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Dr. Myron Golden
Good morning, everyone. That got us started off well, but it actually started before that because when I walked in today, not too many people here, but they were up here practicing and I walked in and the Holy Ghost met me right at the door.
So, because Kenner's up here singing. Well, I remember when Kenner was born and Brother Otis She became the grandchild that Brother Otis never had. So, Otis and Miss B took care of her while the parents were at work during the day and helped raise her and in here she was up here singing like an angel and I walked up and while she was singing, Matt's over here, my youngest son Matt is playing the guitar, and I walk over here and I put my arm around her while she's finishing up and I just busted out crying.
So, So, I don't know if that, I don't think it made it easier for her to finish the song, but she finished it and so that was pretty, pretty cool. And then I hugged Matt, so I'm still crying. So, Glenda was playing the piano beautifully.
I was gonna go hug her and blubber all over her and she took off running. Literally, she took off down just as fast as she could go out the back, because she saw it coming and she did not want to mess with that.
Too much emotion going on, but really, I mean, it wasn't just emotions. The Lord's in this place today. So, I can't wait to see what else is about to happen. So, I met Nadia back here and I know you told me your wife's name's Nadia, but I didn't put that together because I didn't know you were coming.
So, I just thought she's a visitor. So, now I got that figured out. So, Stan, your family's here. Thank you for being here and Tony's family and so many friends out there. Raymond Sharon's grandson that I knew when he was this big, you know, now he's like taller than me.
And, and Josh, I met Josh. And, all right, where's Justin? Okay, no, I met Justin. I didn't meet Josh yet. I met Justin. I didn't know why you're sitting over there, though. I didn't see. It's okay. Yeah, they didn't sit with you.
Like, they didn't want to sit with you. All right, it's their fault. Yeah, like you're the estranged child. Yeah, you can come hang out with us if they like. You're welcome. Shoot. Michael and Lauren are here and good to see you guys and so many, so many friends and all of our family.
And Brother Myron's gonna preach here in a minute. So, it's always a great day for us when that happens. I want to share something with you before he comes up here, though. Most of you know about our lifelong friendship, really, since our, since he was 19 and I was 20-something.
24, 5, or 6. I don't remember. Charlotte would remember, but doesn't matter because now we're the same age. In fact, he's older than me now. But he still beat me at golf, doesn't matter how old he gets.
But anyway, we've seen the Lord do so much together in our families and in our greater family because all of our friends together come when he and I are together, and it's awesome. Really, now from all over the world and, you know, we've had talks before about, and Brother Otis and I would talk about it, about why is it the Lord put us here in a little country church with 30 or 40 people all these years, and in Myron's, he flirted with being a pastor once when he was younger and was in the, like, the old-school evangelism thing, going church to church for a while, a long while, actually, a long number of years doing that.
But he's never pastored a church. Yeah, I told him back there, I said, if you had, you know, if you'd pick Dallas or somewhere, you'd had anywhere between 12 and 50 ,000 people probably come into your church, right?
And I said, but I'm glad the Lord didn't do that because then you'd have been the CEO of a pastor and you couldn't have done anything else. So let me show you what the Lord did do, and the reason that didn't happen, wasn't God's will, but we were looking, he was showing me this last night, I asked him to show it to me, actually, yesterday afternoon when we were together.
I wanted to know how many people Brother Myron, God has enabled him to minister to, and many of these in the last year, but a whole lot of them before that, but many, it's kind of exponentially growing.
And so yesterday afternoon, are you ready? How many, somebody give me a guess, how many you think? How many people has he ministered to? Not you, you don't get to guess. Who else can guess? Take a shot at it.
How many? Huh? Nah, you don't get to guess either. But that was close. 17 ,000 ,308 ,565 people have heard this man's preaching. He couldn't have done that from a church with 11 ,000 people or 50 ,000 people, or like Dr. Hiles, 200 ,000.
That's small potatoes compared to this, and God's really blessed. Now that was yesterday, so I asked him, pull that thing up and let me see what it is today. It's, let's see, 82 ,000 more people than yesterday, just since last night, basically.
So now it's 17 ,390 ,572. So it's grown by, what did I say, 80-something thousand in 12 hours, and every 12 hours it's growing like that. Now, I don't know if this is true, Katie and Abe, but we heard a good friend of ours who owns a big company that does some business with our company, that before Billy Graham passed away, he said that he felt the next great move, I've shared this with our church, so you remember me saying it, but the next great move of God in the world would be through, I don't know how exactly I worded it, but it was business evangelism.
Evangelism in the workplace, in the business place, and that's what this is. So he was right, I think. I truly believe that. I think you think that too, right? I mean, you agree that that is really where God is reaching the most people right now, and these, what I think, are the end times.
And so it's really great, and Myron, I'm not going to say much more other than I love you, and glad I taught you to play golf a while back to enrich your life, and Tony, I'm not so sure you're glad, but I love you too.
I mean, we've done other things, you and I in Charlotte, so, but anyway, come up here and be a blessing to this group and to millions of others.
Dr. Myron Golden. You got the microphone. All right. Good morning.
Like, it's like even more awesome than that, though. Like, when I think about it, it kind of blows my mind how awesome the Bible is. I think sometimes we think of it as, you know, maybe a parenthesis for a part of our lives.
Maybe we think of it as a punctuation in a sentence of our lives, but it literally is our breath. It's our water. It's our food. It's our everything. I mean, if people could really know what the Word of God actually is, and we could inculcate it, I don't know what that word means, but I heard somebody use it in a sentence one time, and that's how they used it, but if we could inculcate it into our lives, it would change us in ways that we cannot imagine.
Like, if we would just become obsessed with the Word of God, and obsessed with the nuance. It's a story within a story within a story within a story. It's a lesson within a lesson within a lesson within a lesson.
It's a picture within a picture within a picture within a picture. It's principles inside of principles inside of principles inside of principles. And the closer we look at it, the more beautiful it becomes, the more exquisite it becomes.
And it's just like, where am I right now? What is this thing that I'm experiencing that is everythingness? The Bible. It's not just a book. It's not just some words that are poetic, though it's poetic.
It's not just some history lessons, though it's historic. It is iconic. It is everything. And I feel, as a human being who's been studying it for some time, I feel incapable of transferring this awareness of the significance and the weightiness of Scripture.
It is everything that you've been looking for and the things that you have not yet fought for that will make your life better exponentially in ways that right now, you cannot, I cannot, we cannot imagine together or individually.
And there's so much there. It's like, every time I get ready to stand up and teach something or to share something from the Bible, I don't even know where to start. I'm like, well, should I teach this, or should I teach this, or should I teach this, should I share this?
This is really amazing. Well, but so is that over there. And I feel like people, I feel like sometimes we anesthetize ourselves with television and we intoxicate ourselves with music and we distract ourselves with activities while we could be immersing ourselves in the life-giving essence of God's Word.
It is so much. It is so magnificent on so many levels. It's like, I don't know where to begin. So I'll begin at the beginning. Because when I feel like I don't know which direction to go, I always feel like if I just go back to Genesis chapter 1, wherever I end up, if I start there, it's going to be OK.
Because Genesis chapter 1 is so full, the more I study it, the more I feel like I don't understand it. The more I learn it, the more I feel like I don't know it. It's so much. Like, no, you all don't hear me.
It's so much. So much. It's better than, it's better than, for you business people, it's better than like a multi-million dollar business deal. For those of you who are looking for love, it's better than finding the one.
For those of you who are sick, it's better than finding a cure for your illness. It is like everything. I wish you could feel, I wish I could begin to express without exploding the awesomeness of this word.
And so I'm just going to share some stuff with you all from Genesis chapter 1, and pray that we won't be here for three hours, or five, or seven, or 10, because there's enough in there for all of that, and then some.
I feel like I could study Genesis 1 for the next year and a half and still just scratch the surface. Father, thank you for your word. Thank you that you love us more than we love ourselves. I pray that you help us to become aware of the magnitude and the significance of a love that loves us with more love than we have the ability to love ourselves.
I pray that you would peel back the scales from our spiritual eyes, that we can behold what your word has to say to us about this life that you have given us to live on your behalf. And I pray that once we see it, I pray that you'd help us to begin to walk in that direction with you, that we might experience and express and be the blessing that you put us here for.
In the name of Yeshua, amen. It says in Genesis 1, 1, and I know you know what it says. I know you know what it says. We've all read it. We've all read it. I won't bore you with that. I got to show you something.
It says, in the beginning, God. Well, we can stop there. We can just say, in the beginning, God. Just start with God. We can just say, start with God. But man, I don't know. I lost my job, and I don't know what to do.
Start with God. But the doctor gave me bad news. I don't know what to do. Start with God. I just, I was working on something. I thought it was going to work, and it didn't work. Start with God. My marriage is on the rocks, and I just don't know where to begin.
Start with God. My children, I don't understand how they're in, ah, ah. Start with God. In the beginning, God. Like, God himself started with God. It's a good place to start. In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.
It's really interesting because it says heaven in English, but it's actually heavens. In Hebrew, it's ha-shamayim, and na-mayim, it's plural. So the heavens and the earth. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
And it's fascinating to me because God has so many attributes. God, like when we say God, we kind of think we know. But the reality is, God is an ocean, and we are a teaspoon by comparison. So there's no way we can know any more than you can fit the Pacific Ocean into a teaspoon.
We can only experience it. You can fit some of the Pacific Ocean into a teaspoon,.
But you can't fit the Pacific Ocean into a teaspoon.
And no more than you can do that can we begin to even comprehend who God is in his essence because he is infinite, and we are finite. And he is everything, and we are almost nothing. And so the greatness of our God is worth being in awe of in the beginning God created.
It's interesting because if I say God is, we would say love. If I say God is, we'd say good. And then somebody would say all the time. And then somebody would say all the time, God is good. And then we'd say, in the beginning, we might say God is holy, and God is righteous, and God is omnipotent, and God is omniscient, and God is omnipresent.
All of those are true, but none of those are the first thing that God told us about God. The first thing that God told us about God is this. In the beginning, God created. That's the first thing he told us, that God is creative.
Why did he tell us that? Well, because when I read, in the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth, and then I read later, he said, if I were hungry, I wouldn't tell you. And he's self-existent, he's self-sufficient, he's self-satisfied, he needs nothing.
So why would he create a heaven and an earth? I mean, it seems like an exercise in futility, almost, unless you understand that in the beginning, God created. And the first thing God tells us about God is that he is creative, which means it is his nature to create.
So God created the heaven and the earth as an expression of his creativity. Why is that important? Why is it important that the first thing, which thing, the first thing that God told us about himself is that he's creative.
It's important because the first thing he told us about us is that he created us in his image, which means he created us to create stuff and he made us to make stuff. So when I am making something, when I am creating something that did not exist before I started working on it, I am being like God.
I don't work, I don't work for money. I don't work for money. Now I get paid when I work. Sometimes I get paid when I don't work, but I don't work for the money. I work to exercise my God-likeness. People want to retire.
I don't want to retire. I want to refire. I aspire to like aspire to aspire higher, but I don't want to retire. Retire from what? Retire from exercising my God-likeness? I'm having too much fun. It's really interesting.
So I'm going to go there first before I even go back to Genesis chapter one and give it to you in the Hebrew and then show you some of the stuff that's like mind-bogglingly amazing about God because there's so much in there just in the first verse.
We're going to get to some other verses, but just in the first verse, there's so much in there. And it says, so the first thing God tells, in Genesis 1 .1, we see that God established the platform in the beginning.
God created the heaven and the earth. So the platform is in the beginning, that's time. God created the heavens, that's space, and the earth, that's matter. So God set up this platform on which we as human beings could experience life on this earth.
And that platform is called time, space, and matter. What's it called? Time, space, and matter. God gave us time, space, and matter. Which tells me when I get ready to create something, the first thing I need to do is I need to establish a time, I need to find me a place, and then I need to go to work on the matter.
How many of y 'all track it? And so God established this platform, and then the first thing God tells about man is, it says, it's really fascinating because God created multiple categories in Genesis chapter one.
The first category that God created in Genesis chapter one, he created the category of creation. He created the trees, he created the sun, he created the moon, he created the stars, he created the water, he created the grass, he created stuff, creation.
Now, we live in a world now where the people want to worship the stuff and ignore the God that created the stuff. Right, we live in a world now where people want us to believe that somehow by us using the stuff that God made for us to use, that somehow we're destroying the earth because we're using the stuff.
But it ain't about the earth, and it ain't about the stuff, it's about us using the stuff to exercise our God-likeness. Don't allow, by the way, I don't believe that we should pollute the environment.
The scripture clearly tells us how to treat the environment. Thou shalt not pollute the land in which ye dwell. Okay, so that's clear. But thou shalt also not worship the land in which ye dwell. The earth is not my mother.
My mother's name was Carolyn, it was not earth. I don't have a mother earth. And you don't have a mother earth. In fact, it's really fascinating. It's really fascinating how the earth and physicality represents our physical body.
It's the least significant part of us. It was the last thing that God created when he created man was in Genesis 2, 7, he formed man, squeezed man out of dust and ground. That's the last part he created, why?
It was the least important part. He made the man before he breathed into his nostrils, before he breathed into that body, the man who he created. God made man in his image first, and then he made a body, and he breathed the man into the body that he made.
And it's really fascinating that God created the heavens first, and then he created the earth. Why? Because the things that are higher are better than the things that are lower. They're more important than the things that are lower.
The highest parts of us are more significant in our reality than the lower parts of us. It's interesting that we see that Cain slew Abel. Cain was the first born, Abel was the second born, right? Cain slew Abel.
My physical man was born before my spiritual man was born again. My physical man is suicidal. Don't look at me like that, so is yours. Our physical body wants to destroy itself, and it will destroy itself with food, with drugs, with alcohol, with sex, with immorality, with anger, with bitterness, with wrath, with clamor, with malice.
It doesn't care, it just wants to self-destruct. You are self-destructive, I am self-destructive. That's why we need something over us that is higher than us, and we need to make sure that we yield this part of us to this part of us, not yield this part of us to this part of us.
That's why you see animals, you go see a dog, a dog that's down on its forest, or any animal for that matter, and they lower their head to their food because they're just creatures, which is the second category God created in creation.
He created creation, then he created creatures. Creatures are, in Hebrew, bahema, in it is what it is. A horse is a horse is a horse, of course. Some of y 'all remember that. The rest of y 'all won't remember that, right?
What is that? You say, Myron, what does that mean? That means a dog can only do what a dog could do the first day a dog got here. A horse can only do what a horse could do the first day a horse got here.
A cat can only, like, you can't teach a cat to read. You can barely teach a cat anything, but you sure can't teach one to read. Can I get a witness, right? And so you can't teach a dog to read. Why, because they are only what they are.
They cannot be becoming more. They can only be what they are. Then you can teach them some rudimentary things. You can train a dog, you can train a horse, but you can't teach one. And the difference between teaching and training, training is what we do when we want someone to respond appropriately to authority, but teaching is what we do when we want somebody to reason properly with truth.
You cannot teach an animal to reason properly with truth. They do not have the capacity. Are y 'all tracking? So God created creation, then he created creatures, and then he created, y 'all ready? Creators.
That's when God made man in his image. And by the way, it says that God made man in his image. In the image of God made he him, male and female created, he's them, them who, them Adam, them man. Adam later called her name Eve.
God called their name Adam. They were one. Hey Brian, what does all this have to do with anything? You about to find out. Because when God made man, man, creators are higher than creatures, and creators are higher than creation.
God made someone like himself that was not himself. Which means, God made man to make stuff, and he made us to create stuff. He created us to create stuff. God didn't make dogs and cats and chimpanzees and alligators to make stuff.
He just made them to be. To be what? To be what they are. And that is all that they can ever be. But see, you can become more than you are. And I can become more than I am. And we can become more than we've ever been.
And the only way to do that is for us to yield this part of us. Oh, I was talking about the animals lowering their mouth to the food. I didn't finish that part. So an animal lowers its mouth to its food.
Why? Because it's a lower life form. An animal is a lower life form. But we as human beings, what do we do? We use knives and forks and spoons, and we raise our food to our mouth. Why? We are showing that the lower part of us is designed to sacrifice to the highest part of us.
Are y 'all tracking? It's a form. It's like a picture of an offering. So my body offers food to my head, and my head decides what the body does. The body doesn't decide what the head does. Now, when I let the body decide what the head does, guess what I do?
Then I raise too much food to my head. And then that food begins to kill me. Because in moderation, food is good. In excess, it's death. Are y 'all tracking? Okay. So the first thing we see, when it says in the beginning, God created heaven and the earth.
I want you to notice the first word. I'm gonna move this over here so everybody can see it when I'm writing, okay? Except for the people on the Zoom. Trust me, I'm writing something on Zoom. Okay. So understand this.
Hebrew is the Lord's language. It's the original language. I believe it was the language that existed all the way up until Genesis chapter 11, when God confounded the languages. Have you ever stopped just to think about how amazing language is?
Like, trees don't have language. Animals don't have language. People have language. We have language, and we can use words to talk about things, to conceive things that otherwise, like, nothing else can comprehend.
It's amazing. Words are amazing. And only spiritual beings have language. That's because language is a spiritual attribute. Are y 'all tracking? Now, the Hebrew language is very different than English.
In fact, Eastern languages. Eastern languages go from left, I mean, from right to left, and Western languages go from right to left. I mean, from left to right. The thing I meant, not the thing I said.
And so, it's really interesting that the Hebrew language starts on the right and goes to the left, and the first word in the Bible is brachy, and it's beit, resh, aleph. Oh, that's a beautiful word. That's a beautiful letter right there.
Yod, shin, tav. Now, that's the first word, brachy. That means in beginning. Now, I get it. You don't read Hebrew and you don't understand Hebrew. It's okay, you don't have to. You understand English enough to understand that words have meaning, but guess what?
In Hebrew, letters have meaning, and letters are also numbers. Wow, that's amazing. You can count with them, you can spell with them. That's pretty amazing, right? But each letter is phonetic. It has a sound, but it's also symbolic.
It has a meaning. So, Hebrew words are not just spelled. They are also built. In other words, built like this. If I write this on the board, look at that, water. I wrote H2O and you said water. I didn't write W-A-T-E-R.
How did you know that was water? Because you know the components of water, and when I write H2O, one part hydrogen, two parts oxygen, on the board, you know it's water. Why? Because you know what water's made of.
Well, guess what? In Hebrew, every letter has meaning, so every word in the Hebrew language is not just spelled, it's built. Huh, doesn't that remind you of? John chapter one, verse one. In the beginning was the word, and the word was God, and the word was with God, and the same was in the beginning with God.
And all things were made by him without him, was not anything made that was made. And in him was the life, and the life was the light of men, and the light shined in darkness, but the darkness comprehended it not.
That's the word. And it's really interesting, because this word, brashit, if you parse these letters differently, if you take these two letters right here, this spells the word bar. Guess what the word bar means in Hebrew, and in Aramaic?
It's the word son. Son? Like a father has a son. Like a mother's favorite son. The word bar means son. Simon bar Jonah, Simon son of Jonah. Y 'all heard of blind Bartimaeus? That's blind son of Timaeus.
You've heard of Barabbas, right, Barabbas? Barabbas means son of the father, which is kind of interesting that Jesus took Barabbas' place, because it had to be identical, the replacement had to be identical, so the son of the father had to take the place of the son of the father.
That's a little parenthetical, little side note, something that you can take home with you. This letter right here, this is the aleph. It means the strength of the ox, but it's the letter that represents God.
Elohim begins with an aleph, right? El Shaddai begins with an aleph. An aleph is made of three Hebrew letters, it's made, or two Hebrew letters, two yods, that's a yod, and a vav. A yod is a hand, and a vav is a nail, but it's also a picture of an upright man.
So it's really fascinating to see that there is a yod between, there's a vav between the hand that's above and the hand that's below. The hand that's above is God's, the hand that's below is mine, but without the nail driven through the hand of the upright man, I can never ascend to God.
It is the man Jesus, Yeshua Hamashiach, it is the upright man whose hands were nailed to the cross. By the way, it's so fascinating because if you add these letters together, excuse me, I'm getting chills now.
Okay, so remember I said every letter's a number, right? By the way, this is all parenthetical. You say, what does it have to do with what I'm preaching today? It has to do with the fact that our God is so awesome that if you study him all day, every day for the rest of your life, you will never understand him, but you will appreciate him so much more.
Yes, so Aleph, Bet, Gemel, Dal and Hay is like one, two, three, four, five. Okay, Vav, Zayin, Khet, Tet, Yud, Kafa. Okay, so we count with the letters of the Hebrew Aleph, Bet. Well, the letter Yod is the number 10.
Well, there's two of those, 10 plus 10, and the Vav is the number six, 10 plus 10 plus six equals 26. That's one of the numbers for God, 26. Why is that significant? Because there's a name that the Hebrews don't pronounce.
In fact, Jews have so much respect for God, they will not say his name for fear of taking his name in vain. And I think they're missing the point-ish, but I love the fact that they believe it enough not to even take a chance on taking God's name in vain.
Like, they're not gonna curse God's name like Americans do all the time. They're not gonna do that. They ain't even gonna say his name just in case. Just in case I might mess it up, I ain't gonna say it.
So they refer to the name of God as Hashem. They refer to him as the name. That's respect. Like, I think we've gotten so comfortable with God, we act like he's good old God sitting up in heaven in a rocking chair, just waiting to forgive us when we do the next thing wrong that we got on our schedule for tomorrow.
That ain't too true, is it? Well, here's what's interesting. The name that the Hebrews don't say is the name Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh. Now we say Jehovah, or we say Yahweh, right? That's how we pronounce it, Yahweh.
But, so a lot of people don't realize this. The Hebrew language has no vowels, it only has consonants. And some consonants sometimes act as vowels. So, and then they have accents under the letters called nekud that we sometimes get a vowel sound from, depending on how we do.
But this is Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh. Now here's the interesting thing about Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh. Remember we said the Yod is a hand. Well, guess what hey means? It means, hey! It means behold. Isn't that what we say when somebody looks, hey!
Right, what are we saying? We're saying look, we're saying behold. Right, isn't that what you mean when you say hey? Right, okay. So, and then this is a nail, and this is behold. God is so good. The hand behold, the nail behold.
Behold the nail, behold the hand, that is the name of God. Oh, by the way, when you add these up, the Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh, this is six, this is five, this is five, this is 10, it also adds to 26. The heavens declare the glory of God, the firmament showeth his handiwork.
Everything points to him. I wake up in the morning and the sun is shining, he is the day star. I go downstairs and I eat some food and he is the bread of life. I drink some water and he's the living water.
I cannot escape him! He's everywhere! As one preacher said, the heaven is of heaven, cannot contain him, let alone a man, explain. I'm talking about our God, Brashid. Oh, I didn't even finish, this is Beit Reish, this is Bar, this is Aleph.
Beit Reish, Bar, the sun, this is the sun. This is God, the son of God. Yod, oh, I put that Yod in the wrong place. It's Yod, Shin Yod, Shin means destroyed, it is destroyed. It's a picture of teeth, but it means destroyed.
Yod is hand, Tav is a cross or a covenant. What does the first word in the Bible show us? The son of God is destroyed with his hand on a cross for a covenant. I am done. Everything points to Christ. Everything shows us who he is.
And we ignore the witness of God, even in his word. Do you see why Genesis chapter one gets me so jacked up? Like, so what you on? I'm on a little Genesis chapter one, what you on? Do you understand? Do you understand?
Okay, let me break it down to you. Let me break it down to y 'all. My name is Myron Freddie Golden. Don't laugh too loud, Martha. Okay, I hated my name. I hated all my names except my last name when I was growing up.
I didn't like Myron, all my brothers had normal names. Jeff, Mike, Rob, Dwayne, Derek, Mark, and Myron. I hated it. That's how I heard it, Myron, right? And then my middle name was Freddie, I didn't like that either.
I didn't like names when I was a kid. I was weird as a kid. I know some of y 'all think, you haven't changed much. Okay, pray for me, don't judge me, okay? All right, so when I was a kid, I hated names that came to a sudden stop.
That doesn't even make any sense. Did y 'all hear how ridiculous that sounds? So names like Ed, Ned, and Ted, and Scott, and Fred, I hated them, and my middle name is Freddie. Now, I only got one name I can use, Golden, right?
I hated my name, I love my name now, otherwise I wouldn't. As goddess of my witness, my wife will attest to this, my children were teenagers before they knew what my middle name was, that's how much I hated it.
Okay? I love it now, otherwise you wouldn't be hearing it right now you'd be hearing something else, I'd be using something else as an illustration. Okay, I was born in a segregated hospital in Tampa, Florida in 1961, almost 100 years after the Civil War.
This was five, or six, or seven years after the polio vaccine had been discovered. But that hospital didn't have the same resources that Tampa General had, and I contracted polio when I was an infant.
And my parents, when I was a baby, my older brother Jeff was a baby, they moved from Florida to Pennsylvania in a time, watch this now, in a time in the United States of America where it was illegal, it was illegal for a black family to move from the South to the North unless they had job papers showing that they already had a job up North.
I don't even know how they made it to Pennsylvania alive. Okay, are y 'all with me? Okay, so I'm one of those kids who did really good in school all the way through. Anybody relate? Couple of y 'all, I did good in school all the way through third grade.
Went downhill from there. I hated school. After third grade, I'm like, why are they wasting my time? I can remember sitting in class, third grade. I'm sitting in class, and we're going over the same stuff we went over last year, and some of the stuff we went over the year before.
I'm like, what are they doing? What is this? What is this? I got stuff to do. I'm in third grade, I got stuff to do, right? I felt like they were absolutely wasting my time. And I checked out mentally.
I was done. I was so bored. I was bored out of my, I was bored. I'm like, no, this is, everything about this is wrong. I knew it in the third grade. Anyway, I'm colorblind, a little dyslexic. I got, you know, some stuff going on.
Moving around up in here kind of fast. You know, I try to read, and I can't make my brain keep up, my eyes keep up with my brain, and I feel like I'm chasing the words across the page. And I'm like, sit still, I'm trying to read you right now.
You know, one of those deals. I liked the 10th grade so much, I took it twice. And that ain't the real reason. But I managed to pull myself together. My graduating year, I graduated second in my class.
I was a class of two, and my little brother, Mike, was the valedictorian, and now y 'all know the rest of the story. That's real, y 'all. That's real. That's for real, for real. There is no reason on earth for my life to have one one millionth of the blessing that it has, apart from the fact that when I was a teenager, this dude right here, we were both teenagers, we were in high school.
He said, now you need to start reading the Bible. I was horrified. I was like, why did, why y 'all didn't tell me that before I got saved? I might have like started reading practice or something to get ready, get ramped up for it, you know?
I said, well, if that's what I'm supposed to do. I love the fact that God saved me in a time in my life where I knew my life was already a disaster. And I knew I needed something that would make it better.
And I'm so glad that he brought me the gospel of salvation. And then God later woke me up to the gospel of the kingdom. And I started reading the Bible and I was like, is this real? God said, if you do this, you can expect this.
I'm like, okay, I'm gonna find out. Now, one thing I know how to do, I know how to do an experiment now. I might not be able to read, but I can put model cars together. I can read instruction and put stuff together.
And I like, I can fix a car and I can change. I'm gonna find out if I do this, if this is gonna happen. And God said, well, if you do this, it's gonna happen. And I did that and it happened. I was like, wow, that was amazing.
I did that, it happened. I'm like, this is amazing. This book is amazing. And I am here to tell you, as a witness to our God's faithfulness to his truth, that when we become consumed with his word, it's really, we become consumed with his word and studying his word and memorizing his word and meditating on his word.
And we make that our life. Not the lyrics to some song, not the themes to some movie, but when we make the word of God like the essence of our lives, we can be blessed in ways that don't make sense. Don't make any sense, don't make any sense.
At all. When I graduated from high school, Christian school, it was a Christian school. During the time I was at that Christian school, I brought more people to that church than any other person, including the pastor.
I'm not exaggerating. I graduated when I was 19 years old and this big award ceremony. I mean, they had a table from here to that door. Trophies is all over it. I know I was about to get. Oh yeah. I don't know which one of all of them is mine, but I know at least three, four, five, six, seven, eight, 19 of them, gotta be mine.
When I graduated from high school, I got one award. It was the most likely to get on your nerves award. It was a little pill bottle, little pill bottle, like a little, like a prescription pill bottle with some like earmuffs that were made out of those little pipe cleaner things.
And it said, most likely to get on your nerves award. My own goal. I wish I would've kept it. I wish I would've kept it. I really be getting on their nerves right now. Oh, shucks. I am here to tell you that if you will yield your life to becoming obsessed with studying the word of God, your life will be blessed in ways you cannot, you can't count, you can't comprehend.
I'm not talking, money, yeah, money is not the blessing. It's just the icing on the blessing. It's the gravy on the blessing. The money is just the money. I'm talking about blessings. I'm talking about real blessings.
I'm talking about lifelong friendships. I'm talking about children who love God. I'm talking about, I'm talking about an awareness of what's going on in the world. When the propaganda machine is working at its hardest.
A level of awareness that gives you an advantage in every arena you step into. Because you filled your mind and saturated your sinew with the word of God. So I decided I'm gonna find out. I'm still, I'm still, we're still testing.
We're still testing. So God established this platform, time, space and matter. Y 'all remember that, right? And I know I've taught this here before, but I haven't taught this part. So God, in the beginning, that's time.
God created the heavens, that's space. And the earth, that's matter. Okay, so that's the first thing God did. Now, God comes and he says something to the man. Okay, can y 'all see that over there? Over there, can you see that?
Y 'all over here? Okay, if you can't, y 'all slide down that way if you can't see it, if you can't see it. Okay, so time, space and matter. By the way, Myron, why are you turning the Bible into a science book?
I didn't turn it into a science book. It was a science book when I picked it up. Okay, I'm just showing you the science that was already in the book. Okay, so time, space and matter govern our experience of life on this planet, on this spinning rock.
It's going about 24 ,000 miles an hour and we feel like we're not even moving. Ha, ha, ha, ha, figure that one out. Okay, so time, space and matter. The first thing God said to man was be fruitful. Now, I love it when God says be fruitful.
Here's why, he said be fruitful. Now, he didn't, okay, he said be fruitful. Why did he say be fruitful? Because fruitfulness is not something you do. Fruitfulness is an attribute, a character trait that you take on.
Now, what is the character trait of a fruit? What is the nature of a fruit? Well, Genesis 1 tells us it's a living organism whose seed is in itself. Whose what? Seed, S-E-E-D, is in itself. So when God's telling us to be fruitful, he's telling us that what he has done for you, who, everybody type yourself in the chat, say me.
What he's done for you and me is he's taken an aspect, an aspect of his creativity and planted it inside of us. He took one aspect and planted it inside of me. He took a different aspect, he planted it inside of each of you.
And like, I don't have the same aspects my wife has. My wife doesn't have the same ones her mother has. Her mother doesn't have the same ones her son, like, we all got different ones. Me and David, we love to hang out, we love to play golf and do other fun stuff.
But we don't have the same attributes. Dr. Stan and I, we both love the martial arts. He loves it more than I do. I love this. I still love it as much as you do, as much as I used to, brother, but my body don't love it as much as it used to.
Okay, so love the martial arts, but guess what? Guess what? Different aspects. He and I don't have the same aspects. I got my son, Anthony, he and I don't have the same, my son, Anthony, can hit a golf ball with a driver 340 yards without even trying, and he don't even like golf.
Just ain't fair, it just ain't fair. Everything's wrong with that. If I can hit a golf ball 340, anyway, I'm not even, I'm gonna thank God for the gifts I have. Okay, anyway, so my daughter, Deedee, she and I, we're a lot alike, but we ain't enough alike for us to have the same C aspect of God's creativity inside of us.
And here's the beauty of it. I need you to have the aspect of God's creativity inside of you that he put inside of you because I don't have it. And you need me to have the aspect of God's creativity he put inside of me because you don't have it.
That's why I don't need to be jealous of you. You don't need to be jealous of me.
When you win, I can celebrate. Woo, ha ha, go get them, boy. Yeah, let's go.
I don't have to be jealous of you. I can celebrate you because when you win, it didn't cost me nothing, nothing. I can be as happy as a lark in the park when you win. Why? I didn't lose because you won.
Isn't that exciting? Isn't it exciting to know that you can celebrate the wins of all the people around you and you can show up and serve people and not have to worry about people taking advantage of you?
Because see, here's what happens. If somebody takes advantage of you and they do something they shouldn't do, they're sowing a seed into the garden of their own future. They will be the ones to reap that harvest.
Don't let their bad seed cause you to sow a bad seed. Mm, I wish I had some help in here. Hola. But wait a minute. He said be fruitful. I think he said multiply. Now here's the interesting thing about multiply.
Multiply ain't a B. You can't say B multiply. That wouldn't make any sense. Can you imagine walking up to someone, hey man, you need to B multiply. What you talking about, right? So multiply is not a B.
Multiply is a do. Everybody say do. Do. Be fruitful, do multiply. Know what multiply means? Multiply means to increase. Increase is the natural result of obedience to the first command. What you talking about?
When I'm being fruitful, the only thing I can do is multiply. He didn't say be fruitful and add. Multiply, multiply. I like multiply a bit more than I like add. You know why? Because multiply is faster.
I go five, five plus five plus five plus five plus five, 25, well I can go five times five plus 25. I got there first. He said be fruitful and multiply. Do multiply, replenish. Hey, guess what replenish means?
It means to fill up. God said you are supposed to take the aspect of his creativity he put inside of you and then make sure, be fruitful, which means produce on the outside based on what I put on the inside.
Increase and fill up the earth. Hot diggity, it's about to get good. Fill up the earth, multiply, replace the earth, and then he said subdue it. Subdue it? What is that? Okay, I'm gonna show you what subdue means.
Y 'all ready? Subdue means stomp. I thought we was building something, bro. Oh, we are, we are. But when you start building something, guess what? Disruption always follows intention. When you start doing something good, the first thing that shows up is not something good.
In fact, when you start doing something good, the first thing that shows up is something hard, something tough, something difficult, something painful, something agonizing. Don't believe me? Start working out.
You don't get stronger first, you get weaker first. Stuff don't feel better first, it feels worse first. Worse first. Somebody should write a book called Worse First. Because things get worse before they get better.
And then you get weaker before you get stronger. How many of y 'all are tracking? He said subdue it. Here's what God said. God said disruption always follows intention. You know what's interesting? We see that as a pattern all throughout scripture, don't we?
Here's what it says. In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. What happened next? And the earth was, that word was, is became without form and void and darkness upon the face of the earth.
Even when God was creating, disruption followed intention. Come on now. You think you're gonna get a pass? Ha, ha, ha, ha. You are confused. Samuel came and anointed David to be the king of Israel. Okay, so understand the significance of an anointing.
An anointing is always for an appointing, right? So when God anoints someone, when God sent the prophet to anoint someone, the anointing was to reveal their appointing. So Samuel, when he anointed David, he was showing David and the people around David, his father and his mother and his brothers, he was showing them God's purpose for David's life.
An anointing is when God reveals your purpose to you and those around you. That's what an anointing is. Everybody says, oh, there's an anointing. There's an anointing on you. Well, there is. God revealed your purpose to you and those around you.
That's what an anointing is. Guess what happened? The next day he was on the throne. No, no, no, no, no, no. Next year, many, many years, David's running from Saul because Saul's got a contract on his life to kill him.
Disruption always follows intention. Joseph had a dream. The dream was his anointing. He said, yeah, well, you know what's gonna happen? I mean, y 'all my big brothers and everything, but one of these days y 'all gonna bow down to me.
I don't know what y 'all gonna do then. You think this is gonna be any colors or something. This ain't nothing. Wait till you see what's coming. You're gonna bow down. Oh yeah, mom and dad ain't gonna bow down too.
Here's what the scripture says. His brothers hated him for his dreams and for his words. Just because you have a dream don't mean everybody gonna line up and say, well, let's go get it, tiger. Here's what it says.
They hated him so much, they threw him in a pit. I've got six brothers. We have not always gotten along. Confession, wearing shirts, I might as well just go ahead and confess now. We have not always gotten along.
But we have never thrown each other in a pit. That's not happened. We have not, like I talked my brothers into jumping off of garages and stuff, right? But we didn't throw each other in pits. That's a bad day when your brothers, your big brothers throw you in a pit and they leave you to die.
And then some Midianites come and take you out. You don't even speak Midianite-ish. I don't know if that's what they speak or not. You don't speak it. And they take you and they sell you into slavery.
Oh, this is after Joseph's dreams. What does that story tell? Disruption always follows intention. See, when God gives you a dream, your dream will drag you through some drama on your way to your destiny.
It ain't dream and destiny, it's dream, drama, destiny. Dream, drama, destiny. Dream, can I skip the drama? Nope, drama, destiny. Jesus himself. The scripture says John the Baptist baptized him in the River Jordan.
Been there, it's a beautiful, amazing place. Baptized him in the River Jordan. He comes up out of the river, showing the death, burial, and resurrection. Comes up, the scripture says the heavens opened.
The spirit descended on him like a dove. A voice from heaven. This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. Can you imagine being there for that? Now, if that were me, my next thought would be, it's about to be on.
That's not what the Bible says happened. You know what the Bible says happened? Immediately was he led of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. How long? 40 days and 40 nights. Disruption always follows intention.
And see, the mistake we make is when disruption follows our intention, we think that's a sign we're going in the wrong direction. When it's actually a sign we're going in the right direction. Be fruitful, do multiply, do replenish, do subdue.
And then he says, have dominion. Now here's what's interesting. This is the platform. These are the parameters. Here's what's interesting. Each one of these parameters for a different one of these parts of the platform.
The purpose of time is to give us time to become what we are not yet. Space is to give us room to do. The purpose of matter is to have. Here's, this is how God set up in the beginning. God set this up in Genesis chapter one.
Before we even get to chapter two. Chapter three, chapter four, chapter five, all the way to chapter 15. No, no, no, no. In case you don't get to chapter two, I want you to be okay. Here's what we're gonna do.
Be, do, have. Here's what that means. Don't be, can't do, can't do, can't have. Be a little, do a little, do a little, have a little. Be a lot, do a lot, do a lot, have a lot. Now, the purpose of time is to become more than we are.
Dave, you probably, you and Katie probably don't say to Sam, Sam, here's the keys to the car. Run down to HEB, pick up some eggs and some bread, right? Some butter and some jelly or whatever people eat with eggs, right?
You probably don't say that to him yet. It's not that you won't say it ever. You just don't say it yet. Why? He's not yet become the person who can do that thing. You know, David loves his son enough not to give him an assignment that's beyond his ability and his capability currently.
God loves us more than we love our children. He's not gonna give us an assignment to do right now something that is outside our ability. How many of y 'all are checking? But he called us to become more than we've been being.
Yes. Myron, how do you become more? Study God, the knowledge of holy is understanding. I become more by becoming more like the son of God. How I do that? By beholding the scriptures day by day and then he makes me more like him from glory to glory.
If you're having a hard time figuring life out, it's because I promise you, you haven't sought for the answers that are missing in the scriptures. And if you have sought for them, you just haven't sought for them long enough.
Keep on looking. Stay in there. Now, watch this. B, the purpose of time is being, the purpose of space is doing, the purpose of matter is having. Here's the problem with we human beings. We get all caught up in having, Lord, I wanna have one of these and two of those and three and green and four and blue.
And I'd like to have one of those and three of those and four of those. And I'd like to have, have, have, have, have, have, have. God said, pump the brakes, pump the brakes. B, B, B, B, B, B, B, then you can do, do, do, do, do, do.
And then you can have, have, have, have, have, have, have. Now, when I first taught this, my beautiful, wonderful wife who's also a student of the scriptures, she said to me, Myron, what's the difference between that and covetousness?
If God made stuff for us to have, what's the difference between like, there's nothing wrong with having more than you have. All of, by the way, your desire to have more than you have is a desire God gave you.
Yes. God gave you the desire to have more health in your body than you have. God gave you a desire to have more money in the bank than you have. He gave you the desire to have a nice car and a nice house and to take wonderful vacations and be able to give good gifts to the people you love.
All of those desires are God given. So when does it become covetousness? It becomes covetousness when I have a desire to have, but an unwillingness to do. When I want to have something I have no right to because I haven't done the thing that gives me the right to it, that's covetousness.
When a man loves his wife, when a wife loves her husband, they are not covetousness. Why? They've done the right thing. They've gotten married. They've done the right thing. So therefore, the husband has a right to the wife, the wife has a right to the husband.
There's no covetousness there. It's God's design. When we do things God's way, like a person works and they get paid, there's nothing wrong with desiring to pay. It's God's design. Do the work, desire to pay, all good.
Desire to pay, unwilling to work? Wrong answer, but we do have some nice consolation prizes for you in the back. Now here's what's really interesting. This is where this gets super juicy. Being speaks to our identity.
Doing speaks to our activity. Having speaks to our property. It's so interesting. I remember when I couldn't figure out, I want to have more property. I was at the place in my life, I was tired of renting, I want to be able to buy a house.
I was tired of just driving old raggedy cars, I wanted to have a nicer car. I was tired of having to fix the car so I could drive the car, go to the place I'm going to and then fix the car so I could get back home.
Now I know that all y 'all have not experienced that, but I have experienced that in most of my life. I got tired of that. It's exhausting. But here's what God said. Having a desire for more property doesn't give you the right to more property.
You know what gives you the right to more property? Doing better activity, more activity, higher activity. But I'm already trying, I'm doing everything I can, it's not working. That's right. Because every human being, I believe, is already doing 100 of everything they can do, who they are right now.
In order for you to do more than you've been doing, you've got to become more than you've been being and then, and only then, can you do more than you've been doing and then you'll deserve more, to have more than you've been having.
Do you understand that having is the carrot that God put out in front of us to entice us to do the things that are in our own best interest, to do more and to become more? God cares the most about us becoming more.
More what? More like him. The more I become like him, the more my capacity and ability increase. The more my awareness becomes in tune with his word and the way he says things are, the more my ability to do everything rises with that.
And by the way, even people who don't like you and don't agree with you, they will want what you have. Are y 'all hearing me? I'm gonna tell you a little story. So I'm a business coach and in addition to preaching the Bible, I'm a business coach, but I decided what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna coach business owners according to biblical principles.
I'm not gonna back in the door with it. I ain't gonna try to go along to get along, sign a banana if you wanted a bunch. I don't wanna offend anybody. I don't wanna offend anybody, but if you get offended, that's on you, baby.
That's my space. Right? So I talk about Jesus in public. But what if people get offended? I pay for the room. Do you? Talk about Jesus. I talk about the Bible. Talk about King Saul. I talk about whatsoever the Lord saith in public, in business conferences.
But man, but man, don't they get mad? They should have invited somebody out there. This is what I do. I wasn't hiding this. It wasn't like you found me on the internet and I wasn't talking about the Bible, wasn't talking about God.
And all of a sudden you're surprised. You ain't surprised. You knew who you was dealing with when you drove up here this morning. I teach based on biblical principles. And there are people that don't know God from the man on the moon who paid me to teach them how to grow their business.
I remember I did. I was doing a challenge one time and this woman, she happened to be a lesbian. And she says, and I was teaching on like the four levels of teaching for learning. And the lowest level is tactical, what to do.
And the next level is strategic, when and why to do it. And the next level is principles, the laws that govern the universe. The highest level is essence, the character, nature and intention of God. She's like Myron, you and I, we're in two different places when it comes to God.
Can you tell me about that essence thing without using God? I said, but before I do, let me ask you a question. I'm gonna ask you a question. And I want you to give me any answer in the world, but you cannot answer four or anything that equals the number four.
She said, okay. I said, what's two plus two? She said, it's but, it's a, you said I can't say four or anything that equals four. That's what I said. She said, it's, I can't think of anything. I said, that's right.
If you're unwilling to accept the answer that is the only answer, there is no answer. She said, oh, I get it. And on we went. She didn't ask me again. Like, we don't have to, truth never has to be afraid of a lie.
Light doesn't have to be afraid of darkness. Good does not have to be afraid of evil. Hey, here's what we can do.
We can do this thing the Bible calls, watch this now. Speak the truth in love. That's pretty cool. It's amazing how God has all these answers, right?
Speak the truth in love. So you tell somebody the truth without hating them. Okay, I can do that. I don't even like how hate feels when it gets up in here. None of my outfits match hate. So, speak the truth in love, my daughter Dee says, and the truth should never travel without love.
I know the truth should never travel faster than love. That's what she said. The truth should never travel faster than love. I'll say you're right Dee Dee, but watch this. Love should never travel without the truth.
Both are necessary. How are y 'all tracking? See, I don't have to get bent out of shape when I'm telling somebody the truth, why? The truth does all the work. I ain't doing any work. My emotions ain't adding anything to the truth.
I don't have to be emotional about it. What does the say of the Lord?
What's wrong with it? God says it's wrong. And if that ain't the reason, there is no reason. Huh, how about that?
Now, here's the challenge we have. We all have potential. We have what we could be. This is we're being nothing we can be. This is we're being everything we can be. This is our capacity and our activity.
This is our capacity and our property. This is when we're doing all the things we can do this. We're doing none of the things we can do this, when we have all the stuff could have this. When we have none of the stuff we can have.
There's a gap in all of our lives. And the gap is between, it's in our potential. Lives in our potential. This circle represents our potential. None of us are living down here, I wouldn't say, but most of us are living like about right there.
Most of us are doing about that much right there. Most of us have about that much of what we could have. Myron, how do I increase my capacity in my identity? How do I become more than I am? Well, a couple of things.
Let's understand... Wow, I've been talking a long time. It felt like five minutes to me. I'm going to wrap it up in less than an hour, I promise. Okay, I'm just kidding. Made some of y 'all nervous, didn't you?
Like, hey, you know, we're in the hour. Okay, hang in there with me, y 'all. This is so good. In the realm of time. The realm of what? Time. Have you ever thought about this? In the realm of time, there's no such thing as the present.
It can't exist. Now cannot exist in the realm of time. As soon as I say now, it becomes then. Right now, then. Right now, then. It keeps getting away from me. As soon as I say now, it evaporates and turns into then.
So in the realm of time, there's no such thing as the present. In the realm of time, there's only the past and the future. Are y 'all with me so far? But in the realm of eternity, there's no such thing as the past or the future.
There's only the present. That's why God knows the end from the beginning, because the end is the beginning and the beginning is the end. That's why God is the I am that I am, and not the I was that I was or the I will be that I will be, because he is the essence of everything.
God created this concept called time, and he inserted it in the realm and the reality of eternity. I can give you an illustration where it'll really like, you're like, oh, right? I know, because that's what I did when it hit me.
Imagine you're a screenplay. You produce the movie. You direct the movie, and you're the star of the movie, and it's a cliffhanger. It's like Mission Impossible meets all the other cliffhanger movies that have ever cliffhanged, and then you do the premiere, and you're the writer, the director, the producer, and the star.
Every time it looks like you're about to die, everybody in the theater is like, except you. You're just kind of sitting there like, why? Because you already know what's going to happen. Why? Because you created the whole thing before they saw any of it.
It's already a done deal to you. It's already a finished product to you, but to them it's unfolding in that little space in time. See, your life, my life, is like us sitting in the premiere of this thing called eternity that God has produced, directed, written, and started, and it's unfolding to us, and it's a moving picture, but to God it's a snapshot.
God knows the end from the beginning because he is the I am that I am. Do you ever think about that? Those are the two most powerful words in the world. In fact, they're so powerful when God said to Moses, I want you to march into Pharaoh's office.
He's the most mighty man on earth. March into his office and tell him, I said, let my people go. Moses said, who shall I say has sent me? I'm confessing. I should have thought this, but I did. When I read that, I was like, I wish I could coach him right now.
That's not a good question, Moses. Who shall I say has sent you?
This is what I would have said. What can I tell him? You said you're going to do it if he said no. That's what I would have said.
Anybody else want to say that? Right. That's what Moses said. Moses said, who shall I say has sent me? Why did he say that? Because Moses understood something we don't understand, that authority is always based on identity, and so he said, who shall I say has sent me?
The answer, when I read it as a child, made less sense than the question. Tell him I am that I am has sent thee. Tell him what? I am that I am. What is that? There are not two more powerful words in the world than I am that I am.
He's saying, I am everything. That's what he said. I'm everything. I'm all the reason. I'm all the reason. I'm all the significance. I'm all the power. I am everything. For thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power, and for thy pleasure they are.
And they were created. He's everything. Now watch this. I'm going to wrap it up. This is why I have to be hyper-intentional every time I say some words that follow the phrase I am. I cannot afford to say I am so stupid because when I do, I'm infusing my limitation with the power of eternity.
I am weak. I am sick. I am broke. I am an idiot. No, no, no, no, no, no. You can't talk like that. You are. Maybe that's what it means when it says thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.
What you're doing is you're taking the name that is all power and you're emptying of its power and filling it with your limitation. How do I fill? How do I fill my identity? The more aware I become of him and who he is, the more aware I become of who I am.
And I fill this gap with intention, intentionality. I set my heart and my mind and my intention and my desire, my steadfastness on learning God, being in the presence of God, yielding to God. It's intentional.
I'm not always distracting myself so I don't have to think about the fact that my life is not working. I become in tune with God and he makes my life work in a way that I couldn't make it work. And so I become hyper-intentional about the things that God tells me to hyper-intentional put hyper-intentional and I stopped being distracted by all the distractions of life.
And in my activity, this is, I fill this gap with ingenuity. I keep on attempting a new approach until I find one that works. And then this one, I fill it up with intensity. I am telling you that we understand when we begin just a little bit to wrap our minds around who God is and who we are in him.
And we yield to that. We can do that thing that Jesus said in Genesis. I mean, in Matthew chapter six, verse 33, 33, but seek ye first the kingdom of God. What is that? I yield my life to God as the sovereign king of my life.
I rule over my assignment as the sovereign king of my assignment. I use the assignment that I rule over to serve every human being I come in contact with. What am I serving them? I'm serving them a vision of who God is.
What a beautiful life we could live. What an amazing life we could live if the word of God became our all consuming passion. Father, thank you for your word. Please take these truths, root them deeply in our souls.
May we leave this place with a desire to read and study and meditate on your word and let it do us what only it can do in us. Father, if there's anyone here who does not know Jesus as their savior, I pray that they would come to know him because that's first base.
That's where it all begins. When our relationship with you is restored by you, I thank you for what you will do in us through us, for us, and by us. In the lovely, magnificent name of Yeshua. Amen. All right.
God bless you, brother Dave.
How many of you have heard Myron preach more than once? Raise your hand. All right. It always gets better, doesn't it? It just gets better and deeper and I don't know. It's just maybe this was my favorite one other than the names of Jesus.
Of course, that's my favorite one, but it was wonderful. Thank you so much. He told me last night, yes, late the evening. He said, I don't even know what I'm going to preach tomorrow. I said, I know how that feels.
He said, I may just figure it out when I walk up to the pool, which it looked like that's what you did, but it worked. Yeah. This is an inside joke, but brother, you're the best I've ever seen it preaching off the overflow.
Tony got it. Charlotte, Charlotte got it. Okay. Anyway. Oh, man, it was wonderful. It's been wonderful since I walked in and caught him practicing the song this morning. It's just fantastic. Thank all of you for being here.
We invite you to lunch. We always have lunch here and we have plenty for visitors. And if we don't, we know where chicken places and, you know, we, Walmart, we can find stuff, but I think we have plenty.
So please stay. If your schedule will let you stay. Good to see all of you today. And thank you so much, Byron. That was awesome. You can stand and he's already dismissed us in prayer. So you can fellowship and give us about 10 minutes or so and we'll be ready for lunch.
Thank you.