Learning to Walk in the Spirit

I want to talk to you. Thank you, Jim. How do you walk in this spirit? Like, how do you do it? You know, we hear about walking in this spirit, but how? Now, look, I've been in ministry 50 years. It took me a long time to learn what I'm going to share with you. Because walking in the spirit is really quite simple. I think we complicate it sometimes, and we make a mess, because we complicate things. So, let's go to first Corinthians, and Jim, you're going to help me read, if you don't mind. First Corinthians 3, verse 21 through 23. And I want to deal with something I think very important, because I want to show you how it works out in our life. How do we walk in the spirit? Because it says, walk in the spirit, and you'll not fulfill the loss of the flesh. But how? How do you do that? Okay, let's go, Jim. "Therefore let no man glory in men, for all things are yours, whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come, all things are yours." Fantastic scripture about this. This says to me, and this says to you and I, that as believers, the moment we step out of the old life, the second we are in Christ Jesus, the moment we surrender our life to him truly. We begin to walk into a new world. Read that again, Jim. "Therefore let no man glory in men, for all things are yours, whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come, all are yours." Now you gotta pay attention. When it says all are yours, it means a world with no limits, no limits. No limits also means that we have come out of the world of limitations into a world of no limitations. No limitations mean, and this is very important. No limitations mean that the old life has disappeared, the old life that has limitations. Because through Jesus, eternity is the limit. All right, let's, let's, let's kind of slow down here and talk about this. As a new creature in Christ, you have no past record. You have no past record, meaning you could not say, well, I used to do ABC or whatever you did before salvation. It doesn't exist in God's books. So let's say you were divorced before salvation. In God's books, it never happened. Now you're a new creation. The new creation doesn't have an old record. Drugs, alcohol, whatever, no limits. Now the people who walk in the, still in the old life somewhat, or maybe have one leg here and one leg there, the past still rules. The past still controls. The only weapons that devil has against you, these are in your past. You must forget the past. As a Christian, you have no past record. But the question is, how do you get in that world, in that world called the Spirit? Okay, very important. Now I want you to hear this very, very key and simple. So some Christians, maybe more than some, do not believe in the Lord. They believe that, that, not in example. So you'll say, okay, what do you believe? Well, I believe that Jesus came to earth, died on a cross. I believe he shed his blood and I believe he rose again and I believe he ascended to heaven and I believe he will come again. So does the devil. So does the devil. Christianity is not about that. It's about in. Here's an example. If I said to you all, do you believe that, bending in exists, so whatever hand will go up, then I'll, then I'll ask a second question. Do you believe in me? Some nice folks will say yes. To believe in me, give me your soul to keep. You cannot believe in a human being. To believe in a human being, give him your soul to keep. You cannot give a human being your soul. Only God deserves our soul. Only he can be trusted with it. So to believe in Jesus means surrender. So a lot of people believe that, that, that. So does the devil. You have to believe in Christ Jesus. To believe in Christ Jesus means complete surrender. No longer is your life your own. That's true Christianity. So to believe that is like Simon the sorcerer, who believed that and was even baptized. But Peter said to him, your heart is not right with God. Or the Jews in John 8, who believed that. Jesus was Messiah, but they did not believe in him. And then when he said before Abraham was, they wanted to throw rocks at him. Same chapter. They didn't believe in him. They believed that, but not in. I can give you many examples and the whole Bible about this. So Abraham believed in God. In God. That's what it says in Genesis. He believed in God and God declared him righteous. Because to believe in is, I give you my life. The second you really surrender to the Lord. Now some people come to an altar and pray a prayer. Lord, come into my heart, save my soul. But are they really surrendering or are they just praying? They're only repeating words. No go. What if they want to receive Jesus to escape hell? No go either. Because Jesus is not a fire escape. You have to receive him submitting yourself to his authority. Make him Savior and Lord. Many Christians want him as Savior, but not as Lord. Lord means I give you everything. Okay, Jesus is my Savior. Not good enough. Savior and Lord say that. Lord means discipleship. Lord means I submit to your will for my life. Lord means I will obey your word. So the Lord said, don't call me Lord and not do what I tell you. Don't call me Lord and not obey me. Obedience. That's the key. Obedience. But you can't obey him till you submit your life to him. Surrender everything. Everything. Now you get in the kingdom. And when you are in the kingdom, you are in a new world of no limits. Just like we're at, no limits. So, so here's Moses. Here's Moses. Are you still listening? He is looking at the Red Sea right here. And then he turns around and looks and sees the Egyptian army. Now wait a minute. Did he really see the Red Sea or the army? No. Why? He saw God. Now some Israelites, if not a whole lot of them, they saw the ocean and the Egyptians and they said were trapped. No way out. We're going to die. And all God said is, lift that rod up. He saw in the spirit. Moses was in the spirit. It makes no sense humanly to use a stick against an ocean in front of you or an army behind you. He saw God. He walked in the spirit and did not see the ocean. Did not see the army. He saw the Lord. And he literally connected to the word when God said, what are you doing on your face? Get up. Stretch the rod. And he obeyed because he saw the Lord. And when he saw the Lord, he immediately began what? Walking in the spirit. And when he walked in the spirit, that whole ocean split. He walked through and Israel with him on dry land. How about those spies mentioned in Numbers 13 and 14? Remember them? They went into the promised land. 12 of them. 10 saw giants and two saw God. Are you still listening? 10 were in the flesh and two were in the spirit. So the 10 spies said, oh, we see giants. We can't do it. We can all die. And if you read that portion in Numbers 14, those 10 spies did not mention God one time. Not one time. Can we go to Numbers 14 very quickly on the screen there? And the same people. The same people. I want to show you something. It's so disturbing, really, in some way. I wanted to look at Numbers 14, verse 22, because in verse 22, it says something about those 10 spies. That's very upsetting. It says, because all those men which have seen my glory, wait a minute. They saw the glory. Yep. And my miracles. They saw the glory and the miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness and have tempted me now these 10 times. They've not listened to my voice. They saw the glory. They saw miracles, but they never saw God. They didn't see God because it says those men who did not believe, who came and said, all those giants in the land, we can't make it. We're going to die. Those men saw the glory. Remember when they came out, the fire by an eye and the cloud by that. And they saw the miracles. They saw the Red Sea split and they saw the power of God mightily and they heard his voice clearly, gave them the 10 commandments. You name it. What would happen to you if you were standing on that mountain in Exodus and you heard, I am the Lord, thy God. Voice, audibly, thou shall have no other gods before me. Thou shall not make unto thee any gra ven image. Thou shall not take the Lord's name in vain. And you heard every commandment and you shook and trembling said to Moses, hey, we don't want to hear him again. You talk to us. Otherwise, we're going to all die. But now that same God whom they saw his glory and saw his miracles and heard his voice audibly says, you go in the land and check it out. By the land, come tell Moses what you find and make him back and said, oh my goodness, we saw giant said, we can't make it. We're going to all die. They did not see or walk in the Spirit. Seeing miracles doesn't mean you will see in the Spirit. Even hearing the voice of God doesn't mean you're seeing in the Spirit. But those two, Caleb and Joshua, they saw in the Spirit. You see the difference . So the 10 spies said, well, we saw the giants and in their eyes, we were all grasshoppers. Never forget this. The way you see yourself is the way the devil sees you. Say that. The way I see myself is the way the devils say it. The way I see myself is the way the devil sees me because they saw themselves as grasshoppers because it says, we were grasshoppers in our sight and in their sight. We were grasshoppers in our sight and their sight. The way we saw ourselves, the enemy saw us. That's not living in the Spirit or walking in the Spirit. But then Caleb and Joshua said, no, no, no. We'll eat them for lunch. We're going to eat those giants full. They are only our bread. That's what they said. What are you afraid of? Our God is mighty. Our God is bigger. They are only our lunch and breakfast and dinner. Let's go possess the land. They saw in the Spirit today, if you don't walk and see in the Spirit in this dark hour, you won't survive the future. So it's time you get living in the new creation. You're in the new world of the Spirit. You're in. Get out of the old life and get into the new. And God's people said, our faith overcomes the world. Say it. Say it. I'm flying from Tokyo to Hawaii and we got lost 300 miles over the Pacific Ocean. That happened to me. We left on a private plane from Tokyo. At the time the planes did not have satellite navigation. They had systems that were connected to the ground, not satellites, like today. All four navigational systems on that Gulfstream for went out. Like that. The pilots did not know where Maui was. We were flying here from Tokyo. We got lost. The pilots were freaking out. Everybody's crying on the plane except me. All crying. Historically, it was horrible to watch. And I am completely calm, which is not exactly me. Usually I'm the wild guy. Calm. The Lord spoke like this to me. He said all is well. So what happened? 300 miles away from Maui. The pilots did not know where Maui was. Every time I come here, I think about what happened to me. And they were talking to a Qantas airline, supposedly close by, and the Qantas pilot were flashing the red light on the back wing, but they couldn't say a thing. And finally they were talking to the tower in Honolulu. And there were two men in the tower in Honolulu. And one was a Christian, and the other was not. And the guy who was not a Christian gave some instructions to the pilots that they listened to him. I would be dead by now. But the Christian man said, turn on this AM channel in Honolulu that has the strongest signal on radio. Happened to be a Christian station in Honolulu. And the pilots picked up the signal of the radio station and came on that beam like the Japanese did in the Second World War. And we landed in Maui. And the second we landed, we were completely out of fuel . The pilot said to me, had we been one minute late, we would have crashed in the ocean. I could not believe how calm I was. I said to the entire plane, all is well, all is well, and they were freaking out. I don't know if you know my brother, Andrew, he's a little different. So he's crying on the plane, hysterically crying, and he's singing the song we just sang. I sing praises to him, but he was singing it. I sing praises to your name. And I went over, I said, Andrew, what are you doing? He said, I want to die singing. Oh my God. We had a man, a preacher, who was also in the spirit named Ralph Wilkinson. Ralph Wilkinson was sleeping. It was crying except him and me. That's it. So I went over, I said, Ralph, you better wake up and pray. He said, leave me alone. Jesus slept in the midst of the storm. That's what he said to me. I don't know God. This guy is really in the spirit, lean me alone, Benny. Jesus slept in the midst of the storm. That's the spirit's life. Are you getting the message? So living in the spirit is like Psalm 23 verse 4. Ye though I walk through the valley, come on, of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. Why thou art with me? David did not see the valley. He saw the Lord. Think about walking through that valley. Ye though I walk, let's put it on. Oh, you got it already. Thank you. You deserve something good. Ye though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death. That's a terrible place, terrifying place. But David didn't see it. He said, you're with me. He saw the Lord. Walking in the spirit. Moses saw God. Joshua and Caleb saw God . David saw God. Beautiful. So let's go to Hebrews 4 verse 2. It's all about faith. Living by faith is living in the spirit. Where you know that you know that you know all is well. Like that son of my two women, her son was dead. She said all is well. Didn't not even bother her. She went to Elisha and her husband on the way said, you know, is everything good? All is well. Imagine seeing all is well when your son just died. All is well. Did not change her message. Her faith was strong. And you know what happened, right? God raised her son from the dead. Hebrews 4- 2 says what? It says unto us was the gospel preached as well as unto them, meaning the Jewish people. But the word preached to them did not profit them, did not help them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. So this is what we got to do. Like Caleb and Joshua there was faith in their life. Faith. All right. Can we go to Romans 13 verse 4 ? I believe faith comes alive. Faith in God comes alive when we do this right here. This is the key. Romans 13-14 is the key. Go ahead, Jim. For he is the minister of God to the for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid. 14. Romans 13-14. Sorry. No, that's all right. All right. I'll read it. Put e on the Lord Jesus Christ. Put on the Lord Jesus Christ. Make not provision for the flesh to come back and fog you and mess you up to fulfill the last thereof. So how do I how do I put on the Lord Jesus? Because this is what life in the spirit is all about. We put on the Lord. We starve the flesh. We starve the flesh by making no provision for the needs of the flesh. We avoid the places that trigger the flesh. We avoid the places that crave the flesh. This is not who we are. We don't need it. We don't want it. We strengthen who we are. We strengthen who we are by faith. We walk in who we are, not who we were by faith, by faith. The thing that you have got to understand is if you don't avoid the places that trigger the flesh, you'll be in trouble. It's not who you are anymore. No way. You do not need the flesh. We don't want the flesh. Ephesians 4-22-24, Jim. A radical change must take place in your life if you want to live and walk in the spirit and only scripture can give you the power to live it. Only the Bible. Look, look, I fight the same battles you fight. I'm a human being just like you. I've learned one thing about the flesh. It has layers more than one. And when you spend time with God, you're in his presence through his word. Say it through his word. Say it again. This is the key you get in the presence of God through Scripture, not outside Scripture. It's not good enough to listen to worship music and think you're there. It doesn't last. It's good only for the moment. Scripture has more music than the tape. And you let the word of God become your song. You slowly read the scriptures. You let the scriptures trigger prayer because they do that. You let scripture produce worship in your being. And then slowly you'll get in the spirit through Scripture. You may have heard, maybe you haven't, Jean Guillaume, an old saint of God in France, wrote a book. It's called Experience the Depth of Jesus Christ. You got to read it. Because she talks about how the scripture, when she meditated upon the scripture, the presence of God became real through his word, through his word. Today we all want to feel something when we sing a song. It's not good enough. It doesn't last long. Yeah , we may experience this and that, but it doesn't last. There's no depth. There's no substance. Scripture is endless substance, endless power. I promise you before God, oh, my God, I'm giving you the truth about it. When you read the word and you become a part of the word, I have a prayer that I pray every day and I want you all to pray that every day. Lord, establish me in your word and establish your word in me. Pastor Benny will continue his teaching after this important message. So please stay tuned. 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Number three, never leave your call. He said, "What do you mean by that?" So whatever God has called you to do, don't walk out of that call. He said, "Explain it to me, Baba." I said, "Because in your call there's protection from the enemy. Find your call, stay in your call." That's it. And the thing that is so important is all that comes from Scripture inside of you, from inside of you. So it's very important to understand this. Hallelujah. Now this is the radical change that can happen when the Bible is in you. You cannot do this without it. So we're going to read Ephesians 4 through 22 through 24. Put off concerning the former conversation, all conduct. The old man, get right of him. That old man which is corrupt, according to the deceitful lusts, verse 23. And I'll explain that to you just a second a little more. Be renewed in the spirit of your mind. Clean the wick in your brain, in your head. Get the dirt out of there. And then put on the new man, which after God is created and righteous is through, "Okay, I've got to stop. I've got to tell you this." So he says, "Look, you've got to make a radical change. You've got to get away from the old life. Make a decision today. I will never do it again. I don't want to look at it. I don't need it. I don't want it." And renew your head, your mind. The candles stick in the tab and knucklehead to be cleaned every day for the light to shine. Otherwise, if the dirt got in there, the light would die. There's a light in you. If your brain and mind and head is dirty, the light cannot get through. Be seen by others, not even you. You'll have no light in your life if your mind is filthy. It is your decision and it is God's will for you to say no to sin. But you cannot say no to sin if there isn't power in you to say no to sin. The power is Scripture. I'm going to hit that over and over. I don't want you to ever forget that. The Bible is a mighty, powerful book because it's the Word of God. You read it daily. Never neglect it. And here's the key. You do not look at history nor poetry. No prophecy. You look for Jesus right through. Because He's the life of it. He's the reason for it in your life. You're looking for Jesus. Not anything else. How many times can you hear about Adam and Eve and Noah and the Ark and Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and all the rest? Look for the Lord in every story you read, in every chapter you're looking at. Look for Him. He's the seed. You'll see Him right through the Word of God. When you find Jesus, you'll find life. When you find the story, you'll not find life. You'll just know the story. And I always give people an example in the life of Joseph. People have read about Joseph and many movies about it. It's not about Joseph. It's about Jesus. Who was loved by His Father? Jesus. Who was hated by His brothers? Jesus. Who was in the pit? Jesus. That's the death of Christ. Who went to the prison? Jesus. Not Joseph. Who came out of prison? Jesus. Who sat on the right hand of Pharaoh? Not Joseph , Jesus. And Pharaoh gave him a gentle wife. Not anything but Joseph. That's the church. Lord's wife, the church. And the very name Pharaoh gave Joseph in the Egyptian ancient language means Savior. He called his name Savior. He wasn't talking about Joseph. So you see Jesus in Joseph. You see Jesus in Isaac who carried the wood on his back. That's the cross. Are you listening? You see Jesus in the feast of Israel. In Passover, you see His death. Unleaven ed bread. He took it away our sin. First fruit. He rose from the dead. Pentecost. He sent the Holy Spirit. Trumpets. Rapture. It's all there. It's all there. They have atonement. Restoration of Israel. Tabernacle. Millennium reign. It's all there. You don't see the feast. You see Jesus in the feast. Or you see the names. Amazing. I was just reading it today. The names of the sons of Israel have nothing to do with the sons of Israel. It's all the Lord. Who was the first boy? Rehuban. What does that mean? Look at my son. What son? Now Rehuban. The Lord. Second boy, Shimon. What does it mean? Hear Him. Third boy. Levi. What does it mean? Be clean to be attached to Him. Number four. Praise Judah. Praise Him. Dan. Who's Dan? God in heaven. Every name has a meaning. Look it up. Look it up in your Bible. It's about the Lord. To the last one, Benjamin, sit on my right hand. You see Jesus in the names of the sons of Israel. You see Jesus in the feast. You see Jesus throughout the whole Bible. And when you see Jesus, wow, your life comes alive. Your being lights up with Scripture. So it is impossible. It's impossible. Go to verse 23, please. It's impossible to do this without that. You can't renew the spirit of your mind without the Bible. The Bible will, you know, the Bible says it's not my word, a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces. You see what happens is like I told you earlier? The flesh has layers, layers. And eventually, when it gets in, it hardens. Like that rock, hardens in your head, in your mind. All the filth, all the dirt becomes like a rock. Only the Bible can smash it out. It happens slowly. You can't do it all at once. You keep hearing and hearing with the hammer. It's not my word. It's a fire. It says, you'll clearly burn all that stuff out. It takes time. It takes time. It's not going to take you like a month. It could take you years. But you've got to be consistent with Scripture every single day. You have to make God a promise tonight that you will read the Bible every day. And you that have not read the whole Bible read it. Make a commitment to read it. You'll change your life. Change your life completely. So you take that radical step. You put off the old flesh, the old man, you renew your mind, put on the new man. It'll happen easily if you do that. And then you can do something you've never been able to do before. It's Ephesians 5-1. You can literally imitate God as his children. You can follow the Lord. Because it says in Ephesians 5-1, can we see that on the, yeah, followers be therefore followers of God. Well, you can't follow the Lord without His word in you. So he says in chapter 4, get rid of that old man. Clean your head. Put on the new one on. Easy. All you have it, you have it. You've got the tools. It's called the Word of God . And then you can easily imitate God. That's what that word means. Follow, imitate. We receive His life. Now we draw from His life within us. We receive His life. We put on Christ Jesus. We make that decision. I'm going to get rid of the old life. Clean my head. Get the dirt out. Put on the new man, the new life. And now I put on Christ. I can follow God and listen to His voice. And when I do that, I'm drawing from within. All that is within. Because we've received. Now we have life within us. We're joined to Him by covenant. It's so natural now to adopt His ways. It's natural to walk in His ways. In the Spirit, the flesh cannot imitate the life of God impossibly. Only you and your life in the Spirit can imitate the life of God. So what do we do? We have to weaken the flesh, starve it. And when you weaken the flesh and starve it, the life of God will flow out of you. So you've got to say no to sin . No more, filter. Period. Job said, I've made a covenant with my eyes. I won't look on a maid. I say no. Done. You can do it. The difference between a Christian and one who isn't, you have the part to say no, they don't. You have the part to say no, they don't. And you'll know you're in the kingdom when you hate your sin. And you're not in the kingdom if you love it. Yeah, I got to get through. Anyone who loves his sin is not saved. Anyone who hates his sin is born again because you see that new man hates sin. That's how you kind of comfort yourself. You tell yourself, I'm in the kingdom because you hate your sin. We all sin. We all sin. I do you do. But when we sin, we hate it. We repent immediately. We don't want to do it again or say it again or think it again. We hate our sin. If you love your sin, you're none of Christ. If you hate your sin, you're in Christ. Simple, really. You say, I'm getting convicted. That's my purpose to get evicted. But the Holy Ghost will use what I'm saying to get evicted. So, I'm almost done. Second Corinthians 12 verse 10. Now, this is what happens here. God allows trials in our lives to draw out of us the fullness of the life of Jesus. So, it says, I take pleasure in informities. I take pleasure in reproach, necessities, persecution, distress for Christ's sake because when I'm weak, then I'm strong. Meaning, God allows trials to come into your life and my life. And those trials begin to draw out of us the fullness of the life of Jesus. Now, this is marvelous. If we were not tested, there would be no need to draw from strength. So, don't see trials as your enemy. It's an opportunity for what to draw from within. Trials allow us to draw from within the life of God. God allows trials so we can look within us. Trials are the opportunity of the Holy Spirit to produce the life of Jesus in our life. So, when we fail, we approach them. I should say, if we approach them wrong fully, if we look at them at something we have to overcome, it's another way to do it. When trials come, don't overcome them, rely on Jesus to take care of them because you can overcome them, only he can. Thank you, Jesus. All right, Colossians 3, 1, 2, and 3, and then one more scripture from the Old Testament and I'm done. Did you learn anything? I'm happy for you and I love it. Okay, Jim, Colossians chapter 3, because now when you've taken those steps, now you can do this. Okay. If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above. Now, that's easy to do when you make that decision. Radical decision, I will not allow the old life to rule my life. I'm a new creation, no limits, no past record. I'm in that new world of faith. I don't see the ocean or the Egyptians. I see God. I don't see the valley, that shadow of death. I see the Lord. I don't see giants. I see God. I'm going to walk my faith, not by sight. Then I take that precious word of God and I let it fill my soul and fill my life. Slowly, that hammer will work, get all the dirt out. The fire will work to purge and purify you. Then you can easily put on the Lord, not give provision for the flesh and the world. And now you can do this. Now you're alive in Jesus, risen with Jesus. Now you can seek those things which are above. Now you can do it and you can do verse two also. It says, set your affections on things above. Wow. Now your affections, your whole life is connected to heaven, not to earth. And you become a soldier of Jesus and you will not be entangled in the things of this life. Because Paul said to Timothy, a soldier will not entangle himself with their affairs of this world. You set your affections on things above. Wow. This is marvelous. Okay, Jim, one more scripture Ezekiel 36, 26, 27. God will put his spirit in us and cause us to walk. Cause us to walk. You don't have to do it. He'll do through you. Cause us to walk in the spirit. So it says in Ezekiel 36, 26, 27. A new heart also will I give you. When you make that decision, keep going. And a new spirit will I put within you and I will take away the stony heart of your flesh and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you. And I will what cause cause you to what walk in my stache. That's wait, wait, wait, wait. This means that God is living his life through me now. So I surrender so fully to the Lord. He lives the Christian life through me. I simply yield to the Lord. The Christian life has nothing to do with trying. It has to do with yielding. Say that. Say the Christian life has nothing to do with trying or trying harder. It's yielding. The Bible never says try. It says yield. What it says? Yield your members as instruments of righteousness. It's so simple. Like at children yielding, like child yielding to mommy, yielding to daddy, trusting them to carry them. God says, you can't live it. Let me live it in and through you. So simple. It's just like so simple. It's mind-boggling. I don't have to live the Christian life. Jesus will live it through me. And all I do is simply give him my life completely and he lives his life through me. That's what it says. The life I live, I live by what? The faith of the Son of God. I'm cruc ified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live and the life I live, I live by his faith, not my own. I surrender completely to the Lord. Play something beautiful behind me. There was a lady named Corit and Boom. Has anyone heard of her? How many have? How many have not? Well, you can just real hush there and beautiful soft. The hiding place is her movie. Look it up. It's called The Hiding Place. Billy Graham did her story in a movie called The Hiding Place. Cori was a woman from Holland and her family hid Jews from the Nazis during the Second World War. They were caught and they were taken to a concentration camp and she suffered greatly for the Lord. I met Cori when I was a little young man. I danced with her. Can you believe it? We actually danced with a group of young people and I held her hand. We danced together. She grabbed my cheek like this. She said, where did you get your face? I said, Israel. She said, Shalom. Don't forget that. Corit and Boom, when we went back in the 70s to Holland, I heard her preach a message that changed my life. That really sums up what I'm trying to tell you. She took her glove and said, this is you. You're an empty glove. That's it. Then she lifted her other hand. She said, this is Jesus. And then slowly she began to put one finger after another in that glove before the glove could be used. So she got this glove in her hand. No good glove, empty glove. She said, this is you. Then she put up the other hand. This is the Lord. And then she said, now, this glove is no good till the hand gets in it. Then she put one finger or thumb, but the four fingers were empty. She said, he still can't use you because you only surrendered a little bit of your life. No good. Can't do a thing with you. Then she put the second finger. This was her whole message. And I was mesmerized, like you could feel God's presence so powerful. And then she put the second finger. She said, he still can't use you. You're partially surrendered, but you're not all the way in yet. Then three, then four, still no good. One part is missing. Then the whole hand went in the glove. She said, ah, now he can touch lives through you. He can heal the sick through you. He, you can do anything with, he can do anything with you now. Wow, I'll never forget that. I said, Lord, take my glove and fill it. That's the Christian life. There was a man named David Duplessi, my demand of God, your father knew him. I knew him. In fact, I traveled with him for a very, very short time. I learned a lot from him. And he said this one day in the meeting, I was at. He said, the word Christian. He said, look at the word Christian. So we all did Christ, then I am Christ. I am Christian. He says, I am stands for I am nothing Christ and I am nothing. Wow, it hit me. He said, if you want Jesus in your life, become a nothing. Catherine Kuhlman said to the Lord, she said, I have nothing to give you. I have nothing to offer you. Will you take nothing and use it? And he did. Because we have nothing to give him except our love and our vessel. So the Bible says, offer your body as a living sacrifice. Let him use it. Stop trying to do it on your own. It doesn't work. Oh, I am going to pray to the end, you fail . I am going to do the end, you fail. Everything you try, you fail. Because you don't know how to yield. Just let go. Let go. Lift your hands. I want to pray for you. Lord, do we give Jesus some praise in this place? Come on. He is a wonderful Lord, a wonderful soul. We are going to take a moment right now to sow into Pastor Benny Hinn's ministry. You know what? What fertile ground that we can sow knowing the people are being healed, saved, delivered around the world. And so we want to give you an opportunity to sow into his ministry. What we're going to do tonight, just to make it easy for him and easy for us as a churches. We're going to, if you're going to give tonight, if you can do so, you can follow the intuitive prompts there on the screen. If you want to download the King Central app, you can use the app to give. Just go to Guess . You can use the QR code. If you need an envelope to keep track of your giving record, go ahead and put your hands up. If you're riding on a check, write your checks out to Casey or King's Cathedral. And then what we're going to do is everything that comes in this offering is going to go directly to Pastor Benny's ministry. This church is not keeping one penny of it. It is going directly to his ministry. And so please can I encourage you, my wife and I already gave when I was there in the front row, knowing that I'd have that opportunity. We want to sow into Pastor Benny's ministry. So can we do that right now? And we're believing God that this is going to be a season of breakthrough for you. We're going to participate everywhere he goes. What an incredible privilege that we have that everywhere he goes, we get to be participants in what God is doing in his ministry because we're supporting him. Isn't that amazing? So ushers, thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Everybody has an envelope that needs one. Thank you, Jesus. Are you guys blessed tonight? Anybody receive something from the Lord tonight? Pastor, that was a powerful message, powerful word, powerful word. All right. Everybody put your hand on your envelope or if you're giving by phone, put your hand on that phone. Let's pray together. Father, I thank you for every person sowing C tonight in this ministry. I pray that it will produce a harvest in their lives. Lord, I thank you that we have the wonderful privilege tonight to be participants in this powerful ministry. More than every life that gets changed, transformed, saved and healed. Lord, we get to see those people in heaven and we thank you. We rejoice for this wonderful opportunity tonight. And Lord, we pray that you bless Pastor Benny and bless this ministry, strengthen him or God by your spirit in Jesus name. Amen. And amen. Let's give together. And to Jesus be the glory for all he did in that service. Thank you for watching. I pray the Lord will bless you today and honor you as you honor him. It's been an amazing time for me the last few weeks. I'm on my way to Canada the next few days and I'm looking forward to it. I just want to say thank you for being my wonderful family and partner. I pray the Lord will bless you and reward you for your love, your support. I really mean this a million thanks with all of my heart. I say that. Thank you again today for giving. You can show your seed on the platform you're watching me on. You can go to our website Benny.org or simply text. I just want to say thank you and how much I love you as my wonderful family in Jesus. Lord, bless them as they obey and honor you. Honor them, Lord, for your glory's name's sake. Bless them mightily meet every need in their life for your Lord. And God's people said, amen and amen and I'll see you again tomorrow. Much love.