The Pure In Heart
by Taylor Little
May 18, 2025 · Centerpointe Apostolic Church (Murfreesboro, TN)
Kind: sermon
Scripture: Matthew 5:8, John 12:19, Habakkuk 2:14, Psalms 24:3-4, Psalms 51:10, Matthew 15:8, Proverbs 4:23, Jeremiah 17:9, Leviticus 19:17, Daniel 1:17, Proverbs 16:2

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want to talk to us this morning from the book of Matthew chapter 5 verse 8 says blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God. Sister Chassity inspired me last week showing all of her pictures and taking us down memory lane. And so was inspired and I wanted to share my own picture. Let me see if they can throw it up there for me. This is at one of our daughter works. It was one of the campuses of TPOM at the time. This was the Mount Juliet work under brother Armstrong at the time. And we were meeting in the Lions Club because we had not acquired facilities yet. Summers, y'all, y'all, this is nostalgia for you guys. Y'all y'all have to remember this. And this is one of the times when I first came back from children's camp and the presence of God just consumed me so strongly at camp. I'm not sure if this is when I received the gift of the Holy Spirit, but I do know that this was within a matter of weeks of God filling me with his spirit and me responding to the presence of God. Just a little bit more history. So, that lady in the red there, that's actually pastor's grandmother. That's sister Senior Allen, old general of the faith there, directing me with what to do with her hands. And then you had to have a spotter.

you had to have someone to confirm what was happening. And so there you see sister Gail Robinson who was watching to make sure. And then of course my mother's in the back there rejoicing. And so I just I love this picture because for me I have not by any stretch of the imagination have I lived any type of perfect life. I I've not made all the right choices. And to be honest, I feel that I've made more wrong choices than I have right ones. But it's just that grace and peace of God that follows after me and it carries me and it and it and it keeps me. But there is one element that if I trace back just as far as I can remember, I have always had a true desire to see God. Even when I didn't understand what that meant, e even when I didn't know h how that would even come to be in my life, I always had this just consuming desire to see the Lord. And one of the reasons I cleave to scriptures is not because I'm a preacher. And to be honest with you, I don't even cleave to scriptures so I can just measure up or check all of the boxes. I love the scriptures because they are a road map for me on how I can see God and I want to see God and I want to see him in my life.

There's a passage of scripture that I absolutely love. I this passage is just such a wonderful story. It's when Jesus is making that triumphal entry into Jerusalem in that holy week and he saddled the donkey and he's riding into the city and you have to understand that the people have now heard about the miracle of Lazarus. Lazarus has been raised from the dead. And so this has caused quite the stir as you can imagine that a man in your hometown you know was dead was dead in the grave for three days and now has come back to life. And so all of the Jews in this Holy Week, this feast of Passover, they're coming and they're surrounding the streets and they see the Messiah riding in on the donkey and there's this there's this just quite wonderful statement. that just makes me laugh and it makes me happy that the Pharisees, they say this in John 12 and verse 9 reading in the ESV it says, "So the Pharisees said to one another, you see that you are gaining nothing. Look, the whole world has gone after him." The heartbeat of the apostolic church should be that the whole world is going after him. We do not preach signs, miracles and wonders because we want to elevate a church, because we want to elevate a man, because we want to elevate a ministry. We preach in the signs and wonders and miracles of Jesus Christ because we want the whole world to go after Jesus Christ.

That's it. That's it. Any other motive, any other purpose is wrong at its foundation. It is to see him high and lifted up. I often I've often prayed this verse of scripture in my time alone with God before I was ever standing on platforms, before I was ever given a microphone in an amazing church to preach. This is a prayer that as long as I can remember when I was a teenager, when I was looked over and I and I wasn't the who's who and the what's what, there was a place in my prayer where I would go and I would shut the door and I would pray to the father in secret and I would just cry out this verse in Habacook 2 and 14. It says, "For the whole earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea." And I pray, oh God, let your glory cover the earth just as the waters clothe the sea. Let your glory fill this world. I want to see God and I want to live in such a way where if somebody is around me for any length of time at all, my prayer is when they spend that time with me that something raises up in their heart and something raises up in their mind and says, "Hey, I want to know that God. Hey, I need to know why do you act that way and why do you respond that way and why do you treat people that way?

It's nothing to do with us. It is about this man called Jesus who has revealed himself to us in a perfect way. And so we are that people that should cause the world to go after him. I speak publicly at a hundred words per minute. So if I'm going to preach a 30 minute sermon, I type out 3,000 words. If I'm going to preach a 40-minute sermon, you got it. And preach I'm going to type out 4,000 words. If I know I'm going to tell a few stories that are going to be off my script, I'll type up about 3500 words. I'll leave a few bullet points. And I've just kind of perfected the whole art of feeling the time of the pull pit. And so earlier this week, I was preparing for this service and I like to spend a lot of time on my openings cuz I in my personal assessment of preaching, if you can just get everybody, you know, tied in together when you're opening a sermon, you know, you can kind of do whatever you want the rest of the time, but you know, just get everybody focused. Now you know my secret. And so I had probably spent at least five hours on the opening of my sermon for today. No joke. That's how long I typically would spend. That's just my opening. It's been 5 hours and Tuesday night I was I was typing everything out and I had I even had Chat GBT draw me a picture based off of the opening of my sermon.

Isn't that beautiful? And I was like, you know, I'm just having fun. I'm just all And so I'm talking to the Lord kind of like my six-year-old talks to me sometimes. And I was so proud of my drawing and so proud of my words. And I love the way they were ebbing and flowing together. And I was like, "It's going to be good, Lord. you know, it's going to be good. This going to be a full tailor show. But I just I didn't feel his anointing. I just didn't feel it. And so I got frustrated because I'm like, "Lord, we do this together. Me and you, you and me, I and you and the works and the fruit and the vine and all that." And I'm like, "Hey." So I was just sitting there. I'm like, "I don't I don't feel your presence." And so I said, "Lord, kind of frustrated. I said, 'Is there something else you want me to talk to your people about?' And I promise you, this is what he said. He said, 'I'm so glad you asked. I promise you, that's what he said to me. And he made me close my notes. He made me get down into a time of prayer. And the Lord began to give me words that he wanted me to speak today. And I will tell you, I normally preach with an iPad and I normally preach with 3,000 to 4,000 words, but the Lord has constrained me today to speak only as he gives me the words.

And so, I need you to know from this moment forward, nothing that I might say or might not say is anything that I wanted to do. I wanted to preach a completely different sermon. It was so awesome. Come ask me about it. But that's not what the Lord had. I knelt down, Lord, what do you want to say to your people? Speak, Lord, and I'll listen. And the Lord spoke back to me. My people want the power of my hands, the prominence of my presence, but they don't want the purity of my heart. He said, "My people, they cleave to their pride." his words. Some of my people have convinced themselves that they're saved because they give me their minds on Sunday and Wednesdays, but for the rest of the week, they never bring me their hearts. So, I've come to talk to us today as a body. I'm not rushing. I'm not putting on a show. I've come to ask what the Lord told me to ask his people. And that is, are there any that have a pure heart that want to see God? Psalms 24:es 3 and 4, who shall ascend unto the hill of the Lord? Is there anybody that's hungry for that? Is there anybody that wants that experience to ascend unto the hill of the Lord? Who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands and a pure heart who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

God is looking for a people that are not consumed with outward performance but an inward purity. Jesus's words are not not from the Bible as he was speaking to me. Jesus said that he was meek and lowly, but all too many times he looks down on the apostolic church and all he can find is high and lofty. And he can't identify with that. He can't yoke up with high and lofty when his very existence was meek and lowly. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. A pure heart does not equal a perfect performance. Having a pure heart that can see God is not having a life without blemish, without faults, and without failure. The woman at the well, think of it, the first one that Jesus verbally said, "I am the Messiah." The first time he made the declaration on this planet was to the woman at the well. Go find your husband. Can't go find all five of them at the same time. Lord, you're going to have to give me a few days. Five husbands. An imperfect performance. This is how the discourse with the woman at the well starts. She starts in verse 11 by referring to him as sir. Then as the conversation goes on she moves up in verse 19 to prophet. Then in verse 25 she says Messiah. And by the end of their conversation it was savior of the world.

an imperfect life and an imperfect performance, but she had a pure heart. And at the right time, at the appointed time, she saw God. Now listen, I'm not excusing sin and I'm not excusing living our own way and doing our own thing. God forbid. The same Jesus who said don't throw stones was the same Jesus that said go and sin no more. So don't get it mixed up. Don't don't don't get what I'm saying this morning mixed up. But I do want to come because the Lord spoke to me in this time and I I'm I am about to speak directly to someone's spirit. If you will hear me, this is a word from the Lord specifically regarding ministry. There is somebody under the sound of my voice this morning that at one time in your life, you pursued ministry with all your heart, but you gave up. And here's what the Lord spoke to me for you. Someone has been locked up by a demon of discouragement. You have tried. You have failed. You have found yourself in the balance and declared that you will never measure up. You stopped bringing your heart to God because you were tired of breaking his. Hear the word of the Lord this morning. Come back to him. Come back to him. He was never after a perfect performance from you, sir. He was never after a perfect performance from you, ma'am.

He came for you the first time because you had a pure heart and it brought him to you. Bring it again. Bring your pure heart again. Bring that that time of prayer where you said, "God, I want to see you high and lifted up. Not about performance. It's about a pure heart." David, King David. Oh, King David. What a life he lived. What stories we could tell, what stories have been told, what stories have been written. Hollywood could not do a better job writing a story about the rise and fall of a king, a man that was after God's own heart. And David didn't have a clean performance. David didn't have a track record that was not without grotesque sin. Dirty stuff. David got himself involved in killing a man so he could marry his wife. having a child born in sin, the child's taken away. And in the middle of this experience that David is having, Psalms 51:10, create in me a clean heart, oh God. We do the Psalms a disservice by reading them and not praying them. That, oh God, was not meant to be read. It was meant to be prayed in the spirit. Create in me a clean heart, oh God. Oh God, and renew within me a right spirit. I have a question for the church. Where are the fresh tears in the altar? When did we stop crying?

At what age does it come upon you where you don't cry at an altar anymore? How many times do you have to read the Bible through before you stop crying in front of God? This is what the Lord spoke to me. He said, "People that are too prideful to cry and repent at an altar or at danger of spending an eternity where all there is is weeping and nashing of teeth. You can cry now or you can cry later. The choice is ours. I have spent so long in prayer this week, making sure my heart was right and that I've heard from God. But I'm coming to tell someone today, "Oh, God, help me. This is the last time that God's going to come knocking at the door of one of your hearts. This is the last time that he's going to come and say, "Do you want to see me?" This is the last time. Blaspheming the Holy Ghost is not speaking in tongues like a crazy person as a kid. Blaspheming the Holy Ghost is the Holy Ghost coming upon you and you saying not today. And the Holy Ghost comes upon you and you say, "Not today." And there comes a time where he will not come upon you anymore. Blaspheming the Holy Ghost is the unpardonable sin. Because if you reject the only mediator between you and God, what hope do you have?

didn't want to preach this today. Well, we're oneness apostolics. We're oneness believers. I repented of my sin and I was baptized in Jesus' name. And there was a time where I did go to the altar and I did cry at the altar and I did receive the Holy Ghost and I did all that and I spoke in tongues. So you see now, Brother Taylor, I'm in covenant with God. So were the Pharisees and so were the Sadducees and so were the Jews that missed his coming. They were also in covenant with him. They also repented of their sins. They also were baptized in Jesus name. Not really, but you understand what I'm saying. They were in covenant, too. And they missed the Messiah. They went to synagogue Sunday after Sunday. They went to graduation service. They went to kids. All they did all the things. And they missed him. They missed him sitting in covenant with him. I can't imagine how Jesus felt. Maybe I can. I'm think I'm kind of feeling it right now. Can't imagine how Jesus felt when he had sent them love letters for thousands of years. And he had sent them the best of the best, Elijah, Jeremiah, all these prophets of God. And he said, 'Hey, my only desire for you is not that you would build a kingdom, Elijah. I don't want you to build a house. I don't want you to have a lot of herds and a lot of donkeys and the only thing I want you to do is go to my people and say, "The Lord wants you and the Lord wants you back."

And for thousands of years, God had sent love letters to his people. And he said, "Hey, I'm coming. Behold, that thou shalt conceive and bear a son. and thou shalt call his name wonderful. Mighty God, the everlasting father. Oh, it's going to come from a little city in Bethlehem. She's going to have to ride on a donkey to be trans transported all the way to that city. He had sent them all of the notice. And when his time came and he was standing before them, they could not see him. And it was not because they didn't have the knowledge in their minds. It was because they didn't have the purity in their hearts. had nothing to do with how well they could quote Acts 2:38, my friend. Had nothing to do with how well they knew that there is one God. Had nothing to do with their knowledge of truth. It had to do with their heart after truth. And Jesus Jesus cried. Jesus wept. Jesus looked over the city of Jerusalem. Oh, how often I would have gathered you. How often I would I would have done all of these wonderful things, but you rejected me. And in Matthew 15:8, quoting the prophet Isaiah, this people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honorth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. Do you realize there were people that that applied to that heard that and they still didn't change their heart?

And I'm telling you, I'm telling you, I would say I don't understand. And I would say I can't comprehend. But the sad reality is I can understand and I can comprehend because I have seen not just here at this church, but I have seen in truth that people are preached to right on the pew that they're sitting in and their heart is not moved towards God. I have seen it and you have too. Why? Why keep our hearts far from him when he gives us an opportunity to bring our hearts to bring them? Adam and Eve missed the garden. The children of Israel missed out on the promised land for the first time. The Jews missed the voices of the prophets that were sent to Israel. Pharisees and the Jews and the Sadducees, they missed the Messiah. People with knowledge of God are going to miss the rapture. I felt my spirit to just remind the church, God is good. Heaven is real. Hell is a reality, my friends. Eternal separation from God is absolutely a reality. And none of us are exempt from that reality unless we repent and we get our hearts right and we turn to God. Jesus spoke much more about the horrors of hell than he did the splenders of heaven. Why? Why did he do that? Because he was coming after hardened hearts to let them know just because I'm good doesn't give you a free pass into heaven.

And just because I'm full of mercy and grace and truth, it doesn't excuse the hardness of our hearts. Could we just lift our hands? Could we just pray right now? Just talk to Jesus. Just talk to Jesus for just a moment. Doesn't have to be loud. I'm not asking for lifted voices. Could we just tell him, "Lord, we're here. God, we're here in this moment. Lord, we receive you in this moment, God. This is what scares me. This is what scares me. The condition of my heart is revealed by the conduct of my conversation. You can tell by the words that come out of my mouth what the condition of my heart is. It is a live report card to everybody around me. from the abundance of the heart. Jesus said, "The mouth speaks." And this is what this is this what the Lord told me. He said, "Taylor," he said, "Tell them they better pray for a revelation from my spirit because I'm going to come knocking at the door of their hearts and I'm going to begin to highlight things and if they refuse to listen to what I'm highlighting to them, then it will be no more." If a majority of your verbal communication is complaining, gossiping, backbiting, cursing your neighbor, cursing your situations, this is an indicator we Jesus did not come to condemn us. He's trying to send the light of his spirit to illuminate the condition of our heart so we could be saved.

I don't have a vendetta with anybody. I'm not trying to get back at anybody. I'm just trying to communicate that some of the communication that comes from our mouths. It is an indication that we need to get to an altar. It doesn't have to be in a Sunday, but oh God, it could be at your at your house and in your closet. You could say, "God, create in me a clean heart. Oh God. Oh, there's got to be desperation inside of you that God would do what only he can do. I complain. I gossip before. I've done backbiting before. I I've I Mariah and I a few months ago, I had to come to her and repent in some ways. And I said, "Babe," I said, "I'm going to try something new. I want to go in covenant with you." that in this house the only thing we're going to do moving forward is we're going to speak life and then a week later I was complaining about my big toe that got stubbed I'm not saying I hope you understand I'm not saying that just cuz I'm preaching this I've perfected all of this and to be quite frank it doesn't matter because I'm not speaking on my own accord this morning I promise you this I'm speaking only as the Holy Ghost directed me to speak I'm preaching on paper I've not done this I started preaching at 14 years old I ain't preached on paper since I was like 17 at a nursing home.

Proverbs 4:23, keep thy heart with all diligence. It is amazing to me that people can be so diligent about things that will not make it through the rapture. We're so diligent about things that when the fire of the end time comes, it is not going to survive the fire. It's going to burn. It's going to come to a crisp. And people are so diligent about these things. This is the way of the Gentiles. The Gentiles seek after their clothes, and the Gentiles seek after their food. This is what all the Gentiles seek after. the people that don't know God, the people that don't believe in God, the people that never heard or experienced his goodness. This should not be among us. So, we should keep our hearts with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life. Unforgiveness is not an option. Bitterness is not an option. Hatred towards somebody is not an option. Oh, well, I just don't like them. Oh, well, you better just get over it and take it to an altar. Well, this just hear this is the scriptures. That's rough preaching, but it's good stuff. It's in the book. Okay. Okay. Okay. This is what the Bible says. Jeremiah 17:9 says, "The heart is deceitful above all things." Your heart can be more deceptive to you than Satan himself. That that what is in you can deceive you more than if Satan came and had a conversation with you himself.

Oh, but I know my heart. That's fine. I like to try to know my heart, too. But I also try to get to an altar and say, "God, please send the light of your spirit and the revelation of your word. And anything that you bring out, I try my best to tell him, I will repent. I will do. I'll have the conversations I need to have. I'll say sorry. I'll do whatever I have to do because I want a pure heart. This is I'm not just preaching to center point. I'm just preaching to the church as a whole. I don't know why forgiveness became optional in the church. And people think that they forgive, but then their conversation rats them out. You can't be fake about forgiveness. You can't. Jesus couldn't even be fake about forgiveness. He was on the cross and he said, "Father, forgive them." This has to be a supernatural work of God because forgiveness is an impass against your spirit and your emotions. And those are not things that you can logic and reason out in your brain. You need the Holy Ghost. You need the Holy Ghost. You need the Holy Ghost to come and say, "Taylor, the Holy Ghost did it to me this week. I was all mad about something, man." And the Lord never lets me be mad ever. Just one time. Just let me just give me a minute.

I mean, this was in the morning. I was mad about something and I went running that morning and I was reading Leviticus and Leviticus in the NLT it's 19 and something I don't know 19 and6 or something literally says don't nurture hatred in your heart towards blank and the Lord's like Taylor you having fun nurturing that hatred in your heart get me five minutes I just got mad about this five minutes ago Lord Don't coddle and nurture and love on that hatred in your heart towards somebody. Don't you know how you coddle it and nurture it? You justify it with reasonable reasonable thoughts. Well, they did do this. They are that way. They did behave that way. I was right in this situation. And all you're doing is nurturing and coddling hatred and bitterness in your heart. And you got to get that stuff out. You've got to be a pure vessel. Oh, you don't have to be, but if you want to see God, you have to be. Jesus did not tell Peter to forgive 70* 7 so the brother could be free from the consequence of sin. He told Peter that so Peter could keep you free or so Jesus could keep you free from the bondage of other people's transgressions. When sin from someone else comes against you, it binds you up until you forgive them. The first time that you or I spoke in that heavenly language is because we repented of our sins.

We did it whole with all of our hearts. Jesus forgave us and that g that gives us a pure heart. And from the abundance of our heart, our mouth began to speak words of life that we could not control, that we could not understand. And God redeemed our spirits, our flow, our operation in the Holy Ghost, the ability in which we are able to speak in tongues. It's not everything. Okay? I'm not teaching that. I'm not teaching that it's everything. The fruit of the spirit has nothing to do with speaking in tonesues. Okay, is that a fair statement? Love, peace, joy. You don't have to speak in tonesues to show somebody you love them. Okay? You don't have to speak in tonesues to give your money and tithes and offering. Okay? You don't have to speak in tonesues necessarily to come to church. Maybe you do. I don't know. But anyway, I'm not making speaking in tonesues everything. Okay? So, nobody leave here saying, "Brother Taylor is making it all about speak." I'm not. I'm not. There's there is other things to living for God. But the fact of the matter is this. God did choose tongues to reign supreme over our spirits. The This ain't even in my notes, Lord. This is why I like notes, Lord. Okay. Okay. Okay. The control center of our bodies is the communication center of our brain. So, I read a study that said this.

It says, and I've done this my whole adult life. I love it. says, "If you're ever laying in bed and you can't go to sleep, just repeatedly tell yourself,"I am sleepy. I am sleepy. I am sleepy. I am sleepy." And your brain tells every cell in your body to prepare to get sleepy. And if you do that, your communication part of your brain has so much control over your body. It's the same thing. That's why they say life and death and the power of the tongue and all that other stuff. You say, "I am sick." And then you're going to get sick. Whatever. All I'm saying is there's a reason why Jesus said he wanted us to be filled with the Holy Ghost by evidence of speaking in tonesues. And as we continue our relationship and walk with him, that speaking in tonesues is a report card that says, "Okay, Lord, I if you if you need me to pull bitterness out of my heart, you need to pull unforgiveness out of my heart, you need to pull I'm going to speak in tonesues, I'm going to give you control of my heart." And he's able to reveal those things that need to come out of our lives. It matters because we want to see God. And I'm coming I'm coming to an end. I just cannot believe this. This is wild to me. I have like five pages left.

So weird to preach on paper. I don't know how the old guys did it. Last thing that the Lord spoke to me. I am bringing it to a close. Here's why having a pure heart matters. Having a pure heart positions us to receive the mind of Christ. And many people are overcome and overtaken by the situations they face because they don't have the mind of Christ. The mind of Christ gives us wisdom. It gives us knowledge and it gives us understanding. And when you have wisdom, knowledge, and understanding actively working in your life, you might walk through a situation that you did not anticipate. But because you have the mind of Christ working in you, it will not be long before all of those things will begin to diffuse all around you. Not that the situation changes, but it loses its power over you because you've got revelation. You've got understanding. You've got knowledge. All these things work together according to the purpose of those which are in Christ Jesus. And so you begin to walk in that wisdom, knowledge, understanding. This is what the Lord spoke to me. He said, he said, Taylor, he said, "The people are not concerned about having my mind because they haven't faced persecution yet." He said, ' But Taylor, there's going to come a time where persecution will come against the American church. And the only Christians that will endure are going to be the ones that have the mind of Christ.

The only ones that are going to make it through are going to be the ones that have my mind and can understand and can have wisdom and can have knowledge. And he brought me to the story of the Hebrew boys when Babylon came in took invaded Jerusalem and took all the young and took the best and the brightest and that is a form of persecution. That's a type and shadow of persecution. And the only thing that elevated those Hebrew boys was the Bible says in Daniel 1:17 it says God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom. God's intent for the end time church and his end time people are to be favored. Yes, we're going to experience persecution, but we're going to be favored through the persecution because we're going to have the mind of God that's going to operate in and through us. And we're going to experience an end time revival. But if our hearts aren't pure, we don't have the mind of Christ. If our hearts are not aligned with pure motives, we are not unlocked to his pure power. Proverbs 16:2 says this, "People may be pure in their own eyes, but the Lord examines their motives." There was a season of my life where the Lord was growing me. I love it when the Lord grows me. Not really. And just a lot of situations in my life.

Just the Lord. I preach and teach it this way. The Lord is like a acupuncturist. Like he knows exactly where to hit your buttons to get you to where he wants you to be. He knows exactly how to let things come into your life. And so I had went through such a season and it was not here. I'll just say that because I I'm going to talk about me preaching and teaching. But anyways, I was riding home in the car one day. I listened to a sermon and this is honest to God account. I'm driving down the interstate, 8:40. Driving down the interstate and I honest good honest to goodness I felt the hand of Almighty God come into the car and he like gripped my heart and he said, "Taylor, your heart has been septic." And in a moment, he began to play a real in my mind of all this preaching and teaching I had been doing from a pullpit. And because I had seeds of bitterness and seeds of unforgiveness in my heart, it was causing me to say things through deception. I didn't even know was wrong until he revealed it to me like a real Taylor. All of this stuff has been coming out of your mouth because you have undelt with situations in your heart. It's a septic heart. But he didn't reveal it to me to condemn me.

He revealed it to me to free me. He revealed it to me because he wanted all of the areas of my life to be issue free. Not really, but you understand. Guard your heart for from it are the issues of life. And God gave me very specific directions about how to deal with these situations. And thank God I was able to listen and to do what he had asked me to do. There's 613 laws that the Jews live by in the Old Testament. How would you sum it all up? Jesus Jesus said unto them, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart." Many people are not going to be deceived. Future tense. Many people are deceived. Why? Because they receive not a love for the truth. That's not a knowledge of the truth that exists in our minds. It's a love of the truth that seeps down into our hearts. And we've got to love truth. And his name is Jesus. I am the way, the truth, and the life. If everyone would stand this morning. This is the last thing Jesus spoke to me. Or not the last thing, is really all Jesus spoke to me. Let me say none of my stuff. My stuff was more fun. promise, man. I was going to preach us up, preach us around, preach us under everything that he spoke to me directly, I put it in green on my notes.

This is what he said. I knelt down. I got up from kneeling down. I took my iPad out. This is how much I didn't know what the Lord was going to do to me. I started writing it all down on my iPad in squibbles, like it was all sideways and whatever. Well, then I went to start to do note prep this week and the Lord he didn't say it to me, but as soon as I started to try to organize my thoughts, the anointing completely would start to lift from me. And I would put my notes away and he would be like, "Okay, here's the anointing." And then he was basically like, "You can you can protect your performance or you can speak my word." And I said, "Okay, I'll speak your word." This is what he said. Last thing he says, "If my people will let me into their hearts, I will eradicate every condition of their mind. We have more conditions of our mind than we're willing to admit." We do. We all have strongholds in our minds. We have lies that the enemy layers in our minds. God's constantly revealing things if we'll let him about strongholds in our minds that he has to change our thinking. Today is an example. I told the Lord, I said, "Lord, I feel so inadequate to preach without He wouldn't even let me fix my grammar, y'all.

I like when I was writing out my notes, I misspelled words and I like did things backwards and I tried to fix it and he would not let me do it. He said, "Taylor, you got a stronghold about your performance and not my presence." He said, "Taylor, you're more concerned about getting up and making your word sound pretty than just speaking what sayaith the word of the Lord." That's a stronghold he had to deliver me from this week. Today, I have only spoken as the Lord has allowed me to speak. And I honestly am just pleading. I have prayed. I have interceded in the Holy Ghost. And I am just pleading that there would be just an overwhelming cry from our hearts today that Lord, we want to see you and we want to open up our hearts to be as pure as they can. This altar is open today. I don't want to make it easy by transitioning the words. I want to feel the weight of our stubs today to this altar. This is our confession. Got to have a pure heart. I got to have a pure heart. I got to see you, God. Got to see you, God. Oh, God. Created me a clean heart. Please.