I Can’t Believe My Eyes Because My Eyes Tell Lies

Hello, everyone. Myron golden here. Welcome to Bible Success Secrets YouTube channel. Today I'm going to be talking to you about when you can't see your way out. I'm going to teach you about the anatomy of faith. Get ready for your mind to be blown by the word of God and how to see your way out, whether it's in your personal life or in your business. That's what you're about to learn today.

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So we, we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God and house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. So it's talking about our physical body. The physical body that we have is not our eternal body we're going to have, right? Because there's, there's, there are flaws in this body. And I, I, I think when I read this verse, the first thing that comes to my mind is.

The fact that physicality is not reality.

Okay? Physicality is not reality. Physicality is merely a manifestation of reality. So if I'm watching a YouTube video, one thing I can be sure of, the person I'm watching or the people I'm watching on the YouTube video are not inside of my computer, right? That is just where they're showing up, right? So, and it's showing up there, so I can see it, right? If it didn't show up there, I wouldn't be able to experience them or that person or those people on the other side of the world if it weren't showing up locally in my computer. But those people are not in my computer. That's just a place where they are being manifested. And the word manifest basically means to show up in your hand or to show up. So understand that physicality is not reality. Physicality is merely a manifestation. One of the manifestations of reality, spirituality, is reality. Now, when I say spirituality, I could call it something else. I could say invisibility is reality, or reality is invisible.

It's not physical. Maybe that's why it says in Romans, it says, the kingdom of God is not meat and drink. Why does it say meat and drink? Because there is nothing more essential to physical life than meat and drink, right? Other than oxygen. The kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, joy and peace in the Holy Ghost. Those attributes are invisible. So the reality of a thing is invisible to the eyes. Okay? So just understand that. And that's why what the scripture tells us, that when somebody that we love dies in Christ, we sorrow not as those that have no hope. Why? Because they've simply moved out of one house.

Into another house. Okay. For this we groan earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with the house which is from heaven. I don't really think that means that we desire to die. Like, I don't think, yeah, heaven is better than earth and it's more real than earth. But I'm not in a hurry to get there because I got some stuff I want to finish down here. Right? And so when it says we groan.

That earnestly desire to be clothed upon with that house which is from heaven, I think it just talks. It's just mentioning the fact that, that the aches and pains in our body remind us of the fact that we're not going to be here forever. And then it gives us the ability to say, thank God, I'm not going to have to deal with this forever. Right?

If so being if so be that being closed, we clothed, we shall be found naked, for we are in this tabernacle. For we that are in this tabernacle do groan being burdened. Not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon that mortality might be swallowed up in life, swallowed up of life. So I love the fact that it says mortality, death is swallowed up of life. We think of death as being death swallowing up life. But if you're in Christ, death is life. Is death being swallowed up of life, like, because if you die in Christ, that's the last time you'll ever die, right? And now all you have left is life.

It makes me so thankful of the fact that God didn't leave my redemption, my salvation up to me. I would probably fumble on the 5 yard line. In fact, I'd probably fumble on the 100 yard line before I even got started, right? So I'm glad that he paid that price for me by sending his son to die on the cross for my sins. I'm glad that he sent his son to die on the cross for the sins of mankind and for the people that I love and so that eventually the circle will be unbroken, right? I'm thankful that I had the opportunity to lead my dad to Christ or my brothers. And I had my opportunity to leave my dad to Christ, to lead my mom to Christ, my wife's dad. I had the opportunity to leave my wife's dad to Christ, my wife's.

Grandmother to Christ before they passed away, had the opportunity to have those conversations. I'm so thankful. My oldest son, who passed away when he was 20 years old some 16 years ago, I'm so glad. I think it was 16 years ago. No, it was 15 years ago that he knew Christ. And so it's not the end, it's the beginning. Right. It's like he tapped into real life. Right. And we're still stuck here in the manifestation of life. Right? Heaven is more real than earth. Like when I moved from Pennsylvania to Florida January 2, 2013, I didn't cease to exist. I just moved to a different place. Right? And if this Bible is real and if heaven is real, and if eternity is real, and if Christ really died on the cross for our sins and we really have trusted his death, burial and resurrection as the payment for our sin, not including any single thing that we have done, not a good deed that we've done, not a. Not a baptism, not a church attendance, not a prayer that we prayed. But we're trusting in the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ alone and not any religious deed that we have done. Then we can know for sure without a shadow of a doubt that eternity will be bliss for us because we will be in his presence.

Okay, so.

And then it says in verse five, now that now that he hath wrought us for the self, same thing is of God. Now he that has wrought us for the self, same thing is God, who also hath given us the earnest of the Spirit. I love the fact it says that God has given us the earnest of the Spirit. Now there are going to be a lot of people who disagree with me about what I'm going to say, but that's okay. They've been wrong before. No, I'm just kidding, kind of that word, earnest is the same word as earnest money. When you buy a house, it's a down payment that's put into escrow to show that you are now the new owner even before the deal is sealed. God has given us the earnest of the Spirit. Now why did I say some people are going to disagree with me about this? Because there are people.

Who in my opinion have not rightly divided the word of truth, who think that receiving the Spirit of God is something that happens later than salvation because it happened later than salvation for the apostles in Acts chapter two. But the reason it happened for the apostles in Acts chapter two later than they received Christ is because Christ was still with them. And when he ascended, he sent the Spirit to be with us. And when we receive Christ, that is when we receive the earnest of the Spirit. Right. It's not the. The receiving of the Spirit of God is not an experiential thing necessarily. You might experience something, but that's not what the earnest of the Spirit is. The earnest of the Spirit is God deposits his spirit in you when you receive Christ as Savior. That's why it says. That's why it says In Romans chapter 8, if any man have not the spirit of Christ, he is none of his. Which means if any man does have the spirit of Christ, he is some of his right. So when you receive Christ, you receive the Spirit. So anyway, just thought I'd put that out there so people can understand. And I'm gonna. I'm gonna do a whole. I'm gonna do a whole series on Romans 6, 7, and 8 that is gonna help y'. All, like when you. The whole book of Rome, the whole Bible, but like Romans 6, 7 and 8 is so impactful and so empowering when you understand, like who you are and what you have as a direct.

The gift of salvation through Christ and receiving the Spirit of God. And what. What we have the ability and the desire to do now that we did not have, we had neither the ability nor the desire to do before. It's mind blowing. Okay, so, and then it says, for we are always confident, knowing that whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent. Absent from the Lord. For we walk by faith, not by sight. We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord. So it says, we walk by faith. Oops, sorry. We walk by faith, not by sight. Hmm, Isn't that interesting? I've got news for you. The Apostle Paul's not patting you on the back. He's not patting me on the back, saying, good job, walking by faith. He's saying that's what we are supposed to be doing. We are supposed to be walking by faith, not by sight. Now, what is faith? That's the question, right, when it says we walk by faith. So I'm not by sight, which tells me something about faith in sight. It tells me that they're opposing each other. Like, what I see is opposing my faith, and my faith is opposing what I see. Are y' all tracking. And so one of the conclusions I have to be aware of, I have to come to, as I read this verse in Scripture, when it says, we walk by faith, not by sight is I have to be aware of the fact that the reason I must walk by faith and not by sight is because doubt is created in the eyes.

But faith is created in the ears. How do I know that? What Does Romans chapter 10 tell us? Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the what word of God? So it's not just hearing. It's hearing the word of God. It's hearing the debar of Elohim, right? It's hearing the word of God that causes me to have faith. Why does hearing the word of God cause me to have faith? And this is so beautiful. So when I understand that the word. The Hebrew word, I mean, not the Hebrew word, but the English word faith is. Where'd my marker go?

One of these days, I'm gonna learn how to use this whiteboard. I'm gonna be dangerous. Okay? So when I understand that the English word faith is the. Is the Greek word.

Pistis. Now, pistis is a system.

Of.

They use the word religious. I would rather use the word spiritual, but I'm going to use the word. They use religious.

Conviction.

Especially with regard to salvation. So it's a system of religious conviction or a system of spiritual conviction. Now, convict. When you convict somebody, that means the verdict has already been established. It is what it is. Right? So. So. So what is this verdict based on? It's based on the word of.

God. What is the word of God? The word of God is.

Truth.

So the foundation of our faith is not faith. Are y' all tracking? The foundation of our faith is not faith. The foundation of our faith is. Is truth. The foundation of our faith is the word of God. The reason we can have faith is because the one we have faith in is faithful. And it's because I have. Because I have. Because I understand. The one who gave me the word is faithful. He's not like somebody who will say, well, I'll see you in the morning. And then you don't show up in the morning, and then you don't hear from them all day. Where you at? Right? Not that kind of faith. No. But the kind of faith who God himself refers to himself as God who.

Cannot lie, that's not the same as does not lie. The God who cannot lie is not the same as the God who cannot. Does not lie. It's not the same as the God who will not lie. And it's not the same as the God who hasn't lied. It is the God who cannot lie. Now, that's a fascinating thing, for God to put a restriction on himself.

Because I can't put a restriction on him. You can't put in a restriction on him. The government can't put a restriction on him. Like the, quote, powers that be, the principalities. They can't put a limitation on him, but he can put a limitation on himself. And the limitation that he puts on himself is the thing that gives him unlimited power. What?

And what is that thing? It is His Word. How powerful is His Word? It's so powerful that he created everything out of nothing in six days and rested on the seventh day. He did it with His Word.

His Word is so powerful that it says, and God said, let there be light, or let light come into being. And there was light. Why? Because he said so.

Wait, what in the beginning was the Word? The Word was God, and the Word was with God. And the same was in the beginning with God. And all things were made by him. And without him was not anything made that was made.

And in him was the life. The life was the light of men. And the light shined in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not.

Wait, what? What. What's going on here? What's happening here? What's happening here is the God of the universe gave His Word and He cannot lie. Why can he not lie? Because His Word is truth. Now, interesting thing about the word truth, the word truth in Hebrew is the word amet. Now, every Hebrew letter, every Hebrew letter has significance. It has meaning, it has a definition. When, like English is a phonetic language, every letter makes a sound. Hebrew is also a phonetic language. Every letter makes a sound. Eastern language is symbolic. Every. Every letter represents something. But Hebrew is also symbolic. Every letter represents something. The chemical language is constructive. Words and concepts are built. Like, if I write.

What is that? Water. But I didn't write W, A, T, E, R. What did I do? I just wrote the components of water. Two parts hydrogen, one part oxygen. I have water. So this is how we build water. Well, this is how we conceive the building of water. Well, guess what? This is the word amet. Aleph is the first letter of the Hebrew Aleph, Beit. This is the middle letter. This is the last letter. Guess what it's showing us? That you can't know the truth about anything until you know the beginning, the middle, and the end. You can't look at a small sliver of anything and know the truth about that thing. But also, this is the letter one. This is the let. This is the number one. Every letter in Hebrew represents a number. Aleph, Beit, gimel, dalit, hey, bav, zion, yudkaf, hav. All of those are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 200, 300, 400. You can count from 1 to 400 with 22 letters of the Hebrew Alephy. Okay, this is the number letter that represents 40 this is the letter that represents 400. So the war. The. If you add 400 to 40, that's 440 plus 1. It equals 441.

It is because 4 plus 4 equals. 4 plus 4 equals 8 plus 1 equals 9, and 9 is the number for truth.

Faith is a system. A what? A system. Oh, okay. So. So. So systematically, our faith is based on truth. And it's. I'm not even going to go into. I'm not going to go into all the gematria of this, even though I'd like to, because I want to share something else with you in the time I have allotted, which I haven't allotted myself much time. So y' all can think about that for a minute. Think about this.

Hebrews chapter 11 says that faith is the what, the substance of what things hoped for, the what evidence of things not seen. Okay, I want you to wrap your mind around that. What's the first word in that verse? It is a trick question. What's the first word? Now? That's right. Now is the first word. Right. So now faith.

Is the substance of things hoped for. Now I want you to think about that. Like every word of God is important. Man shall not live by bread alone. But by what? Every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God, it didn't say, man shall not live by bread alone, but by all the words it says. But every word. So every word is important. This word now is essential to this word, faith. Why? Because now is the only time when you really get to demonstrate that you have faith or don't have faith. Right? The only way you will ever develop faith is by allowing yourself to step into a now that requires that you have faith.

See, if every time a situation shows up.

Where there is temptation to doubt.

If you avoid that situation, you're not only avoiding the doubt, you're also avoiding the faith.

Are y' all tracking.

Right? And so what people don't realize is because we're so busy trusting what we see and believing that what we see is important. And we see all through Scripture that people who trusted what they saw, they made mistake after mistake after mistake after mistake after mistake, we can talk about Abraham and Sarah, how they made the mistake of thinking they could see they were getting older. They could see they had not yet conceived. They could see that it looked like God was not going to keep his promise, but God had already told them. And God had already sworn on his own existence to keep his promise. But they didn't. They're like, yeah, I believe, but Lord, I believe and don't believe at the same time. You know what I mean? So Sarah said to Abram, you know, we getting old, and, you know, women might don't have babies. And, you know, I got that pretty little Handmaid in there. Why don't you just go in there and lay with her and y' all have a baby, and we'll just raise that baby up like it's ours. And he said, you sure, baby? Okay.

Right, Right. We gotta understand these were people. These were people, and they had real emotions and real, real appetite, just like we do. And so he allowed his wife to talk him into something he already wanted to do anyway.

Keeping it real. Keeping it real. And guess what?

He believed what he saw with his eyes. Sarah believed what she saw with her eyes. And they forgot what God told them. Don't let you see. Don't let what you see. Cause you to forget what God said.

This is how the system works. That's why it says, faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God. What I've got to do, this is what I need to practice. I need to practice telling my. About my situation. The same thing God already told me about my situation. And when I tell myself about my situation, what God already told me about my situation, then I can have faith. When I tell myself about my life, what God has already told me about my life, then I'll have faith. When I tell myself about my family, what God has already told me about my family, then I will have faith. When I tell myself about my business, what God has already told me about my business, then I will have faith. Why? Because my faith is not based on faith. My faith is based on the one that's faithful.

Now, faith is the substance. What is sub? Sub is a prefix that means what under. So faith is something under me. Faith is foundational.

I'm standing on my faith.

I mean, we See all I talked about Abraham. I mean, I could have talked about. I could have talked about Moses. When he saw that. When he saw the. The Egyptian tormenting or torturing the Hebrew, he didn't wait on God. He allowed what he saw to rob him of his faith. And so he killed the man and took matters into his own hands. We could see. We could see Saul and all of his army and all of David's brothers hiding from Goliath because they believed in what they saw more than they believed in what God said.

Are y' all tracking. See one of the reason we don't have faith, the reason we don't have faith is because we've not let. We've not allowed the rain water of the Word of God to rain down in our lives and saturate the soil of this flesh so the seed of creativity that God placed inside of us can grow and produce fruit.

My ways are not your ways, saith the Lord. Neither are my thoughts your thoughts. But as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts and your thoughts. For as the rain cometh down and the snow from heaven, and it watereth the earth and maketh it bring forth in bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth, and it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereunto I sent it. See, the word. Here's your problem. When you're lacking faith. When I'm lacking faith, it's because we also lack the awareness of what God has said about our situation.

And we're buying the lie that our eyes have told us. And it's costing us way too much.

Now, faith is the substance. Something under me stance, substance means to stand upon. So now faith is something under me that I'm standing on. Now, faith is the substance of things. I love the word things.

What kind of things? All kinds of things. You know what's really interesting? There's a. There's a verse in Proverbs. I don't remember. It's at. I think it's in Proverbs, chapter 27. But it says it's the glory of God to conceal a thing. But it's the honor of kings to search out a matter.

Guess what? In English, the word thing and the word matter are two different words. In Hebrew, they're the same word.

And guess what the word is in Hebrew? The word debar.

Daled beit resh. What is that? Debar is the word for a thing, but it's also the word for word.

What? Huh? Isn't it interesting how you say Myron, what are you saying? It's a system. Everything is made from the Word. In the beginning was the Word, the Word was God. And the Word was with God. And all things were made by Him. Him who? Him. The Word. All things were made by Him. All what? All things were made by him. Who? Him. The Word.

All right. That's what I said. I said. Wait. What? No wonder God said it was the job of a king in the Old Testament to have a pen and a paper in his Hand and study the word of God all the days of his life.

Why? Because faith is a system that's based on the one who is faithful.

Not some emotion that you conjure up by repeating affirmations to yourself.

Now, faith is the substance of things hoped for. So faith is where I stand. Faith is where I stand on the things. See that word hope is not word, is not the word hope. For the word hope is not a wish. The word hope is a well founded, well grounded expectation.

For the future. Expectation is a human being's greatest superpower. The best way we can supercharge our superpower is by saturating our souls with the word of God. Because my faith is not based on faith. My faith is based on the one who is faithful. And I know he never fails. And he always does what he said he's going to do. Because if he doesn't, he ceases to exist. Oh, that's what I forgot to tell you about. I'm gonna go back to it in a man. So hopefully.

Is the word expectation. So now faith is where I stand on the things I expect. Then it says evidence. What's the word evidence mean? Proof. I prove the proof. The evidence of things not seen. The evidence of things not not seen. Oh, there it is again. Faith and sight are opposition to each other. So you're either going to believe what you see going on around you in the cosmos. Are you gonna believe in what God said? That's going on above the cosmos.

And it's greater than the cosmos. That's why I don't worry. I don't worry. Worry is waste. And the greater the worry, the greater the waste. Am I talking too fast this morning? Huh? Worry is waste. Like what does worrying change? Nothing.

What does it fix? Nothing. So why are you doing it? I don't know. I'm used to it. Well, get unused to it. It's an absolute waste of time. I'm worried about my kids. I'm worried about my job. I'm worried about my money. I'm worried about. Well, stop it.

Worry is wasting today's energy focusing on tomorrow's problems. By the time you get to tomorrow, half of them ain't there anyway. I can't believe my eyes. Cause my eyes tell lies. How can I see my way out? How can I see my way out of this current situation? By understanding. By going to the word of God, reading, studying, meditating on what God has already said and then believing in what he has said more than I believe in what I see.

I'm gonna tell You a problem if you got anxiety, here's the problem. You're trusting the wrong one. You're trusting what you see and ignoring what God said. People who have that supernatural, like, tapped in faith.

They'Re focused, they're trusting on what God said and they're ignoring what they see.

What kind of life you want to live now? Faith. So here it is. Here's Hebrews 11:1.

Now, faith. So from now on, when you think of that verse now, faith. Think of faith now as an adjective that describes the kind of faith. What kind of faith was it that Noah had to work on an Ark for 120 years because God told him water was going to fall out of the sky, even though he was 480 years old when he started working on it and had never seen one raindrop?

I'm blown away. Noah worked on this ginormous boat that would hold two of every unclean beast, seven of every clean beast. Him, his wife, his three sons and their wives, and enough food for all of them. And he worked on this project for 120 years based on something he had never seen. Why? Because he believed what he heard.

We don't have enough faith to work on something for two weeks. We work on something for two weeks. Well, it didn't work. It didn't work. What? You just got started. Can you imagine somebody going off to. Going off to. I'm going to go to. I'm going to go to law school and I'm going to go to college and get a degree and then I'm going to go to law school and I'm going to be a lawyer. And they go. And two weeks later, nobody's hiring me. I don't have. I can't. I don't have a job as a lawyer. You've been there two weeks. What you talking about?

We got so many entrepreneurs. They get started in entrepreneurship and within two weeks they ain't making $100 million a minute. They want to quit. It's insane. I was an entrepreneur. I was an entrepreneur for 14 years before I had a six figure year.

I got started selling insurance and investments. Selling at insurance and investments. What I should say, because I didn't sell any for a year and a half before I made my first check. People say, well, why didn't you quit? Quit and do what? The year and a half is going to pass whether I made the sale or not. The 14 years were going to pass whether I made the six figures or not. See? And what most people forget, see, because we got instant coffee we got microwaves, we got drive thru everything people want. Drive through success. Microwave success. Instant success. That ain't how it works. You gotta go through the valley to get to the vision.

Now faith is where.

I stand.

Oh, I'm standing where? On the foundation of God's promises. Now faith is where I stand on the things, on the things I expect.

While I prove.

The things.

I cannot.

See.

Now faith is where I stand on the things I expect while I prove the things that I cannot see. That is Hebrews 11:1 in modern day language. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. What does that mean? Now faith is where I stand on the things I expect while I prove the things I cannot see. While I prove the things I've never seen before. While I prove the things my family's never seen before, while I prove the things my business partners have never seen before. Now faith is where I stand on the things I expect while I prove the things I cannot see. Why? Because I trust the one who is faithful. Myron, what's your system? My system is faith.

Why do I have faith? Because God is faithful.

And that's how you see your way out, by saturating your life with the promises of God and believing he said what he said more than you believe what you see. All right, Hope that helps you. This is going to be our.