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What if we reshaped our understanding of scripture, recognizing it as the ultimate source of power and authority in our lives? This episode promises to take you through a transformative exploration of scripture, revealing its divinely given purpose and its role in refining us. Drawing from 2 Timothy 3:16, we shatter the often-held belief that the enemy holds superior authority, recentering scripture as our guiding light.
What if we reshaped our understanding of scripture, recognizing it as the ultimate source of power and authority in our lives? This episode promises to take you through a transformative exploration of scripture, revealing its divinely given purpose and its role in refining us. Drawing from 2 Timothy 3:16, we shatter the often-held belief that the enemy holds superior authority, recentering scripture as our guiding light.
We make a bold statement, asserting that God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are a singular entity often disjointed in modern discourse. Using the metaphor of a horse and carriage, we parallel life without God, navigating through challenges unaided. We focus on the significance of trusting God's Word, emphasizing its influence on our lives and marriages. Lastly, we examine the beauty of imperfection and the power of personal growth, always steering our eyes towards our spiritual home in heaven. So join us as we journey into the depth of scripture, finding power, authority, and inspiration within its sacred words.
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Speaker 1:
Hello, hello. Welcome back, god's diamonds in the rough. We are so glad to be back with you one more time. Amen, honey, you want to say something?
Speaker 2:
I'm just super ecstatic about being here. You know, in our new reform studio, right? Yes, you know it's different when you do things for God, whether it's comfortable or uncomfortable. What are you doing? And you know, for a long time we were doing what God wants to do, comfortably, but uncomfortable perhaps. But you know God's seen a way to just move things around and that's what we got to understand. You know, sometimes we go through things in life that might not feel good, but for a reason.
Speaker 1:
Amen, amen. So I'm ecstatic. I'm always excited to be before you. Amen, god is good all the time and all the time.
Speaker 2:
God is good.
Speaker 1:
Hallelujah. So y'all know what we got to do before we even get into the conversation. We're going to pray.
Speaker 2:
Amen. Let us pray. Dear Heavenly Father, our Lord, and I say with you, jesus Christ, we come to you right now as humbly as we know how to say thank you. We thank you for your grace, your mercy, your loving kindness and tender mercy. We pray in the name of Jesus, asking and begging your forgiveness for anything we might have said, done, thought that was not pleasing in your sight. That you will gracely forgive us and cast us back into the picture of where it came from. We pray in the name of Jesus, counseling any assignment or the enemy that would be sent back into the picture of where it came from, for it has no power, no dominion, no authority over your people. But we do. We pray in the name of Jesus for the ones that has no desire to know who you are. We pray in the name of Jesus for the ones who want to know who you are but don't know how. We even pray in the name of Jesus for the ones that have slid in the way, eagerly ready to come back. We pray in the name of Jesus that you will just have your way in them and through them, whatever they are, whatever situation they're going through, whatever trial and tribulation they're going through. We pray in the name of Jesus that you will just have your way. We pray in the name of Jesus, have your way in us and through us as we get into your word, that it will be the revelation that we need. We pray in the name of Jesus again, that you will just have your way. These things and all things we ask, all in Jesus, mighty, at Master's name, we say thank you and we say amen, amen and amen.
Speaker 1:
Amen, amen. All right y'all. So today we are going to be talking about power and authority, scripture, the power and authority of scripture. Honey, what's your thoughts?
Speaker 2:
I would simply say that you know we give the enemy too much credit, and I say that because you know we do. We give him too much credit when he has no power, no authority and no dominion over us. Like I said, I pray that but we do. But you know we have a tendency, like I said, we give him too much credit, too much. It's almost like you know, when you watch these westerns, you know they talk about putting a little extra notch in the belt for the things they do. And that's what we're doing we're putting a little extra notch in the enemy's belt.
Speaker 1:
Amen I mean, it really is something to be said and just how easily it is that we give credit to the enemy when he don't deserve any of it, hallelujah. And when we realize the power and the authority, the authority that is in scripture, it changes the whole game. Amen, it changes the whole whole game. And I believe that one of the first things we got to realize when we're talking about scripture as a diamond Look, the scriptures refine you. Amen. The scripture brings forth clarity in who you are, because no longer, as Paul teaches us, no longer are we. We're dead to sin and alive in Jesus. Amen. And what we got to realize is that Jesus brings us the clarity, amen. The scripture is actually in 2 Timothy, chapter three, verse 16. You have it in front of you? No, I have it in front of me, but it says all scripture is given by inspiration of God. It says and it is profitable for doctrine or reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. And then verse 17 says that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. So right, there alone you can see where it brings forth clarity. What's your thoughts?
Speaker 2:
And I like that, that very first word in 2 Timothy 3 16. The very first word is all. That means every single scripture, not just this one scripture, not just a few scripts, all scriptures, all scriptures is given by God and inspired by him. That means let's us know that, look, god does everything he can to point us in that right direction. He gives us everything that we need to survive in life, but we gotta this is a caveat he gives us the free choice to follow it. He don't sit there with a you know you growing up in the child, as when you teach your children, you know, in the olden days, it's like pull out a belt, if you don't do it, i'ma whip you. You know he don't do that. He don't try to beat us down over top of our head with the words saying, hey, you gotta do this, you gotta do this, you gotta do this. He gives us the tools that we need and a choice to do it, and I like that free choice because he allows us to, I would say, make the mistakes, but with the mistakes it's a learning process.
Speaker 1:
And then I like everything in that scripture in verse 16. All of it's for purpose it's on purpose. Knowing that number one. It's been given by God, amen. And you know. We gotta realize who is God. Amen, who is God to you? Because you know he is, not only is he the father, but he's a son, he's the Holy Spirit. Amen. And so you gotta, fundamentally, you gotta be, you gotta believe that number one before you can even believe scripture. Amen. We've talked about this previously, early in the beginning of this podcast, but we've talked about that. You're number one, number one. You gotta know that God is God, amen. Before you can even begin to even trust anything in his word. Hallelujah. You gotta know that he is God and that he's Jesus and that he's the Holy Spirit Before you can go any further. If you question the existence of Jesus but you believe in God, you got a problem. Come on somebody, hallelujah. You have a problem if you don't believe that Jesus is the son, because scripture says that I and the father are one, amen, amen. If you've seen the father, then you've seen me. If you've seen me, you've seen the father. Amen, he talks about that. Hallelujah. Dude, can you find the scripture real quick so that we can actually give you, so you can see it for yourself, because we don't want anybody to think that we're trying to convince you that of this truth. The reality is is that it is in the word amen. Now, whether or not you believe the word and all of the word that's between you and him, amen, our job and our instruction is to guide you there. Hallelujah, and we just believe that if we give you the scripture, it can be said well, pastor So-and-So said this and I just believe. Believe it because Pastor So-and-So said that. No, don't believe it because Pastor So-and-So is giving it to you. No, believe it because it's in the word of God. My responsibility is to guide you there. Amen. How are you found? Yet? He working on it. He working on it. He's a man of few words today, few, few words, and it's okay. Hallelujah, amen. So that again, you got to believe the word. First found it.
Speaker 2:
Actually I found two scriptures that refers to it. One of the scriptures is in John 10, 30, and says I am my father of one.
Speaker 1:
Y'all heard it. Y'all heard it John 10, verse 30. I am the father of one.
Speaker 2:
And in the second scripture is John 14, nine Jesus said unto him I have been so long time with you and yet has thou not known me. Philip, he said, have seen me, has seen the father and has sat now saith. Let me just start the back over John 14, nine Jesus said unto him have I been so long time with you and yet has thou not known me? Philip, he that has seen me has seen the father. And how says down in show us the father.
Speaker 1:
So basically he says uh, jesus says with his own mouth Phillip, you don't believe who I am. I was with you all that time. I was with you all that time and you still don't understand that I, in the father, are one, that when you see me, you've seen the father. When you've seen the father, you've seen Jesus. Amen. And I think it's interesting in our culture today, people try to separate people. There are, there are denominations in, there are cultures out here that are trying to separate Jesus and the father, when if we're all reading the same Bible, it teaches us that the father and the son and the Holy Spirit are one. And if you're trying to have one without the other, then again it's already been said you have a problem and you cannot walk in the full authority that the scripture has. You can't walk in the fullness of who he is, because you don't have all of him. Jesus, come on somebody.
Speaker 2:
And you know it's almost a symbol. It's almost similar to this and if you look at an example because this is a, this is a very good, pivotal, pivotal point it's almost like being in a carriage or horse trailer without the horse. Yeah, you might go through these downhill battles without the horse. You can make it to the bottom, but what happens when you get to the bottom? You got to go up another uphill battle. If you don't have the horse to pull you up it, you'll just sit there in the bottom. And that's just like having going through things in life. You got to have Jesus and God and the Holy Spirit with you to make it up those uphill battles. Yeah, you can go down the hill in life, but what happens when you get to the bottom and you need to climb Right? If you don't have that thing to pull you up, which is God, jesus and the Holy Spirit, you'll sit there and wallow in your own pains. And in that scripture in John if you go back a little bit further than John 14, and I read nine, but let's take it back to verse six Jesus said unto him I'm the way, the truth and the life. No man come to the Father by, except by me. That means that let's us know that, look, you need God, jesus and the Holy Spirit to go do life, just like. There's an old TV show I used to watch back in the day and it's you know, it's almost like.
Speaker 1:
I lost my thought.
Speaker 2:
I lost my thought.
Speaker 1:
I don't say you really could parallel this power and everything with the problem you had with your truck, the fact that because things was out of order and things needed and needed a newness about it, Things had to be restructured in order for you to walk in, that, for that truck to be able to move in its fullest amount of power, it had to have every, everything had to be where it's supposed to be. I mean, you can't be over here on the right when you should be on the left. You can't be at the bottom when you're supposed to be at the top of the key. You know, you know, if you got to be at the center, you can be all the way to the left or all the way to the right and still expect to get there. Look, you're not going to be able to get where you could potentially be if you're out of order.
Speaker 2:
And you know the thing I was having. Just to touch on what she was talking about, the thing I was having with my truck was the, the ground wire that goes to my truck. It was, I guess, distorted or freed or broken, missing parts in it. And look ground wire ground wire and see I had to add a direct, another direct ground wire to get the source that I needed. But this is this is the thing, though we got to understand that we just can't run it from one thing to the next. Sometimes we have to go through hook it to this, hook it to that, hook it to that, hook it to that to get the contact that we need. And see that contact that we need is what Jesus is. We got to involve Jesus, god and the Holy Spirit to get the equivalent ground that we need. That power.
Speaker 1:
That's that power. You know, I say it all the time and I just see it. You can see it clearly in our, in our, in our world today, people are trying to do Jesus without Jesus. And because they're trying to do Jesus without Jesus, they like power, they like authority. They don't, they're not dominating in areas they should. Amen, we aren't. You know, because you know, yeah, if you're not in him and you're just kind of going through the supposed twos it's, you won't get the full effect of it. You won't get the full effect. And you know people will sit back and say, well, I did it in the name of Jesus, there ain't nothing happening. I did it in the name, ain't nothing happening, it ain't working. So it ain't working and so they quit, give up. But that, that is that's. That's not it. That's not it. The only way that you're truly going to really see God activated in your life is if you are totally, totally trusting him and knowing that this word comes from him.
Speaker 2:
Mm, hmm. And I was saying and I got my thought back you know, is you got to have God in every area of your life, is this not? You know this horse in the carriage going to one point until the next battle? But it's, even with a marriage, if you got the marriage and you don't have the love, it's not going to work. You got to have both for it to work.
Speaker 1:
Right. And then the scripture says OK, so we got that focus. Now you got to believe and know that this whole word it comes from God. It comes from God, that he just used men to write it, but it came from the heart of him. Then he said then you got to understand that this same scripture of again second Timothy, chapter three, verse 16, he says all scripture is given by the inspiration of God. He says and is profitable or doctrine? So it says it's for your game to have the word of God because doctrine is teaching, amen. Doctrine says look, this Bible has become my direction. Does that make sense? It's just profitable for doctrine. So it is something to be gained for your guidance.
Speaker 2:
And this is what it's for.
Speaker 1:
He says this is what you get out of following me. I give you my word so as you walk through life, you have some sense of direction, that you're headed toward me. Mm, hmm.
Speaker 2:
I'll let you have some for go further I like that. You say you know that, profitable to gain because, and just going a little bit deeper, if you think about the scripture in Proverbs eight, verse 20 and 21,. And it says in King James, a man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth and with the increase of his lips shall be filled. See, the increase is another game. Well, we got to realize. Go down to verse 21,. It says death and life, or in the power of the tongue, and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. So he's letting us know not only do we had the increase or the, the word that you said earlier the Profitable or the increase, we have the power of death and life. And it does not just mean a physical death and life, it also means a circumstance. You can speak death and life to a circumstance in your life. If you walk around always and saying, oh, I got a headache, I got a headache, I got a backache, I got a toothache or my ear hurt or whatever, you're giving that thing that a power to it. But if you walk around still hurting, but you said I'm OK, so you speak in depth to that thing and that'll be the increase and the profitable to what you're going through in life, right? Yeah, I like it and another reason I say that?
Speaker 1:
because just the other day my daughter was.
Speaker 2:
Our daughter was having a or earache and we could have very well gave her pain medicine. But we use wisdom and we use wisdom and wisdom. We use wisdom and knowledge, with the little help from Google, to find a remedy without pain medicine. And then I caught the revelation from having a toothache and an earache. Hey, I can try this instead and pick the pain away. So sometimes we go through things in life that not only help somebody else but help us See, because that small thing we go through in life helping somebody else might be what we need to do, help with the bigger battles that we face. Hope I'm making sense to not just not just rambling because you know I do that sometimes Just keeping it real.
Speaker 1:
So, with everything that we understand thus far, as we in the order for you, again just refreshing, you need to believe that God is God and understand that he just didn't put himself on this pedestal and said serve me. He said I'm. Not only am I asking you to serve me, love me, but your reflection of me and the only way that you really become a, to shine like me and reflect me with your light, is to gain his word and allow his word to lead you and to guide you. And then he says for reproof. For proof is about looking at yourself in the mirror. We don't need people to point a finger at us, tell us what we did wrong.
Speaker 2:
You heard?
Speaker 1:
me. Come on somebody. We don't need nobody to point a finger at us, say you did that wrong, you did this wrong, you ain't doing this right. We got the spirit Amen, and he walks with us, he talks with us, he teaches us, as he told Adam, he was with Adam in the cool of the day, he was communing with him, and when you have a relationship with Jesus, he's going to commune with you and he's going to show you look, hey, this is what I'm trying to change in your life. Give this thing to me and I can change it. This is what reproof is. It says for correction same thing, it's just a little bit more. That says I am disciplined. Correction says to me that disciplines necessary, and so we allow discipline from the Holy Spirit to correct our actions, to correct our faults. Come on somebody. Hallelujah for instruction in righteousness. Because we are, because we have Jesus. Now we are righteous, and so when we have our moments because we all do, we have our moments of unrighteousness Jesus is able to correct and instruct us on how to stay righteous, how to remain righteous, to correct error, to be able to be able to be vulnerable and be transparent where needed to be. Amen, be authentic in who you are. Be that authentic jewel that God has made you to be honey. What's your thought to add with that?
Speaker 2:
You know, just to just point out something you said earlier, you know we and we all do it, we all do it we sit and we point at somebody else's downfalls, somebody else's hardship, somebody else's grief, but just for a second, you know, look in the mirror at yourself and point a finger at yourself. And I said this a while back, couple episodes back, maybe in season one or two. You know, if you point yourself finger at somebody, just remember you got three fingers pointing back at you. So when you, when you point your whether it's that person pointing their finger at you or you point your finger at them you know the point. I always can get three pointed back at them, and if you don't believe me, look see point one at you. I got three pointing back at me. But so we got to realize that we need to stop pointing the finger and be the helper, because his word tells us that you know we are our brothers keepers. So if we're our brothers keepers and we're sitting there pointing our fingers at our brothers and sisters in Christ, are we any better?
Speaker 1:
That's right, absolutely.
Speaker 2:
And if we all had the same language and the same motives of falling out to Christ? There's a scripture I like, and it's in Galatians 2, 20, and this this goes on to say that, look, we should always realize that whatever we're going through in life, whatever somebody else is going through life we got to think about this is that I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live yet, not not I, but Christ delivered in me. And the life which I now live, I live in the flesh. I live by the faith of Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. He gave himself for every single one of us, whether we're going through hard times, whether we're going through good moments, ups and downs. We got to realize that God did all this for us, so he does not need us pointing our fingers at other people of what they're going through, because in the real reality of it, you might not be going through what they did in life at that moment, but it's the reality that God is letting you know that maybe your sin wasn't just as bad as their sin, but it's your sin.
Speaker 1:
Amen, hallelujah. So y'all were coming down to our last few minutes of the show today. That 17th verse he says, and what we want to take home from it is that the man of God may be perfect. Your perfection doesn't look like mine. Your perfection doesn't look like his. Your perfection doesn't look like theirs. Your perfection looks like his. When I say his, I mean Jesus alone, hallelujah. None of us are in the same place, and so, therefore, we have to treat it as such. God is shaping us, he's making us, he's molding us into the diamonds he desires us to be, all of that pressure that a diamond has to endure when they come out of the, when they come out of the fire, when they come out of that dark place, when they come out of captivity, when they come out of that hard place. None of them are the same, but they are perfect in themselves, hallelujah. They are beautiful just the way that they are, and this is what we have to realize that the scripture does for us. Every last one of us have their own journey. We all have our own testings, our trials, all types of things that are going on in our life, but at the end of the day, when we come out of it because we love God, because we are called for a purpose, we come out better. Our ladder is always better than our beginning. You heard me Hallelujah, and so, therefore, we can trust that his word comes with power, his word comes with authority and his word comes with dominion. Hallelujah, because it is him. It is him and we are ordained, hallelujah, to move and walk and look like him and act like him. Come on somebody. This is a part of our heritage, amen. It ain't about all the stuff that we can gain, all the accolades and all of that that we gain on earth. It is about us making sure that we wind up in our spiritual home, hallelujah, and our spiritual home is heaven. Hallelujah, amen. Michael, you have a final thought before we get ready to get up out of here.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, I do. I just spoke to my spirit about this. If you do find yourself pointing your finger at somebody, make sure that it is a positive, a positive thing that you point about. Make sure it is a positive and not a negative, because that's good to say. You get the power of the tone. You can speak life and death. You can speak life to somebody by pointing your finger in a positive manner. Hallelujah, that's my word. And guess what I got? To point my finger at you in a positive way, remember.
Speaker 1:
What you doing. We got to pray. I don't know. What are you?
Speaker 2:
doing I don't know. See, I'm out of sorts, y'all. Y'all forgive me.
Speaker 1:
Father, we thank you so much for your grace and your mercy. Thank you, god, for allowing us to come together one more time, and we just pray for every single diamond that is listening right now. Bless them as you see fit, continue to shape us all for this journey that we are one, god, that we become all that you desire us to be. Father, we bless your name and we bless your people. Father, we thank you, thank you. Thank you. We praise your name, we lift your name on high. We pray this prayer in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. We do pray, amen.
Speaker 2:
Amen.
Speaker 1:
And a man. Hallelujah Now I can do it. Woohoo.
Speaker 2:
Remember until next time. You are a diamond in the rough.
Speaker 1:
Amen, hallelujah.
