The Upward Journey

(310) Pastor Vaughn Teaches "PART 2 - The Upward Journey" 7/23/21 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZntEt7Lv0go Transcript: (00:00) Tonight, I'm going to be teaching I'm going to try to help you understand what we started trying to help you to understand last Sunday night, how to correctly interpret the word of God. Now, if you were not here, how many was not here for the upper journey sermon? The upper journey, okay? All right, were you going to be starting off in the second semester without knowing what the first one was all about? But, we'll try to catch you up as we go along. (00:34) Thank you, brother. Last week, we asked the question of why you have so many Christian denominations. They all read the same Bible, and yet they all interpret that Bible completely different. Last week, I tried to explain to you that you have to understand the Bible from what perspective? A Hebrew perspective. Because the Bible was written by Hebrews. (01:09) Last week, I tried to teach you that God does not think in a straight line, but Yahweh thinks in circles. That's how he knows the end from the beginning, because to him there is no end and there is no beginning, because God is a circle. Right? So, when you're studying your Bible, if you're looking at this Bible from left to right, you're going to always misinterpret it. (01:44) Okay? All right. The teaching of the word is not from left to right. The teaching of the word is in circles. One foundation building on another. So, tonight I'm going to train this church. Why do we see the Bible so different than other churches see it? Why do we see it totally How many's ever been talking to other Christians and it's like they're talking down here and you're thinking over here? Because they're reading their Bible the way they were taught to read in school from left to right. (02:36) So, if you're reading the Bible from left to right, here's what happens. Nothing. I'm not going to keep you long tonight, but you need to learn this. You may not be shouting and screaming. I always say that, but we wind up shouting and screaming, don't we? If you read your Bible from left to right, here's what you can do. (03:06) You can find a stopping point and another starting point. You can call this point the Old Testament and this point the New Testament. And in your mind, you can stop these thoughts over here and separate from these thoughts over here. Okay? God doesn't do that. This Bible was not written that way, so you need to quit reading it. (03:35) How many's ever been talking to another Christian? And I'm not going to let y'all preach me tonight. I really need to teach this, okay? How many of you's been talking to another Christian and the first thing they say to you is, "Well, that's the Old Testament." That's been replaced by the New Testament. With God, nothing replaces anything. (04:02) Remember that. Why? Because the circle at the bottom is the foundation that creates the next circle. Okay? What does a tornado do? Brother Allen was talking to me last week. A tornado sucks up and spits out. Okay? When you begin the upward journey in God, he's going to suck you up and start spitting you out. (04:30) The old you, right? As you go from one level to the next in God, something that was in there that shouldn't have been there, that level gets spit out. AMEN? SO, YOU START OFF, GOD LETS YOU BUY WITH things in that first circle. Oh, help me now. That he don't let you buy with IN THAT NEXT CIRCLE. WHY? BECAUSE we're moving on up to the east side. (05:00) To that DELUXE APARTMENT IN THE SKY. WE'RE MOVING on up. That's what God's doing to you. HE'S MOVING YOU ON UP. AND THE THINGS YOU GOT BY WITH DOWN THERE, he'll spit them out up here. Okay? That's why some Christians, IT DOESN'T BOTHER them the things that bother you. WHY? YOU'VE moved on up a little higher, SEE? SO, GOD is dealing in our lives in an upward journey. (05:32) That's the title of this series, the upward journey, not the forward journey, but the upward journey. Because if you go forward, then you wind up going backwards. But if you're going up, you're going straight up all the time. SO, WHEN YOU'RE STUDYING the word of God, get rid of this Old Testament New Testament. (05:56) Get rid of all of that straight line thinking and know this, what God did yesterday he's not replacing it, he's building on it. Okay? Remember that. But Christians don't see it that way. THEY SEE THAT THAT BACK there to the right was no good. And therefore it had to be done away with. If you believe that, brothers and sisters, now listen, if you come here just to fall out, just to have church, you're in the wrong place. (06:27) This place is the depth of the word of God. Okay? We love to do all that, but if you're going to leave me when I start teaching, you're in the wrong church. We're here to equip you in the knowledge of the word of God. SO, WHAT GOD IS DOING IN YOU, BROTHER KYLE, is he's taking that first level of the word of God and he is add the Bible said add to your faith now knowledge. (06:53) And then add on the upward journey add understanding. And then add patience. You didn't have patience down there and God was okay with it. But up here, HE SPITS OUT THAT LACK of patience and adds to your journey, SISTER DEBBIE, AS YOU GO up in God. Now, you've got to always think in circles or you won't think like God. (07:19) Okay? Now, the church has a linear way of thinking rather than spiraling upwards, it has start points and stop points. There's no start and no stop in God. Quit saying, "Well, that was for that day. This is for this day." He's the same yesterday, today and forever. Why? He's always pulling us up. He's always calling us always. (07:50) We used to sing a song that said walking up the King's highway. It's a highway to heaven. God is calling you and I up that highway. The modern church creates a timeline and places the past on the left and the future on the right. It then puts a stop point or a timeline and where is the stop point for the church? You're looking at it on my screen here. (08:17) The cross of Calvary. Y'all see that big cross? That's where the church draws their line. That's where most churches draw their line and that's why if you tell them you keep the Sabbath day their minds can't comprehend it because they've drawn a line. They've drawn a line that that was for yesterday. (08:41) They don't know in God there is no yesterday. Okay? SO THE CHURCH DRAWS THE CROSS as their stopping point and their stopping point. Now they teach that everything to the left is totally obsolete. And it's severed from that which is coming on the right side of the timeline. That is why today's church builds their doctrines around Matthew, Mark Luke and John. (09:10) And the book of Acts and the Pauline epistles. Totally re-orchestrating God's word. Go to the next screen. God has a tool to teach us with and it's repetition. God takes a top and keeps spinning it round and round and round and round in your life till you learn your lesson. Okay? God uses repetition as his mechanism of instruction. (09:41) You only get repetition from a spiraling pattern. Every revolution of a cycle repeats the one which preceded it, bringing new enlightenment and understanding and maturity as the cycle is repeated. THE SUBSTANCE OF THE PREVIOUS cycle is experienced again in the new cycle. IF THE CYCLE IS ALTERED, then you destroy the sacred lesson, the sacred message of heaven to earth. Here's what that means. (10:14) When you don't let God spin you around and around, you destroy what he's already done in your life. If he's not bringing you upward, you're going round and round. If you're going round and round, you got to be going upwards to be going somewhere, or else you keep winding up where you started. Next screen. The fault in understanding the word of God is the linear model. (10:43) With the linear model, you can create new beginnings with new thought processes, and deviation is totally unacceptable. THE SACRED FLOWS OF HEAVEN'S information has been stifled by our western way of trying to force new revelation on a timeline. Now, you stay with me. I'm going to get you there tonight. When heaven speaks to us NEW REVELATION, WE TRY TO FIND A PLACE TO MAKE IT FIT ON A TIMELINE. (11:18) GOD'S NOT TRYING TO FIT NEW REVELATION. FOR EXAMPLE, every day he's TEACHING US SOMETHING NEW. NOW, maybe it will not fit in what YOU UNDERSTOOD YESTERDAY. SO, YOU CAN'T LOOK BACK TO YESTERDAY. YOU GOT to look up. AND LET THAT NEW REVELATION DRAW YOU UP. IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT YESTERDAY was wrong. (11:46) It means that God has moved on and he's drawing you up another level. THE GOD OF THE BIBLE IS TEACHING YOU in circles. Next screen. Now, the this develops a unity with God. The The subset I TELL YOU WHAT THE LET'S go to the next screen cuz I want to get TO A SCRIPTURE. HERE'S WHAT HAPPENS whenever you divide the word of God, the Old Testament from the New Testament. (12:14) You get spiritual GMO. Do you know what GMO is? I'll tell you what. Go back to the next screen we were just at. I want to read something to you at the very bottom. The subset of the previous cycle is the seed of the plant that will grow. Now, STAY WITH ME. THE CYCLES THAT YOU'RE IN WHERE YOU BEGINNING CHRIST is the seed of your walk with God. (12:42) HERE'S WHAT HAPPENS. AS THAT SEED BEGINS TO GROW, YOU MUST FOLLOW THE growth circle that God is doing. AND WHEN YOU GET TO THE NEXT LEVEL, YOU can't separate from the seed of THE PREVIOUS LEVEL. WHY? BECAUSE THERE'S SOMETHING IN THAT last experience WITH GOD THAT'S SUPPOSED TO FLOW UP TO YOUR NEXT EXPERIENCE IN GOD. You don't LEAVE IT BEHIND. (13:16) YOU TAKE IT WITH YOU. That's why many people that HAVE COME INTO THIS LAST move of God THAT COMES FROM THE PENTECOSTAL FAITH AS I HAVE, AND THEY FIND THE HEBREW roots message, THEY WANT TO LEAVE BEHIND THEIR PENTECOSTALISM. THEIR SPIRITUAL UNDERSTANDING. SEE, THAT'S THE PROBLEM. GOD'S NOT CALLING YOU TO LEAVE BEHIND ANYTHING HE GAVE YOU DOWN THERE. (13:46) HE'S CALLING YOU TO TAKE WHAT HE GAVE YOU AND LET THAT seed come on up a LITTLE HIGHER. GOD WILL NEVER REPLACE SPIRIT with knowledge. See, here's the problem. We're trying TO SPLIT THIS SEED UP. WE'RE TRYING TO SAY, "OKAY, NOW WE JUST WANT KNOWLEDGE WITHOUT THE SPIRIT." IN THOSE DAYS, THEY JUST WANTED THE SPIRIT without the knowledge. (14:13) WE MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE THEY MADE WHEN ALL WE WANT is the knowledge without THE SPIRIT. SEE, FOLKS, LISTEN. YOU CAN'T LEAVE behind the journey God's brought you on. Because there was something in there for you. You take it to the next level. You learn You learn the the lessons of every level, and God begins to bring you higher. Now, listen. (14:45) The seed of an apple will never produce an orange. Neither will that which grows from the previous experience in God PRODUCE A RESULT THAT IS DIFFERENT THAN THE original seed. WHEN THIS HAPPENS, IT PRODUCES what's called replacement theology. Here, what is replacement theology? You all know what it means, that God is through with natural Israel. (15:14) He replaced Israel with the church. Do you know why the church has replacement theology? Cuz they don't understand circles. They think God had to replace something rather than enhancing it. Now, I just said a mouthful. And you missed it. They think GOD HAS TO REPLACE SOMETHING. When really all God does is enhances it. He never replaces the seed. (15:41) Israel was the seed. God's not done with natural Israel. THAT WAS THE SEED, BUT HE HAS ENHANCED on natural Israel AND BROUGHT YOU AND I INTO NATURAL ISRAEL. SO, WE THINK HE REPLACED IT. HE'S DONE BECAUSE WE PUT NATURAL ISRAEL TO THE left of the timeline. COME ON. WHEN GOD'S JUST PUTTING IT IN THE WHOLE CIRCLE and creating Israel out of two, us and them. (16:14) QUIT REPLACING WHAT GOD IS DOING JUST BECAUSE IT'S NEW. DOES IT MEAN IT'S BETTER? IT JUST MEANS it's new. HALLELUJAH. QUIT REPLACING WHAT GOD DID IN YOUR LIFE YESTERDAY, WHAT GOD TAUGHT YOU YESTERDAY. YOU DON'T LEAVE THAT BEHIND. YOU CAUSE IT TO BE THE SEED that brings you upward in God. I KNOW MANY PEOPLE THAT BELIEVE the Sabbath day just like we do. (16:42) They believe in the holy days. They believe what we believe about the kingdom of God. They believe all of that, but they have no roots of the spirit of God that I had growing up as a child. THEY DON'T HAVE THE POWER OF THE HOLY GHOST. THEIR churches are like cemeteries. WHEN YOU GO TO THEIR SABBATH MEETING, IT'S LIKE YOU'RE SITTING IN A GRAVEYARD. (17:05) WHY? THEY'VE TRIED TO REPLACE WHAT GOD DID YESTERDAY. YOU CAN'T REPLACE IT. YOU ONLY GROW WITH IT. I DON'T WANT TO GO TO NO MESSIANIC MEETING. It's a mess. People ask me, ARE WE MESSIANIC JEWS? NO. WE'RE HOLY GHOST FILLED APOSTOLICS. WE'RE NOT TRYING TO BE HEBREW ROOTS, WE'RE TRYING to be Holy Ghost roots. THAT JUST HAPPENS TO GO BACK TO THE HEBREW ROOTS OF OUR FAITH, BUT WE'RE NOT GOING TO LEAVE BEHIND THE HOLY GHOST LOOKING FOR KNOWLEDGE. (17:48) People want me to GO IN THEIR CLASS AND STUDY 20,000 HEBREW WORDS. THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO PRAY IN THE HOLY GHOST. COME ON NOW. WE DON'T LEAVE BEHIND THIS GREAT HERITAGE THAT we have AS WE GROW. WE BRING IT WITH US AND EXPERIENCE THE A TOTAL BLESSING OF IT ALL. I'M AFRAID WE MAKE A MISTAKE as we come into knowledge. (18:18) We want to be smart, AND THAT'S GOOD. GOD, I'M GOING to teach you tonight. God wants you to be smart. He wants you to understand, but he don't want you to leave behind the beginning of your faith. The fundamentals. He didn't say move on to perfection and leave everything that you ever learned. He said add to it. (18:38) Go up. God's calling you today to go up. If you learn HOW MANY OF YOU COME FROM THE BAPTIST CHURCH? Let me see your hand. All right. The Baptist CHURCH WOULD TEACH YOU HOW TO PRAY. DON'T LEAVE THAT BEHIND. You just said it, Debbie. Bring it with you. Brother Von, I'M GOING TO LEAVE. NO, NO, YOU AIN'T GOT TO LEAVE NOTHING. (19:01) YOU JUST ADD TO YOUR FAITH. YOU BRING EVERYTHING YOU LEARNED. MY grandmother pastored in New Orleans, and they would convert a lot of Catholic people to her church. You know what she told me? She said if I ever get a Catholic believer in my church, they make the best church member of all the religions of the world. (19:23) Do you know why? The Catholic Church taught you to love the church. SO, WHEN YOU COME OVER HERE, you don't HAVE TO LEAVE WHAT YOU LEARNED OVER there unless IT'S JUNK. LET THAT SEE, THERE'S that tornado. Let it spit out what needs to be spit out and bring what needs to stay as you grow in God. Hallelujah. Praise God. SO, THE PROCESS IS AN UPWARD JOURNEY. (19:52) WE ARE NOT PEOPLE MISUNDERSTAND US. THEY ASK ME ALL THE TIME, "ARE YOU NOT PENTECOSTAL ANYMORE? WHAT ARE YOU?" I DON'T KNOW. All I know IS I TOOK EVERYTHING I started with, I still got it, AND I'M ADDING MORE AND MORE AND MORE, AND THEY DON'T HAVE A LABEL YET. HALLELUJAH. They ain't made A LABEL YET. (20:20) I'M TRYING TO FIND OUT WHAT I AM. ALL I KNOW IS I'M IN A TORNADO AND IT'S GOING HIGHER AND HIGHER AND HIGHER. HALLELUJAH. WOO! We can't splice up the seed. Brother, when you receive the Holy Ghost, that was a seed. We can't splice up and say, "Well, that was then. We're moving." No, no, no. We let that seed grow. (20:50) And as it grows, WELL, HOW DOES IT GROW? SIDEWAYS? It goes straight up. God's growing YOU UP TONIGHT. HE'S BRINGING YOU DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE NEW LEVEL. DO YOU KNOW WHY PEOPLE ARE AFRAID OF NEW LEVELS? IT BRINGS NEW DEVILS. And when YOU GET NEW DEVILS, YOU WANT TO GIVE UP. YOU WANT TO GO BACK TO THE OLD. (21:14) LISTEN, I LOVE THE OLD, BUT I'M NOT STAYING THERE. I'M GOING UP IN GOD ALL THE WAY TO THE KINGDOM of God. Learn to grow up. More, Lord. Don't take what you taught me yesterday, but give me more. As you bring me up higher and higher. What happens when you split the seed up that God started in your life? Show you the next screen. You get spiritual GMO. (21:47) Genetically modified spiritual food. Most of the sermons you will hear in a Christian church is GMO. It's been spliced and diced. And you know what GMO is? It's a mixture. Little bit of truth and a little bit of lies. In this ministry, we strive to teach you the truth. Because why? We If you think in a linear line, for example, I want to give you a linear line. (22:24) Most of the church that I grew up in will tell you that Jesus Christ did away with the Sabbath day. You know why? They spliced the Bible up. They Jesus come, he did away with all that. And do you know there's not one scripture in the Bible that says that? Not one. But we split up the Bible, and now when we preach to the people, we don't preach to them the beauty of the Sabbath day. We can't. (22:49) We already told them it was done away with. So now we can't preach to them that it represents the coming kingdom of God on THE 7,000TH YEAR. WHY? WE'VE ALREADY TOLD THEM IT'S A NON-ISSUE NOW. All right. Okay? SPLICING AND DICING THE WORD OF God is spiritual GMO. And what happens after Do you know that I was reading a study yesterday that 30 years ago that Americans did not have heart disease, cancer, and the things they have now? DO YOU KNOW WHY our bodies are crumbling? GMO. (23:28) THERE'S NO LIFE IN OUR FOOD. THERE'S NO LIFE IN OUR FOOD, NONE WHATSOEVER. Do you know what GMO corn has in it? Nothing. It's a copy. It's a copy of the original. And the the church is offering TO THE PEOPLE A COPY of the original gospel, AND THERE'S NO LIFE IN IT. No life whatsoever. God's calling us back to the original seed, which is the what? The total word of God. (24:09) The whole word of God. The plant of the GMO seed is not equipped to provide the same nutrition as the plant from the unadulterated seed. I want to give you an example. In 1 Timothy chapter 3 verse 1 through 6, it names all the sins that people commit. It talks about fornication, lying, cheating, stealing, homosexuality. (24:36) It lists all the sins there. And do you know what it says in verse 6? I told y'all today in the chat group, you should have read it. What did verse 6 say? From such turn away. Now, the church says of such accept them into the church. The Bible says turn away from them. Okay? Who Whose messenger are you going to eat? If you eat their message, you're eating GMO. (25:13) But if you eat this message, you're eating original seed doctrine. You're eating original seed. YOU GOT YOU'VE GOT TO TURN AWAY. The Bible said have nothing to do The Bible said if they're lovers of themselves more than lovers of truth, from such turn away. BUT WHAT IS THE CHURCH? Y'ALL GO POST THAT ON FACEBOOK. I DARE YOU. (25:39) I DARE YOU. YOU GO POST ON YOUR TIMELINE from such turn away. And the people will call you every name in the book for quoting the word of God. Try me. Uh second Timothy first or second Timothy 3:1-6. If y'all would read the chat group every day, you'd see it all. Hallelujah. I was 3:00 in the morning, God said from such turn away. (26:11) From such turn away. WELL, CUZ WHY? WHAT GOD'S DOING IN YOUR LIFE, there's no room in there for that junk. And when you get around that junk, you become that junk. OKAY? YOU GOT THE BIBLE SAID YOU GOT TO SEPARATE yourself from the unfruitful works OF DARKNESS. YOU CANNOT LIVE halfway in GOD'S CHURCH AND HALFWAY IN THE WORLD. (26:37) YOU CANNOT DO IT. IF YOU DO, WHAT DO YOU HAVE? A GMO church. WHAT IS A GMO CHURCH? HALF AND HALF. Half in the world, half in the church. This half loves praise and worship, but they hate the preaching of truth. That's GMO. Yeah, THEY LOVE COMING TO CHURCH AND HAVING THE SOCIAL WITH THE DONUTS AND THE COFFEE, BUT THEY THEY WANT TO TELL THE PREACHER, "YOU PREACHED A LITTLE LONG TODAY. (27:09) " LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING, WHEN YOU GO TO A GMO CHURCH, YOU WANT TO MAKE IT EQUAL PRAISE AND WORSHIP AND EQUAL PREACHING, but when you go to a real church, YOU WANT THE PREACHING OF THE WORD OF GOD FROM START TO FINISH. THAT'S WHAT YOU CRAVE. THAT'S WHAT YOU LONG FOR. IF YOUR SPIRIT IS GMO, IT DOESN'T WANT THE WORD OF GOD. It wants a little mixture. (27:35) But when you're original seed, you crave what feeds the original seed, which is the original seed, the word of God. It appears the same, but it brings about long-term destruction. In this ministry, we teach a lot of things that most churches don't teach. Number one, you know how we believe about heaven. You know how we believe about life after death. That just separated us from 98. (28:06) 2% of the Christian churches. Yeah. We are a separated people. Do you know why? Most of the time, pure seed is very rare. You can find hybrid seed at every market, but pure seed, what you're getting in this ministry is the pure seed of the word of God. We don't mix it with tradition. We don't mix it with anything else. (28:36) If it's not If it ain't raw, I don't want it. Do you understand? I want the raw word of God without a GMO mixture. GOD IS CALLING US TO LEAVE BEHIND A MIXTURE OF GMO. WHY? Here's what happens when a message is GMO. By the way, you can't see the results of GMO overnight. No, no, no. This church started getting infected with false preaching about 30, 40 years ago. (29:07) It took that long to see the powerless churches that we see today. The message begin to be mixed with the world. When I was a little child, this message was pure. It was holiness or hell. Anybody remember that? It was straight or it was nothing. See? And see, people made fun of that. They mocked that, but that was pure seed. (29:34) Do you hear me? THAT WAS PURE SEED. WHEN I GO TO CHURCH, I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ALL THAT. OF COURSE YOU DON'T. YOU'RE GMO. YOU WANT TO HEAR ABOUT THE BLESSING. You want to hear ABOUT YOUR BEST LIFE NOW. CAN I TELL EVERYBODY THE TRUTH? THIS AIN'T NEAR ABOUT YOUR BEST LIFE. IT AIN'T NEVER going to be your best life. IT'S GOING TO BE TROUBLE EVERY DAY OF YOUR LIFE. (29:58) But I'll give you the rest of the story. But the Lord will deliver you out of them all. Hallelujah. HALLELUJAH. THAT'S PURE PREACHING. THAT'S PURE PREACHING. BUT BECAUSE WE'VE MIXED this gospel, because we've mixed this truth, the church is showing a GMO A body that's had GMO food, cancer comes years later. The cancer we're seeing in the church today is from a GMO message. (30:26) Mixing it with a little truth and a little error. A LITTLE OF THE WORLD, little of the church. REPLACE THE ALTAR WITH THE SMOKE SCREEN. PUT THE LIGHTS UP INSTEAD OF THE LOUD PRAYERS. SEE, IT'S THE MIXTURE. GOD IS CALLING THE church back to the original seed of the preaching of the word of God. When you drive up to this building, yes, you should look for a move of God, but your purpose for coming should be the preaching of the word of God. (31:06) Next screen, brother. I'm going to try to hurry. There is a structural flaw in what we're feeding today. We divide the word of God and put the Old Testament against the New Testament by favoring one over the other. The new is now viewed as separated and superior to the old. IN OUR POSITION, THIS THEN produces GMO doctrine. (31:32) What's wrong with the doctrines of the church today? They don't understand the Old Testament. So now they're preaching a gospel that comes strictly from the New Testament. And now what begins to happen? You know what that New Testament gospel tells you? You're ready? God's grace covers your sin. No matter what you do. (32:01) He knew before you did it you were going to do it. He's fine with it. Just love him. That's New Testament gospel. That's New Testament gospel. That's what the Turn your TV on and see if you don't hear what I just told you. Now I love uh uh I love this brother. I'm not going to call his name cuz some of y'all like him. (32:31) He was preaching on TV and you know what he said? And he's one of the most famous preachers on TV. He said, I heard it. My wife was sitting there and I screamed out at him on the TV. He said that God knew you could not keep his commandments and he's okay with it because he knew you couldn't do it. See, that's that's New Testament gospel. (32:53) And he said Jesus came so you didn't have to live those commandments. See, that's New Testament gospel. That's GMO. BUT IT'S THEY'RE HONESTLY BECAUSE THEY SEPARATE THE BIBLE. Next screen, quickly. Now, Paul thought in circles. Let's go to the next screen. All right, go back. Now, I want to teach you go back one screen. Right there. (33:20) Right there. You're good. Go forward. Sorry. I want to teach you the four levels of biblical interpretation. I'm fixing to teach you tonight how to correctly interpret your Bible. Tonight, you're going to understand your Bible. How to interpret it. How to make it line up with the rest of the Bible. There are four levels of understanding the Bible. (33:49) Now, this is known as the Pardes, p a r d e s algorithm of the scriptures. Pardes. I'm going to teach you tonight Pardes. This church needs to learn Pardes. It's the formula of correctly interpreting the Bible. Each level of understanding builds upon that which is beneath it. Now, I want you to see your Bible. (34:17) Hand me that big Bible there, son. I want you to see your Bible. And I don't want you to look at your Bible anymore like this. I want you to look at it like this. From quit seeing your Bible in chapters and verses. Start seeing it in layers. Okay, I'm going to teach you tonight how to interpret your Bible. Quit reading it from left to right and start reading it bottom to top. (34:53) Why? I'm going to teach you tonight that every verse has at least four layers to it of this Bible. It's called the Pardes formula. I'm going to show you tonight how I can read a scripture and see it totally different than most of my colleagues see that scripture. It's in the Hebrew formula Pardes, and I've learned this formula over the years, and tonight I'm going to teach it to our ministers and members here today. (35:24) Now, AS YOU READ THE BIBLE FROM BOTTOM TO TOP, every layer of a scripture is not replacing the layer below it. It's encircling the layer below it. Remember this now as you study your Bible. You read a verse, there's four layers. I'm going to teach them to you tonight. Those layers don't sit on top of each other. (35:55) They join each other in a circle. I realize it's a little quiet, but if you'll learn what I'm teaching you, you'll quit misinterpreting your Bible. Let's go to the next screen. Pardes, where do we get the word Pardes? It comes from four Hebrew words. Pardes is an acronym. It comes from P R D S. (36:21) We just call it Pardes to help you understand it. But it comes from four Hebrew words. These four Hebrew words the first one is pashat. Now 90 No, I'm going to say 80% of the church reads their Bible on the pashat level. Now, in the Hebrew, the word pashat I'll explain it to you like this. It's the most simple level of the Bible. (36:56) Pashat is the elementary school level of the Bible. The Hebrew scholars call this level what Paul calls it, the beginning of your faith. The pashat level is where most people in the world read their Bible. The simplest letter by letter, word by word, it says what it says. A plus A, B, and C, and that's what it says. (37:29) Whether Von See right there, it says that. Okay, that's the pashat level. Right. Okay? That level of the word of God comes through our own thinking, our own education. This But but but but but but let me tell YOU NOW THE PASHAT LEVEL IS NOT UNIMPORTANT. RIGHT. It's the starting point of understanding the word of God. WE DON'T PUT DOWN ON THE pashat level because we have to start there. (38:02) When you Let me Let me Let me Let me show you the pashat level. Are you ready? Well, I can't I need glasses. I can't even see nothing. Somebody give me reading glasses. Here's the pashat level. All right, ready? Oh, I like this one. Husbands, love your wives As the Messiah loved the called out ones and gave himself for them. (38:24) All right. Okay. You read that on a peshat level and all you see there is husbands love your wives as Christ loved the church. That's good. That's a good level to start at. But God wrote this Bible I got to I got to be careful here. God wrote this Bible to be graduated in. You see that? You see, every experience in the circle will bring you to a new way you read the Bible. (39:04) Okay? Watch this. For example, Matthew 28:19. What does Matthew 28:19 say? Go into all the world, preach the gospel, baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son, and Holy Ghost. That's the peshat level. That's what it says. End of point where God said, "That's what it says." No, it's not. That's what it says on the peshat level. (39:28) If you just read it in English, that's what it says. And you've GOT PEOPLE TRYING TO ARGUE THE SCRIPTURES WITH YOU FROM THAT LEVEL. THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT THAT. That's it. All you can do is say, "I love you. Have a GOOD DAY." YOU CANNOT DEAL WITH PESHAT LEVEL CHRISTIANS. WHY? THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT GOD'S word is a living book, not a letter. (39:58) OKAY? THE WORD OF GOD IS NOT A BOOK, IT'S A LIVING CREATURE. I hope you heard that. The word OF GOD IS A LIVING, BREATHING CREATURE. AND IT IS WAITING FOR YOU TO DIVIDE IT ACCORDING TO THE SPIRIT, so that YOU CAN MINE THE DEPTHS OF IT. But most Christians, they don't want to mine the depths. (40:29) They want to say, "Right there, see, it says right there. That's it. No more discussion." Nothing you can do with those people. Now, the next level of Pardes is what we call the Remez level. THE REMEZ LEVEL IS WHERE WHEN YOU READ the word of God, you notice a little hint. IT'S A MORE IMPLIED MEANING TO what the text is alluding to. (40:56) It's an allegorical level, A PHILOSOPHICAL LEVEL. IT TRANSCENDS elementary knowledge. IT IS THE MORE PRACTICAL APPLICATION of scripture and how to live by that scripture. Some people have graduated in the circles to the Remez level of the Bible. They see a little hint there, and they say, "Okay, it's something more there than the P'shat level. (41:23) I see what it says, but it's like it's telling me, 'Come on in a little deeper.'" How many of you's ever read your Bible and felt that little hint that you need to dig a little deeper? That's the circles. You're moving on up. You're coming on You're on the upward journey now in the word of God. This is why WHEN YOU'RE TEACHING THE BIBLE TO PEOPLE THAT DO NOT DESIRE TO COME ON UP, YOU CAN'T TEACH THEM. (41:51) OR not on that level. Let's go to the next screen. Now, WE'RE COMING TO THE DRASH LEVEL. Remember Pardes, P R D S. We started at P'shat, we've come TO REMEZ. NOW, DRASH LEVEL IS THE THEOLOGICAL interpretation or the studied level. This is your theologians. THIS IS THOSE THAT HAVE STUDIED THE BIBLE ALL THEIR LIVES and they've put line up on line, precept up on precept. (42:23) THEY'VE CONNECTED THE DOTS AND THEY LOVE TO STUDY THE HEBREW MEANING, THE GREEK MEANING. THEY'RE ON THE DRASH LEVEL OF the word of God. But today I want to teach you the sod level. Because this ministry has been called to call you into the sod level of the word of God. The Hebrew word sod means secret. This ain't going to open up wide for you tonight. (43:00) The sod level in Hebrew is the secret level. God's word has a pashat where you just read it. It has a remez where it hints to you. It has a DRASH WHICH SAYS STUDY IT. But then there's a level in your growth in God where God's secrets begin to be revealed to you through that same verse that 10 years ago was just a letter to you. (43:31) You open your Bible 10 years ago and you read Jesus wept. 10 years later you can feel him weeping. See see there's a growth IN STUDYING GOD'S WORD THAT GOD IS CALLING THIS MINISTRY TO. It's the secret level THAT'S ONLY REVEALED TO THE BRIDE OF YESHUA. IT IS hidden from the world. This Bible is not a book. It's been hidden from the the whole world. (44:10) This is a secret book. How many of y'all Oh, you yeah. That book That book contains the divine mysteries. You think God's going to show those divine mysteries to dogs? What did he call a Gentile? A dog? God only reveals the divine mysteries to Israel. Y'ALL DIDN'T HEAR THAT. GOD ONLY REVEALS THIS LEVEL TO HIS PEOPLE ISRAEL. (44:45) WHY? BECAUSE IT IS A DIVINE SECRET LEVEL. It is hidden from THE WORLD. IT'S BEYOND HUMAN UNDERSTANDING. OH, y'all feel that spirit starting to move now, don't you? That pashat level is human understanding. See, it says that, it says that, it says that. But And then the drash level is where you just argue with one another, theologians. (45:17) But when you come into the sod, the secrets of God, all of a sudden now everybody cuts you off. Not because they don't love you. Not because they don't like you. They can't deal with the level that you're speaking to them from in the word of God. As somebody said, the upward journey. In your Bible, God's got you on an upward journey. You start at pashat, you come into remez, you go into drash, and you wind up at sod, at God. It's the God level. (45:58) It's the SECRET LEVEL THAT GOD IS CALLING to you. IT IS NOT a literal interpretation. It is a spiritual interpretation of the word of God, AND MOST OF THE CHURCH CANNOT HANDLE that interpretation. Brother Vaughn, are y'all trying to know more than everybody? No, he's trying to teach us more than everybody. (46:24) That's all I can tell you. WE JUST BEING SUCKED UP INTO THIS. OH, I felt that. We're just SORT OF BEING SUCKED UP INTO THIS. WOO, HALLELUJAH. DEEP IS CALLING UNTO DEEP. DEEP IS CALLING UNTO DEEP. THERE'S A DEEP LEVEL OF THE WORD OF GOD, AND IF YOU'VE GOT DEEP IN YOU, THE DEEP IN THAT REACHES OUT TO THE DEEP IN YOU. That's why I cringe when people tell me to keep my preaching simple. (47:06) I cringe when people tell me that. Keep it simple, BROTHER VAUGHN. WHY WOULD I DO THAT TO YOU? Why would I keep A BOTTLE IN YOUR MOUTH till your teeth fall out? We've got a toothless church. Because we fed them Jesus loves me so much that that's all they know. And therefore their teeth are falling out. (47:36) WE'RE ROCKING THEM IN THE ARMS OF SIN AND HYPOCRISY, TELLING them Jesus LOVES YOU, THIS I KNOW. THERE COMES A TIME YOU GOT TO THROW THEM out of your arms and say, "Now walk a straight way. It's a straight path." And ladies and gentlemen, you're here tonight. Some of you moved here from distant places because you've been sucked up into this. You were sucked into this, Sister Susan. (48:05) You still don't even know how you GOT HERE. YOU WERE SUCKED UP INTO IT. AMEN. You wound up here. You were NEVER PLANNING ON COMING TO THIS LITTLE old church. BUT YOU GOT SUCKED UP INTO THE sod level of what God is revealing in the scriptures. I want to give you an example. And then we're going to go further. When people read John chapter 14, it says in the first verse, "In my father's house are many mansions. (48:45) I'm going away to prepare a place for you that where I am, there you may be also. And behold, I WILL BRING YOU UNDER MYSELF." All right. We go to funerals and every Christian preacher in the world reads that as saying mansions in heaven and we're all going to be going UP THERE WHERE HE'S AT BUILDING US MAN. HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT ABOUT THOSE MANSIONS? Number one, we're not going to need no plumbing. (49:10) We're not going to be using the bathroom, I don't suppose. Number two, not going to need no electricity. Number three, we're not going to need no beds. I don't reckon we'll sleep if we're eternal. Have you ever thought about these mansions? Now, the city is 1,500 mi square. Is your mansion going to be 1,500 MI AWAY FROM JESUS OR 5 MI? SEE, now we're getting now see? On the pashat level, you see in my father's house are many mansions. (49:52) That's pashat. But then you get down to about verse 14 and that remez level starts bothering you cuz now it gives a hint. And me and my father will come and make our abode with you. Uh-huh. You read that and you say, "Okay, there's a hint. Something's there. Wait a minute. I thought I was going to him, BUT NOW IT SAYS HIM AND HIS FATHER are coming TO ME. (50:21) WELL, THEN WHY'S HE TALKING ABOUT MY MANSION IN HEAVEN IF HE'S PLANNING on moving to my mansion?" See? I'm trying to teach you this ministry teaches on the sod level. Okay? NOW NOW LET'S GO OVER TO THE DRASH LEVEL. THE DRASH LEVEL, all you got to do is take the word mansion and be a theologian and look at the Greek word. (50:51) That's drash. That's a little higher than remez. You're actually studying. When you get there, YOU STUDY THE GREEK. THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS THE WORD mansion in the Greek. It simply means a dwelling place. Where did WE GET MANSION FROM? I got a dwelling place. It ain't no mansion. I mean, it's a beautiful home, but it's not a mansion. (51:12) So, how are we GOING TO TAKE DWELLING place and interpret it to mansion? But if you're dealing with a pashat believer, all they see is mansions. You'll never get them off that mansion. IN MY FATHER BROTHER BRANHAM, IT SAYS IT RIGHT THERE. IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE ARE MANY MANSIONS. YOU'RE TEACHING FALSE DOCTRINE. That's the pashat level is a carnal level. (51:40) I'm going to tell everybody ain't one mansion in heaven. Do you hear me? You need to quit saying it. It's not true. The mansions in heaven is going to be your glorified bodies. You are the mansions. You going TO LEAVE YOUR CABIN BEHIND. THIS IS YOUR CABIN, BUT YOU GOING TO HAVE A MANSION WHICH IS YOUR NEW BODY. (52:09) THAT'S SOD LEVEL. That's sod level. But I had to GET TO THE SOD LEVEL by reading the pashat and then hearing THE HEAD OF THE REMEZ LEVEL AND THEN STUDYING IT ON THE DRASH LEVEL AND THEN UNDERSTANDING IT ON THE SOD LEVEL. God's calling you to come on up. COME OUT OF PASHAT. COME ON UP AND DIVINE THE MYSTERIES OF GOD. (52:35) Do you know what the mystery is in John 1:14? In John 1:14 4 whatever 14 and 1, when he says in my father's house, that word house there is family. In the Morgan family. There's many members of that family where God wants to dwell. HALLELUJAH TO GOD. WOO! SHABABABABABAIA. But Jesus CHRIST WAS THE ONLY DWELLING PLACE OF GOD AT ONE TIME. (53:10) HIM WAS THE FULLNESS OF THE WHAT? In bodily. IT WAS ONLY IN HIM. But he said, "If I will move out of the way, you can get where I'm at." And God can dwell in you. HE SAID, "I'M GOING TO GO AWAY TO MAKE ROOM FOR YOU TO BECOME A DWELLING PLACE OF THE FATHER THAT WHERE I AM RIGHT NOW, YOU MIGHT BE ALSO. And if that don't put shout in you, YOU DON'T HAVE SAUL level anointing. (53:51) Quit dreaming about mansions. God's going to turn you into the mansion. Don't you understand, child? Jesus said, "I'm the only mansion right now. In me, God dwells fully. But he said, 'If I will go away He said, "And then I can make a place for you so that where I am right now you may be also. (54:21) " And then he says in verse 14, "And when you GET IN THE PLACE I'M in now, ME AND MY FATHER will come and dwell in you." God's not looking TO BUILD A MANSION. HE'S LOOKING TO TURN YOU INTO A MANSION SO HE CAN LIVE IN YOU. You know what's funny about John chapter 14? The whole book's about the infilling of the Holy Ghost. Go read that CHAPTER TONIGHT. (54:55) AIN'T GOT NOTHING TO DO WITH HEAVEN. IT'S ALL GOT to do with the baptism of the Holy Ghost. You couldn't get that baptism until Jesus moved out of the way. He said, "I've got to go away to make a place for you so that where I am right now you can move into that position. And then we can come and dwell inside of you." That's the Saul level. (55:28) God's revealing to this ministry those mysteries, those divine understandings, not to make you smart, but to bring you up. IF THIS KNOWLEDGE IS JUST MAKING YOU SMARTER, then you've missed the point. WHEN YOU JUST HEARD ABOUT THOSE MANSIONS, you know what that should have done to you? It should have made you want to CLEAN UP YOUR HOUSE so that he can move in fully in your life. (56:00) Knowledge will puff you up if it don't change you. You are when you think about that you are God's mansion. He didn't want to just dwell in one son, did he? I'm trying to hurry. We ain't got nowhere to go. He didn't want just one son, did he? But said Jesus was the captain of our salvation bringing many sons into the same position that the first son was in. (56:32) But he had to go away to do that. So, I'm trying to show you right there what the sod level will do for you as you go up in God. As you go up in God, when you open your Bible, it will no longer be a dead letter on the pashat level to you. But you'll feel those hints saying dig a little deeper. Hear what God is saying through the words. (57:01) The reason God's called many of you to this ministry, he wants you to know him in that sod level of understanding. He wants you to come and prepare your mansion for him to live in. That's the purpose of understanding these things. Hallelujah. He wants to dwell in this church. He wants to dwell in every member of this church. (57:33) Many dwelling places in my father's family. Not just one son, not just Jesus Christ, but many sons. He said, "When you receive the Holy Ghost, me and my father will come and dwell in you." Why? You are the mansion. You're trying to move up there to a mansion, and he's trying to move into your mansion. DON'T BE A CABIN WHEN GOD'S CALLED YOU TO BE A MANSION. (58:14) Don't have leaks in THE BUILDING. DON'T HAVE CRACKS IN THE WOOD. BUILD HIM A MANSION. WOO! Let's hurry through here so I can let these folks go home. Now, how can we be safe at the sod level? Many people are super spiritual. And they get all these divine revelations in the sod level. How can we be safe from those people? I know one right now. (58:45) There's one lady right now. Everybody in the Patriot movement thinks she's a prophet. See? But she thinks she's in the sod level. Dangerous things happen in the sod level. Cuz you come around saying you got a revelation. Okay? Sometimes revelations are revolutions. Okay? SO, HOW DO WE PROTECT OURSELVES? I'VE HAD PEOPLE TELL ME, BROTHER VON, AFTER I've taught for 3 hours from the word of God what happens to the dead. (59:22) I've had them raise their hand after I've shown them from Genesis to Revelation what God's word said. And they said, "Yeah, but I can tell you my mama came to me." I don't care who came to you, what came to you, God's word is what the truth is. Your delusions and hallucinations are not the word of God. MY MAMA CAME TO ME. (59:50) YOUR MAMA DIDN'T COME TO YOU. YOU HAD A FAMILIAR SPIRIT FROM your mama. That's deceiving you. SO, IN THE SOD LEVEL, HOW CAN WE PROTECT ourselves and not go into false doctrine? How can we protect OURSELVES FROM THE from the delusions? It's real simple. You don't go to the sod level if you can't bring it back and tie it to the pashat level. (1:00:25) If you can't tie it to the drash level, the remez level, and the pashat level, it's false doctrine. Okay? You've got to take the top and it's got There's your circles. It's got to connect all the way down to Jesus wept. I'm trying to teach you I know some of you is falling asleep on me and I'm sorry, but I'm I feel like this is one of the most important lessons you'll ever learn. (1:00:53) People so used to having church, they they can't learn nothing. God wants you to learn tonight how to walk and not be deceived. SO, WHEN SOMEBODY RAISES THEIR HAND AND TELLS ME WHAT THEY BELIEVE, I MAKE THEM ALL mad and say, "I don't care what you believe." Your belief matters not. It has to tie back down to the pashat level. (1:01:27) It's called the rule of advancement. By the way, when you get into this sod level, everybody's a prophet. Everybody's a prophetess. Hope you heard me. NOWADAYS, EVERYBODY'S A PROPHET. EVERYBODY'S A PROPHETESS. EVERYBODY'S GOT A VISION AND A REVELATION. And yet, the minute I ask them to show it to me in the word, that's where they don't want to talk no more. (1:01:55) This ministry WILL NEVER BRING YOU INTO THE HEIGHTS OF ZION WITHOUT keeping you connected to the pashat level. Your anchor is in the clear text of the word of God. Okay? So, don't ever Is anybody with me? DON'T EVER GET SO SUPER spiritual that you lose connection to the word. THAT'S HOW MINISTRIES START GOING OFF INTO STRANGE DOCTRINE. (1:02:24) SO, TONIGHT, WE'RE GOING TO TEACH YOU THE rule of advancement. CHECK THE VALIDITY OF THE HIGHER level with each progressive level beneath it, and they must interlock. For example, I just gave you the pashat level of what John 14 means in the spirit, right? That we're not going to have no mansions in heaven. (1:02:46) Now, if I come to this church tonight, Sister Debbie, and said God showed me that there's no mansions in heaven. It is your duty to pull out the pashat level and say, "Brother Von, it says right here, in my father's house, are many mansions." Now, I better be able to take that pashat and bring it to the drash level, the theological level, where I can show you the meaning of every word. (1:03:16) It better all connect together, and it better all come out as one circle. ONE CIRCLE. YOU'RE SAFE IN THIS MINISTRY. I will never teach you the secrets without teaching you the ladder that brought me to that secret. THERE'S A LADDER THAT GOD WALKS UP AND DOWN. It's that Jacob's ladder. Somebody told me about it LAST THAT JACOB'S LADDER GOING UP AND DOWN. (1:03:47) THAT'S HOW GOD DEALING WITH YOU from from from pashat to sod. Anybody see it? Pashat to sod. You start off reading a verse, you wind up way up yonder in the sod, but you BETTER COME BACK DOWN, connect it to the pashat, and you'll be safe every time. Hallelujah. The problem with our churches today, we've either got one we either got them that's pashat level, or we got THOSE THAT'S ALL IN THE sod level. (1:04:19) Everybody saying they saw a vision, and nobody connecting it to the pashat. We need that divine ladder of truth that God is revealing to us. Anyone who wants to mystify the scriptures And listen, the scriptures are mystery. Now, hold on. For example, the two witnesses in the Book OF REVELATION. I'VE TAUGHT YOU MANY TIMES WHO THOSE TWO witnesses are. (1:04:47) And my teaching of who they are is completely different than most churches. It's not Moses, Elijah, it's not Enoch, none of them people. Okay? BUT I COULDN'T JUST COME TO YOU, SISTER TESS, AND SAY I HAD A REVELATION. SEE? But the pashat churches are telling you the two witnesses is Moses and Elijah. Why? That's what they see in the text. (1:05:14) But God revealed to us it's spirit and truth. God revealed to us IT'S THE OLD COVENANT AND THE NEW COVENANT, THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS. GOD REVEALED THAT TO US. BUT I HAD TO TIE IT BACK DOWN. I HAD TO TIE IT BACK DOWN TO THE SCRIPTURES. Don't follow a teacher that cannot tie it down all the way for you from top to bottom or you'll follow false doctrine. (1:05:45) Everybody wants to mystify the scriptures and it is a mystery. FOR EXAMPLE, 144,000. GOD SHOWED ME 10 YEARS AGO WHO the 144,000 are. But I have to be able to lock it down. Most people won't lock it down. They'll just tell you God showed them and that's it. That won't work. I don't care what God showed you, you better show me. (1:06:11) Anytime you're talking to somebody, Sister Katrina, and they tell you it takes a revelation, don't follow them another day. Truth don't take a revelation. Truth can be proven from the scriptures. I'm going to say it again. Truth can be proven from the scriptures. Now, it may bring you up to a revelation, but that revelation better bring you back down to the scriptures. (1:06:40) Let's go to the next screen and let's get out of here. I'm not going to look at Joseph tonight, but let me just say this. On the pashat level, you read about Joseph in the Bible, right? But yet, when you get to the remez level, you say, "Wait a minute. Wait a minute. He looks a lot like Jesus." You got a hint there. (1:07:02) Didn't you? Something's sort of hinting at you come a little deeper. Now, those of us that's on the Sod level, we know that Joseph is a type and shadow of Jesus Christ. See, but you don't get that on the P'shat level. You just read a nice little story about Joseph. But when you're growing in that circle, that cyclone, that Remez level kicks in on that next level. (1:07:25) Says, "Hey, my Lord, he had how many brothers?" And those brothers Well, there's something Wow. Now, maybe that Now, come on higher. Now, you're coming up to Drash, and then you'll connect the scriptures. Then you'll come into Sod, and you'll see it all. You'll know what the whole story was about. God's calling you to come higher tonight and understanding him and understanding the scriptures. (1:07:52) For in the scriptures, you find life. Go to the next screen, quickly. Now, Christ is our example, but I don't have time to give you that example tonight. I tell you what, let's let's do this. Oh, my Lord, there's so much I still need to teach. Let's do this. Uh Matthew, somebody read for me Matthew 5:17, and I want to show you what I'm trying to teach you tonight. (1:08:16) Matthew 5:17. Read it. Do not think that I came to destroy the Torah or the prophets. I did not come to destroy, but to complete. Okay, the modern church tells you the total opposite. What do they tell you Jesus came to do? The law. Of the law and the prophets, THE TORAH. WHAT DID JESUS JUST SAY? He said, "I didn't come to do that. (1:08:50) " He came to do what? To bring that circle higher. See? He's not going to get rid of it. He's going to bring you to the higher level of it. He He "I DIDN'T COME NOW, BUT IF YOU'RE THINKING that the Old Testament is over in the past, then you think he Well, that's the dividing line. He's over here. No, no. (1:09:10) He said, "Put it under me." "Put the Torah under me." "Put the Torah under me, and let me show you the Torah on a higher level." This lesson's called the upward journey. "Come a little higher." SO, CHRIST IS OUR EXAMPLE OF HOW WE'RE ALL supposed to be coming into the fuller measure. For example, we don't just keep the holy days because the Torah told us to. (1:09:39) No, no, no, no. We've come into a higher level of understanding them in a way that even the Jews don't understand them. We're going up in those levels with God into that sod level of those meanings. Next screen, quickly. Quickly, quickly. I'm not going to deal with the parables tonight. I wish I had time. Oh, go to Proverbs 3:32. (1:10:01) And we're closing as soon as we do. I'm almost done. Proverbs 3:32. Whoever's got it, read it for me. Read it, Sister Joanna Just Justina. For the forward is abomination to the Lord, but his secret is with the righteous. Did you hear that? The secrets of God do not go to those that are not righteous. God's got secrets. (1:10:36) It goes to those that are what? Right standing with God. That are in a right standing with God. When you open that book, you have an access to the understanding of it that your neighbor don't have. It's a mystery. He said that the secret goes to the righteous. Now, let me ask the rest of you. (1:11:01) What uh does the modern church teach makes us righteous? Give me an answer. Say it again? The blood. Jesus Christ is my righteousness. That's all I need is Jesus. Anybody ever heard that? All I need is Jesus. Well, there's a problem. And I posted it in the chat today. Paul talks about the holy scriptures. He says that they are instructions in righteousness. (1:11:38) Now, if Jesus made you righteous, why do you need instructions in righteousness? WHY DO YOU NEED TO BE INSTRUCTED in righteousness if you're already righteous? See, y'all better stay with the book and get out of these lying churches. BROTHER VON, THE WHAT'D YOU SAY? NO, DON'T READ IT BECAUSE YOU'RE ALREADY RIGHTEOUS. (1:12:08) THAT IS THE GMO GOSPEL THAT THESE CHURCHES are teaching. AND WHEN WE TRY TO GIVE YOU INSTRUCTIONS IN RIGHTEOUSNESS, YOU CALL US LEGALIST. YOU DON'T NEED TO INSTRUCT ME IN RIGHTEOUSNESS. I WAS MADE RIGHTEOUS BY THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST. AND LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING, YOU CAN'T BE SHACKED UP AND CALL YOURSELF RIGHTEOUS. I don't care if JESUS IS YOUR SAVIOR, YOUR MAMA, OR YOUR DADDY. IT WON'T WORK. (1:12:39) YOU NEED A MAN OF GOD TO INSTRUCT you in righteousness. You got to have instructions. The Torah was your first instruction in righteousness. Then Yeshua brought that Torah up higher because the first instruction in righteousness said, "Don't commit adultery." But the second level said, "HEY, IT'S MORE THAN JUST DON'T COMMIT ADULTERY. (1:13:08) DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT." Somebody say the upper journey. See, YOU COULD SAY, "WELL, I DIDN'T COMMIT NO ADULTERY." Jesus says, "You want to say that again?" You want to stay on the pashat level, "Thou shalt NOT COMMIT ADULTERY." OR YOU WANT TO COME into the sod level that says, "Don't even do it in your heart." YOU SEE, GOD DIDN'T DO AWAY WITH THE LAW. (1:13:35) HE BROUGHT YOU THE PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THE LAW. AND THEN JESUS SAID, "NOW TAKE UP YOUR CROSS AND DO WHAT I DID." He's the pattern, son. You remember that sermon? He's the pattern, son. HE'S THE PATTERN, NOT THE COP-OUT. HE SHOWS YOU HOW TO LIVE, NOT THE EXCUSE OF WHAT NOT TO DO. SEE, instructions in righteousness. So, what did that scripture mean that we're made righteous by the blood of Jesus? It's very simple. (1:14:07) When you go before a judge and you committed a crime and you you stole $50,000 there's a there's a law that says the crime for 50,000 is 4 years in jail. So, here you come before the judge. You say, "Your honor I've got an idea. Now, I know you want to give me 4 years in jail. But I tell you what I'll do. If you won't give me 4 years in jail I won't never steal $50,000 again. (1:14:50) " That's what Paul meant when he said that the works of the law will not justify you before the judge. Hold on. The Jews are trying TO MAKE A DEAL WITH GOD. THEY DON'T NEED JESUS TO COVER their past sin. THEY'LL JUST KEEP THE LAW. PAUL WAS TELLING THEM, "No works of the LAW WILL PAY THAT DEBT FOR WHAT YOU OWE. (1:15:20) " ONLY THE BLOOD OF YESHUA WILL PAY THAT PAST DEBT. BUT I CAN SEE the judge now SAYING, "I'LL TELL YOU WHAT, SON. I'LL MAKE a deal with you. I'm going to give you the four years because that's the only way to balance the books. There's a sin debt here. You got to pay it. But I'll tell you what I'll do. I'm going to give you the four years. (1:15:54) And then, when you get out, don't ever steal $50,000 again." Jesus paid a debt that he did not owe. You owed a debt you couldn't pay. But he says, "Now that I've forgiven you, go and sin NO MORE. DON'T EVER DO IT AGAIN. GET INSTRUCTIONS IN RIGHTEOUSNESS." I'M TRYING TO TEACH YOU THE truth tonight. Everybody's depending on Jesus instead of LEARNING FROM JESUS. (1:16:31) MY GOD, MY GOD, my God. Jesus paid the debts you owed. He didn't pay for you to live like you want to live. He said, "Now go forth and do works that are worthy of this calling." MY GOD, MY GOD, WHEN YOU READ THE PARASHAT LEVEL, Jesus is my righteousness. Jesus paid your debt. And he said, "Now that I've paid it, go and don't do it no more and follow my instructions how to be righteous before God. (1:17:07) " I'm trying to help you to understand your word tonight. Because the first thing people will tell you when you tell them you go to church here, "Brother Vaughn's teaching you the law." They believe we're teaching we keep the Sabbath to be saved. We know better. We're keeping the Sabbath because we're saved, because we've come to know God, BECAUSE OF WHAT HE'S done for us. (1:17:33) We're not keeping holy days to be saved. Are you kidding me? WE'RE DOING IT BECAUSE WE read the instructions IN RIGHTEOUSNESS. It'd be like a man I'm fixing to close, y'all. It'd be like a man sitting in a prison cell and the governor sending a letter and saying, "Son, you're He's He's going to be on the death chamber tomorrow. (1:18:05) He's going in the gas chamber. He's got to die." The governor sends him a letter and says, "You're free to go. You don't have to die now." And then that criminal walks out that prison and goes right back to the same life of crime. The governor gave him grace. But he didn't give him grease to slide back into what he was doing. (1:18:34) Jesus gave you grace to set you free from your sin. Not so you could go right back into it screaming you're saved by grace. When he opened that prison door for you, there should have been such a love for what he did for you. Thank you, governor. Thank you, governor. I'm going TO SHOW YOU THAT I'M GOING to live by the law of YOUR STATE. (1:19:03) MR. GOVERNOR, THANK YOU FOR SETTING me free. I was supposed to die, but you paid the price that I OWED. SO, NOW I'M GOING TO BE A MODEL citizen in your state. I'm going TO PAY YOUR GRACE BACK BY RIGHTEOUS LIVING. Y'ALL, I just taught you a lot right there. I'm going to pay your grace back by righteous living. (1:19:31) Quit. Do you know what the Bible says about the man that goes back and sins after he found grace? He puts the blood of Christ to an open shame. You know, your Bible says that any man that goes back into that life after the governor sent him that pardon, he puts that pardon to an open shame. Hope you're with me now cuz I'm trying to teach you. (1:19:59) That governor sent you a pardon free and clear. AND EVERYBODY IN THE STATE TOLD THE GOVERNOR, "Don't do IT. YOU DIDN'T DESERVE IT." AND INSTEAD OF WALKING out and living a life that wouldn't bring a shame to that governor. Oh my god. Instead of a life of thanksgiving, you take his pardon as an excuse to go back to that life that led you there. (1:20:30) You bring the blood of Christ to an open shame when you say you're saved by the blood, but you don't live a blood covered life. Oh, hallelujah. Hallelujah. Quit believing these lies. Yes, Jesus loves you. Yes, he died for you. But he didn't die for you to walk on his blood. He died so that I could still go free. (1:21:05) Free from my sin. Free from my shackles. Free from the chains THAT BOUND ME. DON'T MAKE FUN OF THE BLOOD OF CHRIST. THE BIBLE SAID any man that puts his hand to this plow and looks back, he ain't fit for the pardon that he received. Sister Pat, you had a pardon when you confessed Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior. (1:21:38) You received a pardon from the death sentence of eternal death. You were supposed to die eternally. Never to see your heavenly Father face to face. Never to live in HIS GLORIOUS KINGDOM. THAT WAS YOUR SENTENCE, BUT A MAN CALLED CHRIST CAME AND PAID YOUR DEBT. NOW, WHY DON'T YOU GO LIVE LIKE IT? WHY DON'T YOU SAY THANK YOU, SIR? THANK YOU, SIR. THANK YOU. (1:22:15) MY SON lives with me. My other Sunday as my son lives in our home right now until God opens something else for him. And do you know what? Son, if you want to tell me thank you for living in my home, you don't even have to say thank you. That's right. Just obey the house rules. You want to thank God for the blood, YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE TO SAY THANK YOU. (1:22:39) JUST SHOW RESPECT TO THE BLOOD. SHOW RESPECT TO WHAT JESUS DID. SHOW THE LOVE OF GOD IN RETURN FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. THAT OTHER gospel that you've heard is a GMO gospel. I'm preaching you a pure gospel. No, we're not saved by works in this ministry. We've never preached such tomfoolery that we get accused of preaching. (1:23:06) People get convicted when they see you sold out for God and they must label you as a legalist. They must label you as something so that they will not feel guilty for their lack of love for God. Hallelujah. Let's give the Lord a hand clap of praise. HALLELUJAH. HALLELUJAH. HALLELUJAH. THANK YOU, LORD, FOR WHAT YOU'VE DONE. (1:23:37) HALLELUJAH. We're getting ready to go tonight. Honey, hit the key of C. I want to sing that little chorus before we leave. I hope you've learned from that sod level tonight. The revelation of the word of God. He paid a debt he did NOT OWE. I OWED A DEBT I could not pay. I NEEDED SOMEONE TO WASH MY sins away. Now I sing What's the What's the words? I forgot. (1:24:32) A victory song amazing grace. He came and washed my sins away. He paid a debt he did not owe. I owed a debt I could not pay. I needed SOMEONE TO WASH my sins away. Now I sing a victory song amazing grace. We've quit singing those old songs now. I've forgotten them. How many is glad he paid a debt he did not owe? (1:25:34) Hallelujah. But now you owe him a debt. A thank you debt. A thank you debt to walk holy and circumspectly before the Lord. Tonight we're on the upward journey, every one of us. Let's go higher. Let's go higher as we grow closer to the coming of the Lord. God bless you. Shabbat Shalom. Good night. Make sure you love on somebody. (1:26:13) Hallelujah.