Participants: Ivor Myers, Atonte Myers
Series Code: BOF
Program Code: BOF000024
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00:14 Welcome to BATTLES OF FAITH
00:16 We are your hosts, Ivor and Atonte Myers. 00:18 Today's program is entitled The Spirit's Law of Motion, 00:22 and again we are going to be giving you tools on how 00:26 to fight in this battle. 00:28 We need to know how to fight, because we have an enemy 00:31 that is always warring against us, 00:33 but praise the Lord we have God, who is stronger than the 00:37 enemy and He has tools and weapons to give us to fight 00:41 back and effectively. 00:42 One of the things we will be looking at in this program 00:46 is the Laws of Motion, and we have seen in our previous 00:49 programs that we have been discussing this principle of 00:54 the scientific laws, or the spiritual laws of science in 00:58 terms of God's kingdom of faith. 01:01 As there are laws that govern the seen world so there are 01:06 laws that govern the unseen world, the spiritual realm. 01:10 We are going to be looking at some or those laws in this 01:14 program, and again the program is entitled 01:17 The Spirit's Laws of Motion. 01:20 We will be looking at this, what is the spirits law of 01:23 motions, of motion rather. 01:26 We are going to go ahead take a look at our first law. 01:30 We have it entitled it The Spirit's Law of Inertia. 01:33 The Spirit's Law of Inertia and it simply says: 01:52 Now what is this saying? 01:54 Very simply Atonte, it is saying that we remain asleep, 02:01 we remain resting in sin, comfortable in sin, and the 02:07 wicked principles of this world until the Spirit of God 02:12 moves upon us. 02:15 It causes us, in essence, to move. 02:18 This is the first law of motion, and object cannot be put 02:22 into motion unless an outside force is acting upon it. 02:27 We find this law in the physical realm, is also true 02:32 in the spiritual realm. 02:33 So we are not moved closer to God on our own, first the 02:38 Spirit moves upon us and then we move closer to the Lord. 02:43 This principle, I like to call it the law of conversion. 02:49 The law of conversion, restated, is simply if the 02:53 Spirit of God has truly moved upon us, we will be moved. 02:58 We will no longer be in the place in which we were before 03:03 the Spirit of God moved upon us. 03:05 The Spirit of God, His job is to move. 03:09 You look at Genesis chapter 1, where it speaks about the 03:13 creation of this world and it says the Spirit of the God 03:17 moved upon the face of the waters. 03:21 This is the law, this is an example, or a type as it 03:25 were, of the law of motion in the spiritual realm where 03:29 the Spirit of God moves upon us and it is the beginning 03:33 of our creation process. 03:35 It is important that we don't reject the Holy Spirit and 03:39 that we accept the Holy Spirit when it moves upon us. 03:43 It is not that God gives up on us even when we reject the 03:47 Spirit, but each time we reject the Spirit it gets 03:51 harder and harder so it is easier to accept the Spirit 03:54 when He first was upon your heart. 03:56 We don't want to resist God, we don't want to be found 04:00 resisting because the Spirit of God is moving upon every 04:03 person, He is striving with every person. 04:06 It really is up to us whether we accept or reject the 04:11 moving of the Spirit of God. 04:12 Atonte, in 2 Peter 1:21, this is what the Bible says. 04:30 Here we find this principle of the spiritual inertia, 04:33 the spirit of the law of motion, where the Holy Spirit 04:36 of God came into these men's lives and moved them, 04:41 so much that it resulted in the writing 04:44 of the Scriptures. 04:47 The Spirit of God when He comes in He moves men, 04:50 He moves them from a place of unconversion, 04:53 a place of lawlessness into a place that draws us 04:58 closer and closer to Jesus Christ. 05:00 We have spoken many times on this program really trying 05:05 to appeal and reach out to young people, 05:08 and again, the Holy Spirit is moving upon everybody upon 05:13 the earth, but I know that God is really calling young people 05:17 to receive His Spirit so they can go out and minister and 05:21 witness to the world, because there 05:23 is nothing like young people giving the gospel to 05:26 the whole world, there is a whole lot of power there and 05:28 people will stop and listen. 05:30 That is what is called the moving of the Spirit of God 05:33 when Jesus said to His disciples 'go'. 05:35 What is go? It is a motion. 05:37 Go ye into all the world teaching and baptizing in the 05:41 name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. 05:43 That was a commission, that is the Law of Inertia in 05:48 action, where we are moved to go and spread the gospel. 05:53 You will see this law working in the lives of saint 05:57 after saint, after saint in the Bible. 05:59 We spoke our last program and said that the scientific 06:03 law is something that is observable, it is repeatable, 06:06 and it is predictable. 06:08 A person who has experienced conversion, this law will 06:12 be a reality in their lives. 06:14 They will be moved, you look at Paul. 06:16 Paul was moved in such a way that he went throughout much 06:22 the world preaching the gospel after his conversion. 06:25 This was inertia, Paul was under the force of the 06:28 spiritual inertia. 06:30 Look at Noah, the Bible says in Hebrews 11:7 that he 06:33 was moved to build an ark. 06:35 The Spirit of God came upon Noah, inertia in action, he was 06:39 moved to build this art. 06:41 Abraham, he was moved by the Spirit of God, out of his 06:45 comfort zone into a place where he had no clue what lay 06:49 ahead in the future, but he was moved by the 06:52 Spirit of God. 06:53 When the Spirit of God comes into our lives, 06:56 it becomes a moving force. 07:00 We are drawn, as it were, to Jesus Christ and we become 07:05 Christians that are in motion, not Christians that are 07:09 standing still, not doing anything. 07:11 You may be thinking I'm not experiencing this 07:15 moving of the Spirit, well you can pray for it. 07:18 We should pray for the out pouring of the Holy Spirit and 07:22 if there are others, that we see are, not being moved by 07:25 the Spirit, we should love them and pray for them because 07:28 there is power in prayer, and God will respond. 07:32 I want to mention Atonte, Jeremiah 20:9 and it says. 07:58 That is the Modern King James Version. 08:00 As Christians, when the Spirit of God moves upon us, we 08:05 cannot stop, we cannot stand still, we cannot be silent. 08:09 Of course we know that one of the things the enemy is 08:13 trying to do, he is trying to nullify this Principle of 08:17 Inertia between the Holy Spirit, and the Christian. 08:21 If he can nullify this principle, then you have a 08:25 Christian basically standing still, or a Christian that has 08:28 stopped, and it is only through the motion of the 08:30 Holy Spirit that this gospel is going to go into 08:32 the whole world. 08:33 The enemy knows that, he does not want you to be moved, 08:35 because if you are moved to, you are going to go. 08:38 He wants you to stay still so that you won't go and 08:41 you won't share the gospel with the next one that needs 08:43 to hear a word from you specifically. 08:46 Let's re-phrase this Atonte, the body under the 08:50 continuous force of the Spirit cannot rest. 08:54 That is a law, a body under the continuous force, 08:58 or under the moving of the Spirit cannot rest. 09:01 We're not talking about resting in Christ, we are talking 09:05 about resting, standing back, standing still, saying oh 09:08 this work is none of my own, let somebody else do it. 09:12 When the Spirit of God moves upon us, when we come under 09:16 the laws of the spiritual kingdom, when we come out of 09:20 the laws that the enemy has in this world and come under 09:24 the laws of God, we get a moving, the spirit of moving 09:28 within us, it cannot be quenched as long as the Spirit of God 09:32 is dwelling with us. 09:34 That's right, and again we encourage young people because 09:37 the enemy knows that if young people are out there doing 09:40 this work and be moved by the spirit, there is a lot of 09:44 power there, and from previous programs you know my 09:47 husband's testimony, he was in the world and came into 09:50 the church but that doesn't have 09:51 to be everyone's testimony. 09:53 It's preferable it is not your testimony, that you were 09:56 with Christ as a young person and He was able to take 10:00 you into adult hood and that is a much powerful 10:02 testimony to say I always walk with the Lord. 10:04 I didn't have to go out into the world and experience 10:08 those things to be the type of Christian I am today. 10:11 What we submit ourselves to the Lord, He moves upon us 10:14 and He will move us from the places from which we were. 10:17 You say how do I get out of this condition that I am in? 10:21 You allow the Spirit of God to do what it has been seeking 10:24 to do for so many years. 10:26 You know everyone has talked to Him and He is not 10:29 listening, people complained or not ready to hear, but 10:33 when a person understands the Spirit of God has been 10:36 moving upon them and they have been resisting, 10:40 all they need to do is to cease to resist. 10:43 Cease to resist and the Spirit of God will take you 10:46 and will move you. 10:48 Now we want to move to another principle that is still 10:50 under this law, but we want to re-phrase it a little bit, 10:53 and it is this. 10:54 Earthly force cannot move a body at rest in the Spirit. 11:00 Earthly force cannot move a body at rest in the Spirit! 11:06 So that means all the peer pressure, not just for young 11:11 people, but for all people. 11:13 We all live in the world and we all received pressure 11:16 from the world to not stand for God, or to do things like 11:19 the world and not the way God would have us to do them. 11:22 Exactly, now understand the terms in which I'm speaking, 11:26 there was a scientific experiment done in the days of 11:29 Daniel to prove this principle. 11:31 The experiment actually took place a couple of times 11:35 in the book of Daniel. 11:37 Number one was when the test of appetite, 11:41 what do they eat? 11:42 Earthly force could not move Daniel because he was 11:48 resting in the Spirit. 11:51 What they brought about him he refused to do what he 11:55 knew was not lawful for him. 11:57 Here we have a scientific experiment as it were. 12:01 There is another one found in Daniel chapter 3 where the 12:06 three Hebrews are brought together, along with everyone 12:09 of the present nations, and they were brought together to 12:13 bow down before this image that Nebuchadnezzar has built. 12:18 Daniel chapter 3, and again this law is revealed in this 12:22 scientific experiment, spiritual scientific experiment, 12:26 as it were, where earthly force, and even the forces of 12:30 devils and demons were present, and even Atonte, before, 12:34 the force of devils and demons could not move those three 12:39 Hebrews from standing in Christ. 12:42 We see that this is a law in the spiritual realm that 12:47 when we submit to Christ, it doesn't matter what the 12:51 world is doing. 12:53 It doesn't matter how the devil is seeking to manipulate 12:55 the environment, through his spiritual evolution, 12:58 to try and cause us to adapt to that environment, 13:01 it doesn't matter, the man who was resting in Christ 13:05 cannot be moved. 13:06 Isn't that exciting, that is better than any movie I've 13:10 ever seen, I mean just really envisioning what must have 13:12 been going on at that time, especially with the three 13:15 Hebrews and the fiery furnace. 13:18 I mean God is all-powerful and it is exciting to see 13:22 what He has done in the past and what He will do for 13:26 each and every one of us. 13:27 Joseph, here you have Joseph a young man, who again is 13:31 in captivity, and the wife of someone very high up comes 13:36 to Joseph and tries to seduce him. 13:39 Earthly force, and the forces of demons are again trying 13:44 to move a body at rest in the Spirit, and as they shove 13:48 and push and do everything they can, they find that 13:52 Joseph is immovable and at the same time he flees out 13:56 of that place, he moves physically but, 13:59 he did not budge spiritually. 14:02 The law is true, a body at rest in the Spirit cannot be 14:06 moved and we can talk about Jesus. 14:08 He was at rest in the Spirit of God, His whole entire 14:12 life, no matter how much they tried to move Him, 14:16 He could not be moved. 14:19 Amen! that is very awesome, very exciting. 14:22 This principle Atonte, is again seen in the book of 14:25 James 4:7 and it says. 14:36 Then it says, "draw nigh to God and He draw nigh to you. " 14:40 You see this principle of being moved towards God, 14:43 but at the same time resting or resisting, 14:46 rather the devil. 14:47 In resisting him, we stay in a rest position in God. 14:51 That's what it means, resting in God is equivalent to 14:55 resisting the devil. 14:57 We can also find it in Psalm 16:8 and it says. 15:08 We are told that when we set the Lord before us that 15:12 we cannot be moved, we shall not be moved and there are 15:15 so many verses of Scripture that talk about being 15:18 planted firmly, planted in Christ. 15:22 That is what this law is telling us. 15:25 It is a lot of resistance. 15:27 Resist the devil, rest in God and earthly force, 15:32 no matter how strong it is, cannot move us. 15:36 In fact Atonte, people in the last days experience this 15:40 law of resistance, because the Bible speaks that in those 15:45 last days, that this beast power is going to force all 15:50 people to receive this Mark. 15:52 They are going to force, or move the people to do this, 15:56 but there'll be a people are at rest under the 15:59 influence of the Spirit and they will not be able to 16:02 be moved to bow down to the image. 16:05 They will not be able to be moved to receive the mark, 16:09 because they are under the spiritual, in their lifetime 16:14 they understood this law of resting in Christ as real, 16:19 and as solid, as the laws that govern this seen world, 16:24 so are the laws that govern the unseen world. 16:27 Colossians 1:23 backs it up even more. 16:45 Paul encourages us to not be moved away from the gospel. 16:50 There are earthly forces out there, and spiritual forces 16:54 out there whose purpose it is to attempt to move God's 16:59 people away from an interest in the Bible, and interest 17:03 in spiritual things, and there is so many people being moved 17:06 because they are moved by the manipulation of the 17:11 environment around us. 17:12 The devil is manipulating through the music and all these 17:15 different things, he manipulates the environment in an 17:18 attempt to move us away from God, and when 17:21 we understand this, we submit ourselves, not to 17:26 the laws of this environment, but to the laws of the 17:30 spiritual places where God, the heavenly places where God 17:35 has invited His people to come up into. 17:37 We submit ourselves to those laws, and as I say, 17:40 no one walks around saying, I wonder if gravity is 17:43 going to hold me down today. 17:45 Neither should we wonder if I resting Christ will I be 17:49 able to resist the devil, no, it is a law, it is 17:52 repeatable, it is observable, and it is predictable. 17:56 Those who rest in Christ cannot be moved, no matter 17:59 what earthly force or spiritual force the 18:02 devil uses against them. 18:03 That is why God does not want us to participate, 18:07 or watch, or view things that are not promoting the 18:11 Gospel, because by being a part of it, it is moving 18:15 us away from the gospel. 18:17 That is the purpose of those things that are not 18:20 promoting the Gospel, is to take us away from Jesus. 18:24 Now let's look at our next law. 18:26 This is the Spirit's Law a Proportion. 18:31 The Spirit's law of proportion! It simply states this. 18:49 One of the ways that this, but meaning of this Atonte 18:54 is that we move in proportion to the force of the 18:59 Spirit placed upon us. 19:02 Okay, and when we translate that into the spiritual 19:07 law, the law of God, I'm sorry the power of God, 19:12 the Spirit of God is always moving with 19:15 all force upon us. 19:16 It is a constant, but we are the variable. 19:20 In other words it's also explained in the equation known 19:25 as F = M x A, forced equals mass times acceleration. 19:31 The force is the Spirit of God, the acceleration is the 19:35 power with which the Spirit of God moves, and the mass 19:39 is guess who? It's me! That's you! 19:42 So as the Spirit of God moves upon that body, 19:46 dependent upon how much the body yields to the moving 19:52 of the Spirit, that is how much force we have 19:55 in our Christian life. 19:57 In other words, to rephrase it again, the Spirit of God 20:02 works in corporation with us, depending on how much we 20:07 yield to the Spirit of God, that is how much of the 20:11 power of God we receive. 20:14 So if we yield much, then we will have a lot of power. 20:19 If we yield a little bit, 20:21 we will have a little bit of power. 20:23 It's called the Spirit law of proportion, yield much, 20:29 I'm sorry, yield little, little power. 20:33 If you would look at the equation you would see 20:34 YL = LP, yield little equals little power. 20:39 If you look at the other equation YM, yield much would 20:43 equal MP, much power. YM = MP 20:47 You see this is the spiritual law of proportion, 20:51 we receive power in accordance to how much we are 20:55 willing to yield and obey God. 20:57 As a preacher would say, somebody needs to say Amen! 21:01 because these are the answers that we are looking for. 21:05 I mean all of us, or many people, want power in their 21:09 lives, they want to have victory. 21:11 If it is the mother at home with the children, 21:13 they don't want to yell at their kids anymore. 21:15 If it is the husband who is struggling, or the wife with 21:18 sexual things, that you want to do that anymore, 21:21 but they can't seem to get the power and a victory over 21:24 these things, and God 21:25 is saying, listen surrender all to Me, as we learned 21:29 in the previous program, now yield everything to Me and 21:33 you will have a lot of power, 21:35 and that is what we need, we need power in our lives. 21:38 It is daily because again we are in a battle each 21:40 and every moment. 21:41 Now we wants to look at an actual example in the 21:44 scripture that reveals this law, yield much, much power, 21:47 yield little, little power. 21:49 This law of proportion, when we yield the Spirit of God 21:52 comes upon us, will refuse to yield the Spirit of God, 21:55 as it were, has to draw back from us. 21:57 The Bible says that God resisted the proud. 22:00 There is a story of Samson. 22:02 Sampson was a man who yielded to God at different 22:08 times in his life. 22:10 Interestingly enough we find the laws we been speaking about 22:14 culminate in Judges 13:25 and listen to what 22:20 this tells us Atonte about Sampson, it says. 22:34 The Spirit of God moved Sampson but only at times. 22:39 There were times where he yielded to the Spirit of God 22:43 and times where he, the Spirit of God could not work 22:47 with him, because he was yielding very little. 22:50 We find that the law of inertia, the Spirit of God come 22:54 and move Sampson at times, but then we saw the law of 22:59 proportion where as Sampson was moved at one point in 23:03 his life and at other times he refuse to submit. 23:06 So you see here this principle, this up-and-down 23:09 principle, the law proportion being moved, 23:12 and not being moved, 23:14 being moved to not being moved, and this is what 23:16 the Devils happy with this, if we don't yield constantly 23:21 to Lord, but are just moved at times, the devil can 23:25 actually do more damage through a person who yields at times 23:29 than he can with someone who doesn't yield at all. 23:32 Because they appear as, you know people use Sampson 23:36 and David and in his life he was moved at times. 23:40 Praise the Lord, more times he was moved by the Spirit 23:44 of God, very few times did he resist the Spirit of God, 23:48 but in those very few times, the David's life, so many 23:53 skeptics use David, look at David, look at David. 23:55 You rarely hear them use Sampson, Sampson was at least 23:58 consistent and that he was always up-and-down, 24:02 up-and-down, David was consistent straight through 24:04 to a certain area in his life, and because of that, 24:07 they always say look at David. 24:09 The more we yield to God is the more powerful we are, 24:14 and even yielding to the enemy once, falling under this law of 24:17 proportion, and being moved 'only at times' 24:20 is a dangerous thing. 24:22 We want to be yielded at all times to the Spirit of God. 24:26 The Spirit is moving upon us because He wants to give us 24:30 power, and another word for power in the Bible is grace. 24:33 I like Galatians 2:21, what it says. 24:46 So we don't want to frustrate the grace of God, 24:49 the power, the Holy Spirit is moving to deliver you and 24:53 He has something for you, He has power and grace given 24:56 by the Father, and we need to accept it because we don't 24:59 want to frustrate the grace of God. 25:01 Grace does not come by the law, righteousness does not 25:04 come by the law, the law simply points out to us how 25:08 unrighteous we are. 25:10 The Spirit of God moves upon us and moves us into a 25:14 peaceful relationship with the law of God. 25:18 The law of God basically tells us this and that and this 25:22 is wrong and grace enables us to walk in the Spirit so 25:26 we will not fulfill the lust of the flesh. 25:29 I think of this Atonte, Saul was a man who was moved at 25:33 times, there was a time where he was humble, so humble 25:36 that when they came looking for him, he was hiding out 25:39 saying I can't be the king of Israel. 25:42 He was moved at times, and there were other times in his 25:44 life where he resisted the movement of the Holy Spirit 25:48 and that began to overtake the amount of times he was 25:52 moved by God, so finally he was totally rejected of God. 25:56 We want to stay away from being moved at times, we want 25:59 to be under the influence of the Spirit all the time. 26:02 You could be someone out there saying, you know what, 26:04 that is my life, I have been moved by the 26:06 Spirit at times. 26:08 Don't be discouraged, because at this point you can say 26:10 you know what I realize that I have had a very 26:12 up-and-down situation going on, but I want to have a 26:16 continuous moving with the Spirit as 26:19 He moves on your heart. 26:20 You can make that decision now and accept God's choice 26:23 for your life, because that is God's will for your life and 26:26 move with the Spirit. 26:28 That brings us to our third and final law in our closing 26:31 moments of this particular program. 26:35 It is this Atonte, to the Spirit's action there is always 26:41 an opposite, but not equal reaction. 26:46 In other words, every time the Spirit of God wants to do 26:50 something in our lives, there is an opposing Spirit. 26:53 There is an opposing force, though opposing yet not equal 26:59 to the Spirit of God, that is trying to get 27:01 us to do otherwise. 27:02 When you are sitting there and feel the Spirit of God 27:05 moving upon me and I want to do right, there is an 27:07 opposing force that will always be there, yet not equal 27:11 in power because the Spirit of God is way more powerful 27:14 than the Spirit of the enemy. 27:16 However, the Spirit of the enemy will always be there. 27:18 We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against 27:21 spiritual wickedness in high places. 27:22 As long as we keep this law in mind, for every action 27:26 of the Spirit, there is an opposite but not equal Spirit 27:30 that is working against us. 27:32 We can rest assured that Christ Spirit is greater than 27:35 the spirit that is in the world and we can trust in Him 27:40 and give Him our full, submit ourselves to Him fully. 27:44 That is what God wants us to do, He wants us to submit 27:48 fully to Him and He will continue to move on our hearts, 27:53 because not from just the first moving has God done, 27:55 but He will continue to move upon us for the rest 27:58 of our spiritual walk. 28:00 Well we thank you for joining us and we are 28:02 all out of time, 28:03 until next time God bless. |
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