1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:02,520 Amen. Serving the Lord would do that 2 00:00:02,520 --> 00:00:04,400 for you. I know there are a lot of 3 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:05,960 different religions in the world. 4 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,800 Thank you, Trevor. A lot of different religions in 5 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:16,280 the world and some almost cause more of an incarceration than 6 00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:20,480 they do at Freedom. You don't find that in the Lord. 7 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:24,800 Amen. He sets us free by His Spirit. 8 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:27,360 Amen. In the scripture says he that 9 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:31,400 the Son has set free is free indeed, Amen. 10 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:33,160 Just a few announcements tonight. 11 00:00:33,160 --> 00:00:38,200 Please remember this coming Sunday, This coming Sunday kicks 12 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:42,920 off the Sunday school campaign initiative, Amen. 13 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:46,040 So just be mindful of that going into this Sunday. 14 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:48,960 And I'm sure that you've been working this week to invite 15 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:52,760 people or those that are on your team to ensure that they are 16 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:56,280 here and accounted for, Amen, on Sunday. 17 00:00:56,280 --> 00:01:02,120 So remember that, Amen. Also remember if anyone desires 18 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:07,440 to, there is a World Missions Rally in Bloomington IN Friday 19 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:12,440 and Saturday this weekend at Shiloh Temple, Pastor Ryan 20 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:15,800 Marshall, something that we do annually within the district, 21 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:18,320 have a World of Missions rally there, Amen. 22 00:01:18,320 --> 00:01:23,600 And so that service begins at 7:00 on on Friday in in 23 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:26,240 Bloomington. So keep that in mind as well. 24 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:31,720 Also next Wednesday, next Wednesday, there will be 25 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:35,520 brackets here ready for the cardinal side of March Madness, 26 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:38,080 which is the the basketball competition. 27 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:40,720 And so there'll be brackets here and all those brackets will need 28 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:45,480 to be turned into Brother Malone by midnight that that Wednesday 29 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:47,800 because first round and everything starts the very next 30 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:50,920 day. And so please be mindful that, 31 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:55,720 and that's for whosoever will male, female, child, whatever. 32 00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:58,320 Maybe maybe they're going to whisper to you and gag, gag, goo 33 00:01:58,320 --> 00:01:59,840 goo. Maybe Piper's going to fill one 34 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:02,160 out. I don't know, you know, But 35 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:04,800 nonetheless, everybody can be involved in that. 36 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:08,880 And then the very last Sunday of this month, which is 1/5 Sunday, 37 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:11,520 we're going to have Pastor David Scott from Sullivan. 38 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:14,320 He'll be here ministering in that service. 39 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:18,080 And since that is a service where we'll all be in here, all 40 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:21,360 of our classes will be in here. I think I'm going to piggyback 41 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:25,040 on that service and let that be when we burn our mortgage on 42 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:29,640 that Sunday morning with everybody together and celebrate 43 00:02:29,640 --> 00:02:32,360 that too. And maybe go down memory lane 44 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:34,560 just a little bit. Amen with that. 45 00:02:34,920 --> 00:02:35,840 Amen. OK. 46 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:39,120 And so that'll be good as well. I'm going to turn to 1st Kings 47 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:43,520 55. And this is strictly just a, a, 48 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:50,080 a leap off point for us tonight. Strictly just a leap off point. 49 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:54,440 First Kings 55 in the month of October and throughout some of 50 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:57,240 the end of the year on Sunday mornings, we did some things 51 00:02:57,240 --> 00:03:02,200 talking about how we are the temple of God and Jesus bought a 52 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:05,560 house type of scenario. And so I'm continuing with that. 53 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:08,480 We did like 7 lessons before we ever got here tonight. 54 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:11,640 This is lesson #8 All right, want to talk a little bit more 55 00:03:11,640 --> 00:03:13,960 about that? We talk about our holy God and 56 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:16,480 then that impact then on our lives. 57 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:19,120 Amen, As we live here below. Amen. 58 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:21,880 Also, just a special note, just since I'm standing here, 59 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:25,560 tomorrow is Trevor's 17th birthday. 60 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:33,760 He'll be 17 years old tomorrow. And this church in this city is 61 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:37,360 all the Trevor's ever known. Different from Mariah, she's had 62 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:40,760 a little bit more, but this is all that he's ever known. 63 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:45,040 And so you all been his family. You've watched him grow up from 64 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:51,760 just a child to what he is now. And I asked him last night, I 65 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:53,840 asked him to talk to me and said, tell me about your day. 66 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:55,200 So he started telling me about his day. 67 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:57,760 And there's something he said that spawned something on my 68 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:00,080 mind I was going to share back. And he said, oh, wait a minute, 69 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:02,880 you're interrupting. You want to hear about my day? 70 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:07,880 And I never did get to say what I was going to say. 71 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:12,240 That's all right. We love our Trevor. 72 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:15,200 Amen, for sure. And so this is all he's ever 73 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:18,560 known. A few years ago, my family was 74 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:20,240 down to Louisiana. I was preaching a camp meeting 75 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:22,560 down there and he received the baptism of the Holy Ghost. 76 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:27,200 And so I've always tried to take my family anywhere and 77 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:30,360 everywhere I could go. When I go somewhere, they're 78 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:33,640 usually with me, if at all possible, all of them, 79 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:36,280 especially in the summer, those summer camp meetings going to 80 00:04:36,280 --> 00:04:38,440 take them. And so he's been a traveling 81 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:40,320 companion to me when no one else could go. 82 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:43,280 We went to New Mexico together and went from there over to 83 00:04:43,280 --> 00:04:46,320 North Carolina together and just so on and so forth. 84 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:49,680 And he's a good traveling companion most of the time, as 85 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:52,160 long as there's chicken and great abundance. 86 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:55,640 Amen. First Kings chapter #5 and verse 87 00:04:55,640 --> 00:05:00,440 #5 the Bible says, and behold, I purpose to build. 88 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:02,680 This is Solomon speaking. And behold, I purpose to build a 89 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:06,040 house, and to the name of the Lord my God, as the Lord spake 90 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:09,960 unto David, my father, saying, thy son, whom I will set up on 91 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:15,200 thy throne in thy room, he shall build an house unto my name, 92 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:17,560 Amen. So tonight I want to talk to us. 93 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:21,120 Tonight this holiness is like a house. 94 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:26,720 Holiness is like a house, Amen. Let's ask the Lord to help us. 95 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:29,480 Father, I thank you, Jesus again, God, for those who have 96 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:32,320 gathered in, Lord, out of this weather tonight, Lord, into this 97 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:35,880 house, God, that we consider our lives around your word. 98 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:37,560 God. It's upon this word, Lord, that 99 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:40,920 we are built and we are instructed and someday we'll be 100 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:43,360 judged by and we're grateful, Lord, for your word. 101 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:46,120 I pray, O Lord, open our minds and I understand you for the 102 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:49,000 next little while and will not fail to thank you for it. 103 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:52,160 In the name of Jesus Christ that I pray, Amen. 104 00:05:52,160 --> 00:05:53,880 You may be seated tonight, Jesus name. 105 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:58,640 And if anybody thinks Genesis is totally gone, it's not OK Amen. 106 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:02,040 It'll probably play back and forth with Jesus by the house. 107 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:05,200 All right, a little bit. I started here tonight as a 108 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:09,280 launch point because Solomon following in the footsteps of 109 00:06:09,280 --> 00:06:11,360 his father. Most of us know according to 110 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:15,400 God's Word that David was not able or was not allowed to build 111 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:18,520 a house for the Lord. Too much bloodshed in his 112 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:21,160 lifetime. But his son Solomon would be the 113 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:24,920 one that would build a house unto the Lord. 114 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:30,080 He would build a literal right, a literal house unto the Lord. 115 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:35,160 However, as he had that that that desire to do so. 116 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:38,760 Solomon building God a literal house today. 117 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:42,560 I know that we have churches and edifices and things like we have 118 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:44,600 here tonight. That's for the purpose of the 119 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:47,440 Lord. But every single one of us are 120 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:52,400 also trying to establish a house, all right, a house, a 121 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:57,160 temple with our lives, a House of holiness for that matter, our 122 00:06:57,160 --> 00:07:00,240 lives unto the Lord. And so holiness in many regards 123 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:03,560 is like a house. And the reason why I say that is 124 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:08,680 sometimes we we treat or we approach holiness through the 125 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:12,760 means of just looking at lifestyles and standards, which 126 00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:17,600 in many regards is kind of like the exterior furnishings of 127 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:20,880 sheetrock and stuff on the framework and the siding on the 128 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:24,520 outside of a house. And we never look at the 129 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:26,920 framework and the foundation of the house. 130 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:31,080 And whenever you do that, I think you get a a misconstrued 131 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:35,960 idea really about what all is involved because if I could 132 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:40,480 relate it in almost an analogy type purposes that the standards 133 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:44,840 of holiness that that we exemplify in our lives are 134 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:48,640 dependent or hung up on the framework of some principles. 135 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:53,560 All right, some principles that are derived from a foundation 136 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:56,960 that are that is the the the characterization of the 137 00:07:56,960 --> 00:08:00,920 attributes of God himself. And so they they kind of find 138 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:03,520 their weight bearing on all of these things. 139 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:06,320 So if I were to do it for analogy purposes tonight by the 140 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:08,640 reefs. I would say that the foundation 141 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:13,240 of this house are the attributes and the characterizations of our 142 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:15,800 God. That's the foundation of this 143 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:17,440 holy house. Amen. 144 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:22,120 And then upon squarely upon that foundation, you, if you have 145 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:24,360 any, you know, concept of construction. 146 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:29,080 Squarely upon that foundation are these two by 4 structured 147 00:08:29,080 --> 00:08:32,480 members that create the skeletal wall of the house. 148 00:08:32,480 --> 00:08:36,720 I would liken that to the principles of God, the 149 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:41,840 principles of holiness that come from the attributes of God, and 150 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:45,200 then finally all the application of those principles of the 151 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:47,520 framework. Again, I would relate to the 152 00:08:47,520 --> 00:08:51,400 interior and the exterior finishes like the sheetrock and 153 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:55,000 the siding and the all that that goes on the House both inside 154 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:57,640 and outside. But the important thing is this 155 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:01,680 the, all the invisible parts of the house that you cannot see 156 00:09:01,680 --> 00:09:06,680 with the natural eye are, are supported by the visible. 157 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:09,560 They are supporting the visible parts. 158 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:12,080 All those things that, that foundation, you can't usually 159 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:14,080 see much of it. Maybe the ground comes up to a 160 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:16,800 certain degree or those two by fours within the wall. 161 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:19,520 You can't see unless you've had a oops in your house, right? 162 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:21,360 And, and those things are discovered. 163 00:09:21,560 --> 00:09:24,800 All of those things, those invisible parts are supporting 164 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:29,600 the visible parts of the house. And then the Bible tells us the 165 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:32,840 Old Testament concerning just a couple of stories that you're 166 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:36,840 familiar with perhaps, and that is Noah and the ark, what's 167 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:40,960 known as Noah's Ark, and also the Tabernacle in the 168 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:43,800 wilderness, which is known as the Tabernacle of Moses. 169 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:47,000 Both of these, both of these things that were constructed, 170 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:51,080 the ark and the Tabernacle were constructed according to God's 171 00:09:51,080 --> 00:09:54,840 design, according to the material, according to the 172 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:58,400 dimensions, all of it was according to God's design. 173 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:02,120 And so when we begin to look at that, these things that were 174 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:05,960 according to God's design, His material, His vision, Amen. 175 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:10,120 Even our own lives, which we have looked at before and I'll 176 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:13,760 stayed over and over again, Acts chapter 20 tells us our lives 177 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:17,760 have been purchased by His own blood, Amen. 178 00:10:17,760 --> 00:10:20,360 The blood of Christ has purchased our lives. 179 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:25,240 It is purchased these temples that has purchased these houses. 180 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:28,520 And with that in mind, since this belongs to God, God then 181 00:10:28,520 --> 00:10:32,160 has some specifications for these temples. 182 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:35,560 He has specifications for these houses. 183 00:10:35,560 --> 00:10:40,240 The Bible says in First Corinthians 6 and verse 19 that 184 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:45,400 your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, and it says 185 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:49,120 explicitly that ye are not your own. 186 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:52,040 You are not your own. We've looked at this in past, I 187 00:10:52,040 --> 00:10:55,640 know we slept several times since then, but we are not our 188 00:10:55,640 --> 00:10:58,600 own. I do not belong to myself, I 189 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:00,480 belonging to him. Amen. 190 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:05,080 And so the things that happen in my life should do, if you will, 191 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:09,400 represent the one who owns me, all right, represent the one who 192 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:12,000 bought me. And so holiness in many ways is 193 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:14,720 like a house. And so with that, the foundation 194 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:18,200 of this house that I'm talking about, that this holy, holy 195 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:21,680 structure is built upon are the attributes of God. 196 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:25,640 The foundation of this holiness thing is all about God's 197 00:11:25,640 --> 00:11:29,560 personality, God's character and God's purpose. 198 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:33,080 It's all about him. He is the base of this house. 199 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:35,720 We see that even to a certain degree. 200 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:39,560 And the writer that Paul, the letter that Paul rat to wrote to 201 00:11:39,560 --> 00:11:43,720 the church at Corinth in first Corinthians 3 and verse #11 he 202 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:50,160 said quite plainly, for other foundation can no man lay, then 203 00:11:50,160 --> 00:11:54,800 that is laid which is Christ Jesus. 204 00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:59,040 That foundation is about him. It's about his, his personality, 205 00:11:59,040 --> 00:12:02,840 his character, his purpose. It's all about him and what we 206 00:12:02,840 --> 00:12:05,920 know. What we know about our God is 207 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:09,960 our God is immutable. Or said differently, our God 208 00:12:10,160 --> 00:12:14,000 changes not He's an unchanging God. 209 00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:19,880 That means whatever God was in eternity past, he is the same 210 00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:23,000 today and he will be the same tomorrow. 211 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:26,600 He is unchanging. And so that tells me that my 212 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:30,400 holy God, the holy one that Isaiah says over and over again, 213 00:12:30,560 --> 00:12:33,920 holy one, my God, which is a holy one or a holy God, that 214 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:37,040 changes not. And since that's the foundation 215 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:40,040 of this house, I can rest assured that holiness is 216 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:44,600 consistent because of what its foundation is. 217 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:51,360 It is consistent, Amen. And so God, much unlike parents 218 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:55,800 sometimes in our real world today, God's not going to be 219 00:12:55,800 --> 00:13:01,960 swayed by His children stomping and complaining, all right? 220 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:06,120 To change His mind or to accommodate their whim. 221 00:13:06,680 --> 00:13:08,160 You've all seen it. There's been times you've been 222 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:09,760 in the store in little Junior's hand. 223 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:13,040 Mommy, I want that toy. And she's like, no, Junior, not 224 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:15,800 Mommy, I want that toy. And before you know it, Junior's 225 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:18,720 crying, screaming, and he's making a mess of things and what 226 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:20,600 does he do? And he's leaving the store with 227 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:22,040 what? The toy. 228 00:13:23,040 --> 00:13:26,200 God's not like that. He don't give in to our whims. 229 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:30,280 No, no, no he does not. He does not give in to our 230 00:13:30,280 --> 00:13:33,440 stomping or complaining because there might be something that 231 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:37,320 that he has or have asked of us as being the owner. 232 00:13:37,680 --> 00:13:39,520 Amen. That that, that we are not, you 233 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:44,280 know, do not care for or do not yet see or understand or with 234 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:48,280 clarity the purpose of Second Corinthians chapter #3 and verse 235 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:54,760 18 says, But we all with open face, beholding as in a glass 236 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:59,160 the glory of the Lord. But it doesn't stop there. 237 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:02,520 We just don't recognize that we don't just take that in. 238 00:14:02,760 --> 00:14:10,000 The Bible says that we are changed into the same image from 239 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:16,840 glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord, which makes 240 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:20,560 great sense. So I, I, I, I look an open face 241 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:23,800 into this glass, the glory, and I see that, but it's not just 242 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:26,720 recognizing that, but there comes a change because of the 243 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:28,760 Spirit that I've received inside of my life. 244 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:31,880 We can all attest to the fact that the Spirit that you 245 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:34,520 received didn't feel you. He didn't feel you with His 246 00:14:34,520 --> 00:14:37,600 Spirit to leave you in the same condition that you were in, 247 00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:40,080 Amen. That's not God's purpose for his 248 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:43,040 Spirit in your life. Just to endorse where you are in 249 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:46,200 your walk of life. He's to bring you on a journey. 250 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:49,760 He's to bring you on a journey, Amen. 251 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:53,720 And as that journey goes, we are changed from glory to glory, 252 00:14:53,920 --> 00:14:57,000 changed into the same image as he is. 253 00:14:57,160 --> 00:15:00,520 And here's the thing, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm not going to reach that 254 00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:04,720 here in this life, Amen. But if I continue in a forward 255 00:15:04,720 --> 00:15:08,400 motion and God's Spirit is in me, when the trumpet sounds, I 256 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:11,920 shall be like him. The Bible says it does not yet 257 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:15,160 appear what we shall be, but we shall be like Him. 258 00:15:15,160 --> 00:15:19,960 I will have an ultimate change. Amen to into the image. 259 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:22,880 Amen of that glory that I once looked upon. 260 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:25,080 We're changing to the image of the Lord. 261 00:15:25,480 --> 00:15:27,640 Amen. And that's important because 262 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:34,840 He's not changed into my image. I'm changed into His image, I'm 263 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:36,920 changing to his image. And so it's all of those 264 00:15:36,920 --> 00:15:38,920 attributes, that personality and purpose. 265 00:15:38,920 --> 00:15:42,040 That's the very foundation of this House of holiness. 266 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:45,920 But upon that foundation there is framework, there are walls 267 00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:48,680 and there are construction of two by fours and things of this 268 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:52,600 framework that rests squarely upon that foundation. 269 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:56,480 And so then the brunt of the weight of this house is 270 00:15:56,480 --> 00:16:00,240 supported there. God's attributes, His purpose, 271 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:04,360 His personality, His character supports all the weight of His 272 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:06,120 principles. Amen. 273 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:08,320 That there are listed in Scripture. 274 00:16:08,680 --> 00:16:12,080 And when we look in Scripture, sometimes Scripture gives us a 275 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:16,880 precept, meaning it's a very detailed, specified point of 276 00:16:16,880 --> 00:16:19,960 order and instruction. And then there are other times 277 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:23,400 that Scripture gives us a principle which is a little bit 278 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:27,360 more general, but that generality is still to be used 279 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:31,120 to help guide different actions in our life under different 280 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:35,720 circumstances, in situations. For instance, tonight let's just 281 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:38,840 look at something very general, something very natural, Amen. 282 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:41,560 And that is this, the law of gravity. 283 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:48,600 Law of gravity very well be a natural principle of our world. 284 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:54,040 Now, there's some here that may be able to, maybe not, but some, 285 00:16:54,040 --> 00:16:58,360 maybe most of us couldn't stand up right now tonight and explain 286 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:02,760 all of the intricate scientific details behind the law of 287 00:17:02,760 --> 00:17:06,839 gravity. Might not be able to, but we 288 00:17:06,839 --> 00:17:11,720 still understand the basic principle of the law of gravity, 289 00:17:12,839 --> 00:17:16,599 that everything seems to fall or at least to be drawn to the 290 00:17:16,599 --> 00:17:20,240 ground or to the earth, right? I mean, I'm standing here right 291 00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:22,720 now. The reason why some things are 292 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:27,760 sagging, it's because the law of gravity is at work. 293 00:17:28,319 --> 00:17:30,080 It's pulling things to the ground. 294 00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:34,800 And so we apply that principle, although we have a limited 295 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:37,080 knowledge of it, might not be able to explain all the 296 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:40,520 scientific reasoning behind it, we have a general understanding 297 00:17:40,520 --> 00:17:44,080 of that and we accept the reality of that principle and 298 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:46,000 apply it. By brother Zach. 299 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:50,080 I'm not not going to go out and go to some high roof area on 300 00:17:50,080 --> 00:17:54,000 some house and leapfrog off. I'm not going to go to the top 301 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:57,640 of some tree around here and leapfrog off of that tree. 302 00:17:58,120 --> 00:18:00,280 All right. Yet at the same time, I 303 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:03,480 understand I can easily maneuver from the curve down to the 304 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:06,720 sidewalk or bat vice versa. I understand that. 305 00:18:07,160 --> 00:18:09,040 Amen. But I understand that there's 306 00:18:09,040 --> 00:18:11,280 this, everything's being pulled toward the ground. 307 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:17,920 And so I applied the principle of nature by restricting jumping 308 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:20,080 from high surfaces in this world. 309 00:18:21,560 --> 00:18:25,000 I'll take a jump maybe off of a park, the bench, but I'm not off 310 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:28,880 the top of a house because gravity is the principle. 311 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:31,280 It tells me things are going to fall. 312 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:35,880 But the in my mind, the thou shalt not jump from high 313 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:42,160 surfaces becomes my standard, becomes my standard. 314 00:18:42,560 --> 00:18:47,800 That's supported by a principle. And so within the framework of 315 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:52,040 holiness, there are a few, and there's probably more than what 316 00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:54,320 I'll even share with you tonight, but there are a few 317 00:18:54,520 --> 00:18:58,680 eternal principles throughout God's Word and in God. 318 00:18:59,040 --> 00:19:01,920 And they're eternal because they originate with God. 319 00:19:02,360 --> 00:19:04,640 And since they originate with God, God is eternal. 320 00:19:04,640 --> 00:19:07,440 He knows neither beginning of days nor ending of days. 321 00:19:07,600 --> 00:19:10,360 They are eternal. And some of these things that 322 00:19:10,360 --> 00:19:13,360 relate to God is this. They relate to this, these 323 00:19:13,360 --> 00:19:17,480 principles, they relate to who God is which which, which comes 324 00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:21,800 to God's identity. They relate to what he is like, 325 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:25,960 again relating to his character. And they relate to what God is 326 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:28,760 all about, His purpose. And so these principles are 327 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:31,280 derived from God, from his attributes. 328 00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:35,160 And so here are some of the attributes that principles then 329 00:19:35,400 --> 00:19:41,480 are are derived from #1 the identity of God, the identity of 330 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:46,280 God. God is, and he did become the 331 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:49,800 creator. He is the God of creation. 332 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:54,520 He is the one true God. He is the only God. 333 00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:58,960 He said there is no other. I see none beside me. 334 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:03,800 There's none to compare to Him. And because of this, he stands 335 00:20:03,800 --> 00:20:08,680 apart from everything else that has been created or from any 336 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:12,960 other so-called gods that stated in our world. 337 00:20:13,320 --> 00:20:17,080 And here's the fact of the matter, God, his identity to 338 00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:22,480 himself is a little meaningless if he did not create, because 339 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:26,120 whenever he created, that's what made him then the creator to all 340 00:20:26,120 --> 00:20:28,120 of us that would be created by him. 341 00:20:28,360 --> 00:20:31,360 And so God, he exists independent. 342 00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:34,680 Nothing else made him, nothing else formed him. 343 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:38,320 He's independent. And so his identity gains a new 344 00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:41,000 meaning through the act of creation. 345 00:20:41,160 --> 00:20:45,680 He became our Creator, Amen. And he is the Lord of his 346 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:48,200 creation. And furthermore, in the history 347 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:52,000 of the book of the Bible, he becomes the Redeemer to sinners. 348 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:56,840 And so there is a attribute of God, it is his identity that we 349 00:20:56,840 --> 00:21:00,880 begin to have principles of identity that show up then in 350 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:08,080 lifestyles of identity for us. Another attribute of God is the 351 00:21:08,080 --> 00:21:10,600 love of God. Aren't you glad you have a God 352 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:14,680 that loves? A God that loves God is not 353 00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:18,120 self-centered. Your God's not self-centered. 354 00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:21,680 I mean it only takes a few little cursory reading the 355 00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:23,680 scripture to understand your God's not self-centered. 356 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:28,400 I mean the well-being of humanity was on God's mind at 357 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:31,960 Calvary. If he was self-centered he came 358 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:36,840 off the cross and said they made their bed. 359 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:41,360 Ain't lying in it. No, but He was willing to 360 00:21:41,360 --> 00:21:45,000 sacrifice for others. But His love really gets some 361 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:48,720 traction and gains some meaning again through His creation, 362 00:21:49,120 --> 00:21:53,560 because as God was alone before creation, there was nothing else 363 00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:57,440 to love. But whenever He created you, now 364 00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:00,000 there's places to dispose His love upon. 365 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:03,680 And He did lavishly. That's an attribute of God, His 366 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:05,400 love. But they'll be principles of 367 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:07,520 love. Then where standards of love 368 00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:09,480 come in place, another attribute of God. 369 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:12,480 I got to run. Amen is the authority of God, 370 00:22:13,120 --> 00:22:14,880 right? God as the creator of all 371 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:18,200 things, He holds them the authority over everything He has 372 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:21,280 made. He's the creator, so he has 373 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:25,160 authority over his creation. He's the Lord of all. 374 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:29,000 And again, it gains great meaning because he did the act 375 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:32,040 of creation. When God existed all alone by 376 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:34,360 himself in the abyss of nothingness. 377 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:36,160 Amen. There was nothing for him to 378 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:40,720 exercise per say, authority as far as the individual over, but 379 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:43,520 he exercised his authority over the nothingness and brought 380 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:46,160 material into the world and even us into the world. 381 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:48,320 And so that's another attribute of God. 382 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:50,840 Another attribute of God is the beauty of God. 383 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:56,960 God embodies all the essence of beauty, everything eternally 384 00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:59,040 ever, even as an invisible spirit. 385 00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:01,040 It's beautiful. His beauty. 386 00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:05,840 Again, it's not just displayed through external features as it 387 00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:09,960 did when he was a man walking among us as Jesus Christ, but 388 00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:14,080 all of his moral attributes and virtues and character qualities. 389 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:16,800 How many times you said they're, I tell you what, they're just 390 00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:19,200 beautiful on the outside and the inside. 391 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:22,600 And like, I scratch my head, like, when's the last time 392 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:24,080 you've seen their organs, you know? 393 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:27,400 But they're talking about just the personality, the makeup, the 394 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:30,560 characterization of that person, the beauty of God. 395 00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:34,520 That becomes a foundation that some principles are built and 396 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:37,160 standards are hung on the modesty of God. 397 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:43,480 What's the modesty of God? God would be modest here. 398 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:47,240 It is because God does not do everything He has the power to 399 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:57,960 do. He exercises restraint. 400 00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:06,800 He's not impulsive or indulgent. He avoids excess. 401 00:24:09,360 --> 00:24:11,120 He remains modest in those things. 402 00:24:11,120 --> 00:24:14,640 He's temperate. He's full in control of himself. 403 00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:19,960 And so this restraint makes God very secure, very peaceful. 404 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:22,520 You don't have to worry about feeling anxious or agitated, 405 00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:28,400 huh? His spirit's tranquility enables 406 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:32,840 him to have perfect clarity in his thoughts and his intentions. 407 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:38,920 The modesty of God comes. Principles of modesty comes 408 00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:44,320 lifestyles of modesty. Another attribute of God is the 409 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:46,640 integrity of God. God is whole all by himself. 410 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:49,680 All of his thoughts, his attitudes, his words, his 411 00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:52,200 actions, they perfectly align with one another. 412 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:57,040 God doesn't contradict himself. So with himself he's not double 413 00:24:57,040 --> 00:25:00,440 minded, He's not acting in a way that's opposing himself. 414 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:05,880 He involves, he involves just perfect, perfect integrity. 415 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,240 That's attribute to God, another attribute I'm getting there. 416 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:11,720 And we again, there's probably more, but the salvation of God. 417 00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:20,880 Before time began, God had a plan, not just for companionship 418 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:26,200 in the garden, not just for creating humans, but even a 419 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:27,600 plan. The Bible says in the Book of 420 00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:33,960 Revelation, he was the Lamb slain from the foundation of the 421 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:37,480 world. He had a plan to become flesh 422 00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:41,120 and blood for the saving of the creation that he made in the 423 00:25:41,120 --> 00:25:43,640 garden. Amen. 424 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:47,680 And even the offering of eternal life is not an afterthought to 425 00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:51,000 God. God has a plan of salvation. 426 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:56,160 And so it reflects in the idea God, he wasn't going to be 427 00:25:56,160 --> 00:26:00,720 alone, so he made Adam and Eve. And at the core of the story of 428 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:06,920 God is the attribute of God going to be a saving God always. 429 00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:10,440 And so from just these attributes, they, they, they 430 00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:14,640 form a very good foundation for a house where we can have 431 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:18,360 principles from Scripture of all these different things, 432 00:26:18,360 --> 00:26:20,960 principles of identity, principles of love, principles 433 00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:22,760 of authority, so on and so forth. 434 00:26:23,120 --> 00:26:26,840 And these principles, this framework, they are going to 435 00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:32,680 support the finished surfaces of the house that I convey to you 436 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:37,160 as standards or lifestyles of living. 437 00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:43,600 The principles are the underlying reasons for the 438 00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:49,120 standards. The principles are the why we 439 00:26:49,120 --> 00:26:55,680 have the standard, but then the principle is leaning upon an 440 00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:59,560 attribute of God. Why are you saying this? 441 00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:02,160 But McGee, I'm saying this because again, sometimes we go 442 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:04,480 straight to all the furnishings of the exterior and anterior of 443 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:06,680 the walls. And when we don't know the 444 00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:09,240 meaning of the purpose that it all trickles back down to 445 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:12,600 attribute of God. Then there's this great void in 446 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:18,000 our hearts and minds about the validity, the validity of what's 447 00:27:18,120 --> 00:27:21,080 in and outside of these furnishings, our understandings, 448 00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:24,000 our ability, even Brother Mason, sometimes to embrace these 449 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:27,400 things. There's a void in a gap when we 450 00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:30,280 don't understand well that hinges up on this principle, and 451 00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:33,880 that principle hinges on this attribute of God. 452 00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:36,480 Amen. Just like math. 453 00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:38,600 I know there's people here that's good at math and there's 454 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:41,120 people here bad at math. Let's just. 455 00:27:41,120 --> 00:27:43,760 Say you've never been. Exposed to math and all of a 456 00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:45,280 sudden you decide, you know what? 457 00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:50,320 I'm just going to jump right in here to some algebraic 458 00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:53,880 equations. Well, that would be great, 459 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:55,560 wouldn't it? You just go jump right in it. 460 00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:57,240 You've never been exposed to math in your life. 461 00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:00,840 Well, you're going to be a little confused. 462 00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:10,600 How do you solve for X when you don't know how to add, multiply, 463 00:28:11,360 --> 00:28:17,520 divide, subtract? What are those? 464 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:20,640 Those are basic building blocks of mathematics. 465 00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:26,760 Principles, if you might say A. Mathematics, you want to get 466 00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:27,760 here. You're confused, you're 467 00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:29,800 scratching your head and you're saying, well, this is silly. 468 00:28:33,120 --> 00:28:35,040 But it makes. More sense if you go back and 469 00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:38,400 see what it's all hinged on, what it's. 470 00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:41,800 All. Based on so we ain't going to 471 00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:43,880 leapfrog into that. We got to take time to 472 00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:49,320 appreciate the fundamentals, to understand how if you're a math 473 00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:53,360 nerd, how marvelous it is when you get to the algebraic place 474 00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:55,960 that this thing works out and you can solve for X. 475 00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:59,840 Because people without fundamentals of certain things, 476 00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:04,400 you know what we do? We memorize the rules without 477 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:06,480 appreciating why something is honored. 478 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:14,040 I mean if I see you do the. Algebraic problem enough times I 479 00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:17,360 can pick up maybe on the the steps or the order of the form 480 00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:21,880 and I just do it through memory. But I have no. 481 00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:29,560 Appreciation for why it's like that, I think that's important. 482 00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:33,600 So when we talk about applying the principles that interior, 483 00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:38,960 that exterior the finishes, that that's where I in my estimation, 484 00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:42,400 that's where perfecting holiness really comes into interpretation 485 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:48,320 at the application level, Mr. David Hustin said. 486 00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:50,800 He said it's one thing to understand the principle, it's 487 00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:54,520 another thing to act on it. God. 488 00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:57,320 God is. Concerned about his house. 489 00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:01,400 He's concerned about the interior in the exterior, right? 490 00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:06,000 For one, he lives inside this house and for two, we've said it 491 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:10,600 before, everybody else sees the exterior of this house. 492 00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:14,160 The Bible says in first Corinthians 6 and #2 and verse 493 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:17,960 21 that's paired with we read verse 19 just a little while 494 00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:20,760 ago. It says for year bought with a 495 00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:24,400 price. Therefore, glorify God in your 496 00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:27,600 air by say and. In your. 497 00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:33,920 Which are. So your spirit just isn't. 498 00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:37,320 God's, your body and your spirit is God's. 499 00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:41,600 God wants both. He wants both for the purpose of 500 00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:48,520 expressing His values and His purposes as the owner occupant 501 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:51,440 of the house. Amen. 502 00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:54,720 In everyday homes, you know how it is. 503 00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:56,840 You have neighbors, you have friends, relatives, enemies, 504 00:30:56,840 --> 00:31:00,760 whatever you have. But in everyday homes, some have 505 00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:03,920 very well kept exteriors and poorly kept interiors. 506 00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:09,600 And sometimes that thing. Is they want to impress people. 507 00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:14,080 And just let the inside be what? Are the inside is as long as it 508 00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:18,600 looks good to people on the outside, then there's others 509 00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:21,240 that have very well kept the interiors and poorly kept the 510 00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:24,200 exteriors because they just kind of got some chip in their 511 00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:25,640 shoulder. I don't care what people think. 512 00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:31,520 Whatever. Nonetheless, a home's appearance 513 00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:37,400 conveys its values. God being the owner. 514 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:40,960 Of these houses, this is just God. 515 00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:44,400 He wants other people to get the right impression. 516 00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:50,240 Because he cares about our. Body and our spirit, because 517 00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:55,080 they're His. For God. 518 00:31:55,960 --> 00:32:00,760 An inward sense of of modesty would be reflected in a outward 519 00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:04,600 appearance of modesty because. He don't contradict. 520 00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:09,600 Himself, right, Going back to one of his attributes, the 521 00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:14,280 integrity of God, He don't oppose himself. 522 00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:18,000 Why would he have the inside of the house opposing the outside 523 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,880 of the house or the outside of the house opposing the inside of 524 00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:23,000 the house? The integrity, the attribute of 525 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:25,080 the integrity of God would not permit that. 526 00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:34,720 But there is somebody that's a cheat may really be revealing 527 00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:42,280 some lack of inward honesty. Inward many times impacts 528 00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:45,880 outward. Matthew 23, I've. 529 00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:50,080 Read this before listen it's it's like rehearse it in their 530 00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:52,800 ears. Moses OK God Matthew 23 and 531 00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:59,480 verse 25 Jesus says want to you scribes and Pharisees hypocrites 532 00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:05,360 for you may clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but 533 00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:10,000 within they are full of extortion and excess. 534 00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:14,280 Verse 26 thou blind the Pharisee cleanse first. 535 00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:18,280 This is Jesus saying this cleanse first, that which is 536 00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:25,320 within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean 537 00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:28,320 also. Now this is Christ. 538 00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:32,480 He says you've done this exterior cleansing and let the 539 00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:36,800 interior excess extortion. It's corrupt. 540 00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:41,720 This was Christ's works. He said clean first the inside, 541 00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:47,120 clean first the inside, what's within and know what he says 542 00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:51,840 that the outside may be clean also. 543 00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:54,520 Amen. He's he's making a note here 544 00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:58,520 that if you'll, if you'll clean the inside, it's going to have 545 00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:02,200 impact start already have an impact on the outside. 546 00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:05,080 I I've done this, I I've said this, I've probably said this 547 00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:06,440 illustration. I don't know how many times in 548 00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:09,560 my life, but man, there's some days back before, you know, the 549 00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:12,000 good old dishwasher days, you wash dishes by hand. 550 00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:17,040 I still sometimes get. Wrinkle fingers, Sister Missy 551 00:34:17,639 --> 00:34:21,000 cleaning some dishes every once in a while, and before you had 552 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:23,760 those little nice little brush things you can plunge down in 553 00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:26,360 there you had an old rag and your hand. 554 00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:31,199 I take that old rag and. I get that water, that soapy 555 00:34:31,199 --> 00:34:34,840 water, and I'm plunging in the inside of that cup or that 556 00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:37,960 glass. Guess what water and suds is 557 00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:41,760 already getting on the inside by me cleaning on the outside by me 558 00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:47,600 cleaning the inside. If I'm careful, I could. 559 00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:50,280 Properly probably clean the outside of the cup without it 560 00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:53,440 affecting the inside. For that matter, how many times 561 00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:55,719 have you got a cup from the cupboard that it looked good 562 00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:57,040 until you about ready to pour something in? 563 00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:59,760 It's like, oh, the dishwasher didn't do good. 564 00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:04,600 Very judge you. Know what I'm talking about, 565 00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:06,480 Holly? You've had to put that glass 566 00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:09,480 back in the dish more than once in my house. 567 00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:13,760 Christ says clean first, that which is within that the outside 568 00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:17,120 of them may be clean also, He says. 569 00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:19,360 You know what he said You all been attempting to clean the 570 00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:23,520 outside first, He said. And then that left the inside 571 00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:26,120 unaffected. So I'm telling you to clean the 572 00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:29,840 inside first, Ladies and gentlemen, This is why listen to 573 00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:33,520 pastor. This is why it's important in 574 00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:38,880 your journey for the Lord to concentrate on receiving the 575 00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:42,440 baptism of the Holy Ghost, God's Spirit. 576 00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:46,120 That needs to be the very thing that your mind, your heart, your 577 00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:49,400 life is focused upon. When you first come to church, 578 00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:52,440 you need to be focused on getting filled with the Spirit 579 00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:58,160 because that's a cleansing that takes place on the inside, too. 580 00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:01,080 Many have come and try. To try to if you will alter 581 00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:04,880 externals, if you way will the way they talk or where they go 582 00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:07,600 with this all these different external things of their life 583 00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:09,520 and never receive the Holy Ghost. 584 00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:13,120 Never. Receive the Holy Ghost. 585 00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:16,240 And so they got all the appearance of men, but man, 586 00:36:16,240 --> 00:36:20,280 they're, they're doing great, but their soul is corrupt. 587 00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:23,880 They have not the spirit of. Christ. 588 00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:29,200 No, no, no, let. God get inside of you, let His 589 00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:32,960 Spirit come inside of you, let Him clean the inside of you. 590 00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:37,280 And I'll guarantee you this almost like a byproduct of being 591 00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:40,000 cleaned on the inside. There's going to get some suds 592 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:42,440 and waters and cleanliness that's going to start happening 593 00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:46,040 on the outside, but you need to be laser focused on the internal 594 00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:50,120 cleansing. You'll live a Christian. 595 00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:55,120 Experience frustrated. Trying to fix up everything on 596 00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:56,880 the. Inside and leaving the on the 597 00:36:56,880 --> 00:37:01,480 outside and leaving the inside unimpacted you front. 598 00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:03,680 Your straight yourself to. No, no end. 599 00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:06,680 Remember again, we've looked at Psalm, the Old Testament 600 00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:09,320 whenever he had the dynamic change in his life and he was 601 00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:13,400 going to he was going to be he was anointed to be Israel's next 602 00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:16,920 king and and then again he came among the prophets that time. 603 00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:20,040 The Bible says he began to prophecy and people that knew 604 00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:24,880 him a four time said, you know, is, is that is that come the son 605 00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:26,440 of Kish? Is this the same man? 606 00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:29,560 They noticed some external differences, but before that 607 00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:32,120 ever took place. You can read it in the book of 608 00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:35,000 Samuel before that ever took place and they noticed those 609 00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:39,360 external differences. The Bible says that God gave him 610 00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:43,440 another heart. God did a work on the inside of 611 00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:46,880 him and it affected them, the appearance and the outside of 612 00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:49,520 him, so that people scratched their head and said, is that the 613 00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:52,880 same person? Is that not because Saul did 614 00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:55,680 everything on the outside, but God, it didn't work on the 615 00:37:55,720 --> 00:37:58,440 inside and that had an impact on the outside? 616 00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:07,120 And Amen. It all matters, yes. 617 00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:12,400 Jesus said in Luke 11. 40 The harmony of the Gospels, right, 618 00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:15,720 same story, same context, just in one of the other different 619 00:38:15,720 --> 00:38:19,160 gospels, Jesus said, ye fools, he's speaking to the Pharisees 620 00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:20,760 because the Pharisees are the people, right? 621 00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:24,120 They wear the long robes, they say the long prayers, they look 622 00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:27,280 all pious before the people. They dress the part, speak the 623 00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:31,280 part, but they got a lot of stuff inside that's excess and 624 00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:37,120 extortion and. And so he said, ye fools. 625 00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:39,960 Speaking to them, just remember he's the one that they he called 626 00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:43,000 hypocrites. What's a hypocrite trying to 627 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:46,040 appear one thing when they're really not that just playing a 628 00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:50,200 role? He said, ye fools. 629 00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:59,000 Did not he that made the witch is without make that which is 630 00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:02,240 within also? You know what he's saying? 631 00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:07,920 He says I've made both. They both matter, Pharisees, not 632 00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:10,280 just what your external performance is. 633 00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:15,640 They both matter. Jesus wasn't asking the question 634 00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:18,080 to get an answer for sure. He made them both. 635 00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:20,840 He knew he made both. He says but you need to cleanse 636 00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:24,760 the inside first because that the outside may be cleansed 637 00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:26,440 also. It's going to impact it. 638 00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:33,720 We look for instance. Back at that Old Testament 639 00:39:33,720 --> 00:39:38,520 Tabernacle, that Tabernacle in the wilderness, a lot of the 640 00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:43,880 externals are meant to reflect internal values. 641 00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:48,240 These old bodies, this old. Flesh and blood, who we are, 642 00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:51,760 they're to reflect that. But I'd even tell you today that 643 00:39:52,160 --> 00:39:55,440 they even have some limitations in their ability to fully 644 00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:59,600 showcase the glory and the power of what's inside this We have a 645 00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:02,520 the Bible says a glorious treasure in this old earthen 646 00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:08,680 vessel. It's hard for the full glory and 647 00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:11,360 power of the treasure to be known. 648 00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:16,120 Just by the externals, the Bible says in Exodus 25 verses 8-9, 649 00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:18,600 this is Jesus speaking to the Old Testament Israel. 650 00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:22,120 He said, let them make me a sanctuary, that I may do well 651 00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:25,000 among them. Verse 9 according to all that I 652 00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:30,080 shew thee after the pattern of the Tabernacle and the pattern 653 00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:34,240 of all the instruments thereof. Even so shall ye make it really 654 00:40:34,240 --> 00:40:36,520 what we find here. He said there is a pattern for 655 00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:38,120 the Tabernacle. Amen. 656 00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:41,520 And I'm relating to that as the externals and the pattern of the 657 00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:46,320 instruments, because they are the furnishings, the inside of 658 00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:49,560 the Tabernacle. See, inside the Tabernacle you 659 00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:53,400 had some precious things, woven material of scarlet and purple 660 00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:57,120 and, and, and, and blue and, and, and threads of gold that 661 00:40:57,120 --> 00:41:00,440 was interwoven in there. And you had, you had a pure 662 00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:05,000 gold, you know, lampstand. And you had a table of, of shoe 663 00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:08,240 bred and you had this golden altar of incense. 664 00:41:08,240 --> 00:41:11,040 All of these precious things inside you, you had the 665 00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:14,240 brilliance of the light of the lampstand and you had the 666 00:41:14,240 --> 00:41:18,320 incense that was coming up off that golden altar inside the 667 00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:21,800 Tabernacle, all of these wondrous, glorious things. 668 00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:27,960 But on the outside, the Bible said that you had some ramskins 669 00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:34,600 and badger skins. I mean the the very exterior of 670 00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:38,280 the Tabernacle was badger skins according to Scripture. 671 00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:42,920 Those badger skins are. Shelded shielding some more, the 672 00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:46,480 delicate layers that's beneath them, some of the fine linen and 673 00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:50,480 goat's hair, keeping the sun off of it and the rain off of it and 674 00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:53,040 blowing sand of the desert off of it. 675 00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:56,200 They're tanned hides there. They're a little tough, they're 676 00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:59,680 a little water resistant, a little sun resistant surfaces. 677 00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:03,040 That's if I can say like this, they're preserving the inner 678 00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:10,000 beauty of the Tabernacle over time just to the common man. 679 00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:12,080 Common man might just chalk it up. 680 00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:15,480 So you know what? Those badger skins, just kind of 681 00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:21,480 visually plain, ordinary. Someone might say, Oh yeah, 682 00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:23,360 they. Are a little bit, but you know 683 00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:26,560 what they're doing. They're protecting the inward 684 00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:33,640 sacredness of the Tabernacle. I'd rather reach what I am not 685 00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:36,360 saying because I don't want to be misconstrued here, but I'm 686 00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:38,880 not saying, well, brother, McGee said we could just go around, 687 00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:41,960 leave her cell phone camp, don't use the odor to fix your hair, 688 00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:45,320 brush your teeth. And that's what I got out of his 689 00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:49,360 message tonight. But I am not saying. 690 00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:51,720 That you don't have the odor to come see me. 691 00:42:51,720 --> 00:42:56,920 I'll buy you something. I'm I am not saying that, but 692 00:42:56,920 --> 00:42:59,560 what I am saying is we don't have to draw attention to 693 00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:05,560 ourselves. Amen. 694 00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:09,440 We don't have to have some type of outward show just for the 695 00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:13,160 purpose of the purpose of just trying to impress other people. 696 00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:20,000 The man Christ. Jesus, the man Christ Jesus, 697 00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:23,480 more than likely just by his appearance, would not have 698 00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:30,800 caught our eye. Mr. David Hudson says. 699 00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:32,720 This and this is based upon God's Word, and I'll take you to 700 00:43:32,720 --> 00:43:34,240 the Word after He says what He says. 701 00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:37,080 He said there was nothing repulsive about His appearance, 702 00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:40,920 but just nothing particularly flamboyant or attractive about 703 00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:45,520 it either. What Isaiah 35 and Isaiah 53 and 704 00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:48,840 verse 2 Speaking of, of the appearance of the Messiah, the 705 00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:52,120 Messiah that would come, it said, for He shall grow up 706 00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:55,320 before Him as a tender plant and as a root of dry ground. 707 00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:58,000 He hath no form just Speaking of the Messiah. 708 00:43:58,000 --> 00:43:59,240 This is Speaking of Jesus Christ. 709 00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:03,520 You have no form nor comeliness. And when we shall see him, there 710 00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:05,840 is no beauty that we should desire him. 711 00:44:06,720 --> 00:44:10,480 Wow says he has no form. The word form there means 712 00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:14,640 basically there, there is no visage or, or no, no, no, you 713 00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:17,240 know, intricate appearance. He there is no comeliness or 714 00:44:17,240 --> 00:44:21,040 there's no magnificence or splendor such as that of a king. 715 00:44:21,160 --> 00:44:22,720 This is how he fooled us all, right? 716 00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:28,240 Because he came as the king, but he didn't put off as though he 717 00:44:28,240 --> 00:44:32,160 was the king. If so, the. 718 00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:33,880 Stable wouldn't have been the choice for birth. 719 00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:39,040 Bible says he has no. No, no beauty that we should 720 00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:40,720 desire him. In other words, there is no 721 00:44:40,720 --> 00:44:47,560 sight or there's no phenomenon, there's no spectacle that we 722 00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:51,960 should desire him. Yet when he meets his walking in 723 00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:54,400 life in the New Testament is Christ Jesus the man. 724 00:44:54,400 --> 00:45:00,960 Christ Jesus, people say, never a man spake like this man. 725 00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:09,800 He don't. He looks ordinary, but never a 726 00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:12,160 man spake like this man. Where'd that come from? 727 00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:16,080 The Gospels tells us. For from the abundance of the 728 00:45:16,960 --> 00:45:23,080 heart the mouth speaketh. Of what? 729 00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:24,320 What? What's going on here? 730 00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:28,840 There's something, there's something different about this 731 00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:31,280 man. Jesus was just an ordinary man 732 00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:35,040 by all appearances, but he is full of power. 733 00:45:36,680 --> 00:45:38,920 Huh. What did he say? 734 00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:44,320 And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld 735 00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:47,520 his. As the only begotten of the. 736 00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:51,880 Full of grace in what? He's full of power. 737 00:45:51,880 --> 00:45:54,680 He's full of glory. You know, when probably these 738 00:45:54,680 --> 00:45:58,880 limited bodies of humanity, there was a crossing of the veil 739 00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:02,480 where the capacity of the real glory and power of Christ was 740 00:46:02,480 --> 00:46:06,160 absolutely seen through the humanity of Christ on Mount 741 00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:10,600 Transfiguration, as Peter and James and John are there and the 742 00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:13,000 Bible says there's a cloud and they're hearing a voice from 743 00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:15,040 heaven. And all of a sudden, the Bible 744 00:46:15,040 --> 00:46:20,120 says they were looking at Jesus, and his face did shine as the 745 00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:26,160 sun, and his raiment, His raiment was white as the light. 746 00:46:28,240 --> 00:46:31,480 This old, frail. This old limited body in that 747 00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:34,400 moment seemed to show forth the real power and the glory of what 748 00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:37,320 was inside the man. Amen. 749 00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:40,200 So much so that whenever Peter looked backed up on it, and he's 750 00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:41,880 writing them the letters, he's kind of looking back on the 751 00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:43,200 moment. He said, I tell you what, that 752 00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:46,440 was a holy mountain. I've never seen you on this wise 753 00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:51,000 Jesus. What you saying? 754 00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:55,400 I'm saying I've heard it. 47 years old, I've heard it. 755 00:46:56,120 --> 00:47:01,040 And sometimes people view the church's Holy walk as just being 756 00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:04,960 plain and unattractive. Listen to Pastor Tonight, 757 00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:09,160 though. Our purpose is not to garner the 758 00:47:09,160 --> 00:47:14,600 attention of people. We're trying to garner the 759 00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:20,680 attention. Of heaven, the attention of 760 00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:25,520 heaven. And yet holy lives still draws 761 00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:32,160 people's attention because it's like, well, they're just 762 00:47:32,160 --> 00:47:34,400 ordinary. Yeah. 763 00:47:34,440 --> 00:47:36,200 But that's different today, isn't it? 764 00:47:40,040 --> 00:47:42,440 That's different. Oh, different. 765 00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:44,120 I've heard that word before. Separated. 766 00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:45,400 I've heard that word. What is that? 767 00:47:45,680 --> 00:47:47,720 That's the pure definition of holiness. 768 00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:53,200 There's an ancient city. I'm, I'm running, I'm getting 769 00:47:53,200 --> 00:47:54,440 there folks. Y'all doing all right? 770 00:47:55,160 --> 00:47:59,120 It's only eight O 4. There's an ancient city, Petra, 771 00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:02,280 and in that ancient city there is a building known as the 772 00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:06,440 Treasury. It has a exterior, A facade 773 00:48:06,440 --> 00:48:09,360 that's carved in the side of a mountain that is quite ornate 774 00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:11,360 and embellished in the side of a mountain. 775 00:48:11,720 --> 00:48:14,800 As a matter of fact, if anybody from years ago watched the old 776 00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:19,320 film Indiana Jones and the the Last Crusade, you'll see this 777 00:48:19,320 --> 00:48:23,920 ornate face of the treasury in that film. 778 00:48:24,080 --> 00:48:27,040 Well, in the film, you enter in through the door and there's all 779 00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:30,360 these passageways that you go around and it enters into a room 780 00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:36,600 of quite an expanse of a room. Well, all of that's fake in. 781 00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:40,040 Real life the. Interior is a single room that's 782 00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:45,040 about 30 to 40 feet square with just limestone walls. 783 00:48:45,600 --> 00:48:49,680 No embellishment. What are you saying that for? 784 00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:54,040 I'm saying, listen, according to the standards of some, God's 785 00:48:54,040 --> 00:48:57,640 exteriors may not be the glamorous with all the gold and 786 00:48:57,640 --> 00:49:01,080 the silver. It may not be glamorous. 787 00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:05,360 According to societal norms, it might not be glamorous according 788 00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:10,920 to cultural fads, but they're holy. 789 00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:18,280 And a day's coming. A day's coming when we like the 790 00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:21,320 Lord, will have a transformation. 791 00:49:21,760 --> 00:49:27,720 The Scripture speaks of and will shine with the full intensity of 792 00:49:27,720 --> 00:49:31,400 what we've been empowered with. The Bible says in Matthew 793 00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:36,680 chapter 13, verse 43, Brother Trevor, it says, then shall the 794 00:49:36,680 --> 00:49:40,680 righteous shine forth as the sun in the Kingdom of their father, 795 00:49:40,680 --> 00:49:42,280 Who hath ears to hear, let him hear. 796 00:49:42,480 --> 00:49:46,000 The prophet Daniel spoke of that day of a resurrection day when 797 00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:49,040 the righteous are going to show forth and really showcase the 798 00:49:49,040 --> 00:49:52,520 glory of the power that has been working inside them in Daniel 2 799 00:49:52,520 --> 00:49:56,480 and verse #2 And many of them that slept in the dust of the 800 00:49:56,520 --> 00:50:01,320 earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to 801 00:50:01,320 --> 00:50:04,360 shame and everlasting contempt. Again, I've told you before, 802 00:50:04,360 --> 00:50:08,320 everybody someday there the church is going to resurrect at 803 00:50:08,320 --> 00:50:10,560 the rapture of the church, but everybody someday is going to 804 00:50:10,560 --> 00:50:14,080 resurrect, some to everlasting life, some someday to 805 00:50:14,080 --> 00:50:17,120 everlasting contempt. And verse 3 says, and they that 806 00:50:17,120 --> 00:50:18,760 be wise. He's speaking about the 807 00:50:18,760 --> 00:50:21,400 righteous. Those that serve God shall shine 808 00:50:21,400 --> 00:50:24,800 as the brightness of the firmament, and they shall turn 809 00:50:24,800 --> 00:50:27,080 many into righteousness as the stars forever. 810 00:50:27,080 --> 00:50:29,600 And every, you know what he's saying on that day, these old 811 00:50:29,600 --> 00:50:32,200 limited bodies are we're going to showcase really the full 812 00:50:32,200 --> 00:50:34,520 brilliance of everything that was within them. 813 00:50:38,920 --> 00:50:42,640 So bodies have limitations. Right now, but not then, not 814 00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:45,280 then. Holiness then is much like a 815 00:50:45,280 --> 00:50:49,440 house foundation of attributes, walls and structures of 816 00:50:49,440 --> 00:50:52,200 principles that we'll talk about in weeks to come. 817 00:50:52,680 --> 00:50:55,520 Amen. And then standards or lifestyles 818 00:50:55,680 --> 00:51:00,400 that just hang on those frameworks that go its way up on 819 00:51:00,400 --> 00:51:06,440 the attributes of God himself and stand with me tonight. 820 00:51:08,520 --> 00:51:11,400 God's building his house. He, he wants it to last. 821 00:51:12,320 --> 00:51:18,160 He wants it to last, wants it to last and. 822 00:51:18,360 --> 00:51:20,440 Just as much as. We're better off not ignoring 823 00:51:20,440 --> 00:51:25,080 gravity. I mean, we're probably better 824 00:51:25,080 --> 00:51:27,240 off not ignoring it. There's been people that have, 825 00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:37,040 they've tried it. I can cheat this broken leg, you 826 00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:42,600 know, some of them broken totally no longer existing. 827 00:51:43,360 --> 00:51:46,920 Just as much as we shouldn't ignore gravity, we need not to 828 00:51:46,920 --> 00:51:51,080 ignore the eternal principles that are based upon the 829 00:51:51,080 --> 00:51:54,440 attributes of God. And here's the thing applies to 830 00:51:54,440 --> 00:51:56,920 every person of every generation. 831 00:51:57,120 --> 00:51:59,560 He's immutable. It changes not. 832 00:51:59,800 --> 00:52:03,680 God is their source. God is the very fountainhead of 833 00:52:03,680 --> 00:52:06,440 it all. And so again I say tonight, true 834 00:52:06,440 --> 00:52:11,240 holiness and lifestyle really that perfecting of it comes to 835 00:52:11,280 --> 00:52:15,400 learning them and applying them in our lives. 836 00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:21,200 And that's where we need to. Get to but again my little 837 00:52:21,200 --> 00:52:23,040 footnote right here at the bottom. 838 00:52:23,760 --> 00:52:28,840 If you have not the spirit of the Lord, run after it. 839 00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:46,640 Clean the inside 1st. 1st 1st Let's bow our heads here 840 00:52:46,640 --> 00:52:48,400 tonight. Father, I come to you right now. 841 00:52:48,720 --> 00:52:51,760 This altar is open for whomsoever we'll I mean, it 842 00:52:51,760 --> 00:52:54,080 might be a good night to be introspective, might be a good 843 00:52:54,080 --> 00:52:57,360 night just to play some consecration upon the Lord and 844 00:52:57,360 --> 00:53:01,280 say Lord God, I've, I've wearied myself. 845 00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:06,440 I've wearied myself in trying to do Lord external things. 846 00:53:06,680 --> 00:53:09,760 I've wearied myself. There's sometimes that I felt 847 00:53:09,760 --> 00:53:12,400 like it's been kind of foolish and I don't even understand all 848 00:53:12,400 --> 00:53:14,960 the dynamics of it. I've wearied myself super ma'am. 849 00:53:15,200 --> 00:53:17,480 If you're attempting to do that, you have not the Spirit of 850 00:53:17,480 --> 00:53:18,680 Christ. You need. 851 00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:22,400 You need the Lord to come into your life and clean the inside. 852 00:53:22,600 --> 00:53:25,400 You need him to come into your life and start touching and 853 00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:28,320 impacting the inside. That's primary. 854 00:53:28,320 --> 00:53:30,760 That is primary. But if you have received the 855 00:53:30,760 --> 00:53:35,040 Spirit of the Holy Ghost, then you need to work in partnership 856 00:53:35,040 --> 00:53:36,760 with that Holy Ghost. Amen. 857 00:53:36,760 --> 00:53:40,200 God will do His will in you and through you and work in 858 00:53:40,200 --> 00:53:41,680 partnership with that Holy Ghost. 859 00:53:41,680 --> 00:53:45,240 How do I do that, Pastor? I do that by being obedient to 860 00:53:45,240 --> 00:53:47,600 the nudgings of that spirit that I've received. 861 00:53:48,040 --> 00:53:50,280 God's trying to lead us, God's trying to guide us. 862 00:53:50,280 --> 00:53:54,400 God's trying to nudge us and our way to work in, in, in cohesive 863 00:53:54,640 --> 00:53:58,760 and in partnership in with him is to be obedient to his leading 864 00:53:59,080 --> 00:54:02,120 and be obedient to his guiding. And if that means that he's 865 00:54:02,120 --> 00:54:05,080 going to touch some areas of our life that that that, you know, 866 00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:08,640 may may just be a little tender, if you will, to us sometimes 867 00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:11,280 when he touches that and says, well, I want you to work on 868 00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:14,760 that, then we need to be open that God knows best as the owner 869 00:54:14,760 --> 00:54:17,960 of this House of what is needful and what is necessary. 870 00:54:18,160 --> 00:54:22,080 And we need to surrender and submit to the encouragement, 871 00:54:22,320 --> 00:54:25,720 Amen, of the Lord in all these different facets and areas of 872 00:54:25,720 --> 00:54:27,960 our life. It can be our attitude. 873 00:54:27,960 --> 00:54:32,080 It can be the way we speak. If you cheat on your taxes, 874 00:54:32,080 --> 00:54:34,280 you're not doing it this year. You understand what I'm talking 875 00:54:34,280 --> 00:54:36,600 about. That God we begin to lead and 876 00:54:36,600 --> 00:54:38,960 guide and instruct. If you have his spirit, that's 877 00:54:38,960 --> 00:54:41,360 what his spirit will do. He'll the spirit will lead in 878 00:54:41,360 --> 00:54:42,560 God. But if you don't have the 879 00:54:42,560 --> 00:54:44,360 spirit, you don't even have anything to help lead you and 880 00:54:44,360 --> 00:54:45,760 guide you except the word of God. 881 00:54:45,960 --> 00:54:47,800 And you're frustrated, right? Because you don't. 882 00:54:48,080 --> 00:54:50,960 You're trying to do algebra, and you've not got multiplication 883 00:54:50,960 --> 00:54:52,720 and addition and subtraction down yet. 884 00:54:54,160 --> 00:54:57,080 These alters are open tonight. Amy, can we talk to God? 885 00:54:57,560 --> 00:55:00,080 Lord, I want to. I want to be the way that you 886 00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:03,600 want me to be. Lord God, I am your temple. 887 00:55:04,120 --> 00:55:09,760 God, I am your house, Lord, my body and my spirit belongs unto 888 00:55:09,760 --> 00:55:11,320 you. This altar is open today. 889 00:55:11,480 --> 00:55:13,920 If you don't have the spirit of the Lord man, you need that. 890 00:55:13,920 --> 00:55:16,280 You need to seek after Him. Amen. 891 00:55:16,280 --> 00:55:18,760 You need to seek after him. He's not far from us. 892 00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:20,720 He's here tonight, I guarantee you. 893 00:55:20,720 --> 00:55:23,280 I feel his spirit right here tonight. 894 00:55:23,480 --> 00:55:26,200 He's omniscient, He's omnipresent, Amen. 895 00:55:26,200 --> 00:55:29,360 He's, he knows all things. He feels, Amen. 896 00:55:29,360 --> 00:55:32,080 This universe. He's here tonight, Hallelujah. 897 00:55:32,080 --> 00:55:35,480 And he desires, Amen for you to be a temple for him. 898 00:55:35,800 --> 00:55:38,160 Amen. To envelope and to inhabit. 899 00:55:38,480 --> 00:55:40,160 Amen. He wants to be a part of your 900 00:55:40,160 --> 00:55:44,120 everyday living, of your life. Hallelujah, Jesus, I love you, 901 00:55:44,120 --> 00:55:46,760 Lord. I love you, Lord, I need you, 902 00:55:46,760 --> 00:55:48,320 Brother Mason. Amen. 903 00:55:48,320 --> 00:55:51,040 Could you just give us a few lines of something right now as 904 00:55:51,040 --> 00:55:54,480 we turn our hearts and our minds toward the Lord God? 905 00:55:54,480 --> 00:55:57,600 I don't want to just do all this external and try to look Lord 906 00:55:57,680 --> 00:56:00,880 Jesus and so and so forth. God appearing to me and God. 907 00:56:00,880 --> 00:56:03,320 No, no, no, no, no, God. We're not doing this for the 908 00:56:03,320 --> 00:56:07,000 attention of men per SE. Men will be attracted because of 909 00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:09,600 the difference, but God, we're doing this for the attention of 910 00:56:09,600 --> 00:56:11,320 heaven. We're doing this for the glory 911 00:56:11,320 --> 00:56:12,760 of the Lord. We're doing this for the honor 912 00:56:12,760 --> 00:56:15,080 of the Maker and the Master and the Creator of all things we're 913 00:56:15,080 --> 00:56:16,160 doing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 914 00:56:16,160 --> 00:56:19,600 He's the owner of this house. Not society, not the government, 915 00:56:19,600 --> 00:56:22,080 not the people that I go to work with or go to school with. 916 00:56:22,080 --> 00:56:24,560 No, no, none of those. None of those are the owners of 917 00:56:24,560 --> 00:56:27,280 this house. God is the owner of this house. 918 00:56:28,200 --> 00:56:29,840 God is the owner of this house.