You're perfect. And who does this message of grace and peace make sense to? To them that are perfect. Those that are left with guilt. Those that are left with feelings that they are not measuring up to God, because they're under law, do not be surprised, this makes no sense! In fact it is absolute foolishness to them!

But understand why it is foolishness to them, and have mercy. It is not foolishness to them because they don't want it and don't need it, believe me. Their hearts are crying for every word you say.

They believe it's foolish because they know how imperfect they are in the eyes of God. "It can't be that way, because I'm not a perfect man".

Once again, this gospel makes perfect sense to who? To those that are perfect. What's going to convince the mind of perfection? There's two things; the gospel of peace, and the gospel of the grace of God.

And folks, there's nothing you can do, as our friend Harold says, you sow the seeds, and keep on going. Because believe me, it is what every heart is desperate for in this planet called earth.

He said which none of the princes of this world knew, they had no idea that what God's plan was that through the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus, a view and an understanding in the hearts of those that received it, that they are now perfect in the eyes of God.

The princes of this world were the leaders of the current system. Had they known that Jesus was going to die to reveal perfection, the princes of this world would never have crucified the Son of Glory.

Why? Because that's how they maintained control. That's how they got people to give, to tithe, and to sacrifice.

Had they known that the result of the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus would be the end of their system, they would have never done it.

The sad thing is that, through Jesus' disciples, the system that Jesus died to do away with, was brought back into being. Notice I did not say it was brought back to life, because there is no life in it.

But as it is written, eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither has it entered into the heart of man the things that God has prepared for them that love Him.

How many of you have read this out of the New Testament and had somebody say to you "Ohhhh!….the Bible says God has prepared something for us that we have not seen, and that we can't understand yet!"

This is a quote out of Isaiah, folks! This is not Paul's writings! This scripture was fulfilled two thousand years ago! 

Before the cross. Get the picture. Before the cross, eye hath not seen, before the cross, ear had not heard, before the cross, neither had it entered into the heart of man the things that God had prepared for those that love Him. It's out of Isaiah 64:4.

What is Paul's conclusion here after making that statement? That God HAD revealed them unto us, by His spirit.

For the spirit searcheth all things. Yea the deep things of God.

Now, what is the spirit of God here? To search out…it's here to search out what? The things of God.

What has the church said the spirit of God is here to search out? Here to examine you. Woah! That is not what the spirit of God is here for. The spirit of God is in the earth to search out the things of God's testimony, not yours!

The spirit is in operation in this earth to search out and to reveal the things of God. Not the things of man. For what man, yea even the deep things of God….for what man knoweth the things of man save the spirit of man which is in him? Alright, what does the spirit of God know everything about? He knows everything about God. What does the spirit of man know everything about? He knows everything about man.

You see, you know all of this stuff. You know cause and effect. You know that. You already understand that. Nobody has to take you to school to teach you cause and effect. You know it! But the spirit is here to reveal a life that is to be existed, and to be lived out in relationship to God, completely devoid of 'cause and effect religion'!

Let me quote that to you again the thing I heard in my heart. 'My son, you have received enough grace to know that I do not judge you based on your performance. When will you receive enough grace to stop judging me based on mine. It's called 'growth', folks. It's called growing up in the spirit. 

I know where you are. I know exactly where you are. You've received enough grace to get out from under guilt…oh, isn't that nice. We've received enough grace to even get out from under judging our brothers….wow, isn't that wonderful. 

Were both of those a process? Still are a process, aren't they?

I know the agony of your heart. You can't figure out what God does, when He does it, or why He'll do it.

Grow in grace.

Whatever God does, He does. And whatever He doesn't do, He doesn't do. But are you going to judge Him? Are you going to love Him? Based on what He's able to do, or based on who He is.

What if you were only loved because you could do great things?

Right in the middle of the Word of Faith movement, I can tell you the loneliest moment in my life. It's not sitting in my apartment by myself now, with somewhat of an understanding of the gospel of the grace of God. I can tell you my loneliest moments. It was at the height of the Word of Faith movement. When I would walk into thousands, teach thousands, and then go to my room alone. Eating all by myself. Go to the next meeting, and finding the praises of people that were so profuse. Crowds coming. Cars couldn't be parked in the lot….had to park them down the street, in the neighbors yards. *8:11* set out in the foyer, t.v.'s set up in the Sunday School classroom, so that people could come in and sit in on those things.

You know the harsh reality that hit me? Was that none of these people know me. They do not love Mike Williams for who he is. The love him for what he does. If you want to feel loneliness,…that's loneliness. If you want to feel isolated,….that's isolation.

Ever since that day, I feel sorry for every very famous person. Now, I didn't get anywhere near that degree of fame, my heart goes out to them. I feel sorry for Michael Jackson. Not because of his woes, because of his fame. I feel sorry for Madonna. I feel sorry for these guys. Because they have come to the reality that people love them that don't know them. And believe me, that gives no validation to the soul, whatsoever.

Some of these people are the most isolated people on planet earth. And some of these people have the highest suicide rate and self-destructive behavior that could possibly be. Not necessarily the ones I was speaking of.

But God hath revealed it to us by His spirit. For the spirit searches ALL things, yea even the deep things of God. For what man knoweth the things of man, save the spirit of man that is in him? Even so, the things of God knoweth no man, but the spirit of God. That's quite clear, isn't it?

The spirit of man, what do we know about? We know about how things operate here. What does the spirit of God know? The spirit of God knows everything about God.

Now we receive not (verse 12) Now we receive not the spirit of the world, but we have received the spirit of God. Now, what is the spirit of the world? The spirit of the world is 'cause and effect' mentality.

God did not give us, in Christ, the spirit of cause and effect belief system. That is not what He gave us! We did not receive the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God, that we might know the things freely given to us of God. Wowl

Now, what does the spirit of the world tell you? Do good, get good. Do bad, get beat. Is that the spirit that you received from God? No. You did not receive that spirit, whatsoever. You get taught that spirit, but you were not given that spirit from God.

But we have received the spirit from God. We did not receive the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God. And the spirit of God teaches us what? All the things that come from God freely. Not cause and effect. Freely. Not 'do good, get good, do bad, get beat'.

The spirit of God will never teach you what to do to gain God's favor. The spirit of God will never teach you what you've done to lose God's favor. The spirit of God teaches how everything that comes from God is free. Everything. Including redemption. Man don't have to reply, respond, acknowledge….man don't have to do that. These are free gifts from God that have come to us, and the greatest of course we understand to be the redemption of this world.

Verse 13; Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teaches. Now, what does man's wisdom teach? Man's wisdom knows about man. We know about cause and effect, don't we? We know that this world operates, folks, you can't escape it, the realm we live in is in a realm of 'do good, get good, do bad, get beat'.

You see, the testimony of God supercedes that, and lifts us completely out of that mindset, and the spirit of God teaches us in an entirely different realm.

He says 'which things also we speak not in the words that man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth. And how does the Holy Ghost teach us? He teaches by comparing spiritual things to spiritual things.

I will guarantee you that 99 and 9/10 per cent of all sermons you have ever heard, has been comparing natural things to spiritual things.

When you were trying to understand your relationship with God as a Father, what did your church and your teachers try and compare it to? Your relationship with your father! "Well, ya know if he really loves ya, he's gonna beat ya….therefore…we now understand God". Not!

"Now, ya understand…that when somebody offers you a gift…" What is redemption? A gift of the human race, right? "But ya know how it is….when somebody offers you a gift….you can hand it back and reject it". Sorry. You're comparing natural things to spiritual things.

Because the gifts and callings of God are without repentence. They do not carry with them the possibility of 'return to sender'. Not even possible. It's not even in the equation.

Your agreement to it, your lifestyle to qualify for it, or your lifestyle to disqualify you for it, is not even taken into consideration in the things that God has to do, and has done for the human race, whether it be redemption, or anything that dwells inside of your life. It is not qualified by the natural, nor can it be compared to natural things.

Verse 14; But the natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit. Does that seem quite understandable now? Why can the natural man not receive the things of the spirit? Oh, because he's gone to the movies, and ya know, he drinks beer, and he goes to the pubs. The natural man can't receive the things of God. He just can't receive it. I'm telling ya, God's offering it, but his lifestyle is keeping him from receiving it. Is that not what you've heard? It's a lie.

The natural man cannot even allow his own self to receive. Because the natural man doesn't see himself as perfect. The natural man knows about the things of man. The things of man, folks, I'm telling ya, I'm not disqualifying cause and effect here in this earth. There is cause and effect! If you do wrong ….it's not an absolute rule, like Christianity tries to say…. I've got by with a few things. I've done some good things too, that I've never been rewarded for either. However, this is the natural man way….do good, get good, do bad, get beat. 

Did the law of the Old Covenant reaffirm that? It not only reaffirmed it, it set it in perimeters to where that man did not have the right to decide how this outcome of discerning good from evil, and right from wrong, and cause and effect, would bring us.

God saw that man could only discern the things of man, and He applied laws to that, to bring us out of that mentality, by giving us laws that no man could keep. Because what is the law? It is the forbidding of being human.

Break them down any way you want. The law of God says as long as you're human, you'll never make it. But the natural man receiveth not the things of God, for they are what? Foolishness to him. 

Those of you that have tried to share with people that God redeemed the world through Jesus Christ, without their belief, what do they think that is? That's pretty foolish, isn't it? If you took it to the realm of blessings that they are caught in, that God could actually help somebody who was in a lifestyle that was unsavory, would they accept that? No. It's foolishness unto them. Neither can they know it. They can't know it. It is impossible to know it. Why? Because they are spiritually judged.

And when is something spiritually judged? He said it is by comparing spiritual things to spiritual things.

You know, the writer of Corinthians called only two things spiritual. The law is spiritual, and the work of the cross is spiritual. If you're going to compare spiritual things to spiritual things, what are you comparing? You're comparing law and grace.

What is the only way out of cause and effect religion? A proper comparison between law and grace. The only path. There is no other path. You compare wrong things, and you'll be stuck for the rest of your life.

True comparison, proper comparison, will give you great knowledge. A wrong comparison could cost you your life. In any realm. Scientific realm, I don't care what it is. The wrong comparison can cost you your life.

But he that is spiritual judgeth all things. Isn't that amazing. Now what does he say? That he that is spiritual judges everybody? No. He judges doctrines. That's what we're talking about here. Teachings. Hearing what people have to say.

And how does the spiritual man, first off, know that he's spiritual? He is perfect in the eyes of God. When you know that you are perfect in the eyes of God, outside of your ability to perform, you know what you now have? Perfect discernment.

A perfect message, spoken to perfect people, gives them perfect discernment. You don't have to have somebody to babysit you about which doctrines to listen to and which ones not to listen to. I don't supervise you guys. I don't try to tell you what doctrines are what, which doctrines are right and which ones are wrong. All you guys do is flip on tv, I haven't told you which tv evangelists to listen to, and which ones not to, which doctrines are right and which ones are wrong. All I have done is help facilitate to you, number one, that you are perfect. I've also delivered unto you a doctrine that confirms that perfection. And from there, you can discern anything. You know it immediately. 

I don't have to sit down and watch a video with you of Jack Van Impe, and help you pick out the parts that are right. I don't have to turn on TBN to help you discern just which teachers that are teaching, are teaching truth or error. Because those who know they are perfect, can receive the testimony of God and therefore have perfect discernment. You got it folks. You got perfect discernment.

You know the only time you will doubt your discernment? Is when you doubt that you are perfect. That's when people are deceived. You wonder why smart people can wind up in all kinds of cults of stupidity? Even though they are intelligent, they can be intellectuals out the wazoo, they can have masters degrees as long as their arm. But you see, if your heart and mind is not convinced you're perfect in the eyes of God, the most intellectually intelligent people on earth can be sold on the most foolish doctrines on the face of planet earth.

But he that is spiritual, judgeth all things. Yet he himself is judged of no man. Oh, my God…to be free from the judgments of all man! Now, how can you be free from the judgments of all man?

First of all, you need to listen to God's testimony. Out of God's testimony, you learn that you are perfect in the eyes of God. God's testimony resulted in perfection. When you hear and understand that spiritual discernment is comparing spiritual things to spiritual things, and your pursuit is looking at the comparisons between law and grace, that's when you are well on your way. To the point to where that in this life you are able to judge every teaching you hear! That's what this whole context is. It's about teachings.

Nobody has to tell you which ones are right, and which ones are wrong. You know it the moment it hits your ears. And even though you have the ability to judge every teaching that you hear, you are judged by no man. Wow. 

For who hath known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.

Now, when I was taught about the mind of Christ, when I was in the Word of Faith movement, that meant that if you lost your keys, I have the mind of Christ, Jesus' mind knows where my keys are. Mind of Christ, where are my keys?

Folks, the mind of Christ is not the opposite, it has nothing to do with your ability to find your keys. Or to remember things. The mind of Christ is opposite to the mind of Moses.

As we close out this session, I really want to ask you a question. Are you functioning in the mind of Moses? In cause and effect religion? Or are you functioning in what you've been given? The mind of Christ.

If you're functioning in the mind of Christ, you are able to judge every teaching that you ever hear as to where it is scriptural or not. Every one of them. There is no doubt. You don't go 'mmmmm….I wonder about that…I'm confused now'. That don't happen.

You know it automatically. And the peace is profound.

And people who are caught in religion, think that they can alter your course by giving to you their judgments and assessments of your life, your morality, and believe me, the moment you step into this freedom, the judges of your morality, the way you do things, how you think things, will SCREAM at the top of their lungs because when they see you step into this, they see you walking away from all the control they have yielded over your life for all these years. And the screams will go loud, folks. But you are judged of no man. That's a blessed assurance. Blessed assurance.

I've enjoyed being here. Profoundly. Thank you for giving us the time. We appreciate every one of you. I appreciate your heart first off, to see this perfect people, who have been persuaded we are perfect. You understand everything I said today. It's not a mystery to you. The mystery of God was revealed 2000 years ago, and the testimony of God is not going to change. Because God's testimony is that He was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself. Good news?

Thank you very much.