I know the prodigal's long walk back to the Father's house...deliberating on how to say the perfect things in order to gain acceptance, determined to keep walking towards Him with cement boots on, hoping He still loves me, but expecting to now be seen less than a son in His eyes. But His love and grace abounds and before you know it He's chasing You down and loving on you with a surprising, humbling and most beautiful love and welcome home party. It's amazingly unexplainable. Praise Jesus. Thanks for putting this out today. God bless
If God won't let Christians get into bad sin, I'd be dead. I was receiving the chastisement all the way through it. We do have a long leash, but he will bring us back when we've learned what is in us, i.e. nothing good.
@@JesusC375 yeah, it's been a tough couple of weeks with stuff on TH-cam and other stuff. I've just got to hide in Christ and rest in him. It's your cat doing ok?
At the end when you’re saying that we should speak about Christ being everything to us. I wanted to say that my brother and sister in law came over to visit the other day (both believers) and I began to talk about all that God was showing me (and although I don’t communicate very well when I speak) they later texted me and told me how encouraged they were by my testimony of what the Father is doing and showing me about Jesus being my everything 💝 I helped to refresh someone and that makes me refreshed too.
Dang. Dang. As I was listening to this I was thinking “dang this man really knows God” and it’s so clear to see. This video has helped me so much, thank you God for using this man and I ask that you bless him more than he can ever understand HALLELUJAH
I’ve Always been a people pleaser , now dealing with chronic pain I don’t have patience for that , I give the truth bluntly like it or not lol , Interesting how GOD used what I’m going through to stop pleasing , life is serious and short people need the truth not comfort , great message brother, 👏🤩👑
Shannyn Tritton thanks for your advice I appreciate it , ya it’s very hard sometimes but it really has brought me closer to JESUS, I pray and rely on him daily , I have recently moved to Seattle area have a new doctor and he really is helping me with more options , this trial I’m in GOD has used , I have more empathy, it has refined me , if that makes sense, but I’m the midst of it I don’t give up on healing , your kind word is encouraging , thanks bless you sister ,prayers for your pain in lumbar area , 👑💞🙏
Oh wow 😲! I can totally relate to what you just said. When I am rejected by others or I am impatient and irritable, I just look to the Father and lean on His righteousness not my own. God bless you and praying for your pain and your husband right now.🙏❤️🙏
Oh my gosh yes!!! I have gone through the same thing!!! It’s so hard to find someone who understands where I’m coming from when I mention the struggle of this!! 😭😭😭 The Lord clearly has led me to your page! It popped up out of NOWHERE a couple days ago. Everything you talk about I’ve gone through and am going through and it’s so helpful to hear your help and experience. The Lord has showed me the same scriptures you have mentioned about this. Thank you so much for your videos. You have no idea how much I needed this. God bless you!
Back in 1999 I herd the gospel and believed. Within a year I had fallen away and was a wreck. Later on on September 7th of 2021 I had been a meth user for 7 years or so . I found myself on my knees in my mom's apartment, I felt like there was a hand around my heart and lungs sneezing every time I tried to stand back up .I was literally on my face in the floor crying and pleading to God to help me. I've been clean ever since and I now I know that I know that I'm saved. And I'm learning more everyday. Thank you brother for your teaching of the word .God bless 😇🥰🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Thank God for His grace. Justification is deeper than we know. We have everything secured for us in justification. We have boldness before God. We have His endless grace, mercy, and care.
When people go on and on about how much "grace through faith in Christ only" believers "love" sin, all I hear is a weird sort of jealously - like they wish THEY could be the ones out sinning away. I find it repulsive. A person who has been set free by the gospel isn't looking around at where they can dip their toe in sin. What the gospel has done for me is to rejoice when the Holy Spirit leads me away from sinful behavior, thoughts, or deeds. Grace does NOT cause me to look in resentment and jealousy upon another believer who may be bound up in sin. I see now the blessing of not indulging the flesh. I know we shouldn't be thinking of sinners as on a spectrum, but I find there is greater celebration within me when someone who has struggled with more morally egregious sins comes to the simplicity of the gospel and believes. (I say "more morally egregious" to mean by our human standards. I realize God's standard is PERFECTION! Praise the Lord that Christ paid the penalty!) All that to say, yes, some believers step into the shoes of the older brother, despising the same grace that saved them. I've been there. I've been judgmental and secretly hoping someone gets their comeuppance for their atrocious behavior, but all glory to God, He is refining that tendency in me. I am no better than they. I still struggle with this...especially with the recent climate on YT...my flesh is provoked all too frequently. And, yes, I've considered blasting people who are making such sinister accusations, but I suspicion it would not be received. All I can do is pray for the Body of Christ as we navigate this fallen world. The attacks, while demoralizing, have shed more light on the gospel, so in that sense, I see it as a blessing.
I'm hungry for Christ. I want to come to the Feast. 👑 You blessed me so much:) Psalm 23 vs 5,6 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies; thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. 🙏
I grew up in a family that was afflicted with addictions. I have come to understand gaslighting and cognitive dissonance. Just yesterday it came to me that the last church I attended I was experiencing spiritual gaslighting and cognitive dissonance (chaos) but thanks be to God, a brother who brought osas into my life, prayer studying Hebrews, listening to u, Eva…the spirit said loud and clear get out of this chaos!!! Aaah now I am blessed as I grow in the knowledge of Christ…to rest for the first time in my life!!! Thank u David! Thank you Father!
The Lord encouraged me through the teaching in this video. Sanctification by faith is a truth that I do not see taught very often. I believe that most Christian circles without even knowing it teach sanctification by works. We need Jesus to save us and we need Jesus to live the Christian life. As we received Him we also walk in Him by faith. Keep preaching brother. I will pray for you because Satan doesn't want believers to understand true freedom in Christ.
I had a thought yesterday, but even Jesus himself was tempted by the enemy. The enemy still visited him and went about his shenanigans. We're all on the radar! I am 110% guilty of falling for those temptations at times in my life. And if the enemy visited Jesus, he's visiting everyone. We need Christ, and more, and more, and more, Christ with extra Christ😄👍 can't remember exactly why I thought of this, but I think because of people thinking we won't do certain things if we're saved. I know for a fact satan is visiting them too, and no you haven't been sinless for 40 years🙄 come on now lol
Hello Brother David, just wanted to let you know. Thank you for your teaching… I have been learning alot in the past 3 to 4 years. I was raised in a mixture type church and didn’t know. How to read the scriptures. I thank God for the understanding and am very greatful for your teaching. I for one was raised in a charasmania type church and was always under much condemnation and always asking God for forgiveness… till I started listening to the Grace teaching . I have realize that I was all wrong and that repent ment ( to change your mind ) and also started looking up other words like Gentile (unbeliever) which we are know longer, but. a new creature IN Christ Jesus once we have believed . I’ve gotten deeper understanding and I am greatful to God for that, and also to you brother. Thank you for in dept teaching, I’m bedridden, disabled and blessed, God bless you Brother Dave…Semper Fi
Oh my gosh! David, I knew a young woman that loved the Lord passionately even though she was abusing various illicit drugs, sex and incarceration. She would even witness to others while doing these things. Shortly after being released from prison she fell back into drugs. She rolled her vehicle during a drug binge and was pinned under her car on a dark desolate highway. I have no doubt that she was saved but was taken out early. This is what her pastor counseled the family on. I was close friends with her sister.
God really brought this video back in my life to teach me that im pretty much what your nteaching in this video just roaming now not thinking of the fact im already justified daily kimda doing rhe religion thing and much to my embarassment i think my conscienece has been bothered and went to thay dont care mode a few times . Or thinking im better then others ... Lord help me praise God for using.this message which im sure he is using to help many .God bless
14:05 back for a second helping. Listening first through a headphone while getting breakfast, and I stopped dead in my tracks here. "Doublemindedness is believing Christ is the entrance, but YOU are the way." OH MY MERCY. Your eloquence with words blesses me tremendously - this is the EXACT description of what I uncovered in the past 6 months - I have fought with my flesh, angered at it, thinking it is the precise reason why no one I talk to comes to Christ - it's somehow my fault because of my presentation, my attitude, my wording, and now I'm a failure to God because I can't soul win worth a dang. (See - even that was about me.) My prayer - even commented on one of your vids - was that I could be some use to God BEFORE Christ return (up to this point, for the past year, I've looked for his return by "watching" *wretch rapture channels (not even knowing that was the name of the channels, or what I was doing) Either way, it's all about me - and that is the excruciating nature that crucifying the flesh will root out. I am thankful that I can come to the Word, read the truth and preach the Gospel to myself - I feel like I"m drycleaning my head more and more the more I study. God did a miracle for me this week - I'm not sure I could even explain it, but it had to do with writing the Word down and looking at cross-referenced verses. I'm now a kid in a candy store with the Bible!!!!
I get it... I love it... unfortunately I am lousy at speaking it. Please pray for me to speak the truth simply. I think I make it to complicated. Help me Lord. 🙏
My Brother I'm only 5 mins into this video but already I've never heard a brother/sister talk about their walk/testimony that resonates so much with me! I too went from unbelief to belief - and from a liar (i enjoyed lying, I felt like i was good at it and that it was a useful tool) to now being unable to lie!! as you say now rather than lying Im painfully honest (i also lack certain social skills/cues) but now i realise also I wasnt even a good liar i was just lying to myself about that 😂 Havent watched one of your videos for months so to jump back in and hear this really filled me encouragement! Much love!!
The one thing I think is hugely different in our walks, almost polar opposites, is that in your early stages you talk of having a strong aversion to sin (which you say was somewhat caused by a fleshly zeal/legalism) - whereas for me since I came into faith (3-4 years ago) i tried to surround myself with christians, cos I thought if this is what I am now surely is only good to surround myself by like minded people... oh dear lol... this last 3-4 years Ive just seen how christians can be far from God in their hearts and grew a real aversion to legalism/fleshly zeal - BUT im still smoking weed here everyday so I worry Im wondering if Ive gone to far down this way of thinking!
Wow! I have a similar story as this! When I found out I am saved totally by grace I went and sinned which to me was going out to the bars and having drinks. I never went out looking to pick up men, however. I was completely done with doing that! I didn’t like doing this, though. Eventually, I came across your videos which was recently. I am still learning about the things that you teach and it’s difficult to grasp sometimes but I love it! Thanks for the great teachings. ❤️😄
The lies we tell ourselves are the worst. I have spent my entire adult life in fear, doubt, worry even though 2 Tim 1:7 was the life verse I adopted when I got my first Bible at age 26. Growing up Catholic, in legalistic bondage, and then I entered a cult. They taught me how to read the Bible and use a concordance, but the pastor sleeping with all the woman set us over the edge. We left immediately, and my hubby threw out the IC at that point. I ended up in NAR churches, then at the shut down I went to Calvary Chapels! One disastrous outfit after another!!! I've now become a completely opposite Christian. I preached, loved and judged. Now I'm just annoyed. It's terrible, and I've mentally tortured myself now for 3 yrs. All I can do right now is preach the Gospel to myself and pray that if He tarries, I can get my inheritance correct in THIS flesh suit.
Thank you brother, anyone who says that a Christian couldn't sin a certain sin on a regular basis without God stopping them by chastening doesn't understand that God sometimes allows a believer to fall deep into the depths of satan to bring them to the end of themselves. Judah was shocked when they were carried away to idolatrous Babylon. God was giving them over to their fill of idols. Basically saying okay, you refuse time & again to stop committing adultery with those filthy idols, go live in the midst and have your fill of them & THEN you will come to your senses & realize how much better it is to serve Me. Just like giving them the quail till it became loathsome. We can't see how God is chastening His children so we can't say God would NEVER allow a "true" Christian to continue in a certain transgression.
In the 8. minute of this video dogs started to bark, we got a message there :) 2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision. 3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. Philippians 3 (KJV) Thanks for food.... :)
Thank you, David. Perhaps all believers eventually will be in both the place of the prodigal and in the place of the older brother. How wonderful to come to Jesus and stay in Him! Matthew 11:28 -30,
Drunk drivers doing 90mph on ice, a freshly scorned woman, a nest of black widows above your bed, a serial killer high on meth, an EF5 tornado in a trailer park. No: "The seared conscience, doubleminded person who thinks they're serving God, is the most dangerous thing I've ever seen" That had tears running down my face 😂😂😂
After a bundle of videos, I understand what you meant by dealing with people sensitively, and having a seared conscience. After I had dealt with that pastor who made me feel stupid and unknowledgeable, you had told me that I shouldn't get into the word just to gain knowledge, but to study it to learn Christ. I heard it, and I understood what you were saying and theory. But I still fell into the trap of trying to learn just so I could be more intelligent. It's funny, certain events have transpired that brought me to this point, and now I understand why I have felt like bees were buzzing like crazy in my head. I would grow calm in preaching the gospel to myself, or my wife, or talking to her about the riches of Christ, but when I wasn't doing that I felt a strange slight consistent anxiety. My focus was off. 👍 I didn't even know how to explain it, or really identify it until this moment though. Praise Jesus that He is my justification, sanctification, and reward! There's a lot of stuff making sense now lol. Smh. I'm glad but... Im irritating sometimes 😋
One more comment lol , I’ve been worried about my husband salvation, praying for him , well my dear friend had a dream my hubby was at her house setting at her table hungry 😋, hallelujah 👏
I'm listening for a second time and getting an entirely different TIMELY message ("when the student is ready, the teacher appears.") Wanted to ask about your hubby!
@@catherinegray1367 amen 🙏 my hubby is home doing good he has some ptsd that we are working thru but it’s a down right miracle , it was a journey I don’t care to go thru again but he has a testamony now and so do I what JESUS did , the scripture in psalms that I know 100 percent truth is (many are the afflictions of the righteous but the Lord delivers them out of them all )!!! We all are going to have trials but we need to know JESUS works all things for good , GOD BLESS 🙏
Oops I was referring to his trial when he had critical covid I didn’t realize this was from 3 years ago lol , he is a believer a new babe , God is good ,
At this point Chad's subscribers are harassing me on my latest video and telling me he's not a believer in eternal security. The man needs to come out of hiding, make his stance clear & stick with it. I saw his most recent video where he confessed he believes in it and I know for a fact he's preached on it before. There' is A LOT of confusion among his subscribers and I'm being lumped in by some as apart of this controversy when I had nothing to do with it short of being made privy to it.
I hear you the whole thing is being blamed on me like somehow I attacked him and I had nothing to do with the whole thing it was his own subscribers that got confused and the Lourdes shippers then weaponized his message that attacked Grace. I would advise just staying out of it. People are going to have all kinds of perceptions we cannot manage people's perceptions are we will become politicians. Just keep teaching the truth
Also I hope you do realize that believing in eternal security is not the same thing as believing the gospel. I'm sure you're aware of the calvinist Tulip and the perseverance of the saints. They will tell you that it is by grace through faith and you cannot lose your salvation but they will modify the definition of the word faith to keep you guessing as to whether or not you really believed. The only evidence today that I really believed is the fact that I believe the gospel. If I look to anything else for Assurance of having eternal light or salvation I am corrupting the gospel. Yes there is a difference between salvation and discipleship and birth and growth and confusing those can be bad enough. But if you look to growth to see whether or not you've been born you're really in a world of hurt.
Of course David. Anything that compromises the gospel is a damnable heresy, as per the bible. If you are referring to a few comments I made about Lord shippers, you'll note, especially in my reply to many on a mission, that I was clear if anyone tries to redefine faith, add, or subtract from the gospel, then what they are preaching is accursed and they need to repent. However, most Lord shippers I have encountered do not compromise the gospel, but simply believe good works will manifest outwardly. Like you say, that's a bad message and puts people in for a world of hurt, but the integrity of the gospel remains uncompromised. Many usually end up slipping from one deception to the next. Denying OSAS shows that they do not believe the blood of Christ sufficient, that is an immediate cause for dismissal. But most calvinist do not believe the gospel and will tell you as much if you ask them to confess it.
Isn't it ironic that the ones who don't think they're saved, think that God must be upset with them, and that they know very little about their faith, thinking that they haven't done anything good for God, are often times the ones whom jesus is Blessing and are actually saved, vs those who are haughty, think they know what's best for everyone else and is always pointing fingers at the first group, telling them they are going to hell if they don't repent, when in reality, they are the ones who Jesus will say "away from me, I never knew you." It reminds me of the story jesus was telling of the tax collector vs the pharisee who went to the temple to pray. The pharisee was thanking God that he wasn't "bad" like the tax collector and the tax collector was asking God for forgiveness and mercy, knowing he was lowly and wicked......which one was truly wicked? Or the story about how God's children asked Jesus, "when did we do these things for you, lord?" When the others who were turned away (the goats I believe) were claiming that they did all these good works for Him and were upset and surprised they were being turned away. For years I've struggled with my salvation. I looked around and saw everyone else who went to church. Priding themselves on how close they "felt" to God, and how hlHe must be blessing them because they have 2 or 3 Mercedes Benz or Bmws sitting in their driveways while I'm sitting there wishing I could do the "good works" they claim they are doing for God. Then I learned that we don't do good works for God. He does them through us. I asked my pastor about it. I told him i didn't have any good works I could show for. He told me things that I had never even considered for "good works". Stuff I didn't think "I'm going to do that because That's a good work. Most of us do good works without even knowing it. Because it's not us doing them, but God, through us. I'd rather be a sheep wondering where my good works are, than a goat, bragging about all the good things I'm doing and trying to do, to please God.
Hi David, you mentioned in the video that, we should share, teach Christ if we understand free grace, sanctification, the feast, which I do (when I listen to yours and others videos). I really understand what you're saying and, I'm able to implement it in my daily life. Right afterwards though, I open Luke, eager to learn more about the prodigal son but, I don't see, read the depths that I have received by listening to you just moments ago. Would you still say I'm ready to share Christ or, would you say I should wait till I can read similar truths out of the Word myself?
I'm just waiting for him - this is so crazy how dead inside I am how many things I've done and was turned over- reprobate, apostate thinking I've committed the unpardonable sin - committing suicide 7 times bc I felt him leave - here I am 15 years later ....waiting pray for me I am wanting to be renewed 🙏
This is exactly why people are starving for Truth, and the reason why I can't remain silent. I relate to Jeremiah 20: 7 O Lord, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me. 8 For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the Lord was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily. 9 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay. 10 For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him. 11 But the Lord is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten. 12 But, O Lord of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause. 13 Sing unto the Lord, praise ye the Lord: for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.
No. You have been born of the incorruptible seed of the Word of God, which lives and abides forever (1 Peter 1:23). You have been sealed with the Spirit of promise, which is the pledge guaranteeing your inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession (Ephesians 1:13-14), when God brings you home to Himself as His treasure that He bought. No one can pluck you from His hand (John 10:28).
@@davidbenjamininchrist but I had a dream one night after I had backslidden where I was left in an apocalyptic world while my sister in christ who is a prophet now got away. It was not my imagination.
No, I'm just helping you think through this. Don't trust dreams and visions. You're supposed to test everything by the word. Chances are you've got some kind of charismatic background. If you think your sister is a prophet. And a lot of times in the charismatic circles they just open themselves up to any demonic thing that comes through and call it God because it's supernatural. Many times so-called prophets are operating almost like a witch with a familiar Spirit. Everything has to be tested by the word.
I know the prodigal's long walk back to the Father's house...deliberating on how to say the perfect things in order to gain acceptance, determined to keep walking towards Him with cement boots on, hoping He still loves me, but expecting to now be seen less than a son in His eyes. But His love and grace abounds and before you know it He's chasing You down and loving on you with a surprising, humbling and most beautiful love and welcome home party. It's amazingly unexplainable.
Praise Jesus.
Thanks for putting this out today. God bless
Wow - that thought really blessed me, Sam Sam!
@@PatrickAntongiovanni I feel the same about you bubba. Thankful for your generosity of kindness and encouragement. God bless you
I love the cement boots analogy.😂. Yes I have experienced relapses and the long walks back to the Father.🥺
If God won't let Christians get into bad sin, I'd be dead. I was receiving the chastisement all the way through it. We do have a long leash, but he will bring us back when we've learned what is in us, i.e. nothing good.
@@JesusC375 yeah, it's been a tough couple of weeks with stuff on TH-cam and other stuff. I've just got to hide in Christ and rest in him. It's your cat doing ok?
At the end when you’re saying that we should speak about Christ being everything to us. I wanted to say that my brother and sister in law came over to visit the other day (both believers) and I began to talk about all that God was showing me (and although I don’t communicate very well when I speak) they later texted me and told me how encouraged they were by my testimony of what the Father is doing and showing me about Jesus being my everything 💝
I helped to refresh someone and that makes me refreshed too.
amen!!!!!!
Dang. Dang. As I was listening to this I was thinking “dang this man really knows God” and it’s so clear to see. This video has helped me so much, thank you God for using this man and I ask that you bless him more than he can ever understand HALLELUJAH
Amen…and May he bless us too!
Amen and Amen.
Nothing Shall separates us from the love of CHRIST , tribulation ,distress , persecution, famine nakedness peril or sword ⚔️
I’ve Always been a people pleaser , now dealing with chronic pain I don’t have patience for that , I give the truth bluntly like it or not lol , Interesting how GOD used what I’m going through to stop pleasing , life is serious and short people need the truth not comfort , great message brother, 👏🤩👑
Shannyn Tritton thanks for your advice I appreciate it , ya it’s very hard sometimes but it really has brought me closer to JESUS, I pray and rely on him daily , I have recently moved to Seattle area have a new doctor and he really is helping me with more options , this trial I’m in GOD has used , I have more empathy, it has refined me , if that makes sense, but I’m the midst of it I don’t give up on healing , your kind word is encouraging , thanks bless you sister ,prayers for your pain in lumbar area , 👑💞🙏
Oh wow 😲! I can totally relate to what you just said. When I am rejected by others or I am impatient and irritable, I just look to the Father and lean on His righteousness not my own. God bless you and praying for your pain and your husband right now.🙏❤️🙏
" the silence is scarier than the discipline " this just about saved me from hours of panic attacks thank you.
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Oh my gosh yes!!! I have gone through the same thing!!! It’s so hard to find someone who understands where I’m coming from when I mention the struggle of this!! 😭😭😭 The Lord clearly has led me to your page! It popped up out of NOWHERE a couple days ago. Everything you talk about I’ve gone through and am going through and it’s so helpful to hear your help and experience. The Lord has showed me the same scriptures you have mentioned about this.
Thank you so much for your videos. You have no idea how much I needed this. God bless you!
How are you now?
Back in 1999 I herd the gospel and believed. Within a year I had fallen away and was a wreck. Later on on September 7th of 2021 I had been a meth user for 7 years or so . I found myself on my knees in my mom's apartment, I felt like there was a hand around my heart and lungs sneezing every time I tried to stand back up .I was literally on my face in the floor crying and pleading to God to help me. I've been clean ever since and I now I know that I know that I'm saved. And I'm learning more everyday. Thank you brother for your teaching of the word .God bless 😇🥰🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
How ironic..I had to finally leave the church,to find the Holy Spirit and fellowship back again.
Praise God,I'm free.💗
Come to the feast! 💥💯
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Praise God!!! This was such a Spirit filled utterance. God is so good! I am saved because I am one of the bad guys!!!
Amen!
Thank God for His grace. Justification is deeper than we know. We have everything secured for us in justification. We have boldness before God. We have His endless grace, mercy, and care.
When people go on and on about how much "grace through faith in Christ only" believers "love" sin, all I hear is a weird sort of jealously - like they wish THEY could be the ones out sinning away. I find it repulsive. A person who has been set free by the gospel isn't looking around at where they can dip their toe in sin. What the gospel has done for me is to rejoice when the Holy Spirit leads me away from sinful behavior, thoughts, or deeds. Grace does NOT cause me to look in resentment and jealousy upon another believer who may be bound up in sin. I see now the blessing of not indulging the flesh.
I know we shouldn't be thinking of sinners as on a spectrum, but I find there is greater celebration within me when someone who has struggled with more morally egregious sins comes to the simplicity of the gospel and believes. (I say "more morally egregious" to mean by our human standards. I realize God's standard is PERFECTION! Praise the Lord that Christ paid the penalty!) All that to say, yes, some believers step into the shoes of the older brother, despising the same grace that saved them. I've been there. I've been judgmental and secretly hoping someone gets their comeuppance for their atrocious behavior, but all glory to God, He is refining that tendency in me. I am no better than they. I still struggle with this...especially with the recent climate on YT...my flesh is provoked all too frequently. And, yes, I've considered blasting people who are making such sinister accusations, but I suspicion it would not be received. All I can do is pray for the Body of Christ as we navigate this fallen world. The attacks, while demoralizing, have shed more light on the gospel, so in that sense, I see it as a blessing.
Well said 🙌
Amen 😭🙏🕊️✝️
This is Awesome news..I was a starving daughter. What a relief.
I'm hungry for Christ.
I want to come to the Feast. 👑
You blessed me so much:)
Psalm 23 vs 5,6
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies; thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. 🙏
If only I was you
@@Julia-ot8snare you ok? Whats going on?
I grew up in a family that was afflicted with addictions. I have come to understand gaslighting and cognitive dissonance.
Just yesterday it came to me that the last church I attended I was experiencing spiritual gaslighting and cognitive dissonance (chaos) but thanks be to God, a brother who brought osas into my life, prayer studying Hebrews, listening to u, Eva…the spirit said loud and clear get out of this chaos!!!
Aaah now I am blessed as I grow in the knowledge of Christ…to rest for the first time in my life!!!
Thank u David!
Thank you Father!
This channel is helping me so much. God bless you.
Thank you for sharing so honestly brother , God bless you ! Amen !
Amen ! Sharing this with other saints
You my brother are on fire! Loved this message. Blessing David
The Lord encouraged me through the teaching in this video. Sanctification by faith is a truth that I do not see taught very often. I believe that most Christian circles without even knowing it teach sanctification by works. We need Jesus to save us and we need Jesus to live the Christian life. As we received Him we also walk in Him by faith. Keep preaching brother. I will pray for you because Satan doesn't want believers to understand true freedom in Christ.
I had a thought yesterday, but even Jesus himself was tempted by the enemy. The enemy still visited him and went about his shenanigans. We're all on the radar! I am 110% guilty of falling for those temptations at times in my life. And if the enemy visited Jesus, he's visiting everyone. We need Christ, and more, and more, and more, Christ with extra Christ😄👍 can't remember exactly why I thought of this, but I think because of people thinking we won't do certain things if we're saved. I know for a fact satan is visiting them too, and no you haven't been sinless for 40 years🙄 come on now lol
Amen!
Hello Brother David, just wanted to let you know. Thank you for your teaching… I have been learning alot in the past 3 to 4 years. I was raised in a mixture type church and didn’t know. How to read the scriptures. I thank God for the understanding and am very greatful for your teaching. I for one was raised in a charasmania type church and was always under much condemnation and always asking God for forgiveness… till I started listening to the Grace teaching . I have realize that I was all wrong and that repent ment ( to change your mind ) and also started looking up other words like Gentile (unbeliever) which we are know longer, but. a new creature IN Christ Jesus once we have believed . I’ve gotten deeper understanding and I am greatful to God for that, and also to you brother. Thank you for in dept teaching, I’m bedridden, disabled and blessed, God bless you Brother Dave…Semper Fi
ptl!!
Yea Praise The Lord, Hallelujah, Amen!!! ❤️🔥✝️😊❤️
For great is your reward!!!!
Oh my gosh! David, I knew a young woman that loved the Lord passionately even though she was abusing various illicit drugs, sex and incarceration. She would even witness to others while doing these things. Shortly after being released from prison she fell back into drugs. She rolled her vehicle during a drug binge and was pinned under her car on a dark desolate highway. I have no doubt that she was saved but was taken out early. This is what her pastor counseled the family on. I was close friends with her sister.
God really brought this video back in my life to teach me that im pretty much what your nteaching in this video just roaming now not thinking of the fact im already justified daily kimda doing rhe religion thing and much to my embarassment i think my conscienece has been bothered and went to thay dont care mode a few times . Or thinking im better then others ... Lord help me praise God for using.this message which im sure he is using to help many .God bless
14:05 back for a second helping. Listening first through a headphone while getting breakfast, and I stopped dead in my tracks here. "Doublemindedness is believing Christ is the entrance, but YOU are the way." OH MY MERCY. Your eloquence with words blesses me tremendously - this is the EXACT description of what I uncovered in the past 6 months - I have fought with my flesh, angered at it, thinking it is the precise reason why no one I talk to comes to Christ - it's somehow my fault because of my presentation, my attitude, my wording, and now I'm a failure to God because I can't soul win worth a dang. (See - even that was about me.) My prayer - even commented on one of your vids - was that I could be some use to God BEFORE Christ return (up to this point, for the past year, I've looked for his return by "watching" *wretch rapture channels (not even knowing that was the name of the channels, or what I was doing) Either way, it's all about me - and that is the excruciating nature that crucifying the flesh will root out. I am thankful that I can come to the Word, read the truth and preach the Gospel to myself - I feel like I"m drycleaning my head more and more the more I study. God did a miracle for me this week - I'm not sure I could even explain it, but it had to do with writing the Word down and looking at cross-referenced verses. I'm now a kid in a candy store with the Bible!!!!
I get it... I love it... unfortunately I am lousy at speaking it. Please pray for me to speak the truth simply. I think I make it to complicated. Help me Lord. 🙏
My Brother I'm only 5 mins into this video but already I've never heard a brother/sister talk about their walk/testimony that resonates so much with me! I too went from unbelief to belief - and from a liar (i enjoyed lying, I felt like i was good at it and that it was a useful tool) to now being unable to lie!! as you say now rather than lying Im painfully honest (i also lack certain social skills/cues) but now i realise also I wasnt even a good liar i was just lying to myself about that 😂
Havent watched one of your videos for months so to jump back in and hear this really filled me encouragement! Much love!!
The one thing I think is hugely different in our walks, almost polar opposites, is that in your early stages you talk of having a strong aversion to sin (which you say was somewhat caused by a fleshly zeal/legalism) - whereas for me since I came into faith (3-4 years ago) i tried to surround myself with christians, cos I thought if this is what I am now surely is only good to surround myself by like minded people... oh dear lol... this last 3-4 years Ive just seen how christians can be far from God in their hearts and grew a real aversion to legalism/fleshly zeal - BUT im still smoking weed here everyday so I worry Im wondering if Ive gone to far down this way of thinking!
I relate heavily to this video.
Wow! I have a similar story as this! When I found out I am saved totally by grace I went and sinned which to me was going out to the bars and having drinks. I never went out looking to pick up men, however. I was completely done with doing that! I didn’t like doing this, though. Eventually, I came across your videos which was recently. I am still learning about the things that you teach and it’s difficult to grasp sometimes but I love it! Thanks for the great teachings. ❤️😄
AMEN
The lies we tell ourselves are the worst. I have spent my entire adult life in fear, doubt, worry even though 2 Tim 1:7 was the life verse I adopted when I got my first Bible at age 26. Growing up Catholic, in legalistic bondage, and then I entered a cult. They taught me how to read the Bible and use a concordance, but the pastor sleeping with all the woman set us over the edge. We left immediately, and my hubby threw out the IC at that point. I ended up in NAR churches, then at the shut down I went to Calvary Chapels! One disastrous outfit after another!!! I've now become a completely opposite Christian. I preached, loved and judged. Now I'm just annoyed. It's terrible, and I've mentally tortured myself now for 3 yrs. All I can do right now is preach the Gospel to myself and pray that if He tarries, I can get my inheritance correct in THIS flesh suit.
Amen.
Great teaching - thank you brother!
Thank you brother, anyone who says that a Christian couldn't sin a certain sin on a regular basis without God stopping them by chastening doesn't understand that God sometimes allows a believer to fall deep into the depths of satan to bring them to the end of themselves. Judah was shocked when they were carried away to idolatrous Babylon. God was giving them over to their fill of idols. Basically saying okay, you refuse time & again to stop committing adultery with those filthy idols, go live in the midst and have your fill of them & THEN you will come to your senses & realize how much better it is to serve Me. Just like giving them the quail till it became loathsome.
We can't see how God is chastening His children so we can't say God would NEVER allow a "true" Christian to continue in a certain transgression.
yes exactly. good analogies too
@@davidbenjamininchrist 😇💕😎👍
In the 8. minute of this video dogs started to bark, we got a message there :)
2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
Philippians 3 (KJV)
Thanks for food.... :)
This is JUST AWESOME
Amen Brother
Thank YOu brother
Thank you, David. Perhaps all believers eventually will be in both the place of the prodigal and in the place of the older brother. How wonderful to come to Jesus and stay in Him! Matthew 11:28 -30,
Drunk drivers doing 90mph on ice, a freshly scorned woman, a nest of black widows above your bed, a serial killer high on meth, an EF5 tornado in a trailer park.
No:
"The seared conscience, doubleminded person who thinks they're serving God, is the most dangerous thing I've ever seen"
That had tears running down my face 😂😂😂
This is good teaching! Real good!
Needed this 🧼❤️
After a bundle of videos, I understand what you meant by dealing with people sensitively, and having a seared conscience. After I had dealt with that pastor who made me feel stupid and unknowledgeable, you had told me that I shouldn't get into the word just to gain knowledge, but to study it to learn Christ. I heard it, and I understood what you were saying and theory. But I still fell into the trap of trying to learn just so I could be more intelligent.
It's funny, certain events have transpired that brought me to this point, and now I understand why I have felt like bees were buzzing like crazy in my head. I would grow calm in preaching the gospel to myself, or my wife, or talking to her about the riches of Christ, but when I wasn't doing that I felt a strange slight consistent anxiety. My focus was off. 👍 I didn't even know how to explain it, or really identify it until this moment though. Praise Jesus that He is my justification, sanctification, and reward! There's a lot of stuff making sense now lol. Smh. I'm glad but... Im irritating sometimes 😋
One more comment lol , I’ve been worried about my husband salvation, praying for him , well my dear friend had a dream my hubby was at her house setting at her table hungry 😋, hallelujah 👏
I'm listening for a second time and getting an entirely different TIMELY message ("when the student is ready, the teacher appears.") Wanted to ask about your hubby!
@@catherinegray1367 amen 🙏 my hubby is home doing good he has some ptsd that we are working thru but it’s a down right miracle , it was a journey I don’t care to go thru again but he has a testamony now and so do I what JESUS did , the scripture in psalms that I know 100 percent truth is (many are the afflictions of the righteous but the Lord delivers them out of them all )!!! We all are going to have trials but we need to know JESUS works all things for good , GOD BLESS 🙏
Oops I was referring to his trial when he had critical covid I didn’t realize this was from 3 years ago lol , he is a believer a new babe , God is good ,
At this point Chad's subscribers are harassing me on my latest video and telling me he's not a believer in eternal security. The man needs to come out of hiding, make his stance clear & stick with it. I saw his most recent video where he confessed he believes in it and I know for a fact he's preached on it before. There' is A LOT of confusion among his subscribers and I'm being lumped in by some as apart of this controversy when I had nothing to do with it short of being made privy to it.
I hear you the whole thing is being blamed on me like somehow I attacked him and I had nothing to do with the whole thing it was his own subscribers that got confused and the Lourdes shippers then weaponized his message that attacked Grace. I would advise just staying out of it. People are going to have all kinds of perceptions we cannot manage people's perceptions are we will become politicians. Just keep teaching the truth
@@davidbenjamininchrist AMEN
Also I hope you do realize that believing in eternal security is not the same thing as believing the gospel. I'm sure you're aware of the calvinist Tulip and the perseverance of the saints. They will tell you that it is by grace through faith and you cannot lose your salvation but they will modify the definition of the word faith to keep you guessing as to whether or not you really believed. The only evidence today that I really believed is the fact that I believe the gospel. If I look to anything else for Assurance of having eternal light or salvation I am corrupting the gospel. Yes there is a difference between salvation and discipleship and birth and growth and confusing those can be bad enough. But if you look to growth to see whether or not you've been born you're really in a world of hurt.
Of course David. Anything that compromises the gospel is a damnable heresy, as per the bible. If you are referring to a few comments I made about Lord shippers, you'll note, especially in my reply to many on a mission, that I was clear if anyone tries to redefine faith, add, or subtract from the gospel, then what they are preaching is accursed and they need to repent. However, most Lord shippers I have encountered do not compromise the gospel, but simply believe good works will manifest outwardly.
Like you say, that's a bad message and puts people in for a world of hurt, but the integrity of the gospel remains uncompromised. Many usually end up slipping from one deception to the next. Denying OSAS shows that they do not believe the blood of Christ sufficient, that is an immediate cause for dismissal. But most calvinist do not believe the gospel and will tell you as much if you ask them to confess it.
No I'm not talking about any comments you've made brother. I'm saying that his message created a lot of confusion in his community for his Subs.
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Isn't it ironic that the ones who don't think they're saved, think that God must be upset with them, and that they know very little about their faith, thinking that they haven't done anything good for God, are often times the ones whom jesus is Blessing and are actually saved, vs those who are haughty, think they know what's best for everyone else and is always pointing fingers at the first group, telling them they are going to hell if they don't repent, when in reality, they are the ones who Jesus will say "away from me, I never knew you." It reminds me of the story jesus was telling of the tax collector vs the pharisee who went to the temple to pray. The pharisee was thanking God that he wasn't "bad" like the tax collector and the tax collector was asking God for forgiveness and mercy, knowing he was lowly and wicked......which one was truly wicked?
Or the story about how God's children asked Jesus, "when did we do these things for you, lord?" When the others who were turned away (the goats I believe) were claiming that they did all these good works for Him and were upset and surprised they were being turned away.
For years I've struggled with my salvation. I looked around and saw everyone else who went to church. Priding themselves on how close they "felt" to God, and how hlHe must be blessing them because they have 2 or 3 Mercedes Benz or Bmws sitting in their driveways while I'm sitting there wishing I could do the "good works" they claim they are doing for God. Then I learned that we don't do good works for God. He does them through us. I asked my pastor about it. I told him i didn't have any good works I could show for. He told me things that I had never even considered for "good works". Stuff I didn't think "I'm going to do that because That's a good work. Most of us do good works without even knowing it. Because it's not us doing them, but God, through us. I'd rather be a sheep wondering where my good works are, than a goat, bragging about all the good things I'm doing and trying to do, to please God.
Hi David, you mentioned in the video that,
we should share, teach Christ
if we understand free grace, sanctification, the feast, which I do (when I listen to yours and others videos). I really understand what you're saying and, I'm able to implement it in my daily life.
Right afterwards though, I open Luke, eager to learn more about the prodigal son but, I don't see, read the depths that I have received by listening to you just moments ago.
Would you still say I'm ready to share Christ or, would you say I should wait till I can read similar truths out of the Word myself?
Share what you have. Don't compare yourself to someone else. As you share what you have God will give you more
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Yes, nice one
People who don’t believe in being buffeting have never been buffeted.😂
Truth!
This happened to me :(
I'm just waiting for him - this is so crazy how dead inside I am how many things I've done and was turned over- reprobate, apostate thinking I've committed the unpardonable sin - committing suicide 7 times bc I felt him leave - here I am 15 years later ....waiting pray for me I am wanting to be renewed 🙏
How are you now Jaime?
@@jaimeracey1976 how are you now??
I hope you are okay.
Hi hw r u@@Julia-ot8sn
This is exactly why people are starving for Truth, and the reason why I can't remain silent. I relate to Jeremiah 20:
7 O Lord, thou hast deceived me,
and I was deceived:
thou art stronger than I,
and hast prevailed:
I am in derision daily,
every one mocketh me.
8 For since I spake, I cried out,
I cried violence and spoil;
because the word of the Lord
was made a reproach unto me,
and a derision, daily.
9 Then I said, I will not make mention of him,
nor speak any more in his name.
But his word was in mine heart
as a burning fire shut up in my bones,
and I was weary with forbearing,
and I could not stay.
10 For I heard the defaming of many,
fear on every side.
Report, say they, and we will report it.
All my familiars watched for my halting, saying,
Peradventure he will be enticed,
and we shall prevail against him,
and we shall take our revenge on him.
11 But the Lord is with me as a mighty terrible one:
therefore my persecutors shall stumble,
and they shall not prevail:
they shall be greatly ashamed;
for they shall not prosper:
their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.
12 But, O Lord of hosts, that triest the righteous,
and seest the reins and the heart,
let me see thy vengeance on them:
for unto thee have I opened my cause.
13 Sing unto the Lord, praise ye the Lord:
for he hath delivered the soul of the poor
from the hand of evildoers.
David, I sent you an email about this video. ✝️
got it thank you!!
Can a born again believer lose there salvation?
No. You have been born of the incorruptible seed of the Word of God, which lives and abides forever (1 Peter 1:23). You have been sealed with the Spirit of promise, which is the pledge guaranteeing your inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession (Ephesians 1:13-14), when God brings you home to Himself as His treasure that He bought. No one can pluck you from His hand (John 10:28).
@@davidbenjamininchrist but I had a dream one night after I had backslidden where I was left in an apocalyptic world while my sister in christ who is a prophet now got away. It was not my imagination.
Oh
Well because of your dream, should we now conclude the gospel is not true and God is not faithful but is a liar?
@@davidbenjamininchrist no its just confusing for me. It was so scary. Sorry I don't mean to imply anything.
No, I'm just helping you think through this. Don't trust dreams and visions. You're supposed to test everything by the word. Chances are you've got some kind of charismatic background. If you think your sister is a prophet. And a lot of times in the charismatic circles they just open themselves up to any demonic thing that comes through and call it God because it's supernatural. Many times so-called prophets are operating almost like a witch with a familiar Spirit. Everything has to be tested by the word.