################################################################################ START OF FILE: 2026-05-16 - The Feelings Gospel - Unknown Speaker.txt ################################################################################ SERMON DETAILS ======================================== Date: 2026-05-16 Title: The Feelings Gospel Speaker: Unknown Speaker Church: What Do You Mean By Type: Short Clip Duration: 6m Language: English URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4pQgVEe7-Q ======================================== TRANSCRIPT ======================================== What's good? How you doing? Your carnal nature loves anxiety, depression, and every negative emotion it can think of. So, when you go to an altar and you're like, "Oh God, please deliver me of this anxiety or this or that." You can get that demon to go away. But remember, your carnal nature loves it. So, I am completely against this thought that Satan is to blame for all of our choices. He is not. You are. Because your choices are your responsibility. Now, he's the author of lies, Satan is, and your carnal nature loves those things. So, you've got to have a purpose in your heart. Going to an altar is not a get-out-of-consequences-free card. It is a Lord, point me in the right direction kind of thing. Lord, take these demons out of my life and point me in the right direction. Because if you get delivered of anxiety, but then you go home, wait for that atmosphere. You are going Your carnal nature loved anxiety before you went to the altar, and it loves anxiety after. It does not change. What changes is your purpose. We do not receive the Holy Ghost so that we could not have to go to hell. We receive the Holy Ghost in part for a purpose in life. Whatever you do has a purpose. If you live your life from scrolling session to scrolling session, fishing and hunting trip to fishing and hunting trip, video game to video game session, but you never base it around anything to do with others, you will stay miserable. Because your carnal nature loves misery. It loves anxiety. It loves depression. It loves it. But your spiritual nature hates it. And you wonder why you're miserable. Purpose, my friend. Purpose. We were born We were made to reflect the light of God, to reproduce Jesus Christ. Your carnal nature, married to Satan by your first birth, that's why you're born in sin, shaped in iniquity, and came out of the womb speaking lies, loves the things of the world. And it hates those things. And then you get home and it's like, "Hey, we're back. We're home. Great. Anxiety, depression, all these different things that come back because it's your identity." And then, that's why you got to get you have to get more than a feeling at camp. You've got to get a purpose cuz like, "Oh, I feel like traveling." Yeah, you got a 400 other kids with your age that believe the same as you. No wonder you feel that way. And then you get home and your carnal nature feels like dawdling and it feels like it's to be anxious and and to have anxiety and all these different things and you wonder why you're so terrified when you get home. Oh, what I know I've been probably over 60, 70 different camp meetings. I know what it's like. You've got to get a purpose and realize you got to crucify your flesh every single day. You got to die daily. You have a nature a nature that loves Satan. You have part of your very faculties that feel things and those feelings love Satan. And there's other parts of your feelings, which is your spiritual nature, that loves God. So, what you get at camp, what you get at an altar, is a purpose in life. When I get home, this is what I will do. What is the Manhattan Project? It's a purpose. What is preaching at the nursing home? It's a purpose. What is having my phone number in my bio? It's a purpose. What is preaching for almost 9 years? A purpose. What is worship leading for over 10 years? A purpose. I have way too many things going on in my life to feel depressed. It's purpose, my friends. You will never get a Holy Ghost meeting so powerful that will rid you of accountability for your actions when it comes to the quality of your life. >> [snorts] >> Your quality of life is a direct showing of your consistent actions. Why do I have this thing of stain on my shirt? Because I don't It doesn't actually matter. A stain on your shirt. I am sick and tired of the culture of of image perfection around. I don't care. It's just a shirt. Now, when I go to a camp, am I going to grab my best shirts and wear those cheap little cool shirts? But it really doesn't matter. What actually matters is the word of God. That's what actually matters. Live your life with purpose. If you If you live your life from high to low, high to low. When Jesus said, "You're not cold or hot, you're lukewarm." Lukewarm doesn't mean you're lukewarm all the time. It's your average at the end of the year. You go to camp and you're hot fire for God. Yeah, because it's easy cuz you're cuz you're living your life by your feelings and then you then you get home and you're scrolling your phone and you go fishing and hunting or you play your video games and you do this and you go that. You go back to your problems and then your carnal nature feels like garbage. And then you're like garbage again. Why? Because you're living your life based on your feelings and not on thus saith the Lord. Brother Branham said, "Satan can stump you around on your feelings anytime he wants to, but he can't when it's thus saith the Lord." He could shove around the three Hebrew children on like, "Oh, well, you go If you don't bow the thing, you're going to die." But he couldn't when they said, "We're not even afraid of you, oh king, because we have confidence that God will save us." So, you can live your life by your feelings or you can live your life by thus saith the Lord. But you can't say, "Oh, why am I so miserable? I'm so broken. Lord, deliver me." Get a purpose. Get a purpose. God is not going to make you skinny and give you a six-pack. God removed the consequences of sin. Nothing When you're on in Christ, nothing you do can take you out of Christ. And you still are able to experience the joy and the pleasure of the consequences of your own actions. The consequences of your actions in Christ can never be missing the rapture, can never be heaven, but they can be feeling like garbage and going from camp meeting to camp meeting feeling like garbage. Why? Because your feelings are your authority. You got to get beyond that. And run to Jesus Christ and live with a purpose. You think it felt nice when I got a call when I was 18 years old and my sister was back back out she hadn't been sleeping for days and I had to go home and take care of my little brother and my little sister. That didn't feel good. But my feelings were irrelevant to the truth of the situation. You think it felt good for Jesus dying on a cross to not focus on himself but to focus on the thief on the cross next to him? It didn't feel good at all. Your feelings are not God. God is God. Anyway, that was just me driving to Starbucks. Love you guys.