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  1. 0:00[Music]
  2. 0:05hey there everyone
  3. 0:07a lot of people think that they're
  4. 0:09thinking but they're actually
  5. 0:10rearranging their ignorance
  6. 0:12think about that for a moment one of the
  7. 0:14greatest skills of the 21st century
  8. 0:16is the skill of critical thinking
  9. 0:18critical thinking has nothing to do with
  10. 0:20emotions
  11. 0:20which are biochemical and primal in
  12. 0:23nature
  13. 0:24it'll surprise you that even if you have
  14. 0:28a phd or master's degree
  15. 0:31it's almost like you were dropped out of
  16. 0:34life and what i mean by that is this
  17. 0:36that education teaches you what to
  18. 0:40think but it doesn't teach you how to
  19. 0:43think
  20. 0:44and this is why the message of the
  21. 0:46kingdom is so
  22. 0:47powerful in this day and age
  23. 0:50unfortunately that primal state that i
  24. 0:52mentioned earlier
  25. 0:54is where most people are living so in
  26. 0:56this message the art of thinking
  27. 0:58i'm exploring the parables of jesus in
  28. 1:01order to
  29. 1:02challenge you how to
  30. 1:05think think about that the parables
  31. 1:08taught by jesus was not
  32. 1:10just so that you can have a basis for
  33. 1:12your theology it's really to allow the
  34. 1:14holy spirit
  35. 1:15to be like a tour guide to help you to
  36. 1:18navigate the landscape of your potential
  37. 1:21and to take you to a place inside
  38. 1:23yourself
  39. 1:24that you cannot go by yourself god wants
  40. 1:27to take you
  41. 1:28from primal to powerful and through the
  42. 1:30understanding of these parables
  43. 1:32you will have the ability to move into
  44. 1:34new realms of abundance to rethink life
  45. 1:37and to influence change let's dig in
  46. 1:41[Music]
  47. 1:48good evening everyone i'm excited about
  48. 1:51this series
  49. 1:52and tonight today this afternoon
  50. 1:56whenever you're viewing this series i
  51. 1:57want you
  52. 1:58to get in a comfortable place if you're
  53. 2:01driving i want you to really listen but
  54. 2:04pay attention to
  55. 2:06what's going on in front of you on the
  56. 2:07road um
  57. 2:09those of you that have the opportunity
  58. 2:11to take copious notes i want you to
  59. 2:13really take copious notes
  60. 2:15and don't let anything or anyone
  61. 2:16distract you at this moment
  62. 2:19this message really is going to be a
  63. 2:21message that's going to revolutionize
  64. 2:23your life
  65. 2:24i'm taking my message today out of
  66. 2:26matthew 13
  67. 2:273 to 13. we're looking at all the
  68. 2:30parables
  69. 2:32and today i want to do a simple
  70. 2:34treatment on why these parables
  71. 2:36are important the book of matthew
  72. 2:38chapter 13
  73. 2:393-13 says and he spake many things unto
  74. 2:43them in parables saying
  75. 2:45behold the sower went forth to sow and
  76. 2:47when he
  77. 2:48sowed some seed fell by the wayside
  78. 2:51and the fowls came and devolved them up
  79. 2:54some fell
  80. 2:54on stoney places where they had not much
  81. 2:57earth and forth which
  82. 2:59they sprung up because they had no
  83. 3:01dappness
  84. 3:02in them or in no darkness of the earth
  85. 3:05and when the sun was up they were
  86. 3:07scourged and because
  87. 3:09they had no root they would withered
  88. 3:11away
  89. 3:12some fell among the thorns and the
  90. 3:15thorns sprung up
  91. 3:16and choked but others fell on good
  92. 3:18ground
  93. 3:19and brought forth fruit some 100 full
  94. 3:22some 60 fold some 30-fold
  95. 3:24and i know a lot of people think that
  96. 3:27that has to do with
  97. 3:29whether some people are going to get a
  98. 3:32hundredfold or going to get
  99. 3:3460-fold or going to get 30-fold
  100. 3:38that is a terminology that simply says
  101. 3:41whatever the potential is in that
  102. 3:44particular seed
  103. 3:46whether that seed is a hundredfold
  104. 3:49that seed will produce a hundredfold
  105. 3:52if there's a seed that has the invisible
  106. 3:55programming within its dna
  107. 3:57to produce 60 fold that's what it's
  108. 4:00going to produce so every seed
  109. 4:02has within itself a hidden um
  110. 4:07programming that determines the kind of
  111. 4:10harvest
  112. 4:11and this is why the type of seed is
  113. 4:13important
  114. 4:15but it goes on to say verse number nine
  115. 4:17whoever has an ear let him hear
  116. 4:20and uh the disciples came and said unto
  117. 4:23him why speaketh thou to them
  118. 4:27in parables and he answered and said
  119. 4:29unto them because it is given
  120. 4:31unto you to know the mysteries of the
  121. 4:33kingdom but
  122. 4:34to them it is not given for whosoever
  123. 4:36hath
  124. 4:37to him shall be given and he shall have
  125. 4:40abundance
  126. 4:41but whosoever hath not from him shall be
  127. 4:43taken away
  128. 4:44even that which you've had even that
  129. 4:47which that he hath
  130. 4:48you've heard of the saying the rich get
  131. 4:50richer and the poor get poorer
  132. 4:52so this is a great example of it
  133. 4:56what you receive is determined by what
  134. 4:59you
  135. 5:00have and we're not talking about
  136. 5:02something that is temporal we're not
  137. 5:03talking about
  138. 5:04money we're not talking about houses and
  139. 5:07land
  140. 5:07we're talking about whoever has the
  141. 5:11ability to understand these teaching
  142. 5:13whoever has the revelation
  143. 5:16that um christ is preaching preaching
  144. 5:18about
  145. 5:19then he'll put his increase on autopilot
  146. 5:22now i know
  147. 5:23personally that i love my increase to be
  148. 5:26on autopilot
  149. 5:27i love my success to be on autopilot i
  150. 5:30would
  151. 5:30absolutely love my wealth to be on
  152. 5:33autopilot i would love my blessings to
  153. 5:36be an
  154. 5:37auto pilot and this is important so
  155. 5:40as he begins to teach on the message of
  156. 5:42the kingdom
  157. 5:44he wants them to understand how valuable
  158. 5:47this message
  159. 5:48is the scripture says therefore spake i
  160. 5:51to them in parables here it is he wants
  161. 5:54you
  162. 5:55to be to have full understanding full
  163. 5:58comprehension
  164. 5:59he wants you to have a kingdom mentality
  165. 6:02because your success depends on it your
  166. 6:05your
  167. 6:06progress depends on it your wealth
  168. 6:09depends on it
  169. 6:10your growth depends on it everything is
  170. 6:12going to rise and fall
  171. 6:14on your understanding of the kingdom the
  172. 6:17bible said i spoke to them
  173. 6:19in parables because they seeing not
  174. 6:22and they seeing see not and hearing they
  175. 6:26hear not
  176. 6:26neither do they understand so how can
  177. 6:28someone see
  178. 6:30and not see and how good how can someone
  179. 6:32hear not hear
  180. 6:33well it's very simple to me uh when we
  181. 6:35talk to someone
  182. 6:37and we really want them to understand we
  183. 6:39usually say
  184. 6:40do you see what i'm saying so to see
  185. 6:43means do you fully comprehend
  186. 6:45and this is not just comprehension it's
  187. 6:48comprehension
  188. 6:49of a revelation that you receive as a
  189. 6:52rhema word
  190. 6:54so that you have immediate application a
  191. 6:57person who really understands
  192. 6:59truth usually applies it and you'll see
  193. 7:01the proof in their life
  194. 7:03but it's a difference when you
  195. 7:05understand a word but not the context
  196. 7:08and this is where a lot of arguments
  197. 7:09happen a lot of debates
  198. 7:11where you might be in a conversation and
  199. 7:13you're talking to someone
  200. 7:15and you're debating and you're arguing
  201. 7:17arguing back and forward
  202. 7:19about the words and you're you're
  203. 7:21arguing about the semantics
  204. 7:24and the person would say well that's not
  205. 7:25what i meant and you're going to argue
  206. 7:27that's what i
  207. 7:28said so that means that your context is
  208. 7:31going to be
  209. 7:32important and this is the dividing
  210. 7:35factor between religious
  211. 7:38christians and those that are kingdom
  212. 7:41citizens no one said that one person is
  213. 7:44not more saved than the other
  214. 7:46but one person is going to have more
  215. 7:50manifestations of the promises that god
  216. 7:52has
  217. 7:53because they not only have the
  218. 7:55understanding and conceptualization
  219. 7:58of a word but they understand it based
  220. 8:01on the context
  221. 8:02so everywhere jesus went he preached the
  222. 8:05message of the kingdom and
  223. 8:07i tell you when it comes to the message
  224. 8:09of the kingdom
  225. 8:10a lot of people don't understand the
  226. 8:13word kingdom and i'm going to be
  227. 8:14breaking it down
  228. 8:16as we introduce you to the parables but
  229. 8:18for all
  230. 8:19intents and purposes when we talk about
  231. 8:22the preaching of the message of the
  232. 8:23kingdom
  233. 8:24the message of the kingdom is a message
  234. 8:27that christ
  235. 8:28preached and it is a message of
  236. 8:31empowerment
  237. 8:32that gives meaning hope dignity and
  238. 8:34purpose not just for christians but for
  239. 8:36all humanity
  240. 8:37it would be interesting if governments
  241. 8:40embrace the teachings of christ
  242. 8:43and it'll be interesting if other
  243. 8:45religions
  244. 8:46embrace the christians of christ in fact
  245. 8:49it was a statement
  246. 8:50that um uh
  247. 8:53mahatma gandhi had made back in the day
  248. 8:57um he loved the message of christ
  249. 9:00but he didn't really care for the
  250. 9:03christians why
  251. 9:04because we were preaching one thing but
  252. 9:07we were not living it
  253. 9:08and if we can just bridge the gap
  254. 9:11between
  255. 9:12what we say and what we do i believe
  256. 9:14that we would be
  257. 9:15great influencers influences in the
  258. 9:18world
  259. 9:19influencers amongst our friends
  260. 9:21influence
  261. 9:22influencers in our business influencers
  262. 9:26in the business arena and the
  263. 9:27professional arena
  264. 9:29you would see that we would become more
  265. 9:31influential
  266. 9:32if we understood that we should walk the
  267. 9:35walk
  268. 9:36and talk the talk not only talk the talk
  269. 9:38but
  270. 9:39uh walk the walk as well he said well
  271. 9:43the reason why they're not able to live
  272. 9:46in this realm of abundance and abundance
  273. 9:48is yours is because
  274. 9:50there is the hearing
  275. 9:54without comprehension and a lot of
  276. 9:57people
  277. 9:57live a life that is frustrated and
  278. 9:59frustration
  279. 10:01because they are doing everything they
  280. 10:03believe
  281. 10:04that the bible is telling them to do but
  282. 10:06yet they don't see the manifestation
  283. 10:09and i've conclude i've made this one
  284. 10:10conclusion based on where i
  285. 10:13was at the beginning stages of my
  286. 10:15christianity
  287. 10:16and where i am now the difference is me
  288. 10:20not only believing but applying so the
  289. 10:23greatest
  290. 10:23challenge of the church today is not the
  291. 10:26conversion of
  292. 10:28sinners to be christians but christians
  293. 10:31to become believers
  294. 10:32the bible said that there's going to be
  295. 10:34a performance of those things that are
  296. 10:37believed
  297. 10:38and so uh if you want to see your life
  298. 10:41in alignment
  299. 10:43with those promises that he has and
  300. 10:45there's approximately
  301. 10:4675 categories of promises
  302. 10:49and within those promises there are
  303. 10:51hundreds that that
  304. 10:52that god has left for uh the
  305. 10:56uh humanity period and those of us that
  306. 11:00are believers we should see the
  307. 11:02manifestation
  308. 11:03and we should see it in rapid fashion
  309. 11:06and so the message that jesus preached
  310. 11:08was a message of empowerment
  311. 11:10and that message of empowerment was
  312. 11:13taught to his disciples
  313. 11:15and all that was listening we all know
  314. 11:18him going up in the mountain and
  315. 11:21teaching or preaching the beatitudes we
  316. 11:24all know about that
  317. 11:26but did everyone who heard
  318. 11:30him teach on these things did they leave
  319. 11:33the mountaintop experience
  320. 11:35go back down in the valley or go back to
  321. 11:37their usual life
  322. 11:38did they apply it did they live it and
  323. 11:41the proof is
  324. 11:42always in the pudding and so from
  325. 11:45that time in matthew chapter 4 17
  326. 11:49after the temptation of christ
  327. 11:52the bible said that he was he he was
  328. 11:55tempted
  329. 11:56by malevolent forces which who we called
  330. 11:59the devil
  331. 12:00and he was tempted at the level of his
  332. 12:03thoughts and i want you to write that
  333. 12:04down
  334. 12:05because the highest form of spiritual
  335. 12:08warfare
  336. 12:09is the counsel of the human mind by any
  337. 12:12other spirit
  338. 12:12other than the spirit of the lord and
  339. 12:14this is going to be very important
  340. 12:17because a lot of people live at the
  341. 12:19level of their
  342. 12:20emotions and if you are being attacked
  343. 12:23at the level of your mind
  344. 12:25that means one is spiritual and the
  345. 12:28other
  346. 12:28is biochemical and bioelectrical
  347. 12:32so your emotions you the reason why you
  348. 12:35feel emotions or you have feelings
  349. 12:37is because of the biochemical reaction
  350. 12:41to something that you have interpreted
  351. 12:44so that means that
  352. 12:46when jesus was preaching the message of
  353. 12:49the kingdom
  354. 12:50he wanted to give them context so that
  355. 12:52they can live an empowered life
  356. 12:54so that they can interpret what it was
  357. 12:57going on in the world
  358. 12:59not from the lenses of culture or the
  359. 13:02prevailing culture
  360. 13:04uh but from the lenses of the kingdom
  361. 13:07which had its own culture
  362. 13:09and so it means that there was a
  363. 13:10revolution that had to go on
  364. 13:13and it was the revolution of our
  365. 13:14thinking and so as i
  366. 13:16set this up and from out of matthew 4 17
  367. 13:20from that time jesus began to preach and
  368. 13:22to say repent
  369. 13:24for the kingdom of heaven is at hand as
  370. 13:27i
  371. 13:27set this up i want to uh address you
  372. 13:30today
  373. 13:32um and in this this particular
  374. 13:35uh message on a crash a
  375. 13:38crash course in thinking a crash
  376. 13:42course in thinking a lot of people that
  377. 13:45they're
  378. 13:45think that they're thinking when in fact
  379. 13:47they're not they're being controlled by
  380. 13:49the prevailing culture
  381. 13:50that is characterized by uh conspiracy
  382. 13:53theories propaganda
  383. 13:55ideologies that are contrary to humanity
  384. 13:58when jesus came he wanted to restore our
  385. 14:02humanity the scripture says he came to
  386. 14:05seek
  387. 14:05and to save that which was lost not who
  388. 14:08was
  389. 14:08lost but that which was lost and i want
  390. 14:11to float that as a balloon i'm going to
  391. 14:13come and come back
  392. 14:14because our series is really going to
  393. 14:16challenge challenge you
  394. 14:18at the level of your thinking and i want
  395. 14:20to go line by line
  396. 14:21precept upon pre-set as we introduce you
  397. 14:25to kingdom thinking in this series or
  398. 14:28this particular section of our teaching
  399. 14:32which is a crash course
  400. 14:35in thinking a lot of people think
  401. 14:38they're thinking
  402. 14:39but they're actually just rearranging
  403. 14:41their ignorance
  404. 14:43and we have to be careful even as
  405. 14:46believers
  406. 14:47that we are not rearranging our
  407. 14:50ignorance
  408. 14:51that we are not being controlled by a
  409. 14:53prevailing culture
  410. 14:55at the expense of our intellect
  411. 14:58at the expense of our intelligence as at
  412. 15:01at the expense of our god-likeness
  413. 15:04and our god-likeness is demonstrated
  414. 15:07many ways but primarily
  415. 15:09in our thought life how we think when
  416. 15:12god created humanity
  417. 15:14he gave him the ability to think there
  418. 15:17was no box
  419. 15:18he was the innovator of boxes
  420. 15:22and so if you think outside of a box
  421. 15:25that means that the box
  422. 15:27is still your reference and this is why
  423. 15:29a lot of people
  424. 15:30are going through life as christians and
  425. 15:33they're really really frustrated
  426. 15:35because they're thinking outside of a
  427. 15:37box
  428. 15:38and they are not knowing that that box
  429. 15:40is still their reference
  430. 15:42so they really have not been liberated
  431. 15:44in their mind
  432. 15:45philippians 4 8 and 9 says finally
  433. 15:48brethren whatsoever things
  434. 15:50are true whatsoever things are honest
  435. 15:53whatsoever things are just
  436. 15:54whatever things are pure whatsoever
  437. 15:56things are lovely whatsoever things are
  438. 15:58of a good report
  439. 15:59if there be any virtue if there be any
  440. 16:02praise think on these things
  441. 16:04those things which you have learned and
  442. 16:06received
  443. 16:08and heard and seen of me seen in me
  444. 16:11do and the god of peace shall be with
  445. 16:14you
  446. 16:14so this is very important because jesus
  447. 16:16going back to our text was able to say
  448. 16:20in seeing they don't see and in the
  449. 16:22hearing
  450. 16:23they don't hear in other words they're
  451. 16:25able to hear words which the average
  452. 16:27person
  453. 16:28does but they have no critical thinking
  454. 16:32a crash course in thinking the parables
  455. 16:36were preached or taught to the disciples
  456. 16:40to open up their mind to remove
  457. 16:42restrictions from offer their mind
  458. 16:44so that they can think like god so you
  459. 16:46and i we could think like god
  460. 16:49we can think creatively we could think
  461. 16:52innovatively
  462. 16:53and we no longer are thinking outside of
  463. 16:55the box what we're doing is creating
  464. 16:57new boxes new new paradigms new
  465. 17:00methodologies new philosophies new
  466. 17:02ideologies the scripture says in
  467. 17:04philippians 2 and
  468. 17:065 let this mind be in you which is also
  469. 17:08in christ jesus
  470. 17:10and so if you want to know the mentality
  471. 17:13of an individual if you want to
  472. 17:15understand the psychology
  473. 17:17of a person listen to their speech
  474. 17:20listen to their words why
  475. 17:22because their speech and words will
  476. 17:24betray them
  477. 17:26and it's interesting because a lot of
  478. 17:28times we get disappointed especially if
  479. 17:30people make promises we get disappointed
  480. 17:32if they
  481. 17:33uh don't make good in their promise or
  482. 17:35if someone lies to us
  483. 17:37or someone betrays us we get all upset
  484. 17:40last night when i was preparing for that
  485. 17:42i was listening to an interview
  486. 17:44dmx and dmx says look uh uh
  487. 17:47you know a lot of people say they don't
  488. 17:49trust anymore
  489. 17:51but that's too much energy to say
  490. 17:54oh i don't trust this person or i don't
  491. 17:56trust that person it's too much negative
  492. 17:58energy
  493. 17:58you need to trust everyone and so the
  494. 18:01interviewer was interviewing him
  495. 18:03and you know kind of confused how could
  496. 18:06you say you trust everyone if
  497. 18:08people are not trustworthy and he'd
  498. 18:09begin to break it down
  499. 18:11he said look think of it this way if you
  500. 18:14saw a snake
  501. 18:15you can trust that snake you're going to
  502. 18:17trust that that snake is going to bite
  503. 18:19you
  504. 18:20and if you see a lion you're going to
  505. 18:22trust that that lion
  506. 18:24is going to destroy you eat you kill you
  507. 18:28and so when a person shows you who they
  508. 18:31are
  509. 18:31trust them and i thought that's so
  510. 18:34brilliant because
  511. 18:36now it puts a different kind of spin on
  512. 18:39the word
  513. 18:40trust and a lot of us as christians
  514. 18:43we don't even trust the process that god
  515. 18:47brings us through because we we we are
  516. 18:50so
  517. 18:50our mindsets and our thoughts actually
  518. 18:54have been pre-programmed
  519. 18:57by a counter culture
  520. 19:00it is the kingdom of darkness it is not
  521. 19:02the kingdom of light
  522. 19:04the kingdom of light is a kingdom of
  523. 19:06empowerment
  524. 19:07it's a kingdom of wisdom is a kingdom of
  525. 19:09strategy
  526. 19:10it's a kingdom of wealth it's a kingdom
  527. 19:12of empowerment the kingdom of darkness
  528. 19:15will hold you in ignorance to be
  529. 19:18in the dark is to be ignorant
  530. 19:21concerning something and my concern is
  531. 19:24this
  532. 19:25that today we have so many people that
  533. 19:27are educated
  534. 19:28but they are non-thinkers again we think
  535. 19:31that we're thinking but we're just
  536. 19:33moving around
  537. 19:34our ignorance we're rearranging our
  538. 19:36ignorance to fit
  539. 19:38some propaganda or to to to fit
  540. 19:41something that um is being used to
  541. 19:44control us
  542. 19:46and there's so much so much conspiracy
  543. 19:48theory that is running around
  544. 19:50this weekend someone said send something
  545. 19:53to me
  546. 19:53that was supposed to be from someone
  547. 19:56that was
  548. 19:56in authority and i ripped straight
  549. 19:59through
  550. 20:00their um thesis their thesis was built
  551. 20:04on fallacy and
  552. 20:06you know everyone was afraid and this is
  553. 20:08an authority an authority on what
  554. 20:11and i began to realize how important
  555. 20:13this message is
  556. 20:14because we have lost our ability to
  557. 20:17think
  558. 20:18critically we have not only lost our
  559. 20:20ability to
  560. 20:22think critically and let me backtrack
  561. 20:24for a moment what do you mean
  562. 20:25well a critical think thinker is not
  563. 20:28going to take anything
  564. 20:30at face value they're going to raise
  565. 20:32questions
  566. 20:33and this is why i love the teachings of
  567. 20:36the parables
  568. 20:38because the parables were structured in
  569. 20:41such a way
  570. 20:42that it didn't give you answers it built
  571. 20:45capacity
  572. 20:46in your thinking process so that you can
  573. 20:49ask
  574. 20:49questions the parables were ponderables
  575. 20:53it was something that was meant for you
  576. 20:55to walk away
  577. 20:57ask questions and ponder on it
  578. 21:00and the thing about the living in the
  579. 21:03kingdom is this
  580. 21:04that we are encouraged to ask questions
  581. 21:09and asking questions helps uh
  582. 21:12us to be restored in uh god's
  583. 21:16original way or restore it back
  584. 21:19to god's original way of of crea
  585. 21:23of uh or original original
  586. 21:26um idea
  587. 21:30to create man as thinking beings so
  588. 21:33we're restored
  589. 21:34back to a mindset and a psychology
  590. 21:37that we are not victims of circumstances
  591. 21:41life is not happening to any of us we
  592. 21:43are happening to life as a man
  593. 21:46think it in his heart so is he
  594. 21:49so uh if i were to observe the average
  595. 21:52person's life
  596. 21:53i could basically tell you what they're
  597. 21:55thinking
  598. 21:56because everything that we think
  599. 21:59eventually manifests in our lives
  600. 22:02but no one wants to take responsibility
  601. 22:04so we blame it on the devil we blame it
  602. 22:06on our ex-wife
  603. 22:07we blame it on government we blame it on
  604. 22:09our boss
  605. 22:10it's this whole big blame game going on
  606. 22:13because people quite frankly are afraid
  607. 22:16to think
  608. 22:17for themselves the thing about slavery
  609. 22:21is not the physical bondage
  610. 22:24the travesty about slavery is the mental
  611. 22:28bondage
  612. 22:29you see you could throw a man in prison
  613. 22:32and he still be free
  614. 22:33why because he's free in his mind
  615. 22:36and that is a nelson mandela
  616. 22:40story 27 years in prison
  617. 22:44and he decided that he was going to come
  618. 22:46out release everyone
  619. 22:49and forgive everyone that had had ever
  620. 22:53uh released propaganda about him that he
  621. 22:56was
  622. 22:56uh he was a terrorist
  623. 23:00and everything else they said about him
  624. 23:02and he came out
  625. 23:03and forgave them and the rest is history
  626. 23:06the same
  627. 23:06culture that oppressed him he eventually
  628. 23:09shifted that culture
  629. 23:10because he became the first man of color
  630. 23:14to be the president of south africa and
  631. 23:16it's
  632. 23:17interesting because when we when we
  633. 23:19think about the mind
  634. 23:21we don't think about how powerful the
  635. 23:23mind is
  636. 23:24your mind is not your brain we have this
  637. 23:27saying mind over matter
  638. 23:29and that means that you don't have to
  639. 23:33be an individual
  640. 23:36that knee jerks at life you can be a
  641. 23:39vict
  642. 23:40victor you don't have to be a victim you
  643. 23:43can live the life of your dreams
  644. 23:45because every single day you get a
  645. 23:48chance to choose what you think on
  646. 23:51again as a man as a woman thinketh in
  647. 23:53her heart so
  648. 23:54is he or she the bible says in first
  649. 23:57corinthians 2 16
  650. 23:59for who have the mind of the lord that
  651. 24:02he may instruct him
  652. 24:04but we have the mind of christ one
  653. 24:06scripture says let this mind be in you
  654. 24:08which is also in christ jesus
  655. 24:10we have the mind of christ and so how do
  656. 24:13we
  657. 24:13set this up today how do we communicate
  658. 24:17to you
  659. 24:17that these parables are important for
  660. 24:20you to understand
  661. 24:22because each parable gives you
  662. 24:25a crash course in the art of thinking
  663. 24:29because if you can think you can think
  664. 24:32your way out of anything
  665. 24:33and into anything as long as you have
  666. 24:36control of your thoughts
  667. 24:38nothing externally will control you the
  668. 24:42government
  669. 24:42can't the economy can't that means
  670. 24:46that you consent to participate
  671. 24:50or you can decide not to participate
  672. 24:53i remember a couple of weeks ago
  673. 24:56we had the gas shortage and everyone was
  674. 24:59running around
  675. 25:00and i was saying to my husband listen we
  676. 25:03always have gas shortages
  677. 25:05shortest shortages and i don't care
  678. 25:08why they say there's a gas shortage uh
  679. 25:12they need to get uh spending so they're
  680. 25:15gonna get you spending
  681. 25:16it's a part of propaganda isn't it to
  682. 25:19create
  683. 25:20a feeling that there's a lack so that
  684. 25:23everyone can rush
  685. 25:25and buy it's a pr part of propaganda
  686. 25:28and then a couple of days later all of a
  687. 25:30sudden
  688. 25:31we have all the gas available i remember
  689. 25:35with the economic
  690. 25:36downturn in 2008 where the bubble busted
  691. 25:40and everybody was running around and
  692. 25:42they were afraid
  693. 25:44and i decided not to participate
  694. 25:47and that is because i have the ability
  695. 25:49to think
  696. 25:50for my self so in any kind of
  697. 25:53conversation
  698. 25:55you don't have to be controlled by
  699. 25:58someone's opinion
  700. 25:59and it's a problem that we're having
  701. 26:01today because of social media
  702. 26:03people sit on other people's timeline
  703. 26:05they sit on social media
  704. 26:07trying to figure out what people think
  705. 26:09about them but what do you think about
  706. 26:11yourself
  707. 26:12what people feel about them what what do
  708. 26:14you feel about yourself
  709. 26:16one of jesus christ's go-to
  710. 26:20teaching tools was parables one of the
  711. 26:23things that james
  712. 26:24l fowler said he called them
  713. 26:27uh pictorial ponderables
  714. 26:30and i was pondering on pictorial
  715. 26:32ponderos
  716. 26:34and i understood what it meant you do
  717. 26:36not
  718. 26:37think in words most people think that
  719. 26:39they think in words
  720. 26:40but they don't think in words you don't
  721. 26:41think in words
  722. 26:43you think in images and then if you want
  723. 26:46to communicate
  724. 26:48your thoughts you try to communicate it
  725. 26:51with words
  726. 26:53and this is why word smithing is
  727. 26:54important this is why you have to
  728. 26:56understand
  729. 26:57what advertisers are doing and marketing
  730. 27:00our marketers are doing what they're
  731. 27:03doing is they want to paint a
  732. 27:05picture in your mind especially when it
  733. 27:08comes to
  734. 27:09uh spending they want to paint a picture
  735. 27:11in your mind
  736. 27:12so that that image that comes up
  737. 27:16is attached to a the driving force the
  738. 27:20psychology of you but
  739. 27:21you're buying and that picture comes up
  740. 27:24so that you can see yourself
  741. 27:26living in it you could see yourself
  742. 27:28driving it
  743. 27:29you could see yourself wearing it you
  744. 27:31could see yourself
  745. 27:32running in it and it's all based on
  746. 27:35words
  747. 27:36now if i communicate with you there are
  748. 27:39pictures that go
  749. 27:39are going on in my mind images that are
  750. 27:42going on in my mind
  751. 27:43and what i do is use the secondary
  752. 27:46conduit and that is words and so if i'm
  753. 27:50using
  754. 27:51the this conduit now i've got to paint a
  755. 27:54picture in your mind
  756. 27:56and so this is why stories a picture is
  757. 27:59worth a thousand words
  758. 28:00this is why we are storytellers and
  759. 28:03jesus
  760. 28:04was a master at storytelling
  761. 28:07because they were designed to give
  762. 28:09deeper understanding
  763. 28:11to those that were hearing and listening
  764. 28:14of what this
  765. 28:14kingdom was all about what the benefits
  766. 28:17of the kingdom was
  767. 28:18how to understand the kingdom and quite
  768. 28:21frankly
  769. 28:22it is still a mystery today the average
  770. 28:25person of you i
  771. 28:25asked them what is the kingdom of heaven
  772. 28:28they're going to give you
  773. 28:29i don't know what they're going to give
  774. 28:31you but oftentimes people
  775. 28:32hear it they they speak it but they
  776. 28:36don't have
  777. 28:36an understanding of it because if your
  778. 28:38concept is wrong
  779. 28:40your conclusion is going to be wrong
  780. 28:42whenever he taught he talked with
  781. 28:43authority he
  782. 28:45proclaimed the truth and he just wanted
  783. 28:48his disciples and the people that were
  784. 28:49listening
  785. 28:50to really get it and so all of the
  786. 28:53parables that he spoke it
  787. 28:54they're diverse um but they were
  788. 28:57formulated to give
  789. 28:59a clear definition of each of the
  790. 29:02parables which were sometimes very
  791. 29:04complex
  792. 29:06and very difficult now jesus used the
  793. 29:09arist
  794. 29:10aristolean and the um socratic
  795. 29:14method of teaching and the
  796. 29:17socratic method of teaching is a
  797. 29:19brilliant way
  798. 29:20of of building intellectual muscles
  799. 29:24in in his teachers and what he would do
  800. 29:27he would pose different kinds of
  801. 29:31scenarios
  802. 29:32and then ask them uh
  803. 29:36to uh come to a conclusion
  804. 29:40and uh he would present it in such a way
  805. 29:43this is the teachings of socrates
  806. 29:45he would present it in such a way that
  807. 29:48they left with more questions than
  808. 29:50answers and as long as people are giving
  809. 29:54you
  810. 29:54all the answers you will never
  811. 29:58become an intellect you will never
  812. 30:00understand how to think for yourself
  813. 30:04and why is this important it is
  814. 30:06important
  815. 30:07because the educational system the
  816. 30:10current
  817. 30:10educational system has done a disservice
  818. 30:14to humanity it doesn't matter whether
  819. 30:17you have a ba
  820. 30:18a masters a phd or
  821. 30:22you're a dropout if you have been
  822. 30:24through
  823. 30:25the typical educational institution
  824. 30:28which is
  825. 30:28all of us all of us have been through
  826. 30:30the educational institution
  827. 30:33all of us have been taught what to
  828. 30:37think but not how to think
  829. 30:41and hearing that lies the problem
  830. 30:44because if you are in an environment
  831. 30:47that makes you
  832. 30:48think it's easy to be frustrated because
  833. 30:51we
  834. 30:52we are trained to have other people
  835. 30:55thinking for us
  836. 30:56and if you're in an environment that
  837. 30:58demands that you think
  838. 31:00it can be the most frustrating thing
  839. 31:02when you want
  840. 31:03people to tell you what to think it
  841. 31:05could be frustrating
  842. 31:07but when jesus taught the parables he
  843. 31:10wasn't teaching them
  844. 31:11what to think he was teaching them how
  845. 31:14to think
  846. 31:16and so in the simplest understanding
  847. 31:20that i received as i begin to study the
  848. 31:23importance of the parables
  849. 31:24parables are the usage of metaphors
  850. 31:28and similes that are drawn from nature
  851. 31:31from everyday common life uh that
  852. 31:34arrests
  853. 31:34the intellect of the hera
  854. 31:38because it's such a strange parallel
  855. 31:42here you're teaching about the kingdom
  856. 31:44and then you throw in
  857. 31:46an example about a woman making bread
  858. 31:50or you're teaching about the kingdom and
  859. 31:52you're talking about
  860. 31:53seed in the ground or you're teaching
  861. 31:56about the kingdom
  862. 31:57and you're you throw in an example or a
  863. 32:00parable
  864. 32:01about someone fishing and what does
  865. 32:03fishing have to do with the kingdom
  866. 32:04and what does uh making bread have to do
  867. 32:07with the kingdom and
  868. 32:08what does uh seed have to do with the
  869. 32:11kingdom and
  870. 32:12all this agrarian uh parables the
  871. 32:15parable of the wheat and the tears and
  872. 32:18the parable of a light under the bushel
  873. 32:21and the
  874. 32:21parable of the man who gave money to
  875. 32:25people and
  876. 32:26all of these parables can you just tell
  877. 32:29us and the answer is no why because if
  878. 32:32someone thinks
  879. 32:33for you they insult your intelligence
  880. 32:36and the moment your intelligence is
  881. 32:38insulted
  882. 32:39the moment they strip you of the thing
  883. 32:42that makes you
  884. 32:42like god and that's your ability not to
  885. 32:45think outside of the box
  886. 32:47the ability to create a box so that you
  887. 32:50bring to the table
  888. 32:52problem solving strategies
  889. 32:55so he wanted them to be problem solvers
  890. 32:58not just preachers not just people that
  891. 33:00hung out in the temple
  892. 33:02he wanted them to go into all the world
  893. 33:05and preach the gospel
  894. 33:06again the gospel is not just jesus saved
  895. 33:10the gospel is a message that gives
  896. 33:12meaning and hope
  897. 33:13dignity and purpose to all humanity and
  898. 33:16i believe
  899. 33:17that every one of us could use an extra
  900. 33:20dose
  901. 33:20of meaning an extra dose a purpose an
  902. 33:23extra dose
  903. 33:24of dignity we can all use an extra dose
  904. 33:27of it
  905. 33:27because if you have that you will live
  906. 33:30in the realm
  907. 33:31of abundance you will know no lack
  908. 33:34and if you can understand this if i if
  909. 33:37you don't understand
  910. 33:38anything else that i'm saying as i lay
  911. 33:40the foundation to teach about
  912. 33:42the parables to teach about the parables
  913. 33:45it means that you have the ability to
  914. 33:47move into new realms
  915. 33:49of greatness that this could technically
  916. 33:52be the ending of you living in obscurity
  917. 33:56and the back in the back in the dark in
  918. 33:59the corner in the booth
  919. 34:01you can come out you can come out strong
  920. 34:04and you
  921. 34:05can influence change within your family
  922. 34:07within your community within your
  923. 34:09industry wherever you are
  924. 34:11you can be an influencer and you know i
  925. 34:15i think of all the people that lived as
  926. 34:17individuals but
  927. 34:18died as an institution i think a prada
  928. 34:21gucci all of these uh individuals that
  929. 34:24that made the world
  930. 34:25a different place and a better place and
  931. 34:28they lived as
  932. 34:29individuals but they died as
  933. 34:31institutions and i believe that
  934. 34:33that's what god wants for you he wants
  935. 34:36you yes
  936. 34:37live as an individual but another
  937. 34:39generation should know that you lived
  938. 34:41history should not be allowed
  939. 34:45to uh uh erase you
  940. 34:49out of the annals of time
  941. 34:52where greatness and great acts were
  942. 34:55recorded
  943. 34:56by man who had the uncommon ability
  944. 35:00to think differently and so these
  945. 35:04parables were spoken firstly
  946. 35:06why parables firstly i believe it was a
  947. 35:09tool that jesus used to take
  948. 35:11people into a place within themselves
  949. 35:15that they could not go by themselves and
  950. 35:17i'm gonna say it again
  951. 35:20when jesus spoke the parables
  952. 35:23it gave the holy spirit an opportunity
  953. 35:27to be a tour guide not for them to tour
  954. 35:30the landscape
  955. 35:31outside of them but to to to
  956. 35:35tour the landscape inside of them why is
  957. 35:37it important
  958. 35:38it is important to understand this
  959. 35:40because the kingdom of heaven
  960. 35:42is not outside of you the kingdom of
  961. 35:45heaven
  962. 35:46is within you it is a way of life it is
  963. 35:49a paradigm
  964. 35:50it's the way that you it's your motives
  965. 35:52operandi
  966. 35:53it's inside of you so when he spoke the
  967. 35:56parables
  968. 35:58it gave god it gave the holy spirit
  969. 36:02to become a tour guide to
  970. 36:05to take them within themselves
  971. 36:10to a place where they could not go by
  972. 36:14themselves
  973. 36:15so let me break it down even further why
  974. 36:18would jesus preach the peril why
  975. 36:20would he teach the parable why is it
  976. 36:24important for all believers to
  977. 36:26understand
  978. 36:27the importance of the parable the
  979. 36:29parables once you read them
  980. 36:32allows the holy spirit to take you
  981. 36:36into a place within yourself
  982. 36:39that you cannot go by yourself
  983. 36:41philippians 2 and 5 says let this mind
  984. 36:43be in you
  985. 36:44which is also in christ jesus so jesus
  986. 36:47preached the message of the kingdom
  987. 36:49and he preached it in such a way that it
  988. 36:51assisted
  989. 36:52in helping the hearers to understand
  990. 36:56the complexity of who they were
  991. 36:59as kingdom citizens solomon says
  992. 37:02something he said i saw something
  993. 37:03incredible
  994. 37:05he said i saw princes walking and i saw
  995. 37:08servants riding on horses and this is
  996. 37:10what's happening there is something
  997. 37:12in you that is telling you every single
  998. 37:15day
  999. 37:15that you're bigger you're better you
  1000. 37:17deserve to have more
  1001. 37:18and you feel it sometimes you're afraid
  1002. 37:21to speak
  1003. 37:22it but when a person treats you
  1004. 37:25in a way that is incongruent with how
  1005. 37:28you feel about yourself
  1006. 37:30you become offended and instead of
  1007. 37:32allowing that
  1008. 37:33negative energy to to um
  1009. 37:37roll in your body and in your mind and
  1010. 37:40turn it into
  1011. 37:41bitterness people get offended and if
  1012. 37:43the offense
  1013. 37:44is not um it is not dealt with it turns
  1014. 37:48into bitterness
  1015. 37:49and bitterness turns into arthritis is
  1016. 37:52one of the
  1017. 37:52contributing factors of on of of
  1018. 37:54arthritis
  1019. 37:56and um it's it's it's not the
  1020. 37:59it's not the uh medical but
  1021. 38:02it is an emotional contributing factor
  1022. 38:05and
  1023. 38:06a lot of people end up offended and
  1024. 38:09and without the strategy for dealing
  1025. 38:12with the offense
  1026. 38:14so i i want to teach you something and
  1027. 38:16this mindset
  1028. 38:18if you would just take the offense which
  1029. 38:20is just a feeling
  1030. 38:22and the reason why the average person
  1031. 38:25never succeeds
  1032. 38:26is because every decision that they make
  1033. 38:28is driven by
  1034. 38:29feelings it's driven by emotions
  1035. 38:34a crash course in thinking
  1036. 38:37thinking has nothing to do with your
  1037. 38:39emotions
  1038. 38:40and as long as you are allowing uh your
  1039. 38:43emotions to dictate
  1040. 38:46to a decision that you're making you
  1041. 38:48will always be a victim of circumstance
  1042. 38:50you will have no control over your life
  1043. 38:53if you want to take
  1044. 38:54the person of your personal power back
  1045. 38:56you need to you need to learn how to
  1046. 38:58manage your emotions feel your emotions
  1047. 39:00that's fine
  1048. 39:01but never do anything with your emotions
  1049. 39:04is like
  1050. 39:05uh dating to me how many of you have
  1051. 39:08ever been medly in love and then you
  1052. 39:10ended up marrying this person that you
  1053. 39:12were
  1054. 39:13madly in love with and after a couple of
  1055. 39:15weeks or a
  1056. 39:16couple of months they got on your last
  1057. 39:18nerve and you asked this question
  1058. 39:20what was i thinking well well maybe you
  1059. 39:23weren't
  1060. 39:24maybe it was just emotions there's a
  1061. 39:27song that says
  1062. 39:28it's just my emotions slipping away from
  1063. 39:31me
  1064. 39:32if you don't want to uh
  1065. 39:36go through life responding from a
  1066. 39:40primal state write this down
  1067. 39:43god wants to take you from primal to
  1068. 39:46powerful
  1069. 39:48he is not giving you power
  1070. 39:52just so that you can feel the power
  1071. 39:56he's giving you power over your emotions
  1072. 39:58power to create
  1073. 39:59wealth he's giving you power over the
  1074. 40:02enemy
  1075. 40:03he's giving you power and you can live
  1076. 40:06in a state of power power for the rest
  1077. 40:09of your life as
  1078. 40:10long as you understand that if you
  1079. 40:12respond
  1080. 40:13from your primal state you are going to
  1081. 40:15always be controlled
  1082. 40:17by external um forces of control
  1083. 40:20and people when you see something
  1084. 40:24how do you how do you think about an
  1085. 40:25offense how do you think about offense
  1086. 40:27firstly
  1087. 40:27you recognize that when you feel
  1088. 40:30offended
  1089. 40:31it's attached to your core values
  1090. 40:34so what you need to do is to go all the
  1091. 40:36way back
  1092. 40:37scale back think about your core values
  1093. 40:41and rather than being offended by
  1094. 40:44something that a person did or didn't do
  1095. 40:46or being offended by something that a
  1096. 40:48person said or didn't say
  1097. 40:50rather than be offended i i what i want
  1098. 40:53you to do is go all the way back
  1099. 40:56and what you do is values clarification
  1100. 40:59it was your responsibility to
  1101. 41:02clearly communicate your values
  1102. 41:06nobody around you should have to play a
  1103. 41:09guessing game
  1104. 41:11so as long as you understand this
  1105. 41:14that you are not a victim of
  1106. 41:15circumstances stuff is not happening to
  1107. 41:17you
  1108. 41:18and the reason why there are adversities
  1109. 41:21and problems there are
  1110. 41:23um disappointments it has nothing to do
  1111. 41:27with the emotions what god is doing
  1112. 41:31is allowing you to go in
  1113. 41:34to yourself and allow the holy spirit
  1114. 41:38to take you in to yourself and places
  1115. 41:42in yourself that you do not have the
  1116. 41:45ability
  1117. 41:46to go by yourself and i'm hoping that
  1118. 41:48you get this
  1119. 41:50so the next time someone hurts you the
  1120. 41:52next
  1121. 41:53time someone rejects you the next time
  1122. 41:56someone betrays you the next time
  1123. 41:59someone lies
  1124. 42:00on you what i want you to do is take a
  1125. 42:02deep breath i want you to
  1126. 42:04stop you
  1127. 42:07are no longer going to be controlled by
  1128. 42:10your emotions
  1129. 42:12your emotions is an internal thing
  1130. 42:16i can't feel them for you but a lot of
  1131. 42:18times
  1132. 42:19they are processed through what i call
  1133. 42:22the
  1134. 42:23fatal flaw of humanity and the fatal
  1135. 42:26flaw happened in the garden of eden
  1136. 42:29when adam gave his power away to satan
  1137. 42:33and he lost his ability to think
  1138. 42:38he lost his ability to think and when
  1139. 42:40you look at that story
  1140. 42:42you see this big blame gate game
  1141. 42:45well adam why did you because the woman
  1142. 42:48and all of us are guilty of projecting
  1143. 42:52we project our uh
  1144. 42:56our maladaptive sets
  1145. 42:59of behavioral behavior and responses
  1146. 43:02we project that onto others
  1147. 43:07and i i i've seen it so many times where
  1148. 43:11people don't want to take 100
  1149. 43:13responsibility because i i've been
  1150. 43:16in um settings where someone makes a
  1151. 43:20joke
  1152. 43:20and everybody's laughing and one person
  1153. 43:22is offended
  1154. 43:24and i thought the other day why would
  1155. 43:26they be offended
  1156. 43:27everybody else is laughing it is because
  1157. 43:30of what's going on
  1158. 43:32on the inside of them the bible says
  1159. 43:34that it's
  1160. 43:35not what comes into a man
  1161. 43:38it's what goes out of a man it's the
  1162. 43:42state of a person's
  1163. 43:43heart and so if we
  1164. 43:46begin to deal with our thought life and
  1165. 43:49and our mindset
  1166. 43:50and begin to understand that every
  1167. 43:52single day
  1168. 43:53things occur to us because they first
  1169. 43:57flow
  1170. 43:57through us and then they come to us
  1171. 44:01as a man thinketh in his heart so if you
  1172. 44:04run around and think that everybody
  1173. 44:06doesn't like you and everybody's not
  1174. 44:07going to like
  1175. 44:08you guess what that's your perception of
  1176. 44:10it but if you can
  1177. 44:11just if you can just harness your
  1178. 44:13thought life
  1179. 44:15and understand how much of your creative
  1180. 44:18genius is going to waste and your
  1181. 44:20intelligence is going to
  1182. 44:22wait waste because you become an
  1183. 44:25emotional mess
  1184. 44:26everything that happens to you you are
  1185. 44:29trying to interpret it through your
  1186. 44:31emotions
  1187. 44:32well i feel well feelings come and go
  1188. 44:35i didn't feel like getting up this
  1189. 44:38morning
  1190. 44:38because i was i stayed up late last
  1191. 44:41night but that was a decision that i
  1192. 44:43made and did i get up
  1193. 44:46absolutely why because i'm not subject
  1194. 44:50to be controlled by my feelings
  1195. 44:53i have to think through things i have to
  1196. 44:56process things
  1197. 44:57at a higher level so many people think
  1198. 45:00that they're thinking
  1199. 45:01but unfortunately they are merely
  1200. 45:04rearranging their ignorance and i want
  1201. 45:06you to write that down
  1202. 45:07we are told that we must think outside
  1203. 45:10of the box and again
  1204. 45:11as long as you're thinking outside of
  1205. 45:13the box and the box in this
  1206. 45:15in this in this series is culture then
  1207. 45:18culture always becomes your reference
  1208. 45:20point
  1209. 45:20but if we can get you to think outside
  1210. 45:24of the kingdom or use the kingdom
  1211. 45:26as a reference point if we can get you
  1212. 45:28to pivot in this season if we can get
  1213. 45:30you to change the way that you
  1214. 45:32think you will begin to see some amazing
  1215. 45:35things happening in your life when adam
  1216. 45:37fell
  1217. 45:38the first man he didn't lose his ability
  1218. 45:40to think
  1219. 45:43what he lost was his ability to think
  1220. 45:45like god
  1221. 45:47he lost his ability to think
  1222. 45:50about the opportunities and to
  1223. 45:54think differently about opportunities
  1224. 45:57he lost his ability to think differently
  1225. 46:00about failure
  1226. 46:01most people if they fail they consider
  1227. 46:03themselves a failure
  1228. 46:04but that's not your identity and what
  1229. 46:07god is doing is restoring
  1230. 46:09our ability to think so that you think
  1231. 46:11about opportunities differently
  1232. 46:13you think about failure differently you
  1233. 46:15think about betrayal differently
  1234. 46:17you think about the kingdom differently
  1235. 46:19success
  1236. 46:20prosperity mentorship purpose legacy all
  1237. 46:24those things
  1238. 46:25you want to think differently and that's
  1239. 46:27what understanding the kingdom is going
  1240. 46:29to do for you
  1241. 46:30you're going to think about god
  1242. 46:31differently you're going to think about
  1243. 46:33salvation
  1244. 46:34your worship you're going to think about
  1245. 46:36your disappointments
  1246. 46:37everything you're going to think
  1247. 46:39differently because
  1248. 46:40perspective is everything and when you
  1249. 46:43understand that every every everything
  1250. 46:46in life
  1251. 46:46all of our life experiences is about
  1252. 46:49perspective
  1253. 46:50is your perspective if you put 10 people
  1254. 46:53in a room
  1255. 46:54everyone's going to have a different
  1256. 46:56perspective so it is with the kingdom
  1257. 46:59what what what god wants to do
  1258. 47:02is to use these parables so that the
  1259. 47:06holy spirit
  1260. 47:07you allow the holy spirit to take you
  1261. 47:10into a place in yourself that you cannot
  1262. 47:14go
  1263. 47:14by yourself this is what the parable is
  1264. 47:17all about
  1265. 47:18the parables is not for you to just run
  1266. 47:21around
  1267. 47:21as a theologian and teach it if
  1268. 47:25if you have not allowed those parables
  1269. 47:27to sink
  1270. 47:28in to your subconscious mind to create a
  1271. 47:31paradigm shift
  1272. 47:32to remove limitations that are
  1273. 47:35self-imposed or culturally imposed
  1274. 47:38to enlarge your territory to help you to
  1275. 47:41think bigger
  1276. 47:42you have missed the purpose for teaching
  1277. 47:45the parables perspectives are everything
  1278. 47:48and i'm going to say it again i'm going
  1279. 47:50to keep hammering it the
  1280. 47:52parables were taught so that it would
  1281. 47:56give
  1282. 47:56god and the holy spirit an opportunity
  1283. 48:00to become your tour guide so that
  1284. 48:03they can take you in to
  1285. 48:06yourself to a place where you cannot go
  1286. 48:10by your self he's your creator
  1287. 48:14and if culture has molded
  1288. 48:17your mindset that means that you're not
  1289. 48:20thinking like yourself god is going to
  1290. 48:24take you
  1291. 48:25to dimensions in yourself that you
  1292. 48:27cannot go by yourself
  1293. 48:29he's going to take you into dimensions
  1294. 48:32in yourself
  1295. 48:33that you cannot go by yourself how do i
  1296. 48:36know it
  1297. 48:37i know it because the average person
  1298. 48:40thinks more about what other people are
  1299. 48:42thinking and what government is doing
  1300. 48:44and
  1301. 48:45who's doing what and propaganda and this
  1302. 48:48is what
  1303. 48:48they talk about 24 7
  1304. 48:52and when it comes down to asking people
  1305. 48:55well what do you think about
  1306. 48:56they're going to quote something that
  1307. 48:58someone else is
  1308. 49:00has thought and when i think about it
  1309. 49:03i think about jabez jabez
  1310. 49:06was rejected by his mother and his
  1311. 49:09community
  1312. 49:10and neither his family or community
  1313. 49:13imagine him
  1314. 49:14doing anything else but being a pain in
  1315. 49:17the butt because that's what his name
  1316. 49:19means the one that brings
  1317. 49:21pain can you imagine people calling your
  1318. 49:24name
  1319. 49:25and they don't expect anything from you
  1320. 49:29and somewhere in his prayer
  1321. 49:32god took him in himself
  1322. 49:36to a place that he could not go by
  1323. 49:39himself
  1324. 49:40and he prays this prayer in enlarge my
  1325. 49:43territory
  1326. 49:44give me the the ability to think bigger
  1327. 49:48because we rise to the level of people's
  1328. 49:51expectations
  1329. 49:53and a lot of times if you're rising to
  1330. 49:55people's expectations
  1331. 49:57it's it's with frustration and if people
  1332. 50:00are able to see potential in you that
  1333. 50:04you cannot see
  1334. 50:05your in yourself and when they put you
  1335. 50:08in an
  1336. 50:08environment and then they set the um
  1337. 50:12measuring rod not to the level of your
  1338. 50:15performance
  1339. 50:17but to the level of your potential many
  1340. 50:20of us have never had the opportunity
  1341. 50:22because most people don't expect much
  1342. 50:25from you and this is why you have
  1343. 50:26supervisors
  1344. 50:28when you go on a job and they give you a
  1345. 50:30supervisor is because they
  1346. 50:32already are saying to you i cannot trust
  1347. 50:34you
  1348. 50:35but if you are in a position where
  1349. 50:38people are saying go for it
  1350. 50:40here are the goals i know you have it in
  1351. 50:42you and
  1352. 50:43that frustrates you you
  1353. 50:47know something is wrong you know
  1354. 50:50that you are being controlled by the
  1355. 50:52prevailing culture
  1356. 50:54that accepts mediocrity
  1357. 50:57as a performance level
  1358. 51:00but if you can ever understand that
  1359. 51:02living in this kingdom
  1360. 51:04is about excellence and that if someone
  1361. 51:07is raising the bar
  1362. 51:09they're raising the bar because they
  1363. 51:11believe in you
  1364. 51:12when i think of god using parables
  1365. 51:16to take us into a place
  1366. 51:19in ourselves that we cannot go by
  1367. 51:22ourselves i think of jacob
  1368. 51:25jacob was a brilliant man he was
  1369. 51:29he he was he was uh he was honorable
  1370. 51:32he was a man of integrity but check this
  1371. 51:35out his twin brother was jealous
  1372. 51:37his trim brother encouraged people
  1373. 51:41and convinced people that his brother
  1374. 51:44was this manipulator
  1375. 51:45but god saw something different god said
  1376. 51:50uh esau have i hated jacob have a do i
  1377. 51:53love in other words i prefer him why
  1378. 51:56because man look on the outward
  1379. 51:57appearance but god looks at the heart
  1380. 52:00have you ever been in a place where
  1381. 52:01people misunderstood
  1382. 52:04you and where they called you one thing
  1383. 52:06but you know you weren't that thing
  1384. 52:08have you ever been to that place i say
  1385. 52:11look
  1386. 52:12don't argue with them that's their
  1387. 52:14opinion of you
  1388. 52:15what do you feel about yourself
  1389. 52:18the parables are taught to take you
  1390. 52:22into a place within yourself that you
  1391. 52:25cannot go
  1392. 52:26by yourself jacob had to wrestle the
  1393. 52:28bible said that he wrestled
  1394. 52:30with this angel and when he came out
  1395. 52:33he came out with this angel actually
  1396. 52:37introduced israel to
  1397. 52:40jacob and said jacob this is who you
  1398. 52:42really are
  1399. 52:43you have rave you have risen to the
  1400. 52:46standard you have been hitting your head
  1401. 52:48on this invisible lid
  1402. 52:52and people don't expect you to perform
  1403. 52:56at any other level
  1404. 52:57and it's like even if you tried to tell
  1405. 53:00them well that's not me nobody believed
  1406. 53:02because your brother has done a good job
  1407. 53:05implanting negativity
  1408. 53:07in the hearts of people that you're
  1409. 53:08working with so that everywhere you go
  1410. 53:11this bad reputation is following you and
  1411. 53:13you know that that's not you
  1412. 53:15and you're proven to your uncle listen
  1413. 53:18uh you know i'm gonna prove to you that
  1414. 53:20i'm this good person
  1415. 53:21he had to prove to his father he's a
  1416. 53:23good person everywhere he went
  1417. 53:25and finally the holy spirit took him to
  1418. 53:28a place
  1419. 53:29in himself that he couldn't go by
  1420. 53:32himself
  1421. 53:32and when he came out he went in as jacob
  1422. 53:35but he came out as
  1423. 53:36israel and so this is the intent of the
  1424. 53:39parables
  1425. 53:40i could think about jabez i could think
  1426. 53:42about jacob
  1427. 53:43i could think how god changed sarai's
  1428. 53:46name to sarah
  1429. 53:48abram's name to abraham gideon was a
  1430. 53:51general
  1431. 53:51but he was hiding um within the culture
  1432. 53:56and it was a culture of oppression and
  1433. 53:58he was just getting by
  1434. 54:01and he had this encounter and god took
  1435. 54:04him
  1436. 54:04into himself into a place that he
  1437. 54:07couldn't go by himself
  1438. 54:09and after god got through with him he
  1439. 54:11was a general
  1440. 54:12i could think about esther i could think
  1441. 54:14about moses i could think about
  1442. 54:16gideon i could think about jephthah jeff
  1443. 54:19just
  1444. 54:20ended up in gang banging because his
  1445. 54:23brothers
  1446. 54:24his half-brothers hated him i could
  1447. 54:26think about
  1448. 54:27david where he's this um
  1449. 54:31child from an extramarital
  1450. 54:34one-night stand and the mother says i
  1451. 54:37don't want you
  1452. 54:38so the father took him home and when he
  1453. 54:40took him home
  1454. 54:41for the rest of his life all of his
  1455. 54:43brothers reminded him
  1456. 54:45that you are half brother and i want to
  1457. 54:48use a word but i'm not going to
  1458. 54:49use the word but he lived with that
  1459. 54:53until one day god introduced him to
  1460. 54:56himself
  1461. 54:57anointed him and caused a
  1462. 55:00goliath this this um
  1463. 55:04uh giant caused this
  1464. 55:08terrorist attack to show up just
  1465. 55:11when he was in service and he was the
  1466. 55:14only one
  1467. 55:16that can solve the nation's terrorist
  1468. 55:18attack why
  1469. 55:20because he was called to be the
  1470. 55:23king and this was an introduce
  1471. 55:26introduction
  1472. 55:27to his destiny a lot of times we're
  1473. 55:29given opportunities to solve
  1474. 55:31problems within the workplace to solve
  1475. 55:34problems within our family and we end up
  1476. 55:36being bitter we end up being
  1477. 55:38you know we say dumb stuff like i'm
  1478. 55:39getting paid for this
  1479. 55:41but a lot of times what god is using
  1480. 55:43these situations and circumstances
  1481. 55:46disasters rejection all of that
  1482. 55:49to take you to a place in yourself that
  1483. 55:50you cannot go by yourself
  1484. 55:52and so the parables
  1485. 55:56were meant to expose the strongholds
  1486. 56:00the faulty belief systems the
  1487. 56:02self-imposed or the
  1488. 56:04culturally imposed limitations
  1489. 56:07and lids the defense mechanisms
  1490. 56:10that prohibits us from becoming
  1491. 56:13everything
  1492. 56:14we have the potential of being and i'm
  1493. 56:17hoping that you get that
  1494. 56:19it's not about the betrayal of joseph
  1495. 56:24but who he became as a result he was
  1496. 56:26able to say look
  1497. 56:29that betrayal took me to a place in
  1498. 56:32myself that i could not go by myself
  1499. 56:37and god used it as a refining process
  1500. 56:40because it was never about his brothers
  1501. 56:43it was about joseph it was about his
  1502. 56:46destiny
  1503. 56:47stop making everything about everybody
  1504. 56:50else stop looking at what's wrong and
  1505. 56:53what they said and
  1506. 56:54what they how they hurt you stop
  1507. 56:58if you are going to be great in this
  1508. 57:00kingdom
  1509. 57:02firstly you got to understand what comes
  1510. 57:04to you
  1511. 57:06first comes through you what comes
  1512. 57:09to you first flows through you
  1513. 57:12as a man thinketh in his hearts
  1514. 57:16so is he thoughts of things
  1515. 57:20and if you could just change your
  1516. 57:22thoughts
  1517. 57:23all this stuff that is going on outside
  1518. 57:26of you
  1519. 57:27is going to be altered this is an
  1520. 57:30inside job stop blaming the whole world
  1521. 57:35for something that you brought to the
  1522. 57:37table
  1523. 57:38i can go on and on but let me bring this
  1524. 57:42to an end
  1525. 57:44the first adam foul
  1526. 57:47and when he fell he did not fall
  1527. 57:51from a natural realm he fell from a
  1528. 57:54spiritual realm
  1529. 57:56where he is thinking he was thinking
  1530. 57:58from this superior
  1531. 58:00paradigm it was a paradigm of dominion
  1532. 58:03it was a paradigm of creativity it was a
  1533. 58:06paradigm of
  1534. 58:07innovation and when he found
  1535. 58:11he found and it caused the fatal
  1536. 58:14flaw to happen
  1537. 58:17to all humanity not just to some
  1538. 58:21all humanity and so we've been thinking
  1539. 58:24from an inferior
  1540. 58:25level ever since then it doesn't matter
  1541. 58:27how many degrees you have it's the fatal
  1542. 58:29flaw
  1543. 58:31and we're sinned at the bound grace
  1544. 58:34that's much more bound
  1545. 58:36adam did this took humanity into a
  1546. 58:39different
  1547. 58:39operating way of operating shifted uh
  1548. 58:42humanity's operating system
  1549. 58:44that was the first atom but when the
  1550. 58:47second adam
  1551. 58:48came he came to reset
  1552. 58:51humanity's operating system at the
  1553. 58:55level of thinking so the first atom fell
  1554. 58:58and began to think from this inferior
  1555. 59:00paradigm
  1556. 59:02but through the paradox parabolic
  1557. 59:04teaching
  1558. 59:05the second adam gives us a hard
  1559. 59:08reset gives us the ability to pivot
  1560. 59:12gives the ability us the ability to have
  1561. 59:14this paradigm shift
  1562. 59:16to think differently to think from a
  1563. 59:19superior realm
  1564. 59:20of domin dominion that gives us critical
  1565. 59:23thinking
  1566. 59:24that gives us the ability to tap into
  1567. 59:26listen to this
  1568. 59:27the faculties of innovation and this is
  1569. 59:31so
  1570. 59:31important i call this revelation
  1571. 59:35of elevation when adam found
  1572. 59:38he lost touch with with
  1573. 59:42everything that made him powerful
  1574. 59:45he lost touch with his psychological
  1575. 59:48congruency
  1576. 59:49he had no congruency whatsoever
  1577. 59:52he began to reject the monster that he
  1578. 59:55thought was without
  1579. 59:56outside of him but it was actually
  1580. 59:58inside of him
  1581. 1:00:00he made a decision and he blamed it on
  1582. 1:00:02his wife
  1583. 1:00:03number two he he lost touch with his
  1584. 1:00:07individuation or his individuality
  1585. 1:00:10he became enmashed in other people's
  1586. 1:00:12opinion and other people's thoughts and
  1587. 1:00:14other people's feelings
  1588. 1:00:15he lost touch with his uniqueness he
  1589. 1:00:18lost
  1590. 1:00:18touch with his identity he lost touch
  1591. 1:00:22with social healthiness he lost touch
  1592. 1:00:25with physical and spiritual and economic
  1593. 1:00:28and financial
  1594. 1:00:29wholeness he lost touch with his
  1595. 1:00:32intellectual capacity he lost
  1596. 1:00:34touch with the ability to tap into the
  1597. 1:00:37mind of god it was
  1598. 1:00:38god that said i know the thoughts i
  1599. 1:00:40think towards you thoughts of good
  1600. 1:00:42good not of and not thoughts of good
  1601. 1:00:45not of evil to bring you to the expected
  1602. 1:00:48and he lost
  1603. 1:00:49touch with the innovative uh
  1604. 1:00:52cutting edge thinking that was made
  1605. 1:00:55available
  1606. 1:00:56he lost touch with his divine genius
  1607. 1:00:59what he didn't know
  1608. 1:01:00he had instant connection with the mind
  1609. 1:01:03of
  1610. 1:01:04with the mind of god who gave him
  1611. 1:01:06downloads with
  1612. 1:01:07witty inventions and with creative ideas
  1613. 1:01:11and
  1614. 1:01:11he lost touch with his spiritual
  1615. 1:01:14connectivity
  1616. 1:01:15and this is what happened why does jesus
  1617. 1:01:19teach in parables he teaches in parables
  1618. 1:01:23because it puts us back in touch with
  1619. 1:01:26our humanity
  1620. 1:01:27the more human you are the more
  1621. 1:01:29intelligent you
  1622. 1:01:30are the more human you are the more
  1623. 1:01:33powerful you are
  1624. 1:01:34what is man that thou art mindful of him
  1625. 1:01:36the son of man that thou shalt visit
  1626. 1:01:38him you made him a little lower than
  1627. 1:01:39angels not a little lower than
  1628. 1:01:42animals god does not use an orangutan or
  1629. 1:01:45a monkey to compare you with
  1630. 1:01:47he uses angels and if you then be risen
  1631. 1:01:50with christ
  1632. 1:01:51you've got to be able to seek those
  1633. 1:01:52things which are above
  1634. 1:01:54and seek those things which are not
  1635. 1:01:56beneath
  1636. 1:01:58he wants to put you back in touch with
  1637. 1:02:01who you
  1638. 1:02:01really are let's pray our father
  1639. 1:02:05god even as we begin uh our teaching
  1640. 1:02:08on the parables of christ i pray
  1641. 1:02:11that you would bless us that you would
  1642. 1:02:14anoint us
  1643. 1:02:15that you would give us the ability to
  1644. 1:02:16really think
  1645. 1:02:18not to be controlled by propaganda not
  1646. 1:02:21to be controlled by
  1647. 1:02:22lies or deceit not to be controlled
  1648. 1:02:26and by other people's opinion of you but
  1649. 1:02:28truly
  1650. 1:02:29we would have the mind of christ so that
  1651. 1:02:32we
  1652. 1:02:32can have the restoration of our thinking
  1653. 1:02:35now
  1654. 1:02:36unto him who is able to do the exceeding
  1655. 1:02:38abundantly above all we can ask or think
  1656. 1:02:40it's according to the power that works
  1657. 1:02:42in us amen
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