WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.960 All right, well, welcome to number 11. 2 00:00:04.960 --> 00:00:07.120 I can't believe the time is just going so fast. 3 00:00:07.120 --> 00:00:17.800 We are in number 11 out of this 12-week series called The Four Agreements, A Biblical Perspective 4 00:00:17.800 --> 00:00:21.560 to Discovering the Secret to Transformation. 5 00:00:21.560 --> 00:00:26.640 And I know for those of you who have been along for the journey, this has been truly 6 00:00:26.640 --> 00:00:34.320 a secret to transformation, to just begin applying these principles and the amount of 7 00:00:34.320 --> 00:00:41.980 freedom that can come from just eliminating the stuff that is just draining our energy 8 00:00:41.980 --> 00:00:45.880 and causing communication breakdowns. 9 00:00:45.880 --> 00:00:51.200 And truly, and we're going to talk about it today, the verse, the truth, you shall know 10 00:00:51.200 --> 00:00:54.760 the truth and the truth will make you free. 11 00:00:54.760 --> 00:01:00.640 So today, as we begin the series, I just invite you, Holy Spirit, you are the one 12 00:01:00.640 --> 00:01:02.560 who guides us into all truth. 13 00:01:02.560 --> 00:01:07.040 You are our teacher, you are our comforter, you are our helper, you are our advocate, 14 00:01:07.040 --> 00:01:08.760 you are our standby. 15 00:01:08.760 --> 00:01:14.080 And we just thank you that you live in us and through us, and we just ask that you guide 16 00:01:14.080 --> 00:01:23.320 this study open, all of our spiritual senses that we may hear clearly, receive, feel clearly, 17 00:01:23.320 --> 00:01:24.320 think clearly. 18 00:01:24.320 --> 00:01:29.240 Father, I just ask that the words of my mouth, the meditations of my heart are pleasing in 19 00:01:29.240 --> 00:01:30.240 your sight. 20 00:01:30.240 --> 00:01:35.960 Just ask that this be an anointed study that guides us into truth, gives us breakthrough, 21 00:01:35.960 --> 00:01:43.000 and allows us truly to bring your kingdom here on earth, to touch a hurting people, 22 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:46.560 to just let the power of love prevail. 23 00:01:46.560 --> 00:01:47.880 We just thank you. 24 00:01:47.880 --> 00:01:49.200 This is the day you've made. 25 00:01:49.200 --> 00:01:50.320 We rejoice in it. 26 00:01:50.320 --> 00:01:55.600 And we thank you for this study, in Jesus' name, amen. 27 00:01:55.600 --> 00:02:04.800 Well, we have been really talking about Romans 12, this whole idea of transformation, using 28 00:02:04.800 --> 00:02:11.480 the four agreements as a way of being transformed, transformation, of course, occurring by the 29 00:02:11.480 --> 00:02:17.560 renewal of our mind, the renewing, the making new of our mind. 30 00:02:17.560 --> 00:02:25.880 And it's really about thinking about our thinking. 31 00:02:25.880 --> 00:02:31.520 And as we do that, we can begin to sort through and break through a lot of the illusions, 32 00:02:31.520 --> 00:02:37.480 the lies that we've told ourselves, that we've told others, the crazy thinking that has really 33 00:02:37.480 --> 00:02:41.600 gotten our togas in a knot and wasted a whole lot of energy. 34 00:02:41.600 --> 00:02:47.560 So when I discovered this book, the four agreements, it was very life-changing for 35 00:02:47.560 --> 00:02:48.560 me. 36 00:02:48.560 --> 00:02:51.640 I've read it and listened to it just a number of times. 37 00:02:51.640 --> 00:02:58.360 And I just knew I wanted to do it as a Bible study and just spend some time just lingering. 38 00:02:58.360 --> 00:03:01.240 Of course, we teach that, which we most need to know. 39 00:03:01.240 --> 00:03:07.360 So that's why I love teaching this, because for 12 weeks, it's got me totally thinking 40 00:03:07.360 --> 00:03:09.160 about it, plus the preparation time. 41 00:03:09.160 --> 00:03:16.240 And so it's just...they're such simple but life-changing principles. 42 00:03:16.240 --> 00:03:20.040 And so, of course, we've gone through the four agreements. 43 00:03:20.040 --> 00:03:25.440 On the fourth one, we've been landing the first agreement, of course, being impeccable 44 00:03:25.440 --> 00:03:27.120 with our word. 45 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:30.640 And I think it's made us more conscious. 46 00:03:30.640 --> 00:03:35.680 I know a number of you have said that's really been a big thing you've gotten from the study 47 00:03:35.680 --> 00:03:40.680 is being more conscious of your words, that we can't just be just saying any old thing 48 00:03:40.680 --> 00:03:44.320 and letting just any old thing come out of our mouth. 49 00:03:44.320 --> 00:03:52.760 But understanding that our word, we're made in the image of God. 50 00:03:52.760 --> 00:03:59.360 And as co-creators, designing our life here, one of the ways that our life is designed 51 00:03:59.360 --> 00:04:07.320 is by the words that we speak to ourselves in our thoughts, and putting it out there 52 00:04:07.320 --> 00:04:14.360 in the universe, and knowing that our words have power to create, and that through our 53 00:04:14.360 --> 00:04:16.560 words, that's how we manifest. 54 00:04:16.560 --> 00:04:23.800 And so becoming much more deliberate about our words and their power, and understanding 55 00:04:23.800 --> 00:04:31.480 as we begin to understand, and finally, I think there's a merging that's going on right 56 00:04:31.480 --> 00:04:32.480 now. 57 00:04:32.480 --> 00:04:36.920 And of course, the science of neurotheology, there's this merging of understanding how 58 00:04:36.920 --> 00:04:42.960 our thoughts, and our words, and our belief systems, and theology, and science, we're 59 00:04:42.960 --> 00:04:48.400 starting to understand they are not two different worlds and universes, but they are one and 60 00:04:48.400 --> 00:04:51.400 the same. 61 00:04:51.400 --> 00:04:55.400 And I'm thinking, I'm looking at this book that sits on my desk because it's just so 62 00:04:55.400 --> 00:05:00.000 pretty and sparkly and everything called Angel Words by Doreen Virtue. 63 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:06.620 but what this does is it really brings this concept you know into a visual form 64 00:05:06.620 --> 00:05:14.420 it shows the sound graphs of all the different words and it shows that when 65 00:05:14.420 --> 00:05:21.060 we use high-frequency words that it shows on the graph that they call it 66 00:05:21.060 --> 00:05:26.160 angel words because it looks like angel wings they're very big and and spread 67 00:05:26.160 --> 00:05:31.440 out you make a statement like life is good and it's just giant and spread out 68 00:05:31.440 --> 00:05:39.640 as opposed to you know just things that are are low frequency that are you know 69 00:05:39.640 --> 00:05:45.520 doubt and and negative and so on and it's just amazing you say the word fear 70 00:05:45.520 --> 00:05:51.680 and it's this little tiny frequency and you say you know these these big words 71 00:05:51.680 --> 00:05:57.840 like love and and they're just they're just huge and spread out and so every 72 00:05:57.840 --> 00:06:03.440 every word has a frequency and as thus it's it's setting up a vibration in in 73 00:06:03.440 --> 00:06:09.140 your own body which has results in your health in your in your world that you 74 00:06:09.140 --> 00:06:15.080 live in and so understanding that it has a vibration understanding that there's a 75 00:06:15.080 --> 00:06:22.800 vocabulary that allows you to have dominion over your world and and you 76 00:06:22.800 --> 00:06:29.600 know the the scripture Proverbs 18 21 that says death and life are in the 77 00:06:29.600 --> 00:06:34.200 power of tongue of the tongue and they who indulge in it eat the fruit of it 78 00:06:34.200 --> 00:06:39.840 and so understanding that we're speaking life over ourselves over our body over 79 00:06:39.840 --> 00:06:44.040 our finances what do you do when you pay a bill do you speak life do you give 80 00:06:44.040 --> 00:06:47.960 thanks do you have gratitude when you pay it where do you speak fear and doubt 81 00:06:47.960 --> 00:06:52.840 and think fear and doubt what do you do you know for your body when you look in 82 00:06:52.840 --> 00:06:56.440 the mirror do you speak life over yourself each day when you look in the 83 00:06:56.440 --> 00:06:59.920 mirror what do you do when you speak to your children your loved ones do you 84 00:06:59.920 --> 00:07:06.080 speak life and so just understanding that these words are so powerful and 85 00:07:06.080 --> 00:07:14.280 being impeccable with our words that is the first agreement and the second 86 00:07:14.280 --> 00:07:19.160 agreement of course is not taking things personally do not take anything 87 00:07:19.160 --> 00:07:25.320 personally and this is really tied in with the biblical concept of taking 88 00:07:25.320 --> 00:07:33.560 offense and it's so huge it's so easy to read into something that someone said or 89 00:07:33.560 --> 00:07:38.400 read into something that someone did or read into something that that someone 90 00:07:38.400 --> 00:07:42.800 you know the way that they even looked at you for Pete's sake and and take 91 00:07:42.800 --> 00:07:49.240 offense and think it's about you and once that offense kicks in it moves us 92 00:07:49.240 --> 00:07:55.200 into this whole cascade of defending our beliefs and needing to be right and 93 00:07:55.200 --> 00:08:01.240 justifying what it is that we believe and and just developing this movie in 94 00:08:01.240 --> 00:08:08.400 our head and so this taking things personally just creates all kinds of 95 00:08:08.400 --> 00:08:14.720 emotional energy leaks and drains and trauma and drama and just all of that 96 00:08:14.720 --> 00:08:20.240 stuff and that's tied in with number three that we went through of don't make 97 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:24.360 assumptions in order to take this offense you have to make an assumption 98 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:31.120 that you know what they said is is about you that what you're believing is true 99 00:08:31.120 --> 00:08:36.880 and and based on these assumptions you just create again this whole trauma and 100 00:08:36.880 --> 00:08:41.440 drama and and you believe that you're right and you begin defending this and 101 00:08:41.440 --> 00:08:46.000 you make someone else wrong and this creates division in yourself in your 102 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:51.920 relationships in your churches in your communities in our world it's all it's 103 00:08:51.920 --> 00:08:58.840 all based these assumptions create chaos in business because we just don't stop 104 00:08:58.840 --> 00:09:05.800 and ask questions which of course the remedy for assumptions is asking asking 105 00:09:05.800 --> 00:09:10.280 the person to clarify that you even understood and that that's really what 106 00:09:10.280 --> 00:09:16.080 they were thinking and if you can get the courage to start asking you'll find 107 00:09:16.080 --> 00:09:19.400 out and it's okay to couch it and say you know what I'm just learning about 108 00:09:19.400 --> 00:09:25.480 not making assumptions and I I feel that perhaps you know I sense that or it 109 00:09:25.520 --> 00:09:30.800 seems to me that you're thinking this or you said this is it you know am I 110 00:09:30.800 --> 00:09:38.800 accurate you're gonna find over 90% of the time they're gonna go no I wasn't 111 00:09:38.800 --> 00:09:43.920 even thinking it didn't even cross my mind it's not even their movie it's our 112 00:09:43.920 --> 00:09:51.320 projection on to them and so ask ask ask ask this is the remedy ask the person 113 00:09:51.320 --> 00:09:57.240 and secondly ask the Holy Spirit because the Holy Spirit will give you 114 00:09:57.240 --> 00:10:01.920 know insights and and this is why James 115 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:06.960 one says anyone is deficient in wisdom, let them ask. And this is the role of the Holy Spirit to 116 00:10:06.960 --> 00:10:13.680 guide us into all truth, which I'm going to be talking about today. And the fourth agreement, 117 00:10:14.720 --> 00:10:22.080 always do your best. And this is really the application of the first three, 118 00:10:23.040 --> 00:10:30.720 always do your best. And again, this is a biblical principle, Ecclesiastes 9, 10, 119 00:10:31.280 --> 00:10:39.360 whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might. And this has to do, do your best has 120 00:10:39.360 --> 00:10:45.200 to do with being present. You can't do your best if you're not present. Jim Rohn, I remember 121 00:10:45.200 --> 00:10:51.440 hearing Jim Rohn 25, 30 years ago. And he says, you know, when you're working, don't be thinking 122 00:10:51.440 --> 00:10:56.080 about playing. When you're playing, don't be thinking about working. You know, we're at work 123 00:10:56.080 --> 00:10:59.440 and we're just wanting a vacation. And all we can think about is when we're going to have our 124 00:10:59.440 --> 00:11:04.320 vacation and retire. And we're just not fully present in our work. And when we're playing, 125 00:11:04.320 --> 00:11:08.960 we're thinking about how all the things aren't getting done at work. And so we're never just 126 00:11:08.960 --> 00:11:17.120 fully in the now. And I wrote that in my Facebook a few days ago, Facebook post about how, 127 00:11:18.080 --> 00:11:25.920 because we're never in the now, it's like we never live. We never truly live. And so, 128 00:11:26.880 --> 00:11:32.400 always do your best does involve being in the present. And when you're in the present, 129 00:11:33.200 --> 00:11:39.200 it involves giving your all and being focused and being there. And we talked under always 130 00:11:39.200 --> 00:11:46.880 do your best, the difference of action and resisting. So many people are just stuck. 131 00:11:47.840 --> 00:11:56.720 They're in analysis, paralysis. And so they're resisting life. They're resisting, 132 00:11:56.720 --> 00:12:02.720 they're not taking action. And this not taking action and resisting and just deciding instead 133 00:12:02.720 --> 00:12:06.880 to just sit in front of a TV, you know, or whatever as a way of not dealing with it, 134 00:12:07.280 --> 00:12:15.040 causes fatigue. When you look up, for example, and feelings buried alive or Louise Hay, 135 00:12:15.040 --> 00:12:20.640 heal yourself or anything, and you look at what is the root cause of fatigue? They will both tell 136 00:12:20.640 --> 00:12:27.120 you that it's resisting life. It's feeling bored. It's not enjoying your place in life, 137 00:12:27.120 --> 00:12:36.960 not stepping into your place in life. And so we've got this kind of double-minded situation 138 00:12:36.960 --> 00:12:43.520 of not being present, of not fully investing, of not fully going for it, of not taking action. And 139 00:12:44.240 --> 00:12:49.840 this inaction is, we talked about last week, a way that we actually deny life. 140 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:57.760 Don Miguel Ruiz, who wrote the book, says, action is about living fully. Inaction is the way that 141 00:12:57.760 --> 00:13:03.600 we deny life. He says, inaction is sitting in front of the television every day for years 142 00:13:03.600 --> 00:13:09.840 because you're afraid to be alive and take the risk of expressing what you are. Expressing what 143 00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:15.120 you are is taking action, he says. He says, you can have many great ideas in your head, 144 00:13:16.080 --> 00:13:25.280 but what makes the difference is action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, 145 00:13:25.280 --> 00:13:36.400 no results, no reward. I've sat and listened to James Malachick, and he talks about all of the 146 00:13:36.400 --> 00:13:41.840 people who really want to write a book, desire to write a book, but how few ever do it. They just 147 00:13:41.840 --> 00:13:46.000 keep talking about writing a book, talking about writing a book, and he just finally got in there 148 00:13:46.000 --> 00:13:51.760 and wrote his book, and he shows it to the audience, and the title was ridiculous, and the 149 00:13:51.760 --> 00:14:01.600 cover was so lousy, I guess, I don't know, whatever the word, and people make fun of his cover, 150 00:14:01.600 --> 00:14:07.520 and he talks about, my ugly book is better than the book you've never written. 151 00:14:08.240 --> 00:14:14.400 He's making a point, and it's the point I've heard, that you'll do things 152 00:14:14.400 --> 00:14:20.640 many times poorly before you ever master it and achieve mastery, and so do not let this kind of 153 00:14:20.640 --> 00:14:27.680 perfectionism keep you from living your life, waiting for all the circumstances to be perfect, 154 00:14:27.680 --> 00:14:32.640 to step out and truly live, waiting until you've just mastered things and you have it just right. 155 00:14:32.640 --> 00:14:38.720 That's another form of inaction, and double-mindedness, and never stepping into our 156 00:14:38.720 --> 00:14:45.120 life, and wasting a lot of time, and he goes on to say about living in the present, he says, 157 00:14:45.120 --> 00:14:51.760 God is life, God is life and action, and the best way to say, I love you, God, many people just 158 00:14:51.760 --> 00:14:58.080 talk about how much they love God, and he says in this quote, the best way to say, I love you, God, 159 00:14:58.080 --> 00:14:59.840 is to live your life doing. 160 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:07.000 your best. He says the best way to say thank you, God, is by letting go of the 161 00:15:07.000 --> 00:15:13.680 past and living in the present moment right here and right now. He says 162 00:15:13.680 --> 00:15:19.360 whatever life takes away from you, just let it go. When you surrender, you let go 163 00:15:19.360 --> 00:15:25.520 of the past, you allow yourself to be fully alive in the moment. Letting go of 164 00:15:25.520 --> 00:15:33.000 the past means you can enjoy the dream that's happening right now. If you live 165 00:15:33.000 --> 00:15:38.400 in a past dream, you do not enjoy what is happening right now because you're 166 00:15:38.400 --> 00:15:45.600 always wishing it to be different than it is. There is no time to miss anyone or 167 00:15:45.600 --> 00:15:52.160 anything because you are alive. Not enjoying what is happening right now is 168 00:15:52.160 --> 00:16:01.640 living in the past and being only half alive. This leads to self-pity, suffering, 169 00:16:01.640 --> 00:16:08.800 and tears. And of course Jesus in Matthew 6 tried to make this point. He said don't 170 00:16:08.800 --> 00:16:13.560 worry and be anxious about tomorrow. He's talking about borrowing from the future. 171 00:16:13.560 --> 00:16:17.560 Not only don't live in the past, but stop borrowing from the future. He says don't 172 00:16:17.560 --> 00:16:22.440 worry or be anxious about tomorrow for tomorrow has worries and anxieties of 173 00:16:22.440 --> 00:16:28.760 its own. Sufficient for each day is its own trouble. Stay in the present. Stay in 174 00:16:28.760 --> 00:16:37.760 today. And James, Jesus's brother, repeats that in James chapter 4 and verse 13. He 175 00:16:37.760 --> 00:16:42.400 says come on now those of you who say today or tomorrow we'll go and we'll do 176 00:16:42.400 --> 00:16:45.800 this and we'll spend a year here and we'll go do this and we'll make this 177 00:16:45.800 --> 00:16:50.800 money. He says you don't know the least thing about what's going to happen 178 00:16:50.800 --> 00:16:58.400 tomorrow. See tomorrow is always tomorrow and yesterday's always gone and and so 179 00:16:58.400 --> 00:17:05.040 all you really have is today and this is something we so miss and and I got this 180 00:17:05.040 --> 00:17:10.079 one visual and I journaled it one day I just got this visual of this armed 181 00:17:10.079 --> 00:17:14.839 bandit you know like the old cartoons if you remember you know with the you know 182 00:17:14.839 --> 00:17:18.839 the scarf across the you know the nose and the double guns that they're 183 00:17:18.839 --> 00:17:22.280 flipping across his finger this you know this armed bandit comes up to you and 184 00:17:22.280 --> 00:17:27.839 says stick them up do you remember those cartoons just stick them up and and so 185 00:17:27.839 --> 00:17:31.360 and and they're not just asking for your money the bandit says give me all your 186 00:17:31.360 --> 00:17:36.640 money but also give me all your joy give me all your peace give me all your you 187 00:17:36.640 --> 00:17:43.080 know and just give me everything and and what are what is that bandit it is living 188 00:17:43.120 --> 00:17:47.280 in the past because living in the past whether you're living in nostalgia and 189 00:17:47.280 --> 00:17:51.360 saying oh those were the good old days and you just keep on talking about the 190 00:17:51.360 --> 00:17:57.720 good old days or the shame and the guilt and the regret and if only I should have 191 00:17:57.720 --> 00:18:02.520 I could have I all of the shoulda coulda's that just take you down and 192 00:18:02.520 --> 00:18:10.160 it's the bandit because now you're not enjoying today you truly are not living 193 00:18:10.160 --> 00:18:16.640 it's robbing your experience the gift that God has given you of life and the 194 00:18:16.640 --> 00:18:21.040 other bandit is just so far in the future and and and there's literally 195 00:18:21.040 --> 00:18:26.000 countless people that have gone to the grave and they say the grave is the 196 00:18:26.000 --> 00:18:31.160 wealthiest place on earth because in the grave are all the books that have never 197 00:18:31.160 --> 00:18:35.040 been written and all the movies that were never created and all the 198 00:18:35.040 --> 00:18:39.680 scientific discoveries that never happened and all the adventures and 199 00:18:39.680 --> 00:18:44.480 explorations and all the things that died with that person in the grave that 200 00:18:44.480 --> 00:18:49.200 never brought the amazing change to the world because they were always putting 201 00:18:49.200 --> 00:18:57.920 off life and they never stepped into today and I shared my experience with 202 00:18:57.920 --> 00:19:02.040 you guys a number of times that the God allowed me one time in a vision to 203 00:19:02.040 --> 00:19:06.600 literally experience a moment and literally he just said create this 204 00:19:06.600 --> 00:19:12.680 moment anyway you want in this vision and it was really just pure pure bliss I 205 00:19:12.680 --> 00:19:17.240 created that moment and it was just amazing and then that moment was gone 206 00:19:17.240 --> 00:19:24.000 and and I felt God's Spirit saying what if your life is like this what if you 207 00:19:24.000 --> 00:19:30.680 can create each moment and in so doing this you're designing your life and 208 00:19:30.680 --> 00:19:35.800 that's really what these four agreements are about they're about building your 209 00:19:35.800 --> 00:19:40.600 life by design and not by default you're not just allowing your thoughts 210 00:19:40.600 --> 00:19:45.640 to think you but but you're beginning to as scripture talks about take every 211 00:19:45.640 --> 00:19:51.800 thought captive you're beginning to choose the high-frequency thoughts that 212 00:19:51.800 --> 00:19:57.480 produce the high-frequency life in other words do not ever think that negative 213 00:19:57.480 --> 00:20:01.560 thoughts are going to produce a positive life 214 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:04.200 cannot hold on to negative thinking and live a positive life it does not work 215 00:20:04.200 --> 00:20:08.960 that way and when I say negative I mean I mean low frequency the the low 216 00:20:08.960 --> 00:20:14.520 frequency thoughts and and so I think for many people this is brand new to 217 00:20:14.520 --> 00:20:20.760 think about their thinking I I was privileged to watch over this weekend a 218 00:20:20.760 --> 00:20:27.120 live cast of Byron Katie and she wrote a book called loving what is and she's 219 00:20:27.120 --> 00:20:31.820 just it's very powerful it's kind of like the four agreements there's some 220 00:20:31.820 --> 00:20:37.920 questions you can ask that can really set you free from the from the stupidity 221 00:20:37.920 --> 00:20:42.640 that that keep us prisoner and someone at the beginning of this of this series 222 00:20:42.640 --> 00:20:47.520 asked her how she got into doing it's called the work what she does it's 223 00:20:47.520 --> 00:20:53.080 called the work and how did she get into doing the work of thinking about her 224 00:20:53.080 --> 00:20:56.720 thinking and teaching people to think about their thinking and she says you 225 00:20:56.720 --> 00:21:00.200 know what I realized and this was so profound it was worth the whole seminar 226 00:21:00.200 --> 00:21:09.360 right here she says when I believed my thoughts I suffered but when I began to 227 00:21:09.360 --> 00:21:17.200 question them I didn't suffer in in other words when we just let our minds 228 00:21:17.200 --> 00:21:22.080 go uncontrollably and we just accept all of our thoughts as truth and we don't 229 00:21:22.080 --> 00:21:27.240 challenge them then there's enormous suffering and that's what this four 230 00:21:27.240 --> 00:21:33.200 agreements has been about is that there's just enormous suffering around 231 00:21:33.200 --> 00:21:40.080 believing our thoughts and not doing what Paul says of disciplining them of 232 00:21:40.080 --> 00:21:44.440 taking every thought captive of tearing down the strongholds in our minds and 233 00:21:44.440 --> 00:21:48.800 taking every thought captive and whatever is good whatever is lovely 234 00:21:48.800 --> 00:21:55.040 whatever is virtuous if there be any praise if there be any virtue fix your 235 00:21:55.040 --> 00:22:00.320 mind the Amplified version says fix your mind on these things it's learning to 236 00:22:00.320 --> 00:22:07.000 fix our mind on those things that are high frequency that are producing the 237 00:22:07.000 --> 00:22:13.280 thoughts and so this is this is just so powerful and what I want to go into 238 00:22:13.280 --> 00:22:17.400 today is actually what you don't know I've been talking about the four 239 00:22:17.400 --> 00:22:26.360 agreements but Don Luis Miguel's son actually wrote a second book a corollary 240 00:22:26.360 --> 00:22:33.440 book called the fifth agreement there's actually a fifth agreement and we're 241 00:22:33.440 --> 00:22:38.840 gonna cover that today but before we do I want to take a pause point and those 242 00:22:38.840 --> 00:22:45.000 of you have been kind of following along share some of the growth that's happened 243 00:22:45.000 --> 00:22:49.800 some of the lessons because your experience will will very much help 244 00:22:49.800 --> 00:22:53.920 everyone else what are what are some of the lessons can you give any practical 245 00:22:53.920 --> 00:22:59.960 applications of what you've seen have have you seen that you've had less 246 00:22:59.960 --> 00:23:04.920 emotional drama are you feeling more free is the truth setting you free are 247 00:23:04.920 --> 00:23:08.880 you doing things different share share a little bit let's have a little pause 248 00:23:08.880 --> 00:23:16.640 point here anybody want to share 249 00:23:16.640 --> 00:23:42.720 hi this is Jill yeah Jill hi I'll try to share I haven't had my coffee yet okay you know when we live with the agreements in our mind and in our heart it's much 250 00:23:42.720 --> 00:23:52.040 easier but when we get if I know that I get caught in day-to-day stuff and to 251 00:23:52.040 --> 00:23:59.800 do's and judgments it makes life so difficult and it's so rainy and I'm 252 00:23:59.800 --> 00:24:08.240 exhausted I need to I love your words I know that they're Don Miguel Ruiz's 253 00:24:08.240 --> 00:24:13.280 words your your interpretation of them for us because when we can listen to 254 00:24:13.280 --> 00:24:19.520 your words in our mind and put that into our heart it makes our day so much 255 00:24:19.520 --> 00:24:26.040 easier and we have so much more energy at the end of the day you know living 256 00:24:26.040 --> 00:24:30.960 without judgment not taking things personally you know doing our best and 257 00:24:30.960 --> 00:24:37.240 not criticizing ourselves if our best was better on a different day so I just 258 00:24:37.240 --> 00:24:43.880 thank you for that and you know if all of us can try to stay in that vibration 259 00:24:43.880 --> 00:24:50.680 more than not it really frees us up and gives us more energy mm-hmm 260 00:24:50.680 --> 00:24:57.440 thank thank you thank you Jill that's that's that's what I believe is just so 261 00:24:57.440 --> 00:25:01.480 amazing about this is that 262 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:06.840 really 90 if not a hundred percent of our suffering what we call suffering of 263 00:25:06.840 --> 00:25:11.640 our pain and and I'm talking what you're what you're sharing Jill I mean of being 264 00:25:11.640 --> 00:25:19.640 emotionally drained of being exhausted of tears of anger of fear of all of the 265 00:25:19.640 --> 00:25:26.560 stuff that is not even based in truth it's simply what's gone on in our head 266 00:25:26.560 --> 00:25:32.840 the movie that we've created the reality that we've created and it's just so so 267 00:25:32.840 --> 00:25:38.040 much needless suffering and this can just eliminate so much of that and 268 00:25:38.040 --> 00:25:42.960 that's why I just felt like wow and and here's what I encourage you all of you 269 00:25:42.960 --> 00:25:51.680 is that you can download all of these studies if you go to bit like a horse's 270 00:25:51.680 --> 00:26:00.840 bit bit.ly forward slash bbse that's Bible based spiritual equipping 271 00:26:00.840 --> 00:26:07.920 dash 4a you can go and download each of these and just be listening over and 272 00:26:07.920 --> 00:26:11.520 over and over and this is one of those series that I encourage you to do that 273 00:26:11.520 --> 00:26:15.720 and to share pass it on to others because I just truly believe there's so 274 00:26:15.720 --> 00:26:20.840 much freedom in it thank you Jill for sharing anybody else what what are you 275 00:26:20.840 --> 00:26:24.680 gleaning from this before we move on 276 00:26:32.240 --> 00:26:46.160 Hey Frank. I was just looking through like last week's notes and the thing that I'm coming up with is trying to remember all 277 00:26:46.160 --> 00:26:53.440 these great things that that you teach I so look forward to this but I like the 278 00:26:53.440 --> 00:26:59.920 mindset plus skill set plus action equals result so there are either 279 00:26:59.920 --> 00:27:08.320 reasons or results yeah so it goes back to always do my best don't make 280 00:27:08.320 --> 00:27:15.680 assumptions because like I said it's my movie is completely most often different 281 00:27:15.680 --> 00:27:24.600 than others but by making assumptions I make all kinds of endless or it's 282 00:27:24.600 --> 00:27:30.240 meaningless energies spent and going in the wrong direction and not really 283 00:27:30.240 --> 00:27:35.520 accomplishing anything but if you keep your mindset and your skill sets and do 284 00:27:35.520 --> 00:27:38.480 something about it then you've got action to proceed 285 00:27:38.480 --> 00:27:44.600 yep yep awesome yeah that's my that's my coaching formula I'm always you know 286 00:27:44.600 --> 00:27:48.360 when I'm coaching someone I'm looking at you know where where does the 287 00:27:48.360 --> 00:27:52.680 adjustment need and I'm constantly scanning you know and and looking for 288 00:27:52.680 --> 00:27:57.640 and and in myself you know is the mindset what's causing the issue here or 289 00:27:57.640 --> 00:28:03.440 is it just a lack of a skill set or is it that there's just not the actions not 290 00:28:03.440 --> 00:28:07.680 being taken and you know it's like an algebra equation you work on that side 291 00:28:07.680 --> 00:28:13.360 then the other side the results also increases and so yeah that's um that's 292 00:28:13.360 --> 00:28:17.640 that's powerful saying thank you Frank thank you for from doing that and Frank 293 00:28:17.640 --> 00:28:21.720 I encourage you get get the downloads and listen over and over I guarantee you 294 00:28:21.720 --> 00:28:26.960 it'll be a new experience every single time so that's that's why we're making 295 00:28:26.960 --> 00:28:34.240 that available and you know I I do this really at just covering my cost of 296 00:28:34.240 --> 00:28:38.960 hosting it and getting someone doing the technology of it just so that it can 297 00:28:38.960 --> 00:28:44.800 just be out there for for people to get this freedom so awesome yeah any anyone 298 00:28:44.800 --> 00:28:51.080 else some insights that you've gotten from the four agreements so far 299 00:29:08.960 --> 00:29:15.680 Oh not only what I'm doing what I'm saying or how I'm positioning my words 300 00:29:15.680 --> 00:29:21.760 but also what's been going on around me and it makes me curious and make me a 301 00:29:21.760 --> 00:29:27.600 much better coach but even if we know these things putting it into consistent 302 00:29:27.600 --> 00:29:34.480 practice is a whole different skill set and I had some drama hit me last week 303 00:29:34.480 --> 00:29:40.360 and I didn't recognize until 9.30 that I had missed your call and I was like oh my 304 00:29:40.360 --> 00:29:47.600 goodness I love my call and just just just allowing those things to kind of hit 305 00:29:47.600 --> 00:29:53.920 and so you know it's going unconscious in a long time and missing things in 306 00:29:53.920 --> 00:29:59.280 your life and so it's just it was it was a great lesson for me to say oh okay 307 00:29:59.280 --> 00:30:02.200 these are 308 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:08.000 yeah awesome thank you and and I and I truly believe that you know that's why I 309 00:30:08.000 --> 00:30:12.760 start with with Romans 12 the way that we're transformed the way 310 00:30:12.760 --> 00:30:18.440 transformation happens of what scripture calls going from glory to glory is by 311 00:30:18.440 --> 00:30:22.520 this renewing of the mind and this renewing is happening by awareness so 312 00:30:22.520 --> 00:30:27.280 you really said that well the more that you become aware the more you become 313 00:30:27.280 --> 00:30:34.360 conscious and you know you you hear the coin term you know rising in levels of 314 00:30:34.360 --> 00:30:39.040 consciousness but it's just about awareness and it's not until we even 315 00:30:39.040 --> 00:30:43.680 become aware we're just we're just asleep we're literally just kind of 316 00:30:43.680 --> 00:30:50.800 going through life unconscious and so this this is really this study is so 317 00:30:50.800 --> 00:30:58.160 much about just paying attention and paying attention to our own thoughts 318 00:30:58.160 --> 00:31:05.840 and and and just you know life life really is becoming the way that that you 319 00:31:05.840 --> 00:31:12.280 believe it to be and so you know being willing to to look at that and to and to 320 00:31:12.280 --> 00:31:20.920 change just allows so much so much growth and and stops these energy leaks 321 00:31:20.920 --> 00:31:25.120 and all of this suffering so beautiful thank you just just being aware just 322 00:31:25.120 --> 00:31:36.760 increasing awareness not being asleep anybody else anybody else 323 00:31:36.760 --> 00:31:50.240 okay let's talk about then today let's talk about the fifth agreement and this 324 00:31:50.240 --> 00:31:59.000 one's very interesting it's it's it's called be skeptical and learn to listen 325 00:31:59.000 --> 00:32:03.400 it's like just another kind of addition the fifth agreement to take these to 326 00:32:03.400 --> 00:32:10.680 another level be skeptical and learn to listen and this is this is gonna sound 327 00:32:10.680 --> 00:32:14.040 funny at first but I'm gonna give a bunch of examples and it'll start to 328 00:32:14.040 --> 00:32:23.960 make more sense he says don't believe yourself or anybody else and you're like 329 00:32:23.960 --> 00:32:32.200 what don't believe myself or anybody else he says use the power of doubt I 330 00:32:32.200 --> 00:32:35.720 like I've always been taught the doubt is like your enemy you know fear doubt 331 00:32:35.720 --> 00:32:40.760 and worry but this is a way to take what you would think is your enemy and use it 332 00:32:40.760 --> 00:32:45.800 to exactly what I think Candice was just talking about to it to increase our 333 00:32:45.800 --> 00:32:53.320 awareness and so this idea of don't believe yourself or anyone else use the 334 00:32:53.320 --> 00:32:59.720 power of doubt to question everything you hear and and the question is is it 335 00:32:59.720 --> 00:33:09.640 really the truth is it really the truth now I go back and forth between this 336 00:33:09.640 --> 00:33:15.840 book and and I've been talking about Byron Katie because she's got what I 337 00:33:15.840 --> 00:33:21.160 believe four of the most powerful questions and I use it in my coaching 338 00:33:21.160 --> 00:33:27.840 all the time because we literally get ourselves convinced okay we make these 339 00:33:27.840 --> 00:33:34.400 assumptions we take things personally we get ourselves worked into a thinking 340 00:33:34.400 --> 00:33:39.720 pattern that we actually convince ourselves believe ourselves to be true 341 00:33:39.720 --> 00:33:45.360 that is not truth so this whole idea this is gonna if you haven't thought 342 00:33:45.360 --> 00:33:49.960 about this before this is gonna kind of rock your world today but if you have 343 00:33:49.960 --> 00:33:53.480 then you just already know and you've begun experiencing this but the fact of 344 00:33:53.480 --> 00:34:02.480 the matter is we lie to ourselves all the time we lie we lie to ourselves and 345 00:34:02.480 --> 00:34:06.200 you go I'm not a liar yeah you are as you begin to do this you'll see what I'm 346 00:34:06.200 --> 00:34:10.679 talking about we lie to others like I don't lie you know I can say I pride 347 00:34:10.679 --> 00:34:15.400 myself in being a super honest person and trying to walk in integrity the fact 348 00:34:15.400 --> 00:34:21.520 of the matter is because of this this movie that goes in our head and we play 349 00:34:21.520 --> 00:34:26.960 this movie until it becomes our reality and we believe it to be the truth 350 00:34:26.960 --> 00:34:33.440 capital T as opposed to the virtual truth little t of what we've convinced 351 00:34:33.440 --> 00:34:37.920 ourselves of and we don't know how to distinguish between the two unless we 352 00:34:37.920 --> 00:34:44.280 become conscious separating between the truth capital T it's true for all people 353 00:34:44.280 --> 00:34:51.480 all times it never changes as opposed to my truth little t of what I've 354 00:34:51.480 --> 00:34:55.960 convinced myself are you following what I'm saying because this is this is a 355 00:34:55.960 --> 00:35:02.160 tricky one but Byron 356 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:06.160 Katie has this series of four questions and you ask yourself all the time these 357 00:35:06.160 --> 00:35:16.080 questions and it's so powerful and the first question is, is it true? And you 358 00:35:16.080 --> 00:35:19.080 know they teach you in marriage counseling and things one of the first 359 00:35:19.080 --> 00:35:23.080 things that people do that you could just begin to see the lie is always and 360 00:35:23.080 --> 00:35:30.320 never statements right he he always blah blah blah blah she always blah blah blah 361 00:35:30.320 --> 00:35:36.520 blah blah blah blah and if you ask this question is it true? Well right away 362 00:35:36.520 --> 00:35:40.280 you've already seen that it's not true it's a it's a gross exaggeration nobody 363 00:35:40.280 --> 00:35:47.480 does anything always. Do you follow me? And so you ask that question and almost 364 00:35:47.480 --> 00:35:53.280 be comical you're saying he or she always do you mean like always is there 365 00:35:53.280 --> 00:35:59.720 is there ever a moment that this isn't happening and all of a sudden you begin 366 00:35:59.720 --> 00:36:07.720 to realize the exaggeration and the non-truth or he never she never really 367 00:36:07.720 --> 00:36:12.000 never ever ever ever you've never ever seen this and the fact that matter this 368 00:36:12.000 --> 00:36:16.840 is an example of how we believe our own stuff and so we begin to ask questions 369 00:36:16.840 --> 00:36:24.040 is it true? And then just in case you're still kind of wavering you can ask it 370 00:36:24.040 --> 00:36:30.520 again can you absolutely know it's true and you can do this with your words you 371 00:36:30.520 --> 00:36:34.000 can do it with others words you can do what you're believing about others words 372 00:36:34.000 --> 00:36:40.360 and then the beauty of just being conscious of all of this is you now take 373 00:36:40.360 --> 00:36:45.040 it into feelings because that's your feelings and your beliefs are are you 374 00:36:45.040 --> 00:36:48.760 know what's creating your health your life what you're manifesting everything 375 00:36:48.760 --> 00:36:55.280 so so now you ask yourself the question how do you react or or what happens when 376 00:36:55.280 --> 00:37:02.640 you believe that thought and what you'll find is it's not positive so you know he 377 00:37:02.640 --> 00:37:08.840 never blah blah blah blah blah how how do you react what happens when you 378 00:37:08.840 --> 00:37:14.200 believe that thought well I get angry I get frustrated I get hurt I get 379 00:37:14.200 --> 00:37:17.800 disappointed I get there's all these low frequency vibrations that happen 380 00:37:17.800 --> 00:37:25.040 when we believe that thought and so now part of getting set free is the question 381 00:37:25.040 --> 00:37:33.560 well who would you be without that thought who would you be without that 382 00:37:33.560 --> 00:37:42.840 thought and so what begins to happen is we can stop defending we can stop 383 00:37:42.880 --> 00:37:48.560 justifying I had people we had actually in the last workshop that I did the last 384 00:37:48.560 --> 00:37:55.000 workshop one woman said I know I have you know wrong thinking about about 385 00:37:55.000 --> 00:38:00.680 money but I just keep justifying that it's okay to think that and what I like 386 00:38:00.680 --> 00:38:05.880 to do is take the word justify and change it to the word defend and so I 387 00:38:05.880 --> 00:38:10.720 just literally what you do you put things in the light and when you do they 388 00:38:10.720 --> 00:38:15.560 lose their power when they're all up in your head they have all this power when 389 00:38:15.560 --> 00:38:18.760 they're in the darkness and they're not analyzed that's why I say think about 390 00:38:18.760 --> 00:38:23.520 your thinking when you don't think about it it has all this power to just exhaust 391 00:38:23.520 --> 00:38:26.840 you and drain you and take you all kinds of places so when you put it in the 392 00:38:26.840 --> 00:38:31.600 light and so you know asking is it true puts it in the light first of all 393 00:38:31.600 --> 00:38:36.680 because because 90% of the time when people just look at it they go well now 394 00:38:36.680 --> 00:38:42.560 I guess it's not true okay so you're justifying something that's not true and 395 00:38:42.560 --> 00:38:47.040 and tell me when you justify this thing when you hold this thought and you nurse 396 00:38:47.040 --> 00:38:50.400 it along and you live it what's going on in you what is that what does that 397 00:38:50.400 --> 00:38:53.840 create in you what feelings what's happening and you find out it's creating 398 00:38:53.840 --> 00:38:57.040 all these negative things I've never heard people say oh wow it just fills me 399 00:38:57.040 --> 00:39:01.520 with joy and peace because when joy and peace when you're not walking in truth 400 00:39:01.520 --> 00:39:04.360 there's there's no joy and there's no peace there's energy leaks there's 401 00:39:04.360 --> 00:39:07.720 drain there's emotional drama there's trauma there's fear there's all this 402 00:39:07.720 --> 00:39:12.920 stuff okay and it's not positive so you kind of put it in the light and you go 403 00:39:12.920 --> 00:39:16.000 okay wait a minute I'm believing something and I'm holding on and I'm 404 00:39:16.000 --> 00:39:21.800 living by something that is not true capital T and it's causing negative 405 00:39:21.800 --> 00:39:30.320 repercussions and we're defending it we're justifying it why and so you get 406 00:39:30.360 --> 00:39:38.520 to the place of well what would you be if you didn't have that thought well I'd 407 00:39:38.520 --> 00:39:43.600 probably be happier I'd have more peace I'd have more freedom I'd have more joy 408 00:39:43.600 --> 00:39:48.720 and so then you really have to get to the place of decision you get to use 409 00:39:48.720 --> 00:39:52.560 your power of choice scripture talks about choose you this day you get to 410 00:39:52.560 --> 00:39:55.280 choose your thoughts that's why scripture talks about what to fix your 411 00:39:55.280 --> 00:39:58.360 mind on is why it talks about taking every thought captive you get to choose 412 00:39:58.360 --> 00:40:01.880 your thoughts 413 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:04.320 the captain of your soul that way you get to choose so now we brought to the 414 00:40:04.320 --> 00:40:08.520 light that what your thought is that it's not based on truth so we don't 415 00:40:08.520 --> 00:40:12.380 need to defend it and justify it anymore because it's not true and we brought to 416 00:40:12.380 --> 00:40:15.320 the light that it's not producing something positive in your life it's 417 00:40:15.320 --> 00:40:21.960 causing you stress and sickness and you know all this drama trauma whatever so 418 00:40:21.960 --> 00:40:26.560 we've come to that conclusion and what would you be if you release that thought 419 00:40:26.560 --> 00:40:31.080 if you decided not to choose that thought and you'd be like free or 420 00:40:31.080 --> 00:40:35.840 happier or have more peace have more joy okay so then it comes to choice are you 421 00:40:35.840 --> 00:40:39.640 willing are you willing to release that thought and usually when it's brought to 422 00:40:39.640 --> 00:40:43.800 the light people are willing and they can drop that thought and now they can 423 00:40:43.800 --> 00:40:51.320 move to a thought that better serves us we've been following lies and all it 424 00:40:51.320 --> 00:40:58.040 does is it doesn't serve us and so when we begin to look at these things this 425 00:40:58.040 --> 00:41:06.920 way we just get a whole new level of freedom and and here's what else that I 426 00:41:06.920 --> 00:41:14.440 think is is a lie that we're holding on to you've been taught to fight yourself 427 00:41:14.440 --> 00:41:19.920 you've been taught that you are your enemy and Jesus talked about a house 428 00:41:19.960 --> 00:41:24.760 divided can never survive and we're going to give you some examples of this 429 00:41:24.760 --> 00:41:30.840 scripturally so you've been you've been taught that your mind is your enemy no 430 00:41:30.840 --> 00:41:39.200 it's it's not your enemy it's time to love your mind love your thoughts so you 431 00:41:39.200 --> 00:41:43.320 stop fighting you stop resisting because that's a whole nother form of drama as 432 00:41:43.320 --> 00:41:48.320 you're constantly fighting yourself okay you've got this war going on inside 433 00:41:48.320 --> 00:41:52.960 instead if you love your thoughts and say what is that teaching me how how was 434 00:41:52.960 --> 00:41:57.840 it serving me but it's not serving me anymore you can walk in a new level of 435 00:41:57.840 --> 00:42:03.520 grace and a new level of freedom so this whole idea that we're going to talk 436 00:42:03.520 --> 00:42:09.120 about today in the fifth agreement is stop believing everything that you're 437 00:42:09.120 --> 00:42:14.960 thinking stop believing even what people are saying begin to ask these questions 438 00:42:14.960 --> 00:42:28.360 is it even true is it even true and and I want to go to John 8 John 8 verses 31 439 00:42:28.360 --> 00:42:42.120 to 33 John 8 31 to 33 would someone read that John 8 31 to 33 440 00:42:49.680 --> 00:42:55.440 anybody have a have your phone or your scripture in front of you John 8 31 to 441 00:42:55.440 --> 00:43:06.560 33 okay 442 00:43:11.360 --> 00:43:22.400 31 31 32 33 to the Jews who had believed him Jesus said if you hold to my 443 00:43:22.400 --> 00:43:29.320 teaching you are really my disciples then you will know the truth and the 444 00:43:29.320 --> 00:43:35.160 truth will set you free they answered him we are Abraham's 445 00:43:35.160 --> 00:43:41.560 descendants and have never been slaves of anyone how can you say that we shall 446 00:43:41.560 --> 00:43:50.360 be set free okay thank you Frank so so you see here that he's trying to talk to 447 00:43:50.360 --> 00:43:55.440 them and explain you will know the truth and it's a capital T and the truth 448 00:43:55.440 --> 00:44:01.760 will set you free the more that you can separate between the truth the two types 449 00:44:01.760 --> 00:44:07.640 of truth the virtual truth when I say the virtual truth the truth in your 450 00:44:07.640 --> 00:44:11.440 head the movie that you're creating that you believed that was your truth for 451 00:44:11.440 --> 00:44:15.800 that moment but as soon as you get a little deeper revelation you'll find out 452 00:44:15.800 --> 00:44:20.680 that there's a capital T truth in other words right here he's talking to them 453 00:44:20.680 --> 00:44:24.680 and and they were saying look you know what I've never been in bondage to 454 00:44:24.680 --> 00:44:30.400 anything they they did not know the capital T that yes they were they were 455 00:44:30.400 --> 00:44:35.000 in bondage to some religious traditions they were in bondage to fear and you'll 456 00:44:35.000 --> 00:44:38.880 see that very quickly in some of the examples that happen right after this 457 00:44:38.880 --> 00:44:43.360 they actually seek to kill them they're in bondage to rage there's all kinds of 458 00:44:43.360 --> 00:44:47.200 bondage but they couldn't even see that because they were in their own virtual 459 00:44:47.200 --> 00:44:51.640 truth that said their little T truth that said you know what we got it 460 00:44:51.640 --> 00:44:54.800 covered because we're the sons of Abraham we got it covered we don't have 461 00:44:54.800 --> 00:44:59.040 a problem I don't have a problem like an alcoholic their little T truth is I 462 00:44:59.040 --> 00:45:02.040 don't have a problem 463 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:05.220 under control. Until they come to a capital T, no you don't. We need to put 464 00:45:05.220 --> 00:45:08.780 this in the light. No, you don't have this under control. This is destroying your 465 00:45:08.780 --> 00:45:15.860 family, your finances, your life. You're deceived. You're believing a lie. And 466 00:45:15.860 --> 00:45:23.580 in John chapter 14, we see that Jesus said, it's so good that I go 467 00:45:23.580 --> 00:45:28.260 away because I'm gonna send the Holy Spirit. In order to get capital T truth, 468 00:45:28.260 --> 00:45:36.300 you're gonna need the spirit of capital T truth. And in John 14 verses 16 on, he 469 00:45:36.300 --> 00:45:40.900 says, I'm gonna ask the Father who's gonna give you another Comforter. And 470 00:45:40.900 --> 00:45:45.340 the word in there is just very rich. It's Comforter, it's Counselor, it's Helper, 471 00:45:45.340 --> 00:45:49.600 it's Intercessor, it's Advocate, it's Strengthener, it's Standby. That he's 472 00:45:49.600 --> 00:45:58.060 gonna remain with you forever. And verse 17, the spirit of truth. And it says that 473 00:45:58.860 --> 00:46:06.580 you are going to have him live in you constantly. And he'll be with you. And he 474 00:46:06.580 --> 00:46:13.220 talks about it again in John chapter 16. And he talks about it, verse 13, he says, 475 00:46:13.220 --> 00:46:19.220 but when he, the spirit of truth, the truth, capital T giving spirit comes, he 476 00:46:19.220 --> 00:46:25.500 will guide you into all truth, capital T. So this truth is progressive. You're 477 00:46:25.500 --> 00:46:29.940 gonna get guided into it. You're gonna go from glory to glory. You're gonna 478 00:46:29.940 --> 00:46:35.020 think you understood one thing, and then the Spirit's gonna reveal something else. 479 00:46:35.020 --> 00:46:40.420 And sometimes, you know, what we were taught from the pulpit, our religious 480 00:46:40.420 --> 00:46:47.100 traditions kept us from seeing the capital T truth. Sometimes our family 481 00:46:47.100 --> 00:46:51.700 kept us from seeing it. Sometimes our fears kept us from seeing it. Sometimes 482 00:46:52.260 --> 00:47:03.860 our, we didn't want to see it, you know, kept us from this. In Matthew 11, 483 00:47:03.860 --> 00:47:11.660 verses 5 to 7, offense or taking things personally keeps us from seeing the 484 00:47:11.660 --> 00:47:18.580 capital T truth. And when they asked about Jesus, and he said, well, the 485 00:47:18.580 --> 00:47:25.620 blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear. 486 00:47:25.620 --> 00:47:30.180 This is what's going on. The dead are raised, the poor have good news. This is 487 00:47:30.180 --> 00:47:38.060 what's going on. And Jesus says in verse 6, blessed, blessed. And the Amplified 488 00:47:38.060 --> 00:47:44.980 says, happy, fortunate to be envied is he who takes no offense. Blessed is the one. 489 00:47:44.980 --> 00:47:49.300 You want to be blessed, you want to live the blessed life, blessed is the one that 490 00:47:49.300 --> 00:47:54.580 doesn't take things personally. That person is blessed who doesn't take 491 00:47:54.580 --> 00:48:01.860 offense. And he says, who doesn't take offense at me and finds no cause for 492 00:48:01.860 --> 00:48:07.060 stumbling in and through me. And then here it is, the Amplified says, is not 493 00:48:07.060 --> 00:48:17.900 hindered from seeing the truth, capital T, capital T. You see, offense keeps us 494 00:48:17.900 --> 00:48:24.220 from seeing the capital T truth. If you guys could push mute on your phones if 495 00:48:24.220 --> 00:48:27.340 you're not talking, I'm getting a lot of your background noise as you move around 496 00:48:27.340 --> 00:48:32.500 and do things. Please push mute on your phone or push star six so that that 497 00:48:32.500 --> 00:48:38.380 background noise doesn't get on the recording. Thank you. So offense keeps us 498 00:48:38.380 --> 00:48:43.820 from seeing the capital T truth. Religious tradition keeps us from seeing 499 00:48:43.820 --> 00:48:53.980 the capital T truth. We see that in Mark chapter 3. Mark chapter 3, it says that 500 00:48:53.980 --> 00:49:00.860 those who who belong to him heard it and they went out to take Jesus by force. 501 00:49:00.940 --> 00:49:05.700 They went to go arrest him. They went to go get him because their religious 502 00:49:05.700 --> 00:49:10.180 traditions kept them from seeing that truth was right there, infinite wisdom 503 00:49:10.180 --> 00:49:14.040 and infinite truth was right there in their midst. And they were saying to 504 00:49:14.040 --> 00:49:23.180 themselves, here's the self-talk they were saying, Mark 3 31 or 21, Mark 3 21, 505 00:49:23.180 --> 00:49:30.520 they kept saying to themselves, he's out of his mind. He's deranged. You see, they 506 00:49:30.520 --> 00:49:37.680 couldn't see the capital T truth. They said he's deranged. And the scribes, the 507 00:49:37.680 --> 00:49:42.480 religious leaders came down from Jerusalem. They said he's possessed by 508 00:49:42.480 --> 00:49:48.880 Beelzebub and by the help of the prince of demons. He's casting out demons 509 00:49:48.880 --> 00:49:54.760 because he's the head of demons. That was their little T truth. That's what they 510 00:49:54.760 --> 00:50:00.080 believed about Jesus. And he tells them a parable to try to get 511 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:07.640 him to see big T truth. He says to them, how can Satan drive out Satan? You see, he 512 00:50:07.640 --> 00:50:11.520 starts asking, is it true? Is what you just said true? You just said that I'm 513 00:50:11.520 --> 00:50:16.000 driven by the prince of the demons. And so he applies this principle that 514 00:50:16.000 --> 00:50:20.920 Byron Kaded teaches. He asks, is it true? And he does that by asking a question. 515 00:50:20.920 --> 00:50:25.240 He's learning to not make assumptions, not take personal, and he's going to 516 00:50:25.240 --> 00:50:31.600 help them to look at this carefully. And he says to them a question, how can Satan 517 00:50:31.600 --> 00:50:39.440 drive out Satan? How can Satan, if I am coming from Beelzebub, the prince of 518 00:50:39.440 --> 00:50:44.000 demons, and that's how I'm doing my work, and you're ready to throw me off a cliff, 519 00:50:44.000 --> 00:50:49.400 I'm going to ask you a question. How can Satan drive out Satan? If a kingdom is 520 00:50:49.400 --> 00:50:58.880 divided and rebelling itself against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. Let me 521 00:50:58.880 --> 00:51:04.000 say that about your life. If you're attacking yourself, if your mind is 522 00:51:04.000 --> 00:51:08.720 attacking your mind, rather than loving yourself, loving your thoughts, 523 00:51:08.720 --> 00:51:13.080 understanding they're your teachers, and allowing them to gently come into the 524 00:51:13.080 --> 00:51:18.600 light and gently be released, lovingly ask what they're teaching you. If you're 525 00:51:18.600 --> 00:51:24.920 a house split and you're fighting against yourself, this is why people 526 00:51:24.920 --> 00:51:31.640 wanting to to release weight, or if you've listened to our teaching, waste, 527 00:51:31.640 --> 00:51:36.040 they'll always say, I've been struggling, I've been fighting against 528 00:51:36.040 --> 00:51:40.360 my weight, I've been fighting against, and that's the first clue right there. 529 00:51:40.360 --> 00:51:44.760 You're fighting against yourself, and as long as you're fighting against yourself, 530 00:51:44.760 --> 00:51:48.840 you're not going to get victory. It cannot be done this way, and so he says 531 00:51:48.840 --> 00:51:55.440 if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to last. So 532 00:51:55.440 --> 00:52:01.000 we see that religious tradition, we see taking offense keeps us from seeing the 533 00:52:01.000 --> 00:52:07.720 truth. This is why we lie to ourselves. Fear keeps us from telling the truth. Of 534 00:52:07.720 --> 00:52:13.880 course, we see the story of Peter, and they hear his accent, and they know he's 535 00:52:13.880 --> 00:52:18.680 been with Jesus, and they hear his accent, and they say, oh you're one of his 536 00:52:18.680 --> 00:52:23.560 disciples, you've been with him, and in Mark 14 71, he says, I don't know what 537 00:52:23.560 --> 00:52:26.960 you're talking about, I don't I don't know the man. Well, fear caused him. 538 00:52:26.960 --> 00:52:32.640 Sometimes fear causes us to believe not the truth, and we become convinced 539 00:52:32.640 --> 00:52:38.600 about ourselves. We believe our own movie because we're afraid, and so we live. This 540 00:52:38.600 --> 00:52:47.120 fear governs us, and we're believing a lie, and we're not sorting through, 541 00:52:47.120 --> 00:52:53.720 and David really understood this. You see it all the way through the Psalms. David. 542 00:52:53.720 --> 00:52:59.920 David in Psalms 12 says, help Lord! I'm reading from the 543 00:52:59.920 --> 00:53:07.760 Amplified. Help! He says, faithfulness and the faithful vanish from amongst the 544 00:53:08.080 --> 00:53:14.560 sons of men. He says, to his neighbor, each one speaks words without worth or 545 00:53:14.560 --> 00:53:22.280 truth. Flattering lips, a double heart, deceitfully they speak with boasting, and 546 00:53:22.280 --> 00:53:27.040 so he's just talking about, man, there's no truth out there anymore. Advertising, 547 00:53:27.040 --> 00:53:33.020 you know, is the king of all of that, of course. In Psalms 15, he asks the 548 00:53:33.020 --> 00:53:38.460 question, Lord, who's gonna dwell in your tabernacle? Who's gonna dwell in your 549 00:53:38.460 --> 00:53:43.620 holy hill? Who's gonna be in your presence? Who is it? And he 550 00:53:43.620 --> 00:53:49.420 answers his own question in verse 2. It says, he who speaks and thinks the truth 551 00:53:49.420 --> 00:53:57.260 in his heart, and so he gets real, real, real with himself, desiring to make sure 552 00:53:57.260 --> 00:54:02.540 that he is eliminating all of these lies from his own life, and so in Psalms 51, 553 00:54:02.860 --> 00:54:08.780 Psalms 51, it's this whole discourse between him and God, and him 554 00:54:08.780 --> 00:54:15.020 saying, God, you desire truth in the inner being. Make me, therefore, to know 555 00:54:15.020 --> 00:54:19.860 wisdom in my innermost heart. You know, Lord, help me to see truth. He's praying, 556 00:54:19.860 --> 00:54:25.940 and of course, back then, those of you that heard any of my health teaching, you 557 00:54:25.940 --> 00:54:31.660 know that I am a strong believer of essential oils as one way to break 558 00:54:31.700 --> 00:54:35.740 through some of this, some of these lies, some of these conscious blocks. Sometimes 559 00:54:35.740 --> 00:54:40.780 we've just gotten this movie is stuck, and it's just in continuous rewind, play, 560 00:54:40.780 --> 00:54:45.100 rewind, play, rewind, play, and we just can't seem to break it with our own 561 00:54:45.100 --> 00:54:51.060 thinking, and essential oils go, you know, straight to your limbic system, and they 562 00:54:51.060 --> 00:54:56.180 allow you to get a breakthrough just by smelling them, and that's why we develop 563 00:54:56.180 --> 00:55:02.020 the prosper oil as a way that can start breaking some of the... 564 00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:06.880 down and allow us to get spiritually connected and so I encourage you as you're wanting to get 565 00:55:06.880 --> 00:55:11.280 this breakthrough to begin to breathe in these oils and of course that's what David's doing 566 00:55:11.280 --> 00:55:17.280 right here he says purify me with with hyssop you'll see you'll see the oils used for this 567 00:55:17.280 --> 00:55:21.200 type of breakthrough and spiritual breakthrough you'll see frankincense you'll see myrrh you'll 568 00:55:21.200 --> 00:55:28.800 see hyssop you'll see these ways of of becoming clean and of walking in a whole new level of 569 00:55:28.800 --> 00:55:37.280 reality a whole level of higher consciousness and so this is this is the way that we can 570 00:55:37.280 --> 00:55:44.480 begin to get breakthrough and begin to walk through it because otherwise if you hold on to 571 00:55:44.480 --> 00:55:54.000 too long fear will then translate into paranoia or it'll translate into rage when you see 572 00:55:54.000 --> 00:56:01.120 anger and anger outbursts that's a form of fear and it's come from this this little t truth has 573 00:56:01.120 --> 00:56:06.400 become such a reality this movie has become so vivid it's been played over so much so much 574 00:56:06.400 --> 00:56:14.160 it turns into rage you see this in mark 3 so it began by saying you know this guy's the prince 575 00:56:14.160 --> 00:56:21.280 of demons this guy is you know bad news this guy is blah blah blah blah blah and in mark 3 576 00:56:21.920 --> 00:56:28.000 verse 28 and 29 they hearing him teaching it says when they heard these things all the people in the 577 00:56:28.000 --> 00:56:35.200 synagogue were filled with rage now if you read his words you're like man what in those words 578 00:56:35.200 --> 00:56:41.440 would trigger rage well everything they'd held to all their traditions all their belief systems 579 00:56:41.440 --> 00:56:46.080 everything right now was under scrutiny their little t truth when you go to challenge your 580 00:56:46.080 --> 00:56:53.840 little t truth um i got news for you it can be frightening it's going to take tremendous courage 581 00:56:54.400 --> 00:57:01.600 to break out of your little t truth i can give you some examples in my own life here's a little 582 00:57:01.600 --> 00:57:08.800 t truth that was put on me that kept me in fear and bondage i was told that as a divorced woman 583 00:57:08.800 --> 00:57:15.040 i would never be i would never be able to minister i would never be able to that that prosper in all 584 00:57:15.040 --> 00:57:22.400 things would not survive i would not be able to um to to move forward powerfully and effectively 585 00:57:22.960 --> 00:57:28.960 and i actually believe that it kept me in an unhealthy situation emotionally unhealthy situation 586 00:57:28.960 --> 00:57:34.640 for years because that fear kept me paralyzed so when you go to attack that fear it's going to 587 00:57:34.640 --> 00:57:42.000 take courage to step courage of course when when you look at hawkins frequencies of of emotions 588 00:57:42.000 --> 00:57:47.440 courage is at the 200 level this is the breakthrough level everything above 200 is 589 00:57:47.440 --> 00:57:51.920 strengthening strengthening in your body strengthening in your mind everything below 590 00:57:51.920 --> 00:58:00.080 that is weakening these little t truths that we're holding on to um that are fear-based and not love 591 00:58:00.080 --> 00:58:04.320 based are weakening your body they're weakening your health they're weakening your life they're 592 00:58:04.320 --> 00:58:09.440 weakening your courage and so uh what we see here is when they heard these things they were filled 593 00:58:09.440 --> 00:58:17.760 with rage and and it says rising up they pushed and drove him out of out of town they took hold 594 00:58:17.760 --> 00:58:22.960 of them they actually led him to the upper part of the hill that their town was built on and they 595 00:58:22.960 --> 00:58:29.920 were going to throw him over the cliff that's how serious this deception was they're believing their 596 00:58:29.920 --> 00:58:36.240 little t they were going to take infinite wisdom infinite truth jesus the way the life the truth 597 00:58:36.240 --> 00:58:41.440 and they were going to throw him over a cliff do you see how this can really mess with us they have 598 00:58:41.440 --> 00:58:46.320 so strong a fear it became rage and they're ready to take truth that's standing in their 599 00:58:46.320 --> 00:58:50.720 midst and have the potential to heal them and change them and give them peace and give them 600 00:58:50.720 --> 00:58:56.480 joy and they're ready to throw it over the cliff i wonder what truth is coming in your life and 601 00:58:56.480 --> 00:59:01.280 you've been ready to throw it over the cliff it's angered you you didn't want to face it because it 602 00:59:01.280 --> 00:59:08.560 took too much care courage and you were too afraid what what truth being brought into your 603 00:59:08.560 --> 00:59:13.840 life that you still don't want to let go of because you your traditions have kept you comfortable it's 604 00:59:13.840 --> 00:59:19.840 what you've always known you still have little baby jesus in a manger you're not willing to see 605 00:59:19.840 --> 00:59:25.280 the resurrected truth you're not rather to it's much more comfortable to just keep singing to the 606 00:59:25.280 --> 00:59:33.040 little baby jesus you keep him on a cross you just still keep going there and you don't ever 607 00:59:33.040 --> 00:59:37.200 get the victory because you're still just keeping him on the cross i got news for you he's not on the 608 00:59:37.200 --> 00:59:47.040 cross are you still stuck there he's not how is the little t keeping you in prison today 609 00:59:48.240 --> 00:59:52.160 the little t that you've been holding on to and building your whole life around 610 00:59:52.160 --> 00:59:58.880 the little t that's keeping you in unhealthy situations the little t that's making you physically 611 01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:06.320 sick, emotionally sick. I'd love some, I'd like to make a pause point here. Is this 612 01:00:06.320 --> 01:00:10.320 hitting any of you? Are you getting any revelation as we're talking about 613 01:00:10.320 --> 01:00:16.960 this? I'd love to hear from you. 614 01:00:21.560 --> 01:00:29.360 Are you all there? Did I get disconnected? I need to hear from some of you. Is 615 01:00:29.360 --> 01:00:35.080 anybody there? Okay, good. It was so silent I thought, oh no, we got 616 01:00:35.080 --> 01:00:38.800 disconnected. I've been talking to myself. 617 01:00:59.360 --> 01:01:07.480 Yeah, yeah, yeah, before we get our togan and nod and build our whole 618 01:01:07.480 --> 01:01:11.120 life around this thing, you know, before we get a spiritual wedgie, we need to 619 01:01:11.120 --> 01:01:16.680 stop and ask this question, is this even true? And can I absolutely know it's true? 620 01:01:16.680 --> 01:01:20.560 If it's not true and it's creating negative results, why the heck am I 621 01:01:20.560 --> 01:01:24.920 defending this? Why am I putting so much emotional energy into this one? It's not 622 01:01:24.920 --> 01:01:31.560 even true. That's wild, isn't it, Frank? 623 01:01:31.560 --> 01:01:54.480 Yes, it is. And that's like you say though, it can get scary learning what the real truth is, because it's uncomfortable, it's a challenge to the old drilled-in thought pattern or comfort level or it's just easier not to deal with because it's an automatic reaction, as opposed to actually facing the fact that it may take 624 01:01:54.480 --> 01:02:08.680 other skill sets to get past that. Yeah. It would be a breakthrough which would make everything easier, my gosh. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, that's, that, that's awesome. And you know, I've, I've 625 01:02:08.680 --> 01:02:13.640 personally experienced, I'm still experiencing this, you know, I've experienced 626 01:02:13.640 --> 01:02:22.480 it in, in my, in my spiritual life. I, I got, you know, introduced to faith, you know, 627 01:02:22.480 --> 01:02:27.040 when I was young in high school, coming from a very, you know, agnostic, atheist, 628 01:02:27.040 --> 01:02:31.680 you know, kind of family where I didn't know, you know, anything. So I just 629 01:02:31.680 --> 01:02:37.760 believed everything that was taught from me, you know. And yeah, and so I got, I got 630 01:02:37.760 --> 01:02:44.760 started in a very, you know, strong denomination that, that believed that 631 01:02:44.760 --> 01:02:50.720 they were the only church and the only way. And so even, even within Christianity 632 01:02:50.720 --> 01:02:55.360 that follows the same Jesus Christ, you see all this division between churches, 633 01:02:55.360 --> 01:02:59.240 all of them thinking they have the truth. And if you're not part of that church, 634 01:02:59.240 --> 01:03:02.520 you're going to hell, if you don't worship on a certain day, or you don't 635 01:03:02.520 --> 01:03:07.120 eat certain foods, or you don't. And so there's all this fear. And so when I went 636 01:03:07.120 --> 01:03:11.680 to leave that, because I began to see that perhaps that was more dogma than, 637 01:03:11.680 --> 01:03:16.520 than truth, there was this fear in me, like, wow, you know, I'm walking away from 638 01:03:16.640 --> 01:03:22.640 this church that was the only thing I knew. And, you know, maybe I'm going to be 639 01:03:22.640 --> 01:03:28.560 just really lost. I just always felt like, like, my relationship with God was so 640 01:03:28.560 --> 01:03:32.400 close to a cliff that, like, if I messed up, I mean, I'm going off that cliff, I'm 641 01:03:32.400 --> 01:03:36.920 going to burn in hell, I'm lost, I'm done. So I remember the growth that came from 642 01:03:36.920 --> 01:03:41.440 that. And, and then I remember the experience I had with the Holy Spirit, 643 01:03:41.440 --> 01:03:46.160 because then I just began going kind of a non-denominational type church. And, but 644 01:03:46.160 --> 01:03:49.120 I was still taught that people who walked in the miraculous and the 645 01:03:49.120 --> 01:03:53.800 supernatural, that kind of like Jesus got accused, they were, they were demonic. If 646 01:03:53.800 --> 01:03:57.280 you saw people healing, if you saw people doing the miracles, you were supposed to 647 01:03:57.280 --> 01:04:01.360 run the other direction. And God started bringing these people into my life. And 648 01:04:01.360 --> 01:04:05.160 they were simple carpenters, they were simple, you know, construction worker 649 01:04:05.160 --> 01:04:08.240 people that were just walking and putting their fingers in front of me, you know, 650 01:04:08.240 --> 01:04:11.800 putting their fingers in people's ears, and hearing was coming back, and the lame 651 01:04:11.800 --> 01:04:15.240 were walking, and all these miracles were happening. And so on one side, I've been 652 01:04:15.240 --> 01:04:18.640 taught I'm supposed to be scared and run the other direction, and on the other 653 01:04:18.640 --> 01:04:22.360 side, I'm seeing this. And I remember having an encounter with the Holy Spirit 654 01:04:22.360 --> 01:04:25.960 when he took me to 1st Corinthians, right from the Bible, 1st Corinthians 12 655 01:04:25.960 --> 01:04:30.480 through 14, about the gifts of the Spirit. And I remember reading it, and 656 01:04:30.480 --> 01:04:35.040 literally having this conversation with God, that's not what I was taught. Because 657 01:04:35.040 --> 01:04:38.120 I just believed everything from the pulpit. I didn't follow this fifth 658 01:04:38.120 --> 01:04:42.880 agreement to question everything in that sense. I just took it face value. And I 659 01:04:42.880 --> 01:04:46.560 said, that's not what I was taught. And I remember the Holy Spirit saying, but 660 01:04:46.560 --> 01:04:52.080 what does it say? And this is where, you know, the Holy Spirit's role is guiding 661 01:04:52.080 --> 01:04:57.080 into all truth. This is where the Holy Spirit's role of guiding us into all 662 01:04:57.080 --> 01:05:01.680 truth. 663 01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:08.000 I asked this question, well, that's not what I was taught, and the Holy Spirit said, well, what does it say? 664 01:05:08.000 --> 01:05:15.000 And I said, well, but that's not what I was taught, and the Holy Spirit said, but what does it say? 665 01:05:15.000 --> 01:05:22.000 And I made a decision right there. I want this. I desire this. This is a higher level truth than I was experiencing. 666 01:05:22.000 --> 01:05:27.000 I want to experience the supernatural. I want my life to be filled with not just religious dogma, but supernatural. 667 01:05:27.000 --> 01:05:34.000 Well, that changed my life forever, and I became hungry for the spiritual gifts. 668 01:05:34.000 --> 01:05:39.000 And I used to say, Lord, you're not a respecter of persons. I want what that person's got. 669 01:05:39.000 --> 01:05:46.000 And you know what? God was gracious, and I began to walk in the prophetic and have dreams and visions 670 01:05:46.000 --> 01:05:51.000 and be able to pray for people and have them be healed. It's the access to all believers. 671 01:05:51.000 --> 01:05:57.000 And here I was cut off from the very power of God because I had been taught a little tea truth, 672 01:05:57.000 --> 01:06:03.000 and I'd been holding it all this time. And so I experienced again yet another breakthrough. 673 01:06:03.000 --> 01:06:11.000 And then I had to experience a real look in my personal life when I was staying in a situation in my family 674 01:06:11.000 --> 01:06:16.000 that was not emotionally healthy and not allowing me to be everything that God had made me to be. 675 01:06:16.000 --> 01:06:23.000 And I had to have enormous courage to break through all opposition and break through the fear of man 676 01:06:23.000 --> 01:06:28.000 was probably the biggest for me. And I had to break through another, you know, little tea truth 677 01:06:28.000 --> 01:06:37.000 and have the capital T truth set me free. So I can tell you that we do go from glory to glory if we're willing 678 01:06:37.000 --> 01:06:43.000 and that the Holy Spirit does guide us into all truth, and it does take courage, 679 01:06:43.000 --> 01:06:50.000 and it does take a willingness to really be willing to ask these hard questions, to think about your thinking, 680 01:06:50.000 --> 01:06:57.000 and to ask these questions, to be skeptical of your own thinking, and to be willing to say, 681 01:06:57.000 --> 01:07:04.000 Man, is this true? And is it serving me? We're holding on to thoughts that are no longer serving us. 682 01:07:04.000 --> 01:07:11.000 Is it serving me? I'd love to have a pause point here and just have you guys just jump in. 683 01:07:11.000 --> 01:07:15.000 I really would love to hear from you here as we kind of wrap up this session about, 684 01:07:15.000 --> 01:07:21.000 is it true? And the fifth agreement. I'd love to hear from you guys. 685 01:07:21.000 --> 01:07:33.000 Brenda, I've got a mind-numbing thought. You know, we basically have all the answers in the same book. 686 01:07:34.000 --> 01:07:40.000 And the more I get into it, the more I'm amazed of my little tea truths, 687 01:07:40.000 --> 01:07:45.000 of for how long we've all been going through the same stuff over and over, 688 01:07:45.000 --> 01:07:51.000 through all these organizations and churches and following people that we thought knew, 689 01:07:51.000 --> 01:07:59.000 but myself never really digging into the word. It's right there. It's the same brick that I was carrying around 690 01:07:59.000 --> 01:08:04.000 when I was a kid. It's the same brick everybody else has. And just like you were saying, 691 01:08:04.000 --> 01:08:12.000 the truths of what you learned to where now what you're reading and understanding are completely different. 692 01:08:12.000 --> 01:08:20.000 And it's in the same book that we never really read or never understood or only heard what we were taught 693 01:08:20.000 --> 01:08:27.000 and thought because we went through that, you know, once a week I'm a Christian or I'm a churchgoer. 694 01:08:27.000 --> 01:08:33.000 I know it all, but not knowing the word that's been printed forever. 695 01:08:33.000 --> 01:08:39.000 What is my problem of the comprehension of this love letter from God? 696 01:08:39.000 --> 01:08:45.000 And there's so many interpretations. That just amazes me more and more every time. 697 01:08:45.000 --> 01:08:55.000 Yeah, that's such a good point. And I'll tell you, it's particularly becoming true right now. 698 01:08:55.000 --> 01:09:01.000 I will say most Christians don't know their own faith. They do not know their own faith. 699 01:09:01.000 --> 01:09:08.000 They don't know the Bible. And the sermons that are preached right now are very market driven. 700 01:09:08.000 --> 01:09:14.000 I hate to say that. I love the church. I love the body of Christ. But I'm telling you, much of it is very market driven. 701 01:09:14.000 --> 01:09:20.000 They're 20 minutes how to be happy sermons, in and out burger sermons, you know, three fast songs, 702 01:09:20.000 --> 01:09:26.000 one slow song, 20 minutes in and out burger and go home and I feel good. I did my duty. 703 01:09:26.000 --> 01:09:29.000 I went to church and now I'm going to go do what I was going to do this weekend. 704 01:09:29.000 --> 01:09:36.000 That is a whole lot of people. It's not all. There's some churches that really just dig in and dig in 705 01:09:36.000 --> 01:09:41.000 and really teach the truth. So nothing that I'm saying is, you know, just across the board. 706 01:09:41.000 --> 01:09:46.000 Everybody's is different. But when I talk to a huge number of Christians, 707 01:09:46.000 --> 01:09:53.000 they don't even know what the Bible says. They do not know the history of Christianity or their church. 708 01:09:53.000 --> 01:09:56.000 A lot of times I have to sit and give a history lesson. 709 01:09:56.000 --> 01:10:00.000 They couldn't tell you the difference between a Protestant and a Catholic. 710 01:10:00.000 --> 01:10:04.360 and where that evolved. They could not tell you where their denomination came 711 01:10:04.360 --> 01:10:08.440 from. They just somehow got born into it or got passed on. They could not tell you 712 01:10:08.440 --> 01:10:13.160 what are the distinguishing tenets of it. So there really is just a whole lot 713 01:10:13.160 --> 01:10:18.520 of just grabbing a hold of, you know, tradition. And Jesus did say that, you 714 01:10:18.520 --> 01:10:23.760 know, that your traditions make null and void the Word of God. And that's what 715 01:10:23.760 --> 01:10:27.560 you're talking about. We saw it right there in Scripture in Jesus's time with 716 01:10:27.560 --> 01:10:33.720 the leading scholars of the Word. He said your traditions make null and void the 717 01:10:33.720 --> 01:10:39.440 Word of God. We just are not getting to a place where we're truly asking 718 01:10:39.440 --> 01:10:44.120 consistently, even of our religious beliefs that we're holding on to, is it 719 01:10:44.120 --> 01:10:50.560 true? Capital T. And I believe that this is something I wrote down 720 01:10:50.560 --> 01:10:54.080 recently in my journal that God just gave me. And this will take the fear out 721 01:10:54.320 --> 01:10:58.960 for a lot of you, I believe. Some of you get real threatened if someone starts 722 01:10:58.960 --> 01:11:03.000 like, you know, questioning your faith or they start questioning blah blah blah. 723 01:11:03.000 --> 01:11:07.400 And you get real scared. And that's because you're not so sure of it. 724 01:11:07.400 --> 01:11:10.160 You don't want to take it away from you because it's your security blanket. And I 725 01:11:10.160 --> 01:11:15.520 see that. And I subject myself to a lot of different teachings. And many people 726 01:11:15.520 --> 01:11:18.800 probably couldn't handle that. And many people will say I'm deceived by doing 727 01:11:18.800 --> 01:11:23.080 that. And, you know, I get all that stuff too, you know. I've had magic fairy dust 728 01:11:23.080 --> 01:11:26.400 put on me and I can't see the truth. And I get, you know, people saying that about 729 01:11:26.400 --> 01:11:29.800 me and that's all that's all cool and everything. But here's what I know. Is 730 01:11:29.800 --> 01:11:35.920 that whatever is real, whatever is true, can never be taken from you. And that 731 01:11:35.920 --> 01:11:41.120 gives you a tremendous amount of... if it's true, capital T, it doesn't matter what I 732 01:11:41.120 --> 01:11:46.400 do. In other words, if it's true that the world is round, if that is true, I don't 733 01:11:46.400 --> 01:11:50.920 care how many theories I sit and listen to and what I do. That truth will never 734 01:11:51.080 --> 01:11:56.720 be taken. It will always be capital T truth. If Jesus is really the Messiah, if 735 01:11:56.720 --> 01:12:01.320 he is the Son of God, that capital T truth can never be taken from you. So 736 01:12:01.320 --> 01:12:06.160 stop being so afraid. Be willing to ask the Holy Spirit to enlighten you because 737 01:12:06.160 --> 01:12:10.440 some of your little T's are keeping you from knowing the big T. That's what was 738 01:12:10.440 --> 01:12:15.080 true when the big T, Jesus, who said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. I'm 739 01:12:15.080 --> 01:12:18.800 infinite wisdom, infinite truth standing in your midst. You're calling me the 740 01:12:18.800 --> 01:12:23.080 devil. You're about to throw me over a cliff. You can't even recognize capital 741 01:12:23.080 --> 01:12:26.920 T, the way, the truth, the life. You can't even recognize it when it's standing 742 01:12:26.920 --> 01:12:32.560 right in front of you because you're so bound up in your little T truths. Do you 743 01:12:32.560 --> 01:12:36.240 see that? It was right there at Jesus's time. They were missing what he was 744 01:12:36.240 --> 01:12:41.560 trying to teach and they would create this movie in their head. He was sitting 745 01:12:41.560 --> 01:12:47.280 in the boat with them and he said, watch out for the the leaven of the... watch out 746 01:12:47.280 --> 01:12:53.080 for the leaven of the Pharisees. And they get in this whole movie in their 747 01:12:53.080 --> 01:12:56.760 head, oh no, he's mad at us because we didn't bring enough bread with us. And 748 01:12:56.760 --> 01:13:01.520 they go in this whole thing and he's not even talking about bread. And he finally 749 01:13:01.520 --> 01:13:05.640 has to call them out of their little T truth and say, what the heck? Did you 750 01:13:05.640 --> 01:13:10.080 forget that I multiplied the bread and fed 5,000? Why are you talking about 751 01:13:10.080 --> 01:13:12.960 bread again? Do you not get what I'm trying to talk to you about? I'm trying 752 01:13:12.960 --> 01:13:17.320 to talk about spiritual leavening, little T's that get in your life that 753 01:13:17.320 --> 01:13:22.240 are holding you in bondage. Little T's like, I'm the son of Abraham, I don't have 754 01:13:22.240 --> 01:13:27.840 to worry about anything else. Little T's, you know, do you follow me? These little 755 01:13:27.840 --> 01:13:32.440 T's are keeping us in bondage and that's why when we analyze our little T's, the 756 01:13:32.440 --> 01:13:36.720 question is, first of all, is it true? And second of all, how do you feel when you 757 01:13:36.720 --> 01:13:41.960 hold on to that thought? And third of all, what would you be without that thought? 758 01:13:41.960 --> 01:13:45.720 And to me, I'm learning to think about my thinking and letting go of those 759 01:13:45.720 --> 01:13:49.760 thoughts that just no longer serve me. They just, you know, Paul said, 760 01:13:49.760 --> 01:13:55.200 when I was a child, I thought like a child. But now that I'm a man, it's time 761 01:13:55.200 --> 01:14:02.120 to put aside childish things. He talked about, man, you're still drinking milk. 762 01:14:02.120 --> 01:14:07.640 You know, you're a grown man. You need to be on spiritual meat. You need to be 763 01:14:07.640 --> 01:14:11.080 moving forward and truly making a difference and have an advanced 764 01:14:11.200 --> 01:14:16.640 thinking. And you're still looking for the nipple and sucking on baby formula. 765 01:14:16.640 --> 01:14:21.040 You're still trying to go and hear a 20-minute how to be happy and let 766 01:14:21.040 --> 01:14:24.920 someone teach you the word and you're not even getting into the meat to find 767 01:14:24.920 --> 01:14:29.320 out what is big T truth and what little T's have I been holding on to. Do you see 768 01:14:29.320 --> 01:14:35.520 how powerful this is? Anyone else? We've got a couple minutes before we wrap up 769 01:14:35.520 --> 01:14:37.440 the top of the hour here. Anybody else? 770 01:14:40.520 --> 01:14:47.080 This is Tanya. Um, I'm speechless with my mouth wide open in regards to the 771 01:14:47.080 --> 01:14:51.440 fifth agreement I've been under. I'm not currently under the teaching where 772 01:14:51.720 --> 01:14:57.840 they talk about the truth will, um, set you free. But it was more about man 773 01:14:57.840 --> 01:15:00.040 nature. So people search for their 774 01:15:00.000 --> 01:15:05.280 truth instead of the truth. And so when you realize, as I'm reflecting back on my life, 775 01:15:05.280 --> 01:15:12.160 like how many relationships I ended or avoided based off my truth. And how I 776 01:15:12.880 --> 01:15:18.320 walked away from relationships because I thought they were unhealthy because of the current truth, 777 01:15:18.320 --> 01:15:23.120 but it wasn't the truth. And knowing that no matter what is going on in your life, 778 01:15:23.120 --> 01:15:28.640 it's your truth, your version of it, but it can change tomorrow. And so knowing that, 779 01:15:29.440 --> 01:15:35.600 it changes the way that I see and perceive people knowing that our truth is temporary. 780 01:15:35.600 --> 01:15:40.560 It's our truth based off what we believe, what we accept. And at any given time, 781 01:15:40.560 --> 01:15:47.280 it can change. But I've valued it so much in the past at making it the truth and not realizing it 782 01:15:47.280 --> 01:15:53.680 had a little t and not a big T. And really understanding about the Holy Spirit, the truth, 783 01:15:53.680 --> 01:15:59.840 and the capital T and the difference. And that the word of God, it will, it will make you free. 784 01:15:59.840 --> 01:16:04.800 It will allow you not to be in bondage. You will bring awareness to things that you haven't been 785 01:16:04.800 --> 01:16:10.400 aware of. And you'll have so much freedom because as you stated, this can't be taken away from us 786 01:16:10.400 --> 01:16:17.200 when it's the truth with the capital T. So thank you so much. Wow, LaTanya, thank you so much. 787 01:16:17.920 --> 01:16:23.920 I'm going to put you on the spot and you can say, say no. Okay. But I think I recall that, 788 01:16:23.920 --> 01:16:30.640 that you came out of a cult. Is that, is that not the case? That's true. Would you, would you be 789 01:16:30.640 --> 01:16:34.320 willing to share? Because that's a classic example. Could you, could you just share a little 790 01:16:34.320 --> 01:16:37.600 of that experience and what you learned from it? I mean, because I think that's why you're speaking 791 01:16:37.600 --> 01:16:42.960 with so much passion right here, right now. And I think it could really possibly save someone and 792 01:16:42.960 --> 01:16:47.920 some, many someone's from a lot of pain to, to really get this. Would you be willing to share 793 01:16:47.920 --> 01:16:54.240 a little bit? Yes. So it's important that we realize what the word of God says versus what 794 01:16:54.240 --> 01:17:00.320 man say. And a lot of churches have created their own bylaws, their own laws and regulations. 795 01:17:00.320 --> 01:17:06.000 And it's their truth. And as you begin to follow the truth with the small T, you walk away from 796 01:17:06.000 --> 01:17:10.880 the word of God. And it happens so gradually that you really don't understand what's going on. And 797 01:17:10.880 --> 01:17:16.800 by the time you understand and come to yourself, if you're so far in it, you don't even understand 798 01:17:16.800 --> 01:17:23.200 what happened. So it's nothing that happens like at a real quickly. It's very small. And so because 799 01:17:23.200 --> 01:17:29.680 I began to believe their truth, which was with a smaller T, I walked away from the truth. And as a 800 01:17:29.680 --> 01:17:35.040 result of it, I was hurt. They can have something to do with God. They had nothing to do with that. 801 01:17:35.040 --> 01:17:41.440 And so I made a commitment then that I would never obey man at the price of disobeying God. 802 01:17:41.440 --> 01:17:46.240 And doing that means that whatever God speaks to me to do, that I do it, whether they accept it, 803 01:17:46.240 --> 01:17:52.880 whether they agree it, because I trust God more than I trust man. So just be mindful of the 804 01:17:52.880 --> 01:17:58.880 difference between a man-made law or regulation versus the word of God. Oh, thank you for sharing 805 01:17:58.880 --> 01:18:04.160 that, Latonya. Thank you. I'm going to add another twist that just spirit kind of dropped on me right 806 01:18:04.160 --> 01:18:11.120 now as we're talking. Here's another version of this, by the way, and that is the word of God 807 01:18:11.120 --> 01:18:22.640 versus circumstances or the word of God versus your spiritual senses versus your natural senses, 808 01:18:22.640 --> 01:18:28.480 okay? Because that's another case where you're going to have to choose which truth, 809 01:18:28.480 --> 01:18:35.760 capital T or little t. In other words, your finances may be that there's no money in your 810 01:18:35.760 --> 01:18:40.640 bank account right now, and that's your little t truth. And it's, I mean, it's there. It's a 811 01:18:40.640 --> 01:18:44.480 reality. I'm not saying that, you know, you're not overdrawn in your bank account or whatever, 812 01:18:44.480 --> 01:18:52.640 and I'm not saying to be stupid, but the big t truth is that your job is not your source. The 813 01:18:52.640 --> 01:18:56.800 job you just lost is not your source. Your business is not your source. Your spouse is 814 01:18:56.800 --> 01:19:01.760 not your source. The courts are not your source. The government is not your source. Obama's not 815 01:19:01.760 --> 01:19:12.080 your source. The truth, the capital T truth, scripture says, God is your source. And sometimes 816 01:19:12.080 --> 01:19:19.280 I will get very distinct words from God. Very often, I get a lot of prophetic downloads, 817 01:19:19.920 --> 01:19:24.400 and I will write them down, and I'll pray into them, and I'll compare them with scripture to 818 01:19:24.400 --> 01:19:29.600 make sure that I'm staying grounded. But I'll be real clear that I've gotten a prophetic word, 819 01:19:29.600 --> 01:19:36.880 and man or circumstances will tell me something opposite of what I know to be true at this point, 820 01:19:37.760 --> 01:19:42.320 you know, prophetically or whatever. And God will literally ask me, are you going to believe 821 01:19:42.320 --> 01:19:46.000 God or man? Are you going to believe your circumstances, or are you going to believe 822 01:19:46.000 --> 01:19:52.240 God? So there's, it's another version of, again, just really asking with each thing, 823 01:19:52.240 --> 01:19:57.120 is it true? And continuously asking the Holy Spirit, who is the spirit of truth, 824 01:19:57.120 --> 01:19:59.920 to guide us into all truth. 825 01:20:00.000 --> 01:20:05.260 so that would be another example where you make your circumstances the the Lord 826 01:20:05.260 --> 01:20:11.300 and the Master more than the capital T truth of God your source your provider 827 01:20:11.300 --> 01:20:17.340 your truth anybody else this is such a rich study let's let's wrap it up with 828 01:20:17.340 --> 01:20:20.740 some great comments even if each of you only give a sentence over we've got 829 01:20:20.740 --> 01:20:25.420 about two minutes here to the top of the hour I would love to hear from anybody 830 01:20:25.420 --> 01:20:41.460 else please welcome by the way welcome welcome 831 01:20:55.420 --> 01:21:06.740 I grew up in the church listening to the word when I found out about the meeting 832 01:21:06.740 --> 01:21:14.340 at Concordia and the way the Bible was assembled I really lost my faith in what 833 01:21:14.340 --> 01:21:20.260 was being taught in the churches and I've been in turmoil for a lot of years 834 01:21:20.260 --> 01:21:31.260 thank you Susan I'm so glad you're you're on the call and and and just 835 01:21:31.260 --> 01:21:35.020 Susan you know what in the name of Jesus I just bless you with a peace that 836 01:21:35.020 --> 01:21:41.220 passes all understanding that all of that past wounding and all of that that 837 01:21:41.220 --> 01:21:46.820 that it'll just be released and left in the past and that you'll step into a 838 01:21:46.820 --> 01:21:53.980 brand new walk of just really discovering his peace and his joy and 839 01:21:53.980 --> 01:21:59.140 his design for your life so thank you for for being and thank you for being 840 01:21:59.140 --> 01:22:02.220 willing to share that because I'm sure there's a lot of people that relate to 841 01:22:02.220 --> 01:22:06.300 you and so thank you for being willing to share that and Susan I really 842 01:22:06.300 --> 01:22:09.580 encourage you this has been the most powerful series I believe I've done so 843 01:22:09.580 --> 01:22:21.460 far and I love every series but go to bit.ly forward slash BBSC that 844 01:22:21.460 --> 01:22:27.500 stands for Bible based spiritual equipping BBSC-4a that's for four 845 01:22:27.500 --> 01:22:33.860 agreements so bit.ly forward slash BBSC-4a and you will see 846 01:22:33.860 --> 01:22:38.740 beginning with the very first series all the way through you'll be able to listen 847 01:22:38.900 --> 01:22:42.580 to each one of these agreements as we've gone through them in depth biblically 848 01:22:42.580 --> 01:22:54.700 it's very freeing very powerful you can type in the promo okay BIT like horses 849 01:22:54.700 --> 01:23:07.060 bit BIT dot L Y forward slash B B S E that stands for Bible based spiritual 850 01:23:07.100 --> 01:23:16.180 equipping B B S E dash 4a that stands for four agreements and the whole series 851 01:23:16.180 --> 01:23:22.740 is there 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the hour but I don't want to neglect anyone being able to share I 861 01:24:06.760 --> 01:24:18.240 think this has been so rich anyone else any closing thoughts as we wrap this up 862 01:24:20.400 --> 01:24:26.600 well thank you miss Brenda for rocking my world again thank you Frank for being 863 01:24:26.600 --> 01:24:34.960 on the call you too anybody else just say a closing thought as you say goodbye 864 01:24:34.960 --> 01:24:38.120 and then we'll wrap it up 865 01:24:45.840 --> 01:24:50.480 all right well that concludes this call it's been my honor my privilege to share 866 01:24:50.480 --> 01:24:55.160 this with you may you be blessed as you think about your thinking and you take 867 01:24:55.160 --> 01:25:02.000 every thought captive as your mind is renewed it brings that transformation 868 01:25:00.000 --> 01:25:05.840 I just pray that this week you just step into whole new levels of love, peace and joy and 869 01:25:05.840 --> 01:25:09.080 His presence and His Spirit guiding you. 870 01:25:09.080 --> 01:25:12.720 So thanks for joining us and we'll see you this time next week.