God Can't Be PLEASED - Bible Success Secrets

Oh. All right. So welcome to Bible Success Secrets. We're live on YouTube. Good morning, YouTube. Good morning. Here live with us. Good morning on Zoom Everywhere. People all over the world. Yeah. So Bible Success Secrets is our Bible study that we do on Wednesday morning. For the time being, we may expand it to another day of the week. We're still contemplating that, praying about that, seeing if that's going to work. But I like sharing practical principles from the Bible with people because I started reading the Bible when I was 16, and I was blown away by how practical it was and how effective the practical advice the Bible gave me was in my life.

And I've told the story before. After I came to Christ, I started going to this Christian school, and every morning we had to read a passage of scripture from the Bible for every day for an entire month. And by the end of that month, we usually had it memorized because we read it every day, five days in a row. And this passage that we're going to look at this morning is one of those passages. So on the thumbnail, it said, for Bible study. This morning I'm going to be talking about the fact that it is impossible to please God. And you'll see where I get that from here In.

Hebrews chapter 11, it says, now, faith is the substance of things hoped for, evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear by faith. Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he being, by which he obtained a witness that he was righteous God, testifying of his gifts. And by it he being dead, yet speaketh by faith. Enoch was translated that he should not see death and was not found because God had translated him. For before his translation, he had this testimony that he pleased God. Which brings us to the. The title text for this morning. It says, but without faith, it is impossible to please him. For he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. So when we started, like the first verse, a lot of people are familiar with.

Hebrews chapter one, where it talks about faith being the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. And sometimes I'll ask the question, what's the first word in that verse? And people will say, faith. But the first word in that verse is not faith. The first word of that verse is now. It says, now faith is And God doesn't waste words, right? So when it says now faith is. I like to think of the word now not just as something that's declaring the time that we're hearing it, but I like to think of the word now as an adjective that's describing the kind of faith. Now, I'm not saying that's an interpretation. I'm just saying this is how I like to think about it. You understand? I'm not going to make the Bible say that, but if you think about the kind of faith that people that are mentioned in the great hall of faith here In Hebrews chapter 11, if you think about the kind of faith they had, they were people who possessed now faith. What do I mean when I say now faith? Well, faith is something. Faith is something that you can only have. Like, real faith is something you can only have when you allow yourself to. To enter a now that requires that you have faith, right? So. And what happens in most of our lives, some of the time, for some of our lives, most of the time is when we get close to a now that requires that we have faith, we retreat to a then that is familiar and don't allow ourselves to enter the now that requires that we have faith so that we don't get to experience the. The rewards of having that faith. Are y' all tracking? Does that make sense? So, so what we want to do is we want to. We want to first of all acknowledge that sometimes life is hard. What did Jesus say? He said, in this world, you will have tribulation, but be of good cheer. I have overcome the world. So, so what I've got to do, I've got to recognize that, that sometimes life is going to be hard. Sometimes life is going to be difficult. Now, I believe that there's a difference. There's a difference in life being difficult or life being challenging or life being hard than life being, quote, bad, right? I'm not smart enough to look at something through the windshield and tell if it's good or bad. Like, I can't tell if something's good or bad sometimes until it's way down the road in the rearview mirror. See some experiences that you've gone through in the past that you thought were bad while you've gone, while you were going through them, you discovered later that they were really good after you went through them because they made you strong enough to stay there when you got there. Am I talking too fast? Are y' all checking with me this morning? And so, so, so, so what we have to do is we have to allow ourselves to enter in now. And. And now faith is the kind of faith that Noah had and his sons had when they worked on the Ark for 120 years based on the fact that God told them it was going to rain. Even though Noah was 480 years old when he started working on the Ark and he had never seen one raindrop. Do you have the kind of now faith that causes you to work on a project that you are called to for a long period of time, even when there is no evidence that the thing you are working on makes any sense at all?

See, here's what the scripture says. It says we walk by faith, not by sight. Paul is not commending us for doing that. He's recommending that we do that.

See, when it says we walk by faith, not by sight, that's giving us a clue. What is it cluing us into? It's cluing us into the fact that we can't believe our eyes because our eyes tell lies. Right? You remember what it says about Peter? Jesus called him out of the boat when the storm was raging. And as long as Peter had his mind and his eyes focused on Christ, he was able to walk on the circumstances that threatened to destroy his life.

But what happened? Here's what it says. When he saw the wind boisterous, he began to sink. Now, let me ask you a question. What does wind look like? Because it says he saw it. And I am telling you, our eyes are some of our greatest deceivers. What do we see in Genesis, chapter three? Now, the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, ye hath. God said, you shall not eat of every tree of the garden. The woman said, we may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden, but of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. The serpent said, ye shall not surely die. For God doth know that the day ye eat thereof, then ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. And when the woman saw.

That the tree was good for food, and when she saw that it was pleasant to the eyes, and when she saw it was desirous to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof and did eat, gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat. So I can't believe my eyes, because my eyes tell lies. And see, sometimes my eyes will tell me the exact opposite of what I've heard. In my ears from God.

I mean, that's just real talk. And see, like, I, I, I don't have to. If, if, if I have a word from the Lord, like, if the scripture is telling me that my life should be lived a certain way and I'm living my life that way, I do not have to wonder when I see something that, that, that go opposes what that word says. I don't have to wonder if the Word was true.

Because the Word is always true. Why? Because God refers to himself as the God who cannot lie. Not the God who does not lie, not the God who will not lie, but the God who what cannot lie. Why can he not lie? You know what? I'm glad you asked that question. Even though you didn't ask that question. I'm glad you asked that question because the Hebrew word for truth. I talked about this yesterday on my challenge. The Hebrew word for truth is the word amethyst. And when you understand in Hebrew that words are not just spelled, because Hebrew is not just a phonetic language, and it's not just a symbolic language. Hebrew is also a constructive language. So the letters, they make sounds, and the letters, they represent things, but they also are constructive. They're also numbers, like the Hebrew language. I want you to think about this. It says in Genesis chapter, It says, it says in John chapter one, in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God. And the Word was with God. And the same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him. Without him was not anything made that was made, right? And so the Word is what God used to create everything out of nothing in six days and rested on the seventh day, right? So, so when he was speaking this word, he had to be speaking this word in a language. I believe the language he spoke was probably more than likely the Lord's language, which is Hebrew. And every. I've got a book called the Origin of Speeches, right? And it was written by a rabbi, and it's like, as thick as a phone book. But what he's doing is he's going through and proving scientifically that every language in the world is a derivative of ancient Hebrew, which he calls Edenics. Okay? And so the Hebrew word for truth is the word Ahmed, what does that sound like? Sounds like the word what, Amen, right? Which means what it is, true, right? So, Amet, the letter Aleph is the letter in the Hebrew Aleph, beit, that represents God.

The word Elohim is spelt, begins with the letter Aleph. If you look at what an Aleph is, Made of. An Aleph is made of two yods and a vav. It's made of two other letters. Two yods and a vav. What are the two yods? A yod is a hand. What is a vav? A vav is the nail. So the word, the Aleph letter, is made of two hands and a nail.

Right.

It is amazing. And then the mem represents the might of the ocean. And so if we look at God and we look at.

The mighty ocean, and then tav is a cross or a covenant.

The word for truth is God's mighty covenant. And Aleph is the first letter in the Hebrew. Aleph, Beit mem is the middle letter. Tav is the last letter. Aleph, mem, tav. We can't know the truth about anything until we know the beginning, the middle, and the end of it. See, the problem with people today is they want to look at a little snippet of a situation. They want to look at a little piece, they want to look at a little sliver, and they want to think they know the truth. This is why they. This is why.

Topical preaching is so dangerous.

Right? Because what you're doing is you're taking a small piece of the word out of. And oftentimes they're taking it out of context and trying to read into the scripture instead of reading out of the scripture. And so what we need to do is we need to under. Like, we need to know the. That's why it's important to read the whole Bible, not just parts of it that we like, not just the parts of it that are easy, not just the parts of it that are not, quote, boring. We even. There's. There's juice in the genealogies, y'. All.

And so Aleph mem tav is God's mighty covenant. What is a covenant? A covenant is an agreement between two or more individuals based upon a mutual love and trust. And it is a promise on your life. And when two people got to enter into covenant, they would bring an animal, they would sacrifice the animal. They would walk in a circle around the animal. And I'm doing this really, really quickly because I want to get back to where we're going. They walk in a circle around the animal. And when they walk in a circle around the animal, they would take a knife in their left hand, cut their right hand, put their hand, bind it together with a rope. They would exchange covenant vows. They would say, I'm going to give everything I have. I'm going to give my life. I'm going to give my energy, I'm going to give my wealth, I'm going to give my time, I'll give my energy and all of my resources to protect you and yours. Well, if you understand that that's what a covenant is, and then they would point at the dead animal and say, if I don't keep my word to you, may what happened to this animal happen to me. So God's mighty covenant is what the word truth is. This is why God cannot lie, because if he's lying, he's dying. In fact, if you separate God from the truth, or if God separates himself from the truth and all you have is mem tav, the word met, or met in Hebrew is the word, in English, the word death, which shows if God separates himself from the truth, God himself has to die. If God dies, then the whole world ceases to exist. This is why he refers to himself as the God who cannot lie, not the God who does not lie. Are y' all tracking? And so when we understand this, what time is it? Oh, yeah, we good. So when you understand that also each one of these letters represents a number. By the way, when you attempt to separate God from the truth, then all you have left is death.

Maybe. Maybe the real problem with all of the people, violence, who are using guns in the public schools, maybe the real problem is we kick God out of the school system and all we have left is death.

And so this, this represents the number one. This is the number 40. This is the number 400. There are 22 letters in the Hebrew Aleph beit. And you can count up to 400. And then you do it by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 89,100, 200, 300, 400. That's how you use the 22 letters of the Hebrew Aleph Beit to count to 400. Okay, so this, the number for truth is 441. If you add four plus four equals eight, plus one equals nine. Nine is the number for truth. Every number has significance. One is the number of truth. One is the number of unity. Two is the number of separation or holiness. Three is the number of God. Four is the number of the earth. Five is the number of grace. Six is the number of man. Seven is the number of completion. Eight is the number of abundance, infinity, eternity, and the new beginning. Nine is the number for truth. And like, why is nine the number for truth? Nine is the number for truth. Because all of the other numbers in the number system.

Have to answer to the number nine. What do I mean by that? Well, if you take 91 times 9, it equals 9. If you take 2 times 9, it equals 18. If you take 3 times 9, it equals 27. If you take 4 times 9, it equals 36. This is 9. 1 plus 8 equals 9. 2 plus 7 equals 9. 3 plus 6 equals 9. And it doesn't matter what number you do that with, it's always going to end up to nine. This. This is going somewhere. So, Pastor Tom, today's your birthday, right? So you were born on 6. 22. 19. 70. 76. 22. 70. So 6 plus 2 is 8, plus 2 is 10, plus 7 is 17 plus 0. 17. Okay. So he was born. I mean, Pastor Tom was born on.

622. You add all those numbers up, they become 17. So what's interesting about 17, if you add those together, they're 8, right? That plus that equals 8. 17 minus 8 equals 9. And it doesn't matter. What's your age, Pastor Tom? He's 52, by the way, it works with anybody's age. Five plus two equals seven. Seven minus 52 minus seven equals 45. Four plus five equals nine. Now, I didn't do that. I didn't do that. As a parlor trick, I'm showing you that God is a God of design. So what does that have to do with nine being the number for truth? At the end of the day, we are all going to have to answer to the truth. Not your truth, not my truth, because there's no such thing as your truth. There's no such thing as my truth, his truth, her truth. There's just the truth, and anything that's not the truth is a lie.

And we're all going to have to answer to the truth. So since we're stuck with the truth, we might as well start with the truth and stay with the truth. Because at the end of the day, we stuck with the truth, and we're going to have to answer to it. Okay. Anyway, I got a little riled up there. But God is the God who cannot lie. And I did that because the scripture tells us that faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God. So understand that your ears and your eyes are in conflict.

Right? The faith that is created in your ears is in conflict with the doubt that's created in your eyes.

And what so many people do, they allow the doubt that's created in their eyes to influence the faith that's created in their ears. But what we are called to do as a Bible believing people, we are called to allow the faith that is created in our ears to obliterate the doubt that is created in our eyes. That's what I mean when I say, now, faith. Now, faith is the kind of faith Joseph had when his brothers were afraid he was going to retaliate after their dad died. And he said, you meant it for evil, but God meant it for good.

Now, faith. Now, faith is the kind of faith David had when he ran towards the giant, when everybody else in Saul's army was running from him. Everybody else believed their eyes. Goliath is 10ft tall. Here's what you do when a 10 foot tall person says, come here, I'm gonna tear you limb from limb. You run and you hide. But that ain't what David did. Why? Because David more than likely remembered the words in chapter 15 of the Torah or chapter 12 of the Torah. When God came to his great, great, great, great, great, great, great great great grandfather Abram and said, if you will leave where you are right now.

And you will leave your country, your kindred, and your father's house, and you'll go to the place that I will show you. And I ain't gonna show you. Where am I going? I'll show you when you get there.

Hmm. How many all know we serve a God who will show us where we're going when we get there. Can I get a witness? Okay.

But I want to know in advance. That ain't how this works. This ain't that. Right? We ain't them. This ain't that. Okay, y' all tracking. And so. So what we have to do is we have to understand. We have to understand that God said to Abram, he said, if you'll do that, if you'll leave the land of the familiar, and you'll go to the place of unfamiliar blessing, he said, here's what I'm gonna do for you. He said, I'm gonna bless you in ways you can't bless yourself. I'm gonna make you something you can't make yourself. I'm gonna give you something you can't get yourself. I'm gonna take the source of your shame and make it the source of your fame. And in you, all the families of the earth will be blessed. And you. And by the way, I'm going to bless those that bless you. And I'm going to curse those that curse you. David, as soon as he heard Goliath cursing the armies of God, he said, oh, this dude ain't got. He ain't got a chance. He can't beat me. Yeah, he might be big, but he don't understand whose side I'm on.

I had a coaching call with a guy yesterday morning and he had on a hat that said slay like David. I said, I love it. Let's whop it off. Let's whop the giant off at the head, right? Cut his head off at the neck, right? So now faith is that kind of faith. And it says, now faith. I want you to get this. Now it says what kind of faith? Now faith, it says it's the substance. Now the word sub. The word sub. The prefix sub means what under, right? Isn't that what it means? The prefix sub means under. So faith is something. It's foundational. It's something that's under me. It can hold me. Right? Now, faith is the substance. Stance.

Means to stand upon.

So when it says now faith. Now faith is the substance. Here's what it means. Now faith is something under me that I'm standing on. Are y' all tracking? Now faith is the substance of things. I love that word, things. You know what it means in the Greek? It means things.

Right? Faith is the substance of things. Now faith. What kind of faith? Now faith. Now faith is where I stand on the things of the things. What hoped for? Oh, hoped. The word hope is not. Is not a wish. The word hope is a well founded, well grounded expectation.

For the future. Y' all probably heard me say this before. I'll say it again. Expectation is the human being's greatest superpower. Do you realize expectation of a positive outcome in the future is the only thing that gives me the energy to take an action in the present? Like, if I look at this chair and I get ready to sit down in this chair and I think, well, that leg looks a little wobbly. I'm not gonna feel. I'm not gonna have enough expectation to have confidence to put all my weight down in that chair, right? Why? Because it just doesn't look like it'll hold me, right? So what I've got to do is I've got to learn how. I've got to learn how, by the word of God, to empower my expectations instead of allowing what I see in my eyes to disempower my expectation. See, expectation is a two edged sword, right? It can either empower you or it can disempower you. It can infuse you with the power of God, or it can drain the power of expectation and the power that God wants to give you in your life. Are y' all tracking? That's what expectation can do. So expectation is your greatest superpower, but if you don't learn how to use it, then the world and the flesh and the devil are going to use your greatest superpower against you.

So now faith is the substance. Now, faith is where I stand on the things I expect. So now faith is the substance of things hoped for. Next word is the word evidence. That's an interesting word. What's that word mean? What's evidence mean? Somebody say it. Proof. It means proof of things. There's that word again.

We know what that means. Things. But watch this. Of things not seen. What's that? Not seen is invisible.

Y'. All. You don't even know how your life is about to change right now. So when we read this verse. Now, faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. By the way, it says, for without faith, it is impossible to please God. For he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that dilutely seek it. I'm going to get to that in a minute. Okay? So now faith.

Is where.

I stand.

On the things.

I expect.

While.

I prove.

The things.

I cannot.

See.

Boom.

Now faith is where I stand on the things I expect while I prove the things I cannot see. Do you understand that this is the life we are all called to.

Hey, y', all.

I know I get a little wound up. Breathe, Myron. Pump the brakes and breathe, okay?

Do you understand? Like, I know this already, and I'm getting chills. Do you understand? We are called to have. Now, faith. Like, if there's no reason for you to have doubts, you don't need. Now faith.

If there ain't a giant at the gate, what do you need with faith? Hey, if they ain't cranking up the fiery furnace, what you need with faith, right? If they ain't fixing to throw you in the lion's den, what you need with faith? If there's no storm, what you need Faith. What for? What? I need faith to braid my hair. You don't need faith to braid your hair. I need faith to get. I just need faith to get out there in that traffic today. That ain't nothing.

We have to allow ourselves to step into a. Now that requires that we have faith. And when we do, then that's the place where God shows up. It's so interesting. It's so interesting that Jesus.

He was either going into the. Coming out of the temple. I think he was coming out of the temple, he saw a man who was blind from his birth. And the disciples sometimes. Sometimes like religious people, can be brutal, right? Who did send this man or his parents that he was born blind? It wasn't bad enough that the disciples were talking about him. They had to talk about his mama and his daddy.

What? And Jesus said neither. He wasn't saying the man hasn't sinned. He wasn't saying the man's parents hadn't sinned. He was saying that this man be a born blind had nothing to do with antibody sin. He said neither had this man sin nor his parents, that he was born blind, but that the works of God should be made manifest. You know the word manifest means. It literally means to reach through the curtain that separates the invisible world from visible world, grab something on the other side, bring it over to this side and it shows up in your hand.

He said, neither hath this man sinned nor his parents, but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. What did he say? He said, he said the reason this man was born blind is because God was making room in his life for a miracle.

Kind of reminds me of that old James Cleveland song. If I never had a problem, I'd never know that God could solve them. And see, the problem is like.

We want to have faith, but we don't want to have now faith, right Then faith. Yeah, I can handle some then faith, but some now faith. Some faith that's going to cause me to face a giant. A faith is going. Some faith is going to cause me to work on a project for 120 years while other people are making fun of me. And it don't even like based on something none of us have ever seen.

That's what now faith is. It says now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Now faith is where I stand on the things I expect while I prove the things I cannot see. And then it says for by it. By what? By that kind of faith. The elders obtained a good report. The only way anybody ever obtains a good report is by faith is by standing on. By standing on the things they expect while they prove the things they cannot see. Do you understand that every technological advance in world history was created because now somebody had now faith to stand on what they the things they expected while they proved the things they could not say. That's why we have electric light. That's why we have electric cars. That's why we have gas cars. That's why we have planes and trains and automobiles. Orville and Wilbur almost Said Orville and Wilbur Redenbacher. Orville and Wilbur Wright.

That's literally what almost came. Orville and Wilbur Wright. Their dad was a preacher. And he said if God intended for you to be. To fly you, to put wings on your back, they said, that sounds good, daddy, but we gonna go work on this airplane, huh?

Right. And they just believed that a heavier than air flying machine was possible. Let me ask you a question. What project are you working on right now that requires that you have now faith? Are you just doing the things you've always done because they've always worked?

Oh, wow. Crazy. Outstanding. I mean. I mean, what are you building? Are you building something you got a blueprint for? Where you headed? Oh, you headed to the place programmed into the gps. Abraham couldn't program his destination into the gps. God said, I'll like you have arrived. Hey, when you get there, God will say, you have arrived.

Huh? And see, the problem is we want to know everything before we do anything. And God said, that ain't how this works. This ain't that.

There is no course curriculum for where I'm taking you.

The first person who went there had to create the map. And see, we want the easy path and the big reward. That ain't how it works because it says through faith. Through faith, the elders obtain a good report. Do you realize when you think about business moguls, they believed in something that didn't exist until they made it exist by their belief.

And it doesn't matter whether they're. Do you realize like, you think yesterday was Juneteenth? You think about all of the people who were born, all of the people who were stolen from Africa, brought here enslaved, and black people are free now. Like, but, Myron, it's not equal, okay? It's more equal than it was for our great grandmama. Now.

We don't have it as hard as they had it. And they. And they. They. They made it out. Are y' all tracking what I'm saying? And I think I got an excuse. Hey, all I'm saying is we need to believe in something that is bigger than our eyes can wrap around.

We need to work towards some things that look impossible. But God said, with God, with through faith, all things are possible if you can believe, all things are possible to him that believes.

So by faith, the elders obtained a good report. Then it says.

Hey, Martin, I thought this you were talking about impossible. Please, God. That's what I'm talking about. Y' all can't tell.

It says, by faith. Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain by the which he obtained. Witness that he was righteous God testifying of his gifts. And by it he being dead, yet speaketh. You know what's so interesting about that verse? Well, like when you read about the story about Cain and Abel. How many ever read the story of Cain and Abel and thought, well, what's wrong with Cain's gift? Anybody ever wonder that, okay, it was not a blood sacrifice.

See.

The blood sacrificed illustrates that you're trusting in something other than you to pay for your sin.

But when you bring the works of your hands, which is the fruit of the ground, now you're dependent on what you did. I planted this seed.

Right? I cultivated this. I pulled those weeds here. God does not accept our good works.

He expects our good works, but he does not accept our good works as a payment for our sin. He expects our good works as gratitude for him paying for our sins.

Okay? So offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain. For by it, Enoch was translated that he should not see death and was not found because he had a. Because God translated him. In other words, he literally got translated from the earthly realm to the heavenly realm because he walked with God. By the way, I talked about this yesterday in my challenge. I'll talk about it again. It's interesting. Like, people talk. People don't understand the purpose.

Of life. The purpose of that was an E. So.

Don'T make fun of me because I can't read my writing. You can't read my writing either. Okay. The purpose of life, right? The purpose of life is first of all, the first thing God tells us about God is that he created the heaven and the earth, right? So why do you do that? Well, because he is creative. Therefore, it is his nature to create. What's the first thing God tells us about man? Well, God said, let us make man in our image. In the image of God made He him. Male and female created them. God made us in the image of Him. So the first part of the purpose of life, he created us to experience.

Connection.

With each other.

So.

People'S lives don't feel fulfilled either because they're not expressing creativity or they're not experiencing connection. What's the last thing to exercise?

Exercise Contribution.

So what did God make us do? He made us to create. He made us to connect with him and with other people. And then he made us to have contribution to him and to other people. That's why we were created.

See, Cain's big sin was he wanted to create, but he didn't want to connect and that's why he killed his brother.

Are you tracking? See, what happens is people want to be one sided. But we're not one sided. We're multifaceted. Just like God. Do you realize God created everything out of nothing? Then what did he do? He connected. He created humans so he could connect. Man was the last thing he made. Six, six day. Why? Now he's got somebody in this earthly realm that he can connect with. Man sinned. What happened? He sent his son to die on the cross. That was his contribution for our. For our redemption.

But he made us to live the exact same way. So if I'm not doing all three of those, I feel empty. That's why people who create and create and create and create and lose their families, they feel empty. Why? Because they failed. They created, but they failed to connect.

We create oftentimes. By what? By analogy. By watching what other people create. We create by analogy. We watch what God did. God created everything. So now we start creating. So we create by analogy. Right. But then what happens? We connect through sociology. We connect socially. And then what happens? And then once we connect socially, when the man connects with the woman socially, and then what happens? And then they get married. Or they should get married anyway. I don't have any opinions about anything. I'm just talking about what God said. That was not my opinion. That was just what God said. They should get married. And when they get married, then that connection, what happens now that creates a new creation. And that's how children are created. Right. And what happens when we create, connect with. When we create these children? Then we connect with the children. How long do we connect with them? Until they become adults and we teach them how to go out and create. And then what do they do? They go out and create. They make their way in the world. And what do they do? They create their new connection. And now I've got somebody to contribute to. And that whole cycle just keeps going over and over and over and over again. And if you want to be fulfilled, you have to do all three. You can't just do one of them. Okay. Yard tracking.

Then it says.

But without faith, what kind of faith now? Faith. It is impossible to please God. For he that cometh to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. I love the fact that it says, he that cometh to God must believe that he is. That he is who he is, who he say he is. He ain't who we say he is. Well.

So funny. People Are people are so arrogant. Do you know the most dangerous temptation? Most dangerous temptation, but natural temptation in the world for us to try to replace God. It's so natural. Why? Because he created us to create stuff so we want. I mean, isn't that why man ate off of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? Well, if you know what's good and evil, then that means you did what. You determine what's good and what's evil. So, like, the eating off of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is all about replacing God. Right? That's what. That's what, what made it wrong. Because God said, don't eat off of it. So if I eat off of it now, I become God instead of God being God. Hmm. Well, that's the whole problem. Well, you get to God your way, and I'll get to my God my way. I got some bad news for you, buttercup. You ain't getting to God your way, and I ain't getting to God my way. Anybody gonna get to God, they're gonna get to God God's way. That's how he set it up. It's so interesting. Like, how pompous is it to say, I mean, how arrogant a statement is that? You get to God your way, I get to God my way.

Well, here's how pompous it sounds to me, and maybe I'm missing something. Like, I think all of us here are cool with each other. If I came to your house and you knocked on what? And I knocked on your door. Y' all probably, hey, man, come on in. Right? Yep. Most of y' all say, okay, if I came to your house and I knocked on. If you came to my house and knocked on the door, come on in. Right? But heavy, heavy. Woe unto him that I find crawling through my kitchen window in the middle of the night.

They don't get an invite.

They don't get to go home to mama that day. You say, what are you saying? I'm saying. I'm saying it's okay for us as human beings, for us to have acceptable and non acceptable ways for people to come into our abode, but God has to let us in any way we choose. How arrogant is that?

Well, you call God God and I call him this and I call him that, and you call him this. I call Him. It don't matter what I call him or what you call him. It only matters what he call He.

Without faith, where is faith created? Faith is created in the ears. Tells us in Romans, chapter 10. Now faith cometh by hearing and hearing by what? The word of God. When I say the same thing to myself about God that God said to me about God, then and only then do I have faith. When I say to myself about this situation I'm in, the same thing God says to me about this situation I'm in, then and only then do I have faith. When God. When I say about other people what God says about other people, then and only then do I have biblical faith. Faith is not something I can create my own definition to. God gave us a definition. Now faith is the place where we stand on the things we expect while we prove the things we cannot see. And without faith, it is impossible to please him. You can't make up your own way of pleasing God. I can't make up my own way of pleasing God. We have to do it God's way. Why? Because when we don't believe, when we don't approach God by faith, trusting in what he said and who he says he is, when we don't come to God by faith, we are accusing him of doing the only thing he can't do, which is lying.

So now we've made ourselves the God of God. No wonder he can't be pleased.

Here's what will happen for you when you begin to develop now faith, the kind of faith that's talked about in scripture. You will be all that God says you are. You will become all God says you can be. You'll be able to do all that God says you can do. You'll have all that God says you can have. And then you'll create and you'll connect and you'll contribute and you'll create and you'll connect and you'll contribute and you will live a blessed and fulfilled life by the grace of God. I hope this helps you on your journey. Stay blessed by the best my peeps. And I'll look forward to seeing y' all next Wednesday, I think. Yeah, next Wednesday I'm in town. And if you're on this YouTube channel and you like it, like it, share it comment. By the way, if somebody puts on your comment, inbox me for more information. It ain't me. I don't care if they got a picture of me or not. I'm not going to message you in a comment and say message me with for further details. Like, those are scammers. Stay away from those people. But like the video, comment on the video, share the video and subscribe to our channel. If this is blessing, a blessing to you and we'll look forward to seeing you.