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Date:     2025-05-04
Title:    Undefeated Battleground Part 6 - What is your daily spiritual routine
Speaker:  Undefeated Battleground
Church:   What Do You Mean By
Type:     Church Service
Duration: 1h 3m
Language: English
URL:      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zp9Tty6Fsw
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Now I [Music] see my heart to fear and grace my fears relieved. How preious did that grace appear the hour I first believe. Amen. Well, God bless you everyone. It's good to be with you all. You can be seated just for a little [Music] bit. Got a special this morning I have not sang yet. So just pray for me. [Music] You're searching for something you can't find in this world. You've looked in all the places, you know, for peace down in your heart. I can see in your eyes the question you've asked before. Isn't there more something more? And I have found the more you've been searching for. I have found true peace and real joy. [Music] He's the treasure that this world does not contain. Jesus Christ, he's the more you're searching for. [Music] He said, "If you will seek for me with all your heart and soul, then I will be found of you. I will make you whole and your loneliness I will replace with a union of love. Yes, I'm more so much [Music] more. And I have found the more you've been searching for. I have found true peace and real joy. He's the treasure that this world does not contain. Jesus Christ, he's the more you were searching [Music] for. And I have found the more you been searching for. I have found true peace and real joy. He's the treasure that this world does not contain. Jesus Christ. He's the more you're searching for. [Music] Jesus Christ, he's the more you're searching [Music] for. Amen. Thank you, musicians. Um, such a nice song. Jesus Christ, he's the more. He's what's more that you've been searching for. Amen. Amen. and so stands to invite turn our Bibles. Certainly kind of an honor and a privilege to be here preaching this morning with you all. Usually preach on Wednesdays, but hey, get to preach with Sister Jackie and Sister Gail here and uh all the others that are online. So, God bless you. Thank you for being here. And we remember mom and dad in Canada. We'll be turning our Bibles to 1 Corinthians chapter 15. Be reading verse 31. You say amen when you're there. 1 Corinthians chapter 15 and verse 31. I really enjoyed all the new uh musicians. That was great. We give them a round of applause. It was awesome. The specials and everything. Amen. Amen. So, just say amen when you're there. I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord. I die daily. Let's just bow our heads as we pray. As the Lord adds his blessings to the reading of his word. Gracious Lord, I come to you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Lord, I ask that you would speak through my voice. Speak your voice through me. Lord, I surrender myself to you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. May you have your perfect will. We surrender ourselves both speaker and audience alike, those here and those online in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen. You may be seated. Amen. So tonight I'm going to continue. You don't have to scroll down, Thomas, until I do the actual title, but um going to continue in the s sermon series I've been preaching an undefeated battleground. And so I want to briefly explain the idea of a undefeated battleground. I don't believe that there's a probability of losing in this battle against the devil when we fight in the right ways. And when we fight in the wrong ways, there is not a possibility of us winning. Usually with battles, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. But with this, if you fight in the right way, you can't lose. So in part one, we went through see, taste, feel, smell, and hear. And the way that we interact with those senses every day. And then part two is imaginations, passions, memories, conscience, and affections. And we learned that basically through those we have either faith or doubt depending on how we approach them. And then part three was prayer, the way that we pray and the way that we approach it. Part four talked about the meaning of life and that it was living for others. And part five, which was Wednesday, was growth, spiritual growth, which was really through suffering and the way of approaching that. And there's a wrong way of approaching these things where you'll always lose. There's a right way where you always win. And we fight the devil every single day. It's not just at church. At church, it's the easy part. And I believe that victory is not a probability or a calculation, but rather a 100% certainty when we approach it in the right way. We fight on the right battleground. Different fighting forces throughout history fought on different battlegrounds in different ways for the sole purpose of winning. And they refuse to fight on certain battlegrounds because they knew that if they fought on that certain field of battle, they would lose. Amen. So we want to fight in a way that will win. So specifically today, what we'll be looking at is undefeated battleground part six, which is what is your daily spiritual routine? What is your daily spiritual routine? This is just something to ask myself and you to ask yourself. What is something we do every single day for God? And what is a routine? The definition of routine is a sequence of actions regularly followed. A fixed program, a customary or regular course of procedure, commonplace tasks, chores or duties as must be done regularly or at specific intervals. Typically, everyday activity, the routine of an office, usual set of activities or way of doing things kind of like getting coffee and a bagel was part of the daily routine. Every single day, I've got to have some form of coffee. I know I'm not the only one, but we do it religiously. It's something we have to do every single day. It's part of our life. And you know, actually back in August of last year, I decided I was going to make a change in how I approached food cuz I wanted to lose some weight. And I was looking at an old picture of me from the other like before then. By God's grace, collectively, I lost about 40 lbs since then, by God's grace. But then I went back to only losing 30 because I kind of didn't do the diet thing daily. And this gospel, I think, is typed out through these things that the diet didn't just happen immediately. I decided I want to lose weight and it all happens. But I actually had to die daily. I had to have an approach to it that would have a result every single day. And when you commit to a change, you're not committing to like, okay, well, I'm good and that's it. I've lost all the weight. But really, no, it's just it's you're committing to a set of small choices made in continuity consistently. And I lost that weight and kind of maintained it because 80% of the time all I do is a certain certain thing. Any change is not supposed to be done. Oh, if I just get the perfect diet and the perfect thing all at once, it'll all be perfect. Actually, it won't because it needs to be sometimes the best thing I can do for my health is eat pizza or chocolate cake with my friends. But if I do that all the time, it won't help me. It needs to be done in a routine and it needs to be done in a schedule. And I'm not always perfect, but what I am now by God's grace compared to what I was before is a showcase of consistent choices. And then when I lost I had lost 40, now down to 30, but I'm keeping it the same by God's grace. But that's a series of small choices. I have to die daily. It's up to me. But it's not that I okay, well, I just eat veggies one day and I'm good. Now I can eat whatever I want the rest of the time. No, it's a consistent choice in perpetuity. Brother Brandham said, "In how can I overcome?" And I want to take my subject this morning of this, "How can I overcome?" Now, I chose this because I think that it's a time we should never let the spirit of revival die. We've got to keep in revival, constantly revived every day. Paul said he had to die daily that Christ could live. And we must never let that revival die within us. The natural types, the spiritual. So if we can understand dying daily with a diet, we could certainly do it with the Lord Jesus. Amen. And Luke 9:23 says, "And he said to them, if any man will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and put all ashes around it and follow me." Take up his cross daily and follow me. What does that mean? What what I want to point out is that he said daily. But what does denying yourself mean? We can look at a typical daily routine or whatever else. I'm not here to tell you what to do and not to do in your daily routine, but I want to look at what's missing. What's missing in my daily routine? What's missing in what I do every single day? Do I put God at the forefront? Do I live every day for the sole purpose of other others? Or am I just letting my mind go on autopilot, work, eat, sleep, etc. Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore brethren by the mercies of God that you present your bodies a living sacrifice holy acceptable unto God which is your reasonable service and be not conformed to this world but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. I do not believe that adding God into a routine will somehow magically change everything but that God doesn't want to be a routine. Sarah does not have a relationship with Dominique as part of her daily routine. Maybe she has a scheduled time to tell him she loves him. But it's it's different than that. What is what is the difference, Sarah? What is the word? Relationship. She has a relationship with him. It's more than a routine. It's a relationship. She loves him. He loves her. I hope. Yeah, I'm kidding. Yeah. He loves her. She loves him. It's a routine. But it's more than a routine. It's a relationship. And Sister Suzanne and Brother Jimmy, same thing. Brother Ed and Sister Fay, it was the same thing. It was a relationship. And when they died daily, that was part of it. And if you want to defeat the devil every day, we need to have a we don't need to have a daily routine that is like, "Okay, I read the Bible for 8 hours. I listened to tapes for 8 hours." But it's something different than that. It's not a checklist. It's not a a set of rules to adhere to. It is a relationship. God is not just an idea or a concept or a set of beliefs on a piece of paper. He is a real person called Jesus Christ and he wants to have a real relationship with us. And I don't also think that it's something where okay cool Lord I'll schedule you in 15-inute intervals throughout the day and they'll go out throughout my life. It's not quite that. Well, oh are you saying are you moving the goalpost? No, it's a relationship. It's part of your life. So where do I get that from? 1 Thessalonians 5 and 16. Because this gospel is not just something to be done at church or when you pray or every now and then, but it's a continual action. It's a continual relationship. Amen. Rejoice ever more. Pray without ceasing. Pray without ceasing. What I believe that that is talking about is that when we pray, sometimes we pray, "Lord, heal me of my toothache." And then we spend the rest of our times complaining about the toothache to everyone around us. Oh, it feels so terrible. But brother Brandham said it's not the projector that we'll ne never live above our confession and that he's not the high priest of our feelings but he's the high priest of our confession. Whatever we say is what we'll be. That's what we went through in the other I think it was part four with prayer was that when you speak the word of God and it's in good faith. You're not waiting for God to speak. God already did speak because he said that she is him. And if any son or daughter of God takes the word of God and puts it on their lips, it's the same as deity speaking. It's a routine. It's easy for us to get into the routine of approaching our days with such negativity. It's just natural. Ephesians 4:22, that you put off concerning the former conversation the old man which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind. and that you put on the new man, which after God has created in righteousness and true holiness. I believe that the way that we approach this gospel, if we have a specific approach, not just at camp meetings, not just in service, not just when things go wrong, like calling God as an emergency contact, but in our everyday life and how we approach all of our problems, we'll have success if we approach it a certain way. And what Satan wants us to do is to live on autopilot. go from scrolling through reals to scrolling through this to scrolling through that. Or maybe you read books. I don't know what you do with it. You already know the thing that you do in your life that just distracts you and it keeps us numb. And Satan's goal, I believe, is not to get us to leave or to get us to rebel, but rather to just stay stagnant. The war is going on and it's all going on. I could imagine it's like a two sides fighting against one another in a very intense battle, but a mile away there's a lounge. You can relax on the couch. You're still a member of the army. When it's all over, you're going to go on the rapture, but you're just lounging and you're not living up to your real calling. Once preached a sermon, what will your testimony be in heaven? I don't want it to be, "Yes, Lord, thank you. I'm sealed, but man, I wished I would have got with the program." But I think that Satan wants us to live any way we want to other than church times. Brother Brandham said, "The rejected king." And this is one of the uh sermons that I've listened to several several times. So the way that I say this with my tonality is the exact way that he said it. He said, "But we want men to tell us that it's all right as long as we follow me and Samuel. They like to live through six days any way they want to and go to church on Sunday morning and a fine intellectual college graduate with plenty of degrees can speak to them a little sermon that will a few jokes in it that will tickle their ears and cause them to be entertained like some movie or television program." and say a little prayer for them and send them home with some kind of a self-satisfied security that they've done the religion. That is not the will of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit wants you to live godly every day in the week and every night separating yourselves from the things of the world. But the church don't want that. They want some man who can who can interpret the Bible the way that they want to hear it. They won't listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit speaking through the Bible. Many of them wants to say this days of miracles is passed. That's what tickles the people. They want to say there's no baptism of the Holy Spirit. The people don't want to act any different than what the rest of the world acts. They don't want to get on the street and to have their face washed and and men with clean countenance and not cigarettes in their mouths and and cigars and pipes and the and the things that men do. And women want their hair cut up real short and little dresses on of showing their forms and things that they want that they they want men who will tell them that that that's all right. But this thing that we believe, this message is not just something so that we can feel better and say, "Okay, well, I'm sealed. I'm saved. Now I can really do whatever I want and not have to worry about where I go when I die." But it's actually the highest way of living. That's the thing that I felt in my life is that this gospel is not an alternative to what I really want, but it is the highest form of living that I have found. And I don't believe that the fix is maybe to solely have a specific time to talk to God. But rather when it says rejoice ever more and pray without ceasing. How can you do that when you only take 15 minutes out of 24 hours? And yes, it's good that that's good to have a specific time where you read your Bible and pray. Brother Brandham said someone asked him uh how do you get closer to God? He said read your Bible and pray every day. But it's not just a 15-minute thing. It's a relationship you have with him. Sarah and Dominic don't spend 15 minutes together and then say, "Okay, cool. I'm going to go do my kayaking. I'm going to go cook my food. I'm going to go do my routine on my whiteboard. But it's a constant relationship. It's a relationship. But I would say in our relationships and in our life, what we can do every single day is to find Jesus. To just find Jesus. Now, that can be vague or like what does that mean, David? It means that you talk to him throughout your day. You consider what would Jesus do? And when someone cuts you off, you don't yell at them. Well, they they can't hear you anyway, but you say, "Hey, maybe that person is in the middle of maybe that person just lost their relationship. Maybe they're hungry. Maybe they're sad. Maybe their dad just died." But instead of looking as I have a right because you wronged me, that you look it as hey, what caused them to have that init that issue or that problem? Because when Jesus says love your enemies, there isn't some weird thing. It's because your enemies have a reason for why they are the way that they are. And if you approach them with love instead of, hey, here's the 10,000 reasons why you're wrong, you may reach them as a person. But if you approach as you're wrong and I'm right, which I've done in my past, you won't really get anywhere. But it's to consider what would Jesus do. And I don't think that dying daily is specifically, okay, I will specifically not do bad things. That's not the gospel. It's finding Jesus. You know how you get better at shooting free throws the right way? You start shooting free throws the right way. You don't focus on not shooting them the wrong way. You focus on what's the right way. You know how they learn about how to spot a counterfeit bill. They don't study counterfeits. They study the real things so much to where they spot a fake a mile away. So if we spoke with Jesus in our hearts every day and considered him in every event that happened in our lives, what would happen? There was a quote of brother Random that's not in the projector where he said Eve could not sin until first she cast God's word aside. where Satan Satan lo is it's easy for Satan to say hey it's easy to just to live for God on a Sunday or Wednesday night or when you're real spiritual but Monday Tuesday Thursday Friday Saturday and the times when you're outside of church that's the real battle the easiest part is right now the hard part is when it's just you and the Lord and Satan tempting you but he's there God is there with us and he wants to talk with us and he created us for fellowship so do do I talk to Jesus throughout my day do you talk to Jesus throughout your day. Satan would have us just live our lives as if God doesn't exist other than the fix for salvation and then wonder why our problems are all bad and then live our lives um filling the cup with water, emptying it, filling up with water, but never changing something on the inside. That's what salvation is. It changes something. Thank you, Ruth. Fundamentally on the inside to where when you approach it, something has changed. Fundamentally, when they do a heart transplant, maybe you were dying before, but when you get the new heart and everything is all set up, let's say the s the surgery goes perfectly because God's a great surgeon. Something's different on the inside. You can't explain it just automatically. That's salvation. Something changes, but it's not permanent to where, okay, I'm good now. I can do whatever I want. But it's a dying daily thing. Amen. Seeking the will of God as the main purpose of your life every day is what taking your cross taking up your cross is. You know, our minds are designed to analyze and think of situations and solutions to problems and make decisions. And I believe that Satan what is so that the approach that I'm bringing out is that we live for Jesus Christ and we can't lose. So what what is Satan's approach? He wants to turn every day problem solving into something that doesn't need God for the solution. He wants to take God out of it. Yes, he saved you. You're good. That's awesome. You don't need him for this cancer. You don't need him for this heartache. You don't need him. You can do it yourself. And that's what he said to God. He said, "I don't need you." That's literally the exact manifestation of Satan himself. But God wants to be in our lives. He longs for a relationship with us because it's a better way of living cuz he loves us and he wants us to live the best way possible. This I felt it so much that this message is not like oh man if I really had what I wanted I'd be out in the world and I'd be playing for a ball team. I've been making a ton of money like no this is what I really want. That's the gospel is presenting to us like hey this is what happens if you live for yourself. This is what happens if you live for others. And actually living for others is the best way of living. And we c I don't believe we can do that if we don't have a specific plan of attack every single day because Satan's going to attack you. So what are we going to do? Why is it so easy to serve God at a at a camp? It's because God is so much a part of your everyday life. I'm not saying that if you spend six hours a day, you know, listening to services that it'll automatically save everything. But know that you actually connect with God when you sing. You connect with God when you hear the preaching and the correction and the saving. And you connect with God through your friends that are also wanting the same thing. And the sole purpose is to connect with God. And connecting with God is not a feeling. It's not an emotion. It's not an understanding. It's just talking to him with a good sincere heart. That is connecting with God. You're not here. Let me make it really simple. You are not supposed to feel God as the evidence of knowing that he's there. He may give you a feeling, but it's when all the feelings and emotions are gone. There's something God placed in my soul where I've been to camps, probably 50 different camps, and I get home, all the feelings and emotions are gone, but something's on the inside to where every day God wants me to have a relationship with him. We get so much of these urges every day to scroll through reals, to watch a show. not saying those things are wrong, but it's just to do it so much. How often does God urge you to read your Bible? Not a whole lot. Maybe two or three times a day. And then when you do it, he doesn't keep on urging you. It's weird, huh? But it's because that flesh is so easy to satisfy. It's so easy to want more, but it's a self-re repeating process where it's never enough. But that thirst is not for those things, but it's actually for Jesus Christ. The prophet Elisha 1954. Now that's what we do. Sometimes sometimes we go off on a tantrum somewhere and not think about God, not pray over it, ask the Lord whether we should do it or not. And we find out that our supply of blessings is cut off. And then we wonder sometime, well, wonder why I can't leave any more blessings. If you don't watch, you let down in your prayer life. You say, "Well, I'm a Christian." Well, that's more sign you should pray more than ever. Read the Bible every day. Pray every day. Don't make any decisions too harshly or too quickly without first considering God about it. Ask him, "Shall I do this, Father?" Ask him, "Is it your will for me to do this?" Then see what the Holy Spirit will speak to you. He might not give you a vision, but he will speak to you. and he'll speak in some way to you to let you know if you'll be sincere and ask him. It's one of the hardest things in my life is I want to instantly respond to stuff and say, "Hey, if I just wait 3 hours or 2 days, oh man, the situation will be way better." That's very hard for me to do. But that's the way to do it. And if I keep that habit up, I can only win. But if I want to respond instantly to something some sometimes maybe I can wait but ultimately I'll lose because the better approach when it comes to certain things is to wait like he's saying God will speak to us in some way if we just seek him. So the question is what is dying daily? What does that mean? So we say so many things dying daily live for God and those sound really good but what does it actually mean in practice? Ab that dying daily is surrendering your default flesh of your self to make room for Jesus's life in you every single day. Satan wants to make repentance into something you just do for salvation one time at an altar one day. But it's supposed to be something we do every single day. It's not just sacrifice. It's a transfer of control. Every day we die out to what we want and we give God control of our lives and then we win. We could have cancelled wonder why we fell on top of the world. It's because we're giving control to God every single day. Paul didn't say, "I suffer daily." He said, "I die daily." Meaning, my will gets put to death today. My emotions don't run my actions today. My flesh doesn't sit on the throne today. My ego does not get to rule my actions today. Jesus names the choices today. Even if I feel like doing the opposite, what does dying daily look like in a real life, real schedule, real routine? I can give you some examples. Dying daily is submitting yourself to God in the situation where your flesh wants control. It'll want it so bad. Be like, "Hold on. What does God want in this situation? What would he have me do?" Because when you die out to the flesh, the flesh is still there. You know, someone maybe will really irritate you. Really, you really want to tell them how they're wrong. That's easy. But to ask them questions or just to not react. Oh, that's tough. But it's way more effective. And you ask the Lord, Lord, Lord, how would you want me to respond to this situation? It's not a copy and paste of the right things to do, but it's a replacing of your very nature every single day, your flesh, and saying, Lord, transform me into what you want me to do. This message is not just to be done at an altar. It's not just to be done at church or at a camp meeting. It's to be done every single day. Because that if you approach it that way and you say, "Lord, if I can repent today, if I can live for you today, what can I do, Lord, to be closer to you? Lord, I'm so sorry for what I did wrong. Lord, please help me." And the same attitude that you have at an altar. If we had that every single day, we can't lose. But if we go from meeting to meeting and emotion to emotion, we can't win. So, how are we going to do it? It seems so simple. But it's a commitment to a set of small choices that are done consistently. That's what you're approaching to. Brother Benham said you must be born again. Now the approach to this birth, there is approach to it. And to be to approach to this birth, you have to go through a process. Just like anything that lives, anything that lives again has to has got to die first. And you cannot keep your same habits and you cannot keep your same thoughts. You cannot keep your same spirit. You got to die. You got to die like he died. You've got to die on his altar like Abel did with his lamb. You got to die with your lamb. You got to die. Die to your own thinking to be born to his thinking. Let the mind that was in Christ be in you. The new birth is not something that only happens once in your old good. It is an initial event that if done correctly calls you to continue doing it every day. Die out daily to our flesh. Die out to our own thinking. Give up control. And then God can have that control and it's the better way of living. We're not robots though. He actually wants to transform who we are on the inside to where that's what we want to do. And he'll let us do our own thing. Of course, that's what hell is. It's an existence without God. But it's not some weird thing. The atheists are wrong. But no, the best way of living is to live for God. Is to have him in your heart and in your life every single day. I have to give up control for the easy route. every single day in order to die daily. Yes, I still have the seal of the Holy Ghost, but I believe that I still have the sticky nature. So, the sticky nature is when there's this seed. So, we have a seed in our hearts that God gives us is predestinated seed when you're God's chosen people. And what happens is is that that's activated at some point in your life. And the shell is your old nature. I believe I'm getting this wrong. I'm happy to be corrected, but I believe it's the shell there. That's your old nature. On the inside though, that so the seed that you see on the outside isn't the real seed. The seed is the germinated seed on the inside. That shell falls off when you die out to your flesh and you go to an altar and say, "Lord, I'm ready to die out to my own thinking. Lord, tell me where you want me to go." So that old nature dies. And that's that may be through different ways. Maybe through a process. For me, it was I went to an altar and I said, "Lord, I'm not leaving until you I know for sure that this old nature is gone." Not to where I never make any mistakes. But then there's something called the sticky nature to where yes, that old shell is gone once you've really repented, which is a changing of life. You change your entire life. You change your entire approach and you live a completely different way. That's repenting. And it's not, okay, well, I joined the Marines. I better go start doing the right thing for the Marines. No, it's because the Jews believe that you change who you are by a bunch of outward actions. Like, no. Salvation is the design that's in this glass fundamentally changes. That predestinated sea gets activated. Something is changed on the inside that wasn't there anymore. You get a new heart, a new spirit. And that's just the beginning. Because when that old shell is gone for that seed and it's planted in the ground, the sticky nature from that old shell is still there. is constantly fighting against us. It's not the projector, but there's men that ask brother Brandon, "Oh, well, who wins?" Or what what happens then? You have this old nature. Well, what how does that balance out with doing wrong and doing right? He said, "Well, there's two dogs in my heart. The good dog and the bad dog. And the more I feed the good dog, the more he wins. The more I feed the bad dog, the more he wins." And it's not a matter of calculation. Okay. Well, I read the Bible for 6 hours. I only read a Louis Moore book for 3 hours. So, I have a 66.7 probability percent chance of winning. That's not how it works. But it's in your heart. Where are you at in your heart? I can ask. Can you enjoy your hobby activity and include talking with Jesus about it while you do it? I used to shoot baskets and talk to the Lord while I was doing it. I can play chess and be talking to the Lord while I'm doing it. Yes, I actually can do that because it's a relationship. If I can play chess with Jenny or with Dominique or I can play basketball with dad, how can I not do everything with Jesus Christ? He put those things in me to enjoy literature and enjoy stories and enjoy things. Why did he put those things in me if you don't want to enjoy those things with me? And each person's different. They like hiking. I don't. And that's okay. God made each person different. But the sticky nature is still there. So I still have to war against it. And the best way to war against it is not by going to an altar because you feel convicted only at camp meetings, but it's every day. Lord, transform me and change me. Take away more of my old nature. Lord, may I please get a refilling of the Holy Ghost. Amen. It's a 24/7 war. It's every single day. Good. Amen. So, when you have that sticky nature, then you get you repent and you truly repent and Lord, I want to completely change who I am. And it's not like, okay, I want to be accepted. Okay, I want people to like me, but Lord, I want to fundamentally change who I am to be more like you every single day. Yes, there's the initial death of that old nature through that shell, but on the inside, it still fights and it tears and it go fights the weeds and it fights everything else. And it's an everyday war. You can't just plant the seeds and let it sit, right? It's got to be watered. It's got to make the weeds go out. It's got to be what? Pruned. It's got to be pruned. What does that mean? Yeah. think I I don't know the spiritual applic I could probably figure one out, but it's a constant process. It's not, okay, well, I'm saved and I'm good. I go to church and I pray for my food. I'm good. I told a a u I call him the pagan because he's a pagan at work. And and I told him, I said he he said, "Oh, well, there's no such thing as God." I said, "Okay, that's interesting." I said, "Take two people. One of them is a is a Christian. He goes to church every Sunday and Wednesday and he prays for his food and he spends all of his time watching Netflix. And then you take the other person who is an atheist, but he spends all of his time living for others. He feeds the homeless. He feeds the sick. He takes everything that's in him to serve others. Which one's the Christian? I said, "It's the atheist." He said, "What?" I said, 'Y yeah, this gospel isn't some religion. It's living for others. And I said, the atheist is just living 99.9% of the Christian life, and God will lead him to more. This message is not a religion to follow. Like, oh, I go to the church. I do this and that. Like, no, I have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. And he interacts with me. He doesn't want to just God doesn't just want to interact with you at at school or at a meeting or when you're at your worst or when you you need and when you're failing, but he wants to interact with you every single day. Just like Sarah does with Dominique or I do with Jenny, but it's every day. Not just a once in a while thing, but every day. I want to interact with them. I want to be with them. I love them. They love me. But that's what God wants with us because it's the best way of living. And when I approach it that way, I can't lose. And there's another thing that happens. You have situations that arise and your initial reaction may just be mad, but what you're really dying out to your flesh, something changes in the inside, and you get closer and closer to God, and you receive then the seal of the Holy Ghost where God seals his own life in you, the seal of the Holy Ghost, and something changes. And then the next thing that happens later on is you backslide. What? Yeah. I don't believe a a a sinner can backslide. Only a true sinner or daughter of God can backslide because what's a sinner backsliding from her, too. One of the main evidences I would say of knowing that you're doing things right is that sometimes you do wrong, but you get back up and keep on trying. If you're not failing, you're not even trying to do it right. That's what Denzel Washington said. Love that quote. It was in a high school graduation thing. If you're not failing, you're not even trying. If you're not disagreeing, sometimes you're not even trying to get along. If you're not falling down, you're not even trying to walk. And if you're not failing, if you're not backsliding sometimes, you're not even trying to serve God, but you because you have this sticky nature. And what happens when you backslide is you come back to the Lord Jesus Christ. David backslid with Ba Sheba. But then when he was confronted about it, he said, "I have sinned against the Lord." And that's all that he said. And he came back to the Lord Jesus Christ. And he went back to dying daily. And when did he fail? It's not in the projector, but there's a verse in the Bible, one of the saddest verses of the whole Bible because the previous chapter, he won a great victory. And in the next chapter it says at the time when kings go forth to battle David sent Joab and David stayed home. He wasn't dying daily to the flesh. He said hey I deserve this. I can rest. I'm good. And that's where Satan got him because it started the it started the snowball effect of living for himself instead of living for others the way that God wanted him to because living just for your own pleasures is the perversion of God's original which is living for others. And living for your own pleasures is not does not give you more fulfillment than living for others. The most fulfilling thing you can do is live this message and live for others. It is here's what brother Brandham said because one of the most important things from backsliding is that you when you come back you get a what I call or what's called a refilling of the Holy Ghost. Brother Brandham said in White Christ speak I see some of the tabernacle folks here. I'm going to say this about the big sister. See, one thing that the tabernacle needs up there at our church at the tabernacle, Jeff, is a rededication and a refilling of the Holy Ghost, right? Everyone to get down to the altar and pray until they get a renewing of the Holy Ghost. The whole church be filled with the power of God. That's what we need. Not only the tabernacle here, but the body of Christ, universal. It needs a revealing. I like David said one day, "Restore to me the joy of my salvation." Now, he had not lost his salvation, but the joy of it. And when it comes to a place that I can't enjoy my religion, my salvation, there's something wrong somewhere because it is joy unspeakable and full of glory. One of them said, "Taste and see the Lord is good. It tastes like honey in the rock. Oh, I'm so glad that I have tasted that the Lord is good and I love honey, but I never tasted any like that. That's the best that I know. It is I be not afraid. Oh, God is my prayer. Wake up the church again to oldfashioned all night prayer meetings." Yes, they used to have prayer meetings all night. That's what dying daily is. It's prioritizing a relationship with God over our own comfort. Wake the people up to a spiritual atmosphere. Oh, it takes it takes that to bring children into the kingdom. It takes the atmosphere. Right this night while while we're sitting here, if this right atmosphere would take place, this entire group would be refilled with the Holy Ghost. Every sick person would be made well. It's the atmosphere that does it. So, if you want a refilling of the Holy Ghost, that's not something just to ask for every blue moon when you feel backslid. It's something I believe we should ask for every day. That's my opinion. But why not refilling after refilling, right? Amen. We should be so overflowing with God. Not be, oh yeah, you've just sold fogy. It's just a holy roll. It's like, no, it's the best way of doing it. The most professional in sports, they practice every day. That's how they stay good. How can we expect anything different with their relationship with God? Amen. It's not a religion like, "Oh, I'm better than you, Brother Jimmy, because I have a suit on and you don't, so I'm extra spiritual." And then you get a suit, but you spend $2,000 in a suit. I got to beat that guy. So, I spent $5,000 in a suit. I'm more spiritual than you are. That's not spirituality. It's a form, but it's not the actual spirituality. Not at all. We died daily and we have we prioritize a relationship with God, but Satan wants to turn religion into a tradition, into a routine. So when I'm asking you what is your spiritual your daily spiritual routine, I'm not saying where do you put God in your day. I'm saying do you treat God or do I treat God like part of my routine or do I treat him like my savior, my Lord Jesus Christ, my husband, my friend, my brother, my father, everything else as a daily part of my life as my best friend. That's what he wants to be. Refillings of the Holy Ghost are so important. What is the message? It's the best way of living your life. It's a daily routine of dying out to your flesh. That's the routine you can do is to dial to your flesh. And the more you do a routine, the more it's just something you do automatic. It's not something where you do a checklist. It's just who you are. So in your life, you already know the answers to this. This is something you ask yourself. I'm not here to condemn you or anything. I'm an evangelist. I don't go directly to people. They just talk about sin and they apply it to themselves and whatever. What area in my life or your life am I not dying daily in? Ask yourself that question. What area in my life am I not dying out to every day? Because that, my friend, is where Satan wins every day. He wins every day because I don't have a specific set of actions and a behavior. It's not a routine. It's a behavior problem that I do. What is that in my life? Now, you know what it is? I Maybe Dominic has a problem with eating chocolate cake that Sarah doesn't know about. Who knows? I have no idea what the problems are, but God knows. But whatever that area is in your life, we can convince ourselves that it's okay. It's all right. Jesus died for us. It's all good. I can do whatever I want now. But in that, I'll even live for God. I'll pray the prayer. But in a specific area, I don't want to give God control of that. There's a quarter of the Brandham I want to read here. This is in the door of the heart. Now, let's examine some of these doors. One of them is a little door of self. You know, that's an important little door. You say, "Oh, yes, Jesus. I will receive you as my savior, but don't now don't meddle in my business. That's the attitudes of the loss of Christians, so-called. Now, I want to live my own life, but I don't want you I want you to keep me from hell, but don't meddle in my affairs. Well, then Jesus can't have the preeminences. Jesus can't be your Lord because you want to be your own ruler, and he wants to rule in your place. But as long as you keep the door shut, though you have accepted him as your personal savior, yet you haven't fully given him preeminence in your life. That's why I disagree with the idea of once you believe in God and once you say you're saved, everything is there. That's not true because that's like saying, "Oh, once say once I said yes, once I said Jenny want to be my girlfriend, she said yes. Now I've received everything I can get from Jenny." That's not true. It's a relationship. It's a continual relationship. Amen. Right. Yeah. It's all right. But I'm not calling for an emotional response. I'm calling for a daily commitment. It's something in our heart where you say, "Hey, maybe I haven't been dying in this." And what does that mean? That I need to dedicate that portion to God instead. You already know what it is. I don't know what it is, but you do. Satan doesn't want us to worship Satanism every day or something like that. He just doesn't want us to connect with Jesus every day. That's the opposite of dying daily is living daily and not including Jesus in your life as a person. Oh, Satan's flying with you, including if there's a religion. In fact, he encourages you to. Yeah. Pray for your food. Go for it. Go to church. Go for it. Say the right things. Dress the right ways. Behave in the right ways. Stand when you're supposed to. Clap when you're supposed to. Speak in tongues when you're supposed to. Shout when you're supposed to. But don't you dare go living a humble life dedicated to others. Satan can impersonate any of those things, but he can't impersonate humility and love. He can't. He doesn't have the ability to, but we do. He just doesn't want us to connect with the person of Jesus. He's fine with the with the uh arguing the doctrine or whatever else, but it's with the person of Jesus Christ. I was just talking to some friends of mine. They invited me to a a Bible study that they do every other week, and it was very interesting. There's different people in the room. So, I'm sitting here. To my left is a guy named Aaron. And there's Gabe, my friend. And then Hayden, Tyler, and his wife. Hayden didn't say much. Gabe kind of led the Bible study. Kind of just talked. It was interesting. And then Tyler and his wife kind of chimed in and talked more. But Aaron, he was just a firecracker. He would get really, really angry. And so I we just talked through things and I wanted to gauge what will happen if I say something that I probably know that disagree with. So I mentioned, okay, I said, "Here's a belief, guys." And I'm playing devil's advocate here. I said I said that to them. I said, "What do you think about Jesus?" I said, "Do you think he was just he knew everything?" I said, "How can he know everything when the Bible says that he learned obedience?" And Aaron got so upset that he had a pillow, which is had a little penguin on the pillow. It's like a penguin pillow. And he yelled into the pillow and started punching the pillow. I kid you not. And what I was doing there was not to argue but I real I went back and forth with them just a little bit just asking them questions going through it and I realized though this is not a discussion that will help us this is discussion well you do you consider Jesus a second person or just the person of God but it wasn't actually helping anything and the reason why we don't believe in three individual gods is not because we're more right than the people that believes that there's three gods but that I don't want to I told them guys I don't care about the technicality of the doctrine as much as I here that when I pray, I'm not just praying to uh one-third of God. I love Jesus cuz he saved me, but the father, he just wants to kill me and the Holy Spirit just wants to help me, but really I just love Jesus the most. I said, I when I pray, it's the same person and that's why it matters to me. This message is not a set of doctrines to argue I'm more right than you are. Lord, help me. Cuz sometimes I get into that. When I was 14 and when I was 18, I went in line and I argued a lot, but I stopped doing that by God's grace. But it never got anywhere. This message is not to be argued. It's to be lived. Not just at church, not just in a camp meeting, but every single day. And not because your parents told you to, and not because it's it's a it's an obligation or out of a duty, but because it's awesome. It's amazing. It's the most fulfilling thing you can possibly do. If I had a choice between what I'm doing now and literally anything else, it's not even a close call. I'm going to choose what I'm doing now. Oh, but I'm not a preacher. I'm not a bat. If you just go to church and you smile in your seat, do you know how much of an impact it has? If I want to feel better while I'm preaching, if I feel bad, I'll look at Sarah or Dominique or Ruth or Sister Fay. She always has a nice look on her face. She doesn't frown. She's not mean. But it has an impact because when you smile, it sends subconscious messages to your brain. I'm happy. And it also sends spiritual messages to the demons around you. You can't get into sadness. And it actually has more of an impact than you know. even grabbing the water, even just coming to church. It all has such an impact. Satan's goal is not to get us to go live for the world as much as it is to replicate Christianity and not connect with Jesus every single day, but just to treat Jesus as a religion that keeps us out of hell rather than a person to have a relationship with. He's a real person. But I'm not calling for an emotional response. I'm calling for a daily commitment. Satan doesn't Satan doesn't want us to worship the wrong thing every day or something like that. He just doesn't want us to connect with Jesus. Oh, I prayed for my food. I went to church on Sunday and Wednesday. Look like looks like I've earned the right to just spend the rest of the week on whatever I want. That's not the truth. Satan just wants us to treat church and salvation as a one-time event and as simply a permission to do whatever we want. I'm free now. I'm saved now. I can drink Kool-Aid and eat chocolate cake. I No, no, no. God didn't just save us. He transformed us. Dying daily is living every day with the principal part of what is the purpose of me being here on this earth. What am I doing today? And who is it in service of? Is it in service of self or is it in service of others? Cain refused correction by God. He wasn't willing to die daily and live under subjection. He had his own ideas. He he had his own ways. And he even had God speaking to him saying, "If you do well, won't you be accepted?" But he refused. He didn't want to die daily. But Joseph did die daily. If anyone had a right to curse people and to have be very bitter, it was Joseph. He was sold into slavery. His brothers betrayed him, but he never did. Whatever situation he was in, he made the best of it. He becomes a servant in in Potterer's house and he becomes the top servant. He gets framed for doing something wrong. He goes to jail. He knows so well in jail that they make him the the the leader of all the people in the jail. They take him out of the jail. They put him with the the pharaoh and he becomes the second in command of the whole kingdom because wherever he went he prospered. He said, "Hey, yes, it's hard that my brothers put me here, but I'm here for a purpose and I'm here for a reason and I will die daily to this hate that Satan wants to bring into my heart to curse my brothers." But instead of a focus on where I am right now, amen. Satan wants us to ruminate over our past problems and people doing us wrong, but rather, hey, how can I live for Jesus right now? Good. Salvation is not a tool to get more of what we want. It's an introduction to the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. And it's the best way of doing things. It's more of Jesus in our lives. It's about dying daily is about rejecting what your flesh wants and asking Jesus, Lord, what what do you want me to do? What would you have me do? Like before I preach, like Lord, what do you want me to preach? Musicians coming up, please. Brother Bam said, "Where I think Pentecost failed." Now, if we had if we had have went to seeking the giver instead of the gifts, I believe the church would have been farther up the road. Don't you think so? If we had stayed close to God, loved him, and just kept living for him, and not trying to push things over. Just live for God. Live a pure, holy life, and live and pray every day. Keep yourself refreshed in his presence. God will take care of the rest of it. I believe that when we live every day in service of ourselves and in service of just what our flesh automatically wants, we can't win spiritually at all. That's the goal by Satan, by the way, just to put us in dormant, not doing anything. Wake up, eat, whatever else, complain about our problems, talk about our old situations, all the good old days. We're living in the good old days right now. Every day is a good day. You're a son and daughter of God. When you're in Christ and you've truly dead out of that flesh and you truly have the seal of the Holy Ghost, you could be normal lost than God himself could be lost. You actually have nothing to worry about. The only thing you have to worry about is whether or not you continue to serve God. But there's something in you that wants you to serve more of God. So there's really no worry to have. We go to church, we pray over food, but but brother B is not the high priest of our feeling, but of our confession. And we'll never live above our confession. But as long as we keep our problems and our past traumas as pets and parts of our daily routine of what we think about and what we talk about, we can't win. But when we die every day to them and pray every single day and read our Bible every day and listen to tapes every day and talk to the Lord Jesus Christ every day and repent every day and die out every day, we can't lose. Amen. God isn't looking for perfect people. He's looking for surrendered people. The difference between Cain and Joseph wasn't not knowing the right way. They both knew the right way to do it. It was daily repentance to what they knew was the flesh. Cain didn't want to die daily. He said, "I have my own way and that's it. I don't want to do it your way." And Joseph said, "I don't get to have my own way. I do it God's way cuz it's the best way of living." and he became the second command of the whole kingdom. Satan doesn't fear your Sunday afternoons. He fears your Monday, your Tuesday, your Thursday, your Friday, and your Saturday, and your Wednesday, your private times with God. That's what he fears. Because if you get the right routine, if you get the right behavior with that, he can't stop you. Because that's where revival lives or dies isn't at the camp meeting. Is it it isn't at the church meeting. It isn't at an altar. That's part of it. But the real place where revival lives or dies is in your everyday life. You can't microwave a walk with God. He's not asking us for performance. He's asking us for pursuit of him, for attention, for space in your mind and time in our day and a relationship to talk to him and treat him as our friend. And if you have a do you have a desire in your heart, raise your hand. Do you have a desire in your heart to serve more of God? Even if you didn't raise your hand, that's okay, too. God will deal with you. I'm kidding. Like, no. you if you have that desire in your heart, that's not you desiring that cuz no man seeks after God. Man, God only seeks after man. That's God wanting to get closer to you. He loves you. And there's a if there's a deep calling, this must be a deep to respond. Why should I die daily, David? Why is it so important? Because if you don't die daily, something else is going to live every day in your life. If you don't kill the flesh every day, then something else is going to live. Your fear, your anxiety, your pride, your habits. But if you die daily, those things can't live. You want an undefeated battleground. You want to never lose in your in your daily life. Make Jesus your routine. Make Jesus your behavior, your response to life's troubles, your reflex, not just your emergency contact. Last quote before I close, brother said an enticing experience. How much do you really mean it? Don't play now. This is not a playing time. This is a receiving time. This is a time that you must get it. Come dump it out right now, will you? Come give all you got to God. Say, "God, I ain't got very much. I'm just a little housewife. I can't do very much, Lord, but I I can read your Bible. I can pray every day. I can throw out all the trash that's in my mind. I can throw out all the stuff out. I'm guilty a lot of of a lot of the things that the preacher said this morning. That's I'm dumping it out today. I don't want it. God, fill me with love. Fill me with the thing that make me love the bitterest enemy I got. I really want it. Lord, you either you will either die daily or be defeated daily. It's up to you what you do with each day that's given to you. It's really up to you. What are you going to do? I'm not going to end the sermon and say, "Yeah, you're in God's hands. You don't have to worry about anything ever, and you never have to die out to your flesh. You never have to die out." Like, no, you can die every day. It's up to you what you will do. Will we live a victorious life or will we live a lukewarm life? That's what Paul said. I see that. He said, "I I worked that you were either cold nor hot, but you're lukewarm." It means that you live from being cold after church and after camp meetings to being hot at camps and and hot for God when it's all intense and everything else. But God wants you to be at a constant temperature. And that only happens through dying daily. How you fight and where you fight is up to you because if you don't pick the battleground, Satan will or Satan will. That's where he is there. Satan picks the battleground. If you don't, so as you leave this afternoon, the battleground doesn't disappear. And if you try to face it with routine religion or self-will, sa Satan will always win. But if you die daily, surrender fully and walk in a relationship, you can't lose, and Satan doesn't stand a chance. So the choice is simple. Walk daily with Jesus, surrendering your will to his, and you will never lose. Or live for yourself, feed your flesh, and lose the battle before it begins. One path leads to victory through death, the other to defeat through comfort, the choice is really yours and mine. Because if we don't kill the flesh every day and die out to it, something else is going to live. It's an everyday walk. It's an everyday repentance. And if you do it that way, you can't lose. Amen. That's it. I'm done. I'm going to uh let's sing let's sing a song or two. What is it? Open the eyes. [Music] Okay, this thing open the eyes of my heart. What's the key [Music] word? Open the eyes of my heart. Open the eyes of my heart. I want to [Music] see. I want to [Music] see. Oh, open the eyes of my heart, Lord. Open the eyes of my heart. I want to see you. I want to see you. To see you. [Music] around your power and [Music] love. Holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy. I want to see you. I want to see you. [Music] Open the eyes of my Lord, Lord. Open the eyes of my heart. My I [Music] [Music] want I want to see. I want to see you. See you. [Music] I am [Music] around. I want to see you. I want to see you. Amen. Let's just u as we dismiss our service a word of prayer. Brother, would you come up and dismiss a word of prayer? Let's all pray. Heavenly Father, thank you Lord for let us to be here Lord today. Thank you for your presence most of all here and for speaking us to us through your servant brother David here Lord. Pray you uh bless us all as we dismiss um from the service here. Lord, keep us safe on our way home. Pray you continue to be with brother uh Tom and family there in um Canada. Lord, be with them. Get them home safe. We pray and bless them in their time with their visiting their loved ones there. And pray you uh bless all the other spoken requests that are mentioned here today. And we thank you most of all for your presence, Lord, with us today. and every day throughout the week, Lord, help us to remember you as brother David preached, Lord, and keep you ever with us and continue to seek you uh seek you constantly, Lord. We love you, Lord, and thank you for all your blessings in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. You all just miss that voice again to see you. Oh, I [Music] see. I want to see. [Music] My We are here. [Music]