Who Sent You? | Clarity | Part 2 | Jerry Flowers

Summary

Part 2 of the Clarity series by Pastor Jerry Flowers focuses on the necessity of discernment in making life choices. Grounded in biblical teachings, the sermon warns against deceitful people and misleading opportunities—what he terms 'Judas kisses'. Pastor Flowers encourages spiritual clarity to differentiate between divine missions and distractions. With an engaging style, he calls for heightened discernment to protect against spiritual manipulation and ensure decisions align with God's will.

Highlights

• Pastor Jerry Flowers kicks off part two of the Clarity series, focusing on the importance of discernment in decision-making. 🚀
• The sermon discusses the prayer of Jesus in John 17:15, emphasizing protection from the evil one over escaping worldly challenges. 🙏
• Pastor Flowers underscores that not all kisses or friendly gestures are meant for good; some may be deceitful. 😮
• Discernment is crucial to distinguish between divine connections and those meant to derail one's spiritual path. 🔍
• He emphasizes that spiritual clarity helps in making decisions that align with God's purpose, avoiding life's 'Judas kisses'. 🔑
• The church needs to develop keen discernment to navigate a world filled with deception and false doctrines. 🌍
• The sermon encourages listeners to seek God's guidance to recognize the spiritual engineering behind offers and arrivals in their lives. ✨

Key Takeaways

• Discernment is essential in recognizing and navigating life's spiritual challenges. 🌟
• Spiritual clarity helps differentiate between genuine connections and deceptive 'Judas kisses'. 😯
• It's crucial to understand that not every opportunity or person in your life is sent by God. 🔍
• Divine discernment aids in making decisions that align with God's will, protecting against deceptive influences. 🛡️
• This series aims to train individuals in recognizing deception and developing better spiritual earshot. 🎯

Overview

In Part 2 of the Clarity series by Pastor Jerry Flowers, the emphasis is on enhancing spiritual discernment to better recognize the subtle challenges posed by false opportunities and deceitful people. With references to biblical passages, Pastor Flowers illustrates how Jesus prayed for protection over removal from the world, highlighting the need for astute judgement in navigating life's crossroads.

Pastor Flowers eloquently delves into how spiritual clarity serves as a safeguard against making decisions based on superficial gestures or misleading 'Judas kisses.' He reaffirms that discernment is a gift that aids believers in distinguishing God's genuine calling from the enticing yet perilous paths laid by deceptive entities.

The series urges believers to seek heavenly guidance and sharpen their spiritual awareness to fend off false doctrines and deceptive influences, underscoring that true discernment elevates one's spiritual journey, aligning choices with divine purpose and ensuring a fulfilling Christian walk.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 03:00: Introduction and Prayer Pastor Jerry Flowers introduces part two of the clarity series, emphasizing its potential to positively impact the audience's lives. The focus is on the need for discernment regarding arrivals and offers, posing the question 'who sent you?' as a pivotal point of contemplation.
• 03:00 - 07:00: Understanding Spiritual Clarity Jesus is praying to the heavenly father in John Chapter 17, before his betrayal and crucifixion, which occurs in Chapter 18. This prayer highlights the importance of spiritual clarity and understanding, as it takes place right before significant events in Jesus' life.
• 07:00 - 13:00: The Importance of Discernment The chapter titled "The Importance of Discernment" draws upon a message from John 17:15, where Jesus prays not for removal from the world but for protection from evil. The emphasis is on recognizing and appreciating this divine protection, highlighting the significance of discernment in understanding spiritual safeguarding.
• 13:00 - 19:00: The Role of Sent Ones and Spiritual Warfare The chapter emphasizes gratitude and unity within a spiritual community, acknowledging the divine presence and purpose of gathering not for entertainment but to receive divine instruction and guidance. The focus is on the role of being sent ones in spiritual warfare, highlighting the importance of recognizing God's spirit and influence in these assemblies.
• 19:00 - 24:00: God's Engineering vs Hell's Engineering The chapter 'God's Engineering vs Hell's Engineering' begins with an invocation calling for undeniable evidence of the spirit of the living God in the service. The speaker emphasizes the importance of glorification and magnification of God, asserting that study and preparation are meaningless without God's presence. Public prayers are made for anointment as God's messenger to ensure divine discernment and guidance through heavenly influence.
• 24:00 - 31:00: Testing Offers and Arrivals The chapter begins with prayer and calls for agreement and unity among the listeners. The preacher reflects on the spiritual preparation involved in delivering sermons, including prayer and study. This reflection leads to a strong inner conviction about the current state and future of their brand, suggesting a significant development or change is acknowledged or anticipated.
• 31:00 - 39:00: Practical Applications and Real-life Examples The chapter focuses on a sermon series titled 'Clarity,' which aims to provide timely guidance and insight, especially for individuals who are on the brink of making significant life decisions. It emphasizes God's love and the importance of understanding divine timing, as the sermons over the next six to seven weeks will explore various passages to help believers gain clarity in their lives.

Who Sent You? | Clarity | Part 2 | Jerry Flowers Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 Hello my beautiful family. Pastor Jerry Flowers here and listen, we're about to start part two of our clarity series and I'm firmly believe that it's going to bless your life. We're speaking about how I need discernment on arrivals and offers. Simply put, who sent you? I'm preaching too much before I preached. Let's get to the message. [Music] John chapter 17 verse1 15. If you do not
• 00:30 - 01:00 have a tangible Bible, we'll have it projected for you on the screen just so that you can understand the climate. This is Jesus praying. This is right before Jesus is betrayed. Right before Jesus is arrested, crucified, dies on a cross, before all of that. You get to that in John chapter 18. But in John chapter 17, we see the Messiah is praying to the heavenly father before he dies. He's thinking about
• 01:00 - 01:30 us. And there's something that he says in John 17:E1 15 that I want us to consider. Jesus says, "My prayer is not that you take them out of the world, but that you protect them from the evil one." Can I get somebody say, "Lord, thank you, Lord, thank you for protecting me for protecting me from the evil one." from the evil one. God,
• 01:30 - 02:00 you're awesome. Thank you for this moment. Thank you for this day. Thank you for your body. We're truly me, many members of one body. We're asking, oh God, that it be undeniable that the spirit of the Lord was here. We didn't wake up this morning to get entertained and come to a place to get entertained. We didn't wake up this morning for a show. We didn't wake up this morning for a presentation. We woke up due to your grace and due to your mercy. And we are here, oh God, to hear a word from you. So we're asking, would you invade our atmosphere?
• 02:00 - 02:30 take over our service to where when we leave here, it will be undeniable. The spirit of the living God was in this place. All of the study, all of the preparation means absolutely nothing. If you aren't magnified and aren't glorified, I'm asking just like I pray privately, I'm asking it publicly. Anoint me as your oracle, the soundtrack, the PA system of heaven, so that we'll have discernment on offers
• 02:30 - 03:00 and arrivals. In Jesus name we pray. And everybody who agrees to that prayer, would you shout all over the room? Amen. Amen. Ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters, if I could be transparent, the way that sermon prep, prayer, and just study was hitting over the last few days, I just have like an inner witness that not only is our brand
• 03:00 - 03:30 new sermon series entitled Clarity timing timely, not only is this series a series that's needed, Especially for somebody who is about to make a unknowing destiny decision. God loves you and he loves me so much that he allotted time in your life where you will hear for the next six to seven weeks, passage after passage on how God
• 03:30 - 04:00 desires to increase your spiritual discernment and your spiritual clarity because spiritual clarity a will help you to stop mistaking Judas's kiss as love. B, help you to be able to discern divine connections from people who are faking a whole personality just to get you to C. It will give you discernment on what really matters. Because when you get clarity on what matters by default, that increases clarity on what doesn't.
• 04:00 - 04:30 Came, I'll swing it. One more time. Spiritual clarity. Not only is it going to help us to stop mistaking Judas's kiss as love, please hear me. Every kiss is not a sign of endearment. Sometimes it's a sign of betrayal. Spiritual clarity will help us to discern divine connections from people who are faking a whole personality just
• 04:30 - 05:00 to get to you. This is not who they are. This is who they became so that they can get what they want from you. This is not really their character. This is a character that they put on and they have recited lines due to your desires because the enemy wants to send you somebody that will cause for you to not fulfill your assignment and distract you for decades. Something going to happen today, y'all. Spiritual clarity and discernment is to make clear what really
• 05:00 - 05:30 matters. Because when you have clarity over what matters, it increases by default what doesn't. Not only is this sermon series clarity timely, not only is it going to increase our ability to know the voice of our good shepherd and be certain of it, but this series is also going to give us king discernment. Somebody say king.
• 05:30 - 06:00 That means sharp or highly developed. Because the way the church is set up right now, you can't have some developed. You need your discernment to be sharp. The way the church is set up right now, you can't have just some development with discernment. You need highly efficient, effective discernment. So that you won't think just because something is popular is God. It's going to give us discernment in the arena of our decision-m because please
• 06:00 - 06:30 hear me church family. Ever so often when we're looking at the text and we see Jesus praying, he's praying and he's saying, "Father, I'm not asking for you to take them out of the world. I need them here. We need witnesses. I need for them to be a light. I need for them to go make disciples of all nations. I need for them to baptize other believers in the name of the father, the son, and the holy spirit. And for them to know I am with them always. I need for them to
• 06:30 - 07:00 understand on this rock I'm going to build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it. I'm not trying to take you out of the world. But what I am asking, Father, is would you protect him from the evil one? the evil one's traps, the evil one's strategies, the evil one's schemes, the evil one's sermons that we think is sound doctrine, the evil one's agenda. Protect them from that. And one way that God could do that is by giving us king discernment in the
• 07:00 - 07:30 arena of our decisionmaking. Simply put, you and I, every so often, we're going to come to the crossroads of the unknown. An intersection of the unfamiliar. A choice, opportunity, or options are going to stand before you that have destiny weight on it. Meaning, what you decide to do with this choice is going to echo throughout your
• 07:30 - 08:00 lifetime. And I can't speak for anybody else in the sacred sanctuary watching online or even in the overflow, but I've arrived to this place. Maybe it's just about four of y'all that have arrived to this place. I can't [Music] afford I can't afford to make any more decisions from a place of confusion. I just can't. I can't. I cannot afford to make any more decisions from a place of being in a mental fog. I can't make any more choices out of anger. I can't make
• 08:00 - 08:30 any more choices out of being mentally intoxicated. I can't make any more choices with clouded judgment. Because when our judgment is clouded, discernment will be crippled. Talk. Whenever your judgment is clouded, your discernment will be crippled. Which is why the apostle Paul says in Ephesians chapter 1 verse 18, I pray that the eyes of your
• 08:30 - 09:00 heart be enlightened light that illuminates. I pray that the eyes of their heart may be enlightened. this particular installment, installment number two of our clarity series, we're going to ask God to give us spiritual discernment and clarity on offers and arrivals before we come into agreement with them.
• 09:00 - 09:30 Did y'all hear me? We need spiritual clarity on offers and arrivals before we get into agreement with them. Can I mess y'all up? Y'all didn't say nothing. Somebody said, "No, I'm going to do it anyway." The devil is not just behind assaults. He's also behind agreements. If I was a note take out, I write that down because we think the enemy comes in this
• 09:30 - 10:00 obvious dark demonic. No, the enemy is not just behind assaults. He's also behind agreements. Can I get them to agree that they won't surely die and eat this fruit? Can I get for them to agree that your lust is greater than God's plan? Intermar with the people that God told you not to intermar with because they will surely turn your hearts after their gods. Can I get you to agree that
• 10:00 - 10:30 there's no such thing as a God? Can I get you to agree that God has forgotten about you? Can I get you to agree that you're not enough? Can I get you to agree that you're too old? Can I get you to agree that you're too young? He wants to get us to get in agreement with him. And just like I was saying on therapy Thursday, I said, "Family, listen. We need to be able to be careful with who you allow to have access to
• 10:30 - 11:00 you." Because by default, whoever has access to you has access to your mind. Your mind is soil and conversations are seeds. And when we give wrong access to wrong people, they plant wrong seeds which grow up into memories. And memories can stain, stain personalities and stained perspectives. Somebody under the sound of my voice, you keep giving wrong people whole sections.
• 11:00 - 11:30 [Music] Whole sections of your heart, a whole section of your 20s, a whole section of your 30s, a whole section of your season, a whole section of your body. Oops. A whole section of your mind, your neck. Because we do not have clarity on arrivals and offers. I'm simply
• 11:30 - 12:00 suggesting family that we should have this question before us. Whenever an offer is presented and whenever a person arrives in our life, who sent you? Can I get you to find two or three people around you and help me introduce the topic for this afternoon's sermonic presentation? Ask them who sent you. And make sure you hit that high note. Who? Who sent
• 12:00 - 12:30 you? Somebody lying. The Lord. You a lie. Who sent you? Jesus prays, "Father, I'm not asking for you to take them out of the world, but I'm asking for you to protect them from the evil one." And one way
• 12:30 - 13:00 that we can be protected is by having spiritual discernment and spiritual clarity. Now, I know I could already just feel it in the spirit. I know somebody in the house overflow watch no line is like I don't need discernment I got discernment I know my gift I have the gift of discerning spirits I can see straight through people I got the discernment I already know like that woman over there I could discern straight through that hea I already could tell I could already see who you looking at that guy on the third row he's fine but he got a demon I already
• 13:00 - 13:30 know that sister over there who is leading worship she trying to be cute not cute but cute she trying to be cute but she got a whole spirit I got discernment you hear me I discernment. And I hear you, but please hear me. God never gives discernment for you to criticize. [Applause] God never gives you discernment to criticize, but rather to intercede. [Applause] See, I'm about to get here. Okay.
• 13:30 - 14:00 When I am aware of where you battle, that helps me pray for you better. Let me go ahead and make some people upset. Okay. How in the world is your gift of discernment work so well on everybody else, but you can't discern your attitude? You can't discern your pride. You can't discern your entitlement. Better yet,
• 14:00 - 14:30 how is it you can hear God calling you into ministry, but you can't hear him calling you out of sin? I just got questions. God doesn't give you discernment so that you could criticize. Me discerning where you battle is not podcast material for me to take your profile picture and
• 14:30 - 15:00 put a picture of me as some artwork and then say I'mma put this on YouTube. I'm going to put it on Spotify. I'm going to put it on Apple Music. I'm going to leave reviews because I'm going to expose them. I could discern. That's not the heart of Christ. That's the heart of a Pharisee though. And we have a whole generation who is passionately ignorant about exposing to where if we judge clips off of your life. If we judged everything about you from a
• 15:00 - 15:30 clip, see how quiet it's getting dawn. See, because God doesn't give you discernment so that you could criticize. He gives you discernment so that you could intercede. What if regardless of what we heard, what we see, if we had what the Apostle Paul said in Colossians chapter 1 verse 9, if we had this posture where Paul says, "For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for
• 15:30 - 16:00 you. We continually ask God to fill you with knowledge of his will through all of the wisdom and understanding that the spirit gives." I understand there's something off. I'm praying that God gives you the discernment to repent. I understand that something's off. I'm praying that God surrounds you with people who will tell you the truth. I'm praying that God gives you a Nathan who will come and tell you, "Thou art the man." But I'm not going to use your
• 16:00 - 16:30 flaws as content. I know. I know. We need spiritual clarity to distinguish who engineered this offer coming my path. Who was the engineer behind behind you sliding into my DMs? Who who engineered this? Is this the Lord teaching me or is this the
• 16:30 - 17:00 devil tricking me? Is this hell bothering me or is this heaven building me? Because just because it's hard does not mean God isn't using it to build you. And just because it seems like a great offer does not mean Satan isn't using it to trick you. Just because it's hard does not mean that God isn't using it. This is why I posted on Instagram just trying to encourage people on Friday. I said, "Listen, don't
• 17:00 - 17:30 get it twisted. Don't mislabel it. It's not that God is picking on you. It's that God picked you. Did you catch it? It's not that God is picking on you. It's that God picked you. Do you have Bible to cooperate your claim? Yes, I do. I'm glad you asked. 1 Peter chapter 2:9. But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a peculiar people. The reason you can't enjoy it like them is because you've been picked.
• 17:30 - 18:00 The reason you can't sin and sleep great is because you've been picked. They may be able to do that. You can't. The reason your Bible can't be a dust collector and something feels off in your heart when you haven't read scriptures for days and you haven't sought the Lord for days is because you've been picked. The reason you can't use sage and crystals and date off of zodiac signs, which is demonic, is because you've been picked. They might be able to get away with it, but you can't get away with it because
• 18:00 - 18:30 you've been picked. And when you understand what Jesus says in John 6:44, no one can come to me. No one can come to me unless the father whom sent me draws them. I think you will have a different level of praise when you recognize, man, he didn't draw them, but he draw me. I can't speak for them, but conviction hits me. He's drawing me. I couldn't
• 18:30 - 19:00 stay in bed. I had to get to church. He's drawing me. I couldn't just watch the game. I had to watch the sermon. He's drawing me. And I'm so thankful because I recognize a time in my life. Well, I felt no tug. I felt no need to repent. I felt no pushing. I felt no conviction. But is there anybody who has gotten to the place where you can praise God for his rod, too? See, three of you, four of you, I know. Can you thank God when he convicts? Because that lets you know he's with me.
• 19:00 - 19:30 Can you thank God when he chastises because that means he loves me. [Applause] Can I get everybody to say, "I'm not complaining. I'm not complaining. I've been picked. I've been picked." Who is engineering? this particular offer. All throughout the fabric of scripture, we could see
• 19:30 - 20:00 spiritual engineering. And I want to give you passage after passage where you can see that I'm not up here just preaching my opinion. Psalms 37 20 23. The steps of a good man are ordered, guided, led, shepherded, engineered by who? The Lord. John chapter 14 verse 26. But the
• 20:00 - 20:30 advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send, whom the Father will send. Who said this? The Father in my name will teach you all things and will remind you. See, it's one thing for you to be taught. It's another thing for you to be tested and then remember
• 20:30 - 21:00 you were about to do something but then the Holy Spirit reminded you ah a kind answer turns away wrath. Yeah. Blessed are the peacemakers. You weren't about to be a peacemaker. You about to be a whole troublemaker but the Holy Spirit reminded you. Do you remember who you are? will remind you of everything I have said to you. Problem. If you're not reading scripture, what can the Holy
• 21:00 - 21:30 Spirit pull from for me to remind you? There had to be a time where you digest it so that when you're in front of something, I could regurgitate what you digested. Does this make sense? Yes. This is so that we can be faithful servants. Now, watch this. Watch the switch. 2 Corinthians chap 11 verse14. And no wonder for Satan himself
• 21:30 - 22:00 masquerades as an angel of light. Most people stop right there. We not going to stop. We going to read verse 15. It says, "It is not surprising then if his servants if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness." So not only does he
• 22:00 - 22:30 engineer, but he has people who appear to be engineered from the Lord. Okay. So, for this to be a servant who's masquerading as an as a servant of righteousness, this has to be some some certain pastors who appear to be a servant of righteousness. This has to be some of your favorite Christian artist in your playlist. See, we think the enemy only traffics in things that are blatantly
• 22:30 - 23:00 evil. People who blatantly do demonic stuff. Oh, I know Lil Nas. And I know what he pushes that's demonic. But what about your favorite proclaimed Christian artist that you don't even know about? That is a servant that is a servant masquerading as though they're righteous, but the enemy is behind it. I'm trying. Hear me, family. This is critical because the trademark of being in the
• 23:00 - 23:30 last days is deception. The proof that you and I are in the last days is deception. Bible all day. 1 Timothy chapter 4. I'mma prove my point. Verse one. The spirit clearly says that in latter times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Hold on. John 14 says, "The Holy Spirit will teach
• 23:30 - 24:00 us." right here. 1 Timothy 4 is saying, "Deceiving spirits, things that are taught by demons, will teach people things." And you don't think that you need discernment? I'm going to keep putting my foot on your neck. There was something that I noticed this week. I said, "Wow, that sounds just like the times that we're living in." In Jeremiah 5:30, prophet Jeremiah says, "A horrible
• 24:00 - 24:30 and a shocking thing has happened in the land. The prophets prophesy lies. The priests rule by their own authority." And my people love it this way. But what will you do in the end? See, I just want to be clear. I'm not here for your acceptance. I'm here out
• 24:30 - 25:00 of obedience to edify the flock of God. We will not be people who love it the culture's way. Here at this church, we will preach Christ. We will preach sound doctrine. We will preach the gospel. We will preach the need of repentance. We will preach the need of holiness. That's not old school. That's sound doctrine. We will preach being consecrated. We will preach the need to turn away from our sins, hate sin. We will preach that
• 25:00 - 25:30 Christ died, was buried, but then resurrected on the third day with all power in his hand. We're not preaching ideologies. We're not preaching anything that culture is pushing. We're preaching the Bible so that you can know the Lord's voice for yourself to where when I'm not there before you, you will know the voice of God for yourself. Amen. Amen. It's the only reason why false prophets have crowds. They're not reading.
• 25:30 - 26:00 Because if you were to read the text, you would see the Bible never says that you have a need a seed. I never saw what Jesus said. I'm about to do a miracle, but form a $5,000 line and form a $100 line and form form a $300 line and your breakthrough is on the way. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. I've never seen Jesus do that. If you just shout like you lost your mind this week all all of a sudden suddenly $1,000 going to hit your bank account. Somebody say suddenly suddenly
• 26:00 - 26:30 suddenly suddenly and everybody shout that's not in the Bible. If you stop eating out this week, if you start saving this week, [Music] a horrible and a shocking thing has happened in the land. The prophets lie.
• 26:30 - 27:00 The priests rule by their own authority. And my people love it this way. Church family, I'm just pushing very hard the point. Every scent thing has a sender. There is an embarrassing amount of information and biblical passages that speak about things being sent. Just the gospel of John, the book of John in
• 27:00 - 27:30 itself uses the word sent 60 times. Jesus himself kept on using language about him being sent. Want to show you John 5:36. But the testimony that I have is greater than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to accomplish, the very works that I am doing bear witness about me that the father has somebody say sent me. Luke chapter 4 verse 18. When the Lord
• 27:30 - 28:00 opened up the text, he said, "The spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set a liberty those who are oppressed. Even in the Old Testament, Exodus 3:14, God said to Moses, "I am who I am." He said, "Say this to the people of Israel. I am has
• 28:00 - 28:30 sent me." H. So, the goal of every believer should be to be sent ones. This is so good, y'all. God the Father sent the Son and the Holy Spirit to where when we accept the gospel, receive Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, become a disciple, he then tells us, "Go and make disciples of all
• 28:30 - 29:00 nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. And know that I am with you always, even to the end of the age." So after you receive who the sender has sent, now allow me to send you. Is this making sense? Can I go a little deeper? All right. The word sent in the Greek is apostello. It's where we get the word apostles from. The reason I look up Greek, any
• 29:00 - 29:30 Bible readers, New Testament is accredited to be written in Greek. So when you're looking up words, look it up in Greek to get the original meaning. Old Testament Hebrew. I look it up to get the original meaning of that. So sent in the Greek is apostello. It means, watch me family, to send, to ship, to be sent forth, to fulfill. Please don't miss this
• 29:30 - 30:00 y'all. Sent apostello. It means to send to ship, to send forth or to fulfill. So whenever the Lord sends something to you, ships something to you, it's always for the purpose of fulfilling something. Gosh, please track with me. Whenever the devil sends something, ships something, sends forth
• 30:00 - 30:30 something, it's always for the purpose of fulfilling something. Is this making sense? There's something that the Lord wants to fulfill and there's something that hell wants to fulfill. If I can get us to get this understanding, you will begin to grasp your birthday was not an accident. That was time that God allowed for you to come into the earth to fulfill.
• 30:30 - 31:00 I hope y'all are getting this. I hope y'all getting this. Every person who slid in your DMs, they were sent to fulfill something. Every offer that you received, it was sent to fulfill something. I'm trying to get you to get some spiritual clarity where you can ask, "Is this God sending this my way to fulfill my assignment or is this the enemy sending this my way so that I won't fulfill it?"
• 31:00 - 31:30 Church family, God did not give you the strength to recover just so that you can go back to the very thing that broke you. God did not give you the strength to you for you to go back to the very thing that left your mental health on life support. He gave you the strength to fulfill something. God is not giving you this new found strength so that you can relapse. He's given you the strength so that you can advance. He never cracks the Red Sea so
• 31:30 - 32:00 that you could return. He always cracks it so that you could depart. There's something that you're supposed to fulfill. Okay, y'all don't get it. Y'all don't get it. Let me go a little deeper. Maybe the reason the attacks have been so severe in this season. Maybe the reason the attacks seem to keep happening wave after wave is because the enemy is trying to make sure that you do not fulfill your
• 32:00 - 32:30 assignment. He's not after your car. He can't drive it. He doesn't want to work where you work either. He's not after your money. He can't spend it. He's after your ability to fulfill what God placed on the inside of you. And if you begin to ask the question, regardless the offer, regardless the promotion, regardless the person, does this fulfill what God put on the inside of me? You will stop getting deceived so easily.
• 32:30 - 33:00 Satanic severity always exposes the enemy's anxiety. Say it again. Satanic severity always exposes the enemy's anxiety. He's hit you so hard because you're so close. Okay, for some of us who this doesn't make sense to you, you could just sit there, look cute, and be quiet. But for the rest of us, now it makes sense why trauma arrived in childhood. Now it makes sense why people acting crazy. Now
• 33:00 - 33:30 it makes sense why people are talking about me. Now it makes sense why there's so many things that are coming my way. It's because my life is making hell nervous and hell is trying to do everything it can so that we don't fulfill. Push this even harder. There's this chart that I made. I want you to see the process of how this works. It starts with the sender. Okay? It starts with a sender, a target, an
• 33:30 - 34:00 assignment, agreement, and fulfillment. Okay, this is how it starts. There's a sender. There's a target. There's an assignment. There's agreement. There's fulfillment. One more time so we can get it. There's a sender. There's a target. That's you and I. There's an assignment. That's your purpose. That's agreement. That's surrender, fulfillment. That's
• 34:00 - 34:30 completing what you've been called to do. Okay. Now, I'm going to show you this in scripture. Then we're going to come back to the chart. John chapter 1 verse 6. Watch how it starts off. There was a man sent from God. I love when scripture compliments. There was a man sent from who? God. Whose name was John. So God is a sender. The target is John. He came as a witness to testify. That's his assignment concerning the light. So
• 34:30 - 35:00 that through him all might believe. That's helping people get in agreement. He himself was not the light. He came also as a witness to the light. That's fulfillment. It's making sense. Let's go back to the chart. I know that was a lot. You have to go back on YouTube and watch it again. I want us to consider regardless the offer, promotion, whoever somebody sent them. You're the target. You have an assignment. Are you going to surrender so that you can fulfill it?
• 35:00 - 35:30 If you don't know your assignment, you're always going to come into because you don't understand that you're supposed to fulfill something. Give you more Bible. Jeremiah chapter 1 verse 7. But the Lord said to me, do not say I am too young. You must go to
• 35:30 - 36:00 everyone I send you to and say whatever I command you. Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you and will rescue you, declares the Lord. Can we go even a little deeper? All right. Luke chapter 22 verse one. Now the festival of unleaven bread called the Passover was approaching and the chief priest and the teachers of the law were looking for some way to get rid of
• 36:00 - 36:30 Jesus for they were afraid of the people. Then Satan entered Judas called his scariot one of the 12 and Judas went to the chief priests. Pause. The chief priests in their hearts were looking for a way to get rid of Jesus.
• 36:30 - 37:00 Satan then enters Judas and the first place he goes is to the chief priest. They had a desire in their heart. The enemy knew who he could use to help them fulfill the desire of their heart. So one way you could identify is this sent by the enemy, does it fulfill a desire?
• 37:00 - 37:30 Does it fulfill a desire in your heart that glorifies God or glorifies you? And see, this is why we have to be careful with saying, "I know it's the Lord. I just have so much peace about it. I have so much joy." Keep reading the text. It says, uh, "And Judas went to the chief priests and the officers of the temple and discussed with them how they might betray Jesus. They were delighted."
• 37:30 - 38:00 I just got so much joy since this arrived. Or this is confirmation. Notice the timing. We want to kill him. Judas comes. Notice the timing. When you aroused, notice the timing of who text you. Notice the timing. When you're angry, notice the timing. Can I just share a real story?
• 38:00 - 38:30 One time, Tanisha and I weren't seeing eye to eye about something, and I was upset. She was upset. I said, "Okay, I'm going to go to the store and just get some stuff." So, I go to Walmart and I'm getting some of the stuff that she needs and this girl on the aisle, she's like, "You're a little taller than me. Can you reach and get that?" I said, "Yeah, sure. No problem." I grabbed. She said, "Yeah, I just moved here. I need some more help. Notice the
• 38:30 - 39:00 timing. I'm upset." And you know the devil, well, she need help, bro. Notice the timing of temptation increasing. Gosh, I hope y'all trying to get this. As soon as they made their minds up to kill them, the enemy sins. Now, how could he do this? I want to go a little deeper. How could he do this? Because John 13 2 it says during
• 39:00 - 39:30 supper when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas a scariot Simon's son to betray him. It's already been in your heart. They just changed when they got power. No, it's already been in their heart. The enemy just gave them an offer that would expose what's been in their heart the whole time. Money doesn't change people. It reveals people. It's been in your heart the whole time. The whole time. Anybody who's saying
• 39:30 - 40:00 that they're lonely and you need somebody, please understand this. Loneliness is not cured by company. It's exposed by it. Anybody who's saying, "I need to get married to help me stop being so lustful." Please understand, if marriage cured lust, adultery wouldn't exist. [Music] It wouldn't exist and every prostitute would be married. I
• 40:00 - 40:30 want you to notice, please hear me. I want you to notice how the desire to fulfill what you want in your heart, the opportunity, the person seems to come around the same time you have that desire. So, I want to show us this, Warren. I want I want to show us this because I told you I'm a visual learner. Um, and I was a student pastor for nine years. I want I want to show you this where you can kind of see how it works. Okay, so if we could put the timeline chart on the screen where we can see we
• 40:30 - 41:00 have a birthday and after we have a birthday there's a series of events. Okay, so I'm going to represent the Lord. All right, I'm going to represent the Lord. All right, Andrea, this is going to be Take this off. This is going to be Destiny, you just come over here. step off stage just real quick. So, I'm representing the Lord. This is her birthday. At her birth, I have a plan
• 41:00 - 41:30 for her. Remember last week we talked about this book, right? He's the author and finisher of our faith. These are the plans I have for you. And since I'm a good father, I also have gifts for you. Okay? So, now just turn this way for me. After your birthday, the most important thing that could happen in your life is you hear the gospel. Why is that important? Because now she could recognize I'm the one who gave you
• 41:30 - 42:00 the story and I'm the one who gave you the gifts. If you don't understand I gave them to you, you'll use them for you. So what the enemy does then is since I have a plan for you, we're walking together. God sends someone and the devil sends someone. Y'all come at the same time. That's how it happened. Wheat and weed at the same time. Now she's trying to make progression into being a disciple. But the enemy sent her kisses
• 42:00 - 42:30 and gifts. And the person that God sent, hold it up, came with a knife. I know, sis. What? Now this this is usually the issue. Okay, since this looks like what you have, you can begin to think so good. You can begin to think they understand me.
• 42:30 - 43:00 This is God's will for me. We're so much alike. Okay. Now, remember I said he came with kisses. Why is that important? Um because Proverbs chapter 27 verse 6 says, "Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies."
• 43:00 - 43:30 So, he's just constantly giving her kisses. You know what a lot of sermons do? Give kisses. That's it. Y'all want a sugar, right? That's what y'all want. A sugar. That's what y'all want. Sugar, right? That's it. Preach heresy, right? Preach inspiration, right? Give you a whole bunch of kisses. Tell you got a need. God has a seed. Give you sugar. Your breakthrough's on the way. Your miracles on the way. Look how y'all reaching for
• 43:30 - 44:00 it. You're called to be the salt of the world, but you're reaching out for kisses. You say that this is God's will because he came with a lot of kisses. I'm going to get you way in the back, too. You sit in the back. This may be funny, but I promise you in the spirit, a lot of church gatherings look like that. Kisses, sugar. So now what the person from God tries to
• 44:00 - 44:30 do, he tries to cut. You got to resist it, Andre. You don't like that. She's pulling back. She wants to keep the kisses now. Hold on. Look. Look. She's making back. Y'all keep going. So she's dead. Her whole life. Yeah. said dead because in scripture if you're not spiritually alive you're dead.
• 44:30 - 45:00 You can go too. We rebuke you, bro. Matter of fact, give me them kisses back. So, the person that God sent is trying to cut open the gifts that God gave. This is so good, y'all. But because the sermons make you squirm, because there are certain things I don't
• 45:00 - 45:30 like that he said, there are certain things that seem to be offensive. The people that God really do send. I can give you Bible with this all day. Notice what the Apostle Paul says. 2 Corinthians chapter 7:8. He says, "Even if I cause you sorrow by my letter, I don't regret it. Though I did regret it, I see that my letter hurt you, but only for a little while. Yet now I am happy. Not because you were made sorry, but because your
• 45:30 - 46:00 sorrow led to repentance. For you became sorrowful as God intended, and so were not harmed in us by any way. We didn't tell do nothing but tell you the truth. Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. So now, now look, show you again. So Destiny, she's born. It's your birthday. Come on up here. Let's put the chart
• 46:00 - 46:30 back up. She birthday. I got plans for you for you in your mother's womb. I knew you and I got gifts for you. So the second most important thing after this is what? For her to hear the gospel. I'm walking with her. She's making progress. God sends somebody to help her. The enemy sends somebody to distract her. Same season. Same time. Warren, you so
• 46:30 - 47:00 stupid. Same season. Same time. Now, since Destiny is listening to the series on clarity, she's able to recognize even though her and Amber have similarities, even though there are things that are in common, you ain't good for me, boo boo. It's not personal, it's spiritual. It's not. So, she's learned to trust when God sends somebody in your life to tell you the
• 47:00 - 47:30 truth. They're not convicting you to hurt you. They're not telling you the truth to make you feel bad about yourself. The word is a double-edged sword. And so, as the friends, the preachers, the teacher, God sends cuts. It's all for the purpose of what? Showing you what's on the inside of you. You got intercession. You got grace. You got a calling to be a teacher. You got a magnificent anointing on your life. Look at all this stuff on the inside of you
• 47:30 - 48:00 that you could not recognize with the other person. You got a whole lot of stuff on the inside. Now, we're giving golf claps because we know when people start cutting, it doesn't feel good. But it's all for the purpose of fruit. Amen. Can I get somebody to say fruit? Fruit. All right. I want to show y'all this. And I'm out of time. I'm good. Y'all out of time. You still taking stuff out, huh? Overflow. The Lord is
• 48:00 - 48:30 that good. He put that much on the inside of you. Now, I just want us to to have this this comparison. And I'm going to have a scripture for each one. I'm going to go kind of quickly where we can get them. Okay. So, how do I spot what the Lord engineered from what hell engineered? Number one, when it's God, it brings you closer to himself. When it's the enemy, it brings you into isolation. Okay? Hebrews 12:22, "Let us
• 48:30 - 49:00 draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings." Number two, when it's from God, it helps you detox. When it's from the enemy, it helps you be defiled. This is like a whole checklist for somebody who calling somebody bae. For for somebody who has an offer, this is a whole checklist. We just gave you two. Do they bring you closer to God? No. Do they help you detox from
• 49:00 - 49:30 Egypt? No. Do they help you to be defiled? Yep. You already got answered. I only went through two. When it's God, number three, it helps you fear the Lord. When it's from the enemy, you only fear consequence. You only fear your period being late. You only fear the IRS. I'm not sorry. You only fear the IRS discovering what you lied about. You only fear if you did not delete the screenshots.
• 49:30 - 50:00 Proverbs 1 verse 7. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. I didn't give the verse for um the second point help you detox is 2 Corinthians 7:1. Let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates the body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God. Number four, when it's God, it makes you share. When it's
• 50:00 - 50:30 the enemy, it makes you sneak. I'm struggling. I'm battling in my marriage. I'm I'm battling in my identity. Confess your faults one to another. I'm struggling. Enemy makes you sneak. Well, what time they going to go to bed? Well, how many sick days do you have? See, makes you sneak.
• 50:30 - 51:00 Ephesians 4 verse 25. Therefore, each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbor, for we are all members of one body. Number five, when it's God, it aligns with scripture. When it's the enemy, it aligns with motives. Whatever motive that you have in your heart. 1 John 4:1. Dear friends,
• 51:00 - 51:30 do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God because many false prophets have gone out into the world. Number six, when it's from God, convictions compliment. When it's from the enemy, convictions are challenged. What you mean you waiting till marriage? What you mean you got to ask your wife if you go out to us? You the man. You
• 51:30 - 52:00 the head of your house, right, bro? Just pull up. I don't have to ask my wife nothing. As though your model is mine. Convictions. Compliment. This simply means I won't have to always explain why because they'll have similar convictions because y'all both have the Holy Spirit. Number uh 2 Corinthians 7:10. Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret. But
• 52:00 - 52:30 worldly sorrow brings death. Number seven, when it's from God, it feeds your spirit. When it's from the enemy, it feeds your flesh. Psalms 29:2, ascribe to the Lord the glory. Do his name. Worship the Lord in the splendor of his holiness. And last one, when it's from God, it gives God glory. When it's from the enemy, it gives you false success.
• 52:30 - 53:00 Like if I win here, but I'm failing at home, that's false success. These are some ways tangible cuz I don't want to just speak about a problem. I want to give you scriptural evidence that there's an engineer behind everything being sent. And what does God desires? He desires for us to be fruitful. And remember, wheat and weed, same season. God sends counterfeits, same season. Before you sign the contract,
• 53:00 - 53:30 just because it looks good, pray in all your ways. Acknowledge me. Before you view this as your potential spouse, potential opportunity, you booking with someone, whatever it may be. Pray. [Music] Who sent this? Cuz just like if somebody knocked on your door. Who is it? It's me. They told me
• 53:30 - 54:00 to give this to you. You wouldn't open the door naturally. Why do we do it spiritually when we don't know who engineered this? So, Father, in this moment, we want to say thank you for giving us the gift of discernment. Help us learn, oh God, from the passage of scripture revolving
• 54:00 - 54:30 around Judas that what we desire in our hearts, the enemy can send us. The chief priests were excited when Judas came, but Satan was in him. Far be it from us to be delighted by satanic offers. We want to be children, oh God, that could identify when your hand is on
• 54:30 - 55:00 a thing and when it's not. We don't want to be confused and we don't want to make any more decisions that cause us to live in recovery. Give us spiritual clarity in Jesus name. And everybody who agrees to that prayer, would you give God some praise in the [Music] [Applause] house? We want clarity. What we desire is clarity from the Lord. And this is just something that was beating on my
• 55:00 - 55:30 heart. so much this week because I was like, man, the first person to go to the chief priest was a person that was filled with Satan to help them match what they desired. There's this confession I want us to say and we're going to pray and we're going to go home. Can I get all of us to say, Lord, Lord, thank you for picking me. Thank you for picking me. Now, please give me discernment. I please give you discernment to know what
• 55:30 - 56:00 you sent to know what you sent and what you didn't and what you didn't in Jesus name. in Jesus name. One more time with hand raised. Lord Lord thank you thank you for picking me for picking me. Now give me discernment give me discernment to know what you sent to know what you sent and what you didn't and know what you didn't in Jesus name. in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. [Applause]
• 56:00 - 56:30 This series is going to hit different mainly for the purpose of it's training. It's training you to sharpen your ear for what's coming up on the land, the deception, the evil. You must be able to know something popular from something powerful. My prayer is that we'll all get closer to the Lord. We're just going to do the prayer of salvation and um then we're going to get ready to go home. Can I just get us to say, "God, God, save me. Save me. You promised me. You promised me in your word. In your word. If I
• 56:30 - 57:00 confess with my mouth, I confess with my heart. And believe in my heart. And believe in my mouth. That God raised Jesus from the grave. I shall be saved. I shall be saved. I believe that. I believe that. Save me. Save me. Seal me. Seal me. And fill me with your Holy Spirit. Fill me with your Holy Spirit. Make me a disciple of Christ. Make me a disciple of Christ. And sharpen my discernment. And sharpen my discernment. so that I won't make So that I won't make any choices any choices that lead that lead to rebellion to rebellion in Jesus name. in Jesus name. Amen. Amen.
• 57:00 - 57:30 If you said that prayer want you to text the word fresh start to the number on the screen 84484836. A video of myself is going to pop up just letting you know you just made the best decision that you could ever make accepting Christ as your Lord and Savior.