¶ The Power and Authority of Scripture
Hello , hello . Welcome back , god's diamonds in the rough . We are so glad to be back with you one more time . Amen , honey , you want to say something ?
I'm just super ecstatic about being here . You know , in our new reform studio , right ? Yes , you know it's different when you do things for God , whether it's comfortable or uncomfortable . What are you doing ? And you know , for a long time we were doing what God wants to do , comfortably , but uncomfortable perhaps .
But you know God's seen a way to just move things around and that's what we got to understand . You know , sometimes we go through things in life that might not feel good , but for a reason .
Amen , amen . So I'm ecstatic . I'm always excited to be before you . Amen , god is good all the time and all the time .
God is good .
Hallelujah . So y'all know what we got to do before we even get into the conversation . We're going to pray .
Amen . Let us pray . Dear Heavenly Father , our Lord , and I say with you , jesus Christ , we come to you right now as humbly as we know how to say thank you . We thank you for your grace , your mercy , your loving kindness and tender mercy .
We pray in the name of Jesus , asking and begging your forgiveness for anything we might have said , done , thought that was not pleasing in your sight . That you will gracely forgive us and cast us back into the picture of where it came from .
We pray in the name of Jesus , counseling any assignment or the enemy that would be sent back into the picture of where it came from , for it has no power , no dominion , no authority over your people . But we do . We pray in the name of Jesus for the ones that has no desire to know who you are .
We pray in the name of Jesus for the ones who want to know who you are but don't know how . We even pray in the name of Jesus for the ones that have slid in the way , eagerly ready to come back .
We pray in the name of Jesus that you will just have your way in them and through them , whatever they are , whatever situation they're going through , whatever trial and tribulation they're going through . We pray in the name of Jesus that you will just have your way .
We pray in the name of Jesus , have your way in us and through us as we get into your word , that it will be the revelation that we need . We pray in the name of Jesus again , that you will just have your way . These things and all things we ask , all in Jesus , mighty , at Master's name , we say thank you and we say amen , amen and amen .
Amen , amen . All right y'all . So today we are going to be talking about power and authority , scripture , the power and authority of scripture . Honey , what's your thoughts ?
I would simply say that you know we give the enemy too much credit , and I say that because you know we do . We give him too much credit when he has no power , no authority and no dominion over us . Like I said , I pray that but we do . But you know we have a tendency , like I said , we give him too much credit , too much .
It's almost like you know , when you watch these westerns , you know they talk about putting a little extra notch in the belt for the things they do . And that's what we're doing we're putting a little extra notch in the enemy's belt .
Amen I mean , it really is something to be said and just how easily it is that we give credit to the enemy when he don't deserve any of it , hallelujah . And when we realize the power and the authority , the authority that is in scripture , it changes the whole game . Amen , it changes the whole whole game .
And I believe that one of the first things we got to realize when we're talking about scripture as a diamond Look , the scriptures refine you . Amen . The scripture brings forth clarity in who you are , because no longer , as Paul teaches us , no longer are we . We're dead to sin and alive in Jesus . Amen .
And what we got to realize is that Jesus brings us the clarity , amen . The scripture is actually in 2 Timothy , chapter three , verse 16 . You have it in front of you ? No , I have it in front of me , but it says all scripture is given by inspiration of God .
It says and it is profitable for doctrine or reproof , for correction , for instruction in righteousness . And then verse 17 says that the man of God may be perfect , thoroughly furnished unto all good works . So right , there alone you can see where it brings forth clarity . What's your thoughts ?
And I like that , that very first word in 2 Timothy 3 16 . The very first word is all . That means every single scripture , not just this one scripture , not just a few scripts , all scriptures , all scriptures is given by God and inspired by him . That means let's us know that , look , god does everything he can to point us in that right direction .
He gives us everything that we need to survive in life , but we gotta this is a caveat he gives us the free choice to follow it . He don't sit there with a you know you growing up in the child , as when you teach your children , you know , in the olden days , it's like pull out a belt , if you don't do it , i'ma whip you . You know he don't do that .
He don't try to beat us down over top of our head with the words saying , hey , you gotta do this , you gotta do this , you gotta do this . He gives us the tools that we need and a choice to do it , and I like that free choice because he allows us to , I would say , make the mistakes , but with the mistakes it's a learning process .
And then I like everything in that scripture in verse 16 . All of it's for purpose it's on purpose . Knowing that number one . It's been given by God , amen . And you know . We gotta realize who is God . Amen , who is God to you ? Because you know he is , not only is he the father , but he's a son , he's the Holy Spirit . Amen .
And so you gotta , fundamentally , you gotta be , you gotta believe that number one before you can even believe scripture . Amen . We've talked about this previously , early in the beginning of this podcast , but we've talked about that . You're number one , number one . You gotta know that God is God , amen . Before you can even begin to even trust anything in his word .
Hallelujah . You gotta know that he is God and that he's Jesus and that he's the Holy Spirit Before you can go any further . If you question the existence of Jesus but you believe in God , you got a problem . Come on somebody , hallelujah .
You have a problem if you don't believe that Jesus is the son , because scripture says that I and the father are one , amen , amen . If you've seen the father , then you've seen me . If you've seen me , you've seen the father . Amen , he talks about that . Hallelujah .
Dude , can you find the scripture real quick so that we can actually give you , so you can see it for yourself , because we don't want anybody to think that we're trying to convince you that of this truth . The reality is is that it is in the word amen .
Now , whether or not you believe the word and all of the word that's between you and him , amen , our job and our instruction is to guide you there . Hallelujah , and we just believe that if we give you the scripture , it can be said well , pastor So-and-So said this and I just believe . Believe it because Pastor So-and-So said that .
No , don't believe it because Pastor So-and-So is giving it to you . No , believe it because it's in the word of God . My responsibility is to guide you there . Amen . How are you found ? Yet ? He working on it . He working on it . He's a man of few words today , few , few words , and it's okay . Hallelujah , amen . So that again , you got to believe the word .
First found it .
Actually I found two scriptures that refers to it . One of the scriptures is in John 10 , 30 , and says I am my father of one .
Y'all heard it . Y'all heard it John 10 , verse 30 . I am the father of one .
And in the second scripture is John 14 , nine Jesus said unto him I have been so long time with you and yet has thou not known me . Philip , he said , have seen me , has seen the father and has sat now saith . Let me just start the back over John 14 , nine Jesus said unto him have I been so long time with you and yet has thou not known me ?
Philip , he that has seen me has seen the father . And how says down in show us the father .
So basically he says uh , jesus says with his own mouth Phillip , you don't believe who I am . I was with you all that time . I was with you all that time and you still don't understand that I , in the father , are one , that when you see me , you've seen the father . When you've seen the father , you've seen Jesus . Amen
¶ The Power of Trusting God's Word
. And I think it's interesting in our culture today , people try to separate people . There are , there are denominations in , there are cultures out here that are trying to separate Jesus and the father , when if we're all reading the same Bible , it teaches us that the father and the son and the Holy Spirit are one .
And if you're trying to have one without the other , then again it's already been said you have a problem and you cannot walk in the full authority that the scripture has . You can't walk in the fullness of who he is , because you don't have all of him . Jesus , come on somebody .
And you know it's almost a symbol . It's almost similar to this and if you look at an example because this is a , this is a very good , pivotal , pivotal point it's almost like being in a carriage or horse trailer without the horse . Yeah , you might go through these downhill battles without the horse .
You can make it to the bottom , but what happens when you get to the bottom ? You got to go up another uphill battle . If you don't have the horse to pull you up it , you'll just sit there in the bottom . And that's just like having going through things in life .
You got to have Jesus and God and the Holy Spirit with you to make it up those uphill battles . Yeah , you can go down the hill in life , but what happens when you get to the bottom and you need to climb Right ? If you don't have that thing to pull you up , which is God , jesus and the Holy Spirit , you'll sit there and wallow in your own pains .
And in that scripture in John if you go back a little bit further than John 14 , and I read nine , but let's take it back to verse six Jesus said unto him I'm the way , the truth and the life . No man come to the Father by , except by me . That means that let's us know that , look , you need God , jesus and the Holy Spirit to go do life , just like .
There's an old TV show I used to watch back in the day and it's you know , it's almost like .
I lost my thought .
I lost my thought .
I don't say you really could parallel this power and everything with the problem you had with your truck , the fact that because things was out of order and things needed and needed a newness about it , Things had to be restructured in order for you to walk in , that , for that truck to be able to move in its fullest amount of power , it had to have every ,
everything had to be where it's supposed to be . I mean , you can't be over here on the right when you should be on the left . You can't be at the bottom when you're supposed to be at the top of the key .
You know , you know , if you got to be at the center , you can be all the way to the left or all the way to the right and still expect to get there . Look , you're not going to be able to get where you could potentially be if you're out of order .
And you know the thing I was having . Just to touch on what she was talking about , the thing I was having with my truck was the , the ground wire that goes to my truck . It was , I guess , distorted or freed or broken , missing parts in it .
And look ground wire ground wire and see I had to add a direct , another direct ground wire to get the source that I needed . But this is this is the thing , though we got to understand that we just can't run it from one thing to the next .
Sometimes we have to go through hook it to this , hook it to that , hook it to that , hook it to that to get the contact that we need . And see that contact that we need is what Jesus is . We got to involve Jesus , god and the Holy Spirit to get the equivalent ground that we need . That power .
That's that power . You know , I say it all the time and I just see it . You can see it clearly in our , in our , in our world today , people are trying to do Jesus without Jesus . And because they're trying to do Jesus without Jesus , they like power , they like authority . They don't , they're not dominating in areas they should . Amen , we aren't .
You know , because you know , yeah , if you're not in him and you're just kind of going through the supposed twos it's , you won't get the full effect of it . You won't get the full effect . And you know people will sit back and say , well , I did it in the name of Jesus , there ain't nothing happening .
I did it in the name , ain't nothing happening , it ain't working . So it ain't working and so they quit , give up . But that , that is that's . That's not it . That's not it . The only way that you're truly going to really see God activated in your life is if you are totally , totally trusting him and knowing that this word comes from him .
Mm , hmm . And I was saying and I got my thought back you know , is you got to have God in every area of your life , is this not ? You know this horse in the carriage going to one point until the next battle ? But it's , even with a marriage , if you got the marriage and you don't have the love , it's not going to work .
You got to have both for it to work .
Right . And then the scripture says OK , so we got that focus . Now you got to believe and know that this whole word it comes from God . It comes from God , that he just used men to write it , but it came from the heart of him .
Then he said then you got to understand that this same scripture of again second Timothy , chapter three , verse 16 , he says all scripture is given by the inspiration of God . He says and is profitable or doctrine ? So it says it's for your game to have the word of God because doctrine is teaching , amen . Doctrine says look , this Bible has become my direction .
Does that make sense ? It's just profitable for doctrine . So it is something to be gained for your guidance .
And this is what it's for .
He says this is what you get out of following me . I give you my word so as you walk through life , you have some sense of direction , that you're headed toward me . Mm , hmm .
I'll let you have some for go further I like that . You say you know that , profitable to gain because , and just going a little bit deeper , if you think about the scripture in Proverbs eight , verse 20 and 21, . And it says in King James , a man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth and with the increase of his lips shall be filled .
See , the increase is another game . Well , we got to realize . Go down to verse 21, . It says death and life , or in the power of the tongue , and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof .
So he's letting us know not only do we had the increase or the , the word that you said earlier the Profitable or the increase , we have the power of death and life . And it does not just mean a physical death and life , it also means a circumstance . You can speak death and life to a circumstance in your life .
If you walk around always and saying , oh , I got a headache , I got a headache , I got a backache , I got a toothache or my ear hurt or whatever , you're giving that thing that a power to it .
But if you walk around still hurting , but you said I'm OK , so you speak in depth to that thing and that'll be the increase and the profitable to what you're going through in life , right ? Yeah , I like it and another reason I say that ?
because just the other day my daughter was .
Our daughter was having a or earache and we could have very well gave her pain medicine . But we use wisdom and we use wisdom and wisdom . We use wisdom and knowledge , with the little help from Google , to find a remedy without pain medicine . And then I caught the revelation from having a toothache and an earache .
Hey , I can try this instead and pick the pain away . So sometimes we go through things in life that not only help somebody else but help us See , because that small thing we go through in life helping somebody else might be what we need to do , help with the bigger battles that we face .
Hope I'm making sense to not just not just rambling because you know I do that sometimes Just keeping it real .
So , with everything that we understand thus far , as we in the order for you , again just refreshing , you need to believe that God is God and understand that he just didn't put himself on this pedestal and said serve me . He said I'm .
Not only am I asking you to serve me , love me , but your reflection of me and the only way that you really become a , to shine like me and reflect me with your light , is to gain his word and allow his word to lead you and to guide you
¶ Embracing Imperfection and Personal Growth
. And then he says for reproof . For proof is about looking at yourself in the mirror . We don't need people to point a finger at us , tell us what we did wrong .
You heard ?
me . Come on somebody . We don't need nobody to point a finger at us , say you did that wrong , you did this wrong , you ain't doing this right .
We got the spirit Amen , and he walks with us , he talks with us , he teaches us , as he told Adam , he was with Adam in the cool of the day , he was communing with him , and when you have a relationship with Jesus , he's going to commune with you and he's going to show you look , hey , this is what I'm trying to change in your life .
Give this thing to me and I can change it . This is what reproof is . It says for correction same thing , it's just a little bit more . That says I am disciplined . Correction says to me that disciplines necessary , and so we allow discipline from the Holy Spirit to correct our actions , to correct our faults . Come on somebody .
Hallelujah for instruction in righteousness . Because we are , because we have Jesus .
Now we are righteous , and so when we have our moments because we all do , we have our moments of unrighteousness Jesus is able to correct and instruct us on how to stay righteous , how to remain righteous , to correct error , to be able to be able to be vulnerable and be transparent where needed to be . Amen , be authentic in who you are .
Be that authentic jewel that God has made you to be honey . What's your thought to add with that ?
You know , just to just point out something you said earlier , you know we and we all do it , we all do it we sit and we point at somebody else's downfalls , somebody else's hardship , somebody else's grief , but just for a second , you know , look in the mirror at yourself and point a finger at yourself .
And I said this a while back , couple episodes back , maybe in season one or two . You know , if you point yourself finger at somebody , just remember you got three fingers pointing back at you . So when you , when you point your whether it's that person pointing their finger at you or you point your finger at them you know the point .
I always can get three pointed back at them , and if you don't believe me , look see point one at you . I got three pointing back at me . But so we got to realize that we need to stop pointing the finger and be the helper , because his word tells us that you know we are our brothers keepers .
So if we're our brothers keepers and we're sitting there pointing our fingers at our brothers and sisters in Christ , are we any better ?
That's right , absolutely .
And if we all had the same language and the same motives of falling out to Christ ?
There's a scripture I like , and it's in Galatians 2 , 20 , and this this goes on to say that , look , we should always realize that whatever we're going through in life , whatever somebody else is going through life we got to think about this is that I am crucified with Christ . Nevertheless , I live yet , not not I , but Christ delivered in me .
And the life which I now live , I live in the flesh . I live by the faith of Son of God , who loved me and gave himself for me . He gave himself for every single one of us , whether we're going through hard times , whether we're going through good moments , ups and downs .
We got to realize that God did all this for us , so he does not need us pointing our fingers at other people of what they're going through , because in the real reality of it , you might not be going through what they did in life at that moment , but it's the reality that God is letting you know that maybe your sin wasn't just as bad as their sin , but
it's your sin .
Amen , hallelujah . So y'all were coming down to our last few minutes of the show today . That 17th verse he says , and what we want to take home from it is that the man of God may be perfect . Your perfection doesn't look like mine . Your perfection doesn't look like his . Your perfection doesn't look like theirs . Your perfection looks like his .
When I say his , I mean Jesus alone , hallelujah . None of us are in the same place , and so , therefore , we have to treat it as such .
God is shaping us , he's making us , he's molding us into the diamonds he desires us to be , all of that pressure that a diamond has to endure when they come out of the , when they come out of the fire , when they come out of that dark place , when they come out of captivity , when they come out of that hard place .
None of them are the same , but they are perfect in themselves , hallelujah . They are beautiful just the way that they are , and this is what we have to realize that the scripture does for us . Every last one of us have their own journey .
We all have our own testings , our trials , all types of things that are going on in our life , but at the end of the day , when we come out of it because we love God , because we are called for a purpose , we come out better . Our ladder is always better than our beginning .
You heard me Hallelujah , and so , therefore , we can trust that his word comes with power , his word comes with authority and his word comes with dominion . Hallelujah , because it is him . It is him and we are ordained , hallelujah , to move and walk and look like him and act like him . Come on somebody . This is a part of our heritage , amen .
It ain't about all the stuff that we can gain , all the accolades and all of that that we gain on earth . It is about us making sure that we wind up in our spiritual home , hallelujah , and our spiritual home is heaven . Hallelujah , amen . Michael , you have a final thought before we get ready to get up out of here .
Yeah , I do . I just spoke to my spirit about this . If you do find yourself pointing your finger at somebody , make sure that it is a positive , a positive thing that you point about . Make sure it is a positive and not a negative , because that's good to say . You get the power of the tone . You can speak life and death .
You can speak life to somebody by pointing your finger in a positive manner . Hallelujah , that's my word . And guess what I got ? To point my finger at you in a positive way , remember .
What you doing . We got to pray . I don't know . What are you ?
doing I don't know . See , I'm out of sorts , y'all . Y'all forgive me .
Father , we thank you so much for your grace and your mercy . Thank you , god , for allowing us to come together one more time , and we just pray for every single diamond that is listening right now . Bless them as you see fit , continue to shape us all for this journey that we are one , god , that we become all that you desire us to be .
Father , we bless your name and we bless your people . Father , we thank you , thank you . Thank you . We praise your name , we lift your name on high . We pray this prayer in the mighty name of Jesus Christ . We do pray , amen .
Amen .
And a man . Hallelujah Now I can do it . Woohoo .
Remember until next time . You are a diamond in the rough .
Amen , hallelujah .