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00:03 #S081 - “ Somethings Just Don't Mix” ( Part 2)
00:20 Welcome to The Breath 00:21 of Life Ministries broadcast with Pastor Debleaire Snell. 00:25 In today's episode, Pastor Snell will continue part 00:28 two of the powerful message. 00:31 “Somethings Just Don't Mix.” Now 00:35 let's go deeper into the Word of God. 00:38 I know it don't get easier with time. 00:40 It gets harder with time. Am I preaching about it? 00:43 I So I need you to know the only difference between 00:47 old sinners and young sinners is old sinners 00:49 know how to cover their tracks. 00:53 See, there are some of us that have gotten older. 00:56 We don't have wisdom, we just have experience 00:59 and see the experience and necessarily good. 01:02 It is just taught us 01:03 how to mitigate some of the consequences of the sin for life 01:07 so that an old sinner knows 01:08 how to clear the history after they get off life. 01:12 The old center knows 01:13 to call a cab instead of get behind the wheel. 01:17 The old sinner is going to sign a prenup 01:18 and not just jump into it. 01:19 The Almighty quiet in here today. 01:21 See? See, I need you to know all you learn how to do is 01:24 cover it up a little bit better. 01:27 I hear what I'm saying 01:29 and see. 01:30 And this is why I had a great member 01:31 who taught me a very interesting lesson. 01:33 The lady named Mother Glenn in my first church 01:36 in West Point, Mississippi, 01:37 she walked on a cane and on a walker. 01:39 And sometimes on Tuesdays I would pick her up 01:43 and take her to Tuesday night prayer meeting. 01:44 And she says, Pastor, you know 01:45 why God puts babies and old people on walkers? 01:51 I said, No, I don't know, because you know 01:52 how the little babies, they put them down in walkers 01:54 when their first learning how to walk and 01:58 and then older folks sometimes at a certain point 02:00 they need a cane or a walker. 02:01 And she says it is symbolic of a spiritual truth. 02:05 She says, babies. 02:06 Their first lesson is they have to lean on something else 02:11 and out of that, learn how to walk. 02:12 And other Fodor folks, their last lesson 02:16 is they have to lean on a walker and able to walk 02:19 and understand that the babies walker and the old foot 02:22 walker is a symbol of the presence of God. 02:26 And your first lesson is to learn. 02:27 You've got to lean on God. 02:29 And your last lesson ought to be 02:31 that you've got to lean on God. 02:34 Do I have anybody that know you? 02:35 Don't do it by yourself, but it is God that upholds you. 02:40 It is God that sustains you. 02:43 It is God that you can lean on. 02:45 And when you can lean on nothing else, you've got to lean 02:49 on the everlasting arms of God. 02:54 You are here. In this 02:57 third thing this teaches 03:00 is that a child of God 03:02 will never be over taken by His enemies. 03:06 They will only be compromised by their alliance. 03:09 It's okay. 03:14 You all made me work hard. 03:16 But I'm here for it today. 03:18 A child of God. 03:21 Solomon is the case study 03:23 will never be overtaken by their enemies. 03:27 They can only be compromised by their alliances. 03:30 Now, friends, 03:31 when you get home, 03:32 I want you to read the history of Solomon's life. 03:35 Do you realize the hand of Solomon was on 03:41 the hand of God was on Solomon with such strength, 03:44 you realize that his enemies would not even oppose him. 03:49 God, do you realize that the hand of God was upon 03:53 Solomon's rule with such blessing? 03:55 No. Read his entire narrative. 03:57 You never 03:59 see about the Philistines or the Ammonites or the Emirates 04:03 rolling up with the Calvary, trying to take down Solomon 04:07 because they recognize that the hand of God was upon Him 04:10 with such strength and the hands of God was around him. 04:14 It was such impenetrable force that they wouldn't 04:16 even step to Solomon because his enemies. 04:21 Oh God, couldn't touch him. 04:24 And what I'm saying to somebody is that when God's 04:27 hand is upon you, 04:29 that the hands of God can be so strong 04:33 that your enemies don't even come for you 04:36 because they know the hand of God is so strong 04:39 that is destined to fail. 04:42 So now I need you to notice what happens. 04:45 Remember we said the devil plays the long game 04:48 so the enemies know 04:50 they cannot touch Solomon with swords spear our chariot. 04:56 But notice that in Solomon's business dealings, 05:00 Satan has a very artful practice 05:04 that is leveled at his spiritual wellness, that whenever 05:06 they would sign a treaty or enter into an agreement, 05:11 sometimes they would seal treaties with an exchange. 05:15 Sometimes it would be an exchange of goods 05:17 or materials, or in Solomon's case, he would over a time 05:23 collect over 1000 romantic partners. 05:28 Now, this is the question. 05:30 The Bible say stay with me, church that his wives 05:34 are princesses. God. 05:39 In other words, the foreign nations 05:42 give up the chief daughters 05:45 to be married to Solomon. Why? 05:48 Because they understand that they can never defeat him. 05:52 With my material, 05:54 the only thing they can do is dilute him with influence. 05:59 See, I need somebody to know 06:01 that your most dangerous enemy is not the one from outside. 06:06 Sometimes it can be the one in your bed and 06:11 because God's hand is upon you, 06:14 there will be weapons that are formed, 06:15 but they will not be able to prosper. 06:18 The Bible says that when the enemy comes in like a flood, 06:21 the Spirit of the Lord 06:22 is going to raise up a standard against Him. 06:24 The Bible says, I'm going to bless those that 06:26 bless you and I'll curse those that curse you 06:30 so that an enemy will never be able to take you by force. 06:33 But your most dangerous situation are the ones 06:36 you receive voluntarily 06:41 so they know 06:43 not even come up the Solomon's house with no sword, no shield. 06:46 You know what the Bible says? 06:47 You all didn't even see it in Chapter ten. 06:49 The Bible says that he makes 500 shields 06:53 out of gold. 06:56 That don't make no sense. 06:58 How are you going to fight with a shield made out of gold? 07:02 But Solomon was so covered 07:03 by God that he turned his shields into decoration 07:08 because he didn't need to fight. 07:10 And what I'm saying is, his most dangerous 07:14 vulnerability was not by an enemy. 07:17 It was by the ones who was rubbing on his head at night. 07:23 And why am I saying this to you? 07:25 Because see, what the enemies recognize about 07:28 Solomon is he had this one vulnerability. 07:31 He was just a little too open minded. 07:35 He had this experimental experiential component 07:39 where he'd like to try some of this 07:41 and try some of that and try some of the other. 07:44 In fact, the Bible says 07:48 this guy had 700 wives. 07:53 I don't know. 07:54 I'm celebrating 21 years of marriage today. 07:59 Hey, man. 08:01 And I'm just trying to imagine this night, 08:03 trying to imagine it right 08:05 here. 08:06 No, no, no. 08:08 But, you know, I'm having a toug 08:13 How are you going to keep 700 wives happy? 08:17 And in addition to that, he gave them 300 concubines. 08:22 The concubines were imported women that they were not wives. 08:25 They were just where you went when the wives had a headache. 08:31 Are you hear what I'm saying? 08:34 And it's crazy because watch these young people. 08:38 This is why you ought to stop saying it's just sex. 08:46 It's just physical. 08:49 No, that's what it was supposed to be. 08:52 But the Bible says after a while, 08:54 he clings to them in love. 08:58 What was supposed to just be on 09:00 the passing of the time literally becomes 09:04 an entanglement of the soul that literally pries his heart 09:09 from the hand of God. 09:13 So that every time you come together with a man or woman 09:18 who is not your spouse, 09:19 that is more than just an exchange of body. 09:22 It is more than just an exchange of fluid. 09:26 There is a so interface 09:30 and whatever spirit is in them 09:36 pops all over you 09:39 and you wondering why you can't get over it, 09:41 out of them, out of your mind, because it ain't just physical. 09:47 You have created a permanent bond with somebody 09:50 that won't even be there next week. 09:57 Are you here with the pastor saying today 10:01 and it's crazy 10:02 because they knew not to send the invaders to Solomon. 10:08 They rolled up with no army and sword and spear 10:11 because they recognized that there will never be an army 10:13 or sword or spear that will capture him. 10:17 And it's funny because when we talk 10:18 sometimes in the setting, we always talk to the women 10:20 about not getting with No, sorry, man, 10:24 but you got to talk to your boys 10:29 because the only thing 10:30 that can tear down a strong man 10:34 is a toxic, raggedy, sorry woman. 10:36 Now you are here. What I'm saying. 10:38 No, no, no, no, no, no. 10:39 I'm not citing the sisters. 10:41 I'm talking about a certain type. 10:43 Because, remember, Adam didn't fall to the serpent. 10:47 Adam fell for Eve that the Philistines couldn't 10:50 destroy Samson. 10:51 It was Delilah that took him out. 10:55 That the enemies couldn't destroy David. 10:57 It was the woman he had to have. 11:00 The foreign nations could not get Solomon. 11:02 It was the women. 11:03 So they could never get him with sword and spear. 11:07 But they can overcome 11:08 a strong man with lace, lingerie, wiggle and a juggle. 11:12 Y'all not hear what I'm saying today. 11:14 That's what kills 11:17 a strong man. 11:31 So? So really, what I would need to say 11:34 is that those who are dating, 11:35 considering marriage, those that are really thinking forward, 11:39 you got to make sure your romantic 11:42 interest align with your spiritual values. 11:49 Why am I saying that? 11:51 I'm gonna say something I said in 11:52 first service is going to sound 11:53 kind of heretical and crazy to some. 11:56 But the only power that is stronger or is as strong 12:01 as the Holy Spirit is the power 12:04 of your romantic entanglements. 12:09 We always say nothing is more powerful than Holy Spirit. 12:12 No, you just read it in your Bible 12:15 that Solomon had a heart from God, but his romantic interest 12:18 and investments turned his heart away from God 12:23 as he friends of mine. 12:24 This is why God actually set it up in such a way. 12:28 Because what God set up is a way that we interact 12:31 with one another. 12:33 Because when I lead somebody, it is understanding. 12:34 Be careful, because whatever binds your partner or 12:40 when you bind yourself to them, it binds you 12:45 know, not 12:46 whatever is infecting them. 12:49 When you tie yourself to them, it infects you. 12:52 It is the nature of relation ships 12:55 because in your mind you're saying, No, 12:56 I'm going to be the influence. You're not the influence. 12:59 It's not how it works. 13:00 Because in order for there to be a love, 13:02 you can just have their hearts open to you. 13:05 You've got to open your heart toward them. 13:08 So you can't just put it out without taking it in 13:12 and see this is how God set up marriage in this way. 13:15 So that when a man is bound to God 13:18 and that woman is bound to God and they are bound to one 13:22 another, the relationship ought to reinforce 13:25 their relationship with God, 13:29 as in one of the questions that some of you 13:31 all need to be asking while you are of marriageable age, 13:35 you need to be asking what Solomon did not ask. 13:38 You want to ask, has this person been assigned by God 13:42 or have they 13:42 been planted by the devil? 13:45 Has the devil sabotaged my life 13:49 with a 36, 24, 36 13:53 or a 6/4 dance hall, dark and handsome biceps. 13:58 And I hear what I'm saying, like like have they been assigned 14:03 or have they been planted by the most? 14:04 Hi, are y'all hear what I'm saying today? 14:06 Church and see friends of mine. 14:08 This is why you need to be equally yoked right now. 14:16 I'm getting your business 14:17 because y'all running around here thinking 14:18 you're smarter than the scriptures. 14:20 Run around here. 14:21 Tell out how religion ain't no deal breaker It should be. 14:26 It should be. 14:28 Because if Christ is the foundation of your life, 14:32 how are you going to build a life 14:33 on a foundation that has cracks all on the inside of it? 14:39 In other words, there is a reason. 14:40 A fish, kay Mary. A bird 14:49 fish can't marry a bird. 14:51 Y'all are like a confessional. 14:52 Have we know that's not why fish can't marry a bird. 14:57 The reason a fish can't marry a bird is 15:00 they can't survive one another's atmospheres. 15:04 Gotta know the reason the fish and the bird can be happy 15:10 is that the fish can't handle the elevation of the bird 15:14 and the bird can't handle the environment 15:17 or habitat of a fish. 15:18 And it is the same way that Christ and Belial cannot 15:22 have fellowship one with another. 15:24 Because if your man is in darkness 15:27 and you live in the light, 15:28 your light is going to kill his darkness. 15:32 I don't hear what I'm saying. 15:33 Ah, your darkness is going to kill somebody. 15:35 It's lights is in. 15:38 That's why you got to partner yourself 15:40 with somebody that has elements that are complement mentary 15:44 with yours. 15:45 Are y'all hearing the word today, my friends? 15:47 And let me just pause and say this to some of y'all sevens 15:55 I'm talking at all 15:57 because it is what you do. 15:58 You marry 15:59 a person that don't know 16:00 God have no appetite or things for God, and you go going 16:05 form the assumption that they'll get spiritual down the line. 16:09 And I hear me say all the time, You ought to walk by faith, 16:13 but you ought to marry by sight. 16:15 Can I get some help in here today? 16:17 No, no, no. 16:19 Cause if you ain't seeing it today, 16:21 you shouldn't expect it 30 years from now. 16:23 Oh, God. 16:24 Oh, my. Out of take up and offerings. 16:26 What I'm saying, y'all, today. 16:27 Listen, if you ain't seeing it today, 16:30 you ought not expect it now. 16:31 And see, this is what some of us 16:32 who do will marry an unbeliever thinking. 16:34 I'm going to dictate all the spiritual terms of the house. 16:38 So you're making. I've been married. 16:39 We won't get married even though we. 16:40 Yeah, 16:41 we're 16:42 going to do this on Sabbath and we're going to do that and 16:44 we're going to have worship and 16:45 and I'm going to make sure I ain't no pork in my kitchen. 16:50 But if you marry him as the head of your house, 16:54 you can't determine what I'm going to eat. 16:57 Matter of fact, it's going to feel crazy. 16:58 Go in and cook that man some bacon in Jesus. 17:00 Are y'all hear what I'm saying today? 17:03 You can't dictate the spiritual terms 17:07 of somebody whose conscious has not been made alive 17:10 in certain things are. 17:13 You hear what I'm saying today? 17:16 And it's funny. 17:17 Last thing I want to say is this. 17:20 And this is why you got to choose your partnerships. 17:22 Well, because Solomon did not abandon God. 17:28 He tried to mix God. 17:32 What do you mean, Pastor? 17:34 So Solomon didn't walk around and say, I'm atheist. 17:37 He didn't walk around saying, I don't believe in God anymore. 17:40 You know what, Solomon does? 17:42 Because he's intent on making it work with a special, 17:45 especially a select group of those wives. 17:49 What he does is he mixes their practices with his. 17:54 So here's this, because notice the Bible says 17:56 that God became angry with Solomon, 17:58 even though Solomon did not say, I don't believe. 18:01 It's not that Solomon would not go to the temple, 18:03 but I need you to understand that whenever you 18:05 try to create a merger, 18:09 God says 18:09 you're offering state Senate by CITES 18:13 and you should keep it to yourself. 18:16 What do you mean passed? 18:17 So notice what the word says. 18:19 The Bible says that he builds these altars 18:22 all over the land of Jerusalem. 18:25 So I need you to understand that there is and I'm in the book 18:28 Repugnant Smell in Israel 18:31 because you've got the incense that comes from the flavor 18:36 of the incense that comes from the altar 18:38 that is also mixed with the incense that comes from 18:41 the bells that have been set up their own. 18:44 One altar. 18:45 The temple that Solomon built 18:47 are the lambs that represent 18:49 Jesus, but on the altar that have been set up for Moloch. 18:54 Are the child sacrifices being made in Jerusalem? 18:58 On one altar 18:59 there is the goat that points to Jesus on the altar. 19:02 To their fertility gods are sexual offerings 19:06 that are presented to make their gods move on their 19:08 behalf, on one altar, everything points to Jesus. 19:13 But on other altars it points to the devil. 19:16 And the smoke of all altars is coming up before 19:20 God at the same time. 19:21 And God says, Keep that state to yourself 19:27 and see, this is the problem in the contemporary church 19:31 because we are trying to mix 19:33 ideologies 19:38 that can never align. 19:40 So we run around here, 19:42 especially those of a certain generation, talking about how 19:45 I pray to God some days and I pray to the universe. 19:49 Other days 19:51 I'm snatching you. 19:52 We got a rule today. 19:53 I don't pray to the universe. 19:56 I pray to the God that is the creator of the universe. 20:02 I don't praise anything that has been created. 20:05 I praise the one that does the creation. 20:10 We walk around one moment giving the glory to God. 20:14 The next moment we walk around 20:15 talking about what we manifested. 20:19 And we try to use Scripture and say 20:21 Life and death is in the power of the tongue. 20:24 You realize you can manifest nothing every good 20:27 and perfect gift it comes from God in him. 20:31 We live and move and have our being. 20:35 One moment you read in the Bible, 20:37 the next moment you talk about how you read energy. You 20:41 know, read the Scriptures. 20:43 One moment you talk of the Bible asking God for a sign. 20:47 The next time you come out 20:48 reading or asking somebody, what is their side? 20:52 And what I'm saying today, friends, 20:53 is that you cannot go to God and go to the witchdoctor. 20:58 You cannot see God and have a Ouija board in your room. 21:01 What we used 21:02 to call spiritualism, we now call intellectual ism. 21:06 And what I'm saying to the Church of the Living God 21:08 is that if it's not, oh, God 21:13 is all. 21:14 And I told 21:17 because certain 21:18 things just don't mix. 21:21 So remember, Jesus says he referred to the 21:23 work of the Holy Spirit 21:24 as being like living what living one could see. 21:29 There are some of us that we kind of we get so smart 21:32 because we think, all right, I'm not going to abandon God, 21:34 but I'm going to supplement God. 21:38 I'm going to hit my bit 21:40 so that if God don't come through, 21:41 I have some other little ideologies I can cling to. 21:44 But I need somebody to understand 21:45 that if it's not all God and none of it God. 21:52 Okay, simple demonstration. 21:55 So we have some glasses of water 21:58 and I have here 22:01 a bottle of vinegar. 22:04 Now, let me ask you this. 22:07 When I put this vinegar in this water, 22:09 is it still water? 22:12 It looks like water. 22:14 We had to get it. 22:16 I can't tell by looking at it, 22:19 but when I mix a love vinegar in it, 22:22 oh, god, it ain't no longer water. 22:26 Let me ask you this. 22:28 I got a glass of water, but I put some Kool-Aid in it 22:32 once I put a Canadian in it. 22:34 Is it still water? 22:36 Oh, yeah. Y'all with me? 22:38 I got some Sprite here when I put this Sprite in it. 22:42 Is it still water? 22:44 Because what chemists say is that depending 22:47 on the substance, once there's a concentrate 22:50 of at least 10%, 22:53 it is no longer water. 22:56 It loses its purity. 22:59 When you try to mix it with something else. 23:02 But what Solomon does, he doesn't just try to mix one, 23:06 but he tries to mix sprite and vinegar 23:10 and Kool-Aid and say, 23:14 This is God, and he presents it as an offering. 23:18 And God says, Don't bring that junk to me. 23:22 Are you hearing what I'm saying today? 23:23 CHURCH 23:25 And when I need somebody to know is that you got to get 23:28 to a place where I'm going serve God and God alone. 23:33 And as the choir said, I'm going to give him total 23:35 praise. 23:38 Watch this and this crazy thing. 23:42 You know what happens when you got too many gods? 23:43 You're praying to God. 23:45 And one moment you call it calling on more like 23:47 another name. 23:48 You call the note asteroid the other hand, you call him. 23:49 No, come. 23:50 Next time you calling on bell, 23:51 the next time you call in on key mass, you know what happens 23:54 when you pray to too many gods at the same time. 23:55 At some point you start calling the wrong God's body wrong name 24:01 and at some point 24:02 he needs to praise Jehovah. 24:06 But because he spent so much time at the altar of Key 24:10 Marsh, when he means to credit God 24:15 by proxy, 24:16 he begins praising other gods. 24:21 And you know what the sad part of it all? 24:24 Remember I told you how Solomon's issue 24:26 is that he forgot who made him successful? 24:31 Do you realize that during his sacrifices 24:33 of Thanksgiving, he was very 24:38 that at the beginning of Solomon's 24:39 reign, Solomon didn't know what he was doing. 24:42 So he says, Lord, 24:43 I mean, this people to be is to August Lord, 24:46 would you just give me 24:47 I don't know if I'm coming in or going out. 24:49 And God said that because you didn't ask for money 24:54 or the life of your enemies or man or just all this 24:56 extra stuff, God says, I'm going to give you wisdom, 24:59 then I'm going 25:01 to give you all the other stuff that you did not ask for 25:04 and understand that you're more Solomon 25:06 so wealthy that he had hired singers to sing his phrase. 25:10 He literally had gold lions that adorn 25:12 both aisles of the aisle that led to his throne room 25:17 that the Bible says he had so much wealth 25:19 that literally silver lost its value. 25:21 But there comes a time 25:22 where he is 25:24 sitting at the altar of King Mark or milk of the abominations 25:27 of the Ammonites. 25:28 And he literally has the gall to say, Kee Marsh, 25:33 I thank you 25:37 for opening doors and see. 25:39 The sin of Solomon is not just his selfishness, 25:43 but he credits another beside Jehovah 25:48 for the great works that have come to pass in his life. 25:52 And what this message is designed to do 25:56 is not just to call you to be equally yoked with somebody 25:58 that shares your beliefs, but the fundamental undergirding 26:02 tenet of this message today is to get us to a place 26:06 where we do not have a divided heart, 26:10 where we are singular and excuse collusive in our praise. 26:14 I just need to know, do I have anybody 26:16 that is not confused about how it is 26:20 that your life has become so blessed? 26:22 Do I have at least seven or eight folks 26:24 that will close out this service by saying it was God 26:29 that did it, that it was God that opened doors, 26:33 it was God that gave me that degree. 26:36 It was God that provided the job. 26:39 It was God that got me out of the hospital. 26:42 It was God that helped me pass my boards. 26:46 It was God that helped me pass the dissertation. 26:49 It was God that got me off my sickbed. 26:53 It was God that elevated me. 26:56 It's God that sustains me is I have anybody that can say that 27:00 if it had not been for the Lord on my side, 27:07 can somebody take a moment to lift holy hands 27:12 to stand on your feet, to think that 27:15 from where God has brought you from 27:20 and not say it was the school, it wasn't your intellect, 27:25 it wasn't your friends, it wasn't your sorority, 27:29 it wasn't the doctors, it wasn't the Tylenol. 27:32 It was the hand of God. |
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