The Creator Made Us to Create (07/09/2023)

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 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.

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 going to go hug her and blubber all over her and she took off running. She 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 emotion. It's 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, uh, uh, 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. Oh, shoot.

Michael and Lauren are here and, uh, good to see you guys and, uh, 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 it doesn't matter because now we're the same age. In fact, he's older than me now.

But, uh, uh, but he still, he still beat me at golf.

Doesn't matter how old he gets. But, uh, anyway, we've, we've seen the Lord do so much together in our families and and in our greater family because all of our friends together come when he and I are together and it's awesome.

Uh, really now from all over the world and, you know, we've had talks before about and, 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? Uh, all these years and, and Myron's, he flirted with being a pastor once when he was younger and, 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 ,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. Howell's 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 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 Dave 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 in the workplace in the business place and that's 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 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 uh, Tony, 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 All right, good morning

The bible is awesome Hey 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

I think sometimes we think of it as you know um, maybe a parenthesis for a part of our lives

Maybe we think of it as a punctuation um 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 But if we could inculcate it into our lives

It would 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 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 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 It's it's everything

In and I feel as a as a human being who's been studying it for some time

I feel incapable of transferring this this awareness of the

Significance and the weightiness of scripture Like 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 Like i'm like what 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 I feel like people

I I feel like sometimes we we anesthetize Ourselves with television and we intoxicate ourselves with music and and 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 Like when I feel when I feel like I don't know which direction to go

I always feel like if I just go back to genesis chapter one Wherever I end up if I start there, it's gonna be okay

Because genesis chapter one is so full. I The more I study it the more

I feel like I don't understand it The more I the more I learn it the more I feel like I don't know it.

It's so much Like no y 'all don't hear me. It's so much so much

It's better than it's better than for 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 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 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 y 'all from genesis chapter one And pray that we won't be here for three hours

Or five or seven or ten because there's enough in there for all of that and then some

I feel like I could study genesis one 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

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 notice this I know we've we've all read it. We've all read it. I won't bore you with that But i'm gonna I I gotta 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'm, I I don't know. I I I I I lost my job. 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 uh, I I just I I was working on something.

I thought it was gonna 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. I I my children. I I don't understand how they're 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 now Uh It's really interesting because it says heaven in english, but it's actually heavens in hebrew

It's hushamayim night 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 could fit the pacific ocean into a teaspoon

We can only experience it You can you can fit some of the pacific ocean into a teaspoon, but you can't fit the pacific ocean into a teaspoon

And you like we cannot 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 Amen 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 say all the time and then somebody say all the time god is good And then we'd say in the be and we might say god is holy and god is righteous

God is omnipotent god is omniscient. God is 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 god in the beginning god created the heaven and earth and then

I read later Um, 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? It seems like an exercise in futility almost unless you understand that in the beginning god created

And the first thing god tells about god is that he is creative which means it is his nature to create So god created the heaven and 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 And it's really interesting so I'm gonna 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 gonna 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 the earth So the platform is in the beginning that's time god created the heavens that 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 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 y 'all track it? and so 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 1

The first category that god created in genesis chapter 1 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 want like 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 godlikeness

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 that's clear, but thou shalt also not worship the land in which you 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 I I you don't have a mother earth. In fact, 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 he in genesis 2 7

He formed man squeezed man out of dust the 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 the before he breathed into that body

The man who he created god made made man in his image first And then he made a body and he breathed the man into the body that he made

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 in our reality

Than the lower parts of us. It's interesting that we see that cain slew abel cain was the firstborn abel was the second born right cain slew abel the

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

Amen 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 you go you go see a dog a dog that's down on his fours or any animal for that matter

And they lower their head To their food because they're just creatures That's which is the second category god created in creation he created creation

Then he created creatures creatures are In hebrew, but hey ma in it is what it is

Well horses the horses the horse, of course some of y 'all remember that the rest of y 'all won't remember right? What is that? What does 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

They 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 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 what 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 the Adam later called her name eve god called their name adam

They were one 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

Hmm which means God made man to make stuff and he made us to create study 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 So an animal lowers his mouth to his 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 yes

So so the first thing we see when it says in the beginning god created heaven the earth I want you to notice the first word i'm gonna move this over here so everybody can see it

What i'm writing. Okay, except for the people on the zoom Trust me. I'm writing something on zoom.

Okay so so understand this Hebrew is the lord's language.

It's the original language. I believe it was the beginning 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 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 the language is a spiritual attribute Are y 'all tracking now? The hebrew language is very different than East uh 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 Is 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 brashid and it's beit resh Alef oh, that's a beautiful word.

That's a beautiful letter right there Yud shin tav now that's the first word brashid that means in beginning now

Uh I 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

They're pretty amazing Right, but each each letter is phonetic.

It has a sound But it's also symbolic it has a meaning so 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, don't that reminds me of john chapter 1 verse 1 in the beginning was the word and the word was god and the word

Was with god and the same as 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 brashid

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 Like a father has a son

Like a mother's favorite son Huh, the word bar means son simon bar.

Jonah simon son of jonah y 'all heard I mean 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's 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

So This letter right here, this is the aleph it means it means the strength of the ox, but it's the

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 yodes 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 so it's really fascinating to see that there is a yod

Between there's a there's a 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 acquire.

I can never Ascend to god It is the man jesus yashua hamashiach.

It is the upright man whose hands were nailed to the cross By the way, it's it's so fascinating because because if you add these letters together, it's give me i'm getting chills now

Okay, so remember I said every letter is a number right? By the way, this is all parenthetical this you say what does it have to do with?

What does it have to do with what i'm 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 So So Olive bait gimel daled hay is like one two, three four five

Okay, bob's iron hat Okay, so we count with the letters of the hebrew. Well, the letter yod is the number 10.

Well, there's two of those 10 plus 10 and the vav is the number 6 10 plus 10 plus 6 equals 26 that's one of the name.

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, they have so like jews have so much respect for god They will not they will not say his name for fear of taking his name in vain

And I I think they're missing the point ish But I love the fact that they believe it enough not not to even take a chance on taking god's name

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 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 Well, here's what's interesting the name that the hebrews don't say is the name

Yud Yud hey buh Hey 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 Has no vowels and only has consonants And some consonants sometimes act as vowels so and then they have accents under the letters called nikud that we sometimes get a a

Vowel sound from depending on how we do, but this is yud hey buh hey now Here's the interesting thing about yud hey buh. Hey, remember we said the um, the the yud is a hand

Well, guess what hey means it means hey It means behold And that what we say

Right. What do we say? 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 put these when you add these up the yud hey above the hey, this is this is six

Uh, this is five. This is five. This is ten. 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 me I'm talking about our god brashit.

Oh, I didn't even finish. This is bait race. This is bar This is alif bait race 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 showed shin means destroyed. It is destroyed. It's a picture of teeth, but it means destroyed

Yod is hand And Tov 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

Start with god Do you see why genesis chapter one gets me so jacked up like so what you what you want?

I'm on a little genesis chapter one. What you want? Do you understand do you understand?

Okay, let me let me let me let me break it down to 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

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 Duane derrick mark and myron 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 I was weird as a kid. I know some of y 'all think you haven't changed 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. Y 'all did y 'all hear how ridiculous that sounds? So names like ed and ned and ted and scott and fred

I hated them And my middle name is freddie All right. I only got one name.

I can use golden, right? I hated my name I I love my name now. Otherwise, I wouldn't take my as goddess of my witness

My wife will test this my children were teenagers before they knew That's how much I Love it now.

Otherwise you wouldn't be hearing it right now 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 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 tracking y 'all with me

Okay so I'm, one of those kids did really good in school all the way through Anybody relate?

A couple y 'all I did good in school all the way through the 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 were a year before i'm like What are they doing? What is this? What is this?

I got stuff to do. I'm in the third grade. I got stuff to do, right? I felt like I felt like they were absolutely wasting my time

And I I checked out mentally I was done. I was so bored. I was bored out of my I was bored like no, this is everything about this is wrong.

I knew it in the third grade anyway I'm colorblind little dyslexic

I got a you know some stuff going on I'm 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 sit still i'm trying to read you right now, you know, one of those deals I like 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 that's for real for real There is no reason on earth for my life to have one 1 million of the blessing that it has apart from the fact

When I was a teenager This dude right here. We were both teenagers. We were in high school. He says now you need to start reading the bible

I was horrified like why Why y 'all didn't tell me that before I gotta say

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

That I got 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 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 instructions and put stuff together and I like I can fix a car and I can change I I'm gonna find out if I do this if this is gonna happen and god said well if you do this it was gonna happen

And I did that and I'm 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 of our 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 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. They had this big award ceremony I mean they had a table from here to that dough trophies all over it.

I know I was about to get Oh, yeah

I don't know which one of all of them's mine, but I know at least three four five six seven eight nineteen 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 Ear muffs that were made out of those little pipe cleaner things and it said most likely get on your nerves award

I wish I would have kept it I wish I would have kept it. I really be getting on their nerves right now

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, that money is not the blessing. It's just it's just the icing on the blessing. It's the gravy on the blessing

The money's 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 problem again the 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 i'm

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 is 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 over y 'all over here? Okay, if you can't don't 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 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 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? What is the character trait of a fruit?

What is what is what is the nature of a fruit? Well, genesis one 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. It's just like 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 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 or like We all got different ones me and david.

We love to hang out. We love to play golf and and 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 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. It just ain't fair. It just ain't fair Everything's wrong with that If I could hit a golf ball 340 anyway, i'm not even i'm gonna thank god for the gifts

I have Okay. Anyway, so, uh, my daughter didi she and I we're a lot alike But we're being 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 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

When I win it didn't cost you nothing. I can be as happy as a lark in the park When you win why it didn't like 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 take 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

I wish I had some help in here But wait a minute

He said be fruitful And then he said multiply now. Here's the interesting thing about multiply multiplying to be you can't say be multiplied

That would make sense. If you said you can imagine you walking some hey, man, you need to be multiplying What you talking about?

Right? So Multiply is not a b. Multiply is a do Everybody say do

Be fruitful do multiply no multiply means multiply means to increase

Increase is the natural result of obedience to the first command

What you talking about It's like What i'm being true for 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 twenty five where I go five times five twenty five

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 is 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 y 'all ready subdue means

Stomp Hey, 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 are tracking he said subdue it here's what god said god said Disruption always follows intention.

You know, it's interesting. We see that as a pattern all throughout scripture Here's what it says in the beginning god created heaven 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 even when god was creating disruption followed intention

You think you're gonna get a pass? 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 with god sent the prophet to anoint someone the anointing was to reveal their appointing

So samuel when he anointed david he was showing 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 said oh there's an anointing. There's anointing on you. Well, there is god revealed your purpose to you and those around you

That's what anointing is guess what happened david the next day. He was on the throne. 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 what you're gonna do then You think this coated me in the 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 on my eyes. We'll 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 media nights come and take you out. You don't even speak media nightish I don't know if that's what they speak or not, but you don't speak it

And they take you and they sell you into slavery Oh, this is after joseph's dreams What what does that story tell it 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 this beautiful amazing place

Baptized him in the river jordan. He comes up out of Out of the river showing the death barrel 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, please 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 happen

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 So Be fruitful do multiply do replenish do subdue and then he says have

Dominion now, here's what's interesting This is the platform

This is 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 b. This is god set this up in genesis chapter one Before we even get to chapter two

Chapter three chapter four chapter five chapter all the way to chapter 15. No, no, no In case you don't get to chapter two. I want you to be okay here.

We're gonna here's what we're gonna do Be do that. 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 Uh run down to heb pick up some eggs and some bread Right and 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 going to give us an assignment to do right now Something that is outside our ability

How are you tracking 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 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 you just haven't sought for long enough. Keep on looking Stay in there now watch this be

The purpose of time is being the purpose of space is doing the purpose of matter is happening Here's the problem with we human beings we get all caught up in having lord well

I want to 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 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

Be be be be be be then you can do do do do do do and then you can have have have have have had

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 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 to be able to good 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 man 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 the desire to pay

It's god's design do the work desire the pain all good desire to pay unwilling to work

Wrong answer, but we do have some nice consolation prizes for you in the back 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've experienced that most of my life I got tired of that It's exhausting

So But here's what god said Having a desire for more property doesn't give you the right to more property no one 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 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 his aware the way he says things are

The more the more my 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 want to offend anybody. I don't want to offend anybody.

But if you get offended that's on you, baby. This is 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 kingsong. I talk I talk about what 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

You knew I 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 surprised you ain't surprised 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 just I was doing a challenge one time

And this uh this woman she happened to be a lesbian and She says and I was teaching on that I was teaching on like the four levels of teaching before learning and the lowest level is

Tactical what to do and 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 sure 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 it

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

I 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

It's good we 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 Because I don't even like how hate feels when it gets up in here. So I don't 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 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. Let's say it 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 And This is we're being nothing we can be this is we're being everything we can be this is the our

Capacity in our activity. This is our capacity in our property. This is when we're Doing all the things we can do this

We're doing none of the things we do this and we have all the stuff we could have this we have none of the stuff We could have there's a gap in all of our lives

And the gap is between It's in our potential lies 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 things Let's understand wow, I've been talking a long time didn't it felt like five minutes to me

I'm gonna wrap it up in less than an hour. I promise. Okay Made some of y 'all nervous, didn't you?

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 that it keeps getting away from me as soon as I say now it evaporates it turns into them

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 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 it'll really like you're like, uh, uh, 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 cliffhanger it

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

Why because you already know what's going to happen? That's right. 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 the realm 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? There's no those are the two most powerful words in the world

In fact, they're so powerful when moses said when god said to moses, I want you to march into pharaoh's office

He's the most mighty man on earth march in 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 like 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 I this is what I would have seen What can

I tell him you said you gonna do it if he say no, that's what I would have seen Anybody else want to say that right?

That is what moses said moses. Who shall I say? Has sent me. Why do you say that because moses knew something 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 a centi Tell him I am that I what is it?

There's 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 like i'm all the reason i'm all the significance I'm all the power.

I am everything for thou worthy. Oh lord to receive glory and honor and power and for thy pleasure They are And they were created.

He's everything Watch this And i'm gonna 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, 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 by 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 feel? How do I feel? My identity

The more aware I become of him and who he is the more aware I become who I am And I fill

This gap with intention intentionality I set my heart and my mind and my intention and my desire and 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 stop 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

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 6 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've heard myron preach more than once raise your hand

All right, it always gets better doesn't 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 gonna 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

Oh 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 uh here and we have plenty for visitors and if we don't we know where chicken place is 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 uh, thank you so much.

Myron. 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