Glorious Way Church
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Glorious Way Church
The Apostolic Lifestyle
Prepare to challenge the "god of this age" with a deep dive into the spiritual arsenal that equips believers for victorious spiritual warfare. Drawing wisdom from the Apostle Paul’s letters to the Corinthians and Timothy, we promise an exploration into the heart of living an Apostolic Lifestyle, one that transcends earthly battles and engages with divine strength. This episode is set to illuminate how Glorious Way Church's mission is intricately linked to overcoming the spirit of Antichrist with unwavering faith and momentum.
Well, let's get our Bibles out and let's lift them up and wave them around, make Jesus glad and the devil mad. Let's say this together, say Heavenly Father, I am excited about Wednesday night. I always tune in with a faithful expectation that the Word of God will meet my need. Holy Spirit, shine your light on this Word and turn it into food for my faith. Light on this word and turn it into food for my faith, nourishment for my spirit, in Jesus name, amen, amen. We've got a couple of places. First of all, second Corinthians, chapter 10. And then also, while you're looking, uh, finding places in the Bible, get 1 Timothy, chapter 1. We'll start with 2 Corinthians, chapter 10.
Speaker 1:Paul writing to the Corinthian church. Now I, paul myself, beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ who, in presence, am base among you, but being absent, I am bold toward you. But I beseech you that I may not be bold when I am present, with that confidence wherewith I think to be bold against some which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh. For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal or of the flesh, but mighty through God, to the pulling down of strongholds, casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ and having an a readiness to revenge all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled. And then in first Timothy, chapter one, verse 18, paul is writing to his son in the faith, and he says this charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou, by them, mightest war a good warfare, that you might war a good warfare.
Speaker 1:So tonight I wanted to share a message entitled the Apostolic Lifestyle, and really I was meditating on what I preached on Sunday about the impact of momentum and how, you know, we've got 30 years in Glorious Way Church of momentum that's built up and now we're beginning to see the results of the impact of the collision against the spirit of Antichrist. And we talked a little bit about Sunday, about how Paul warned his own son in the faith to war a good warfare, that you might war a good warfare, a good warfare, that you might war a good warfare. And so we talked about what it means and so I wanted to go back over that. And then, of course, second Corinthians, chapter 10, says the same thing that though we war, though we walk in the flesh, we don't. You know, we don't war after the flesh. So he speaks here of war and warfare in both of these places.
Speaker 1:So in verse 3 of 2 Corinthians the word war is a verb. Though we war, it means to serve in a military campaign to execute the apostolate with its arduous duties and functions, to contend with carnal inclinations to war. A good warfare, the word warfare there is a noun is the greek word stratia. It means a military service, an expedition, expedition, a campaign, an apostolic lifestyle. And so, you know, this past Sunday I was, you know, emphasizing that that we here at Glorious Way Church, we're an apostolic vine with a prophetic river, and so I wanted to drill down tonight on this message, the apostolic lifestyle. I wanted to. I've taught it many times over the years. It's my job to keep you encouraged along these lines, to let you know that we have a specific mission, we have a specific way of living the Christian life that I believe Paul teaches extensively on here. He is teaching the Corinthian church, which is disobedient. It was carnal, it had a lot of problems. He had to write two letters and then he switches over and he says much the same thing to one of his sons in the faith, about this apostolic lifestyle and the word war.
Speaker 1:There again I want to mention what it means to war, a good warfare. The word war means to serve in a military campaign to execute the apostolate with its arduous duties and functions, to contend with carnal inclinations, contend with carnal inclinations. And then you know, so that's interesting. In other words, arduous duties and functions. See, it's not always just sweetness and light. Sometimes there's confrontation, sometimes there is. You know, we have to stand up for the truth.
Speaker 1:And the weapons of our warfare, they're not carnal warfare, they're not of the, they're not carnal, they're not of the flesh, they are mighty through god, they're supernatural. And so he goes on there in second corinthians to talk about what, uh, those weapons are. First they pull down strongholds, uh, the greek word okuroma, which means a fortress or a castle, and think about that fortress in your mind, see, sometimes. And so then it says cast down imaginations. The word imaginations means logismos, it's the Greek word which means reasonings, thoughts, logic, arguments, mindsets in ourselves and others. And so in 2 Corinthians 4.4, he talks about the God of this age. Let's go back to 2 Corinthians, 4.4 real quick, because that is really who we're confronting. We're not confronting humans, we're confronting thoughts and we're confronting the, the demonic, demonically supernatural ideas and uh, logics and so forth.
Speaker 1:Second corinthians 4 4. He talks to the corinthian church again about this. Verse 3 if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost, in whom the God of this world or the God of this age hath blinded the minds of them. See, there it is again. See, this spirit works against the minds or the thinking of some people, and it doesn't matter just about the lost yeah, he talks about the lost, but it also works against the minds of Christians. Everybody say the God of this age, say it out loud, the God of this age. And so what happens? It blinds the mind of them that believe, not lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ should shine in unto them. And so it's a hindering spirit. It will keep you from seeing revelation, knowledge, it will keep you from receiving God's thoughts on any particular subject.
Speaker 1:The God of this age, and of course, I've heard many people refer to the God of the world. God of this world? Well, that's the devil. Well, that's the simple definition. But it really is more complex than just the devil. It's when you look it up in the linguistic key to the Greek New Testament. It says the God of this age is all that floating mass of thoughts, opinions, maxims, speculations, hopes, impulses, aims and aspirations at any time current in the world. So again, it's demonic thinking. It's thinking inspired by the God of this age and his demonic powers. And so this kind of thinking, I mean I was just watching Fox News interview with Kami Kamala.
Speaker 1:I couldn't watch more than about five minutes of it and it just got so disgusting. Because here she is. I mean she's just a perfect spokesperson for the God of this age. I mean they're fond of talking about her word salads. I mean you know, I don't think the best dressing could ever make her word salad palatable. But she doesn't know how to answer a question. I mean she just answers in these speculations, hopes and impulses and aims and aspirations. She just has these platitudes. She has no specifics about what she's going to do as president. If she's elected president, of course, I certainly pray that she's not I don't think she's qualified. I don't think she's qualified to do what she's doing right now, but much less be president.
Speaker 1:So the God of this age, you see, has to be confronted. How is he confronted? He's confronted not with carnal reasonings, not with carnal arguments, not with natural debating. Those have very little worth. No, it's an anointing, it is a supernatural power to cast down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God. Going back to second Corinthians, chapter 10. So it says, first of all, it says, uh, strongholds, then it says imaginations, and then it says thoughts. So, years ago, when I was meditating on these things as I, god began to introduce me to the apostolic and to its principles and what type of church this is. This is exactly what this church is. It's an apostolic vine with a prophetic river, and there is an authority here and it has a logic about it, in other words a supernatural logic.
Speaker 1:Notice, you have strongholds, imaginations and thoughts. Well, it happens in reverse order. First they are thoughts that must be held captive. How do you hold them captive? By knowing what the Word says and refuting that thought and saying, no, that thought didn't come from me, devil, I don't accept that thought as God's thought. I cast that out, I will not accept it.
Speaker 1:And then, if we don't take captive the thoughts that come into our mind from the God of this age, then they become an imagination. See, a thought is one thing, but an imagination is another. Imagination is like a video clip. I mean, you know, you know, maybe an imagination is a picture, and now I mean a thought is a picture and now an imagination is a clip. It's a video clip, you know, and then if you don't take care of it in the, in the imagination, cast down, cast down imaginations, cast them down. There. They say a thought, if it's not dealt with, can become an imagination. And then, if it's not taken care of, this reasoning, this logic, this argument, a lot of times people get off because they entertain the wrong thought, they don't cast it down, and then that thought becomes an imagination and they own the imagination, they think they are thinking that thought and I, you know, really that's the devil doing your thinking for you. You're, you're thinking the devil's thought and now you've let it become an imagination. That's the devil's imagination and it is not real, it is not fact, it is not, it is a lie. So now you're kind of, you know you better. If you didn't recognize the thoughts, you better learn to recognize the imagination and you can still cast it down, but if you don't do it in that stage, then eventually it moves over into a stronghold. Now it builds like a castle, it builds a fortress.
Speaker 1:You know, I was thinking about meditating on these years ago and I thought about what it takes to build a castle. I've actually been to Europe. I toured Switzerland. We went to a castle that was on the banks of Lake Luzon, which is a very beautiful lake. It's surrounded by the Alps, it's 2,000 feet deep. I mean it is some kind of lake. It's surrounded by the Alps, it's 2,000 feet deep. I mean it is some kind of lake. And we went to see this castle. It was on the shores of Lake Luzon, just outside of the city of Luzon, which is an ancient city. It's a very diplomatic type city, kind of like Geneva, only much smaller, and they have these, you know, forums there and diplomatic meetings happen there in Luzon. But I remember that castle being so dark and so huge.
Speaker 1:And, man, you know, a castle takes a long time to build. I mean it took. I think it took something like 600 years for these people to build this castle. I mean, you know, and so that's what happens when we don't do anything about the thoughts that come from the devil, they become imaginations. And then, if we don't do anything about the imagination, eventually it can become a fortress, it can become a castle in our mind and once you get to that stage you become like a lot of people I see walking around that are going to vote for Kamala baby. I mean, you can't convince them that they're wrong. You can't convince them that what they believe all this global warming, all of this climate change, this idea of, about abortion, the idea about all of the ideas that the modern Democrat Party puts forth is directly from what we're talking about here tonight. It's directly from the devil, it's the God of this age and it hasn't been confronted properly with the way that God wants it confronted.
Speaker 1:So when we get back to Paul now, paul, he told Timothy, he told the Corinthian church here they are carnal, you know. And let's look at 2 Corinthians again, back to verse six, and let me read to you verse six in 2 Corinthians 10, verse 6. Let me read it to you in the NLT, in the Amplified and having in a readiness to revenge, all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled, so you can tell he's correcting some wrong thinking in the Corinthian church. He said look, I don't want to have to come there and be mean, I'd rather do it from a distance. I'd rather get you to cooperate with me, because you're not thinking correctly and if you don't change, I'm going to have to come there.
Speaker 1:And in verse six in the NLT says and after you have become fully obedient, we will punish everyone who remains disobedient. See, so what is he doing? He's pleading with the Corinthian church to stop their pursuit of this wrong thinking, the thinking that's been fueled by the God of this age. And they are thinking incorrectly. And he's pleading with them. He said I don't want to have to come and punish the ones that are disobedient. Well, that sounds kind of strong, doesn't it? You see, paul's whole ministry was created to confront the spirit of this age. His apostolic ministry was sent to destroy false apostles and false teaching. And what do false apostles and false teaching do? They spread the lies of the Antichrist. They spread the lies of the God of this age. They spread lies, you know, the lies that are based on a demonic logic. And so he was sent to to confront those kinds of things under the anointing that's, says he. He said, my weapons are not natural weapons, they're supernatural. They're supernatural weapons to pull down strongholds and cast down imaginations and bring into captivity every thought into the obedience of Christ. So when you look through the book of Acts and you look through the epistles, you find many examples of the church confronting the spirit of Antichrist that invaded the thinking and the behavior in the early church.
Speaker 1:I think about Ananias and Sapphira. They thought they could get away with lying about an offering. They made up a complete lie about the offering. They sold some land and they kept back part of the price and acted like they gave the whole thing, like everybody else in the church did. It wouldn't have been wrong for them to keep as much of it as they wanted. They were under no obligation to give the whole thing. But they acted like they gave it all and they didn't. And so Peter caught them in the midst of it and they wouldn't repent. And they, you know separately, first the man and then the woman. They had a chance to say the truth and they didn't, and they dropped dead, say what was that? That we're punished? That's a punishment I think about, uh, elamus the sorcerer.
Speaker 1:Now, he wasn't a christian, but he was, in other words known as bar jesus, and he was trying to stop the deputy from accepting Jesus. He had bewitched the whole region and Paul rebuked him and said you know, you, child of the devil, you enemy of the gospel, behold, you're going to be blind, not seeing the sun for a season, and they had to lead him away. He was blind, not permanently, but he was blind. Uh, he was struck blind for his, uh, interference in the word of God in the gospel.
Speaker 1:Um, I think about, in first Corinthians, chapter five, a young man that was committed adultery with his stepmother openly, in front of everyone. And what happened to him? Paul said I've handed him over to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, that his spirit might be saved in the day of judgment. And you know, later on, in the second letter, he said okay, he's repented. Now bring him back in the church and restore him. So it worked. He was punished by having. So it worked, he was punished by having Paul take off the protection that belongs to every church member. You know, you have supernatural protection from the enemy, and and over then there's a punishment that happens, and it's really God's mercy, in disguise in a way, because if he doesn't repent, he could possibly give his salvation back. He could eventually go down a road and lose his salvation and so, but he did repent and he was restored.
Speaker 1:I think about in third john uh diatrophies was hindering and was throwing people out of the church and was being uh ugly and john said I'm going to come and teach him better, I'm going to teach him how to behave. What was he talking about? He's talking about a supernatural punishment, pastor. Pastor, this is kind of heavy. You know, it's meat we need to. We're headed into a place where we need to understand the power and authority that's in the church. But it's only in the church if the church uses all of it for the right reasons. And the right reasons is to make sure that people live their lives for Jesus full steam and we help people all we can. But when people willfully stand in the way, when people willfully try to do harm to others, well then that's when we can step in and we can issue forth punishments and make it more advantageous for them to see their wickedness and to turn from it.
Speaker 1:So let's go back to 1 Timothy, because we read that verse where Paul is talking to Timothy about that. You might war a good warfare. He said you know, meditate on these prophecies that went before you. We need to meditate on the prophecies about our being a regional center. We need to meditate on the prophecies about our being a regional center. We need to meditate on the prophecies about the greatest year. Yet. We need to meditate on the prophecies about, you know, restoration, acceleration, speed, the year of momentum. We need to. We need to meditate on the year of momentum because we've got 30 years of it. Let's meditate on those. Now notice he told verse 18, this charge I commit unto thee. See, charge is not. He's not asking, he's commanding. Meditate on the prophecies that went before thee that you might, by them, war a good warfare. See, it's up to Timothy whether he does or not. It's up to Timothy whether he does or not. It's up to us whether we do or not.
Speaker 1:You might be a member of this church and you might say, oh, I don't want to do that, I don't want to live like that. I can't make you. But I can encourage you by teaching you how it's in the Bible and we ought to be obedient to the word, the full gospel, he, so that by them you might war a good warfare, holding faith and a good conscience, which some, having put away concerning faith, have made shipwreck. Of whom is Hymenaeus? Now, he's naming names, hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have delivered under Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme. Now I want to point something out to you about him, hymenaeus and Alexander.
Speaker 1:They're not in the world, they are church members. They are church members that are under the authority of the apostle Paul and they have not repented of their blasphemy. You know, they had actually given themselves permission to speak out blasphemies in front of other Christians. Just think about somebody blaspheming God in front of baby Christians, in front of novices and children in the faith, and you're trying to nurture the sheep and you've got two knuckleheads like Hymenaeus and Alexander, who keep blaspheming God and they wouldn't repent. So what did Paul do? He used his supernatural anointing to confront the God of this age and he turned them over to Satan, just like he did that young man in the Corinthian church. Turn them over to Satan until they learn not to blaspheme.
Speaker 1:What happened to them? Well, we don't know, but they might have gotten sick, they might have got, they might've got broke or both. I mean, you know when they, when they're under the heel of Satan when they, you know Jesus died so that they would be free. Well, pastor, I don't understand how they could come back under Satan. Well, it's because they were disobedient.
Speaker 1:See, a lot of times we have the idea that we can do no wrong. Well, you know, yeah, if you don't repent, you can reach the place where the sin is going to have consequences. That's the whole key. That's what such a waste, all you have to do is recognize when you've done wrong, own it, say yeah, I'm guilty, I was wrong, please forgive me, lord, I'm sorry for that. And then you forgive yourself and you go on. And you just keep on going because Jesus, in first John one nine, god's faithful and just to forgive your sin, cleanse you of all unrighteous. I mean, if they blaspheme God, they could have repented. They said God, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to say that, I don't mean that Lord, forgive me, I'll never do that again.
Speaker 1:We don't know exactly what they said or how they did it, but Paul writes it to his son in the faith and I think, partly to give him courage to handle, because, you know, really, timothy was an apostle as well, so he's mentoring Timothy as to how to be an apostle, are you with me? And so then you, you know you're, you're not an apostle. You know, I, I stand in the office of the apostle on occasion and uh, but you are a part of an apostolic vine with a prophetic river. So you need to learn how to flow with the apostolic, the apostolic lifestyle.
Speaker 1:And I want to go back again with the definition of the war. It's to execute the apostolate with its arduous duties and functions. So it basically, it implies danger. It implies danger, it implies conflict. And over the 30 years, I've seen people that just didn't have a taste for conflict, they didn't have a taste of standing up for what's right and confronting evil when they saw it, even right here in the church.
Speaker 1:I mean, I've seen people witness things that were wrong and not say a word. Well, you know, I want all of you to take responsibility, to begin to be the watchman on the wall, see, because if you're a member of this church and you see evil, it's your job to confront it. You can say wait a minute, I just saw that and that's not right. Let's come on, let's join hands and let's pray, let's ask God to forgive us. No, no, no, no, whatever it is.
Speaker 1:I mean, you know, I've seen people witness terrible things, and then they, oh, and then finally it blows up and somebody goes so far down a particular road that it becomes a big problem and people are offended and all of that. And then somebody says, oh yeah, I saw that a few months ago. Why didn't you say anything? Why didn't you do something about it? See, that's part of the apostolic lifestyle. See, let's be bold for the truth.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we can walk in love, but still stand for the truth, because real love doesn't let error go by unopposed. Real love will seek to restore such a one in the spirit of meekness. Meekness is not weakness, meekness is yieldedness. You know, james and I were talking about meekness, and meekness doesn't mean weakness, it just means that you're oblivious to the fire, you run to the danger. That's really the true. That's really the true definition of meekness is running to the danger and not being afraid of yourself or afraid of the consequences.
Speaker 1:So the two main weapons that Paul used he said, the weapons of my warfare are not carnal, but they're mighty through God the two main weapons he used was preaching the word number one. And what is the word? It's the word of truth. That's why we're dedicated to the word of truth. I'm not going to paper over something, I'm not going to gloss over something and be concerned that someone's going to get offended. No, we're going to hold the truth, the word of truth, with demonstration.
Speaker 1:Let's turn back again. 1 Corinthians 2. This was his first letter to the Corinthian church and he says something very similar that he did in 2 Corinthians. He talked about his meekness and humility. 1 Corinthians, chapter 2.
Speaker 1:And he's got a point to make with them. He told them in verse 3, and I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling, and my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the spirit and of power that your faith should not stand or consist in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. Your faith should not stand or consist in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. Your faith should not stand in the wisdom of man but in the power of God. We have too many heroes. We have too much hero worship.
Speaker 1:Really, the church, when it lost demonstration of the Spirit, it lost its influence in the public arena to confront the Spirit of Antichrist, which is why so many people are voting incorrectly. Even if you're not a born-again Christian, you have no business voting for these crazy people. And there's, you know. I mean, just common sense tells you that boys don't belong in women's locker rooms. I mean, you don't have to be a Christian to be against that. I mean, my goodness, I mean, how stupid is that Crazy? It's against nature, it's against everything we've ever done in this country. All of a sudden, just like that, just like that, all of a sudden, everything's changed.
Speaker 1:Well, it's because the church has not been filled with the preaching, with demonstration of the Spirit and of power. What's demonstration? Miraclesacle, signs, wonders, gifts of the spirit. That's the way the gospel is supposed to be preached. That's the way Paul preached it, that's the way Peter preached it, that's the way Jesus preached it. Somehow we've gotten away from it and we've gotten over into the homiletics. We've gotten into turning fancy phrases and alliteration and using debate tactics and having a fancy message. You know, I mean, you know, that's not where it's at. What we need is speaking the word of truth, with the demonstration of the spirit and of power. So people don't have any confidence in the oration or the orator.
Speaker 1:I'm not going to mention his name, but there's a guy that was one of the best preachers around. He's a complete train wreck now. But I've been watching him a long time and after a while I saw him with no anointing. He lost the anointing and he was still out there, had all the turns of phrases, man, I mean, he could preach up a storm, he could sweat, he could spit cotton, but his life was not worthy of his ministry. And now it's just, he's a nothing burger. How did that happen? I'm telling you, he didn't have any demonstration. He lost it, the anointing lifted off of him. Oh, I tell you, we need demonstration and this is the main way that we can influence our societies. This is how revival is going to happen when we get more preaching with demonstration, where the gifts of the spirit are flowing, where we have signs and wonders and miracles. People healed, amen.
Speaker 1:And then the second main weapon is prayer Prayer. You know, in Acts 431, they had a prayer meeting and they were threatened. They were, you know, they were threatened by, you know, the elders of the synagogue, the ruler, temple rulers, threatened them don't you preach and teach in this name any longer. And of course, rome backed them up and they had a big prayer meeting and they said, lord, behold their threatenings and grant where all boldness we may preach thy word with signs and wonders and miracles will be done in the name of thy holy child Jesus. And the place where they prayed was shaken and they went out of that place and they just preached all the more and they had signs and wonders and miracles to back them up. Prayer, you know, including praise, you know praise is prayer. That's what praise really is. Is prayer when you praise God? That's what prayer is. Well, there's great power in praise. Petition, yes.
Speaker 1:Crying against, you know when you cry against something. See, I regularly cry against the government. I'm crying against the Biden administration for their bullying Israel right now. I mean he comes out in public and says I told him he couldn't attack the oil fields. I told him he couldn't attack, he agreed that he wouldn't attack the nuclear facilities. I mean they are compromising the safety of the entire nation of Israel by exposing their military strategy. I mean he is committing treason right now. Biden is. He belongs in jail. That is wrong. You cannot do that. You can't take a private conversation as the head of state with another head of state and expose their military for political purposes. He's trying to gain the votes of all the crazy Muslims that are in this country, and that's what it's all about, plus the fact he hates Netanyahu. It's a personal thing with him, but I say it's treason. See what I've been doing. I've been crying against.
Speaker 1:I said God, he does not represent America. Most people are for Israel. Most Americans are for Israel. Lord don't, don't, lord, hold back your hand of judgment against our nation. Lord don't, don't. We don't need any more storms hitting the southeast. Lord help. A lot of those storms are there because because of these people in Washington and the things that they've done to Israel that have been so horrible I mean just horrendous, the worst I've ever seen. I thought Clinton was bad. I thought Bush was bad. Listen, these people are double bad, they're triple bad, and so we cry against that. We don't agree with it. Crying, that's prayer, praying in the spirit that's you, that's so powerful.
Speaker 1:Groanings and travailings Intercession. I was reading the story about not long ago, about Moses got in between God and Israel. God wanted to kill Israel. They were so disobedient and so stiff-necked and they kept sinning in the wilderness. He said get back, I'm going to kill all of them, we'll start over. And Moses stood before him in the breach and said well, if you kill them, you might as well kill me. I don't want to be around when it's over. I don't want to have to explain to the rest of the world that you couldn't bring Israel into the promised land. I don't want to have to have that conversation. Just go ahead and kill me.
Speaker 1:What was that intercession? He put himself in between a righteous God and see, god honored that intercession. So that's when I cry against Biden and his blinking and all of his administration. I'm in between God and his wrath for America, because I don't want I don't want any more judgment on America. I want God to remember our good things that we've done. So intercession is so powerful, and so throughout the Bible we see the power of prayer and how that hinders the power of Antichrist, how it stops the God of this age.
Speaker 1:So I just want to encourage you tonight. Thank God, I'm so excited about what's right on the threshold of where we are right now. We are seeing great things ahead of us and I want to keep you encouraged. And I wanted to keep you encouraged and I wanted to give you some teaching, some meat. Tonight I'm going to have to chew on it a little bit, but I covered a lot of territory in a short amount of time. But let's just commit ourselves to live in the apostolic lifestyle. Come on, lift your hands and receive tonight. Father, we thank you and you've chosen us for such a time as this. You've given us a mandate and you've chosen us for such a time as this. You've given us a mandate and you've given us a message. We have the word of truth, we have the Holy Spirit, the spirit of truth and Lord, we thank you that we always keep on your side. We know you have a side and we want to keep ourselves on your side, no matter who it identifies us with or separates us from. No-transcript.