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00:06 #S079 - “Just Live It ” (Part 2)
00:20 Welcome to The Breath of Life 00:21 Television Ministries broadcast with Pastor Debleaire Snell. 00:25 In today's episode, Pastor Snell will continue 00:29 part two of the powerful message “Just live it” 00:33 Now let's go deeper into the word of God. 00:36 You need to be radically generous into two areas. 00:40 First, you need to be radically generous 00:43 and giving to the calls of God through your tithe and offering. 00:46 But better yet, 00:47 you need to be radically generous and also sharing 00:51 and being a blessing to your fellow man. 00:54 In fact, 00:55 I need somebody to know 00:56 that those that are the most abundant in their harvest 01:01 are those that are the most abundant in their sowing 01:06 and see, the problem is that we have allowed 01:09 the religion of Jesus to be made selfish 01:14 because we 01:15 approach Jesus with a consumers mentality. 01:19 In fact, I mean, real talk. 01:21 Look at the way we talk in contemporary times. 01:26 Look at the vernacular 01:27 that has emerged when Jesus made it clear 01:31 that if you want to be great, you got to become a what? 01:34 You got to become a servant, not a consumer. 01:37 I hear what I'm saying. 01:38 So that in the church, when when church gets good, 01:41 what we say is, I receive that. 01:44 We don't say I give that. 01:47 Oh, you're all quiet today. 01:48 We say, Pastor, I claim that. 01:52 We don't say Pastor. I share that. 01:55 We say, Pastor, I want to receive the overflow. 02:00 But we never say, I want to pour in the overflow 02:03 because we approach it like consumers. 02:08 But Jesus says that if you want to receive an abundance, 02:12 you've got to have a givers mentality 02:15 because Jesus says, give and this shall be given unto you 02:19 good measure. 02:20 And God 02:21 says, I'm not going give it back in the same way you gave it. 02:25 God says, I'm going to multiply the blessing so that it comes. 02:28 That pressed down, shaken together and running, 02:32 oh, with a church that today. 02:35 Listen, there's a real talk. 02:36 I mean, this literally happened just a couple of weeks ago, 02:38 October the first. 02:39 I was going down by the map coast on Memorial Parkway. 02:43 And and while I'm there getting gas, there is this lady 02:46 who is who is looking for somebody to assist her 02:49 with getting money for her car. 02:51 Our gas. 02:52 Now, I don't always do this smart, 02:53 but I pray for discernment 02:57 and understanding on how I am supposed to move. 03:00 And so I felt impressed to give 03:01 because I believe what 03:03 Hebrews say is 03:04 that sometimes you've got to entertain strangers, 03:08 because sometimes you entertain angels on a way. 03:11 And it's crazy Baptists. 03:13 Because that day 03:14 I just give $30 to help her get her tank filled up. 03:19 I didn't give her a track or any literature. 03:21 I just wanted to meet the need that she had. 03:24 She went her way. 03:25 And it's crazy that before I even left the parking lot, 03:29 I heard the Sound of Cash app. 03:32 And because it was October one, I had a member 03:35 from like 12 years ago for a pastor 03:38 appreciation month sent an amount of $300. 03:43 Are not hearing me today. 03:44 In other words, I gave $30, 03:48 got multiplied at times, came 03:51 and sold it right back into my bosom. 03:55 But he didn't just give like you gave it. 04:00 But God says, I'll give it dress down, shaking together 04:05 and running over 04:07 and see the word I want to say to somebody today 04:10 is instead of saying, Lord, give me a blessing, 04:13 prayed Lord, make me a blessing. 04:17 In other words, don't just look to receive a blessing. 04:21 Look to be a blessing. 04:23 And when you look to be a blessing, 04:26 blessings will come looking for you. 04:28 Let me appreciate all of this. 04:29 I don't just want to receive a blessing. 04:33 Look, to be a blessing. 04:35 And when you look to be a blessings, 04:38 blessings will come looking for you. 04:41 And so, so, so, in the words of Ethan Hunt, 04:44 your mission, should you choose to accept you 04:48 when you leave this service today, I want you to go 04:53 and find somebody to be a blessing to. 04:56 Oh, God. 04:57 I see. 04:58 See, when I saw my money, y'all was all standing up. 05:01 But now I'm saying to be a blessing. 05:04 We can't get no amen in the church. 05:06 So. So I want you to find a young person to bless. 05:10 I want you to find a young family to bless. 05:13 I want you to find a ministry to bless. 05:16 I want you to find something to sew in to. 05:19 Because I need you to know that the greatest 05:22 blessings it's not in what you receive is similar to give. 05:27 Now. Now, the one thing I do want to pause to say 05:29 is, is I want to kind of steer us away from the belief 05:32 that I give in order to receive. 05:36 No, no. 05:37 How many of us know who helped me, Lord? 05:39 How many of us realize that giving 05:41 is its own blessing? 05:44 See, only those that have faith know what I'm talking about. 05:48 See, some of us won't stop until we see reciprocation. 05:52 But how many of us know that the greatest blessing is not? 05:55 When I receive by it is that God has blessed me so much. 06:00 I know that God has blessed me with enough. 06:04 Oh God, he's blessed you with enough 06:08 that you can give it and don't miss it. 06:10 Oh, God, no, no. 06:12 You're not blessed when you receive it. 06:14 But some can give close and won't miss it. 06:18 Some can give money and you won't miss it. 06:21 Some can give food and you won't miss it. 06:25 If there is anybody that can give 06:27 and you won't miss it, you are a gift. 06:28 Got a praise, are y'all hear what I'm saying? 06:36 Somebody can rob half your closet 06:38 and you won't even know 06:40 somebody can take food 06:41 out of your fridge and you wouldn't miss it. 06:43 That's how blessed we actually are. 06:47 And see, I love with Jesus, says Matthew. 06:48 Since Luke's 16th birthday, he says, if you give doctrines, 06:53 it will be giving back to you. 06:54 Good measure, press down, shaking together, running over 06:58 so that men will fill up your bosom, the Bible says. 07:01 Now, the reason I'm saying this is because 07:02 we don't give in order to get. 07:03 In fact, I literally saw this. 07:05 I never really understood what he meant 07:06 until we were in the Holy Land. 07:08 A year ago I saw this actually at one of the local swap meet 07:12 when the ladies went in to get goods and groceries. 07:16 They don't always go in with just grocery bags. 07:19 But what some of the ladies would do 07:20 is they would wear a robe that had a girdle 07:23 both in the back and in the front. 07:27 And so they didn't necessarily just fill up their grocery bags, 07:31 but what they would do is they would put the goods inside 07:33 of this, girded a robe they were wearing, 07:37 so all the groceries would fill up their bosom 07:41 and literally some times when they've received a lot, 07:45 their bosom would be over 07:49 overflowing. 07:50 Now, what am I saying to the church? 07:52 Cause you don't give in order to get. 07:56 Because what Jesus is saying is that men are not just 07:59 going to pour into your financial bosom, 08:02 but he is talking about the bosom of your soul. 08:06 He's talking about the bosom of your heart. 08:10 You see, the greatest blessing is not just 08:13 when I give and God fills my pocket. 08:17 The greatest blessing is when I give and God 08:20 fills my heart and he fills my soul 08:24 and he fills my spirit where it's overflowing. 08:28 And I can't contain my contentment or my joy, 08:34 because the best part of giving is the blessed thing 08:39 that God puts in your soul, not in your pocketbook. 08:43 I hear what I'm saying today. CHURCH 08:45 And it's 08:46 funny because the word says here, I want you to see this. 08:50 Jesus goes on here in verse 39, y'all sit with me church. 08:54 So he says in verse 39, he spoke a parable to them 08:57 saying, Can the blind lead the blind? 08:59 Would they both not fall into the ditch? 09:01 And he says a disciple is not above his teacher, 09:03 but everyone who is perfectly trained is going to do what 09:08 he's going to be like, his teacher said today. 09:12 Church. 09:13 All right. 09:14 Third thing that this teaches us is that everything you learned 09:17 in church didn't come from Jesus. 09:26 Let me say it again. 09:29 Everything you learned in church 09:32 didn't come from Jesus. 09:35 It's only because when you look at this text 09:36 where Jesus is talking about judging, right, and condemning, 09:41 but then you have interspersed between the top and the bottom. 09:45 This dialog about following blind guides 09:48 and he talks about how a teacher, 09:49 a disciple is never going to be greater 09:51 than the one who is teaching him. 09:53 And it almost feels like it is out of sorts, 09:56 as if it does not belong. 09:58 But. But, but. 09:59 But, Mark, 10:00 what Jesus is trying to say, the reason there is a critical 10:05 and judgmental spirit that lives inside of the church, 10:08 that the spirit of judgment does not come from Jesus. 10:13 It comes from your tradition and what Christ is helping. 10:18 The the Jewish Church of the Day understand is that many of 10:23 the things you call sacred don't come from God. 10:28 They've just been passed down with such consistency 10:32 that because it's been happening a long time, 10:35 you think it must come from Jehovah. 10:39 And he says it is the equivalent of blind guides, 10:43 leading blind people and all generations. 10:47 Wind up in the ditch 10:51 and see. 10:52 That's why Jesus had to come. 10:55 Right. Okay. You are missing it. 10:57 See, some of us think the only reason Jesus came 11:00 was so that He could die on the cross. 11:03 If all Jesus had to do was die on the cross, 11:06 he could have showed up as a 30 year old. 11:09 Went to the cross the next day and rose on the third day. 11:13 But the reason, Robert, that Jesus lived for 30 years 11:17 plus is to show the world what the invisible God was like. 11:23 He says, I set the Jewish nation. 11:25 I sent the scribes. 11:26 I sent the Pharisees. 11:28 I sent the prophets. 11:29 But they but my character is so bad 11:34 that I going to come in person 11:37 to show the world what God is actually like. 11:42 And He's making it clear that there are just certain 11:45 things that have just been passed down 11:49 and accepted as truth. 11:51 Do you realize in ancient Judaism 11:53 they had all these various lines of delineation 11:57 where they would apply judgment 11:59 based upon things that had no kingdom value? 12:03 They would judge you based upon how many steps you 12:06 took on the Sabbath day 12:09 that that 12:10 you would be condemned based upon whether or not 12:12 you wash your hands before you ate a meal. 12:16 And that is why Jesus says, Man, this people 12:19 worship me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. 12:23 Because you teach as doctrine the commandments of man, 12:27 and because you see these things practiced 12:30 with such consistency for so long 12:34 that you think they came from me. 12:37 And see, the thing I need somebody to understand 12:40 is that the same way that there was a spirit 12:43 of criticism and judgment that invaded the ancient church, 12:46 there is a spirit of judgment that invades, 12:49 not just not this one, but many of our churches, 12:54 because there are certain things that we've just been seeing 12:57 happen for so long 13:00 that we've assigned godliness to it. 13:03 And God is saying, Is everything you got in church 13:06 didn't come from me. 13:09 In fact, I've seen this firsthand 13:12 with the sister that is most adamant 13:16 that the young girl who gets pregnant gets disfellowshipped 13:20 is the same sister that 30 years earlier got pregnant 13:24 and somebody else disfellowshipped her. 13:28 And because that example was all that she knew, she felt 13:32 she had to pass it down and exact it on somebody else. 13:37 Y'all not hear me today? 13:39 And Jesus is saying that didn't come from me. 13:42 That just came from your tradition. 13:45 Do you realize that in our church 13:46 there is a line where we judge people based upon them? 13:50 Eating meat are not eating meat. 13:53 When your savior Jesus, a lamb and fish every day of his life 13:58 and Jesus says it is not what goes in that defiles, 14:03 but it's what comes out that defiles. 14:05 In other words, I'm for the health message. 14:08 But health makes you healthy, not holy. 14:10 All y'all not hear me today. 14:12 And other words, I've seen enough vegan devils 14:16 and plant based devils to realize that 14:19 this parent does not come with your diet. 14:24 Oh, God. 14:27 See, some of us grew up under that joke 14:30 where they told you that if you go to a movie or a club, 14:35 that your angel stays outside and doesn't go in with you. 14:40 But how many can testify that 14:42 the only reason you got old 14:46 is because the angels stayed 14:50 with you 14:52 in the foolishness of your youth? 14:56 Are y'all hearing what I'm saying today? 14:58 Church 14:59 Everything you got in 15:01 church, one from God. 15:05 You know what's crazy? 15:06 We even judge one another 15:09 by the things that we go through. 15:12 How many of us know all jokes? 15:13 Friends. They dare. 15:17 So that what we do is we 15:18 assign judgment based on the adversity people go through. 15:23 There are some of us. 15:24 We won't say it out loud, but we believe bad 15:26 things are happening because bad things are hitting. 15:30 So so we won't say it out loud. 15:32 But you think 15:34 if there was living right, that wouldn't be happening to them? 15:37 We won't say it out loud, but we think that they kids 15:39 will still be in the church if they weren't doing such 15:41 and such behind closed doors. 15:42 We we think to ourselves they wouldn't be sick 15:46 if they were walking more rightly unto the Lord. 15:49 And we believe that every bad thing 15:51 is the result of a bad habit. 15:52 But did not Jesus say that I'm going to cause the rain to fall 15:56 and the just and the unjust and I'm going to make the sun 16:00 rise on the evil and on the good. 16:03 Where in the Bible did it say that if you live godly, 16:07 every day is going to be harvest break through and deliverance? 16:10 But the Bible says 16:11 many aren't the afflictions of the righteous, 16:16 but the Lord delivers them from them all. 16:19 And judgment is when you assign a cause 16:23 for somebody else's suffering. 16:26 When you don't even know the story, you are. 16:29 Y'all hearing what I'm saying today? 16:31 Church And what I am coming against in the name of the Risen 16:35 Savior is the spirit of judgment, 16:38 the spirit of criticism, the spirit of condemnation. 16:44 And I'm saying we've got to let the Scriptures be our God 16:47 natural upbringing, not your tradition, 16:51 not the way you received it, not how you are raised. 16:54 Jesus has to be our compass. 16:58 Are you out here in the word today? 16:59 Church. 17:02 You are mad today, 17:04 said young. 17:05 Mad. I might as well go all the way in with this thing. 17:09 The last thing this teaches 17:12 you can't preach 17:13 what you don't practice. 17:19 So, Morgan, you know what Jesus says? 17:22 I mean, it's kind of crazy. 17:24 I mean, Jesus was as cool as the other side of the pillow. 17:27 I mean, he was he says, how are you going 17:31 to try to get the speck 17:34 out of your brother's high? 17:36 But you can't see that big wood like 17:41 that stuck in your own high. 17:44 In other words, you realize what Jesus doing. 17:47 He's actually using sarcasm and hyperbole. 17:52 He's actually trying to paint them 17:55 into understanding the truth. 17:56 He says, How are you going to try to get the point 17:58 out of your brother's eye, which was the equivalent of a 18:02 a particle and salt dust? 18:05 How are you gonna go picking that out of their eye? 18:09 But you miss 18:12 what's in your own eye. 18:15 Now, let me just pause and say this, 18:16 because there's some of us that misread this, because Jesus 18:19 is not saying that you can't correct your brother, 18:24 but he's saying you actually become ineligible 18:27 to correct 18:30 when you practice 18:31 in the same thing or something worse. 18:36 Are y'all hear what I'm saying to the church now? 18:37 Again, I am not anti. 18:39 I am not anti correction in the body of Christ 18:42 because correction is love. 18:44 Correction is mercy. 18:46 Correction is sometimes necessary. 18:49 Can I say to my young people. 18:50 Everybody that corrects you is not hating on you. 18:53 Everybody that corrects you is not against you. 18:56 But there are some gray haired saints 18:57 that have been down that road. 18:59 They know where it's going to end 19:01 and they don't want to see you suffer in the same way 19:05 they have suffered. 19:09 I hear what I'm saying, 19:10 but I do want to say to those who are a little gray, 19:13 you can't have correction without connection. 19:18 See, y'all get mad. 19:19 We all hear me preach like this. 19:21 I said all the past to say no, you can't run around. 19:23 You can't say nothing to these young people. 19:25 That's not what I'm saying. 19:26 I'm saying start by saying something different 19:29 then what's wrong with them? 19:30 Tell them I'm glad to see you in church. 19:34 Tell them I'm proud that you're serving the Lord. 19:36 Tell them I'm glad that you're getting. 19:37 And education. 19:38 You can say something to them. 19:41 But how many of us know everything you say 19:44 doesn't need to be a correction or criticism about 19:46 what's a where or about what you have on 19:49 or about when you came late to church? 19:51 I'm just glad it's in the house 19:57 of the living God. 19:58 Are you are hear what I'm saying today? 20:01 So Jesus 20:02 is I mean, essentially this I'm done. 20:05 He says, I need you to sweep around your own front door 20:10 before you try to sweep around my. 20:12 Now, let me just say something about a toxic church 20:16 versus a healthy church 20:20 and a healthy church. 20:21 Sinners focus on themselves. 20:25 In a toxic church, sinners 20:27 focus on the sinners. 20:31 Now, no, let me say it again. 20:32 In a toxic church, sinners focus on other sinners. 20:37 But in healthy church, sinners focus on themselves. 20:42 And see, 20:43 this is what I've been trying to say for the last 30 minutes. 20:45 Your listen. 20:47 Oh, God. 20:49 Am I telling the truth? 20:50 No. Maybe it's just me. 20:53 I'm so jacked up 20:57 that I hardly got no time 21:01 to be focusing on nobody else. 21:05 I got too 21:06 many deficits in my own life 21:11 to be worried about what somebody else is doing. 21:14 And this is how, you know, you getting close to the Lord. 21:17 I love with the service having to run the church. 21:19 She literally say it's the closer you get to Jesus, 21:23 the more faulty you appear in your own eyes. 21:29 See the evidence that you are getting close to Jesus 21:33 is that you shift your focus from what they're doing wrong, 21:37 and when they fall short and what they're not doing right. 21:40 But when I'm close to Jesus, I see myself 21:43 with such clarity 21:48 that, like I say, I envision where He sees the Lord. 21:51 We declare unclean, unclean. 21:55 I'm an unclean man. 21:56 I come from unclean lips and my eyes have seen the Lord. 22:03 So that when you really get close to the Lord, 22:07 you stop singing. 22:09 It's them. 22:11 It's them, it's them, oh Lord. 22:15 And you start saying, Lord, it's me, 22:18 it's me, it's me. 22:21 Oh, Lord. 22:22 Standing in the need of prayer. 22:26 You know what, Jesus? 22:27 He's just like, See, my problem is not 22:31 your correction, he says. 22:32 My problem, he says, is your hypocrisy. 22:38 See? See, the problem with the religion of Judaism 22:41 is that too often 22:43 people would adjust based on 22:46 who sees 22:49 it was rooted in behavior modification. 22:53 So that I'm spiritual when the spiritual around. 22:58 But I can change outfits 23:01 and I can get slimy based on the crowd 23:04 that's viewing 23:07 the scene. 23:08 That's why I love what Paul says. 23:09 He says, you got he says, put he on the Lord 23:14 Jesus Christ. 23:17 See, we got to get to a place where we realize that Christ 23:21 is like on a verse in a movie, Men in Black, 23:24 we see that we're like Agent J. 23:27 When he gave me something, 23:28 he says, When you put this on, you've got to be committed. 23:30 Because he said, It's the last suit. 23:31 You go everywhere and it's not. 23:34 When you accept the Lord Jesus Christ when you put him 23:37 on, it's the last outfit you gonna ever put on 23:44 this. 23:44 I'm my oldest son. 23:45 He was in preschool over here, the Kdl. 23:48 And I remember going over to the side of him 23:51 and one of the other kids was having this deep, 23:53 metaphysical, philosophical conversation. 23:58 And they were having a debate, Tim, about who was stronger, 24:02 Superman or me. 24:06 And it's funny 24:07 because this is at the height of the Marvel 24:08 kind of boom, and they go back and forth 24:10 one another and the boys, just like man 24:12 and woman, is the strongest because, 24:14 you know, he is able to fly into outer space. 24:16 My son was like, Superman could go in outer space. 24:18 And then other boys like Iron Man has all these weapons. 24:22 And my son was like, Superman could see through 24:24 LED and 24:25 and the other boy was like, you know, Iron 24:26 Man is able to get his suit, like, in the middle of the air. 24:29 And he was just like Superman was able to fly. 24:32 And then the boy tried to pull out his Trump car. 24:35 He was just like, man, Iron Man has a suit 24:37 that is made of vibranium that he can put on and put off. 24:42 But my son had the trump card, he says. 24:43 Superman is the man of Steel Heenan put on steel. 24:47 Steel is his scam. 24:51 And what I'm saying to somebody today, 24:53 the one that always has an outfit will never be 24:57 as strong as the one that has it as a part of their being. 25:02 And what I'm saying to somebody today, 25:04 your Christianity cannot be an outfit that you change based 25:09 upon the occasion, but I want my religion to be strong. And 25:15 that goes with me early in the morning 25:17 and the late watches of the night. 25:19 I wear it during the middle of the week 25:21 and I carry it on the weekend as well, 25:24 because I need you to know the God's saving power 25:29 it is not just about how 25:32 well we can be forgiving. 25:35 You know what the gospel is. 25:36 It's not about how well you can be forgiving. 25:39 It is about how thoroughly you can be 25:41 transformed. 25:45 I don't want to just have my sins purged in the heavenly. 25:51 I wanna live it down here on the earthly. 25:55 I want the Spirit of God to live inside of me. 25:58 I want all of His promises which are ye 26:01 and amen to be realized in my daily living. 26:04 And I need somebody to understand that 26:06 I am not entitled to standard. 26:08 But I need us to know that the highest standard, 26:10 it is not spoken, it is not written. 26:12 But how you stand 26:15 is way that we live. 26:19 Hello, I'm Pastor Debleaire 26:21 Snell, speaker director for The Breath of Life 26:24 Television Ministry. 26:25 This ministry was established to take the Gospel of Jesus 26:29 Christ throughout North America and across the globe. 26:33 My goal is to make Jesus Christ 26:36 known through the preaching of the Word. 26:40 I need you to know that we need your financial partnership 26:43 in order to make sure that the Gospel can go into every hill, 26:48 into every rural county, and into every inner city. 26:52 And we can only take the gospel as far as the gifts 26:55 that you lend to us. 26:57 We thank you for your financial partnership in the past, 27:01 and I'm asking that you continue to be a financial partner 27:05 with this ministry going forward. 27:07 Here are some ways you can give. 27:09 You can give online at our website 27:12 at www.breathoflife.TV. 27:15 You can send your gift by mail to Breath of Life. 27:18 P.O. 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