as we study his word and his ways we begin to see that there are promises in scripture uh various things that are available to us and they are all received or brought into our lives how through faith and it is impossible to please god without faith so after having been saved then some time may go by and hopefully it's not very long that you discover god's will for his people to be baptized or we would say immersed in the holy spirit and thus you received the baptism in the holy spirit by faith and now you're speaking in tongues and then you find out about the gifts of the holy spirit and you think that's wonderful and it is and along with the baptism of the holy spirit that can come the activation of the spiritual gifts and now that begins to operate in your life by faith as you take hold of those scriptures and agree with that and then of course you see other scriptures that give application to god's plan for your body which is to walk in health and to be healed from sickness and disease and you see scriptures like by his stripes we were healed and so you realize physical healing is in the atonement that christ accomplished for us through his death burial and resurrection and mighty ascension there at calvary okay praise god praise god and so you take that too by faith take healing for your body my friends we must not stop there because the same faith that allows us to step in and receive these wonderful blessings and promises this same faith can also be exercised in the area of finances and we need to use our faith to believe god for his best for our finances in other words don't just be a christian who's saved but then you become completely neutral you need to be aggressive in your faith the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force that is not a force of uh some type of military weapon or something like that that is a force of faith you are exercising bold and aggressive faith to take hold of your inheritance in christ and when it comes to finances you need to be aggressive with your faith then you need to think okay this is where i'm at but i'm not destined to stay in this place for the rest of my life uh perhaps you were born poor perhaps you were born in a family uh where you were never taught anything about money and you just grew up and you kind of have to figure it out on your own and the world through through you a bunch of loops and maybe your last name is not rothschild or something like that uh where you were born into wealth or whatever the case might have been and so you realize oh so this is where i'm at okay so my friends this is not like the old uh nation of india caste system in other words if you're born into this uh type of a family this is what you're gonna do for the rest of your life and you can never move out of that and if you're born over here in this area oh that's the poverty of the impoverished group and that means you're you're gonna be in that for the rest of your life no no hallelujah in christ these uh we have freedom and liberty and in christ you realize this is this may be where i'm at but my financial destiny is not tied to my past or to these other external variables my destiny is tied to christ in his word and thus you exercise faith and move towards god's financial best for your life and so you may live in an apartment but god says use your faith use your faith to own your own home praise god you may have a home and then the lord says now exercise faith that's great that you got a home exercise faith to get the mortgage paid off a lot sooner than what the extended 30-year or sometimes they have jumbo uh you know 40-year loans now the lord says now now don't stop there use your faith to get it paid off a whole lot faster and on and on it goes uh and you could use your faith to uh catch bargains in the catch favor so that you have uh blessings in these areas of finances when you make certain purchases and so forth so paul told them that their faith grows exceedingly so let's not just compartmentalize that and say well yes our faith is growing exceedingly and our and our love for jesus that's that's nice that's and that's that's to be commended but let us also grow in these other areas such as healing and so forth and also in the area as well because it's very important in the area of finances let your faith grow exceedingly in the area of financial blessing because the more you're blessed the more you can be a blessing praise god so use your faith on purpose for financial increase and to accomplish what normally you would not be able to do on your own because god will help you he'll put his super upon your natural when you believe him for it and exercise your faith now let your faith grow exceedingly one of the ways we do that is by not only by being a hearer of the word but by also being a doer of the word so we have heard about tithes and offerings and now we're going to obey and as we do that we grow stronger and stronger in our faith for the increase that god has for us so at this time let us now honor the lord with the tithe which is 10 of all of our increase and also let us sow financial seed praise god if you would like to bring that in through the mail you can send your giving through the mail to stephen brooks international p.o box 717 moravian falls north carolina the zip code is 28654 if you prefer to bring your tithes and offerings in online you can do so any where in the world anytime day or night any place praise god go to the ministry website stevenbrooks.org there on the link is a red heart and a little box that says give and you can click on that and it will take you to the landing page where you could bring your tithe in electronically and also you can give into the various projects that the ministry is focused on praise god now let me pray for your finances father i pray that you just cause the reign of heaven the reign of your spirit of keen ideas of witty ideas to fall fresh upon your people that they walk in your wisdom they know how to make application of wisdom and they see areas that they can increase and that they will use their faith in your word to expand their financial territory thank you father god for empowering them to be blessed so that they might be a blessing father in jesus name we agree and say amen whoa praise the lord all right thank you for your giving praise the lord now let's take our bibles today and we're going to go over to second timothy chapter 3 2 timothy chapter 3 and we're going to talk today about understanding the role of divine correction when pursuing your vision okay so you get the download uh you get insight of the vision that god has the path that god has for your life and you're excited and you're happy and you take off and as you're moving through that process of walking out the vision uh we must be in a place where we are continually inquiring of the lord concerning what the next step should be and how god wants us to uh basically what he wants us to do praise the lord and in studying this we go to second timothy chapter 3 verse 16 and let's pray father as we go into your word we ask that your holy spirit would come bringing light illumination a revelation of the scriptures so that we might see these truths and walk in them and we give you praise we give you praise for the times that you come in and bring the needed correction so that we stay in our lane and stay on track we thank you in jesus name amen praise the lord verse 16 all scripture every bit of it from genesis 1 to revelation 22 and everything in between all scripture is given by inspiration of god and is profitable for uh four things so now we're going to look very briefly at the four fold application of scripture of god's inspired word it's given for doctrine okay so that's that's for teaching so that we can understand what our role is what our part is what we're supposed to do it's given for reproof and the word reproof is an expression here denoting god's disapproval of something that we could be doing or walking out in our life so when god gives reproof the reproof which can be in the word of god that we discover when we study god's word or it could be through the voice of god it could be with the dealings of god which there's many different variables of that but nevertheless god's reproof keeps us from taking a dangerous step and i believe that you're going to see as we study this today the the great extension of god's love towards us his children so scripture is given for doctrine which is teaching for reproof so that is a an expression of god's disapproval so that we get get on the right track praise god and also for correction what is the purpose of correction it is to set us on the very center of the direction that god has for us to go in i tell you it's so easy to take a little bit of a turn to the left or a little bit of a turn to the right and even do so with perhaps what could be considered a good idea or maybe what we think would be something that's uh surely god would agree with this and we start doing it but it doesn't necessarily mean it's what god has spoken okay so these scriptures they make us wise for salvation because they bring doctrine they bring reproof the word of god brings correction and it brings instruction and this area of instruction pertains to righteousness praise god so we need god's word to keep us centered moving forward and staying in our lane praise god and there are always going to be because of our very human nature there are always going to be certain things that we want to do that we think are so wonderful that not even the angels would ever say no but we move into certain projects or we move into a certain direction or we start doing a certain thing and it doesn't mean that just because it's a good idea it's a god idea it doesn't mean that just because it's not sinful or illegal or unlawful or bad still that doesn't mean that that's something that god wants you to be doing whoo this is very very important let's take a look at this just for a moment at one of the classic scriptures proverbs chapter 14 and verse 12. two of my favorite scriptures or actually chapters probably out of the book of proverbs for me is proverbs chapter 14 and proverbs chapter 16 because those two chapters you just can't read through them fast because it seems like almost every verse in those chapters they're all good you could teach messages off literally every verse but today let's look at proverbs chapter 14 verse 12. and scripture says there is a way that seems right to a man and you can be absolutely convinced that your way is right you maybe even can have it mapped out on paper you maybe can have uh endorsements from others that say yeah you're doing what you're doing is good there is a way that seems right to a man but his end is the way of death what would you think if you were actually moving full steam into something and and you're doing this but you don't know that god knows from his perspective that the whole thing is already destined for complete failure even at the very get-go what would you think about that well if you're a normal person you would think i i would like god to intervene and tell me whoa praise the lord but god doesn't always intervene even even when you're charging straight ahead he has how can we say certain requirements that he must see in order to lead and direct and one of those greatest requirements is easily seen in the 25th psalm let's go over there just for a moment this is psalm 25 and let's drop down to verse 9. the humble he guides in justice and the humble he teaches his way now perhaps you've noticed what god has noticed that you cannot teach an arrogant person who thinks they know everything who thinks they know more than god well surely pastor stephen there's none of those people like that in the church well i can't speak for those that are out in the world but from uh you know from my my occupation as a minister i've come across quite a few christians that that maybe they're sweet maybe they're nice yes their ticket is stamped to heaven they're on the way to heaven but in certain areas when it comes to teaching in as far as going in the way of the lord completely unteachable and if you were to even try uh there would be friction instantly instantly in the relationship so you can tell you can only go so far in the relationship because when it comes to doing the right thing in this one area they're not going to do it even if 10 000 angels came down and appeared before them and started singing the chorus of the song hallelujah they're they're not going to do it they are it doesn't matter if the holy spirit comes and talks to them in person they're they're not going to obey in that area they are going to do their thing so what does that mean it means that while yes you're saved by grace god's goodness right god's love through faith that's nice you're going to go to heaven but as far as you walking out the full potential of your destiny you are now disqualified because you're unteachable now let me say this this uh we're gonna have a good time today but let me say this you do realize that this is a weightier thing i'm going to say you do realize there are christians who die and their destiny goes to the grave with them they never fulfilled it even if they knew it even if they clearly saw it and they could pick up perhaps by praying and they they understood and their their knowledge of the word they knew exactly what god had for them but they never crossed the finish line concerning the fulfillment of that and a lot of that has to do with an inability to be taught by the lord and the reason that often that exchange doesn't take place is because he only guides the humble he only teaches the humble his way so you have to humble yourself and say lord i thank you for my brain i thank you for my education i thank you for my counsel of advisors and all this and that but lord there is no brain higher than you and lord even all of our intellect combined together cannot our organic physical brains cannot get into the spirit and lord we need your spiritual wisdom we need to know basically what you say what you think because we could think oh let's do this and surely it's a good thing and lord you could say no and see that that's what we're dealing with we have to walk in accordance with the lord's ways jesus said i can do nothing on my own well why can't he he looks strong enough to me looks like a capable leader looks like he has the anointing my friends the anointing is no substitution for being led by god i'm anointed how many anointed failures have we seen in the church not as any means of shame or humiliation but as examples like hey they got off track and they never finished what god wanted them to walk out no condemnation because we're in christ and those that didn't accomplish that certain thing thank god they made heaven sure beats going to hell the ultimate bad decision my goodness praise the lord but my friends don't um don't tour around with your destiny you've got to get this done because there are those that don't and we have to realize that and realize well i better stay on track and that requires the guidance of the lord praise god and this will this this is not like something that maybe is you know only a few special people have it to them this will require as we see in second timothy chapter 3 verse 16 this will require divine correction at times i didn't say divine spanking pastor stephen god's really going to put it to me at me no i'm not talking about that i'm talking about the lord correcting and saying you're you're off i didn't tell you to do that and then him helping now the reproofs sometimes the express the expression of god's displeasure sure that's not fun nobody wants to uh how can we say get called in by god uh you know but hey if you're driving in the wrong direction with eyes wide open and you're about to drive into a mess and god loves you don't you think he's going to try to bring a reproof and then if there is a heart to receive it then he'll show you the correction so that you can get back where you're supposed to be and he's so good that if you'll do that if you if your guild he'll he's so good he'll even divinely help you make up for lost time that's stuff that only god can do right there he said in this word he said that which the the locust and canker worm and all all these various stages of the locust have eaten up god's is all restored that's not the issue the issue is get back walk back over here to me and get in the center of my will because the clock's ticking clock's ticking whoa glory to god now let's go to our key text today a fascinating story i'm so glad it's in the bible it's it's a king a good king that made a mistake and he had to walk he had to walk it all back and i'm so glad that his mistake is in the bible because this is for our admonition this is put here for you and i to learn and to glean from his life because we're going to have we're going to have certain things at times that we'll have to make modifications on or adjust or correct praise god we are in the book of second chronicles chapter 25 let's go directly to verse 5. praise the lord moreover amaziah this is good old king amaziah and messiah gathered judah together and set over them captains of thousands captains of hundreds according to their father's houses throughout all judah and benjamin and he numbered them from 20 years old and above and found them to be three hundred thousand choice men able to go to war who could handle spear and shield verse six here we go he also hired 100 000 mighty men of valor from israel for 100 talents of silver wow got a hundred thousand men on the payroll how about that and has given them all the money because they're they're not going to go into this battle and do his fighting without some money king will do it if that's what you want we'll do it we need the money up front okay so he has put out all of this money and he's he's got all of these guys involved and watch what happens in verse seven but a man of god came to him whoo don't you know he had an assignment don't you know that prophet on the way to the king was probably thinking lord now thank you for showing this to me and i'm going to go speak to the king and tell him exactly what you told me lord i sure hope he does the right thing wow okay because some of these kings you never knew what kind of a mood they would be in are they walking steady with god are they having some meltdowns and breakdowns and maybe they're gonna you know say off with his head okay so anyhow the prophet's gonna do his thing but a man of god came to him saying o king do not let the army of israel go with you for the lord is not with israel okay so you have the king of the southern kingdom of judah king amaziah he's hired all of these guys from basically what we would call various areas of the of the northern kingdom which is which is pretty much just gone in the wholesale apostasy but he needs somebody to fight for him he doesn't have enough numbers down south so he's hired all these guys up north from uh from the uh divided kingdom o king do not let the army of israel go with you for the lord is not with israel not with any of the children of ephraim but if you go be gone be strong in battle even so god shall make you fall before the enemy for god has power to help and to overthrow in other words look god's not in this you've paid all these guys you've got a hundred thousand men involved in this and you've already spent the money and if you go it's not going to be good now he's not saying it i would probably think that even the king himself at this stage his life is in danger he could die he could die this has happened to quite a few already we know that we we know the routine okay and this is very very critical what's going on a reproof from god king and it doesn't matter if you're king doesn't matter if you're a preacher doesn't matter if you're anointed doesn't matter who you are god's not a respecter of persons if you are one of his children and you are you're getting off base even if you already spent the money god sends the reproof what will your response be um well let's find out what his response is then amaziah said to the man of god probably the same thing you or i would say if we've already spent the money right he said now what shall we do about the hundred talents which i have given to the troops of israel as if god doesn't know about that right but it's a good question he's basically said i've already paid all these guys a lot of money two can i just tell you the bottom line the money's gone the money look if you want to do the right thing walk away from it oh pastor stephen you don't understand how much money i paid i all i can say is i understand this it was done out of god's will and just walk away from it and you know close it down shut it down and that that's what he's facing that's what he's facing right here with the warning you go through with it go ahead be be brave do your thing sharpen your sword the prophet's probably thinking you're all gonna die if you do it [Music] but what shall we do about the hundred talents which i have given to the troops of israel and the man of god answered the look let this go into your spirit because god is good he's speaking to some of you today that you've gotten off track the lord is able to give you much more than this so amaziah discharged the troops that had come to him from ephraim to go back home boys you're all paid up and i know you're ready to fight forget it uh things have changed keep the money go go go buy yourself a new 4k television put your down payment for your new car uh goodbye please go back oh go back and worship your idols like you've already been doing anyhow okay so anyhow he's out and he goes forward in god's plan and has success whoa praise the lord there are times when the reproof of god comes it's god's love it's god's love and i'm going to share some things today about reproofs in my own life and they're all through the bible and my friends you have to understand when god brings the proof he's not trying to spoil your party he loves you he's trying to keep you from making a a major mistake even perhaps a fatal mistake something that could kill you or could kill your business or could really just rattle your life in a way that you don't want to know and so when you receive that reproof which is a which is an expression of god's displeasure you're doing something wrong then the word also corrects and that correction brings you back centered to where you're supposed to be praise the lord glory to god how many of you watching are familiar with oral roberts university my oldest daughter graduated from there and uh got her degree went on got her masters and met her the love of her life while she was there uh the star tennis player uh he was from germany and uh they fell in love and they got married and uh he was a christian he did love the lord but it was my privilege to lead him into the baptism in the holy spirit and of all things they moved out here close by us because of a job relocation and that of course made my wife and i very very happy that they are just a short drive and we can go see them because now they have two beautiful grandchildren uh you know that we can go over and see and have a lot of fun and things like that and so oral roberts university has graduated thousands and thousands of students who are carrying on the original vision of oral roberts uh to be a great blessing in the earth and although that great man of god who founded it has been gone now for quite a while the university continues still to be vibrant and healthy and functioning on all cylinders as we would say continuing to graduate top level students so it was a total success and is still functioning today although he is gone watch this very carefully while oru the university continues to carry the banner of the of the vision that that man imparted into it dr roberts had a situation where when his uh daughter and her husband his son-in-law died in a plane crash he went out to california for the funeral you have to understand that when you are in a time of sadness like that that's not the time in moments like that where you make major decisions but and i think we can be vulnerable in times like that so when you you're in a mode like that just hold steady cover your very basics and don't do any major decision making uh type things when you're in moments like that such as when a child dies young this is time for you to be healed and to be made whole and to just be refreshed by the lord well it was during that time that he says dr roberts said that the lord spoke to him to start what he called the city of faith which would be a very vast medical hospital complex and um so he he launches full full bore into this after coming back from the funeral and i am not judging him nor am i being critical of him i just want to state some things of information that will help you to see how important it is to stay on track with only what christ has commissioned so he he starts what became known as the city of faith hospital three primary buildings if you've ever been in tulsa you can still see them they're still there today 160 stories beautiful skyscraper the other is a 30-story structure the other is a 20-story structure and even when i was there a few years back still it's there's parts of the of these buildings that are still not occupied so you see this gigantic parking lot and not a lot not not a lot of cars there now what took place is that from day one those who were around him on the team to you know his directors and so forth his advisors they all said from day one it was nothing but trouble everything went wrong not only that before the first deal was ever signed to break ground and to you know start building this all of his advisers said there's something not right about this dr roberts you know i don't think we should move forward with this and his simple response was i've heard from god we're going to do it and i'm not saying he didn't hear from god i'm just saying that when it is from the lord there are indicators of peace and a lot of other key factors that uh favor that will go along with that that ride with the authentic commissioning from the lord and none of that was was seen in the building of these structures or this medical com complex and it wasn't long at all before they were 25 million dollars into debt and what took place is that this became such a debt burden that he's now having the siphon money away from the successful university and he's having to pour it all now over into this medical complex and try to keep it alive and keep it going and it was just an absolute money pit he even had to take his television ministry of preaching and teaching the gospel and begin to use that primarily now as a fun may raising uh uh platform to raise money for this complex that is just a money pit and it drained all of the many ministry resources he even had to sell his own home and his son richard he had to sell his home also and from the day that medical center opened it struggled from day one eventually the debt became so enormous that it was auctioned and sold off and today it has pretty much been converted to various forms of office space like call centers and things like that so it you could say in some ways that uh it's very mindful of psalm 127 verse one unless the lord builds the house laborers labor in vain and you can labor in eve and even build it but if god does not commission something then it's it's doomed from failure it's doomed for failure from the very start and it hurt the university because it's pulling the resources that should be going to the university it's pulling it all over here into a money pit he even had to step down the the the accreditation of the sports teams so they were ncaa i i think they were actually division one or division two and they stepped it down to a really small level they're doing everything they could to save money and cut money and reduce this reduce that so when you get on something that's not truly originated from the lord what you're going to do if if if you're going in the direction that you're not supposed to not only are you on the wrong track but the thing that you're pouring money into and time and energy into it's all something it's all money that was supposed to go over to the true thing what does that mean it means eventually you're going to run into a deficit not only on the wrong thing but now also on the real thing because you've been feeding money that should have gone to the real thing over here to the wrong thing and you could crash the whole system and that's exactly what it almost did um wow a nice man a very wealthy businessman at one point stepped in and rescued the university from millions and millions and millions of dollars of debt but he said i'll rescue the university on the conditions that we get some things in order around here that are completely out of order wow wow they poured over 150 million dollars into that effort to do this medical thing it was nothing it was nothing but a mess it was extremely difficult i've i've read the stories of the doctors that worked there and all the stress and all the chaos and all the confusion and things not running the way they should everything from the tulsa uh hospital directories from the various hospitals already saying we already have more than enough hospital beds in tulsa we don't need another hospital we and just everything everything working against them but only one response from the top god told me to do it so you know and i'm not his judge god is but all i'm trying to say my friends is when you have the golden goose that you know when you have this prestigious world-class university that others around the world look at and think wow what a beautiful thing why would you go over here and do something that uh is a completely different it's just uh i'm not saying god could do that but it's very very rare for a moment consider the the capuchin monk padre pio here's a man think about this here is a man that uh according to his catholic theology has to take a vow of poverty so here's a little monk who's taken a vow of poverty living in a monastery sleeping in a room no bigger no bigger than the uh the pulpit uh platform area here and has nothing that he even owns in life except his clothes you know maybe a few pictures on the wall and yet god told him to raise up the hospital and he did it the first thing he gave he had a little gold coin that somebody had just given him and he said god has told me to raise a hospital i want to be the first one to give an offering and he put that into the offering and would you believe that the catholic church the pope and the the cardinals made one of the rarest exceptions ever seen in the catholic church where they said we are going to allow you to raise the money of course he never touched the money and if people ever gave him the money because people were coming to the monastery all the time to see him for prayer they would put money in his hand he would immediately give it to the treasurer and that hospital today although padre pio has been gone since the late 60s that hospital today 50 years later still flourishing still a city on a shining hill bringing relief to the suffering why god told him to start one god told or robert start a university and it was pure gold okay they got over something else and it just completely flopped padre pio called by the lord not the start of university had no anointing to do that but he was called to start a hospital and it's still today 50 years after his departure flourishing beautiful a whole city a whole city now has formed around the hospital and of course uh you know the the site of his remains san giovanni rotundo where six million people come every year to pay their respects to a true prophet of the lord glory glory to god what about king amaziah hey i've already paid all these guys you wouldn't believe how much money i paid them what am i supposed to do about that let it go let it all go well they put over 100 million dollars yep let it go write the whole thing off it's going to go on auction it's going to be selled off for pennies on the dollars doesn't matter let it go you have to my friends you have to stay on your calling it look look if king amaziah can make a mistake don't you think that you could make a mistake if some of the greatest ministers on the earth who can legitimately hear from god yet also because of personal pulls or maybe certain desires and can drift don't you think that you and i could also deal with such things [Music] praise the lord you must rely upon the leading of god to take you uh through the pro the steps that he has for you don't just think oh this god proves this bring it all before the lord inquire of the lord praise god praise god thank you lord jesus let's continue on i want to talk just for a moment about a great man of god another great man of god and i deeply respect or roberts and i have also tremendous respect for jerry falwell senior founder of liberty university think about it he founded a university that today has has an endowment over 1 billion dollars that's pretty good that's pretty good that's that's like what they would call the big league they they have a larger endowment than some state institutions do and of course they have a tremendous enrollment if i'm correct if i'm correct i think they actually have the largest online enrollment of any university in the world and of course they have a lot of students that do go to campus and some for and so forth so jerry falwell senior is the founder of liberty university but guess what he also found that something else that jesus told him get out of it you ready for this one well pastor stephen what in the world could that be that man was perfect he was more perfect than god no no none of us are okay many uh of those perhaps in an older generation not too much older than me that this is a little just a little bit before my time would know that jerry falwell senior founded a political organization called moral majority with the emphasis of getting christians to come together so that when they go to the voting polls they vote for the politician who would you know have the highest christian ethics and standards praise the lord i'm going to say something in just a moment i'm trying to think of the order so i want to say this next i i saw an old video of jerry falwell senior this was this was old i mean we're going back to i don't know uh 30 years back and he on the video he was preaching at his church and he was saying you know what i am so proud of this organization of you know more he said i'm so proud of moral majority and all of you remember he had 600 000 members 600 000 contributing members that belonged to moral majority i am so proud of moral majority because i must tell you that during the recent election when it was real close it was those of moral majority that tipped the vote in favor of jimmy carter oh and i heard that and i thought lord in my perspective i think jimmy carter um no i'm not gonna i'm not gonna say it but jimmy carter i'm just gonna say i would not put him amongst the greats you could read between the lines okay i'm not gonna speak evil of any leader um and does jimmy carter still teach bible school on sunday morning sunday morning bible school yes he still does does he believe some strange things that i believe go totally contrary to scripture i would say yes because i've heard what he's taught and i do not agree with some of the things he teaches particularly along the line of morals and so the christians of moral majority helped tip the scales to get a person in there that in many ways just didn't know what to do and the ayatollah and those over in iran that with the terrorism they just locked him down and it was not until reagan came in that reagan came in and reagan can't really quote scripture uh reagan can't stand up in the pulpit and teach bible but i'll tell you what reagan knew how to bring the hammer and he knew what the call hey this is we're not gonna be pushed around we're not having some rogue rebellious nation uh take our people no this this gig is up and they knew what was up the moment he won the election and they knew he was coming in released the hostages we don't want them anymore you better release them because he's not putting up with that okay so crisis crisis situation it always watch it always will when you have developed something or you're going into something that god is not commissioned crisis situation comes so a crisis came you had some ministers that had moral failures the nation saw that and a lot of christians froze their giving because they were they were like whoa wow that that's they were trying to you know get over that and deal with that and so a lot of the regular giving that was coming in for many large ministries especially it stopped and so that hit jerry falwell senior very severely at liberty university and now the money's not pouring in and so it got real bad they start going in the debt everything before then they'd been paying cash cash cash as they go with no strain god's blessing everything working like swarm oil now there's a there's a crisis and now uh because of the debt that the university is now accumulating they could lose their accreditation and who wants to go to a university where your paper your your diploma is not accredited it doesn't mean anything you can't get a job anywhere with that so he said well man we're in trouble so he did two 40-day fast he fasted for 40 days no food then he ate for 21 days and then the lord said i want to talk to you now about money and he went right back into another 40-day fast with no food okay so here's the first thing the lord told him on the first 40-day fast because on the first 40-day fast he's like lord we need money the university is going to crash and we i need your help you know what the lord told him the lord said he said first of all you need to get your relationship right with me you're doing all kinds of stuff number one you ready for this number one shut down moral majority shut it down get out of politics are you hearing this this is what the lord told him get out of that why lord never called him into that in the first place and i'm not saying he doesn't call some but he didn't call him and so he's putting all that money millions and millions and millions of dollars in the moral majority six hundred thousand members and jesus told him get out of it shut it down get back over on what i commissioned you to do liberty university your golden nest egg the baby that that you birthed through divine commissioning put all of your focus on that and he did oh he did oh he humbled himself [Laughter] 40 days oh god i humbled myself hmm that it came off the 40 they fast eight for 21 days gained all the weight back it was then jesus by the holy spirit spoke to him and said now i want to talk to you about money so he went back into another 40-day fast and just dialed everything into the commissioning and what god had told him to do shut everything down that he's drifted over into that god never commissioned hmm and after the forty day fast the second one was complete he came off that and he knew god was going to move and did god ever move a man walked onto the campus gave him a check for 50 million dollars to get the university into the place that it needs to be to get it re-strengthened and then god sent the second greatest answer to prayer which was the leader a person that could lead it from a financial perspective and uh set it up with uh and so god brought i think it was a man from georgia tech in who used to be the president there and just everything turned to gold again but you know what fall will did not do he did not resurrect more more majority majority because god said shut that down hmm [Music] can you imagine thinking you're doing something so good we got that guy in the office and that guy turns that guy gets in the office and you're like wow oh wonder what god thinks about that he probably thinks you did the wrong thing hmm we can think sometimes we're so smart we're so smart you got to have more than smarts to fulfill your calling you're going to have to be open to divine correction in order to fulfill your high calling in your destiny and if reproof comes look if it can come the jury follows senior it can certainly come to you and i if it can come to oral roberts it could come to you and i if it could come to a king of judah it could come to you and i thank god amaziah said oh forget the money yeah yeah we put a lot of money boy we paid those guys good forget it okay mr prophet i know you're speaking from god yeah just walk off and forget the whole thing remember remember the lord is able to give you much more than this do the right thing well pastor stephen i don't want to backtrack out of this what will people think who cares what people thinks it's what god thinks and if you have walked into something it doesn't matter how much time how much uh completion or whatever and you've walked into it you realize this is this is not of god this is not of god shut it off shut it down to the glory of the lord jesus christ praise god amen pastor stephen that means we've wasted millions of dollars the lord is able to give you much more he really is he is a good god hallelujah but we must be correctable we must have humility in our hearts what about the prophet kenneth hagin oh oh well that pastor stephen he's a prophet now you know for sure he never made a mistake he tells about some of the mistakes he made uh let's talk about this one for a moment again one of my favorite teachers all time and i believe that prophet kenneth hagin will go down in church history as one of the greatest i'm not saying he's he's the greatest but as one of the greatest definitely way up there way at the top if not at the top of the greatest those that would be prophet teacher combination within church history it's kind of teacher you just listen to him teach all day long you know real kind of like laid back type teaching not not shouting and screaming but just teach teach teach and it's and it's revelatory but listen to what he said he woke up at 5 30 in the morning one morning and the lord spoke to him he brother hagin said he set up in bed and the lord told him a recession is coming and he told him how to escape it and he gave him instructions of certain things he needed to do because you can't stop it it's coming and if you make these adjustments then you're not going to feel the discomfort that others are going to feel who don't know what's going on and are not informed so the the first thing the lord told him to do is shut down every program that you have gotten involved in that i never told you to start oh what is that my friends that's a that's a reproof and the lord talked to brother hagin about the counseling center that they had started and and jesus told him in this vision i never told you to start that not only did i not tell you to start it it's actually unbiblical it's unbiblical because you're counseling people you're counseling sheep that are from other sheepfolds you're counseling church members that belong to other churches now you've got these people know church members of the church is coming to seek you to get counsel they don't need to be coming here they need to go to their own shepherd they need to go to their own pastors and so so jesus said you're not even responsible for them to counsel them jesus said shut it down he said also lay off this amount of employees trim down your payroll the next morning eight o'clock in the morning staff meeting and he said he told the staff this i had a visitation from jesus and in the vision he told me this is what i need to do he said uh we are laying off these people those of you i need to let you know that and we're shutting this down and he implemented it he's streamed down and thinned down to that area where when that recession came he went right through it he went right through it but noticed that the lord had to bring correction because now brother hagin he had his hands over here in this thing counseling center prayer counseling and all this going on sapping all of their time pouring money into it and god never told him to do it and not only that it's actually the format that he was running in that context was actually unscriptural and you know how big of a stickler kenneth hagin was for the word so he's like oh my goodness so yes he received the reprove and received the correction boom right on track and sails right along sails right along see god loves us god loves us again scripture says and the man of god answered to the king the lord is able to give you much more than this don't worry about it just get right get right back track back step get right and boom go forward well pastor steve we've invested months and months into that who cares walk away from it shut it down praise the lord thank you jesus acts chapter 21 glory to god are you having a good time today in the word of god the word of god is working in our lives we're going to acts chapter 21. let's drop down to verse 4. there is a lot of debate amongst theologians concerning what we're about to see some theologians say that paul was doing really good in god's will and other theologians are saying well as obviously he was out of the will of god okay so let's take a look at this and i believe you'll clearly see that paul made some mistakes and had such a strong pool in one area he would drift over there sometimes and when he would uh there would be some pretty tough consequences verse 4 and finding disciples we stayed there seven days they told paul through the spirit not through the flesh not through good intentions they told him through the spirit not to go up to jerusalem guess what he's going to do he's going to go up there anyhow well pastor stephen now if these people are speaking by the spirit of god why in the world would paul do that uh he he just had some areas where although he was told by the lord your apostolic ministry is to the gentiles and whenever he went to the gentiles a tremendous success oh he he still just wants to reach his brethren the jews so much that he ends up trying to minister to them again and every time that usually happens guess what a beaten and a stone and a weapon and a kicking and all kinds of difficulties and look the lord had told paul you know at the beginning of his ministry when he's going through all of that stuff the lord showed him all of the things that he would suffer for him but paul already has enough baked into the plan that god has for him of challenging circumstances he certainly doesn't need to add more fuel to the fire because when you encounter things that are on the path that are part of god's plan there's grace to overcome there's there's favor there's provision but if you start moving over in the areas where i'm going to add some extra on uh the grace is for for staying in your lane not for over here doing other kinds of stuff and paul even though warned hey don't don't don't go to jerusalem goes anyhow when his apostleship is not to the jews and jesus at one point gave him a divinely granted vision and said leave here they are not going to receive your testimony well you know maybe i can persuade them with a you know i i really know them and i i used to be real close to all of them and they all know me and um no no they're gonna they're gonna get mad and beat you up and uh and hit you and kick you and do all kinds of things try to kill you if they can when we had come to the end of those days we departed and went on our way now verse 10 and as we stayed many days a certain prophet now he's in a different place as we stayed many days a certain prophet named agabus came down from judea when he had come to us he took paul's belt bound his own hands and feet and said thus says the holy spirit see again this is not like you know maybe somebody's uh psycho psychological analysis of paul paul seems like you know your job commission is better over here no no this is all in the spirit this is by the the leading of god now watch this thus says the holy spirit so shall the jews of jerusalem bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him into the hands of the gentiles in other words if you go up there they're going to rough you up really good and uh it's that you're really they're going to lay it on you and what does paul do oh he's going anyhow [Laughter] and paul did run into some things that i believe he could have avoided many theologians do also by scriptures like this now there are some things he's not going to be able to avoid and that's just part of the apostolic calling but there are some other things yeah he absolutely could have avoided it but not going there because they're never going to receive him in the first place he goes anyhow and it wouldn't turn out good um what's going on well it's the lord having to at times bring uh correction in these areas where he's drifting drifting and but any time he gets among the gentiles he's saving them like hotcakes they're coming to christ just like fish biting the bait in a frenzy [Laughter] whew praise the lord go where you're celebrated not where you're tolerated praise god amen but we're not going to give paul a hard time because uh even as he would say hey look i'm willing to die you know it's that i just i just want to give my life that they don't see it they don't understand so you know what uh the lord will just work all of that out praise god hallelujah but as much as we can if the holy spirit tells me through a world recognized prophet uh if you go to this city like you're saying you're going to do on your schedule if you go there they're going to tie you up and beat you up well i'm not going to go there ask for me no i'm not going there i i don't really want to get my teeth kicked in praise god no i can preach somewhere else [Laughter] hallelujah glory to god now if you you're like paul and you're right two-thirds of the new testament maybe maybe you can you can play this a little bit and you can get beat up and somehow get out of it okay but i would recommend let's not go to jerusalem i'm speaking you know kind of like uh symbolically here i'm not literally saying don't go to israel don't go to jerusalem i'm just saying if the lord says don't go to new york or don't go las vegas or don't go don't go to dallas i'm not going to go now if everything's okay and everything's good we can go anywhere we want to we have liberty and christ but that is in the context of obedience to the lord and his will praise god so it's never too late to get right even if the boat's about to land in jerusalem hey there's another boat leaving just you know if you change your mind you can always just jump over on that one and leave to put you know land on the plane and the lord says you weren't supposed to be here well don't don't even leave the airport just get on another plane go straight back where he came from praise the lord it's never too late to get right even if you've packed listen even if you've packed your bags and you plan on leaving as soon as i get through preaching this message it's not too late to get right when you realize hey god's not in this i've already paid those people i've already made reservations there okay drive off into the sunset with your eyes wide open and you just drive right into the storm but listen you could be like amaziah and say well i've gotten to know god a lot better over the last few months and over the last year i tell you what i see some things i didn't see before and i realized god's not in this i'm going to humble myself and back out of stephen what will they say who cares i want to serve the lord and i want to fulfill my calling and i can't do it if i'm still over in that see you can get so off track you can literally bury your destiny so that it's so covered with dirt that it's it's going to be real real hard to get this done within the time frame of your life may you receive grace to be like amaziah and just cold turkey shut anything off that you've gotten into that god's not in woo praise the lord well many of you have heard my testimony of how one morning i woke up six o'clock in the morning and the holy spirit spoke to me and said leave immediately and go to california i was living in texas i was single and i had a great job but at six o'clock in the morning technically it was 6 10 a.m the holy spirit told me to go to california well long story short i did i've told that before but what some of you have not heard is maybe a little more behind the scenes of what happened two years before that by the way when the holy spirit told me at 6 10 a.m when he told me to leave immediately and go to california i tried to ignore it you know why first start came to my mind i tried that before it didn't work you know why it didn't work i was out of god's timing so let's let's back a little further back two years before that that ever happened two years before that i i was doing a lot of praying and i picked up on the plan of god the vision of god the vision of god's plan for my life began to crystallize in a way where i could i could tell what god's plan for my wife was my life was excuse me and i knew it involved california and i knew it wasn't central or northern california it was southern california and i i just knew god had destiny for me in southern california well pastor stephen what what did you do when when you began to realize that in the the the realization of that began to be so strong in you i did what a lot of young immature christians do i tried to move on it too soon and it was not in the it was not in god's timing this is literally what i did i was so convinced that god had destiny for me in southern california that on saturday i spent all day at the library reading books because the internet um i'm trying to think the internet really wasn't even in existence then or maybe just in the barely early phases okay so i'm at the library reading books all day long about southern california i'm reading about orange county california the more i read the more excited i got i said i knew this is god i know this is god i'm i'm supposed to go to or it's orange county california i mean i i was like i was like the radar dude i had dialed in god's will and i knew i was on it i was over the target all over it but i was premature uh by at the end of saturday but after reading all those books i was ready to go i mean i read everything i read about venice beach up in l.a and uh orange county everything i was excited the pacific ocean and um and also you ready for this interestingly enough god put i desired my heart to marry a california lady isn't that interesting okay now the next day is saturday i'm in my 20s i love jesus i'm ready to serve god okay i'm in my mid-20s and uh it's it's the next next day is sunday so all day saturday i'm reading about california sunday comes i got up early in the morning i said this is what i'm going to do i'm going to go to church i'm not going to tell anybody i'm not even going to tell my pastor now look i lived right behind my pastor he had his house and there was a little bitty efficiency that i rented for him all it was was a single room with a toilet a shower and a place for my bed and the desk and a closet that's all there was and so that morning i packed my car full of everything i had i put all my clothes in the car i put all of my belongings in the car i said i know that god is in this so much i don't want anybody to talk me out of it i'm not even going to tell my pastor and i live right behind his house i said i'm going to go to church and i'm going to get there early and you know help the deacons and then i'm going to sing in the choir like i normally do and then i'm going to listen to the sermon and that soon as is over i'm not telling anybody i'm leaving yes i'm leaving the california and i did i packed my car full of everything i i had and i drove that morning to the church praise god and i kind of put some blankets over all my stuff in the car so nobody would see all this stuff in my car like what's is is steven moving i didn't do that had everything covered up all right as god is my witness what i'm about to tell you is 100 true okay now i parked my car in the parking lot i always got there early because i knew the pastor i i was like his right-hand assistant and uh a wonderful pastor wonderful man of god and uh i got there early and uh there's only like maybe two or three cars in the parking lot because like if the church starts if the service starts at 10 i'm like there it like at 8. so i got there real early got in the parking lot parked my car opened the door got out and started walking with my bible towards the entrance of the church there's two double doors and i'm walking towards them as i'm walking across the parking lot those doors the two double doors on the church blew open with power uh they got pushed open and sister dorothy walker uh evangelist wokka uh young in the lord she was she was still in her late 20s but on fire wanting to be evangelists working a full-time job but just wanting to serve god and be an evangelist she wanted in a ministry so bad i don't know where she's at in the world today but i would probably be almost guaranteed wherever she's at she's in ministry full-time sister dorothy walker had pushed those doors open those doors exploded open and she came walking out of those doors and walked down those steps she said brother brooks i don't know what you're about to do but god told me to tell you don't do it she said you kept me up all night she said you kept me up all night praying for you and she turned around frustrated mad that she had to pray all night for me not to do something crazy and when she turned around she was she was kind of like mumbling and i could i could hear her saying she said it's not time yet it's not time yet that's what she was kind of like mumbling when she walked off i never i didn't even dare ask her hey later uh i didn't want you know because she was like that didn't uh you ever get a little nervous when you get around some people that can read your mail you're like well i don't know if i want them to read my mail you know so um yeah but she and i always had great respect for each other but see now you understand why uh two years later when the lord did tell me to go to southern california that i was like oh god i tried that before but the holy spirit said go now go now you must not only have the vision you must have the timing if you're not inquiring of the lord you're risk stepping out or stepping in in a wrong way or wrong time only god knows these things you'll never figure it out with your head you must inquire of the lord can you imagine if i'd have showed up two years earlier i i know some things i can't say if i have shown up two years earlier nothing would have worked and for some of you that's why nothing's working because you're not inquiring of the lord and then even if you would inquire and get the instructions some of some of you bless your hearts you're so stubborn you won't back out oh look we've all made mistakes i've made my i've made some some really silly mistakes some of them are so silly i'd be embarrassed to tell you um i remember the time well i'll tell you one as i hang on the cross in front of you i remember the time i was engaged to be married and um the whole the whole thing was just like uh it wasn't of the lord but we're we're excited and it's all it's all like uh you know fleshly zeal and we're all excited uh because you know we're all young people we're all in our twenties and uh this young lady and i we decided we're gonna get married and so forth and um there was a visiting pastor and he he saw me over on the side he came over and said stephen i understand you're you're engaged to be married to this that sister over there i said yes he said he said can i share something with you i said by all means now he was much older very godly man and he said he said i just believe son that if you do that you're going to make a great mistake in your life and he said i'm not saying anything negative about her but i am saying i don't believe she's the one for you and um i think you're going to make a great mistake if you marry her because god has some things for you and you could really this could really cause some problems of god's plan for your life so please please pray about it and please read this book and he handed me a book written by a great man of god that i had no idea that one day i'm going to end up meeting this esteemed apostle of god who wrote the book and that one day when i go to california which is where he was at i will meet him and he will end up becoming my spiritual father i read the book and my eyes opened i said oh my lord i'm walking into something that said that's wrong well pastor stephen it's too late just go ahead and do it no no i said i said i have to call this off and you know what she understood she said yes it's okay and actually she got married shortly thereafter to another guy in the church and i think actually it was probably one of those that you know live happy ever after stories but god had a totally different path and direction for me and so it would really have complicated that so i backed out and i stopped it and and called it off and explained that to my parents and you know you know go and explain it to her most importantly and all this other stuff and get it all dissolved and stuff and when i say dissolve there was nothing signed or done anyhow you know it's just something that we've said we do but you know you're not you're you're working with emotions and and things like that so you have to be very delicate and careful but i backed out backed out back out and it was it's what god wanted me to do praise the lord so it's like it's like king hezekiah you know he lost money whatever and he lost a lot it just is what it is god will make it up that's not the issue god can make it up just do the right thing do the right thing for me it meant unpacking my car move all that stuff back in the house and feeling like oh man i ain't i don't want to do anything until i unless i know that i know it meant backing out of some things praise god but i tell you what it sure sure beats losing a battle and maybe losing your life like what could have happened to king uh amaziah praise the lord you know i've had the lord help me by his grace to keep me from making certain blunders sometimes big ones sometimes small ones i remember one time that i gave a pastor my book it was self-published at that time and i gave it to her and after she read it she said steven she said i love your book she said i really liked it but she said i wish you to put your testimony in the front you put it all the way in the back she said i wish i wished you would have put it up front and i thought well i thought to myself see this is this is the the limitations we have with our brains i thought well that's ju i need to be humble and put it in the back i don't want to put it up front people think i'm trying to draw attention to myself so i left it in the back and then later i had a visitation when i was in europe i was in berlin germany and jesus came to me in a vision while i was over there and i was praying in an apartment flat and he came there and talked with me one of the things he said he said concerning the book you wrote he said you need to take your personal testimony and put it at the front of the book whoa yes yes yes lord i'll do that yes and i could give her less now if somebody thinks well he's just telling stories by saying i i don't have time to deal with people that think like that all i want to do is obey the lord and do the right thing and the lord said put it at the front it will help people it will bless people it will inspire them and so i did whoa glory to god so he saved me when a major publisher picked that book up and they wanted to take it from self-publishing to being uh published by on a larger scale i'd already done that and it was good to go whoo but he's told me all kinds of things that i i wouldn't have known with my just intellectual ability praise god so let us inquire of the lord and let us walk in humility so that we can complete these assignments and stay in our lane and not just do good things do god things praise the lord praise the lord stay on your commission and refine it refine it as you can see this is a walk with god a walk of faith that takes ongoing information from headquarters in order to execute the council of god so we must have an active prayer life and active devotional life father i pray for your people that they be quickened by your holy spirit to close anything that you never told them to open that would be a destruction that would just be out of your will even if it's a good thing lest it end where it's destined to end in a place of failure frustration or perhaps even worse we ask for grace we thank you we thank you that you love us so much you'll make up even for mistakes when our heart is right with you and our walk is in order with you we thank you father god that even some of the great generals have had eras areas where they they drifted and uh even king amaziah lord he had to make a correction we just thank you that you love us enough to teach us the leaders to help us and we thank you father god we receive your help and we need your help thank you let revelation flow in jesus great name we pray and we all say amen praise the lord and amen if you're watching today and you don't know christ as your lord and savior don't think that you maybe wait two years or three years or or maybe right before you'll die you'll say i'll get my life right with god now no no you have to do it when god's grace is manifested when his anointing is flowing and if you have never asked christ into your heart don't wait another hour do it right now get your life right with god right now because when the curtain drops you you cannot you don't have you cannot walk it back you're out of time do it right now bless the anointing lift do it right now say lord jesus come into my heart wash my sins away i give you my life completely jesus write my name in your book of life i receive you as my lord and savior and jesus this day lead me and guide me in the way i should go thank you for saving me jesus in your name i pray amen and amen praise the lord glory to god whoa you made it you're in and the lord's going to help you keep walking with him keep walking with him praise the lord praise the lord glory glory to god i believe this message from the council of the word of god today i believe this message is going to save somebody from going to prison it's going to save somebody from going to prison because something's being done if it's not shut down and walk and walk back and out of uh there's somebody there's about there's at least two or three people that i'm speaking to two or three people okay so those of you that that bore witness you know what to do praise god obey be a here and doer of the word of god now let's take holy communion today as we do so let's be mindful of the what the bible says in first john chapter one i'd like to read that first john 1 and we have verse 9 we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness please grab some unleavened bread and some grape juice and let's pray father thank you for the bread and the juice we bless it through this prayer and we set it apart as holy we thank you that this is now the body the flesh and the blood of christ our savior and father we give you praise we give you praise in jesus name father as we receive the blood excuse me the flesh of the lord jesus we thank you for strength like king amaziah to do the right thing we give you praise father god father i know that there's many that are watching they are right on target they don't need to walk anything back they just need to stay on task and keep moving with you but there's others that have entered into things with uncertainty or out they they've just got they've made a wrong turn lord we thank you this is your this is our opportunity to receive grace and to make the adjustment and father we just thank you for helping us even as you told that messiah you'll make it all up it's no big deal let it go father we thank you so much for that perspective and we will receive the body of jesus now in his name amen let's receive praise god i'm hearing in my spirit there's somebody you've made an investment and you feel really good about it and you put a lot into it but you did not inquire of the lord or you did not inquire to a degree where you actually got god's perspective on it and i'm hearing in my spirit that if you don't pull out of that and backtrack that get your money out of that you could be facing a great loss now i'm speaking to many people and i'm sure there's many people that have investments i'm only speaking on this one to one person there's only one this is only for one person who's out there so whoever that is i know that you know i'm speaking to you praise god immediately go back into prayer and ask the lord what he says about that lord is that me and for the one that it is you know what to do praise god even if you lose some because you know there's transaction fees and stuff like that hey sure beats losing everything praise the lord the one that has done this also is something that's very risky let me say this there are no shortcuts to success i don't play penny stocks i don't do stuff like that yeah there's a lot of things out there that are just even designed to almost like take people's money out of their pockets and i i don't do crazy dealings and my business is preaching the gospel so that my investment is in the souls and into this praise the lord but somebody you've done something very risky super high risk and it's not going to end well please heed this word from the lord father we thank you for the blood of jesus we thank you for cleansing from all sin from all unrighteousness we thank you so much that you love us so much that you extend so much help to us through your word through your spirit through others that would speak thank you o lord you even tried to help the crazed prophet who who a donkey was trying even working through a donkey to try to help the crazy prophet thank you lord oh god you you tried to help us so much you give us so many opportunities to do the right thing we thank you father god that i that i sense right now that this message is also for for some you have to make the correction quickly or else that window closes and then you may not be able to back out so father we give you praise see once paul got in jerusalem got all tangled up in that crowd and now the next thing you know a riot is breaking out it's too late now to say you know i probably shouldn't have come here it's too late father we thank you for the blood of jesus we give you praise we thank you for your blessing and your divine guidance we give you praise for your reproofs we give you praise for your corrections we thank you father god for the fourfold nature of your word we bless you in jesus name amen and amen let's receive my friends let me close by saying there's no condemnation for those who are in christ jesus there's no shame there's no condemnation we are human that's why we must lean on the lord and trust him and walk very close with him so that we stay in our lane my friends thank you for watching may the lord bless you i'll see you back next time bye bye