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 --> 00:00:17,120 Now enjoy this message. Well, it's so good to be here 4 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:18,560 with you. You know, last week we talked 5 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:23,960 about Repent, about getting a change of thinking and it's 6 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:27,640 moving me over into a thought process today that's really 7 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:31,280 important for us. Because the world needs us to 8 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:33,800 live righteous. Amen. 9 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:38,480 We were made to display. I said we were made to display. 10 00:00:39,160 --> 00:00:42,080 And so turn over to Matthew. Chapter 633 is your turn In 11 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:43,240 there. I want to remind you a very 12 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:45,320 familiar verse that I use often here. 13 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:49,600 It's in Matthew 15, three where Jesus Christ himself said, why 14 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:51,120 do you forsake the commandments of God? 15 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:54,640 For the sake of your traditions? And, you know, there's a lot of 16 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:58,000 traditions out there that even try to use scripture. 17 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:00,480 And it takes things out of context. 18 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:04,200 And, you know, I've been around people who honestly just want to 19 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:08,760 do right. But they have some of the most 20 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:13,520 frustrated lives because there's nothing more frustrating than 21 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:19,640 trying to do right and still feel like you ain't right. 22 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:26,320 That on the inside, that action did not achieve the goal of 23 00:01:26,320 --> 00:01:29,500 personal peace. It hasn't brought you to the 24 00:01:29,500 --> 00:01:33,860 place that you're all that you're trying to do to do right. 25 00:01:33,940 --> 00:01:36,580 Couldn't get you there. In fact, Paul himself said this. 26 00:01:36,820 --> 00:01:42,100 He said, you know, everything I was trying to do and not do. 27 00:01:42,100 --> 00:01:47,340 I found myself doing what I wasn't wanting to do, no matter 28 00:01:47,340 --> 00:01:50,900 how much I tried, he said. The things I didn't want to do, 29 00:01:50,900 --> 00:01:53,140 I found myself actually doing them. 30 00:01:55,420 --> 00:01:57,140 And then he just acknowledged man. 31 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:01,240 I'm, I'm just in sin. I can't get out, he said. 32 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:03,920 Who's going to help me? He said thanks be to God. 33 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:08,759 He said thanks be to God that he causes us to triumph in Christ 34 00:02:08,759 --> 00:02:09,600 Jesus. Amen. 35 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:14,320 So again, you know, obviously as a church we have people that 36 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:17,440 come into from other churches, from other backgrounds, all 37 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:20,040 kinds of things. And that's why we say, you know, 38 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:22,680 there may be a tradition that you've heard, and when we go 39 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:25,000 through scripture, you may have to abandon that tradition. 40 00:02:25,580 --> 00:02:27,820 So that you follow the plan of God #2. 41 00:02:27,820 --> 00:02:30,500 We also say this, you don't need to believe anything. 42 00:02:30,500 --> 00:02:31,940 I'm saying just cause I'm saying it. 43 00:02:32,340 --> 00:02:34,900 But if you'll search the scripture for yourself, then you 44 00:02:34,900 --> 00:02:38,260 know the Holy Ghost is going to teach you and guide you in the 45 00:02:38,260 --> 00:02:40,540 right direction. Are you hearing me? 46 00:02:41,740 --> 00:02:43,380 Amen. I think to myself, especially 47 00:02:43,380 --> 00:02:45,540 when we do our confession over our offering, I'm thinking, you 48 00:02:45,540 --> 00:02:47,780 know, first time guests could think, wow, these people are 49 00:02:47,780 --> 00:02:50,460 just like, you know, reciting things. 50 00:02:50,460 --> 00:02:53,380 Well, you know, when I go to a game, there's cheers that take 51 00:02:53,380 --> 00:02:56,420 place. And everybody's reciting 52 00:02:56,420 --> 00:02:59,860 something together now. We all, nobody even talks about 53 00:02:59,860 --> 00:03:02,580 that, right? But that don't bring any change. 54 00:03:03,060 --> 00:03:09,340 I would love to believe that the cheerleaders actually change the 55 00:03:09,340 --> 00:03:14,020 game. That's why when they lose, I 56 00:03:14,020 --> 00:03:18,460 always blame the cheerleader. I'm gonna say it's your fault 57 00:03:19,220 --> 00:03:22,100 because I mean, you're cheering. Supposed to inspire the team 58 00:03:22,100 --> 00:03:24,180 now. I do believe that there is. 59 00:03:24,740 --> 00:03:31,060 A place where the emotions and the energy that is in the 60 00:03:31,060 --> 00:03:37,260 stadium will affect the players. I do believe that absolutely. 61 00:03:37,540 --> 00:03:41,700 But at the end of the day, they win because they actually 62 00:03:41,900 --> 00:03:48,300 achieve the plan. So their focus may get a little 63 00:03:48,300 --> 00:03:52,820 more focused because they realize this win would mean a 64 00:03:52,820 --> 00:03:57,000 lot more. To win just for me, but 65 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,560 everybody in the stands and at the end of the day you still 66 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:04,160 have to be focused to carry out the game plan. 67 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:06,680 Are you hearing me? You know, we were made to 68 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:10,080 display some things because God wants us to carry out a plan. 69 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:14,680 Are you hearing me? And in Matthew 633 he's very 70 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:20,200 clear, he says. But seek first his Kingdom and. 71 00:04:21,329 --> 00:04:23,370 His righteousness. So it's not just his Kingdom. 72 00:04:23,370 --> 00:04:27,170 Because here's the thing, you can't seek his Kingdom and get 73 00:04:27,170 --> 00:04:34,410 separated from His righteousness because the Kingdom is going to 74 00:04:34,410 --> 00:04:37,810 let us know what's the right way of doing it. 75 00:04:37,810 --> 00:04:43,530 The King's way, who is by all right life and love. 76 00:04:44,410 --> 00:04:48,580 He is the author of creation. This is why we've said often, 77 00:04:48,580 --> 00:04:52,100 you know, when it all comes down to it, it comes down to who are 78 00:04:52,100 --> 00:04:54,420 you going to let define the words you're thinking? 79 00:04:56,620 --> 00:04:59,420 Who are you going to let give you the definition of that? 80 00:05:00,060 --> 00:05:02,900 If we're going to actually take the time of why we are doing 81 00:05:02,900 --> 00:05:06,340 what we do based upon what we've heard, well then let's go back 82 00:05:06,340 --> 00:05:10,460 to the author of words for the Scripture says in the beginning. 83 00:05:11,540 --> 00:05:15,580 I said in the beginning, before there was a heaven and earth. 84 00:05:15,990 --> 00:05:21,110 In the beginning, God. In the beginning was God, and 85 00:05:21,110 --> 00:05:24,230 the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 86 00:05:24,830 --> 00:05:29,110 So God is the author of words, so he has the right to define 87 00:05:29,110 --> 00:05:31,030 them. Amen. 88 00:05:31,030 --> 00:05:36,310 And anyone else defining God's words is going to fail. 89 00:05:36,870 --> 00:05:41,710 And even when you try to define it to be right, it will be 90 00:05:41,710 --> 00:05:44,100 wrong. Now, what do I mean by that? 91 00:05:44,220 --> 00:05:49,100 The Bible says is there's a way that seems right to a man, but 92 00:05:49,100 --> 00:05:51,900 what happens in the end is death. 93 00:05:52,180 --> 00:05:54,420 Now, death is not ceasing to exist. 94 00:05:54,420 --> 00:05:58,260 Death just means to be separated, to be separated. 95 00:05:58,660 --> 00:06:03,260 And you understand there's a way that you can try to do things 96 00:06:03,260 --> 00:06:06,900 and still be separated from God, and that is a very frustrating 97 00:06:06,900 --> 00:06:10,530 existence. Because in all rights, based 98 00:06:10,530 --> 00:06:13,170 upon all that you're trying to do, you really just don't want 99 00:06:13,170 --> 00:06:16,290 to be at odds with the Creator, correct? 100 00:06:16,770 --> 00:06:18,410 I mean, we don't want to be at all, in fact, the whole 101 00:06:18,410 --> 00:06:19,970 humanity. I mean, there are very few 102 00:06:19,970 --> 00:06:24,810 people that literally want to be against God, but at the end of 103 00:06:24,810 --> 00:06:28,370 the day, they're still worshipping something, right? 104 00:06:28,810 --> 00:06:31,250 You know, if you get into Satanic worship, you know which 105 00:06:31,250 --> 00:06:35,330 is against God. Well, he's a God anyway to you. 106 00:06:36,330 --> 00:06:38,490 And for whatever reason, you think he'll win, but he's 107 00:06:38,490 --> 00:06:42,130 already been defeated, and that's unfortunate, All right. 108 00:06:42,330 --> 00:06:44,650 For the ones that say I don't even believe in a God, that's 109 00:06:44,650 --> 00:06:48,290 not true. Because the reality is there's 110 00:06:48,290 --> 00:06:52,450 something you're always believing in, and anything you 111 00:06:52,450 --> 00:06:54,370 put in front of God becomes a God. 112 00:06:55,850 --> 00:06:59,210 So no one can say I don't believe in God, because then 113 00:06:59,210 --> 00:07:02,730 anything you pursue is your God, period. 114 00:07:04,100 --> 00:07:08,340 In fact Jesus himself did not acknowledge the gods of the 115 00:07:08,340 --> 00:07:12,020 world that man has made, but he did acknowledge 1. 116 00:07:12,900 --> 00:07:18,380 Not because it's an actual God, but it functions like God is was 117 00:07:18,380 --> 00:07:22,860 to function in your life and that was mammon because here in 118 00:07:22,860 --> 00:07:27,980 Matthew 6 he says you can't serve both God and mammon or 119 00:07:27,980 --> 00:07:29,460 wealth. Now he didn't say you can't have 120 00:07:29,460 --> 00:07:31,860 wealth, he just said you can't serve both. 121 00:07:32,450 --> 00:07:33,810 Because you'll love one and hate the other. 122 00:07:33,810 --> 00:07:40,250 In essence, he says, money has a way to get inside you and and 123 00:07:40,250 --> 00:07:45,610 govern how you live. Many people have said, well, I 124 00:07:45,610 --> 00:07:49,490 can't afford, well, who said you can't afford your wallet? 125 00:07:49,490 --> 00:07:55,450 Or God, because there's many things I've done without it 126 00:07:55,450 --> 00:07:59,650 being in my wallet. But before I got to the place 127 00:07:59,650 --> 00:08:03,490 that it was necessary to have some kind of finance, God was 128 00:08:03,490 --> 00:08:07,050 able to get it to me. Either get it to me directly or 129 00:08:07,050 --> 00:08:12,010 get it through someone to me or God just let someone say don't 130 00:08:12,010 --> 00:08:15,650 worry about paying. At the end of the day, I did 131 00:08:15,650 --> 00:08:18,850 what I was to do because God said do it, not because my 132 00:08:18,850 --> 00:08:25,010 wallet did Hallelujah. So my car doesn't define me. 133 00:08:27,060 --> 00:08:30,420 Are you hearing me? So whether I'm driving something 134 00:08:30,420 --> 00:08:33,500 that people would not consider luxurious, or whether I am 135 00:08:37,820 --> 00:08:40,860 because the car itself doesn't, my house does not define me. 136 00:08:43,220 --> 00:08:46,860 Notice how we put definitions? I'm a millionaire. 137 00:08:46,980 --> 00:08:48,700 Well, no, you're not. You're a child of God that 138 00:08:48,700 --> 00:08:52,460 happens to have $1,000,000 and that's a different perspective. 139 00:08:53,610 --> 00:08:57,090 So what we identify ourselves with actually becomes our God. 140 00:08:59,250 --> 00:09:03,650 And anyone who is doing this is still trying to live a right 141 00:09:03,650 --> 00:09:07,010 life. I get it, I get it. 142 00:09:07,450 --> 00:09:10,170 But in order for us to actually live a right life, we have to 143 00:09:10,210 --> 00:09:14,610 actually seek His righteousness. It says this, but seek first His 144 00:09:14,610 --> 00:09:17,530 Kingdom and his righteousness. Now, if you'll just do those two 145 00:09:17,530 --> 00:09:21,950 things, what will occur? All the things, all these things 146 00:09:21,950 --> 00:09:23,590 will be added to you. Now if you want to know what 147 00:09:23,590 --> 00:09:25,590 these things are, you have to actually go back up a few 148 00:09:25,590 --> 00:09:27,190 verses. And he says don't worry about 149 00:09:27,190 --> 00:09:28,670 what you're going to eat, what you're going to drink, what 150 00:09:28,670 --> 00:09:30,230 you're going to wear. And that's he said don't worry 151 00:09:30,230 --> 00:09:32,230 about the necessity of life. Don't worry about what's going 152 00:09:32,230 --> 00:09:35,910 to come to you in things when life, because I can get that to 153 00:09:35,910 --> 00:09:39,190 you, no problem. And man, I can be a living 154 00:09:39,190 --> 00:09:41,310 testimony of God getting it to me no problem. 155 00:09:42,060 --> 00:09:44,100 No problem. Because if I just do the first 156 00:09:44,100 --> 00:09:47,900 two, I'm guaranteed the rest. And what happens is I actually 157 00:09:47,900 --> 00:09:49,900 get what everybody else is worrying. 158 00:09:50,180 --> 00:09:56,780 To get what everybody's in anxious to have, what 159 00:09:56,780 --> 00:10:01,220 everybody's in turmoil, to possess God, just hand it to us 160 00:10:01,660 --> 00:10:05,060 because we seek His Kingdom and His righteousness. 161 00:10:05,060 --> 00:10:08,140 Righteousness is not a religious word, and neither is Kingdom, 162 00:10:08,340 --> 00:10:13,420 because Kingdom is a government. And God came to reestablish a 163 00:10:13,420 --> 00:10:16,660 government on the earth. So this may be a little shocking 164 00:10:16,660 --> 00:10:18,820 to any guests here because you're like, oh, I thought this 165 00:10:18,820 --> 00:10:20,260 was separation of church and state. 166 00:10:20,500 --> 00:10:23,460 Well, you understand that's something in the United States. 167 00:10:23,460 --> 00:10:28,500 But God never expected the state to be separated from the church 168 00:10:28,540 --> 00:10:32,380 as far as he's concerned, because we are his government in 169 00:10:32,380 --> 00:10:34,760 the earth. We are in his Kingdom. 170 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:37,760 We reign with him. And that government is tangible, 171 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:42,360 but it's not limited to natural territory. the United States has 172 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:49,120 a, you know, a boundary that has been described through some 173 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:55,320 process that says this line of dirt is legally the US, not 174 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:59,160 Mexico, or it's legally the US and not Canada. 175 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:01,800 I mean, you can just literally do this. 176 00:11:03,050 --> 00:11:05,650 I've been up there to New York when we went over to Niagara 177 00:11:05,650 --> 00:11:09,050 Falls and I literally if this is Speakers Canada and this the 178 00:11:09,050 --> 00:11:14,410 United States stood like this. One foot is legally in the US, 179 00:11:14,650 --> 00:11:17,290 the other foot is legally in Canada. 180 00:11:17,450 --> 00:11:23,890 Well how do I know this? Cause the words telling me OKA 181 00:11:23,890 --> 00:11:27,210 word is telling me this. Well you understand God's not 182 00:11:27,210 --> 00:11:29,210 limited in territory with his Kingdom. 183 00:11:29,210 --> 00:11:32,500 He owns the planet. So His Kingdom can function 184 00:11:32,500 --> 00:11:37,100 everywhere and does function everywhere if we are functioning 185 00:11:37,100 --> 00:11:39,500 in it according to His righteousness. 186 00:11:40,020 --> 00:11:42,020 Because righteousness is not a religious word. 187 00:11:42,020 --> 00:11:45,820 It means right standing with the governing authority. 188 00:11:46,980 --> 00:11:49,980 It's in essence, Lord, what do you say? 189 00:11:51,260 --> 00:11:54,300 And when you do that, then you're righteous. 190 00:11:54,300 --> 00:11:56,340 Now how's this effect in the natural well? 191 00:11:56,340 --> 00:12:00,700 We see this in multiple stages. We see this concerning driving. 192 00:12:02,020 --> 00:12:05,740 Can you be a righteous driver? Can you be an unrighteous 193 00:12:05,740 --> 00:12:12,140 driver? Yes, Yes you can. 194 00:12:13,380 --> 00:12:17,060 You can run a red light and that makes you unrighteous. 195 00:12:17,340 --> 00:12:21,940 You can go 20 miles over the speed suggestion. 196 00:12:24,020 --> 00:12:25,620 I mean, we all interpreted that way. 197 00:12:25,620 --> 00:12:29,060 You know you do. 55 is the speed suggestion. 198 00:12:32,410 --> 00:12:37,490 But when the police officer pulls you over doing 85 and a 199 00:12:37,490 --> 00:12:41,290 55, what seems to be the problem? 200 00:12:41,290 --> 00:12:46,890 Officer and I love what did you know? 201 00:12:48,130 --> 00:12:50,610 Did you know you were speeding? Right. 202 00:12:51,050 --> 00:12:53,930 Did you know? Really, I didn't know. 203 00:12:56,730 --> 00:12:58,610 And then some would try to cry to get out of it. 204 00:12:59,340 --> 00:13:01,900 And what are you doing? You're trying to find mercy. 205 00:13:03,820 --> 00:13:08,020 Because again, is it not true that the majority of everybody, 206 00:13:08,020 --> 00:13:10,420 even in this room right now, when you're driving down the 207 00:13:10,420 --> 00:13:12,980 road and you see a police officer, you put take your foot 208 00:13:12,980 --> 00:13:18,420 off the gas? Why do we have this habit? 209 00:13:20,620 --> 00:13:23,100 Inevitably, we're like we must be unrighteous. 210 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:30,360 We'll pull it off and start to break. 211 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:35,600 Amen. That is the easiest way for me 212 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:38,720 to describe righteousness and unrighteousness. 213 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:41,160 So we talking about righteousness with God. 214 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:46,680 It's the same thing because God has ways that his Kingdom 215 00:13:46,680 --> 00:13:52,760 functions, and when we are violating that, there's a sense 216 00:13:52,760 --> 00:13:57,140 of guilt that can show up. Right now, that doesn't mean 217 00:13:57,140 --> 00:13:59,100 God's not merciful and give you a warning. 218 00:13:59,740 --> 00:14:02,420 Many of you have speed. You know that you deserve the 219 00:14:02,420 --> 00:14:04,860 ticket. You should have to pay the fine. 220 00:14:04,940 --> 00:14:06,540 You should have to go through the class. 221 00:14:06,700 --> 00:14:12,380 But that officer was merciful, gave you a warning. 222 00:14:12,780 --> 00:14:17,220 And a warning gets typed into their computer so that if you 223 00:14:17,220 --> 00:14:21,580 get picked up 100 miles later, they'd be like then we just 224 00:14:21,580 --> 00:14:25,730 warned you 100 miles ago. Apparently we're going to have 225 00:14:25,730 --> 00:14:29,690 to go ahead and let you feel the brunt of your choice. 226 00:14:30,970 --> 00:14:35,410 Amen. All right, so righteousness is 227 00:14:35,410 --> 00:14:37,690 right, standing with the governing authority, and God 228 00:14:37,690 --> 00:14:40,290 wants us to seek His righteousness first. 229 00:14:40,290 --> 00:14:42,130 John chapter 3, verse four says this. 230 00:14:42,130 --> 00:14:46,890 Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness, and sin 231 00:14:46,890 --> 00:14:49,610 is lawlessness. Now I like this because again, 232 00:14:49,730 --> 00:14:51,730 it really just equates what sin is. 233 00:14:52,470 --> 00:14:56,070 So if righteousness is doing it God's way, unrighteousness would 234 00:14:56,070 --> 00:14:59,990 not be doing it's God's way. Then righteousness is according 235 00:14:59,990 --> 00:15:03,950 to God's. In one sense we could say law. 236 00:15:04,990 --> 00:15:08,510 And when I say that, I'm not trying to say anything that, you 237 00:15:08,510 --> 00:15:11,350 know, gets people into legalism. I'm not saying that. 238 00:15:11,430 --> 00:15:14,990 I'm just saying he's king. He speaks and that's. 239 00:15:17,420 --> 00:15:19,980 And there is a law in the new covenants called the law of the 240 00:15:19,980 --> 00:15:22,900 spirit of life in Christ Jesus. And I am under that law, thank 241 00:15:22,900 --> 00:15:26,100 God, because the minute I got under that law, I got freed from 242 00:15:26,100 --> 00:15:29,140 another law. And that's the law of sin and 243 00:15:29,140 --> 00:15:33,900 death. And that law legally bound me to 244 00:15:33,900 --> 00:15:39,300 the devil and to a way of living that was contrary to God. 245 00:15:39,740 --> 00:15:42,940 But Jesus redeemed me. I said he redeemed me. 246 00:15:43,180 --> 00:15:46,420 He paid the price. Now I had to pay the debt. 247 00:15:46,810 --> 00:15:49,850 But I couldn't pay it. But he could pay it, and he paid 248 00:15:49,850 --> 00:15:53,130 it. So then sin is lawlessness. 249 00:15:53,130 --> 00:15:56,210 Or sin, Simply put, is not doing it God's way? 250 00:15:56,210 --> 00:15:58,490 Come on. So he goes on. 251 00:15:58,490 --> 00:16:00,690 Say everyone who practices, say, practice. 252 00:16:01,450 --> 00:16:04,690 Say practice. Now practice is someone who just 253 00:16:04,690 --> 00:16:07,050 does it. This is what they do. 254 00:16:08,570 --> 00:16:11,690 So anyone who's not in Christ, this is what they do. 255 00:16:13,370 --> 00:16:16,450 And the church has really done a terrible job. 256 00:16:17,140 --> 00:16:22,220 The religious church has done a terrible job of trying to make 257 00:16:22,220 --> 00:16:26,020 lost people right without the way they should be right. 258 00:16:27,740 --> 00:16:28,900 I can't believe you're doing that. 259 00:16:29,500 --> 00:16:31,380 How can you not believe they're doing that? 260 00:16:31,940 --> 00:16:38,940 They are separated. They can't help but sin. 261 00:16:41,180 --> 00:16:45,380 What we should be is like so how's this life treating you? 262 00:16:48,460 --> 00:16:54,220 Would you like a better life? Are you going to tell me I can't 263 00:16:54,220 --> 00:16:56,420 do? You're going to do and I am. 264 00:16:56,500 --> 00:16:58,300 I'm not going to tell you you can't because you are. 265 00:16:59,500 --> 00:17:02,220 You're going to do it. And no matter how much you try 266 00:17:02,220 --> 00:17:04,500 to stop, you're just going to substitute it somewhere else. 267 00:17:04,940 --> 00:17:06,900 I'm just asking, do you want something different? 268 00:17:07,579 --> 00:17:09,020 Because that's going to be different. 269 00:17:11,819 --> 00:17:14,300 Amen. So, you know, we don't be 270 00:17:14,300 --> 00:17:16,420 surprised. When things are happening, 271 00:17:16,420 --> 00:17:18,180 people so surprised. What's going on in our own 272 00:17:18,180 --> 00:17:19,940 nation? Why are you surprised? 273 00:17:20,220 --> 00:17:21,740 The Bible tells us it's going to happen. 274 00:17:22,900 --> 00:17:25,420 Amen. So he goes on and says, for you 275 00:17:25,420 --> 00:17:28,220 know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him 276 00:17:28,220 --> 00:17:33,060 there is no sin, no one who abides in him Abides, abides, 277 00:17:33,060 --> 00:17:37,140 say abide abides in him, sins, and no one who sin has seen him 278 00:17:37,140 --> 00:17:39,980 or knows him. So the minute you abide in him, 279 00:17:40,060 --> 00:17:43,220 then sin is not your problem. All right. 280 00:17:43,540 --> 00:17:45,780 Little children, make sure no one deceives you. 281 00:17:46,140 --> 00:17:50,620 The one who practices righteousness they practice is 282 00:17:50,620 --> 00:17:52,940 righteous, just as he is righteous. 283 00:17:52,940 --> 00:17:57,060 The one who practices sins they practice is of the devil, for 284 00:17:57,060 --> 00:17:58,900 the devil has sinned from the beginning. 285 00:17:59,620 --> 00:18:01,780 The Son of God appeared for this purpose. 286 00:18:01,820 --> 00:18:05,580 What, to destroy the works of the devil? 287 00:18:06,300 --> 00:18:08,740 No one who was born of God practices sins. 288 00:18:08,740 --> 00:18:13,490 They practice. Because his seed abides in him 289 00:18:13,610 --> 00:18:17,130 and he cannot say cannot. So you cannot. 290 00:18:17,130 --> 00:18:20,290 If you're a child of God, say I'm just a sorry Sinner saved by 291 00:18:20,290 --> 00:18:23,450 grace. You can say I was a Sinner. 292 00:18:24,330 --> 00:18:27,210 That's just what I did. I was separated from God. 293 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:31,160 I wasn't doing it his way. I was trying to do away. 294 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:34,440 I was trying to do things right, but it always felt empty, no 295 00:18:34,440 --> 00:18:36,240 matter what. There was these high moments and 296 00:18:36,240 --> 00:18:38,400 low moments. High moments and low moments are 297 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:40,040 like whoo. But then all of a sudden I'm 298 00:18:40,040 --> 00:18:46,360 still confronted with myself and I'm deficient and life's 299 00:18:46,360 --> 00:18:51,520 frustrating and I just want to be set free from that and Jesus 300 00:18:51,520 --> 00:18:54,200 comes along. And the message of Jesus and the 301 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:56,120 price he paid of Jesus comes along. 302 00:18:56,240 --> 00:19:01,200 And we believe in that. We receive it by faith, through 303 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:03,480 grace. Or by grace through faith. 304 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:05,880 Then we become born again. We'll see about it here in a 305 00:19:05,880 --> 00:19:07,920 minute. And now we become believers. 306 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:15,760 And believers cannot in their spirit sin. 307 00:19:16,120 --> 00:19:19,840 It's not their nature anymore. I said it's not their nature 308 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:22,040 anymore. Are you hearing me? 309 00:19:23,190 --> 00:19:27,910 So we need to identify with our new nature cause we were made to 310 00:19:27,910 --> 00:19:32,950 display, we were made to display. 311 00:19:33,550 --> 00:19:36,150 Now I know what the problem is and it's founded first John. 312 00:19:36,150 --> 00:19:37,870 I mean first Thessalonia is 5/23. 313 00:19:37,870 --> 00:19:40,710 He says now that our spirit, soul and body is to remain 314 00:19:40,710 --> 00:19:43,550 blameless. The problem is the majority of 315 00:19:43,710 --> 00:19:46,870 churches are teaching one-dimensional man, and man is 316 00:19:46,870 --> 00:19:50,910 not one-dimensional. Man is spirit, soul and body. 317 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:56,240 Now here's the thing. Man before Christ, his spirit is 318 00:19:56,240 --> 00:19:59,560 dead. So in essence, man only operates 319 00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:03,720 through 2 dimensions. His soul, his emotions, his 320 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:08,760 mind, his thinking. It's where he connects, his will 321 00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:11,760 of choice of what he wants to do. 322 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:15,320 And he's always siding with how he feels. 323 00:20:16,450 --> 00:20:19,450 And what's happened to him and what took place? 324 00:20:19,610 --> 00:20:23,570 Because the things that he sees pushes his narrative. 325 00:20:25,410 --> 00:20:29,770 And then by how he feels, how he feels. 326 00:20:30,210 --> 00:20:32,570 And so he goes, if it makes me feel good, I do it. 327 00:20:32,570 --> 00:20:34,930 Even though after you do it, you find out that you don't feel so 328 00:20:34,930 --> 00:20:37,570 great. And there's this vicious cycle 329 00:20:37,770 --> 00:20:40,250 of feeling great in your body and then feeling horrible 330 00:20:40,890 --> 00:20:46,210 inside. But God, I said, But God. 331 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:52,040 But God then when he he makes our spirit alive and he does 332 00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:54,680 something to that spirit that changes everything. 333 00:20:54,680 --> 00:21:00,520 But now that spirit in us has to get our soul together now and 334 00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:02,640 tell our body. You ain't telling me what to do 335 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:07,280 no more. And it get puts in you such a 336 00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:11,760 strong spirit that it there's no excuse for it not to affect the 337 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:14,960 other two parts of your life. Are you hearing me? 338 00:21:15,740 --> 00:21:19,140 So he goes on and says this. No one who was born of God 339 00:21:19,140 --> 00:21:21,780 practices the sin because his seat abides him, and he cannot 340 00:21:21,780 --> 00:21:24,860 sin because he is born of God. By this the children of God and 341 00:21:24,860 --> 00:21:26,700 the children of devil, of the devil. 342 00:21:26,700 --> 00:21:28,580 Or what? What are they? 343 00:21:29,060 --> 00:21:31,060 Come on, What are they? It's obvious. 344 00:21:32,860 --> 00:21:36,500 So when you look out on humanity, you cannot look out on 345 00:21:36,500 --> 00:21:41,900 humanity by how they look. How tall they are, how short 346 00:21:41,900 --> 00:21:44,280 they are, how much weight they have, how little weight they 347 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:47,720 have, what gender they are, what gender they are are not. 348 00:21:48,120 --> 00:21:51,680 You can't look at the color of their skin because there's only 349 00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:58,520 two types of people, those in the family of God and those in 350 00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:02,960 the family of the devil. Only two. 351 00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:08,480 And the devil has in his family every tongue, tribe and nation, 352 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:14,510 every gender he has, every economic status. 353 00:22:15,430 --> 00:22:19,390 He has, every color of skin. He has it all. 354 00:22:19,870 --> 00:22:21,910 But guess what? In the Kingdom, so does the 355 00:22:21,910 --> 00:22:26,230 Lord. So does the Lord Highland. 356 00:22:26,230 --> 00:22:29,550 And those are the only types of people on planet Earth today. 357 00:22:30,990 --> 00:22:33,670 It's the only ones. And he says that these two are 358 00:22:33,670 --> 00:22:39,050 obvious. Which tells us then if I because 359 00:22:39,050 --> 00:22:42,810 of the finished work of Jesus and made righteous, then I was 360 00:22:42,810 --> 00:22:52,970 made to display I should be obvious that the devil is not my 361 00:22:52,970 --> 00:22:56,610 daddy. It should be obvious. 362 00:22:57,810 --> 00:23:01,050 Obvious by this the children of God and the children of devil 363 00:23:01,050 --> 00:23:02,850 are obvious. Anyone who does not practice 364 00:23:02,850 --> 00:23:07,580 righteousness is not of God nor the one who does not love his 365 00:23:08,860 --> 00:23:11,780 brother. Now why is this even in play? 366 00:23:11,780 --> 00:23:14,340 Why does Jesus even have to come to destroy the works of the 367 00:23:14,340 --> 00:23:16,580 devil? Well Genesis chapter one. 368 00:23:16,860 --> 00:23:21,180 In Genesis chapter one we know that the Bible tells us in verse 369 00:23:21,180 --> 00:23:25,020 26 God said. Then God said, let us make man 370 00:23:25,020 --> 00:23:29,300 in our image according to our likeness, and let them rule or 371 00:23:29,300 --> 00:23:32,740 have dominion over the fish, to see birds of the sky, over all 372 00:23:32,740 --> 00:23:35,020 the cattle, over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, 373 00:23:35,020 --> 00:23:37,580 over all the earth. And so man was to have dominion, 374 00:23:37,580 --> 00:23:40,100 both male and female. They were to have dominion. 375 00:23:40,140 --> 00:23:41,740 They were created in the image of God. 376 00:23:41,780 --> 00:23:44,820 In essence, that word means they were a carbon copy. 377 00:23:44,900 --> 00:23:48,340 They are not God, them themselves, but they are in the 378 00:23:48,340 --> 00:23:51,100 image of God. They had the DNA of the Creator. 379 00:23:51,300 --> 00:23:55,500 And he is life, he is love, he is righteousness, he is light. 380 00:23:55,540 --> 00:24:00,700 And in him as no darkness so there's no sin associated with 381 00:24:00,700 --> 00:24:02,340 him. He is perfection. 382 00:24:03,020 --> 00:24:06,620 And so he creates both male and female and he breathes into 383 00:24:06,620 --> 00:24:10,380 them, breathes into this one skin suit the breath of life. 384 00:24:10,380 --> 00:24:14,100 He becomes a man. We know him as Adam out of Adam 385 00:24:14,100 --> 00:24:16,260 From his rib side he creates woman. 386 00:24:16,340 --> 00:24:20,860 Her name is Eve and they both together Co labor together to 387 00:24:20,860 --> 00:24:27,350 dominate the earth like God. In essence they've been made 388 00:24:27,350 --> 00:24:33,470 righteous. There's no sin, none. 389 00:24:35,030 --> 00:24:48,670 Yet God needs to see their righteousness on display, needs 390 00:24:48,670 --> 00:24:52,150 to see it. How is he going to see his their 391 00:24:52,150 --> 00:24:53,390 righteous. And I mean, they're made 392 00:24:53,390 --> 00:24:55,860 righteous. They're rights that God comes 393 00:24:55,860 --> 00:24:58,340 down the cool of the day. I mean, he talks with them, 394 00:24:58,340 --> 00:25:00,180 fellowships with them. There's no issue. 395 00:25:01,500 --> 00:25:06,220 They run to him. I said they run to him. 396 00:25:06,220 --> 00:25:08,500 Now, you know, somebody's got challenges with God if they 397 00:25:08,500 --> 00:25:14,700 can't run to church because Jesus is the head of the church. 398 00:25:15,660 --> 00:25:18,740 We're the body of Christ. Now you may have problems going 399 00:25:18,740 --> 00:25:21,660 to some because they're not. It's not the church Jesus is 400 00:25:21,660 --> 00:25:22,740 building. I get it. 401 00:25:24,110 --> 00:25:26,670 But the church Jesus is building is in the planet. 402 00:25:26,670 --> 00:25:30,030 I can tell you there's one right here in Saint Augustine, and you 403 00:25:30,030 --> 00:25:34,110 can run to it and be safe. Hallelujah. 404 00:25:35,150 --> 00:25:37,550 But they would run to him. They would hear him. 405 00:25:37,550 --> 00:25:40,230 They would talk with him. I mean, when the Lord came and 406 00:25:40,230 --> 00:25:42,550 said Adam, why don't you name the animals? 407 00:25:42,550 --> 00:25:44,750 You know what? He did not find Adam behind a 408 00:25:44,750 --> 00:25:46,630 tree hiding. Okay. 409 00:25:46,630 --> 00:25:49,580 I'm gonna say that again when he came and said, Adam, listen, 410 00:25:49,780 --> 00:25:51,860 this is how I want you to take care of the garden. 411 00:25:51,860 --> 00:25:53,780 You're going to tend here. You're going to multiply here. 412 00:25:53,860 --> 00:25:56,860 You're going to do this. He's giving him instruction, 413 00:25:56,860 --> 00:25:58,780 right? Is Adam, like, scared? 414 00:25:59,220 --> 00:26:02,180 Is he afraid because he's righteous? 415 00:26:02,700 --> 00:26:04,740 He has no problem talking with the Lord. 416 00:26:05,460 --> 00:26:07,820 The Lord said name these things, name these animals. 417 00:26:07,820 --> 00:26:09,740 And he keeps bringing them by 1 by 1. 418 00:26:11,020 --> 00:26:15,020 No problem. But then in Genesis chapter 3, 419 00:26:16,060 --> 00:26:18,060 verse seven, after they eat the fruit. 420 00:26:18,060 --> 00:26:20,100 For the Lord says you can eat from any tree of the garden. 421 00:26:20,100 --> 00:26:22,180 But if the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not 422 00:26:22,260 --> 00:26:25,660 eat from the day you eat, you will, surely you'll die. 423 00:26:25,700 --> 00:26:28,100 And we've said before, if Adam had never eaten the fruit, where 424 00:26:28,100 --> 00:26:32,260 would he be today? So he wasn't looking to go to 425 00:26:32,260 --> 00:26:39,140 heaven because heaven came here. Are you hearing me? 426 00:26:40,100 --> 00:26:43,300 So he's righteous, yet God says display it. 427 00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:46,600 How do you display it? Through obeying. 428 00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:50,480 And he's perfect. I mean he it's not like he's got 429 00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:53,200 to take a class. He's not having to renew his 430 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:54,640 mind. His mind's wide open. 431 00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:56,280 More wide open than our minds even. 432 00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:01,400 I mean, he knows all in the context of his mind is not 433 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:06,080 impeded with sin at all. Wow. 434 00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:10,280 And God says display your righteousness. 435 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:14,680 Show me you love me. Keep my word. 436 00:27:17,120 --> 00:27:21,120 Now, this is important because there's a false statement about 437 00:27:21,120 --> 00:27:26,720 God that runs in the planet today, and that is, God is in 438 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:29,960 control. Well, let me tell you, if God 439 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:31,920 was in control, Adam never would ate that fruit. 440 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:39,280 Because don't you think God couldn't come down and snatch 441 00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:42,840 that apple out of his hand? Don't you think God could have, 442 00:27:43,350 --> 00:27:48,830 when he went to reach for, put a force field around it, had an 443 00:27:48,830 --> 00:27:50,990 Angel appear? What are you doing, bro? 444 00:27:52,710 --> 00:27:54,110 Then Dad, say don't touch the stuff. 445 00:27:54,950 --> 00:27:56,350 Oh yeah, you're right. Go on. 446 00:28:01,190 --> 00:28:04,870 Now the reason why this such a damaging statement is because 447 00:28:04,870 --> 00:28:08,910 when we give God control of everything, then the devil makes 448 00:28:08,910 --> 00:28:13,080 God look bad. Well, if there's a God in the 449 00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:15,000 world, why is there war in Israel right now? 450 00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:18,400 Well, because somebody else is in the world. 451 00:28:21,360 --> 00:28:23,080 Because somebody else came to the garden. 452 00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:28,880 I said somebody else came to the garden because what God told 453 00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:33,560 Adam was keep my word. You keep my word, you maintain 454 00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:35,640 rights. And he says, Son keep the garden 455 00:28:36,730 --> 00:28:38,890 so he's in heaven. And there's anointed chair by 456 00:28:38,890 --> 00:28:42,050 the name of Lucifer who tries to rebel against God's Kingdom 457 00:28:42,050 --> 00:28:44,290 realm. And Jesus said, I saw Satan fall 458 00:28:44,290 --> 00:28:47,090 like lightning from heaven. God expelled him, kicked him 459 00:28:47,090 --> 00:28:50,930 out, his rebellion against the Kingdom forced him out. 460 00:28:50,930 --> 00:28:55,570 And everyone who sided with his party he he kicked out of the 461 00:28:55,570 --> 00:28:58,130 heavens realm and put him down in the earth. 462 00:28:59,090 --> 00:29:02,330 So now a serpent shows up, which is the Satan of old, the 463 00:29:02,330 --> 00:29:05,930 deceiver. God didn't have to come down and 464 00:29:05,930 --> 00:29:10,370 say Son because he's already given his son all authority. 465 00:29:16,450 --> 00:29:20,130 We are not forced to be with God. 466 00:29:22,290 --> 00:29:26,170 So this is what I like to say. God will let you do whatever you 467 00:29:26,170 --> 00:29:28,890 want to do. He does not control your life, 468 00:29:29,930 --> 00:29:32,570 but he will hold you accountable with whatever you do. 469 00:29:33,850 --> 00:29:37,610 Because ultimately the day will come that everything is 470 00:29:37,610 --> 00:29:40,290 according to the standard of life. 471 00:29:43,210 --> 00:29:48,210 And the choices I make when I follow God is because of life. 472 00:29:50,050 --> 00:29:53,810 It doesn't stop me. It's life. 473 00:29:55,690 --> 00:29:58,410 How many ever touched a hot oven when you were a child? 474 00:29:58,890 --> 00:30:00,370 Yep. Should listen to your parents 475 00:30:01,730 --> 00:30:03,050 because you know they told you, right? 476 00:30:07,700 --> 00:30:09,180 Did they want to control your life? 477 00:30:09,700 --> 00:30:12,660 No, they didn't want you to get hurt. 478 00:30:15,100 --> 00:30:20,020 I mean, what parent is going to let a child go across US1 at 3 479 00:30:20,020 --> 00:30:22,940 three years old and just say, well, it's your choice. 480 00:30:22,940 --> 00:30:24,540 I don't want to control your life. 481 00:30:25,860 --> 00:30:29,700 They'll figure it out. And if the Lord wants them 482 00:30:29,700 --> 00:30:33,960 alive, they'll stay alive. Who does that? 483 00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:39,040 No one does that in their right mind, right? 484 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:45,600 I mean, nobody does that unless they're demon possessed. 485 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:51,000 Honestly, because the demon possessed person is of the 486 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:53,680 operation of the devil, which is to kill, steal and destroy they 487 00:30:53,920 --> 00:31:00,280 they would do that. So when you say no, don't go 488 00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:04,320 across the road, you're not controlling them, you're 489 00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:09,920 offering them life. And that's what God's 490 00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:13,040 righteousness is for us. It's offering life, not 491 00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:16,880 controlling me. He's offering me life, he said. 492 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:19,080 I just want to give you life because at the end of the day, 493 00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:21,600 I'm going to choose. I can choose and say I ain't 494 00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:24,240 going to do what you say. And then I get the opposite of 495 00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:25,920 life. And opposite of life is death. 496 00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:28,800 That means separation from something, Separation. 497 00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:31,240 God's not stopping me from having sex. 498 00:31:32,230 --> 00:31:35,270 Hey, stopping me. I can sleep with anybody I want 499 00:31:35,310 --> 00:31:40,270 to, but I'll have what's associated with that kind of 500 00:31:40,270 --> 00:31:45,310 lifestyle. Cause God says now if you want 501 00:31:45,310 --> 00:31:49,430 life and sex, then you got to do it in marriage according to my 502 00:31:49,430 --> 00:31:52,110 design and it'll be awesome, be fruitful. 503 00:31:53,950 --> 00:31:58,550 But if you do it a different way, it brings death again. 504 00:31:58,550 --> 00:32:03,780 I can lie anytime I want to, but what does it bring? 505 00:32:04,540 --> 00:32:08,380 The results of death. It separates things. 506 00:32:09,780 --> 00:32:11,980 My wife doesn't control me. I don't control my wife. 507 00:32:11,980 --> 00:32:16,380 I choose to be with her every day and she's better than silver 508 00:32:16,380 --> 00:32:17,900 and gold. My my mom. 509 00:32:19,220 --> 00:32:22,420 It's awesome. Because her righteous life and 510 00:32:22,420 --> 00:32:25,860 my righteous life makes our marriage a righteous. 511 00:32:26,620 --> 00:32:28,060 You better watch out now. I don't want to. 512 00:32:30,790 --> 00:32:32,710 I had to. I had to say let's let's pray 513 00:32:32,710 --> 00:32:37,470 now. Glory, dear God, I'm telling if 514 00:32:37,470 --> 00:32:41,150 you, if you are a believer, you better have sex way more than 515 00:32:41,150 --> 00:32:43,830 the world. I'm just being honest. 516 00:32:45,030 --> 00:32:47,950 I wouldn't let some person out in the world telling me about 517 00:32:47,950 --> 00:32:49,110 all the all the times they're having. 518 00:32:49,110 --> 00:32:51,350 I'll be like, bro, you ain't got Jack on me and my wife. 519 00:32:56,950 --> 00:32:59,910 Nothing. All right. 520 00:33:00,890 --> 00:33:04,850 God gave that for us. The devil's killing people and 521 00:33:04,850 --> 00:33:08,570 then they wake up with stuff on their bodies, then they got 522 00:33:08,570 --> 00:33:12,050 stuff in their wombs and there's all kind of stuff that takes 523 00:33:12,050 --> 00:33:13,690 place. And God's like, I never designed 524 00:33:13,690 --> 00:33:16,010 that like that. Y'all doing all right. 525 00:33:16,570 --> 00:33:19,930 OK Everybody wants you to be real till you start preaching 526 00:33:19,930 --> 00:33:23,010 real. Just be real, pastor. 527 00:33:23,330 --> 00:33:29,570 Just be real, OK? I'm being real, right? 528 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:32,160 I mean the you. There should not be more dancing 529 00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:34,960 on Saturday night in the club than there is in the church. 530 00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:38,320 Shouldn't be. Shouldn't be more shouting in 531 00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:41,000 the stadium than in the church, right? 532 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:42,800 I mean, come on, what are we doing here? 533 00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:46,480 I don't know about you, but he saved me. 534 00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:48,720 He filled me. He delivered me. 535 00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:51,760 He gave me life, man, and life more abundantly. 536 00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:55,920 And I'll honor him and worship him because he has set me free. 537 00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:57,680 My God. He has set me free. 538 00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:02,330 Whoo. Oh my gosh, man, you know, I I 539 00:34:02,330 --> 00:34:04,890 look at some people's lives. I'm like, praise God, I have 540 00:34:04,890 --> 00:34:07,730 been redeemed. And that's not because I have 541 00:34:07,730 --> 00:34:09,610 pity for them, not because I'm looking down. 542 00:34:09,730 --> 00:34:12,170 I'm just like, there's a better life. 543 00:34:13,330 --> 00:34:15,330 You don't even know where you're at now. 544 00:34:15,409 --> 00:34:18,690 You've been puking your guts out because you are partying. 545 00:34:20,570 --> 00:34:22,409 Really. No, I get drunk in the spirit 546 00:34:22,409 --> 00:34:27,110 right here and get stronger by it and get revelation by it. 547 00:34:27,310 --> 00:34:30,670 And get what wisdom by it and have wealth by it. 548 00:34:31,270 --> 00:34:40,429 Oh, praise the Lord. So the devil deceives Eve. 549 00:34:40,429 --> 00:34:42,030 She eats the fruit, gives it to her husband. 550 00:34:42,030 --> 00:34:44,590 He eats and it says both of their eyes, Genesis 3, seven 551 00:34:45,110 --> 00:34:46,790 were open and they knew they were naked. 552 00:34:46,909 --> 00:34:49,630 They sewed some fig leaves together, made themselves loin 553 00:34:49,630 --> 00:34:53,030 coverings, and they heard the the sound of the Lord God 554 00:34:53,030 --> 00:34:54,750 walking in the garden of the cool of the day. 555 00:34:54,750 --> 00:34:57,070 And the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of 556 00:34:57,070 --> 00:34:58,350 the Lord. Never done that before. 557 00:34:59,310 --> 00:35:00,870 Because when you're righteous you don't hide. 558 00:35:02,910 --> 00:35:05,750 Never done that before. I said they've never done that 559 00:35:05,750 --> 00:35:08,670 before because when you're righteous you don't hide. 560 00:35:10,150 --> 00:35:11,830 Amen. Lot of good excuses by 561 00:35:11,830 --> 00:35:13,350 believers. Well, pastor, you know when I 562 00:35:13,350 --> 00:35:14,070 was working. No. 563 00:35:14,070 --> 00:35:22,840 You hiding Because if you're letting your work dominate you 564 00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:26,280 so much that you can't be in fellowship with the Lord, we got 565 00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:29,680 to miss priority. It's called seek, not your job. 566 00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:34,000 You need to get control of your life. 567 00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:35,920 Say, Lord, help me get control of my life. 568 00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:43,360 That my job doesn't keep me out. Hallelujah. 569 00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:46,300 Hallelujah. So they hid themselves from the 570 00:35:46,300 --> 00:35:47,780 presence of the Lord among the trees of the garden. 571 00:35:47,780 --> 00:35:49,380 The Lord called man and said, where are you? 572 00:35:49,380 --> 00:35:51,180 He's still asking that question today. 573 00:35:52,020 --> 00:35:55,620 Because it's not because he stinks at hide and go seek. 574 00:35:57,420 --> 00:35:59,500 It means what position are you in now? 575 00:36:00,180 --> 00:36:04,980 And This is why we want to be right, is because we really want 576 00:36:05,060 --> 00:36:10,980 our position back. We want dominion. 577 00:36:11,940 --> 00:36:15,540 And he said, I heard you in the garden and I was afraid because 578 00:36:15,540 --> 00:36:16,780 I was naked. So I hid myself. 579 00:36:16,780 --> 00:36:18,140 And he said, Who told you you were naked? 580 00:36:18,540 --> 00:36:22,740 Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to 581 00:36:22,740 --> 00:36:25,900 eat? I told you, don't eat it. 582 00:36:26,540 --> 00:36:31,140 You'll die. I'm not controlling you. 583 00:36:31,940 --> 00:36:36,260 I just want you to live. And you chose death. 584 00:36:38,180 --> 00:36:39,900 You know that same thing is here. 585 00:36:40,060 --> 00:36:42,860 Joshua said it so clearly I sat before you. 586 00:36:43,620 --> 00:36:46,600 Life and death. But then he actually has to give 587 00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:48,840 you the answer to the test question. 588 00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:54,920 Choose life. And you know what? 589 00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:59,800 They did not. Still didn't do it. 590 00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:06,200 What does this mean? It means being born righteous 591 00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:08,320 and living righteous are two separate things. 592 00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:16,470 Because Adam was made righteous, but he had to now live it. 593 00:37:18,350 --> 00:37:22,030 I said he had to live it. And a lot of people in the 594 00:37:22,030 --> 00:37:25,790 church today get born again so that they can be made right. 595 00:37:26,710 --> 00:37:29,630 But then they don't. They don't live it. 596 00:37:31,630 --> 00:37:35,390 And it's unacceptable for God's kids to not live it. 597 00:37:35,390 --> 00:37:38,710 Now I'll give you I, I, I granted some of them a lot of 598 00:37:38,710 --> 00:37:41,470 big disadvantage because they've been sold something that's just 599 00:37:41,470 --> 00:37:44,840 not entirely truth. Now when I say that, I mean 600 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:47,520 there's a layer of truth to it, but it's not how we were 601 00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:50,880 supposed to live. And that is ask Jesus into your 602 00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:53,040 heart and save you so when you die, you go to heaven. 603 00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:58,920 We are not accepting Jesus for death like after we leave so we 604 00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:02,320 can be in heaven. Yes, if you die, you'll be 605 00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:04,560 present with the Lord, if you've made Jesus the Lord of your 606 00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:06,640 life. But it's not about where you're 607 00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:10,360 going, It's about him coming. I said it's about him coming 608 00:38:10,790 --> 00:38:13,270 because when you get born again, that means you become a new 609 00:38:13,270 --> 00:38:16,230 creature in Christ and the Holy Spirit himself comes and lives 610 00:38:16,230 --> 00:38:18,790 on the inside of you. That means God comes and makes 611 00:38:18,790 --> 00:38:21,190 his abode with you. God not wait for you to get to 612 00:38:21,190 --> 00:38:23,150 heaven to be with you. He wants to be with you now. 613 00:38:23,670 --> 00:38:25,990 And he wants to change you now. And he wants to give you 614 00:38:25,990 --> 00:38:27,910 dominion now. And he wants to change 615 00:38:27,910 --> 00:38:30,070 everything about the circumstance in your life now. 616 00:38:30,110 --> 00:38:31,670 Because he wants to deliver you now. 617 00:38:31,750 --> 00:38:34,230 He wants to save you now. He wants to heal you now. 618 00:38:34,230 --> 00:38:36,750 He wants to prosper you now. He don't want to wait till you 619 00:38:36,750 --> 00:38:39,430 get up there. He wants to you to display 620 00:38:39,510 --> 00:38:45,990 already put in you. So once he does in the Spirit 621 00:38:45,990 --> 00:38:49,390 what you could never do, now it's your responsibility to do 622 00:38:49,390 --> 00:38:53,910 in the soul and in the body what you can do because he's put the 623 00:38:53,910 --> 00:38:55,590 greater one on the inside of you. 624 00:38:57,630 --> 00:39:00,510 So if you're not seeing all the benefits of the righteous coming 625 00:39:00,510 --> 00:39:03,070 out, it's not because you haven't been made righteous. 626 00:39:03,070 --> 00:39:06,630 It's because you're not practicing your righteousness 627 00:39:07,510 --> 00:39:12,470 and you are made to display. And there's a lot of people that 628 00:39:12,470 --> 00:39:18,900 are out in the world that honestly, justifiably so because 629 00:39:18,900 --> 00:39:23,300 even the Bible says that the world slanders God because of 630 00:39:23,300 --> 00:39:27,860 his own kids. It's because they going to run 631 00:39:27,860 --> 00:39:32,420 and go to the club, talk like them, act like them, have 632 00:39:32,420 --> 00:39:35,540 relationships like them, pursuits like them. 633 00:39:35,620 --> 00:39:37,380 And they going to tell them, yeah, but I have. 634 00:39:37,380 --> 00:39:39,660 She's in my heart and he saved me and I'm going to go to 635 00:39:39,660 --> 00:39:40,780 heaven. But you're not. 636 00:39:40,780 --> 00:39:48,030 And they're like, OK, I mean, it doesn't do you a whole lot of 637 00:39:48,030 --> 00:39:52,150 good here. And you're going to tell me 638 00:39:52,150 --> 00:39:55,790 you're you're in a better place with God and you act just like 639 00:39:55,790 --> 00:39:59,790 me just because you believed in your heart that Jesus died on 640 00:39:59,790 --> 00:40:01,310 the cross and rose from the grave. 641 00:40:01,590 --> 00:40:03,310 That's just very difficult to believe. 642 00:40:05,070 --> 00:40:08,870 And if that is true, then I'll wait, so then we scare them. 643 00:40:09,350 --> 00:40:10,630 But you don't know when you're going to die. 644 00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:16,040 What? Have you died today when we were 645 00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:23,440 drinking together? At least we can go to heaven 646 00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:26,680 together as drunks. Hallelujah. 647 00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:33,080 No? But when you start living, some 648 00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:42,530 people like how do you do that? I mean you are peculiar people. 649 00:40:43,450 --> 00:40:46,970 You should stand out. That doesn't mean you won't be 650 00:40:46,970 --> 00:40:50,410 persecuted. But let me tell you, Jesus is 651 00:40:50,410 --> 00:40:55,010 righteous, but he also had to choose to live righteous. 652 00:40:57,850 --> 00:41:00,610 Look what it says, the first Peter chapter 2, verse 21 to 22. 653 00:41:00,610 --> 00:41:03,330 It says for you have been called for this purpose since Christ 654 00:41:03,330 --> 00:41:07,730 also suffered for you leaving you an example for you to follow 655 00:41:07,730 --> 00:41:11,730 in his steps who committed no sin. 656 00:41:12,450 --> 00:41:13,890 That's pretty powerful statement. 657 00:41:14,930 --> 00:41:17,690 Jesus left you an example to follow his his steps who 658 00:41:17,690 --> 00:41:22,450 committed no sin nor was any deceit found in his mouth. 659 00:41:23,290 --> 00:41:24,930 He's like that's an example for us. 660 00:41:26,290 --> 00:41:28,450 Now you can say, well I could never do that on Jesus. 661 00:41:28,530 --> 00:41:31,850 Well, are you in Christ? If you know who you are, then 662 00:41:31,850 --> 00:41:34,010 you'll know sin doesn't on you anymore. 663 00:41:35,190 --> 00:41:36,910 You've been redeemed from the law Senate. 664 00:41:37,030 --> 00:41:39,950 Sin don't. Sin can't tell you what to do 665 00:41:39,950 --> 00:41:42,270 anymore. You got a new daddy. 666 00:41:42,270 --> 00:41:45,350 Your old daddy can't come up to talk to you anymore and tell you 667 00:41:45,350 --> 00:41:46,390 you know good. You sorry. 668 00:41:46,390 --> 00:41:47,790 You ain't never gonna mount to nothing. 669 00:41:47,950 --> 00:41:50,670 You never mounted nothing. He's hollering at you over a 670 00:41:50,670 --> 00:41:54,430 great abyss. You're like, shut up. 671 00:41:54,950 --> 00:41:58,790 You're not my dad no more. I got a new name. 672 00:42:00,230 --> 00:42:02,070 I got a new name written in glory. 673 00:42:05,170 --> 00:42:07,650 Yeah, it's been written. My name's in the Lands Book a 674 00:42:07,650 --> 00:42:08,850 lot. I got a whole new life. 675 00:42:08,850 --> 00:42:13,170 Now I'm beyond a witness protection program. 676 00:42:14,650 --> 00:42:16,330 I mean, I'm a totally different person. 677 00:42:16,330 --> 00:42:18,410 I don't even know who you're talking about because that 678 00:42:18,410 --> 00:42:23,890 person's dead. So he goes on and says, and 679 00:42:23,890 --> 00:42:26,850 while being revived, he did not revive in return. 680 00:42:26,890 --> 00:42:30,450 While suffering, he uttered no threats, but kept entrusting 681 00:42:30,450 --> 00:42:37,070 himself to God who judges righteously and he himself who 682 00:42:37,070 --> 00:42:39,670 bore our sins. Come on, look at this in his 683 00:42:39,670 --> 00:42:43,910 body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to we 684 00:42:43,910 --> 00:42:46,470 might what? Die to sin. 685 00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:49,880 Live to righteousness. I'm not a sorry Sinner, say by 686 00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:52,040 grace. I'm not stuck having to sin. 687 00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:55,040 I don't have to sin anymore. I've been redeemed from that. 688 00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:57,480 I've been changed. I've been made brand new. 689 00:42:57,520 --> 00:43:01,120 I get to live to righteousness. I get to live to actually do 690 00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:04,200 what God says. And I want to do it, and I can 691 00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:05,960 do it. And I've been empowered to do 692 00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:07,320 it. And I do it by faith. 693 00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:12,830 And I'll have life in everything I touch, for we were continually 694 00:43:12,830 --> 00:43:15,830 straying like she. But now you have returned to the 695 00:43:15,830 --> 00:43:19,310 shepherd and guardians of your soul. 696 00:43:19,310 --> 00:43:22,510 He's renewing my mind saying Corinthians 517 to 21 says 697 00:43:22,630 --> 00:43:26,190 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature. 698 00:43:26,190 --> 00:43:28,630 Say new. This is not a remodel. 699 00:43:29,510 --> 00:43:31,350 Your spirit's not getting to remodel. 700 00:43:31,430 --> 00:43:34,990 Your mind's getting to remodel. But your spirit's not. 701 00:43:36,790 --> 00:43:40,920 Your spirit's not. I mean, most of you were running 702 00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:44,360 with a 4 cylinder that was running on one. 703 00:43:49,320 --> 00:43:58,480 I had a minister come who bought a Tesla this weekend and he's 704 00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:05,960 not happy. He's like they said I could go 705 00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:09,840 300 miles. And I traveled up here and it 706 00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:12,720 took us a lot longer. I could not. 707 00:44:12,720 --> 00:44:15,720 I was stopping all the time to have to charge the car. 708 00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:21,000 So he called. He said, man, you sold me this 709 00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:25,280 vehicle under false pretenses. You told me I get 300 miles. 710 00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:31,720 He says now you can get 300 miles, but you cannot go over 70 711 00:44:31,720 --> 00:44:35,840 miles an hour nor turn on the air condition. 712 00:44:39,730 --> 00:44:43,850 So if you don't go over 70, you don't run the A/C, you'll be 713 00:44:43,850 --> 00:44:46,450 able to do 300. Now see, that's in the fine 714 00:44:46,450 --> 00:44:50,130 print, people. So you're watching the 715 00:44:50,130 --> 00:44:53,930 commercial, We're saving the planet and you're going to get 716 00:44:53,930 --> 00:44:56,410 all these miles, but don't turn that A/C home. 717 00:44:58,730 --> 00:45:02,850 This is why I struggle with Priuses, because all you little 718 00:45:02,850 --> 00:45:06,940 Prius drivers except my daughter, you got the little 719 00:45:06,940 --> 00:45:09,740 green gauge in there telling you you're maximizing your battery 720 00:45:09,740 --> 00:45:16,180 life and you're on A1A and the speed limit is 55 and you go on 721 00:45:16,180 --> 00:45:22,540 35 to maximize your battery. Well, you need to get you need 722 00:45:22,540 --> 00:45:27,220 to get one of those electric bikes and get on the sidewalk so 723 00:45:27,220 --> 00:45:32,850 that us that like to do the speed limit and determine 724 00:45:32,850 --> 00:45:37,610 whether or not it's suggestions or not can keep going. 725 00:45:39,250 --> 00:45:42,490 You know I hate having to go 85 to get around. 726 00:45:42,490 --> 00:45:49,610 You hate having to get there 35 and it take I had to get up to 727 00:45:49,650 --> 00:45:52,730 85 to pass that whole string of electric cars. 728 00:45:54,970 --> 00:45:58,050 So by the time I get home, I've averaged 55 miles an hour. 729 00:46:03,230 --> 00:46:06,630 So it's like taking your 4 cylinder that's on one, pulling 730 00:46:06,630 --> 00:46:09,910 it out and they put a jet engine in there. 731 00:46:11,710 --> 00:46:16,470 I mean this whole new power because really, honestly, you 732 00:46:16,470 --> 00:46:19,030 just got to understand this. You didn't even get a 4 cylinder 733 00:46:19,030 --> 00:46:21,590 on one cylinder. You had a engine that was locked 734 00:46:21,590 --> 00:46:23,470 up. You were going, in essence you 735 00:46:23,470 --> 00:46:26,150 were Flint stoning it. You had an engine that was 736 00:46:26,150 --> 00:46:30,280 locked and you were having to push your car everywhere because 737 00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:32,600 your engine not even running. It's dead. 738 00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:36,960 But God snatches that thing out, puts you in a jet engine. 739 00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:39,840 You got more power. You don't even know how to 740 00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:43,120 handle all the power, although he'll train you how to handle 741 00:46:43,120 --> 00:46:50,280 the power. And we're pushing our jet engine 742 00:46:50,280 --> 00:46:57,080 cars because we're not displaying our righteousness. 743 00:46:59,230 --> 00:47:04,430 Oh, Hallelujah. He goes on to say he's a new 744 00:47:04,430 --> 00:47:05,830 creature. The old things passed away, but 745 00:47:05,830 --> 00:47:08,710 whole new things have come now. All things, these things are 746 00:47:08,710 --> 00:47:12,710 from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave 747 00:47:12,710 --> 00:47:14,390 us the Ministry of Reconciliation. 748 00:47:14,390 --> 00:47:18,150 Ladies, listen, Y'all's games go a little bit longer than an 749 00:47:18,150 --> 00:47:21,230 hour, so I'm conditioning them to be able to handle your game. 750 00:47:23,170 --> 00:47:25,450 You know, those things get a little long, right? 751 00:47:25,450 --> 00:47:27,810 And then people can't be like, I got to go, this is more than an 752 00:47:27,810 --> 00:47:28,890 hour. I'm going to have to leave. 753 00:47:28,890 --> 00:47:32,570 No, we stay to the end, people. We stay to the end of the game. 754 00:47:34,090 --> 00:47:36,050 So you'll be able to handle their games. 755 00:47:36,050 --> 00:47:39,250 It won't matter if it goes 2 hours, you'll be able to handle 756 00:47:39,250 --> 00:47:41,050 it. All right, so let's go on. 757 00:47:41,250 --> 00:47:43,570 Namely that God was in Christ reconciling the world to 758 00:47:43,570 --> 00:47:45,250 himself, not counting their trespass against them. 759 00:47:45,250 --> 00:47:46,930 And He committed to us the word of reconciliation. 760 00:47:46,930 --> 00:47:50,480 Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were 761 00:47:50,480 --> 00:47:53,440 making an appeal through us, and we beg on behalf of Christ be 762 00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:56,080 reconciled to God. Verse 22 He made him who knew no 763 00:47:56,080 --> 00:48:01,160 sin to be sin on our behalf because what we could not do, 764 00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:07,760 Jesus did so that we might become what the righteousness of 765 00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:10,640 God in him. Say I'm righteous. 766 00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:14,520 Say I'm righteous. You've been made righteous. 767 00:48:14,640 --> 00:48:19,780 Your spirit man is alive. When you call on the name of the 768 00:48:19,780 --> 00:48:24,780 Lord, your spirit man is alive. It comes alive. 769 00:48:24,780 --> 00:48:31,220 It's what the whole world wants. Life with God. 770 00:48:32,500 --> 00:48:35,140 They want life. They want why they're here. 771 00:48:35,140 --> 00:48:38,340 They want why they were created. They want to know why they're 772 00:48:38,340 --> 00:48:42,740 breathing. And you'll find it when your 773 00:48:42,740 --> 00:48:45,700 life with God and he'll make you righteous. 774 00:48:45,820 --> 00:48:48,700 He will not go through a checklist of all you've done 775 00:48:48,700 --> 00:48:50,820 wrong. He's already paid that price. 776 00:48:50,940 --> 00:48:53,220 He's like my God. I don't have time to sit here 777 00:48:53,300 --> 00:48:54,740 and talk to you about everything you did. 778 00:48:54,780 --> 00:48:57,340 I paid the price for that. It's taken care of. 779 00:48:57,420 --> 00:49:01,100 It's under the blood. I just need you to make me Lord 780 00:49:01,220 --> 00:49:03,100 so I can put a new spirit in you. 781 00:49:03,260 --> 00:49:06,620 Put my own spirit in you, and then you can change the way you 782 00:49:06,620 --> 00:49:09,420 think and hold control. Your body was playing like 783 00:49:09,540 --> 00:49:14,900 righteous life because the Bible tells us at first in Romans 116 784 00:49:14,900 --> 00:49:16,660 and 17, he says. But I'm not ashamed of the 785 00:49:16,660 --> 00:49:19,540 gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone 786 00:49:19,540 --> 00:49:22,260 who believes, to the Jew 1st and also to the Greek. 787 00:49:22,460 --> 00:49:24,740 For it is the righteousness of God. 788 00:49:25,060 --> 00:49:28,260 For in it the righteous of God is revealed from faith to faith, 789 00:49:28,420 --> 00:49:33,260 as it is written, but the righteous man shall what live. 790 00:49:33,260 --> 00:49:35,180 By faith. What will righteous man do? 791 00:49:35,690 --> 00:49:37,250 Live by faith. How does faith come? 792 00:49:37,250 --> 00:49:40,170 Faith comes by hearing and hearing from the word of God. 793 00:49:40,250 --> 00:49:42,530 It's the word of the king. What's the king saying? 794 00:49:42,610 --> 00:49:44,730 How's his way of doing it? What's he want to do? 795 00:49:44,810 --> 00:49:46,890 How's he wants you to handle that situation? 796 00:49:47,690 --> 00:49:49,730 How does he wants you to respond right now? 797 00:49:52,410 --> 00:49:54,370 And then he gives. Us fruits that come with His 798 00:49:54,370 --> 00:49:55,970 spirit. That means when we want to be 799 00:49:55,970 --> 00:49:58,690 mad and punch somebody out, we can actually have selfcontrol. 800 00:50:01,450 --> 00:50:04,050 When somebody keeps, you know, aggravating us, we can walk in 801 00:50:04,050 --> 00:50:07,750 long-suffering because now we say no, no, no, no. 802 00:50:07,750 --> 00:50:09,110 You don't get to do what you want to do. 803 00:50:09,110 --> 00:50:10,550 Emotions. You don't get to talk like you 804 00:50:10,550 --> 00:50:11,830 want to. You don't get to act like you 805 00:50:11,830 --> 00:50:14,870 want to anymore. I got somebody on the inside and 806 00:50:14,870 --> 00:50:18,110 me, I'm different. And you don't control me 807 00:50:18,110 --> 00:50:21,950 anymore. No, my spirit controls. 808 00:50:21,950 --> 00:50:23,590 Everything else is going on out here. 809 00:50:25,790 --> 00:50:29,110 Hallelujah, because I can do it. God's way I've been made 810 00:50:29,110 --> 00:50:32,780 equipped. Proverbs 2022 says So you will 811 00:50:32,780 --> 00:50:37,460 walk in the way of good men and keep to the paths of the 812 00:50:37,460 --> 00:50:39,820 righteous. You got to keep to the path. 813 00:50:40,940 --> 00:50:44,700 Now I'll just tell you. Can you stray? 814 00:50:44,900 --> 00:50:47,060 Yes. What do you do? 815 00:50:47,700 --> 00:50:49,700 Repent. You confess. 816 00:50:50,300 --> 00:50:52,180 The Bible tells us at first. John 19. 817 00:50:52,180 --> 00:50:55,750 It's to believers, not lost people, that if you sin, right, 818 00:50:55,750 --> 00:50:59,150 if you're unrighteous, because that sin unrighteousness, if we 819 00:50:59,150 --> 00:51:03,950 confess our sin, he'll cleanse us from our unrighteousness, 820 00:51:04,430 --> 00:51:06,150 right? So he'll do that. 821 00:51:06,150 --> 00:51:09,950 Because why you'll actually know when you're fixing to go wrong. 822 00:51:10,910 --> 00:51:14,110 Because now someone's in you that can talk to your spirit 823 00:51:14,230 --> 00:51:17,350 that's alive to God and can hear from God and say, hold on a 824 00:51:17,350 --> 00:51:20,670 minute. Now before you say that, hold on 825 00:51:20,670 --> 00:51:24,600 a minute Now before you throw that punch, hold on it, which 826 00:51:24,800 --> 00:51:26,680 he'd be talking way before the punch is coming. 827 00:51:26,680 --> 00:51:28,920 You know, that's because some of y'all just got muscle memory. 828 00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:33,120 Hold on now, before you act that way. 829 00:51:34,480 --> 00:51:37,840 But then if you act that way, he'll say, why'd you act that 830 00:51:37,840 --> 00:51:39,600 way? And then if you like, Lord, I 831 00:51:39,600 --> 00:51:41,000 shouldn't acted that way, forgive me. 832 00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:45,880 He says, OK, I forgive you. Now let's keep training on how 833 00:51:45,880 --> 00:51:50,160 to respond righteously, because you were made to display this. 834 00:51:53,830 --> 00:51:56,950 So in order to display righteousness, here's the thing. 835 00:51:56,950 --> 00:51:58,870 God's not going to do it for you. 836 00:51:59,950 --> 00:52:03,470 God has made your spirit man alive, so you now can. 837 00:52:03,790 --> 00:52:08,710 But you still control it. I say you control it. 838 00:52:13,350 --> 00:52:17,590 You control it. You know, a lot of times in 839 00:52:17,590 --> 00:52:21,030 universities, they like to pick on God because again, they have 840 00:52:21,030 --> 00:52:23,710 the false premise. God's in control, right? 841 00:52:24,030 --> 00:52:26,190 Well, if God's in control, then he can stop this bottle from 842 00:52:26,190 --> 00:52:27,350 breaking. You know, you've heard that and 843 00:52:27,350 --> 00:52:28,670 then it bounced and it didn't break. 844 00:52:28,950 --> 00:52:31,070 That doesn't prove that there's God, cause God doesn't have to 845 00:52:31,070 --> 00:52:33,830 prove to you that he is God. He is God and he's already 846 00:52:33,830 --> 00:52:36,470 proven it through creation. So you're without excuse anyway. 847 00:52:36,630 --> 00:52:38,710 In fact, if you're trying to pick up, I mean, if you don't 848 00:52:38,710 --> 00:52:40,670 even think he exists, why are you bringing up in the classroom 849 00:52:40,670 --> 00:52:42,550 anyway? Have you ever noticed that? 850 00:52:43,030 --> 00:52:47,590 I mean if if he doesn't exist, what does it matter if someone 851 00:52:47,590 --> 00:52:52,570 believes? I mean, it's really like a waste 852 00:52:52,570 --> 00:52:56,050 of your talking point to try to prove something that doesn't 853 00:52:56,050 --> 00:53:03,490 exist. But with that being said, God is 854 00:53:03,490 --> 00:53:07,130 in control of His word, and He's giving you. 855 00:53:07,130 --> 00:53:10,650 Now power, because he made you righteous, so you have to put it 856 00:53:10,650 --> 00:53:14,210 on, you have to put it on in your mind and you have to put it 857 00:53:14,210 --> 00:53:17,360 on concerning your body, and he says. 858 00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:22,200 This and Ephesians 424 and put on the new self, which is in the 859 00:53:22,200 --> 00:53:26,160 likeness of God, has been created in righteousness and 860 00:53:26,160 --> 00:53:30,080 holiness of truth. So I put it on I make a choice 861 00:53:30,080 --> 00:53:34,080 every day that I'm going to live the life that God saved me to. 862 00:53:34,670 --> 00:53:37,190 I'm going to live for him. I'm going to live for my 863 00:53:37,190 --> 00:53:39,510 Heavenly Father. I'm going to live to serve him 864 00:53:39,550 --> 00:53:41,990 because he's live. I'm going to choose to obey what 865 00:53:41,990 --> 00:53:43,630 he says because again, it's life. 866 00:53:43,790 --> 00:53:45,550 He's keeping me from running out in the road. 867 00:53:45,590 --> 00:53:47,430 He's keeping me from touching something hot. 868 00:53:47,550 --> 00:53:51,190 He's keeping me so that I can always be in a perpetual place 869 00:53:51,190 --> 00:53:53,390 of life. And I'm just going to follow 870 00:53:53,390 --> 00:53:54,790 that. That's awesome. 871 00:53:54,950 --> 00:53:58,190 How great is that? So if he says, say do this, then 872 00:53:58,190 --> 00:54:03,590 I put on and I do because it brings life. 873 00:54:04,170 --> 00:54:07,730 As you know, I've given this testimony before that one time I 874 00:54:07,730 --> 00:54:11,010 was in the National Guard and that I was having a conversation 875 00:54:11,010 --> 00:54:15,770 with some people and a person of a higher rank than me came up 876 00:54:15,770 --> 00:54:17,770 here at our conversation. I happen to be talking about the 877 00:54:17,770 --> 00:54:20,010 Lord and they didn't like it. And again, why does God bother 878 00:54:20,010 --> 00:54:24,010 you so much? If you don't believe him, why 879 00:54:24,010 --> 00:54:25,850 does he bother you so much? What's it matter if we're 880 00:54:25,850 --> 00:54:29,450 talking about it? Well, it's because there is one. 881 00:54:33,790 --> 00:54:35,550 And that's why. And you're trying to find a 882 00:54:35,550 --> 00:54:43,590 reason not to believe. When you already know there is 883 00:54:44,390 --> 00:54:47,310 and you know that you're going to have. 884 00:54:47,310 --> 00:54:51,310 To lay it all down for him. But what are you laying down? 885 00:54:51,790 --> 00:54:55,630 Death. That's the thing you're laying 886 00:54:55,630 --> 00:55:01,700 down death to take up life. We were talking and I don't know 887 00:55:01,700 --> 00:55:03,020 what. Happened, but all the next thing 888 00:55:03,020 --> 00:55:07,900 you know, my cheek was burning. He slapped me in the face. 889 00:55:09,660 --> 00:55:12,700 In front of all these people. Well, I happen to. 890 00:55:12,700 --> 00:55:16,660 Be wearing a leather necklace back in the day. 891 00:55:16,660 --> 00:55:19,260 Don't wear that today because I don't need it on the outside to 892 00:55:19,260 --> 00:55:21,020 let me know what I am on the inside. 893 00:55:21,780 --> 00:55:23,700 I'm not saying you can't wear them, I'm just saying I don't. 894 00:55:23,700 --> 00:55:26,260 Which was WWJD. What would Jesus do? 895 00:55:26,300 --> 00:55:27,740 It just happened to work that day. 896 00:55:27,780 --> 00:55:30,680 He pulled it up out of my shirt. He said, What's that stand for? 897 00:55:30,680 --> 00:55:32,760 I said, well, that's WWJD, What would Jesus do? 898 00:55:32,760 --> 00:55:34,800 So I'm going to turn my other cheek and let you slap me there. 899 00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:40,200 And I said that, well, he was a little embarrassed by that, but 900 00:55:40,200 --> 00:55:42,160 that was just what the Lord told me to do. 901 00:55:43,880 --> 00:55:46,880 You understand? Most people don't want to suffer 902 00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:52,440 natural embarrassment, but if you'll actually do, God, it 903 00:55:52,440 --> 00:55:56,160 opens up bigger things. So let me tell you the end of 904 00:55:56,160 --> 00:55:58,680 the story. The person who slapped me on the 905 00:55:58,680 --> 00:56:04,450 face paid mine and my wife's second year of Bible college. 906 00:56:11,010 --> 00:56:15,210 Yeah, the second year, he slapped. 907 00:56:15,210 --> 00:56:19,290 Me because of my God conversation, but ultimately 908 00:56:19,290 --> 00:56:23,050 paid for our way to continue to learn about the God we were 909 00:56:23,050 --> 00:56:27,650 talking about and. Because I did it God's way, It 910 00:56:27,650 --> 00:56:34,530 gave me life to money that paid for the tuition because I did 911 00:56:34,530 --> 00:56:35,210 it. His way. 912 00:56:35,370 --> 00:56:39,090 And it was a year and a half later before that showed up. 913 00:56:43,570 --> 00:56:45,570 The righteous life is an awesome way to live. 914 00:56:46,130 --> 00:56:50,050 It may not have an immediate reward for everyone else to see, 915 00:56:50,050 --> 00:56:52,290 but it definitely has an immediate war with you, with 916 00:56:52,290 --> 00:56:53,770 you. Because, you know, I did what 917 00:56:53,770 --> 00:56:55,970 God said, and it's going to produce life. 918 00:56:58,230 --> 00:57:01,830 Again at Colossians 310, says and put on the new self who is 919 00:57:01,830 --> 00:57:04,430 being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image 920 00:57:04,430 --> 00:57:07,350 of the one created him. What's sad is so many believers 921 00:57:07,350 --> 00:57:08,990 ask Jesus in their heart and save them. 922 00:57:08,990 --> 00:57:12,430 They're they can't. They are righteous in their 923 00:57:12,430 --> 00:57:14,550 spirit, but they never save their soul. 924 00:57:14,550 --> 00:57:19,390 They're never putting it on, especially if they don't attend 925 00:57:19,390 --> 00:57:24,190 where they can be discipled. And at the end of the day, you 926 00:57:24,190 --> 00:57:27,440 know, they never live up there full potential because they're 927 00:57:27,440 --> 00:57:30,240 not putting on and releasing all the power that's within them. 928 00:57:32,040 --> 00:57:34,720 It goes on and says. Any Ephesians 611 put on, say 929 00:57:34,720 --> 00:57:40,920 put on, you have to put it on. You've been made to display, you 930 00:57:40,920 --> 00:57:44,680 have to put it on, put on the full armor of God so that you 931 00:57:44,880 --> 00:57:48,840 will be able to stand against firm against the schemes of the 932 00:57:48,840 --> 00:57:51,800 devil. So who's in charge of beating 933 00:57:51,800 --> 00:57:58,690 the devil down now? You are, Lord, I wish you'd do. 934 00:57:58,690 --> 00:58:01,570 Something about the devil. He's like, I Did you do 935 00:58:01,570 --> 00:58:06,010 something? I did. 936 00:58:06,850 --> 00:58:10,170 I have stripped him of his power and authority over your life. 937 00:58:10,290 --> 00:58:12,130 You are no longer in his Kingdom. 938 00:58:12,210 --> 00:58:14,810 You are in my. He doesn't own you. 939 00:58:14,890 --> 00:58:17,410 He's been. His works have been destroyed in 940 00:58:17,410 --> 00:58:19,890 your life. Now just go ahead and stand up 941 00:58:19,970 --> 00:58:24,200 and put on what I made you so no believer should be saying. 942 00:58:24,200 --> 00:58:28,600 The devil. No, you made you do it. 943 00:58:33,480 --> 00:58:37,080 You made you do it. You chose to do it. 944 00:58:37,360 --> 00:58:39,200 And God wasn't in control of that choice. 945 00:58:43,560 --> 00:58:47,960 Hallelujah, Praise the Lord, I said. 946 00:58:47,960 --> 00:58:52,160 Praise the Lord. If he's in 614, stand firm. 947 00:58:52,160 --> 00:58:55,920 Therefore, having gird your loins with truth and having put 948 00:58:55,920 --> 00:58:59,360 on, say, put on the breastplate of righteous, you got to put it 949 00:58:59,360 --> 00:59:03,160 on, you have to put it on. You have to put on now what 950 00:59:03,160 --> 00:59:04,480 you've been made. Now let me tell you some 951 00:59:04,480 --> 00:59:06,400 benefits that happen because you're righteous. 952 00:59:06,400 --> 00:59:09,920 We going to close with this in Psalms 11. 953 00:59:10,280 --> 00:59:13,040 It says this for the Lord is righteous, He loves 954 00:59:13,040 --> 00:59:16,280 righteousness. The upright will behold his 955 00:59:16,280 --> 00:59:18,800 face. There's never an issue to come 956 00:59:18,800 --> 00:59:21,600 before the Lord when you are in right standing with the 957 00:59:21,600 --> 00:59:23,880 governing authority. Never. 958 00:59:24,120 --> 00:59:26,320 And even if you miss mistake, make a mistake. 959 00:59:26,320 --> 00:59:28,320 You know that he loves you so much He just wants you to. 960 00:59:28,480 --> 00:59:30,240 Come on, come back, Let's have a conversation. 961 00:59:31,760 --> 00:59:34,160 And you're like. Man, Gosh, Lord, you just told 962 00:59:34,160 --> 00:59:35,080 me that I shouldn't. Done. 963 00:59:35,080 --> 00:59:36,760 Thank you. I love you. 964 00:59:36,760 --> 00:59:39,760 Forgive me of that. He's like done forgiven. 965 00:59:40,760 --> 00:59:43,680 Is that like you Never happen. But let's just release who you 966 00:59:43,680 --> 00:59:45,720 are. That's how he is. 967 00:59:45,720 --> 00:59:46,840 He's awesome. He's loving. 968 00:59:47,690 --> 00:59:49,850 He's loving. He's awesome. 969 00:59:50,930 --> 00:59:54,610 He goes on and says this Cast your burden on the upon the Lord 970 00:59:54,610 --> 00:59:58,410 and he will sustain you. He will never say, never allow 971 00:59:58,410 --> 01:00:02,370 the righteous to be shaken. Never say never. 972 01:00:03,130 --> 01:00:05,730 Let the righteous be shaken. There's nothing that can happen 973 01:00:05,730 --> 01:00:07,770 in this planet that sends me to shaking. 974 01:00:10,290 --> 01:00:12,210 Because, he said. As long as I. 975 01:00:12,210 --> 01:00:16,150 Am displaying my righteousness. I'm living right. 976 01:00:16,150 --> 01:00:17,910 I'm doing everything. That I'm doing. 977 01:00:18,030 --> 01:00:21,070 Heart, soul, mind, strength. Serving him. 978 01:00:21,390 --> 01:00:25,830 He'll never let me be shaken. Bad news don't shake me. 979 01:00:26,110 --> 01:00:28,550 Because he's going to deliver me, I said. 980 01:00:28,550 --> 01:00:30,670 He's going to. I can't be shaken because of the 981 01:00:30,670 --> 01:00:32,670 deliverance that I get for being righteous. 982 01:00:32,670 --> 01:00:35,070 Look what it says here in Psalms 3419. 983 01:00:35,270 --> 01:00:39,430 Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers 984 01:00:39,430 --> 01:00:44,150 him out of them. Come on, say it again. 985 01:00:44,230 --> 01:00:46,070 Out of how many? How many? 986 01:00:46,470 --> 01:00:48,310 All of them. That that doesn't mean that 987 01:00:48,310 --> 01:00:50,070 you're not going to have trials and tribulations. 988 01:00:50,150 --> 01:00:53,910 And it definitely does mean that the world that's not righteous 989 01:00:54,030 --> 01:00:56,870 is going to afflict you. They going to talk about you. 990 01:00:56,910 --> 01:00:58,990 They going to laugh at you. They going to scorn you. 991 01:00:59,150 --> 01:01:00,310 They going to say that you're no good. 992 01:01:00,390 --> 01:01:01,750 They going to say you're God's nothing. 993 01:01:01,830 --> 01:01:04,630 They going to try to tempt you. As I told you, when I was going 994 01:01:04,630 --> 01:01:07,750 to Bible college, I had a guy that at work and they when we 995 01:01:07,750 --> 01:01:10,590 got off work, you know, we did a third shift and they went to a 996 01:01:10,590 --> 01:01:12,270 strip club. I'm married. 997 01:01:12,270 --> 01:01:13,270 I'm in Bible. College. 998 01:01:13,350 --> 01:01:17,070 And Tommy says, why don't you come to the club? 999 01:01:18,750 --> 01:01:23,830 I'm like, no, I'm not coming to the club, Tommy, come on, man. 1000 01:01:23,830 --> 01:01:25,630 You know you want to go to the club with us. 1001 01:01:25,950 --> 01:01:29,910 I said, Tommy, I am married, number one, number two. 1002 01:01:29,910 --> 01:01:32,510 That would be a sin against my God, just not doing it, bro. 1003 01:01:33,230 --> 01:01:36,350 In fact, you're looking at somebody you can't touch. 1004 01:01:36,550 --> 01:01:39,590 I can look and touch as much as I want to. 1005 01:01:43,630 --> 01:01:47,550 Tommy's like before. You graduate and leave, I'm 1006 01:01:47,550 --> 01:01:49,190 going to get you in the strip club, I said. 1007 01:01:49,190 --> 01:01:55,030 Tommy, it is more real that I'll get you born into the Kingdom of 1008 01:01:55,030 --> 01:01:57,230 God before you'll ever see me in a strip club. 1009 01:02:01,670 --> 01:02:05,270 So the last night I'm leaving at. 5:00 AM, Not seven when it's 1010 01:02:05,270 --> 01:02:08,190 quitting time, but 5:00 AM because I'm going to get in my 1011 01:02:08,190 --> 01:02:11,790 vehicle and head to Atlanta, where my wife and children 1012 01:02:11,790 --> 01:02:15,390 already are because we they've been there a month before we've 1013 01:02:15,390 --> 01:02:17,910 graduated from rain. I just stayed back a month later 1014 01:02:18,150 --> 01:02:20,590 and received a little more finance and I'm leaving and 1015 01:02:22,110 --> 01:02:28,910 everybody on shift knows. And at 4:30, Tommy says, Hey, 1016 01:02:28,910 --> 01:02:31,880 Earl, come here. So we went around to the back of 1017 01:02:31,880 --> 01:02:35,240 the warehouse, drove around there with our forklifts, cherry 1018 01:02:35,240 --> 01:02:38,520 pickers. I said, what's up, man? 1019 01:02:38,640 --> 01:02:41,280 He says. You know, you've been a real 1020 01:02:41,280 --> 01:02:47,080 good friend to me, he says. I want to get things right with 1021 01:02:47,080 --> 01:02:50,560 God. And I prayed with him to be born 1022 01:02:50,560 --> 01:02:53,880 again. I never made it to the strip 1023 01:02:53,880 --> 01:02:58,600 club. Why? 1024 01:02:59,180 --> 01:03:03,220 Not because it's not tempting, Not because I couldn't have. 1025 01:03:04,340 --> 01:03:08,180 Not because the enemy was definitely trying, But it's 1026 01:03:08,180 --> 01:03:13,220 because I put on righteousness. I said that man's dead. 1027 01:03:13,700 --> 01:03:16,100 I don't have to do that anymore. I'm not going to do. 1028 01:03:16,100 --> 01:03:17,740 And that's death. That it kill my mayors, That 1029 01:03:17,740 --> 01:03:19,180 kills everything. That kills the anointed, kills 1030 01:03:19,180 --> 01:03:22,660 the plan of God for my life. And I'm not going to do that. 1031 01:03:22,660 --> 01:03:27,620 And God delivers. Me out of all my trouble on all 1032 01:03:27,620 --> 01:03:29,370 of it. See, that's the good thing about 1033 01:03:29,370 --> 01:03:31,690 being righteous. You know, you got to deliver all 1034 01:03:31,690 --> 01:03:34,170 the time. You want justice, then get 1035 01:03:34,170 --> 01:03:36,290 righteous. Because when you're righteous, 1036 01:03:36,290 --> 01:03:38,610 the righteous judge, we'll judge. 1037 01:03:39,930 --> 01:03:41,610 And I've already said this to our congregation. 1038 01:03:41,610 --> 01:03:43,730 There's nothing going on in planet Earth that the king 1039 01:03:43,730 --> 01:03:49,610 you're not going to deal with ain't nothing you can't die and 1040 01:03:49,610 --> 01:03:52,770 God don't know about it and going to vindicate it's going to 1041 01:03:52,770 --> 01:03:55,840 happen. He goes on and Psalms 3725, he 1042 01:03:55,840 --> 01:03:57,400 said. I've been young and now I'm old, 1043 01:03:57,400 --> 01:04:02,000 yet I have not seen. I have not seen the righteous. 1044 01:04:02,000 --> 01:04:06,400 Forsaken or his descendants begging bread. 1045 01:04:06,920 --> 01:04:09,440 Oh, it's good to be righteous. I said it's good to be 1046 01:04:09,440 --> 01:04:11,840 righteous. He goes on and says great 1047 01:04:11,840 --> 01:04:14,240 wealth. Look at this in Proverbs. 1048 01:04:14,240 --> 01:04:18,200 Great wealth is in the House of the righteous. 1049 01:04:19,040 --> 01:04:22,170 But trouble. Is in the income of the wicked, 1050 01:04:22,170 --> 01:04:27,330 now that the wicked can have a lot of income, but there's great 1051 01:04:27,330 --> 01:04:30,770 wealth. In the House of the righteous, 1052 01:04:31,410 --> 01:04:35,370 you just stay with God. Every penny you need you going 1053 01:04:35,370 --> 01:04:40,330 to have, you going to have it because the world can't take. 1054 01:04:40,330 --> 01:04:43,490 In fact, there are people right now that aren't following God 1055 01:04:43,490 --> 01:04:47,210 saving money for you because the Bible says the wealth of the 1056 01:04:47,210 --> 01:04:50,620 wicked is laid up for the. More. 1057 01:04:50,620 --> 01:04:51,900 Aren't you glad you're righteous? 1058 01:04:52,340 --> 01:04:53,860 Aren't you glad you're righteous? 1059 01:04:54,340 --> 01:04:57,140 So go ahead and make billions, because the day's coming, It's 1060 01:04:57,140 --> 01:04:59,540 transferring and it's not when I go to heaven. 1061 01:04:59,540 --> 01:05:05,020 Because Heaven don't need it. Heaven paves their seats with 1062 01:05:05,020 --> 01:05:06,100 their. Streets with it. 1063 01:05:07,900 --> 01:05:10,820 Are you hearing me? And brings it to the earth? 1064 01:05:11,100 --> 01:05:14,340 I go talk about that, OK? Psalms 3730 to 31. 1065 01:05:14,340 --> 01:05:18,380 The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom, and his tongue 1066 01:05:18,380 --> 01:05:23,910 speaks. If you're not righteous, you 1067 01:05:23,910 --> 01:05:29,030 don't. Speak justice, because only the 1068 01:05:29,030 --> 01:05:32,910 righteous can speak. Justice, the law of his God, is 1069 01:05:32,910 --> 01:05:37,950 in his heart. His steps do not slip. 1070 01:05:40,270 --> 01:05:42,230 And then the thing that's probably the most frustrating. 1071 01:05:42,230 --> 01:05:45,670 In most people's lives, I conclude with James. 1072 01:05:47,100 --> 01:05:49,260 Because we are to display, we were made to display our 1073 01:05:49,260 --> 01:05:52,660 righteousness. God caused us to be born of God 1074 01:05:53,340 --> 01:05:58,260 so that we can then display it in our behavior, in our actions, 1075 01:05:58,700 --> 01:06:03,940 controlling our flesh so that we're not subject to the things 1076 01:06:03,940 --> 01:06:09,700 of the world anymore. We have control now and he says, 1077 01:06:09,700 --> 01:06:10,980 therefore confess your sins to 1. 1078 01:06:10,980 --> 01:06:14,180 Another and pray for one another so that you may be healed. 1079 01:06:14,630 --> 01:06:17,630 The effective prayer of a righteous man. 1080 01:06:19,630 --> 01:06:23,910 You know, the world prays. And there's been many that have. 1081 01:06:23,910 --> 01:06:29,110 Prayed to God. They don't know him, so the 1082 01:06:29,110 --> 01:06:34,190 world prays and people are frustrated because they pray to 1083 01:06:34,190 --> 01:06:36,830 God expecting an answer under false pretenses. 1084 01:06:37,630 --> 01:06:41,950 He's in control. Why don't he do what I want? 1085 01:06:43,100 --> 01:06:45,940 I asked him to do this. Surely what I'm asking is the 1086 01:06:45,940 --> 01:06:50,700 right thing without ever asking him. 1087 01:06:51,500 --> 01:06:56,540 Lord, you know what I'm in. What do you want me to do? 1088 01:06:59,380 --> 01:07:03,260 Most people's prayers are demanding God to do it their 1089 01:07:03,260 --> 01:07:08,580 way. Children crying out Lord, don't. 1090 01:07:08,580 --> 01:07:12,750 Let Mom and Daddy get a divorce. God can't control mom and dad 1091 01:07:12,750 --> 01:07:17,710 not getting. A divorce, Just like he couldn't 1092 01:07:17,710 --> 01:07:24,670 control Adam. From eating the fruit and then 1093 01:07:24,670 --> 01:07:29,950 we blame God. The mom and dad ain't married or 1094 01:07:29,950 --> 01:07:31,710 I didn't have a dad when I was growing up. 1095 01:07:32,830 --> 01:07:34,950 Or this happened to me by my uncle. 1096 01:07:35,990 --> 01:07:39,990 God didn't control that, but the devil sure was in play. 1097 01:07:40,600 --> 01:07:44,920 In all these people's lives, bring in death and tell them 1098 01:07:44,920 --> 01:07:46,480 it's right. You know how many parents are 1099 01:07:46,480 --> 01:07:49,840 divorced and thinking it's right and it's better for the kids 1100 01:07:50,800 --> 01:07:54,400 when what's right is for them to repent, forgive each other, love 1101 01:07:54,400 --> 01:07:58,080 God with all their heart, act like it's never happened, and 1102 01:07:58,080 --> 01:07:59,800 should be godly parents for their children. 1103 01:08:02,960 --> 01:08:07,200 There's many things I could say, but the Bible says the prayer of 1104 01:08:07,200 --> 01:08:11,730 a righteous man. Now that prayer is always 1105 01:08:11,730 --> 01:08:15,570 answered because a righteous man will go to the. 1106 01:08:15,570 --> 01:08:20,450 Lord, and say, How do I pray about this one? 1107 01:08:22,850 --> 01:08:26,770 Lord, how do I pray? Because I'm right with you, let 1108 01:08:29,529 --> 01:08:32,850 me go this I can go as far as. To say this, you don't even need 1109 01:08:32,850 --> 01:08:36,770 to know God, but if you'll ask him, he can answer you. 1110 01:08:41,540 --> 01:08:44,260 Yeah, there's a man by the name of Cornelius. 1111 01:08:45,060 --> 01:08:47,859 He's loving God the best he can, but he ain't right with God. 1112 01:08:48,020 --> 01:08:51,500 He's not born again. And God sent an Angel to that 1113 01:08:51,500 --> 01:08:57,380 man's house and says you need to send for Peter. 1114 01:08:59,700 --> 01:09:04,880 You need Peter to come to your house because what he will tell 1115 01:09:04,880 --> 01:09:07,040 you will change your. Life and the Angel doesn't tell 1116 01:09:07,040 --> 01:09:13,920 him and Cornelius. Separated from God, sent for 1117 01:09:13,920 --> 01:09:20,319 Peter and Peter showed up and. Began to talk about the king and 1118 01:09:20,319 --> 01:09:25,160 the remission of sin, and repenting and being filled with 1119 01:09:25,160 --> 01:09:29,479 the Holy Ghost and the promise of the Father and while he was 1120 01:09:29,479 --> 01:09:34,479 still preaching, Cornida says. I believe in. 1121 01:09:34,479 --> 01:09:37,359 His heart. And he got born again and filled 1122 01:09:37,359 --> 01:09:41,200 with the Holy Ghost and all of a sudden Peter's like, well, they 1123 01:09:41,200 --> 01:09:44,080 got it. Not even give an altar call. 1124 01:09:48,880 --> 01:09:54,800 Church we were made to display. Saint Augustine needs us to show 1125 01:09:54,800 --> 01:10:00,120 them who we are in Christ. We got to put it on every day. 1126 01:10:01,240 --> 01:10:06,640 That way when they look at us, they'll know, man, I tried to do 1127 01:10:06,640 --> 01:10:09,040 what you're doing and the live the way you're living, and I 1128 01:10:09,040 --> 01:10:10,920 can't. 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