Welcome to the Cross Power Church podcast.
You're listening to a service from our church in Campbell, TX.
We pray this message strengthens your faith and points you to the
cross. Now let's join the service.
Want to preach to you about something today?
I kind of been on a series of this last three messages that
started at the biker rally. I preached on along these lines
and I guess it's kind of what led me into full time ministry
or pastoring a church is I had, as many of you know, I had a a
buck out ministry, buck bulls and horses and LED a lot of kids
to to Christ. And I set back over a period of
a few years and I've seen a lot of people save, but not a lot of
change in their life. And I've read nowhere in the
Bible that when we're saved, when we're born again, and you
know, it's not even really mentioned.
Saved, as I've said, is the ultimate goal to be saved from
from the tribulation period, from the wrath of God that's
coming upon this earth. That's the ultimate goal.
But right now we are not saved. We're born again.
We're living in a world where there's people that act
different than us. Hello.
And that we're even living in a world where the church acts
different than the church down the street.
And it's kind of confusing to a lot of people.
I want to clear some of this stuff up today.
And, and this message here, I'm going to tell you if you'll take
notes. I put it together over a lot of
years. If you'll listen today and let
it get in your spirit, it will change your life.
Amen. And I just want to, I just want
to share that and, and go over some things here, But we're
going to begin reading Second Corinthians chapter 5.
It's always amazed me in verse 17 of Second Corinthians chapter
5. Let's stand in the reading of
the word this morning preached on this little scripture here a
couple weeks now, but it, it's always grabbed my spirit when I
read it. It's always intrigued my mind
when I read it. The apostle Paul, he said here
in Second Corinthians chapter 5 and verse 17.
He says, therefore, if anyone, I love that we like to tell God
where we come from, what we've been, what we've done and why he
can't make us be a born again child of his.
It doesn't matter. He said if anyone is in Christ.
I preached on that Wednesday night of what it is to be in
Christ. It means to set, to wait.
The word in, in the Hebrew and Greek means a little deeper than
that. It means that you're walking
toward a destination. Can I get a witness this
morning? Therefore, if anyone is in
Christ and he's walking toward a destination called heaven, I
love what it says right here. And yes, sometimes it's hard,
but Paul says if you're in Christ, if you know Christ, he
said that you're a new creation. To be a new creation, some old
things have to pass away. That's where we get it.
That's where the Christian gets worried.
What's God going to take away what I got to quit doing?
What's it going to cost me? I can promise you, whatever it
cost you, he's going to replace it with something that your eyes
not seen, your ears not heard, and the glory has not even been
revealed to a man of what God can do in your life.
So just let him replace it. Let him take it away.
But the Christian walks around on earth a long time not letting
these old things pass away. Therefore there's no room for
the new. He said this, He said, behold,
all things have become new. Can I read that again in its
entirety? Therefore, if anyone is in
Christ, he is a new creation. Old things have passed away.
Boy, there's a red flag for. A lot of people.
Behold, all things have become new.
Father, we thank You for Your word today.
Pray for the anointing to preach Your word once again.
I pray for those that are battling with the old things as
we all are. Father, that You would make all
things new to us today. That You'd make this word new to
us today, Father. That you would make just a new
life, a new creation within us with a expectation of the coming
of the Lord Jesus Christ to take those that are born again, those
that are ready to meet the Lord and set down at the marriage
supper of the Lamb. That you would just help us to
know we're a new creation this morning.
It's in your Son's name. We ask and pray, Amen.
As I've preached this many times before, I'm a preacher that
believes if we're born again, there should be something
different about us. We're in the world, but we're
not out of the world. But as many find out, come on
y'all preach with me this morning as many find out and I
got tired of leaving people at salvation.
A lot of preachers leave them at salvation and pat them on the
back. Tell them you got everything you
need. Just go, just go.
You know what you finna do? You finna go out and get your
tail kicked by an enemy because the enemy knows all the tricks.
He knows the word that the new believer that just received
salvation does not know. He knows how to throw a
roadblock up in you, in your path before you can ever grasp
and before it ever falls upon good ground.
So I want to teach this morning on how to how do we become this
new creation? Anybody wants something new in
their life? Look at your neighbor.
Say I want something new in my life.
Look at your other neighbor that didn't get it.
But if many find out, it's salvation.
And can I say this, even after water baptism, we want a big
trophy on our shelf. Oh, I've been baptized.
That's a good thing. But was there a change?
Did something happen? Did the old man or woman that
you were seem to just totally die at water baptism?
I felt like a fire was started and I felt like there was two
things fighting inside of me that I never felt before.
How about you? I felt like there was a war that
was started. It would be really cool if God
just snapped his fingers and the old man was instantly dead.
And all the cravings and the lustful things that we walked
through in this life and the addictions and the mouth that
just spouts off when it shouldn't.
And Amen, it'd be cool if all that stuff was just gone.
But I give you a heavy Ravi this morning.
It's not, It's still in the body of Christ.
It's still in the church. It's still in the hearts of many
believers because they haven't let the old things pass away.
Oh, I feel his glory this morning and let all things
become new. Just as we developed the worldly
habits, you know, the habits that we have, the habits that
that kill a lot of people on a daily basis.
The old things that we held on to see, they didn't just come up
on you. You had to develop them.
Hello how many remembers the first part day they went to
thought it was going to be a party but it wrecked the rest of
their life. How many remembers those things
We had to develop those habits. So why wouldn't we have to
develop the new created spirit that God has placed within us
because we all can agree that it didn't just change.
You had a knowledge of who you was, the Holy Spirit come in,
and it convicted your being of sin.
And you knew that something about the person that you used
to be was a little bit messed up and it was a little bit wrong.
And I wasn't supposed to act. I'm not supposed to act that way
yet. But I find people that that can
justify it. I find preachers that can
justify it. And we start another convention
church over here that it's OK to do and we pat on the back.
It's happening everywhere, everywhere.
I get calls from old friends attending churches that got big
churches and big buildings and big problems.
But we have to develop our recreated human spirit.
It would be great, as I said, if God snapped his fingers and we
were automatically Christ like. But we can agree that's not
true. But the truth is God helps us
with the great Helper, with the great Helper, with the great
helper, the Holy Ghost. And in Genesis 1 and 27 it says
that we were created in the image of God.
Isn't that cool to know that you were created in the image of
God? But seeing entered in and
separated us from God. So when we're born again and
we're reconciled with God, we must develop the Spirit, the new
Spirit that God has placed within us.
And to do so, we must do one thing.
As Galatians chapter 5 and verse 22 through 25 says, we have to
look at the fruit. I'm not sure if a lot of
Christians ever look at the fruit.
Can I tell you, the unbeliever, the one that you professing to
know Jesus in front of the one that knows that you read
scripture or maybe you send scripture.
Can I tell you, come on, somebody, they're looking at
your life today and they're expect, they're looking at what
kind of fruits hanging off of you.
And the problem is most Christians tell them that I'm an
apple tree, but they look at you and they see big bananas hanging
off of your tree and they know that you're professing a lie
because you ain't no apple tree. You're a big old banana tree,
right? But we think that they're dumb.
Hey, man, we think that they can't see that.
Why? Because we're not a new creation
yet. We have to work on it.
So what do we look at? See the the fruit.
There's only one way the Bible says that you will not be the
lustful ignorant. Can I just preach it this
morning, dumb person you was when you were living in sin and
you were blinded to the things of God.
The Bible says there's only one way you're going to get out of
that life. There's only one way.
That is to walk in the Spirit that you will not fulfill the
lust of the flesh. That's the only way to walk in
the Spirit. And how do we do that?
I preached that last week about walking in.
So if we're walking in the Spirit, what is what does the
Spirit do? In Galatians 5 and 22, it says
the fruit of the Spirit is love. That's the number one thing I
want to preach to you about today is love.
God is love. So it's pretty important to
preach about what God is. If you want to know God, right?
God is love, but the fruit of the spirit is love.
It's joy, it's peace, long-suffering, kindness,
goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control against
such. There's no law, there's no wrong
in those things. I read you the next verse says
that in those who are Christ. Here's a key have crucified the
flesh with its passions and its desires.
The apostle Paul said in Galatians 220.
He said I have been crucified with Christ.
It's no longer I who live, but it's Christ who lives within me
and the life that I now live. I live through the Son of God
who loved me and gave his life for me.
Y'all staying with me this morning?
So to produce fruit, the first thing I got to do is to walk in
love. Say that with me.
Walk in love. I've got to walk in love.
There's a lot here, but we must practice it every day because
God is love. And to develop our recreated
human spirit we must walk in love.
Because in in first John 4 and 18 it says there is No Fear in
love, but perfect love cast out all fear because fear has
torment. He that feareth is not made
perfect in love. We love Him because He first
loved us. We must learn to walk in love.
You will never lead anybody to Christ hitting them over the
head with the Bible and not loving them.
I have found the greatest way to lead people to Christ is love
them while they're sinners, Amen.
Shake them a little bit and and every now and then drop some
words in their spirit. But most all you got to love
them. Amen.
You got to love them because God is love to produce fruit.
We have to walk in love, love God and love your neighbor.
The second thing we must do this is a hard one.
I know Christians that battle it on a daily basis.
I know preachers that battle it on a daily basis is to give the
Word first place in your life. If I've heard it once, I've
heard it 1000 times. I know the Bible says that, but
I know the Bible. But there's no butts in it.
There's no butts in it. We have to if we're going to
produce fruit that God speaks of there.
And there were some hard fruit to produce. long-suffering,
patience, kindness, gentleness. You know, we can't even get it
right with one person in our life.
Most of the time we're in an 80% divorce bracket, divorce
brackets. Now two people.
Think about it, how you going to go out and get it right with a
bunch of people when two people walk and preach right here when
two people? Can't even get it right most of
the time. We have to walk in love,
long-suffering, patience, gentleness, kindness, and it's
hard sometimes. You just got to have a meltdown
within. Hey man, you know it's better to
just stop. It's better to let it all just
and just, you know, let it out like that because you need to,
if you, if you're hurt, if you're broken this morning, the
greatest thing you can do is hush until you heal.
Because all you do is separate yourself from other people.
And the first thing they do is I thought you, I thought you.
The world loves to say I thought you.
I thought you, I thought you was a Christian.
Anybody ever heard that? That's reflecting failure in US.
I've heard it. It's reflecting failure in US.
How do we do this? Give the Word first place in our
lives. Psalms 138, verse 2.
The psalmist said, I will worship toward your holy temple,
and I will praise your name for your loving kindness and your
trust or your truth, For you have magnified.
Think about this, you have magnified, Jesus has the name
above all names. But the psalmist says here, for
you have magnified your word above all your name.
Jesus knew that the word was the only thing above his name,
right? He was the word, but he went to
the word before he used. He could have prayed in his own
name, but he went to what is written to defeat the enemy.
He went to what was already written to produce fruit, right?
In Proverbs 3, five and seven, it says trust in the Lord.
Say it with me with all your heart and lean not on your own
understanding, but in all of your ways.
We love to leave that first part out and go to the comma down
there. In all your ways.
Acknowledge Him and He shall direct your path.
Not true if you're not leaning, not on your own understanding,
but in all your ways. He says do not be wise in your
own eyes. Fear the Lord, depart from evil
and it will be health to your flesh and strength to your
bones. We must develop a recreated
human spirit. We must put the Word first place
in our life. It will bring blessings and not
cursing to our life. See, the spirit of the man is
the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts
of the belly. We must learn to obey #3 Y'all
ready for this? We must learn to obey the voice
of the Spirit. I lost a lot of people right
there because a lot of people say God don't speak to them.
You know when people say God don't speak to them?
You know what I say? I say you're not reading your
Bible. That's how God chooses to speak
to us. It's through His written word.
He wrote it through through anointed people.
We must learn to obey the voice of the Spirit.
Proverbs 20 and 27, it says the spirit of man is the lamp of the
Lord searching all the inner depths of the heart.
Man can only have contact with God through spirit, right,
because he can't approach us not till we have a glorified body.
But if, if you're only trying to seek God in the flesh and the
things that you can see, taste, touch and feel, you'll be
greatly disappointed. You can feel the spirit.
Many gets the clothes, They can even taste the spirit.
But see, the spirit of man is the lamp of the Lord searching
all the inner depths. And John 16 and verse 13, he
gives a great passage. We're going to read a little bit
here. Let's go to John 16.
He gives a great way here to do this.
We must learn to obey the voice. Say it with me of the Spirit,
and maybe you're stuck in the realm.
Well, the the Spirit doesn't speak to me.
Sure it does. If we listen.
It says. However, in John 16 and 13 here
it says, however, when he, the third member of the Godhead, the
Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you in all truth.
I believe the Christian ought to know all truth.
I believe if we're in Christ Jesus, and I believe if we
develop our spirit and what I believe if we read this Bible, I
don't see why any churches should disagree.
I may not operate in the gifts you operate in.
You may not operate in the gifts I operate in, but they're still
gifts and they're still there, and they will still be bestowed
upon who God chooses to. And until He does, I don't need
to worry about what gift you got, and you ain't need to worry
about what gift I got. We just need to obey the voice
of the Spirit, and we could all be one big church.
There will be no financial burdens.
God could set His Kingdom up on this earth, but sadly that does
not happen. There's no way we could read
this word and come up with all the different denominations.
Where we come up with the denominations is we.
Don't want to create. We don't want to recreate.
The human spirit. We want to recreate a lifestyle
that everybody says it's OK to do what the Bible says not to
do. And then we can feel good and we
can feel like we're going to heaven and we don't have to hear
a short, slobbering, screaming preacher tell us we might go to
hell. Hey man, it's a whole lot
easier. I love.
To wake up in the morning, God speaks something to me and I
feel condemned about it. And God begins to.
Tell me you did this. Yesterday and you did it
yesterday. And I can say, Oh no, there's no
condemnation in Christ Jesus. That ain't God telling me that.
No, I know what I did and I know it wasn't what the word of God
wants me to do. So I when I feel that little,
that little I have to say there is no condemnation.
I got to get back over here in Christ Jesus and I got to repent
for what I did and I got to realize, woe is me, God, would
you forgive me? And then I got to figure out how
to never be back there again when I can never figure out how
to, when I can figure out how to never be back there again,
because it's not just going to go away.
You got to figure out how to overcome, right?
He said, I come that you might have life more abundantly, that
you might be an overcomer in Christ Jesus.
I got to figure out how to overcome.
How do I do it? I recreate my spirit because I
have the spirit of truth will bring me into all truth.
For he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he
hears, he will speak, and he will tell you things to come.
It's a good way to get over it, right?
That's why I need to create my spirit to where the Holy Spirit
can live within me and He can tell me the things to come.
He will glorify me, for He will take, Can you imagine taking of
what is Christ, what is mine? Jesus said.
And the Holy Spirit's going to declare it to you see, Jesus
separates himself here and and and people get hung up.
It is a try you and Godhead, but they have different areas of
ministry that they minister to us in.
Jesus came and hung on the cross and and and made eternal life
possible. He said, I forgive your sin, but
we have a lot of people crying out to Christ and and trying to
give him that he don't want your sin.
He forgive your sin. He said it's finished.
He said I can no longer come back down there and and commune
with you, but you feel the pulling of me.
But I'm going to go and I'm going to sit at the right hand
of the Father. And because I'm there, I'm going
to send the helper back to you to bring you in truth and
knowledge and he's going to teach you how to overcome your
sin and that you can be created in the image of me.
But you got to develop it. You've got the helper.
All things that the Father has are mine.
Therefore I said that he will take of what is mine and he will
give it to you. Isn't that a powerful word from
Christ this morning? He will give us the authority.
But see, somebody's hung up on this.
Well, I just don't hear from God.
Listen because he speaks. He says my sheep will know my
voice. We have God's voice in the
natural written word of God. And I've said this many times,
if God spoke in the natural, in the audible voice of God that so
many long to hear, You know, we click on so many things.
We we click on something and somebody takes an AR and walks
in a church or in a school and they just go to shooting like
they're in a war zone. We read the post of it.
Not much emotion went out. It happened yesterday.
Not much emotion goes out, not not much prayer goes out.
It's just something that happens anymore.
We become that way with sin. Oh, it happened, but it's just
no, we need to learn to hate it. We need to learn to hate evil.
Amen. We need to learn to hate evil.
But yet we become so used to it, so accepting of it.
If God spoke in the natural realm, if we was all out working
with cows one day and we heard the voice that said walk in my
way and do not sin. And people would listen, they
would hear it. But most of the people I know,
two days from now, they would forget.
It wouldn't really change them. Let's see what Jesus said about
that. If I can hear the audible voice
of God in the United States of America, John chapter 12, verse
21, If we could just hear the audible voice, if God would just
do something. I challenge you, don't limit God
like that. He's already done it.
If he never does anything else again, I'm going to serve him.
How about you? If he never if, if, if, if
everything in my life fell apart.
He's still God. He's still got the answer.
God doesn't need me, I need God. Don't limit God by saying if.
He would just speak because it's happened.
In John chapter 12, as we back up, we read Jesus taught on this
one day He was talking about the fruitful grain of wheat.
And in verse 22 of John chapter 12, Philip came and told Andrew
and in turn Andrew told Philip and he told Jesus there was some
people that there was a certain Greeks among them that wanted to
come and they wanted to worship, they wanted to see Jesus.
But Jesus said the hour has come that the Son of Man should be
glorified. Most assuredly, I say to you,
unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it
remains alone. But if it dies, it produces much
grain. There it is again about being
born again, about the new creation.
It's got to die to be a new creation.
He who loves this life will lose it, and he who hates this life
in this world will keep it for eternal life.
If anyone serves me, let him follow me where I am, there my
servant will be also. If anyone serves me, Him my
Father will honor. And in verse 27, he was
predicting his death on the cross.
He said, my soul is troubled and what shall I say?
Father saved me from this hour. Jesus was burdened, he said, but
he said, wait a minute, It's for this purpose I've come to this
hour. Can I tell you if you're born
again and all the things that are happening in this world,
it's going to happen. But for this purpose that we
preach about, for this Jesus that we talk about, for this
Christian life that we live, it's for this purpose that we
come into the hour. Because I come by to tell you
that all the hell that's breaking loose in this earth, if
you're born again, you serve a God that is not troubled by it.
He can control it at the snap of a finger, but he's looking for
people to stand up with a new created spirit that's been
developed that says my God shall supply all of my needs according
to his riches in glory. But we get stirred up because of
what Fox says. We get stirred up because of a
tariff that's been played. We get stirred up on the
littlest things and lose faith. But for this purpose, wake up in
the morning, tell the enemy it's for this purpose I've come to
this hour. I'll bring something with me, a
new created spirit in Christ Jesus.
He's taking everything that's the Father's and he's making it
mine and I'm about to release it upon this earth.
Can I get a witness when Jesus said this, when he said for this
purpose I've come to this hour, there was something really neat
happened right here. It says, then a voice came from
heaven. Say I have both glorified it and
I will glorify it again. Talking about the hour that he
was about to face. How's anybody going to bring
glory to someone hanging on a cross because he's God.
Hey, man. And he had an eternal plan and
eternal purpose for his children that involved an old rugged
cross. Can I get a witness?
He had a plan to to send grace to planet earth.
He said for this purpose, for this hour, I have sent you to
this purpose. But what did the people do?
I have glorified it and I'll glorify it again.
There was a great move of God taking place in them.
Two verses right there. Therefore the people who stood
by and they heard it. What did they hear?
This voice coming from heaven that said I glorified it and
I'll glorify it again. Therefore the people stood by
and they heard it. I'm just picture a bunch of
believers out. God speaks that Thunder.
No, dummy, that was God. I see it in the church.
The Holy Spirit sweeps through and somebody's getting blessed
and somebody says, oh, did they raise a hand?
Did they speak in an unknown tongue?
No, the power God was being magnified upon them.
Amen. Get past what you see and get
into what the what you're feeling in the Spirit.
Amen. We get so hung up.
Oh, it made me uncomfortable. I'll tell you what, the rapture
is going to make you uncomfortable.
If you ain't going, the tribulation is going to make you
uncomfortable. I don't know where we got that
we're supposed to be comfortable as Christians.
I don't know where we got this fact that we're supposed to be
comfortable. Amen.
You supposed to walk in when God gives you a word?
Whoo. Man, I feel his glory.
It doesn't matter who it is or where it's at, if God gives you
a word, they're not unapproachable.
I told a man that this week of big church.
He talked about his past, some things going.
I said he's a man, he's not unapproachable.
He may need a Nathan in his life.
That's a whole nother message. David had a Nathan in his life.
We may need a Nathan in our life.
But he said I've glorified it and I'll glorify it again.
Therefore the people who stood by heard it.
Isn't this powerful talking about hearing the voice of God?
He said they said it had thundered.
Others said an Angel had spoken to him, and Jesus answered and
said this voice did not come because of me, but for your
sake. Now is the judgment of this
world. Now the ruler of this world be
cast out and I if I am lifted up, think about it, if I am
lifted up from the earth, I will draw all people to myself.
So quit saying if I you could just hear the voice of God, seek
the spirit of God, you will hear the voice of God because John 4
and 24, it says God is a spirit. Say that with me.
God is a spirit and those that worship him must worship Him in
spirit and truth. So to develop your spirit, what
is it? Worship is man's reaction to
what? To God's holiness.
Worship is not about us, it's about God and what He's done,
His Holiness, His faithfulness. We bow down before him because
He's Lord of all. And if He's not Lord of all in
your life, he may not be Lord at all.
Praise comes out of our mouth. Worship is an attitude.
We must worship the Lord in spirit and in truth.
So to be a new creation, we must have a recreated spirit.
And to do this we must do what? We must walk in love.
We must give the Word first place in our life.
But then you have to obey the voice of the Spirit of the Lord.
You must obey the voice of the Spirit of the Lord.
But see, the problem is in our life.
We looked outside circumstances to change our lives.
We look at what somebody else is doing or what somebody else has
done and we think if, if they would, if they would just change
that, I could change this. That's the attitude we have a
lot of times. We throw everything about us on
somebody else and we depend on how they act for happiness.
We're good at that, ain't we? Anybody know anybody like that
But the Bob, the apostle Paul approached that many times.
He said no. He said you have a hidden
treasure. Let's see.
When I look at a lot of people, I don't see the hidden treasure
because I don't see a human spirit that has been developed
in Galatians 5 and 16. He says, I say walk in the
spirit and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh for the
flesh. Lust against the Spirit and the
spirit against the flesh and these are contrary to one
another. Y'all figured that out yet?
So that you do not do the things that you wish, but if you're led
by the Spirit, you're not under the law.
We serve a mighty God that has a lot of things for His children,
but I challenge you work on recreating your human spirit.
We're good at going to church or going to meeting a Christian
that doesn't have it all together and spending the rest
of the week talking about what they did didn't do that they
should have done. I think about myself is what I
try to do. What can I do?
What can I carry around in me that might get on them if I'm
walking in love, Love can get on them if I'm walking in the
Spirit. You know, think about the think
about Peter and Paul and think about the apostles.
The anointing was so great, Brother Tim, you know, when they
they, there was times they laid hands and they prayed.
I prayed for him and they were instantly healed.
But there was other times that they just walked by.
They just walked by and just a shadow.
I've often thought it, but you know, Jesus said that same power
rest in US today. He said, because I went back to
the Father, the works that I did, you can do.
But we got to, we got to create this spirit within us, the place
that God can dwell, that he can live.
And I'll leave you with this today.
I got a lot more on this. But the apostle Paul says that
we have this hidden treasure within this vessel, within this
jar of clay. There's something inside of us
that people can't see. And if they can't see it, what
are they? If they can't see it, how, what
are they going to do? How are they going to watch it?
Anybody ever study people? I don't mean Barbara Rodeo.
And you spend a lot of time on the road.
You get to know people very well.
You get to know people and you get, you know, I, I can watch
people by their actions pretty much and tell if they're going
to get on my nerves. Do y'all do that?
They ask you to go on a trip with them and you never been
around with them long enough that you know that.
They can't bother you. Bob.
Was always hyper when we was rodeoing.
And one time we got on this plane, it had an aisle over here
and an aisle over here. Bob was hyper.
He was sitting in this little floozy.
Lady She. Come in with her bag.
OK, I'm sitting back here in the back.
I got to tell this I'm. Sitting back here in the back of
the plane. I'm watching Bob, Bob.
He's like this. He needs about four seats to.
Get all this stuff in Donnie Holly.
He gave us about four seats to get all this pirate stuff in
here. He's up there and I see this
little lady compressed. In there this bag she's.
Walking in there, I was sitting back.
I know this dude. This ain't fitting to work.
She sits down by Bob and. Lo and behold, her comes.
Another one sits down on that side.
So I'm back here and I he's being pretty still for about 10
minutes and he gets to moving around.
I'm about to doze off and I'm looking up there watching Bob
and I'm thinking this is good. I got to stay awake.
This something happened. Here, in a minute, we're
sitting. There, I'm sitting there and I
see this little lady says, Do you see?
That armrest, this side is my side.
That side is your side. Stay on your side.
Keep in mind, I'd known him since the 4th grade.
I knew it wasn't going to, boy. It was the best TV show I ever
seen. I just got to set back there.
I knew what this lady. He done bopped her in the ear
once and he when he was touching this and he was hitting that
one, it was bad, but he there was four seats there and he was
in the middle or five and he was in the middle and.
Finally, somehow, they move. Him I think over.
To Windows, but anybody? You know, we, we have people
like. That that we know that we just
couldn't travel with. I traveled with him, but his
brother couldn't. Not very long.
But the problem is we're like that in the body of Christ.
There's people that don't want to be around Christians and that
should never be the case because there's Christians that beat
them over the head. You need to do this.
You need it's not my job to tell you what you need to do.
I preach what the Word says that we should do.
But now when you sit there and you're not doing it, you get mad
at me. Give the Word first place you
get mad before you get mad at me.
Go see if the Bible says it. And if the Bible says it, you
ain't mad at me. You just mad at me for saying
what the Bible says. You're really having conflict
with God. And when you have conflict with
God, I believe God's kind of like I was with Bob.
He folds his arm. He said he don't want to listen.
I love him, but he's got to learn.
And he watches the show. Hey, man, anybody ever been in
the show? It's not a good place to be.
But God said if we begin developing on our own, we ain't
got to be in the show. We ain't got to.
God can take you around so many things, so many things, young
people, if you'll just listen, if you'll just resist the
temptation, don't give place to the devil.
Resist the enemy, resist it. And the Bible says he will flee.
But I challenge you, strive. We'll never be all we're
supposed to be upon this earth. But I believe we're to try.
I believe we're to try, but you know, as we stand our feet, I, I
see this so much and I just, I'd like to relate stuff to real
life, but we're doing a rodeo school one time and this boy,
he, they'd open the we'd open the gate, he'd land on his head
every time right there, right there.
And he just kept getting on. He just kept getting on.
We'd put him on an easy horse. He'd fall off right then.
He couldn't ride a stick horse. And I had some Christian guys
there with me and the boy they'd say, man, you're you're cowboy,
you're tough, you're good, you're good.
After about 3 days of hitting on his head, he.
Kept walking and they said, you ready, cowboy?
He said. I'm going to tell you all
something. I don't feel like no cowboy.
Rightfully so. But that's how a lot of
Christians are today. We keep patting them on the
back. You're OK as your heads are bad.
You're OK. You're a Christian.
You know Jesus, you're going to heaven.
It doesn't matter who you what you're doing, that ain't what
the Bible says. The Bible says get a new spirit.
Behold all things, behold all things become new.
I come by to tell you today, behold all things that can
become new. Well, Pastor, I got bills that I
can't be. All things can become new.
He says that my blessings are fresh and anew every day.
How much does God have that we ain't receiving a whole lot?
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