The Life DVD Series Session 1

Summary

This session from the "The Life DVD Series" by Lifetime Guarantee Ministries features Dr. Bill and Annabel Gilliam, discussing the foundational Christian principles based on Galatians 2:20. Throughout their tapes, books, seminars, and radio programs, they've helped many understand how to allow Christ to live through them. Dr. Gilliam explains the difference between living in the flesh versus walking in the Spirit, emphasizing spiritual truths that only the Holy Spirit can teach. The visually engaging session delves into deeper insights into understanding oneself through God's unconditional love and denying the fleshly inclinations created by independent living, ultimately leading to living a life of victory.

Highlights

• Dr. Bill Gilliam describes how to walk in the Spirit by letting Christ express Himself through us 💡.
• Understanding the difference between the flesh and the spirit is crucial for living an authentic Christian life 🔄.
• God's unconditional love is meant to replace the conditional love humans often seek 💜.
• Our past behaviors and patterns, described as 'flesh', can hinder spiritual growth but are redeemable through Christ 🌱.
• Through Christ, living a life beyond self-centered independence is possible and leads to true fulfillment 🌈.

Key Takeaways

• Understanding Galatians 2:20 helps Christians learn how to let Christ live through them ✨.
• Walking in the Spirit means letting go of self-dependence and embracing God's guidance 🌟.
• Our patterns of independent living are often barriers to spiritual growth 🚫.
• God's unconditional love is the ultimate love we should seek, not conditional human love 💖.
• True self-identity is spiritual, not based on earthly measures or fleshly accomplishments 🌼.

Overview

In this insightful session of "The Life DVD Series," Dr. Bill and Annabel Gilliam introduce the core Christian beliefs based on Galatians 2:20, which detail letting Christ live through believers. Hosted by Lifetime Guarantee Ministries, the message has reached countless people through various mediums over the years. The session vividly explains the exciting shift from self-reliance to walking in harmony with the Holy Spirit.

Dr. Gilliam explores the concepts of 'walking in the Spirit' versus 'walking in the flesh,' shedding light on how many Christians may unknowingly rely on their own abilities rather than divine guidance. This critical understanding underscores the challenges Christians face in living out their faith authentically, inviting viewers to trust the Holy Spirit as their true guide.

The session's heartwarming narratives reveal the transformation that takes place when individuals embrace God's unconditional love and move away from the detrimental patterns of their flesh. The Gilliams share personal stories and spiritual insights, inspiring viewers to embark on a journey towards a victorious Christian life, free from the constraints of their past.

Chapters

• 00:30 - 03:30: Introduction and Concept of Walking in Flesh vs. Spirit The chapter 'Introduction and Concept of Walking in Flesh vs. Spirit' explores the fundamental differences between living according to the flesh and living according to the spirit. It delves into how these two paths influence our thoughts, actions, and overall mindset. The discussion may cover scriptural references, theological interpretations, and practical implications for daily life. Key themes often include the struggle between human desires and spiritual goals, the role of divine guidance, and the benefits of spiritual alignment for personal growth and fulfillment.
• 03:30 - 05:30: Prayer and Understanding Reliance on the Holy Spirit The chapter discusses the teachings of Apostle Paul from his letter to the Galatians, emphasizing the concept of living through Christ rather than oneself. It highlights a life led by faith in the Son of God, inspired by His love and sacrifice. The chapter also mentions Bill and Annabel, individuals who have spent over twenty years aiding others in grasping and utilizing these spiritual teachings.
• 05:30 - 09:30: God's Design and Human Independence This chapter explores the concept of living a life of faith by allowing Christ to live through individuals, as emphasized in Galatians 2:20. The teachings of Dr. Bill and Annabel Gilliam, through various mediums such as tapes, books, seminars, and radio programs, have helped many people find freedom and fulfillment. The focus is on understanding how God's presence can be integrated into one's daily life, affecting family, work, and all aspects of living.
• 09:30 - 12:00: Spiritual Anatomy and Birth The chapter discusses the concept from a Christian perspective that emphasizes two ways of living according to the teachings of the Bible. It begins with referencing Christ as 'the way, the truth, and the life' and discusses the behavior expected from Christians. The text explores the idea of walking according to the 'flesh', which suggests acting based on physical or worldly desires, as opposed to walking according to spiritual or moral guidance provided by Christian teachings.
• 12:00 - 19:00: Mind, Emotions, and Memory Dynamics The chapter explores the concept of 'walking in the spirit,' contrasting it with 'walking after the flesh.' It mentions common misconceptions about what it means to walk according to the flesh, such as engaging in behaviors like chasing women and getting drunk. However, the text clarifies that walking according to the flesh is more broadly about relying on one's own abilities and techniques rather than depending on spiritual guidance.
• 19:00 - 30:00: Exploration of Flesh and Identity The chapter titled 'Exploration of Flesh and Identity' delves into the concept of living according to the flesh versus walking in the spirit. It highlights that relying solely on earthly or fleshly mechanisms without deeper spiritual insight is considered walking in the flesh. Even activities typically deemed spiritual, like attending Sunday school or church, can be performed in the flesh if they lack true spiritual understanding. The core message emphasizes understanding the fundamental truth of what it means to live spiritually as a Christian.
• 30:00 - 37:00: Performance-Based Acceptance and Its Effects The chapter discusses the concept of performance-based acceptance and its implications on one's spiritual life. It suggests that life, particularly the Christian life, is not merely difficult but impossible to live by human effort alone. It reveals that God did not intend for humans to live the Christian life through their own strength, as only Jesus Christ can embody it completely. The chapter emphasizes that Jesus came into the world to express the Christian life through individuals, and once people understand and implement this, they align their lives accordingly.
• 37:00 - 38:30: Personal Testimonies and Marriage Transformation This chapter explores the duality of human behavior, focusing on the continuous choice between living in the spirit or following the desires of the flesh. It emphasizes the importance of spiritual awareness and prayer, advocating for trust in the Holy Spirit's guidance rather than relying solely on one's own intelligence. The chapter underscores that understanding spiritual truths requires divine intervention and openness to spiritual teachings. This foundational understanding sets the stage for personal testimonies and narratives around marriage transformation, highlighting how spiritual growth and awareness lead to positive changes in relationships.
• 38:30 - 40:30: Encouragement and Upcoming Sessions This chapter discusses the role of the Holy Spirit as a teacher, emphasizing spiritual understanding and appropriation. The Holy Spirit is recognized as a guide, and a communal prayer of acknowledgment is encouraged, inviting participants to affirm the Holy Spirit's role in teaching. It highlights a collective acknowledgment and belief in spiritual guidance.

The Life DVD Series Session 1 Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30
• 00:30 - 01:00 [Music] in his letter to the Galatians the Apostle Paul wrote I have been crucified with Christ and it was no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and delivered himself up for me for more than twenty years God has used bill and Annabel government to help people understand and appropriate the
• 01:00 - 01:30 truths of Galatians 2:20 through their tapes books seminars and nationwide radio program thousands of people have found freedom and fulfillment as they have learned how to let Christ live in and through them now just imagine allowing God himself to express his life through you in your family your work and everywhere you go join dr. bill and Annabel Gilliam and discover why Jesus
• 01:30 - 02:00 Christ is the way the truth and the life [Music] for us Christians you guys all know that there's two ways that we can operate we can walk according to the flesh cause the Bible calls it walking then it means just how you act we can walk according to the flesh or we
• 02:00 - 02:30 can walk in the spirit right and that's it and I used to figure out walking after the flesh that's chasing women and getting drunk and stuff and of course that qualifies bro but walking according the flesh in limited to that there are lots of folks that walked according to the flesh and don't do that kind of stuff walking according the flesh is simply depending upon yourself and your abilities and the techniques that you
• 02:30 - 03:00 have developed here on planet earth to get you through the day and if you trust on in those things then you're walking according to the flesh okay now walking in the spirit I figured that hey that's going to Sunday school and church and all that kind of stuff but hey there are people that do that and do it in the flesh right now so walking in the spirit is understandings a basic truth and that is that the Christian
• 03:00 - 03:30 life is not difficult to live it's impossible have you discovered that have you discovered that God never intended you to live the Christian life there's one person who has ever lived the Christian life and of course that's Jesus Christ and one of the reasons that he came in to us is to express the Christian life through us and when we understand how to do that and begin to bring that on line then we're walking in
• 03:30 - 04:00 the spirit so all day long we can jump back and forth between these two polarized ways of operating either in the spirit or according to the flesh now as we begin tonight I want us to pray and trust the Holy Spirit to teach us okay because you can you can trust in your own intelligence and you so they didn't miss everything that we're talking about spiritual truth must
• 04:00 - 04:30 be spiritually apprehended or appropriated understood and only the Holy Spirit can do that he's our teacher we all know that don't we so why don't we just keep her eyes open and just pray together after me okay they're Holy Spirit you guys say that I choose right now to believe that you're my teacher and I'm not real sure that Bill and
• 04:30 - 05:00 Annabel are going to teach me all the truth so I'm going to trust you for an understanding of how to eat the meat and throw away the bones now I won't lean to my own understanding that means depend on my own smarts I'm gonna depend on you I already mean this
• 05:00 - 05:30 and if you give me an understanding I intend to bring that online in my life I don't want just an intellectual edge scratched I mean it in Jesus name okay we're ready now right all right now I want to establish three quick points number one god is love and he created
• 05:30 - 06:00 you to love you unconditionally so he fixed you where you would need to be loved unconditionally so all you're sitting there needing that because if you didn't need that then you wouldn't need God when that slick okay point number two God's job description he runs things that's what he does for a living
• 06:00 - 06:30 when he goes to the office in the morning he runs the universe game right that's what JA that's what gods do they run things right now then he's got ways of running the universe let's call those laws and the Bible says that all of his ways are good all his laws are good like for example the law of gravity now that is not a natural law there's no such thing as that he created that once upon time there was no gravity okay he created the law of gravity and it's a wonderful law keeps you from flying off
• 06:30 - 07:00 the planet makes waterslides work wonderful but now you could get out here and dive off the house onto the driveway to demonstrate the law of gravity for all of us and you'd go splat man now is that an angry God or is that you being Delbert dumb right Delbert dumb yeah I mean I think God gets that's not an angry God God gets a lot of bad press for stuff like that right because of dumb stuff that we do alright now when
• 07:00 - 07:30 you and I this is point number three when you and I showed up on Planet here's what we did we each drew an imaginary circle around ourselves and we kind of home stated this turf we set up a little kingdom in direct competition with God and we established ourselves as God of this little circle God with a little G now you were willing to let the real God
• 07:30 - 08:00 carry out the heavy stuff like sunrises and stuff but your attitude is you're going to be god of this circle you are gonna run this circle your attitude is this is my life I've got my rights I do things my way so a little play on token I call that Lord of the Ring and so as you played Lord of the Ring trying to establish patterns for living which will get you through the day
• 08:00 - 08:30 and many of your patterns for living are designed to milk love out of people so you can get your need for love satisfied but don't you see that that's conditional love so it's a cheap substitute for God's unconditional love which he's bestowed on man through Jesus Christ so you started off on the left foot right off the bat right we all did okay now the cardinal sin of man game is
• 08:30 - 09:00 independence that's what I have just described look Adam didn't break the Ten Commandments there weren't any Ten Commandments what did the guy do he wrote the first personal Declaration of Independence Allen that's what he did he established himself says I'll decide what's good what's good I'll decide what's bad I'll do it my way and he passed this on to the rest of us and so
• 09:00 - 09:30 all of us showed up on the planet as Lords of the ring now then God has designed man in three component parts this is 1st Thessalonians chapter 5 verse 23 and it says that we are spirit soul and the scriptures say that God is spirit and they also say you are created in the image of God therefore cherry what are
• 09:30 - 10:00 you your spirit critter you and I are spirit critters who temporarily live in Earth suits an author named CS Leavitt has tabbed the body an earth suit I love that term that's exactly what it is it's an earth suit made out of earth and it's designed for planet earth and nowhere else you can take it off the planet but you got a house it in an earthy environment if you do it or it'll die
• 10:00 - 10:30 right it's an earth suit so you are a spirit critter in an earth suit you are not a physical critter with a spirit okay that's a very critically important point now because we're going to be talking about your identity who are you and you've got to zoom in on the fact that you are a spirit critter not a physical critter with a spirit now the
• 10:30 - 11:00 word soul the word soul in the word psychology come from the same root meaning personality so your soul then is your personality your mind your will and your emotions now Jesus came to Planet Earth and visited the planet and gangue Jesus was God in an earth suit Scripture all the fullness of the Godhead dwelt bodily in him that was God game walking
• 11:00 - 11:30 around on this planet is that mind-blowing or what now while he was here he met a guy named Nicodemus who wanted to live forever with God and he says okay he says here's how you do it you got to get born literally from above we call it born again and Nicodemus says I don't understand that you mean I got to get back in mom he said no son oh that give you two our suits if you could pull that off and you don't need another
• 11:30 - 12:00 earth suit in there and your problem is that up here in the spirit you're dead and a hammer you were a spiritual stillbirth all you got to do to have a dead spirit is just show up on the planet man its standard equipment right you got it from your ancestor and we're talking spiritual stuff now gang okay and so he says Nicodemus they that worship God must worship Him in spirit
• 12:00 - 12:30 but you can't do that because you're dead spiritually you got a spirit but in that spirit it doesn't function toward God okay so looking again then at soul then if you look at your diagram there your soul and your spirit then our house in your earth suit now your earth suit is a vehicle through which you relate to people and the earthy environment so right now the real bill my soul and
• 12:30 - 13:00 spirit here are making the lips wiggle on my earth suit and noises are coming out of it and they're penetrating your earth suit and you and I are communing with one another or fellowshiping my soul and your soul personality okay so you and I then live in two dimensions simultaneously our soul and spirit relate to people through the body and we
• 13:00 - 13:30 relate to God through the spirit now let's let's move on to the next diagram and let's break the personality down into mind will and emotions and let's give you a brain in your earth suit now again your brain cannot be your mind because the brain is made out of meat and when your earth suit dies your brain is going to stay right here and your mind is going to eject but if your mind
• 13:30 - 14:00 were your brain then your mind would die and you wouldn't know whether you've gone to heaven or hell so your mind can't be your brain your brain is simply a body organ it's like a liver or a kidney or something else it's a computer it's designed to gather data through the sensory receptors and organize these data into structures or constructs that you and I would call meaning if you're
• 14:00 - 14:30 going to use computer language it's called the printout honor or the image on the screen or the hardcopy now if you've got a computer you got to have some folks that can run the thing or it's a paperweight right just a dust catcher so your soul operates the computer now and the printouts come flying through this computer at thousands of per hour I guess and mind and emotions have to analyze these data so mind then analyzes
• 14:30 - 15:00 the data and then tells will what you believe you ought to do about this stimulus situation now Wells the Big Boss and will works like a light switch either do or you don't and there's no notch in the middle that's choosing not to choose either do you don't okay so whereas mine tells well what you
• 15:00 - 15:30 believe about the situation feeling over here your emotions will kind of knee-jerk to the stimulus and tell well how you feel about the situation and then it's up to will to make the decisions and Christian you're absolutely on the hook to do the will of God you don't make up your mind about anything that's a misnomer - an analyzer and a recommender you make up your will about things you say they'll please
• 15:30 - 16:00 don't help me anymore man you're getting me in trouble here all right now then you are the most self-centered critter that God ever made when you showed up on the planet let me prove it to you you're six months old you wake up at 2:00 a.m. you're cold you're wet and you're hungry do you lie there and then reason that poor mom bless her heart she needs her rest I think I'll just tough it out till dawn
• 16:00 - 16:30 [Music] are you kidding me scream get out of the rack and fix the kids that you think only about the big number one now this is going to backfire on us because you see since we're so self-centered we're going to learn only about ourselves from the feedback we get from other folks and from the environment this is going to be mom and dad relatives peers whatever we
• 16:30 - 17:00 learn only about ourselves now then you've got a mind you've got emotion so let my right hand represent your thinker and my left hand your feeler on a 1 to 10 scale your feeler reacts to your thinker whatever you set your mind on feel the react to that so I look down here on the carpet and there's a rattlesnake getting ready strike me on the ankle in my mind I believe I'm in terrible danger that's ten and I quickly
• 17:00 - 17:30 feel terrified that's ten now I look more closely Alan I see it's made out of rubber so mine goes back to zero see I can set my mind anywhere I want to if I couldn't God wouldn't say bill set your mind bill think on these things yeah I'm I got control of my mind so I say I'm safe with my mind but theater says I ain't buying it see feelers gonna come down all right but like a BB sinking in
• 17:30 - 18:00 oil right it's gonna take it a long time to finally get down there at the bottom so let's say 30 minutes later feelers down to about an eighth I open a drawer spider ends up my sleeve boom boom everything back to ten again now gang what if you're a little kid and you're being reared in a home with a rattlesnake for a day or a spider for a mother or a living grandmother or an older brother or sister or whatever and they just keep your mind and feel or both kissing 10
• 18:00 - 18:30 all day long now you go to bed at night mine is eros out that's the way God designed it well feeler starts down but gank after you've lived in this environment for years or so you're a four-year-old now don't you see that feelers going to begin to lose its elasticity that by the time the alarm goes off in the morning your feelers only down to about an 8 now God have shown me something the same thing is going to happen to your fear that happens to your arm if you put it
• 18:30 - 19:00 in a cast and leave it there for two years you take the cast off you've still got muscles but what good are they they've atrophy your arms useless and you have to rehabilitate the muscles the same thing happens to your feeler everything below 8 disappears bro and so you enter life at age 4 operating with the top two digits on your emotion Richter scale you see that now this is
• 19:00 - 19:30 psychologists say 85% of your personality is set in concrete by the time you're 5 I think what they're observing brother is they're seeing a stuck feeler they're evaluating a stuck feeler because people go by how they feel so put this kid in an environment that calls for a four point increase on his thermostat you can't do it man you see that and if you don't see what a handicap this is going to be for this person okay now and you've got a memory
• 19:30 - 20:00 bank and you've got memory traces that are burned through your memory bank your memory bank is like the First National Bank only instead of holding money it holds memories memories of your experiences on planet earth and these memory traces I've drawn them here in your brain these are patterns these are habit patterns that you have developed and I call them green highways and they
• 20:00 - 20:30 range in width I guess from eight-lane soup highway has done the Tooting Trails depending upon traffic flow or depending upon the intensity with which they're burned in there in the first place now I notice where I have put these green highways I've put some underneath your mind these are patterns of how you think I've put some underneath the will patterns of how you act and I put some under the emotions that's you're stuck
• 20:30 - 21:00 feeler think act feel now people after you get saved those old patterns become your unique version of the flesh this is your old patterns for living if you're into computers on it like you are that's the software program in your computer and you designed it and installed it you installed your own software program to
• 21:00 - 21:30 help you play Lord of the Ring more effectively you see what I'm saying there all right now I want you to drive lay your stuff down in your lap and put your hands out here in front of you and clasp your hands like this now I want you to look and see which side which thumb is up on top see that now when I say break here's what we're going to do is we're going to open up our hands and bring them back together only we're going to lace them the opposite way so
• 21:30 - 22:00 that the thumbs are different you ready break now how's that feel it's just not right is it it's just different now gang listen to me this is what a stuck feeler does but devil is going to try to get you to keep on acting according to your feelers comfort zone even if your comfort zone is a miserable comfort zone at least you know
• 22:00 - 22:30 what to do with it you know how to handle things in that environment you can play Lord of the Ring in there see what I'm saying now walking in the spirit gang is going to require you to choose to walk by what you believe according to what God's Word says and it'll feel that times like that I guess yeah it'll feel way off base you'll feel like you've been a phoney brother
• 22:30 - 23:00 because you're not acting according to how you feel but praise God you'll be acting according to what you believe by your faith and that God is saying in the Word of God about you in that exciting now your old ways then your flesh are your old ways which you developed through independent living by playing Lord of the Ring that's the definition of flesh my old ways which I develop
• 23:00 - 23:30 through independent living now let's see if we can establish what some of your old ways might look like what you learned about yourself by playing Lord of the Ring here on planet earth Tommy alright now first of all what kind of feedback you got from parents and peers now let me establish something this is not a mom bashing session all right you wanna know why your mom acted like a hammerhead at times go back see what
• 23:30 - 24:00 happened to her when she was a little kid now let's don't beat on granny you know who I granny acted like a hammerhead go back what does the Bible say about who our enemy is we wrestle not with flesh and blood but with powers and principalities right the Devils our enemy gang not mom and if you're in a so-called support group where you get together every week and bash dad because he abused you when you were a kid you're going to get worse not better and you talk about that all you
• 24:00 - 24:30 reminisce about that with others and they reminisce and you get upset and angry and hostile and on six months from now you'll be worse that is not Christ as life living through you it's fine to get together and talk but only if we understand what the answer to this stuff is who we are in Christ and how to let him live through us to overcome this old junk these old highways that are in the brain all right so let's take a look at this here's the
• 24:30 - 25:00 first kid he gets no physical love now what happens to him does he learn gee whiz it's hard for my mom and dad to show physical love they really got hang up he does not learn that he's learning about himself so what he learns is I am unlovely I believe I am unlovable and if he believes that long enough what happens to feeler it gets stuck and there's somebody in here feeling unlovely and you have designed and
• 25:00 - 25:30 installed your software program to handle feelings of unloved leanness and maybe you know you want love but if you ever get it you're like a dog chasing a car the finally catches you see what I do with this you can't it feels like bad and you want to get back and make it feel like that again and that's flesh game alright there's somebody in here and you were ignored as
• 25:30 - 26:00 a kid that doesn't make any difference how you were ignored your dad could have left home before you were ever born or he might have been a pastor and he was out soul-winning every night he just never paid any attention to you a little kid spells love T IME spend time with me now dad whatever you spend your time with I'm worth less than that I believe I'm worth less than what you spend your time with I believe I'm worth less
• 26:00 - 26:30 I believe I'm worthless I believe I'm worthless what's happened to feeler I feel worthless Theater gets stuck I'm 25 I'm saved and I feel worthless I have a low feeling of self esteem now the world has lots of ways you can try to shore this up and improve on this problem you can get the right set of wheels and get you the right house with the right address the right threads get you a mr. t starter set to wear around your neck the
• 26:30 - 27:00 right wrist watch now look I'm not knocking your automobile and stuff like that listen up listen if you're if you're troubled about that Mercedes yours what you really need to do is donate that to a good ministry lets us just meet together after this session tonight I'm just saying that if you have to have all that stuff so you can feel better about yourself as you stopped at
• 27:00 - 27:30 this street lights and you know in park next to the fancy cars if you if you feel like you have to have that stuff you've got a self-esteem problem and you're using the flesh to try to solve the problem and and you're worth so much more than that you're selling out to the company store man all right how about this one critical of me you you brought in your report card it had four A's and a CEO on a seeing penmanship and they hammered
• 27:30 - 28:00 you for the C & penmanship never he mentioned the A's and you believed that you were a failure that's the only kind of feedback you got I'm a failure and so if you believe it then you begin to feel like a failure feeder gets stuck and here you're an adult feeling like a failure and maybe you're a roaring success on the job but your feet are doesn't agree with it alright how about this one you were reared with a perfectionist and you couldn't hack it and so you believed you're inadequate to do tasks and now
• 28:00 - 28:30 then you feel that way that's that was your mom and so you're making the band and she comes in and she takes a look at it she comes over and she raises up the bedspread and reaches up under there and snaps those sheets out you're 27 years old and she I'm not knocking your perfectionism gang perfectionism in in itself is not bad it's okay I'm knocking the dynamic of how you developed it and why what was
• 28:30 - 29:00 your motive and motivation for perfectionism is so you can perform perfectly so you can get love out of people and bestow it upon yourself it's the substitute for the unconditional love of God through Jesus Christ but I assure you I want you for my surgical nurse I don't want that person says I would just stick it in him anywhere I want you man okay and now there's
• 29:00 - 29:30 nobody sitting in here and he's listening this lecture says man that guy is nailing my wife she's got that stuck feeling she's got his duck feeler and he comes up at the half he says bill you're talking about my wife and son if you could help her I would be so appreciative we try to talk she just burst into tears she's her old feeler must be stuck way up there bill I thank God every day that my feelers not stuck but let's look at the old boy he was
• 29:30 - 30:00 reared in a home where they showed no emotion at all he so he just crammed it all in okay and so he feels inhibited so I talked with him about this problem of he's always wives and I'm sympathetic toward him we pray together about it so I want to show him I love him so we get up off the floor and I just I just kind of hug him you know I reach out to hug him it's like he swallowed a curtain rod you know when you try to hug this guy he can't respond to that and now what is
• 30:00 - 30:30 his problem his feelers stuck his feet are just as stuck as his woman it's just a different emotion he feels inhibited the dude can't emote okay my point is not let's beat on everybody or beat on this guy my point is how many of us have a problem with a stock dealer everybody in this room but you don't know it because it doesn't feel like it
• 30:30 - 31:00 you've always felt that way but it's just stuck feeler troops unless it's all lining up on the Word of God it's a stuck feeler you follow me now all right so we talked about some kind of yucky flesh up here let's talk about some USDA choice flesh now down here at the bottom here's somebody and you got the message you do things really well you are really good and you were captain of the football team and he married the
• 31:00 - 31:30 homecoming queen you're a million dollar producer you know you're the youngest deacon in the history of the church etc etc ad infinitum see and you have developed self-confidence now what is self-confidence it's confidence in self and self stability to play Lord of the Ring very well now we're exhorted by the Lord put no confidence in the flesh and
• 31:30 - 32:00 that's what self confidence is who are we to put our confidence in Christ as he expresses himself through us using our talents and our abilities and our earth suits our personalities but always using them to bring honor to Jesus Christ rather than using it to milk and get our own needs met out of the environment that's flesh gang okay maybe you got a pretty earth suit or a handsome earth
• 32:00 - 32:30 suit you drew that from God and ever since you've been little while you've been winning prizes you've got ribbons on the wall and and you understand really well why people invite you to their birthday parties you would do if you're making up the list you know because all you gotta do just stand because you're so pretty it's flesh gang it's just simply flesh now then I have developed here a flesh inventory don't look at it now but
• 32:30 - 33:00 before we get together next week I want you to trust the Holy Spirit now don't you do it with your own intelligence sir show me if my flesh is in here somewhere and then and then follow the instructions and work out the instructions there now we still haven't hit upon the biggie the biggie is performance based acceptance along with the physical appearance based acceptance and it goes like this if you perform well enough I will pay you off
• 33:00 - 33:30 with love and so the schools are a primary source for the devil to work this number on people this is Christian schools public schools boat so you have there in your book some papers that one of our kids brought home this is our number four number three son and he's an editor in New York now as you can see in grade one he didn't get started off too
• 33:30 - 34:00 swiftly okay all right so you can see that he he gave it six shots here named will he got three right and three wrong so I take this paper up to show it to the teacher and ask her some questions about I say no ma'am I see Oh we'll have a little struggle here but now he got that word nine right how come you didn't say something about that and she'd say well now he got that right and that's our goal so you know that that that's good but it's this the first word here the word ten that we've got a problem
• 34:00 - 34:30 with which he pronounces tan causes and okie and so so we're going to have to teach that boy that this word is pronounced ten and it spelled te in I said yes ma'am I see that okay that makes sense and so I go home that tail between my legs now her goal gang is she's got to find something wrong with this kid and by
• 34:30 - 35:00 doing that she's going to help him right look at this math paper over here a hundred but messy she can't get him on mass so she's going to get him on cleanliness today people this is the way that I ran my home this is the way I was a husband to Annabel this is what Preston began and to be rare reared under until God
• 35:00 - 35:30 began to open my eyes from the Word of God as to what I was doing to my family I had my red pencil out with Annabelle especially and there's no way she's going to win with me no matter how well she does it I'm always going to find something wrong with it tip that red pencil sharpener had me a shoulder holster design for it you know carried my shoulder I clipped that baby out as fast as wider man on the drop and
• 35:30 - 36:00 I took this this this godly beautiful wonderful woman and I reduced her to where she was suicidal with this thing between my teeth with sarcasm and criticism and with humiliating her and after I got saved I kept right on doing it brother the difference was now I wanted to change but I didn't understand how I had
• 36:00 - 36:30 no clue that somehow Jesus Christ had accomplished for me the ability to overcome this now in the second session we're going to validate what bill just mentioned in the first session about us and our marriage even though we were both very dedicated Christian people we were in a
• 36:30 - 37:00 self-destruct marriage our marriage was going to destruct but today today I have a marriage that I could wish for any woman and there are literally thousands of couples who could say the same thing we met one of those couples in May when we met them they had given up all hope on their marriage they weren't even going to try any
• 37:00 - 37:30 longer they came to the seminar they listened to the teaching that you're going to be hearing and they realized that they were hearing truth we saw them again in August and they're going to be renewing their wedding vows a new husband and a new life oh there is such hope there is such hope not just for
• 37:30 - 38:00 married people but for anyone they once still live a life of victory who wants to live above the roller coaster existence that they've known now in session two we're going to share how bill and I developed our unique versions of the flesh and then in session three that we turn a corner a beautiful corner
• 38:00 - 38:30 and we start talking about what God did through Jesus Christ to rescue us we are going to start talking about how we can live a life of victory instead of a life of feet