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| Hello. In this audio, we would like to continue meditating on Galatians 3:11. We had meditated on that verse and the surrounding verses. We more or less went through most of Galatians 3, thinking about faith and how it produces righteousness. | |
| So we'll read Galatians 3:11 once again, just to remember what it said. It reads, but that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God. It is evident for the just shall live by faith. And we... | |
| We had shared that the just shall live by faith is a phrase that also appears in Habakkuk chapter 2. So our intent is to go to Habakkuk 2 and see what the Lord says about the just living by faith there. And... | |
| We had also, just as a side note, mentioned that when it says here that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, that really in the Greek it says that no man is justified by the law next to God. So it's all about us | |
| looking the same as God when we stand next to him so that people don't see the difference. If you and God were standing next to each other, um, | |
| what faith does is that faith makes us look like God so that when we stand next to him, the contrast is not that visible, if that makes sense. So the more faith you exercise, the more the nature of God is manifested in you, and the more you look like him when you stand next to him, and people, let's say, will have a harder time distinguishing | |
| between you and God, because both of you will look the same. And that's what faith produces. So faith is the activation of that inner man that we had talked about in the previous audio word, that inner man who is the spirit man that God put in us when we were born again. And that spirit man is made after his righteousness and in his holiness. | |
| So faith is activating that inner man. It's living in the spirit. It's an act of faith. You enter into the spirit by faith, and then everything you do as you are in the spirit, it will be an act of faith. And obviously, that inner man will... | |
| be growing with time. It starts like as a baby, shall we say, and it begins to grow and grow and grow. And then as that inner man in you grows, then the righteousness and the power and the authority of the things, of the deeds, the fruit of your faith will become stronger and stronger and stronger and greater and greater and greater and more powerful. | |
| So that's how we're supposed to live. It's just this decision to get in the spirit. It's an act of faith. And in that attitude of being in the spirit, you'll be constantly concerned about | |
| the voice of God. In other words, you'll be attentive to his voice. It's like you'll be in this mode where you're ready to receive what God has to say to you so that you can act on it by faith. So that's the attitude that God is calling us to have. And before we move on to Habakkuk 2, | |
| we'd like to share a few things that maybe we mentioned in passing in the previous audio word, but that might merit a little bit more comments. So one was the thing that we said about the... | |
| the curse of hanging on a tree. Because in Galatians 3:10 it says, For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse. For it is written, Cursed is everyone that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. And so it's talking about this curse. And then in verse 12 it says, And the law is not of faith. | |
| but the man that doeth them shall live in them. And then verse 13, Christ had redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us, for it is written, cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree. And as we said before, the law is, in a literal sense, is all the literal mandates that the Israelites had to live under because of the old covenant, | |
| And we shared that there was a measure of blessing to them in practicing that law before Christ came, because it was as they were acting in the law, they were sowing spiritually to produce enough fruit on earth to pay so that the path of the Lord Jesus | |
| appearing on earth could be paved. God wanted something higher for the Israelites, but the Israelites refused. And because of that, God had to cut an inferior covenant with them. And that inferior covenant came with these laws. But they were just a holdover in faith | |
| awaiting the promise of the new covenant that we live under now. And we shared also that when you read the word law, you think of the Mosaic law, but God is saying more than just the Mosaic law. It's all the systems that man puts in place when he wants to live in the old covenant, in the soul, because the Israelites were living in the soul, not the spirit. | |
| And in the matriarchal church, even though they don't practice the Mosaic law literally, they are also living under the law. It's just a different version of it with church doctrines and church ideas and church rules and thinking and paradigms of men. | |
| They're not thinking in the paradigms of God. So the matriarchal church is also living under the law. And we saw that living under the law means that you always have to keep up. You have to keep up. It is never enough. | |
| because it's you trying to prove that you have spirit by doing something external to prove that you're a spirit. But if you're a soul on the inside and you're soulish, eventually all your actions will catch up. You may look spiritual or spiritual, but eventually because you're not... | |
| spirit, you're just a soul trying to live like a spirit, the law eventually catches up to you and you can never measure up. That's what the law kind of curses you to do. That's why in the church system, in the matriarchal system, it's always what you do and not who you are. | |
| When you're living by faith, it's who you are. You're a spirit being. You have an inner man that is made in the image of God. And it's you in this God nature being. And then out of that being, deeds of righteousness flow in the matriarchal system because they don't connect to the spirit. Everything is soul, soul, soul. Then you have to keep up | |
| with doing things and doing things to prove that you are spiritual but you're just soul just a soul trying to live like a spirit and eventually the weight of that of all those things you have to do will catch up to you um but the thing we wanted to say with the curse uh when it says in verse 13 of Galatians 3 cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree uh | |
| is that we shared that that points to the Girgashite spirit because the Girgashite spirit is the one that causes us to die by drowning. We die with our blood inside of us. We don't shed our blood and sacrifice. We hold on to our life. And because of that, in other words, we don't want to prophetically sacrifice our lives for others. We hold on to our life. | |
| And then we die like a person who drowned because the person who drowns dies with his or her blood on the inside. And the blood is a figure of our life. Life is in the blood. So hanging on a tree, we shared, | |
| points to what happens when you're crucified. When you're crucified, you're hanging on the cross and you're trying to keep yourself up to breathe. It's like you push with your feet up against the cross to try to stay upright so the air can go into your lungs, but eventually just catches up to you. You can't keep up and you eventually die. | |
| But what we wanted to say that we might not have said too well last time is that when someone is on the cross and is hanging on the cross, it's like a Girgashite who is trying to... | |
| Be above the ground because the Girgashite is living by earthliness. The Girgashite spirit is the spirit of earthliness. So a Girgashite is someone who lives in the earthly realm and doesn't go into the spirit realm anymore. | |
| And a person who is hanging from the cross is like a figure of someone who is earthly, but wants to prove that he's not earthly, so he's trying to be above the ground. So it's ironic, a Girgashite who tries to prove that he's not earthly, that he really is spiritual, is like this person who is hanging on a cross, who's not touching the ground with his feet. But... | |
| And he's hanging on a cross above the ground, making him look spiritual, like he's lofty in the spirit. But he's not. He's still tied to the ground because the wooden cross is still connected to the ground. He wants to prove that he's spiritual, that he's prophetic, that he can fly like a prophet. | |
| In the spirit, but he's not flying. He's still he's still Bound to the ground Even though he looked his body physically looks like it's above the ground. I hope that's me. I hope making I hope it's making sense. I'm not sure if I'm saying it right and so you're trying to keep yourself up and | |
| And your feet are on the cross and the cross is tied to the ground. So it's almost like your feet are on the ground, but you're pretending that you're not. And you're pretending that you can operate in the spirit realm when you're still earthly. | |
| So you're trying to be in the spirit. The word for spirit in Greek and in Hebrew is the same word as wind. The same word as the word for wind. So it's like the person who's hanging on the cross is trying to breathe in air. So to say, I am spirit. I am spirit. I am spirit. I'm not earthly. I am spirit. | |
| But eventually, he tries to stay erect like he's flying in the air, but he's just hanging on a cross. And eventually, it will catch up to you and you will die because if you're living in the soul, then you're not spirit, no matter how hard you try. | |
| And you can't keep up and you will eventually die. So the Girgashite is like lying to himself saying, oh, I will be spiritual. I'll be I'll be a good Christian and I'll be spiritual. But what he's doing is basically just hanging himself on a cross, trying to be above the ground and trying to breathe in spirit. But | |
| eventually, because he's not spirit, he's soul, then he will eventually die and he's cursed to die. He's doomed to die. So that's what we wanted to say about that, about hanging on the tree. And the other thing that we wanted to share that is related to what we said is that we kept talking about | |
| How faith, faith connects you living in faith, believing God means living in the spirit. And when you're living in the spirit, then you're not living in the soul. When you're not living in the soul, then you're not sinning. Because sin in essence is when your soul is in dominion over your spirit. That's sin. | |
| The essence of sin is when your soul is in control and not the spirit. So in other words, faith means living and just embracing. | |
| The inner man in you that was made after God, that was put in you when you were born again, faith is connecting to that inner man saying, I am in the spirit just by faith. Boom, I am in the spirit. And then you start acting in the spirit and you stay in that mindset. And so you're saying the spirit is going to have dominion over the soul. So I will live in the spirit. | |
| And when you start doing that, then you stop sinning because sinning is when your soul is in control. And we shared before that sinning is not necessarily just going out and committing some unethical act. That's like a literal manifestation of sin, but sin can look... | |
| proper on the outside you can be sinning without doing anything wrong quote unquote like people could look at what you're doing and say there's nothing wrong with what he or she is doing but to God it's sin so sin is anything where your soul is the one in control and not and not the spirit so faith allows you to get away from sin get away from your soul being in control | |
| And to kind of confirm that, if you do a search of the words faith and sin in the King James, let's say, you'll get two results. The first one is Romans 14:23. It says, And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith. For whatsoever is not of faith is sin. | |
| So I believe Paul there is talking about people who are wondering, who have concerns about what to eat, what not to eat. And if they are eating something that their conscience says is not right, even if it's not wrong in God's eyes, that... | |
| sort of brings in sin because it says, and he that doubteth is damned if he eat because he eateth not of faith. He's not doing it because God told him to do it. He's not aware that God told him it's okay to do it. So he's not doing it because, you know, faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word. | |
| by the rhema of God, the prophetic word of God. So that person is not eating because God said it's okay. He's eating because maybe he is tempted to eat it, but he's doubting as he's eating it. He's not sure he's doing the right thing, and that brings in sin. | |
| So the thing is that the Lord is saying what whatsoever is not of faith is sin. Anything that's not of faith. And you have to kind of be sure to not take this out of context because liberals have faith in their liberalism. They have faith in their religious doctrines. Because they have religious doctrines, they may not... | |
| say God, you know, in their doctrines or spirit or anything like that. But everything they believe in is a religion. They accept it by faith. A whole bunch of nonsense that they believe in. | |
| And that you can try to disprove to them, you can try to convince them that what they're thinking is completely irrational and stupid, but they will never accept it because they have accepted their doctrines with religious fervor. They are religious fanatics. They just don't have the name religion, you know, the label of religion on them, but that's exactly what they are. They're religious fanatics. | |
| So everything they do is with faith in their doctrines. | |
| But that doesn't make everything that they do right. It's not, oh, I'm doing it in faith, faith to liberal nonsense, therefore I'm not sinning. And God doesn't see it like that. They're still sinning even though they have faith in their liberal doctrine. So this is obviously talking about faith in God. But the principle kind of stands even if you are talking about faith in other things. Like if you have faith in liberalism, then... | |
| then from the perspective of liberalism, if you don't obey some doctrine of liberalism by faith, then you are sinning, but sinning from the perspective of liberalism, if that makes sense. So whatever faith you have, if what you're doing is contrary to that faith, that is sin in that framework. | |
| But we don't care about false frameworks. We care about the truth. And in the truth, we're talking about faith in the truth, and that means faith in God, because God is truth. | |
| So this is talking about faith in God. So if you have faith in him, then you will not sin. But if you go out of faith, then you sin. It's just that simple. Faith and sin are almost like opposites. | |
| because faith means connecting to the Spirit, man, and just acting in the Spirit. That's all you do. You, by faith, connect yourself in the Spirit. And then you live in this state of saying, I'm in the Spirit, I'm in the Spirit, and I trust that God... | |
| will flow through me and I'll be attentive to the word of the spirit as it comes to me, whenever it comes to me. And if you act in that state of being in the spirit, I'm not going to let the soul be in control. I'll let the spirit be in control. Then you're not sinning. And the moment you walk away from that, then you sin. It's just like that. It's one or the other. | |
| So that's kind of certified there with that Romans 14:23 that says whatsoever is not of faith is sin. | |
| And then the other verse that has faith and sin, at least the English words in the King James, is Galatians 3:22. And we also read that. So it's interesting that it's in Galatians 3, the chapter that we were reading that has the verse that says, you know, Galatians 3:11, that just shall live by faith. And Galatians 3:22 says, "...but the Scripture hath concluded all under sin." | |
| that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. So again, it's God contrasting sin against faith. Faith gets you away from sin. You get away from faith, you fall into sin. It's one or the other. And it says here, but the Scripture hath concluded all under sin. So we're all under sin. | |
| That fall of man where the soul of man is in dominion over the spirit. But then there's a promise by faith of Jesus Christ that yes, we all fell under the dominion of the soul inside of us. But there's this promise. God says, hey, believe in me. Believe in me. | |
| And you will rise out of that fallen state and walk in the spirit. And righteousness will flow out of you. Righteousness and life will flow naturally out of you because you're connected to the nature of God. It's as simple as that. And it's a promise. You just accept the promise. | |
| It's like you're in a fallen state and God says, hey, here's this promise. Just believe. Believe. I have put the inner man inside of you. And if you connect to that promise, then you will start flowing in righteousness. And, okay. And then the other thing that we wanted to share that, well, | |
| Yeah, the other thing I wanted to share is that even when you have faith and you're acting in faith and you're connecting, you have made the decision, oh, I'm in the spirit. You will feel some resistance from sometimes your body and the body. In other words, the flesh, the law of sin and death that got trapped in your flesh because of things in the past, things you did, ideas, thinking patterns, whatever that were in you. | |
| they trap certain things inside your flesh. So as you're trying to live in the spirit, as you just decide to live by faith in the spirit, there will be times that you will feel the resistance of your body. | |
| Or your body will start reacting a certain way. Like, for example, if you have lived with distrust, like you don't trust God about certain things. And then suddenly something happens that you usually don't trust God about. | |
| And then let's say that because you don't trust God, you get anxious, let's say. So your body learns to develop some anxiety about something. So when you're in the spirit and you decide, no, I will believe God. I trust him. You might feel that your body is going into anxiety. And you will think. And then that's when the enemy comes to accuse you and say, see, you haven't changed. | |
| But you have to remember, hey, I'm just living the after effects of the unfaith that I had in the past. And you just have to just... | |
| kind of live through it, like survive it. You know, it's almost like there's a certain withdrawal, like your flesh has been used to doing certain things. And as you're living in faith, there'll be a withdrawal and your flesh will begin to react sometimes. But you just have to ride it out. That's all you have to do. Ride it out. And don't accept the accusation of the enemy that, oh, you | |
| Oh, see, you're not righteous. See, you're still vulnerable or you're still fallen. No, it's just the after effects. The law of sin and death that is trapped in your members, as Romans 7 or 8 says. But now you're living in the law of the spirit of life. | |
| And that is by faith. You connect. You say, I am in the spirit and I'm just going to listen to the voice of the spirit and by faith abide in that. And that's it. Just live in that state. And out of that, naturally, righteousness will flow. And as we said, the level of righteousness and the power of that righteousness and the intensity of | |
| and the strength and all that will grow as you grow, because our inner man is like a child that grows and grows and grows until it becomes a full mature adult, like when it says in Ephesians, when we reach the fullness of the stature of the measure of Christ, if I'm not misquoting. | |
| So it's important to keep that in mind, not to feel dismayed when our flesh seems to be reacting negatively because it's been trained the wrong way, even though you are already in the spirit. Yeah. | |
| Okay, and then the other thing we wanted to mention, we had already said this before, but just to emphasize it, the thing about that, you know, if it's not in faith, then it's sin. And no matter how moral or acceptable it may look on the outside. And that's the thing, the law evaluates everything by acceptability on the outside. And that's why, like in the Mosaic law, | |
| You look righteous if you do this, you do that, you do the other, just like the Pharisees who did all these things, but they were rotten on the inside. So the thing is that if you live by the law, and the law means external things, and that could be the Mosaic law, that could also be the laws that the matriarchal Christians in the church system live by. | |
| But the thing is that things can look nice and clean on the outside, but they're rotten on the inside. And like the example that we were sharing about the homeless shelter, that someone is giving to a homeless shelter, but without meaning to, they might be enabling a lot of people to keep | |
| living an unrighteous life. A lot of drug addicts would just say, oh, okay, I'm just going to live on the streets and I'm not going to worry about work or anything because if I need food, I can just go to this homeless shelter and get food and clothing and stuff. So they continue living that life of decay and they are enabled by the homeless shelter. So if you're giving to that homeless shelter and God | |
| didn't tell you to, then you are enabling a lot of people. And sometimes you want to give to the homeless shelter because you say, oh God, if I don't give this money to the homeless shelter, then who's going to feed these people? These people are hungry. How are they going to be provided for? And God will come and say, hey, I'll take care of that. Stop enabling them. | |
| And yes, they will be shocked because, oh, no one's helping them anymore. But I will put a series of things in motion to restore that person if that person wants to be restored. | |
| And trust me, if that person, because someone might say, oh, well, how will they eventually convert if they starve to death? And we need to give them a chance and give them food while they think it over. | |
| And God says, we'll say to you, trust me, I will provide for them long enough for them to give them a chance to repent and change their lives and decide to change their lives. So it's like God is saying, trust me, have faith in me, believe me, I know what I'm doing. And but. | |
| But if you continue giving to the homeless shelter, it's because you don't believe God. You say, no, no, God will not take care of it. So I will take care of it because I don't trust God to do it, if that makes sense. So it looks righteous on the outside, but the motivations, if you start looking at them on the inside is, wow, that person really doesn't believe in God, doesn't trust God. God says, I will take care of it. And the person says, no, I don't believe God. | |
| And there could also be a motivation of, oh, if I don't give to the homeless shelter, I will look like I'm a heartless person. And who's going to feed these people? So you're thinking all in terms of your soul. Your soul is the one deciding by soulish parameters, deciding what to do, what not to do. | |
| So you're not obeying the spirit. You're not listening to the spirit and believing by faith in the spirit. So it's your soul in control. Your soul, your soulishly want to help. And you're driven by emotions and compassion and pity. But it's a compassion and pity that's not of the spirit. It's of the soul. Because in the spirit, you will see more other things. You will see that God has a purpose for these people. God wants to judge them. God wants to confront them. | |
| about their lifestyle. And yes, God will somehow provide for them along the way to give them a chance to get to the point of repentance. So when you're in the spirit, you see all these other things. | |
| And you know God is there and God will take care of things. But if you're in the soul, you'll just think, you'll just be driven by emotions. And you'll be driven to give and give and give to this homeless shelter and give to all these people who just don't want to change. So instead of enabling them to change, you're just keeping them on the path to hell. | |
| if that makes sense. So the thing is, whatever is not of faith is sin. And sometimes, and even if it doesn't look like sin on the outside, because there's so many, when you're living in the soul, there's so many other motivations that come into play. | |
| You start thinking about what other people will say. Oh, if I don't give to the homeless shelter, then people are going to start to whisper that I'm not as charitable as everybody else. So you start to worry about what other people will think. And then you start thinking about also like, oh, who's going to take care of these people? If I don't feed them today with this contribution, then they'll starve to death. So you start to think as if God doesn't exist. | |
| and all of that. So even though it looks nice and noble on the outside, on the inside, there's a whole bunch of bad stuff going on that's motivating you to do what seems righteous on the outside. So when you're living by external things, and that's why, for example... | |
| Christians who go to church every Sunday, but they never change. But on the outside, they look righteous. But why are they going to church every Sunday? Because it's tradition, because they grew up in a Christian household or, you know, all their friends go to church. | |
| and all these other motivations that have nothing to do with God. They're not going to church because they want to know what word God has for them. They don't want to grow into new dimensions of anything. They're going to church | |
| because that's where their friends are, or just by force of habit, by tradition, it makes them feel safe and comfortable. And all those motivations are of the soul, and they're an abomination to God. So every time they go to church, they're sinning. And you go, wow, that doesn't make sense. Well, that's what God is saying when he says, whatever is not of faith is sin. Because they're not doing it because they're hearing God, God telling them, go there because I have a message for you. | |
| They don't do it out of a love for God. They're doing it out of habit. They're doing it because their friends are there or they're concerned that if they stop going to church, all their friends are going to gossip about them, that they have their apostates or whatever, and their reputation amongst their circle of friends is going to go south. So it's nothing to do with God anymore. | |
| even though on the outside it looks like a nice Christian thing to do, to go to church every Sunday. So that's what the law, when you see the word law in Scripture, like when it's used, the way it's used in Galatians and all that, that's what God is talking about, where you're measuring yourself by external things, and those external things can be motivated by a whole bunch of soulish stuff that is against the Spirit. Okay. | |
| Okay, so those are like the four things we wanted to say before we go on. | |
| So the first thing was the thing about hanging on the tree on the cross is like someone trying to rise above the earthliness, pretending to be spiritual, to be floating and flying like a spirit being when you're still stuck to the ground. And you're pretending that you're breathing in spirit and you may keep up the charade. | |
| But eventually, um, um, it just, it will catch up to you and you will die. Just like a person trying to breathe while, whilst hanging on a cross and holding himself up and pushing himself up with his feet, you know, against the wooden cross. Um, and eventually he'll, he'll not be able to, to stay, uh, upright and, and, and will die. Um, and then the second thing we said, you know, that Romans 14:23 talks about, um, | |
| whatever is not a faith is sin so it says it very plainly so it's like this contrast between faith and sin uh and then the other thing uh was that um when you're in the spirit uh and you just make the decision it's just by faith you connect yourself to the spirit you might feel resistance your body is saying I don't want to do that I don't want to do that um uh but uh | |
| And you might feel guilted into thinking, oh, I really haven't changed. There really is no new inner man inside of me. No, yes, there is. That what you're feeling right now is just the after effects of the things that you've sown into your flesh. All the bad thought patterns, everything is sown into your flesh and your flesh is reacting. That's all it is. But if you just ride it out. | |
| in the spirit, then eventually your flesh will submit, you know, it's like riding a wild horse, you know, uh, eventually the horse will, will, will stop fighting. Um, and then the fourth thing was, uh, what we said that, uh, sometimes, uh, | |
| like giving to a homeless shelter, or this is just an example, could be anything. So when you're giving to a homeless shelter, there could be a lot of soul motivations for you doing it. And when you inspect the soul motivations, that's when you see how unrighteous that action is, even though it looks righteous on the outside. Okay, so those were the four things. It's now open... | |
| I just feel the need to do this. I should have done this before this recording, but I just want to see right now the words sin and faith. If I had looked them up in the Greek, if I would have gotten the same results, because as we said, when I just looked up law, sorry, faith and sin, the two words in English, two verses came up Romans 14:23 in Galatians. What was it? | |
| It was Galatians 3:22, the one that said, but the Scripture hath concluded all under sin that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. And Romans 14:23 was the one that said, whatsoever is not of faith is sin. So if I had just done the search in Greek, let's see what the Greek strong number for faith is. It is, it says here, G4102. | |
| So I'm going to type G4102 and then sin is G266. So I'm doing a search on the Blue Letter Bible website with those two words. So I'm looking, I'm searching in the Greek, shall we say. Oh, and now I got, oh wow, I got a whole bunch more verses. Interesting. Oh, because I didn't get other results because in other verses the word is sins. | |
| not sin because of that. And that's another thing with searching in English that you kind of become subject to grammatical differences, even though it's the same word. But if it's like in the plural, then you won't find it like in this case. But yeah, let me see all the verses that show up now. | |
| They all say sins in the plural. Sins, sins. Yeah, so for example, Matthew 9:2 says, And behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed. And Jesus, seeing their faith, said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, be of good cheer. Thy sins be forgiven thee. So notice how faith releases you from sin. | |
| That's what that verse is basically saying. Forgiveness is when you are released from something. So faith releases you from sin. The state of sin is when your soul is in dominion. You believe the promise that God has put a new inner man inside of you because of Jesus Christ. And because of that, boom, you're released from the state of sin. And then... | |
| So Mark 2:5 is kind of the same verse only in Mark, the same verse as Matthew 9:2, because it says something like, When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee. | |
| And then Luke also, Luke 5:20 also has faith and sins. And it's the same, more or less the same thing only in Luke. So it says, and when he saw their faith, he said unto him, man, thy sins are forgiven. | |
| So those three verses in Matthew 9:2, Mark 2:5, Luke 5:20, they connect faith to releasing you from a state of sin where your soul is in control. | |
| And then the other verse is Acts 26:18. It says to open their eyes and to turn them from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God that they may receive forgiveness of sins and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me. So faith sanctifies you. So you accept that you have the new inner man and that new inner man is made after God's righteousness in his holiness. It says... | |
| in Ephesians 4:24 and or Colossians 3:10, if I'm not mistaken. So that means when you connect to the inner man, that inner man is holy. So he's sanctified. So you're sanctified by faith automatically. And then you're released from the power of Satan unto God, it says. And I'm curious what the word power is in Greek. | |
| because it's always mistranslated. It's exousia. So it's jurisdiction, not dunamis power. You go away from the jurisdiction of Satan to the jurisdiction of God. When you stay in the jurisdiction of Satan, Satan can accuse you because you're in his jurisdiction. But when you get away from that jurisdiction, then you're in the jurisdiction of God and God says you're justified. | |
| because you're operating in the inner man. So Satan cannot come and accuse you because you're not in his jurisdiction anymore. It's like if you're living in one state, in one country, another country cannot come and accuse you of something because you're not in their jurisdiction. You're not in that country. You're in another country. So the other country cannot impose its laws on you because you're not their citizen. | |
| you know, unless there's some sort of extradition thing, but, but I hope you see the, the, the thing is there is no extradition thing between Satan and God here. So once you, you step out of the, the, the, um, out of the state of sin by faith, uh, then Satan cannot accuse you. And I believe that's what the Lord is part of what the Lord is saying here. Um, this, this was Paul speaking to a gripper, um, | |
| And then 1 Corinthians 15:17 is another next verse that has faith in sins. And it says, So notice again, sin and faith being contrasted. If you're not in faith, then you're still in your sins. | |
| Okay, and then Galatians 3:22, which we just read already. And then the last verse that has faith and sin in the Greek, is James 5:15. And it says, | |
| And the Lord shall raise him up, and if he hath committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. Notice that again, faith releases you from sins. There's always this connection that God makes between faith and being forgiven from sins. In other words, you're released from the state of sin. And see, people, when we read forgiven by sins, we just think, oh, we won't go to hell anymore. But God is talking about way more than that. | |
| Forgiven means release. I think the word, let me see the word in Greek for forgiven. In James 5:15, for example, it's aphiemi. And aphiemi comes from apo, which means away from, and iemi, which means to go. It's like going away from. | |
| Yeah, going away from. Yes, it's going away from. And that means you're released. It's like getting out of prison kind of thing, like being released from the hold of prison, the prison of your sin. So... | |
| Let's see, I just want to see if that's the same, that aphiemi is the word that's used for forgiven in all the other verses we were looking at. Let me see if I can do this very quickly. So I'm going to do a search on faith again, G4102, beasties. | |
| And hamartia, which means sin. And I'll also do a search on aphiemi, the three words together to see what comes up. And the other word aphiemi is Greek strong number 863. So I'm searching for those three words in Greek. | |
| in the Blue Letter Bible website, and I get Matthew 5, Matthew 9:2, the one about the man sick of the palsy and the Lord saying to him, son, your sins are forgiven because he saw the faith in them. | |
| And then Mark 2:5 says, yeah, that's the same thing about the sick of the palsy. Luke 5:20 also uses, when he says forgiven, when God, Jesus says forgiven, he is saying the word aphiemi in Greek, spiritually speaking, because he was saying that in Aramaic, but spiritually he was using the word aphiemi. Yeah. | |
| Okay, so let's see. Yes, the only time that aphiemi was not used in these words, when forgiveness, yeah, Acts 26:18 talks about forgiveness of sins, and the word forgiveness was translated from aphesis, which is the noun form of aphiemi. Aphiemi is like the, I think it was the verb form, | |
| And forgiveness is the noun form. So it's basically the same thing. So you have aphiemi of sins, of hamartia. You're forgiven of your sins when you're in faith. You're released from them. You are sent away from them. You can walk away from them. That's forgiveness. See, the Christian, the matrimonial Christian, the believer in the Christian church system, | |
| It's always thinking about what God can do for me, what God can do for me. So forgiveness is, oh, God no longer, like letting me go from the punishment of my sin. But the Christian should be thinking not about, oh, how am I going to get away from the punishment of something? No, how am I going to get from the state of something? | |
| the Christian is more concerned, the real Christian, the spirit Christian, not the church-going Christian, the real Christian is going to be concerned about being out of the state of sin. I don't want to be in the state where the soul is in control. I'm not worried about punishment. Yeah, punishment may motivate me to | |
| To get away from that state of sin. But at the end of the day. My main concern is. I don't want to be in that state anymore. And so forgiveness of sins. Is all being released from that state. I'm not worried about. I'm not thinking right now. About the punishment. That's secondary. I just don't want to be in that state anymore. That's forgiveness of sins. That's what we're searching for. | |
| Because like James, the verse we were reading in James, what was it, 5:15, when it says, and if he hath committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. Notice it says that, and that comes from the prayer of faith. But see, the thing is, aren't these believers that James is talking to? So aren't their sins technically already forgiven when they were born again? | |
| They're not going to hell. They're not going to be punished. God has forgiven them because they believed in Jesus and they've been born again. Why then do they need forgiveness? Why would God ever talk about forgiveness anymore once we're born again? If forgiveness is just not being punished by going to hell. I hope you see what we're saying here. | |
| So you can be unforgiven even as a Christian, born again Christian. Doesn't mean you're going to hell. It's God saying, you're not forgiven. I haven't forgiven you of this sin because you're still trapped in that state. And there are eternal consequences. | |
| For you staying in that state of sin. But what I'm saying, God is saying is, you're still in sin. And I cannot forgive you until you believe. When you believe, then I will release you from that state and you can walk in righteousness. So there are a whole bunch of Christians going to church every Sunday who are living in a state of unforgiveness. God has not forgiven them of their sins. Oh, that means they're going to hell? No. No. | |
| It means that they're losing the eternal reward that God had for them because they're living in that state. And with every day that goes by, one less bit of reward and one less chance of entering into that eternal reward. So you're losing every day as long as you're in that state of sin. | |
| But if you're in righteousness or you want to see God's righteousness, your concern is getting out of that state. Not so much, oh, I don't want to be punished anymore. But punishment can be like the motivator sometimes to wake you up. Like, oh my goodness, this is ridiculous being in this state. That's what happened to the prodigal son. You know, he was being punished. He didn't get | |
| He had no homeless shelter to go feed his lifestyle anymore. And he was working, as we all know, feeding the pigs at pigsty. And the punishment got to him and he realized, oh, what an idiot am I? This is a foolish state that I'm in. I want to get out of this state and live in righteousness now. | |
| Okay. All right. So now that we have said all of this, we can now finally go to Habakkuk chapter 2. And we'll start by reading the verse that says the just shall live by faith. That's Habakkuk 2:4. It says, Behold, his soul, which is lifted up, is not upright in him. | |
| but the just shall live by faith. Notice that's a very interesting phrasing. His soul is lifted up and it's not upright in him. So it's like, again, God contrasting faith with sin. And you go, sin? Yeah, right there. It says the soul is lifted up. What does that mean? The soul is in control over the spirit. The soul has dominion over the spirit. | |
| I hope it makes sense. This certifies everything we've been saying. And the word soul there was translated from nephesh. And nephesh is soul in Hebrew. So it's not a translation issue. So his nephesh is lifted up. And it's not upright in him. So God is saying when the soul is in control, when the soul is lifted up and the spirit is subdued, then there is no righteousness. Right? | |
| And how do you get out of that? By faith. The just shall live by faith. Again, the contrast of faith and sin. Sin is when the soul is in control. And then, okay, so now the word lifted up is kind of a peculiar word. It was translated from aphal. Aphal, I think you might pronounce it, I'm not sure, in Hebrew. | |
| Aphal. And Aphal, it's very peculiar because it only appears twice in Scripture. Twice. Once in Habakkuk 2:4 that we just read. And the other time is Numbers 14:44. And just by the way, it says here that Aphal can be translated as to lift up, to swell, to be lifted up, to be bold, to be swelled, | |
| um, to, to presume, uh, to be heedless, um, uh, to show heedlessness. Like, I don't care. Like I'll do what I want to do. I don't care. And that's what the, that's what an exalted soul sounds like. I'll do what I want to do. Uh, and I don't care what the spirit says. I will not submit to the spirit. Um, okay. And then, um, | |
| Numbers 14:44, it says, But they presumed to go up unto the hilltop. Nevertheless, the ark of the covenant of the Lord and Moses departed not out of the camp. So to kind of make the word presume was translated from a fall. So to kind of make sense of what was going on, we have to read the surrounding verses. | |
| Okay, so let's read from verse 36, Numbers 14:36, to get context. It says, And the men which Moses sent to search the land who returned and made all the congregation to murmur against him by bringing up a slander upon the land, verse 37, even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land died by the plague before the Lord. | |
| Verse 38, But Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still. Then verse 39, And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel, and the people mourned greatly. | |
| Verse 40, and they rose up early in the morning and got them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here and will go up unto the place which the Lord hath promised, for we have sinned. Verse 41, and Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the Lord, but it shall not prosper. Verse 42, go not up. | |
| For the Lord is not among you, that ye be not smitten before your enemies. Verse 43, For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword, because ye are turned away from the Lord. Therefore the Lord will not be with you. And then verse 44, But they presume to go up, they aphal, to go up unto the hilltop. Nevertheless, the ark of the covenant of the Lord and Moses departed not out of the camp. | |
| And then verse 45, the last verse of that chapter, Numbers 14. Then the Amalekites came down and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill and smote them and discomfited them even unto Hormah. | |
| So the thing is, God told the Israelites to go take the promised land. And the Israelites said, hell no. But only Joshua and Caleb said, yes, we can take the land. Well, let's just trust God. We can take the land. | |
| But they didn't want to believe. So God said, okay, I won't let you. And God was really angry at them. And a lot of them died by the plague. And when the Israelites saw that, they started mourning. But it was not a mourning of repentance. It's like they were mourning about the consequences of their attitude and | |
| but not about their attitude, if that makes sense. It's like when people are remorseful because they got caught kind of thing. It's kind of a similar thing. So they said, oh, okay, you know what? We'll take the land. We'll take the land. But now the thing is they were doing it because they wanted to. Yes, we'll prove to God that we can do it. | |
| But this time, God was not telling them to go. God said, in fact, because of your actions, | |
| attitude you will not go into the promised land and it kind of hit their pride or something like say oh no oh yes we're oh so you're saying we're not good enough for the promised land oh okay now we're motivated so they were being motivated by the wrong reasons even though on the outside it looked like a good thing because God one moment had said at one moment he said go take the land trust me I will conquer the land through you | |
| And they said, no, we don't trust God. We don't have faith in you. We don't believe you. And then, so God was telling them to conquer the land. And now they're deciding, we'll conquer the land. So on the outside, it looks like, oh, that's a good thing. But to God, it wasn't a good thing. Why? Because whatever is not of faith is sin. God said to them, and they heard it, you will not enter the promised land because you don't believe me. | |
| and now that God was saying don't go they decided to go so they were not acting by faith. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the rhema of God. They were hearing the rhema of God, you shall not enter the land, and, instead of saying, Lord, we're sorry for our unbelief please forgive us even if you if you make us die here in the wilderness uh | |
| We want to please you as long as we're alive and we're really sorry for our attitude and our unbelief. If they had taken that attitude, then God would have forgiven them. And then they would have been able to enter the promised land. But that was not their attitude. So... | |
| it's, um, in other words, they were doing the opposite of what they were hearing. So whatever they were doing was not a faith, even though on the outside, it looked like, Oh, uh, they're doing the right thing. They're going in to take the promised land just as God had asked them to do. But now they're doing it because God told them not to. Um, if that makes sense. Um, and, uh, and, and they were beaten, um, | |
| beaten back pretty uh pretty badly and they and all that bunch of people never entered the promised land because they never developed the faith or never entered into faith that's what all they had to do enter into faith and uh but they didn't, uh everyone except Joshua and Caleb believed God um and um | |
| And the people who beat them back are the Amalekites and the Canaanites. And the Canaanite spirit is the pastor gone bad. And that's the spirit behind the pastoral matriarchy, behind the matriarchy of the soul. So it all just fits in. The only thing is I don't know exactly how the Amalekites fit in. If you asked me to associate them to an evil spirit, I would associate them to the Hivites. | |
| And I think it's because they were Hivites. If I'm not mistaken, the Amalekites were Hivites. And now that I'm saying it out loud, I'm going to look it up. Amalekites were Hivites. Let me just look it up online. And let's see if I hear some, if I read something here. Well, | |
| I'm getting an answer from... Yeah, the Gibeonites were Hivites, but not the Amalekites. Yeah, I was getting them confused with the Gibeonites. It says here that the descendants of Amalek were the grandsons... Amalek was the grandson of Esau through Eliphaz and Timnah. So it's interesting because... | |
| Okay, if that's the case, then Amalek, if you have to connect them to an evil spirit, then you'd have to connect them to the Girgashites. Because if Amalek is descended from Edom, Edom is Esau, and Edom means red. | |
| And just like Adam, you know, they come from similar words in Hebrew and they are both connected to the earth. Adam means earth. So... | |
| So Amalek is connected to Edom. The name Edom is connected to Adam or earth. So it's connected to the spirit of earthliness. And Edom, Esau, there's a connection to redness with him. I don't know if he was red-haired. I don't remember. But there's a connection in Scripture to redness, the redness of clay. And Girgashite literally means clay dweller. So all of that points to the Girgashite spirit. | |
| So if that's the case, then now it makes perfect sense why it's the Amalekites and the Canaanites. It's basically the Girgashites and the Canaanites. And what is a Girgashite? A teacher gone bad. What is a Canaanite? A pastor gone bad. The pastoral matriarchy. But why doesn't God just say Amalekite or Girgashites instead of Amalekites? I believe the Amalekites are a special kind of Girgashite. | |
| And that's the one being mentioned here. And my understanding is limited on that. So I have no idea what exactly they refer to. But it's like a very vicious type of Girgashite. I think that's what it's referring to. So it's the pastor and the teacher. The Israelites were... | |
| were dominated or taken over by the pastor and the teacher gone bad. In other words, the two female endowments. In other words, the soul. So that's the soul dominating over them. And why? Because they sinned. Numbers 14:40. The Lord has promised for we have sinned. | |
| That's what Moses said to the people. The Lord has promised that. Yeah, so it's sin. Sin is when your soul is in control. When your soul is in control, you will be Canaanite pastoral and Girgashite teacherly. Okay, so now if we go back to, so that was Numbers 14:44. | |
| And it said, by the way, it said, but they presumed to go up onto the hilltop. And the word presumed was that aphal, which literally means exalted or lifted up. So they lifted themselves up to go. So they said, our soul will decide if we take the promised land. Not God. Our soul will take the promised land if we decide to do so. | |
| So when their soul didn't want to take the promised land, they didn't want to go. When their soul wanted to take the promised land for the wrong reasons, then they wanted to go. So if we go back to Habakkuk 2:4, then behold, his soul is a foul, lifted up, and that soul is not upright in him, but the just shall live by his faith. | |
| So I just didn't realize that it actually says the just shall live by his faith, the faith of the just. So your faith is what connects you to the spirit man and gives you life and life begins to flow out of you. | |
| OK, so now let's read like the surrounding verses and we'll practically go through all of Habakkuk 2 if the Lord allows it and or most of it. And we'll look at some of the things that God is saying here. So there. So we'll see. OK, so now let's start from the very beginning. Verse one, Habakkuk 2. I will stand up. | |
| I will stand upon my watch and set me upon the tower and will watch to see what he will say unto me and what I shall answer when I am reproved. So notice, and I think that's like a beautiful figure of when you enter into the spirit. It's like you get up on the watchtower and as it says here, I'll watch to see what he will say unto me. | |
| That's a weird thing to say, right? Watch to see what he will say unto me. You would normally say, watch to hear what he will say unto me. But Habakkuk is saying, I will see with my prophetic eyes what he will say unto me. So in other words, he's saying that God is going to speak prophetic rhema word to him. | |
| I hope that's making sense. The seeing thing is like a prophet seeing, seeing words that are being said. And that's what a prophet does. He sees the invisible. So he sees words. You can't see words. You know, when someone's talking, you can hear the words, but you can't see them coming out of the person's mouth. But the prophet can see what, what, uh, can, can see what is not visible. Um, | |
| So in other words, it's a way of, this might be oversimplifying it, but it's like the Lord's, this is a figure of what happens when you're hearing the rhema. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word, the rhema of God. | |
| The prophetic word of God. So you kind of get on... You get on the watchtower. That's how you get in the spirit. And it's a state. It's not... I don't know. You don't have to do anything. You get into that state. You just decide to get into the state of the spirit. And it's like you put yourself on this watchtower and you're waiting. You're attentive. And if any moment God says something in the spirit... | |
| And God will speak, and many times He will speak from inside of you. You will know what to do. You will know what attitude to take under certain circumstances or what to do, what not to do, what to say, what not to say. It will come out, like prophetically flow from within you. And sometimes God will, you will hear a word from God from coming like, quote unquote, from the outside, God coming and saying something into your spirit. | |
| But you're in that attentive state. | |
| And you just say to yourself, I'm in the spirit. Why? You're just connecting because that inner man is real. It's not imaginary. You're not making it up. He's real. God promised that you can connect to that inner man. There's this promise. So you connect to him and you're like on this watchtower. It's like you're on alert. It's like you're in this higher state. The watchtower is way above the ground. So you're way above the ground and you're in a different mode. | |
| if that makes any sense, and you're attentive to hearing the prophetic word of God coming at any moment or flowing from inside of you, you just go into that state and then it will naturally flow. I hope it's making sense. I pray I'm saying it right. So Habakkuk 2:2 says, And the Lord answered me and said, Write the vision. | |
| And make it plain upon tables that he may run that readeth it. So, and I'll be frank, I have no understanding on what that is, how that applies to everything we're saying. But the thing is, the Lord said to Habakkuk, write the vision and make it plain upon tables. So, like, write it. Let's use the English Standard Version because this... | |
| archaic English confuses me so uh Habakkuk 2:2 in the English Standard Version says and the Lord answered me write the vision make it plain on tablets so he may run who reads it um so uh you it's like you accept the download of the prophetic word and you write it down um | |
| And then you make it plain on tablets, like it gets translated into a clear action plan. And then so that you can act on it when you read it. That's all I'm getting. I don't know how that applies. But in a kind of higher sense, it talks about like, that's how the prophetic works. | |
| God says prophetic things waiting to see who acts on it. And that's why the prophetic is not about predictions. It's about God saying there's this promise. There's this promise and God declares the promise and he gets someone to write it down, to express it in a plain way. And then it's up to the people to decide to act on it. | |
| And I just felt the need to say, I was not going to do it. And I felt God say, say it. Um, like for example, on the Shamah-Elim website, um, if you go to, there's a prophetic word called London 2012, if I'm not mistaken. And it's about, uh, it was written before the London Olympics, um, | |
| And it was talking about all the things that God was going to do in 2012 and do this and all these prophetic signs and figures of things happening around that time. Now, if you go and read that posting, you'd say, oh, false prophet. Nothing that was there came to pass. Well, first of all, we don't know whether it did or didn't because a lot of those things out there say in many ways happened. | |
| you know, in a spiritual sense, but we just didn't see it. But what happened, but in a wider sense, I know in my being when those words were written, that it was like an invitation to America and to the UK and to the world. Do you believe that God can do this? | |
| And the sad thing is that most people didn't believe. They said no. Just like the Israelites, they were given the vision of the promised land. And God offered it to them. And they said no, we don't believe. So it didn't come to pass. So was the prophecy a lie? Was the vision a lie? No. It's just that they didn't believe. | |
| So that's what God does. He writes the vision, makes it plain on tablets so whoever reads it and receives it may run with it. Literally. So he may run who reads it. So it's like saying, are you going to believe me? And if there are enough people acting on that promise and say, yes, I believe it, then it will come to pass. And if that generation does not believe it, then another generation will pick up the vision and make it come to pass. | |
| The next one, just like with the Israelites, that generation didn't believe. So the next generation took the vision and ran with it. So the London 2012 word is still there and it will come to pass. It will come to pass. And I do believe many things did come to pass spiritually beneath the surface because there was someone willing to write them out. And I don't know how many people, you know, wrote things like what we shared on the website today. | |
| We don't know how many, but at least by testimony, I know there's at least one. And those words will come to pass. Even if the UK rejects God and dies just like America did, it will come to pass somehow, somewhere. It will come to pass. The word has been spoken and it will come to pass. It's all up to who takes the vision and runs with it. | |
| Just like on the website, we talk all these things about the promises for America. But they were always laden with warnings. They're warning signs. God wants to do this. God wants to do that. God wants to do the other. But there are these warnings that America was not believing God. And then eventually America died. And you say everything that was written about the promises for America was a false prophecy? No. It was the vision that was written. | |
| And God was waiting for America to pick up the tablets. In this case, the tablets were, in this case, there were many tablets. Some of them were the Shamah-Elim website postings. And he was waiting for America to read the tablets, believe the vision, and run with it. But America didn't. | |
| So America died. Were the tablets speaking falsehood? No, they're just waiting for whosoever will believe them for them to come true. So that's kind of what this verse says in a wider sense. But in the context of faith and living in the state of the spirit, I'm still not too clear. But I think it's that when you're on that watchtower in the state of the spirit, | |
| It's like you will get downloads of things. You will get downloads. And you will write them out somehow. I mean, not literally. Maybe literally sometimes. But you'll get a download of a vision. You'll write it down in one way or another. And then it will be plain. It will be like a clear action plan. And then you will read it, believe it, and act on it. | |
| you will run with it. That's what I'm getting in a very general sense. I know there's more, but I'm still not too clear. So Habakkuk 2:3, the next verse says, For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak and not lie, though it tarry, wait for it, because it will surely come, it will not tarry. | |
| Just like the London 2012 war, it will come to pass though it tarries, though it gets delayed. That's what tarry means, you know, when you're running late. Though it gets delayed, wait for it because it will surely come. It will not tarry. And again, like, for example, with America, all the promises for America that this generation decided to just chuck to the rubbish bin, um, | |
| They will not come true for America, but they will come true for the spiritual Americans out there that God will pick out from the nations of the earth somehow. And hopefully it's going to be Britain, hopefully. But whoever it is, those will be the ones through whom the promise will be fulfilled. Though it tarry, wait for it, for it shall surely come. | |
| Um, okay. | |
| Alright, so then Habakkuk 2:4, the next verse is, Behold his soul, which is lifted up, is not upright in him, but the just shall live by his faith. And then Habakkuk 2:5 says, Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, | |
| is as death and cannot be satisfied but gathereth unto him all nations and he put unto him all people now when I and even now like every time I read that verse I have to read it again because I don't get it every time I read it I don't get it and I believe that apart from comprehension issues | |
| There's a problem with the translation. The translation is wrong. That's why it doesn't make sense. And just to give you a sense of how off this translation is, I'm going to read the English Standard Version of Habakkuk 2:5. This is what it says in the ESV. Moreover, wine is a traitor. | |
| an arrogant man who is never at rest. His greed is as wide as Sheol, like death he has never enough. He gathers for himself all nations and collects as his own all peoples. So notice the beginning of the verse, there's nothing about transgression. It says, moreover, wine is a traitor. And there's a footnote there next to wine. It says that the Dead Sea Scroll text says wealth. | |
| But I think it's wine. Yeah, so the Dead Sea Scroll text says wealth. | |
| But I imagine most of the manuscripts, early manuscripts, say wine. And I don't know why, I just feel like wine sounds right. And it's confirmed by other things that we'll see here. So we'll go with wine. I just have the sense in my being that it was wine in the original text, even if the Dead Sea Scroll text said wealth. But again, the verse at the beginning says, wine is a traitor. | |
| an arrogant man who is never at rest. And it says here, there's a footnote after rest that says, the meaning of the Hebrew of these two lines is uncertain. So I guess that's why the King James people had trouble with it. So we'll go back to the King James. It says, yea also because he transgresseth by wine. But I believe it says wine is a traitor. So let's go to the Hebrew text to kind of confirm a bit | |
| The word transgresseth was translated from bagad. And bagad means to act treacherously, deceitfully, deal treacherously. So I think what's happening is the ESV says, oh, the meaning is uncertain. But I think it's because it doesn't make sense to the natural mind what God is saying. | |
| when you read it literally. And that's why the KJV monk, the King James monk decided, oh, I don't understand this. So he changed the treacherously to transgress. Why? Because sounds better. I don't know why God is suddenly saying wine is a traitor. And then it says he's a proud man. And that kind of goes with the ESV. The ESV said he's an arrogant man or something like that. | |
| Yeah, an arrogant man who was never at rest. So in the King James, it says, proud man, neither keepeth at home. Neither keepeth at home. Like, you know, he doesn't stay home. He's not resting at home kind of thing. Let's see what the Hebrew text says for keepeth at home. It's translated from Nava. And Nava means to beautify or to dwell. Yeah. | |
| For example, Exodus 15:2 is the only other verse in Scripture that uses nava. And it says, So it's like a habitation, but it says here that it means to beautify or to adorn or to dwell or to rest. | |
| So what do we make of this? This is what I get in my heart. God in this verse is beginning to talk about a certain type of person who allows his soul to take over his spirit. And we'll see five types of people being mentioned here who allow the soul to dominate over the spirit. | |
| And my understanding is very limited, but I pray that somehow God will convey the fuller meaning of each of these five as we go along here. So it says, wine is a traitor. And I say traitor like that because just to avoid making it sound like traitor, like someone who trades. But... | |
| So why does God say wine is a traitor? What is he talking about? And for that, we have to think of what wine represents. And we've shared on the website that wine represents the evangelistic endowment. Wine gives you joy. Joy is connected to the joy of conquest, and conquest is connected to the evangelistic endowment. | |
| So wine, it can also represent something else, but if we see the rest of the verse, it kind of makes sense to think of it as connected to the evangelistic. Why? Because the evangelistic, when it goes bad, becomes what? An Amorite, the Amorite king. And the Amorite spirit is a spirit of pride, of earthly pride. | |
| And what does God mention immediately after wine is a traitor? He's a proud man. He's an arrogant man. Okay, here we go. So then it is someone who has an evangelistic endowment that goes bad and becomes Amorite. And God is saying when that person has Amorite inclinations, he's going to be motivated by things that will betray him. | |
| I hope that makes sense. It's like, imagine someone who has a conquering spirit, a conquering nature to him or her. They're conquerors. They're evangelists, but they're not in the spirit. Their soul is in control. So they become Amorites. So they become unrighteous conquerors. And unrighteous conquerors are always tempted to conquer stuff. | |
| It's like Napoleon. Napoleon, he was a big-time conqueror, kind of a very complicated man. I was watching a video about him, and I'm still kind of confused about him because he seemed to have some good qualities, and then he had some awful, awful qualities, very evil qualities. But the thing is that Napoleon conquered most of Europe, continental Europe, and then he set his eyes on Russia. | |
| And he said, I will take Russia. But it's like the Amorite spirit becomes seduced by conquest, by the promises of the conquest. Like, oh, I can take that land and become greater. | |
| More powerful and have my name Sound in even more places in the atmosphere of more places because that's what an Amorite wants his name to be heard Fame, you know, that's what he wants fame greatness his name floating in the atmosphere You know of the air and all that the thing is that | |
| Napoleon saw Russia and he said, I have to have it. I have to have it. He had all of Europe, but that wasn't enough. He had to have Russia. And because he went after Russia, we all know what happened. And the Russian winter did him in. And Russia was like this seductress saying, come, come, come. I will make you even greater. And then when he came... | |
| then that seductress betrayed him and turned the tables on him. And instead of him being greater, he ended up being banned into exile in Elba, I think it was. I forget if that was before or after, because he was comeback player of the year in 18-something. He got banished and then he was able to come back and | |
| and be the emperor of France again but it was for a short while and then he was eventually uh done away with so I'm not sure if the Elba thing happened before his comeback | |
| but the thing is that the Amorite, and that's the one thing that it's like God saying, watch out. See, you're on the watchtower and God is saying, watch out for these things. So if you have like an evangelistic quality to you and your soul will want to act like an Amorite, God is saying, whatever conquest is promising you, | |
| Whatever that potential conquest is promising you, it will end up betraying you. Like God is saying, you are going to be betrayed by your conquests. Eventually, they will come back and bite you. They will promise you things that are not real and eventually they will do you in and they will be your doom. | |
| I hope that's making sense. And I pray that if you have an evangelistic endowment, you'll have that in your heart. That when your soul tries to take over your evangelistic endowment, and you start kind of like going, I'll conquer Russia, I'll conquer this, I'll conquer that. And God will say, hey, those conquests that you're doing in unrighteousness, they will betray you. | |
| They will come back and bite you. They will promise you heaven and earth. And once you conquer, once you go after them, they will conquer you and you will be defeated. So that's what God's saying. There's treachery there. There's betrayal. Those things that you want to conquer will betray you. So that's why it says wine is a traitor. It promises you joy and then the joy turns into sorrow. | |
| the hangover kind of thing uh but yeah so then it's okay so wine is a tracer so that's the element of treason there and then he's a proud man so the arrogant spirit the emirate spirit neither keepeth at home so um regardless of what nava actually means because uh I'll be very frank I'm not too clear on it um | |
| We saw that it was used in Exodus, that God used it in Exodus 15 too. And I think that was Miriam, the Song of Miriam or something that we were reading in Exodus 15 too. And Miriam is celebrating the victory of God over the Egyptians. And she talks about a habitation. Oh, thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord Jesus. | |
| Yeah, it just came to my heart because it wasn't making sense to me. You know, staying at home, that makes me think of the female endowments, pastor and teacher. They always stay home. So it felt like a good thing, you know, not being trapped at home by the female endowment. But this not staying at home was being expressed in a negative sense. | |
| So is God telling us to be more feminine, more pastoral, teacherly, and staying at home and not going out? Like the male endowments always go out of the house. The apostolic goes out to blaze a new trail. The prophetic goes out to see the vision of God in the horizon. The evangelistic goes out to conquer unto God. So the three male endowments go out | |
| out of the house but this is saying the arrogant man doesn't want to stay in the house but so that makes it sound like a bad thing and the two things were not computing in my head and I just when I said the thing just now it's like God, God, boom, just uh made me understand uh because I wasn't understanding and I think this is what I understood um | |
| In Exodus 15:2, Miriam is singing a song of celebration of the victory of God over the Egyptians. And that brought Israel into a new home, the home of God. So this is not talking about the home in the male-female sense of the word, of the endowments, male endowments, female endowments. | |
| It's talking about being in the house of God, the house of the conquests of God. So just to clarify, we'll read that verse, Exodus 15-2 once again. It says, The Lord is my strength and song, and he's become my salvation. And salvation has to do with the evangelistic endowment, as we've shared so many times. The evangelistic endowment is one of saving. | |
| So he's become my salvation. He's my God. And I will prepare him a habitation, a nava. My father's God and I will exalt him. So it says, I will prepare him a nava. So it's saying, I'm going to prepare a house or a habitation where God can reign as king. | |
| Because he deserves it. He's the conqueror. That's what. It's like saying. You won. So you deserve to be king. You are the conqueror. So someone coming. And not wanting to stay in that nava. Is someone saying. I don't want to be in a place where God is the conqueror. I hope that's making sense. So that's why he's not staying at home. Quote unquote. Um. | |
| he's not in the Nava of Exodus 15 too. The only other time Nava is used in Scripture. So he doesn't want to stay in the Nava of God. He wants his own conquests. Yeah, it's like saying, no, I don't want to share the victory or the credit with God. I don't want that. I want my own personal victories without God. And as I said that, I have Columbo on mute. | |
| And as I said that, I wasn't even paying attention. And then suddenly I saw this flash of this scene. It's like they're about to start an episode and they're showing like scenes from the episode. And one of the flashes of the one scene that was quickly flashed was of a guy talking. And in the background, it's a politician. This is an episode about a politician. It's called Candidate for Crime. I'm reading the title right now. | |
| But in that episode, there's this political candidate. But in that scene that I saw, he appears in the scene and behind him was a sign that said his own man. In red, big red letters. I've seen this episode who knows how many times. I've never seen that. | |
| Never seen that sign. It's so quick. It's so fast. If you're not looking out for it, you won't see it. But there's this guy, the politician, and right behind him, | |
| In the background was this sign. It was like a poster of him, you know, in a political... It was a political poster, you know, and it had his picture, I think, and below his picture, in big red letters, it said his own man. | |
| And I felt God say that's what the person described in Habakkuk 2:5 is doing when he says he doesn't want to stay in the nava of God. He wants to be his own man, his own conqueror. I don't need God. I want all the glory for myself. And that's why he's fidgety. He needs to go prove that he doesn't need God to be a conqueror. And that's the thing. So God is saying... | |
| If you're an evangelist, be careful not to seek conquests that are independent of God to be your own man. And I just saw the sign once again on that Columbo episode. Yeah, Hayward, his own man. That's what it says. So they have the sign in the back. But the thing is that God... | |
| If you're in the spirit and you're an evangelist, you want to conquer unto God. You want to achieve things and conquer things so that God will be glorified. You don't want to be your own man. And you're not going to be like this, what's the word, restless person just waiting to prove that | |
| You can achieve on your own without God, trying to find something to validate yourself, to prove that you are this great conqueror. And I think that's what drove a lot of the Amorite conquerors. For example, Napoleon, it's like he needed to conquer this place and then this place and then this place to prove how great he was. | |
| And that's why he went after Russia. He wanted the ultimate prize to prove that he really was this great, great military giant in history. And that was his undoing. That betrayed him. So that's what God says. When you're in the spirit and you have the evangelistic endowment, be careful not to let that endowment betray you, seduce you into a trap. | |
| that is gonna promise you | |
| and it's not gonna deliver. And that's what happens with a lot of men who are conquering women all the time, like lecherous men, Amorites, who are just conquering women and they think that they'll achieve happiness or something and it never seems to fulfill them, never. It's always, it promises something and it never delivers on the promise, never. When you're an Amorite, | |
| All the conquests will always promise you something and never live up to the promise. Every time. And it gets worse from case to case, from conquest to conquest. But it's always falling below the promise. Always. And just keep that in mind. If you have an evangelistic endowment... | |
| Remember, if you let your soul take over that endowment, then you will go after things that will never deliver on their promise. Never. And that's kind of like something to slap you in the face to kind of wake you up. When you're being seduced by an Amorite conquest, just remember, oh, | |
| Whatever that conquest is promising you as a person, it will never deliver. Never. Might fulfill some of it, but it will never be enough. It will never fulfill what you think it will fulfill. | |
| Um, and okay. So, uh, and, and be careful not to be restless and try to get out of the Nava of God of being your own man. And I'm seeing the same sign again. It's all over the place. I I've seen this episode so many times. It's the first time I've seen that, uh, sign and it's all over the place. Now, now that I see it, I see it everywhere. Um, okay. So, um, | |
| Okay, so then the next part of the verse says, So it's kind of, this is just emphasizing everything we're saying. We just said, you know, someone who wants to gather all nations. I just can't have enough, get enough like Napoleon. I just need this other place. And I need this other place. I need this other place. And I need this other place. And I need this other place. | |
| And it's insatiable. It says, and the word enlargeth comes from Rabah. If I'm not mistaken, I'm sorry, Rahab. Rahab, sorry, Rahab. And Rahab means to be or grow wide, to grow large. | |
| And something that becomes large or great, that immediately points to the evangelistic endowment. That's the endowment most directly connected to greatness. That's what makes you a giant evangelist. That's why oftentimes, not always necessarily, but the vast majority of the time, I dare say, tall people are evangelists. Their tallness, physical tallness, is like a physical manifestation of their evangelistic endowment that God gave them. | |
| So it doesn't mean that if you're not tall, you can't be an evangelist. We're just saying that that's a physical manifestation. And I tend to see like a parallel, not parallel, but like a correlation, you could say, between someone being tall and having the evangelistic endowment. But you can have the evangelistic endowment and not be tall. We're just saying that if you're tall, you're, | |
| more or less predisposed to be an evangelist, more than likely. So the thing is that, so Rahab is enlarge, make great, expand, and all of that is very evangelistic. So all of this is certifying that this is connected to the Amorite spirit. When the evangelistic endowment is taken over by the soul, | |
| and not the Spirit of God. So, who enlargeth his desire, and the word desire, I think is a bad translation, if I'm not mistaken. The word desire was translated from nephesh. Oh yeah, definitely. Yeah, now I remember why I was sure this was a bad translation when I read it the first time. Nephesh literally means soul. So why in the world are the King James | |
| translators changing the word to desire here. It says, enlarges his soul. So again, this emphasizes, see Habakkuk 2:4 said, Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him, but the just shall live by his faith. And then in verse 5, it's talking about someone who enlarges his soul. | |
| So it's saying my soul, the soul is taking over the evangelistic endowment and wants to get bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and greater and greater and greater. So enlarging his soul as hell, Sheol. And God, why does God connect that enlargement with Sheol, with hell? Because Sheol is this big emptiness, this big empty space. | |
| This big place of emptiness. So God is saying it is an empty enlarging. You're enlarging in emptiness. You think you're enlarging in something of substance, but at the end it's all deception. It's all emptiness. There's a vanity to it. | |
| And again, the emptiness also correlates with not delivering on the promise. So it's something that... The thing that you want to conquer is promising you this. If you conquer me, you will be this. You will be that. You will be the other. And this will be... Finally, your hunger will be satisfied. And you will eat that conquest and you go... | |
| Still, I'm still not satisfied. You feel empty. Like, oh, I thought this was going to fulfill me. And it didn't. Who enlarges his soul, not desire, his soul as Sheol. And in fact, in the ESV, | |
| Well, actually in the ESV says his greed is as wide as Sheol. So they kind of also omit the word soul. But if I go look at other places, looking at other translations of this verse, we're reading Habakkuk 2:5. Let me see if I can find it. I saw other translations the other day that do say soul. | |
| Why can't I see it now? Here we go. The YLT, not sure what that one is. The Young's literal translation says, who hath enlarged as Sheol his soul. So they were kind of right on the nose, you know, very, very well, | |
| mapped against the Hebrew text so um okay so it says who hath enlarged as Sheol his soul um let's see who else uses soul um yeah nobody else seems to want to say soul um yeah interesting um if I look at other languages | |
| Very interesting. The RVR, which is, I think that's the Reina Valera. That's almost like the equivalent of the King James, but in Spanish. I think the Reina Valera, Reina literally means queen. Valera must be a name. So Queen Valera, it's like the Queen Valera translation. | |
| I believe that that was written by some monks too in honor of a king or a queen, I guess, I think. No, I really don't know. I'm making it up as I'm going along. But the thing is that I do know it's kind of an old translation. And I see here in the midst of all these Spanish words, I see the word "Alma". | |
| Yeah, "alma". And "infierno", that sounds like "inferno" in English. Inferno, and that's like hell. So, "infierno" there, that's hell or Sheol. But it says "alma". And "alma", I know for sure, is the word for soul in Spanish. Let me see. I think it's the word for soul in several languages. | |
| Uh, if I, uh, let's see, if I, um, if I write soul here and I ask in French, it's âme, which is like "alma" without the L. Um, if I ask in Portuguese, it's "alma", same, same word as in Spanish. In Italian, it's "anima", which is interesting, "anima", which makes sense because "anima" | |
| has to do with | |
| An animal is a soul without a spirit. And I think anima comes from the Latin word for soul. Okay. But we digress. The thing is that the Spanish, and I mean Spanish from Spain, the Reina Valera is a Spanish from Spain translation, not a hispanic latin american translation. So yeah, definitely it's... | |
| its soul, and that's the right way to say it. Okay, so now let's go back to Habakkuk 2:5. Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, but it really says, because wine is a traitor. He's an arrogant man, neither keepeth at home, Nava, who enlargeth his soul, who Rahab, | |
| Rahab, his nephesh, his soul as Sheol and is as death and cannot be satisfied. | |
| So in other words, it's like death. Death is never satisfied. It wants more and more and more. I've seen that God says that in several places in Scripture. He talks about how death, Sheol, is never satisfied. It's like this insatiable belly that just wants more and more and more. But it's a belly of emptiness. | |
| So, okay. And then, but gathers unto him all nations and he put unto him all people. So it just wants more and more and more. Uh, just like that song from the 1970s. Uh, I think it says more and more and more. Um, how do you like it? How do you like it? Or maybe I'm confusing it with something else, but the thing is that, uh, that's how, how you are as an evangelist. Um, uh, | |
| If your soul takes over your evangelistic endowment, then it will be seduced by wine. Like the joy of conquest will betray you. It will promise you all this stuff and then betray you by not delivering. And you will want to be your own man. You don't want to be in the nava of God. You don't want to... | |
| To share in his, or give him the glory for the conquest. You're conquering for yourself. You want to be your own man. And you will try to enlarge your soul. And your soul will never be large enough. It will want to be greater and greater and greater. Okay, so then Habakkuk 2:6, the next verse says, Shall not all these, and all these I think is referring to the nations and the peoples. | |
| And the word nations was translated from Goyim and people was translated from Am, like the Abraham. | |
| The am at the end means people. So nations and peoples, and God always refers to those two. And we've shared before in other recordings how nations, in one way, it has different layers. But nations and peoples, for example, could be Gentiles, the Gentile nations, and the Jews, the Jewish people. | |
| so it can be taken in that sense, and I think that it has other projections, but nations and peoples are not exactly the same thing, spiritually. Okay, so then, okay, so Habakkuk 2:6, Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his, how long, and to him that ladeth himself | |
| with thick clay. So there are five woes in this chapter. This is the first woe. So this woe is to this guy, the Amorite guy. I hope that makes sense. So it's starting with the Amorite, the soul that misuses the evangelistic endowment. | |
| And God is promising that there's going to be a taunting against you if you become an evangelist dominated by the soul. I hope that makes sense. There's a promise. God is saying, I promise you, I will taunt you. And those that you thought you had conquered will taunt you at the end. | |
| And I pray in the spirit as we say these words that they go out to those who have an evangelistic endowment, that there will be warnings, like very stern and sobering warnings to them not to let their soul take over their evangelistic endowment because there will be taunting at the end. You will be taunted, tormented, mocked, ridiculed. Just like Napoleon. Napoleon thought he could conquer all of Europe | |
| and be the emperor, like the, like a, like a new form of the Roman empire. And he went after Russia and we all know what happened. He ended up a prisoner in Elba and all that. And yes, he did make, you know, comeback player of the year, uh, um, shortly afterwards, but then he eventually, uh, was defeated. And, and, and, and Napoleon is always seen, um, with a certain sense of mockery, um, | |
| And I hope you, well, that's the sense I get. Napoleon is always mocked. And even, for example, his height. People say that that's kind of an exaggeration or something. He really wasn't that short. I think some people say he was 5'6", which was kind of like the average height in those days. So he was not unusually short or anything. But we all think of him as this short little guy, this crazy guy with this, | |
| Hand always tucked inside his shirt. And then we talk about Napoleon Complex. So his name has become like a form of mockery. Oh, he has Napoleon Complex. Yeah, he's this little guy who wants to prove himself to the world and be great and | |
| And he'll end up making a fool of himself. That's kind of what all the emotions and ideas that come with the phrase Napoleon complex, at least in my mind. But the point is that he has become a source of mockery, his name, because when you let your soul take over your evangelistic endowment, you will end up | |
| at the end of the day when all is said and done being mocked and ridiculed | |
| Same with Hitler, you know, everybody just, well, aside from the hatred and all that that people have against him, there's also the mockery that he was a lunatic, you know, and the silly little mustache that he had is seen as almost like something. When people, you know, wear that mustache to kind of imitate him, it always looks | |
| You know, like, wow, that's a stupid look, you know, kind of thing. So there's always going to be mockery at the end because God will never, God cannot be mocked. | |
| So if you try to prove that you can do it without him, that you're better than him, that you don't need him, God's going to say, okay. It's like the Titanic. The Titanic, they made these claims. It was this humongous ship with the greatest technology of the time and unsinkable. And some idiot said, not even God can sink it. And God took note. | |
| Oh, he wrote down, okay, you think that I cannot sink it. Okay. And on its maiden voyage, God sank it. Just like that. And now the Titanic is like, there's a mockery connected to that name. The ship that thought it was unsinkable and boom, it goes down on its first voyage. | |
| Other lesser ships that never claimed anything close to what the Titanic was claiming, many ships like that, quote, inferior ships, were able to be used for 20, 30, 40 years and be retired and go to some ship graveyard to live out their final days. And the Titanic didn't even last one trip. | |
| Didn't even complete the trip. So mocking is that in your future, if you want to be a conqueror without God, if you let your soul take over your evangelistic endowment. Okay, so... | |
| Let me just read Habakkuk 2:6 in the ESV. It says, shall not all these take up their taunt against him with scoffing and riddles for him and say, okay, woe to him who heaps up what is not his own for how long and loads himself with pledges. Notice how different it is from the King James. I'll read the King James again. Shall not all these take up a parable against him and a taunting proverb against him and say, woe to him that increases that which is not his | |
| How long? And to him that ladeth himself with thick clay? So it's more or less the same except for the end. The ESV says, Woe to him who heaps up what is not his own. Now this is, the ESV I think is wrong here because, well let's see, the King James says, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his. And then how long? | |
| And then it says, to him that laid himself with thick clay. And the ESV says, and loads himself with pledges. So if you go to the original Hebrew, the word increaseth was translated from Rabbah. And Rabbah means multiply. It's kind of similar to Rahab. Rahab means enlarge. Rahab is like the same word as Rahab. The name Rahab, I believe. | |
| The thing is that Rabbah and Rahab are similar. And Rabbah means to grow or multiply. So it's also a very evangelistic word. And that's why I heap up. Maybe it's not the best translation as the ESV had it. So it says, Woe to him that increases, that Rabbah, that which is not his. Why is it not his? If he's conquering it, why is it not his? Because it's supposed to be God's. | |
| And then as it's God's, it becomes his. It becomes yours. I hope that's making sense. When you go and conquer on your own, you start meddling with things that were for God. You know, the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. The earth belongs to him. He has the right of conquest of the earth. | |
| So if you go to conquer the earth on your own outside of God, you're trying to increase or heap up, using the ESV's mistranslation, which might be somewhat valid. You try to heap up what is not yours. It's God's. So it's emptiness. It'll be taken away from you anyway. So... | |
| Okay, so how long? Oh, and the thing is, and this is not just because you're taking away, trying to take away from God. You're taking away from what others deserve to conquer in God. So you're taking away from other conquerors. And it was not yours to conquer. And you're taking it away from someone else. Okay. | |
| So you start encroaching on the righteous conquests of others. I hope that's making sense. Right, okay. So, okay, so then the last part of the verse says, how long unto him that laid himself with thick clay, but that's all messed up. Ladeth... | |
| was translated from kabad. And kabad means to be heavy, to be weighty, to be grievous, to be hard, to be rich, to be honorable, to be glorious, to be burdensome, to be honored. So kabad has a connection to heaviness. And the word for glory, I think it's kabod or something like that, comes from heaviness. So glory is heavy. Glory has a weight, the weight of God's glory. God's glory, when it's filling a place, | |
| The barometric pressure just multiplies. The atmosphere becomes very heavy, very intense. So kabad here, literally, we could take it to mean glory. So he glories himself. | |
| with thick clay, but thick clay is a horrible, horrible translation. Thick clay was translated from abdit. And abdit literally means weight of pledges or heavy debts. And it's only used one time in Scripture in that verse. And that's why the ESV, oh, and abdit comes from another word, abat, which means to take a pledge, to give a pledge for a debt. So what is God saying here? So let's, | |
| Let's read it with the ESV because it's more accurate. The last part at least. For how long? And loads himself with pledges. So burns himself. It's like you're giving. So the word loads himself here. The phrase is from the word kabad, which can mean glory or heaviness. | |
| So you're weighing yourself with pledges. But it has a double meaning. You're giving yourself glory, but it's glory that you have to pay back somehow. And that's always like the curse of an evangelist controlled by the soul. All the glory you acquire will be glory with debt that you will have to pay back somehow. | |
| and you will never be able to finish off the debt, paying the debt. I hope that makes sense. It's glory that must be paid back. And if you think about it, it's such an empty, empty victory, empty glory. It's like all you're doing is accumulating debt that you'll have to pay back. So this glory, this heaviness of glory is actually heaviness of debt. | |
| So if you see someone who's an evangelist controlled by his soul, and you see him with these great victories, like Bill Gates, for example, he has an evangelistic quality to him, kind of a sneaky fellow and a manipulator and all that. But aside from that, I do believe he has an evangelistic endowment inside of him, amongst other things. | |
| And he allowed his soul to dominate his evangelistic endowment. And he was able to conquer many things and achieve many victories. And you see that glory and that fame that he has. But he has to pay all of that back. All that glory comes with debt. He'll have to pay it back and he won't have enough to complete the payment. | |
| It will all be taken away from Him. It's glory, mortgaged glory. | |
| Yeah, it's like someone, let's put it this way, it's like someone who brags about this big mansion and this Rolls Royce and this Bentley and this private jet, all these great things that he brags about that kind of make him feel like he's the king of the world and full of glory. And it turns out that all of those luxury items... | |
| And the house and everything was paid with debt and he owes like 30, you know, $20 billion. And then you go, what's the point of having a Bentley and having a mansion and all that if to get all of that, you had to get into $20 billion of debt that you'll have to pay back someday. | |
| I hope you see what we're saying. It's like that's what an evangelist controlled by the soul looks like in the spirit. Like all this empty glory that is just built on debt that he'll have to pay back with interest. Okay. And then Habakkuk 2:7 says, | |
| Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them. And the word booties there is like the word for loot. And all this just keeps pointing to a conqueror or to an evangelist because conquerors conquer booty, conquer loot. | |
| they go into a city and take loot. And God is saying, you go around taking loot, conquering all these places. Well, you will eventually be someone else's loot. Yeah, it's kind of like what's happening with the AI companies, Anthropic and OpenAI. They want to be | |
| you know, trillion-dollar companies and all that, and we all know that they are amassing an incredible amount of debt. Anthropic, for example, has amassed $518 billion of uncancellable debt that has to be paid by the end of 2027, 2028, I forget. But that's just an example of that glory that's built on debt. | |
| And they feel like they are the greatest thing in the universe and that they're transforming humanity. And it's all just, all they're doing is weighing themselves with debt. And the weight feels like glory, but it's glorious debt. Okay. And yeah, so we'll... | |
| We'll look at this verse, Habakkuk 2:7, in more detail, but it's again the emphasis of the betrayal. Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awaken those who shall vex thee? | |
| So it's like God is going to rise up. Like all these people that you've tormented, that you've taunted, they will come back and take revenge and bite you eventually and vex you. And you will become their loot. They will conquer you. They will swallow you up at the end. Just like what happened with Napoleon. Napoleon conquered all of Europe and then all of Europe conquered him. And he ended up just being | |
| meager little prisoner and I forget how he died but he didn't die in glory he died a prisoner okay so I believe I thought we were going to be able to finish at least two of the woes or three of the woes but woe is me we didn't even finish the first woe so the Lord willing we will continue with the rest of | |
| I'll finish this first woe and go into the other four. And I pray that as we go through the woes, you'll see how it just gives you an image of what it looks like and how foolish it looks like to have the soul dominating each of the endowments. We're looking at when the soul is dominating the evangelistic endowment. And what is the purpose of knowing this so that you will stay in faith? | |
| Because the just shall live by faith. And faith is connecting to the promise of that spirit man. You trust in God that that spirit man is in you. And you connect and live in the spirit, in that watchtower of the spirit. And then when the temptation comes, the soul wants to use your evangelistic endowment for the wrong things. You'll stay in the faith because you'll see how woeful it is. | |
| uh, for you or me to allow that to happen for the soul to take over the evangelizing endowments. You stay in faith and then we'll see the woe of the other endowments. That's what this is for. So it has a practical purpose and it also kind of reveals things in the spirit of what it is to live in the soul versus living in the spirit, living in faith and living in sin. Um, | |
| Okay, so thank you very much for listening, and I pray that these words will be of benefit, of practical and eternal benefit in your life, in my life. In the name of Jesus, Amen. |
The meditation begins by revisiting Galatians 3:11, which states that "no man is justified by the law in the sight of God," and that "the just shall live by faith." This principle is echoed in Habakkuk 2:4. The core concept presented is that faith is the mechanism that makes a person look like God; as faith is exercised, the nature of God is manifested in the individual, reducing the visible contrast between the person and their Creator.
Faith serves as the activation of the "inner man"—the spirit man born again into a person. Living by faith is essentially living in the spirit. As this inner man grows from spiritual infancy toward maturity, the righteousness, power, and authority of the individual's actions become increasingly potent.
A deeper discussion is held regarding the "curse of the law" mentioned in Galatians 3:10. The law represents the systems man puts in place to live under an old covenant through the soul rather than the spirit. This is compared to the "matriarchal church," which operates under human doctrines, rules, and paradigms rather than the paradigms of God.
Living under the law creates a cycle where one must constantly "keep up" through external actions to prove spiritual status. However, because these actions are driven by the soul rather than the spirit, they eventually fail to measure up. In contrast, living by faith is about who you are (a spirit being) rather than what you do.
The concept of "hanging on a tree" is interpreted as a symbol of the Girgashite spirit—the spirit of earthliness. Just as a person hanging on a cross struggles to breathe and stays tied to the ground despite appearing elevated, a person living in the soul tries to appear spiritual while remaining fundamentally earthly and bound to human systems.
Sin is defined as the state where the soul holds dominion over the spirit. Therefore, faith is the tool that allows a person to step out of the control of the soul and into the control of the spirit. This transition is what removes a person from the state of sin.
Referencing Romans 14:23, "whatsoever is not of faith is sin," the discussion clarifies that even seemingly "good" or "moral" actions can be sinful if they are not done out of faith in God’s specific direction. Even religious fervor or adherence to liberal doctrines can be a form of "faith" in human systems, but if it is not faith in God, it remains within the realm of sin.
The relationship between faith and sin is one of direct opposition. Faith connects the believer to the Spirit, while walking away from faith results in the soul taking control, which is the essence of sin.
Even when a person decides to live by faith, they may encounter resistance from the body and the flesh. This is often the "after-effect" of past unfaithfulness and old thinking patterns. For instance, a person might feel physical anxiety even after deciding to trust God.
It is vital not to accept the enemy's accusations that these physical reactions mean one has not changed. Instead, these are merely the "withdrawals" of the flesh. By abiding in the spirit, the individual allows the inner man to grow until they reach the full stature of Christ.
A warning is issued regarding "outward righteousness." The law evaluates externals, much like the Pharisees, who appeared righteous but were rotten inside. An example is given of giving to a homeless shelter: while it looks charitable, if done out of soul-driven pity or to maintain a reputation rather than out of obedience to God, it may actually be enabling unrighteousness and acting against God's true purpose.
This applies to church attendance as well. Going to church out of habit, tradition, or social pressure—rather than a desire to hear God's voice—is a soulish motivation that does not connect to the Spirit.
The study shifts to Habakkuk 2, focusing on the contrast between the "lifted up" soul and the just who live by faith. The "lifted up" soul (the nephesh) refers to a soul that has taken dominion over the spirit, characterized by heedlessness and presumption.
The text mentions the Canaanite and Amalekite spirits, which represent the "pastor gone bad" and the "teacher gone bad"—the pastoral matriarchy where the soul dominates.
The first "woe" in Habakkuk 2 concerns the misuse of the evangelistic endowment (represented by "wine"). When the evangelistic gift is controlled by the soul, it turns into the "Amorite spirit"—a spirit of pride and unrighteous conquest.
Using Napoleon as an example, the discussion illustrates how a conqueror seduced by the joy of conquest can be betrayed by those very conquests. An unrighteous conqueror seeks fame and greatness for themselves, but this leads to a cycle of emptiness.
The "enlargement of the soul" is described as a pursuit of emptiness, akin to Sheol. The person seeks to expand their influence, but because it is not rooted in the Spirit, it is a hollow, insatiable growth that results in spiritual famine and lack of satisfaction.
Finally, the discussion addresses the "weight of glory" that is actually a "weight of debt." The person who seeks glory through soulish conquest is like someone who lives in luxury through massive debt. They appear glorious on the outside, but they are actually burdened by a "mortgaged glory" that they can never truly pay back.
The ultimate consequence for the one who conquers without God is that they will eventually become "booty" or "loot" for others. Just as Napoleon was eventually a prisoner, those who live by the soul's ambitions will eventually be consumed by the very things they tried to master.
The purpose of studying these "woes" is practical: to serve as a warning to believers to stay in faith. By recognizing the emptiness and the eventual mockery that follows a soulish life, the believer is encouraged to remain connected to the promise of the Spirit and the inner man.