How to Emerge Victorious Over Your Enemies (02/18/2001)

The Joy of Fellowship With the Father

Amen. There is no joy. There is no joy like the joy of spending time in his presence. There's no joy that even compares to that. Matter of fact, that's what John said in 1 John chapter one, verse four.

After he said, that which we have seen and heard, declare we unto you that ye also may have fellowship with us and truly. See, hopefully from this day forward, we'll all be able to say truly, our fellowship is with the father.

Hopefully we'll be able to say that truly I'm walking in fellowship, in koinonia, in oneness with God. I'm walking in a passionate relationship, an intimate relationship with my heavenly father. Hopefully we'll be able to say that.

At least we ought to be, we can pursue that. Why? And these things right we unto you that your joy may be full. That's where the joy comes from. The joy doesn't come from the things that he does for you.

The joy doesn't come from where you're going or where you're not going. The joy comes from him. The joy of the Lord is your strength. So we're gonna get back into the message this afternoon. Lord, I just pray that you'd help us to get our minds on the message.

Give me clarity of thought. And I pray, Lord, that you'd open our eyes and show us, Lord, how we can draw closer to you and get more intimate with you. In Jesus' name, amen. We talked this morning about how Christ saved us or he created us to please him.

That's the purpose of our existence. We talked about the purpose of our election to be at one with him. And then lastly, we got into the practice of our enemies. And the enemies being the world, the flesh, and the devil or the lust of the flesh, which is my desire to do something.

The lust of the eyes, which is my desire to have something. And the pride of life, which is my desire to be somebody. And all of those things, those three things that we name, they are at odds with us becoming one with God.

The Flesh as an Enemy: Lust, Appetite, and Detaining the Christian

So what we're gonna do, hey, and I don't really know that much about it. I was a kid when it happened. But the Vietnam War, one of the problems, they say they had in the Vietnam War, was they didn't know who the enemy was.

And if you don't know who the enemy is, how can you deal with the enemy? But knowing who the enemy is is not enough to defeat an enemy. We not only have to know who the enemy is, but we have to know what the enemy's objectives are and how the enemy works.

If we're gonna have, hey, if we're expecting somebody to bring a knife and they bring a gun, we're not ready.

You know, like people say, don't bring a knife to a gunfight, amen?

You don't wanna do that. I'm sure in Texas, y 'all can relate to that, out here in the wild, wild west, amen? But we gotta know, we gotta discover the practice of our enemies. We've discovered the purpose of our enemies, and now we need to discover the practice of our enemies.

The lust of the flesh, please get this. This is so critical to the Christian life. The lust of the flesh, think about it. For all that is in the world, the Bible says the lust of the flesh. What is the lust of the flesh?

The lust of the flesh is anything my flesh likes. Everything my flesh wants to do is the odds, for the most part. I'm gonna be honest with y 'all. My flesh don't like to pray. My flesh don't like to read the Bible.

My flesh don't like coming to church, singing Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, or I come to the garden alone. My flesh wants to get something with some flesh in it. Y 'all know I'm telling the truth.

You know, there are things that I don't like, that my flesh likes. And we live in an age where the world is trying to appeal to our flesh to conjure up, if you will, appetites in us, to cultivate in us appetites for those things that are against God.

The Bible tells us in James chapter one, the Bible says, let no man say when he's tempted, I'm tempted of God, for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempted with any man, but every man is tempted when.

Hey, when the Bible says every man is tempted when, we better find out what comes after when, if we want to endure that temptation. Every man is tempted when he's drawn away of his own lust. Now the word drawn away is a fishing term, and I like to fish, and I know David likes to fish, and there are probably some more of y 'all who like to fish, but drawn away means to entice by allure.

You know what I know? I know if you throw a spinner bait in front of a frog, he ain't gonna go after it. You know why? Frogs don't like shiny things that flicker, but bass do. And the things that we go after, the things that detract us away from truth, are those things that we already have an appetite for, or a lust for, but when we think of the word lust, we always conjure up, you know, something sensual.

Well, the word lust means more than that. I'll tell you what, my body lusts for sleep, baby.

Brother, my body lusts for sleep.

My body lusts for food. My body lusts for water. You may, maybe some of you used to drink, maybe your body lusts for alcohol.

Maybe you like it. I don't like it, but that doesn't make me any better than you.

Different people just have different appetites. The world would conjure up, there are Christian men all over the world who have appetites for pornography. There are Christian women who have appetites for slop operas, I mean soap operas, they call them soap operas, which is basically the same thing in the mind of a woman that pornography is in the mind of a man.

And we conjure up appetites for those things, but those things, those appetites that are conjured up are at odds with our oneness with God because they are against all that God stands for. So let's look at the practice of our enemies.

The Bible's name is first, the lust of the flesh. What does the flesh want to do?

My flesh wants to detain me.

The word detain, like Rogers Brothers Police Office. When they take you and they gather you, the detention's there because they want to detain you from society. Well, I'm telling you, your flesh and my flesh wants to detain us from coming into that oneness with God.

Our appetites are in opposition to our oneness with God because my flesh, the Bible tells me in Romans chapter seven, the Bible tells me that my flesh must, or not in Romans chapter seven, but in Galatians chapter five, my flesh must forget the spirit, the spirit forgets the flesh.

These are contrary one to another so that you cannot do the things that you would. My flesh wants to detain me from that oneness I want. Do you know that the number one reason that I'm attacking the way anybody can agree with this, that people cannot know the truth about a certain matter because they have an appetite for contrary ones?

They have something that they already like that's opposite of what they're trying to learn. They already like it a certain way so they can't learn the truth about it. So they couldn't find it mutual.

Well, let me show you something. When we think about the lust of the flesh, we often think of adultery and fornication. You know what's amazing to me, Brother Dave? It's amazing to me how it seems like every couple of months I hear about another preacher running off with some woman.

Isn't that amazing? Now, I mean, I know it's always happened, but it's not been as rampant as it is today. Why is it so rampant today? Well, I'll tell you why. I believe the reason is because we get in the habit of letting our flesh rule and when our flesh rules, our flesh rules.

Our flesh ain't gonna say, well, I wanna rule today and you can rule tomorrow. You know what? When I talk about, when I think of the lust of the flesh, you know what I believe one of the strong, biggest strongholds in the church is the lust of food and appetite.

Now, bear with me. Now, I know y 'all know that I'm into health food and all that, but that's not what I'm talking about.

So don't anybody get nervous. I'm gonna tell you something. I have never, I have never got on this subject, well, with the exception of two times, never got on this subject in a church where after I got done, the preacher didn't get up and make a judgment.

Now, hey, folks, I'm as doctrinally sound, I don't try to make a law in the church, but do you realize the devil has been using food as one of his main weapons since the beginning of time? Matter of fact, when you look at the Bible, you see that Eve, Adam and Eve, they got, the first sin they committed was a sin that had to do with food.

See, their first temptation was a food temptation. Jesus, the first temptation that the devil gave to Jesus was a food temptation after he had fasted 40 days and 40 nights. We know when we look in the Bible that one of the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah was fullness of bread, the Bible says.

These were sins of thy sister Sodom. Fullness of bread, abundance of vitalness was in her, and she did not strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. Esau sold his birthright for food. Israel went down to Egypt for food.

Naomi went down to Moab for food, and before Amnon raked his half-sister Tamar, he had her prepare him some food. I'm not saying food's wrong, food is good. I like to eat, I'm a Baptist, I like to eat.

Samson broke his Nazarite vow for food. I'm not against food, but here's what I'm against. I'm against food being in control. That's a problem. And most of us, most Christians today, just like the world, food is in control.

The Bible says, blessed art thou, O Lamb, when thy king is the son of nobles, and when thy princes eat in due season, that's at the right time, for strength, that's for the right reason, and not for drunkenness.

Isn't it amazing that the Bible says you can eat for drunkenness? Now, when we think of drunkenness, we think of a guy walking around with a bottle. Oop, oop. But the Bible says, blessed art thou when thy princes eat, not for drunkenness.

The Bible says, be not among wine-bibbers, nor among riotous eaters, gluttonous eaters of flesh. In the same verse, for the drunkard and the glutton shall lie down together. Now, we don't hear preaching like this because the fact is, we don't think about it.

When I got saved, you know, when we get saved, we give the Lord our music, we give him our clothes, we give him our old friends, the place we used to hang out, the deeds we used to do, and we say, Lord, don't mess with my place.

Isn't that right? But the Bible says in Proverbs, chapter 30, verse seven through nine, two things have I required of thee. Deny me them not before I die. Remove far from me vanity and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches, lest I be full and deny thee, and say, who is the Lord?

Wow, that's an awesome verse. When we think about the fact that the devil uses appetites, and I'm telling you, it is such a stronghold in the church that it gets, I see more conviction when I talk about this one little simple thing than any other thing.

I'm not saying it's wrong to eat any given thing, but I'm saying it's wrong to be brought under the power of those things. We talk about people being addicted to cocaine and people being addicted to their drugs, people being addicted to the alcohol,.

But I'm telling you, people are addicted to food substances. People are addicted to Coca-Cola. People are addicted to coffee, and people are addicted to sugar, and people are addicted to salt. People are addicted to caffeine.

Now, here's how you can tell if you're addicted. All you have to do is let it go for a couple days. The following second, now you wanna kill somebody? That's probably a pretty good sign that you're addicted.

Paul said, hey, okay, hang in there with me, y 'all. I am not trying to establish a dietary law in the church, but I'm doing it. What I'm doing is I'm trying to show you how your flesh likes things that are even against itself and certainly against your oneness with God, and if we don't get to the place where we don't let our appetites rule, we can't walk in that oneness with God, because if my flesh tells me I gotta eat this, this, this, this, and this, and drink this, this, this, and this, and then it says, well, you might as well not pray either.

Well, if I listen to it all those times, I won't listen to it again. Paul said, all things are lawful for me. I can drink as much coffee as I want to. I can drink as much Coca-Cola as I want to,.

But the fact is, Paul also said, all things are not expedient. All things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.

All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

And when I see people digging their grave with a knife and fork, and eating, and eating, and eating, and drink Coke, and I hear Christian people saying, oh, I don't like water. You ever hear somebody say that?

I just don't drink water. Jesus didn't say he was the living Coke. He said he was the living Coke. He said, no, I don't like fruit. Jesus didn't say I'm the living Hershey bar. He said, I'm the first fruit, not the first Hershey bar.

It's the first fruits, but we are so perverted in our, and I'm not talking about, this doesn't have anything to do with the food. See, if y 'all think I'm talking about the food, you're missing the point.

I'm talking about the flesh being in control of your life, and when your flesh is in control, not only do you not want those things that God made for you, but you don't want God. I'm just telling you, you know what happens when I eat a whole bunch of sugar?

If I get up and eat some pancakes and syrup first thing in the morning, you know what happens? I get real sleepy in about 23 minutes, and praying ain't even on the agenda. Y 'all know what I'm talking about.

You see folks come to church on Sunday morning, they cannot even keep their eyes open. They stuffed all kinds of garbage and goop down in their temple before they got there. I'm not, hey, I'm not, hey folks, don't get nervous.

I ain't trying to take nothing from you. I'm trying to get you to the place where it doesn't control you, but you control it, and I'm gonna give you this real quick, and I'm gonna get on to the next point, and for which I'm sure some of y 'all can't wait.

But the fact is this. Do you know everything man touches, he perverts? When we breathe oxygen in, it's as essential as oxygen is for life. When we breathe it in, when we breathe it back out, if we try to breathe it in again after, if we breathe into a plastic bag, we'd be dead in a couple of minutes, just by coming in contact with it.

Do you know what? Those things that come freely from the hand of God, we reject, like water, and fruit, and vegetables. I'm not saying that's all we should eat, but wouldn't, I would wanna think that as a child of God, I would wanna eat more food from the hand of God than I do from the hand of man.

Folks, I'm not talking about vegetables, miss that, skip that, eat what, if you wanna eat a hamburger, if I want a hamburger, I'm gonna eat one. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about not being brought under the power of food, not letting food control your life, and soda pop control your life, or anything else, any other substance.

Here's what's interesting to me. Bible says in 1 Peter, I'm gonna say that one for last. What I'm saying is this. Paul said, Paul said, Paul said, I bring under my body, I bring under my, I buffet my body and bring it into subjection.

You know what the word buffet means? It means to beat it black and blue. Bring it into subjection, lest by any means while I've preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. He said, I want my flesh to know who's running things, and it ain't my flesh.

The flesh, the lust of the flesh wants to detain me from that oneness. The lust of the eyes, which is the world, wants to distract me from my oneness with God. Y 'all with me? The Bible says, when he talks about the parable of the soils, he said there are four kinds of soil.

That soil is the seed that fell by the wayside,.

And the birds in the air swoop down and snatch the seed. That's what happens to so many people.

They come to church to preach with preachers. They go home, and they turn on the television,.

And say the birds in the air swoop down,.

Snatch the seed from their mind, never to be remembered again.

The Bible says some fell on shallow ground and didn't have much depth of earth. They sprung up real fast, and some folks come to church, and they make a confession of salvation. Man, they're out of the gate, and the first trial and tribulation comes.

Back where they came from, they said, the nine forests. The third one fell on the thorns. The Bible says the thorn came up and choked the seed. The Bible says the thorns were the cares of Israel. It wants to detain me from that oneness I have.

The lust of the eyes wants to distract me from that oneness I have. And that's why it's so important that my purpose lines up with his purpose, because when my purpose lines up with his purpose, I only have ambitions for those things.

He has ambitions for me that he doesn't have.

The world wants to distract me, wants to get my mind so much on getting the bills paid, and making ends meet, and buying a new house, and a new car, and making sure my kids have all they want, and my wife has all she wants.

The world wants my mind so distracted that I don't have time to meditate on him, wants to distract me from that oneness by my ambitions. I'm not saying ambitions are wrong,.

But they're wrong when they are not surrendered to him. The devil wants to destroy our oneness by our attitudes. Do you know how the devil works? The devil works by putting thoughts in your mind, making you think those thoughts are your thoughts, but God wants you to think of him.

Did you know that?

The devil put a thought in your mind, you think it was yours. The Bible says, the Bible says, I fear that's my, lest Satan should get an advantage of us, for we are not ignorant of his devices. The word device there comes from the Greek word noemon, which means thought, mind, and evil purpose, or that which things.

The Bible says Satan stood up against Israel and provoked David to number Israel. David thought that was his idea. The Bible says by Ananias, when Ananias came to Peter, Peter said, hey, Ananias, why would Satan kill my heart to lie to the Holy Ghost?

He's not lying to anyone other than God. Ananias thought that was his idea. The Bible says in John chapter 13, verse two, the Bible says, the devil had now put into the heart of Judas, Simon, Judas escaped.

Simon's son to betray him. Judas thought that was his idea. The Bible says over in 2 Corinthians chapter 11, I think it's verse three, but I fear thus by any means that as the serpent beguiled me, so your heart.

Your kids say, I don't know why I can't do it, so and so can do it. You know where they got that from? They thought that was their idea. I believe that all the, that's the honor of it. But God said, don't think anything, that for sure you can leave everything there for me, and he said, well, you know, that had most probably happened to me, but it's not the way I work on my money.

And then that gold, that looked good in my IRA, and then I put the silver in my portfolio,.

And got his mind off all that God had given him.

Free real estate to raise his children, give it to his children and his children's children. And destroy this one that's by his appetite. In all the flesh and in every heart. If we are going to enter into an intimate relationship with God, then we've got to get past those enemies that are trying to block our path.

Remembering God's Promise in Temptation

Well, how do we do it? I'm there, I mean, I'm close to it, almost. First thing we need to do, I'm gonna give this to you real quick. We need to remember the promise of our Emanuel. You know what God tells, you know what the Bible tells in Romans 6, verse 12?

The Bible says, let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that you should obey him unless thereof. So many people are walking in defeat. You know why they're walking in defeat?

So many people, that sin is ruling,.

That besetting sin that does so easily beset them, it's ruling their life. Why? There's only one reason. Not sin reign in your body, that tells me if sin's reigning in my body, there's only one reason, because I'm letting it.

I ain't gonna let it. The Bible says in 1 Corinthians 10, verse 13, there is no temptation taking you, but such is common to man that God is faithful. He will not suffer you, be tempted above that you're able, but will with the temptation make a way to escape it, that you may be able to bear it.

And I'm gonna illustrate this to you, and I know some of you have seen it before, but you probably forgot.

Besides that, I like to put this face to a shoulder and pat it. Um, who do I need to come at me? What's your name, Jonathan? What's your name, Jonathan? I want you to come up here. Jonathan, David, Jonathan, David.

You guys stand right here. Stand over here, please. Nicole and Nathan, y 'all get in line. Amen. Amen. Amen. Get back there in line behind me. All you guys in line behind me. Is a world champion prize fighter.

Lean, lean fighting machine. Bad to the bone. 185 pounds of rock and stone to the death of destruction. Never lost a fight. You like that, don't you? Yeah, I sure do. Never lost a fight, and I'm just making it up.

You ain't never gon' lose a fight. Okay? Never lost. And now, all these guys in line, you wanna fight a chance, man. I wanna fight a chance. Say it. I wanna fight a chance. And I look at this dude, and I look at Mike, and I think Mike's too bright for fighting.

There's a wind, he ain't gonna wave in front of you. I'm not saying you go after what he came for. You like that, didn't you? That's it, that's the point. I wanna fight Mike. You wanna fight Mike, you look, I sure hope that somebody like you.

You're over here. You're over here. Help me. Help me. You wanna fight Mike, well, I was hoping you'd say yes to me, but you need to go after you get your hair cut. You know what I'm saying? There you go.

There you go. Oh, we got another one there. You wanna fight Mike, I'm gonna look at you over here. You got it, they reached, got you on the wave. Yeah, you look, yeah, they look like you might be a gentleman.

Excuse me. You wanna fight Mike, if he looks like you get some line up for you. They say, well, what's the point of that? I'm telling you, violence is bad. Violence is bad. Violence is bad. Violence is bad.

Violence is bad. Violence is bad. Temptation comes your way, which won't kill you. God will do that for you. But when the temptation gets through, you are going to accomplish. Okay, I got this. I got this temptation.

I know I've been there a while. So I didn't, I wouldn't even have it in the first place. But God will let those temptations come through God. Amen. Thank you, gentlemen. I'm gonna have to see.

That's some of the best news. You know what? I was mighty tough when my big brother was there, brother Dave. You say what? Don't you see my brother, he bad now. You better be careful. Hey, I'm telling you, whenever temptation comes my way, I go into the temptation with confidence, knowing that I can have the victory.

But I don't want to have too much confidence because let him think of the East Antic, he'd miss me. I want to make sure I'm leaning on the one who already gave me the victory. Amen. Now, not only do we need to remember the promise of our Emmanuel, but we need to realize the process of our emergence.

How to Defeat the Devil, the World, and the Flesh

Do you know we defeat the devil differently than we defeat the world differently than we defeat the flesh? Did you know that? There are three different enemies that fight three different ways.

How do we defeat the devil? Here's how we defeat the devil. By willfully surrendering to God. The Bible says, submit yourself and work on it. Resist the devil and he will free from you. You cannot resist the devil if you don't surrender to God.

It's impossible. The devil's purpose, he said, I will exalt myself above the most high. He exalts his purposes above the most high, his plan. He wants his praise to be higher than the most high. He wants the people higher than the most high.

He wants his agenda to be higher than the most high. Watch this. He's already been defeated in that area, so what did you do? You tried to do it for your purposes, for your plan, for your agenda, for your purpose.

Here's the deal. Everything you got, he wants you to make that more important than he does. You know what it's manifesting? You know what? It's manifesting. Manifested. Manifested. When I realize that God's plan for me is perfect with the good, the bad, and the ugly, it doesn't matter what comes down the pipe.

I say,.

Lord, thank you that I'm broke, that I'm sick.

Lord, thank you that I'm tired. Lord, thank you I'm having family problems. Lord, thank you for a good self-image.

It's 110 degrees and my kids are hot and sweating and my wife's mad at me. I'm supposed to say, Lord, thank you? Yep. We must willfully surrender to God. We must, do you know what the Bible says? The Bible says in Daniel chapter four, verse 35, and all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing.

And he do it according to his will in the armies of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth and none, no matter how much money you have, no matter how big you are, no matter how smart you are, no matter man or woman, boy or girl, none can stay his hand or say unto him what doest thou.

That means none of us have a right to say to God, God, what are you doing? Don't you know who I am? Lord says, yeah, I know who you are and I'm trying to let you know who you are. You ain't nothing and you ain't nobody.

Jesus said, without me you can do nothing, but through me you can do all things. Well, we must willfully surrender to defeat the devil, but we must walk in the scripture to defeat the world. You know what the world's philosophy is total opposite from this?

The world says, if your wife don't do right, you just beat her. That's what the world philosophy says. The Bible says, husbands, love your wives. Christ loved the church and gave himself for it. That's different than the world.

The world says, no, you can't spank your children. If you beat your children, you'll stunt their growth. The Bible says, fathers, or the Bible says, the Bible says, if thou beatest him with a rod, it can't be the first part of the verse.

If thou beatest him with a rod, he will not die. And he might say, I'm dying, I'm dying. No, you're lying, you're lying. The Bible says, you ain't gonna die.

The world's philosophy is totally different from that. You know what the world says? The world says, the way to get is to get all I can, can all I get, and sit on my can. But the word of God says, give and it shall be given unto you, good measure.

Press down, shake it up and run it over. Show men given to your bosom. And when I replaced the thoughts of the world that I've learned all my life from my teachers and from my parents and from society, from the television and from the radio and the magazine, and when I replaced all the thoughts, all the things I've always been taught, I've always learned when I take that out and I renew my mind with the word of God, I get victory over the world.

I beseech you, I beg you therefore brethren, by the mercy of God, that you present your body, a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service, and be not conformed, molded after the image of the world, but be transformed, metamorphosized from the inside out by the renewing of your mind.

I'm gonna tell you something that I've learned by the grace of God, or am learning, you change your mind, you change your life. Too many people are trying to change their life without changing their mind, and it don't work.

Walking in the Spirit and Weakening Sensuality

And then lastly, the last two sub points under the sub points under the sub points are these. In order to defeat the lust of the flesh, we must do two things. Number one, we must walk in the spirit. What's the Bible say in Romans chapter eight, verse one, there is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, comma, not period, comma, who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit.

Turn to Galatians chapter number five, I wanna show you something. This is one of the most exciting things here that I've ever, the Lord's ever shown me what I'm about to show you. Man, this is so, this is, mm, this is good.

Look at verse 16 through, look at verse 16 through 21. The Bible says, this I say then, walk in the spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusts against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh.

These are contrary one to another, so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. But if ye be led of the spirit, ye are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these, let's count them, adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envying, murderers, drunkenness, revelings, and such like.

How many things was that? 17 things, and then he said, and such like, any other thing that even looks like any of these things. Notice what he says after that. He says, and such like, of the witch I tell you before, I have told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

What is the kingdom of God? That's God's rule in my life. See, the Bible tells us in Romans chapter 14, is it Romans chapter 14? Romans chapter 14, seven and 18, the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but it's righteousness.

That's when God rules in my example. Peace, that's when God rules in my experience. Joy in the Holy Ghost, that's when God rules in my expression. And if I've got these things going on in my life, I have not inherited the kingdom of God.

God's not ruling in my example. If I'm committing adultery, that's a bad example. God's not in control of that. If I've got hatred, God's not ruling in my experience. I don't have peace.

I don't have joy in the Holy Ghost. I've got guilt. Well, the Bible says, notice what he said though. I named 17 things, and such like, he said in verse 16, this I say then, walk in the spirit, and you will not feel the bustle and bustle.

He said, if you will just do this one thing right. He said, if you'll just get this one thing done, you don't have to worry about those 17 things. Ain't that exciting? Let me just, just let me see. Hey, can you come down here?

Look at me, this is, I'm telling you, you know what, we make everything so hard. God makes it simple, and the reason we miss so much of the Bible is because we're trying to overcomplicate. Am I saying it right?

Amen. Anyway, we're gonna let Jason be a Christian. Hopefully that's not the answer. We're gonna let David be the spirit, and we're gonna be, I'm gonna be the flesh, and who the hell are they? So, so, Jason is a Christian, and you know what I know about Jason?

I know that since he is a Christian, the spirit of God, and his flesh talk to him all day, every day. So Jason wakes up in the morning, wake up in the morning, please. Good. That's probably why he does it.

I'm so glad you guys are here. Okay, so he wakes up in the morning, and, and as soon as he wakes up, I'm gonna start talking to him. I'm gonna tell him the same thing I'm about to tell David. Jason, you've had enough.

Go back to bed. And the spirit of God says, no, you don't need to go back to bed, you need to pray. Come on, let's pray. And I'll say, look, look David, all that praying stuff, you can pray later at the table, you can get some sleep right now, so when you pray, you keep your mind, and you pray.

The spirit says, I can get out of here. I can get out of here. Nights for sleep, it's daytime, you get up and pray. You get up and pray. I can get off and all day. Now watch this, he's telling you to go to your prayer car, which is over there.

I'm telling you to go back to bed, which is over there. Watch this, the spirit starts walking toward the prayer car. Okay, spirit, no, no, no, don't get it, just talk to him. And I start talking to him.