1 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:11,840 Amen greetings in Jesus name today. 2 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:17,400 Glad to have each one of you in the House of the Lord Amen. 3 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:20,200 It's always a good time to enter in double doors when it's cold 4 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:25,520 outside Amen to be in God's house Amen with each one of you 5 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:26,920 today. Amen. 6 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:29,360 And all of our guests that are here this morning, those that 7 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:32,759 are visiting from other places and assemblies today, we greet 8 00:00:32,759 --> 00:00:34,800 you. We're glad to have Lucy cook 9 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:36,680 with us this morning. Oh, yeah. 10 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:38,600 Oh, yeah. Lucy, we're glad to have you 11 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:41,600 today. And then the sister, Grace's 12 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:45,400 sister Lily, was here today. And I went by to see what she 13 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:49,240 was really called or going to be called by Piper, you know, 14 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:54,320 Auntie or whatever it was. And it's weedy. 15 00:00:55,720 --> 00:00:57,400 And so there's a story behind that. 16 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:00,360 And if you want to know that, you need to talk to Alex and 17 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:04,080 Grace and Lily, All right. Because if I start to tell the 18 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:06,480 story, I'll butcher it. Amen. 19 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:08,920 I at first I thought maybe she meant like Wheaties, like what 20 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:11,320 you eat for breakfast. But that's not the case. 21 00:01:11,320 --> 00:01:14,960 So we're glad to have her this morning as well. 22 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:17,360 Even we're going to be turning to the book of First Peter 23 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:22,360 chapter #1 First Peter chapter #1 a couple weeks ago. 24 00:01:22,360 --> 00:01:24,440 I used this as a launching pad as well. 25 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:28,080 Whenever we talked about where God dwells, everything changes 26 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:30,840 and I want to use it as a launchpad again today. 27 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:33,120 Amen. For us, we've been talking a lot 28 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:37,240 about the holiness of the Lord and the impact on our lives with 29 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:41,640 that, and how there's a whole lot that's into that, more than 30 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:47,520 what many times we subscribe to and then what people propagate. 31 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:50,200 And so I want to talk about it some more today. 32 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:54,760 And first Peter chapter #1 Amen. The Bible says in verse 13, 33 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:57,440 these are the words here of Peter writing here. 34 00:01:57,440 --> 00:02:02,600 He says, Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, 35 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:07,480 and hope to the end, for the grace that is to be brought unto 36 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:13,440 you at the revelation of Jesus Christ, as obedient children, 37 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:18,360 not fashioning yourselves according to the everybody, say 38 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:23,800 former lusts, or that can be former desires in your 39 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:26,920 ignorance. Verse 15 But as he which hath 40 00:02:26,920 --> 00:02:32,000 called you is holy, so be holy in all manner of conversation, 41 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:37,440 because it is written, Be holy, for I am holy. 42 00:02:37,920 --> 00:02:39,520 Amen. For a little while today, I want 43 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:41,280 to speak to you under this heading. 44 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:44,040 You'll understand it before we're finished. 45 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:50,600 Echoes of salvation. Echoes of salvation. 46 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:52,680 Amen. Can we pray one more time? 47 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:55,400 Father, we come to you today. We're so thankful, Lord, for 48 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:58,160 this opportunity. I pray, God, those who have 49 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:00,720 gathered together, Lord, in this place, in this house this 50 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:03,920 morning, God, we center our lives, Lord, around your word 51 00:03:03,920 --> 00:03:06,320 today that your word stand among us. 52 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:08,480 I pray God that it lead us and guide us. 53 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:11,000 Let it Lord, touch us anew and afresh. 54 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:13,800 I pray God, every heart and mind, God to be touched today. 55 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:17,160 Enlighten us, God, bring his spirit of revelation, Lord, into 56 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:18,760 our lives today and will not fail. 57 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:21,640 Lord, to thank you and praise you, Lord, for what you 58 00:03:21,640 --> 00:03:25,600 accomplish in this place. In the lovely name of Jesus, we 59 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:28,520 pray Amen. And everybody say Amen. 60 00:03:28,920 --> 00:03:32,120 You may be seated this morning. So glad for others that are back 61 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:35,040 that have been sick and such God touched your body, Amen. 62 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:38,280 Appreciative of that, Amen. So we've been talking about the 63 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:42,640 holiness of God for the past several weeks and then adopting 64 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:45,880 that holiness in our own lives. Of course, when we receive the 65 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:50,280 Holy Ghost and have taken on his Holy name and so on and so 66 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:52,720 forth. But when we consider the idea or 67 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:57,280 the concept of holiness for humanity or Saints of God or for 68 00:03:57,280 --> 00:04:00,640 children of God, as it would, it would be when we received the 69 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:04,480 Holy Ghost, the Holy Ghost comes inside of us and even the Bible 70 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:08,160 tells us in the book of John and such that that spirit that we 71 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:11,880 receive will lead us and guide us into all truth, right? 72 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:14,920 It, it is a on board teacher in our lives. 73 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:16,440 It's on board teacher in our lives. 74 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:20,240 And in doing so, that spirit that we receive, we find 75 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:25,840 ourselves over a process of time that we become more like him, 76 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:29,520 right in attributes and characterization, in ways we 77 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:32,640 become more like him. And so holiness to a certain 78 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:37,600 degree is is becoming like God, but also that in doing so, we 79 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:40,640 are glorifying him in this earth, right. 80 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:44,400 So that whenever someone sees you, it's not re singer in 81 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:47,960 particular that they see, but it's the Christ in you that they 82 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:52,200 see and that gives glory then unto God and returns glory unto 83 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:54,960 him. So us living a holy life in the 84 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:57,920 world, in the. Context that we live is making 85 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:00,960 God known around us, and that's very. 86 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:05,120 Essential Amen to our Christian walk, But another purpose that 87 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:08,160 we kind of dabbled in a little bit last week throughout the the 88 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:12,000 the whole time that we had here together is another purpose of 89 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:17,080 holy living or a holy life is its ability to safeguard us in 90 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:18,680 this walk that we have here below. 91 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:23,640 Able to protect us in this walk. And so Peter wrote in the 92 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:26,960 setting of Scriptures that I read to you today, that we 93 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:32,400 should be obedient children, no longer fashioned or no longer 94 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:38,760 conforming ourselves to the former lust as in our ignorance 95 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:41,840 or the former desires as in our ignorance. 96 00:05:41,840 --> 00:05:46,080 Again, the apostle Peter was describing and indicating that 97 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:50,080 there was a time in our lives when being ignorant of the 98 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:53,880 things of God and the ways of God and the holiness of God, 99 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:58,480 that we live according to our own understanding and we lived 100 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:01,480 according to our own human desires. 101 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:05,400 In essence, we were. US driven or me driven? 102 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:08,840 You know, whatever I wanted, I just fulfilled that right. 103 00:06:08,840 --> 00:06:13,160 We are me and US driven and Paul even describes this and other 104 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:16,120 other epistles that he wrote to the church throughout the New 105 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:19,320 Testament. He describes this US driven or 106 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:22,880 this pre Christ time before people come to Christ time 107 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:25,960 whenever he wrote and I got a lot of scripture today and 108 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:29,840 Ephesians 2 and verse 12. He says that at that time he's 109 00:06:29,840 --> 00:06:33,720 speaking to people who were Gentiles, unbelievers with 110 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:37,360 without God before they had their Christ encounter or filled 111 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:39,720 with the Spirit. He said that at that time you 112 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:44,720 were without Christ being aliens from the Commonwealth of Israel 113 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:47,680 and strangers from the covenants of Provice. 114 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:52,720 Here's their condition then was having no hope and without God 115 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:56,240 in the world. But we understand according to 116 00:06:56,240 --> 00:06:59,400 Scripture, that when you've experienced the new birth, 117 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:03,560 namely being born of water and being born of Spirit, that when 118 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:07,080 you receive the Holy Ghost and have been born again, you have 119 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:11,640 also along with that received a great hope in your life, right? 120 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:17,280 If the Bible says it's Christ in you, the hope of glory, there's 121 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:20,480 a great hope that you have received in your life that in 122 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:25,800 actuality it crescendos it it comes to its climax whenever the 123 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:30,840 Lord Jesus Christ will return and get his church, or as Peter 124 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:35,000 described it in our text this morning at the revelation of 125 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:37,880 Jesus Christ. What that is saying is as we 126 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:41,320 walk this walk, talk, this talk and allow the impressions of 127 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:45,400 God's Spirit to be lived out in our life, we have hope someday 128 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:48,240 of an everlasting life. Amen. 129 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:51,720 As they say in that, that that place, that Yonder beyond the 130 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:56,200 blue sky, right, that where that Crystal River is, where there is 131 00:07:56,200 --> 00:07:59,520 streets of gold and gates of Pearl, we have a hope of 132 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:03,760 everlasting life. And so here is the the call it 133 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:05,880 problem, but here is the warning. 134 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:09,320 The thing that we must be conscious of is that in order 135 00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:13,440 for that everlasting fulfillment hope to take place someday, 136 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:17,520 which is still yet in the future, there's a lot that can 137 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:21,920 happen between right now and then in our Christian dirty 138 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:25,040 right now and then in our Christian life. 139 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:29,440 And one of the biggest, one of the biggest dangers that we face 140 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:33,880 them between here and now is being overtaken by what the 141 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:36,880 apostle Peter calls our former lust. 142 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:42,320 One of the greatest adversaries is our former lust. 143 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:45,960 That's the reason why in another of the epistles, the apostle 144 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:52,160 Paul advises in Galatians chapter #5 and verse 16, he says 145 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:55,240 this. I say them, and this is an 146 00:08:55,240 --> 00:08:56,680 admonition. Amen. 147 00:08:56,680 --> 00:08:58,560 He's talking to the Church of Galatia. 148 00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:03,320 He's telling them walk in the Spirit, Walk in that spirit that 149 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:09,040 you received and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. 150 00:09:09,560 --> 00:09:12,560 He says if you'll, you'll make a determination, if you'll, if 151 00:09:12,560 --> 00:09:16,320 you'll get in a, a, an association and a grouping with 152 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:20,240 God to walk according to the spirit that you received inside 153 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:22,480 of you. He says you'll not fulfill you 154 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:25,320 for sure. Increase your chances of not 155 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:28,880 fulfilling Amen. The lust of the flesh or the old 156 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:33,000 desires and the former desires that you once fled to. 157 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:38,720 Verse 17 says for the flesh lusteth against the spirit and 158 00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:44,320 the spirit against the flesh. These are contrary the one to 159 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:47,760 the other so that you cannot do the things that you would. 160 00:09:47,760 --> 00:09:50,520 We were just even talking about it in our connect group this 161 00:09:50,520 --> 00:09:53,600 past Wednesday night and you can read Romans 7. 162 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:58,160 It talks about a warring that takes place in our members and 163 00:09:58,160 --> 00:10:02,600 it's the warring of those former lust and that new spirit, that 164 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:06,280 new life that we've been called to and every individual sitting 165 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:09,680 under the sound of my voice. If you've had a man that that 166 00:10:09,680 --> 00:10:12,520 experience of being born again, you have the spirit and you also 167 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:16,360 have the contingency over here that's constantly looking and 168 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:19,040 luring and vying for your attention of the flesh. 169 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:22,720 You understand what I talk about when from day-to-day there's a 170 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:28,200 war that happens between your flesh and between your spirit. 171 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:31,720 Paul is advising us. He understands. 172 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:35,280 He understands that the the, the, the, the, the pitfalls, if 173 00:10:35,280 --> 00:10:40,000 you will, of humanity, of being ensnared once again by what what 174 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:43,400 they were once ensnared by. Here's one fact for sure. 175 00:10:43,560 --> 00:10:47,000 If that's all you ever knew prior coming to the Lord, then 176 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:48,960 that's what your life was comfortable with. 177 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:53,720 And it's easy to fall back to a level or a place of comfort 178 00:10:53,720 --> 00:10:56,760 that's known to you than it is to walk in a place that is 179 00:10:56,760 --> 00:11:02,440 unchartered water for you, Amen. That, that we just automatically 180 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:05,240 respond to certain things. We might have had some coping 181 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:07,280 mechanisms before we come to the Lord. 182 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:10,040 And whenever life got crazy, we just went to that. 183 00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:11,640 And that's what we typically did. 184 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:16,000 But now that you're a child of God, Amen, And those same, same, 185 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:19,480 similar problems arise, Amen, that frustrate you. 186 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:23,040 You, you got to not just lean back on the old ways, the 187 00:11:23,040 --> 00:11:26,320 formulas to cope, but now you lean upon the one whom you have 188 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:28,960 received inside of your life to help you cope. 189 00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:33,120 There's a war that's taking place in our members. 190 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:38,000 And so notice now if you look at Galatians there chapter #5 and 191 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:41,320 you should. But the apostle Paul describes 192 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:45,880 the kinds of behavior that that go alongside with human lust, 193 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:49,320 what human lust produces. You can look at it there in the 194 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:51,600 Scriptures. There's a list of things. 195 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:54,800 That list is not exhaustive. It's not like, well, this is all 196 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:57,840 there is and nothing more. But it's a sampling of some of 197 00:11:57,840 --> 00:12:02,760 the behaviors that spin off of our human desires and our human 198 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:07,920 lust, what the Bible calls the works of the flesh, the works of 199 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:10,320 the flesh. But he doesn't just stop with 200 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:12,040 describing the works of the flesh. 201 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:16,400 He goes on a little further in Galatians 5, and he talks to us 202 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:20,640 about the attributes or the fruit of the Spirit of love and 203 00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:24,520 joy and peace and gentleness and goodness and meekness, Amen, and 204 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:26,480 temperance and all these other things. 205 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:29,960 He declares these things. So they're 2 dynamically 206 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:33,760 different list. When you read about the works of 207 00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:37,000 the flesh and the fruit of the Spirit, as a matter of fact, you 208 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:39,840 don't see one thing listed in the work of the flesh and it 209 00:12:39,840 --> 00:12:41,640 also listed in the fruit of the Spirit. 210 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:47,720 These are two separate, Amen, separately categorized groups 211 00:12:47,880 --> 00:12:51,720 that don't necessarily have any interplay with one another. 212 00:12:51,760 --> 00:12:56,120 But he talks about all this and when we get to Galatians 524, 213 00:12:56,240 --> 00:13:00,880 the scripture says, and they that are Christ, that's that's 214 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:04,880 Christ with an apostrophe S, that's possession, meaning that 215 00:13:04,880 --> 00:13:10,400 those that are his, those that belong to him have crucified. 216 00:13:11,640 --> 00:13:14,400 Now when you think about Calvary and you think about the crucifix 217 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:21,160 that that was a merciless killing, there is, there isn't, 218 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:24,000 there's no mercy found there. It's quite gruesome. 219 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:31,840 It's quite deliberate. Nailed to a tree for hours, huh? 220 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:35,280 First, seemingly not being quenched and the Lord wasn't 221 00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:37,400 taking the vinegar in the water and the things that was going to 222 00:13:37,400 --> 00:13:41,240 sedate or try to ease the pain, but nonetheless brutal, right? 223 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:47,160 That's the same picture and word that the apostle uses how we 224 00:13:47,160 --> 00:13:58,280 need to approach our flesh. Oh, that's as that's as radical 225 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:04,480 as we should be toward now see that that starts getting closed 226 00:14:04,480 --> 00:14:08,080 on it because sometimes I want to treat my flesh like a 2 year 227 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:13,240 old and I just slap its hand. Amen. 228 00:14:13,640 --> 00:14:17,280 But that's a far cry different picture than taking that and 229 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:22,040 putting it and tying it and nailing it to a tree to be left 230 00:14:22,040 --> 00:14:23,880 there. Amen. 231 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:27,840 He said those who belonging to Christ, those that are Christ 232 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:31,240 have crucified A merciless killing the flash. 233 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:35,520 Notice now he gets very specific the flash with the affections 234 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:40,160 and the lusts, the flesh with the affections or the passions 235 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:43,240 and the lust or the desires said we're going to put that we're 236 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:46,760 going to crucify that we belong to him right where we've been 237 00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:49,920 Holy Ghost filled. We had his holy name applied to 238 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:53,920 our life and baptism, Amen. We're reading his holy word, 239 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:56,480 Amen. And so we're going to crucify 240 00:14:56,480 --> 00:15:00,320 those things that doesn't fall under the umbrella Amen, of of 241 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:03,200 His Holiness, Amen and his attributes. 242 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:07,080 And here's what I know. When we fail, when we fail to 243 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:11,320 put our fleshly lust, those intense human desires. 244 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:14,120 Amen to death. What I understand is this. 245 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:18,920 When I don't do that, I'll find myself more prone to constantly 246 00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:25,960 giving in to them, reembracing the former things more, 247 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:28,680 continually being overtaken by them. 248 00:15:28,960 --> 00:15:31,480 Jude, the book of Jude. There's just one chapter in 249 00:15:31,480 --> 00:15:35,800 Jude, but Jude describes those who failed or who did not. 250 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:38,760 They had not the spirit. They did not crucify their flesh 251 00:15:38,760 --> 00:15:42,920 as a result of it with their passions and their desires, but 252 00:15:42,920 --> 00:15:46,160 he describes them in stark terms and I'm just going to hit a few 253 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:49,120 verses of Scripture. Jude starts out, he calls them 254 00:15:49,280 --> 00:15:52,640 that they are ungodly men. They have ungodly deeds, of 255 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:54,720 course, because they have not the spirit of Christ. 256 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:56,840 They're just driven by their passions. 257 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:01,000 But Jude says in Jude one and verse 16, he says these are 258 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:05,160 murmurers, complainers. Look what he says here, walking 259 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:09,560 after their own lust, and their mouths speak of great swelling 260 00:16:09,560 --> 00:16:13,480 words, having men, persons and admiration because of advantage. 261 00:16:13,680 --> 00:16:18,280 Look what verse 19 says. These be they who separate 262 00:16:18,280 --> 00:16:21,560 themselves, sensual, not having the spirit. 263 00:16:21,640 --> 00:16:23,320 I want to just point out something real quick about that 264 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:26,280 particular verse. They separate themselves. 265 00:16:27,920 --> 00:16:32,200 Separation happens when you're holy, and when you're not holy, 266 00:16:34,280 --> 00:16:37,160 you're going to be separated until one thing or separated 267 00:16:37,160 --> 00:16:40,480 into another thing. So just to give the common call, 268 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:43,560 oh, hole in this garbage, that separation garbage, if you 269 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:46,680 don't, if you don't lean into that, you're still separated 270 00:16:46,680 --> 00:16:49,520 into something. You'll always be separated unto 271 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:56,440 something always they've separated themselves all right 272 00:16:56,640 --> 00:16:59,640 and to sit sensual, not having the spirit look at verse backing 273 00:16:59,640 --> 00:17:00,480 up. Look at verse 12. 274 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:03,480 He said these are spots in your feasts of charity when they 275 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:06,280 feast with you, feeding themselves with fear Clouds they 276 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:09,880 are without water carried about of winds trees whose fruit 277 00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:13,359 wherewith without fruit twice dead, plucked up by the roots, 278 00:17:13,359 --> 00:17:17,240 raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame, wandering 279 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:20,880 stars to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever. 280 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:24,000 He's basically saying these that have have not the spirit. 281 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:28,480 These that are the termed as the ungodly, they're not walking in 282 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:31,800 the spirit. They're walking after their own 283 00:17:31,840 --> 00:17:33,640 lust. They have not the spirit. 284 00:17:33,840 --> 00:17:39,320 Verse #4 of Jude even says they deny the only Lord God. 285 00:17:40,320 --> 00:17:42,920 They don't have the spirit, so they're walking after their 286 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:45,880 lust. That's expected when you don't 287 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:50,120 have the Spirit to walk after your own lust, but whenever you 288 00:17:50,120 --> 00:17:53,440 get born again of the water in the Spirit, Amen. 289 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:56,840 The Lord has some expectations of us. 290 00:17:57,040 --> 00:17:59,920 Not only that we said this in weeks gone by, and I wish I 291 00:17:59,920 --> 00:18:02,280 could take all of this and funnel into one lesson, but it's 292 00:18:02,280 --> 00:18:04,920 impossible. But the fact of the matter is, 293 00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:08,280 whenever we're in a love relationship with God, we just, 294 00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:12,200 we, we, we, we do, and we interact with Him in ways that 295 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:15,000 is pleasing to Him. Amen. 296 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:19,800 So the greater. Tragedy then the Scripture is 297 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:22,440 not for these that are ungodly, that have not the Spirit and 298 00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:24,480 then are walking after their own lusts. 299 00:18:24,880 --> 00:18:28,280 But the greater tragedy of this of the of the Scripture is to 300 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:31,440 have the Spirit and then not walk obediently to the Spirit. 301 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:38,640 If you ever woke up 1 morning having the Spirit and you decide 302 00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:42,680 that you're going to deny the Lord the one who bought you, you 303 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:44,760 don't just wake up 1 morning and accomplish that. 304 00:18:46,360 --> 00:18:52,440 That happens progressively. It's not like what today I'm 305 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:55,160 just going to jump ship. No, there's been some thought 306 00:18:55,160 --> 00:19:01,280 processes there there there's been some things already let 307 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:06,400 loose stuff, huh? There's been some safeguards 308 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:10,040 already neglected. There's there's a there's some 309 00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:13,240 walls like we spoke of last week that are in I'll repair. 310 00:19:13,640 --> 00:19:17,280 And in shape. We've allowed things into to 311 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:21,720 hijacked our core values and our our desires, our own lusts, our 312 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:25,440 former lusts have been given the upper hand in our life. 313 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:28,360 And literally today I believe in scripture. 314 00:19:28,360 --> 00:19:31,240 We see through the Scripture that there's not an honest 315 00:19:31,240 --> 00:19:33,360 believer that wants to end up like that. 316 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:37,000 No one sets in their mind that that's the way I want to end up. 317 00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:39,920 And so the question is then, then what, what, what can we do, 318 00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:41,920 Pastor McGee, what, what must we do? 319 00:19:41,920 --> 00:19:44,960 How, how can we protect ourselves from, from the the 320 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:48,320 greatest enemy of our lives? Sometimes our own lust, our 321 00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:50,600 former lust. And the answer this morning, 322 00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:53,720 part of the answer is we need to pursue then His Holiness. 323 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:58,000 We need to pursue His Holiness because it's been designed by 324 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:01,440 God to be a safeguard and a protection. 325 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:05,120 Amen for you from the deceitfulness of sin and the 326 00:20:05,120 --> 00:20:09,600 destructive power of sin. Now let's be clear this morning, 327 00:20:10,240 --> 00:20:16,360 we live in a real world and the world that we live in and the 328 00:20:16,360 --> 00:20:19,520 places and things that are around about us and before us, 329 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:24,160 they are calculated today. To appeal to our fleshly 330 00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:31,240 desires, to appeal to our former lust, and to entice and to tempt 331 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:35,000 and to lure. In a sense, this morning, this 332 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:39,880 is just the Bible, OK? But in a sense, the world itself 333 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:45,800 is our enemy. James 44. 334 00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:52,200 Know you not that the friendship of the world is enmity or hatred 335 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:56,040 with God? Whosoever, therefore, will be a 336 00:20:56,040 --> 00:21:01,200 friend of the world is the enemy of God. 337 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:07,880 Paul told us this little review. Remember in Romans 12 when he 338 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:15,480 said Be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the 339 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:18,840 renewing the new living translation says it like this. 340 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:23,040 Don't copy the behaviors and customs of this world, but let 341 00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:26,760 God transform you into a new person by the changing the way 342 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:30,360 that you think. So I so with that folks, I got 343 00:21:30,360 --> 00:21:33,520 to be careful about my attitude toward the world that I'm living 344 00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:43,600 in the way that not just that my association and my interaction 345 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:49,520 with it. We, we just don't blow wind on 346 00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:53,080 any fire in the world just because it exists. 347 00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:56,880 Oh, dear pastor brother Boyd, I, I served under for about a year 348 00:21:56,880 --> 00:21:59,240 down in Florida. He says if you see the world 349 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:02,040 making a Stampede towards something in the world, he says 350 00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:04,680 it's probably not proper for you to be along with the group in 351 00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:12,160 the Stampede. We got to be careful. 352 00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:14,400 We said it last week in first Peter. 353 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:20,800 Be sober, be diligent because your adversary, the devil, has a 354 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:23,160 roaring line. Seek walking about, seeking whom 355 00:22:23,360 --> 00:22:26,720 he may devour. You know what Jesus said 356 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:30,120 concerning that adversary, what Jesus said concerning that 357 00:22:30,120 --> 00:22:33,160 devil. And John 12, he called him the 358 00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:39,440 Prince of this world, or the ruler, or the commander of this 359 00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:41,560 world. Paul went further in his 360 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:45,800 epistles and called him. He called him the Tempter. 361 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:51,760 Amen, because our adversary today is seeking to consume us, 362 00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:57,120 and namely seeking to consume us in our own lust, in our former 363 00:22:57,120 --> 00:23:02,720 lust, he uses the world that he rules to parade a continual 364 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:06,440 stream, if you will, of allurements and enticements. 365 00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:11,520 Amen before us it is designed to stir up passions inside of us, 366 00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:15,200 designed to stir up desires of our flesh inside of us. 367 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:17,560 Amen. It is, John said. 368 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:22,640 It's the lust of the flesh. The voice of the worldly system 369 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:25,400 that Satan is commanding is the lust of the flesh. 370 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:30,360 You deserve this. Amen. 371 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:32,240 That that. That's what we're swayed in. 372 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:35,640 You deserve this. No, don't worry about that. 373 00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:38,680 You deserve this. It's the lust of the flesh. 374 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:41,440 It's the lust of the eyes, Amber. 375 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:44,000 It's the Well, look what? Look at everything that you're 376 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:46,640 missing out on. Come on. 377 00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:49,080 All right, come on, Come on. Look at everything that you're 378 00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:51,320 missing out on. It's the pride of life. 379 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,800 You know, you could be a little bit more if you did XYZ. 380 00:23:55,800 --> 00:24:00,880 Yeah. Glory, glory, glory, glory. 381 00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:03,080 Here's the fact of the matter. It's OK. 382 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:08,360 Amen. Society attempts to normalize 383 00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:17,800 sin. I'll go a step further. 384 00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:22,720 There are in certain areas that our government attempts to 385 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:30,360 normalize sin. But if we say this is the book 386 00:24:30,360 --> 00:24:32,440 that we live by and the book they'll be open at Judgement Day 387 00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:40,280 to be judged by, then if it differs from this book, say what 388 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:45,960 you say. Because whenever I stand up 389 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:48,720 here, it's not going to be some amendment. 390 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:52,320 I stand up before. When I stand before God, it's 391 00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:56,320 not even going to, it's not going to be some document, some 392 00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:58,600 club that I'm a part of that I stand before. 393 00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:02,120 When I stand before God, it's going to be the book of life. 394 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:05,360 It's going to be this word that he's given me as an open book 395 00:25:05,360 --> 00:25:07,120 tests off throughout this journey. 396 00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:14,520 I want to yes, yes, yes. So we we have these things go 397 00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:16,240 on. So, so the world there's this 398 00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:19,680 disparating of temptation and and you know what happens our 399 00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:24,960 former lust, that other aspect in our lives. 400 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:29,120 There's that pool. It's like a magnetic pool that's 401 00:25:29,120 --> 00:25:34,360 taking place. And so as as my flesh tries and 402 00:25:34,360 --> 00:25:36,880 wants to respond to the desire. You know what happens though, 403 00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:39,840 whenever I've I've I've adopted and have allowed holiness in my 404 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:41,920 life. Holiness stands guard between 405 00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:47,760 the two, between the allurement. And the pull of my own fleshly 406 00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:49,760 desire. Holiness stands guard between 407 00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:52,520 the two. So we see that in God's Word, 408 00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:59,600 the Bible, that both the devil and the world can be as 409 00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:02,000 spiritual enemies to our walk with God. 410 00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:05,840 But again, what I want to point out to us today is one of our 411 00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:12,000 real enemies is our own passions and lust, James said in James 412 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:14,240 114. But. 413 00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:23,640 Every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust and 414 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:32,920 entice. There's things out there, but 415 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:35,120 it's my own lust that draws me really to it. 416 00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:39,160 What's going on inside of me is what draws me to it. 417 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:41,840 There's lures, there's enchantments, yes. 418 00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:45,520 But see, that's the reason why then one thing may not affect 419 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:49,320 Reese, but another thing may affect me because he don't have 420 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:52,640 a natural propensity of lust toward that thing, but I do. 421 00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:57,040 And that's reason why we can't get into this measuring thing of 422 00:26:57,040 --> 00:26:58,960 people. So I just don't know why they 423 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:00,560 have so much. Problem with that. 424 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:03,800 Well, you don't have that propensity of lust in your life, 425 00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:05,760 but there's something in you that they don't have. 426 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:07,200 They're looking at you and saying, I don't know why they 427 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:12,720 have. We all don't have the same 428 00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:16,520 categorical lusts are all the same besetting sins. 429 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:19,040 Brett Bishop McGee, Amen. That there's the drawing of a 430 00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:20,280 song. There's some of us that have 431 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:23,920 others different than others. But The thing is, they are there 432 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:26,960 and they're prompted from right here. 433 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:37,160 Ourselves, but whenever we allow God's Spirit and holiness to 434 00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:43,480 stand guard, filter, be, be a wall, then even those. 435 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:47,200 Own things in our life that when the world parades, that the 436 00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:49,800 holiness is there, it's going to help us. 437 00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:52,760 Amen. To keep control from giving in 438 00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:55,600 and holiness is there. It's going to help us to stay 439 00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:58,320 maybe more under control whenever the devil would lash 440 00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:01,440 outlook what Peter says in first Peter 2 and verse 11. 441 00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:05,120 He says, dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and 442 00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:07,040 pilgrims and note this next phrase. 443 00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:12,320 It's such a powerful phrase. He says abstain from fleshly 444 00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:14,560 lusts. Notice the last part of this 445 00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:15,880 phrase. This is important. 446 00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:25,840 Which war against the soul, folks, this is what we're 447 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:30,920 talking about here, is not temporal matters like your body 448 00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:33,760 that has so much time up on the earth and then will die and will 449 00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:37,200 decay in the ground. What we're talking about here 450 00:28:37,360 --> 00:28:41,960 are eternal matters because even after your body is long decayed 451 00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:44,600 in the ground, your soul's going to live somewhere. 452 00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:49,680 Hear me today. He says abstain from these 453 00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:53,400 things because these are things at war against your soul. 454 00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:56,480 We talked early, honey, the trip from here to glory. 455 00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:59,160 We want to make it. There is a hope of everlasting 456 00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:02,760 life, but there's a lot of stuff that can happen between now and 457 00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:04,920 them. And I want to walk and walk and 458 00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:08,600 be in tandem with God and abstain from some things in so 459 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:10,400 much that you know what? Amen. 460 00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:13,440 There's not going to have to be the enticement of what's going 461 00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:17,080 to impact the eternity of my soul. 462 00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:23,800 Because we're not talking about just things that affect you as 463 00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:25,840 you live this life. We're talking about things that 464 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:31,920 will affect your afterlife. Verse 12, having your 465 00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:35,560 conversation again, many times, I ain't going to say all times, 466 00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:38,200 but many times, the New Testament scripture, when you 467 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:41,040 read the word conversation, particularly in the epistles, 468 00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:42,960 it's describing conduct and behavior. 469 00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:45,480 You can look it up in the Greek for yourself if anybody wants to 470 00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:49,680 dream in Greek and Hebrew, having your conversation or your 471 00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:52,600 conduct and behavior honest. Among the Gentiles, the 472 00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:55,120 Gentiles, there's like two groups, Jews, Gentiles, they 473 00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:58,160 seem as believers, unbelievers, so he says. 474 00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:00,760 Having your conduct and behavior on us among those that are 475 00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:06,080 unbelievers, that whereas they speak against you as evil doers, 476 00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:11,280 they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify 477 00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:16,000 God in the day of visitation. Amen. 478 00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:19,240 They're going to give you a hard time. 479 00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:25,520 You live in You live in trying to live a righteous life in a 480 00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:28,400 unrighteous world. They're going to give you a hard 481 00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:32,160 time. Why do you do that? 482 00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:34,040 Why do you not do that? Well, that's crazy. 483 00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:36,000 You go what church 3 * a week, blah, blah. 484 00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:37,680 They're going to give you a hard time. 485 00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:42,160 But when it's all said and done, the hope is that they'll see the 486 00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:46,200 good works in you that they'll behold. 487 00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:50,360 And again, that's giving glory to the spirit of the one whom 488 00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:56,120 you have received. Yes, because just the same 489 00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:58,640 they're like, oh they're crazy. I can't believe they do that or 490 00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:01,840 do this or church 3 * a week. They're also going to see the 491 00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:05,360 moments of time that all hell is broke loose in your life and 492 00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:08,000 you're still walking with a smile on your face and there's a 493 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:13,960 joy in your step. How's that accomplished again? 494 00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:18,320 Abstain from fleshly lust. How do we glorify God through 495 00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:21,640 good conduct? We got to pursue holiness. 496 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:25,760 In holiness, some see it as isolation from the world. 497 00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:32,240 It's incorrect. It's purpose is not to isolate. 498 00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:39,920 It's purpose is to insulate. Jesus said John 1715. 499 00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:42,520 I pray not, Thou should us and he's speaking toward his 500 00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:43,880 disciples. I pray not. 501 00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:46,280 And he's talking, He's praying for them. 502 00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:48,760 He said, I pray not that thou should just take them out of the 503 00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:52,680 world, but thou should just keep them from the evil. 504 00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:56,600 He says keep them in the world, but keep them from the evil. 505 00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:00,880 Whenever we're not removed from the world, that allows then the 506 00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:04,640 Church, the body of Christ to still love, remain in a loving 507 00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:09,440 engagement with the world. But when we're kept from the 508 00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:12,920 evil, that means that there is a holiness that is kept intact. 509 00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:16,040 So we got to avoid the isolation trap. 510 00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:20,160 We, we can't be isolated. We must never be isolated, but 511 00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:24,040 we must be careful to separate holiness from love. 512 00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:28,400 Holiness may make us different from other people, but love will 513 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:32,200 seek to bridge the gap in relationship so that the spirit 514 00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:35,120 that you have can reach out through you to them. 515 00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:37,760 Amen. Holiness will distinguish you 516 00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:42,040 without removing you, but love will allow you to engage without 517 00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:50,680 compromise. Here's what we got to be careful 518 00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:53,760 of our our newfound relationship with God, said Brother McGee. 519 00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:56,440 I got a lot of old friends I know. 520 00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:58,840 And then maybe, maybe they need the same experience that you 521 00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:01,520 have. Maybe they need the same 522 00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:04,000 experience that you have. Maybe they even see some of 523 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:05,560 that. Or maybe they think you're crazy 524 00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:07,120 and you probably. Are. 525 00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:14,320 But here's one thing I do know. If you constantly surround 526 00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:16,920 yourself with the same old friends and you find yourself 527 00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:21,920 then being LED away from God, LED away from what you have 528 00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:28,120 experienced, here's what I know. You can't be light to others 529 00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:30,040 when you're still succumbing to the darkness. 530 00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:37,680 My my. Advice to you is to. 531 00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:42,400 Find your footing in God. Mature your footing in God. 532 00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:45,000 Huh. And then you'll be able to be an 533 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,920 uncompromising like, does that mean just right now you can 534 00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:50,440 still be kind and friendly and all that, but you might not need 535 00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:53,560 to swallow up your life with their environment and 536 00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:59,080 surroundings. OK, Paul told Timothy in First 537 00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:02,760 Timothy 4/6. He said, take heed unto thyself. 538 00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:07,920 He's saying, know yourself. Let's put in these terms. 539 00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:11,800 Know your weaknesses, right? Amen. 540 00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:16,280 Know your propensities. Know know what you have a a 541 00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:20,320 likelihood to do when set in certain environments and places 542 00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:23,440 with certain people. Let's just get real, real 543 00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:29,639 practical this morning. Some people are more apt to be 544 00:34:29,639 --> 00:34:32,560 followers and blend in with whatever surrounding they're in. 545 00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:37,679 And some people are more apt to be leaders right and usher 546 00:34:37,679 --> 00:34:39,760 others along the way. Plain and simple. 547 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:44,080 Amen. He says, Take heed thyself, know 548 00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:46,560 yourself, and unto look at the end. 549 00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:51,840 It's not a or, it's A and and unto the doctrine continue in 550 00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:55,159 them. For in doing this, thou shalt 551 00:34:55,159 --> 00:35:01,000 both save thyself and them that hear thee. 552 00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:05,000 So folks, if I know myself, if I know that former lust that's 553 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:08,200 inside of me and that war that goes on to my members and I know 554 00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:10,720 I know how it wants to operate my life. 555 00:35:10,720 --> 00:35:13,640 I've already figured out whenever I'm around, Oh Joe cool 556 00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:16,240 over here that I used to do stuff with illegally. 557 00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:18,240 Amen. That when I'm around here, that 558 00:35:18,240 --> 00:35:20,240 thing kind of kind of has drawn me that way. 559 00:35:20,240 --> 00:35:22,960 And I start flirting around with stuff that I used to flirt 560 00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:26,280 around with that maybe I need to know myself and get more 561 00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:29,840 involved in the doctrine in God's word and allow that to 562 00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:33,080 find some security and some high off points of my life. 563 00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:35,240 Because I want Joe Cool to be saved. 564 00:35:35,240 --> 00:35:39,080 But I, I can't chance at this place, my salvation by trying to 565 00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:41,800 get in that environment. But if I can get to know God and 566 00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:45,160 I can get to know God's Word, and I can grow on my truth, it 567 00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:48,680 will save me and it will also have an impact on Old Joe So. 568 00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:00,240 Holiness is is aid. It helps protect us. 569 00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:06,640 It helps protect us from committing sentence and some 570 00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:09,160 assuming. I'm not going to get real deep 571 00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:13,480 in this today, but suffice it to say some assume that salvation 572 00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:20,720 is just permanently guaranteed that that whole mindset is 573 00:36:20,720 --> 00:36:23,800 really a a careless and risky mindset. 574 00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:30,120 The Bible has has many warnings in Scripture. 575 00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:32,880 When you read the epistles which are written to the church, 576 00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:38,240 there's a lot of warnings here admonishing believers to be 577 00:36:38,240 --> 00:36:42,680 resolute in their faith save they fall from grace. 578 00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:50,520 There's a farming analogy that used in Hebrews and this this is 579 00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:52,880 where the namesake of this lesson comes from. 580 00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:54,760 If everybody said, when he's going to talk about that goes to 581 00:36:54,760 --> 00:37:00,120 salvation for the earth, which drinketh in the rain that cometh 582 00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:03,720 OFT upon him. This is Hebrews 6-7 and bringeth 583 00:37:03,720 --> 00:37:08,520 forth herbs, meat for them by whom it is dressed, receive a 584 00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:11,680 blessing from God. But that which beareth thorns 585 00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:16,000 and briars is rejected in his nigh and cursing, whose end is 586 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:19,320 to be burned. Verse 9 But beloved, we are 587 00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:23,880 persuaded better things of you and things that accompany 588 00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:27,600 everybody, say, accompany things that accompany salvation. 589 00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:32,200 Though we thus speak, the writer of Hebrews is saying the Ryan, 590 00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:34,800 the rain from heaven, it falls indiscriminately. 591 00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:38,920 The rain falls indiscriminately upon all the ground, all types 592 00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:41,720 of ground, all places and locations of ground. 593 00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:46,640 But each grounds response to the rain will determine what is 594 00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:49,880 brought forth in the ground and upon the ground there will be 595 00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:52,720 some that will have herbs that will respond in one manner. 596 00:37:52,720 --> 00:37:56,280 There will be others with briars and and thorns according to what 597 00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:59,800 has been invested in the ground. However, in speaking about all 598 00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:02,920 that, he comes to verse 9 and says, but beloved, you know 599 00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:04,960 what? There's better things that we 600 00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:09,120 are expecting of somebody that has received salvation. 601 00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:11,560 Now watch this now. Now I'm going to slow down here 602 00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:12,560 a little bit. I don't feel like I've been 603 00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:15,680 going real fast today. Anyway, notice here he says, and 604 00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:18,600 the things that accompany again the word accompany that 605 00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:20,160 accompany salvation. The. 606 00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:23,120 Word that is translated accompany, again, it comes from 607 00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:25,600 a Greek word. We're not going to say it or 608 00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:27,240 give you the number of it. You can look it up. 609 00:38:27,240 --> 00:38:29,400 There's stuff online, you can find that if you want to. 610 00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:34,080 But the word translated accompany means, our common 611 00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:37,200 English meaning if you just look it up in a regular dictionary is 612 00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:39,800 to go with or to add to, all right. 613 00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:43,000 It doesn't mean equal to. It doesn't mean the same as, but 614 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:46,160 to go with or to add to. And so if just looking up in a 615 00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:49,200 regular English Dictionary, the passage is telling us that there 616 00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:52,320 are, there are some things that go along with salvation. 617 00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:56,280 They're not equal to salvation, but they accompany salvation. 618 00:38:56,840 --> 00:39:00,880 They go along with salvation. And so the idea, the idea is 619 00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:04,440 much stronger, though, than just the notion of going with 620 00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:07,800 salvation in, in, in the meaning of the Greek word. 621 00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:11,760 The writer is not saying that salvation. 622 00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:13,520 Follow me very clearly here. The. 623 00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:18,000 Writer is not saying that salvation exists on its own and 624 00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:20,560 that other things occasionally walk beside it. 625 00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:23,760 That's not what the Scripture is saying, he says. 626 00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:25,880 There are. This is the meaning now. 627 00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:30,480 He says that there are qualities and evidence that are 628 00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:33,400 inseparably connected to salvation. 629 00:39:35,240 --> 00:39:39,000 Let me say that again. There are qualities and evidence 630 00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:42,040 inseparably connected to salvation. 631 00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:46,560 In other words, salvation is known and salvation. 632 00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:50,720 Is verified by what is going along with it. 633 00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:53,880 The Greek meaning of the word accompany. 634 00:39:54,200 --> 00:40:01,200 It means to hold fast. To cling to, to be bound to, to 635 00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:05,440 be closely connected with. And so we're not talking about a 636 00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:09,000 loose association. No, it's describing something 637 00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:15,560 that grips salvation, adheres to salvation, that remains attached 638 00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:19,200 to salvation. The things in view do not merely 639 00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:23,400 follow salvation, they fasten themselves to salvation. 640 00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:28,400 The Greek word translated here as we look a little bit deeper 641 00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:30,280 into it, the Greek word accompany. 642 00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:32,880 It's from a root word. If you were to look at the Greek 643 00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:35,800 word in it among some other letters, but in it you're. 644 00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:40,600 Going to see the word echo. It's where we get our English 645 00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:47,280 word echo. How many here knows that an echo 646 00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:54,560 is not an independent sound? If there's an echo, it has a 647 00:40:54,560 --> 00:41:02,680 source. Echo is not an independent 648 00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:06,280 sound. It's not separate or independent 649 00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:10,680 sound. It is a continuation or 650 00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:15,400 reflection of some original voicing. 651 00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:25,200 The original voicing existed first, but the echo is as a 652 00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:32,840 result of it. Salvation is the original voice. 653 00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:39,360 It's the original voice, but there are things that accompany 654 00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:44,480 salvation. There are echoes of salvation, 655 00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:49,520 and if they exist, it's because salvation exist. 656 00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:53,160 Come on. Oh, God. 657 00:41:53,240 --> 00:41:55,920 Hey, man, I'm standing over here, you know, in some little 658 00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:58,880 mountain thing, and all of a sudden I hear what I think is my 659 00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:04,880 wife's voice. I know she's there somewhere 660 00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:09,800 because I've heard the echo of her voice. 661 00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:13,640 The echo is proof to me that she exists. 662 00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:22,080 The apostle says, he says I'm feeling like this rain and this 663 00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:24,080 ground and some briars and some good. 664 00:42:24,240 --> 00:42:27,280 He said, I'm thinking that though there's something better 665 00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:29,600 for those that have been born again of the water spirit, 666 00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:32,360 there's something better for people like you because there's 667 00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:36,080 some things that accompany salvation. 668 00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:38,600 And it's not briar, it's not thorn. 669 00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:41,160 There are some echoes of salvation. 670 00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:46,200 And one among those echoes of salvation is our holy life, our 671 00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:50,280 holy living, the way that we reflect the original voice in 672 00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:56,400 our life it. Amen. 673 00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:03,560 Jesus said night. I got just a little bit of time 674 00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:08,880 here. Jesus said that that to make it 675 00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:12,720 all the way into everlasting life, He even gives a little 676 00:43:12,720 --> 00:43:20,960 parabolic say, saying he talks about a gate that is wide in a 677 00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:27,280 way that is broad, and he talks about a gate that is straight in 678 00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:32,240 a way that is narrow. And he admonishes them entering 679 00:43:32,240 --> 00:43:41,400 in at the straight gate, right? Because broad is the gate and 680 00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:43,480 wide is the way, wide is the gate, and broad is the way that 681 00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:48,680 leadeth unto destruction. But this straight gate, narrow 682 00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:52,760 way, lead this unto everlasting life. 683 00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:56,840 Just reason with me here very practically today. 684 00:43:57,440 --> 00:44:00,200 It only takes a matter of seconds to walk through a gate, 685 00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:09,200 but it takes some time to walk the way. 686 00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:19,760 If you boil down when I was born of the Spirit at 8 years old at 687 00:44:19,760 --> 00:44:23,360 South Gibson Apostolic Church, it was just a short matter of 688 00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:29,800 time to enter the straight gate. But since then, until now, 689 00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:35,240 almost 40 years, 39 for the past 39 years, I've been attempting, 690 00:44:35,240 --> 00:44:38,560 with the help of the Spirit, to walk the narrow way. 691 00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:50,200 How long do you think it takes to walk the way that leads to 692 00:44:50,240 --> 00:44:54,280 eternal life? You'll take a lifetime. 693 00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:59,720 You'll take a lifetime. And if we don't listen to me, 694 00:44:59,880 --> 00:45:05,720 and if we don't have things that accompany our salvation, 695 00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:10,880 remember we have some things that accompany our salvation 696 00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:18,600 that help keep our feet attached to the way, then we might 697 00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:27,280 jeopardize making it to the end. I wish I could tell you this 698 00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:29,640 morning I'm listen, I'm not trying to be boom boom up here 699 00:45:29,640 --> 00:45:32,600 today, but I wish I could tell you that everybody that's ever 700 00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:36,840 experienced the power of God left this life under that same 701 00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:42,400 experience. Just getting real honest with 702 00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:45,400 you today. I've stood by too many caskets 703 00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:50,040 and where the dirt's been turned over in graveyards where I was 704 00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:56,280 there when they were born again. But eternity seems to be in 705 00:45:56,280 --> 00:45:58,400 jeopardy. How in the word you know that 706 00:45:58,400 --> 00:46:01,400 from McGee because some things that had accompanied their 707 00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:07,680 salvation. The echoes getting silent. 708 00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:13,400 I'm trying. Not really folks, I just. 709 00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:18,240 Think, I mean for analogy purposes again, there's no 710 00:46:18,240 --> 00:46:20,560 analogy that's perfect, but if you just thinking about an army 711 00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:23,160 that's that's an. Attacking an enemy and its 712 00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:25,640 objective, of course is VV. They want victory. 713 00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:28,320 And so they want to emerge victorious and they don't want 714 00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:30,760 to be defeated. And so as a result of that, 715 00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:33,160 they, they are equipped with weapons and they're equipped 716 00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:35,840 with armor and they're equipped with transportation and 717 00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:39,840 communications and food and, and a Medical Center and, and so on 718 00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:42,600 and so forth. Forth all these things for the 719 00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:45,680 purpose of victory. Well, God will first save you, 720 00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:49,000 but then he puts he puts other things in your life that 721 00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:52,920 accompanies your salvation because your path is going to be 722 00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:54,880 fraught with some spiritual dangers. 723 00:46:55,280 --> 00:46:59,680 You already got the war. You already got the things that 724 00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:02,200 you're more prone to than other people sitting beside you. 725 00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:05,840 You already got the war. And so our objective is, when we 726 00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:09,240 come to the end, that we arrive victorious to the entrance of 727 00:47:09,240 --> 00:47:12,480 everlasting life. But to do that, yes, I need 728 00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:14,320 salvation. But I need the things that 729 00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:19,360 accompany salvation. I need the things that cling to 730 00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:23,120 hold fast and grip Amen, a hold of my salvation. 731 00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:26,800 And so just as the armor of the army Amen, is going to keep them 732 00:47:26,800 --> 00:47:29,720 from some of the assaults of the enemies, I need some other 733 00:47:29,720 --> 00:47:33,240 things along with my salvation that's going to protect me and 734 00:47:33,240 --> 00:47:36,720 safeguard me and be a first line of defense for me. 735 00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:44,490 Stay with me, I'll hurry. Too close. 736 00:47:46,330 --> 00:47:47,930 So, he said. I'm saying that we got to be 737 00:47:47,930 --> 00:47:50,610 careful not to to confuse the gate with the way. 738 00:47:54,600 --> 00:47:57,240 Well of Time said. Being born again, that's your 739 00:47:57,240 --> 00:48:00,520 birth certificate. It starts. 740 00:48:01,080 --> 00:48:04,040 It's not over. It starts at the beginning. 741 00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:09,960 It's a new walk, a new life. That's where it starts. 742 00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:12,800 The gate's the only. Beginning of the way. 743 00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:16,000 Enter through salvation, through that new birth. 744 00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:18,280 That's the gate. But God expects us again to add, 745 00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:21,160 said, no, he don't. Yes, he does read the Scripture, 746 00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:26,080 even second Peter chapter #1 he, he reached to him about faith. 747 00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:29,160 He said you'd be given this faith, He said, but besides 748 00:48:29,160 --> 00:48:32,320 this, he said, give diligence, add to your faith and you're 749 00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:34,280 going to see a list of other things. 750 00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:36,840 Add to your faith this and then add to that this and add to that 751 00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:37,720 this. What is that? 752 00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:43,560 Things that accompany or echo. Salvation. 753 00:48:45,360 --> 00:48:47,640 There's some qualities in our life that should be inseparably 754 00:48:47,640 --> 00:48:51,720 connected to what we have experienced. 755 00:48:51,720 --> 00:48:56,760 They're going to be AIDS and helps then Sister Ray to keep us 756 00:48:57,520 --> 00:49:01,760 from going off the path. He doesn't want you to walk 757 00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:03,520 alone. He wants you to have an 758 00:49:03,520 --> 00:49:07,280 entourage. Our Lord wants you to have an 759 00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:11,880 entourage around about you because we live in a spiritually 760 00:49:11,880 --> 00:49:14,600 dangerous world. We live in a spiritually day 761 00:49:14,640 --> 00:49:17,320 with a spiritually dangerous Prince of this world. 762 00:49:17,920 --> 00:49:21,600 And we have danger that still resides in us, Our former lust 763 00:49:21,600 --> 00:49:23,320 that wants to creep up their head. 764 00:49:23,680 --> 00:49:25,880 And we're just saying, you know what, I'm getting up tomorrow, 765 00:49:25,880 --> 00:49:29,240 what are you doing? We're going to the cross. 766 00:49:29,240 --> 00:49:31,960 What are you talking about? It's crucifying day again. 767 00:49:32,520 --> 00:49:34,840 And then after Monday, Tuesday, what are you doing? 768 00:49:35,040 --> 00:49:36,880 We're going to the cross. What's going on? 769 00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:40,000 It's crucifying day again. Because not every. 770 00:49:41,080 --> 00:49:43,360 All of our flesh is not like Christ's flesh. 771 00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:49,480 Christ bound Himself to that tree. 772 00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:52,480 They thought they bound Him, but He bound Himself because of His 773 00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:55,760 love toward us. He stayed there. 774 00:49:56,680 --> 00:49:59,560 But you know what my flesh tries to do is trying to wiggle the 775 00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:03,360 nails. Out and trying to get off. 776 00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:08,640 I show back on Wednesday. Oh your left hands down. 777 00:50:08,640 --> 00:50:17,000 Is it flesh? Because they don't want to be on 778 00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:21,360 that tree. Come on, they don't want to be 779 00:50:21,360 --> 00:50:24,440 on that tree. Why you think Jesus told us? 780 00:50:24,440 --> 00:50:30,680 Disciples, take up your cross and follow me? 781 00:50:31,080 --> 00:50:35,480 Because in that culture, any man that's carrying a cross is 782 00:50:35,480 --> 00:50:41,520 fixing to be crucified. Every day. 783 00:50:42,400 --> 00:50:44,840 That man's kind of what's happening, he's crucifying the 784 00:50:44,840 --> 00:50:46,960 flesh today. Cover what's that man doing? 785 00:50:47,120 --> 00:50:50,680 He's crucifying the flesh. Today cannot allow one day to 786 00:50:50,680 --> 00:50:55,320 pass by without mortifying the deeds of the flesh. 787 00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:08,800 And one of these days, perhaps in Yonder blue, Amen, the day 788 00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:12,120 when the last trump shall sound, and the dead in Christ shall 789 00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:14,680 rise 1st. And we which are alive and 790 00:51:14,680 --> 00:51:17,960 remain, and the Lord shall be caught up together, and we stand 791 00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:21,000 before God. Maybe at that moment we'll be 792 00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:24,800 able to be like Christ and say the same little words that he 793 00:51:24,800 --> 00:51:30,080 saw when his flesh was on the cross and say it is finished. 794 00:51:30,480 --> 00:51:33,800 But until then, we're going to go through some grueling agony 795 00:51:33,800 --> 00:51:37,760 and pain and war in our members. But every day I can be 796 00:51:37,760 --> 00:51:39,280 victorious. Amen. 797 00:51:39,280 --> 00:51:42,960 Through His spirit, through salvation and all the things 798 00:51:42,960 --> 00:51:49,840 that accompany the echoes. Amen. 799 00:51:51,080 --> 00:51:54,880 Hallelujah. Someone say thank you Jesus. 800 00:51:57,280 --> 00:52:03,400 Let's bow our heads today. Well, Brendan McGee, I wish he 801 00:52:03,400 --> 00:52:06,840 was more inspirational today, folks, this, this is 802 00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:12,040 inspirational. God's Word will keep you. 803 00:52:12,640 --> 00:52:15,560 His Spirit will keep you. All these things will. 804 00:52:15,920 --> 00:52:20,160 But there's a will inside of us. We have the will, Amen, that we 805 00:52:20,160 --> 00:52:22,280 can give ourselves to. It's the very same thing Adam 806 00:52:22,280 --> 00:52:25,880 and Eve faced in the garden. They had a will, whether or not 807 00:52:25,880 --> 00:52:28,120 they would eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, or 808 00:52:28,120 --> 00:52:30,480 whether they want. And the Lord is a gentleman. 809 00:52:30,480 --> 00:52:34,280 He is not going to override our will, but He is luring. 810 00:52:34,280 --> 00:52:37,680 He is wooing us. To Him there is a will, and I 811 00:52:37,680 --> 00:52:40,240 got to come before the Lord, even as Christ did in that 812 00:52:40,240 --> 00:52:45,560 garden of Gethsemane, and say Father, not my will, because my 813 00:52:45,560 --> 00:52:49,280 will has former lust. My will wants to involve itself 814 00:52:49,280 --> 00:52:53,480 in all the works of the flesh. Not my will, but thine will be 815 00:52:53,480 --> 00:52:57,160 done when we pray that Lord's Prayer and we come upon some of 816 00:52:57,160 --> 00:52:58,640 those words. Amen. 817 00:52:58,640 --> 00:53:02,400 Your Kingdom come. Your will be done in earth as it 818 00:53:02,400 --> 00:53:04,600 is in heaven. We're wanting heaven to come 819 00:53:04,600 --> 00:53:06,760 down in earth. We want the Kingdom of God's 820 00:53:06,760 --> 00:53:09,840 Kingdom to come down here. And that looks different than 821 00:53:09,840 --> 00:53:11,920 what the Kingdom of the world is like. 822 00:53:19,560 --> 00:53:20,760 He's here. He's here. 823 00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:23,000 He's here. Maybe you're here this morning. 824 00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:24,520 You said, Brother McGee, I don't have the Holy Ghost. 825 00:53:24,760 --> 00:53:26,160 I don't have the Spirit of the Lord. 826 00:53:26,760 --> 00:53:29,600 I've never been born again. Ladies and gentlemen, I 827 00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:33,480 introduce you to the gate. I introduce you to the gate. 828 00:53:34,120 --> 00:53:35,520 And it's a gate to be walked through. 829 00:53:35,520 --> 00:53:37,440 It's a gate to be kneeled by today. 830 00:53:37,920 --> 00:53:39,240 Amen. Through repentance. 831 00:53:39,640 --> 00:53:41,000 Amen. Inviting the Lord with that 832 00:53:41,000 --> 00:53:44,040 afterthought of you looking over your life saying, God, I've 833 00:53:44,040 --> 00:53:46,760 looked over my life and I've seen where I've been led by my 834 00:53:46,760 --> 00:53:49,840 human desires. I see where I've been LED, Amen, 835 00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:51,400 by things that I want and desired. 836 00:53:51,400 --> 00:53:54,000 I did whatever I wanted. I did what I thought, you know, 837 00:53:54,120 --> 00:53:57,800 just just somehow fit into the crowd, Amen, of the society in 838 00:53:57,800 --> 00:54:01,640 which I live. But Lord, I want, I want, I need 839 00:54:01,640 --> 00:54:03,920 an alteration of my life today. Amen. 840 00:54:03,920 --> 00:54:06,920 It's that it's that that second look, it's that change of mind 841 00:54:07,120 --> 00:54:09,320 about how life has been lived to this point of time. 842 00:54:09,600 --> 00:54:12,720 Every individual upon the face of the earth we need to enter to 843 00:54:12,720 --> 00:54:15,120 the Lord through a means of repentance. 844 00:54:15,440 --> 00:54:19,080 Hallelujah. And there is waters here. 845 00:54:19,080 --> 00:54:22,320 We had three baptized last week that took on the name of Jesus 846 00:54:22,320 --> 00:54:24,520 Christ in watery grave as we were. 847 00:54:24,520 --> 00:54:27,480 Call it as baptism, baptize you and mercy you in water. 848 00:54:27,720 --> 00:54:30,160 Speak in the name of Jesus Christ over you for the 849 00:54:30,160 --> 00:54:33,480 remission or the removal of those sins that you repent 850 00:54:33,480 --> 00:54:35,200 about. In the step of repentance, 851 00:54:36,680 --> 00:54:41,280 whenever you receive the Holy Ghost, your house, this temple 852 00:54:41,280 --> 00:54:43,960 has been swept clean from all of those things that are unlike 853 00:54:43,960 --> 00:54:48,000 God, the repentance and baptism. And it opens up an invitation 854 00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:50,760 for God's Spirit to move inside of your life. 855 00:54:51,520 --> 00:54:54,840 And the Bible says, and they began to speak in other tongues 856 00:54:54,840 --> 00:54:57,880 as the Spirit gave them the utterance. 857 00:54:58,640 --> 00:55:00,160 It is a work of the Spirit, folks. 858 00:55:00,360 --> 00:55:03,560 That's the gate. And it's every day after that 859 00:55:04,360 --> 00:55:07,720 that we're saying to the one who really owns us because we're not 860 00:55:07,720 --> 00:55:11,120 our own anymore about us with his blood Lord, how do you want 861 00:55:11,120 --> 00:55:13,560 me to Live Today? How do you want me to walk 862 00:55:13,560 --> 00:55:15,880 today? How do you want me to respond 863 00:55:15,880 --> 00:55:19,040 today? And we add them to our faith. 864 00:55:19,560 --> 00:55:23,400 Oh, some, some holiness that safeguards and protects and 865 00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:27,360 guides and instructs and helps and undergirds. 866 00:55:27,840 --> 00:55:30,560 These altars are open this morning if anybody would desire 867 00:55:30,560 --> 00:55:33,200 to pray. It might be somebody else here 868 00:55:33,200 --> 00:55:36,240 today that you've already walked through the gate and you're on 869 00:55:36,240 --> 00:55:40,080 the way right now, but there are voices, there are allurements. 870 00:55:40,080 --> 00:55:43,520 There are things, Hallelujah, that are hollering out to you 871 00:55:43,520 --> 00:55:46,840 and calling out to you that's vying for your attention. 872 00:55:46,840 --> 00:55:49,400 And you're, by the help of the Holy Ghost, trying to keep a 873 00:55:49,400 --> 00:55:54,280 strong hand on some former lust and former things that wants to 874 00:55:54,280 --> 00:55:56,840 usurp the authority of God in your life. 875 00:55:57,040 --> 00:55:59,080 Hallelujah. There's some, though other 876 00:55:59,080 --> 00:56:00,640 things in your life. There's some echoes of 877 00:56:00,640 --> 00:56:02,160 salvation. You, you start part of this 878 00:56:02,160 --> 00:56:04,840 journey, but there's some things that's been added to it. 879 00:56:04,840 --> 00:56:08,120 That's, that's helping bolster your walk and helping keep your 880 00:56:08,120 --> 00:56:11,640 feet planted on the straight and the narrow Hallelujah. 881 00:56:11,640 --> 00:56:14,000 You're, you're trying to be alike to those who knew you 882 00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:16,280 formally. You're concentrating to know 883 00:56:16,280 --> 00:56:19,960 yourself and know the doctrine and know God's word, hoping by 884 00:56:19,960 --> 00:56:24,400 doing so that it will help save you and also reach out to those 885 00:56:24,400 --> 00:56:28,240 that you formerly knew. God can help you today. 886 00:56:28,920 --> 00:56:33,120 God can help you today. Hey man, Brother Mason, 887 00:56:33,360 --> 00:56:33,720 Hallelujah.