Stepping In Faith

The Remnant

• Stepping In Faith • Season 2 • Episode 1

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The line between genuine faith and religious performance has never been thinner. In this powerful opening to Season 2, we dive straight into a divine warning: a seducing spirit has been released that's capturing the ear gates and eye gates of believers everywhere.

What does it mean to be part of "the remnant" - those few faithful followers who remain steadfast amid widespread spiritual deception? We unpack the spirit of Jezebel, which contrary to popular belief, isn't merely about sexual immorality but primarily about control and perversion of God's word. This spirit doesn't just attach to women; it typically finds its home in men who then influence others away from true worship.

The most chilling reality we face is that many who call themselves Christians will one day hear Jesus say, "I never knew you." We examine the stark difference between cultural Christianity and true kingdom citizenship. When you truly encounter Christ, transformation is inevitable - producing fruit that can't be manufactured through human effort alone.

In a time of heightened division, we challenge listeners to consider whose side they're truly on. Kingdom citizens aren't defined by political parties or racial ideologies but by their allegiance to God's kingdom culture. The suffering that comes with authentic discipleship isn't punishment but refinement, producing faith and endurance that strengthen our testimony.

As judgment begins in the house of God, this is a critical moment to examine who you're following and being led by. Many leaders claiming to know God actually don't, and their followers will be led astray. Guard your heart, protect your spiritual gates, and commit to an authentic relationship with Jesus that transforms you from the inside out. The remnant may be small, but it remains faithful, spirit-led, and willing to suffer for Christ.

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Walter:

Welcome back to season two, not even welcome back. Welcome to season two.

Shanea:

Welcome back. Welcome back.

Walter:

Welcome back no we're not doing that. First of all, that's Diddy.

Shanea:

Oh yeah, that is. I was thinking about Mace, though no. I wasn't thinking about Diddy at all, no, well, no, it's an old song.

Walter:

It don't matter, he was always that way. He was always that way.

Shanea:

He was always what way.

Walter:

Diddy was always Diddy.

Shanea:

But I mean that welcome back part is not from Diddy, it's not originally from Diddy.

Walter:

Anyhow, we don't be over here listening to this.

Shanea:

I don't associate with Diddy.

Walter:

Or Diddy. So welcome back everyone. This is season two. We are here by the grace of God. Yes, we got through season one and we are back for episode one. We miss you all and to God be the glory. So welcome to season two. Episode one of Stepping in Fate, the podcast. I'm your host, walter, joined by my lovely wife.

Shanea:

Shanea.

Walter:

Episode 1.

Shanea:

What's the title of this week's episode, babe? It's called the Remnant. Why are you laughing, Baby?

Walter:

you sound a little low do I yes I don't sound low to me okay, well, maybe it's my ear it could be your earplugs isn't all the way in.

Shanea:

I can hear myself maybe I need to clean my ears you probably do put your mic in a little bit closer okay, yeah, that sounds better. Maybe I just need to clean my ears.

Walter:

It probably wasn't all the way in.

Shanea:

Yeah.

Walter:

So this is season two, episode one, the Remnant. As always, we like to open these episodes up in prayer. So, babe, would you like to start us off in prayer for season two?

Shanea:

Why I knew you was going to do that.

Walter:

Yeah To God. Be the glory To.

Shanea:

God be the glory.

Walter:

My wonderful wife, the prayer warrior.

Shanea:

Father God, we thank you for this day. We thank you for our lovely followers. We thank you for those who are just tuning in. We thank you, father God, for giving us grace. We thank you for your mercy. We thank you for your love. Father God, we thank you for watching over us and keeping us. We pray, father God, that the words that you have placed on our hearts will flow into the hearts of others. Father God, that this podcast moving forward in this season will change lives, will change hearts, will change minds. In Jesus' mighty name, we pray Amen.

Walter:

Amen Amen.

Shanea:

Amen.

Walter:

So season two, episode one, so the remnant. We were expecting to discuss something else this week, I believe. The secret place.

Shanea:

Something like that yeah, or worship.

Walter:

But I believe Saturday.

Shanea:

We still got to do that worship playlist.

Walter:

We do, we will. We will, but I believe Saturday I was praying on an early Saturday morning or Friday, I think it was Saturday morning I heard the remnant that he wanted us to morning. I heard the remnant that he wanted us to talk about or discuss the remnant and I think, in light of everything that's been taking place, I can understand why yeah.

Walter:

Because it's a lot that's been taking place, it's a lot that's been going on, so that's what we are going to be discussing today the remnant in the Holy Spirit we yield to you. Because there, I talked to you, babe, about this this morning. I had a dream this morning, right before I woke up. I believe it was a dream or a vision.

Shanea:

I think you were asleep?

Walter:

I believe I was. Was I snoring? I think he was asleep, I believe I was. Was I snoring? I was asleep, but I wasn't asleep he was asleep, though okay, okay.

Walter:

I'm not going to get into details on what the dream was about, don't want to ruffle any feathers. And uh, after I came up out of the dream, god immediately told me what the dream meant, and so the spirit of the Lord said to me there is a seducing spirit that has been released in the land and it has captured the ear gates and eye gates of man. This spirit is connected to the spirit of Jezebel. We have to be mindful and protect our ear gates and eye gates because currently there is a great falling away.

Walter:

And what came to mind is first, timothy four, one through two. So, babe, do you want to get there and read that real quick? And while my wife is finding that, so with me, when I dream, or when I have visions, or specifically dreams, um, I know when I know for sure, when it's like an urgent message that god wants to get to me, because the dream is very short and straight to the point. And his dream was very short and straight to the point.

Shanea:

And sometimes I you said 1, timothy 3?

Walter:

1 Timothy 4, verse 1 through 2.

Walter:

Okay, and sometimes I have to. When I get up, I have to pray and seek out the answer from the Lord, but other times he'll speak to me and give me the answer directly if it's something that he really wants me to have, and this is what took place with this. It was one of those instances. It was a short dream, straight to the point. I told you about it and then he immediately gave me the interpretation of the dream. So what does first timothy for uh, verse one through two say?

Shanea:

it says now the holy spirit and this is nlt version now the Holy Spirit tells us clearly that in the last times, some will turn away from the true faith. They will follow deceptive spirits and teachings that come from demons.

Walter:

These people are hypocrites and liars and their consequences and their consciences are dead consequences and their consciences are dead and I think we can go into verse three and verse five, but we'll leave it there. And so I would say for everyone listening, study, read up on jezebel, that's what first king, second king, first and First and second king? Yeah, that really touch on Jezebel as a person. I believe it also touches on that in Revelation too, but you know it touches on the eunuchs and all of those different things. And how? Because a lot of people when they think about Jezebel they think about perversion.

Shanea:

You think about sexual immorality, sexual immorality, which that is part of the Jezebel. They think about perversion. You think about sexual immorality, sexual immorality, which that is part of the jezebel spirit. However, it's an underlying issue which is control yeah, and um control and perversion of god's word, yeah so, as my wife was saying, it's more so underlying.

Walter:

So when you dig into Jezebel, you understand that Jezebel worshiped Baal.

Shanea:

Yes, and that's what I was about to go into Okay, go ahead. Oh no, you go ahead.

Walter:

And so what you, you're more versed in. Deities. Yeah, so go ahead.

Shanea:

So Jezebel? The reason why Jezebel is so much associated with sexual immorality is because she pushed for all of Israel to worship Baal, and so the way that people worship Baal is through orgies and sexual immorality. So if you look it up, it's prostitution stuff like that. They worship Baal with their bodies sexually. So that's why she's associated with it for the most part.

Shanea:

Okay, and so that's why I said which means that she'll capture you with sexual immorality so that you'll turn away from God, which is what that says. What was that? I read earlier.

Walter:

And you keep speaking. Let me check something. Go ahead.

Shanea:

Where was that I looked at when Jesus rebukes the church at Thyatira for tolerating a woman, Jezebel, who teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols. So her legacy is false worship tied to sexual sin and idolatry okay, and so, yeah, and, and that's what I was digging into.

Walter:

So when people look at, uh, jezebel, they think just it's this woman who is just promiscuous. And that's not the case, uh, as my wife was touching on, when you think of jezebel, when you think of bow, uh, we did some research and I think you could speak. You spoke on that. Uh, when it comes to sexual immorality, it was more so, uh, from the place of worship, not from the place of just being promiscuous. Right.

Walter:

It was meant to be an act of worship to bow, along with other things that they did, so that got into idolatry and all of those different things. So when Jezebel came, she introduced them, the children of Israel, to this. She implemented prophets and put prophets in place that were prophets of bow. As you dig into all of that, right, and so I think it's important, but then trying to turn them out exactly. But I think we have to remember that because when people speak of the spirit of jezebel, they think of a woman.

Shanea:

A woman because Jezebel was a woman.

Walter:

But typically that spirit attaches itself to men.

Shanea:

Absolutely Logically, when you look at it, it's more men who are out here being sexually immoral than women, and then, in turn, now the women because of the men.

Walter:

Now we're not saying that the spirit of Jezebel cannot attach itself to women, no, but we're saying, typically it attaches itself to men. Now, we're not saying that the spirit of. Jezebel cannot attach itself to women, but we're saying typically it attaches itself to men. And so that's what God told me.

Walter:

He said there's a seducing spirit that has been released and that we need to protect our ear gates and our eye gates. Now, one of the things that God was dealing with me on was the fact that, in that we have to understand when we're looking at the natural, it's a reflection of the spirit. So if you see chaos and you see all of these things taking place in the natural, you have to look into the spirit and ask God okay, what is it that I'm missing? And this is what I did. I believe the reason this was given to me is I asked God because it was something that I saw that troubled me from one of the leaders.

Walter:

We had so many leaders going in a particular manner and I was just concerned, as my wife can attest to, I believe, sunday night I was very concerned, my heart was troubled, because we are huge on you being a reflection of God consecration, holiness, sanctification and we are also huge on you never mistaking what is and is not God Jesus Christ, who isn't. It's so straight to the point. There's no way of mistaking what it is if you know him, and so that's when God gave me the dream and that's when he gave me this. So I would say for everyone pray over it. This my wife can attest. I don't like giving words. We see it all the time on social media. Nothing against anyone, but I don't want to be that person.

Shanea:

My baby don't like, he don't like prophesying.

Walter:

No, I don't, and so, but this was something that God placed on my spirit, and it was interesting that he placed it on my spirit right before we was going to record, because we were supposed to record yesterday. And so, um, I knew, I asked, he confirmed, and I knew I had to present this, even though I didn't want to. So there you have it. Any thoughts? Babe, babe.

Shanea:

On what.

Walter:

Everything so far. No, I think you should just tell the people what they need to hear. All right, there you have it. You got to make sure you keep that volume up for me, please.

Shanea:

Oh, okay.

Walter:

Okay.

Shanea:

Okay, and my babe is looking beautiful tonight, so are you, babe. Thank you, I appreciate you, babe.

Walter:

Thank you, I appreciate you. You're welcome. So remnant? A remnant is the small group of people God preserves who remain faithful to him amid widespread unfaithfulness or hardship. If you had to put that in simple terms, how would you define remnant? Or god's remnant?

Shanea:

who me it's like a needle in a haystack a needle in a haystack, yeah, why because the remnant, you find them in the middle of everything else all the stuff yeah, it's a tiny, tiny needle.

Walter:

Yeah, it's not a lot it's very few it's not a lot of people because if you look down below that, it's the definition of what remnant is the actual definition and do you want to read that?

Shanea:

It says a small remaining portion of something that once was larger. Everyday use the leftover or surviving part. So, like the remnant is a part of the remnant. So does that make sense? So you have like the world, and then you have your christians, and then you have your remnant, and so it's just broken down through all those people. Yeah, the christian, because just because you're a christian doesn't make you part of the remnant remnant you jumping ahead?

Walter:

but yeah, because that was something when I was in church last night that god had gave to me. Um, there are christ followers who identify as christian right, and there are christians who are Christ followers who identify as Christian.

Shanea:

Right.

Walter:

And there are Christians who are not followers of Christ. Right. And he was saying it's important to note the two are not the same. Just because they claim to be Christian doesn't mean that they're followers of Christ.

Shanea:

Right, and that's why he said it'd be a great falling away. And that's why the remnant it says a small remaining portion of something that once was larger.

Walter:

it's a leftover, it's the surviving parts so, and we'll go right here to romans 9, 27. Um, it says and this is 27 through 29. I'm gonna read to read. And it says the same thing in another place If the Lord of Heaven's armies had not spared a few of our children, we would have been wiped out like Sodom, destroyed like Gomorrah, and so it's important to know God is coming back for a remnant of the church, a remnant of the church, and I don't think people teach on that enough. No, I don't think people teach on that enough.

Shanea:

No.

Walter:

I don't think they teach on that enough.

Shanea:

It's like a hard truth, it's like a hard pill to swallow that everybody is not going to make it into heaven, mm-hmm, because you don't want to hear that. You don't want to hear your loved one or your family members or your friends or your favorite pastor or favorite leaders.

Walter:

One may not make it in. Yes, and we have to just really accept the fact that there are a lot of people that claim to know Christ that don't know Christ.

Shanea:

They confess with their mouth and more importantly, Christ don't know them. Yeah.

Walter:

And that's this is so, matthew 7, 21 through 23.

Shanea:

Yes, right, yeah.

Walter:

That scares me.

Shanea:

It should scare everybody.

Walter:

Do you want to read that? Matthew 7, 21 through 23. And we touched on this last season.

Shanea:

Matthew 7, 21 through 23. Not everyone who calls out to me, lord Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven. Only those who actually do the will of my Father in heaven will enter. On judgment day, many will say to me Lord Lord, we prophesied in your name and cast out demons in your name and performed many miracles in your name. But I will reply. I never knew you. Get away from me, you who break God's laws.

Walter:

Yep, that's scary.

Shanea:

Key word Only those or key sentence word only those or key key sentence only those who actually do the will of my father will.

Walter:

Father in heaven will enter. And so here's the thing, people, and this is going to. It should all already be known, but it messes with religion. Just because someone say or states that they're a follower of Christ, don't make them a follower of Christ.

Shanea:

And they can quote scripture.

Walter:

The Pharisees was doing all of this. And they did. But they didn't follow Christ. They didn't even recognize Christ when Christ showed up. Interestingly, the world recognized Christ. Yeah, the world they recognized.

Walter:

Christ. Interestingly, the world recognized christ. Yeah, the world. They recognized christ when you think of his disciples and all like. These were fishermen, these were tax collectors, they weren't heavy in the church like that. But that's, that's another lesson for another time, and so I think it's important to make that distinction between the two, that there are those who claim to know Christ that don't know Christ and unfortunately, within the church, we just listen for that cue and we don't discern the spirit behind who's speaking.

Shanea:

But a lot of times you don't also fact check what they're saying, what people are saying, because people just blur about scripture all the time, but they use it out of context. Yeah, and so if you don't know your Bible and if you don't know what scripture they're blurting out, you can't really discern what it is they're saying.

Walter:

And then it's important and one of the things I would say to you always think of context, right? Uh, I can give you a specific scripture to justify something, but I think it's important to also take the entire passage into, to mind right, um, and you have to break it down into what they meant when they actually wrote it.

Walter:

So in Hebrew and then also be, led by the Holy Spirit, it's impossible. So really be mindful of people who read scripture or quote scripture, but they're not spirit led, because anyone can read the Bible. The Bible is not just a book. The Bible is alive. The word of God is alive. You know, we know this. The word lets us know this. The Bible says in, I think, 2 Timothy or 1 Timothy it says the Bible is spirit inspired. Yeah.

Walter:

You know. So it's really important that you understand that you have to have the Holy Spirit. As you read the scripture yeah.

Shanea:

In order to understand what the scripture is saying and tie it together, because a lot of people use the Bible and they take a lot of scriptures out of context. Spiritualists use the Bible, new age people use the Bible, satanists use the Bible and they use scripture to justify their actions.

Walter:

And so I think, moving on, right, let's talk about how the remnant should not look right. So when you think of those who have been called by God, those who have a relationship with Jesus Christ, they're not driven by their own worldview or by the culture's worldview. Right, what's wrong? Are you smiling? Something wrong? No.

Walter:

So they literally take on the kingdom culture we talked about this. You become kingdom-minded, you become ambassadors for Christ, ambassadors for the kingdom of God. You're not really concerned with the things of this world outside of being an example or reflection of Christ. So there's certain things that will move you right. Christ was moved to compassion with certain things that we know that there are certain things that Christ cares about. We know that there are certain things that God cares about. You know the Bible talks all about the less fortunate, those who need help you know the widowed, the poor, the foreign.

Walter:

Yes, these are things that God care about. These are things that God care about. These are things that Christ care about. However, within your own personal culture, you forsake that Right. And babe, if you want to pull up Matthew 12, verse 46 through 50, and I think this is important because we just look at this from one particular lens but we have to pull back and actually have a different perspective on this.

Shanea:

Okay, so the true family of Jesus. As Jesus was speaking to the crowd, his mother and brothers stood outside asking to speak to him. Someone told Jesus your mother and your brothers are standing outside and they want to speak to you. Jesus asked who is my mother? Who are my brothers? Then he pointed to his disciples and said look, these are my mothers and brothers. Anyone who does the will of my father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother and sister and mother.

Walter:

So I think when we read that scripture and even I we think from just a family perspective, but really when I was reading it this time around, it really just what I saw was culture. Yeah, right. Culture as a whole, because we have other scriptures that I think we have in here, for example, when Jesus was dealing with the, and that's yeah, john 4 and 1 through 21,. That's with the Samaritan woman, and, for time's sake, you all can read that. Yeah.

Walter:

However, jesus never truly identified. He never said I was a Jew in the per se. To really look down upon her, she made it known that she was a Samaritan and that he was a Jew in the per se. To really look down upon her, she made it known that she was a Samaritan and that he was a Jew and he told her that the time is coming and it's even here where the true worshipers will worship God in spirit and in truth, and that it won't matter where you worship him together in spirit and truth.

Shanea:

Yeah.

Walter:

Right, and so Jesus was always basically forsaken his own culture and pressing upon us the kingdom culture. And the kingdom culture is togetherness. And so when you think of the kingdom culture, it's not something that's just all. Quote unquote black, quote unquote white, or whatever. It's asian, it's hispanic, it's african, it's indigenous, it's um, it's, it's all of these different things. It's european. Yeah, it's all these ethnicities it's all of these exactly, and it's a mixture because, paul, let us know now, right under the new covenant, there's neither Jew nor Gentile. Right.

Walter:

That we are all one. We've all been grafted in to the vine and I may be talking too much. I was just flowing.

Shanea:

No, keep going.

Walter:

And so I'm trying to catch myself. And so, with that being the case, right, we just talked about that. If you are part of the kingdom of God, you have to understand that it's not linked to a particular ethnicity, race or culture. Right, Ephesians three, six through seven? Right, Paul reassures us that salvation is both for the Jews and the Gentiles, and we can read that. Ephesians 3, and we have quite a few scriptures on here and everyone if you want to, you can take these down and read them. Ephesians 3 says this, verse 6, and we're reading from the New Living Translation version I don't know if we've stated that it says and this is God's plan, both Gentiles and Jews who believe the good news share equally in the riches inherited by God's children. Both are part of the same body and both enjoy the promise of blessings because they belong to Christ Jesus. By God's grace and mighty power, I have been given the privilege of serving. The body of Christ is for all people, Right.

Shanea:

Yeah, it's made up of all people. It's made up of all people.

Walter:

That's first. There's no up of all people. It's made up of all people. That's first.

Shanea:

There's no one particular ethnic group.

Walter:

No.

Shanea:

That is more superior, no, or inferior to one or the other.

Walter:

No matter what nation you come from, no matter any of those things, it doesn't matter. God is God of all, god is God of the Jews and the Gentiles, and so when it digs into the vine, right, john 15, 1 through 8,. I do want to read this because I think this is really important that we really touch on, and this is when Jesus was talking about the vine. Let's see John 15, beginning at verse 1 to 8.

Shanea:

Why did it take me to Acts. What's in Acts?

Walter:

The council at Jerusalem. So Jesus said this. He said I am the true grapevine and my father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch of mine that doesn't produce fruit and he prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more fruit. Now that right, there is a message within itself, because the pruning process. But we don't leave that alone. A lot of people think they're just going through because of the enemy, but they don't realize that they're being pruned by the Father.

Walter:

Okay, you have already been pruned and purified by the message I have given you Remain in me and I will remain in you, for a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me. Yes, I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who remain in me and I in them will produce much fruit, for apart from me, you can do nothing. Anyone who does not remain in me is thrown away like a useless branch and withers. Such branches are gathered into a pile to be burned. But if you remain in me and my words remain in you, you may ask for anything you want and it will be granted when you produce much fruit. You are my true disciples. So the thing that came to mind as I was reading that is that there's a lot of people out here who are detached from the vine, still acting as if they're attached or that was never attached in the first place, and they're out here walking as if they're attached to Christ. Christ don't know them.

Shanea:

No, because they're not producing any fruit.

Walter:

Yes, no, because they're not producing any fruit. Yes, and this is why we consistently stress during the first season and we will during the second season too the importance of you having your own personal, intimate relationship with the Father, with Jesus Christ, because if you don't spend time with Him, if you don't know His voice, if you don't know how he looks, you would take anything that comes to you and say that they are a representation of him and accept it. And you have leaders that are trying to push you to accept things that are clearly not of Christ.

Shanea:

Or when he does bring something to you, or when someone brings something to you from him, you don't recognize it because you're like. I've never seen this before in my life. I don't know anyone that I've ever spoken to that's encountered this before.

Walter:

I wonder why you're saying that. So, yeah, I think it's important that we remember you have to know him for yourself, please. You have to know him for yourself, because if you don't know him, you won't recognize when it's not him. And we have to understand that we are in a time where we're seeing the spirit of Antichrist rise up so rapidly.

Shanea:

Yeah.

Walter:

And it's just be slightly different. It'd be slightly different and you have to understand. The enemy knows the word. He gave the word to Jesus when he was tempting him. Even though it was perverted, he still gave the word to him.

Shanea:

He also gave a perverse word to Eve.

Walter:

Exactly, exactly.

Shanea:

And she fell for it.

Walter:

So we know, and I think we get into this right, we spoke about this last season and we'll get into that next. Now there are those who talk about suffering and they believe that suffering I'm going to suffering and sonship did I? Did I miss something?

Shanea:

no, you didn't miss anything. I thought you was just going to expand more on um the remnant.

Walter:

But you can, if you want no, no, go ahead no, we're digging into the remnant. I think um look, I'm.

Shanea:

I was talking about as far as like culture what do you mean? What we were just talking about okay, go ahead.

Walter:

What are you saying?

Shanea:

no, I just thought you had more stuff to talk about.

Walter:

No, I was going to put a whole bunch of stuff, but I was told to stop.

Shanea:

Oh, okay.

Walter:

So unless there's something that's coming to you that you want to add for the people to hear, no. Okay, I mean everyone we've touched on this last season when it comes to the culture, when it comes to yeah, we talked about being in the vine. I don't remember what episodes they were, but we talked about not actually allowing the culture to impact how you move and how a lot of people do.

Shanea:

We talked about how a lot of people Culture and traditions.

Walter:

Yeah, they're driven by culture. They're driven by traditions instead of Because of friends and traditions.

Shanea:

Yeah, they're driven by culture, they're driven by traditions, instead of getting that Because of friends and family, and it's like you, gotta, god has to prune you. He has to cut those things from you.

Walter:

Including family, friends, places, things we discuss also that the church is also still driven by tradition and culture.

Shanea:

Yeah.

Walter:

And it's not.

Shanea:

And loyalty.

Walter:

Loyalty. It's not kingdom based at all and so there's very few that are, so we have to be really careful. So we've addressed all those things and if you all need us to do a refresher, just let us know, of course, as God lead us, because we don't even know what we're talking about. This season we get week by week.

Shanea:

Yeah, we didn't pre-record these while we were away.

Walter:

No, and we didn't even talk about what we was doing while we was away. Get into it later on, the things that God wants us to do, but moving into suffering and sonship, right. So Romans 8, verse 15 through verse 17. And I'm going to be mindful of time, so you want to read that, shanae.

Shanea:

Hold on, let me pull it up.

Walter:

Romans 8, verse 15, through verse 17.

Shanea:

So you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received god's spirit when he adopted you as his own children. Now we call him abba, father, for his spirit joins with our spirit to affirm that we are god's children and and since we are his children, we are his heirs. In fact, together with Christ, we are heirs of God's glory, but if we are to share his glory, we must also share his suffering.

Walter:

Yes, and so we love to share his glory, but we don't want to share in his suffering.

Shanea:

Yeah, it's gimme, gimme, gimme. I want, I want, I want.

Walter:

And that was something that stood out to me so much because he had given me Romans 8 to read, and Romans 8 is good in general, so please read the entire, I would say Romans chapter 6 through chapter 8. It builds on itself, it just continues to build up all of romans yeah, so, uh, the letters to the romans are really.

Walter:

It is really good. It's a good book, but, um, I think it's important to understand that suffering is just what comes with the territory. If you are a follower of Christ, you're going to suffer. I'm sorry, it's not this cookie cutter, wonderful, beautiful thing. You're going to go through some stuff. You're going to suffer at some point because God told you to do something, because you're going against the grain, you're going against the norm. You're going against the norm.

Walter:

You're going to suffer, whether it be you wanting to live a particular place and God saying no, this is what I have. Or you wanting to carry on a particular career and God saying no. Or God telling you to do something and people calling you crazy, or whatever the case may be. It is part of the. It comes with the territory. We have to remember with Jesus. They said that jesus was demonic. He was driven by demons as he was moving and doing the will of god, and jesus said what they're going to say? That that's the same thing about you. If I was persecuted, you're going to be persecuted too, and counted joy that you're able to go through suffering yeah, and persecution and suffering has to do directly with you being a believer.

Walter:

And we touched on it.

Shanea:

Not because of the things that you do or say that isn't related to Christ. That is going to cause you to suffer, like being hateful or being nasty or being mean. There's consequences for those things. Or you know doing things that God didn't tell you to do. There's consequences for those things, but that isn't godly suffering.

Walter:

No, Now, if you come into the faith right and you made decisions outside of God prior right, those decisions can lead to you suffering as you turn away from it and you turn to God. But what came to me right is when Paul stated this. He said and this is 2 Corinthians, verse 3, he said that All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is our merciful Father and the source of all comfort. He comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others when they are troubled. We will be able to give them the same comfort God has given us, For the more we suffer for Christ, the more God will shower us with his comfort through Christ. Even when we are weighed down with troubles. It is for your comfort and salvation. For when we are weighed down with troubles, it is for your comfort and salvation. For when we ourselves are comforted, we will certainly comfort you. Then you can patiently endure the same things we suffer. We are confident that as you share in our sufferings, you will also share in the comfort God gives us. And so, even as we're suffering right and it digs down like you can read verse eight through verse 10.

Walter:

And it talked about. I'll read that we think you ought to know, dear brothers and sisters, about the troubles we went through in the province of Asia. We were crushed and overwhelmed, beyond our ability to endure, and we thought we would never live through it. In fact, we expected to die, but, as a result, we stopped relying on ourselves and learned to rely only on God, who raises the dead, and he did rescue us from mortal danger, and he will rescue us again. We have placed our confidence in him and he will continue to rescue us. And we touched on this last season Suffering produces faith and endurance and the ability of learning how to trust in God.

Walter:

Yes, and fruit yes, it strengthens you, it strengthens your faith in the Lord Right. And so, and then also, suffering is for others, suffering is for others. You don't know who God has called you to that he wants you to be a blessing to, and they need to hear your testimony of how God brought you through, as you suffered well for Christ, right. And then we also know there's rewards in heaven from us for our suffering. Well for Christ. You want to call me crazy. I am grateful.

Walter:

I will proudly proclaim the message of Jesus Christ. I will proudly proclaim that I have a relationship with him. I will proudly proclaim that I know him, that he's my Lord and Savior. I will proudly proclaim that I encountered him and he changed me and he converted me and he removed things from me that was not of him, things that I tried to do within my own strength and I was never able to do. I know he's real. I know he's alive. I know he rose on the third day. I know that he is God and God alone. I know that the day will come that every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. I know that. I know he's the son of God. I know God is God. I know the spirit of God exists and I stand firm on it. I live by it. You're not going to tell me anything differently. And this is produced from suffering. This is produced from relationship, this is produced from encountering him. So suffering doesn't make us righteous. Right Faith in Christ does.

Shanea:

Yes, suffering is a part of following him it is and also suffering is sharing others burdens yes so that while there's another group of people may be suffering, then you might have to sacrifice something to help them yes to balance it out and suffer together, because there's grace in that and first peter actually is what you were talking about earlier.

Walter:

First peter, 4, 12 through 16. That's where it was talking about self-induced suffering, yes, versus suffering for because of bearing the name of christ. Yeah, so you all can read that. We went through that last season, um, but we talked about this right, right, suffering because of obedience to God, okay, because of obedience to following Christ, because of picking up our cross and following him, that, at the end of the day, is suffering. Yeah.

Walter:

At the end of the day, that's suffering. But once again, don't think that your suffering makes you righteous. It don't because you have those that teach you that suffering makes you righteous. No faith in Christ suffering makes you righteous. No faith in Christ Jesus makes you righteous. There's nothing you could do outside of just dedicating your life to Christ, and even with doing that, we still don't pay the cost of what Christ did on the cross.

Shanea:

No, because he died for us.

Walter:

We could never pay the cost Him. He, who was without sin, died on the cross. He went through having his father turn his back on him and even as Christ right was being mocked and ridiculed by people, he still looked up to heaven and said Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.

Walter:

And then he saved us do, and then he saved us. And he saved us and set us free from the chains of sin that had us bound to the point to where now we're in a position where we no longer have to be slaves to sin yeah, but he's the only one that has the key. Yes, because he took it so because somebody get carried away. We touched on this before, so I'm not going to do that again. We touched on that before. You talked about that to this.

Walter:

What when you truly accept Jesus as Lord and Savior, there is a transformation that cannot be produced outside of the spirit. Everybody out here, a lot of people, are faking. They fake in relationships with Jesus. They fake in relationships with God. Yeah, they're living off of other people encounters, yes, but when you've truly encountered the spirit of God, there is a transformation that takes place that cannot be produced outside of the ability and the power of the spirit of God. John 3, verse 5 through 8, baby, you want to read that.

Shanea:

Sure.

Walter:

And this is I believe he was speaking to Nicodemus. I might be wrong but John 3.

Shanea:

Who was he speaking?

Walter:

to. He wasn't speaking to Nicodemus.

Shanea:

Jesus replied. I assure you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and the spirit. Humans can reproduce only human life, but the Holy Spirit gives birth to spiritual life. So don't you be surprised when I say you must be born again. Where else you want me to read to? I'm sorry? Oh, five through eight. Yes, the wind blows wherever it wants, just as you can hear the wind but can't tell where it comes from or where it is going.

Walter:

So you can't explain how people are born of the spirit. So there's, first and and foremost, you can't explain things of the spirit. It just is, and if you try to understand it with your natural mind, you will lose it this is why people don't, and they just stick to religion exactly.

Walter:

You cannot explain things of the spirit unless the spirit of god gives you a revelation for it. But when it comes to things being birthed forth, it is only through this being birthed, this being born again by way of the spirit, that transformation truly takes place. Is what Jesus was saying. Outside of that, it's not happening. Only the spirit can produce things of the spirit. You can't fake it, and he was speaking in Nicodemus, and so that's what he was dealing with me on right Now. I wanted to say that we talked about this Galatians 5, 16 through 26. We've read this so many times, but we're going to read this again, right?

Walter:

And this is really just. It showcases characteristics of the spirit or a spirit submitted life, the fruit of the spirit, and the characteristics of the flesh, or a life that's submitted to the flesh or works of the flesh. Okay, Right. Go ahead, you had something to say oh no, and so it's.

Shanea:

It's really how you test whether or not this person is walking in the spirit, in the fruitfulness of god, not just because they confess with their mouth and they know a few scriptures and this is one of many scriptures that touch on this.

Walter:

There's a plethora of scriptures absolutely the letters that paul wrote are amazing. It's full of some good stuff. Then you have the words of jesus himself yeah, right, uh, we are. We, we're supposed to be, a reflection of christ. The bible lets us know that we're to take on the identity of christ, that we are to take on the mind of christ.

Walter:

So, when, when, when you, when you encounter me and my wife, you should encounter Christ, and if you're not, that means that there's some areas in our life that we still need to submit and we aren't perfect. There's still areas in our lives that we have to work on daily. Daily, we are going through the process of dying to self. Yes, daily we are going through the process of picking up our cross and following Christ. Daily, we are going through the process of picking up our cross and following christ. Daily, we are going through the process of understanding that there are still additional things that we have to submit to him and surrender over to him. We will never reach perfection, right, we will never reach the point of our soul being completely regenerated. It is just a process of working through this, moment after moment, time after time, and anyone to tell you that they've arrived? They're lying. Now are there certain things that we don't struggle with anymore.

Walter:

Yes, I don't struggle with perversion. I don't struggle with lust. I can be honest and say I don't. I've been delivered from that. I don't curse, that was something I struggled with before. I don't struggle with an addiction to adult content. I've been delivered from that. There's a lot. I don't struggle with depression. I've been delivered from that. I'm talking, I'm telling you I used to have to go to counseling and therapy and the tools only assisted me. But so long right, it was only by the grace of God, like God met me where I was. He met me down in the bottom of that pit of the stuff that I dealt with, the trauma and all those things, and he pulled me up. And so I know, I know you can be delivered from that. I know you can have a life free of depression, a life free of addiction, a life free of all of those things, and you can truly encounter hearing the voice of depression, a life free of addiction, a life free of all of those things.

Walter:

And you can truly encounter hearing the voice of God, experiencing the voice of God, seeing God show you things and then seeing it come to pass, Not having to go because we have people that do, and I'm getting carried away. It's okay, not having to go and seek out a pastor or a quote, unquote prophet for a word from the Lord, because you can find that in your prayer closet. Yeah.

Walter:

This is what we want for you all that you find that in your own prayer closet, that you hear God for yourself, that you encounter God for yourself, that you experience God for yourself and you can teach others how to experience God.

Shanea:

Yeah, because there will be times where you're not going to be able to go to church, you're not going to be able to call anybody on the phone, you're not even going to be able to look at anything on the internet.

Walter:

And we see China right, for example, and we was looking at the documentary in China because there's a revival taking place in China right now. Christians here, they just they do something to me sometimes.

Shanea:

They irk you. They irk me sometimes they be irking.

Walter:

Because they talk about the persecution that they're experiencing. If you want to talk about persecution, go to China. If you want to talk about persecution, go to Pakistan. If you want to talk about persecution, go to these countries that are primarily muslim, you know, and and then you could see what they're having to meet at churches in their home yeah, no, persecution is literally being persecuted for your faith, because you believe in jesus christ, not because of any other thing.

Walter:

Like even when you think of China, right, there are house churches that meet in China and in certain parts where they literally have to pray and ask the spirit to lead them to where the location is going to be.

Shanea:

Yes.

Walter:

This is some serious stuff, this is no joke.

Shanea:

And God is so real that he does lead them all to one place.

Walter:

But you know what People look at the Bible. They read it and they don't think it's real.

Shanea:

No, because they don't have encounters with God. They think it's stories.

Walter:

Yes, and so Galatians 5, 16 through verse 24.

Shanea:

But they don't seek, they don't seek it. No, they don't seek him.

Walter:

No, I mean, many people don't want to change, they're comfortable and many people just aren't chosen to do so and then some we already talked about this last season they just don't know, their leaders don't know him, so they're teaching them ways that's not of him, but uh uh. Galatians 5, 16 through 24. So I say let the Holy Spirit guide your lives, then you won't be doing what your sinful nature craves. The sinful nature wants to do evil, which is just the opposite of what the spirit wants. And the spirit gives us desires that are the opposite of what the sinful nature desires. These two forces are constantly fighting each other.

Walter:

So you are not free to carry out your good intentions, but when you are directed by the spirit, you are not under obligation to the law of Moses. When you follow the desires of your sin for nature, the results are very clear Sexual morality, impurity, lustful pleasures, idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, envy, drunkenness, wild parties and other sins like these. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the kingdom of God, but the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. There is no law against these things. Those who belong to christ jesus have nailed the passions and desires of their sinful nature to his cross and crucified them there.

Walter:

Since we are living by the Spirit, let us follow the Spirit's leading in every part of our lives. Since we are living by the Spirit, let us follow the Spirit's leading in every part of our lives. Let me say this again Since we are living by the Spirit, let us follow the Spirit's leading in every part of our lives. Let us not become conceited or provoke one another or be jealous of one another. This, right here, clearly shows us a distinction, a difference between those who are, uh, guided and led by the spirit of god, versus those who are not right if people don't fall, if people fall into this category and say that they're christ followers but they don't produce the fruit of the spirit.

Walter:

I'm sorry, but they're not christ.

Walter:

They're not christ followers they're not, because I'm telling you, when you encounter christ, you cannot encounter him and leave the same way you came, especially when you invite him in. We see it time and time and time and time again in the scripture, even on down to the rich young ruler that left like he left perplexed Because he encountered Christ, but he chose not to follow. If you encounter Christ, you don't leave the same one way or the other. Yeah, so I think where to leave is this we have a episode from season one that says what you will know them by their fruit.

Shanea:

Yeah, I remember that episode. I remember exactly what we were talking about.

Walter:

You will know them by their fruit. So the remnant is small, faithful, spirit-led and willing to suffer for Christ. They do not live by cultural norms, but by God's kingdom culture. They are literally about their father's business. That's it. They are transformed by the spirit producing fruit that points to christ. Right, and let me just say this when you are a kingdom citizen and people may not like this, but it's just the truth you are neither Republican nor Democratic. You are kingdom, you are a follower of Christ. So you're on no one's side, you're on God's side, and anyone that tells you differently on no one's side. You're on God's side Right and anyone that tells you differently.

Shanea:

You're a child of God.

Walter:

You're a child of God. So let me say this, because racial tensions are really heavy in this country and it's only going to get worse. God is not on the side of racist people. I'm sorry, there is no such thing. God is not on the side of races people. I'm sorry, there is no such thing. God is not hate.

Shanea:

He's not on the side of division.

Walter:

So whether you are a white Christian nationalist or whether you are a black Hebrew, israelite, you're both wrong. God is the God of the Jews and the Gentiles, and anyone that tells you differently don't know God. They don't know Jesus. Jesus is not for division, not from that perspective. Jesus do come and he do divide, yes, but it's from those who are spirit led versus those who are not. When you think of the division that Jesus comes to cause because, he told you, sons will turn against fathers and daughters, will turn against mothers and all of that stuff.

Walter:

We're talking about this right here, Galatians 5. We're talking about kingdoms.

Shanea:

He's coming to separate kingdoms Kingdom of light and kingdom of darkness Exactly, he's not talking about color?

Walter:

he's not talking about color. He's not talking. About culture. He's not talking about culture.

Shanea:

he's not talking about nations. He's talking about light versus dark, exactly, and we in the natural are trying to fight something that doesn't even represent kingdom shit, which is light versus dark, but y'all people switch around. It is light versus dark, it's color versus color.

Walter:

And that's not of God. That's not of God. Okay, we have to understand. Please know who Christ is, please know what Christ represents, so you know how to stay away from things that he don't, because the enemy is literally running rampant right now. I know what God told me this morning. I know he said that it brought so much peace when he explained to me what was going on. It brought so much peace because I was so perplexed by what I saw and what was taking place, the things that's been taking place, especially within the body of Christ, but yet within the American church. That's racism, it's just something that's ingrained.

Shanea:

It's indoctrinated within the American church, from generation to generation to generation.

Walter:

That's not God, and you're going to have to decide whose side you're going to be on. Are you going to be on the side of God or are you going to be on that side? Because a line is being drawn in the sand and the spirit and for those who decide to continue on with those practices, that's between you and God.

Shanea:

Yeah, or even party against party, when we all live here in America.

Walter:

Yeah, or even party against party, when we all live here in America. Yeah, and the reality is, you know, we, we gave the scripture. Uh, was it Ezekiel or was it Jeremiah?

Shanea:

Talking about what?

Walter:

Who's who um? Who are you going to serve?

Shanea:

Oh, I think it's found in um. You can find it in Isaiah and you can find it in Deuteronomy.

Walter:

Okay, I know one of them was saying that we stand on, that we say to you and whose side?

Shanea:

Or is it Ezekiel? Whose side are you?

Walter:

on. But for me and our household we serve God we don't deal with any of that stuff. Now, that's not to say that you don't partake in it, that's not to say that there aren't things that are important to us, but what's important to us is what we believe was important to Christ. What's important to Christ, as we've stated before, the less fortunate, the widow, those who don't have the finances, those who are struggling, those who, uh, can't make ends meet, the children in america alone that's not able to eat this, the immigration, things that's going on with that that is really out of whack people.

Shanea:

People can't even feed homeless people without a permit, exactly that's crazy.

Walter:

These, these things are concerning the fact that you have children and you have families that's being snatched up, that has committed no crimes and going through that traumatic experience. That's not God.

Shanea:

No.

Walter:

It is not God, and don't you let no one tell you anything differently.

Shanea:

Because God cares about all his people.

Walter:

Okay, and please be really careful, because you will be judged. You will be judged. I'm not the one that's going to judge you my wife ain't or those who believe the or the other followers of christ. No, jesus will judge you for every single action that you carried out on this earth you have to literally sit and say would this be something Jesus would do?

Shanea:

Exactly Not what happened in the Bible or anything like that, but what would Jesus do?

Walter:

And you can look at how he moved to know whether he would or not, and you can just have the personal relation of a cheat code. I ask God, I pray God. What do you think about this, jesus? What do you think about this? Because I don't know about this, god. What do you think about this, jesus? What do you think about this? Because I don't know about this. What do you think about this? I see what's going on. What's your thoughts? He answered yes, through dreams, through visions, through a realm of word.

Walter:

He answers, and so please understand this right. We just got to know that we got to the remnant. Those who are truly following Christ, do not be deceived. Do not be deceived. I think that's everything. Anything that you want to leave or leave everyone on, babe, anything you want to say before we end out, add to it. We said a lot.

Shanea:

It was a lot. It's been a lot going on this week. It'll be a lot going on throughout the rest of the month and through the rest of the year.

Walter:

And the years to come.

Shanea:

And the years to come.

Walter:

There's a shift that's taking place, and so we just have to really press in Press a turning point yeah, we have to press in, we have to.

Shanea:

This is the time for judgment. God is not playing.

Walter:

That was a word that was given. Was it earlier this year that it was given? I don't know, but it was a word that was given. Was it earlier this year that it was given? I don't know, but it was a word that was given. Judgment begins in the church first, many times.

Shanea:

And so judgment isn't. I mean, he's not going to judge the world right now. Judgment isn't bad.

Walter:

Right Judgment is a good thing. The fire of God is a good thing.

Shanea:

But it doesn't feel good.

Walter:

But it doesn't feel good, but I think it's really important and it's needed, because you don't want to get to a point, to where you stand before jesus and he telling you to turn away from him, for he never knew you. God judging you, god disciplining you. That's a good thing and and there's a great um, like like what stated earlier there's a great falling away right because you're going in the wrong direction, so he has to discipline you.

Shanea:

We're children.

Walter:

And then you got to understand that some people's hearts are seared and that's just what they are. Don't get caught up following the wrong people, please don't. We can't tell you who to follow, but we would just say ask God to give you the spirit of discernment on who you're listening to and who you're being led by, who your leaders are, please, please, because we see ourselves as a lot of people who claim to know God that we see they don't, and whether it be things that God has revealed to us or whether it be things that we just saw. So this is really a trying time for the body of Christ. This is really a trying time, a time of refining.

Shanea:

It's a refining, yeah, in the fire.

Walter:

Yeah, a time of refining.

Shanea:

And it's going to be a hot one.

Walter:

Yeah, so be ready, be prepared.

Shanea:

But, babe, you want to end this out, this out. Yeah, sure, we appreciate you guys for tuning in. Um, we still have some comments we have to go back and look at and get to. Um, it has been a nice little break, kind of sort of.

Walter:

Yeah, we guys, we can't wait to share the amount of foolery that we have had to deal with, that we have had to endure.

Shanea:

Distractions Persecution.

Walter:

Which is why it's so important that you remain committed to God and you don't make decisions outside of Him.

Shanea:

Yes.

Walter:

So you don't have to deal with the consequences associated with those decisions. Yes, he'd be trying to forewarn y'all. He'd be trying to forewarn us. We just don't listen.

Shanea:

Because you'll be suffering for Christ, but you'll also be suffering for the consequences that you made outside of Christ. Yeah, Even though there's grace there's grace.

Walter:

There's grace that he provides.

Shanea:

But we appreciate you, we appreciate your prayers, we appreciate your thoughts and your comments. Please continue to comment. Let us know how this is helping you, not helping you, what you understand, what you don't understand. Oh, why are you smiling?

Walter:

The not helping you part. They be saying stuff.

Shanea:

Because they do be saying stuff.

Walter:

Yeah, we appreciate you all and we will see you next week.

Shanea:

Yes, sir.

Walter:

So until then, God bless.

Shanea:

God bless, bye-bye, bye.