The Real Reason God Chooses Imperfect People

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mentions. Most people want us all to be the same, but we are not called to be the same. And neither can can our reward be also what? The same.

We can not receive the same reward.

I'll say that one more time. We cannot receive the same reward.

We are almost 2,000 people. Like the video, share the video. Let somebody know that the prophet is live because this is going to be too much. True intimacy is not worship.

True intimacy is not even obedience.

It isn't. [clears throat] Is it good to obey God? Yes, you must.

But the law of the spirit is you cannot go where you're not invited. Yeah,

I taught this yesterday

and I was explaining a um I was explaining a mystery of dimensions, right? Like an example is because of the prophetic the spirit of prophecy that is on me. I can see things you can't see because I am allowed to see beyond where you are. But physically we look like we're in the same place but spiritually we are not standing in the same place. Why? I have been invited higher

than you have. Someone, and when I mean someone here, I'm talking about the Lord Jesus, has called me to stand on Mount Zion where I have a better view than you do.

So, I will see more than you can see

and I will hear God better than you do because in the spirit I'm standing somewhere much better than you. Let me show you an example because I'm going to explain mysteries, secrets, and revelations in a second. I believe it's Revelation 5. Uh um when the when the elder when the when the when the when a mighty prophet cries and says, "Who is worthy to open the scroll?" I just want to show you this. This is a little bit of what I taught you yesterday. This is probably 1%. But I want you to understand why secrets, mysteries, and revelations determine intimacy.

Because intimacy is how God, how close God has brought you.

Do you realize the Bible doesn't tell you become intimate with God because you don't control that?

He does.

Are y'all listening to me?

You're called to love God with all your heart. You're called to worship God with everything that you have. You actually God doesn't demand worship. You are advised to worship God. You are advised to praise God. These are not requirements.

But the Bible never said be intimate with God. It tells you return to God. But how can I return where I've never been?

to return and to transcend or to elevate are completely different. They are not the same thing. The prodal son returned home to his father. His father determined the proximity he will have in the house. He didn't choose the proximity. His father determined that, okay, change his clothes, give him the ring of the family, the seal of the family.

The older brother thought his hard work meant intimacy, his obedience meant intimacy, and it doesn't. This is why so many people in the church are confused that the flawed people are the closest to God.

Because you think if I am perfect, then God will bring me close. No, he will not.

No, he will not. I'm sorry to tell you, he absolutely will not bring you close. He won't. He will not. Why does God love flawed people? They depend on him.

You You depend on what those who think they are perfect, they depend on how well they walk. They don't do what others do. In that whole statement, not in a single place did they show dependency on God. It was what they can do, not what the Holy Spirit has done through them.

One of my favorite prayers is called the Jesus Prayer. It's called the Jesus Prayer. The Orthodox priests pray this prayer. They meditate for hours and hours praying this simple prayer.

Lord Jesus, son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.

They prayed in Greek and in Latin.

in Latin dominator.

They will meditate on that. What are they really saying? Without you, without your mercy, I am back to sin. It's dependency.

When you start saying I don't do what other people do, I don't say what other people say. I don't you are already far from God. Because the more you see God, the more flawed you can see you are. Amen.

Somebody just put that in the comment. The closer you are to God,

the closer you are to God,

the more flawed you see yourself.

The more flawed you see yourself.

I want you to put it in the comments one more time. Let me hear it.

The closer you are to God, the more flawed you see yourself.

One more time. The closer you are to God, the more flawed you see yourself.

The people who are closest to God have the greatest humility.

Loving God is not a sign of intimacy.

Loving God is a sign of forgiveness. He who is forgiven much loves much. So when somebody has that heart that yearns and loves God, that person understands that they have received mercy and they have been forgiven. When you see somebody saying me and her, me and him, me and they them, we used to sin together, but I've repented. They need to come out of sin.

That is not repentance. That's pride camouflaged as repentance. Because repentance is unto God, not unto people. That is why all these people you see online, they love to go and announce. But why are they announcing? There's an agenda that is targeting a person. It's not about them because if I sinned, I'll take responsibility for me. I won't talk about other people. I said, "Listen, I did this. I did this. I did this."

The thief on the cross said, "Listen, we deserve our punishment, but he is innocent."

Are you getting what I'm saying?

The issue is even people don't know what repentance is. They think announcement of what you used to do is repentance. No, it's not a testimony of God's deliverance. That is a testimony. But claiming you used to do this with that person and that person is bad and this and this, that's not repentance. That's pride, camouflaged as repentance.

You see, the heart is deceitful above all things. People don't even know what their heart is doing. Some know, some they don't know, some I don't know where their brain is. But the reality is all this is the absence of actually knowing God.