1 00:00:02,280 --> 00:00:04,840 Thanks for checking out the Anchor Faith Message podcast 2 00:00:04,840 --> 00:00:06,200 from St. Augustine, FL. 3 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:16,160 Now enjoy this message. Well, you know, Pastor 4 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:23,160 ministered was it last Sunday on May to display and he's talked 5 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:27,480 about Kingdom righteousness, right? 6 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:31,200 About the fact that we are supposed to be displaying 7 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:35,520 righteousness to the world. We are a representative of the 8 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:38,840 Kingdom of God in the world. Amen. 9 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:43,280 We are what Paul says, ambassadors for Christ, right? 10 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:49,200 And we have a position to live before the world. 11 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:53,240 Well, I want to piggyback off of that. 12 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:55,640 And he called it made to display. 13 00:00:55,640 --> 00:01:01,080 So I want to say made to display part two or two point O whatever 14 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:05,640 you want to say Amen. I want to read. 15 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:11,240 First and foremost, this is going to be our text that I want 16 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:16,760 to work walk through today as far as we can get out of 17 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:22,880 Ephesians Chapter 5, Ephesians Chapter 5, one through 21. 18 00:01:23,950 --> 00:01:32,830 OK, yes, we love the word here. OK, all 21 verses, OK, all are 19 00:01:32,830 --> 00:01:41,310 imperative for us walking out our righteousness today and what 20 00:01:41,310 --> 00:01:46,830 we must do and I believe is a part of just as the prophetic 21 00:01:46,830 --> 00:01:51,150 word came or the tongue and interpretation came from Audrey. 22 00:01:51,660 --> 00:01:56,580 That when we walk into a room, people are going to know the 23 00:01:56,580 --> 00:02:01,260 Kingdom is here. They're going to know it. 24 00:02:02,900 --> 00:02:09,860 And we want to make sure that we are being imitators of Him and 25 00:02:09,860 --> 00:02:14,340 his righteousness and the way that he tells us that we need to 26 00:02:14,340 --> 00:02:18,460 walk in this last day, so in verse one. 27 00:02:19,750 --> 00:02:21,910 Of Ephesians chapter 5, it says this. 28 00:02:21,910 --> 00:02:29,950 Therefore, be imitators of God. Say I'm an imitator as beloved 29 00:02:29,950 --> 00:02:37,390 children, and walk in love. Say walk in love, just as Christ 30 00:02:37,390 --> 00:02:42,310 also loved you and gave himself up for you as an offering and a 31 00:02:42,310 --> 00:02:45,350 sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma. 32 00:02:46,150 --> 00:02:50,370 But immorality? Or any impurity or greed must 33 00:02:50,370 --> 00:02:54,610 not even be named among you. We know Ephesians is talking to 34 00:02:54,850 --> 00:02:58,770 the church believers, the Ephesian church, and talking to 35 00:02:58,770 --> 00:03:02,650 us. It says as is proper among the 36 00:03:02,650 --> 00:03:07,810 Saints and there must be no filthiness and silly talk or 37 00:03:07,810 --> 00:03:11,890 coarse gesturing. I could break all of this down 38 00:03:12,450 --> 00:03:17,130 because you know what's sad is I hear so many Christians talking. 39 00:03:17,810 --> 00:03:19,250 The way they shouldn't be talking. 40 00:03:19,290 --> 00:03:22,850 But anyway I got to move on because I want to focus on some 41 00:03:22,850 --> 00:03:27,810 other things, coarse, gesturing, which are not fitting but rather 42 00:03:27,810 --> 00:03:32,170 giving thanks. For this you know with certainly 43 00:03:32,450 --> 00:03:37,090 with certainty, sorry, that no immoral or impure person or 44 00:03:37,090 --> 00:03:41,890 covetous man who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the 45 00:03:41,890 --> 00:03:46,410 Kingdom of Christ and God. Let no one deceive you with 46 00:03:46,490 --> 00:03:51,850 empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God 47 00:03:51,850 --> 00:03:54,050 comes upon the sons of disobedience. 48 00:03:54,050 --> 00:03:57,690 Therefore do not be partakers with them. 49 00:03:59,450 --> 00:04:04,090 For you were formerly darkness, but now you are light in the 50 00:04:04,090 --> 00:04:07,570 Lord. Walk as children in the light. 51 00:04:08,170 --> 00:04:12,970 For the fruit of the light or the Spirit, consists in all 52 00:04:12,970 --> 00:04:18,329 goodness, righteousness, and truth, trying to learn what is 53 00:04:18,329 --> 00:04:23,370 pleasing to the Lord. Are you actually trying to learn 54 00:04:23,370 --> 00:04:27,450 what is pleasing to the Lord and what displeases him? 55 00:04:27,890 --> 00:04:32,490 Because, you know, coarse, gesturing and all this kind of 56 00:04:32,490 --> 00:04:37,850 talk is not pleasing to him. It's not pleasing. 57 00:04:38,750 --> 00:04:42,430 You know, all these little jokes, starting to get into 58 00:04:42,430 --> 00:04:45,910 carnality and all kinds of things that you just carry on 59 00:04:45,910 --> 00:04:47,830 and laugh about and think it's funny? 60 00:04:48,030 --> 00:04:50,150 And he says we ought to not be doing it. 61 00:04:50,150 --> 00:04:52,830 It's not pleasing to him. But he's telling us we need to 62 00:04:52,830 --> 00:04:57,070 learn what is pleasing. It says do not participate in 63 00:04:57,070 --> 00:05:00,390 the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead even 64 00:05:00,390 --> 00:05:06,990 expose them, expose them, expose. 65 00:05:07,540 --> 00:05:12,340 People that are still saying they're believers, but acting 66 00:05:12,340 --> 00:05:18,060 like the world, talking like the world, joking like the world, 67 00:05:18,420 --> 00:05:20,860 doing all kinds of things like the world. 68 00:05:20,860 --> 00:05:24,340 You're supposed to, as a believer, as a sister and 69 00:05:24,340 --> 00:05:29,660 brother in Christ, expose these things and say that's not light, 70 00:05:31,380 --> 00:05:34,980 that's not light, that's not what righteousness is. 71 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:37,520 Right. We have a responsibility. 72 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:42,440 We're going to see expose them. For it is even disgraceful even 73 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:46,640 to speak of the things which are done by them in secret. 74 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:51,040 But all things become visible when they are exposed by the 75 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:54,480 light. They're exposed by the light, 76 00:05:54,760 --> 00:05:58,520 for everything that becomes visible is light. 77 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:04,450 For this reason, it says awake. Sleeper and arise from the dead, 78 00:06:04,450 --> 00:06:11,010 and Christ will shine on you. Therefore say therefore, be 79 00:06:11,010 --> 00:06:18,650 careful how you walk. Be careful how you walk, not as 80 00:06:18,650 --> 00:06:26,010 unwise man, not as an unwise man or woman, but as wise. 81 00:06:28,270 --> 00:06:34,870 Making the most of your time because the days are evil. 82 00:06:36,430 --> 00:06:41,350 So then do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the 83 00:06:41,350 --> 00:06:43,870 Lord is. See this. 84 00:06:44,310 --> 00:06:49,790 Do not get drunk with wine, but be filled with the Spirit 85 00:06:49,790 --> 00:06:53,390 speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, spiritual psalms, 86 00:06:53,390 --> 00:06:56,350 singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord. 87 00:06:56,890 --> 00:07:01,610 Always giving thanks for the things in the name of the Lord 88 00:07:01,610 --> 00:07:06,530 Jesus Christ to God, even the Father, and be submitted 1 to 89 00:07:06,570 --> 00:07:14,730 another in the fear of the Lord, in the fear of the Lord. 90 00:07:14,730 --> 00:07:20,970 A lot of powerful things right here, so I want to break some 91 00:07:20,970 --> 00:07:23,530 things down for you through this scripture. 92 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:27,560 We are to be imitators of Christ. 93 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:31,040 It says. First and foremost, we were made 94 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:36,680 to display an image. And what is that image the one 95 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:40,000 of Christ? What is that image that we are 96 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:43,680 to be imitating? Are we to be imitating the image 97 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:48,120 of the world? Hollywood superstars, You know 98 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:52,600 all these other things? Are we to be imitating Christ? 99 00:07:53,290 --> 00:07:57,850 Our Heavenly Father, right We are to imitate Him. 100 00:07:58,010 --> 00:08:01,690 We are to An image is a what? Reflection. 101 00:08:02,890 --> 00:08:07,330 An image of him is a reflection. And when people see us, they 102 00:08:07,330 --> 00:08:11,770 should see the reflection of the Kingdom of God in our life. 103 00:08:11,770 --> 00:08:15,450 They should see the reflection of Jesus Christ in our life. 104 00:08:15,690 --> 00:08:19,010 They should see the reflection of righteousness. 105 00:08:19,130 --> 00:08:22,490 Amen. They should see it on display. 106 00:08:22,790 --> 00:08:26,950 So that when people see you, they see the Kingdom. 107 00:08:27,350 --> 00:08:31,190 When people come into your presence, they just came into 108 00:08:31,270 --> 00:08:33,710 the presence of the Kingdom of God. 109 00:08:34,549 --> 00:08:37,669 Amen. Genesis one, we know this so 110 00:08:37,669 --> 00:08:42,789 very well in this house. And verse 26 through 28. 111 00:08:42,789 --> 00:08:46,750 It all began right here. God has not changed his mind 112 00:08:46,750 --> 00:08:49,630 just because there was the fall of man. 113 00:08:50,880 --> 00:08:56,000 We know that he sent his Son so that we could be put back into 114 00:08:56,600 --> 00:09:01,720 Christ or back into the image of the very one that he designed 115 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:03,800 for man to be from the first place. 116 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:07,440 In Genesis 126 and 28 it says this. 117 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:13,040 Then God said, let us make man in our image according to our 118 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:17,350 likeness. One translation and you can 119 00:09:17,350 --> 00:09:20,710 actually look it up. It means a carbon copy. 120 00:09:21,830 --> 00:09:29,590 A carbon copy exactly like him. That's what he created man to be 121 00:09:29,590 --> 00:09:33,470 one just like him. A carbon copy. 122 00:09:33,630 --> 00:09:37,070 And let them rule. And we know on and on and on. 123 00:09:37,070 --> 00:09:40,230 And they were to rule over the earth, over all the 124 00:09:40,230 --> 00:09:43,430 circumstances of the earth. Over all the earth, right? 125 00:09:44,050 --> 00:09:49,130 In his image, in his likeness. And once we get born again, now 126 00:09:49,130 --> 00:09:56,250 we can begin to rule and have dominion in the earth, just like 127 00:09:56,250 --> 00:09:58,690 he said we could. Adam could. 128 00:09:59,450 --> 00:10:03,130 Amen. But we are to look just like him 129 00:10:03,130 --> 00:10:06,650 in the earth. It look and imitate. 130 00:10:06,950 --> 00:10:09,830 Him. And that means the greatest way 131 00:10:09,830 --> 00:10:14,390 we're going to reflect or have the image of him, or walk in his 132 00:10:14,390 --> 00:10:18,750 likeness, right, or be that carbon copy is going to come 133 00:10:18,750 --> 00:10:22,190 from the reflection of the word, right? 134 00:10:22,190 --> 00:10:26,390 We know in Corinthians it says we behold the word as a mirror. 135 00:10:27,030 --> 00:10:30,950 So this is that reflection when we read the word. 136 00:10:30,950 --> 00:10:35,870 It's that mirror to us of what we are to be reflecting to the 137 00:10:35,950 --> 00:10:39,290 Earth. Everything within the word. 138 00:10:39,290 --> 00:10:43,810 We don't get to pick and choose and decide what part of the word 139 00:10:43,970 --> 00:10:48,050 we want to reflect or what we don't want to reflect. 140 00:10:50,490 --> 00:10:54,210 But many people still do. No. 141 00:10:54,210 --> 00:10:59,610 There's one reflection. There's one image. 142 00:11:00,220 --> 00:11:04,700 There's one look that he wants each and every one of his 143 00:11:04,700 --> 00:11:08,420 children to look like. We're all individuals. 144 00:11:08,540 --> 00:11:13,020 We all have our own makeup. But the image that we are to 145 00:11:13,020 --> 00:11:17,300 reflect is in Christ and in His word. 146 00:11:17,300 --> 00:11:21,300 What is His word? Say as a believer we are to 147 00:11:21,300 --> 00:11:25,620 reflect to the world and the thing about it is, is there's 148 00:11:25,860 --> 00:11:30,800 all kinds of mixed up images. Right. 149 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:38,400 It's almost like going to the fair, you know, or the carnivals 150 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:40,720 or whatever. I haven't been what to one and 151 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:44,560 Lord knows how long? Over 20 years, probably. 152 00:11:44,920 --> 00:11:49,560 But anyway, you go into that room and there's all kind of 153 00:11:49,560 --> 00:11:53,040 distorted mirrors. Has anybody ever went in one of 154 00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:55,800 those? The fun house? 155 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:57,560 Yes, that's what it's called. Thank you. 156 00:11:58,140 --> 00:12:01,180 Thank you for helping me, the funhouse. 157 00:12:01,220 --> 00:12:09,460 And you go in and you looked all wonky like the walkie donkey. 158 00:12:09,460 --> 00:12:13,300 Have y'all ever heard that song? Anyway, you look all wonky and 159 00:12:13,460 --> 00:12:20,300 all distorted and all messed up, and so many believers still look 160 00:12:20,300 --> 00:12:24,820 that way because they're not looking at the right image. 161 00:12:24,820 --> 00:12:27,340 They're not looking at the right mirror. 162 00:12:28,620 --> 00:12:33,620 That's supposed to reflect Christ in every area of our 163 00:12:33,620 --> 00:12:37,860 life. We don't get to withhold 1 area 164 00:12:37,860 --> 00:12:41,800 of our life from the Lord. He tells us we are to love him 165 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:47,160 with all of our heart, with all of our strength, with all of our 166 00:12:47,160 --> 00:12:49,840 soul, with everything that is within us. 167 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:54,920 We don't get to decide we're not going to let him have that part 168 00:12:54,920 --> 00:12:57,600 of our life. Because when we don't let him 169 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:03,320 have that part of our life, we mess up the image, We mess up 170 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:07,320 the reflection because it's going to still look walkie. 171 00:13:09,730 --> 00:13:13,530 And distorted. Yeah, all along you're trying in 172 00:13:13,530 --> 00:13:17,490 the mirror. It's reflecting you, right? 173 00:13:18,130 --> 00:13:21,450 But there's still a messed up image. 174 00:13:22,730 --> 00:13:28,130 So it's still you're in Christ, but you're still not reflecting 175 00:13:28,130 --> 00:13:34,170 the right image. And so, as a believer, our 176 00:13:34,170 --> 00:13:39,480 number one desire should be. That we reflect His image 177 00:13:39,480 --> 00:13:45,040 completely and honestly and exactly the way the word says 178 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:48,600 that we are to project it and reflect it. 179 00:13:48,680 --> 00:13:52,680 Amen. But see here in Ephesians 180 00:13:52,880 --> 00:13:59,760 chapter 5 and verses one through 21, we read that, but I want to 181 00:13:59,760 --> 00:14:02,600 just focus on one through 7 right now. 182 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:05,680 The first thing that we're going to have to do if we're going to 183 00:14:05,680 --> 00:14:10,190 continue to be. Those that walk in righteousness 184 00:14:10,230 --> 00:14:15,110 and are made to display his righteousness in the Kingdom, we 185 00:14:15,110 --> 00:14:20,030 are going to have to first and foremost display love. 186 00:14:22,390 --> 00:14:25,430 And we see that here it says walk. 187 00:14:25,870 --> 00:14:33,110 In love as Christ also has loved us and given himself up for us 188 00:14:33,350 --> 00:14:38,110 and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling aroma. 189 00:14:38,510 --> 00:14:43,150 So the first thing that people should see in our life if we're 190 00:14:43,150 --> 00:14:47,310 going to reflect and display the proper image of Christ is that 191 00:14:47,310 --> 00:14:50,870 we walk in love. We walk in love. 192 00:14:51,590 --> 00:14:53,830 And this is not what the world says. 193 00:14:53,830 --> 00:14:55,390 Love is. Love is love. 194 00:14:55,850 --> 00:14:58,570 This is not what the world says love is. 195 00:14:58,570 --> 00:15:02,410 This is not lust. This is not, you know, the new 196 00:15:02,410 --> 00:15:05,010 kind of love they say there is today? 197 00:15:05,210 --> 00:15:09,730 No, this is agape love. This is God, God's love. 198 00:15:09,730 --> 00:15:15,170 He said God is love, God is love. 199 00:15:15,520 --> 00:15:19,240 And so this is the image that we want to display. 200 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:24,720 The real kind of love, God kind of love the way that he says we 201 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:29,720 are to love. Because without it we can't 202 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:32,760 love, right? We won't love, right? 203 00:15:33,450 --> 00:15:37,970 We can only be those as believers that are going to walk 204 00:15:37,970 --> 00:15:41,770 in the real kind of love which is agape. 205 00:15:41,770 --> 00:15:45,130 Amen. So we must first and foremost 206 00:15:45,130 --> 00:15:49,770 display the love of God. Now let's look at a couple of 207 00:15:49,770 --> 00:15:52,010 scriptures concerning the love of God. 208 00:15:52,290 --> 00:15:58,050 John 1334 through 35 says this a new commandment I give to you 209 00:15:58,050 --> 00:16:02,010 that you love one another. Another thing I like to say here 210 00:16:02,250 --> 00:16:05,130 just. As this we're reading the 211 00:16:05,170 --> 00:16:10,810 scriptures, you can see that this love was not just for you. 212 00:16:13,810 --> 00:16:17,010 Well, he loved me. It's just me and Jesus and we 213 00:16:17,010 --> 00:16:20,770 have our personal relationship. It was never meant to be that. 214 00:16:21,970 --> 00:16:25,050 No, we've distorted and got unbalanced with that. 215 00:16:25,850 --> 00:16:30,930 His love has to give of itself. It can't just be about you. 216 00:16:32,470 --> 00:16:39,350 That's American indoctrination. It's all about me. 217 00:16:39,390 --> 00:16:43,710 Yolo, you know, it's all good. Love is love the way I want to 218 00:16:43,710 --> 00:16:44,950 love. It's all about me. 219 00:16:44,950 --> 00:16:47,110 I'm not harming anybody. All these things. 220 00:16:47,110 --> 00:16:49,990 This is the world's philosophy, and it's the pit of hell. 221 00:16:51,510 --> 00:16:55,910 It's doctrines of demons. Because this love was his love 222 00:16:55,910 --> 00:17:00,910 was never meant to be selfish. It was never meant to be just 223 00:17:00,910 --> 00:17:05,069 about you. When you're actually walking in 224 00:17:05,069 --> 00:17:08,390 the God kind of love, it says a new commandment. 225 00:17:08,390 --> 00:17:12,349 I give unto you that you love what one another. 226 00:17:12,470 --> 00:17:16,349 And This is why I say that it was always about one another, 227 00:17:17,990 --> 00:17:23,069 always about one another, as I have loved you, that you also 228 00:17:23,069 --> 00:17:26,000 love one another. Amen. 229 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:32,200 And by this all will know that you are truly one translation, 230 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:37,240 says my disciples. So how is the world going to 231 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:40,320 know that we are truly his disciples? 232 00:17:40,320 --> 00:17:45,080 How's the world going to know and and see the display of 233 00:17:45,080 --> 00:17:50,120 Christ in the earth? Is it when we actually walk in 234 00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:56,210 love with one another? That means we don't get offended 235 00:17:56,210 --> 00:17:59,010 with one another. We don't take on offense with 236 00:17:59,010 --> 00:18:02,690 one another. We don't look at one another as 237 00:18:02,810 --> 00:18:08,530 as individuals that are trying to, you know, do this or do that 238 00:18:08,610 --> 00:18:11,570 know. Our attitude towards one another 239 00:18:11,570 --> 00:18:15,050 is that we're going to believe the best in everyone. 240 00:18:16,250 --> 00:18:20,210 I am going to believe the best that it. 241 00:18:21,090 --> 00:18:24,890 Towards everyone, even though I know they aren't saying the best 242 00:18:24,890 --> 00:18:31,050 and doing the best towards me. That's called walking in love. 243 00:18:33,730 --> 00:18:38,170 That's called walking in love. Amen. 244 00:18:38,650 --> 00:18:44,610 When you know that people aren't saying things right about you 245 00:18:45,250 --> 00:18:49,210 and people aren't doing things towards you, that's right. 246 00:18:50,660 --> 00:18:55,300 When you actually put on the God kind of love, that means, you 247 00:18:55,300 --> 00:18:57,460 know what? I'm going to love him no matter 248 00:18:57,460 --> 00:18:59,020 what. I can love him Now. 249 00:18:59,020 --> 00:19:00,900 That don't mean I have to hang out with them. 250 00:19:00,900 --> 00:19:03,180 And I don't have to be their best friend. 251 00:19:03,300 --> 00:19:06,420 I can love them, bless them, Amen. 252 00:19:06,460 --> 00:19:10,300 Pray for them. And not that they would, you 253 00:19:10,300 --> 00:19:14,420 know, not do that to me anymore. Pray for them. 254 00:19:14,420 --> 00:19:16,060 Just that God will just bless them. 255 00:19:20,620 --> 00:19:22,100 Because that's between them and God. 256 00:19:23,020 --> 00:19:28,260 That's walking in love, that's letting things go and the world 257 00:19:28,260 --> 00:19:31,900 is going to know it. That we're truly His disciples. 258 00:19:31,900 --> 00:19:35,820 Because we have love for one another and we love each other 259 00:19:35,820 --> 00:19:39,580 and we forgive each other and we believe the best in each other 260 00:19:39,580 --> 00:19:44,020 and we let things go and we don't hold account of a suffered 261 00:19:44,020 --> 00:19:50,220 wrong towards one another. Marriages. 262 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:55,160 No matter what, I'm not keeping a record of wrong. 263 00:19:56,400 --> 00:20:01,480 I'm letting it go and giving it to God and trusting him. 264 00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:07,080 For he is my avenger. He is my defender. 265 00:20:08,360 --> 00:20:11,960 Amen. First John 323 says this. 266 00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:16,310 This is his commandment. That we believe in the name of 267 00:20:16,310 --> 00:20:21,230 the Son of Jesus Christ and we love one another just as He 268 00:20:21,230 --> 00:20:25,390 commanded us. Again, so many scriptures. 269 00:20:25,390 --> 00:20:29,110 I don't even have time to read them all to you concerning how 270 00:20:29,110 --> 00:20:32,110 this was about us loving one another. 271 00:20:32,110 --> 00:20:37,150 And if we are going to display the proper image of Christ and 272 00:20:37,150 --> 00:20:41,430 his Kingdom to the world, then love is going to have to be the 273 00:20:41,430 --> 00:20:46,900 first thing that we recognize in our life that we need to do. 274 00:20:46,900 --> 00:20:50,580 Ephesians 317. That Christ may dwell in your 275 00:20:50,580 --> 00:20:57,020 heart by faith, that you would be rooted and grounded in love. 276 00:20:57,700 --> 00:21:02,060 Rooted and grounded in love. And this is God's love. 277 00:21:02,180 --> 00:21:07,540 Amen. Ephesians 4/2 And then Ephesians 278 00:21:07,540 --> 00:21:12,210 4/2 and then verse 15. With all lowliness and meekness, 279 00:21:12,210 --> 00:21:17,370 with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love. 280 00:21:17,370 --> 00:21:20,370 That means we're going to have to for bear some things with 281 00:21:20,370 --> 00:21:23,410 people in love. Amen. 282 00:21:23,930 --> 00:21:27,890 We're going to have to have some long-suffering with people in 283 00:21:27,890 --> 00:21:31,250 love. Hallelujah. 284 00:21:31,450 --> 00:21:33,250 That means you're going to suffer. 285 00:21:36,170 --> 00:21:41,490 It's not going to be easy. You're going to suffer. 286 00:21:41,570 --> 00:21:47,730 It's going to be painful, right? To be able to forgive people and 287 00:21:47,730 --> 00:21:51,250 walk in love towards people and be long-suffering towards 288 00:21:51,250 --> 00:21:53,770 people. But he says we are commanded to 289 00:21:53,770 --> 00:21:57,730 do it as believers. And if we want the world, if we 290 00:21:57,730 --> 00:22:02,650 want to, for the world to see the great display of the Kingdom 291 00:22:02,650 --> 00:22:07,830 of God, then they must first see love in our lives, and us 292 00:22:07,830 --> 00:22:13,990 walking in it every day. First Peter. 122 Since you have 293 00:22:14,030 --> 00:22:18,070 an obedience to the truth, purified your souls for a 294 00:22:18,070 --> 00:22:24,350 sincere love of the brethren. Fervently love one another from 295 00:22:24,350 --> 00:22:27,990 the heart. You see how it's connected to 296 00:22:27,990 --> 00:22:31,510 one another always. It wasn't fervently love me. 297 00:22:33,830 --> 00:22:38,370 Now, he does say that in Scripture, but he also says 298 00:22:38,370 --> 00:22:45,050 this, so we cannot separate the fact that he lets us know that 299 00:22:45,050 --> 00:22:48,730 our relationship between brothers and sisters in Christ 300 00:22:48,730 --> 00:22:53,690 are just as important as our relationship with the Lord. 301 00:22:55,010 --> 00:22:59,290 Just as important, and I'm going to tell you you are not loving 302 00:22:59,290 --> 00:23:04,250 the Lord, I will straight up tell you you are not loving the 303 00:23:04,250 --> 00:23:06,930 Lord if you are not loving your brother. 304 00:23:07,650 --> 00:23:10,850 He actually says you're a liar. I didn't put that scripture 305 00:23:10,850 --> 00:23:13,210 down. I was thinking I would hold 306 00:23:13,210 --> 00:23:16,450 myself back from that, from calling people a liar. 307 00:23:16,450 --> 00:23:21,090 But he called him, not me. He called him out. 308 00:23:21,490 --> 00:23:26,410 He calls you a liar if you say that you love him, but you have 309 00:23:26,410 --> 00:23:32,370 something against your brother. OK, we got to get people set 310 00:23:32,370 --> 00:23:34,650 free. I'm going to tell you, we need 311 00:23:34,650 --> 00:23:38,330 to recognize the time that we're living in, and we need to make 312 00:23:38,330 --> 00:23:40,690 sure we're getting our self in alignment. 313 00:23:40,690 --> 00:23:46,330 Every area of our life. Every area of our life. 314 00:23:47,250 --> 00:23:51,570 Hallelujah, Colossians, Chapter 3, verse 14. 315 00:23:52,010 --> 00:23:57,810 But on all these things. Say put on, say put on. 316 00:23:59,020 --> 00:24:05,260 Every morning when you get up, you stand in the mirror, you see 317 00:24:05,260 --> 00:24:07,980 a reflection. I didn't know what I wanted to 318 00:24:07,980 --> 00:24:11,940 wear today, and I changed clothes a couple of times. 319 00:24:11,940 --> 00:24:15,060 I saw a reflection. I didn't know if I was liking 320 00:24:15,060 --> 00:24:20,580 the reflection or not. And then I just said forget 321 00:24:20,580 --> 00:24:29,130 about it. And we have a choice every 322 00:24:29,130 --> 00:24:35,170 morning when we stand in the mirror to put on, to put on 323 00:24:35,170 --> 00:24:38,770 whatever clothes we're supposed to wear, right? 324 00:24:39,130 --> 00:24:41,650 Well, you know what? It's the same context where he 325 00:24:41,650 --> 00:24:45,970 says put on love every morning. When you get up, you are 326 00:24:45,970 --> 00:24:48,970 supposed to be a person that's I'm going to put on love. 327 00:24:49,650 --> 00:24:52,210 I'm going to put on love. I had to put on love this 328 00:24:52,210 --> 00:24:55,370 weekend. I didn't want to put on love. 329 00:24:59,570 --> 00:25:02,530 I didn't want to grab that out of the closet and put that on 330 00:25:03,730 --> 00:25:10,010 for a split second and I didn't want to put on love. 331 00:25:10,010 --> 00:25:14,250 And I said, well, OK, Lord, I'll do that if I can say this. 332 00:25:14,250 --> 00:25:16,130 And he said, no, you can't say that. 333 00:25:19,690 --> 00:25:24,980 Well, what if I do this? No, just put on love and don't 334 00:25:24,980 --> 00:25:28,820 say a word. Put on love and don't say a word 335 00:25:28,820 --> 00:25:32,220 because it doesn't matter anyway. 336 00:25:32,980 --> 00:25:37,340 Every day you have a choice that you're going to have to make the 337 00:25:37,340 --> 00:25:39,820 decision. If you are going to reflect the 338 00:25:39,860 --> 00:25:43,750 image of Christ properly, you're going to have to make the 339 00:25:43,750 --> 00:25:46,110 decision to put on the love of God. 340 00:25:46,270 --> 00:25:50,350 And that should be the first thing that people see within 341 00:25:50,350 --> 00:25:51,590 your life. Amen. 342 00:25:51,590 --> 00:25:55,390 The love of God. First Corinthians 16. 343 00:25:56,950 --> 00:25:59,670 Oh no, let me finish that. Colossians 314. 344 00:25:59,790 --> 00:26:04,590 Because I like the rest of that said, beyond all things, put on 345 00:26:04,590 --> 00:26:05,590 love. What? 346 00:26:05,830 --> 00:26:10,830 Which is the perfect bond of unity. 347 00:26:11,150 --> 00:26:14,960 You see that? When we begin to put on love, 348 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:17,320 what does it do? It unifies. 349 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:21,680 It will unify your marriage. It will unify your 350 00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:24,120 relationships. Come on. 351 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:27,200 It will unify the body of Christ. 352 00:26:27,360 --> 00:26:30,680 When we decide we're all just going to love one another. 353 00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:34,120 Yeah, that's what he says. We are going to be people that 354 00:26:34,120 --> 00:26:39,940 are known by our love. We're going to choose to put it 355 00:26:39,940 --> 00:26:42,180 on. And when we do that, that will 356 00:26:42,180 --> 00:26:46,820 bring a unity. Because God is always about 357 00:26:46,820 --> 00:26:49,500 unity. He is not about division. 358 00:26:49,660 --> 00:26:53,980 He's not about strife. He's not about discord. 359 00:26:55,180 --> 00:27:01,340 He's always about unity and building the body up, unified 360 00:27:01,500 --> 00:27:04,820 with one another in our differences. 361 00:27:05,340 --> 00:27:10,430 Amen. Hallelujah, 1st Corinthians 1614 362 00:27:10,430 --> 00:27:19,230 says, Let all that you do, say all that I do right Be done in 363 00:27:19,350 --> 00:27:23,190 love. That means everything, no matter 364 00:27:23,190 --> 00:27:25,830 what. Everything that you do, let it 365 00:27:25,830 --> 00:27:31,590 be done in love. Let it be done in love. 366 00:27:32,340 --> 00:27:35,060 I teach this in my Kingdom Institute class. 367 00:27:35,060 --> 00:27:39,380 That love is the foundation of the Kingdom, and love should be 368 00:27:39,380 --> 00:27:45,060 the motivation of everything that we are doing in the earth. 369 00:27:46,540 --> 00:27:50,700 I'm not doing anything because of you. 370 00:27:51,060 --> 00:27:54,540 I'm doing everything because of the love of the Father. 371 00:27:55,420 --> 00:28:01,920 That is my #1 motivation because of his love and what he has done 372 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:07,000 for me and for us. The motivating factor of my 373 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:11,840 heart is because of the love of God, and I want it to permeate 374 00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:14,680 right in everything that I'm doing. 375 00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:19,520 If I'm getting up to serve or whatever, I'm doing it because 376 00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:22,360 of the love of God. The love of God compels me. 377 00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:25,480 The scripture, I didn't read it, but there is a scripture that 378 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:27,880 said let the love of God compel you. 379 00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:34,800 Let it be your guiding point. Let it be the thing that's going 380 00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:38,800 to set your course love. So in everything that you're 381 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:42,680 doing, you're doing it by the motivation of the love of God. 382 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:47,480 Not from selfishness, not from a selfish desire, not because of 383 00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:50,120 tit for tat. You do this for me and I do that 384 00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:52,880 for you. There's no selfishness in it. 385 00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:57,360 It's just because he is love and I'm going to follow and emanate 386 00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:00,360 his love and I'm going to put it on and I'm going to do it no 387 00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:02,640 matter what. In everything. 388 00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:07,280 Everything and all of my serving and everything I'm doing. 389 00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:10,800 The fact that I go to my job is because I'm just love him. 390 00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:15,000 Everything should be motivated by the love of God. 391 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:18,800 You getting up and serving your husband, serving your wife, 392 00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:22,720 serving your children, doing things for your friend. 393 00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:26,280 Listen, it ought to be because of the motivation of love. 394 00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:29,080 And where there is love, there's no selfishness. 395 00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:31,600 So it doesn't matter if they say thank you. 396 00:29:35,990 --> 00:29:39,750 It doesn't matter if they don't appreciate that you made them 397 00:29:39,750 --> 00:29:43,190 this meal and brought it to their house when they were sick 398 00:29:43,190 --> 00:29:44,990 and you would think you would be able to. 399 00:29:45,590 --> 00:29:50,910 None of that matters if it's motivated by one thing, which is 400 00:29:50,910 --> 00:29:56,830 the love of God. If you never heard another thank 401 00:29:56,830 --> 00:29:59,110 you, would it still? Would you still do it? 402 00:30:00,190 --> 00:30:07,950 Because he said to do it? Come on. 403 00:30:08,190 --> 00:30:14,510 Everything, everything you do should be motivated by the love 404 00:30:14,510 --> 00:30:16,870 of God. Hallelujah. 405 00:30:17,590 --> 00:30:20,030 Glory to God. Not because they're your best 406 00:30:20,030 --> 00:30:26,510 friend, I'm just saying. Not because they're your best 407 00:30:26,510 --> 00:30:30,990 friend. No, the world does that for 408 00:30:30,990 --> 00:30:35,430 their friends. It's because of the love of God 409 00:30:36,750 --> 00:30:40,910 that should be the compel, compelling factor within your 410 00:30:40,910 --> 00:30:43,870 heart. I'm going to do what I do 411 00:30:43,870 --> 00:30:47,390 because of the love of God. And when you stay focused on 412 00:30:47,390 --> 00:30:53,110 that, you won't loud flesh and that selfish desire to creep in, 413 00:30:53,350 --> 00:30:55,910 you'll put it under. You'll say no, shut up. 414 00:30:55,910 --> 00:30:57,270 I don't care if they never tell me. 415 00:30:57,270 --> 00:30:59,870 Thank you again for the rest of my life. 416 00:31:00,950 --> 00:31:02,590 Because that's not why I'm doing it. 417 00:31:02,900 --> 00:31:06,180 I'm not doing it for thank you. I'm not doing it for you're the 418 00:31:06,180 --> 00:31:09,100 best. I'm not doing it for any guilt 419 00:31:09,100 --> 00:31:15,940 trip or form a manipulation out of a selfish desire. 420 00:31:16,140 --> 00:31:19,300 I'm doing it because of the love of God and the love of God of 421 00:31:19,300 --> 00:31:21,660 all alone. That compels me. 422 00:31:22,580 --> 00:31:30,480 You see that? So it says this and Proverbs 79 423 00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:36,200 He who conceals A transgression seeks love, but he who repeats a 424 00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:38,760 matter separates intimate friends. 425 00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:47,640 Man, man, O man, O man, O man. We and the body of Christ need 426 00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:56,320 to just keep our mouths shut about people in our body because 427 00:31:56,320 --> 00:32:01,800 it's nobody's business that's loving. 428 00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:07,720 I don't have a right to go around and just talk about other 429 00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:10,800 people's business and what's going on in their life and what 430 00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:17,440 I think about it. I don't go around talking about 431 00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:20,160 your life and what's going on in your life. 432 00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:25,120 So what gives people the right to think that they can go around 433 00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:29,360 and talk about other people in the body and things they may be 434 00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:32,800 dealing with or things they may be growing through or not even 435 00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:37,040 that you just have an opinion about this person and you've 436 00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:39,160 shared that opinion with someone else. 437 00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:42,040 And you know what that is? It's called gossip. 438 00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:48,880 It's called gossip. But we've made it like, oh, I'm 439 00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:50,800 just concerned. You're not concerned. 440 00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:54,740 You just want to be in everybody's business and you 441 00:32:54,740 --> 00:32:58,220 want to have your opinion about everybody and you want to talk 442 00:32:58,220 --> 00:33:01,140 about everybody. It's not right. 443 00:33:01,940 --> 00:33:05,660 It's not right. It's not right. 444 00:33:07,500 --> 00:33:09,540 It's not right. Say it again. 445 00:33:12,140 --> 00:33:15,140 We need to learn to just keep our mouth shut. 446 00:33:16,300 --> 00:33:22,140 I I understand why. You know, one of the things they 447 00:33:22,140 --> 00:33:25,530 said about Brother Hagan was that he never talked. 448 00:33:26,050 --> 00:33:30,210 He never talked. You know that I bet there was a 449 00:33:30,210 --> 00:33:37,250 lot that he could talk about, a lot of things he saw and dealt 450 00:33:37,250 --> 00:33:42,970 with and went through and still people on Google talking about 451 00:33:42,970 --> 00:33:45,650 him today and he's been in the grave over 20 years. 452 00:33:47,090 --> 00:33:50,490 But he never said not one thing about anybody, wouldn't even 453 00:33:50,490 --> 00:33:52,690 share his opinion about what he thought. 454 00:33:55,030 --> 00:33:56,470 When are we going to get to that? 455 00:33:56,910 --> 00:33:59,590 You know why we're not? Because we're Americanized. 456 00:33:59,910 --> 00:34:04,110 Because it's, you know, what's what's on the next tabloid. 457 00:34:04,950 --> 00:34:08,750 Let's talk about everything going on like we just can openly 458 00:34:08,750 --> 00:34:11,150 talk about it and it's no big deal. 459 00:34:11,310 --> 00:34:13,909 No, it's talking about people's lives. 460 00:34:14,350 --> 00:34:19,190 It's talking about people, joking about people, what you 461 00:34:19,190 --> 00:34:22,590 think about them. And it's coarse, gesturing, all 462 00:34:22,590 --> 00:34:24,710 those things. It's not right. 463 00:34:25,949 --> 00:34:28,949 It's not the love of God, Because the love of God will 464 00:34:28,949 --> 00:34:34,110 conceal, it will protect, it will cover. 465 00:34:35,870 --> 00:34:39,190 We have no right talking about other people's business. 466 00:34:40,630 --> 00:34:44,250 Amen. But he who repeats a matter 467 00:34:44,250 --> 00:34:47,489 separates friends. You know, people, Friends get 468 00:34:47,489 --> 00:34:50,170 mad at each other. People in the body get mad at 469 00:34:50,170 --> 00:34:53,730 each other because they heard so and so said this about them. 470 00:34:55,409 --> 00:35:02,050 It separates, friends separates. It brings what Division. 471 00:35:02,650 --> 00:35:06,490 It brings division. So we ought to, we need to just 472 00:35:06,890 --> 00:35:13,990 take a little break from our mouths and just say, I don't 473 00:35:13,990 --> 00:35:16,390 have an opinion on the matter and I don't want to hear it. 474 00:35:16,430 --> 00:35:18,350 Can we ever start getting to that? 475 00:35:18,350 --> 00:35:24,230 That would be maturity. I don't want to hear this move 476 00:35:24,230 --> 00:35:28,310 along, right. Can we ever get to that? 477 00:35:29,670 --> 00:35:32,070 I believe we can because we must. 478 00:35:32,630 --> 00:35:35,190 Because it's wrong. It brings strife, It brings 479 00:35:35,190 --> 00:35:37,390 division. It's gossip and it's not right. 480 00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:42,160 It's not right before God and it and it hurts people's lives. 481 00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:46,720 So let's move on. The next thing that we're going 482 00:35:46,720 --> 00:35:49,680 to have to display, and it starts in verse eight. 483 00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:53,040 It says we're going to have to display light. 484 00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:56,840 For you were once in darkness, This is Ephesians 5, verse 485 00:35:56,840 --> 00:36:01,880 eight, you were once in darkness, but now you are light 486 00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:06,360 in the Lord. Walk as children in the light. 487 00:36:07,350 --> 00:36:12,110 Walk as children in the light. So #1 if we're going to display 488 00:36:12,110 --> 00:36:16,550 Christ, we're going to have to walk in love. #2 if we're going 489 00:36:16,550 --> 00:36:20,910 to display him properly, people ought to see us walking in the 490 00:36:20,910 --> 00:36:24,830 light. That means there is no longer 491 00:36:24,830 --> 00:36:29,510 any any shadow of darkness in my life. 492 00:36:30,950 --> 00:36:34,670 No darkness within my life. Only light. 493 00:36:35,300 --> 00:36:40,900 There's no shadows in me. That means who I am, you see 494 00:36:40,900 --> 00:36:42,660 every day. That's who I am. 495 00:36:42,980 --> 00:36:45,540 There's nothing being done in secret. 496 00:36:45,860 --> 00:36:49,100 But do you know, if it's not in secret, even the light will 497 00:36:49,100 --> 00:36:54,460 expose it. So we are to walk in light. 498 00:36:54,620 --> 00:36:59,260 We were made to display and permeate the light of God. 499 00:36:59,340 --> 00:37:02,260 Amen. It says walk as children of 500 00:37:02,260 --> 00:37:04,780 light. And what is the light consist of 501 00:37:04,780 --> 00:37:07,700 the fruit of the Spirit. It consists of goodness, 502 00:37:07,740 --> 00:37:10,300 righteousness. There's that word righteousness 503 00:37:10,660 --> 00:37:13,460 that Pastor talked about and the truth. 504 00:37:13,660 --> 00:37:17,500 We will not walk as children of the light or in the light. 505 00:37:17,500 --> 00:37:21,940 If we are not in the word, the truth of God's word. 506 00:37:23,180 --> 00:37:25,820 We won't, we won't be able to walk it out. 507 00:37:26,020 --> 00:37:29,700 We'll begin to have that warped image as well. 508 00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:32,280 That reflection will look warped. 509 00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:40,120 If you're not gaining your the by the Holy Spirit, the truth of 510 00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:43,360 God's word, you're not going to be able to permeate that light 511 00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:46,880 correctly. It says finding out what is 512 00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:50,560 acceptable to the Lord. We have a responsibility to find 513 00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:53,440 out what is acceptable to the Lord and what is not. 514 00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:57,040 And the way we do that is through His truth, through the 515 00:37:57,040 --> 00:38:02,100 Word of God, and letting the light and the revelation and the 516 00:38:02,100 --> 00:38:08,820 illumination of His Word come to our Spirit and our mind. 517 00:38:09,260 --> 00:38:13,180 Amen, it says. And have no fellowship with the 518 00:38:13,180 --> 00:38:17,020 unfruitful works of darkness. Amen. 519 00:38:17,020 --> 00:38:20,940 So we should not be participating in any forms of 520 00:38:20,940 --> 00:38:29,280 darkness, any forms of darkness, but rather expose them, rather 521 00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:33,320 exposed them. And there are all kinds of forms 522 00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:36,960 of darkness that believers still want to dabble in. 523 00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:42,720 One of them is crystals, This new rage of crystals that is 524 00:38:42,720 --> 00:38:45,760 witchcraft. And there is darkness there, and 525 00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:48,240 we should not be dabbling in them. 526 00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:56,640 Amen. So I it says, but rather expose 527 00:38:56,640 --> 00:39:00,240 it so I'm exposing it. Don't be messing around with 528 00:39:00,240 --> 00:39:09,000 crystals, OK, so he says, expose them. 529 00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:14,040 For it is shameful even to speak of those which are done by them 530 00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:17,400 in secret. But all things that are exposed 531 00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:22,570 are made manifest by the light. For whatever makes manifest, for 532 00:39:22,570 --> 00:39:24,570 whatever makes manifest, is light. 533 00:39:24,570 --> 00:39:28,730 Therefore, he says, awake You who sleep arise from the dead. 534 00:39:28,930 --> 00:39:35,810 Christ will give you what light when he says to walk in love, 535 00:39:35,810 --> 00:39:38,650 when he says to walk in the light. 536 00:39:38,650 --> 00:39:46,850 That word, walk, means to regulate one's life, to conduct 537 00:39:47,050 --> 00:39:55,410 one's life, to make one's progress and to be occupied. 538 00:39:56,450 --> 00:40:00,930 To be occupied. We should be occupied by the 539 00:40:00,930 --> 00:40:03,650 love of God. We should be occupied by the 540 00:40:03,650 --> 00:40:07,610 light of God. We should be walking in it every 541 00:40:07,610 --> 00:40:12,650 day, every day. We should allow the light and 542 00:40:12,650 --> 00:40:16,010 the love of God to regulate our lives. 543 00:40:16,610 --> 00:40:20,730 That means when I am, whatever I'm doing through the day. 544 00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:24,240 I'm regulating whatever decisions I'm making through the 545 00:40:24,240 --> 00:40:26,760 day. However it is, Whatever is going 546 00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:30,480 on in my life, I'm going to regulate my life, make those 547 00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:36,360 decisions for my life, govern my life by the light of God's Word 548 00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:39,960 and the love of God. Period. 549 00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:43,200 Those need to be. I don't do anything if the Word 550 00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:46,560 doesn't say it. I'm not going to participate in 551 00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:49,600 anything that the Word says not to participate in. 552 00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:56,800 That's how I regulate my life. If it is not appropriate with 553 00:40:56,800 --> 00:41:01,120 God, then it's not appropriate for me to be engaged in it. 554 00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:05,400 Amen. That's how I regulate my life. 555 00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:08,480 It's not just that I come to church. 556 00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:11,480 I regulate my life by the word of God. 557 00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:14,840 I walk in the love of God. I walk in the light of God. 558 00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:19,520 I walk by the word of God regulating my life. 559 00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:25,520 Amen. First John One, First John 1537. 560 00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:28,040 It says this. This is the message we have 561 00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:33,560 heard from him and announced to you that God is light, and in 562 00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:39,240 him there is no darkness at all. So we should not be 563 00:41:39,240 --> 00:41:44,220 participating with dark deeds. Amen, It says. 564 00:41:44,420 --> 00:41:48,700 If we say that we have fellowship with him and yet walk 565 00:41:48,700 --> 00:41:52,380 in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. 566 00:41:53,340 --> 00:41:56,380 Let's say you're not born again. It just says you don't practice 567 00:41:56,380 --> 00:42:00,020 the truth. You don't regulate your life by 568 00:42:00,020 --> 00:42:01,940 the word. There's plenty of believers that 569 00:42:01,940 --> 00:42:05,060 do not regulate their life by the truth of God's word. 570 00:42:05,380 --> 00:42:09,980 They don't live for the word of God and by the live of by the 571 00:42:09,980 --> 00:42:12,060 word of God. They don't live by it. 572 00:42:12,060 --> 00:42:15,100 They don't walk by it. They just are religious. 573 00:42:15,100 --> 00:42:18,740 They they think they got saved and they're good to go so that 574 00:42:18,740 --> 00:42:20,540 one day when they die, they go to heaven. 575 00:42:20,540 --> 00:42:23,580 Yet they don't regulate their life by the word, by the truth 576 00:42:23,580 --> 00:42:25,980 of God's word. So therefore they still 577 00:42:26,180 --> 00:42:28,660 participate in deeds of darkness. 578 00:42:28,660 --> 00:42:37,100 You see that? But he goes on to say what? 579 00:42:37,220 --> 00:42:41,320 What verse was I in? Verse six. 580 00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:46,240 So if we say we're partakers together and enjoy fellowship 581 00:42:46,240 --> 00:42:51,600 with him, when we live and move and are walking about in 582 00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:55,480 darkness, we are both speaking falsely and do not live and 583 00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:59,600 practice the truth which the gospel presents, which the 584 00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:02,960 gospel presents. You live in your own truth, 585 00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:06,720 thinking you going to die and go to heaven, but that's not the 586 00:43:06,720 --> 00:43:10,190 truth the gospel presents. You see that? 587 00:43:11,510 --> 00:43:15,070 And then he goes on to say. But if we are really living and 588 00:43:15,070 --> 00:43:19,590 walking in the light as he himself is in the light, we have 589 00:43:19,590 --> 00:43:24,870 true and unbroken fellowship. I'm reading Out of the Amplified 590 00:43:26,430 --> 00:43:31,270 with One another and the blood of Christ his Son cleanses and 591 00:43:31,270 --> 00:43:35,850 removes us from all sin and guilt and keeps us cleansed from 592 00:43:35,850 --> 00:43:40,690 sin in all it forms and manifestation in all its forms 593 00:43:40,690 --> 00:43:44,250 and manifestation. So we are to walk in the light. 594 00:43:44,650 --> 00:43:49,170 Amen. This is important because in 595 00:43:49,170 --> 00:43:51,610 Matthew there's several other scriptures, but I'm going to 596 00:43:51,610 --> 00:43:56,330 move on because of our time. In Matthew chapter 5, verse 14 597 00:43:56,330 --> 00:44:02,050 concerning the light, Jesus says this that you are the light of 598 00:44:02,050 --> 00:44:06,070 the world. You're the light of the world, a 599 00:44:06,070 --> 00:44:10,350 city that is set on a hill that cannot be hidden. 600 00:44:11,750 --> 00:44:17,950 So if we are going to display the true image of God, then 601 00:44:17,950 --> 00:44:22,550 we're going to have to let his light shine before the world 602 00:44:22,550 --> 00:44:28,940 come on and have no shadows of darkness within our lives, he 603 00:44:28,940 --> 00:44:31,660 says. You are the light of the world. 604 00:44:31,660 --> 00:44:35,100 That means people should see you and see the light. 605 00:44:35,460 --> 00:44:40,900 Listen, people ought to be drawn to you, just like bugs are drawn 606 00:44:40,900 --> 00:44:46,620 to the light. Absolutely. 607 00:44:48,060 --> 00:44:52,060 You turn off, turn on the light at night, and what happens? 608 00:44:52,740 --> 00:44:57,320 All the mosquitoes are out, All the bugs are flying. 609 00:44:57,320 --> 00:45:00,480 The flies, the gnats, whatever. And what are they doing? 610 00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:07,760 They're coming to the light. All the bugs, all the creeps, 611 00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:13,120 all the things in this world. They ought to be drawn to you by 612 00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:16,960 the light. They should see the light of God 613 00:45:16,960 --> 00:45:21,200 within you, so bright shining that people are just drawn to 614 00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:22,880 you. Amen. 615 00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:25,040 They just want to come be around you. 616 00:45:25,900 --> 00:45:31,060 There's something about you that is illuminating the life of God 617 00:45:31,060 --> 00:45:32,700 and the light of God. And they. 618 00:45:32,980 --> 00:45:36,020 I'm telling you, we've have people all the time. 619 00:45:36,900 --> 00:45:39,980 And now we've made like, this little. 620 00:45:39,980 --> 00:45:42,940 I don't know, I guess we're just like the pastors of this 621 00:45:42,940 --> 00:45:46,820 restaurant that we go to all the time. 622 00:45:47,780 --> 00:45:51,100 And one little girl was a waitress in there, and she's 623 00:45:51,100 --> 00:45:55,060 been a waitress for a while. And every time she's like, why'd 624 00:45:55,060 --> 00:45:58,060 you come in and didn't tell them that I wanted to be your waiter, 625 00:45:58,460 --> 00:46:02,420 you know, waitress. And anyway, so we've been 626 00:46:02,700 --> 00:46:07,380 sharing with her and loving on her and and all this stuff and 627 00:46:07,380 --> 00:46:10,620 ministering to her and they just love to come. 628 00:46:10,620 --> 00:46:13,540 I mean, the owner of the restaurant calls us Pastor Earl, 629 00:46:13,900 --> 00:46:15,900 You know, he knows we're pastors. 630 00:46:16,620 --> 00:46:22,210 And so anyway, we were sitting there minding our business, 631 00:46:22,330 --> 00:46:26,170 having lunch, but they can't not stop and come to the table. 632 00:46:27,690 --> 00:46:29,570 And so she came. She said, I just want to let you 633 00:46:29,570 --> 00:46:33,170 know, like she want to let me know that she wasn't going to be 634 00:46:33,170 --> 00:46:37,250 working there anymore, that she got a new job and told me where 635 00:46:37,250 --> 00:46:41,570 her new job was going to be and all this stuff and, you know, 636 00:46:41,570 --> 00:46:45,980 asked us to just be, you know, pray with her and that she would 637 00:46:45,980 --> 00:46:48,340 do good at this new job. She's stepping out. 638 00:46:48,340 --> 00:46:51,220 She had been in the restaurant business for over 20 something 639 00:46:51,220 --> 00:46:54,460 years. I mean, she's a young girl, so 640 00:46:54,460 --> 00:47:01,180 she started when she was 15. And so anyway, you know, and I 641 00:47:01,180 --> 00:47:04,380 thought, wow, this is really cool that they want to come up 642 00:47:04,740 --> 00:47:08,780 and tell us they're no longer going to be here seeing us. 643 00:47:08,820 --> 00:47:11,260 And she said, I'm going to miss seeing y'all because you always 644 00:47:11,500 --> 00:47:15,190 so happy when you come in, you know, But I just want to let you 645 00:47:15,190 --> 00:47:17,430 know I'm going to be going over here. 646 00:47:17,430 --> 00:47:19,230 I'm not getting fired or anything. 647 00:47:19,470 --> 00:47:22,470 I'm, you know, taking another position. 648 00:47:22,470 --> 00:47:24,150 And I thought, wow, you know what? 649 00:47:24,150 --> 00:47:26,950 They see the light of God. They see the life of God. 650 00:47:27,150 --> 00:47:31,470 They they want to come and talk and they know there's something 651 00:47:32,550 --> 00:47:34,710 and one day they're going to know. 652 00:47:35,270 --> 00:47:37,430 They're going to know there is something, right? 653 00:47:37,980 --> 00:47:42,860 But Matthew 516, it says this let your light show shine before 654 00:47:42,860 --> 00:47:48,740 men that they may see your good works and glorify your father. 655 00:47:49,780 --> 00:47:54,100 So what happens when you are letting your light shine? 656 00:47:54,300 --> 00:47:57,460 They're going to see. I mean, this guy that owns the 657 00:47:57,460 --> 00:48:01,220 restaurant that we go to, he's always coming and talking to 658 00:48:01,220 --> 00:48:04,260 Pastor Earl about what we're doing in the mall when she's 659 00:48:04,260 --> 00:48:07,280 never even been. But he sees everything that is 660 00:48:07,280 --> 00:48:10,040 going on and he's building a new restaurant. 661 00:48:10,040 --> 00:48:13,080 And so him and pastor are talking about building and 662 00:48:13,080 --> 00:48:18,400 permits and all kinds of stuff and relating to him and sharing 663 00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:22,480 with him and to where now every time we come in, it's Pastor 664 00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:25,760 Earl and he makes sure we have a table and all these things. 665 00:48:26,040 --> 00:48:30,520 And I'm thinking, you know what our light is being shown? 666 00:48:30,520 --> 00:48:34,760 And do you know what it is? So that they can see the good 667 00:48:34,760 --> 00:48:37,440 works. People can see the works that 668 00:48:37,440 --> 00:48:39,360 you're doing for the Kingdom of God. 669 00:48:39,640 --> 00:48:43,160 They see the things taking place in your life and the 670 00:48:43,160 --> 00:48:46,840 demonstration of what God is doing through your life to 671 00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:51,120 advance the Kingdom of God. And that will bring glory to 672 00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:53,320 God. Even though they're lost. 673 00:48:56,240 --> 00:49:02,330 They'll see this thing must really work, and that is great. 674 00:49:02,330 --> 00:49:07,090 That should be our desire is that people see, hey, we're a 675 00:49:07,090 --> 00:49:10,050 part of a Kingdom that really works in the earth. 676 00:49:10,290 --> 00:49:14,850 And if you'll just watch, you'll see right the manifestation and 677 00:49:14,850 --> 00:49:19,050 the demonstrations of the glory of God and the power of God. 678 00:49:19,330 --> 00:49:23,490 So much so that when people look upon the city, they'll see God, 679 00:49:25,410 --> 00:49:30,290 they'll see his glory, and they won't be able to deny it. 680 00:49:31,530 --> 00:49:34,370 They won't be able to deny it. Amen. 681 00:49:34,690 --> 00:49:38,810 So it brings glory to him when you actually are producing 682 00:49:38,810 --> 00:49:42,930 things in the Kingdom of God. Proverbs 418 it says. 683 00:49:42,930 --> 00:49:48,410 But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn that 684 00:49:48,410 --> 00:49:52,970 shines brighter and brighter until the full day. 685 00:49:52,970 --> 00:49:57,360 Hallelujah, it shines brighter and brighter. 686 00:49:57,440 --> 00:50:00,600 We don't have to worry about it. We're just going to be shine and 687 00:50:00,600 --> 00:50:06,920 brighter because the world is going to be so dark, right? 688 00:50:06,920 --> 00:50:10,000 If this room pastor said this before, if we cut off all the 689 00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:14,000 lights in this room and we just struck one match, what would it 690 00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:15,840 do? It would lie. 691 00:50:15,840 --> 00:50:19,080 It would drive out darkness and light up this whole room. 1 692 00:50:19,080 --> 00:50:23,020 little match and that's what it is. 693 00:50:23,220 --> 00:50:27,780 One little person that has the light of God going in and out 694 00:50:27,780 --> 00:50:30,700 through our community letting it shine. 695 00:50:30,820 --> 00:50:35,540 It is pushing back darkness and people can see the light of God. 696 00:50:36,020 --> 00:50:37,940 Amen. Hallelujah. 697 00:50:38,260 --> 00:50:42,180 Now let me read Philippians 215 real quick. 698 00:50:42,300 --> 00:50:46,470 I want to close, it says so that you will prove yourselves to be 699 00:50:46,470 --> 00:50:49,750 blameless and innocent children of God above reproach. 700 00:50:49,750 --> 00:50:55,150 In the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom 701 00:50:55,390 --> 00:51:02,630 you appear as lights in the world, in a perverse and wicked 702 00:51:02,630 --> 00:51:06,670 generation, you appear lights to the world. 703 00:51:07,630 --> 00:51:13,060 We need to just keep letting our light shine, shining before all 704 00:51:13,220 --> 00:51:14,740 men. Amen. 705 00:51:15,220 --> 00:51:18,660 He is light, and in him there is no darkness. 706 00:51:18,700 --> 00:51:22,380 And therefore we are going to be full of light, full of love, 707 00:51:22,620 --> 00:51:27,020 displaying what it looks like to live in the Kingdom of God so 708 00:51:27,020 --> 00:51:31,500 that the world will be drawn to us. 709 00:51:31,620 --> 00:51:33,900 Amen. And the Third Point, which I 710 00:51:33,900 --> 00:51:39,300 won't be able to get to, is that we say it's in verse 15 of 711 00:51:39,300 --> 00:51:42,430 Ephesians 5. See then that you walk 712 00:51:42,630 --> 00:51:50,310 circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time 713 00:51:50,310 --> 00:51:56,350 because the days are evil. Again, three things that we are 714 00:51:56,350 --> 00:52:01,130 supposed to display Love, light and wisdom. 715 00:52:01,330 --> 00:52:06,530 Wisdom to the world. 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