1 00:00:02,640 --> 00:00:05,240 Amen, Amen. Good to see you this morning. 2 00:00:05,440 --> 00:00:08,480 You know, there's some songs that sound similar and I was 3 00:00:08,480 --> 00:00:12,120 going to go up here and sing the total wrong song and maybe I did 4 00:00:12,120 --> 00:00:14,840 anyway. But anyway, there was one I 5 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:16,760 looked at my wife, I said that's not she says that's not what 6 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:20,560 that is. And so thank God for spouses. 7 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:22,320 Amen. I probably come up here start 8 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:25,440 with Amazing Grace or something, you know, and it been totally 9 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:27,440 wrong. So Amen. 10 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:30,120 So good to see each of you here in the new calendar year. 11 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:31,800 Amen. In the House of the Lord and to 12 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:35,280 all of our guests, welcome. We greet you today, Amen, in 13 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:38,320 Jesus name. It's in order this morning, of 14 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:42,920 course, to give thanks to Doctor Mason for last weekend, taking 15 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:47,440 care of Sunday morning and doing a great job of deciding to live. 16 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:49,840 Amen. And gave everybody a few points 17 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:54,000 to help in that choice. And I can't avoid saying this 18 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:56,400 just because it wouldn't be me unless I did. 19 00:00:56,600 --> 00:01:00,840 He just did. He never just preach up a storm 20 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:06,720 last Sunday night. Some people gathered together 21 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:11,080 and you all never even was able to have service because of the 22 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:13,280 the weather that was taking place. 23 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:16,360 But we are thankful for the leadership of the church kept 24 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:19,320 everybody safe sheltering here in place and those of you that 25 00:01:19,320 --> 00:01:23,360 sheltered at home and make some sound decisions for y'all. 26 00:01:23,360 --> 00:01:25,320 And so we're thankful for that. Amen. 27 00:01:25,320 --> 00:01:29,680 Today as well, I'm going to be turning to the book of First 28 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:33,080 Peter of First Peter. And so Sister McGee already 29 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:34,200 mentioned, man, you have a new year. 30 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:37,560 We're only four days in. And so if you've if you've never 31 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:40,360 had a Bible reading program, that it's a good time to start 32 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:42,440 it. If you've never had daily prayer 33 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:44,320 with God, it's a good time to start it. 34 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:48,080 If you've never taken a meal or so or maybe a day out of the 35 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:51,280 week and set it aside and not eat, but just turn your 36 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:53,760 attention toward the Lord and feel that time of eating with 37 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:56,400 eating of his word, it's a good time to start. 38 00:01:56,760 --> 00:02:00,040 The reason why I say that, and this is not just like church 39 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:03,240 tradition so much so that whenever we read the Sermon on 40 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:07,880 the Mount in Matthew 5 and 6 and Jesus is speaking to the 41 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:10,639 multitudes, he says 3 particular phrases. 42 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:15,320 That's that's so interesting. He says when you pray doesn't 43 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:20,640 say if it was an expectation that they did when you pray, He 44 00:02:20,640 --> 00:02:25,480 said when you fast again, wasn't if it was an expectation that 45 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:27,840 that's something to happen. And he also said this and then 46 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:32,720 it is what it is. He said when you do alms and 47 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:35,560 you're not talking about arms, he's saying alms like the giving 48 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:38,240 the money, monetary things. Again, these were all 49 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:40,200 expectations. He was just saying when you do 50 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:42,800 it, here are some guidelines. Here's some things to help you 51 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:46,120 in doing so. And so again, it's not so much 52 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:49,880 so as far as church or religious tradition, it is, it is 53 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:51,960 mandates, if you will from the Lord. 54 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:54,640 And listen, the reason why? Because He knows that's going to 55 00:02:54,640 --> 00:02:57,120 help you. Amen. 56 00:02:57,360 --> 00:02:59,960 Having daily conversation with the Lord's going to help you 57 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:02,640 reading His Word. Listen, if you never done it 58 00:03:02,640 --> 00:03:05,200 before, I'm not asking you to read the Bible in a year. 59 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:09,360 Some people do That's great. I'm just asking you to read the 60 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:13,480 Bible a little each day. Hey man, read the Bible just a 61 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:15,840 little bit each day. Here's what I know from reading 62 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:18,840 the Word of the Lord a little bit each day, that there's some 63 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:23,560 things that the Word can point out to me in my life between 64 00:03:23,640 --> 00:03:27,440 Sunday and Wednesday and Wednesday and Sunday that I need 65 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:30,000 before the preacher gets up there to preach on any of those 66 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:33,160 services. My, I continue my dialogue with 67 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:36,560 God as I pray to Him and He speaks back to me through His 68 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:38,800 Word, Amen. And so it's tremendous. 69 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:42,120 First Peter chapter #1 if you want to stand with me today, you 70 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:44,480 can, Amen. In the House of the Lord. 71 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:48,440 Good to see everybody here. I'm telling you, the Lord has 72 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:51,040 been with us, Don. And I did go visit some people 73 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:55,320 on the first day of the year. And Jeanette, I'm telling you, 74 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:59,240 whenever we went in to see Patricia and no families around 75 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:02,920 and they just allowed us in and we crossed that threshold into 76 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:06,320 her room, we didn't bring the Lord there. 77 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:09,600 He was already there. I'm telling you, as soon as we 78 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:13,640 step across that threshold, there was just a that happened 79 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:16,440 in that room. And again, He was already there. 80 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:19,360 And that brings me great comfort that it doesn't matter where you 81 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:23,160 are in life or what situation you are in life, many times the 82 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:26,320 Lord's right there alongside you, whether you recognize Him 83 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:30,520 or not, He is there. First, Chief Peter chapter #1 84 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:33,480 starting with verse #13 here today. 85 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:36,320 I'm telling you all, it's good to have my Bible. 86 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:39,840 We were in Tennessee, ended up staying a little bit longer than 87 00:04:39,840 --> 00:04:42,080 what we anticipated and ministered down there. 88 00:04:42,280 --> 00:04:46,080 And I preached from my my daughter's Bible because I 89 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:48,600 didn't take my Bible. I had my regular reader. 90 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:50,360 It was a different version and I preached from hers. 91 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:52,680 I had flowers all over it. So it's glad to have my 92 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:56,560 masculinity back with this good old black leather Bible up here 93 00:04:56,560 --> 00:04:58,400 this morning. I'm just feeling more comforted 94 00:04:58,400 --> 00:04:59,800 about that. Amen. 95 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:05,320 First Peter 1 and verse 13 it says, Wherefore gird up the 96 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:10,960 loins of your mind, be sober hope, and hope to the end, for 97 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:14,920 the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of 98 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:19,040 Jesus Christ, as obedient children, not fashioning 99 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:23,040 yourselves according to the former lust in your ignorance, 100 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:26,440 but as he which hath called you is holy, be so. 101 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:31,040 Be holy in all manner of conversation, because it is 102 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:35,960 written, Be holy, for I am holy for a little while today. 103 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:38,680 I just want to speak to you about this. 104 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:42,680 Where God dwells, everything changes. 105 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:47,640 Where God dwells, everything changes. 106 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:50,520 Can we join our voices one more time in prayer that the Lord 107 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:51,960 would help us in the next little while? 108 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:54,800 Father, I love you today, God for your spirit. 109 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:57,800 I thank you, Lord, for those who have congregated together here 110 00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:01,760 this morning on this first Lord service of a new year. 111 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:05,800 I pray God that you have to help us, Lord, in our our walk in our 112 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:10,280 relationship with you, Lord, I pray God help us to learn of 113 00:06:10,280 --> 00:06:13,440 you, Lord, in these ways and in these manners and we'll God 114 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:16,120 forget Lord, to thank you, God for what you accomplished 115 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:19,960 through our lives in the lovely name of Jesus Christ that we 116 00:06:19,960 --> 00:06:23,760 pray and the church say Amen, Amen. 117 00:06:23,760 --> 00:06:26,400 This morning you may be seated in Jesus name. 118 00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:31,040 I want to turn your attention before we get too deep in here 119 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:32,560 today. And hopefully you still have 120 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:35,360 your Bibles open there to first Peter. 121 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:40,240 If you read the opening verses, the verses that come before the 122 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:44,560 text that I read in your hearing today, the verses leading up to 123 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:50,480 that tell the situation for the the advice of verse 13 of us 124 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:54,000 girding up the loins of our mind and some of the things that it 125 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:56,320 makes mention of there. As a matter of fact, in the 126 00:06:56,320 --> 00:07:00,760 opening verses of first Peter chapter #1 the Bible tells us, 127 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:03,720 and Peter is talking to some people and he's reminding them, 128 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:08,560 He's reminded them that they had been begotten again unto a 129 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:11,280 lively hope. In other words, he said, I know 130 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:14,920 that that that you're a living human being and that you came by 131 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:17,520 virtue of your mother's womb. He says, but you have been 132 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:22,400 begotten again. You have been born again unto a 133 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:25,240 lively hope. And then this is how he said, by 134 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:28,160 the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. 135 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:31,360 It's only because Christ resurrected that any of you, any 136 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:36,200 of us could have new life or a begotten gotten again experience 137 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:38,480 and I'm just going to work through here just a little bit. 138 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:42,640 He he says and speaks about been this lively hope that we've been 139 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:46,640 begotten unto this hope that we have been begotten to. 140 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:53,080 He says it is a incorruptible hope, it is a undefiled hope, 141 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:57,560 and it does not fade away. It's not something that grows 142 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:02,400 less intense with time, but the hope that we were begotten unto 143 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:07,680 it is just as vibrant, just as valid as it was when we first 144 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:11,360 began and 1st received it. And he says, although that we've 145 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:15,160 been begotten by God, you can see this in verse #5 that we've 146 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:19,520 been begotten by Him, but we can also be kept by Him, which I 147 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:23,280 think is tremendous because not only I've been born by the Lord, 148 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:28,240 but he can also keep me past the date of my birthright, past the 149 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:32,520 date of my new birth experience. And so as a result, then I, I 150 00:08:32,520 --> 00:08:37,799 come into a newfound relationship and a new status of 151 00:08:37,799 --> 00:08:41,080 life with the Lord. And in that newfound 152 00:08:41,080 --> 00:08:45,000 relationship and that status of relationship with the Lord, here 153 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:48,160 is the caution, Amen. And that is this. 154 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:51,400 Just because we have a new status with the Lord does not 155 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:57,800 dismiss us from temptation. It's not like everything just 156 00:08:57,800 --> 00:08:59,320 goes away. There's never going to be 157 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:01,360 another bad day, not a bad moment. 158 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:02,960 Your body's never going to be sick. 159 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:06,480 You'll never be in the hospital. If, if that's if that's the 160 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:09,880 beverage you're drinking, I'm sorry, it's untrue. 161 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:13,440 There are still days that are difficult. 162 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:15,880 There are still days you're going to be laying in a hospital 163 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:17,000 bed. There's going to be days you're 164 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:20,160 going to have a fevered brow. But The thing is, now you're in 165 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:23,520 a relationship of someone that's going to, as I said, Jeanette, 166 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:26,080 when you walk into the room, there's already somebody there 167 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:28,280 with you. There's already someone there 168 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:30,080 with you. And so all these different 169 00:09:30,080 --> 00:09:32,360 seasons of life, they're going to come. 170 00:09:32,560 --> 00:09:35,240 And some seasons you're going to come, it seems like more 171 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:39,160 regularly than other seasons. But the Bible tells us that this 172 00:09:39,160 --> 00:09:42,680 begotten again experience, verse #10 tells us that this 173 00:09:42,680 --> 00:09:45,560 experience that they have received, that there were 174 00:09:45,560 --> 00:09:49,520 prophets of owed in the Old Testament men that that had 175 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:53,400 spoke of such a day, had spoke of such a promise and such an 176 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:57,320 experience that we're searching it out and seeking it out this 177 00:09:57,400 --> 00:10:01,200 this salvation. He even said that these angelic 178 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:05,560 beings, the angels of heaven, even desire to look into what 179 00:10:05,560 --> 00:10:11,080 you have experienced by being born again or begotten by God. 180 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:13,760 This experience that has been afforded to us. 181 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:18,000 And so as a result of everything I just said, he comes to verse 182 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:23,440 13 and says, wherefore, because you have received that 183 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:27,600 experience, because you have been begotten again and kept by 184 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:32,800 that, and because generations of both earthly people and eternal 185 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:37,000 angelic beings have been intrigued about what you now 186 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:43,600 possess, He says you need to gird up the loins of your mind 187 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:47,120 because this is where the Holy Ghost and the Holy Spirit can 188 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:51,200 begin to influence us. It were to gird up the loins of 189 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:53,440 our mind. And that was a very important 190 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:55,640 picture for them of their culture in that day. 191 00:10:55,880 --> 00:10:59,920 They're they're wearing many of them robes, flowing robes, a man 192 00:10:59,920 --> 00:11:03,320 in that day that many of their robes indicated what type of 193 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:05,880 work that they did and and so on and so forth. 194 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:10,440 And so a person though that was going to run or if he needed to 195 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:15,080 fight per SE or apply himself to something, many times he had to 196 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:19,720 take that long flowing robe and he would gird up in a belt that 197 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:23,280 he was wearing to cause the garment to be a little tighter 198 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:27,000 to himself so he could run quicker and it wouldn't be in 199 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:29,200 the way. And so that was a, a, a, a 200 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:31,760 phrase that the people that day would know. 201 00:11:31,880 --> 00:11:35,880 But Peter says, when you've been begotten again, he says, now we 202 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:39,040 have a responsibility. We need to gird up the loins of 203 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:41,600 our mind, right? Because there's some things, 204 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:45,480 there's some free flowing thoughts, there's some free, 205 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:49,520 free flowing thoughts of our mind and we got to reign some of 206 00:11:49,520 --> 00:11:53,760 those things in Amen and corral some of those things in. 207 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:56,840 And so sometimes, ladies and gentlemen, it doesn't take 208 00:11:57,600 --> 00:12:00,640 corralling at once. And it's like everything's 209 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:04,360 caged. I got, I got some, I got some 210 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:08,640 Rascal thoughts. They pick locks on the gate, so 211 00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:10,920 to speak. They get back out and I find 212 00:12:10,920 --> 00:12:14,400 myself having to corral it again the next day and corralling it 213 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:17,800 again the next day because our thoughts sometimes just start to 214 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:20,480 run away with us. Let me tell you, let me ask 215 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:23,440 somebody today, whenever you've had your new born again 216 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:26,800 experience with the Lord did not thoughts or have not thoughts 217 00:12:26,800 --> 00:12:30,520 come into your head sometimes and tell you what you received 218 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:33,360 wasn't real. Come on. 219 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:36,120 Have you had thoughts come in your head to say, you know what, 220 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:39,040 you're not going to make it. You're going to go back to the 221 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:42,800 old life that you used to have. Have you not had some thoughts 222 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:45,640 that said, you know what, you're a failure, always going to be a 223 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:48,280 failure and you're going to fail in this mode of life too. 224 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:52,000 You know what those are those free flowing thoughts that by 225 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:55,160 the power that you've been begotten by, you need to reign 226 00:12:55,160 --> 00:12:58,840 those things in, need to reign them in and gird up the loins, 227 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:03,240 if you will, of our minds. The Bible says, he says to be, 228 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:06,480 to be sober. That means that we should not, 229 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:08,600 we should be free from intoxication. 230 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:11,360 And I'm not talking necessarily about this. 231 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:17,240 We get intoxicated with many things, not just substances. 232 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:22,280 People can get intoxicated with other relationships that they 233 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:26,360 don't need to be in. People can get intoxicated with 234 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:30,240 their careers. People can get intoxicated with 235 00:13:30,280 --> 00:13:33,600 entertainment, especially in the entertainment age. 236 00:13:33,920 --> 00:13:38,840 We can get intoxicated with past experiences, whether they be bad 237 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:42,360 or good, he says. Be sober. 238 00:13:42,720 --> 00:13:43,400 I don't. I don't. 239 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:46,000 I want you to be free from intoxication. 240 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:47,880 Why? Because you've been begotten by 241 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:51,040 the Spirit. I want you to, if you want to be 242 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:55,320 intoxicated by something, have that fresh constant renewal of 243 00:13:55,320 --> 00:13:56,960 the intoxication of when you was. 244 00:13:56,960 --> 00:14:00,160 What do you remember when you were born again of the water and 245 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:02,960 the spirit, what you felt, what you experienced? 246 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:07,520 What honey, I, I want that 8 year old experience again when I 247 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:10,680 went to the altar of prayer and I threw up my hands and I said, 248 00:14:10,680 --> 00:14:13,600 God, I'm just a low down dirty Sinner at 8 years old. 249 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:17,080 Yeah, he's all born into the same sin and I need your help 250 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:19,320 out of this. I remember feeling what I felt. 251 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:21,480 I remember speaking in other tongues. 252 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:24,240 I'm never being overwhelmed by what was going on. 253 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:27,680 I want that 8 year old experience tomorrow and then I 254 00:14:27,680 --> 00:14:30,360 want it the next day. Folks, that's what it's about. 255 00:14:30,560 --> 00:14:33,800 This is not just a one time at the altar experience. 256 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:38,520 This is a everyday experience. If we gird up the loins of our 257 00:14:38,520 --> 00:14:44,520 mind, if we it can be a everyday, It is a lie that 258 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:46,880 you're being told. If it's just a one day 259 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:51,960 experience or just a Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday 260 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:57,080 experience, you can experience what you feel here on Sunday, on 261 00:14:57,080 --> 00:15:00,640 Monday and Tuesday and Thursday and Friday and Saturday. 262 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:04,240 Amen. So don't accept that lie. 263 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:12,400 So as God's children claimed by him, claimed by that Holy Ghost 264 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:16,960 or that Holy Spirit, we're in a holding pattern now according to 265 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:20,040 the word, according to Peter, we're in a holding pattern now 266 00:15:20,280 --> 00:15:24,720 that's waiting for the hope of his second coming. 267 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:30,880 And he begins to tell us some of the marks of being obedient 268 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:33,400 children of God, some of the marks of being obedient 269 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:34,920 children. It's right there in the text 270 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:37,240 that we read this morning of verse 14. 271 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:41,200 As obedient children, He says not fashioning. 272 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:43,560 It's another way could be translated. 273 00:15:43,560 --> 00:15:46,760 Is not conforming, not fashioning or conforming 274 00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:50,600 ourselves. Look now to the former lust or 275 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:53,840 the former desires in our ignorance. 276 00:15:54,160 --> 00:15:57,600 What's that saying? That saying we used to live some 277 00:15:57,600 --> 00:16:02,880 of our life in such a way that was against God, but we did it 278 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:06,160 in some regards, not even realizing what we were doing. 279 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:09,600 We were ignorant. We didn't know it was against 280 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:11,440 God. We thought it was just the way 281 00:16:11,440 --> 00:16:14,120 that everybody lived life. And so it's just what you do. 282 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:18,360 But once we come begotten again by the the the word and by the 283 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:22,000 Spirit, we understand. Oh, that's, that's not correct 284 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:24,960 in the eyes of God. He says now that you've been 285 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:30,360 begotten again, don't, don't fashion or be conformed to your 286 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:35,480 old lust and your old desires that you used to be ignorantly 287 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:39,160 that that brings up a scripture to my mind that Paul writing to 288 00:16:39,160 --> 00:16:42,200 the Church of Rome shared with him in Romans 12 and verse 2. 289 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:49,600 He said, and be not conformed to this world, but be transformed 290 00:16:49,880 --> 00:16:53,360 by look again, by the renewing of the mind. 291 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:55,600 That's the girding up of our mind, folks. 292 00:16:55,600 --> 00:16:58,560 We're, we're not, we're not in the conforming business. 293 00:16:58,680 --> 00:17:01,320 We're in the transformation business. 294 00:17:02,160 --> 00:17:04,359 Amen. I want there to be something 295 00:17:04,359 --> 00:17:07,880 transformed inside of me. So I used to do some things and 296 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:11,200 I used to practice some things and some of those things I did 297 00:17:11,319 --> 00:17:13,359 ignorantly. I, I did it without a full 298 00:17:13,359 --> 00:17:17,760 understanding, a full knowledge of its wrongness or how it was 299 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:23,280 an affront unto God. But now, now I know better. 300 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:29,760 Would you agree with me? Because children, like, as 301 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:33,760 children grow up, there's some things they're ignorant of until 302 00:17:33,760 --> 00:17:40,560 they're taught. I'd loved it if my kids came out 303 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:45,320 like Trevor 2 point O and he just knew everything that he 304 00:17:45,320 --> 00:17:48,800 should have done and everything he shouldn't have done from the 305 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:50,920 moment that he was born into this world. 306 00:17:52,360 --> 00:17:55,760 That's not the way it works. As a matter of fact, some of 307 00:17:55,760 --> 00:17:58,760 them have to be told more than once about how some things work. 308 00:17:59,840 --> 00:18:02,640 And we still say some things about how some things work. 309 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:05,960 But what I'm saying is, do you agree that there's a different 310 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:10,760 there's a different mindset that whenever I told him the first 311 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:15,000 time about something and him never knew anything about it and 312 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:17,920 then him go back and do that again and we have to tell him 313 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:21,600 the second time because now it's not he's ignorant. 314 00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:29,000 He knows everybody, OK? He knows that there's there's 315 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:32,640 something going on here because I heard you the first time. 316 00:18:33,040 --> 00:18:36,320 I listened the first time I asked him, did you understand 317 00:18:36,320 --> 00:18:37,800 what I said? He said, yeah. 318 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:42,400 And then a week or maybe a day later here, here we are again. 319 00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:45,280 So, so God saying said now, now you're not ignorant. 320 00:18:45,280 --> 00:18:48,360 You, you, you know better. He said, so you don't need to 321 00:18:48,360 --> 00:18:53,640 continue to conform and fashion to those old things and those 322 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:57,760 old lust and those old desires. Man, there's a scripture and it 323 00:18:57,760 --> 00:19:02,760 hits hard for every one of us. In James 417, the Bible says 324 00:19:02,760 --> 00:19:10,080 therefore to him that knoweth to do good, In other words, you're 325 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:15,160 no longer ignorant about it. He that knoweth to do good and 326 00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:23,440 doeth it not, to him it is sin. And that hits hard because what 327 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:27,280 we need to, instead of resorting to do and doing the things that 328 00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:31,400 we once did, haven't been begotten again and called by the 329 00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:34,000 Holy One. The Scripture says, the Bible 330 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:38,160 says they're in our text. We should be wholly in all, 331 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:42,040 everybody say all. It's heavy manner of 332 00:19:42,040 --> 00:19:44,800 conversation. Again, the word conversation 333 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:47,560 here, it isn't just including how we speak. 334 00:19:47,840 --> 00:19:51,480 The word conversation means in all manner of behavior, in all 335 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:54,800 manner of conduct, in all manner of life. 336 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:59,120 God's holiness and His Holiness acted out in our life isn't just 337 00:19:59,120 --> 00:20:04,960 isolated to our speech, but any and every area, all manner of 338 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:07,320 our conversation. Amen. 339 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:11,080 And then Peter reaches back to an Old Testament verse in the 340 00:20:11,080 --> 00:20:13,560 Old Testament, actually there's more than one of them, several 341 00:20:13,560 --> 00:20:16,240 of them that say this. He says, for the Lord has said 342 00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:21,240 be holy, for I am holy. So matter of fact, one of those 343 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:25,000 verses that that that look to that is Leviticus chapter 20 and 344 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:28,560 verse. 26 where the Scripture says, And ye shall be holy unto 345 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:33,280 me, for I the Lord am holy. Look at this and have severed 346 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:37,720 that strong word and have severed you from other people, 347 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:43,600 that ye should be mine. And I think of severed. 348 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:49,280 I'm thinking about cutting off, dividing away from, he said. 349 00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:55,320 I've severed you from them. I want you to be mine, 350 00:20:55,920 --> 00:21:01,240 exclusively mine. Amen. 351 00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:06,720 Anybody want to enter into a dating relationship with your 352 00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:10,200 beau and four other girls with your beau? 353 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:18,200 Come on now, he wants to be exclusively theirs. 354 00:21:18,360 --> 00:21:20,720 Now here I I got really got to get ready and feel like I've 355 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:22,160 been dragging my feet here this morning. 356 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:25,480 But when we read in the Word of God from the Old Testament to 357 00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:28,480 the New Testament, throughout the Old Testament in particular, 358 00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:32,120 the Bible refers to people and places and things and ofttimes 359 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:36,200 it calls them either holy or it calls them common. 360 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:40,760 For instance, whenever Moses, and again, mind you, Moses had 361 00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:44,240 been watching over his father in law's sheep for some time now, 362 00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:47,280 about 40 years on the backside of the desert. 363 00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:50,360 And the Bible says when he's out there, it's somewhere in that 364 00:21:50,360 --> 00:21:54,800 40th year timeframe that they go by a particular Bush. 365 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:58,080 It's on fire, but it's not being consumed. 366 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:02,080 And he's on the backside of the desert and he turns to see this 367 00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:05,960 site because it is peculiar. And the Lord speaks to him from 368 00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:10,840 there and basically says, Moses, please remove the sandals off 369 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:16,560 your feet because the ground that you are on is holy ground. 370 00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:19,360 Holy ground. Now, folks, all the face of the 371 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:22,280 earth was ground. He said, but this area right 372 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:25,640 here is holy ground. And I want you to take your 373 00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:28,160 sandals off your feet in one mode. 374 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:31,200 We can look at it like this. Sandals for sure. 375 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:33,680 In that day, you know, they didn't have memory foam and all 376 00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:35,160 that good stuff that we have today. 377 00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:37,560 They're a whole lot thinner when we talk about the soul of a 378 00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:39,760 sandal then. But in one essence, God is 379 00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:43,680 telling Moses, I don't want anything between me, my 380 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:49,640 holiness, and you. Even as minuscule as it may 381 00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:51,960 seem. I don't want anything between My 382 00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:56,360 holiness and you. Secondly, Moses, I've come down 383 00:22:56,400 --> 00:23:00,640 and I have touched this place, I have visited this place, I've 384 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:03,440 made myself a manifest in this place. 385 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:09,080 And so this area, this ground is holy ground because I have shown 386 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:12,280 up, I have touched it, I've laid my finger up on it. 387 00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:16,120 And what happens whenever God touches something, even if it 388 00:23:16,120 --> 00:23:20,960 was formerly unclean? Listen, God cannot touch 389 00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:24,840 something and both He and it remain the same. 390 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:33,560 And here's the confidence that I know that if Jesus Christ, as 391 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:39,680 Hebrew says He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, 392 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:43,520 then there's not going to be any change on His side. 393 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:49,680 Hey, man, it's not going to be any change on his side. 394 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:52,400 He said, I've touched this place, I've manifested myself 395 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:54,760 here. This is not just ground now like 396 00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:57,040 the rest of the earth, this is holy ground. 397 00:23:57,120 --> 00:24:00,480 This has been set aside by me. It has a distinguishing mark on 398 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:04,640 my presence upon it right here. It's kind of like the leper of 399 00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:07,000 New Testament Scripture. If you'll remember, whenever the 400 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:09,040 leper came to the Lord and he, he's a leper. 401 00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:12,040 And he said, if, if thou canst make me clean, then so be it. 402 00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:16,240 And the Lord spoke to me, said be thou clean in that day. 403 00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:20,880 For another human being to be next to someone with leprosy 404 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:24,640 would have automatically made that other human being unclean. 405 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:26,640 That's the law. You're unclean. 406 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:29,200 You're going to go through periods of purification and 407 00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:32,640 washing in order to get your quote UN quote cleanness back. 408 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:37,120 But here is the Lord Jesus Christ God manifested in the 409 00:24:37,120 --> 00:24:40,360 flesh, Amen. And he comes and he's around 410 00:24:40,360 --> 00:24:45,720 this leper who is unclean by the law and by all of the mindset of 411 00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:49,200 humanity, Jesus should have been made unclean from that 412 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:51,560 interaction. But that's not what happened 413 00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:54,800 because whenever you come in contact with the Lord, both of 414 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:57,560 you can't stay the same. And he's not changing. 415 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:01,240 That man had to leave that day clean because he had come in 416 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:04,080 contact with the Savior. I feel the Holy Ghost here 417 00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:06,440 today. You bring whatever you need to 418 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:09,400 bring to the Lord today. You can bring your failure, 419 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:13,440 bring your mistake, bring your uncleanness, bring your issue, 420 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:17,880 because if you come in contact with God, both of you can't stay 421 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:21,680 the same. Something is going to change. 422 00:25:35,510 --> 00:25:40,320 Amen. That's the reason why we sing 423 00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:44,360 our little songs. I stepped into the water and the 424 00:25:44,360 --> 00:25:47,960 water was cold till my body, but not my soul. 425 00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:50,560 You should have been there when I prayed through. 426 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:53,440 The church was on fire and the Holy Ghost too. 427 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:57,240 From the top of my head to the sole of my feet, I felt the 428 00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:00,200 Spirit. I'm not going to stay the same. 429 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:03,440 I'm not going to stay the same. I've been touched. 430 00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:06,120 His manifest presence has come down. 431 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:17,520 Hallelujah. Thank God I'm in song land here. 432 00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:19,480 I guess because I almost messed up that one song. 433 00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:23,360 Thank God I'm not. Not what? 434 00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:32,600 Not what I used to be. Hey man, not only is this ground 435 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:37,800 holy because God has shown up, this ground is holy because God 436 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:43,120 is commissioning Moses with a purpose in his life as being a 437 00:26:43,120 --> 00:26:47,120 deliverer for God's people. It's separate. 438 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:50,600 It's holy from any other ground. It's different. 439 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:55,320 It's set apart because God is purposing from this point. 440 00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:59,160 Amen. A mission in Moses's life. 441 00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:02,560 Man, I'm just can't get through anything here today. 442 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,000 You got to consider some of the other places that the Bible 443 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:10,160 describes as holy. The Tabernacle that God 444 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:12,560 commissioned Moses to build in the wilderness. 445 00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:16,440 It had in it a place called the Holy Place. 446 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:20,880 It had a place a little further in there called the Holies of 447 00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:27,000 Holies, which was the holiest place of all within the 448 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:30,480 Tabernacle. It would be the place where God 449 00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:35,560 would later tell Moses, he said up upon the mercy seat between 450 00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:39,000 where the two chair Bamar, I'll make myself known to you, I'll 451 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:42,040 manifest myself to you. And it's in that place that is 452 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:46,520 the holiest of all, place where God would even come down and 453 00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:50,160 manifest and dwell and make himself known. 454 00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:53,960 It's later from Tabernacle to the temple that Solomon would 455 00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:56,120 later build. Even in Jerusalem. 456 00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:59,640 It had also a place that was a holy place. 457 00:27:59,880 --> 00:28:03,360 And it was founded in the city of Jerusalem that the Bible 458 00:28:03,360 --> 00:28:08,240 often calls the holy city because it's the city that God 459 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:11,000 had chose. It's the city the Bible says 460 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:15,520 that God had put His name, His name upon. 461 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:20,720 So in the time of the temple, in the time of these things, all 462 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:24,080 things either existed in a couple different categories, a 463 00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:28,480 couple different states. They were either common or they 464 00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:33,520 were holy. Common is just the natural state 465 00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:35,920 of all things. It's just common. 466 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:40,920 It's not necessarily meaning something is just horrific, but 467 00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:43,880 it's just the natural state of things. 468 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:48,440 But when you talk about holy, that's a, that's a special 469 00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:51,240 state. It means that a thing has been 470 00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:58,040 removed from its natural state and it's been dedicated to the 471 00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:02,160 Lord for his exclusive use. Brother Fred. 472 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:07,800 And so when you take something from its common state to a holy 473 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:10,160 state, the Bible has a fancy word for it. 474 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:11,800 Don't you know the Bible has some fancy words? 475 00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:15,400 Justification, glorification, propitiation. 476 00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:18,280 Well, this would be sanctification. 477 00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:22,280 There's your five syllable word sanctification when something is 478 00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:26,080 taken from the common state to the holy state. 479 00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:33,600 And here's here's what we know. According to the word, something 480 00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:43,560 can be clean without being holy. There's people today that's 481 00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:49,960 living good moral lives. There's the Corneliuses of Acts 482 00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:56,200 chapter #10 that pray and give alms clean, quote UN quote. 483 00:29:57,200 --> 00:30:01,040 But it's only holy if it becomes exclusively his. 484 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:06,240 Everybody doing OK? I know I say that for my wife 485 00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:07,800 told me. I say that a lot. 486 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:09,080 So I'll try not to say that so much. 487 00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:11,160 I'm just kind of taking your pulse and making sure you're OK 488 00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:13,320 because I'm trying to figure out if I'm OK. 489 00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:18,600 Like I got, I'm holding mine. I'm holding. 490 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:19,600 You're like, OK, we're all right. 491 00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:26,720 But here's the fact. Anything that is holy His is 492 00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:31,240 meant to be kept clean. Because when holy things cease 493 00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:34,480 to be clean and they become profane and they become corrupt 494 00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:39,160 and they're no longer than holy, they've lost their wholeness. 495 00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:42,960 They've lost their purity, which is some of the definitions of 496 00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:45,560 holiness. Notice in each of these places, 497 00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:49,720 Tabernacle, Temple, Jerusalem, this is of interest, I believe, 498 00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:52,360 for us today. In each of these places, they 499 00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:57,520 all had a wall around them. They all had a wall around them. 500 00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:00,800 They, they all were enclosed places. 501 00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:05,920 That outer court that was to the Tabernacle, you had to go. 502 00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:07,960 You had to go through some curtains to get in there. 503 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:11,080 That outer core of the Tabernacle, you had to go 504 00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:12,360 through some gates to get in there. 505 00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:16,040 The city of Jerusalem, there were only a certain number of 506 00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:19,160 gates around the perimeter of that wall that allowed you 507 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:24,120 entrance or exit in that city. Because these are holy places. 508 00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:30,280 These are holy places and we need some doors, we need some 509 00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:33,760 gates, we need some bells, we need some entrances where we can 510 00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:39,680 control what gets on the inside and what's loud to exit from 511 00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:42,640 them. These these holy places are 512 00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:44,520 folks. Think about it for a moment. 513 00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:47,720 The very garden in the beginning is called the Garden of 514 00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:50,520 Gethsemane. The word garden distinctly means 515 00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:56,360 enclosed place. He set up an arena of holiness 516 00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:01,640 right from the beginning. That was a enclosed space. 517 00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:04,960 Amen. It's an enclosed space, has a 518 00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:07,360 wall. They're standing on holy ground 519 00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:12,360 and it was just this distinct You outside of Jerusalem, unholy 520 00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:17,640 inside the wall, holy. Outside of the Tabernacle tent 521 00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:23,280 structure, unholy inside, holy. Same so with the temple as well. 522 00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:26,440 Doesn't necessarily mean it's just a good, a hoard, evil 523 00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:30,160 place, but it's just not a holy place because within the 524 00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:33,040 parameter of all this, this has been set apart for God. 525 00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:35,960 Within the parameter of this shoe bread and this, this labor 526 00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:38,480 and all that, this has been set apart for God. 527 00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:45,520 God was pleased, interestingly enough, Tabernacle, Temple, 528 00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:50,320 Jerusalem, those places, even the garden of, of, of Eden. 529 00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:55,960 Look, he's pleased to do well in each of these places, and it 530 00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:58,640 wasn't even until the transgression of Adam and Eve. 531 00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:00,360 Then what does he take and do for them? 532 00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:06,520 I'm going to set you outside the enclosed space because we have 533 00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:11,680 got a little schism now in our relationship and you've not 534 00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:16,920 given yourself exclusively to me, so I did OK. 535 00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:25,040 But the Bible, he said they're saying he's not OK. 536 00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:28,520 He's not OK. I've known that for a long time, 537 00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:33,560 but he just didn't ask me. But not just earthly dwelling. 538 00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:35,680 The Bible speaks of his heavenly dwelling. 539 00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:39,320 Look at some verses Isaiah 63 and 15. 540 00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:43,240 The Bible says look down from heaven and behold from I love 541 00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:47,400 the word in here the habitation of thy holiness or thy holy 542 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:51,640 habitation and of thy glory. Jeremiah the prophet 25 and 543 00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:55,520 verse 30 says the Lord shall roar from on high and utter his 544 00:33:55,520 --> 00:34:00,040 voice from his holy habitation. He's Speaking of the heavenlies 545 00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:03,680 of of that that that place Yonder beyond, if you will, the 546 00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:05,560 blue God's heavenly dwelling place. 547 00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:09,719 It is also so described as holy or a holy habitation. 548 00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:13,920 Everything that is set apart unto the Lord, Amen. 549 00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:16,960 There will be no unclean thing there according to the Book of 550 00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:19,480 Revelation. There will be no impure thing 551 00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:22,520 there, according to the Book of Revelation, just those things 552 00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:26,360 that are dedicated, set apart, distinguished for the Lord. 553 00:34:26,639 --> 00:34:29,920 And John writes a description of it in a way, in the Book of 554 00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:32,880 Revelation, in Revelation. And I've already just kind of 555 00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:34,639 touched on it a little bit, but look at the Scripture. 556 00:34:34,639 --> 00:34:37,199 I think it's important that you see with your eyes the scripture 557 00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:41,520 Revelation 2127, and I'm going to read into in chapter 22 as 558 00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:45,920 well, he says. But nothing unclean will ever 559 00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:52,360 enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but 560 00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:55,239 only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life. 561 00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:57,560 Going with verse 1 of chapter 22. 562 00:34:57,680 --> 00:35:01,320 Then the Angel showed me a river, some version say a pure 563 00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:02,440 river. Amen. 564 00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:06,320 Of water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne 565 00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:09,720 of God and of the Lamb through the middle of the street of the 566 00:35:09,720 --> 00:35:11,760 city. Also on either side of the 567 00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:15,240 river, the tree of life with it's twelve kinds of fruit. 568 00:35:15,240 --> 00:35:17,440 Let's just stop and take recognition. 569 00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:22,480 There was a tree of life in the Garden of Eden and was found in 570 00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:27,520 the enclosed space in this holy habitation. 571 00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:32,840 In heaven there is another. There is a tree of life in this 572 00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:36,200 holy habitation. Twelve kinds of fruit yielding 573 00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:38,440 each fruit each month. It's fruit each month. 574 00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:41,600 And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nation's 575 00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:43,640 folks. I think it's tremendous that the 576 00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:47,960 passage begins to show a connection between His Holiness 577 00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:51,880 and between purity and between the Crystal River and in between 578 00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:55,400 healing. Yeah, come on, wait. 579 00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:58,520 Because here's the fact that I know as a minister now, for 580 00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:02,280 several, several years, we have looked at this whole concept of 581 00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:09,240 holiness too narrowly. We chalk it only up to this idea 582 00:36:09,240 --> 00:36:15,520 of modesty, but you know, the Bible talks about several things 583 00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:18,640 that are holy. It says in Psalms 33 verse 21, 584 00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:21,240 we have trusted in His holy name. 585 00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:27,160 That's one of the reasons why you take that name on you in 586 00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:30,880 baptism. And that holy name is applied to 587 00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:35,320 you because you received the Holy Spirit alongside. 588 00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:38,840 I got a holy name on me that's separating me. 589 00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:41,240 I got a Holy Spirit that's separating me. 590 00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:44,520 And because I've been begotten again, I'm going to gird up the 591 00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:47,920 loins of my mind and be sober and look for the coming of book. 592 00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:51,560 And I'm not going to go back into the things that I used to 593 00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:58,480 do ignorantly God that you know what that also means God's name 594 00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:00,840 and that name set apart from every other name. 595 00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:04,160 Let me tell you, Jesus was not the only individual in the world 596 00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:06,840 at his time. And historians tell us that the 597 00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:09,680 name of Jesus was quite common in that day. 598 00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:12,880 There are other people called Jesus, but there was no one 599 00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:17,200 named Jesus like the man Christ Jesus who was tempted in all 600 00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:21,440 ways like you and I are yet was without sin that became the 601 00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:25,440 ultimate once forever sacrifice for all the rest of humanity 602 00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:34,200 that ever that sets him apart. He's the he's the only man that 603 00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:37,000 was God Incarnate or God in flesh. 604 00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:43,160 That's it's his name apart, set apart from every other name, so 605 00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:46,560 much so that Paul made a statement that the name Jesus in 606 00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:53,040 Philippians 29 is a name that is above every name the Bible says 607 00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:55,840 in Exodus 19 and six. And ye shall be unto me a 608 00:37:55,840 --> 00:38:01,600 Kingdom of priests, he speaking to Israel, and a holy nation he 609 00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:05,320 tells him in Deuteronomy 7 and 6 For thou art a holy people unto 610 00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:08,080 the Lord thy God. The Lord thy God hath chosen 611 00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:10,600 thee. Someone say, I've been 612 00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:16,240 handpicked. He has chosen thee could be a 613 00:38:16,240 --> 00:38:20,960 special people unto himself, above all people that are upon 614 00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:26,440 the face of the earth. You are not chosen to be like 615 00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:30,120 everybody else. You are not chosen to be like 616 00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:32,640 the world. You are not chosen to be like 617 00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:35,440 your culture. If anybody asks you why don't 618 00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:38,080 you like everybody else, you tell them you're from a 619 00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:42,880 different world. Come on, you tell them you're 620 00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:46,120 from a different world. Abraham travelled all his life 621 00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:50,520 looking for a city whose builder and maker was God. 622 00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:53,920 He didn't find it in the earth. How these He didn't find it in 623 00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:56,080 Iran. He didn't find it even in 624 00:38:56,120 --> 00:39:01,080 Israel. He was looking for a city out of 625 00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:07,200 this world. At our best, we are strangers 626 00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:17,800 and we are pilgrims. Bible says in Exodus 28 and 627 00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:20,560 four, I'm just running through a few of these because we just 628 00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:22,640 look at a lot of times modesty, that's all there is. 629 00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:26,320 They shall make holy garments for Aaron the priest, thy 630 00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:30,040 brother and his sons that he may minister to meet in the priest 631 00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:32,960 office. Now we could look at like we get 632 00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:34,640 to go down that road and we probably will before it's all 633 00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:36,120 said and done here in the next five years. 634 00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:43,240 Our revelation says he has made us kings and priests. 635 00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:50,440 How Peterman says that we are now a royal priesthood, that for 636 00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:52,280 them there were some holy garments. 637 00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:58,360 All right. Deuteronomy 2613 says, Then thou 638 00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:01,480 shalt say before the Lord thy God, I have brought away the 639 00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:07,560 hallowed things, which the word hallowed is holy things out of 640 00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:10,520 mine house. This is interesting. 641 00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:14,160 Your Bible tells you in the New Testament Scripture, and 642 00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:16,760 Speaking of money, it calls it filthy lucre. 643 00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:22,520 Calls it filthy lucre or filthy money. 644 00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:25,320 Do you know that there's holy money too? 645 00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:30,800 Oh God, it's money that's been set apart and dedicated. 646 00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:35,560 Matter of fact, in the Old Testament a tenth of their goods 647 00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:40,840 was given to the Lord, and by means of offering the 10th, it 648 00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:46,800 redeemed the other 90% that they had their 10th. 649 00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:49,840 The offering of their tenth made holy. 650 00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:57,640 The rest there's holy money. When do they give you your 651 00:40:57,640 --> 00:40:59,320 check? And the government's taking 652 00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:03,120 theirs and the insurance taking theirs, and your 4-O1K's taking 653 00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:06,960 hits. And you sit down at your table 654 00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:08,960 and you begin to write. You're 10%. 655 00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:12,400 And to the Lord, you know what you're doing by virtue you're 656 00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:14,800 making everything you receive just become holy. 657 00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:18,640 And until it's done, you just got filthy lucre. 658 00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:21,680 But the moment that it's done, everything that's just coming to 659 00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:24,200 your hand has become holy, set apart. 660 00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:35,760 It's you say, well, God don't need my money as cow on 1000 661 00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:37,000 hills. Bless God. 662 00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:44,160 That's true. He don't, but it's a trial of 663 00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:56,320 your faith who you depending on, because if I say I can't make it 664 00:41:56,320 --> 00:42:00,960 without that 10%, I must be depending on the greenbacks. 665 00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:05,720 Come on, that's what carries my life. 666 00:42:06,680 --> 00:42:11,480 But Ioffer what is rightfully his, his, which it all is his 667 00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:16,520 Old Testament scriptures that he gave you health to even secure 668 00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:20,280 the wealth. But if I return that to him, 669 00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:23,520 then you know what I'm saying? God, it really don't matter. 670 00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:26,400 It's all up to you anyway how this all rose out. 671 00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:30,080 Amen. That's right, yes, yes, so do 672 00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:31,000 you. We're not just talking about 673 00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:33,920 holy clothing, holy words, holy attitudes, holy mindset. 674 00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:39,840 There's a lot of things that's holy Exodus 20 and eight. 675 00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:44,600 I got to run got to run. Remember the Sabbath day to keep 676 00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:47,640 it holy. But McGee, we're not we're not 677 00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:52,720 such and such Listen one in in creation. 678 00:42:52,720 --> 00:42:55,480 What it comes down to this is one day out of seven was set 679 00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:59,200 aside Forrest and return of worship and reflection to the 680 00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:05,480 Lord and the way to keep it holy was to keep it in check as laid 681 00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:09,880 aside unto the Lord. New Testament scripture tells us 682 00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:12,320 that we don't want it. We don't esteem one day above 683 00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:15,680 the other, but every day because when you've received his Holy 684 00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:21,360 Spirit and you got his holy name on you, every day is holy unto 685 00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:26,640 the Lord. If I do. 686 00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:34,680 See, I don't play the part on Sunday. 687 00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:39,360 This is the day holy. And to the Lord Paul Mcgee's 688 00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:40,880 going to be in his best holy fashion. 689 00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:46,280 Oh great Father, mighty God, please come in this place. 690 00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:49,640 No, no, no, no, no, no, don't know. 691 00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:52,880 See, whenever you get the Holy Spirit and you have His holy 692 00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:56,560 name, and you start living through the lens of holiness 693 00:43:57,360 --> 00:44:04,200 every day, let's go on Exodus 30, verse 25. 694 00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:09,040 And thou shalt make it a holy, an oil of holy ointment, an 695 00:44:09,040 --> 00:44:11,160 ointment compound after the art of the apothecary. 696 00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:13,560 It shall be a holy anointing oil. 697 00:44:13,720 --> 00:44:16,120 The Bible says in Exodus 29, verse 37. 698 00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:18,320 I hope you're rolling with me, Doctor Mason, I'm not checking. 699 00:44:18,600 --> 00:44:21,360 And it shall be an altar most holy. 700 00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:25,080 Whosoever toucheth the altar shall be holy. 701 00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:28,960 So during the Old Testament we we had holy times, holy oil, 702 00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:31,960 holy altar, holy dress, holy money. 703 00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:41,120 So today, being committed to holy, holy life, all time is 704 00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:45,520 holy again. Every day belongs unto the Lord, 705 00:44:46,240 --> 00:44:49,040 is committed to His Holiness at 20. 706 00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:54,920 This is the 24/7 market of holiness Old Testament times 707 00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:58,280 priests were anointed with a special holy oil. 708 00:45:00,240 --> 00:45:02,000 New Testament tells us about the Old Testament. 709 00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:06,600 A lot of things in the Old Testament was just a shadow of 710 00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:09,520 things that were to come. They were not the actual thing, 711 00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:12,120 but it's the thing was was casting the shadow. 712 00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:14,400 We're following the shadow to the actual substance. 713 00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:17,440 It was just a shadow of things to come. 714 00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:21,280 That was great Old Testament them being anointed with oil, 715 00:45:21,640 --> 00:45:24,600 but it was a shadow of something to come that happened really 716 00:45:25,120 --> 00:45:28,440 initially on the day of Pentecost when there were those 717 00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:32,520 120 that were get in the upper room that per SE had the oil, 718 00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:38,560 oil called God's Spirit put upon them. 719 00:45:39,240 --> 00:45:41,600 And so everybody today that's born again in the water and the 720 00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:47,280 Spirit have in essence been anointed by that holy oil. 721 00:45:47,640 --> 00:45:51,040 In the Old Testament times. It's animal sacrifices, right? 722 00:45:51,240 --> 00:45:55,040 They're being brought and they're considered holy because 723 00:45:55,040 --> 00:45:57,480 they're taken from the herd or they're taken from the flock. 724 00:45:57,480 --> 00:45:59,520 They're set apart from all the other animals. 725 00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:02,520 That's distinction. That's a setting apart for a 726 00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:05,320 special use and purpose. It's a holiness that's there. 727 00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:08,360 And then they're offered here at the altar, which the Bible or he 728 00:46:08,360 --> 00:46:12,760 told us was holy, most holy. When there's the touching, the 729 00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:15,920 mingle of it, the offering becomes holy. 730 00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:19,480 Why so? Because the altar was the place 731 00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:22,440 that God and man came together at sacrifice time. 732 00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:27,240 We, I know we're not dragging in some lamb this morning. 733 00:46:27,240 --> 00:46:32,040 Glenna, y'all got goats, I think, so we might be able to 734 00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:38,760 get her hand on a goat. And I know we're not dragging. 735 00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:43,440 Bless God. You know, sometimes you just 736 00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:52,080 almost lose it completely. Help me, Jesus, I know we're not 737 00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:53,960 bringing no animal in here this morning. 738 00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:58,520 We're not offering a holy animal on a per SE, a holy altar to a 739 00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:01,160 holy God. But New Testament tells us how 740 00:47:01,160 --> 00:47:06,160 the sacrificial system or means has changed in Romans 12. 741 00:47:06,760 --> 00:47:11,120 I beseech ye therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, 742 00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:18,760 that ye present your bodies living sacrifice. 743 00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:23,400 You can only be a living sacrifice because he became the 744 00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:26,840 slaughtered sacrifice. Living sacrifice. 745 00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:33,440 Holy wait, hold on. We can still have a sacrifice 746 00:47:33,440 --> 00:47:35,720 today. It's not the goat or the lamb, 747 00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:38,840 but it's ourselves. But one thing is for sure, sure, 748 00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:46,960 it's still holy, holy and acceptable to God, which is our 749 00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:51,520 reasonable ServiceNow folks. We, we, we kind of pale in 750 00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:55,080 comparison a little bit, you know, to, to to the Tabernacle, 751 00:47:55,080 --> 00:47:57,120 even the wilderness. We, we don't have no bronze 752 00:47:57,120 --> 00:47:58,800 altar up here. I'm sorry about that. 753 00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:02,040 And we for sure, we for sure pale in comparison to the temple 754 00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:03,680 of Solomon. There, there, there, there no 755 00:48:03,680 --> 00:48:06,000 golden altar up here. I, I, I'm sorry about that. 756 00:48:06,160 --> 00:48:09,560 But we do this, have this O carpeted altar here and the the 757 00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:14,600 Bible tells us that that altar is most holy nonetheless, Amen, 758 00:48:14,600 --> 00:48:17,400 because it is still the altar. And I think we need to get back 759 00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:20,680 to understanding this and accepting this and looking at it 760 00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:23,040 like this. The altar is still a very 761 00:48:23,040 --> 00:48:30,000 spiritual place where men, Amen, living sacrifices of men and God 762 00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:32,720 meet. We need to remember, listen to 763 00:48:32,720 --> 00:48:36,080 me here on this first day, our first service of the year. 764 00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:38,960 We need to remember that whenever people are in these 765 00:48:38,960 --> 00:48:44,320 altar, they are in a holy place, in a holy time, in a meeting 766 00:48:44,320 --> 00:48:48,920 with a holy God where God can dispense His Holiness and his 767 00:48:48,920 --> 00:48:56,680 Holy Spirit and his holy name. We we still need to teach, treat 768 00:48:56,680 --> 00:49:04,680 it as such. Can I just step and as a pastor 769 00:49:04,680 --> 00:49:10,440 today, having had two kids, we need to teach our children as 770 00:49:10,440 --> 00:49:15,000 such. We need them to frequent the 771 00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:17,640 altar, but we need them to be respectful about what's 772 00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:24,160 happening in the altar. All right, Leviticus 23, verse 773 00:49:24,160 --> 00:49:26,920 37. Now that says read my phone, 774 00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:29,360 doesn't I'm just here to I'm talking about time. 775 00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:32,920 Leviticus 23, verse 37. These are the feast of the 776 00:49:32,920 --> 00:49:35,520 Lords, which shall, which shall proclaim to be holy 777 00:49:35,520 --> 00:49:39,920 convocations, where convocations basically means assembly. 778 00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:43,720 These are holy assemblies. These are holy gatherings. 779 00:49:43,800 --> 00:49:51,040 These are holy public meetings. Public meetings of God were 780 00:49:51,040 --> 00:49:54,000 defined and characterized as being holy. 781 00:49:54,640 --> 00:50:02,240 Can I tell you this morning you are in a holy meeting when we 782 00:50:02,240 --> 00:50:06,720 gather to worship, not only do the people that come here that's 783 00:50:06,720 --> 00:50:09,800 been born again in the water spirit individually holy, but as 784 00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:14,880 we corporally gathered together, we are forming up a holy 785 00:50:15,600 --> 00:50:20,640 meeting. Oh God and brother Fred, we need 786 00:50:20,640 --> 00:50:25,880 to still have that same type of mindset of as we come together, 787 00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:32,400 we're entering into a holy convocation and even missing 788 00:50:32,400 --> 00:50:40,160 this, I'm missing a holy convocation deserves respect. 789 00:50:40,160 --> 00:50:41,720 It reserves our honor, all these things. 790 00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:47,600 Leviticus 625, I'll come to a close real quick. 791 00:50:49,080 --> 00:50:55,240 Quick is subjective. The Bible says in Leviticus 625 792 00:50:55,240 --> 00:50:57,280 speaking to Aaron his son, saying this is the law of the 793 00:50:57,280 --> 00:51:00,120 sin offering and the place where the burnt offering is killed 794 00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:03,520 shall be the sin offering be killed before the Lord. 795 00:51:03,520 --> 00:51:09,600 It is most holy. So God has called us in the New 796 00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:12,840 Testament to offer ourselves as living sacrifices. 797 00:51:16,640 --> 00:51:20,320 But the sin offering as it was in the Old Testament, the sin 798 00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:24,280 offering allowed an individual to come to God in the 1st place. 799 00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:28,080 They offered the sin offering in order to have the ability to 800 00:51:28,080 --> 00:51:32,360 come to God in the first place. That was Old Testament. 801 00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:34,920 In the New Testament we had a sin offering. 802 00:51:35,560 --> 00:51:41,240 His altar was Calvary, and because of himself, his flesh 803 00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:43,600 being on that altar called Calvary. 804 00:51:43,880 --> 00:51:50,240 It's that lifted up place, that slaughtering place, that it has 805 00:51:50,240 --> 00:51:56,960 become a most holy place, and that most holy God who come in 806 00:51:56,960 --> 00:52:02,160 the likeness of sinful flesh of humanity, who sacrificed his own 807 00:52:02,160 --> 00:52:06,520 holy life for our sins. The Bible says in Hebrews 10/10 808 00:52:06,520 --> 00:52:08,720 we are sanctified. There's that word again, or 809 00:52:08,720 --> 00:52:11,160 sanctification, 5 syllables if you like that one, which 810 00:52:11,160 --> 00:52:14,960 basically means to be made holy through the offering of the body 811 00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:18,680 of Jesus Christ once for all. What are you saying? 812 00:52:20,040 --> 00:52:26,240 We could never be holy had it not been for our God's holy work 813 00:52:27,280 --> 00:52:32,560 at Calvary. Had he been a Sinner just like 814 00:52:32,560 --> 00:52:39,440 us, it would have not have been an effective sacrifice for us. 815 00:52:40,160 --> 00:52:44,560 The sacrifice according even to the law, it had to be holy. 816 00:52:45,040 --> 00:52:49,240 It had to be set apart. That's the reason why in first 817 00:52:49,240 --> 00:52:52,640 Peter 221, Stan, I'm doing that so that you'll be encouraged. 818 00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:58,400 First Peter 2 and verse 22 Bible speaks of our God. 819 00:52:58,400 --> 00:53:02,120 He did no sin Jesus, neither was God found in his mouth. 820 00:53:02,800 --> 00:53:07,240 In verse 24 it says who his own self bear our sins in his own 821 00:53:07,240 --> 00:53:12,600 body on the tree, that we being dead to sins could live unto 822 00:53:13,240 --> 00:53:15,760 righteousness. So I'm getting that this 823 00:53:15,760 --> 00:53:17,160 morning. Where where God dwells, 824 00:53:17,160 --> 00:53:20,760 everything changes. From Genesis to Revelation, the 825 00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:23,280 patterns clear. Where God dwells, everything 826 00:53:23,320 --> 00:53:25,600 changes. The ground becomes holy whenever 827 00:53:25,600 --> 00:53:28,640 God touches it. The temp becomes holy whenever 828 00:53:28,640 --> 00:53:31,720 God enters it. The city becomes holy whenever 829 00:53:31,720 --> 00:53:34,880 God puts His name upon it. The sacrifice becomes holy when 830 00:53:34,880 --> 00:53:37,400 it's set apart for his use and for His purpose. 831 00:53:37,720 --> 00:53:42,480 And now we can become holy because we've been sanctified by 832 00:53:42,480 --> 00:53:45,720 the power of a sacrifice, a sin offering. 833 00:53:47,080 --> 00:53:49,200 You can be holy today, and please listen to me clearly. 834 00:53:49,280 --> 00:53:52,760 You can be holy today not because you are clean enough. 835 00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:58,520 You can be holy today not because you are clean enough, 836 00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:09,000 but because he was holy enough, because he was holy enough and 837 00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:11,520 His Holiness made salvation then possible. 838 00:54:11,520 --> 00:54:15,840 The indwelling of that possible, and he sets our feet upon the 839 00:54:15,840 --> 00:54:18,720 street called straight is even what the New Testament writer 840 00:54:18,720 --> 00:54:24,760 said in so much what? Wherefore I gird up the loins of 841 00:54:24,760 --> 00:54:26,880 my mind. I'm sober. 842 00:54:27,400 --> 00:54:30,440 I don't, I don't go and entertain my life with those 843 00:54:30,440 --> 00:54:33,000 things that I used to do, but yet was ignorant of. 844 00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:37,960 I I, I as obedient, I, I, I surrender and I don't fashion 845 00:54:37,960 --> 00:54:40,880 after those things. But I'm, I'm tending toward all 846 00:54:40,880 --> 00:54:43,000 my manner of life to be holding the Lord. 847 00:54:43,240 --> 00:54:46,760 I'm holy because he is, He is holy. 848 00:54:49,880 --> 00:54:54,280 Folks, if you've received the Spirit, he dwells in you and 849 00:54:54,280 --> 00:54:56,800 you're no longer should no longer be common. 850 00:54:56,800 --> 00:54:58,840 Commonness should no longer be an option for you. 851 00:54:58,840 --> 00:55:02,320 But holiness, you say, brother McGee, I, I desire today and you 852 00:55:02,320 --> 00:55:03,640 close your eyes all over this bin. 853 00:55:03,640 --> 00:55:05,240 You say, brother McGee, I desire today. 854 00:55:05,880 --> 00:55:09,720 I desire today a, a divine intersection with the Lord 855 00:55:11,320 --> 00:55:14,040 because brother McGee, from where I'm standing, I, I know my 856 00:55:14,040 --> 00:55:18,400 natural state. I know my natural state. 857 00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:22,280 And brother McGee, in the years that I've lived this life, I've 858 00:55:22,280 --> 00:55:26,080 even taken my natural state and I've, I've flirted with it. 859 00:55:26,080 --> 00:55:32,240 I've, I've taken it down some roads and some paths and been 860 00:55:32,240 --> 00:55:36,760 involved in some things that just even took a common state 861 00:55:36,760 --> 00:55:42,520 and maybe even have made it a dirty, unclean, defiled state. 862 00:55:44,880 --> 00:55:51,560 But I'm afraid, Pastor McGee, I'm afraid because Pastor McGee, 863 00:55:51,560 --> 00:55:56,000 you, you don't know how many years the calendar has flipped 864 00:55:56,000 --> 00:56:00,520 over from December 31st to January 1st. 865 00:56:00,520 --> 00:56:03,640 And I've told myself this year's going to be different. 866 00:56:06,960 --> 00:56:09,240 We're, we're going to overcome some things this year. 867 00:56:11,360 --> 00:56:13,720 We're not going to engage in some things this year. 868 00:56:14,960 --> 00:56:18,560 And before February even arrived, found myself in the 869 00:56:18,560 --> 00:56:24,200 same, the same boat, the same patterns, the same practices. 870 00:56:25,800 --> 00:56:31,400 Sir, ma'am, I ask you today, have you ever come in contact 871 00:56:32,120 --> 00:56:37,160 with the Lord? Because we're standing in a holy 872 00:56:37,160 --> 00:56:41,640 place today and there's a holy altar today, and there's some 873 00:56:41,640 --> 00:56:43,640 holy groups of people around here today. 874 00:56:44,040 --> 00:56:46,640 And I've already witnessed because I felt that his Holy 875 00:56:46,640 --> 00:56:50,840 Ghost in spirit here today and His name, His holy name is here 876 00:56:50,840 --> 00:56:52,680 today. And I'm telling you this 877 00:56:52,680 --> 00:56:57,240 morning, God would love to have a divine intersection with you 878 00:56:57,320 --> 00:57:02,480 and your common life today. He loved to have intersection 879 00:57:02,480 --> 00:57:08,280 with you and the life maybe that you've mishandled today because 880 00:57:08,280 --> 00:57:16,200 again, you cannot meet and both Him and you remain the same 881 00:57:18,320 --> 00:57:21,040 Folks, that's not just something I'm just spilling out from the 882 00:57:21,040 --> 00:57:25,160 side of my mouth. That is a guarantee I have 883 00:57:25,160 --> 00:57:31,120 through God's Word. Something is going to change 884 00:57:31,400 --> 00:57:36,120 from that encounter. Something is going to change. 885 00:57:36,120 --> 00:57:39,240 This altar is open today. I'm asking every individual, 886 00:57:39,240 --> 00:57:42,000 whoever you may be, somebody might be looking over their 887 00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:43,440 life. Someone might be looking where 888 00:57:43,440 --> 00:57:45,920 they are right now. Maybe someone is casting their 889 00:57:45,920 --> 00:57:48,640 eye in the future. God is here this morning. 890 00:57:48,640 --> 00:57:51,320 This is a holy altar. This is a holy place. 891 00:57:51,520 --> 00:57:54,440 It doesn't matter if you're St. Sinner, if you're indifferent, 892 00:57:54,440 --> 00:57:57,280 it does not matter. I'm asking every single one of 893 00:57:57,280 --> 00:57:59,880 us, Let's start out this first service of the year. 894 00:58:00,080 --> 00:58:04,320 Saved, unsaved, whoever you are, let's embrace this holy place 895 00:58:04,320 --> 00:58:07,120 called an altar. Let there be the intermingling 896 00:58:07,120 --> 00:58:11,680 of our lives, these bodies as a living sacrifices with a holy 897 00:58:11,680 --> 00:58:17,120 God, where everything can change, where everything can 898 00:58:17,120 --> 00:58:19,720 change. Or or ma'am, you don't have to 899 00:58:19,720 --> 00:58:25,480 walk your rear Rd. alone. 2026 doesn't have to be like 2025. 900 00:58:25,920 --> 00:58:27,840 You don't have to be the lonely Rd. 901 00:58:28,120 --> 00:58:30,920 No, no, no. God is waiting for you. 902 00:58:31,400 --> 00:58:35,000 God is desirous of you. God wants you. 903 00:58:38,240 --> 00:58:40,280 Everything can change.