oh
hmm
good morning what's going on guys
all right i was just pulling up the live
stream here on my computer um
god bless you how are you doing this
morning god bless you
god bless you i have the phone on this
little suspended thing that's attached
to the uh the desk
so
every time i move it wants to wobble a
little bit
um
yeah so i'm not sure
i guess i can't move or it's going to
move
how y'all doing this morning god is
faithful i just want to encourage you
this morning that if you're struggling
if you're going through anything then it
means that you're human and that the
enemy is after you and it doesn't mean
that you are failing in some way it just
means that
uh you got to hunker down you got to
press in you got to seek the lord and
god will be faithful to you he is a a
good father he speaks to his children he
doesn't leave us abandoned or stranded
he doesn't leave us in silence all the
time sometimes in seasons but not all
the time god is a god
of
nearness and closeness and he speaks to
his children so definitely draw near to
the throne of grace
and find mercy and help in time of need
okay
god is faithful he will speak to you he
is not just a god that's far off in the
heavens somewhere if you are his and he
lives inside of you he is as close to
you as he could possibly be
and he wants to speak to you so listen
open your ears and draw near and god
will be faithful with that said that's
not the reason why i am making this
video today i'm making this video
because i want to talk about a
particular subject this video is not
going to be
uh really
two christians per se
a lot of you might hear this and and say
okay you're preaching the choir why are
you even talking about this but it's
something that has been on my mind this
morning
and i want to capture it in a video i
want to be able to discuss it so that
maybe it's something that you can share
with uh those who don't believe those
who are lost in the world and maybe
believe some of these things you can
review these ideas and say you know what
uh my cousin tammy or whoever it might
be like she needs to hear this because
this is exactly how she believes and
maybe this is something that you know
your cousin tammy can learn from and and
and maybe just maybe we can wake up from
this self-deception
that has poisoned the minds of those who
are in the world
um i saw an instagram post this morning
uh
apparently there's this thing going
viral
it's a post that jonah hill made i don't
know if you know who jonah hill is he's
an actor in hollywood
uh he is
not a christian a lot of his movies in
the past that he's made especially years
ago were filthy uh he's a very
filthy-mouthed man uh but with that said
uh he's a worldly man so we can't expect
anything different because that's what
people do when they live in the world
right so i'm not i'm not insulting him
i'm just saying he is uh
he's been quite
lewd in in some of his movies um
he posted this morning though
uh this this quote in quote heartfelt
post
about
his brother who is now deceased i don't
know what the circumstances are i don't
know anything about it really but his
brother who's deceased
when they had courtside seats to see a
lakers game and they're sitting next to
kobe bryant which we know kobe is also
deceased and it was this long heartfelt
post
about um
this unforgettable moment that he had
and uh that he was you know that they
grew up worshiping kobe
huge lakers fans and
um they were able to sit next to kobe
and talk to him during the game and kobe
was so nice to them
and now kobe is gone his brother is gone
and he's thinking about this and he's
saying that
he has been thinking about the idea of
you know those who rest in peace
and he was like i don't like to think
that they are resting in peace i like to
think that they're up there somewhere
hustling and getting stuff done but he
used the other s word
because that's who they are
and it made me really think that we in
the world we are so stuck in
self-deception man we will tell
ourselves anything that we can to to
feel better about ourselves
to feel better about our reality to feel
better about those that we love even
christians do this i think a lot of
times where we have a tragic death and
maybe one of our family members they
they were not walking with god but we
don't want to actually think of the fact
that our loved ones are in hell and i
totally understand it's something that
our minds can't process and we don't
we'd rather not process it so we'd
rather lie to ourselves and be
self-deceived and i think that there's a
lot of danger in this
because
the problem is hey preston god bless you
man the problem with this self-deception
is we're really setting ourselves up for
failure we can no longer allow
um
this mindset in our life
it's toxic it's toxic
we have gotten to this unbreakable
point
i'm getting distracted sorry
we're getting to this point where um
we live in a society of people that are
jelly bellied and have no backbone and
that's just the truth
and i have so many christians even that
come to me
and talk about how
they love god and they love the church
and they love serving him but they hate
i had a woman yesterday comment
i think she even comes from a christian
perspective i'm pretty sure that she's a
professing believer
who posted on one of my videos
saying that she hates zealots like this
and if you look in a lot of christian
circles you will see that many of them
think that street preaching or getting
out on the street in any form or
capacity and preaching the gospel in a
way that's unpopular
that cost you some form of reputation
points like you're not going to be
popular you're not going to have a good
reputation you're not going to be
admired by the world you're not even
going to be admired by the church these
are things that the church looks down
upon and it's things that you know many
pastors and christian leaders would
rather not yoke themselves together with
because they want to be as much as they
hate to admit it they want to be
liked and accepted by the world while
still being able to say that they're a
man of god
and doing the lord's work but the bible
says that we cannot
the bible literally says to
love not the world nor the things that
are in the world and that a friend of
the world is an enemy of god
so how is it that we have failed to
separate ourselves
from worldly thinking and worldly ways
and worldly ideologies we are trying so
often within the body of christ and
within christian circles to maintain a
form of worldly acceptance while
maintaining also that godly reputation
and the two are
literally in conflict with one another
if you are to serve god in the fullness
of the way that god truly intends it's
going to cost you something it's going
to cost you something in the world
people are not going to want to embrace
you and say oh look at you know phillip
blair he's doing wonderful things i
don't agree with everything he's saying
but he's doing that's not the way that
it's going to be now we can definitely
say that we can live our life in such a
way that even our enemies are at peace
with us i think we need to be above
reproach we need to make sure that
there's no sin uh no identifiable sin in
our life
i think we'll have blind spots we all
have improvement uh areas but we need to
make sure that we're living our life in
such a way that if we were to examine
our life it's gonna be we're gonna be
hard-pressed to find anything there okay
so we need to be living in the best way
possible so that even those who are in
the world see that christian testimony
they see that example and
there's some they're saying you know
what like maybe i don't want to live
like that but i have respect for this
this person but they're still going to
be against you you understand the world
at large is still going to be very much
against what you're doing what you're
saying how you're doing it and if we are
to be christian leaders and pastors
prophets evangelists apostles teachers
and all these things the fivefold
ministry we have to understand that it's
going to take some form of weight that
we are to carry when we pick up our
cross and walk towards calvary to follow
jesus or when we are putting our hand to
the plow when we're pushing we're
tilling up the fallow ground
to prepare for planting so that we can
eventually see a harvest it's going to
take some effort it's going to take our
you know we're going to be bearing some
weight in our shoulder blades from doing
the work of the lord and it's not just
going to be an easy walk and if we find
ourselves in these areas where things
are just easy peasy and we would rather
not think of the consequences of what's
going to come later on down the road
because we're choosing to live that
middle ground lukewarm existence then
really we're setting ourselves up for
failure and we're into all forms of
self-deception
so much self-deception i see it so often
that's the reason why we don't want to
call out sin it's because we want people
to continue coming to our can we stop
asking about david lynn we're trying to
make a video right now guys come on
let's focus on the message
i don't know what happened to brother
david i will look into it but let's
focus on the message right now okay
because i want you to understand what
i'm saying and i want you to be edified
all right let's not be distracted let's
focus on the message god is trying to
speak to us today it takes something to
serve the lord it bears a burden we're
carrying a cross
okay and god is expecting us to do it
diligently and faithfully to walk in the
light of christ and know that if we are
to do the work of the lord is going to
cost us in the world and the rewards are
in heaven the bible says that uh the
present sufferings of the present time
are not worthy to be compared with the
glory but should be revealed in us okay
so we have a future blessing we have
rewards in heaven to be stored up for us
but we have to make sure that we're not
self-deceived in the way that we're
serving the lord that we're not puffing
ourselves up higher than uh that we are
and that we keep our mouths to the dust
i was in prayer last night and i didn't
expect to to share this with you
actually but i was in prayer last night
and god spoke to me three things he said
rally the troops
he said
serve others and be humble and i think
that will really speak to all of us we
need to rally the troops in this time
the world is sleeping and so full of
self-deception there are the multitudes
and the masses are on the wide road that
leads to destruction they're falling off
the cliff and it's so full of
self-deception we're putting rest in
peace all over our gravestones because
we would rather think that everyone goes
to heaven that we're just having a good
time in eternity and that there's peace
you know and good will to all men and
all these things right and so
it's just
there is no peace for the wicked there's
no peace for the wicked not in this life
not in the next life there's only the
coming judgment and the only thing that
can save you from that coming judgment
is the grace of god and the blood of
jesus christ there is no forgiveness of
sin without the shedding of blood and
the blood of jesus is the only sacrifice
that you have to to pay the ransom for
your soul
and the certificate of debt being nailed
to the cross jesus took the burden and
the weight of sin to the cross with him
taking on our shame taking on the the
judgment of the father
and and we don't have to worry about
that if we are resting in christ born
again and his spirit lives inside of us
but let us not be self-deceived and
thinking that we're okay when we're not
okay
because the problem is so many are
living in wickedness and we are
self-deceived
and we're thinking that we're holy and
righteous
and and that's just not the case how is
it that everyone believes that we're
going to just be freely accepted into
heaven because god in his infinite
wisdom just sees the best in you
that's not the way it works god sees all
of the sin in all of us and the only
thing that can cover is the blood of
jesus christ the only thing that can
cover your sin is the blood of jesus
christ
in our hearts we're all
you know i'm not going to say we're all
but in our hearts the world is so full
of
of you know hatred and murder and
adultery and lust and lasciviousness and
lewdness you know cheating and stealing
and so many other things there's so much
evil in our hearts the bible in jeremiah
17 says the heart is deceitful and
desperately wicked who can know it if we
are to truly examine our hearts we would
see that there is no good in us there is
none good not one there is none
righteous not one the our greatest works
of righteousness outside of the the the
work of god in us is as filthy rags in
his sight you see we can't do good we're
never going to be able to do good in our
own
self-will
so we acknowledge that we are weak and
that we need his strength and we allow
god to take us from this form of
self-deception into the truth that we
are nothing and he is everything let him
live through you
so that if you want something to become
of your life let the power of god and
the grace of god and the life of god and
the will of god live through you the
only way you're going to get to the
destiny that you have in the coming
years
is for god to live through you because
you don't even know where you're going
you have no idea what is in store for
your life and the only person who does
is the lord i just uh
one of the other things that the lord
spoke to me last night is that time is
an instrument of his will and i thought
wow that's amazing that is amazing
sometimes god speaks things that are
just so full of wisdom
that it kind of just blows your mind you
have to just think about it and reflect
on it and and go and do some bible study
and look at the scriptures and
understand what it exactly it is
um that that he's saying but time is an
instrument of the lord's will and he is
saying that he is outside of time and he
uses the time that we have to uh
to accomplish his will here on this
earth and together we can accomplish
much but the problem is we're so divided
we're so disrupted and our thinking in
our hearts and our intentions there's so
many issues at hand and we would rather
not think about it we'd rather be
comfortable we just want to go to church
we just want to pay our tithes and be a
member of the local congregation or or
not and um it's just we continue going
the same way that we've always gone so
utterly
comfortable
because our minds don't want to be
disrupted from from from the the easy
living that we're doing i just visited a
new church recently and the immediately
after church i was bombarded with so
many questions
and
immediately was bombarded with you know
gossip about other people particularly
the pastor things you know sharing not
anything crazy but sharing things that
that really i shouldn't be hearing about
the first five minutes i'm there um you
know just asking me questions about all
sorts of things instead of just
welcoming me in the service uh and it
really just
caused me to think of how
divided and separated we truly are
because when we go to a new church the
first thing that people want to do is
size you up and determine whether you
live live and believe exactly as they do
and if not you're going to be shunned
you're going to be isolated separate or
whatever it might be until you come into
um you know their way of thinking and
assimilate to their belief system
and that's the problem we sit in our
denominational
uh groupings and we don't want to get
outside of that we don't want any unity
in the body of christ because we're too
worried about um ecumenicalism taking
over the church but you have to
understand ecumenicalism and you know
all roads lead to heaven that whole
train of thought is the perverted
demonic form of a very godly biblical
teaching which is unity in the body of
christ
there's so many scriptures uh in the new
testament about having the unity of
fellowship
the unity in the body to be able to
accomplish the lord's will
and we're so divided so broken so
deceived and this is
what breaks my heart
this is what breaks my heart we have to
somehow overcome it and realize that
this is not the intent that god had for
the church especially not in this end
time we need to be more functional more
mobile more battle hardened battle ready
battle tested than ever before because
there's more demons i believe i truly
believe there's more demons parading
this earth than ever before all of human
history i believe there's more demons at
work in this world than ever before
even in the time you look at the most
evil points in history even during the
times as in the days of noah
you know and we saw what happened to
them i believe there's more evil at work
in the world now than ever before
and um i mean you even have you don't
talk about current events you even have
go and look on elon musk's twitter i
know i'm not saying i believe in you
know i'm not an elon musk fan uh but he
even posted something
a meme of some type about the large
hadron collider or whatever it's called
and about how it's an instrument of
great evil i remember remember exactly
what he said let me see if i can look it
up real quick but it's amazing when you
have people who are non-believers who
are admitting
um the these these things that you know
even
um
when you have unbelievers even believing
especially the richest man in the world
who is who is admitting to the fact
that
that evil is taking place
man come on
we know that
we got to wake up i don't know if he
deleted it or not it's very possible
no he didn't he still has it on there
you go on elon musk you look it says
please let me use the cern large hadron
collider i am normal and can be trusted
with a demonic technology unlike
anything the world has ever seen and and
i think it's a tongue-in-cheek meme but
the point is even he is admitting that
it's a demonic technology unlike
anything the world has ever seen
i'm not trying to get a conspiracy but
whenever we start throwing together tiny
particles to open up portals and do all
these things there's evil going to
become of it i believe so much in our
world and all the so much of the
technology that we are using today is a
product of
secret knowledge from the enemy being
released and yeah god can use a lot of
it and use it for his glory uh anything
can be taken and used well i don't say
anything that's
that's a very much a huge overstatement
there's so many things that you know
that that the devil meant for harm that
god can use for good and he can turn it
around and he can use it to glorify
himself but um
there's so much happening and and we we
don't want to be uncomfortable we don't
want our conscience to be
uh
shaken
we want to feel
soothed and pacified that's why we sit
in front of televisions for hours and
hours
completely i mean it's such a passive my
wife talks about it all the time it's
such a way to to really get into the
state of passive reception where you're
not
even thinking
in a very conscious
like active way it's such a passive form
of life and when you get to where you're
living a passive existence all of your
motivation all of your initiative all of
your hopes and dreams are subdued to
such a lower level and it prevents so
much productivity um it's just not good
and so we have to get to a place where
we are understanding the tactics and
techniques of the enemy that will he he
does so much to keep us in this mindset
of
passivity and and really just exactly
what this video is about is being
self-deceived so that our conscious
conscience is not shaken
that's the way the world wants to be
because
we don't want to really face the truth
that
there is a god and he is going to judge
the living and the dead and that sin
will be um
you know it will be dealt with
the bible says in isaiah two times
there's no peace for the wicked
if we're living in wickedness
and if we're outside of the will of god
if we're not saved if jesus does not
live inside of us then we are living in
wickedness i assure you
if we're living in wickedness
there will come a
day of reckoning
and the only thing that can save you is
jesus the only
thing that can save your soul
is the blood of jesus christ given on
calvary
he's not dead he's alive he rose from
the dead he is coming back
it will happen
i don't know where you're from i don't
know what you've been through i don't
know the testimonies from christians
that you have interacted with or
encountered i don't know what kind of
church hurt you're carrying if you're an
unbeliever i don't know what kind of
church you're carrying i don't know who
did you wrong i don't know if you were
just raised in a christian home where
you had a lot of hypocrisy i don't know
what caused you to turn away but i want
you to know today that god is faithful
and he is perfect he does not have
any um evil in him he is purely he is
completely pure completely holy
completely just and he sees your heart
and he wants to cleanse you he wants to
save your soul now is the time today is
the day of salvation exactly come home
and find
life
you don't have to be a an orphan
stranded spiritually on the streets
begging for bread
hustling
trying to make a name for yourself god
has already
purposed something in you
and if you go to him he will unveil to
you everything that he has planned for
your life
he'll take care of you show exactly
where to go and he will take you through
every circumstance of life he won't
prevent the problems but he'll keep you
strong in the midst of him he will help
you to rely on him more to love him more
that is the heart of god
i would encourage the believers today
spend time
in the coming week two weeks
begin a routine of serving others one
thing that god spoke to me last night is
we have to be focused on serving others
if we are comfortable if it's not
costing us anything if we're serving
others just out of you know what what's
in our little window of comfort then
we're not doing it right being selfless
is literally making ourselves available
even we don't want to be available
spending time and and really truly
uh lifting each other up
when we don't
feel like doing it when it's costing us
something that's what it means the most
to the lord
when we are doing things
in the most selfless way think of ways
that you can help the body of christ
that cost you something
and you can look at the lord and say in
the purest of intentions through the
heart of god i am making myself
available i am doing the work of the
lord i am serving others and putting
their needs first their spiritual
nourishment education first because that
is what god wants me to do and it's not
something that's easy for me it's
something i have to go out of my way to
do but look you look at the sacrifice of
cain and abel
cain withheld from the lord and a nice
and sapphire look at them they were they
were struck dead because they held back
from the lord so if we are to be in
service unto the lord
all right if we are to be in service
unto the lord let's not lie to ourselves
let's not lie to god let's be honest are
we giving god our best are we giving
others our best i can be the first to
tell you i'm not giving others my best
and that's something that god spoke to
me and i'm going to give it to you and i
want us both i want us all to work on i
will make myself more available to serve
others in a way
that that truly shows i'm doing
everything i can through the god through
the leading of god through god's leading
and through his spirit through his power
i'm doing everything i can to be
available and helpful edifying and
serving i have a servant's mindset to
other people
and i will not live in the
self-deception anymore that i am good to
go that i'm doing everything that i can
and i'm not going to lie to other people
and allow them to believe these lies i'm
going to in this in the the spirit of
christian maturity i'm going to give
them the truth but in love and in grace
and encouragement
all right
there's a right way and a wrong way to
do things you can say the same thing in
completely different ways you can say i
have hatred and anger you can say i have
love
and because you care
and my advice is do the latter
talk to people because you love them
because you care but the first thing you
have to get to
is actually caring and loving them ask
god to do a work in your heart because
he's the only one that can do that you
can't just conjure it up inside of your
own soul to love people that you don't
love you have to be able to love the
unlovable to be a hand that reaches out
for those who are in need
that's right let's shake ourselves free
from this lukewarm mindset let's get
close to the fire the heart of god is he
is a consuming fire so the closer we get
to the lord the closer we draw near to
the throne of grace the closer we are
staying to god in prayer and fasting
reading the word of god we i need to do
better uh you know we have to be able to
get
close to him to be
just
clamoring and clawing towards his heart
continually and allow him to shake us up
to remove the things that don't need to
be there to purify us and to bear fruit
in our life
so that others can can benefit from that
we talked about this several weeks ago
the fruit tree bears fruit not for its
own enjoyment but for that fruit to fall
into the ground and for the people and
the animals and all this to be to be fed
and to enjoy
uh
the taste of that wonderful fruit you
know god the world is to taste and see
that the lord is good is through the
branches bearing that good fruit and
people tasting of his goodness through
the testimony of our life i saw somebody
in the comments just ask about my case i
went back to new york
and
the police officer never turned in the
ticket so that was a waste of of my time
there but uh there was a meaning for it
because
i think you can see all the videos that
were released uh god did something
wonderful from all of that and i think
it was definitely his purpose for that
to happen so uh there's some videos
though go back and watch those and i
explain everything i'm not gonna do it
here i hope you guys have a good day i'm
in 29 minutes i have a lot to do today
pray for me um we're getting ready to
leave
to go to brazil on monday morning we
have a long journey we have a lot of
preparation to do
i have family coming into town this
weekend i have some events this weekend
that i'm doing with family
that's important and so i need your
prayers for that everything will go well
then i'll be able to get everything
packed and i have people flying in from
portugal in south africa into brazil to
join us on this trip i think there's
going to be five of us pray that there's
no issues with uh us all getting there
safely and on time and that the full
team is going to be there there's one
brother in particular
i really
i'm concerned whether he's going to have
um
whether he's going to have issues or not
um
but
i i don't think so i'm hoping that
everything will be good so just pray for
that we're expecting an amazing trip we
have so much planned uh i want to make
another video uh to to discuss some of
these things later on today i'm going to
be making a video
uh with my wife she's going i'm hoping
it's going to be today we've been
meaning to do it the last couple of days
but um we have to make a video in
portuguese to prepare for all those in
brazil that hopefully can meet up with
us either in londrino or sao paulo
and then it's i think it's going to be
amazing so stay tuned for that i'll be
hopefully releasing the full schedule uh
here in the next day or two
but right now i have a ton of things i
need to do i hope you guys have an
amazing day i love you so much
believe it or not there was one key
point in this video that i was intending
to make and i forgot what i had written
down on my notes so i'm a little bit
frustrated with myself but i really just
have to have faith that whatever i admit
i was meant to say uh you know the lord
was able to speak it through me
um if you can please share this with
somebody you love you know we want the
word of god the message of god to get
out uh to the world we want people to
hear the gospel to hear the word of the
lord and be saved that is the only
reason why we do any of this we want
people to be saved and we can't do it
only god can save the soul but god can
use us to burden hearts to repentance
and that is our hope god bless you guys
much love to all of you
i hope you have an amazing day
i