1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:02,360 Glory to God, good to see you all today. 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:05,680 You're doing yourself a great service to be in the House of 3 00:00:05,680 --> 00:00:07,480 the Lord. Amen. 4 00:00:07,880 --> 00:00:12,680 I was reading here the past few weeks in the book given 5 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:17,600 scientific research and people that attend religious services 6 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:21,800 have been known to have lower blood pressure, decrease heart 7 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:27,640 rate, decrease respiration, reduce levels of stress hormone 8 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:29,320 in your body. This is all scientifically 9 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:32,360 proven if you attend religious services that that's the case. 10 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:35,960 It don't just affect your body, but it also affects your mind 11 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:39,880 and your mental health, right? The people that attend religious 12 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:45,360 services, they say have rates of lower drug abuse, alcoholism, 13 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:49,360 divorce, suicide. They still get depressed and 14 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:51,200 have anxiety, but it's shorter lived. 15 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:53,120 All of that is scientifically founded. 16 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:56,120 So you're doing yourself a service today to be in the House 17 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:58,120 of the Lord. Hey, man, you're helping your 18 00:00:58,120 --> 00:00:59,880 mental health. You're helping your physical 19 00:00:59,880 --> 00:01:02,680 body health, Amen. All of those things are being 20 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:05,239 impacted today by being in the House of the Lord. 21 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:08,600 And so we're so glad to have each one of you, Amen, Here 22 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:10,960 today, Amen. Someone says I feel my blood 23 00:01:10,960 --> 00:01:12,400 pressure just already going down. 24 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:14,680 Yeah, that's what it does. That's what it does. 25 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:16,240 It's good to be in the House of the Lord. 26 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:17,640 Amen. See each one of you. 27 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:21,400 And yes, I herald and I just reiterate my wife, come back 28 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:23,360 tonight, be with us for our candlelight. 29 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:25,880 Amen. We will have singing and and 30 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:30,000 music and the Christmas story will be read intermittently 31 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:33,760 throughout that. And folks, just as a heads up 32 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:35,760 this year we're not doing the real candles. 33 00:01:35,960 --> 00:01:37,760 We're going to try not to burn the place down. 34 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:40,800 The assistant Fire Chief over here is thankful that we're no 35 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:43,840 longer going to do that and we're going just to artificial 36 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:47,680 candles with batteries and such. And since we got these cloth 37 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:52,520 seats, we've had to clean wax off the floor and we're just 38 00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:54,600 didn't look forward to trying to clean it off a cloth seat. 39 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:57,200 So nonetheless. So just kind of a heads up 40 00:01:57,200 --> 00:01:58,720 concerning that. Amen. 41 00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:01,360 Today, man, it has been quite a week, folks. 42 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:04,000 It's been quite a week. Mom and dad's been in and out of 43 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:06,240 the hospital. I've looking over them for about 44 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:08,360 the past five weeks. They have been in the hospital 45 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:12,640 for almost 18 days, between her and him, 18 days. 46 00:02:12,640 --> 00:02:15,120 And so our family has spent a lot of time in the hospital. 47 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:18,040 We've taken time, each of us spending the night in the 48 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:21,880 hospital, run into the hospital, took Dad to appointment on 49 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:24,040 Thursday, came back. By the time I got here, Mom was 50 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:25,760 being transferred. We went back to Evansville. 51 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:28,200 I was back to Evansville. I did 3 trips to Evansville in 52 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:31,760 less than 24 hours and then went to Washington and then I had 53 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:33,440 truck issues bringing Dad back home. 54 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:36,280 Fixed that yesterday. Blah blah blah blah blah. 55 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:41,920 But I was glad when they said and to me, let us go into the 56 00:02:41,920 --> 00:02:46,640 House of the Lord, Amen. And so if I look tired, it's 57 00:02:46,640 --> 00:02:49,840 probably, it's probably true, but I'm glad to be here, Amen. 58 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:53,160 I hope my smile betrays the bags under my eyes. 59 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:54,880 Amen. Hallelujah. 60 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:56,640 You're. Going to turn to the word of the 61 00:02:56,640 --> 00:02:59,000 Lord this morning, Romans chapter 6. 62 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:01,840 So come back tonight for the Christmas service. 63 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:03,840 I don't have a Christmas sermon for you today. 64 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:06,120 OK, Sometimes it works out that way. 65 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:08,320 Sometimes it just don't all right. 66 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:11,760 And I'm, I'm all about the thematic things and such and 67 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:13,920 things like that, but I'm just. Staying in the groove that I've 68 00:03:13,920 --> 00:03:18,240 been in here the past few weeks, but we're glad to have you, J TS 69 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:20,160 friend. By the way, if you want to talk 70 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:21,800 to him after service. His name is Connor. 71 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:23,560 All right. I always like to give a name. 72 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:25,320 His name is Connor. Amen. 73 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:27,640 Tamara, it's good to see you this morning, Amen. 74 00:03:27,640 --> 00:03:31,160 We we were in cahoots there on Friday night, Amen, with the 75 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:34,960 celebration for Amber. And so she was there and so glad 76 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:37,720 to see her and Jeanette. Good to see Tatum and, and, and 77 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:40,280 Yep, Reagan's still there. We're good to see you, Amen, 78 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:43,160 Today, Romans chapter 6. Want to do a little reading, 79 00:03:43,160 --> 00:03:47,560 starting with verse #16 and I'll try to be mindful of everybody's 80 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:49,760 time today. Amen. 81 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:54,280 Romans 6 and verse #16 they say. Usually when a preacher says 82 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:56,960 that, that just means he'll just keep track of what time it is. 83 00:03:56,960 --> 00:03:58,760 It don't mean anything about being shorter. 84 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:05,360 OK, Know ye not that to whom you yield yourself servants to obey 85 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:10,640 His servants, ye are to whom you obey, whether a sin unto death, 86 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:13,720 or of obedience unto righteousness. 87 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:17,720 But God be thanked that ye were the servants. 88 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:22,400 Everybody say were were the servants of sin, that you have 89 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:26,320 obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered 90 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:29,040 you. Verse #18 Being then made free 91 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:32,840 from sin, you became the servants of righteousness. 92 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:37,080 I speak after the manner of men, because of the infirmity of your 93 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:39,320 flesh. For as you have yielded your 94 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:42,200 members servants to uncleanliness. 95 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:47,440 That's what we used to do. And to iniquity in unto iniquity 96 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:52,480 Even so now yield your members servants to righteousness and 97 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:54,480 the holiness. I think my wife was almost 98 00:04:54,480 --> 00:04:55,320 preaching on this. A. 99 00:04:55,320 --> 00:04:59,320 Little bit this morning already, For when you were the servants 100 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:01,720 of sin, you were free from righteousness. 101 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:07,040 Note Now what fruit had ye then in those things? 102 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:09,560 Wherever ye are now ashamed, right? 103 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:12,600 You participate in some things and bore some fruit of those 104 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:15,200 things of time past, but now you're kind of ashamed of those 105 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:17,680 things. For the end of those things is 106 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:22,280 death. Verse 22 But now being made free 107 00:05:22,280 --> 00:05:26,280 from sin to become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto 108 00:05:26,280 --> 00:05:30,760 holiness and the end of everlasting life. 109 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:33,840 So it's kind of the scripture here is kind of painting, it's 110 00:05:33,840 --> 00:05:36,480 kind of jumping back and forth. It was that was them. 111 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:41,120 But this is now that's what was, but this is now and so on and so 112 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:43,200 forth. We had a fruit into the things 113 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:45,640 that we used to be involved in, but now we have a fruit, the 114 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:47,360 things that we're involved with now. 115 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:48,720 So it's a jumping back and forth. 116 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:52,880 And so for a little while today, this is my my subject bearing 117 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:56,880 what heaven planted. Heavens planted something, 118 00:05:56,920 --> 00:06:00,000 something in US and there's fruit that should come as a 119 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:02,360 result of what heaven has planted. 120 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:04,560 Amen. Dennis, talk to the Lord here. 121 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:06,720 Just forbid. Father, I thank you today for 122 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:08,960 your spirit. Thankful Lord, for the many that 123 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:11,120 have come out to the House of the Lord today. 124 00:06:11,320 --> 00:06:14,000 You have to bless their lives, Lord, enrich them. 125 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:17,920 God, I pray God, open our minds and understanding today. 126 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:21,560 God, we need you, Lord, your spirit, God upon us and with us. 127 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:24,160 God in this. Place in the name of Jesus 128 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:28,640 Christ that I pray. And the church say Amen, you may 129 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:31,880 be seated this morning in Jesus name, Amen. 130 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:34,520 Just kind of just back up real quickly, and I'm not doing a 131 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:38,520 review, but there were three things when we talked about a 132 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:41,560 holy God. The Bible's in Isaiah course 133 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:43,680 many times calls him the holy one. 134 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:46,960 As a matter of fact, sneaking in just a little bit of Christmas, 135 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:50,840 the Bible talks about the holy child was born, the holy child 136 00:06:50,840 --> 00:06:52,680 was born. And so when we talk about that, 137 00:06:52,840 --> 00:06:55,680 we looked at last week about there's differences between, of 138 00:06:55,680 --> 00:06:59,040 course, God's holiness and our holiness because God has a 139 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:02,920 holiness that is absolute. There, there is no chink in the 140 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:05,080 armor of God's holiness, so to speak. 141 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:07,800 It is absolute. And so that for sure differs 142 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:10,560 from ours because we're in process, Amen. 143 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:13,040 We're not there. One of these days, hopefully at 144 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:17,800 Rapture Day when we are changed from immortal to immortality, 145 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:19,360 right? All these things, one of these 146 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:21,960 things take place. We'll be as he is. 147 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:24,800 And so there was a difference. And we also looked at though, 148 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:27,880 that there is a difference between the holiness that we 149 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:31,440 even get through our new birth experience of being born again, 150 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:35,920 of the water and the spirit. We receive a Holy Ghost, a Holy 151 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:38,000 Ghost. So in a moment there is a sense 152 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:41,560 of holiness that is planted in our life, but there's a 153 00:07:41,560 --> 00:07:44,960 difference between that initial planting of that holiness and 154 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:49,240 then the process of that being lived out, that being lived out 155 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:52,160 in our life or going from. And we'll talk about this today, 156 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:55,160 going from seed form to fruit form, right? 157 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:57,520 Amen. And so then there's also then 158 00:07:57,520 --> 00:08:01,320 there's differences between the externals and the internals of 159 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:05,560 holiness, as Paul talked about, that we should cleanse ourselves 160 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:09,080 from all the works of the of the flesh and such and that we 161 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:12,880 should become holy both in in spirit and in flesh. 162 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:15,880 But today talking about this and we're going to go through Romans 163 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:17,880 6. If if you have your Bibles, you, 164 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:21,120 I just leave them open on your lap there today. 165 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:25,640 But the Bible likens the receiving of that Holy Spirit or 166 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:31,000 that Holy Ghost to the planting of a seed, a planting of a seed. 167 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:33,960 And that spirit that we received, that Holy Spirit, 168 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:37,960 Brother Fred, that we receive in our heart in in our lives as a 169 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:42,240 believer, That spirit that we receive has a holiness in and of 170 00:08:42,240 --> 00:08:44,680 itself. It is the Holy Spirit, it is the 171 00:08:44,680 --> 00:08:50,200 Spirit of God, which of course is a holy God that as we live 172 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:55,000 our lives and we submit and we subject ourselves to that spirit 173 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:59,400 that we received, there's a increasing of that Spirit's 174 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:03,240 expression in our life as a believer. 175 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:07,120 As a matter of fact, the apostle Paul described it in our text as 176 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:09,840 a ownership change, and we talked about that a lot over the 177 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:13,200 past few weeks, Ownership change and a progression that took 178 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:14,960 place. Look at verse 16. 179 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:18,240 One more time with me, if you will, of Romans 6. 180 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:23,600 Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourself servants to obey, 181 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:26,320 His servants are ye to whom you obey. 182 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:32,400 So #1 whoever, whoever you obey, that becomes your master, 183 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:38,560 whether it whether it was of of the things or a master of a 184 00:09:38,560 --> 00:09:42,760 world, or or a godly master, whoever you give yourself your 185 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:46,560 obedience to, that automatically then becomes your master. 186 00:09:46,560 --> 00:09:49,480 And that's what he says, whether unto sin and to death. 187 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:53,880 If if you obey sin, all right, if you obey it, then it becomes 188 00:09:53,960 --> 00:09:57,160 your master. If you obey the righteousness of 189 00:09:57,160 --> 00:09:59,680 God, then that becomes your master. 190 00:09:59,680 --> 00:10:00,920 So that's what the Scripture saying. 191 00:10:00,920 --> 00:10:05,640 Verse 17 But God be thanked that ye were because the apostle Paul 192 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:08,040 here is is talking to the Church of Rome. 193 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:12,320 He's talking to some people that's experienced God in in the 194 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:15,440 Holy Ghost in a tremendous way. And he said you need to be 195 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:18,960 thankful because you were servants of sin. 196 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:23,600 You you did give yourself to the obedience of sin and it was your 197 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:26,360 master. He says, But you have now, now 198 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:31,760 you have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was 199 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:33,480 delivered. You. 200 00:10:34,240 --> 00:10:35,960 This is interesting. We talk about the form of 201 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:37,800 doctrine. Well, what form of doctrine was 202 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:41,040 delivered to the church at Rome? Or what form of doctrine did the 203 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:44,840 apostle Paul even share with others With this form of 204 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:46,160 doctrine? You can read of it. 205 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:49,200 We don't have time to read the whole chapter of Romans chapter 206 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:52,960 6, but if you read the beginning of Romans chapter 6, they are 207 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:56,680 talking about the doctrine and the doctrine that's being talked 208 00:10:56,680 --> 00:10:58,800 about in the beginning of Romans chapter 6. 209 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:03,560 It's talking about how we are buried with Christ Jesus 210 00:11:03,560 --> 00:11:08,080 whenever we are baptized in His name, the form of doctrine that 211 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:10,080 it's talking about in the beginning in Romans 6. 212 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:15,000 It's even talking about how we come to be raised like Christ 213 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:18,760 was raised from the dead in newness of life and how we 214 00:11:18,760 --> 00:11:22,920 should walk in newness of life. And so this is the form of 215 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:26,160 doctrine that had been delivered unto them. 216 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:29,080 For that matter, to understand really what that form of 217 00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:33,200 doctrine was in the mind of the apostle Paul, we read some other 218 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:36,960 places in Scripture in First Corinthians 15, and I love to go 219 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:40,080 often. But in First Corinthians 15, he 220 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:44,240 was writing to the church at Corinth about the doctrine and 221 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:48,400 what this form of doctrine was this thing that he delivered to 222 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:51,120 them, because that's what Roman says, a form of doctrine that 223 00:11:51,120 --> 00:11:54,440 was delivered you. And he says in First Corinthians 224 00:11:54,440 --> 00:11:56,800 15 and verse one. And we got a lot of Scripture 225 00:11:56,800 --> 00:11:58,920 today, don't we, brother Mason, Amen. 226 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:02,080 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel. 227 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:03,360 You ever wonder what the gospel is? 228 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:07,040 Here it is which I preached unto you, which also ye have 229 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:10,120 received. And that word receives means you 230 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:15,760 joined it to yourself all right, wherein you stand, by which also 231 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:19,480 ye are saved, if you keep in memory what I preached unto you, 232 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:21,040 unless you have believed in vain. 233 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:23,880 Here's the gospel, here's what was declared, here's what was 234 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:25,000 delivered. Verse 3. 235 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:29,040 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also 236 00:12:29,040 --> 00:12:33,520 received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the 237 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:37,760 Scriptures, and that he was buried, and that he rose again 238 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:39,920 the third day, according to the Scriptures. 239 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:43,280 The gospel of the death, the burial, the resurrection of the 240 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:47,160 Lord Jesus Christ, and our obedience to the gospel is our 241 00:12:47,160 --> 00:12:53,000 repentance, our baptism in Jesus name, and our receiving the Holy 242 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:56,600 Ghost or the Holy Spirit, Amen. That is evidenced, Amen. 243 00:12:56,600 --> 00:13:00,200 According to Acts, by speaking in other tongues, Amen. 244 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:02,360 That was the form of the doctrine. 245 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:06,320 So He told them, ye were servants of sin, but you obeyed 246 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:10,360 that form of doctrine. You obeyed being, repenting and 247 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:13,880 being baptized and receiving the Spirit you, you obeyed all that 248 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:15,840 from your heart what was delivered unto you. 249 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:19,520 Look again Romans 6 verse 18. Get through this and we might 250 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:21,480 get some traction. We'll see how far we get. 251 00:13:21,680 --> 00:13:24,720 He said being then made free from sin. 252 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:27,280 What after you obeyed the form of doctrine? 253 00:13:28,400 --> 00:13:30,840 Amen. Aren't you glad today when you 254 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:34,560 was baptized in Jesus name? Scripture says that was for the 255 00:13:34,560 --> 00:13:40,840 remission, our repentance and baptism, for the remission or 256 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:45,520 the removal of sin, he said. Then being made free, because he 257 00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:48,400 obeyed that form of doctrine, free from sin, he became the 258 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:52,680 servants of righteousness. I love verse 19. 259 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:55,880 It then goes through the fact that we had yielded our members 260 00:13:55,880 --> 00:13:57,800 unto uncleanness. Amen. 261 00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:01,520 But the last phrase there says, Even so now what? 262 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:05,880 Now because I've obeyed the form of doctrine, right, I've went 263 00:14:05,880 --> 00:14:09,040 through this mode of, of repentance and I've obeyed that. 264 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:13,680 Even so now I yield my members. Now that I've been born again, I 265 00:14:13,680 --> 00:14:17,640 yield my members servants to righteousness unto holiness and 266 00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:19,960 say, well, why? 1 to holiness I I I'm 267 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:24,920 surrendering to the Holy Holy Spirit that I've received all 268 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:27,840 right in my life. I was a servant of sin. 269 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:30,880 Now I'm free from all that. Verse 21 This is important. 270 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:33,880 I think this is an important question the apostle Paul asked 271 00:14:33,880 --> 00:14:36,040 these people that have had this experience. 272 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:41,360 Now he says what everybody say, Fruit had ye in those things 273 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:44,720 when you were a servant of sin. When, when When you obeyed 274 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:47,920 uncleanliness, What type of fruit did you have then? 275 00:14:48,280 --> 00:14:51,320 Think with me for a moment. When you lived a life of sin, 276 00:14:51,320 --> 00:14:56,040 what type of fruit did you have? Some of us today, we had some up 277 00:14:56,040 --> 00:14:57,360 here. Some of it was it was our 278 00:14:57,360 --> 00:15:02,320 addictions that was our fruit of our our sin, Amen. 279 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:06,160 Some of us, you know, we walked around with rotten attitudes all 280 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:11,120 the time, is the fruit of our sin, Amen. 281 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:14,040 He says for the end of those things is death, right? 282 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:18,440 Romans tells us that the wages of sin is death. 283 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:21,560 He says in verse 22, But now here we are. 284 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:23,400 Why? But now because you obeyed that 285 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:26,440 form of doctrine that was delivered to you. 286 00:15:26,640 --> 00:15:31,160 But now a man, you're made free from sin through your new birth, 287 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:35,320 and you become servants of God. How did I become a servant of 288 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:38,080 God? Because now I obey what he 289 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:41,160 desires. Now I obey whatever the Spirit 290 00:15:41,160 --> 00:15:43,480 inside of me is leading and guiding. 291 00:15:43,560 --> 00:15:47,440 Note, now you've obeyed him, ye have your fruit. 292 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:52,400 Now look, the fruits changed. The fruits, not what the fruit 293 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:56,560 used to be. The fruits change the fruit unto 294 00:15:56,560 --> 00:16:00,080 holiness in the end, everlasting life, Amen. 295 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:02,680 So the fruit of a sinful life, as we look through the 296 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:05,760 Scriptures, fruit of a sinful life, who used to be that? 297 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:08,800 The worldly lifestyle that we used to have, it may be the 298 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:13,000 fruit of destruction, Amen. All the fruit of a sinful life, 299 00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:16,320 but a fruit of a life that submitted to God. 300 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:20,120 He man not listen, a fruit of a life that submitted to God. 301 00:16:20,520 --> 00:16:22,680 And I want to make this distinction because sometimes we 302 00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:25,200 fall in this when we talk about God's holiness and our holiness, 303 00:16:25,480 --> 00:16:28,280 I'm not talking about a submission to standards. 304 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:30,720 I'm not talking about a submission to rules. 305 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:33,600 I'm talking about our ultimate submission is unto God. 306 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:38,920 Our ultimate submission isn't to God. 307 00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:41,720 There's a lot of things that happened due to our submission 308 00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:44,720 to God that are byproducts of our submission to God. 309 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:50,840 Amen of our submission to God. And so he says as as as our life 310 00:16:50,840 --> 00:16:54,560 as submission to God. He said is then this fruit unto 311 00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:57,080 holiness and we'll look at it. We looked at a little bit last 312 00:16:57,080 --> 00:17:00,280 week, not just what has been positional because I received 313 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:02,600 the Spirit, but what has been applied. 314 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:05,040 Amen. It's going to come into maturity 315 00:17:05,040 --> 00:17:09,480 in our life, both inwardly and outwardly and ultimately unto 316 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:13,359 everlasting life. Now let me ask you a question. 317 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:19,040 Does fruit just happen or does fruit mature and grow into 318 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:25,599 fruit? Have you ever planted a seed in 319 00:17:25,599 --> 00:17:28,600 the ground? And what came out of the ground? 320 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:31,080 Look at that pineapple just just popped. 321 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:34,920 Right out of the ground. No, no, no, no, no. 322 00:17:35,360 --> 00:17:38,960 There is a growth process to get to fruit. 323 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:44,680 A seed is planted, a plant grows. 324 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:49,720 I'm not trying to you know, I'm not trying to hear today speak 325 00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:53,400 to us like on elementary level here, but a plant begins to grow 326 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:55,120 in the little. Green shoots come forth and 327 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:59,840 eventually at some stage. The maturity happens of the 328 00:17:59,840 --> 00:18:03,560 fruit begin to grow and come into full maturity where it 329 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:08,400 could be plucked from a tree. When we talk about the fruit of 330 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:12,640 holiness, it's the result of a seed that's been planted in our 331 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:17,960 life. It takes time for that to mature 332 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:21,920 and it takes time for that to grow, but whenever the Spirit of 333 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:25,640 God dwells inside of you and you receive the Spirit of God and we 334 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:28,800 submit to that, right, we're open to what it wants to do in 335 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:30,040 our life. Amen. 336 00:18:30,040 --> 00:18:32,840 Through humble obedience, there's going to be a process of 337 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:35,480 maturity that starts to take place in our life and there's 338 00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:38,640 going to come a blossom that's going to be just the the infant 339 00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:42,280 start of a fruit that's going to be growing in our life. 340 00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:45,320 I left you hanging last week concerning Proverbs 2. 341 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:47,000 I got the scripture for you today because I don't like to 342 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:50,360 leave people hanging. Proverbs 212 and 13, the Bible 343 00:18:50,360 --> 00:18:56,520 says, wherefore my beloved as he have always obeyed, not as in my 344 00:18:56,520 --> 00:18:59,080 presence only, but now much more my absence. 345 00:18:59,080 --> 00:19:01,440 Again, Paul's talking to the Church of Philippi. 346 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:06,200 He says work out your own salvation with fear and 347 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:08,720 trembling. Man, that feels like a heavy 348 00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:11,720 task. If you just read one verse, you 349 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:13,640 read just one verse. It's like, I didn't think that 350 00:19:13,640 --> 00:19:16,920 was totally up to me anyway, but look what the Bible says in 351 00:19:16,920 --> 00:19:21,120 verse. 13. For it is God which worketh in 352 00:19:21,120 --> 00:19:22,240 you. How's that happen? 353 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:26,320 Because when you receive the Holy Ghost God, it's Christ in 354 00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:29,720 you, the hope of glory. It's God's Spirit inside of you. 355 00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:33,280 For it is God which worketh in you both. 356 00:19:33,280 --> 00:19:38,480 Look at the scripture here, Philippians 213 both to will and 357 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:44,520 to do of His everybody say his his good pleasure. 358 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:48,160 Wait a minute, when I receive the Spirit, the Spirit is trying 359 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:52,560 to help me to do God's will and his good pleasure. 360 00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:56,000 It didn't say the Spirit's trying to help me to do my will 361 00:19:57,040 --> 00:20:02,120 and my good pleasure because let's just get serious. 362 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:05,520 Everything that's pleasurable to my flesh. 363 00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:09,400 Paul McGee. Isn't acceptable as pleasurable 364 00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:13,360 in the sight of God. Amen. 365 00:20:13,360 --> 00:20:16,360 That's the reason why we got to be led by the Spirit. 366 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:20,160 We got to walk and live by the Spirit. 367 00:20:20,360 --> 00:20:25,600 The scripture says so. Holiness begins as a seed begins 368 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:30,560 a seed that eventually will produce fruit in our life. 369 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:34,960 It don't happen overnight. Not like, you know, boom in the 370 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:36,760 ground out there It is. Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope. 371 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:40,160 It doesn't happen overnight, but neither should it be a 372 00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:42,840 indefinite process that never comes to maturity. 373 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:48,040 Everybody OK, Paul described this process. 374 00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:49,120 Look at this. This is different. 375 00:20:49,120 --> 00:20:52,360 Places in Galatians and Brother Mason will be helping us today, 376 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:55,880 but whenever Paul wrote to the church at Galatia in Galatians 377 00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:58,360 and he talked about Jesus Christ, he talked about Jesus 378 00:20:58,360 --> 00:21:01,240 Christ being the seed of Abraham. 379 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:02,880 That's something that he refers back to. 380 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:07,040 And, and I believe he even intended a dual meaning here in 381 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:10,720 this term, this term seed, because in the earlier verses he 382 00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:15,840 identified the promise that was made to this seed. 383 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:20,400 You can look at it, Galatians 3 and and verse 14, the Bible says 384 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:24,880 that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles. 385 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:29,720 That's all of us through Jesus Christ, that we might receive 386 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:33,880 the promise of the Spirit through faith. 387 00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:38,640 And so the promise that was made to the seed was the gift of the 388 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:41,360 Holy Ghost or the gift of the Holy Spirit. 389 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:45,680 And Paul says that was the blessing of Abraham coming down 390 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:49,280 through time to where we were. If you look at Galatians 4 and 391 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:52,440 six, brother Mason has it. We see clearly where Paul wrote 392 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:59,480 God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts. 393 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:03,200 It's the planting of the seed. It's the planting of the seed of 394 00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:05,680 Jesus Christ. It's the planting of the seed of 395 00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:08,360 the Spirit of Christ in the hearts of man. 396 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:11,840 Whenever we received the seed, we didn't form it, receive it in 397 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:14,760 the form of a man. Because remember, whenever Jesus 398 00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:18,440 Christ went away, he told them, I'm, I'm, I'm going to go away, 399 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:21,160 but I'm going to send, I'm going to send a comforter, right? 400 00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:23,680 I'm going to go away, but my spirit's going to come. 401 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:26,760 And that spirit was going to be the seed that you and I could 402 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:31,040 receive that Holy Spirit, that Holy God inside of us. 403 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:34,680 And so whenever this promise, the promise of the Holy Ghost, 404 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:38,480 the promise of the Holy Spirit first came to the Gentiles that 405 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:42,080 we read of in Scripture, we read it coming to Cornelius's house 406 00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:47,000 in Acts chapter #10 And now not is it just Gentiles, but it's 407 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:49,640 Jews and Samaritans and every individual. 408 00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:52,760 And this is what Paul Paul wrote that in Galatians 419 you 409 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:54,840 helping me, Brother Mason? Paul wrote this. 410 00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:58,760 He said my little children are not adults. 411 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:04,080 They were adults, but he's calling them my little children 412 00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:11,320 of whom I travail in birth again, until Christ be formed in 413 00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:14,200 you. Now listen, these were church 414 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:16,720 people at Galatia that he was talking to. 415 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:22,240 They had the Spirit of God, you hear me? 416 00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:26,200 They had the Spirit of God. They had the promised seed. 417 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:29,960 They had the promised seed. It had been planted in their 418 00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:33,320 hearts. But Paul's addressing them, my 419 00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:38,160 little children, because they were children in their walk with 420 00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:42,240 God. The seed had been planted, but 421 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:45,800 there's not been enough process take place yet that there was 422 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:49,120 fruit from the seed. That's the reason why Paul says, 423 00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:54,200 I'm going to continue to labor, Amen, until Christ be formed in 424 00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:58,080 you. Hey, man, Christ be formed in 425 00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:01,480 you, Amen. The the formation of Christ in 426 00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:05,480 US, Amen, has displayed them ultimately in the full 427 00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:09,680 expression of holiness, God's holiness in and of our lives. 428 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:14,680 But the fruit comes from a seed and it takes a process for it to 429 00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:16,040 grow. Amen. 430 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:19,520 Because again, we talked about this a little bit and weeks gone 431 00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:25,360 by, holiness only in seed form in the heart is something that 432 00:24:25,360 --> 00:24:32,880 only God can see. And it might be and I'm I'm kind 433 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:35,560 today, but it might. Be the excuse then why some 434 00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:37,760 people make well, God sees my heart. 435 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:43,160 Well, that's right, He does see your heart, but he's also 436 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:48,280 concerned beyond that. We said the verse last week, so 437 00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:50,840 I'll give you the the passage now, right? 438 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:55,000 Matthew 516. Jesus said about let your light 439 00:24:55,640 --> 00:25:00,040 shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify 440 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:04,000 your Father, which is in heaven. Here's the interesting thing 441 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:08,520 about that elsewhere in Scripture, like in John, Jesus 442 00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:10,160 said I am the light of the world. 443 00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:13,560 Jesus said that I am the light of the world. 444 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:17,640 But then we also see places where He told His disciples, Ye, 445 00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:22,080 ye are the light of the world. Which is it, Lord? 446 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:25,360 Are you the light of the world, or are your disciples the light 447 00:25:25,360 --> 00:25:27,800 of the world? Here's The thing is, disciples, 448 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:33,920 we have no light of our own. Any light that we have comes 449 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:35,480 from the seed that we've received. 450 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:39,520 He says, I am the light of the world. 451 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:44,000 Ye become the light of the world because of receiving my spirit. 452 00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:47,920 And so then as we allow that light to shine, I have no light 453 00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:50,000 of my own. It's not Paul Mcgees light 454 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:52,600 because I don't have light. My life was filled with darkness 455 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:57,960 before I came to the Lord. All of our lives were filled 456 00:25:57,960 --> 00:25:59,480 with darkness before we came to Lord. 457 00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:02,360 But whenever I was born again in the water, in the spirit honey, 458 00:26:02,360 --> 00:26:04,960 a little light started shining. There's a little why? 459 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:08,280 Because the light of the world stepped into my life. 460 00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:12,800 The light that the light that shines in the darkness. 461 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:16,240 The light that knows no difference between light and 462 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:19,520 darkness because everywhere he goes, he dispels darkness. 463 00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:22,960 He stepped into my life. All of the dark things that I 464 00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:25,520 used to do, the world, the things that I used to do, 465 00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:28,120 they're starting to be a change because the light of the world 466 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:31,520 has stepped into my life. And so if you see any light from 467 00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:36,200 me, it's because of the light that I have received this hey 468 00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:40,840 man, so he's shining in my lives and I want that light to be 469 00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:43,840 unhindered. Remember, I really expensive 470 00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:46,600 liquid that we put in a bottle last week, not cleaning the 471 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:47,880 inside and the outside of the bottle. 472 00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:52,480 I want that to be unhindered. I want it to unobstructed. 473 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:57,560 View. But it's only it's only when the 474 00:26:57,560 --> 00:27:04,000 seed of holiness comes forth as fruit plied holiness that what 475 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:09,800 God can only see now becomes what anyone can see. 476 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:15,600 And he's made known then to the. World through your life. 477 00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:23,600 Someone say Amen. Now here's the thing. 478 00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:27,720 This is this doesn't come without sacrifice, does it? 479 00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:33,520 As a matter of fact, in the Old Testament times, any time that 480 00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:39,560 someone gave made offering or sacrifice to God, it required 481 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:47,400 something animal back then required something and sacrifice 482 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:51,200 for them was was giving up something of. 483 00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:55,240 Temporal. Value in exchange for something 484 00:27:55,240 --> 00:28:01,360 of eternal value. So whenever it comes to holy 485 00:28:01,360 --> 00:28:05,640 living, this is the harder one of the Reese. 486 00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:09,400 I give up some of my personal rights. 487 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:18,480 Oh, someone say Amen, personal rights to live as the spirit 488 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:22,000 that I receive desires to live. What what is that that that's 489 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:26,200 surrendering. That's surrendering to God. 490 00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:30,320 That's surrendering to to live in a way that that is pleasing 491 00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:32,600 and God and have hope of eternal life. 492 00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:36,520 Amen. And so I give him the sacrifice 493 00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:39,320 of my willing heart. Here I am Lord, I'm giving the 494 00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:42,440 sacrifice of my willing heart. Matter of fact, if you read in 495 00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:45,480 the Old Testament, whenever God told Moses, hey, I want to build 496 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:48,160 a Tabernacle and let the people bring the goods and the 497 00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:51,760 materials for this the Bible tells us in Exodus 25. 498 00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:54,760 He said to Moses, he said, speak unto the children of Israel, 499 00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:59,120 that they bring me an offering of every man that giveth it. 500 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:05,800 Everybody say willingly with his heart, he shall take my 501 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:09,080 offering. He said willingly, so they're 502 00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:12,240 going to bring the materials, but let them bring it and only 503 00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:15,160 give it if they're doing it with a willing heart. 504 00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:19,520 The apostle Paul in the New Testament says something similar 505 00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:24,040 in First Second Corinthians 97. He said every man as he purposes 506 00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:28,920 in his heart, so let him give right, not grudgingly or of 507 00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:33,720 necessity for God loveth A cheerful giver and so he's 508 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:35,560 relaying from Old Testament even New Testament. 509 00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:38,680 It doesn't matter if we're we're given money or or if we're we're 510 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:44,000 given time or if we're given of our labor or the way of my life, 511 00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:48,480 whatever it is that I'm offering unto God must be given with a 512 00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:53,640 willing heart. Everybody listen to me very 513 00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:57,920 clearly here, because God is just as concerned about. 514 00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:04,000 Why we do what we do as He is about what we do. 515 00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:12,520 Sometimes we do things just because it's just like that's 516 00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:15,680 just what you do. But we have no real motive. 517 00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:22,360 Listen to me Proverbs 16 and two and I asked for the NET. 518 00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:25,560 They gave you the KJV, but I'm reading from the NET, but that's 519 00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:28,240 fine. That's up there all a person's 520 00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:31,880 way seem right in his own opinion, but the Lord evaluates 521 00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:35,880 the motives the new century. Version says it like this you 522 00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:38,680 may believe you are doing right, but the Lord will judge your 523 00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:43,600 reasons. Everybody doing OK Sometimes in 524 00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:46,480 church life people get caught up in. 525 00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:49,400 Quote on quote holiness standards. 526 00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:54,000 Mm hmm. So I doing OK, but the 527 00:30:54,040 --> 00:31:00,760 application of our Holiness isn't just external, it's 528 00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:05,200 outward and inward application that marks them as a holy 529 00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:08,040 people. Everybody doing OK. 530 00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:12,360 Luke 11 verse 39, Jesus was speaking to some Pharisees, 531 00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:15,160 there's going to be sitting down to eat and there was some things 532 00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:17,120 said to him, and so he said some things back to them. 533 00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:21,880 In verse 39, the Lord said unto him, Now do you Pharisees make 534 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:30,360 clean the outside of the cup and platter, but your inward part is 535 00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:37,560 full of ravening and wickedness. He says ye fools did not heed 536 00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:44,000 that made that which is without make that which is within also. 537 00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:47,840 You know what the Lord is saying then he said you made it look 538 00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:51,080 all great on the outside. That plat that looks wow, that 539 00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:54,360 cup looks great. But if we were to peer inside 540 00:31:54,360 --> 00:32:00,520 the cup, He said you got the outside looking all great, but 541 00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:03,720 that's really just a facade to appear. 542 00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:06,840 It's all great, but if we were to peer inside the cup, 543 00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:11,960 everybody doing OK Totally. It's not just about what's all 544 00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:14,360 the exterior. You come to church and you just 545 00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:15,400 I'm going to live holy forgotten. 546 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:18,080 I'm just going to I'm going to change all this exterior stuff. 547 00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:24,480 But inside you, you still got bitterness, unforgiveness, 548 00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:30,680 rotten spirit on every day except when you're in church. 549 00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:42,560 It's the whole package. So whenever the Israelites 550 00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:45,440 offered their like animal sacrifices to God that there 551 00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:48,720 were both external and internal elements for that God was 552 00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:51,520 looking at, yes, they did the the sacrifice. 553 00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:55,640 All mankind could see this external expression of sacrifice 554 00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:58,800 like, oh wow, look at that person's faith bringing this 555 00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:02,440 animal that they've reared, you know, and fed and invested in 556 00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:04,160 and they're sacrificing that to God. 557 00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:07,320 Wow, they're really doing something that's a visible act 558 00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:12,080 that everybody could see sister Sheila, but internally what God 559 00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:15,560 could see, He had to also see that that person wasn't just 560 00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:18,880 doing that, but they were also yielding themselves. 561 00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:21,760 They were yielding their heart. They had it. 562 00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:24,280 They had a heart of surrender and devotion that was taking 563 00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:26,400 place. But see, that's what God only 564 00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:31,160 knows. AM I doing OK? 565 00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:37,080 Sometimes we mistakenly. Tried to live in such a way to 566 00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:43,160 fool everybody, yet we never fool God because he knows the in 567 00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:46,880 and he knows the out of our life. 568 00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:53,000 Is everybody doing OK and and man, I'm I'm probably just happy 569 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:58,640 Christmas sermon. OK, What are you saying then? 570 00:33:59,960 --> 00:34:02,080 Can I say we need to be careful today? 571 00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:06,280 We need to be careful because some of you got it all together 572 00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:11,040 on the outside and you want to be quick to judge someone else 573 00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:15,159 who don't when they might have it all together on the inside 574 00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:30,679 and you don't. Rather, I'm thinking about not 575 00:34:30,679 --> 00:34:33,560 coming back to the candlelight. Listen, I'll just go say a few 576 00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:39,239 words at that candlelight, OK? Jesus Whenever they were sitting 577 00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:42,040 there and there was giving going on, you remember the example of 578 00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:45,480 those that were were seem exceedingly rich as it would 579 00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:47,960 seem came by and they gave. And then there was the widow 580 00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:51,080 that came by and she gave. And Jesus was sitting there. 581 00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:53,760 He was watching this giving procession that was taking place 582 00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:57,320 and he explained, He said, He said the rich had put in of 583 00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:00,640 their abundance. They put in of their abundance, 584 00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:03,000 but of the widow, He said, but she of. 585 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:07,160 Her want or of her poverty. In other words, they went, they, 586 00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:10,200 they gave up their abundance. You know, it was like mechanical 587 00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:14,840 duty giving. But she, she gave of her heart. 588 00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:17,360 She gave of everything that she had. 589 00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:22,080 And so in the same way. These, these genuine expressions 590 00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:25,120 of holiness in our life, yes, they're the outward and yes, the 591 00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:28,920 inward elements, but Paul had in mind whenever he called it to 592 00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:32,320 the Corinthians that they should be perfect in holiness by 593 00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:36,080 cleansing themselves from all filthiness of flesh and spirit. 594 00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:44,000 I say this without a supporting structure of inward holiness. 595 00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:49,840 Everybody here OK with me. Without a inward structure of 596 00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:54,160 of, of, of holiness, outward holiness is just a little bit 597 00:35:54,160 --> 00:36:01,640 more than a superficial form. Because the truth is this 598 00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:11,560 long-suffering, kindness, compassion are just as much as 599 00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:15,960 applications of holiness as moral purity and modesty. 600 00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:24,120 So. Is it possible that Brother 601 00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:26,760 McGee people have all the externals of holiness without 602 00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:29,520 the internals? Again, as we've seen, he said, 603 00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:31,880 the Pharisee, we need to clean the outside, we need to clean 604 00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:35,720 the inside of the cup. And again, holiness, please 605 00:36:35,720 --> 00:36:39,040 understand this in our individual lives, it's not unto 606 00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:42,600 a man and it's not into the label of the church that's on 607 00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:45,320 the church house door. Holiness throughout the 608 00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:48,120 Scripture, you know what it commonly says, holiness to the 609 00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:51,640 Lord, holiness unto the Lord, It's always unto the Lord. 610 00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:54,560 So if you're doing it for a man, if you're doing it for 611 00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:57,920 institution, if you're just doing it for a church, you're 612 00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:01,280 doing it for the wrong reason. Your priority, your goal needs 613 00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:08,120 to be doing it unto the Lord. Amen. 614 00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:15,760 So there's areas of Paul Mcgee's interior life that needs cleanse 615 00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:19,200 and that needs developed. Jessica, there's things inside 616 00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:22,240 of me. I have thoughts right that never 617 00:37:22,240 --> 00:37:24,800 escape my brain that need touched motives. 618 00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:28,520 And desires inside of me that none of you know about unless I 619 00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:30,440 act on them. None of you know about 620 00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:33,880 attitudes. Maybe sometimes show up a little 621 00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:36,320 bit on my face, maybe if they don't ever show up totally 622 00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:37,120 right. Amen. 623 00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:40,680 But attitudes, that's in me that I need to be made holy. 624 00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:42,920 Beliefs that need to be made holy. 625 00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:45,840 But there are areas of Paul Mcgee's external life that needs 626 00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:50,120 help, too. The way I talk, the tone I talk, 627 00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:59,360 words I even say, how I talk about others, my conduct, my 628 00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:03,400 appearance. But since the inside serves as a 629 00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:07,600 foundation for the outside, then I need to place a real strong 630 00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:09,560 emphasis on what's happened inside of me. 631 00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:12,880 Because what's happening inside of me is absolutely going to 632 00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:16,240 affect everything outside of me. And that's where some people 633 00:38:16,240 --> 00:38:19,320 have got themselves in trouble and they felt like a failure 634 00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:23,080 because they try to do all the outside, leaving the inside 635 00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:26,240 unattended to, and they find themselves being backtracking. 636 00:38:26,240 --> 00:38:29,760 The reason why is because the foundation starts here. 637 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:31,800 It starts where the seed was planted. 638 00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:37,560 Hey man is. Everybody doing OK? 639 00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:40,040 You wouldn't tell me if you weren't. 640 00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:49,040 Holiness in Scripture is both separation and dedication. 641 00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:53,760 We separate from what? And we're dedicated to what. 642 00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:57,120 Well, in practical terms, we are separated from sin. 643 00:38:57,600 --> 00:38:58,840 Our scripture even talks about we were. 644 00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:01,920 Servants of it, but not no more. We are separated from sin. 645 00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:06,520 But now we're asked to be dedicated unto the Lord. 646 00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:09,960 I'm separated from the evil now I'm separated from the 647 00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:12,400 worldliness. I'm separated from anything that 648 00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:15,440 is not like God. I'm separated from that. 649 00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:21,080 But now I'm dedicated to God. I'm dedicated to His purpose. 650 00:39:21,240 --> 00:39:25,640 And as I continue on this route of being dedicated to Him and 651 00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:29,080 separated from those things, there's a whole new way of life 652 00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:32,720 that starts inside of me. I'm not walking them to the, of 653 00:39:32,720 --> 00:39:35,240 course of this world. Isaiah even talks about that. 654 00:39:35,240 --> 00:39:39,440 There is a highway of holiness. There is a different way. 655 00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:40,880 Let's just run through some things. 656 00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:42,480 I know I got to get some traction here. 657 00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:44,280 Amen. You said you'd be mindful. 658 00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:46,160 I am. It's 11:15, Amen. 659 00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:50,160 Look at some of these verses. This idea of separation from sin 660 00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:52,360 can be found here. This idea of separation from 661 00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:54,560 wilderness can be found in some of these verses. 662 00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:55,600 I'm just going to run through them. 663 00:39:55,600 --> 00:40:00,720 Brother Mason, First Corinthians 15 and verse 34 awake to 664 00:40:00,720 --> 00:40:07,640 righteousness and sin, not First Thessalonians 522 Abstain from 665 00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:10,360 all appearance of evil. Another version would say 666 00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:14,040 abstain from all or every form of evil. 667 00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:20,360 First John 215 Love not the world, neither the things that 668 00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:24,400 are in the world. Right, an idea of separation 669 00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:27,200 from sin and worldness. Look at the idea of dedication 670 00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:28,880 to God. Just a couple verses. 671 00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:30,720 There's more than these. These are just a sampling. 672 00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:33,640 Romans 12 and one. I beseech you therefore, 673 00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:37,360 brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a 674 00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:41,720 living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your 675 00:40:41,720 --> 00:40:45,880 reasonable service. Mark 12 and verse #30 Love the 676 00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:51,440 Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, with all thy 677 00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:55,400 mind, with all thy strength. Please note the word all that's 678 00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:59,800 important in this verse. It's not that you're loving Him 679 00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:03,560 with part of your mind or part of your strength or certain 680 00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:09,120 areas, if you will, of your soul that you want to know all I want 681 00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:10,080 to be. He showed out. 682 00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:17,600 Listen, when Christ went to Calvary, He didn't just have an 683 00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:25,760 arm nailed to the tree. When he went there wasn't just 684 00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:28,840 his feet that were nailed there. It wasn't just no this the body 685 00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:31,840 and all the internal organs were no, no, no, all of him was 686 00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:35,920 placed on the tree for all of us, and He wants all of us then 687 00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:43,120 to reciprocate. Amen. 688 00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:46,160 Now look, this is a single statement, but it carries both 689 00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:48,320 the separation and the dedication that happens in 690 00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:51,160 holiness. Romans 611 The separation of 691 00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:55,720 dedication. Likewise ye also yourselves 692 00:41:56,240 --> 00:41:59,680 reckon, ye also yourselves to be dead in deed, and to sin 693 00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:05,200 separation. But alive unto God through Jesus 694 00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:07,400 Christ our Lord. That's dedication. 695 00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:10,800 You have both the. Separation and the dedication. 696 00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:15,320 There's a renewing of the mind that takes place in all of that. 697 00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:17,480 I'll be mindful. Stand with me. 698 00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:22,520 So I want to, I want to bear what heaven has planted inside 699 00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:27,760 of me. Answer me this question. 700 00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:34,920 If you planted a seed in the pot and time went by, time went by 701 00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:41,760 and time went by and you never saw a green shoot come up from 702 00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:46,440 that soil where you planted it, would you be concerned about the 703 00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:52,160 sea? Because you're like, I'm giving 704 00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:55,040 this the proper water. I'm giving this the proper 705 00:42:55,040 --> 00:42:58,200 sunshine. Something should be growing 706 00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:02,760 because even at times seeds only go through moments of, of 707 00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:04,920 dormancy for so long. You know you got to rattle the 708 00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:05,800 chain. Get the seed. 709 00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:13,200 If his spirit has been planted inside of you, somewhere along 710 00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:15,080 the way, something should start growing. 711 00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:20,880 If you're nurturing the seed, if you're mindful of the seed, 712 00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:25,520 something should start growing. And I say all this to say this 713 00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:28,840 holiness is not a moment. Just boom. 714 00:43:29,920 --> 00:43:37,040 Holiness is a movement begins as a seed by the Spirit, but again, 715 00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:39,720 it was never meant to stay hidden in the soil of our 716 00:43:39,720 --> 00:43:42,360 hearts. It's God's design that what He 717 00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:46,880 plants in US would grow and mature and eventually bear 718 00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:50,760 visible fruit. Roman 6. 719 00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:56,120 Again, it reminds us that holiness is the natural outcome 720 00:43:56,120 --> 00:44:01,000 of ownership. No longer servants of sin, 721 00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:05,960 servants of righteousness. Christ dwells in me by his 722 00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:11,160 Spirit and as I yield myself fully to Him, holiness is 723 00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:17,880 enforced. It's just formed we and by our 724 00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:22,040 heads today. My admonition to us, all right, 725 00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:24,400 because there's so many different people here at all 726 00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:28,480 different stages of walks with God, and that's tremendous, all 727 00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:31,520 the different stages. Maybe some just had the seed 728 00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:33,320 planted. Others are years. 729 00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:37,120 Along the way, having had the seed planted years ago, all at 730 00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:40,040 different places in our relationships with God. 731 00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:44,880 But what I admonish you today is this, Don't just settle for the 732 00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:49,160 seed alone. Don't settle for the seed alone. 733 00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:53,320 Allow God, as Philippians says, allow God to help and come 734 00:44:53,320 --> 00:44:57,280 alongside you and work out of your life what he's already 735 00:44:57,280 --> 00:45:01,440 worked into your life. And that fruit of holiness, you 736 00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:03,160 know what it does? Scripture tells us this. 737 00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:07,440 It brings glory to your. God. 738 00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:10,360 Both now and for everlasting life. 739 00:45:10,600 --> 00:45:13,720 And so I end again with that one little verse there that we read 740 00:45:13,720 --> 00:45:18,040 in the beginning. Yield your members servants to 741 00:45:18,040 --> 00:45:23,360 righteousness, unto holiness. It's not a negative word. 742 00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:27,280 It's not a dirty word. If anything else, it is a word 743 00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:30,480 that indicates maturity and growth. 744 00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:33,920 Say, Brother McGee, I'm not there yet this morning. 745 00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:36,080 That's OK. That's all right. 746 00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:39,280 But you know God's working in you. 747 00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:44,200 You know what you felt whenever you first received His Spirit in 748 00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:49,080 you and you know in that moment how you felt like, you know 749 00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:51,600 what, I'm not going to, I'm not going to go back and I'm not 750 00:45:51,600 --> 00:45:54,040 going to, I'm not going to walk some of these same paths that 751 00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:55,480 I've walked prior to this moment. 752 00:45:55,680 --> 00:45:58,240 What is what is that? What's taking place? 753 00:45:58,920 --> 00:46:04,480 That's His spirit, that holy seed already beginning to guide 754 00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:07,960 you, already beginning to instruct you. 755 00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:13,040 And here's what we need is to live our life always open to 756 00:46:13,040 --> 00:46:18,480 that same instruction and that same voice, he man that led us 757 00:46:18,480 --> 00:46:21,040 when we first come to know him, right? 758 00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:23,560 Because there's a grand difference, folks, listen, 759 00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:26,200 there's a grand difference between condemnation and 760 00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:30,280 conviction. The Bible says that that we are 761 00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:32,920 not condemned. Those who are in Christ Jesus, 762 00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:36,040 we're not condemned. Condemnation. 763 00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:39,400 When you condemnation comes, it makes you want to step. 764 00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:41,600 Away from God. Flee away from God. 765 00:46:42,680 --> 00:46:48,720 But whenever conviction comes, you feel that drawing of his 766 00:46:48,720 --> 00:46:53,720 spirit toward him and today what what what we are our goat this 767 00:46:53,720 --> 00:46:55,760 morning and I hope you haven't took me. 768 00:46:55,760 --> 00:46:58,440 Is this because this is this is truly not been my spirit. 769 00:46:58,640 --> 00:47:01,520 I'm not here to condemn everybody because anyone because 770 00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:04,960 we're all at different walks of life, but I'm praying for a 771 00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:08,600 spirit of conviction, that Holy Ghost that we have received, 772 00:47:08,600 --> 00:47:12,640 that it'll be a drawing upon our hearts, a drawing upon our souls 773 00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:15,320 just to be better than what we were yesterday. 774 00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:18,400 Not because I have the ability, but because I have received a 775 00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:22,600 spirit that has enabled me and I'm going to allow it to have 776 00:47:22,600 --> 00:47:24,280 free course. I'm going to be obedient to 777 00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:27,680 righteousness. I'm going to be its servant and 778 00:47:27,680 --> 00:47:32,080 it's going to be my master. And God has done so much for me. 779 00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:36,400 I can never repay him, but I want to reciprocate some love 780 00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:39,800 and I want to reciprocate, if you will, some things back up on 781 00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:41,840 him. There's things I do today. 782 00:47:41,840 --> 00:47:43,960 You all heard me say this perhaps once or twice. 783 00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:46,840 There's some things I do today in my marital relationship. 784 00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:52,960 I do because of my wife. There's some places I go because 785 00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:56,080 of my wife. She loves to go, you know, to 786 00:47:56,080 --> 00:47:57,560 the goodwill and spend hours there. 787 00:47:57,560 --> 00:47:59,200 I'll go for the books, but. She's going to. 788 00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:01,440 She can turn the lights out in any city. 789 00:48:02,520 --> 00:48:06,080 That's not my Forte, but I'm doing it, James, because of her. 790 00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:08,040 Katie, I am doing it because of her. 791 00:48:09,640 --> 00:48:12,800 I'll find if eventually, if I need to, the old man's bench. 792 00:48:15,160 --> 00:48:18,440 I take a book often times and I'll read it or do something. 793 00:48:18,680 --> 00:48:23,040 I do that because of her, because I'm in love with her. 794 00:48:24,240 --> 00:48:28,480 It's not my Forte, it's hers, but I'm in love with her. 795 00:48:29,240 --> 00:48:33,280 I don't even grumble about it. I don't think most times because 796 00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:36,360 I'm in love with her. Whenever I'm in love with God, 797 00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:40,000 I'm going to do things that seems to go against my rights. 798 00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:43,480 But you know what? I'm so in love with him. 799 00:48:45,920 --> 00:48:49,240 Whenever I sit, oh God, I feel the Holy Ghost whenever I'm 800 00:48:49,240 --> 00:48:54,440 sitting there and time's ticking and they're about cashier says, 801 00:48:54,440 --> 00:48:56,680 Ladies and gentlemen, there's 5 minutes until the stores going 802 00:48:56,680 --> 00:48:57,880 to close. Please will you bring all of 803 00:48:57,880 --> 00:48:59,840 your goods in the line jail 52 feet long. 804 00:49:01,720 --> 00:49:07,160 But I see the joy that's on her face from what she's been 805 00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:11,600 allowed to do. Does my heart well and whenever. 806 00:49:11,600 --> 00:49:19,000 I see heaven smiling. It might not be all that and a 807 00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:23,120 bag of fries to me. But it is to him. 808 00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:26,800 You know what I found out the longer I've been married? 809 00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:30,800 I start even to like some of the things that are just hers. 810 00:49:32,080 --> 00:49:34,600 Because I've done. Them so much with her. 811 00:49:38,760 --> 00:49:42,080 Isn't it amazing how someone else's likes can kind of blend 812 00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:45,920 over and become yours? I could go on and on. 813 00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:48,480 We don't need to do that. I feel his spirit here though 814 00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:51,360 right now if we can just if you want to raise your hands, bow 815 00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:54,320 your head. The Holy Spirit, the Holy Ghost 816 00:49:54,320 --> 00:49:58,680 is here right now and he is testifying to what has been 817 00:49:58,680 --> 00:50:02,240 spoken here. Sir, ma'am, I don't know what 818 00:50:02,240 --> 00:50:06,120 your past experience has been. There's some of you that have 819 00:50:06,120 --> 00:50:08,680 had other church experiences. I don't know what your past 820 00:50:08,680 --> 00:50:11,800 church experience has been. What I'm telling you today is 821 00:50:11,800 --> 00:50:14,760 the pastor of this church that I'm standing here with open arms 822 00:50:15,240 --> 00:50:18,480 and, and I, I, I pray that I, I try to keep the most gracious 823 00:50:18,480 --> 00:50:21,760 spirit, Amen ever. What I'm saying today. 824 00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:23,760 This is a safe place for you to grow. 825 00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:26,960 This is a safe place for you to grow. 826 00:50:27,520 --> 00:50:30,640 And if you not received the Holy Ghost today, ultimately that's 827 00:50:30,640 --> 00:50:34,440 that's God's will for your life. There's there's not a another 828 00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:37,400 step or anything else that you need to concentrate on or or try 829 00:50:37,400 --> 00:50:40,280 to pour yourself. Into and until that happens, if 830 00:50:40,280 --> 00:50:43,240 you not received the Holy Ghost today, Amen, you can repent to 831 00:50:43,240 --> 00:50:45,360 him. We have we have water to baptize 832 00:50:45,360 --> 00:50:47,880 you in Jesus name. That is first and foremost, that 833 00:50:47,880 --> 00:50:50,080 needs to be. That needs to be what you're 834 00:50:50,080 --> 00:50:52,600 focused upon. But if you have received the 835 00:50:52,600 --> 00:50:55,760 gift of Spirit, then you need to continue to focus on that Spirit 836 00:50:55,920 --> 00:51:00,960 and allow Christ to be formed in you and just grow with him day 837 00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:02,400 by day. There'll be, sometimes you'll 838 00:51:02,400 --> 00:51:05,840 take 5 steps forward and you'll take 7 steps back, right? 839 00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:08,160 But there'll be other days you'll take 10 steps forward and 840 00:51:08,160 --> 00:51:09,840 only two back. You've gained some ground. 841 00:51:10,160 --> 00:51:11,720 Amen. Can we just raise our hands 842 00:51:11,720 --> 00:51:14,720 right now, today? God, I give you my all. 843 00:51:14,720 --> 00:51:16,320 Can that be a prayer that we would pray? 844 00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:21,080 Lord, all of me, not part of me, not a portion, but God, all of 845 00:51:21,080 --> 00:51:23,800 me. Lord, I surrender myself unto 846 00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:25,880 you. I surrender myself unto you. 847 00:51:25,880 --> 00:51:28,560 By the Mason, you get a song prepared, we're going to sing. 848 00:51:28,560 --> 00:51:31,040 This altar is open today. This would be a great day to 849 00:51:31,040 --> 00:51:33,440 come and pray. Amen, A great day. 850 00:51:33,560 --> 00:51:36,480 Listen, all of us having a mission that we need him. 851 00:51:36,760 --> 00:51:39,000 All of us have the admission that we need him. 852 00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:41,280 There's not a single one of us. I don't care if you've been in 853 00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:44,760 the church 3540 years or you've been in the church 3 weeks, we 854 00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:49,080 all are in need of him. We're in need of him today. 855 00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:51,320 Hallelujah. Can we talk to him? 856 00:51:51,680 --> 00:51:53,640 God? There's some areas in my life, 857 00:51:53,640 --> 00:51:56,000 God, that still needs Lord got some help. 858 00:51:56,440 --> 00:52:00,040 This them some external, Lord, stewardship of the external of 859 00:52:00,040 --> 00:52:02,160 my life, God that still needs some help. 860 00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:03,840 Help me. Lord, lead me. 861 00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:06,120 I want to be guided. I want to be instructed. 862 00:52:06,120 --> 00:52:08,680 Oh Lord, let me not turn to death here. 863 00:52:08,680 --> 00:52:12,760 Let me not turn to death here, Oh God, to live the way that you 864 00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:17,960 would want me to live, God, oh God to do that which is his good 865 00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:20,240 pleasure. Hallelujah.